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 (886) on June 4, 2008 at 11:07 PM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Michelle Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., White People, Whitey Tape
I give the Obama folks credit–they’ve tried mightily to shift the meaning of my original report. I learned last week that Republicans have a tape of Michelle in a racist rant. She does so while part of a panel discussion. I do not know where this occurred. And the specific date is not known either. BuzzHill offered up his view earlier today but I have not confirmed one way or another.
At no time have I claimed to have the tape or promised to deliver said tape. In fact, I reported that Republicans working on behalf of McCain are desperate to keep this under wraps until Obama is formally nominated in August. Got it?
So as trolls stagger by to taunt and provoke, have pity on them–they cannot read and are devoid of comprehension skills. I guess that’s why they are for Obama. Figures. Meanwhile, with or without said tape, we do know that the Obamas participated for almost 20 years in a church that espoused racism. They supported the race baiter Jeremiah Wright with financial contributions. So enough of the pretense that they were attending a mainstream, vanilla, anodyne Christian church. Au contraire. Non. I believe my sources and believe the tape will appear after August and before November.
Is there no Democrat who can get this tape before August - to avoid a suicide nomination?
Why in the hell would we care about a suicide nomination when the Democratic Party has eaten its own by demolishing the good name of Hillary Clinton? The Obama brownshirts have done everything to maim our chosen candidate Hillary Clinton. Let them have their suicide nomination. It couldn’t happen to a more gutless fucking party.
“Obama brownshirts”? Good God,this place is like a lesser version of RedState.
No it’s worse than Red State ever was. These loons call themselves Democrats.
damn, I can’t even bring myself to comment here anymore. What a total meltdown.
We will miss your brilliant, depthful insights.
Your capacity for critical, complex thinking is breathtaking.
I have checked your web page for a couple of days now… waiting for the Michelle Obama tape. You say you don’t have it, but sure seemed to promise it would appear today.
You sir, seem to be full of shit.
I will not be back.
good
bye rob, nice life to you!
Rob,
Promises, promises. You’ve failed to deliver in the past, why trust you now? (see, two can play that game.)
This seems to be an admission. LJ, please expand on how one plays this game…
As Larry said at no time did he say he had the tape. So we will just have to go with what we know. These 2 people who want the White House hang with some racists and a guy who happily bombed this country. Then there is Obama’s cousin Odinga who cut off heads in Kenya trying to overthrow the Kenyan President until said President gave him a position in the govt. To me people like this don’t belong in our White House. What next — are they going to sacrifice virgins?
Wow.
Odinga had the votes in that election, btw. The government has used every trick they had to shut down the election. There has been violence, by both sides, but to chalk up Kenyan political violence to Odinga is insane.
But then, so is claiming that Rev. Wright is racist. There’s no evidence of that. He’s said some ridiculous things, especially about AIDS in the US, but that all come under the heading of leftist, radical critiques of American society. So hate him for being a radical, and for being an idiot, but for being a racist? That’s nuts.
BTW, that virgin comment is flat-out racist. Unless you’re actually a member of the KKK, you should probably think before you post shit like that.
You all have a choice - vote for a candidate who you don’t like, but who stands with you on every conceivable political issue, or vote out of spite for McCain, who is heading the party that has brought us the outing of a CIA agent, death and destruction in Iraq, the undermining of the constitution, and utter negligence in the face of the disappearance of a major American city. This is do or die time - the moment where we really do have to decide what matters. Hillary Clinton has already made that choice - her country means more to her than herself (isn’t this very fact one of the reasons she has engendered such astounding support throughout the nation?). Don’t kid yourselves - if Obama loses in November it won’t be because he’s unelectable. It will be because you all worked to defeat him.
As a Nader voter in Florida 2000, let me tell you this - there is no honor in voting your conscience when your conscience gets innocent people killed.
This is easily the most intelligent thing I’ve read on this site since the Michelle Obama thing started. I hope the Hillary-at-all-costers gathered here can learn from it.
C’mon…this site’s provided the best comedic relief I’ve had in ages.
I admit, I’m rather skeptical… not so much that MO is capable of such a rant as I am of the evidence, but still…
Thank Larry for ALL work!!!!! I hope you DON’T join this FAKE “UNITY” thing!!!!
Larry did NOT promise that. And he has been straightforward with us!
hey, you Obama people have WON.(so far).
So what IS it about victory that pisses you off?!
So what IS it about victory that pisses you off?!
They’re a part of the hopey changey generation. They’ll relax when they finally get laid.
they’re hoping their inability to get laid will change.
i have my doubts.
Don’t worry. Your mom already took care of all of us.
Your mom? Bwaahaha! In case anyone was under the mistaken impression that any adults were voting for Oblowme.
That’s a very adult way to put it.
Yes, the “inability to get laid” line certainly requires an adult response.
It’s over, dude. Have a little bit of class and end this rumor-mongering. It is what it is, and all you’re doing now is spreading fear for the sake of…what exactly? Give it a rest already, please.
It ain’t over as long as the Republicans have attack machines. You want to blame the messenger but these Obama’s are a mess. Obama’s pal Rezko was found guilty and Obama said he didn’t know that Rezko was like that. Like right — everything this guy says is a lie.
It is indeed over for Hillary, this time around. Continuing to attack Obama at this point only serves to undermine our chances of reclaiming the White House at this point.
Please tell me what you and others here believe is to be gained by continuing to smear our candidate. Do you honestly believe Obama would be a bad president? That his agenda is so radically different from Hillary’s that it doesn’t matter who wins in November? I mean, let’s get real.
OUR CANDIDATE?
No sir. YOUR candidate is a 2-bit BUM!
We don’t support Bums.
Sorry for the confusion. My comments are intended for fellow Democrats who are interested in Democratic victories in November, not those who lack such a commitment.
Tom -
You won’t find them here buddy - being true to AMERICA is much more of a worthy noble cause than being true to a CORRUPT PARTY or CORRUPT CANDIDATE.
OK, seriously, why is Obama the anti-Christ? How exactly is it corrupt to win a Primary? I feel like I’m missing something here.
The same poster using a different name back tread…real in not something Obots do well. /
? Nope, not me.
Others have explained this before, so I have little hope that this will sink through the layer of concrete that comprises your head. But here goes …
Obama may be your candidate. But he is NOT our candidate. He is not qualified for the position of POTUS. Electing him for that position is the only thing worse than electing McCain as President. No amount of taunts, insults, or other nonsense can change that.
I know you’ve been bombarded with negative comments from Obama supporters over here, but I did not come here bearing insults, and I’d appreciate the same courtesy from you, jwrjr.
That said, would you mind elaborating on what, specifically, you believe will be gained by a McCain presidency rather than an Obama presidency? I am genuinely confused as to why McCain is better on the issues, given that his positions are in extreme opposition to those of both Clinton and Obama. What kind of Supreme Court Justices would McCain nominate compared to Clinton/Obama? What is McCain’s Iraq strategy compared to Clinton/Obama? What is McCain’s healthcare proposal compared to those of Clinton/Obama?
From my vantage point, as an Obama supporter, Clinton is FAR better on the issues than McCain is. Why don’t you regard Obama as being better on the issues than McCain? (Or if, as I suspect, there are other matters that you are privileging over the issues - from the war to the economy to civil rights - what are these other concerns, and why do they take precedence over the issues?
Thanks for your honest consideration. I am genuinely interested to know where you stand on this.
If you were truly concerned with policy, you would have supported Clinton. Because your support bespeaks a predilection for personality and not for rigorous policy proposals, I recommend everyone here ignore your questions. Besides, you are a Chicagoan who voted for the local personality and not for the qualified candidate. In other words, you are a mindless machine Democrat who merely followed orders.
Actually, since you asked, I am deeply concerned with policy - and integrity. I voted for Obama in Illinois only because both of my preferred candidates had dropped out by then (Kucinich and Edwards).
I found his positions and Clinton’s similar enough, but as a former educator I especially appreciated Obama’s outlook on education (specifically with regards to the expansion of Teach For America). Also, if I may be frank, I had not forgiven Clinton for voting us into war in Iraq. I felt very betrayed by her and her fellow disappointing Democrats in Congress at the time who coalesced on this (Edwards included, but at least he apologized later). I would’ve happily campaigned and voted for Hillary in the general election, but I did not favor her to Obama.
All of this notwithstanding, I have defended Hillary Clinton among friends and in the blogosphere alike, even as I have preferred Obama when it came down to just the two of them. I believe neither is perfect, but that both are infinitely better than McCain on the issues. Neither would bring the agenda that I envision for America, but both of theirs is so much closer than that of McCain. Do you disagree?
About the war, did you know Obama was FOR it in 2004? He was not in the sonate at the time they voted on giving Bush power to invade Iraq, so he cannot claim to have been right on the war if he wasn’t even there. He also voted exactly the same way as Hillary in all war related bills except for one.
cite, please.
Obama is a puppet controlled by big money. His campaign was designed by Axelrod to go after the most gullible and easily controlled demographics. He has questionable relationships, political and personal. He has no resume, no grasp of the issues, no qualifications other than an obvious need for self-aggrandizement.
Yes, I disagree.
You’re also ignorant.
Obama’s campaign has been marked by millions of small donations. This is a game changer - a candidate who doesn’t rely on corps for all his money. Does this mean Obama is a magical anti-corp candidate - nope. But it does mean that we all have more influence with him than we ever would under McCain. If Cltinon had relied less on Mark Penn, I think she would have done something similar, and probably would have won. Hell if she’d ever apologized for the vote on AUMF, she would have won in a walk. She’s a fine candidate, a great Democrat, and would have made one hell of a president. But Obama has the delegates, and someone has to win. Why is this evidence of corruption?
There is no nominee until the end of August and plenty can happen between now and then.
Wow. You’re so far off the deep end that I hesitate to to ask, but morbid curiousity compels me: How on earth do you see an Obama Administration benig worse than a McCain Presidency?
Let’s take two issues of paramount import to me: Supreme Court nominations and leaving Iraq.
“Do you honestly believe Obama would be a bad president?”
Yes
That his agenda is so radically different from Hillary’s that it doesn’t matter who wins in November?”
Frankly, it’s his agenda that worries most of us here. Had you mentioned issues, yeah, you have a wee bit ‘o traction with that. But the agenda of a racist, sexist, anti-semitic, anti-gay, anti-American, terrorist supporting (both domestic and international), money-laundering, lying, bought-and-paid-for Chicago politician with absolutely no experience and no morals - you’re right - it does matter! Nobama!
That covers it. (For the record, I am an unaffiliated voter). I donated to Hillary’s campaign, and got my young daughter her youth pack (T-shirt, ruler, piggy bank). And I had her watch this tonight..just so she knows what world she will live in when she’s an adult.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=g-IrhRSwF9U
Thanks for the link. That’s a sickening video. The site that made it is also really good.
Sent it to all my bff’s (who also have daughters)-the video link and originating site.
Yes, that little rant certainly shows an awareness of the issues. You people are hilarious. I’ve never seen such a graceless bunch of losers. Obama won, he will be the Democratic candidate, and if you really vote McCain, well I hope your daughter doesn’t die in a back alley abortion or in a never-ending war in Iraq.
Gus, Tom,
Ah the fearmongering!!! Roe vs. Wade will never be overturned and certainly not during McCain’s presidency. First, he will have a democratic congress which will not permit it and second the republicans would like to get elected after his presidency as well. Before you retort - SCOTUS appointees must be vetted by congress - which is as we know democrat.
Both draft bills currently in the congress are authored by a democrat. if they are passed it will be by a democratic congress.
I believe your candidate is a total shit (make that SHIT). He would be a disaster equal to Bush, except from the far left. And don’t compare this opportunist to Hillary. Just because he is riding the backlash of the current administration’s fuck-ups, does not mean he is in anyway qualified to correct them. He will lead this country into an even deeper hole on economy, Iraq, foreign fuel dependency, etc. MCCAIN is a better choice by far. At least we know where he stands when it comes to being proud of his country.
good luck with that … candidate of yours, not mine that’s for sure.
If you don’t mind me asking, is John McCain your candidate now? If so, on what issue[s] do you find him preferable to Obama?
For us, the military. Obama will not bet good for our military.
How so?
I see a fuckload of assertions here that Obama is teh evil, but absolutely nothing to back it up. how will he be bad for the military?
Maybe Obama is “your” canidate but hes not mine. And yes Tom, i do think he would be a bad president. I will not vote for him, besides that why does it matter, I thought Obama did not need our “white working class, women who cling to our guns and religon votes”….You do not understand how badly “your man” has effected us. You see, the media did not beleive we would vote for McCain, but the media is not always right…
Tom says, “Do you honestly believe Obama would be a bad President?”.
Short answer Tom. YES.
I seriously hope the bulk of you are either joking, going through a petulant, “sore loser” phase or are freepers crawling out of the primordal soup that is right-wing media for a bit onanistic fun–for the lack of rationality here is truly disheartening.
yes, I believe Obama would be a very bad president. He has terrible judgment and is willing to tie himself to the most dishonorable of people to get where he wants to go. He could be even worse than Bush and more dangerous.
Obama is not my candidate and never will be. I’m no longer a Democrat and really don’t care what your problems may be in the Fall.
I’ll just be watching and knowing I am glad I’m not a part of his new Democratic Party.
I’d say, “Good Luck,” but that wouldn’t be heartfelt.
The BEST I can muster up is that I wish you no ill will.
But, no, I have nothing in common with Obama supporters, thank God.
Tell you what. Let’s go down the list and see how many acquaintances of the Clintons have been prosecuted compared to those of Obama.
If you can count that high…
acquaintance? LOL, you Obamaboyz are such bad liars.
Jane–
Are you Jonah Goldberg? I sense Cheeto dust peppered throughout your replies (in the guise of “clever” nicknames).
Keep backing away from this story.
Back, Back, Back, way back, and its gone! Just like the common sense of so many of the people that post/read here.
I understand you guys are upset, but don’t be bitter. It may take some time, but I am peace because most, if not all, of you guys will come home by November.
Just give it time. It is time for Barack Obama.
Will you be sending your fan mail to Joliet Prison?
what? Was that spose to be clever
If you have to ask you give away your sordid lack of functional brain cells, insect. Go home. This is not a discussion for teenage US tossers.
Heh, you’re not even American.
I’m new here… just left my home Taylor Marsh, which is turning sharply pro-Obama. I’m using my same screen name.
But seriously: in your dreams, Obamabot! How could we possibly “come home” when there is no “home” to come to? The Democratic Party died last Saturday…they clearly no longer exist as a party that believes in the democratic process. Oh and guess what? Sen. Specter is exploring the possibility of launching an investigation into the corruption of the DNC Rules and Bylaws committee decision on Michigan and Florida. Talk about bad press for party. Enjoy your success while you can. Personally I can’t wait until all you Obama scum eat crow. It’s Hillary or McCain for me.
Oh yeah an investigation from a repuglican senator and McCain croney. That will really hurt.
You’re just a republican troll on here trying to divide us.
Um, who would the ‘us’ be, Sir Bigfoot?
LOL! Feel better now that you let that stinker rip? Guess what? I still won’t vote Obama. So good luck with electing that Fraud.
Poor Bigfoot can’t tell the difference between a carrot or a turnip.
You’re just a republican troll on here trying to divide us.
How do you divide 0 ? /
NO HE REALLY IS ANOTHER OBAMA CHUMP
Why don’t you shove your “bigfoot” up your Obamarhoid ass and fuck off back to your own site.
hi mjr17, glad to see you here.
i did a little browsing at tm, but am not one to fall into line just because of a party designation, so did not find a home there. enjoy this site and savagepolitics and a few others, but refuse to waste my time on any site that tells me i must be defined arbitrarily.
agree re death of democratic party. i’m now calling it the autocratic party. anyway, whatever its name, it’s not mine any more.
hillary or mccain. no other option.
How was any of this undemocratic? You can only claim Hillary has more votes if you ignore the ‘uncommiteds’ from Michigan - but Obama was the only serious challenger other than Clinton. What ever happened to ‘count every vote’? I mean, if the rest of us in the Democratic coalition left the party every time our favorite candidate lost a primary too, there would be no one left at all!
Hi!! Welcome…I left Taylor too. boy did she sell out quickly!
Laaaaaaaaaaammmmmmee.
You guys trying to run our candidate down because you’re selfish and sore losers. And, the tactics used to run him down have been disgraceful (including racism)
It is over, move on.
org
WHATEVER ‘08
This is our site. YOU MOVE THE FUCK ON. NOW
Second that. It’s past their bed anyway. They have school in the morning.
they dropped out. that’s why they have to work at minimum wage attempting to troll for obambi.
no, you move on!
C’mon Larry you’re starting to make me think you’re from the Tenant school of CIA ethics. If this is how you were trained that says a LOT.
Comment by dave™© | 2008-06-04 03:31:50
The “tape” is a DVD that Trinity United sold on its website, and possibly offered free for download up until March 2008 when Trinity’s site was scrubbed and the DVDs were no longer offered for sale.
So there should be a ton of these around, shouldn’t there?
Let’s see one, Larry. C’mon!
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Comment by Larry Johnson | 2008-06-04 03:35:53
Actually, I may be able to satisfy that request based on what I have learned in the last hour. Send me your phone number and I’ll be sure to call you and alert you so that you can be one of the first to enjoy.
MUST READ: Whitey Hoax blown wide open
by The Termite [Subscribe]
Fri Jun 06, 2008 at 09:42:39 AM PDT
Conservative NRO blogger Jim Geraghty asks why the apocryphal Whitey Tape bears such an astonishing resemblance to a plot point in the 2006 political thriller novel The Power Broker, by Stephen Frey:
A major plot line of the novel is the presidential campaign of Democrat Jesse Wood, aiming to be the country’s first African American president — “Wood was handsome, smart, charismatic, and being mentioned increasingly often in the press as someone who could unite a twenty-first century America growing more, not less, racially and economically divided.” (p.35)
He’s a U.S. Senator from New York and former senior partner at a prestigious law firm. His backers include “some of the old Black Panthers.” He wants to make Puerto Rico a state, and a recurring figure in his campaign is a controversial minister from Philadelphia called “Jefferson Roundtree.”
Holy. Shit.
The Termite’s diary :: ::
Of course, there’s a videotape. And on the tape, the candidate uses the word “whitey.”
Later the tape is used for blackmail by an ally, and then the real badguy — a Texan who owns a giant oil company named Hewitt (sorry, Hugh) — gets his hands on the tape. The description of the appropriate timing of the release of the videotape on p. 237 will sound familiar to those tracking the rumors of the alleged Michelle Obama tape.
Hewitt thought for a second. “I’m going to let Jesse win the nomination and let the public get used to him as the Democratic candidate. Give the country some time to get to know Jesse Wood, to start to like him. And they will because he’s a very likeable guy. Then I’m going to drop the bomb, after everyone’s started to like him. That way the clip will have maximum effect and people will be as angry as they can be. Whites and blacks. Whites for the obvious reason, blacks because they’ll feel like he let ‘em down.”
Now. Either author Stephen Frey is clairvoyant, writing this book in 2006. Or this is one of the all time amazing coincidences. Or whoever started this rumor got the idea from a novel.
Remember, this is coming from a conservative blogger on a conservative site (in fact, Geraghty explains why he wants this shit debunked, which is interesting reading in and of itself).
If there was any lingering doubt as to whether this tape actually existed, this should drive a stake right through its heart. Not only was this a hoax; it was a poorly conceived hoax, designed by people with the brains of a garden slug and the morals of a nose hair trimmer.
Larry Johnson is a boil on the ass of the body politic. May he rot.
Obama will be bringing Chicago style payouts and politics to Washington. Both the media and the politicians are already lining up at the trough.
After Obama takes care of the left wing of the party, there won’t be any resources available for hard-working Americans.
Meet the new boss…..
greenley — but Nancy Pelosi is going to force Hillary out by Friday — can’t have any decent candidates showing Obama up for the fraud he is.
It’s time for an empty suit, an inexperienced, race baiting, misogynistic, corrupt politician?
Yes!
Whether there is a tape or not, it is completely plausible that she said such things, that’s the central problem. She hates white people.
Besides, Obama’s got other problems.
oh come on whats your proof.
First it was there is a tape, now its there is no tape but I could see her saying it so it doesnt matter that there wasnt a tape.
You don’t knwo the woman.
This is so sad. What has happened to my party.
If you guys are claiming the democrat party then I want know part of it. I will have to be the party of Obama.
You, and people like you are what’s happened to your party.
Would you please do a spell check before you post…Gawd. Are all Obamabits this challenged?
oh, spelling smack. impressive
Yes they are quite challenged are they not?