We need to get the American citizens to start standing up for their rights. This war is costing the annual household ($50K) over $10,000 in additional taxes; that is $10K over their current taxes (i.e. property taxes, 27%+ income taxes, sales taxes, etc.)
We need to start learning more about the contributions the Republican members have received from companies prospering from the war. For example, just one company, Halliburton, or where Dick Cheney held the CEO position, had their stock rise from $6.50 per share to $36.97 per share (with 10,655,400 shares being traded) in only five years because of the war contracts they received. The money Halliburton received from President Bush's non-competitive contract is over $11 billion dollars.
It would be interesting to see the amount of money Senators, Congressman, President Officials, and the Republican Campaign Committee members have received in campaign contributions both before and after the start of the Iraq War.
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Chuck Frazier
commented about 1 year ago:
I saw Darlene Fitzgerald on C-Span 3 testify before Congress, and man what a story!!! If this doesn't bring attention to the plight of government whistleblowers, then nothing will. Check out www.BorderGate.net and read some of these transcripts yourself, and you will see what a joke our national security really is.
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Attorney Austin Price
commented about 1 year ago:
Congressional testimony of Author Darlene Fitzgerald (BorderGate) to speak on May 14th & 15th 2007:
Members of the panel:
In 1998 I was in charge of a U.S. Customs task force operating an extensive investigation called Operation Rite Rail. We uncovered tons of narcotics and contraband being facilitated into the U.S. from Mexico via railroad tanker cars - with the apparent approval of U.S. Customs managers. Just a little over a year ago this resulted in the landmark civil case in federal court: Fitzgerald - Nunn Vs. Department of Homeland Security. At this trial supervised by now-fired US Attorney Carol Lam, Superior Court Judge Yvette Palazuelos took the stand and made history by being the first sitting Judge ever to testify against the U.S. Government.
The essential fact of my testimony, corroborated by other credible Special Agents and managers, is that high-level Customs managers shut down my investigation into narcotics smuggling. I had already seized 8000 pounds of marijuana and 34 kilos of uncut cocaine in just one pressurized railroad tanker car. I had in my grasp five cars imported from Mexico that were improperly manifested as “empty”, yet contained 25 to 40 tons of suspect contraband. They had been sent from the same front company in Mexico where the previously seized tanker car was from, and I had high-level information from a reliable informant as to the contents of these five cars. Yet I was ordered off the case and told to shut down my operation.
At the trial, Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAIC) Gary Pinkava took the stand for Customs, and admitted without elaboration that he would not allow me or my supervisor to pressure test, at no charge to the government, these highly suspected tanker cars. This would have been the largest seizure on record for any agency (25 to 40 tons), and it was under the command and control of ASAIC Pinkava. Subsequently, as testified to by numerous witnesses, these tanker cars were released into the commerce of the U.S., uninspected by anyone.
Evidence of the following was most certainly exposed at the trial: Witness tampering, Facilitation of the importation of 25 to 40 tons of contraband into the U.S., Perjury, Misprision of Felony, and possible Subornation of Perjury. This evidence was sufficient to warrant the initiation of a grand jury investigation – yet there was none. All of these crimes remain Un-investigated! Complete transcripts of this trial testimony may be read at www.BorderGate.net.
What my task force and I also exposed is the horrendous national security terrorist threat that these tanker cars pose to our nation. Timothy McVey blew up the Federal Murrah Building in Oklahoma City with about one ton of ammonium nitrate in an unsealed-cargo truck. This cowardly attack killed scores of people and resulted in over eleven damaged buildings being torn down. Yet a terrorist can put forty times this amount of ammonium nitrate in a railroad tanker car and pressurize it. This would create what is essentially the world’s largest “pipe bomb.”
It is important to note that there have been no other rail tanker car seizures since that done by my task force in 1998. Have the drug smugglers and terrorists simply quit trying to enter the U.S., or have they been operating freely with the assistance of corrupt managers within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The real victims here are all of the brave Whistleblowers who have come forward with important information that exposes threats to our national security in which I have chronicled in my recently released book entitled “BorderGate.” Most recently my fellow Whistleblower John Carman was arrested by the FBI for what appears to many to be a clear case of entrapment in order to SHUT HIM UP. This is the same FBI office that John and I have repeatedly exposed in the media for failing to investigate the facts revealed in “BorderGate.”
What has happened, and continues to happen to all of the Whistleblowers in the BorderGate story is not only wrong, but it places our country at grave risk as well. All we can do is put the facts before you. Henceforth, nobody can say they were unaware of what is going on. I implore you to please pass this bill.
Darlene Fitzgerald
Former Special Agent
Author, “BorderGate, the story the
government doesn’t want you to read”
(606) 310-0078
www.BorderGate.net
darleneian@highland.net
We need to get the American citizens to start standing up for their rights. This war is costing the annual household ($50K) over $10,000 in additional taxes; that is $10K over their current taxes (i.e. property taxes, 27%+ income taxes, sales taxes, etc.)
We need to start learning more about the contributions the Republican members have received from companies prospering from the war. For example, just one company, Halliburton, or where Dick Cheney held the CEO position, had their stock rise from $6.50 per share to $36.97 per share (with 10,655,400 shares being traded) in only five years because of the war contracts they received. The money Halliburton received from President Bush's non-competitive contract is over $11 billion dollars.
It would be interesting to see the amount of money Senators, Congressman, President Officials, and the Republican Campaign Committee members have received in campaign contributions both before and after the start of the Iraq War.
I saw Darlene Fitzgerald on C-Span 3 testify before Congress, and man what a story!!! If this doesn't bring attention to the plight of government whistleblowers, then nothing will. Check out www.BorderGate.net and read some of these transcripts yourself, and you will see what a joke our national security really is.
Congressional testimony of Author Darlene Fitzgerald (BorderGate) to speak on May 14th & 15th 2007:
Members of the panel:
In 1998 I was in charge of a U.S. Customs task force operating an extensive investigation called Operation Rite Rail. We uncovered tons of narcotics and contraband being facilitated into the U.S. from Mexico via railroad tanker cars - with the apparent approval of U.S. Customs managers. Just a little over a year ago this resulted in the landmark civil case in federal court: Fitzgerald - Nunn Vs. Department of Homeland Security. At this trial supervised by now-fired US Attorney Carol Lam, Superior Court Judge Yvette Palazuelos took the stand and made history by being the first sitting Judge ever to testify against the U.S. Government.
The essential fact of my testimony, corroborated by other credible Special Agents and managers, is that high-level Customs managers shut down my investigation into narcotics smuggling. I had already seized 8000 pounds of marijuana and 34 kilos of uncut cocaine in just one pressurized railroad tanker car. I had in my grasp five cars imported from Mexico that were improperly manifested as “empty”, yet contained 25 to 40 tons of suspect contraband. They had been sent from the same front company in Mexico where the previously seized tanker car was from, and I had high-level information from a reliable informant as to the contents of these five cars. Yet I was ordered off the case and told to shut down my operation.
At the trial, Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAIC) Gary Pinkava took the stand for Customs, and admitted without elaboration that he would not allow me or my supervisor to pressure test, at no charge to the government, these highly suspected tanker cars. This would have been the largest seizure on record for any agency (25 to 40 tons), and it was under the command and control of ASAIC Pinkava. Subsequently, as testified to by numerous witnesses, these tanker cars were released into the commerce of the U.S., uninspected by anyone.
Evidence of the following was most certainly exposed at the trial: Witness tampering, Facilitation of the importation of 25 to 40 tons of contraband into the U.S., Perjury, Misprision of Felony, and possible Subornation of Perjury. This evidence was sufficient to warrant the initiation of a grand jury investigation – yet there was none. All of these crimes remain Un-investigated! Complete transcripts of this trial testimony may be read at www.BorderGate.net.
What my task force and I also exposed is the horrendous national security terrorist threat that these tanker cars pose to our nation. Timothy McVey blew up the Federal Murrah Building in Oklahoma City with about one ton of ammonium nitrate in an unsealed-cargo truck. This cowardly attack killed scores of people and resulted in over eleven damaged buildings being torn down. Yet a terrorist can put forty times this amount of ammonium nitrate in a railroad tanker car and pressurize it. This would create what is essentially the world’s largest “pipe bomb.”
It is important to note that there have been no other rail tanker car seizures since that done by my task force in 1998. Have the drug smugglers and terrorists simply quit trying to enter the U.S., or have they been operating freely with the assistance of corrupt managers within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The real victims here are all of the brave Whistleblowers who have come forward with important information that exposes threats to our national security in which I have chronicled in my recently released book entitled “BorderGate.” Most recently my fellow Whistleblower John Carman was arrested by the FBI for what appears to many to be a clear case of entrapment in order to SHUT HIM UP. This is the same FBI office that John and I have repeatedly exposed in the media for failing to investigate the facts revealed in “BorderGate.”
What has happened, and continues to happen to all of the Whistleblowers in the BorderGate story is not only wrong, but it places our country at grave risk as well. All we can do is put the facts before you. Henceforth, nobody can say they were unaware of what is going on. I implore you to please pass this bill.
Darlene Fitzgerald
Former Special Agent
Author, “BorderGate, the story the
government doesn’t want you to read”
(606) 310-0078
www.BorderGate.net
darleneian@highland.net