Porter Goss
Discussion
from Capitol Blues Reader Rant August 16,
2004
I hate to point this out, but this is yet another example of
"fu*k up and go up."
If the House and the Senate approve this goon we
deserve what we get, another SS 4th Reich yes man who will enjoy terrorizing
the American population, especially those with the voice of dissent.
Bye
Bye Constitution! Hello Revolution!
And remember, during coup's all
around the world, the first people to be summarily executed were the judges,
then the lawyers, then the politico's.
Anybody wanna dance?
Bests,
John
TRANCE-FORMATION OF
AMERICA
Check out this site:
http://www.trance-formation.com/NewMain.htm
Policy of Torture And
Abuse
By John McCarthy
August 15, 2004
Is
there collusion on a policy of terror and abuse?
A resounding
YES!
Crimes against humanity as defined by the International War Crimes
Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, 59 years ago, appears to be the order of the
day for US policy in Iraq. The Screams at ABU GHRAIB from the mothers forced to
watch their sons sodomized by American's reeks of the hypocrisy of our attempts
to shove democracy down the throats of the cradle of civilization. And it's not
the peon's, it's definitely the policy. Rumsfeld is a war criminal, along with
Kissinger, Wolfowitz, Feith and now Herr Goss, who recently recommended that
the CIA be used as a tool against US citizens. God help us all!
Is Iraq
the only target? NO!
Our government practices abuse on our own citizens.
And it does so while committing acts of treason in war time. The documents to
prove this are located in the following URL's. There is also located in the
first URL a Petition to empanel a Federal Grand Jury to Probe the Abuse
perpetrated by the CIA for conspiracy to obstruct justice in a capital murder
case in order to cover-up the acts of treason.
All attempts to bring
these matters of national security to various members of our government have
been met with silence. Even the attorney general remains mute on this subject.
Are we in danger of imploding? You decide.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/hall/Mac.html
http://www.geocities.com/larryjodaniel/17.html
http://www.spiritone.com/~pazuu/pow-mia/JohnMcCarthy.htm
Email:
jmac1369@earthlink.net
johnjmccarthy2000@yahoo.com
Anniversary To The Halt Of
The Secret Bombing Of Cambodia
August 14,
2004
President Nixon and Henry (I wonder who's Kissinger now) decided in
1969, shortly after the election, to secretly bomb Cambodia with B-52 strikes.
This is how they did it until August 14th, 1973. That's four and a half years
boys and girls!
Flights of five B-52's would take off from Guam and fly
a course designed to have the planes arrive over coordinates punched into their
computers for targets inside South Vietnam. Each aircraft carried 110 750 pound
bombs. They would fly three in a VEE and two in trail. The target areas were
1000 x 3000 meters making three passes to cover the target. Russian trawlers
off the coast of Guam made note of the frequency of the flights.
Enroute to the target the pilot and navigator of the lead flight would
open secret orders which provided NEW coordinates for an in-flight course
change, known only to the aircraft commander and his navigator. The new
coordinates were for targets inside Cambodia.
Over the five and a half
years of this secret program, over 3000 B-52 strikes went into Cambodia. The
rest of the Airforce started complaining about the lack of 750 pound bombs but
the secrecy of the Cambodian bombing remained.
This has been described
in detail in the book "Side Show". It's still available in paperback. It will
probably be used by the International Criminal Court if they get around to
indicting Henry as a war criminal. Remember, Nuremberg obliterated the excuse
of "I was just following
orders".
Bests,
John
FOIA Request to Director of
Naval Intelligence
TO: Director of Naval Intelligence
Office of Naval Intelligence
Headquarters, U. S. Department of the Navy
ATTN: Freedom of Information Manager
4251 Suitland Road
Washington,
DC 20395-5720
FROM: Larry W. Bryant
DATE: August 13,
2004
Based on recent revelations that former U. S. Naval officer and
current presidential candidate John Kerry spent some time in Cambodian
territory during certain U. S. Navy operations during the Vietnam War, I hereby
submit this letter as a formal, written FOIA request that you send me a copy of
all U. S. Navy-generated and U. S. Navy-received records pertaining to the
participation of any and all U. S. Naval personnel in the CIA-managed "Project
Cherry," which I understand was conducted in the late 1960's to field U. S.
military-trained/sponsored assassination teams within Cambodia.
Since I
make this request as an independent writer focusing on actual and/or potential
whistleblower-derived evidence exposing official wrongdoing at the highest
levels of government, and since such exposure would significantly educate the
general public as to all related government activities/policies/programs, I
hereby request that you waive all records-search fees incident to your
fulfilling this request.
By snail-mail, I'm sending to you a signed
printout of this e-formatted letter.
LARRY W. BRYANT
Copies
furnished to:
Mark S. Zaid, Esq. (Washington, D.C.)
Chairman,
U. S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Chairman, U. S. Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence
Cambodian Ambassador to the United States
FOIA Request to the U. S.
Army Crime Records Center
TO: Director
U. S. Army Crime
Records Center
ATTN: Freedom of Information Manager
Fort Belvoir, VA
22060
FROM: Larry W. Bryant
DATE: August 13, 2004
In the
course of collecting/evaluating evidence about the murder of former Cambodian
intelligence operative Inchin Lam, back in the late sixties in in Vietnam,
under mysterious circumstances involving possible wrongful CIA-Army collusion,
certain officials from the U. S. Army Criminal Investigations Command created a
dossier on Lam and his activities/associations/motivations.
Accordingly,
under terms of the U. S. Freedom of Information Act/U.S. Privacy Act, I hereby
request that you send me a copy of all USACIDC-generated and USACIDC-received
records as regards the contents of
(1) Mr. Lam's dossier as cited
above;
(2) Mr. (former Army captain) John Joseph McCarthy, Jr.'s
CID-maintained dossier, including any and all elements thereof that may still
reside within Mr. Lam's dossier.
Please note that, for my total,
unequivocal access to your McCarthy-related records, I have his direct proxy,
in the form of the enclosed Notice of Authorization.
Since I make this
request as an independent writer focusing on actual and/or potential
whistleblower-derived evidence exposing official wrongdoing at the highest
levels of government, and since such exposure would significantly educate the
general public as to all related government activities/policies/programs, I
hereby request that you waive all records-search fees incident to your
fulfilling this request.
By snail-mail, I'm sending to you a signed
printout of this e-formatted letter.
LARRY W. BRYANT
Copies
furnished to:
Mr. McCarthy
Mark S. Zaid, Esq. (Washington,
D.C.)
Chairman, U. S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Chairman, U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
How Truman Was Handed The
Bomb
by John Joseph McCarthy
August 12, 2004
In April 1945, a young Georgia National Guard private was posted at the
bottom of the stairs leading to the veranda of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt's Warm Springs, Georgia home.
An elderly black man was rocking
in a chair, tears streaming down his face, when all of a sudden, in his grief
he stated, "The Master's gone, the Master done shot hisself."
With
that, the FBI and Secret Service agents grabbed the old black man and removed
him from the area, never to be seen again.
The President had a decision
to make. To drop or not to drop the bomb on civilian targets in Japan. He also
had other things on his mind; his wife Elenore, his mistriss, his pain from
polio, but weighing heavily was the matter of the bomb. Truman was not even
aware of the Manhattan Project while FDR was alive.
There was no autopsy
conducted on the President.
Russia, then our ally, strongly suggested
to Kermit Roosevelt, then an Army Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, relayed the
information to his mother, Elenore. There was no autopsy.
The elderly
black man was the President's piano player. He was also blind. But, not deaf.
He had heard a gunshot from within the house.
The funeral was conducted
with a closed casket. The official reason for death was given as a massive
stroke.
The Russians thought FDR had been poisoned, most probably by
the English, as FDR had dealt Churchill a slap in the face at the end of WWII.
But who pulled the trigger and why? Murder or suicide?
Fast
foward to December 1961, Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. The same 17 year old
Georgia National Guard private is now a guard at the Federal Prison. His job is
to read the incoming mail on inmates, one of whom is Russian KGB Colonel
Rudolph Abel. A letter to Rudolph explains he is being traded for CIA U2 pilot
Gary Powers in a spy exchange to be held in February, 1962. The letter is
signed, "love, Elenore".
"It is dangerous to be right when your
government is wrong." -Voltaire
Bests,
John
VERPA
August 12, 2004
'Morning, all...
Is there no subject that has not been politicized or is that the nature
of the beast?
As an agnostic-ally political organization, Veterans
Equal Rights Protection Advocacy http://www.verpa.org has resorted to asking for
an audience with the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in
the first ever attempt by an organization in the United States to ask for
assistance to protect the Constitution of The United States.
This move
was necessitated by the inaction of the United States Government, in the form
of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in addressing the crimes against humanity as
defined by the International War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg after WWII, and
specifically, the Feres Doctrine which negates the First Amendment of our
Constitution and, in effect, reduces our Armed Forces to second class
citizens.
This action reaches across all political lines and those who
support our efforts will reap the rewards of the votes of veterans most
certainly effected by the decision on Feres, one way or the other.
Bests,
John
President and Chairman of The Board of VERPA
And there are 48 days left to sign the Petition for a Federal Grand Jury Probe
of the CIA:
http://www.PetitionPetition.com/cgi/petition.cgi?id=7349
If the CIA analysts lied to
the President , why has he not called for their resignations?
August 8, 2004
Why has he not called for their
resignations?
Serious men would/should deduce from the inaction re
resignations or charges of treason that the President was complicit in seeking
that information HE wanted to justify the preemptive attack to become the
"wartime President" so don't confuse me with the facts, and there is proof of
this when Wilson's report is returned for a re-write with "wrong answer"
written on the front page. Is that circumstantial evidence or a friggin'
smokin' gun?
Can we conclude that the information in Kuni's post above
neatly ties up the package of high crimes re impeachment? If not, why
not?
Bests,
John
All fine points BR, but they don't address
what the President, Vice President and Mr. Powell have and continue to say re
the justification for the war. Notwithstanding the comments of Senators and
Congressmen about the "Intel" community NOT being pressured to come up with the
very information on WMD that led to the war powers act and the presentation to
the UN, the Intel community works at the pleasure of the President. You know
what that means. I note you do not address the power of the President and the
directed "rewrites" directed to Amb Wilson. How can you avoid these issues?
Again, why are these not impeachable offenses? Your points and quotes don't
address the issue at all! Is this circumstantial or the smokin' gun? What is
the legal precedence here?
I do not see this as a level playing field.
Folks have gone off to the electric chair with less conclusive evidence than
stares us right in the face. "Miscalculations" means your numbers are wrong,
not the facts. There is no such thing as miscalculating the existence of
nuclear weapons (which the German, Russians and French said did not exist) or
other WMD and immenent threats in the form of "mushroom clouds". When the
population heard those magic words, we BELIEVED the sources and methods had
calculated the truth, not the myth. That is not miscalculation, friend, that is
fabrication to justify a preemptive war to become a "wartime President". This
is not going to go away, so lets address it!
Bests,
John
The Grand
Jury
August 8, 2004
LW,
Re #1. Should I snail
mail or Fax (need your fax #) copies of the FBI lab reports from 1968 which
contain exculpatory evidence hidden by Mason and Finck until discovered in
Finck's office in late 1970 with Mason's recantation?
YES, mon capitain,
please snail-me a copy of those reports, whereupon I'll revisit the FBI's
negative response to my FOIA request; I have no fax machine. This episode of
files-ignorance reminds me of the case of one Stanton T. Friedman, an American
UFOlogist residing in Canada; he'd sought his FBI dossier and received a "no
records" response; he kept pressing, and eventually the Bureau admitted it had
some records, but that most of them were too sensitive to release; I entered
the picture and took the case to court (pro se), resulting only in the Bureau's
victory because of the (alleged) sensitivity of the records; the judge told me
he'd decided not to second-guess the Bureau.
The FBI, as officers of
the court, are obligated by Supreme Court Decision Brady vs Maryland to provide
defendant's with exculpatory evidence. These records date from early February,
1968, less than a week after my trial.... All this was provided to the appeals
court (want a copy of their decision? 10 pages) but the recantation was enough
for the court to overturn the conviction--the FBI reports were not ruled
on....this is amazingly similar to my lawyers request for information of FBI
Files in 1968-69. They had never heard of me then, either. Is this oversight or
worse? Do we provide then with copies of their own files and ask them to look a
little farther than their bottom desk drawer?
YES, that provision is
exactly what I have in mind, in due course. Please snail-mail me a copy of the
appeals court decision and the FBI reports.
Re #2. Court-martial was
conducted on 20-30 January, 1968, in Long Binh, Vietnam at USARV Headquarters.
The appeal went before the United States Military Court of Review in
Washington, DC. This is the first level of appeals after court-martial
conviction. The next level is to the US Court of Appeals, which is run by
civilian judges, something the military did not want to see
happen....
OKAY, I plan to FOIA-request the CID command to ferret out
YOUR dossier from LAM's; I'll run that DRAFT by ya, too.....
Also, while
talking with a clerk at the Criminal Investigation Repository in Northern
Virginia in April, 1984, I asked the dear lady if she would look under the name
Inchin Lam to see if my records jacket might be there. We had been unsuccessful
in obtaining the initial CID Report from December, 1967. The clerk called me
the next morning and excited told me that she had indeed found my long sought
records in the file of Inchin Lam. In fact, she said she found two reports and
would mail me copies that day. A few days later I received ONE copy of a CID
report containing statements of those who later testified at trial. No wonder
we were never allowed to see this file. We are talking Perjury, Big TIME! I
called the clerk and told her I only received a copy of one report and she
began crying and told me she could not afford to lose her job. I told her not
to worry, at least we knew where it was located. Two questions jump out from
this revelation; 1) Why was is necessary to hide my file in Lam's record
jacket, and 2) Why did Inchin Lam have a record jacket at the CID Repository to
begin with?
Because of the above, must we ask all who have files to
also check to see if they might find my files in Inchin Lams jacket also???? Do
we have a pattern of abuse emergaing here?
INDEED, I'm a-goin' to DRAFT
up a FOIA request to the Army's JAG to have him examine the Lam dossier for all
contents related to YOU! Does the convening of a "military court of review"
(equivalent to a military grand jury) sound attractive to you on this issue of
hiding evidentiary records? If so, we might need a notarized declaration from
you as to the facts you've summarized in this e-message to me. Also, let's not
forget to ask the HQDA inspector general to look into the matter (first);
should I draft up a letter to that effect from me to the IG??? Once the IG
notifies me of its (predictable) nonacceptance of this investigatory effort,
I'll fire off an FOIA request for all records pertaining to that negative
decision.
So, Mon Amis, another piece of the puzzle awaits
us!
Thanks for all you do...
Bests,
John
WRONG, my
friend: thank YOU for all that you've done for our country, and for continuing
to support the Bill of Rights!
FOIA Request to CIA, re the
McCarthy Saga
TO: Director
U. S. Central Intelligence
Agency
ATTN: Freedom of Information Manager
Washington, DC 20505
FROM: Larry W. Bryant
DATE: August 8, 2004
While
certain CIA officials continue to deny the public full access to any government
records pertaining to the CIA-created "Project Cherry," there remains at least
one victim of that rogue operation who is continuing to seek full vindication
and justice as to the "Cherry"-related crimes of omission/commission
perpetrated against not just him but also against one or more citizens of the
Kingdom of Cambodia.
I refer of course to one former U. S. Army captain
John Joseph McCarthy, Jr., who clandestinely had been trained by, and operated
as a trainer within, "Project Cherry's" central mission: the fielding of
assassination teams throughout key regions of Vietnam-war-era Southeast Asia.
For details on his involvement in, and eventual victimization by, that mission,
please visit the Internet web site of:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/hall/Mac.html
With Mr.
McCarthy's proxy (i.e., the enclosed copy of his Notice of Authorization), I
hereby submit this letter as a formal, written freedom-of-information/Privacy
Act request that you send me a copy of all CIA-generated and CIA-received
records pertaining to Mr. McCarthy's military career, his CIA-directed
activities, his associated communications, his post-"Cherry" litigation
history, and his CIA-managed "case file."
Since I make this request as
an independent writer focusing on actual and/or potential whistleblower-derived
evidence exposing official wrongdoing at the highest levels of government, and
since such exposure would significantly educate the general public as to all
related government activities/policies/programs, I hereby request that you
waive all records-search fees incident to your fulfilling this
request.
By snail-mail, I'm sending to you a signed printout of this
e-formatted letter.
LARRY W. BRYANT
Copies furnished
to:
Mr. McCarthy
Mark S. Zaid, Esq. (Washington, D.C.)
Chairman, U. S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Cambodian
Ambassador to the United States
The Feres
Doctrine
August 7, 2004
Dear Barb,
The Feres
Doctrine was used by the United States Federal District Court in Washington,
DC, on January 6, 2003, to dismiss with prejudice a Civil Suit for $1.3 billion
brought by myself against the CIA, DIA, FBI, DOD, DOJ and the State Department
for conspiracy to obstruct justice in a capital murder case which was essential
to cover up treason in wartime by the United States Intelligence Community. The
Court Ruled that since I was still a member of the United States Military when
I suffered the abuse as alleged in the complaint, Feres precluded any action
against the Government. This flies in the face of the First Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States which allows all citizens to seek redress for
grievances against the Government.
Vets For
Justice
August 6, 2004
Hello Billy,
Thank you
so much for posting VERPA's new messages on your site, which, by the way, is
fantastic! (Vets For Justice http://www.vetsforjustice.com/)
Here is the latest of my
attempts to seek justice since I too have been stymied by the Feres Doctrine.
http://news.bostonherald.com/forums/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=171
http://www.scottmalensek.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=49
The second document, in the URL above, a letter to the Cambodian
Embassy re the ICC is causing a stir. VERPA is also in the process of putting
together paperwork for the ICC. What other recourse do we have if our own
government turns a deaf ear, in this case, the Senate Judiciary Committee, for
relief of human rights abuses as delineated by the Nuremberg International War
Crimes Tribunal?
Bests,
John McCarthy
Chairman of The Board of
VERPA
www.verpa.org
Nuclear Age Peace
Foundation
August 5, 2004
Dear Mr. McCarthy,
Thank you for your message. I would actually like to do a radio interview with
you if possible. I have a weekly public affairs radio show on KCSB 91.9 FM on
Tuesday mornings. The show is entitled "Grassroots" and can be heard throughout
the central coast of California from Los Angeles to San Luis Obispo. I would
like to schedule the interview for Tuesday, 17 August. The interview portion
would take place from 8:35 am to 8:58 am. Please let me know if you are
available. Thank you so much for your assistance and best wishes with your
work.
Carah Ong
Development and Communications Director
Nuclear
Age Peace Foundation
www.wagingpeace.org
You, Too, Can Help Resolve
the McCarthy Saga
August 2, 2004
Yes, the following
link will give access to a petition for empanelling a federal grand jury in
Washington, D.C., to probe the CIA's "Project Cherry." You'll find the
petition's entire text at:
http://www.PetitionPetition.com/cgi/petition.cgi?id=7349
Adding your signature to the petition -- and spreading the word about
it -- will be like issuing a court summons to the rogue CIA operatives
responsible for "Cherry."
FOIA Request re
Correspondence about the McCarthy Saga
TO: Hon. John
Ashcroft
Attorney General of the United States
ATTN: Freedom of
Information Act Manager
Washington, DC 20530
FROM: Larry W.
Bryant
DATE: July 25, 2004
When either a former U. S. Army
special forces captain (and CIA-trained operative during the Vietnam era) or
his associate (Larry J. O'Daniel) writes a series of (unanswered) letters to
any cabinet-level official about his concerns over suspected criminal,
treasonous activity deriving from a clandestine CIA operation called "Project
Cherry," he expects and deserves a thoughtful, comprehensive, and committal
reply from that official.
The unanswered correspondence in this case
includes a June 9, 2004, "open letter" (now posted upon the Internet) from the
whistleblower in question -- Mr. John J. McCarthy, Jr., of Los Angeles, Calif.
I'm enclosing a computer-printout of the contents of that letter to you, Mr.
Ashcroft.
Of course, your department's continued dead-silence strategy
on Mr. McCarthy's revelations not only amounts to administrative discourtesy;
it also raises a red flag in the minds of some citizens that your department
has a "least said, best said" policy as to exposure of possible wrongdoing in
official circles. If, indeed, Mr. McCarthy has pointed you in the right
direction toward that exposure, then your continued silence cannot but brand
you as an apologist for the alleged wrongdoing -- a position totally contrary
to the charter of your department.
So as to shed the full light of
accountability on this case, I hereby submit this letter as a formal, written
freedom-of-information request: please send me a copy of all Justice
Department-received and Justice Department-generated records pertaining to Mr.
McCarthy's June 9, 2004, letter and to all related earlier correspondence. For
the purposes of this request, I'm enclosing a copy of a recently executed
NOTICE OF AUTHORIZATION from Mr. McCarthy, granting me his authority to access
the sought-for records.
Since I make this request as an independent
writer focusing on actual and/or potential whistleblower-derived evidence
exposing official wrongdoing at the highest levels of government, and since
such exposure would significantly educate the general public as to all related
government activities/policies/programs, I hereby request that you waive all
records-search fees incident to your fulfilling this request.
Please
note that I'm snail-mailing to you a signed printout of this e-formatted
letter.
LARRY W. BRYANT
Copies furnished to:
Mr.
McCarthy
Mark S. Zaid, Esq. (Washington, D.C.)
Chairman, U. S.
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Chairman, U. S. Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence
Delving into Delicate
Dossiers
TO: Director U. S. Federal Bureau of
Investigation
ATTN: Freedom of Information Manager
Washington, DC 20535
FROM: Larry W. Bryant
DATE: July 23, 2004
U. S. Army
Vietnam-era veteran John Joseph McCarthy, Jr., has every reason to expect the
existence of, and his entitlement of access to, all F.B.I.-generated and
F.B.I-received records pertaining to his military-career and
post-military-career activities/associations/events (said records also being
known as the official agency dossier). For background information on that
expectation, please visit the Internet web site of
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/hall/Mac.html
.
Accordingly, pursuant to the enclosed notarized Notice of
Authorization from Mr. McCarthy, I hereby request that, under terms of the U.
S. Privacy Act and U. S. Freedom of Information Act, you provide me a copy of
all the records described in the first paragraph of this request.
Since
I make this request as an independent writer focusing on actual and/or
potential whistleblower-derived evidence exposing official wrongdoing at the
highest levels of government, and since such exposure would significantly
educate the general public as to all related government
activities/policies/programs, I hereby request that you waive all
records-search fees incident to your fulfilling this request.
Please
note that I'm snail-mailing to you a signed printout of this e-formatted
letter.
LARRY W. BRYANT
Copies furnished to:
Mr.
McCarthy
Mark S. Zaid, Esq. (Washington, D.C.)
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NOTICE OF AUTHORIZATION
TO:
Whom It May Concern
FROM: John Joseph McCarthy
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DATE: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
By
this notarized instrument, I hereby authorize writer Larry W. Bryant of
Alexandria, Va., full access to any and all official government records being
maintained on me and my activities by any government agency -- including the U.
S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency, the
Departments of Defense/Army/State/Justice, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and
the National Security Agency.
For official records-search purposes
only, I hereby provide the following personal identification data:
Social Security No.: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ;
Original military
service No. _ _ _ _ _ _ ;
Date and place of birth: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _;
_ _
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Dates of military service: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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SIGNATURE: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
DATE SIGNED: _
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NOTARIZED CERTIFICATION
I, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_, a notary public, hereby certify that the foregoing individual, known to me
as John Joseph McCarthy, Jr., appeared before me on this the _ _ _ _ day of _ _
_ _, in the city/county of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, California, and
affixed his signature to this instrument. As witnessed by my signature _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of this date: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _; a notary public in
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
SEAL:
My commission
expires on: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
Reader Rant "Which is it,
people?"
July 23,2004
The cost of the wars in Vietnam
and Iraq is not only in dollars, lives and mangled bodies (from gifts that keep
on giving) but in the way the rest of the world sees America and the
Intelligence Fueled justification embedded with arrogance and
deceit.
So, in the long run, the "numbers" on the casualties and cost
are, unfortunately, inconsequential when it comes right down to the real losses
we have and are suffering.
An American officer met with General Giap of
North Vietnam and the topic of discussion came down to the American saying that
they Vietnamese never won a single battle during the entire conflict. Giap
responded by saying "You are correct, but we won the war."
It's all
about attitude, folks. The North Vietnamese were prepared to loose 10,000,000
to win the war.... The Lame excuse for US involvement in Vietnam is as Lame as
the justification for the war in Iraq.
So, the bottom line as to the
"cost" of the wars for our leaders reliance on "intelligence" is quite telling.
And we will be paying for this arrogance for generations to come.
Bests,
John
July 23, 2004
The attacks on Idema in the
'controlled' press are quite similar to the attacks on James G. "Bo" Gritz, a
Vietnam vet who fell out of favor for his supposed "unauthorized" attempts at
POW recovery from Thailand in the 1970's.
The attacks on myself in the
Miami Herald bring the De Je Vous feelings. 1980 headlines read "Convicted War
Criminal Became Dade Cop" and a few days later, "CIA Hit man became Dade Cop".
The paper claimed to have US Government documents to back up their libel but
have never produced them.
In 1989, Douglas Valentine wrote a book
titled, THE PHOENIX PROGRAM, published by William Morrow and Company, Inc. New
York. On page 211 Valentine libels me with the following:
"As for
"heavy handedness" cited by Dillard, [a CIA agent who is Valentine's source for
the libel who was not in Vietnam at the time in question] on November 27, 1967,
Fifth Special Forces Captain John McCarthy was sitting beside his principal
agent, Inchin Hai Lam (a Cambodian working for B-57 out of Quang Loi) in the
front seat of a car parked on a street in Tay Ninh. A suspected double agent,
Lam was a member of the Khmer Serai, [sp] a dissident Cambodian political party
created by the CIA to overthrow Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk. Without warning,
McCarthy turned and put a bullet between Lam's eyes. McCarthy was tried for
Lam's murder, and the ensuing scandal raised questions about the legality of
"terminating with extreme prejudice" suspected double agents. The issue would
surface again in regard to Phoenix."
I have never been to Tay Ninh, nor
have I ever shot anyone between the eyes, yet.
Information debunking
Valentines erroneous, libel and malicious assertions was available in the media
archives when Valentine and Morrow conspired to get this book into print and
damn the consequences. There was no investigative attempt to research available
information on this matter.
Valentine has been served with papers re
this libel.
These are examples of the "intelligence communities"
influence on the "free press" of our country.
Yes, we are all expendable
assets.
But thank God for the Internet! At least and at last some of us
have a forum to expose the villains for who they truly are...
Bests,
John
The Screams At Abu
Ghraib
Capitol Hill Blue's Reader Rant
July 18,
2002
Sandy, Thank you, again.
I wrote the book of my experiences
in 1984, quite cathartic as you may imagine. I have updated the chapters as the
years have gone by but have not been successful with obtaining an agent nor a
publisher.
Of course, with the revelation of the NSC documents in 2000,
a whole new light has been cast upon the subject. But as you can see from the
letters linked in the blog, "Combat Vets Twisting In The Wind" at,
none
of which has been answered, it would appear that Senators and Attorney Generals
successfully use the tactic of "ignore 'em and maybe they'll go away."
The media is in the same boat (bed) as the politicians. Mike Wallace of
CBS flew me from Indianapolis to New York in August, 1971, put me up at the
Holiday Inn in Manhattan for two days and we talked about this case for about
10 hours. I had the opportunity to be introduced to Walter Cronkite while at
CBS and thanked him for mentioning my name on October 1, 1969 on the CBS
Evening News.
Five days later the gates of Leavenworth opened with the
power of the press....
There was no follow-up by CBS or Sixty Minutes.
I was never told why. It has been reported that there has been a close
relationship between the Intelligence Community and the media....
In
1984 I met with and gave copies of the Record of Trial and allied paperwork to
Bob Woodward at the Washington Post. Again, there was no follow-up.
The
Miami Herald did write an article in December, 1981 titled; "Convicted War
Criminal Became Dade Cop", and a few days later; "Former CIA Hit Man Became
Dade Cop". I was not aware of these articles until 1990 and had no idea that
the Herald was owned by the Washington Post when I met with Woodward.
But thank God for the Internet! It is the great equalizer and I have been
blessed with email from around the world from people that are grateful for the
URL's for The Secret Team and other information they otherwise would never had
know to exist.
I was invited to speak at Oxford University in England
in May of 2002. I was a last minute replacement for President Hugo Chavez of
Venezuela who had to address a coup in progress.... Ironically, I have not had
an invitation to speak at any college or university in our country. But I do
believe that is about to change. Some of the students in attendance for the two
hour presentation were from South America. They were utterly fascinated with
Prouty's book and grateful that it was available for free on the Internet.
Appendix III of The Secret Team is the most important part of the book,
according to Prouty, and it has to do with the military assistance program to
Third World Countries and how we use and abuse such countries for political
purposes. The situation in Venezuela was right on point.
Bests,
John
July 17, 2004
Spence and AG,
I, too, share
your disgust re the Screams at Abu Ghraib.
I have learned through life
that all things happen for a reason/purpose. Perhaps the reason the world is
now aware of the vicious brutality on the part of American's in crimes against
humanity is that we now have no choice but to admit that our own pretense of
infallibility is transparent deceit and we must do the right thing; withdraw
from the Cradle of Civilization, lick our wounds, swallow what pride we have
left and ask forgiveness for our misguided leadership.
Every survivor
of Abu Ghraib (and their friends and relatives) will be a volunteer for al
Qaeda or any other anti-American organization. This will be the battle cry for
the Jihad....
Bests,
John
July 16, 2004
Is it remotely possible
that the "hazing" perpetrated upon the wannabes at Yale's Skull and Bones
initiation is so depraved that the reason for the secrecy is just that, to keep
the depravity of college "boys" from following them throughout their careers?
Is this what Bush meant we he dispatched the growing concern about "abuse" at
Abu Ghraib as merely "hazing"?
Perhaps we don't want to know the
truth....
Perhaps this depravity has followed the Yalies up through the
ranks of the Intelligence Community while singing the Wifenpoof song..."from
the tables down at Morey's, to the place where Louie dwells, to the dear old
templhof we love so well....we are poor little lambs who have lost our way,
bah, bah, bah, we are little black sheep who have gone astray, bah, bah,
bah....
nuff said.
John
July 15, 2004
Now we know what the
Congress did not want released all at once....the video taped screams of the
boys being sodomized at Abu Ghraib...Lord help us all. John
http://www.pastpeak.com/archives/2004/07/post_1.htm
This URL is a replacement for info no longer available.
Bests,
John
AG,
Torture is a disgusting subject, as are all
forms of terror and atrocity. When I first read about this tape,Nuremberg came
to mind and I fear that those in a position of authorizing such brutal methods
shall be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. "I was just following orders"
is not gonna work this time, either.
How could they ever expect to get
away with such depravity? And for what? So called "intelligence" when over 90%
of those in the prisons were innocent of any crime except for being Iraqi.....?
Yep, it is disgusting but should it not be discussed?
I
attended a Red Baron's meeting in San Pedro on the first Friday of July and our
guest speaker was John Fer, a POW in North Vietnam for 6+ years after being
shot down in 1966. He gave a very comprehensive albeit short talk about certain
aspects of dealing with the mentality and brutality of fellow human beings who
just happen to find themselves in complete control of other humans.
We
agreed that there is something quite primitive in the sadistic makeup of those
in charge of prisons, be it state-side or overseas as in POW's.
My
experience led me to wonder what makes the majority of those in the position of
authority act and react with such cruelty which they seem to enjoy.
An
experiment on this subject was conducted by Stanford University in the 1970's.
It was appropriately named "The Stanford Experiment". (search engine) Volunteer
members of the student body were divided into two groups; guards and prisoners.
The "experiment was supervised from a distance and was supposed to last two
weeks. It was halted after ten days due to the sadistic approach of the
"guards" and the ensuing cruelty to the "prisoners".
The "experiment"
was never repeated and it shocked the faculty for it's brutality, both mentally
and physically.
They never did figure out what caused this reaction in
supposedly "normal" humans. And these people were from the same
culture....
So, back to Abu Ghraib---Who was in charge? Was it a
Military Intelligence (MI) operation or was it CIA POSING as MI and Military
Police (MP) who were giving the directions to the peons who were in the photo's
of degradation now resulting in trials with limited access....?
Some
smart lawyer will ask those hard questions if he is worth his salt. Otherwise,
these kids will go down the tubes and the spooks will be free to strike again,
per usual.
Bests,
John
Portions of the book My War With The
CIA By Norodom Sihanouk and Wilfred Burchett quoted
here.
From: John
McCarthy
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 9:31 AM
Subject:
Draft
Eric, As you know by now, as Chairman of The Board of VERPA,
www.verpa.org I have been privileged to be involved in the latter stages of
getting legislation before the Senate Judiciary Committee with the express goal
of the abolition of the Feres Doctrine.
Feres died in a barracks fire
in 1946 on a military installation in New York. His wife sued for negligence
and lost. Hence, the Feres Doctrine. At the end of WWII, Supreme Court Justice
Robert Jackson temporarily stepped down from the bench to become the lead
prosecutor at the Nuremberg International War Crimes Tribunal. Ironically,
after seeing the evidence of crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazi
Regime, Justice Roberts would go on to become the author of the Feres Doctrine.
Feres was adopted by Congress in 1950 and made law of the land shortly
thereafter.
VERPA has collected a cross section of abuses suffered as a
result of Feres and is prepared to present them before Congressional
Committees. VERPA is an all volunteer, pro bono organization made up of
veterans and their families who have been effected by Feres.
We do not
accept donations.
Feres simply states that no service member, or
veteran, or family member may bring suit for ANY CRIME "incidental to
service".
We are not talking wounds or death suffered as a result of
combat.
What we are talking about is murder, rape, battery, assault,
negligence, medical mal practice, medical experimentation, wrongful conviction,
perjury, witness intimidation, witness tampering, conspiracy to obstruct
justice, secreting exculpatory evidence, violations of attorney client
relationship, treason and more.
Feres comes into effect the moment a
prospective service man or women takes the oath of enlistment or commission.
No one is warned of the pitfalls of Feres before induction. Most never
hear of it in twenty years of service. Those who do hear of it find it is too
late and they have no recourse.
Current members of the Supreme Court
have opined that Feres is "bad law" and that Congress has the power to remedy
the situation.
Our founding fathers thought the Right to seek redress
against the government was so important they placed it in the First Amendment.
Would a person in their right mind swear to protect and defend the
Constitution of The United States while simultaneously forfeiting their Rights
to the very same Constitution? Why would a sane person don his or her country's
uniform to go into battle as a second class citizen, required to forfeit the
Right to seek redress and expose themselves to the crimes listed above without
recourse? What is wrong with this picture?
And what has this got to do
with the upcoming reinstitution of the Draft?
Congress does NOT have
the authority or power to dilute, modify, change or eradicate any item in the
First Amendment. These Rights, Freedom of Speech and the Right to seek redress,
are inalienable. The Selective Service does NOT have the power to modify these
Rights.
This means that no US citizen can be forced to forfeit their
collective Rights under the Constitution and therefore can not be forced to
take the oath of enlistment.
If Congress refuses to Abolish the Feres
Doctrine, they must face the fact that Feres will negate any attempt to draft
it's citizens. Quite simple.
There used to be an expression; "You can't
go to war without any bullets" (as we are finding out in Iraq) and now we can
add; "You can't go to war without any trigger pullers".
There is
already a grassroots movement to spread the word to all 18-34 year old men and
women. One woman contacted me and said her 18 year old daughter was then on the
Internet passing the word to friends around the country.
High School
Jr's and Sr.'s have already been on the internet passing the word to their
networks.
Every University and College across the country has student
organizations who are quite concerned about the Draft and they are the major
targets of recruiters for the military.
The media has yet to pick up
the ramifications on Feres.
The plus side to this effort will be the
realization that if Feres is abolished, at least those conscripted won't have
to serve as second class citizens with Feres lurking over them.
Now all
we need to do is find the best way to communicate this information tactic to
interested parties.
Arlen Specter's attorney has recently approved
VERPA's proposed language for the Abolition of Feres.
Now we await an
S# and the placement of the Bill before both houses of Congress. See our site
for details on the VERPA Act.
To me it is an easy option; abolish Feres
or forfeit the Draft.
What say you?
Bests,
John
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