NSA Security, long an out-of-control entity, is now conducting a witch hunt at the agency
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February 6, 2006 -- NSA Security, long an out-of-control entity, is now conducting a witch hunt at the agency. Working with the FBI, NSA Security agents are ruthlessly questioning potential sources of the leak about Bush's illegal NSA wiretapping program. Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte and CIA Director Porter Goss have stated that they want journalists subpoenaed by a grand jury to testify about their sources. As far as this journalist is concerned, Messrs. Negroponte and Goss can take a long walk....
February 4/5/6, 2006 -- Former NSA analyst Kenneth Ford was accepted into a fast track internship program at NSA in November 2002. A former White House Secret Service officer, Ford, a young African American with three college degrees, was what NSA wanted as a future senior executive at America's signals intelligence agency. That was until Ford's first internship assignment brought him face-to-face with what the Bush administration was cooking up for Iraq. After having transferred from NSA's Information Assurance X72 branch to start his internship in the Signals Intelligence Division (SID), Ford found himself assigned to the all-important "Iraqi shop," the branch responsible for analyzing communication intercepts of Iraqi military, civilian government, diplomatic, and commercial traffic for signs of weapons of mass destruction activity or proliferation.
In April 2003, Ford, a GS-9 who had been learning about the secretive world of signals intelligence through classroom and on-the-job training, was assigned the task of scouring the databases of intercepts, looking for anything that might indicate the presence of WMDs. The White House was clearly nervous about its earlier claims that Saddam Hussein possessed WMDs. By May 2003, with U.S. forces in Iraq, it was clear that there were no stockpiles of WMDs as had been claimed by President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, among others in the administration. Ambassador Joseph Wilson visited Niger in February 2002 to investigate claims that Iraq had attempted to obtain yellowcake uranium in that country. Wilson discovered the claims were false. In March, Cheney, not content with Wilson's findings in his reports to the CIA and State Department, stated on Meet the Press that Saddam was "trying once again to produce nuclear weapons."
But those weapons were never found. The Bush administration's WMD claims, the original basis for invading Iraq, were discovered to have been without merit..................
As a result of Salem's serious prosecutorial misconduct, during Ford's November 2005, witness after witness for the government perjured themselves without fear of recrimination. The jury was salted with at least one tainted member.
The "work up" on Ken Ford: The Key Players
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One member of the federal jury that convicted Ford on one count each of retaining classified material and lying on a security questionnaire for a Federal contractor turned out to have been a one-time program manager for Northrop Grumman, an NSA contractor. That fact should have disqualified him from the jury, however, it is clear that jury intimidation and tampering was also ordered up by the Bush administration.
Salem succeeded in getting his conviction of Ford last November. Ford faces sentencing on March 1 at the US Courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland and up to 15 years in prison. However, Salem and his associates must now face their own investigation, one that is focused on prosecutorial misconduct, perjury, and criminal conspiracy to violate the civil rights of a U.S. citizen. After the neo-cons seized control of the United States in 2001, what happened to Ford could happen to any U.S. citizen.