There are currently six bills pending in Congress that would take provisions from Patriot Act II -- HR-3179, the Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Tools Improvement Act of 2003; HR-3037, Anti-Terrorism Tools Enhancement Act of 2003; HR2934 and S1604, Terrorist Penalties Enhancement Act of 2003; HR3040 and S1606, Pre-trial Detention and Lifetime Supervision of Terrorists Act of 2003. The most sinister of these is HR3179, sponsored by Representative James Sensenbrenner and co-sponsored by the infamous- sinister Porter Goss.

And who is Porter Goss? Rep. Porter Goss, (R-FL) is
surprise! a former CIA agent who left the CIA under
clouded circumstances. He was a field agent but was
actually forced out because of a trail of bodies that
got tagged to him, literally, all over the world. And
here is, as they say, the rest of the story...

Porter Goss had been involved in the last-ditch
efforts by the CIA to save the CIA-backed and
-financed regime of Nicaraguan, tin-horn, right-wing
dictator Anastasio Somoza, before Somoza’s fall in
1979. After that the Sandinistas were voted into
power.

The CIA knew that the Somoza Regime was falling
apart. In 1979, they undertook a last-ditch effort to
save the regime by attempting to assassinate the
leaders of the then-nascent Sandinista movement, which
became a political party shortly thereafter. They
attempted to penetrate the ranks of the Sandinistas.
Porter Goss, it’s interesting to note, claimed that he
was the one who turned the man who would later become
a member of the Sandinista ruling council, Tomas
Borges. Borges was subsequently the CIA ‘s point man
in Nicaragua pursuant to the CIA’s narcotics
trafficking during Iran Contra.

The CIA made an effort to save the dictatorship
by undertaking a multi-pronged program, one with
assassination. Porter Goss became too high-profile.

This is a long story with a hundred different
parts. The KGB was aiding the Sandinistas very early
on with intelligence. They were also feeding the
Sandinistas weapons from Cuba to pressure and unseat
the right-wing dictator Anastasio Somoza.

The KGB, in late 1979-1980, informed the
Sandinista ruling council, which was headed by Daniel
Ortega and his brother, of the CIA activity and what
they were doing in Nicaragua. Later Ortega’s brother
was assassinated by the CIA.

Goss was the Agency point man to conduct this
operation to save the flagging Somoza regime. Of
course, he didn’t have a title. This was done
covertly, and illegally, of course -- as always.

This program entailed the assassination of
senior Sandinista members. Daniel Ortega himself was
targeted and very nearly assassinated by the CIA early
in 1980. It was only at the last minute, as a matter
of fact, that the KGB, operating out of Managua, saved
Ortega’s bacon by foiling the plot. That plot was
foiled, when the KGB informed Ortega in the still
nascent ruling council. This is a few months prior to
the actual elections that elected the Sandinista
regime. Porter Goss then had to leave Nicaragua.

Porter Goss was supported by the Republican
National Committee, in particular, the Republican
State committee of Florida because of his CIA
background and his long-time friendship with George
Bush. Remember, he was one of George Bush’s rising
stars when George was DCI.

Goss then won the seat for Sarasota, Florida and
subsequently he started to become involved in 1983 in
Iran-Contra profiteering with Jeb and Neil Bush. That
is how he got subsequently exposed in his involvement
in Neil Bush’s Destin Country Club development fraud–a
fraud out of which he made about $3 million illegally.
He then became involved with Carlos Cardoen and
Swissco Management, and the fraud that Swissco
Management committed, not only in Florida, but
throughout the United States, in those so-called
illicit “tax-swap deals,” which Senator Bob Graham of
Florida, senior Senator, also profited in.

So how did Porter Goss get on the current short
list to be the Director of the CIA after the
resignation of George Tenet? It’s because of who he
is. This is a long-time Bushonian loyalist that stood
up and took the heat in 1986 when, thanks to yours
truly, Goss’s involvement in the Destin Country Club
group, the Swissco Management fraud, the Topsail
Development Ltd. fraud, the Destin Dome development
fraud, and various other Bush Family frauds was
revealed in the Washington Times.

Porter Goss is a Cabal loyalist who is finally
getting the reward that he had been waiting for. He
made millions in that time frame. We’re talking about
what would be a lot of money today. DCI would be a
crown for him, the ultimate reward. He’s already been
rewarded financially. But this would be less of a
reward. Within the Cabal, it is a proof of strength.
The Cabal is strong enough to get a guy with a long
history, like Porter Goss, to be DCI, to be able to
get that appointment approved in Congress. It’s a test
of strength. It’s a re-affirmation that the Cabal
rules.

Porter Goss, it should be noted, kept his mouth
shut when then DCI George Bush Sr. was
arrested in a DUI while Goss was in the car with him.

You could compare it to the crime family where
the soldier rises from the street to become the capo,
which has taken the hits over the years for his
superiors in the organization. Of course, unlike an
organized crime family, the difference between the
Bushonian Cabal and your average, run-of-the-mill
organized crime family is that the Cabal controls, not
only the entire nation, but influences policy
throughout the planet. They are above all laws and
impervious to any action. By sponsoring this Patriot
II Act, the implication is that he is continuing the
Bushonian Cabal’s agenda.

There is also something tangential that can be
read into this -- the fact that the Bush-Cheney regime
would be prepared to stick its neck out, which it is
certainly doing, particularly in an election year, to
potentially support Porter Goss to become DCI. There
is no way that they could prevent Porter Goss’s past
from being looked at. I’m sure that would only be
superficial, but to even superficially look at, it
still going to get all over the Internet. And suddenly
I’ll be getting calls from people I haven’t talked to
in 10 years, saying, “Help me out with Porter Goss.” I
know how that goes.

But the fact that they’re willing to stick their
neck out (and it would be a risk politically to
support Porter Goss, who has such a long history that
inculpates the very same people who are now going to
support him, both as his nomination and in Congress),
those people that would need to vote on him in
Congress who are directly tied to the same frauds he’s
tied to from the past. Obviously, it’s a risk,
however.

The Bush-Cheney Regime must feel that (a) it is
a risk worth taking because they’re now in de facto
control of mainstream media. So, therefore, how much
of Goss’s past would be brought up? If it is, it’s
going to be brought up in alternative media in the 3
or 4 million people that are interested in such a
thing. Besides it doesn’t make any difference anyway,
because they ain’t going to vote for any Bushes or
pro-Bush faction Republicans.

The risk is still there, and it tells you what
could happen if they get behind Porter Goss, but I
don’t think that decision has even been made yet. But
if they do decide to get behind Goss and push him
through and burn up some favors in the House and
particularly in the Senate, it indicates that they
want an old Cabal member as DCI.

Let’s put it this way. If I were going to foment
an incident for the sake of political terror, to use
Patriot I to seize power, I’d want a Porter Goss as
DCI. You’d want somebody that’s battle-hardened, a
loyalist, one who understands the game, and someone
who has liquidated people before and has no problems
in doing it. Porter Goss is someone who has no problem
with making American citizens disappear.

When George Bush Senior used to say
“battle-hardened” about Bill Casey, that’s exactly
what he meant. The Bushonian definition of
“battle-hardened” when it comes to a DCI is a DCI
that’s got no problems making American citizens
disappear; American citizens, we should say, who find
out something they shouldn’t have found out and who
become politically inconvenient.

If there’s a real effort to push Goss and if
Goss becomes the frontrunner, then, maybe, this
history should be known and understood. The other
sponsor of this legislation is Jim Sensenbrenner, an
old Bushonian Cabalist. Sensenbrenner also profited
during the Iran-Contra period from frauds he got
pieces of from Archer Daniel Midland and from Carl
Lindner of Dole, from United Fruit. He was what they
call a longtime Bushonian Ag Fraud guy. Sensenbrenner
was the one that did what he could to attempt to
prevent the Kerry Commission from being formed.
Sensenbrenner was famous for the comments when
Iran-Contra broke apart after `86, when there were a
lot of pieces that began to run about it.
Sensenbrenner in 1987 made a comment about the
Honduran peasants picking bananas. And the CIA had
taught Honduran security people different torture
methods and he said, “Oh, you have to take the whip to
these Honduran peasants to keep them picking bananas.”
To get back to the passage of Patriot II… Ashcroft
would sign a Blanket National Security letter, which
would give law enforcement absolutely dictatorial
power, with the specific provision in Patriot II,
which increases the Patriot I so-called omnibus
warrant powers.

In Patriot II, it allows law enforcement to
completely circumvent grand juries. Patriot I was the
secret subpoena. Patriot II is the secret arrest. So
now, post-Patriot II, law enforcement will have the
right to execute secret arrests to hold citizens under
false names in undisclosed locations to prevent them
from speaking, from even being represented by counsel,
and not to be accountable as to the whereabouts of
said citizens to any supervising body above them, and
not to have to disclose the ultimate fate of those
citizens. An ACLU spokesman said that this legislation
“may be un-American,” but I suppose it depends on what
your view of America is. America has always acted to
liquidate those who know too much, to discredit them,
and to set them up on false charges.

The only thing Patriot I and Patriot II does is
to make legal the actions the U.S. government has
always undertaken to prevent the American people from
knowing the truth. People called in to radio shows
very distressed about Patriot I and Patriot II. And I
say -- What are you all upset about? It has always
been this way. This just legalizes it. But they
listened to the lie and they believed it. That’s why I
said in “The Conspirators,” -- What about these 438
citizens that disappeared in the post Iran Contra
cover-up, under clouded circumstances because they
knew too much. Does any one care about them? But
that’s the way it works. It’s always worked that way.
That’s what people have to understand. It has always
been this way.

And now it’s going to be “legal” and formal.

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