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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 03
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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RECAP OF AND UPDATE ON THE NORMAN THESIS
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Thanks to an east coast source whom I will call "Mr. Mercedes", I
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have received an audio tape of Jim Norman's recent appearance on
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New York radio station WBAI, marked on the cassette as having
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been January 10, 1996.
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[...continued from CN 7.02...]
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Here are further excerpts from the program:
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JAMES NORMAN:
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[Hillary] had actually been an attorney of record for Systematics
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which at the time was owned by the Arkansas billionaire Jackson
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Stephens, who tried to take over a Washington bank holding
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company on behalf of the BCCI [Bank of Credit and Commerce
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International] crowd and install Systematics as the data
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processing manager of that entire operation. Which is extremely
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curious, because BCCI itself was essentially a huge money-
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laundering, arms-finance and drug-finance/drug-money laundering
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operation.
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In the process of going through all this, I actually came across
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what turned out to be a Swiss bank account number: it was a 10-
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digit, encrypted series of letters... When I turned it over to
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some of the intelligence sources who I'd been using on this
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story, they ran it through their system. And, actually a couple
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of months later, when I asked them, "Gee. Is it possible [that]
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Cap Weinberger might have money in these accounts?" They said,
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"Well, yeah. Don't you know? That account number you gave us was
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Cap's!" In fact, they mentioned that a relative of Howard
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Metzenbaum, former Senator from Ohio, was another co-signatory to
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that account; that Weinberger had multiple accounts -- not
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implausible to me at all.
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I mean, here was Weinberger, Secretary of Defense throughout the
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Reagan era, during which we had one of the biggest defense build-
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ups in history. We also participated in the massive illicit
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arming of Iraq with high-technology weapons systems capabilities,
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plus the armaments themselves. It was an environment *fertile*
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for kickbacks. Payola. Corruption. And, in fact, Weinberger was
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eventually indicted by Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh for
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lying to Congress, for failing to turn over his diaries. He was
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pardoned by George Bush just as Bush was leaving office. And so
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he never had to stand trial -- which was probably a merciful
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reprieve for Colin Powell, who was Weinberger's chief assistant
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at that time, chief advisor.
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Weinberger had basically elevated Powell to a high-level advisory
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position, and Powell would have been effecting a lot of the
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orders that Weinberger was giving him -- about moving arms here,
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and drugs there.
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And in fact... Weinberger's name has come up in connection with a
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Costa Rican legislative investigation, a two-volume report down
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there that identifies Weinberger, as well as Ollie North, our
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former Ambassador to Costa Rica, and various others as being
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personas non grata for helping facilitate a massive drug and arms
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operation which helped corrupt that country's society. If those
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people set foot down there again, they're getting arrested.
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So suddenly it starts to make a lot of sense. And when you think
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in terms of Swiss bank accounts and massive amounts of money --
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kickbacks -- it explains a lot of stuff that's going on right
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now.
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What we're looking at here is massive, endemic, high-level
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corruption of the federal government. Bipartisan. Democrats and
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Republicans. It's been going on for years -- particularly since
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the early 1980s. The dollars involved have grown exponentially...
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I believe from arms and drugs trading. There is *huge* amounts of
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money sloshing around here. And it has corrupted the government
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in a fundamental way. The government cannot police itself. The
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normal enforcement mechanisms have been compromised: the Justice
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Department. The IRS. Customs. The intelligence community.
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And what has happened is that there *are* a lot of good people in
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our government who have watched this happen, have been powerless
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to stop it -- their protests would go nowhere. There's been *no*
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effective investigation by anybody of this stuff. And finally,
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what had happened was, a small handful of guys -- they call
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themselves the Fifth Column. Retired intelligence people. One is
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a former CIA contractor. Another is a former National Security
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Agency person. I know they're assisted by a variety of other
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people of the intelligence community -- they were able to acquire
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their own used Cray supercomputer from Clark Air Force Base. It's
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apparently an air-cooled and generator-driven machine that can
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actually be packed into the back of I think what *looks* like a
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refrigerated semi-trailer truck with a satellite uplink. And
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they've got this thing rollin' around the country so it doesn't
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get nailed.
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And so for the last 5 years, they have been downloading,
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systematically, tapping into foreign bank databases and pulling
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down reams and reams of account data.
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[James Norman goes on to describe how this Fifth Column allegedly
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raided the secret bank accounts of corrupt government officials,
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transferring the money into U.S. government accounts.] For two
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years they've been raiding these accounts. Now they're into Phase
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II.... Phase I: "Take the marbles." Phase II: "Get them out of
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government."
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Now, how do you do that? How do you get these people *out* of
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government in the most time-efficient and cost-efficient manner?
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... Apparently they've been hand-delivering brown manila
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envelopes to people in Congress with actual copies of the
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transaction records of these Swiss and other off-shore accounts.
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The people get about a day to read these things, and then they
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get a call from one of *these* guys who I have referred to as the
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"Angel of Death". And then the elected official gets a choice:
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... You can either announce your retirement immediately, or you
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can face immediate prosecution for tax evasion and various other
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crimes -- the minimum penalty for which, if you are convicted, is
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10 years in prison.
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Now when a congressman goes to prison, you lose your federal
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pension benefits. And the pensions on these people are
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significant. (For instance, Pat Schroeder, congresswoman from
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Colorado: relatively young, she's been there a long time... She's
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got, over her expected lifetime, more than 4 million bucks coming
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to her.) Now I think the implication here is that if you just
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shut up, go away, get out of the line of fire -- *maybe* you'll
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get lucky and get to keep your pension down the road. There's no
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guarantee that you won't be prosecuted.
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But what's happened so far: all of these people have taken the
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retirement option.
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And what you have seen: an unprecedented, record number of
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retirements of *powerful* people from Congress. These are not
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"back benchers"! Since the end of the last election, until now,
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more than 50 Senators and Congressmen have announced their
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retirement. In fact, there were two more in just the last couple
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of days: a 30-year Republican from Indiana, and a two-term
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Democrat from Arkansas.
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The excuses they give? *Utterly* *bogus*, frankly. "Oh, we can't
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stand the nasty politics." "Oh, I want to spend more time with my
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family." "Oh, it's just time to go." It strains credulity. It
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just does not make sense -- until you realize there's something
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*else* going on here.
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[...to be continued...]
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