Jeb's Hasty 911 Call Part 1

Therefore, for new Readers who were not around during that 'discussion' and for those original 'subscribers' who caught it in segments, this multi-part exposé will bring those ground breaking assessments into one article, with any updates that followed.

That John Ashcroft was being considered by Dubbya for the position of Attorney General within the Department of Justice may not have appeared out of place for those who knew little about this former Missouri Senator who recently lost to a dead man in that State's gubernatorial election. Many believed that Mr. Ashcroft carried the correct Conservative credentials that allowed him to be Dubbya's standard bearer for the agencies he would over-look such as the FBI, DEA, Prisons, Border Patrols and US Federal Attorneys.

What appeared to be overlooked by most was that Mr. Ashcroft had a less-than-comfortable and sometimes adversarial relationship with the FBI. One case that comes to mind is that of a Right Wing Missouri Dentist named Dr. Sell. [i]

Dr. Sell and his wife were charged with Medicaid fraud in Missouri based on the testimony of a witness. Dr. Sell ordered a murder for hire against the FBI agent involved in the case and the star witness. Ashcroft, who sat on the Senate Judiciary Committee met with members of the CCC (a Right Wing Hate Group, whose affiliation also included Sell and Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi), to discuss the release of Sell and have the attempted FBI and witness murder charges against Dr Sell dropped.

Here Ashcroft appeared to send a message to the FBI that he supported the rights of a hard Right Wing FBI stalker against those of the agent and the agency for which he worked. Ashcroft, being the man the Senate approved as new head of the Department of Justice. Needless to say, the anti-government CCC supported Ashcroft’s US Attorney General nomination [ii].

During and shortly after his nomination, there were stirrings on the subject of whether or not the 20 odd agencies that focus in on domestic terrorism should be under one authority [iii]. Initially, RadioRote was under the impression that these 20 odd domestic agencies would be placed under an umbrella group headed by FEMA, with vice president Cheney as its titular head. The question RadioRote raised was why the step of consolidating these agencies was necessary... unless the White House wanted to politicize and control their new one-stop ‘domestic terrorism’ agency. In doing so, the secrecy obsessed White House could impose limitations upon any agency within this umbrella group (such as the FBI) based on whatever was being investigating. This type of tight-leash management control meant no more Iran-Contra type scandals discovered, no more conchie talk of thrown elections spouted by rabble-rousers meant to 'undermine' the government, very few political connections scrutinized, no more special prosecutors, period. After all, Bush already complained publicity there was too much freedom in America and his role would be easier as dictator. All that was needed, RadioRote concluded, was a threat d’ jour to give the 'Bush vision' some basis of reality.

It was obvious why a pro-business line-up in the Bush administration was established. From Paul O’Neil -- the Alcoa CEO cum Treasury Secretary -- to James Connaughton, who defended polluters such as Alcoa and is now an appointee to Dubbya's Council on Environmental Quality.

What is not obvious on the surface is why Dubbya would appoint a “hard on crime” Attorney General who voluntarily met with the White Supremacist CCC on Dr. Sell’s behalf, while Ashcroft was still a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee [iv].

That Ashcroft would so vehemently attack the FBI once he became the head of the DOJ -- up to and including the way Ashcroft appears to make the FBI as well as INS the ‘fall guys’ in the mishandling of 9-11 now becomes clearer. When the FBI and INS are in danger of becoming disassembled and re-organized under the grand design of the Bush Administration, it would take less effort from the White House and DOJ in forcing the other 20 odd domestic terrorist agencies to fall in line under one White House umbrella group…a decision considered by the Bush administration well before 9-11.

It was quite convenient for them that their “vision” of consolidation gained momentum after the attack on New York by a terrorist whose family had multi-million dollar business dealings with Dubbya and other Bush family members…well before and shortly after the 9-11 terrorist attack. This may be one reason why members of the Bin-Ladin family, who were believed by the FBI to have links to terrorist groups, were allowed to flee the US and fly back to Saudi Arabia shortly after 9-11 -- without giving the FBI ample opportunity to interview them about possible links or leads.

These questions became the starting point towards an assessment of 9-11, and what may be expected in the future. RadioRote will review some of these and other earlier issues, and re-examine them based on newer information that has come to the forefront. This exposé will again bring to light Jeb's timely Executive Order concerning terrorists; whether or not the INS and FBI are to blame or were voices in the wilderness; and whether or not the current bashing of the FBI is well-deserved, or a political shell-game designed by the administration and agency insiders towards achieving an already pre-orchestrated law enforcement arrangement ...well beyond what the pundits discuss.

[i] Conason, Joe Why Did Ashcroft Try And Help Dr. Sell? New York Observer 6/1/02

[ii] Ibid

[iii] One of the earlier discussions on the Bush Administration’s push for Ashcroft and Co. to bind the agencies into one fold was noted on the Pacifica Nightly News. (NOTE: PNN, after many years on the air, was suddenly replaced without warning by screech-monkey’s who fooled themselves into believing they were ‘guerrilla reporters’ For further analysis on the Pacifica Radio Network, see: http://www.geocities.com/radiorote/pacifica.html

[iv] In an odd twist of Justice that ties into this story solely based on the defendant involved, the Federal Court of Appeals in the 8^th District voted 2-1 on May 7^th of 2000 -- that Dr. Sell can be drugged by the government before he is presented to the court. The court ruled that any drug or types of drugs could be administered to a defendant even if the accused did not pose a threat to anyone. Dr. Sell’s mental condition was deteriorating for years. Apparently, the court wanted him to appear lucid while standing trial (even if he may not have been so when the crime was committed), in order to make the court look ‘humane’ while sentencing an otherwise deranged individual.

The point being that the court cleared the way for any psychiatrist to order a defendant drugged before appearing in court, even if the drug is a mind altering substance.

http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/02/03/011862P.pdf or http://www.aapsonline.org/press/nrsell.htm

Lastly, there is no evidence that Ashcroft met with the CCC over the mental health issue of Dr. Sell. Given the fact that Ashcroft once refused to appoint an able Afro-American Jurist to the court on the trumped charge that the appointee was not tough enough on crime because the appointee did not previously send a defendant to execution;, and that Ashcroft praised the Southern Partisan magazine in 1988 for softening the image of slavery in the South; and that the CCC supports Ashcroft and his low score card on civil rights in general, as well as his shared philosophy with Dubbya on harsh punishment on criminals of any kind….the evidence points towards the fact that Ashcroft’s Right Wing ideology is one that hedges alongside the fringe elements in America and has no problem, therefore, in placing an awl in the back of an agency like the FBI who investigates such groups.

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