Karzai Assured CIA Will Keep Dropping Off Bags Of Cash At His Doors

Help me understand this. The U.S. Justice Department will prosecute American businesses which bribe foreign leaders to do business with their countries. Yet the Justice Department, as well as the President and Congress, say nary a peep when it is disclosed that the CIA has been delivering tens of millions of dollars in cash to President Hamid Karzai, the extremely corrupt leader of Afghanistan who publicly disses the United States after it spent a trillion dollars fighting a more than decade-old war that has taken the lives of thousands of American soldiers and seriously injured tens of thousands more. The New York Times, which broke the story last week about the corrupt influence payments being made to Karzai by our CIA, today is reporting that Karzai says he has been reassured by his CIA handlers that the cash will continue to flow despite their reporting on the cash bribes paid to him.

The CIA's station chief here met with President Hamid Karzai on Saturday, and the Afghan leader said he had been assured the agency would continue dropping off stacks of cash at his office despite a storm of criticism that has erupted since the payments were disclosed.

The C.I.A. money, Mr. Karzai told reporters, was “an easy source of petty cash,” and he suggested that some of it was used to pay off warlords and power brokers.

The use of the C.I.A. cash to pay those people has prompted criticism from many Afghans and some American and European officials who complain that the agency, in its quest to maintain access and influence at the presidential palace, financed what is essentially a presidential slush fund. The practice, the officials say, effectively undercut a pillar of the American war strategy: the building of a clean and credible Afghan government.

On Saturday, Mr. Karzai sought to dampen the furor over the payments, describing them as one facet of the billions of dollars in aid Afghanistan receives each year. “This is nothing unusual,” he said.

Mr. Karzai said the cash helped pay rent for various officials, treat wounded members of his presidential guard and even pay for scholarships. “It has helped us a lot, it has solved lots of our problems,” he said. “We appreciate it.”  . . .

I don't know what it takes to get the American people to wake up. Most of this money is winding up in the hands of Karzai and his family members, and the warlords calling all the shots, who are engaged in organized crime activity, including the country's largest cash crop, opium. Heroin exports have skyrocketed since the American government installed its puppet regime. What every American needs to understand is that the world's largest drug cartel is controlled by the CIA. Members of Congress, including Sen. Dan Coats, who sits on the Intelligence Committee, know the CIA is engaged in drug trafficking and corrupt influence activities throughout the world and could care less. Sen. Coats has remained silent since the topic of the cash bribes made to the Karzai administration became public. That speaks volumes about who really controls him. As long as the CIA exists, America's national security will never be secured because that's not its aim. It operates completely outside the U.S. Constitution and laws that govern every other American. It makes a chosen elite class of Americans with whom it does business and its agents overseas very wealthy. The rest of us pay for it with the increasing loss of the liberties our founders sacrificed so much to secure for us.

Undercover Police Officer In Carmel Prosecution Accepted Intimate Sexual Contact With Accused Prostitutes

I had to laugh when the City of Carmel's police department held a big press conference the other day to brag about busting a few Asian women who ran massage parlors that offered massages with happy endings for prostitution. Now it turns out that the undercover police officer used in the sting against them was allowing the women to fondle his genitals each time he received a massage from them. Yep, that's right. This police office got paid to get hand jobs from accused prostitutes before charging them with prostitution. The Star's Ryan Sabalow has a story today questioning the police technique used to ensnare the women:

About 1 p.m. on Dec. 19, a man walked into the Dove Spa, a massage parlor in a nondescript Carmel commercial strip, and asked for the services of one of the women working there.

What the woman didn’t know was the man was an undercover police officer, wearing a wire. And what the woman did next, detectives now allege, was illegal: In exchange for $100 plus a $35 tip, she fondled the officer’s genitals.

Four more times the officer went back, according to a probable-cause affidavit released this week. During that time, over five months, the officer also visited a massage parlor in Zionsville. And each time, he allowed the women — all Chinese immigrants — to fondle him in exchange for cash, all in a fight against prostitution and human trafficking.

Officers say such methods led to a victory for Carmel and Zionsville on Wednesday, when 30 officers raided two businesses, arresting six people — four alleged prostitutes and two alleged pimps.

But the methods police say were needed to shut down a sophisticated prostitution ring were criticized Thursday by legal and law-enforcement experts and women’s advocates as excessive, unnecessary and misapplied to an investigation that involved possible human trafficking.

They say that prostitutes can be arrested and charged in Indiana as soon as an agreement to pay for a sex act is made. Intimate contact was not required. Plus, some said, if the women indeed had been victims of sexual exploitation, working in the sex trade against their will, the sex acts they performed on the officer only contributed to their humiliation, exploitation and degradation.

“How do you simultaneously say you’re protecting them by arresting them, but then you’re victimizing them by your undercover stuff?” said Eugene O’Donnell, a former New York police officer and prosecutor who’s now a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. “If they’re in fact exploited and ... their free will is overwhelmed by the people they’re working for, then are you helping them or are they being doubly victimized? Is this official victimization by the state?” . . .

This reminds me of the IMPD officer who worked undercover at the NIFS men's locker room. He would take showers without drawing his curtain and play with himself until he enticed someone else in the showers to play along with him before charging them with public indecency and hauling them out of the gym in handcuffs. A Marion County judge rightfully dismissed the cases after he testified what he did. Keep an eye on this case. This case is going to make national headlines before it's all over and the Carmel Police Department is going to have egg all over its face.

The Straub Tab Continues To Add Up

Frank Straub may be gone, but the bills he left behind for taxpayers keep adding up. The City of Indianapolis has settled lawsuits brought by three high-ranking IMPD officers who were demoted in the wake of the botched David Bisard investigation. Straub ordered the three demoted and blamed for the mishandling of the case by their commander, even though the former IMPD Chief Paul Ciesielski tearfully cried like a baby in later declaring in a deposition that he could not find fault in anything they did. The settlements were paid to Darryl Pierce, Ronald Hicks and John Conley. Pierce recently retired with a comfortable pension payment, while Hicks and Conley were awarded promotions recently. Hopefully, the three men share their reward money with Ciesielski for his good acting job.

The payouts to the three men are criminal in my judgment. It is simply an outrage that Hicks and Conley were given promotions before they agreed to drop their lawsuits against the city. There is no legal theory upon which the three men could have possibly recovered had they continued to pursue their cases. They all held non-merit positions at the discretion of Mayor Greg Ballard and the chief of IMPD, who the last I checked are permitted under the law to decide who holds the positions they held. If they simply disliked them personally or distrusted them, they could demote them. If Straub wanted to blame them for failing to ensure that the investigation was handled appropriately instead of just showing up at the crime scene for a circle jerk in front of the TV cameras, he could do that no matter how unfair it might seem to them or how much that might hurt their feelings or egos.

The fact is that the police department badly mishandled the David Bisard investigation by first failing to discern that he was drunk following the fatal collision he had with several motorcyclists stopped at an intersection, administering a portable blood alcohol test at the crime scene and securing other evidence, including what was in his mysterious black bag, and then by failing to have his blood alcohol level tested at a hospital in accordance with Indiana law. The entire ordeal has cost taxpayers millions of dollars because the police agency decided to employ a chronic alcoholic and then cover for that fact. This is just money the Ballard administration paid out at your expense to save it from the further embarrassment of the botched management of the Department of Public Safety and IMPD by Frank Straub and the man who promised to make public safety job one, Mayor Ballard. Only the taxpayers are paying for their incompetence. Not one person at the police agency has been held to account for the gross incompetence exhibited in the David Bisard investigation. This settlement sets a precedent of every senior management employee of IMPD suing the city for defamation every time their feelings are hurt after they are demoted by their superiors. That's bullshit and crap of the first order. Incompetence at the top breeds more incompetence. Expect mismanagement of IMPD to get progressively worse, if that is possible.

Listen If You Dare

Only listen to this interview if you are prepared to look at the world in a way you've never looked at it before. This incredible interview with forensic economist David Hawkins discusses a wide range of topics, including the most-recent Boston Marathon bombings, which he flatly asserts was a staged event carried out entirely through the use of crisis actors. Hawkins, a Canadian himself, fingers Vancouver's Jason McLean of The McLean Group, which owns Vancouver Films Studio, for staging a classic man-in-the-middle operation in Boston with the assistance of CTV, a Canadian-owned broadcasting company.

A man-in-the-middle attack is a spy technique Hawkins explains where there are two parties communicating with encryption and a man in the middle intervenes and adjusts the communications from Party A to Party B slightly and passes them on to Party B while representing themselves as Party A without either party's knowledge of the change. If the plan goes as intended, the two parties go about acting between one another in good faith ignorant of the intended outcome. Hawkins explains that is precisely what happened with the London Tube bombings in 2005, which just happened to coincide exactly with a planned drill simulating bombings in the very subway stations where the bombs were exploded. According to Hawkins' view, someone switched the non-lethal, flash bomb devices that were supposed to be used in the staged drill exercise with lethal explosive devices, resulting in the second party being fingered for a crime that was never supposed to happen according to the original plan being carried out by the two parties before the middle man intervened without the knowledge of the parties. His analysis of the Boston Marathon bombings, along with other false flag attacks he says are being perpetrated worldwide will send chills up your spine.

Hawkins launched the ‘Citizens Association of Forensic Economists’ in British Columbia in 2003 as an asset tracking network to monitor impact of government laws and programs on public debt, personal assets and individual rights. Hawkins has developed a simulation tool to help citizens and their elected representatives scope political corruption and visualize waste or fraud by all orders of government, including NATO, NORAD, the European Union, United Nations. His I-BAT system tracks the source and application of assets through blind trusts and off-book partnerships used — as in the case of Enron — to hide debt, evade taxes, enrich insiders and launder money.

In this wide-ranging interview, Hawkins discusses other high-profile and unsolved murders, providing his personal insight into them, including the Jon Benet Ramsey murder and the gruesome Pickton Pig Farm murders outside of Vancouver where dozens of prostitutes were killed. You'll be shocked to learn who he ties to Jon Benet's unsolved murder. He also discusses the impact pedophiles have had throughout the life of Barack Obama starting from his early childhood years. Hawkins shares his view that international human trafficking and pedophilia rings are run by some of the world's most powerful and influential people. My series of reporting on Indianapolis' Joe "The Popper King" Miller confirms his theory.

Governor Mike Pence's State Vehicle Involved In Traffic Accident

The office of Governor Mike Pence has issued a statement indicating that the state vehicle in which Gov. Pence and others were riding while en route to Fort Wayne, Indiana was involved in a traffic accident. "No one was seriously injured," the statement reads. "Once it was determined that no one involved required immediate medical attention, the Governor proceeded to Ft. Wayne to continue his schedule for the rest of the day." The Star is reporting that the collision occurred near the I-70/I-65 on ramp on Indianapolis' near eastside.

Tim Durham's New Home

It looks like federal prison authorities have settled on convicted Ponzi schemer Tim Durham's permanent home for the next 43 years. According to the Bureau of Prison's inmate locator, he is serving his sentence at the federal prison in McCreary, Kentucky. It is a high security facility with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp where Durham will presumably be housed. Notable inmates at the facility include a Mexican drug cartel hitman, Gerardo Castillo-Chavez, who is serving a life sentence, two Somali pirates convicted of the 2010 American warship attack on the USS Nicholas and white supremacists Ricky Mungia, who is serving a life sentence for his role in a shooting spree in Lubbock, Texas intended to start a nationwide race war. Two corrections officers at the prison were stabbed by an inmate with a homemade knife in 2010. Durham's scheduled release date is January 25, 2056. He is appealing his conviction.

Eight Months After Benghazi Attacks FBI Releases Images Of Suspects

Is it not odd that the FBI would wait eight months before releasing images of suspects wanted for questioning in connection with the attack on the U.S. post in Benghazi where Ambassador Chris Stevens and two other Americans were killed by terrorists? Meanwhile, attorneys for Americans who were posted at this American post during the attack complain that their clients are being threatened by the government if they speak out publicly about what happened last September. Check out this reaction of White House press spokesman Jim Carney to a question about the gagging of the Benghazi victims and his denial, along with his characterization of it as an event that happened "a long time ago."

Democrat Mike Marshall Sentenced To Jail Time For Absentee Vote Fraud Racket

Former Democratic State Rep. Mike Marshall operated one of the biggest absentee vote fraud rackets in Indiana history. His ability to deliver votes in Southern Indiana made him a political star in Indiana Democratic Party circles. Today, Jennings Co. Circuit Court Judge Jon Webster sentenced the 60-year old Marshall to 18 months in prison with nine months of his sentence suspended. Marshall reached an agreement with special prosecutors in his case last January to plead guilty to some of the vote fraud charges rather than take his chances at trial. His high-profile attorneys, James Voyles and Larry "Trash Can" Wilder had hoped their client would avoid any jail time. Judge Webster rejected the pleas of his attorneys and Jennings Co. Democratic Chair Karen Snyder that he be spared jail time.

Before handing down the sentence, Webster noted the vitriol surrounding politics on both sides of the aisle, and the measures he took toward ensuring the court's integrity.

"When this case first came about, I knew there was a possibility for political overtones," the judge said. "That's why I appointed special prosecutors for this case from both (political) parties."

While the judge made note of Marshall's longtime community involvement and lack of criminal history, Webster showed concern for the impact the defendant's actions could have.

"Those who tinker with the election process are tinkering with the foundations of democracy," the judge remarked. "I worry that this will only serve to further voter apathy and voter cynicism. I don't want the citizens of Jennings County to question the appointment of elected officials and wonder if it was really their votes that put them there."

Marshall's supporters expressed disappointment at Judge Webster's decision. "I am just really disappointed. There are no victims in this case," Snyder said. "We have three people who wanted to vote, and Mike wanted to help them do that." Uh, no, Ms. Snyder, there were far more cases of vote fraud than just three absentee ballots. Those were just the three the special prosecutors agreed to allow Marshall to cop a plea to committing to avoid trial on many other absentee ballots that were cast fraudulently. God only knows how many elections have been stolen down in that part of the state as a direct result of this absentee ballot racket that had been going on for years. Snyder's reaction to the sentence shows that the Democrats have learned absolutely nothing from this ordeal. They believe the ends justifies the means. If winning elections can only happen by stealing votes, Democrats believe that is entirely appropriate. We have a President who arose out of a political operation that mastered the art of election fraud to win elections.

Indiana Republican Party State Chairman Eric Holcomb, recalling last week's conviction of St. Joseph Co. Democratic Party Chairman Butch Morgan for his role in a scheme to forge voter signatures to secure a place for Barack Obama on the 2008 Indiana Democratic Primary ballot, noted that it's been a busy week for the Indiana Democratic Party. "The rule of law continues to expose their culture of corruption," Holcomb said. Holcomb noted that Marshall's name appears on the campaign finance reports of numerous Democratic elected officials for whom he's performed political consulting work, including Sen. Joe Donnelly and State Rep. Terry Goodin. "Election fraud is not a myth," he said. "If Indiana Democrats are serious about protecting elections, they should start by following the law."

Report: Uncle Ruslan Aided Terrorists In Chechnya

The mainstream media refuses to look at alternative explanations for how two young immigrants from Russia with nothing more than very thin circumstantial evidence that either could have become radicalized terrorists on their own capable of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings. Fortunately there are independent investigative journalists looking for answers the American people need since we know that neither the Obama administration nor Congress wants us to know the truth. From the beginning, I found the uncle of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to be highly suspicious after he quickly threw his nephews under the bus at a hastily-called press conference with federal agents at his back. What we quickly learned was the Uncle Ruslan had started out working for a CIA front company, USAID, back in the 1990s before working for a string of energy companies as an oil and gas lawyer and marrying the daughter of a former high-ranking CIA official, Graham Fuller. Investigative reporter Daniel Hopsicker has now uncovered Uncle Ruslan's ties to Chechen terrorists.

In 1995, Hopsicker reports that Ruslan formed a company called the "Congress of Chechen International Organizations." Ruslan even listed his former American spy father-in-law's home in Rockville, Maryland as the address for the organization. Fuller confirmed this past weekend that Ruslan resided in his home for at least a year while he was married to his daughter. Ruslan's organization provided funding to a charity, Benevolence International, that would later be designated "financiers of terrorism" by the U.S. Treasury Department and shut down by former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald after 9/11. Yes, the same prosecutor who sent some of Obama's closest pals, including Tony Rezko and former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, to prison. The group aided Sheikh Faithi, who Fitzgerald would later describe in an indictment as "a major conduit for providing material support for the Chechen rebels." Hopsicker notes that Fathi would later "gain a measure of infamy" when it would be learned that he introduced a major Al Qaeda operative to the fight in Afghanistan, Al Khattab, who became the commander of the so-called 20th hijacker from 9/11, Zaccarias Mossaoui.

Hopsicker shows a letter used by Fitzgerald in the prosecution of Faithi in which a representative of Ruslan's organization is thanking Benevolence International for providing shoes to Chechens. The shoes, according to Fitzgerald's indictment, were actually anti-mine boots for the Chechen Mujahideen to use in their fight against the Russian army. Hopsicker wonders if Ruslan's organization was acting as a cut-out for the CIA given his close ties to Fuller. Hopsicker also notes a report by Bloomberg that Ruslan started working for USAID as a consultant again in 2008. "Using the home address of a top CIA official under President Ronald Reagan, who had also, and perhaps not coincidentally, been the author of a famous memo that eventually led Oliver North to step off a plane in Iran with TOW missiles in one hand and a cake for the Ayatollah in the other, Ruslan Tsarni's Congress of Chechens put into practice the CIA's unacknowledged policy in the former Soviet Republics," Hopsicker concludes.

Another independent investigative journalist, Wayne Madsen, is citing a Russian news report by Izvestia, for the proposition that Tamerlan Tsaraev attended seminars run by the Caucasus Fund of Georgia, a group affiliated with the neo-conservative think tank, the Jamestown Foundation, between January and July 2012 as part of a covert CIA program run through the Republic of Georgia during the trip the U.S. media is now trying to convince us that he became a radicalized Islamist. "The ultimate goal of the CIA’s campaign was for the Muslim inhabitants of the region to declare independence from Moscow and tilt toward the U.S. Wahhabi Muslim-run governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar," Madsen writes.

Will your Senate Intelligence Committee be investigating any of these angles, Sen. Dan Coats, as part of your effort to "get to the bottom" of the Boston Marathon bombings? You don't even have to respond. We already know the answer. NO!

UPDATE: The Daily Mail is reporting that Saudi officials denied an entry visa to Tamerlan in December, 2011 and sent a warning to the Department of Homeland Security about him:

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia sent a written warning about accused Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2012, long before pressure-cooker blasts killed three and injured hundreds, according to a senior Saudi government official with direct knowledge of the document.

The Saudi warning, the official told MailOnline, was separate from the multiple red flags raised by Russian intelligence in 2011, and was based on human intelligence developed independently in Yemen.

Citing security concerns, the Saudi government also denied an entry visa to the elder Tsarnaev brother in December 2011, when he hoped to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, the source said. Tsarnaev's plans to visit Saudi Arabia have not been previously disclosed.

The Saudis' warning to the U.S. government was also shared with the British government. 'It was very specific’ and warned that 'something was going to happen in a major U.S. city,' the Saudi official said during an extensive interview.

It 'did name Tamerlan specifically,' he added. The 'government-to-government' letter, which he said was sent to the Department of Homeland Security at the highest level, did not name Boston or suggest a date for his planned attack.

Meanwhile, there's yet another report about how the Obama administration is funding Al Qaeda to do its dirty work in Syria:

Russia delivered to the Obama administration a list of the names of al-Qaida members among the Syrian rebels, who are receiving arms shipments coordinated by the U.S., according to informed Middle Eastern security officials.

The list, the officials added, demonstrates the U.S. is failing to vet the rebels being supported by the West for ties to al-Qaida and other jihad groups.

The information comes amid scores of news media reports that the Obama administration is aiding the rebels, including by coordinating Arab arms shipments.

The arming of Syrian rebels is considered highly controversial. A major issue is the inclusion of jihadists, including al-Qaida, among the ranks of the Free Syrian Army and other Syrian opposition groups.