I wrote this article last year for another publication, but I keep referencing it in conversations, so figured I might as well share here...
From a factual standpoint, we will probably never really know what happened there that day, and why. The truth is clouded under layer upon layer of political distractions and obfuscations by intelligence services. The consulate that was raided was a CIA outpost in the middle of a terrorist stronghold. A terrorist stronghold supported by the United States.
Was the raid simply a lashing out by militants against an American target? Was the attack orchestrated as part of some covert plot by the CIA themselves, angling with al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists? Was the attack the fruit of a rebellion within the ranks of American government, or even the military, to use as political clout in order to undermine the Obama administration? Was it part of some plot that we can't even catch a glimpse of from here at home, behind our television and computer screens? We will probably never know.
What bothers me the most though, is how this is being played out politically, in the court of public opinion. Let's face it, people die in hostile war zones every day. Benghazi was no different. This is not to denigrate the sacrifices made there and the loss of life that day, but this is the cost of war and business is good for the American war machine. While Republicans will rail against Obama for reportedly ordering a stand-down of forces to defend the consulate in the middle of a terrorist capital on the other side of the planet, let us not forget that it was Dick Cheney who ordered the stand-down of American air defenses on 9/11, before he ordered the shoot down of Flight 93 and then lied about it for years. (There are still people today who actually believe the Flight 93 band-of-heroes myth, and that the plane crashed in Shanskville. It did not.)
Lies upon lies surround 9/11, and no one seems to even care anymore, that so many questions are still left unanswered. Not the Democrats, and least of all the Republicans. Nearly three-thousand people were killed right here in two of America's greatest cities, and that attack was used as a pretext for a war that has gone on now for more than a decade. A war without end against an invisible enemy, with approximately 70,000 American dead and wounded, and more than a million civilian deaths. All of this madness, and we still don't know who is responsible for 9/11. All of this, and Republicans are screaming bloody murder as if the death of an American politician and his CIA bodyguards in Libya is so much more important than the lives of so many other Americans.
Let's just have a look at this on a tactical level for a moment. POTUS does not micro-manage security at every diplomatic mission around the world. This was not even an embassy, it was a consulate. The local and regional security was the job of the military assets already in place. Nonetheless, when told of the attack, Obama deployed Delta Force, the elite commando team specializing in hostage rescue. By the time they landed in their forward operating base in Sicily, that battle in Benghazi was over. If Obama or anyone in his administration did order a stand-down, it was more than likely on the recommendation of military and/or intelligence officers in the region.
While this may seem counter-intuitive to some readers, a stand-down order is not necessarily treasonous and can be born of legitimate tactical concerns. Understanding that it took weeks for them to sort out what even happened there in Benghazi, and that even today we still don't even really know who was responsible for that attack, it is not at all unreasonable for a military commander to refuse to send in troops without reliable intelligence on the situation. Whether it was a local commander, or the President himself refusing to deploy troops on some blind cowboy mission is not an act of treason, it is tactics 101 to not allow yourself to be baited. Imagine how it would have looked if Obama wound up with another "Black Hawk Down" scenario, like we had in 1993 at The Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia where terrorists baited US forces into a kill box. For all we know, Obama might have actually saved dozens, even hundreds of American lives by ordering them to hold, if it was even POTUS who actually did order the so-called stand-down.
Of course, that is speculative now at this point, but we certainly can't fault him or his commanders for exercising some basic common sense in tactics. You don't go walking into a shooting gallery wearing a blindfold.
What is not speculative however, is that neither Republicans nor Democrats bother to ask what we are even doing in Libya in the first place.
Also, check out this latest article, chock full of links and info on Benghazi:
It’s Dishonest to Talk about Benghazi Without Talking About the Syrian War Both Parties Are Trying to Sweep the Bigger Story Under the Rug According to Democrats, today’s Congressional hearings on Benghazi are nothing but a partisan witch hunt. According to Republicans, the Obama administration committed treason in it’s handling of Benghazi … and then tried to cover it up. Both parties are avoiding the bigger picture … The fact that Democrats and Republicans alike have been using Benghazi as the center of U.S. efforts to arm the Al Qaeda-affiliated Syrian rebels. Read the rest at at: Washington's Blog
[This article names the facility as a consulate. It appears as though those reports are not accurate. Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi states, "Benghazi has been described as a U.S. consulate, but it was not. It was an information office that had no diplomatic status."]
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Plane crashes have often been viewed by conspiracy-theorists as a favored method of assassination, and probably rightly so. Such disasters appear random, and can even hide cover other evidence such as genuine cause of death. It's no surprise that evil-doers would go to such lengths to dispatch their marked target. While those of us who are not ruthless murderers might look on the premise with some incredulity, the truth is that there are very powerful people in the world who will go to any lengths to protect, and to grow their power. Knowing this, conspiracy-theorists are willing to take a second look at events that the average person would most likely simply write off as coincidence or random tragedy.
Take the case of Beverly Eckert for example. The 9/11 widow was a tireless activist, who could not be bought off, seeking answers and reform. In other words she was a major thorn in the side of the government.
Eckert was killed on February 12, 2009, in the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 outside of Buffalo, New York. She was traveling to Buffalo for a gathering with her family to mark what would have been Rooney's 58th birthday on February 15. A ceremony had also been scheduled at Canisius High School in which she was to award a student with a memorial scholarship in Rooney's honor. A week before her death, Eckert met with U.S. President Barack Obama, to discuss detainees at Guantanamo and other matters. -via Wikipedia
It's little wonder why skeptics of coincidence took a closer look, and why conspiracy-theorists decided to posit their own theories about her death.
Of course, there is no real proof that Obama, his handlers or his cronies, had anything to do with the crash. Perhaps it was just coincidence. But then again, that's what we would all be expected to believe if it wasn't an accident.
Skip now to another small plane. Instead of flying covered in ice through a New York blizzard, this time it is a plane flying over the sun-drenched blue waters off the coast of Hawaii. It is December 11, 2013, and on-board the single-engine Cessna is Loretta Fuddy, director of the 50th state's health department.
The 65-year old official had been at the center of the ongoing Obama birth-certificate controversy, when she authenticated and released the President's "long-form" Hawaiian birth certificate back in April 2011. Despite her official position and the apparent credibility that goes along with it, several forensic experts have challenged the authenticity of the birth-certificate. Affidavits were filed by a cold-case investigator to that affect, in May of 2013.
Ms. Fuddy was the only person who died on that bright Hawaiian pre-Christmas day, when the small plane loaded with 8 other people dropped into the water about a half-mile from the coastline. None of the other people on board suffered serious injury, and a 70-year old man swam to shore to seek help.
The cause of her death has not been made public, and there are discrepancies in reports on how she may have died. Officials have stated that her body was recovered from inside the aircraft, after the other passengers and pilot were rescued. This contradicts the accounts by passengers themselves though, who have said that she made it out of the plane alive along with everyone else, and without any apparent serious injury. One passenger recounted in a press statement how he helped her put on her life-jacket.
“I could not understand how that could have happened at the time, excuse me, that she could have passed. I didn’t understand how it could have happened,” -Pilot of Crashed Plane
The wreckage was spotted by another pilot and his girlfriend who happened to be taking a leisure flight in the area. Had it not been for them, a rescue effort would have been seriously delayed, as the pilot of the downed Cessna had made no distress call. The spotters are reported to have seen all nine people in the water, again contradicting the statement by officials that Fuddy's remains were found still inside the fuselage of the wrecked plane.
One passenger managed to actually record the crash and escape.
(This edit, an ABC news exclusive does leave something to be desired. The anchor's commercial for the camera at the beginning of the report is as cringe-worthy as her exaggeration of the plane 'spiraling' into the ocean and unnecessary blow-by-blow. But otherwise, it is good footage of the actual crash nonetheless.)
Conspiracy? Coincidence? It really is up to you to decide.
One thing is true though, 8 out of 9 people on that plane were very lucky.
Sending out much love today for the firefighters of Detroit and surrounding areas, in the hellfire, and of course all of the other firefighters around the nation who do it and die for it each and every day.
We are going to present a compilation here of material regarding the collapse of World Trade Center Building #7 on September 11, 2001.
Many have argued that the World Trade Center disaster was actually the result of a controlled demolition project planned well in advance by parties unknown. Much of the focus on the disaster that day has been centered on Towers 1 and 2, which were struck by aircraft. It has also been argued by many, that the damage from the aircraft and ensuing fires would not have been sufficient to cause a symmetrical collapse at nearly free-fall speed. There is compelling evidence to support the idea that the planes could not have brought down the towers, but perhaps the most compelling is that WTC7 was never struck by a plane at all, and yet that building too also collapsed in a way that seems to defy any explanation other than a controlled demolition.
But let's start by looking at the official explanation first. Could fire be the reason that Building 7 collapsed, as we have been told by government officials? It seems rather unlikely, considering that it has never happened before, or since. Yet on 9/11, we are told that three steel buildings were brought down primarily by fire. And again, one of those buildings was not even hit by a plane loaded with fuel.
This is a picture of the fires still burning in WTC7 in the late afternoon of September 11.
Here are some examples, of burning skyscrapers from around the world, that did not collapse, despite the fact that they suffered fires that burned longer, and engulfed more square footage of the structure.
In 1975, World Trade Center Tower 1 also burned on several floors, for several hours, with no modernized fire suppression system or fire-proofing material in place, but did not collapse.
Of course, these towering infernos were not struck by aircraft and were not struck by the debris of the Twin Towers as they collapsed. So let's have a look now at what sort of damage a building can suffer and still remain standing.
This is an image of debris which struck and damaged WTC 7.
For comparison now, here is a picture of the Deutsche Bank building which suffered extensive damage on 9/11. A fire in 2007 claimed the lives of two FDNY firefighters. Nearly a decade later, a $100-million deconstruction project was completed and the building was no more.
The following two images show the damage done to WTC Building #3 on 9/11, and the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City after it was bombed in 1995. Despite the devastation, what remained of the buildings still did not collapse, and had to be brought down later.
Relatively small fires, comparatively far less structural damage than others, yet WTC7 still fell, uniformly, into a nice neat pile.
Even when buildings do happen to collapse, perhaps after an earthquake, they do not implode. Here are some images of what happens when critical supports in a building fail.
Even when specialists spend months planning and spend weeks placing huge amounts of explosives all throughout a building, it is still a difficult task to bring down a building in it's own footprint. There are no guarantees, as these videos show. Demolitions gone wrong, click here, here, and here to see them.
Larry Silverstein, the owner of the WTC complex first explained the collapse of Building 7 saying he gave the order to "pull it." This is a term often used in demolitions, meaning to pull down the building.
Strangely, given the subsequent information you will read here in a moment which has been kown for years, Secretary of State John Kerry also explained the destruction as a controlled demolition rather than an unexpected collapse.
There is a very serious problem with that explanation though. Fire departments are not trained or equipped for demolitions operations. Fire trucks do not carry explosives, firefighters do not knock down buildings. Even for the world's leading specialists a demolition of that scale is not something that could be done in a matter of hours in a damaged and burning skyscraper. The only explanation could be that the explosives were set, before 9/11.
Silverstein later tried to revise the meaning of his statement, saying that he meant "pull it" as in to pull the rescue effort, and to pull out the firefighters in the building. The only problem with that, is that there were no firefighters in the building according to FEMA, because there was no water available to carry out interior firefighting operations. This video clip corroborates that. That clip also alludes to previous knowledge of impending collapse.
How did anyone know the building was going to collapse before it actually did? Why wasn't it predicted that other, more badly damaged buildings were going to fall, even though they never did? What were the telltale signs that Building 7 was going to collapse?
CRAIG BARTMER NYPD: "I walked around it (Building 7). I saw a hole. I didn't see a hole bad enough to knock a building down, though. Yeah there was definitely fire in the building, but I didn't hear any... I didn't hear any creaking, or... I didn't hear any indication that it was going to come down. And all of a sudden the radios exploded and everyone started screaming 'get away, get away, get away from it!'... It was at that moment... I looked up, and it was nothing I would ever imagine seeing in my life. The thing started pealing in on itself... Somebody grabbed my shoulder and I started running, and the shit's hitting the ground behind me, and the whole time you're hearing "boom, boom, boom, boom, boom." I think I know an explosion when I hear it... Yeah it had some damage to it, but nothing like what they're saying... Nothing to account for what we saw..."
Why did the BBC report that the building had collapsed, 20 minutes before it actually did?
In this video clip, you will hear someone declare that the building ia about to "blow up" as you hear what sounds like explosives going off in the background. Odd choice of words. Blow up. And who told them it was going to blow up?
Perhaps the sounds of bombs going off was a clue, but bombs had been going off all day. Something that was completely overlooked by the media and has never been explained.
But perhaps the most chilling account of bombs in WTC 7 comes from Barry Jennings, Deputy Director of the Emergency Services Department for the New York City Housing Authority. That fateful morning he raced to the Office of Emergency Management located in WTC7, to find it eerily empty, except for New York City's corporate counsel Michael Hess. An explosion trapped the two inside the building. Keep in mind that what he talks about here in the following interview happened before either of the Twin Towers fell, and therefore before the collapses had done any damage to Building 7.
(Videos of Barry Jennings' statements and interviews are routinely scrubbed from the internet. Unfortunately, this has happened again, as one of the most complete videos of his account has been removed, as you can see. For a less complete version, see this video here on YouTube.)
Unfortunately, Barry Jennings will never be able to testify on record about what he saw that day. He died, for unknown reasons, just days before the NIST report on 9/11 was released in 2008. One of the film makers who interviewed Jennings for the film Loose Change hired an investigator to find out more about Jennings' mysterious death. All that he found was Jennings' home empty, and up for sale. He then returned the money to the man who hired him, and told the filmmaker to never contact him again. This only added to the mystery. A commenter at a website claimed to be Jennings' son, and claimed his father had died of leukemia, but the identity of the commenter has never been verified.
Hess publicly corroborated important elements of Jennings' account.
This video examines the collapse of WTC7 and some elements of the NIST report.
If that video was a little too technical for you, don't worry. Most of us are not engineers. There are plenty of real experts out there though, thousands of them, who disagree with the government's findings. This video summarizes the details of the WTC 7 collapse in terms we can all understand.
This is the third installment of the nuclear detonation simulator by Alex Wellerstein. An earlier version which is less graphic intense (smoother running for older PC's) has other features which make it still relevant. That earlier version is available on this blog's button keys in the right-hand column.
For this version you will have to be sure your Google Earth is up to date.
Here are some screenshots I took when I decided to nuke NYC. These are simulated air-bursts over downtown Manhattan.
If one were to take the Metro-North Hudson Line train, north out of Grand Central Terminal to the end of the line, you would wind up in Poughkeepsie NY. That city is roughly the halfway point between NYC and the state capitol in Albany. So for these simulations, I decided to stand that far away, in order to get a sense of how large these explosions would be. By highway, it's a distance of about 85 miles from Poughkeepsie, to the foot of Manhattan at Battery Park.
A great vantage point to see such a spectacle would be from atop the Walkway Over the Hudson, an old railroad bridge which has been converted into a public park. Most of these simulated long-distance images are taken from there.
This first shot simulates a 20 kiloton air-burst nuclear detonation over downtown Manhattan. Keep in mind here, that one single kiloton, is the general equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT. The "Little Boy" bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima is believed to have detonated with the force of 13-18 kilotons. The "Fat Man" which was dropped on Nagasaki a few days later, was 20-22 kt. So in general, this simulates a bombing of NY about the size of what we did to Japan at the close of WWII.
This is what that same blast would look like if you were on Staten Island at the ferry docks.
And if you were flying over New York in an airliner at an altitude of 30,000 feet it would look something like this.
The following map depicts the general immediate effects of a nuclear blast. Keep in mind that there are many variables when estimating damage in a real world detonation based on the height of the burst, the specific sort of weapon that used, building materials and so forth. Weather patterns will greatly effect secondary radiation fallout patterns as well.
Effects radii for a 20 kiloton bomb (smallest to largest):
Fireball:660ft (0.05mi²)Maximum size of the nuclear fireball; relevance to lived effects depends on height of detonation.
Air blast:2,510ft (0.71mi²)20 psi overpressure; heavily built concrete buildings are severely damaged or demolished; fatalities approach 100%.
Radiation:0.87mi (2.4mi²)500
rem radiation dose; between 50% and 90% mortality from acute effects
alone; dying takes between several hours and several weeks.
Air blast:1.17mi (4.33mi²)5 psi overpressure; most buildings collapse; injuries universal, fatalities widespread.
Thermal radiation:1.52mi (7.28mi²)Third-degree burns to all exposed skin; can start fires.
Radioactive fallout could rain down as far away as Long Island is long.
This image simulates a 100 kiloton detonation over downtown Manhattan. This is the yield of America's most popular nuclear warhead, the W76. 8 to 12 of these warheads can be mounted on a single, submarine launched, Trident II ballistic missile in order to shower multiple independent targets.
The "Ivy King" was the largest pure fission nuclear device ever tested by the United States. In November of 1952 it was dropped on an uninhabited Pacific atoll, and exploded with the force of 500 kilotons. (See video). This is what it would have looked like from Poughkeepsie, looking south to NYC.
This image simulates what it would look like if NYC were to be hit by one of China's Dong Feng 5 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. Their premier ICBM detonates with a yield of 5 megatons, and can strike almost anywhere on the planet except for South America due to range limitations. China's nuclear arsenal is estimated to be anywhere from several hundred to several thousand warheads. Plans to put multiple warheads on the DF-5 have met with some technical difficulty and it is not believed that any of the missiles have been deployed with MIRV capability.
At 15 megatons, "Castle Bravo" reigns as America's largest ever nuclear detonation. Unfortunately, it was an unexpected achievement, with the yield only expected to be about 4 to 5 megatons. As a result of the unexpectedly large explosion, there was significant exposure to civilian populations from radiation and fallout. The 1954 test created international concern for atmospheric testing of nuclear bombs. (See video)
For better or worse, and perhaps having learned a lesson after getting burned playing with firecrackers, the Unites States appears to have been content enough to leave well enough alone. The Soviet bear on the other hand, felt they had more to prove.
The largest nuclear detonation ever on our planet was the former USSR's Tsar Bomba. That behemoth exploded with the nearly incomprehensible force of 50 megatons. Astonishingly, this test was set to go off with only half of the yield the bomb was actually designed for, an Earth-cracking 100 megatons. The following two images from about 80 miles from Ground Zero barely capture the scope of such explosions.
Now let's do a direct comparison from about 100 miles up, in a low-Earth orbit from space. We will place the marker in Poughkeepsie as a point of reference. In this first image we see the small spot over Manhattan that is the mushroom cloud from a 20 kiloton bomb like the ones that were dropped on Japan.
And here, is the Tsar Bomba, as seen from outer space.
Keep in mind, we human beings have created an explosion that large. Finally, this is what we have built, and are capable of. The 100 megaton blast which the Tsar Bomba was designed for. First in low earth orbit, and then from high above, directly overhead.
Here are the damage maps for the 100 megaton Tsar Bomba. The fireball alone would be nearly 4 miles wide. Anyone standing outside, almost as far away as Poughkeepsie, New York would suffer third degree burns to exposed skin and anything fairly combustible like cloth, paper and leaves would ignite. Stell liquifying firestorms would be widespread. Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Jersey City would be leveled.
If prevailing winds happened to move from east to west, fatal levels of radioactive fallout would reach as far as the Rocky Mountains. Alternately, if a bomb this size were to be detonated over Colorado Springs, deadly fallout would reach as far as New York.
In May of this year there was a head-on crash between an ambulance and a full-size pickup truck on a semi-rural road in upstate New York. The damage was extensive, but thankfully no one was killed. There were serious injuries though.
The driver of the ambulance, a 43-year old paramedic, was in critical condition after he was extricated from the twisted wreck. He was airlifted to the Albany Medical Center. Also in the ambulance was his 22-year old girlfriend, an EMT. It was reported that she suffered a head-injury but that her condition was less serious. They were both on duty at the time of the crash, moving the ambulance from one station to another, but they were not on an emergency call and there was no patient on-board. The wreck occurred just before 7 a.m.
An 18-year old male had to be extricated from the mangled pickup truck he had been driving. but it was reported that he had only minor injuries. His 21-year old male passenger also escaped without serious injury.
You can read local reporting at the folling links:
The investigation has determined that the wreck occurred when when the ambulance traveled over the center double-yellow line and struck the pickup truck which was traveling in the opposite direction. No tickets were issued in the accident.
Ulster County Undersheriff Frank Faluotico says it’s not uncommon for tickets to not be issued in accidents like this and the investigation has been completed.
Accidents like this one? Does he mean unintentional accidents, or wrecks in which first-responders are involved and shown favoritism?
Perhaps it could be best summed up by the comments of a local person, who wishes to remain anonymous but had this to say:
Having worked side by side with people from
Mobile Life this wreck certainly put my stomach in a knot, and I am
certainly glad it didn't turn out any worse than it did. But I find it
absolutely ridiculous that there were no tickets issued. It
was obviously not intentional, that's why they call it an accident. But
the paramedic crossed over the line into oncoming traffic. That is what
caused the wreck. And you can damn well bet that if it was YOU who made
that mistake, and hit an emergency vehicle, they would have thrown the
book at you. And if I was the person in the other car, I would be in a
fit of rage right now that the person who injured me was not going to be
held accountable.
Precisely. An accident is an accident. Yet tickets are issued at accidents almost universally except, it seems, when a person wearing a badge is at fault.
Now don't get me wrong here, I am thankful to the job that first-responders do in saving lives and coping with all sorts of human tragedy. Especially firefighters, and of course emergency medical personnel who's sole purpose in life is to save lives. But yet again, we see another example of how there are two classes of citizens in this country when it comes to how the law is applied. There are the favored, the police, their friends and family, and then there are the rest of us who pay their salaries and get no such special privilege.
TSUNAMI of 13 June, 2013 (Northwestern Atlantic Ocean)
Tsunami-like waves were observed along the US east coast during the afternoon of June 13, 2013 (day 164). The source is complex and still under review, though the coincidence at several gages with strong atmospheric pressure fluctuations indicate that it is at least partly generated by meteorological causes. The event occurred in close conjunction with a weather system labeled by the National Weather Service as a low-end derecho which propagated from west to east over the New Jersey shore just before the tsunami. It is also possible that the slumping at the continental shelf east of New Jersey played a role. The tsunami was observed at over 30 tide gages and one DART buoy throughout the Northwestern Atlantic Ocean.
A first-hand description was provided by Brian Coen who observed the event at Barnegat Inlet in New Jersey: Around 3:30pm on Thursday June 13, 2013, Brian Coen was spear fishing near the mouth of Barnegat Inlet; just south of the submerged northern breakwater. Earlier in the day around noon, thunderstorms had moved through the area. By 3:30pm the weather was overcast with a light east wind. At approximately 3:30, the outgoing tide was amplified by strong currents which carried divers over the submerged breakwater (normally 3-4 feet deep). This strong outrush continued for 1-2 minutes and eventually the rocks in the submerged breakwater were exposed. Brian backed his boat out before being sucked over as well.
At this point, Brian noticed a large wave coming in, approximately 6 feet peak-to-trough and spanning across the inlet. The upper 2 feet of the wave was breaking. This wave occurred in conjunction with a reversal of the current such that even though the tide was going out, a strong surge was entering the inlet. This surge carried the divers back over the submerged reef and into the inlet from where they were picked up. On the south jetty three people were swept off the rocks which were 5 to 6 feet above sea level at the time. At least two were injured requiring medical treatment. There was no more strong activity after about 5 minutes.
This event produced a tsunami that was recorded at tide gages monitored by the West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (WCATWC). Many observatories provide data to the centers; such as the NOAA National Ocean Service, the U. of Hawaii Sea Level Center, the Chilean Navy, the Japan Meteorological Ageny and the National Tidal Facility in Australia among others. Click on the site name to see a graph of the tsunami, when available. Listed wave heights are maximum amplitude in cm (above sea level). Observed Arrival time is the actual tsunami arrival time in UTC on gages where it could be determined. The Sample Interval column shows the time between data samples.
The revelation that Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings was working on a story about the CIA before his death and had contacted a Wikileaks lawyer about being under investigation by the FBI hours before his car exploded into flames has bolstered increasingly valid claims that the 33-year-old was assassinated. Read more at: InfoWars.com
The special agent in charge of the FBI's headquarters in Boston has resigned. Richard DesLauriers took over the office in 2010 and was in charge of the Boston Marathon Bombing investigation.
The 26-year veteran announced he would be retiring from the agency 4 years early, in order to take a private sector job as vice-president of corporate security for the Penske Corporation. He said in an interview that he was offered the position in March, but delayed because of the Boston Bombing investigation. While a move like this is not particularly unusual under normal circumstances, in this instance, it does raise some curiosities when other irregularities surrounding the Boston Bombing are considered.
To begin, it is coincidental that he is leaving for a job with Penske in particular. On the day of the bombing the FBI told Boston police to locate a suspicious Penske rental truck, and one police official told the press that they were "desperately seeking" the yellow vehicle and its driver.
The following video shows clips of DesLauriers at a press conference.
He then goes on to give the impression that the FBI do not know the identity of the suspects shown in the pictures they released. This contradicts the fact that the two men they were looking for had been known to the FBI for at least 5 years.
He then goes on to become very adamant that the public ignore all other pictures that may be floating around. This is quite disturbing when one considers that there are several images of two women placing what is believed to be one of the bombs, and that the FBI destroyed photo evidence at the crime scene. This seems to add credibility to the claim of the suspects' family that they were framed. Father Claims Bombing Suspect Sons Were Framed
Add this to the fact that the first suspect was killed under questionable circumstances, and that the second suspect was not armed when officials opened fire on him. There has been no explanation as to why police and agents tried to murder an unarmed man, and there has been no accountability for their actions. It makes no difference what a person is accused of, officials have no right to try to kill an unarmed person. Bombing Suspect Was Not Armed Who Was the Naked Suspect?
DesLauriers himself should be held accountable and be made to publicly explain these alarming questions, rather than treated as a hero and dashing out the side door before the case is even brought before a court. So under these circumstances, it is indeed curious that the special agent in charge is leaving his post.
There have also been a several curious deaths since the Boston Bombing. In May, two agents assigned to the elite FBI Hostage Rescue Team were reported killed in an apparent fall from a helicopter during a training exercise. That team was directly involved with the arrest of Boston Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. In other words, the two men that were killed likely had intimate knowledge of the attempt to kill that suspect.
In another case, an acquaintance of the suspects was killed by an FBI agent during questioning regarding an unsolved murder.The circumstances of that death are also very disturbing.
Conspiracy theorists appear to be vindicated yet again, as six original investigators of the Flight 800 disaster have come forward to claim the airliner was shot down by a missile. The official cause of the crash was reported to be an electrical short circuit in the plane's fuel tank, but there is substantial evidence which contradicts the findings of the NTSB.
Read more details on the story at: CNN, and FOX News
Read more about the so-called "missile theory" at the following links:
Public schools in cooperation with the department of homeland security are now teaching kids safety measures, and advising that they seek relief in FEMA camps in a time of crisis. But are these post disaster relief camps, or military internment camps?
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Criticizing an attorney for the government for arguing issues he never
raised in briefing, the First Circuit seemed likely at a hearing Wednesday
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Mom Has Stacked Dinner Party Roster
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GOLDEN, CO—Their eyes widening in amazement as the 43-year-old rattled off
the names of heavy hitter after heavy hitter, impressed members of the
Dreesh...