BBV:The Voting-Machine Industrial Complex

[Andy_Stephenson]

During the Cold War, the CIA, in the words of long-time agent Ralph McGehee, practiced the art of "deadly deceits." Throughout the Third World, the secret spy agency engaged in covert operations, blatant acts of economic destabilization and wanton acts of mass violence.

In the 1970s, Idaho Senator Frank Church's investigatory committee established that the CIA also engaged in so-called "benign" operations including rigging elections. The agency used the term "demonstration elections"--elections that are superficially democratic but the results manipulated by the CIA.

http://www.counterpunch.org/fitrakis09082003.html

[hedda_foil]

1. This is one hell of an article, gbnc!

Take a look at this!

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So, what do we have here other than the obvious denial by mainstream America? We've got a CIA family, their corporate supporters working with CIA contractors at Battelle in order to bring flawed electronic voting to the U.S. with no paper trails and questionable exit polls. Recall that Battelle was also the contractor for Voter News Service (VNS) and failed to produce exit polls for the 2002 Congressional election.

Factor in the reality that, out of 435 Congressional districts in the U.S., only 39, or 9%, are actually competitive (when major party candidates won with less than 55% of the vote). Under our political system, also, the vast majority of Congressional seats are gerrymandered as "safe" or noncompetitive districts by the party that controls the state government. Eleven Texas Democrats are hiding out in New Mexico in hopes of thwarting another round of Republican district-rigging in their state. So little democracy is actually left.

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And don't forget folks, it's the military-industrial complex gang that's "vetting" Diebold's blackbox software at SAIC and several of the companies are owned in whole or in part by the same gang.

[Andy_Stephenson]

2. I thought so too

quite telling eh?

[jenm]

3. thanks for that link

and I ran into this one today too, sorry if it was posted before, I didn't see it. The devil's in the details.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0309/S00106.htm

[never cry wolf]

4. This plainly states what we all suspect

I kinda don't think the CIA is directly involved though. Mainly, I think that it would be some in the CIA working covertly but mainly it's ex-cia and private spook firms like SAIC. Who foots the bill?? Follow the money...

[DBoon]

5. SAIC has Repub ties

Did the security for the San Diego repub convention. Very proud of it.

[donsu]

9. Poppy still runs his CIA gang members

nt

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Lord, that scares the bejesus out of me.

Thanks for the story.

[shirlden]

7. I started to read this yesterday

and could not finish. I really don't want someone verifying what, in my heart and head, I all ready know. But it does not mean that we should not keep fighting.

:argh:

[Eloriel]

8. Whoa,

Look at this:

What George Bush's energy friends from Texas, including Enron, did to the California economy through the massive "mega-watt" laundering of energy should be viewed as just another economic destabilization of an enemy regime.


Yeah, that's some article. It really only makes explicit (with a few new threads woven in) what many of us already "knew," as Shirlden pointed out.

Here are two more articles that I think are worth reading:

Oval Office outrages just keep coming
Harley Sorensen, Special to SF Gate Monday, September 8, 2003
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/sorensen/
(The salient points are toward the bottom.)

Global Eye -- Last Rights
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2003/09/12/120.html
By Chris Floyd

Eloriel