So this guy in Nevada told BushCo he could decode terra messages in al Jazeera broadcasts

[EFerrari]

and they bought it:

We turn now to a story that reveals the real source behind the Bush administration’s decision to raise the terror alert level to “orange” six years ago. In December 2003 Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge warned of “near-term attacks that could either rival or exceed what we experienced on September 11.” He claimed the information came from “credible sources.”

But a new report in the latest issue of Playboy by investigative journalist Aram Roston shows that the source was a man who convinced the Bush White House, the CIA, the Navy, Special Forces Command, the Air Force, and the Senate Intelligence Committee that the TV network Al Jazeera was transmitting secret messages to al-Qaeda sleepers. Dennis Montgomery who operated a small software company out of Nevada said he could predict terrorist attacks by decrypting secret bar codes hidden in Al Jazeera’s broadcast. The Bush administration relied on Montgomery for years to determine when to increase the terror threat level.

Journalist Aram Roston. His latest article is called “The Man Who Conned the Pentagon.” He is also author of “The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi.”

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/28/the_man_who_conned_the_pentagon

audio, video at link

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[EFerrari]

3. He got MILLIONS of dollars to decode al Jazeera for the Pentagon.

No one intervened with Hasan or with this firecracker guy who were both alerted on but THIS GUY sells a fantasy to BushCo and they make him rich!

[Solly Mack]

5. Bush Inc probably thought of it as advancing science

snicker

[RockaFowler]

2. K&R as well

Wow, good find.

[malaise]

4. Should I laugh or cry

:shrug: I'm about ready to jump off this planet.

[EFerrari]

7. I haven't read the PB article but the real scandal will be

that BushCo believed THIS GUY over the NSA people who were listening and determined that journalists were journalists and tried to stop a bombing of JOURNALISTS and were told to shut up. :shrug:

ETA: Remember, they targeted the Palestine Hotel?

DEMOCRACY NOW! EXCLUSIVE: Fmr. Military Intelligence Sgt. Reveals US Listed Palestine Hotel in Baghdad as Target Prior to Killing of Two Journalists in 2003

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/13/fmr_military_intelligence_officer_reveals_us

[malaise]

12. I remember the killing of those journalists well

Those war criminals should be locked up

[Kansas Wyatt]

6. Was this Bush's alleged new technology that was like the 'Manhattan Project' he yakked about?

Anyone else remember Bush saying that they had a new technology that was revolutionary like the Manhattan Project?

[EFerrari]

9. I don't remember that but you're probably right.

Bush Science.

[Kansas Wyatt]

15. It was at the end of 2008

He was bragging about a new revolutionary technology that was as big as the Manhattan Project, and was changing how battles would be fought.

Maybe he was loaded that week, and his handlers just said, 'fuck it, the idiot is done anyway.'

[EFerrari]

16. Maybe someone took him down to the bowling alley while he was high.

lol

[Ikonoklast]

18. Yeah, they discovered a new way to make Manhattans quicker.

Bush liked the idea of instant booze; he always was immature and impatient, and hated having to wait to get his daily buzz going.

[blogslut]

8. Sad, isn't it?

What's especially pitiful is that even after the pentagon muckety mucks put the kibosh on this guy's "software", he was still able to con benefactors and judges.

[jmowreader]

10. It's too bad we didn't know it was that easy...

Bar codes? Y'know, we could have come up with something at least SLIGHTLY plausible.

[EFerrari]

14. Maybe I could contract to decode messages from Hugo Chavez

to Iran on "Alo Presidente"! I could use 30 or 40 MILLION dollars -- January sales and all. :)

[CJCRANE]

11. Did he really convince them

or were they just looking for an excuse?

IMO Bushco's "incompetence" was deliberate.

[EFerrari]

13. That's a really good question.

:shrug:

[jtrockville]

19. It's hard not to see it as deliberate.

You really need to be wearing a tin-foil hat if you buy the "incompetence" excuse for EVERYTHING.

[G_j]

20. entirely possible

even probable

[valerief]

17. He's just another cog in their big LIE MACHINE. nt