Most Wars Begin With Dirty Tricks: Peace & prosperity is in jeopardy

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Dirty Tricks and Terrorism are threatening the security of the entire
world. First, we had Debategate:

Shouldn't the media be covering Debatgate, the scandal of seeking to
influence the election through dirty tricks. It is at times like
these that we should perhaps acknowledge the national treasure that
was lost in John F. Kennedy Jr.,a man who injected passion, ethics
and a sense of justice into the political system. Now, all we have is
Debategate, a scandal which reflects a very nasty and a very hostile
political climate. The media should be covering Debategate
extensively because it manifests a serious scandal, but it evidently
prefers to chase after the gossip, the rumor and the slander which is
routinely doled out by sleazy, political operatives. This is the
cause of widespread, political cynisism, and the failure to
investigate serious scandal is just as irresponsible as the
Whitewater fishing expedition. Cleary, if genuine, investigative
journalism was not on life support, Debategate would be the front
page story of every serious newspaper.

Does the media have the right to ignore Debategate? Does it not owe
the public the duty to pursue and to expose the truth, prior to the
election of the next President of the United States? The FBI Inquiry
of the Debategate fiasco focused on Yvette Lozano, a disgraced liar
who was fired from her job when she worked for the Democrats because
she lacked Integrity. Lozano was filmed by a security camera mailing
a package in an Austin Texas post office and the label on the Express
Mail package containing the Bush debate videotape corresponds to the
date and time that Lozano was caught on tape

Lozano now requires a Criminal Attorney to dispute the claim that she
had anything to do with Debategate. The suspicion that the Bush team
engaged a dirty tricks scheme to entrap the Gore team by secretly
sending the Democrats material they were not supposed to have, is
difficult to dispute. Columnist David Nyhan exposed the dirty tricks
operatives who are probably responsible for the debate tapes fiasco.
Karl Rove, the foreman of Bush's presidential campaign has a history
of making false allegations about the other camps'so called spies. In
1986, he claimed that Democrats had planted a listening devise in
Republican headquarters. Rove conveniently discovered a planted bug
hours before a televised debate and shifted the focus away from the
substance of the political campaign, by saying; "Finding the bug
convinced me that the opposition would say anything and do anything
to win an election." The Bush camp is using these exact same lines,
to slander Al Gore. When is enough, enough?

George Bush, a reputedly poor debater, is handled by advisers who
believe that their champion could never survive a political contest
without unfair advantage. Absolutely terrified about Gore's
reputation as a top notch debater, they would do and say anything to
survive this combat, and while the effort is admirable, the tactics
are repugnant. Beyond Karl Rove, the other player in this sorry saga
is Mark McKinnon, a political operative who got his start in the game
by volunteering for the Texas Democrat's Senate campaign. McKinnon is
now providing Bush campaign worker, Yvette Lozano, the alibi she
requires, to deny wrongdoing. He claims that he had asked her to mail
a pair of pants back to the Gap, on the day that the Bush tape was
mailed to the Gore camp. When George Bush was running against Anne
Richards, McKinnon was supposed to help the silver-tongued Governer
clobber the election prospects of George W. Bush Jr. The question
that emerges now is how does a poor debater survive the silver tongue
of Anne Richards? Or to put it another way, when was McKinnon, a
onetime Democratic strategist, really placed on the Bush payroll? Was
it before, after, or during the time he was supposed to help Anne
Richards defeat George Bush? The question is very serious because
when Anne Richards was running for re-elction as the Governor of
Texas, Mark McKinnon and Karl Rove were hostile, bitter,
irreconcilable enemies -one a Republican, the other a Democrat -or
was that just an act? These are disturbing questions, and the fact
that the media ignores them is equally troublesome. In particular, if
McKinnon's assistant, Lozano, was not in on the plot to send Bush's
debate tapes to the Gore camp, who was?

The FBI is very good at tracking every mailbox, and when the FBI
determined that Lozano was in the post office mailing a package on
the very same day that the debate tape was sent to the Democrats, the
match is quite obvious. How long and by what tactics, will the truth
about Debatgate be denied? Why doesn't George W. Bush Jr. fire Yvette
Lozano?

On Sunday October 1st, at the urging of the Bush camp, which kept
pointing a finger at the Gore camp for allegedly stealing their
debate tape, the FBI interviewed a young aide who was suspended from
Al Gore’s Democratic presidential campaign because he had claimed
knowledge about a mole. Ironically, the young man's claim strongly
suggests that he had absolutely no material knowledge about
Debategate and to their credit, the FBI did not waste more than half
an hour interviewing 28 year old Michael Doyne. Clearly, any bright
young man who was presented with the knowledge of access to the
debate tape of the opposing camp, was prone to instantly leap to
speculation about moles, and if Michael Doyne did not, one would have
better reason to suggest that he had something to hide. Michael Doyne
did not even have an attorney present when the FBI questioned him,
and anybody who is politically motivated enough to create a situation
where he is forced to hire one, will ultimately become another Ken
Starr.

News about the fact that Michael Doyne was questioned by the FBI was
not widely promoted until October 3, the date of the first
presidential debate between Gore and Bush, and that is hopefully just
a coincidence. Because if this is the latest version of October
surprise, nobody is buying. And if the Bush camp is desperate enough
to point a finger at Michael Doyne, this October surprise has clearly
backfired.

When debate documents from President Carter's 1980 re-election
campaign turned up in the files of Republican challenger Ronald
Reagan, that potential scandal was ignored. But when you have so
called journalists like Chris Matthews practicing a steady diet of
Republican, Attack Dog Politics, it doesn't take a genius to figure
it out.

And Now we have the USS Cole massacre:

http://www.dreamwater.net/koppel/clint.htm

Please excuse this intrusion, but it can never compete with this:

WASHINGTON, D.C. (United News Service) -- The George W. Bush
Campaign's strategy to get their message out to the nations internet
chat rooms and message boards appears to be a huge success. Edward
Straight, chairman of Bush's internet operations staff, said his
organization's latest research shows that fully 80 percent of
messages favorable to Bush on Bush message boards are put there by
paid staff of the Bush Campaign. Upwards of 40 percent of pro-Bush
messages posted on other non-Bush controlled boards are posted by
hired Bush public relations personnel, Straight said.

The entire operation is run out of basement offices in a downtown
Pittsburgh, Pa. bank, Straight reports. "the cost advantages of this
kind of campaign are enormous," said Straight. "For a few hundred
thousand dollars we have been able to hire nearly 400 internet users
to repost our campaign materials and to maintain a presence on all
message boards."

"Make no mistake about it," Straight said, "The postings you see
extolling and defending the candidacy of George W. Bush Jr. are not
for the most part posted by amateurs -- they're paid professional and
there are a lot of them. We think they're doing a bang up job."

He said the first goal of Bush public relations staff is to post a
lot of messages. "The paid posters thus make it seem as though there
is overwhelming support for the candidate," We have the money to bury
the opposition and we're prepared to shovel tons of it into the
effort," he said. The second major goal of the Bush Internet 2000
team is to smear President Clinton and Vice President Gore and,
increasingly, Bill Bradley, Straight said. "We'd also like them to go
after the other candidate's posters and rough them up a little bit to
show them that we mean business," added Straight.

http://www.dreamwater.net/koppel/clint.htm

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