By Larry Johnson
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Name: Larry Johnson
Email: larry_johnson@earthlink.net
Site: http://NoQuarterUSA.net
About: Larry C. Johnson is CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm with expertise combating terrorism and investigating money laundering. Mr. Johnson works with US military commands in scripting terrorism exercises, briefs on terrorist trends, and conducts undercover investigations on counterfeiting, smuggling and money laundering.
Mr. Johnson, who worked previously with the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism, is a recognized expert in the fields of terrorism, aviation security, crisis and risk management.
Mr. Johnson has analyzed terrorist incidents for a variety of media including the Jim Lehrer News Hour, National Public Radio, ABC's Nightline, NBC's Today Show, the New York Times, CNN, Fox News, and the BBC. Mr. Johnson has authored several articles for publications, including Security Management Magazine, the New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. He has lectured on terrorism and aviation security around the world, including the Center for Research and Strategic Studies at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France. He represented the U.S. Government at the July 1996 OSCE Terrorism Conference in Vienna, Austria.
From 1989 until October 1993, Larry Johnson served as a Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He managed crisis response operations for terrorist incidents throughout the world and he helped organize and direct the US Government’s debriefing of US citizens held in Kuwait and Iraq, which provided vital intelligence on Iraqi operations following the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Mr. Johnson also participated in the investigation of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am 103. Under Mr. Johnson’s leadership the U.S. airlines and pilots agreed to match the US Government’s two million-dollar reward.
From 1985 through September 1989 Mr. Johnson worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. During his distinguished career, he received training in paramilitary operations, worked in the Directorate of Operations, served in the CIA’s Operation’s Center, and established himself as a prolific analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence. In his final year with the CIA he received two Exceptional Performance Awards.
Mr. Johnson is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security. He taught at The American University’s School of International Service (1979-1983) while working on a Ph.D. in political science. He has a M.S. degree in Community Development from the University of Missouri (1978), where he also received his B.S. degree in Sociology, graduating Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1976.See Authors Posts (818) on May 3, 2008 at 7:33 PM in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Current Affairs
Barack Obama may have been eight years old when William “Billy” Ayers was planting bombs at the State Department and the U.S. Capitol, but the Senator was a grown man working in the employ of Mr. Ayers when this picture appeared in August 2001.
Bill Ayers was busy promoting his book and this was one of the promotional photos. Two of the money quotes from a book published in 2003,
Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left
(by Susan Braudy on p. 352) states:
my second proudest achievement was living underground for ten years without getting arrested.
and
guilty as hell, free as a bird, it’s a great country.
And then a month later told a New York Times reporter his only regret was that he did not plant more bombs. So what does this have to do with Barack Obama?
Plenty! Barack was the Chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Foundation. Bill Ayers, an unrepentant terrorist with wealthy family connections, had co-founded the Chicago Foundation and named Obama as the Chairman of said entity. So by 2001 Barack and Ayers had worked closely together on an effort to reform Chicago public schools. I am all in favor of school reform. But if you are involved with politics you ought to understand that if you hang with, work with, and politic with a guy who is an unrepentant terrorist that it might reflect badly on you. In fact, you should put some distance between yourself and said terrorist.
Barack did not. What is curious is that Barack despite facing criticism about his lack of experience, is closed mouthed when it comes to discussing his stint running a $50 million dollar foundation. What is he hiding? That is a question that will be answered before the November presidential election. The only doubt is whether the Democrats will insist on finding out the truth first or will let the Republicans serve them a steaming pile of crap come the fall. And while the image of Bill Ayers gleefully stomping the American flag makes the rounds, Obama’s vain attempt to portray himself as a new kind of non-politician will be stomped into oblivion.
Too bad their FIRST book is no longer in print. you know, the one that calls for a unified Communist Party?
Which iteration would that be? Leninist? Stalinist? Maoist?
Man, when I was in college and I was cool, I had a copy of Mao’s little red book.
(Clearly i had no potential to be a revolutionary because i found it very boring, and the people who quoted from it incessantly especially BORING!)
Out of them all, only anarchy — in its purest form — ever appealed to me. Someday, I need to read a good book about the anarchic period in Spain. Would love to know more about that history. Of course, as Orwell pointed out, there were no “good guys” in all of that.
Then there was my brief Ayn Rand period. Went to an Objectivist meeting once. At least they were interesting — they made such a romance of intellectualism.
Susan, when you have the time, try reading Anthony Beevor’s The Battle for Spain, published, I believe in the 80’s…a fascinating history of the Spanish Civil War and good background for anyone who enjoyed “Pan’s Labrynth”.
Larry, as for Billy Ayers, I think he would have been better served living in Northern Ireland during The Troubles..hell, even the IRA (with a few notable exceptions) called-in their bomb warnings!
Agree and although I do not in any way support terrorism of any kind,
the IRA had a serious political agenda. Eventually peace is in Northern Ireland. Ayers and his ilk have no cause except destruction. Anarchy.
I’m only mentioning the difference between imagined political ideologies and real ones. Ayers is a demogogue.
I don’t think peace is achieved through violence, though.
The IRA had other ways, and aren’t a lot of the mercs former IRA?
Not a good thing, at all…
And they blew up Lord Mountbatten, and still murdered civilians, despite warnings.
Boy, I remember the pictures of his devasted ship, very bad, unnecessary, terrorism is terrorism.
No thanks.
I’m not in any way saying peace is justified by terrorism.
I was drawing a distinction about Ayers being a rich kid anarchist. That is all…I do not support terrorism any more than I would support fascism. I apologize for the clumsiness of my example.
I found it funny when a supporter of a multi (VERY multi) millioner Clinton talks about “rich kids”. She is a poor girl then, I guess.
My anarchy period was in 2000, for obvious reasons, and crested in ‘04.
I still think the blue states should’ve seceded.
Blobert….chuckle…In my Neck O’ The Woods…..Folks still reminisce bout how we used to be our own country….I’m from Texas so I do sympathize….chuckle…
Why is no one reporting on the fact that Obama is lying thru his teeth about his relationsship with Ayers and Dohrn.
Both Barack and Michelle worked with Dohrn at the law firm of Sidley Austin…and Dohrn is reported to have been Michelle’s mentor there
HA! You had the book–I had the stupid hat and jacket! I found the fashion more intriguing than the philosophy!
which period of anarchy would that ne?
I rather enjoy reading about the Guerillas during teh Peninsular war. Spontaneous uprisng after a pathetic convetional defence. And lots of Brits running around.
OT, but since you mentioned Mao…
When I first moved to China, I asked a friend to teach me some of the Mao-era slogans. The first thing I learned to say really well in Chinese was “打倒美帝国主义(Down with American Imperialism）.” To her horror, whenever I was asked if I could speak Chinese, I would respond with that sentence.
We had IT contractor friends who were hacked by the Chinese, one memorable weekend, in 1998.
I think it was F*CK YOU AMERICAN on every single home page.
In retrospect, damn funny…
Heck Susan, our five hosed hookah had southern comfort in the bottom and so I read Camus and Sarte. and, when the mesc was in town, Swift, while listening to King Crimson. But that’s another story altogether.
Obama as 21st Century Schizoid Man?
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OMG King Crimson. I used to stare at the album cover with that strange dark face. Orange barrels, microdots, Jefferson Airplane. How did we survive?
The first thing you did was put down the King Crimson.
That alone made a highly significant difference.
Here’s some food for thought everyone. I want to share a little conspiracy theory with you.
What if some private investors knew someone who is related to a top offical in Kenya.
That top official has oil in his land.
It would be a real advantage if these investors could get this relative elected to a top office in the US. After all, let the US pay for a lot of the expense for drilling.
Think how many big officials that can make or break a country’s electability… but if promised a cut of the pie told in secrecy… can overlook a multitude of short commings of a person.
Just thinking.
Someone, ANYONE, PLEASE email this to hannity@foxnews.com, since he seems to be the only media really interested in vetting Obama! Thanks!
P.S. THIS could be the final nail in Obama’s coffin!!! Please email it!!!
you can bet the repubs have it. they have done research on obambi for years.
Oh Brother…..Ayers is a phony Marxist at that. Good Post Larry. This is a great country. People like Ayers have no shame.
I mentioned this before, as a kid, my friends and I would hang out with a group of engineering and physics students.
And it was this group that was “recruited” by this guy, a “communist,” a small guy, with glasses, who also attended the University of Illinois, at Chicago, where Ayers teaches, and where my friend went to school.
Even as a kid, we knew those people were delusional, just unrealistic in their projections, in their understanding of Americans, and this guy WAS an American. But we went to listen to him anyway, at someones apartment, just to hear what he had to say. When we got there, he checked to see if the cops had followed us(!), his faithful crew of two sitting by his feet. One girl, just completely deranged, ideologically, for lack of a better word, almost seemed besotted, just glad for the validation this guy gave to her, he being the head commie, I suppose. He treated her like a second class citizen, the dysfunction SO obvious.
The only thing I remember about the meeting was arguing with him he had no understanding of blue collar Americans, (the base he was hoping to lead to revolution, and he didn’t), and a cracked porcelain tea cup, sitting on a TV tray atop a lace doily.
I read about Ayers, here, and I think how far from reality can this guy be, to speak and think like this?
Amazing, just amazing.
I never took it seriously, I thought they were a joke, didn’t even give it a second thought, he was such an intellectual lightweight.
AYERS IS A CRAZY CRACKER MOFO ANARCHIST PROBABLY STILL ON BAD ACID ! To imagine this person having a teaching job is bad enough….To imagine this person having political influence on a presidential contender……Frightening and Outrageous
VERITAS VOS LIBERABIT !
( The Truth Shall Make You Free ! )
No kidding WCA. My mother came from Hungary. If that rich, white douche had to go one day without an espresso or a $200 bottle Cabernet, he’d pull into a fetal position and start sucking his thumb. He has no idea want real life is like. He’s no different than Bush as far as I’m concerned. Just the other end of the spectrum.
Strawberry, I too come from ex-communist country. Obama and the rest of the communists “wanna be” in US have no idea what kind of nightmare that is. We were afraid (my family, I myself was young) of our own shadows.
Amanda, my mom came here when she was 26, she is now 77. She still has nightmares. I’m so glad you’re here. And on a former CIA agents website…oh the irony.
analyst
Obama and the rest of the communists “wanna be” in US
Obama isn’t a Communist, wannabe or otherwise.
Calling Obama or other liberal Democrats “wannabe Communists” is actually quite accurate, Steve J. They may not take to the label, but they espouse similar policy positions. Not to mention the fact they are supporting Hugo Chavez against Columbia.
Yes, sure, Uribe the death squad and drug person is MUCH better, than Chaves. Yes, tell me who is your friend
I worked with a girl from Romania, years ago. It took her years to get over the fact that we could talk freely in public, without fear of being hauled away.
I hate these wannabes like Ayers and Obama. It’s all an intellectual sport for them. How I’d love to see either of them do some hard work, you know — dig ditches, pour asphault, run a daycare.
They should’ve gotten plenty of experience making license plates years ago.
How funny, and I am from the USSR and I do NOT remember such horrors - and I am a Jew, by the way. But I understand that a lot of East Europeans in USA like to tell fairy tales about “communist hell” - to let USAmericans feel how great they are in their great USA. I wonder, does the fact that their former country NOW is helping USA rape Iraq and Afghanistan gives such people a new pride?
Agree……This guy would have been laughed out of any labor meeting or those hard nosed socialists. Those folks had a cause they believed in and fought for because the class structure was still midevil….
Ayers is just a phony psuedointellectual malcontented egotist who is simply an anarchist……Anarchists are too impatint to believe in building anything….Your average burglar is more real than this idiot……
” With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist…..”
Thomas Jefferson
and just a brief opinion on anarchists. Not all anarchists are bomb-throwing assholes. Definition of anarchist is a person who thinks all forms of government are wrong. I think Ursula LeGuin (oh hell, maybe it was Doris Lessing.. or even somebody else) wrote a book trying to create an anarchist society. I think i remembered they had to go through a lot of contortions to do it– and obviously I didn’t find it highly memorable. But still, it was an interesting excercise by the writer. And the people in it were not prone to violence.
Ayers is in a class of psychopaths. Hidden in any movement I would have to venture he would be the same. He just drifted where he could set off bombs and high-five other pieces of shit of his ilk. But I guess that’s the point everybody’s making.
Yep, Ursula LeGuin’s THE DISPOSSESSED. Great book. Left Hand Of Darkness is a good one too.
Anarchy, from the ancient Greek, means “against the rule”
Democracy, from the ancient Greek, means “rule by the neighborhoods”
Idiot, from the ancient Greek, means “obsessed with self”
Don’t tell me my ejicashun don’t count for nutin.
And apparently, you had early classes!
Diogenes is the only anarchist I ever liked despite the onion breath….. ” Stand aside Sir !….Your Blocking my sun….! ”
Alleged response to query from AlexanderThe Great…..
Frankie Adams in “A Member of the Wedding.”
They all think they’re going on the honeymoon, too, with the bride and groom, to live a new life filled with perfect happiness.
People like Ayers, or Dorhn, or even Cheney, or Bush…
Barry’s daddy was a Marxist. In spite of the Barry’s pretending that there isn’t much information on poor ole dad except that he skipped town, his father was heavily involved in Kenyan goverment and a Marxist who published some interesting white papers on how government should be run.
if ayers dislikes this country so much, why didn’t he go live in another country? the answer, even with our many problems, he can live free here and even have a very respected job.
Larry it says the dem chiefs never vetted their chosen candidate, so the GOP will, starting with Thomas Ayers to Newton Minow and his daughter Martha who taught Obama at Harvard even down to Michelle Obama’s father being a Democrat pricinct captain calling in political favors!
and not to be left out Obama’s chosen grandfather Frank Davis in Hawaii, proud Communist Party of USA memeber and Obama mentor before college!
Of all the kapuna (elders — Hawaiian men and women of wisdom, Grandparents or by choice) Obama could have chosen as a mentor he chose this person and brags about it in his book.
There are so many Native Hawaiian Kapuna who could have served as a mentor to young Obama — but no he wasn’t much interested in the real Hawaii. My life is richer because of the Kapuna in Hawaii — now if you want story tellers — the oral tradition is and was very much alive in the Native Hawaiian community.
He just wanted to go to a rich kids school with other rich kids. Punahoe was the school of the “Missionary Boy’s Club” — the chauvinist pigs who overthrew the last Queen of Hawaii. She wanted to do right by her people — and the Missionary Boys just wanted to be Plantation Lords on the land they stole. Well we know who Obama’s heros were!
The more I learn about him — the more evidence there is that he is a self centered jerk.
You make a really good point. I love Hawaii, the culture, traditions, legends. I was amazed to find all that absent from Obama’s books. How can you grow up in Hawaii and miss all that?
He could have identified with the Hawaiian people, recognized their struggles, their history. Instead he’s tucked away in an elite private school, no doubt looking down on everybody else with the same self centered attitude he shows today.
Hehehe, Mel, a few weeks ago, or over a month ago, Michael Savage (don’t attack me, lol, I listen to him because he entertains me with some crazy ideas lol) anyway, Savage was talking about Frank-Obama relations, and how Obama mentions it in his book, calling Frank close friend, or mentor, or uncle, but doesn’t mention the full name. Savage then went on to talk about his “communist-marxist” ties and was livid. (Well, he goes livid pretty often.)
Again, because Obama was never vetted by the party, these ties were not brought up, but rest assured, the GOD will have a great time doing so if he is the nominee.
loool, I meant the GOP :).
the GOP will feel like GOD’s this fall if it is Obama….lol
10 FT tall and Bullet Proof….( sigh )
OH, good, maybe someone can impress upon them they should use the American military to invade the middle east.
Oh, wait.
How’d that work out for those bulletproof giants of the intellect, anyway?
LOL.
What’s this about Michelle’s daddy? Send me what you have, Mel. You are SUCH a great researcher…. and usually up to no good.
Michelles father was a long time Democrat Precinct captain in the dirty Chciago political arena, deliver votes and you are owed is the way it works, the Daley way there Susan!
In my mind, Obama was no accident rising star, he was a called in favor by Michelle’s dad before he died!
Ever loopk at the time Obama and Michelle met at Sidley Austin, never a correct year, some reports say 1988 some say 1989.
Someone also had to carry Obama though Harvard, he couldn’t of saved enough for food and lodging for 3 yrs off his community organizer job when Obama was renting a basement apartment outside Harvard costing $700 a month in rent!
Something gut feeling is connect Sidley Austin, Martha Minow who does a lot of work with Bernadine Dohrn and who’s father until 1991 was Sidley Austin’s managing partner and very active in Democratic politics going back to the days of JFK when head of FCC and good friend of Thomas Ayers and Daley! And don’t forget Michelle’s dad was earning over 40 grand a year working in a water plant, 25% more than teachers were making at the time, proving Michelle’s dad was a deliverer of his precinct big time!
Ever see the house Michelle lived in, it is no squabble she makes it out to be, it was owned by her Aunt who lived downstairs and they lived upstairs in the place, definately no slum dwelling!
LOL! This about proves my belief in the 7-degrees of separation theory! Kevin Bacon or no Kevin Bacon…
no 7 degrees, it is “All in the Family”…lol
Ok, according to wikipedia, Newton Minow was the inspiration for the shipwrecked USS Minnow, of the TV show, Gilligan’s ISland.
Apparently, he had referred to TV as a “vast wasteland,” striking some as elitist, and snobby.
A perfect metaphor for the Obama campaign.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_Minow
Apparently, the USS Minnow, the shipwreck from Gilligan’s Island, was named for Newton Minow.
He referred to TV as a “vast wasteland” which struck many as elitest, and snobby.
I see a perfect metaphor for Obama, and his campaign.
Oh he is more than that, he is considered by some the top Democrat dog in Illinois political circles, he shared that with Thomas Ayers till Ayers death last year!
Given how filthy IL is, that doesn’t say much at all.
I looked at his picture in wikipedia, and I thought, “my goodness, he looks like Rumsfeld.”
Who was also of IL, and Chicago…
Interesting.
Rumsfeld’s wife works with Minow on some boards!
Don’t forget, Obama supported Rumsfeld in 2004! Judgement….lol
I did not know, fascinating, and sad.
So much of this political “infection” seems to come from Chicago, whether it’s Rumsfeld, or Obama, and that’s my hometown.
I’m ashamed.
Look I’m from Texas….Currently we have the market on shame…..It is best to counter shame with action…No ?
yes.
Also his first summer at Sidley (?) during Harvard was unusual — now, where did I read that? — that first year law student’s getting such a plum summer job. Maybe Martha Minnow was behind that? Am I saying the obvious?
and btw, there is more in the email I sent you Susan, sent it to Larry, but he never got back!
Can soomeone do research into why Ayers and Dohrn REALLY got off so lightly and then got these prestigious jobs? Was it just his father or is it something uglier?
The COINTELPRO investigation against them was judged illegal. It didn’t hurt that they had money. Not a bit.
Hmmm.. I haven’t researched all that too much, but wonder how many strings were pulled to have it ruled illegal. Money talks…
Got off because of big lawyers and FBI breaking some rules of wiretaps. Dohrn got the job at NWU because Minow and Daddy Ayers are directors. Bill Ayers got his thanks to daddy big bucks and U of I.
It is all in who you know, think it was Rezko who got Michelle the big job at U of C Hospital, hardly, when you have backers like Pritzky, and Rowe who are major contributors of the hospital, Pritzkers have donated over 32 million to the place and build a childrens wing, James Crown is board of trustees chairman, so how did as it was called a very important job be created for Michelle there, so important she can take over a year off to campaign for hubby?
Not so important of one huh?
Did Michelle work as Daley’s assistant?
She left Sidley Austin to work for Daley as Assistant to the Mayor and Assistant Commissioner of Planning and Development
easy way to bypass city ordinants on a historic house, knowing all the people huh?
Dohrn got the job at NWU because Minow and Daddy Ayers are directors. Bill Ayers got his thanks to daddy big bucks and U of I.
This is not true and sounds like something I’d hear on wingnut radio.
what part isn’t true?
No…But it Pays well..Just Business as Usual..Ennie…Minni…Minni…Moe..They all Love Money and Uncle Joe…These are the Players don’t ya know..Bags of Money and Lots of Blow..Land of Opportunity is the Way to Go…
Light The Stage and do the Show..Networking is In..Don’t you know…Got a friend his name is Rezko..From Mayors to Ayers..They All should Go…
To a Nice Padded cell..or Even to Hell..
Ah.. and let’s not forget Joe Andrew who works for the law/lobbyist firm that has that hospital as a major client — and whose law firm is Obama’s #4 donor (over 100,000.00)
Follow the money…. it really clears things up.
His rich daddy hired him the best lawyers and I read where he got off on a surveillence technicality. Don’t know about Dohrn. She was so nasty probably no prison wanted her. She was one nasty little shit.
much of it was daddy! though all the others connected are no commenting it appears. however a good reporter down the road will probably get the story. of course making pelosibot and the rest look even more like the fools they are.
It was a $50 million foundation??
That sounds big to me. I don’t know what’s typical, but that’s not some small thing. It IS very interesting that Obama never mentions it.
1) it brings up his association with Ayers, which he tries to avoid; and
2) it was a colossal failure. SEE JustOneMinute blog’s description of the project.
A lot of money down the drain.
A lot of money down the drain.
Sounds like Pennsylvania as well …
So, Ayers was a failure his whole life, in addition to everything else, he could never really make anything work, just like his silly attempts at terrorism?
Must eat away at him.
I wonder if he drinks, or drugs, he must be so frustrated?
When Obama came from NY to Chicago…I keep getting this image that Obama was “sleeping” in Ayers “guest room”.
Davis to Ayers SR as is Obama to Ayers JR.
Does any one know in the first few months after arriving in Chicago where he lived?
When Obama moved to Chicago, he had an apartment waiting for him there! He lived in it for a while before moving in with a white girl!
Mel; Please INPUT INPUT!! LOL (Johnny Five)
Who paid for the place? And who was she?
(Don’t care what race she was.)
I would like to see a larger photo of Ayers stomping the American flag. Is there one available? My poor eyes have the hardest time reading the caption. Plus the photo gives me ideas for a diary brewing in my devious mind.
How could they print a graphic like this?
How could Ayers get away with it?
How could Obama get away with this connection?
What happen to this country?!?
Wow, that photo of the flag is going to play well in Smalltown, USA come November. Especially in those towns that had some of their boys and girls brought home draped in them.
And the democratic “elite morons” have no clue how offensive it is to most Americans, no idea at all how these images will be exploited, despite all the ” Obama isn’t responsible for Ayers (wirght, Rezko, Auchi, et al)” crap they’re trying to float.
You’re in a pipe dream, Obama is toast.
Ayers, and even Pelosi are so ARROGANT, they make rational people gag, specious arrogance mixed with an obtuse narcissism, with no talent or skill to make them even barely tolerable.
Out they go.
I saw it all tonite, I was watching one of those shows on HGTV, and it featured an upper middle class younger couple from the South, and watching the husband, NO WAY he buys into that arrogant affront that is Obama, who with any healthy self respect would?
Race having nothing to do with it, Clinton would impress this man, reach this man.
Obama and the swamp…The early years.
Zulfan Adi was one of the neighborhood kids who teased Obama most mercilessly. He remembers one day when young Obama, a hopelessly upbeat boy who seemed oblivious to the fact that the older kids didn’t want him tagging along, followed a group of Adi’s friends to a nearby swamp.
“They held his hands and feet and said, `One, two, three,’ and threw him in the swamp,” recalled Adi, who still lives in the same house where he grew up. “Luckily he could swim. They only did it to Barry.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-0703250359mar25,0,5781642.story?page=3
One of the first words that he learned was Curang…it means cheater.
Hmmmmmmm…sounds like PROJECTION to me and he started at an early age.
My uncle burned his draft card in like ‘69.
But then he went to prison for a year. And he never blew anything up. And no one he knows is running for President. Of course, I’m pretty sure he did vote for Nader in 2000…