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Susan Lindauer
Shortly after requesting to testify before Congress about successful elements of Pre-War Intelligence, Lindauer became one of the first non-Arab Americans arrested on the Patriot Act as an "Iraqi Agent." She was accused of warning her second cousin, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and Secretary of State Colin Powell that War with Iraq would have catastrophic consequences. Gratis of the Patriot Act, her indictment was loaded with "secret charges" and "secret evidence." She was subjected to one year in prison on Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas without a trial or hearing, and threatened with indefinite detention and forcible drugging to shut her up.
After five years of indictment without a conviction or guilty plea, the Justice Department dismissed all charges five days before President Obama's inauguration.
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Barbara Honegger
For over a decade, Ms. Honegger was the Senior Military Affairs Journalist at the Naval Postgraduate School, the premiere science, technology and national security affairs graduate research university of the Department of Defense. Much of her service took place during the Reagan years. Ms. Honegger discovered evidence of the sabotage of rescue efforts during the Iran hostage crisis. Her research led to the book "October Surprise". Honegger's position gave her access to high level civilian and military officials to get the real story of the Pentagon attack. She first published that expose in “The Pentagon Attack Papers,” which Prof. David Ray Griffin said would change the entire discussion of what happened on 9/11. Her latest research findings are in “Behind the Smoke Curtain,” just published in the historic Toronto 9/11 Hearings Report released for this 11th Anniversary.
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Wayne Madsen
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author and syndicated columnist. He has written for The Village Voice, The Progressive, Counterpunch, Online Journal, CorpWatch, Multinational Monitor, News Insider, In These Times, and The American Conservative. His columns have appeared in The Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Columbus Dispatch, Sacramento Bee, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among others.
Madsen is the author of The Handbook of Personal Data Protection (London: Macmillan, 1992), an acclaimed reference book on international data protection law; Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999 (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999); co-author of America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II (Dandelion, 2003); author of Jaded Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops & Brass Plates and Overthrow a Fascist Regime on $15 a Day.
Madsen is a regular contributor on Russia Today. He has been a frequent political and national security commentator on Fox News and has also appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, and MS-NBC. Madsen has taken on Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity on their television shows. He has been invited to testifty as a witness before the US House of Representatives, the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and an terrorism investigation panel of the French government.
Madsen has some twenty years experience in security issues. As a U.S. Naval Officer, he managed one of the first computer security programs for the U.S. Navy. He subsequently worked for the National Security Agency, the Naval Data Automation Command, Department of State, RCA Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation. Madsen was a Senior Fellow for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a privacy public advocacy organization.
Madsen is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), Association for Intelligence Officers (AFIO), and the National Press Club. |
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Lenny Charles
Lenny Charles founded and produced I.N.N. World Report TV & Radio News from 2004, 2009, one of only two independent 30-minute TV news shows broadcast nationally in the U.S. each weekday Free Speech TV. The show also aired on Time-Warner Cable, Comcast and more than 100 cable access stations. Each show reached between 22 and 40 million U.S. households each weekday. I.N.N. was known for presenting difficult, under-reported but crucial issues that are rarely broadcast on corporate news. I.N.N. World Report brought viewers/listeners more than 100 original news stories each week, covering domestic and foreign issues and policy, the wars, privacy, Bill of Rights and civil liberties issues.
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Julia Davis
Julia Davis is a national security whistleblower, anti-terrorism/immigration expert, who exposed glaring shortcomings in the processing of applicants for admission into the U.S. from terrorist countries. Julia served as a Customs and Border Protection Officer at the San Ysidro Port of Entry - the largest and busiest land border crossing in the U.S. and in the world.
Persecuted by Homeland Security for becoming a whistleblower, after years of litigation, Julia Davis prevailed against the Department of Homeland Security in a court of law. Her whistleblowing disclosure became the topic of a documentary film "Top Priority: The Terror Within," which premiered at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on May 16, 2012. Julia is an Investigative Journalist for the Los Angeles Homeland Security Examiner and appears on various news media outlets with commentary on national security, terrorism and immigration-related topics. Julia Davis is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and serves as Senior Vice President of Production for Fleur De Lis Film Studios.
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Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer
Anthony Shaffer is a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who gained fame for his claims about mishandled intelligence before the September 11 attacks and for the censoring of his book, Operation Dark Heart.
Shaffer has alleged that the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) failed to properly evaluate intelligence on 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta. Shaffer's allegations subsequently became known as the Able Danger controversy. In October 2003, according to his later statement to Congress, Shaffer told the 9/11 Commission staff director, Dr. Philip D. Zelikow, that in 2000 a DIA data-mining program known as Able Danger had uncovered two of the three terrorist cells eventually implicated in the September 11 attacks. Shaffer reportedly told Zelikow that DIA leadership declined to share this information with the FBI because military lawyers expressed concerns about the legality of doing so. Shaffer also asserted that he briefed Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet on three separate occasions regarding his unit's activities. The 9/11 Commission Report did not mention Shaffer's allegations, but in 2005 and 2006 the Chairman of the House Select Intelligence Committee, Rep. Curt Weldon, publicized Shaffer's allegations in public statements and hearings.
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