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 (874) on June 12, 2008 at 4:48 PM in Current Affairs
If Barack’s first foray into setting the record straight is a sign of how he would handle the weightier matters of the presidential office, boy are we screwed. Here’s what Obama considers a “lie”:
Lie:
Blogger Larry Johnson wrote on May 31st that he would add „New and dramatic developments. This is a heads up. I‚ll post the news Monday morning by 0900 hours. Now I know why people who have seen the videotape say it is stunning. Barack‚s headaches are only starting.‰
Read the post
Truth:
Johnson posted no such update.
Barack? DUDE. Open your eyes brother. Here’s what I posted on Monday morning (17 minutes earlier than promised) on 2 June:
Michelle Obama and Louis Farrakhan Take On Whitey
By Larry Johnson on June 2, 2008 at 8:43 edt AM in Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Whitey Tape | Edit
I learned over the weekend why the Republicans who have seen the tape of Michelle Obama ranting about “whitey” describe it as “STUNNING.” I have not seen it but I have heard from five separate sources who have spoken directly with people who have seen the tape. It features Michelle Obama and Louis Farrakhan. They are sitting on a panel at Jeremiah Wright’s Church when Michelle makes her intemperate remarks. Whoops!! When that image comes out it will enter the politcal ads hall of fame. It will be right up there with the little girl plucking daisy petals in the famous 1964 ad LBJ used against Barry Goldwater.
That ain’t a “lie” Barky. It is a fact. Of course, most Barack supporters have trouble grasping this concept. Maybe that’s why they support Barack–does not require much intellectual effort. Simply close eyes and hold your nose.
If your hoping for an honest mainstream media to pick up the facts Larry, keep hoping. In the meantime, check out http://www.obama-wire.com
OBAMA-WIRE.COM
Thanks for that link. I just posted a story about the Rasmussen poll showing a problem for Michelle:
http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/new-poll-voters-like-cindy-more-than-michelle/
WOW!!!
42% unfavorables for Michelle Obama as our First Lady.
Sure does reflect what I’m hearing down here in Texas.
This is not good for the Democratic Party.
Go Larry!
Amazing how there is still no video. Republican pundints know how stupid their followers are so they just say anything and the mindless idiots beleive it. They know the fools aren’t got to look for the truth.
Don’t need the tape for the “truth.”
Just read Michelle’s Master’s thesis.
It’s FULL of whining about whitey being “mean” to her, and why she pledges to stay away from whitey if she can.
Go read it. It’ll blow your mind.
You mean her senior thesis? http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8642.html
A black women wrote her senior thesis at Princeton on the “attitudes of alumni: the extent to which they are comfortable interacting with Black and with White individuals in various activities.”
What’s the big deal?
Don’t expect logic on a website that doesn’t acknoledge that racism exists, ever. The five people who comment here are not worth your time.
THEN WHY ARE YOU HERE Loyal Democrat ??
OH YOU ARE ONE OF THE PAID OBAMA SH!+ STIRRERS???????????
I thought so!!
now go pick up your bornwshirt money from team Obama..go quick before the money runs out!!
Obama site confronts rumors
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama’s campaign said Thursday that Michelle Obama never used the word “whitey” in a speech from the church pulpit as it launched a Web site to debunk rumors about him and his wife.
The rumor that Michelle Obama railed against “whitey” in a diatribe at Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ has circulated on conservative Republican blogs for weeks and was repeated by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. The rumor included claims of a videotape of the speech that would be used to bring down Obama’s candidacy this fall.
“No such tape exists,” the campaign responds on the site, . “Michelle Obama has not spoken from the pulpit at Trinity and has not used that word.”http://www.fightthesmears.com
The site is a response to the realities of a brave new world, where information travels 24 hours a day on blogs and voters are increasingly turning to the Internet for information. It’s a particular problem for Obama, a relative newcomer to national politics who is still unknown to many voters and has been the target of persistent misinformation campaigns online.
In another sign of the campaign moving into the general election race, the Democratic National Committee’s spokeswoman said Thursday its political and field operations are relocating to Chicago, where Obama’s campaign is based. While other departments will remain in Washington, it’s an effort to streamline the campaign and party efforts in one strategy instead of the overlapping efforts of past presidential elections.
Oh great.
The DNC re-located to the Chicago political machine, where Obama’s machine buddies can drain the cash account.
Wunderbar, Howard Dean.
Wunderbar, Howard Dean.
I came heartily to dislike Howard Dean back in 2004–thought he was a cheap demagogue and still have the image of a redfaced Dean chanting YOU HAVE THE POWER burned into my brain–but I still thought he’d make a good DNC chair.
This is surreal.
So will they move the Whitehouse too? OOH I know they can use Rezko’s mansion.
Huh. So exactly how is the city of Chicago more politically corrupt that D.C.? Or are you just a snobby coast person who hates “flyover” states?
Yes, Go Larry
I wrote earlier that I thought it would be good to let the First Amendment run its course here so that we could pick on the jerks when they come in here. Its almost like being a trapdoor spider. We wait, they come in, we cut ‘em to ribbons, they leave and tell mama Obama.
Predictable
We all know Barack is a coward and a liar. He’s being unmasked more and more every day.
You’d rather see McCAIN?
Actually yes. As much as McCain would never be my first choice at least HE does love his country and has served it well. He’s more knowledgeable about Foreign Policy and has the courage and human decency that Obama will never possess.
At least with McCain I can sleep soundly knowing that the person at the helm would give his life for his country if necessary and DOES NOT associate with racists, anti-American radicals, terrorists, Chicago mobsters and other trash.
catherine..i could not agree more!!
McCain did lay his life on the line..for this country..and has served this nation..although i hardly ever agree with him, but as a Kerry Delegate i do remember well Kerry courting McCain to be his running mate!!
and this is John McCain and how he served this nation:
“In 1968 he was offered early release, and when he refused, because others had been there longer, his captors went at him again; he suffered cracked ribs, teeth broken off at the gum line, and torture with ropes that lashed his arms behind his back and that were progressively tightened all through the night.” Source Vanity Fair, February 2007
“He spent two years in solitary confinement, suffered from dysentery and even tried to commit suicide by hanging himself with his own shirt.
In 1968, the Vietnamese broke off many of his teeth at the gum and tortured him for hours on end. They offered him early release, knowing his value as an admirals son, but he refused, saying others had been held captive longer.” Source Daily Mail, February 1, 2008
now does anyone want to tell me what obama has done for this nation and what he has sacrificed for this nation?????????
come on trolls i am waiting…
on and don’t tell me j=he has done jack sh!+ for our soldiers ..in Afganistan or elsewhere..because he hasn’t done a damn thing for them.
nor has he ever served this nation other than for his own self gratificiation!
he sure didn’t serve the poor in his own district that he let freeze in the Chicago cold.!
fly
The truth is out there .5 Fly!
The so-called “Democrats” must love the Iraq War, and, hey, Bush may be scum, but at least he’s an insider, and part of the entrenched Old Crowd.
When I’m considering voting for a candidate, I love hearing that he has no idea what the job entails, has no relevant experience, probably would fail a security test and hates the majority of the country.
Yeah, Bush is an insider, and that is the problem. He is so much of an insider that we will never be able to convict him for treason
NOt to worry. Pelosi and Obama have already said there will be no prosecutions of the Bush administration.
Mostly because the Dems in power at the time—Daschle, Rockefeller, Kerry, Dodd, Durbin (all the establishment supporting Obama) gave Bush everything he wanted, and would have to be prosecuted too.
Obama won’t do anything about it. He OWES those people for supporting him.
You just made that up and you know it.
hey loyal democrat..why don’t ypu learn to be a little damn lyoal to this country and do some research..Obama said he doesn’t think bush has done anything to warrant impeachment or that he has done anything seriously wrong to warrant criminal charges.
He will never hold bush accountable..ever..nor will pelosi.
do some damn homework on yiur guy will ya!
and stop posting bullshit here since you haven’t looked up a damn thing your guy obama has said or done!
fly
I would certainly rather see McCain than Obama for president. Are you kidding? Obama is a fool with no skill whatsoever to run the United States of America.
I’ve got a tape for ya.
Barack’s judgement on Iraq.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7e4uL95×1Y
Actually, in 2004 Obama said his opinions about Iraq COMPLETELY agreed with George Bush.
Didn’t know that?
Wrong. Obama supported the Bush Administrations’ turning over sovereignty and withdrawing troops in 2004. As did John Kerry. If you have to re-write history to make you point, you should probably reconsider your position.
Then you want 4 more years of the policies of possibly the worst President in American history.
No. That’s why I will never vote for Obama. He’s another Dubya with a D after his name instead of an R.
Another inexperienced, clueless, ego-centric puppet being foisted on us by greedy,corrupt corporations, lobbyists, media and Chicago underworld that does’nt give a rats ass about the people.
I DON’T WANT ANOTHER GW EVEN IF HE’S GOT A “D” AFTER HIS NAME!
EXACTLY!
BTW, Catherine, just the other day I referred to BO on another board as “George W. Bush with better teeth and a better tan.”
Within minutes an O-Tot had accused me of racism.
You really gotta pity the poor babies–it’s all they’ve got.
I know. They’ve been using the race card so often that most people don’t even give a fig what we’re called anymore.
You know, like when you say a word over and over again it loses its power.
I don’t think they realize the harm that they’ve done to the AA community…in fact I don’t think they really care.
Any “so-called” Democrat who will vote for McCain is really just a Bush Warmonger….
McCain Has NO Vision for America,,,NO ideas to get out of the Bush Recession Mess we have now…Why would anyone want 4 more years of Bush Polices====McCain has said he supports All of Bush’s Polieces.
“All of Bush’s Polieces [sic]“. No, he has not. He has many policy differences with Bush.
Supporting JSM = overturn Roe v. Wade. Or, didn’t you know that?
You’d rather see McCAIN?
No, Ellen, I’d rather see a real Democrat like Hillary, or Wes–preferably both.
I don’t think Barack Obama is a true Democrat. He’s a Democrat only because the Daley Machine is (nominally) Democratic. If they were Republican, he’d be Republican.
I’m one of many who think he is in fact a RW wolf in LW sheep’s clothing–a Trojan horse, if you will.
Sorry.
EXACTLY!
You are going to vote to extend Bush’s tax cuts for the richest 2%, extend troops in Iraq for 100 years, and overturn all womens’ right to choose?
No, I think you’re going to chicken out at the last minute. Please leave the adults to decide this election.
Oh! Absolutely!! McCCain over OBAMA
Catherine, were you born stupid, or did you get that way by degrees?
Larry,
Link Obama-Wire.com to your site. We are trying to accomplish the same goal, and together our goal can become more attainable.
Regards,
Sam
obama-wire.com
It’s porn.
I don’t think so — I think it’s pretty good — nice concise links/info…
…or did i get spammed?
Where’s the tape, Larry?
How come you don’t even have enough intellectual honesty to admit that there isn’t one, Larry?
Obama has a lot more other falsehoods to debunk himself from. The tape is the least of his problems.
Larry, keep on plugging.
Go Hillary 2008.
This probably is hardly the only tape. 20 years at that church? I’d be surprised if he wasn’t caught saying something compromising. JWWO.
Where are the tapes? We keep hearing about them, but they just don’t seem to show up.
Coming to a big screen near you October 2008…
Right now, Ellen, the tapes are probably in Karl Rove’s safe.
October is when he’ll spring them.
Why do you think Obama’s campaign said Michelle was saying “Why’d he” instead of “Whitey,” if the tapes don’t exist?
THINK, Ellen.
Where’s the tape, Larry?
How come you don’t even have enough intellectual honesty to admit that there isn’t one, Larry?
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Because the tape exists, the Republicans have it, and they’re not about to let loose of it until just before the GE, when it’s far too late for (what’s left of) the Democratic Party to dump BHO for HRC.
Never mind the fact that Larry has never claimed even to have seen The Tape himself, let alone to have a copy in his possession…
Brownshirt fuckwad.
If he’s never seen the tape he doesn’t know it exists. And neither do you.
Not that it matters that much if it did. “Whitey”? Give me a fucking break.
Not that it matters that much if it did. “Whitey”? Give me a fucking break.
Well, well–some honesty from the Oborg. What a rarity.
Listen up: a racist is a racist is a racist, and when That Tape is released in October it will go viral in a matter of seconds. It will be everywhere on YouTube.
And for the cyber challenged, Fox Snooze will be showing it, talking about it, and showing it some more 24/7. So will CNN, and probably even MSNBO, not to mention their broadcast counterparts.
And what do you think will happen then? Go ahead, brighty boy, you can tell me. What do you think will happen on November 4th?
“when That Tape is released in October.”
When that tape is released in October, the aliens will take it back to Mars.
“That Tape” doesn’t exist, and you’d have to be a moron to think it does.
And Larry Johnson - if he isn’t a total villain - has been used as a dupe by some of the scummiest people in the country, and is a willing tool used by the Republicans to spread false rumors.
James, sweetie, are you willing to bet money–real money –the tape doesn’t exist?
Larry never said he’d seen the tape. Like everyone else who reported on it, he claimed to have heard several firsthand accounts of the tape.
Obama’s seen it — in APRIL!
Stupid brownshirt fuckwad.
They’re not smart.
No, they aren’t.
And they can’t even read.
They just repeat whatever the Obama site tells them to.
Larry,,,
If there is a Tape produce it or Admit you lied…Running Smear tactics like Hannity and Rush and that low life Roger Stone shows you have little credibilty which at one time during the last 8 years you actually had….Get over Hillary being beaten,,,she lost because her campaign advisors let her down….but trying to tear down Obama just because you don’t like him does nothing to move our country Forward.
Post the tape.
Post the tape.
You first, George. I’m sure your Fascist idol and his Brownshirts have bought up as many copies as they could get their hands on.
Too bad you’re so far down in the pecking order…
I’d like to see this tape, too. I’m an older white woman (apparently a valuable demographic), didn’t support Hillary (ever). My first choice was John Edwards. So I really don’t have a dog in this hunt. I just want to see this tape.
You’ll just have to wait till October. It sounds like you’re a dumbass, anyway. So, you’ll find plenty to keep yourself distracted in the meantime.
He never made any claim to having the tape.
My goodness, aren’t deductive reasoning skills necessary for law school admittance?
Guess not.
clap …. clap …. clap …. you can now leave having cut and pasted effectively. Mazel Tov!
Larry, Obama quotes your post verbatim, and links right to it. Are you now pretending you didn’t say it?
Dude,
How long have you had this reading disability? Are all obama followers this stupid or are you an exception?
How long have you had a problem with honesty?
Where’s the tape?
Why do you continue to adhere to this obvious lie?
If it’s a lie, James, why would the Obama campaign try to tell people she said “Why’d he” instead?
Are you always so easily fooled?
If its an obvious lie, why are your panties in a wad? Why are you here? Why get yourself upset over “nothing?”
I love this “logic”:
“If it’s a lie, why do find it objectionable?”
BECAUSE it’s a lie, you moron.
Normal people don’t like lies, or consider them innocuous.
DUH.
James, sweetie, you ignored Mary’s question. She asked why, if the tape doesn’t exist, the Obama campaign has already come out with the claim that Michelle was saying “why’d he” rather than “whitey.”
You know what that is, James? That’s the Obama campaign TACITLY ADMITTING THE TAPE EXISTS– and trying to get out in front of it with their own spin.
Capiche? Comprendes?
Didn’t think so…
James, sweetie,
Now that your summer will be free from having to bash Hillary, you will be able to finally take some courses in reading comprehension and critical thinking. I am certain that your local community college has several of these courses to choose from. I am also convinced that tuition fees will be quite manageable, as most community colleges will make allowances for somebody as severely comprehension-challenged as you.
I’ve never bashed Hillary in my life, had won, I would have backed her to the hilt.
YOU idiots are the ones throwing the temper tantrum because you lost a primary. And are willing to support endless war, dead bodies, and a shredded Constitution over it.
Please post the text where Larry ever said he had seen the tape himself or possessed a copy. It’s unbelievable how you can’t discern fact from fiction. Obama said there was a tape of Michelle saying “Why d’he?” Where’s that tape?
They REALLY are this stupid and truth challenged.
I second it, you would be amazed at the level of stupidity, just amazed.
With a big mouth, a lack of intellect, and a microphone, the world can be yours, too.
Just hire a bunch of cheaters, and know it won’t last.
Hey. Sounds like the perfect Vice Presidential candidate … quick! Jim Johnson might still be taking names … we know that grandma was resurrected for at least one ad shown to “whities.”
Momma always told me stupid is as stupid does…
Have you READ Michelle’s thesis?
I have.
It was quite eye-opening.
Yes indeed. Barack’s baby’s momma doesn’t take second place to anyone on the topic of stupid, does she? And grammar? Spelling? Not to mention thought! Yeesh. So much for the value of an Ivy League education!
They obviously lowered the bar for her to get into Princeton, and she still hates America.
Larry and Susan, keep the pressure on Precious…go No Quarter!!!
The nobamabots must have their underwear in a wad about now…
The nobamabots must have their underwear in a wad about now…</i.
Are you referring to their Huggies?
CRAP CANNON.
The Obamislamists are virtually crying and enraged that the media is even mentioning the tape’s existence. Apparently the only thing the media should do is post wonderful ass kissing stories about Hussein Obama. They’re having circle jerk type fantasies that President Hussein is going to purge the press and country of anyone who says anything critical of our muslim president.
Does the tape make her look psychologically unstable, psychologically ILL, is that the greater fear?
They’re going to a lot of effort to reframe this, I’m surprised they’re handling it this way.
Nobody has to reframe a goddamned thing until there’s one iota to frame.
Poor ole Walter.
He sounds verrrrrry frightened.
October, Walter. That’s your tape date.
Poor ole Walter.
He sounds verrrrrry frightened.
October, Walter. That’s your tape date.
Does the tape make her look psychologically unstable, psychologically ILL, is that the greater fear?
Yes, rabid, frothing-at-the-mouth rage and hatred, apparently. Sounds like “whitey” is the least of it.
Totally mentally unhinged and off the charts full mode nuclear meltdown angry.
And waving her fist in the air with Mrs. Farrakhan smiling in approval.
Hey Hope…..I have an ancestor who died at Gettysburg helping Michelle’s ancestors be free of slavery.
Can I get a reparations check too?
Where is the tape? This is beyond stupid. This is giving McCain the election. Give it a rest.
We KNOW it will — but you still had to have your Obami be selected…
…don’t kill the messenger! We tried to warn you!
No, Ellen, Larry was trying very hard to get the tape released now so as not to hand the election to McCain–or to Obama, as the Vichy “Democrats” are trying so hard to do.
Thank you, Lincoln.
I’m not sure Obamabots are smart enough to figure that out on their own.
You spelled it out for them.
Now they have NO excuses.