Cheney behind Philippine coup attempts

December 14, 2005 -- Yesterday, WMR reported on Vice President Dick Cheney's involvement with a Philippine espionage ring operating out of his White House office that provided Philippine opposition figures with damaging classified information on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo gleaned from U.S. intelligence sources, including communications intercepts. Cheney was miffed that a company tied to his old firm Halliburton was prevented by Macapagal-Arroyo from employing and recruiting thousands of low wage slaves from the Philippines for dangerous work in Iraq.



Cheney behind Philippine coup attempts

Today, there are reports from Manila that a retired general, Fortunato Abat, has illegally named a "transition government" to replace that of Macapagal-Arroyo.

Arroyo-Macapagal was in Kuala Lumpur attending an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit at the time of the coup attempt. Last week, the building housing the offices of Macapagal-Arroyo's husband was strafed by gunfire and the leader of a 2003 attempted coup against Macapagal-Arroyo, Marine Captain Nicanor Faeldon, was allowed by his military guards to escape from prison and join Abat's forces. Last May, there was yet another military uprising against Macapagal-Arroyo.

U.S.-influenced media in the Philippines is calling for the President to step down, citing dubious opinion polls. It appears that even revelations that Mr. Cheney's "work up" on Macapagal-Arroyo and provision of sensitive U.S. intelligence to Philippine opposition forces did not dissuade him from continuing his plan to topple Macapagal-Arroyo and replace her with a client willing to send Filipino workers back to Iraq. That plan is currently underway in the Philippines and a military government is looming on the horizon.

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Government prosecutor contends NSA employees can simply walk out of the agency with two boxes of classified material unhindered at one of the world's highest security complexes

December 14, 2005 -- Prosecution and defense closing arguments in the Kenneth W. Ford case. The defense and prosecutors presented their closing arguments today to the jury at the US Court House in Greenbelt, Maryland, in the case of former NSA analyst Kenneth W. Ford. The government charged Ford with possessing two boxes of classified material at his Waldorf, Maryland home in January 2004 after a tip was phoned in to NSA Security by a dubious FBI informant with along criminal record named Tonya Tucker, aka Tonya Stewart, Kayla Walker and 17 other aliases. >>>>cont

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