Operation Watchtower

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073802/quotes

IMDb


Three Days of the Condor (1975)

Quotes


Higgins: Hey, Turner! How do you know they'll print it?










http://archive.mrc.org/campaign/04/rather.asp

MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER


"Tell the Truth!" 2004

Dan Rather in Crisis

Updated September 29, 2004

On September 8, 2004, Dan Rather cited “exclusive information, including documents” to justify major CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes stories alleging that George W. Bush shirked his duties when he was in the Texas Air National Guard in the 1960s and 1970s. Within a few hours of those documents being posted on CBS News’s Web site, however, typography experts voiced skepticism that the documents had actually originated with their alleged author and Bush’s former commanding officer, the late Lt. Colonel Jerry Killian. As the evidence mounted, Rather stubbornly clung to the idea that his story was bulletproof, and he derided critics as partisans and Internet rumormongers.










http://nypost.com/2004/09/10/guard-memo-hoax-big-questions-on-rathers-bush-slam-report/

NEW YORK POST


GUARD-MEMO ‘HOAX’ – BIG QUESTIONS ON RATHER’S BUSH-SLAM REPORT

By Deborah Orin September 10, 2004 4:00am

A storm erupted last night over whether CBS anchor Dan Rather fell for a hoax or had authentic documents when he challenged President Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard this week.

The son of the late officer who purportedly wrote the memos questioning Bush’s performance challenged their authenticity – as did another officer who served with him, and several document experts.

“I am upset because I think it is a mixture of truth and fiction here,” said Gary Killian, son of Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, who died in 1984.

Gary Killian said one of the memos signed by his dad looks legitimate but questioned the legitimacy of another unsigned memo titled “CYA” that speaks of pressure to “sugarcoat” Bush’s performance in August 1973.

“It just wouldn’t happen. The only thing that can happen when you keep secret files like that are bad things . . . No officer in his right mind would write a memo like that,” said Gary Killian, who served in the Guard with his dad and retired as a captain in 1991.

Rather claimed Wednesday on “60 Minutes II” that CBS was told the memos suggesting Bush ignored orders to take a physical came from Jerry Killian’s personal files but Gary Killian said his dad didn’t regularly bring work home.

The personnel chief in Killian’s unit in the 1970s, Rufus Martin, said he thinks Rather fell for a hoax – “They look like forgeries to me. I don’t think Killian would do that and I knew him for 17 years.”

CBS stood by its story but declined to specify who supplied the documents or name the experts who vetted their authenticity except to say they were “thoroughly investigated by independent experts.”

The authenticity questions erupted on the Internet, starting with Powerlineblog.com, and several documents experts said the memos are dubious because they look like contemporary, computer-generated documents










http://observer.com/2004/09/rather-a-little-late/

OBSERVER


Rather: A Little Late

By NYO Staff 09/27/04

“I have never been more confident of a story in my life.” So said Dan Rather, the face of CBS News for the past quarter century, moments after 60 Minutes broadcast its now-infamous report on Sept. 8 showing memos purportedly written by the late Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian which proved that George W. Bush had received preferential treatment in the National Guard in the early 1970’s. And while questions about the validity of the documents immediately erupted on the Internet










http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=9782

The American Presidency Project

Dwight D. Eisenhower

XXXIV President of the United States: 1953-1961

263 - Statement by the President Requesting Reports to the FBI of Violations of the Atomic Energy Act.

December 15, 1953

ON SEPTEMBER 6, 1939, January 8, 1943, and July 24, 1950, Presidential Directives were issued requesting all enforcement officers, both Federal and state, to report promptly all information relating to espionage, sabotage, subversive activities and related matters to the nearest field representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is charged with investigating all violations of the Atomic Energy Act, including the illegal export or import of fissionable material, the illegal possession or transportation of fissionable material and the illegal production, transfer, or possession of any equipment or device utilizing fissionable material or atomic energy as a military weapon.."Fissionable material" means plutonium, uranium-235 or other material which the Atomic Energy Commission has determined to be capable of releasing substantial quantities of energy through nuclear chain reaction. I am requesting that all enforcement officers, both Federal and state, report all information relating to violations of the Atomic Energy Act to the nearest field representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

I suggest that all patriotic organizations and individuals likewise report all such information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the same manner.










http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)


[Montana settlement]

LAFORGE (OC): Doctor!

COCHRANE: Yeah.

LAFORGE: Would you mind taking a look at this?

COCHRANE: Yeah.

LAFORGE: I've tried to reconstruct the intermix chamber from what I remember at school. Tell me if I got it right.

COCHRANE: School? You learned about this in school?

LAFORGE: Oh yeah. 'Basic Warp Design' is a required course at the Academy. The first chapter is called 'Zefram Cochrane'.

COCHRANE: Well, it looks like you got it right.

BARCLAY: Commander. This is what we're thinking of using to replace the damaged warp plasma conduit.

(Geordi uses his ocular implant to examine a spiral of copper tubing)

LAFORGE: Yeah. Yeah, that's good, but you need to reinforce this copper tubing with a nano-polymer.

BARCLAY: Doctor Cochrane. I know this sounds silly, but can I shake your hand? ...Thank you, Doctor. I can't tell you what an honour it is to work with you on this project.

LAFORGE: Reg!

BARCLAY: I never imagined I'd be meeting the man who invented the warp drive.

LAFORGE: Reg!

BARCLAY: I'm sorry. Right. ...Thanks.

COCHRANE: Do they have to keep doing this?

LAFORGE: It's just a little hero worship, Doctor. To tell you the truth I can't say I blame them. We all grew up hearing about what you did. Or what you're about to do.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 3:48 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 16 October 2015