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| Judge Hands Sensitive Inauguration Security Info to Fifth Columnists |
| 2005-01-19 |
| Long story, EFL. More details at the link. Presidential Inauguration Security Information Turned Over to Anti-American, Terrorist-linked Group; D.C. Says Judge's Orders Threaten Public Safety By Sherrie Gossett | January 19, 2005 As the nation's capital prepares itself for the presidential inauguration by going into lockdown mode and placing portable Stinger missile launchers throughout the city, Americans may be stunned to learn that the District of Columbia has been forced by a federal judge to hand over intelligence data on police tactics, training, and strategies from the last inauguration to an organization with documented ties to terrorist groups and Saddam Hussein. The District of Columbia was forced by court order to turn over this information to the International Action Center (IAC), a group involved in Thursday's protests of the second Bush inaugural through the A.N.S.W.E.R Coalition. The anti-Bush groups expect as many as 100,000 will converge on the nation's capital and they intend to get as close to the presidential motorcade as possible. Some media pundits have expressed surprise that the District has offered protestors "prime real estate" along the parade route along Pennsylvania Avenue. But this is largely because of legal pressure exerted by the protesters and their radical law firms. Given that videotaping a monument can get one arrested in the post-9/11 world, it is stunning that surveillance tapes and other security data can be handed over by court order to an anti-American pro-terrorist organization. But that is how extreme the federal courts have become. *snipped for length The information provided by the D.C. Metro Police Department by court order to the IAC so far includes: • Lesson plans and handbooks on use of aerosol sprays, force and tactical batons; • Management of Mass Demonstrations, Civil Disturbance Units training documents; • Metro Police Department (MPD) instruction on use of firearms and other service weapons; • Portions of Operations Plan, Parade Manual and Civil Disturbance Unit Response Plan for the 54th Inauguration of the President of the United States; • All rooftop and street-level surveillance videotapes of the presidential inauguration; • Redacted logs from the Synchronized Operations Command Center and the Running Resume for the Inauguration Day intelligence teams; and • The identification of all plainclothes MPD officers who were detailed to intelligence teams for the Inauguration. @#%@! The plainclothes intelligence officers identified by name were stationed at various locations along and near the presidential parade route in order to monitor the crowds and to report any information heard or observed concerning plans, attempts or actions that might disrupt Inaugural events and/or violate the law and to take law enforcement action, if needed. Judge Gladys Kessler, who handled the case, issued the orders disclosing the security data. (Kessler was appointed to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in July 1994 by former president Bill Clinton and confirmed by the Senate.) Why are we not surprised? |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #2 if anyone dies, let's just hope it's him. |
| Posted by: enog 2005-01-19 11:58:57 PM |
| #1 If something happens this Judge should be arrested and charged with treason..... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-01-19 11:55:45 PM |