White House Threats On Wayne Madsen Must Be Taken Seriously

[Magda Hassan]

Not sure what to make of this yet. Just posting it for interest.

White House Threats On Wayne Madsen Must Be Taken Seriously

April 16th, 2011 Kommentare deaktiviert
The well-being of controversial investigative journalist Wayne Madsen seems to be in danger. He writes: "In yet another indication that America's democratic experiment is a thing of the past, this editor has received word from a source in a foreign intelligence agency allied with the United States that there has been talk by some within the Obama White House that this editor is under threat. What particular stories have inflamed the White House are not known but the warning conveyed by the source, who has connections within the White House, was stark in its directness: They want to kill you.'"
Von Wayne Madsen
Personal note by Lars Schall: Recently, I have contacted Wayne Madsen in order to conduct with him a comprehensive interview, for example on the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States. Very soon afterwards I received a message from Mr. Madsen in which he said that he would like to give me a written interview via E-mail. Through my friend Bob Chapman, the publisher of "The International Forecaster," it came now to my attention that Mr. Madsen's life appeares to be under threat. With this posting I wish to gain some attention for Mr. Madsen's case, and I hope that he is doing just fine.
Wayne Madsen, born April 25, 1954 in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author and syndicated columnist specializing in intelligence and international affairs. He has written for several renowned papers and blogs such as The Village Voice, The Progressive, CounterPunch, CorpWatch, Multinational Monitor, CovertAction Quarterly, The American Conservative, Global Research, and Intelligence Newsletter. Madsen is a regular interviewee on Russia Today and has been a frequent political and national security commentator on Fox News, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC, and Al Jazeera.
Upon graduation from the University of Mississippi, Madsen joined the U.S. Navy. 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 (NSA), the Naval Data Automation Command, the Department of State, RCA Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation, before he began in 1994 his career as a journalist. Madsen, who is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Association of Former Intelligence Officers, and the National Press Club in the United States, is the publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report, a regular contributor to Opinion Maker, and the author of the following books:
"Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999" (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999),
"America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II" with John Stanton (Dandelion Books, 2003),
"Jaded TasksBrass Plates, Black Ops & Big Oil: The Blood Politics of Bush & Co." (TrineDay, 2006),
"Overthrow a Fascist Regime on $15 a Day: The Internet Irregulars vs. The Powers That Be!" (Trine Day, 2008).

He has been invited to testify as a witness before the U.S. House of Representatives, the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and an terrorism investigation panel of the French government.
(Wayne Madsen Report, April 4, 2011) In yet another indication that America's democratic experiment is a thing of the past, this editor has received word from a source in a foreign intelligence agency allied with the United States that there has been talk by some within the Obama White House that this editor is under threat. What particular stories have inflamed the White House are not known but the warning conveyed by the source, who has connections within the White House, was stark in its directness: "They want to kill you."
It was perfectly clear that the phrase was not being used as a figure of speech.
That this development is being reported on April 4 is even more ironic. On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis during his mission to support striking sanitation workers in the city. Now, we have our first African-American president and a threat to kill a journalist who is most definitely not one of their favorites has been seriously discussed.
Of course, muckraking journalists have been under threat before in America. In 1972, columnist and investigative journalist Jack Anderson had ended up very high on President Richard Nixon's infamous "enemies list." Anderson had long been a burr under the political saddle of Nixon and the president blamed Anderson for exposing a number of Nixon's corrupt activities, including the exposure in 1956 by Anderson and his boss, Drew Pearson, of a loan from Howard Hughes to Nixon's brother Donald.
In the years before the Watergate scandal broke but at a time when other various scandals in the Nixon administration began to receive the bulldog-like attention of Anderson, who succeeded Pearson as editor of the "Washington Merry-Go-Round column in 1969, there were serious discussions among Nixon aides Charles Colson and G. Gordon Liddy, as well as the CIA's Dr. Edward Gunn, an expert on poisons, about assassinating the troublesome Anderson.
Scenarios included the use of LSD or poison but Anderson's Mormon religion and the fact that he did not drink ruled out the use of poisons or LSD in his drink. Staging an automobile accident in which Anderson would be incinerated was also an option. Another scenario considered was one which would have appeared to be a random Washington, DC street mugging in which Anderson would be stabbed or have his throat slit. The plot to assassinate Anderson came to an abrupt halt as Liddy, Colson, and E. Howard Hunt, who had also been involved in the action against Anderson, were exposed in the May 1972 break-in at the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic National Committee.
Although I have attempted to pattern WMR after Anderson's and Pearson's "Merry-Go-Round" column, I do not have the luxury of newspaper syndicators or a Pulitzer Prize, all of which Anderson could rely on as firewalls between him and those in the White House who wanted to kill him.
I ran the information about the warning from the foreign intelligence source by some African-Americans in Washington who have worked with Obama White House officials. Their response was less than encouraging. The bottom line is that the White House engages in the type of "gangster politics" for which their home base of Chicago has become infamous.
Although I have taken precautions in covering post-genocide Rwanda, child trafficking in Thailand and Cambodia, the "loss" of nuclear weapons at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, the gunning down by police of CIA asset Tony Carnaby in Houston, the story of "Washington Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey, and BP's activities on the Gulf Coast in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and President Obama's and incoming Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's past activities in Chicago, those measures were temporary and lasted for as long as I was in the field.
However, I have absolutely no desire to constantly be in fear of the type of a White House-directed or -tolerated hit like that discussed by Nixon aides on Anderson who had the benefit of a degree of support from his syndicate and the newspapers who carried his column, which included The Washington Post.
Preliminary plans are being made to continue the investigative journalism of this website from a safer vantage point abroad and in an environment that provides basic protection for press freedom. Unfortunately, the United States is no longer a safe place for independent journalists. Today, President Obama kicked off his 2012 presidential campaign in a web video message. Without a Democratic primary challenger, it can be safely assumed that the White House will pull out every arrow in its quiver to suppress negative information about Obama. The mere fact that the announcement of Obama's re-election came on the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. King shows that Obama will shamelessly attach himself to the legacy of the much-revered African-American leader with whom he shares no cultural legacy of historical African-Americans with their family histories of slavery in the South and sharecropping. Nor would King, if alive today, approve of any of Obama's pro-war and pro-corporate policies.
With a second Obama term a likelihood, it only makes sense, therefore, that the reporting on the "new America" be conducted from a more secure location.
There is an interesting postscript to this story. Not once, during the eight years of the Bush administration, did I ever receive such a credible and direct threat. In fact, after WMR's stories about marital friction between Bush and First Lady Laura Bush received national media attention, there was a communication from a close friend of Mrs. Bush that if I laid off her marital situation, I would be given a major scoop. Knowing that no one should ever cut a deal with the Bush family or their friends, I kindly declined the offer. But whereas the Bush White House was prepared to offer a carrot, the Obama administration appears to favor the stick or another lethal weapon of choice.

http://www.larsschall.com/2011/04/16/whi...seriously/

[Bill Kelly]

I don't believe Wayne Madsen is in any danger from the Obama administration.

His life might be in danger, but not from the White House.

Nothing that Madsen has said or done make him a treat to justify doing anything, let alone killing him.

Madsen just got back from Libya where, like Cynthia McKinney, he wrote articles promoting the Gadhafi regime and against US/UN/NATO bombings, but his anti-USA rantings certainly wouldn't justify a response let alone threatening him in any way.

I know Wayne, and he was a central part of the government and military he now detests, so much so that he couldn't support the real revolution against the really bad Gadhafi government.

While the Libyan rebels might qualify as treasonous to Gadhafi, and those who die in the revolution are martyrs, Madsen and McKinney are no longer revolutionaries but reactionaries that are just as bad as those dictators they support.

But they're not considered traitors by the Obama administration just because they protest against military intervention, they're just exercising their rights as Americans, though maybe their paranoia is justified as they are guilty of something.

Bill Kelly
RevolutionaryProgram.blogspot.com

[Ed Jewett]

Mr. Kelly, are you aware of Madsen's history in the US Navy, as per wikipedia, as follows?

"In 1982 he was stationed at the Coos Head Naval Facility. Naval Facility Coos Head had an allowance of twelve officers, ninety-five enlisted and 15 civilians. At Coos Head he was involved in a sting operation conducted by the FBI and NCIS which ultimately ended in the arrest of his commanding officer Lt Cmdr Lawrence William Frawley for pedophilia on 11 September. Madsen was awarded a Navy Achievement Medal for his involvement and assistance in the investigation.[9] He was later given a bad fitness report by his executive officer, Lt. Cmdr. Marney Finch.[10]

His new commanding officer at Coos Bay transferred him to Washington D.C. He resigned from the Navy in 1985 as a lieutenant, having been passed over for promotion. Madsen described himself as the "most senior lieutenant in the Navy"[11] at the time of his resignation and has blamed his lack of advance on a powerful group of pedophiles hidden in the top of the U.S. Navy ranks. Madsen notes that independent investigations into illegal homosexual activity in the federal government by other journalists were eventually published by the Washington Times in 1989.[12][13]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Madsen


Are you aware of his already-publlshed "The Story of Obama: All in the Company (CIA)":

The Story of Obama: All in the Company (CIA)

Tales from the Obama Crypt

Obama's mother began her Indonesian field work at height of complaints about CIA involvement with foreign "research"

Stanley Dunham: Female "Indiana Jones" targeting Communists for the CIA.

Stanley Ann Dunham Obama Soetoro's CIA colleagues

Obama's "Mommy Dearest" -- targeting Indonesians for assassination.

Obama's mother and grandparents: government infiltrators?

Obama's CIA brief

Obama's mother's employer and Barack's "company"

Obama's sealed college transcripts

Obama's grandfather's CIA "furniture store" cover

Obama's mother in Ghana: Why was she there?

Obama's mother and Suriname: past agency links?

Obama, CIA, and USAID

The Story of Obama: Part V. All in the Company.

The Story of Obama: All in the Company - Part IV. More evidence surfaces on Obama's and his family's deep CIA links. WMR Exclusive Content.

Part I

Part II

Part III



Are you aware of his expressed intent to collate this and other material he finds during a research sabbatical next month into a book?

[Bill Kelly]

I'm aware of Wayne Madsen's background. I had lunch with him on occasion during breaks in the 9/11 Commission hearings. He can accuse Obama of being a pedophile but that wouldn't justify Obama paying any attention to him. He's discredited himself with his reporting on the revolution in Libya. BK

[Ed Jewett]

I'm aware of Wayne Madsen's background. I had lunch with him on occasion during breaks in the 9/11 Commission hearings. He can accuse Obama of being a pedophile but that wouldn't justify Obama paying any attention to him. He's discredited himself with his reporting on the revolution in Libya. BK

I cannot claim to have had lunch with him.

Have you read "The Story of Obama: All in the Company"? While I am aware of his reporting on Obama's sexuality, the issue is not how or whether he swings or hangs (except, perhaps, as that that may open him to blackmail or control), but in his being a "made man".

If WMR's research in those many articles is correct [are they posted here? should they be?], then it is suggestive and perhaps proof that the CIA has been manufacturing domestic candidates for office for somevtime and has brought on into the fore someone who was shaped and fashioned, even if benignly, for years in a covert manner, in a manner which still remains hidden from the electorate. I believe there is significant evidence out there in the CIA inserting itself into domestic business, running undercover agents for office, etc.; why not the Oval Office? [Perhaps it should be soon renamed the Offal Office.]



But, yes, I forgot, we citizens no longer chose our Presidents, Senators and others... they are bought and paid for twice over.

Who Rules America? An Investment Manager Breaks Down the Economic Top 1%, Says 0.1% Controls Political and Legislative Process

http://ampedstatus.org/who-rules-america...e-process/

The Video Congress Does Not Want You To See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G96TY5JsV...r_embedded



We can ignore the death of Steve Kangas outside the offices of Richard Mellon Scaife, and we can ignore the research of Cheri Seymour which documents the links and the process within a self-admitted "government sanctioned hit", and we can ignore the strange deaths of so many inside the US and, I gather, elsewhere of people who have information, and we can ignore the new openness about covert international assassination by state and non-state actors that has been rampant for years. Someone surely has a lit of them all, even if in separate categories and locations.

After all, as is said elsewhere, Wayne gets paid by his audience.

As for his credibility having suffered from his reporting on Libya, do explain.

[Charles Drago]

Gentlemen,

I'd submit that the most pressing question before us in this case is:

"Who benefits from publication of this threat story?"

In other words, it is not the threat, but the threat story that is the story here.

CD

[Ed Jewett]

Ah, the old cui bono question...

Well, let's start building a list.

Surely, traffic will increase to Wayne's web site and some of that traffic may consider coughing up the $7/month subscription fee to see the "inside scoop". I did, about two months ago, and get access to lots of non-WMR gibberish peppered with an occasional article of interest, as well as a 48-hour advance look at what will be circulated. (Some don't honor or get a dispensation from the 48-hour curfew. HE WAIVED IT IN THE LIBYAN COVERAGE.) In my case, it all gets 'filed' along with the other 50-60 sources I tour two to three times a week, the most interesting of which may get posted somewhere.

Interest in WMR's books will drive some traffic to his publishers, TrineDay, among them, where they will encounter other interesting material such as "Fleshing Out Skull and Bones", Hank Albarelli's " Terrible Mistake", Cheri Seymour's "The Last Circle", and a collection of essays written by a deceased Professor Emeritus of Literature at the University of Hartford, Connecticut whose forward was written by ... well, gee... and thus obtain a more thorough education, speculation, informed analysis of the forces --particularly those involved in the post-1947 security/intelligence apparatus known as the US of A.

The public surely benefits, getting exposure to at least one more informed source and the opportunity to follow their curiosity through its full spectrum (if they know what that is). [Eric Booth has it in his book "The Everyday Work of Art".]

Is Madsen the end-all-and-be-all of information? No, of course not.

But can we afford to reject him and put him in a dark, remote corner in a world given over to opacity and covert governmental behavior?

[Charles Drago]

We cannot afford such an action. We agree on this and the rest of your analysis, Ed.

Let's expand the list.

Along with Mr. Madsen and his publishers, beneficiaries include those for whom stirring dissension among and derision for our ranks are important missions. So too those who would seek to make Mr. Madsen Barack Obama's very own Vince Foster.

So without descending into an either/or choice, I'll simply note that I hear most distinctly in all this a "wolf" cry -- honest or not I cannot say -- that, like the archetype, likely will come back to haunt those doing the crying.

In the meantime, let's ask ourselves who would not benefit from Mr. Madsen's assassination -- other, of course, than Mr. Madsen himself and his family, loved ones, friends, and fans.

[Phil Dragoo]

The effect of Wayne Madsen may be that of the lurid and sensational tabloids in re Hillary's Alien Baby.

Amidst a clamor from one corner of the balcony that Obama is a traitor, a countervailing voice insists he is a creation of the CIA Active Measures bureau.

Wayne enjoys himself immensely and the fish bowl is sufficiently roiled.

Or not.

In the Advance Settings the levels of disinformation and fact may be adjusted and layers may be added in degrees of opacity.

It is pleasing to those peeking into the fishbowl to see the active fin obscuring, the patient snail cleaning.

Bring Wayne on here to explain himself.

Libya might be an oil issue, Gadafi the bad valve needing replacement.

The rest is a game of revolutionaries and reactionaries played by realpolitikists costumed by rewrite.

[Ed Jewett]

Bring Wayne on here to explain himself.

I have sent him an e-mail asking him to do that, with a link to this thread, a cc to Magda, and an invitation to join (permissions as per the leaders of DPF) or to send me a response via e-mail.