Tuesday, February 13, 2007

THIS JUST IN! DUSTY! LYNNE! & NOVAK!

 
THEY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THEY'D HAVE PROBLEMS WITH KYLE FOGGO WHO ONCE ROSE AS HIGH AS C.I.A.'S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BEFORE LEAVING THE AGENCY IN MAY OF LAST YEAR.
 
FOGGO'S BACK IN THE NEWS NOW, CHARGED WITH HANDING OUT CONTRACTS BASED ON BRIBES MADE ("VACATIONS ON PRIVATE JETS, EXPENSIVE MEALS AND A PROMISE OF FUTURE EMPLOYMENT").
 
MEETING WITH 2 DEEP COVER C.I.A. AGENTS, WE ASKED THEM WHAT THEY THOUGHT OF THE CHARGES.
 
"WELL WHAT GROWN MAN GOES BY THE NAME 'DUSTY'?  THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE FIRST CLUE," EXPLAINED LYNNE CHENEY WHO HAS BEEN A DEEP COVER C.I.A. AGENT FOR THE LAST 32 YEARS THOUGH HER OFFICIAL COVER IS WIFE OF DICK CHENEY AND "LIVING DEAD."
 
"DUSTY," DEEP COVER C.I.A. AGENT ROBERT NOVAK SNORTED.  "WHO PUTS A MAN NAMED DUSTY IN CHARGE OF THE C.I.A.  DID HE WEAR SHORT PANTS TO THE OFFICE."
 
THESE REPORTERS LEFT THE TWO DEEP COVER C.I.A. AGENTS LAUGHING AT THEIR OWN JOKES AS WE RUSHED TO GET OUR SCOOPS INTO PRINT!
 
 
 
Starting with news of war resistance, on August 31st of last year, at  Camp Casey III, Mark Wilkerson turned himself in.   Wilkerson had served in Iraq, applied for conscientious objector status, had the status denied and told that he could not appeal the decision until after he  had served his second deployment in Iraq.  While on leave before his second deployment, Wilkerson decided to self-check out of the military.  He was gone for approximately a year and a half and then, on August 31st, held a press conference with Cindy Sheehan and others standing with him to announce he was turning himself in.  Ryan (Indybay IMC) reports that Wilkerson will be court-martialed at Fort Hood (Texas) on February 22nd.  Dick Foster (Rocky Mountain News) reports: "As part of his plea agreement with the Army, Wilkerson will serve not more than 10 months in prison.  But he also faces a possible dishonorable or bad conduct discharge and a felony conviction on his record."  Reflecting on his time serving in Iraq, Wilkerson wrote (last October): "Before I deployed to Iraq during OIF1, I was full of optimism for what we could do to help the people of Iraq.  One of our missions, after all, was to 'win the hearts and the minds of the Iraqi people.'  And in this reagard, we have failed miserably.  In the year I was in Iraq, I saw kids waving American flags in the first month.  Then they threw rocks.  Then they planeted IEDs.  Then they blew themselves and others up in city squares full of people.  The only conclusion I can come up with as to why this has happened is the way the American troops have treated the Iraqi people as a whole.  From random raids of whole city blocks, to checkpoints that interrupted the daily lives of the Iraqis, to incidents of torture and even massacres, a majority of Iraqis now feel as that the American soliders, once hailed as heroes and saviors, are now seen as conquerors.  Civil was has erupted in the streets, and Americans are caught in the crossfire."
 
Turning to the topic of Ehren Watada whose court-martial at Fort Lewis last week ended with a mistrial, Ann Wright (retired col., retired State Dept., writing at Truthout) notes: "The US Army prosecution called only three witnesses to meet its burden of providing evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Lieutenant Watada had failed to deploy to Iraq and had committed conduct 'unbecoming an officer' for public statements about the war on Iraq he made in June and August 2006. Ironically, in my opinion, the testimony of the prosecution witnesses underscored Lieutenant Watada's professionalism, dedication to duty and respect for the chain of command as he attempted to resolve his ethical and moral concerns about the war. In effect, prosecution witnesses undercut the prosecution's own case against Watada before the jury panel of seven US Army officers."  The prosecution bungled their case.  Instead of allowing it to continue and risk the military losing, Judge Toilet (Lt. Col. John Head) declared a mistrial.  Wright concludes: "As an old soldier with nearly three decades of service, I suggest that the 'good order and discipline' of the Army has not been negatively affected by Lieutenant Watada's actions.  Until his unit deployed to Iraq on June 22, Watada had not disobeyed an order from his command.  He did not go AWOL.  After he was charged, he worked professionally and diligently everyday while awaiting his court-martial.  I urge the Army to let the lieutenant, who has acted in good faith, with courtesy and respect for the military and responsibility for his oath to the military and to the country, resign."   The Journal News reports that Vietnam war resister David Mitchell (Rockland Coalition for Peace and Justice) will speak Tuesday night at 7:00 pm about what he observed while attending Watada's court-martial last week.  The location for the speech is the Fellowship of Reconciliation at 521 North Broadway in Upper Nyack.
 
Watada and Wilkerson are a part of a movement of resistance with the military that includes others such as Agustin Aguayo (whose court-martial is currently set to begin on March 6th), Kyle Snyder, Darrell Anderson, Ivan Brobeck, Ricky Clousing, Aidan Delgado, Joshua Key, Camilo Meija, Pablo Paredes, Carl Webb, Stephen Funk, David Sanders, Dan Felushko, Brandon Hughey, Jeremy Hinzman, Corey Glass, Patrick Hart, Clifford Cornell, Joshua Despain, Katherine Jashinski, Chris Teske, Matt Lowell, Jimmy Massey and Kevin Benderman. In total, thirty-eight US war resisters in Canada have applied for asylum.

Information on war resistance within the military can be found at Center on Conscience & War, The Objector, The G.I. Rights Hotline, and the War Resisters Support Campaign. Courage to Resist offers information on all public war resisters.
 
 

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