Panetta's Thankless New Job by John Barry The Daily Beast
Here are my comments about this article:
While an excellent, comprehensive article, there is a key factor totally missing that means the past and its experience are completely irrelevant to these positions. I call it Toxic Surveillance which is generally ignored and unreported to which I've been subjected 24/7/365 since February 2001. Without considering its existence on a global basis, the essence of what is happening in these government departments is being missed.
Tempest based Toxic Surveillance came out of decades of intelligence activity by the NSA. My belief is that Michael Hayden (an Air Force Lt General) moved from the NSA to CIA to introduce Toxic Surveillance which combines SIGINT with HUMINT. He spent a long time in these positions. That is significant. He is now in the private sector as a board director supplying personnel to the likes of the State Department for worldwide deployment of these contractors.
Moving Petraeus to CIA is moving more military into a key intelligence agency that was formerly civilian oriented because now its military intelligence and contractors are the ones most using and likely to use Toxic Surveillance. The NSA was originally formed to combine the intelligence activity of the military services. It's a simple command and control decision that has nothing to do with the past and everything to do with the future: military personnel are moving into key positions.
Panetta's move to the DoD has nothing to do with his past record and everything to do with his role as CIA Director moving into a Pentagon which will be oriented around intelligence and most especially Toxic Surveillance. He has the immediate experience for this. BTW the drones can fly with signal detection technology which makes them ideal for Toxic Surveillance. Instead of detecting mobile phone signals, brainwave electromagnetic radiation can be detected, identified, tracked and monitored with targeting if necessary in exactly the same way.
There is a whole ethical problem surrounding Toxic Surveillance which I've experienced for over a decade now. It is not just largely unknown but is also being kept secret while its research impact is popping up all over in the people who have been abused by it. I carry the sense of Petraeus as the person who lied effectively to attempt to cover up the torture from Iraq and elsewhere related to rendition and secret military prisons. Ethics is not in his character.
Col Ted Westhusing reportedly committed suicide in June 2005. He reported to Generals Fil and Petreaus and was unsuccessful in bringing corruption to their attention. He was rebuked in so many words by Fil. He had a PhD 2003 from Emory University and taught at West Point where he was buried. His purported suicide note condemned his "commanders only interested in themselves." You can read about him in Emory Magazine: Winter 2011: An American Warrior http://bit.ly/iipRXR
It just so happens that the President of Emory University is the Vice Chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues which has had a run-in of sorts with those who appear, like myself, to be victims of this neuroscience research abuse. In their last public meeting on 1st March 2011 they allowed 22 members of the public to speak in 45 minutes which can be seen here: http://bit.ly/elE10s
They all spoke about today's abuse. All of what each of them said I can agree with except the vapour trails from jets in the sky. Even the helicopters can be significant. But, these men and women reflecting many different backgrounds, ages, race and professions all told the same story which is not getting out generally. They pleaded for help. Will they get it?
These are the issues which are behind these appointments, I belive, that need close scrutiny and are getting none. Petraeus and Panetta are cover up artists, but the problem goes on. It will break out at some point. When? The military and the intelligence community are taking over including in civilian neighbourhoods as I've experienced for over a decade. This whole story needs to come out if democracy is to be preserved. I am shocked at these appointments by Barack Obama and seriously wonder if he knows what he is doing.
I do not believe that Col Ted Westhusing committed suicide. At the very least he was driven to suicide, but all indications are that he was a fighter and not someone to cave into suicide although his suicide note appeared to be in his handwriting. I do know from my direct experience that those who are carrying out this abuse for their own greed, glory and power will try every dirty trick possible to destroy any exposure of what they are doing. I believe that they killed Colonel Ted Westhausing and faked his note. They are making every effort to kill me off after over ten years too because I report the truth as I am doing here.
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