IT IS TIME FOR ALL OF YOU TO WAKE UP
IT IS TOO LATE FOR ME
I DONT CARE BUT MUST TELL YOU ALL DONT TRUST ANY ONE
NOT OUR CONGRESS
when our senators and congress let obama give aid to terrorist
dont it make you wonder why
WHEN OBAMA GIVES WEAPONS SHIPPED ON OUR NAVY SHIPS DONT IT MAKE YOU WONDER
TO ME IT MEANS WE DONT HAVE OUR TROOPS PROTECTING US ANY MORE
The murder of Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi was an organized hit to cover up direct arm deals
Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
September 25, 2013
A former CIA gun runner revealed that the U.S. Ambassador to Libya,
J. Christopher Stevens, was killed in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the
U.S. consulate in Benghazi in order to cover up the U.S. State
Department’s direct arm shipments to al-Qaeda.
Jim Marrs
Infowars.com
September 23, 2013
William
Robert “Tosh” Plumlee, a former CIA contract pilot, questioned if such
arms dealing might be another “off-the-books” covert operation run by
the CIA’s Special Tactical Unit akin to the arms-for-drugs deal in
Iran-Contra.
Money makes the world go round.
Nowhere is this motto more relevant than in the shadowy world of
smuggling weaponry and drugs, not to mention legal arms sales which all
too often lead to modern weaponry falling into the hands of America’s
worst enemies.
This all becomes evident when dissecting recent events such as the
2011 ouster of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the death of US Border
Agent Brian Terry with weapons obtained through the government’s “Fast
and Furious” program, the 2012 murder of US Ambassador Christopher
Stevens in Benghazi, and the arming of Syrian rebels attacking the
government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
According to various sources, behind all this bloody turmoil lies a
program known as Direct Commercial Sales (DCS). This group operates
within the US State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls
(DDTC). The DCS program regulates private U.S. companies’ overseas sales
of weapons and other defense articles, defense services, and military
training. It is separate from the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program,
which manages government-to-government sales. It is within little-known
programs such as this that vast sums of money are shuffled through
international banks, corporate business and foreign governments.
In a program entitled “Blue Lantern” the DDTC monitors end-use
recipients of weapons and services licensed by the State Department
provided by Direct Commercial Sales. Some defense industry sources now
claim that DCS is “playing both sides against the middle for corporate
or political gain.” Such activity has been traced back to operations in
Cuba in the 1950s and 60’s, the Iran-Contra Scandal of the Reagan
administration and the long-lost War on Drugs. An objective look at this
program also lends tremendous support to critics who contend that the
United States is the “arms merchant of the world.”
In Blue Lantern reports going back to the early 2000s, it was found
that many investigations of end users of weaponry supplied by US firms
were “unfavorable,” with arms sometimes ending up in the hands of
foreign enemies. Such reports were handed to law enforcement agencies
for possible legal action but usually have been dropped for foreign
relations considerations.
William Robert “Tosh” Plumlee, a former CIA contract pilot who flew
arms and ammunition for the agency as far back as the overthrow of Cuban
dictator Fulgencio Batista and the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion,
questioned if such arms dealing might be another “off-the-books” covert
operation run by the CIA’s Special Tactical Unit akin to the
arms-for-drugs deal in Iran-Contra and the Cuban Project of the 1950s,
in which both Fidel Castro and the Batista Government in Cuba were sold
weapons from American stockpiles for corporate profit. Numerous field
reports have stated Plumlee flew arms to Nicaragua during the
Iran-Contra Scandal. In testimony to the US Senate, Plumlee also said he
returned to the US with loads of cocaine during the Reagan years.
Recently, Plumlee has worked as a photojournalist along the US-Mexican
border and participated in investigations into the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Fast and Furious sting operation..
Plumlee said he perceives the same type of operations being conducted
today in the Middle East. He reported to federal officials large
shipments of “High Impact” weapons as well as small arms and ammunition
being funneled through a network of clandestine CIA safe houses in
Turkey, Jordan, Qatar, Pakistan and other Middle Eastern locations by
hired civilians and mercenaries financed by private US corporations and
the CIA’s “Black Budget.” Plumlee said he worked with a unit called Task
Force Seven under Able Charlie Command headquartered at Ft Bliss,
Texas.
According to a recent article in a June 2013 edition of
Defense News,
the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) informed
Congress of $13 billion in potential defense trade. Heading the list was
Saudi Arabia with a potential sale of $6.4 billion for a “National
Guard modernization program, new Mark V patrol boats and follow-on
support for the Royal Saudi Air Force.” Saudi Arabia, home of the bin
Ladens, is run by the fundamental Wahhabi sect of Muslims, one of the
most vicious opponents of Israel.
Iraq was named as a pre-approved buyer with $4. 7 billion in possible
sales which could include a $2.4 billion integrated air defense system
and $900 million worth of Stryker vehicles. Other Mid-East potential
buyers include Qatar, Libya and Kuwait. According to the DSCA, such
sales would “advance US foreign policy and national security interests.”
According to Plumlee, for several years American intelligence agents
operating from a number of safe houses in Syria aided in the sale of
arms to the Syrian rebels even to the extent of deciding which terrorist
gang or commander should receive the weapons as they arrive.
The New York Times
in March 2013 reported the scale of arms shipments was “very large,”
and that the Turkish government exercised oversight over much of the
operation. “A conservative estimate of the payload of these flights
would be 3,500 tons of military equipment,” stated Hugh Griffiths, an
illicit arms transfers monitor for the Stockholm International Peace
Research Institute. “The intensity and frequency of these flights are
suggestive of a well-planned and coordinated clandestine military
logistics operation,” Griffiths added.
On September 17, 2013, the White House announced that President Obama
has waived portions of a federal law aimed at preventing arms being
sold to terrorist groups. He did this so that the Syrian rebels could
legally be supplied weaponry and ammunition. This waiver could prove
problematic, according to
The Washington Examiner, since a significant portion of the Syrian opposition has been connected to radical Islamic terrorist groups including al Qaeda.
It was only in mid-June 2013 that the White House finally announced
that President Obama had authorized “direct military support” to Syrian
rebel forces. According to a Reuters news dispatch, “Syrian rebel and
political opposition leaders immediately called for anti-aircraft and
other sophisticated weaponry. The arrival of thousands of seasoned,
Iran-backed Hezbollah Shi’ite fighters to help Assad combat the mainly
Sunni rebellion has shifted momentum in the two-year-old war, which the
United Nations said … had killed at least 93,000 people.”
A report issued by Watchdog.org revealed that even as the US Senate
debated authorizing an air strike against Syria, a number of prominent
senators had received large donations from the
military-industrial-banking complex. “It is hardly surprising that
uber-hawk Sen. John McCain led the way with more than $176,000 in
contributions from defense interests,” commented Watchdog’s Eric Boehm.
He added that senators indicating approval of the strike resolution
received, on average, 83 percent more money from defense contractors
than the others.
Several researchers, including Plumlee, have stated the CIA was
smuggling weapons from seized Libyan depots to the Syrian rebels even
before the 2012 attack on the US embassy in Benghazi. CNN reported the
circumstances surrounding the Benghazi were covered up to conceal the
arms smuggling, which had been taking place since at least September
2012. US agents were running the operation out of safe houses as well as
the Benghazi “annex,” not far from the embassy. The media even has
reported CIA has muzzled their employees and foreign ground assets
regarding the circumstances of this still-controversial incident.
One allegation is Stevens, the US Ambassador to Libya, along with
four other Americans were killed by a heavily-armed group in 2012 in a
planned attack designed to prevent them from revealing the
arms-for-profit activities there. The Obama administration and the US
corporate media claimed the attack was a spontaneous act by Lyban
demonstrators against Gaddafi. However, investigations by US groups,
including several congressional committees determined the attack was
premeditated. Some of Stevens’ colleagues have claimed the ambassador
was attempting to buy back Stinger missiles provided to al Qaeda by the
State Department during the Libyan civil war in 2011.
“It appears America is again…destabilizing a region, escalating the
conflict, all for the sake of corporate and political profit. Is history
again repeating itself?” asked Plumlee. “Mainstream media is not
allowed to cover these subjects [as] it’s classified a matter of
‘National Security’.”
The
Direct Commercial Sales program
also involves weapons sales to Central and South America, mostly
connected to the War on Drugs, which often have backfired on the US. For
example, a federal operation dubbed “Fast and Furious” allowed weapons
from the U.S. to pass into the hands of suspected gun smugglers
purportedly so they could be traced to Mexican drug cartels. The
ATF lost track of hundreds of firearms, many of which have been linked
to crimes, including the shooting death of Border Patrol Agent Brian
Terry in December2010.
In 2012, Danny Cruz Morones, 24, of Phoenix became the first of 20
Fast and Furious defendants indicted in 2011 for buying high-powered
firearms in Arizona to be used by Mexican drug gangs. Morones pled
guilty to acting as a “straw purchaser” of weapons, including AK-47
assault rifles, as well as recruiting others to buy the weapons. He was
sentenced to 57 months in prison. The Fast and Furious cases were
shifted to San Diego after the U.S. attorney’s office in Phoenix recused
itself because of its ties to the local ATC office.
According to investigative reporter Bill Conroy writing for
Narco News, in
2006-2007 alone the DCS program involved the sale of $3.3 million in
ammunition, explosives and ammunition-manufacturing equipment; $11.6
million in semiautomatic rifles and pistols, $518,531 in grenade
launchers; $78,251 in explosive projectiles including grenades; and
$963,201 in night-vision equipment.
The San
Antonio Express News reported
Mexican
authorities in Reynosa across the border from McAllen, Texas, recently
seized the country’s single largest stash of cartel weapons — nearly 300
assault rifles, shoulder-fired grenade launchers and a half million
rounds of ammunition.But weeks later, Mexican authorities still have not
allowed the ATF access to serial numbers that would help them track
down the buyers and traffickers on the U.S. side.
One Blue Lantern report detailed how a Latin American arms dealer
served as a front for another company which only existed on paper and
provided small arms to “gangs in [a] third country”.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon told the
Associated Press in
2009, “…[W]e’ve seized in this two years more than 25,000 weapons and
guns, and more than 90 percent of them came from the United States, and
I’m talking from missile launchers to machineguns and grenades.”
Conroy said his investigations confirmed that the deadliest weapons
now in the hands of Mexican drug gangs came from perfectly legal
private-sector arms exports measuring in the billions of dollars and
sanctioned persons within the US State Department.
In July 2013, retired United States Border Patrol agents, writing on behalf of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO),
issued a public letter warning that violent Mexican drug cartels are
operating all across the US. In part, the letter noted, “Organized crime
on [the] scale we are speaking about cannot exist without political
protection.”
Such activities prompted Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel
Lopez Obrador to complain in a 2009 letter to then-Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton, “You surely know that all of this began when a group of
about 30 traffickers of influence and corrupt politicians, using the
cover of so-called neoliberal economic policies, took control of the
Mexican State…these policies of pillaging that has enriched a minority
in an exaggerated and obscene manner …[and] has condemned the Mexican
people to exile and survival.”
The arms pipeline begins with the large multinational banks which
loan and manages the large sums of money involved. Next, private US arms
manufacturers gain licenses from the State Department to sell arms to
other nations. But the status of the end use of such weapons then
becomes murky. For instance, in Mexico, arms were sold to the government
of former President Vicente Fox and then were diverted to drug gangs,
such as the violent Zetas, by Mexican soldiers who defected from the
military. Plumlee said American agents could not have been unaware of
such activities in corruption-ridden Mexico.
Conroy cited a former US Customs Inspector, who requested anonymity,
as saying, “I would agree entirely [that] DCS (and DoD gifted, as
opposed to DCS sold) weapons are obviously the simplest explanation for
the massive rise in the number of fully automatic weapons, grenades,
rockets, etc., obtained by the narcotics gangs…That is to say, they are
obtaining their weapons from their own, Mexican, government, by various
illegal means.”
Plumlee revealed the Zetas have reportedly bought property in the
Columbus, NM, border region to stash weapons and other contraband. “From
the intel, it appears that a company was set up in Mexico to purchase
weapons through the US Direct Commercial Sales Program, and that the
company may have had a direct link to the Zetas,” he said. According to
US Government statistics, the DCS program has approved more than $4.7
billion in private-sector weapons exports to Mexico since 1996. In 2010
alone, Direct Commercial Sales provided Mexico with $416.5 million worth
of weapons and equipment.
Phil Jordan, who served as director of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s El Paso Intelligence Center in 1995, told the
El Paso Times
the Zetas drug organization shipped large amounts of weapons purchased
in the Dallas area through El Paso. However, a spokesperson for the El
Paso DEA office said the agency does not have any information about the
Zetas operating in the border region.
Recipients of arms sales include the Department of Homeland Security,
which, according to mainstream media reports, has been buying millions
of rounds of ammunition, much in calibers not used by the US military.
Such ammo stockpiling promoted retired United States Army Captain Terry
M. Hestilow to write Texas Sen. John Cornyn on Facebook labeling the
Obama administration’s recent appropriation of weapons a “bold threat of
war” against citizens of the United States of America.
This article was posted: Monday, September 23, 2013 at 12:13 pm
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Christians in Obama's Military? Don't Ask, Don't Tell
As conservatives have warned for years, homosexualists' demands
for "gay rights" must, by default, result in stripping America of
religious liberty. That prediction is now reality in a military
recreated into President Obama's image, where Christians are now "forced
into the closet."
“Yes, it’s a real turnabout where you, at one time, had to come
out of the closet to admit you’re homosexual, and now you have to come
out of the closet to admit that you’re a Christian.”
-- Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William “Jerry” Boykin, former commander of the U.S. Special Forces Command
For background, read Homosexualists Say Gay Agenda will be Complete when Christians are Muzzled and also read Senator Ted Cruz Says the Gay Agenda Ends Christian Liberty as well as Pentagon Gay Agenda: Christians are 'Hate Groups'
In addition, read of President Obama's homosexualization of the American military -- what was once the greatest force for good in the world.
-- From "
Sen. Vitter: Military Suppressed Religious Rights In 42 ‘Documented Cases’" by Alissa Tabirian, CNSNews.com 9/20/13
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) urged Deborah Lee James, President Obama’s
nominee for Secretary of the Air Force, to look into specific cases in
which the military allegedly suppressed service members’ religious
rights before she is confirmed by the U.S. Senate. "We're going to give
you about 42 specific examples as a followup," Vitter told her.
“A lot of us are very concerned about what in our opinion is political
correctness run amok on steroids quashing legitimate exercise and
expression of religion in the military, things like… telling somebody
they can’t have a Bible on their desk - that’s a documented case.
Telling a Christian chaplain he can’t end a prayer in Jesus’ name –
that’s a documented case,” Vitter told James at her nomination hearing
Thursday.
However, committee chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich) said during Thursday’s
hearing that “in terms of the reference to prayer, depending on where a
prayer is made, if it’s made to a general audience, it could be a
different responsibility for a chaplain than if it’s made to an audience
of his own religion.
“This is a very sensitive area, because we want to protect freedom of
religion for chaplains and for our troops, but we also want to protect
the freedom of religion for people who are listening to chaplains,”
Levin continued.
To read the entire article above,
CLICK HERE.
From "Vitter Urges Air Force Secretary Nominee to Address Religious Freedom" press release by office of Sen. Vitter 9/20/13
“Religious freedom is one of the core principles that make our nation
great,” Vitter said. “Unfortunately there are far too many cases of the
military restricting the men and women who serve our country from
expressing their faith. That’s just not right, and I want to make sure
the Air Force Secretary nominee does everything she can to fix it.”
To read the entire article above,
CLICK HERE.
From "Former Special Forces Commander: Now It's Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell for Christians" by Michael W. Chapman, CNSNews.com 9/20/13
“There was a meeting in San Antonio yesterday [Sept. 17] where 80
members from Lackland Air Force base came and talked about the
persecution they are under at Lackland Air Force Base,” said the
general. “That’s significant. And now, you’re an open Christian at your
own peril in many places, under many of the commanders in the military
today and that’s a major change, a major paradigm shift in our society.”
“They’re trying to force Christians underground so that our faith and
our values do not impact the public sector. So that’s what you’re seeing
unfold today,” said Boykin, who was one of the original members of
Delta Force.
To read the entire article above,
CLICK HERE.
By Michael Snyder, on September 30th, 2013
