Petraeus’s CIA Fuels Iran Murder Plot

Ray McGovern spells things out:



I don't see what the problem is. Even if another pre-emptive war proves to be a disaster for the United States and Iran, it's a win for Wall Street and the Plutonomy. And that's what it's all about, right?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x5028734

but I'm sure she has no vested interest(from Project Censored):

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From 1997 through the end of 2005, Feinstein’s husband Richard C. Blum was a majority shareholder in both URS Corp. and Perini Corp. She lobbied Pentagon officials in public hearings to support defense projects that she favored, some of which already were, or subsequently became, URS or Perini contracts. From 2001 to 2005, URS earned $792 million from military construction and environmental cleanup projects approved by MILCON; Perini earned $759 million from such projects.

In 2000, Perini earned a mere $7 million from federal contracts. After 9/11, Perini was transformed into a major defense contractor. In 2004, the company earned $444 million for military construction work in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as for improving airfields for the US Air Force in Europe and building base infrastructures for the US Navy around the globe. In a remarkable financial recovery, Perini shot from near penury in 1997 to logging gross revenues of $1.7 billion in 2005.

It is estimated that Perini now holds at least $2.5 billion worth of contracts tied to the worldwide expansion of the US military. Its largest Department of Defense contracts are “indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity” or “bundled” contracts carrying guaranteed profit margins. As of May 2006, Perini held a series of bundled contracts awarded by the Army Corps of Engineers for work in the Middle East worth $1.725 billion. Perini has also been awarded an open-ended contract by the US Air Force for military construction and cleaning the environment at closed military bases.

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http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/23-feinsteins-conflict-of-interest-in-iraq/

Thank you for the heads-up, mod mom: Preemptive war represents a conflict-of-interest.

Joshua Frank pegged Mr. Blum:

The Democrats' Daddy Warbucks

Business with the Carlyle Group is particularly disheartening. Then there's the other company...

CPI says Mr. Blum owns three-fourths of Perini.

It's gotta be a case study at Harvard Business School, going from penury to Happy Days Are Here Again. Textbook case.

Here's another thread showing how the DEA source may have been just a little too eager. Smells too similar to Curveball, if you ask me.

Alleged Iran Assassination Plot Court Documents Suggest a Set Up
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x625698

Going from Lars77's video and related postings, the FBI is doing the scut work for somebody.

The Informants

The FBI has built a massive network of spies to prevent another domestic attack. But are they busting terrorist plots—or leading them?

—By Trevor Aaronson
Mother Jones

EXCERPT...

Over the past year, Mother Jones and the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California-Berkeley have examined prosecutions of 508 defendants in terrorism-related cases, as defined by the Department of Justice. Our investigation found:

■Nearly half the prosecutions involved the use of informants, many of them incentivized by money (operatives can be paid as much as $100,000 per assignment) or the need to work off criminal or immigration violations. (For more on the details of those 508 cases, see our charts page and searchable database.)
■Sting operations resulted in prosecutions against 158 defendants. Of that total, 49 defendants participated in plots led by an agent provocateur—an FBI operative instigating terrorist action.
■With three exceptions, all of the high-profile domestic terror plots of the last decade were actually FBI stings. (The exceptions are Najibullah Zazi, who came close to bombing the New York City subway system in September 2009; Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, an Egyptian who opened fire on the El-Al ticket counter at the Los Angeles airport; and failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad.)
■In many sting cases, key encounters between the informant and the target were not recorded—making it hard for defendants claiming entrapment to prove their case.
■Terrorism-related charges are so difficult to beat in court, even when the evidence is thin, that defendants often don't risk a trial.

The relentless continuation of so many ruinous Republican policies ensures that these policies will remain in place for some Republican successor somewhere down the line. And, as bad as seeing this bullshit is out of an ostensibly Democratic administration, it will be exponentially worse coming out of the next Republican administration, whenever that is.

But by all means, let us not spend any time lookin' backwards to the past and seeing if we can rectify some of the past mistakes, because some of the architects of those mistakes might be inconvenienced (criminal prosecutions have their own special brand of ruining an otherwise good day for a war criminal). Instead, let's concentrate on lookin' forward to the future! where we don't have to worry our pretty little heads over past crimes against humanity. Because that would just politicize past practices. Or something.

The guy was asked about makin' war on Iran.



"Money Trumps Peace." - George W Bush, Feb. 14, 2007

It's like living in a dream.

Transcript excerpt.

Hmmm, Iran, Central American drug cartels, Saudis, October...it reminds me of some hidden histories (started 10-12-11)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2104315

RECALL SCOTT WALKER!

It's like an old Star Trek episode, wherein We the People are the expendable extras running around in the red shirts.



Gee. Quite an assortment of neocon scuzzbuckets. And they're not even "in office." Or is it a case of "never left"?

PS: Thanks for the heads-up on that thread, bobthedrummer! Will be perusing and very much chipping in the coming days...

that this not a monstrously jubilant PNACers' RW wet dream. :patriot:

Robert Gates must've written a great letter of recommendation. Otherwise, what the heck?



Wish Corporate McPravda made it clear that's something's not quite right with the nation's leadership.