American Conspiracies
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Durbin on banking lobby: “Top Senate Democrat: Bankers ‘Own’ the U.S. Congress,” by Glenn Greenwald, April 3, 2009, www.salon.com.
53
$5 billion: Sidebar to “Wall Street’s Best Investment,” Multinational Monitor, op.cit.
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Senators and Banks: “Senators Held Stock in Bailed-Out Banks,” by Reid Wilson and Kevin Bogardus, June 13, 2009, www.truthout.org.
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TARP quote: “Good Billions After Bad,” by Donald R. Barlett and James B. Steele, Vanity Fair, October 2009.
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TARP report: “Thievery Under the TARP,” by Robert Scheer, April 22, 2009, www.truthout.org.
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TARP quote: “no problem here”: “Good Billions After Bad,” by Donald R. Barlett and James B. Steele, Vanity Fair, October 2009.
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TARP program: Ibid.
59
GE Capital: “How a Loophole Benefits GE in Bank Rescue,” by Jeff Gerth and Brady Dennis, originally in ProPublica and Washington Post, June 29, 2009, www.truthout.org.
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Goldman as Obama donor: Taibbi, “The Great American Bubble Machine,” op.cit.
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Obama contributions: Center for Responsive Politics.
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Summers and earnings: “Awake and Sing!”, by Frank Rich, New York Times, April 12, 2009.
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Summers crusade: “Larry Summers, Tim Geithner, and Wall Street’s Ownership of Government,” by Glenn Greenwald, April 4, 2009, www.salon.com.
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Geithner’s proposal: “Member and Overseer of the Finance Club,” by Jo Becker and Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times, April 27, 2009.
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Geithner’s phone contacts: “When Wall St. Calls, Geithner Answers,” www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/08/business/main5371216.shtml%20.
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Geithner chief of staff: “Obama’s top economic adviser is greedy and highly compromised,” by Matt Taibbi, April 10, 2009, www.alternet.org.
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Blankenfein compensation: “AP Study Finds $1.6 billion went to bailed-out bank executives,” December 22, 2008.
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TV ad spending: Organizing for America release, October 24, 2009, citing Associated Press.
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“Medical Loss Ratio”: “The S-Word and Dr. Kevorkian’s Accountant,” by Greg Palast, October 15, 2009, www.truthout.org.
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Bonuses to traders: “Bankers Reaped Lavish Bonuses During Bailouts,” New York Times, July 31, 2009. Citing a report by New York attorney general.
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IRS and wealthy Americans: “Tempo of Audits Drops for Wealthy,” by Lynnley Browning, March 23, 2009, www.nytimes.com.
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Citigroup tax havens: “Report: Over 8 in 10 Corporations Have Tax Havens,” by Ken Thomas, January 16, 2009, citing GAO report.
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Caymans as tax haven: “Lax Little Islands,” by David Cay Johnston, The Nation, June 1, 2009.
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IBM workers: “IBM offers to move laid off workers to India,” by Paul McDougall, Information Week, February 2, 2009.
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The BIS: “The Bloodless Coup of the Global Financial Stability Board: From Guidelines to Rules,” by Ellen Brown, June 24, 2009.
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Jefferson warning: Letter to James Monroe, January 1, 1815.
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National debt, 1791: www.brillig.com/debt_clock/faq.
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Budget deficit, dollar situation: “The American Empire is Bankrupt,” by Chris Hedges, June 14, 2009, www.truthdig.com.
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Bush overpayment: “Bush Overpaid Banks in Bailout, Watchdog Says,” Associated Press, February 6, 2009.
Chapter Fourteen
1
Senate report: “The Stomach-Turning Truth About Bush’s Torture Programs,” by Scott Horton, April 28, 2009, www.alternet.org.
2
Torture manual: “New CIA Docs Detail Brutal ‘Extraordinary Rendition’ Process,” by Scott Horton, August 28, 2009, www.huffingtonpost.com.
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CIA videotapes: “Trail of Torture Tapes,” by Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, December 27, 2007.
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“Battle Lab”: “CIA Experiments on US Soldiers Linked to Torture Program,” by Jeffrey Kaye, www.truthout.org.
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Pressuring Justice Department: “What the New Jim Comey Torture E-mails Actually Reveal,” by Glenn Greenwald, June 7, 2009, www.salon.com.
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Major Burney on interrogations: “The Stomach-Turning Truth,” op.cit.
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Torture and death of Al-Libi: “New Revelations About the Torture and Alleged Suicide of Ibn Al-Shaykh Al-Libi,” by Andy Worthington, June 19, 2009, www.pubrecord.org.
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Waterboarding of 9/11 Witnesses: “Why Didn’t Pelosi Speak Out Against Torture,” by Robert Scheer, May 15, 2009, Truthdig, www.alternet.org.
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Bush-Blair meeting: “Confidential Memo Reveals US Plan to Provoke an Invasion of Iraq,” June 21, 2009, www.guardian.co.uk.
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“executiveassassination ring”: “Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh Describes ‘Executive Assassination Ring,’” by Eric Black, March 11, 2009, www.newsfromunderground.com.
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Assassination and Blackwater: “CIA Sought Blackwater’s Help to Kill Jihadists,” by Mark Mazetti, August 20, 2009, New York Times.
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Privatization in Afghanistan: “Flushing Blackwater,” by Jeremy Scahill, The Nation, August 31, 2009, www.truthout.org.
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Erik Prince as “Christian Crusader”: Ibid.
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Blackwater killing Iraqi Civilians: “Blackwater Founder Accused in Court of Intent to Kill,” by Jerry Markon, Washington Post, August 29, 2009.
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Blackwater image change: “Blackwater’s Business,” The Nation, December 24, 2007.
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Triple Canopy: “Former Iraq Security Contractors Say Firm Bought Black Market Weapons, Swapped Booze for Rockets,” by T. Christian Miller and Aram Roston, ProPublica, September 21, 2009, www.truthout.org.
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Blackwater operations: Nation articles, Ibid. and op.cit.
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Blackwater in New Orleans: “Blackwater Down,” by Jeremy Scahill, The Nation, September 21, 2005.
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Patriot Act: “Bill of Rights Under Bush: A Timeline,” by Phil Leggiere, for Question Authority (on the Web).
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NSA spying and setup: “Obama’s Black Widow,” by Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, January 7, 2009, www.truthout.org.
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Targeted journalists: “Whistleblower: NSA Targeted Journalists, Snooped on All U.S. Communications,” by Kim Zetter, January 22, 2009, http://blog.wired.com.
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Clinton e-mails: “NSA Secret Database Ensnared President Clinton’s Private Email,” by Kim Zetter, June 17, 2009, www.truthout.org.
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“Suspicionless Surveillance”: “Did Bush Continue to Secretly Operate Total Information Awareness?”, by Jason Leopold, September 19, 2009, www.truthout.org.
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Brochure: See www.infragard.net.
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For more on Infragard, check out: www.democracynow.org, February 11, 2008, interview by NPR’s Amy Goodman with Progressive Magazine editor Matt Rothschild.
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Memo on anti-terrorist plans: “Extraordinary Measures,” by Michael Isikoff, Newsweek, March 3, 2009, posted on www.truthout.org.
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Ratner on “Fuhrer’s Law”: “Do the Secret Bush Memos Amount to Treason? Top Constitutional Scholar Says Yes,” by Naomi Wolf, Alternet, March 26, 2009, www.truthout.org.
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Operation Garden Plot: “Secret Bush Administration Plan to Suspend US Constitution,” by Tom Burghardt, Glo
bal Research, October 6, 2008.
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Rex 84: “Rex 84: FEMA’s Blueprint for Martial Law in America,” by Allen L. Roland, Global Research, August 20, 2006.
30
Iran-Contra hearing: The Road to 9/11, by Peter Dale Scott, University of California Press, 2007, p. 184.
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Top-level planning: Ibid.
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Rumsfeld/Cheney: Ibid., p. 185, citing author James Mann.
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COG plan: Dated January 19, 2001, the latestversionwasheaded: “Army Regulation 500-3, Emergency Employment of Army and Other Resources. Army Continuity of Operations (COOP) Program.” According to the Web site Wikileaks that published it, there was an addendum: “Destruction Notice: Destroy by any method that will prevent disclosure of contents or reconstruction of the document.”
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New terrorism task force: Ibid., p. 185.
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Allbaugh at FEMA: The Road to 9/11, p. 210.
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“Shadow government”: “Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret,” by Barton Gellman and Susan Schmidt, Washington Post, March 1, 2002.
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ENDGAME: “Rule By Fear or Rule By Law?”, by Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg, February 4, 2008, www.sfgate.com.
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Troop plan/NORTHCOM: “Secret Bush Administration Plan,” op.cit.
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Northern Command quote: U.S. Department of Defense, “U.S. Northern Command,” http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2002/no4172002_200204175.html.
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Granite Shadow: The Road to 9/11, p. 242.
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Bush defining insurrection: “Thousands of Troops Are Deployed on US Streets Ready to Carry Out ‘Crowd Control,’” by Naomi Wolf, Alternet, October 8, 2008.
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McHale on fundamental change: “Pentagon to Detail Troops to Bolster Domestic Security,” by Spencer S. Hsu and Ann Scott Tyson, Washington Post, December 1, 2008.
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KBR contract: First revealed by author Peter Dale Scott, quoted in “Secret Bush Administration Plan,” op.cit.
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Military Commissions Act: “Rule by Fear or Rule By Law?”, op.cit.
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2007 laws and decrees: Ibid.
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Troops deployed in U.S.: “Thousands of Troops Are Deployed on U.S. Streets,” op.cit.
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Financial meltdown/plan names: “Secret Bush Administration Plan,” op.cit.
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US Army War College study: “Bad News From America’s Top Spy,” by Chris Hedges, February 16, 2009, www.truthdig.com.
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Gang subculture in Salinas: “Navy School Takes on Salinas Gangs,” by Jack Foley, February 3, 2009, www.thecalifornian.com.
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20,000 troops by 2011: “Pentagon to Detail Troops to Bolster Domestic Security,” op.cit.
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Fort Stewart unit: “Apparent Plan to Deploy Active-Duty Military Unit Inside the U.S. Draws ACLU Scrutiny,” by Marcia Coyle, November 4, 2008, www.law.com.
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“Fusion centers”: “Police to get access to classified military intelligence,” http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/16.
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Extremists in army: “I Hate Arabs More Than Anybody: Desperate Army Recruits Neo-Nazis,” by Matt Kennard, Nation Institute Investigative Fund, June 17, 2009, www.alternet.org.
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Coup against Obama: http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/newsmaxcolumnist-military-coup-may-be-needed-toresolve-the-obama-problem.php/ (cited by Mark Miller’s newsfromunderground on October 2, 2009).
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Obama and military: “Military Waging War Against the White House,” Huffington Post, October 23, 2009.
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Beck/background checks: “Pitchforks and Pistols,” by Charles M. Blow, New York Times op-ed, April 4, 2009.
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Rise of militias: “Report: Militia Activity on the Rise in U.S.,” by Arthur Bright, Christian Science Monitor, August 16, 2009, www.truthout.org.
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Millionaire Patriot training: e-mail on www.townhall.com
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Thought police: “Obama’s Black Widow,” op.cit.
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CIA/FBI Wikipedia edits: “CIA, FBI Computers Used for Wikipedia Edits,” Yahoo! News, August 16, 2007.
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Pentagon electronic war: “US Plans to ‘Fight the Net’ Revealed,” by Adam Brookes, BBC Pentagon correspondent, January 25, 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk.
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DNA Fingerprint Act: Web site of Center for Constitutional Rights.
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FBI biometrics program: “FBI Prepares Vast Database of Biometrics,” by Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, December 22, 2007.
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Airport iris ID: Ibid.
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Border searches: “Border Agents Can Search Laptops Without Cause, Appeals Court Rules,” By Ryan Singel, Wired, April 22, 2008.
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VeriChip: “VeriChip Injects Itself into Immigration Debate,” May 18, 2006, www.spychips.com.
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RFID tags: “Microchips Everywhere: A Future Vision,” by Todd Lewan, Associated Press, January 29, 2008, Seattle Times.
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Saving the wealthy: “Rapture Rescue 911: Disaster Response for the Chosen,” by Naomi Klein, The Nation, December 19, 2007.
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Security increase: “How to Profit From a ‘Police State,” by Jon Markman, MSN Money, November 8, 2007.
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Praise
INTRODUCTION - WHY I’M WRITING ABOUT CONSPIRACIES IN AMERICA
CHAPTER ONE - THE FIRST NOT-ALONE-NUT: JOHN WILKES BOOTH
CHAPTER TWO - THE BIG-MONEY PLOT TO OVERTHROW FDR
CHAPTER THREE - THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION: BIGGEST COVER-UP OF MY LIFETIME
CHAPTER FOUR - THE ASSASSINATION OF MALCOLM X
CHAPTER FIVE - THE MURDER OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
CHAPTER SIX - THE ASSASSINATION OF ROBERT KENNEDY
CHAPTER SEVEN - WATERGATE REVISITED: THE CIA’S WAR AGAINST NIXON
CHAPTER EIGHT - THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE
CHAPTER NINE - ″OCTOBER SURPRISE″: THE FIRST STOLEN ELECTION
CHAPTER TEN - YOUR GOVERNMENT DEALING DRUGS
CHAPTER ELEVEN - THE STOLEN ELECTIONS OF 2000, 2004 (AND ALMOST 2008)
CHAPTER TWELVE - WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ON SEPTEMBER 11?
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - THE WALL STREET CONSPIRACY
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - THE SECRET PLANS TO END AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
EPILOGUE - “TRUTH BEING THAT WHICH IT IS CAN NEVER BE DESTROYED”
FURTHER READING
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