Reviewing the vexed topic of the Viktor Bout contracts with the US military…it strikes me that we can draw some parallels between reports. Doug Farah reported that one of the contracts was given to Jetline and subcontracted to Skylink (Farah). The original fuel contracts (to BGIA and Air Bas) make no mention of either Jetline…
Read More Bout Contracts – Review postIt’s just a pity when the Torygraph gets the dirt about the lead-up to war with Iraq before the rest of us. A cache of documents leaked to the rag show that, as early as March, 2003, Tony Blair’s foreign policy adviser Sir David Manning (a performer in the Hutton inquiry, if you recall) was…
Read More Smoking memosIs this worrying, or am I just feeling a tad paranoid? Simbaud quotes this, referring to a CBS news report on the 17th: “FBI field offices and Homeland Security agencies will be advised of “extraordinary measures” that will go into place “beginning the first week of October through the elections” . . . . Specifically,…
Read More Depressing/worrying