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August 3-5, 2012 -- *****10 BELLS***** -- Federal judge's firm trained lead 9/11 hijacker

August 3-5, 2012 -- *****10 BELLS***** -- Federal judge's firm trained lead 9/11 hijacker

U.S. Judge for the the Middle District of Alabama Mark Fuller, scheduled to re-sentence former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman on August 3 in Montgomery, was the previous owner of a firm that trained accused 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta. The information on Fuller's links to the 9/11 attack were uncovered by a former Republican Party campaign aid in Alabama who spoke to WMR on background.

WMR previously reported on Fuller's financial dealings with Doss Aviation, which, among other government business, had the contract to re-fuel Air Force One. Havong had trained Atta, as well as Saudi, Iranian, and other Egyptian pilots to fly aircraft, the Colorado Springs, Colorado-based Doss Aviation was in a position to help carry out threats against Air Force One that were received by the presidential airplane's pilot on 9/11, specifically "Angel is next." Angel was the classified code word used at the time to denote Air Force One.

Ironically, as we reported earlier: "It is also noteworthy that the Doss Aviation active contract web page has a photo of the World Trade Center shaded in the colors of the U.S. flag. Fuller's firm has seen a growth in contracts and profits since the 9/11 attacks and U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan."

On July 25, 2007, WMR reported: "Information culled from Internet web archives of previous Doss Aviation web pages indicate that the firm was involved in training Saudi and Iranian pilots. BothNewsweek and Knight Ridder reported that three to five of the 9/11 hijackers had attended military training courses in the United States. They included Mohamed Atta who attended the International Officers' School at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama." WMR can now report that one of the pilots Doss trained was Atta. The Egyptian-born pilot and accused Al Qaeda terrorist cell leader was often seen at the officer's club at Maxwell Air Force Base, where he was known as "Lieutenant Colonel" or merely "Colonel" Mohammed Atta of the Egyptian Air Force.

In 2002, Air Force Lt. Col Steve Butler, vice chancellor for student affairs at the Defense Language Institute (DLI) in Monterey, California, stated in a letter to the Monterey County Herald that "Bush knew about the impending attacks." Butler was disciplined by the Air Force for his remarks. However, the Air Force appears to have had a good reason to silence anyone who was in a position to shine the light on Air Force culpability in 9/11 and Siegelman, a former Alabama Attorney General and later governor during the 9/11 attack was worrisome to the 9/11 plotters.

Saeed Alghamdi, one of the Saudi 9/11 hijackers, had reportedly attended classes at DLI.
On July 27, 2007, WMR reported, "Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Feaga, the lead prosecutor in the [Siegelman/(former HealthSouth CEO Richard) Scrushy] case, is a colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and is an assistant to Staff Judge Advocate Brig. Gen. Richard C. Harding at Langley Air Force Base, the principal legal adviser to the Air Combat Staff. Feaga and his boss Harding have jurisdiction over all legal matters at Langley, including contracts awarded to Doss Aviation.
Federal Judge Mark Fuller, who tried and convicted Siegelman and Scrushy, is a current principal of Doss Aviation, a major conflict of interest for a sitting federal judge."
The Justice Department case against Siegelman and Scrushy was not staged out of the Federal building in Montgomery but in a 40,000 square foot building at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base outside of Montgomery. The use of a military base to carry out a civil prosecution, especially against a former governor, was highly unusual and virtually unprecedented and represented an ominous incursion of the military into civilian law enforcement and the justice system.
However, when Fuller's links to Doss and that firm's training of at least one of the accused 9/11 hijackers is considered, the use of Maxwell, Atta's one-time duty station, was not unusual and represented an attempt by Fuller and top Justice Department officials to cover-up the Pentagon's role in 9/11.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan, while Solicitor General under Attorney General Eric Holder, did nothing to vacate or alleviate the politically-motivated charges against Siegelman. In Holder and President Obama kept in place as U.S. Attorney in Montgomery Leura Canary, the wife of Alabama GOP grand mufti Bill Canary, a friend of Karl Rove.
It was only after Fuller's wife, Lisa Boyd Fuller, became aware of an on-going affair between Fuller and one of his deputy clerks, Kelli Gregg, that the judge's links to Doss became a problem. Some five months before Mrs. Fuller filed divorce papers against Fuller on May 10, 2012, Doss Aviation was sold to J.F. Lehman & Company, which is owned by former Navy Secretary and 9/11 Commission member John Lehman. The law firm that worked out the details of the sale was Jones Day, a firm with close ties to the Republican Party and the Central Intelligence Agency. By divesting himself of Doss's assets, Fuller could escape his wife's claims on Doss profits as shared marriage assets. Te sale of Doss to Lehman would also protect the U.S. government's foreknowledge of the events of 9/11.
Siegelman and his lawyers will argue for leniency before Fuller in Montgomery. It is a mark of our corrupt judicial system that it is Siegelman who is on trial and Fuller who is the presiding judge. In a more perfect world and in a more perfect union, it would be Judge Siegelman deciding the fate of Mr. Fuller, a corrupt former Republican Party operative and aider and abettor of terrorism.




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[TD]August 10-12, 2012 -- SPECIAL REPORT. Updated 6x. Judge Fuller's "smoking gun" statement at Siegelman re-sentencing


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August 10-12, 2012 -- SPECIAL REPORT. Judge Fuller's smoking gun' statement at Siegelman re-sentencing.

U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller couldn't help himself from referencing his own sordid past in in his remarks at the August 3 re-sentencing hearing for former Alabama Democratic Governor Don Siegelman at the federal Courthouse in Montgomery, Alabama. After Siegelman said he accepted the decision of the court and respected the system, Fuller made a shocking and revealing statement that underscored his own criminal past -- and desire for revenge against Siegelman, Alabama's attorney general two decades ago before he became a one-term governor from 1999 to 2003.
"You came from the highest legal office in the state of Alabama," Fuller told Siegelman Aug. 3, "and it has taken you 21 years to understand that, and I find that difficult."

This column reveals for the first time the meaning behind Fuller's comment, which stems, according to WMR sources, from the Fuller family's involvement in the notorious Iran-Contra arms and dope-smuggling scandal of the late 1980s.
This column first provides background on the Siegelman re-sentencing Aug. 3, and then provides the background of why Fuller has nursed a grudge against Siegelman for two decades, resulting in the Obama-enabled complete victory for the Republican judge over the Democratic politician.
Fuller ordered Siegelman to report to federal prison on September 11, 2012. That holds special significance since WMR previously reported that Fuller ran a company that helped train alleged 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta. In 2001, Fuller was ostensibly a full-time state district attorney running an office based in his hometown of Enterprise in the south-central part of the state. But he was also CEO of Doss Aviation, Inc., based in Colorado Springs, CO, an affiliate with overlapping ownership of the flight training school, Professional Aviation. The companies trained Air Force and international pilots.Fuller appeared to address his own conflict-of-interest in handling the case when he told the court that anything that occurred outside of the courtroom would not be considered in is re-sentencing. Fuller's wife is suing him for divorce after she learned that he had a long-running extramarital sexual relationship with one of his court clerks. The judge is concerned that the scandal will continue to make public embarrassing information. Among his secrets is undoubtedly his wealth from n Doss Aviation that could be claimed by his wife. He sold the company to former Secretary of the Navy and 9/11 Commission member John Lehman last year. Papers filed with a court in Alabama also suggest Fuller engaged in drug abuse, spousal abuse, and heavy drinking.

In 2006, a federal jury rendered a compromise verdict in convicting Siegelman of nine of 34 counts focused primarily on a government claims that HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy bribed Siegelman in 1999 by contributing $250,000 to the non-profit Alabama Education Foundation. Siegelman then reappointed Scrushy to a state board, and Scrushy contributed $250,000 more to the foundation in 2000.

The money supported Siegelman's policy goal of establishing a state lottery to fund better education.

But a lottery would have caused unwanted competition for the Indian casinos that GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff was then championing throughout the Deep South. Siegelman was accused of an illegal "quid pro quo" when he reappointed Scrushy to the unpaid Certificates of Need Review Board, which approves construction of new hospitals in Alabama. However, Scrushy served on the same board after he made political to previous Alabama governors, two Republicans -- Fob James and Guy Hunt -- and one Democrat, Jim Folsom, Jr.

Fuller Reveals His Secret Shame

When Fuller told the court that Siegelman had 21 years to "understand" the legal system, he was referring to the year 1991, the year Siegelman's term as Alabama's Attorney General ended.

That was also the year that a federal jury in St. Paul, Minnesota convicted Walter Leroy Moody of being the sole individual responsible for the mail bomb murder of Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judge Robert Vance, a former chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party, and a well-known liberal Democrat, and Robert Robinson a civil rights attorney from Savannah, Georgia. Vance was also a former law partner of Siegelman.

The murder of Vance needs to be understood in the context of the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal and Siegelman's understandable desire to investigate it as attorney general, particularly given the extensive use of airfields in Southern Alabama for suspicious flights to Central and South America. Vance was the lead justice on the 11th Circuit panel that was considering the appeal of a lower court's decision to toss out a Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) suit brought by the Christic Institute against the Bush administration for the Iran-contra scandal, specifically the 1984 bombing of a contra meeting in La Penca, Costa Rica that killed American journalist Linda Frazier and injured another American journalist, Tony Avirgan. The suit was thrown out by U.S. Judge James King in Miami and an appeal was filed by Christic with the 11th Circuit in Atlanta. With Vance's assassination, the RICO appeal was doomed. Siegelman, as someone close to Vance and, hence, to the case, would have understood the impact of Vance's assassination in exposing the entire Iran-contra episode, including Fuller's involvement with it.
Moody was tried in Minnesota after his defense attorneys successfully argued that their client could not get a fair trial in the South. Moody was sentenced to death in 1991 but he remains on death row at a federal prison in Alabama.

The chief prosecutor in the Moody trial was Associate U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Louis Freeh, future director of the FBI during the Clinton administration.

Just a little over two months before Atta allegedly slammed the American Airlines plane into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, Freeh abruptly resigned as director of the FBI.

The FBI and Justice Department investigation of the assassinations of Vance and Robinson turned up death threat letters mailed to at least 16 other federal judges of the 11th Circuit in Louisiana, Texas, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. These contained the message: "JUDGE: AMERICANS FOR A COMPETENT FEDERAL JUDICIAL SYSTEM SHALL ASSASSINATE YOU BECAUSE OF THE FEDERAL COURTS' CALLOUSED DISREGARD FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE."
The circumstances suggest that the evidence against Moody was flawed and that Freeh was part of a major cover-up by the FBI and Justice Department of the actual perpetrators of the mail bombings. Our sources revealed that the bombing conspirators had complete dossiers on all the targeted judges, including the names and work places of their wives, their children's names, ages, and schools they attended, and other sensitive personal information that could not have easily been procured by an anti-social ex-con like Moody.

The tampering of evidence in the federal investigation of the mail bombings, code-named VANPAC, was later revealed by Frederic Whitehurst, the Supervisory Special Agent in the FBI Crime Laboratory and the FBI's top expert in the science of explosives and explosives residue.

A federal law enforcement source has told WMR that Freeh was promised a federal judgeship and FBI director if he successfully prosecuted Moody for the mail bombings. After Moody's conviction, Freeh was nominated by President George H W Bush to the U.S. Court for the Southern District of New York and later, as FBI director.

In fact, according to our sources, the Bush administration wanted to eliminate as many Democratic federal judges, especially in the South, to avoid hostile judges in the event that massive CIA drug -- including cocaine and heroin -- and weapons smuggling operations, including those that were involved in the Iran-contra scandal, ever went to trial. The CIA and various criminal operatives associated with the agency used military airstrips and civilian airfields in Alabama, northern Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana, and Arkansas to smuggle cocaine and military-grade weapons, as now widely documented.

But WMR's sources also revealed that not all the targeted judges were in the South and that one, Washington County Circuit Court Judge John P. Corderman of Hagerstown, Maryland, who was injured in a mail bombing in December 1989, and Democratic federal judges in southern California, were also targets of the VANPAC conspirators.

The fear of the Bush administration was that its network of CIA-linked drug and weapons runners would be exposed. Of particular concern to the conspirators was the activities of a group of CIA shell companies, all mostly dealing with millions of dollars of cash transactions, including air transport firms incorporated mostly in the small southeastern Alabama town of Enterprise would be exposed.

From 1985 to 1996, Fuller was a private attorney in Enterprise with the law firm Cassady, Fuller & Marsh. One of Fuller's clients was a company called Parker Brown Refueling Company of Enterprise. In 1989, Parker Brown Refueling Company was bought by investors in Colorado Springs and the company became known as Doss Aviation. The Brown in Parker Brown Refueling was the mayor of Enterprise, M. M. "Jug" Brown. The Cassady in Cassady, Fuller & Marsh, according to a reliable source in Enterprise, was Joe Cassady, who, according to our source, also served on the board of Doss Aviation.

For a short time, Parker Brown Refueling maintained its headquarters in a small warehouse some 500 feet from 407 Boll Weevil Circle in Enterprise, Alabama. The 407 address was the home of the late Enterprise Police Chief Henry Caylor, who, according to his son and one-time Alabama-based journalist and former Drug Enforcement Administration and FBI operative for the VANPAC investigation John Caylor, was closely linked to Parker Brown Aviation and the CIA's drug and weapons smuggling operations based in Enterprise. It was while she lived at the 407 address when John Caylor's mother was brutally bludgeoned to death in 2006 at an apartment house she owned in Enterprise, in what Caylor feels was a warning for him to cease talking and writing about the Enterprise activities.

According to Caylor, FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Mobile office Debra K. Mack, opened an investigation into the death of Mrs. Caylor but she suddenly retired from the FBI. Mack was the first African-American female to head the FBI's Mobile office and only the second black female to head an FBI field office anywhere. Since Mack's sudden departure, Caylor claims that every federal and state judge in Alabama, as well as federal and state prosecutors, have been bought off to ensure the continued secrecy of the drug and weapons smuggling operations in the South going back at least 45 years.

Fuller continued to hold a major stake in the firm, which, among other federal business, has the contract to refuel Air Force One. Fuller sold his shares in the firm to J.F. Lehman & Co. of New York, a private equity group with offices in Arlington, Virginia and London, on December 22, 2011.

WMR has learned that Siegelman, as Attorney General, was well-aware of Doss Aviation's dealings and Fuller's role in the firm. In 1996, Republican Governor James had Fuller appointed as the Chief Assistant District Attorney for the 12th Judicial Circuit of Alabama and later that year he was elected District Attorney for the 12th Circuit. In 2002, President George W. Bush nominated Fuller as a federal judge for the Middle District of Alabama in Montgomery.

Twenty days before he was nominated by George W. Bush for the U.S. Court for the Middle District of Alabama and while still serving as the District Attorney for the 12th Judicial Circuit, Fuller resigned as the registered agent for the Industrial Development Group (IDG), the Georgia-incorporated U.S. subsidiary of the Industrial Development Bank (IDB) of Israel. Fuller maintained his registered agent status under the aegis of his law firm in Enterprise. A source involved in the investigation of IDG claims that IDG and IDB were involved in the laundering of off-the-books money sent to Israel from the United States. Fuller was nominated by Bush on August 1, 2002. On August 21, 2002, Ha'aretz reported that IDB, half owned by the government of Israel and the other half owned by Bank Leumi, Bank Hapoalim, and the Israel Discount Bank, announced that it expected to post a NIS 100 million second quarter loss, far short of the minimum capital ratio required by the Central Bank of Israel.
Backed by Alabama's two Republican senators, Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions, Fuller received a once-over-lightly confirmation hearing led by Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT). Neither Leahy nor any other senator asked Fuller a single question about his Doss work. Remarkably, Leahy did not even ask how Fuller could be a full-time state prosecutor for the State of Alabama from 1996 until 2002 -- and also be CEO of Doss, which is based in Colorado.

As district attorney and federal judge, Fuller has been entrusted by the CIA to ensure that the illegal operations involving the agency's drug and weapons smuggling operations remain a secret. In addition, Fuller has ensured that anyone who is believed to be a threat to the secrecy of the operation, is dealt with harshly and that includes the Attorney General who first caught wind of the Enterprise operation, Siegelman. Siegelman was also the one-time law partner of assassinated Judge Vance.

WMR's sources also revealed that Fuller was a major participant in the cover-up of the assassination of Siegelman's former law partner, Judge Vance. Billy Grice was a convicted arms smuggler who worked at Fort Rucker, Alabama as a supply supervisor. Grice was allegedly involved in the smuggling of advanced avionics systems to Israel in the 1960s -- a plot that was overseen by then-Alabama Republican Congressman William Dickinson. Caylor believes that the "Parker" in Parker Brown Refueling Company was Lt. Gen. Ellis D. Parker, who was the Commanding General of the Aviation Center at Fort Rucker at the height of the Iran-contra scandal in the mid-1980s. In the late 1980s, the Lyster Army Hospital at Fort Rucker, a part of the chain of command that included the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity at Fort Detrick in Maryland, was involved in the smuggling of medical supplies to Saddam Hussein in Iraq. A source told WMR that, in a perhaps related activity, Fort Rucker was involved in the smuggling of deadly nerve gas agents to Iraq before Desert Storm. The actual nerve agents, which were installed in missile warheads and were designed to be mixed with alcohol prior to impact to create the fatal nerve gas, had originated at the Pine Bluff Army Arsenal in Arkansas.


U.S. Army photograph showing Parker (left) presenting the Parker Award at Fort Rucker on Jan. 25, 2012.
Grice served in federal prison in Atlanta with Moody, who had been convicted in a previous bomb plot. The two struck up a prison friendship with convicted armored car robber Doyle Ray Henderson, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood. The Brotherhood's Hayden Lake, Idaho headquarters was, according to our sources, close to training camps used by the CIA.

Moody became the designated fall guy for the VANPAC case when it was discovered that taught Grice and Henderson in prison how to use his design for mail bombs. Although Henderson was called to testify about VANPAC in Birmingham, the wider conspiracy to murder federal judges -- a conspiracy that would lead from Grice and Henderson to the White House -- was never pursued by the Justice Department or FBI, which were under great political pressure to simply get a conviction of Moody, which was accomplished, thanks to Freeh.

It turns out that the FBI team investigating VANPAC set up shop in the vacant Citizen's Bank building in Enterprise, Alabama. The bank, according to Caylor, was intimately involved in the money laundering activities of Parker Brown Refueling and Doss Aviation and that the accountants of Barr, Brunson & Bowden, which helped cook the books for the firms and the banks based in Enterprise, including Doss Aviation, Parker Brown Refueling, and gambling interests in Alabama, the latter the subject of a recent major bribery investigation by the Justice Department. The accountants were, in turn, linked to a firm in Houston, Development Group Inc. (DGI), and another firm, Topsail Development, Ltd., which were connected to the Bush family and the CIA. In addition, Fuller, was, while District Attorney for the 12th Circuit of Alabama, for a period of time, the deed holder of the Colonial Bank of Birmingham, Alabama, which, on April 15, 2011, ordered closed as a failed bank by the federal Office of Thrift Supervision.
Caylor's FBI sources told him at the time that bugs were later discovered in the bank's offices and that the previous occupants still had pass keys to gain entry to the building. Caylor also revealed that at least one of Siegelman's defense attorneys had a conflict-of-interest owing to his involvement with the activities of the CIA and its fronts, including Parker Brown Refueling, Doss Aviation, Fuller, and VANPAC.

Summing Up

In the history of the United States, relatively few federal judges have been impeached, found guilty by the U.S. Senate, and removed from office. They were, with one exception, John Pickering of the U.S. district court for New Hampshire in 1804, West Humphreys, U.S. Court for the eastern, middle, and western districts of Tennessee in 1862, Robert Archibald of the U.S. Commerce Court in 1913, George English of the U.S. Court for the eastern district of Illinois (resigned before his trial in 1926), Halsted Ritter of the U.S. Court for the southern district of Florida in 1936, Harry Claiborne for the U.S. Court for the district of Nevada in 1986, Alcee Hastings of the U.S. Court for the southern district of Florida in 1989, Walter Nixon of the U.S. Court of the district of Mississippi in 1989, and Thomas Porteous, Jr. of the U.S. court for the district of Louisiana in 2010.

None of these judges were impeached for criminal conspiracy to cover up a murder, let alone conspiring to cover-up the assassination of another member of the federal bench. However, it is clear that to the above list should be added the name Mark E. Fuller, of the U.S. Court for the middle district of Alabama.

President Obama should recognize his own contribution to the miscarriage of justice in the Siegelman case . These include: Obama's failure to fire George W. Bush-appointed U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama Leura Canary and her assistant, Louis Franklin, on January 20, 2009 -- the day Obama was inaugurated.

Obama further contributed to the shocking situation by installing Kagan as Solicitor General and later as a member of the Supreme Court. To correct for his own omissions and commissions, Obama should counteract the criminally-tainted decisions of Fuller and issue full and unconditional pardons for Siegelman and Scrushy.



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Quote:President Obama should recognize his own contribution to the miscarriage of justice in the Siegelman case . These include: Obama's failure to fire George W. Bush-appointed U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama Leura Canary and her assistant, Louis Franklin, on January 20, 2009 -- the day Obama was inaugurated.

Obama further contributed to the shocking situation by installing Kagan as Solicitor General and later as a member of the Supreme Court. To correct for his own omissions and commissions, Obama should counteract the criminally-tainted decisions of Fuller and issue full and unconditional pardons for Siegelman and Scrushy.

That Obama did not fire Canary and Franklin was one of the first post-election tipoffs of the corruption fo the Obama regime. I do not believe these were mistakes or over-sights. At the best, these failures to act would be an indication of his cowardice.