Senator: Prostitution scandal wider than believed

Senator: Prostitution scandal wider than believed
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL and LAURIE KELLMAN | Associated Press – 9 hrs ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Several small groups of Secret Service employees separately visited clubs, bars and brothels in Colombia prior to a visit by President Barack Obama last month and engaged in reckless, "morally repugnant" behavior, Sen. Susan Collins says.
She says the employees' actions during the stunning prostitution scandal could have provided a foreign intelligence service, drug cartels or other criminals with opportunities for blackmail or coercion that could have threatened the president's safety.
In remarks prepared for the first congressional hearing on the matter Wednesday, Collins, R-Maine, also challenged early assurances that the scandal in Colombia appeared to be an isolated incident. She noted that two participants were Secret Service supervisors — one with 21 years of service and the other with 22 years — and both were married. Their involvement "surely sends a message to the rank and file that this kind of activity is tolerated on the road," Collins said.
"This was not a one-time event," said Collins, the senior Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. "The circumstances unfortunately suggest an issue of culture."
Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the committee's chairman, said, "I want to hear what the Secret Service is doing to encourage people to report egregious behavior when they see it."
Wednesday's hearing was expected to expose new details in the scandal, which became public after a dispute over payment between a Secret Service agent and a prostitute at a Cartagena hotel on April 12. The Secret Service was in the coastal resort for a Latin American summit before Obama's arrival. Collins said several small groups of agency employees from two hotels went out separately to clubs, bars and brothels and they "all ended up in similar circumstances."
"Contrary to the conventional story line, this was not simply a single, organized group that went out for a night on the town together," Collins said.
Senators were expected to focus on whether the Secret Service permitted a culture in which such behavior was tolerated. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has testified previously that she would be surprised if there were other examples, but senators have been skeptical.
In his own prepared remarks, Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan told senators the behavior in Colombia wasn't representative of the agency's nearly 7,000 employees.
"I can understand how the question could be asked," Sullivan said, calling his employees "among the most dedicated, hardest working, self-sacrificing employees within the federal government."
Sullivan also assured senators that Obama's security was never at risk. The officers implicated in the prostitution scandal could not have inadvertently disclosed sensitive security details because their confidential briefing about Obama's trip had not taken place.
"At the time the misconduct occurred, none of the individuals involved in the misconduct had received any specific protective information, sensitive security documents, firearms, radios or other security-related equipment in their hotel rooms," Sullivan said.
Sullivan has survived professionally so far based on his openness about what happened. Senators were not expected to ask for his resignation, and the acting inspector general for the Homeland Security Department, Charles K. Edwards, gave Sullivan high marks for integrity. Edwards, who estimated that the early stages of his own investigation would be finished before July 2, said the Secret Service "has been completely transparent and cooperative."
"The Secret Service's efforts to date in investigating its own employees should not be discounted," Edwards told senators. "It has done credible job of uncovering the facts and, where appropriate, it has taken swift and decisive action."
The White House on Tuesday reasserted its confidence in Sullivan. Obama "has great faith in the Secret Service, believes the director has done an excellent job," White House spokesman Jay Carney said. "The director moved very quickly to have this matter investigated and took action very quickly as a result of that investigation."
A dozen Secret Service officers and supervisors and 12 other U.S. military personnel were implicated. Eight Secret Service employees, including the two supervisors, have lost their jobs. The Secret Service is moving to permanently revoke the security clearance for one other employee, and three others have been cleared of serious wrongdoing.
The Washington Post reported Tuesday that four of the Secret Service employees have decided to fight their dismissals.
Prostitution is legal in Colombia, but Sullivan quickly issued new guidelines that made it clear that agents on assignment overseas are subject to U.S. laws.
Sullivan said he directed Secret Service inspectors to investigate reports of similar misconduct in San Salvador. After 28 interviews with hotel employees and managers, State Department officials and others, "no evidence was found to substantiate the allegations," Sullivan said.
This week the Drug Enforcement Administration said the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General was investigating possible misconduct by two or more agents in Colombia. Collins revealed that the case involved at least two DEA employees who entertained female masseuses in the Cartagena apartment of one of the DEA agents. The investigation is unrelated to the Secret Service scandal but is based on information provided to the DEA by the Secret Service.

Embracing the kindle age (not yet)...

Wow---while I am in over 60 other author's books to date, as of 5/21/12, only 17 of them are available in kindle (and I have yet to buy one, either. I like paper books better LOL):


1) Dan Emmett “Within Arm’s Length”;
2) Larry Hancock “Someone Would Have Talked”;
3) Gerald  Blaine “The Kennedy Detail”;
4) Lamar Waldron “Ultimate Sacrifice”;
5) Lamar Waldron “Legacy of Secrecy”;
6) Harrison Livingstone “The Radical Right…”;
7)  Larry Hancock “Nexus”;
8) Mark Lane “The Last Word”;
9) Jim Douglass “JFK & The Unspeakable”;
10) Phil Nelson “LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination”;
11) David Talbot “Brothers”;
12) Vincent Bugliosi “Four Days In November”;
13) Vincent Bugliosi “Reclaiming History”;
14) Noel Twyman “Bloody Treason”;
15) Jim DiEugenio “The Assassinations”;
16) Michael Ruppert “Crossing The Rubicon;
17) Richard Gilbride “Matrix For Assassination”;

NONE of these books (that I am in) are on kindle as of yet (if ever): Fetzer's 3 books, Walt Brown's 4 books (+ 2 cdroms), Horne's 2 (5) books, ALL other Livingstone JFK books (4), Phil Melanson's Secret Service book, the ARRB Final Report, Michael Kurtz's book, Ian Grigg's book, Dan Robertson's book, William Law's book, etc.

The Peoples Commission into the assassination of JFK

The Peoples Commission into the assassination of JFK

White House, Washington DC.     June 1st, 2012.

PRESS RELEASE:

This morning President Barack Obama announced the formation of the most unexpected government commission of our time.

With the 50th anniversary of the assassination of former president John F Kennedy taking place on November 22nd 2013, President Obama stunned the assembled crowd and press core with the announcement of the “Peoples Commission into the Assassination of John F Kennedy”.

With more than an estimated three quarters of the United States population believing that the current official version of events in Dallas that November day to be false, President Obama has seen fit to offer the American public one final chance to perhaps learn the truth surrounding that infamous day.

The government has appointed seven board members to oversee the running of the commission, all have a close association with the assassination as all have investigated certain, if not all aspects of the assassination and researched,  written and or had published one or more books upon their search for the truth.

President Obama introduced the commission board members to the crowd:

Mark Lane

– Author, Lawyer and Researcher.
James Douglas – Writer, Author and Researcher.
Larry Hancock-Historian, Writer and Author.
Vince Palamara –Investigator, Researcher and Writer.David Lifton – Writer, Researcher and Author. 
John  Armstrong – Investigative journalist and Author.
John Newman – Historian, Researcher and Author.

The commission board members have already been joined by the appointment of 10 of the country’s leading 2012 law graduates from the nations leading universities such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, UCLA and Brown. Offers of employment to serve as commission counsel were made several months ago to students after receiving recommendations from the respective university’s Law department Dean’s.

To assist counsel, twenty four of the nations leading detectives from Police Department’s across the country will join the peoples commission as investigators and conduct interviews and follow leads that the commission may uncover.

The government has seen fit to grant the peoples commission some powerful assistance in its quest to uncover the truth regarding the assassination. Firstly the United States Postal service will act as a collection agent for any member of the public who wishes to present any information or evidence they may have regarding the assassination and its aftermath.

Every single Post Office across the country from November 1st to December 31st 2012 will receive, box and seal all information presented by the public, which will then be forwarded to the commission’s base of operations in Washington DC for processing.

From November 21st to November 23rd 2012 a nationwide toll free phone service will be available for any member of the public who wishes to disclose any information for the commission to consider.

However, perhaps the most extraordinary feature that the Peoples Commission has, is the power to grant immunity from prosecution for anyone who provides information or evidence in the case.

Former Police, FBI, CIA and Military personnel who previously would have been bound by secrecy agreements are now free to come forward and present new information or correct or recant any previous information they may have supplied, without fear of prosecution.

Family members of the above personnel who may have personally been told information regarding the case are also asked to come forward and supply information their fathers and mothers passed onto their families but never told authorities back in the 1960’s and 70’s.

Funding for the commission has been arranged thru an initial government grant of $3 million and a request for donations from the US public will be made in the coming days to help meet the additional commission expenses.

It is hoped that just prior to the 50th anniversary of the death of President Kennedy, “The Peoples Commission on the Assassination of JFK” will be able to come forward and present its findings to congress and help once and for all set the record straight and finally help close the wounds that November 22nd, 1963 left on our country.

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From Ferdinand to Kennedy, cars played key role in history’s notorious assassinations

Posted on May 21, 2012 by vincepalamara

From Ferdinand to Kennedy, cars played key role in history’s notorious assassinations

 

May 11, 2012 10:05:00

Phil Marchand      

Special to the Star    

 

There it stands in the Henry Ford Museum, in Dearborn, Mich., the car that once conveyed a president and his wife down the main streets of Dallas on a brilliantly sunny day.
Half a century later, the 1961 Lincoln Continental four-door convertible sedan seems pathetically vulnerable. The current presidential limo, U.S. President Barack Obama’s 2008 Cadillac, can withstand (we are told) a rocket-propelled grenade attack, poison gas, a landmine — virtually everything except a direct hit with a nuclear warhead.
By contrast, John F. Kennedy’s Lincoln didn’t even have bulletproof doors, not to mention a permanent roof.
As it turned out, the inadequately equipped 1961 Lincoln was not the only problem confronting Kennedy on his last day on Earth in 1963. His human shields did not rise to the occasion. The Secret Service chauffeur, William Greer, and bodyguard Roy Kellerman, also riding in the car, thought the first shot fired at the president, which — according to some accounts — missed, was a firecracker, and they failed to react immediately.
As William Manchester, in his book Death of a President, writes, “Kellerman and Greer were in a position to take swift evasive action and for five terrible seconds they were immobilized.”
In the curious 20th Century linkage between cars and assassination, two elements combine to determine the fate of the intended victim: a durable car and a skilled and cool-headed driver. It was this combination that saved the life of Charles de Gaulle in the 1962 assassination attempt mounted by the right-wing Secret Army Organization.
A dozen men sprayed De Gaulle’s Citroen DS 19 with gunfire, killing two motorcycle guards, shattering the rear window and puncturing at least one tire. It was due to the Citroen’s superior steering and suspension that it could accelerate out of a front-wheel skid and speed away from the gunmen.
That steering and suspension, however, would have been for naught had the chauffeur panicked on the occasion, lost control of the car, or failed generally to heed the first law of chauffeurs in assassination attempts: get the car and its passengers immediately out of the site of the shooting.
Unfortunately for assassination victims, including John F. Kennedy, the opposite combination is often the case — a faulty or inadequate car and a hapless driver.
Consider the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo. The royal couple was seated in a 1911 Graf & Stift touring car, with its top turned down, when its driver made a wrong turn and attempted to reverse direction. The result was the engine stalled and the gears locked. Immobilization of a car presents assassins with their greatest opportunity and it proved so in this case, when an assassin happened to be standing by.
In some cases, of course, neither the car nor the driver can be blamed, as in the 1973 assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco, prime minister in Francisco Franco’s Spanish dictatorship. The prime minister’s Dodge 3700 was blown up as it drove over a remote-control bomb planted in the street.
A more striking instance is the 1961 killing of Rafael Trujillo, then brutal dictator of the Dominican Republic — a rare instance of car-on-car assassination. A Spanish mechanic rebuilt the engines of three cars belonging to the conspirators so they could go over 125 miles per hour, enabling them to overtake Trujillo’s 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air.
On the night of the assassination, one car blocked the road ahead of Trujillo, while two followed behind him. As the Chevrolet Bel Air approached the roadblock, one of the two cars behind it drew alongside and opened fire. (The other car behind Trujillo, perhaps because its occupants lost their nerve, turned around and sped back to the city.)
At this point, Trujillo’s driver suggested doing a U-turn and accelerating out of the trap, but the wounded dictator insisted on getting out of the car and fighting it out, a fatal mistake. His chauffeur, a doughty fellow worthy of a far better employer, was hit several times as he engaged in the firefight, but miraculously survived. Several assassins were wounded. Trujillo was killed.
A similar incident happened in 1922 in Ireland when Michael Collins, travelling in a convoy as Commander-in-Chief of Ireland’s National Army, was attacked in a deadly roadside ambush.
At the onset of gunfire, Collins’ aide told the driver to “drive like hell” — again, the correct move from a security point of view, and one that would likely have saved the life of the commander.
But Collins, perhaps spurred by a feeling he was not going to flee an ambush in his own country, insisted on climbing out of the car and joining the fray. Before it was over, he lay on the ground, mortally wounded.
To “drive like hell” is always the preferred option of security personnel, particularly because there is no way of knowing how many shooters may be in the vicinity. Not to do so proves dangerous, but president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt had his reasons in February of 1933.
The U.S. president-elect gave a speech seated on the back of his touring car to a crowd in Miami’s Bayfront Park, (Roosevelt liked to deliver speeches in the back of this car, a convertible, because it hid his paralysis while allowing for handshakes.). After the speech was over and Roosevelt was lifted back into his front seat, an assassin named Giuseppe Zangara opened fire.
He missed Roosevelt but inadvertently hit the mayor of Chicago and a woman who stood behind the president. The Secret Service immediately ordered the car driven away with the president-elect safely inside, but Roosevelt insisted he not leave until the two other seriously wounded bystanders were picked up and driven to the hospital in his car.
While en route, he cradled the head of the fatally wounded mayor.
If there had been another shooter in the park, this delay in leaving might have proved a deadly mistake, not unlike that made by Trujillo and Collins, but this time the sole assassin was disarmed. Roosevelt’s display of calm and compassion was exactly what his country wanted to see.
Ronald Reagan’s insouciance after he was shot in 1981 made an impression on his audience, but with a president wounded there was no question of hanging around the scene of the crime. He was hustled into his 1972 Lincoln Continental and driven expeditiously to the hospital.

"The Kennedy Detail": MAJOR WARNER BROS MOVIE FALL 2013

"The Kennedy Detail": MAJOR WARNER BROS MOVIE FALL 2013

My friend Fred Ciacelli, owner of the replica Kennedy limousine used in "Kennedy" with Martin Sheen, "JFK", "Ruby", "A Woman Called Jackie", and countless other television news and related programs, told me his limo was contracted for use in Gerald Blaine's major Warner Bros movie "The Kennedy Detail", set for release in the Fall of 2013. Guess what the locations are for the movie? Dallas, Washington...and Tampa.
I can see it all now: Blaine will hire some cheesey actor to state falsely "Get those men off my limousine, dammit!" Yuk.

Blaine's book was only an EXTENDED list NY Times Best Seller--- to use an analogy, so were "Mortal Error" and "HIgh Treason 2". It did not stay very long, never made the top 10 (or even top 20), has very mixed Amazon reviews, and failed to make the impact I know he truly desired (his friend Clint Hill, who wrote the Foreword, has a legitimate HUGE NY Times Best Seller with the "follow-up" book "Mrs Kennedy and Me", reaching the top of the charts and staying in the top 5-10 for 5 weeks and counting; tremendously positive reviews; and, alas, the impact HE desired, as far as demonstrating his "admiration" for Jackie Kennedy and so forth).
In other words, Blaine's book came and went, everyone is still going to my work and, other than a bump in the road (it was Lawton, not Rybka, darn it), Blaine's propaganda failed. Blaine, who worked for the CIA after his short time in the agency and who has oil interests in Yemen, made a mint with the book, the Discovery Channel documentary, and this Warner Bros movie deal. I work for a living and have made nada on this case...and I am glad of that. No blood money here: I would not want to profit from the death of the man I failed to protect (not to digress, but isn't it funny how it is Belin, Posner, Bugliosi, Blaine, Hill, Manchester, Bishop, and Mailer who TRULY profit massively from this case, yet the vast majority of the "conspiracy theory" community they seek to denigrate almost invariably do this as a labor of love---a hobby, as it were---and for little or NO MONEY).

Please see these links that debunk Blaine's book (and the controversial aspects of Hill's book):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbD1shPmla8

and

http://www.ctka.net/reviews/kennedydetailreview.html

http://www.ctka.net/reviews/MrsKennedy_Hill_Review_Palamara.html

http://ctka.net/reviews/slick_propaganda.html

Vince Palamara
oh, brother- what hath I spawned? Gerald is covering and changing stories and accounts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxZVgPIt05o


Lisa's guilty conscience:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgB2mnmiU-s


Huh?!?!?!?!?!?JFK Secret Service Agent Gerald Blaine talks to a dead man?!?!?-
Kennedy Detail author Gerald Blaine claims to have spoken to Art Godfrey, a Shift Leader on the Kennedy Detail, during the writing of his book, which began in June 2005. The problem? Art Godfrey DIED ON 5/12/2002 !!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_YqC5NJASA

Arlen Specter Bashes Clint Hill

Posted on May 16, 2012 by vincepalamara

 

Arlen Specter Bashes Clint Hill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFZcZQ_6szw

Arlen Specter was THE first government official to take testimony from Clint Hill. Arlen tells the truth- Clint Hill DID drink the night before and stay out late: alcohol consumption while in TRAVEL STATUS was grounds for REMOVAL from the Secret Service, not to mention the detrimental effect sleep deprivation had on protecting JFK. 5/15/12 PA Cable oral history- Specter is 82 and perhaps wants to clear his conscience.
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