I'm having no trouble believing Madsen

Carl Brennan

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Mon Nov-29-04 01:12 PM
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I'm having no trouble believing Madsen

Below in parenthesis I comment on Madsen's article on the Saudi's, et.al and election rigging. Madsen is simply building on a base of knowledge already established.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/112504Mads... <http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/112504Madsen/112504madsen.html>

By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer

November 25, 2004-According to informed sources in Washington and Houston, the Bush campaign spent some $29 million to pay polling place operatives around the country to rig the election for Bush. The operatives were posing as Homeland Security and FBI agents but were actually technicians familiar with Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S, Triad, Unilect, and Danaher Controls voting machines. These technicians reportedly hacked the systems to skew the results in favor of Bush.

(Seems easy enough to believe, anybody that been at DU awhile knows of the cozy link between Diebold, ES&S and Repugs. Especially Diebold head O'Dell saying he is working hard for a Bush win. Maybe check when the last time he met with the Saudis. Just ask Bev Harris. )

The leak about the money and the rigged election apparently came from technicians who were promised to be paid a certain amount for their work but the Bush campaign interlocutors reneged and some of the technicians are revealing the nature of the vote rigging program.

(What? Bushboy being greedy? Nah, probably just didn't want a paper trail going downstream.)

There have been media reports from around the country concerning the locking down of precincts while votes were being tallied. In one unprecedented action in Warren County, Ohio, election officials locked down the facility where votes were being counted. The officials said this was in response to a Level 10 high-threat terrorist warning being issued by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI for Warren County. George Bush won 72 percent of the vote in Warren County, much larger than his percentage of victory statewide.

(This can be easily validated or refuted. The lockdown wasn't done for nothing and now we have seen lockdowns in other states at different levels in the voting process.)

The money to rig the election in favor of Bush reportedly came from an entity called Five Star Trust, largely based in Houston but a worldwide entity that is directly tied to the Saudi Royal Family. Five Star Trust was termed "a well-protected vehicle" that has been used to support both Bush and Osama bin Laden in the US and around the world.

(Nothing at all unusual here. Michael Moore's movie 9/11 and oodles of info here at DU corroborate the money link between the Bushies and Saudis as well as both of their links to the bin Laden's. A topic I started shows the link between the Saudi Iran-Contra arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi and "madame butterfly" Lepore: the Palm beach ballot chief. Plus BBV knows about the Saudi link to vote machine companies)

Other money used to fund the election rigging was from siphoned Enron money stored away in accounts in the Cook Islands, which was once the base of one of the more questionable and Saudi-linked BCCI subsidiaries. Cook Islands banks also handled some of the weapons smuggling financing of the Iran-Contra scandal. A former Justice Department attorney who helped prosecute the BCCI case said the use of the Cook Islands by the Bush reelection team indicates they wanted the bank arrangements to be a "quick folding tent" operation that would cease to exist when the election was over. He said the Cook Islands was notorious for not requiring any documentation for such operations.

(Remember Enron was the largest campaign contributor to Bush in the 2000 election. The BCCI connections like Mahfouz>Bush is well documented. Madsen has Justice Dept. attorney as a source. This sounds reasonable. How many times in the past couple of years have we seen people from the government divulge some dirty secrets about the Bushies? )

In fact, the Cook Islands has been a favorite location for various covert intelligence activities. This most recent use of the islands is a continuation of a scandal discovered in New Zealand in the early '90s called the "Winebox Affair." In 1992, a computer dealer named Paul White bought some secondhand computers and floppy disks from the Citibank office in Auckland, New Zealand, that had earlier sold them to a scrap dealer.

(This is another easily verified claim. Just google "Winebox Affair". It's real.)

White later discovered the floppies (and 10 paper files) detailed a scheme to use the European Pacific Bank in the Cook Islands to bilk foreign governments and banks for a phony 15 percent tax bill assessed on various transactions by the Cook Islands government (at the time run by Tom Davis, a former US Army and NASA research scientist who was allegedly on the payroll of the CIA). European Pacific reaped millions of illegal dollars from the New Zealand Treasury and a number of Japanese banks, including Mitsubishi Bank. Paul White later died in a suspicious auto accident.

(Suspicious auto accident? This certainly is not an unusual ending for people who know too much about Bushie corruption. Let's just call this a "suicided" for now. Maybe take another look at Mr. White's "accident" and coroner reports.)

Nothing Madsen said is out of order and simply builds on and corroborates what many of DU's more intrepid investigators have already discovered.

It also opens up more leads to follow.

Thanks You Mr. Madsen.