http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-donald-trump-john-mccain-20150718-story.html
Chicago Tribune
By Tribune wire reports
July 18, 2015 10:44 PM Ames, Iowa
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticized Sen. John McCain's military record at a conservative forum Saturday, saying the party's 2008 nominee and former prisoner of war was a "war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."
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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=126752
The American Presidency Project
Donald J. Trump
XLV President of the United States: 2017 - present
488 - Remarks During a Meeting With Survivors of the Attack on the USS Arizona and an Exchange With Reporters
July 21, 2017
The President. Thank you very much. Today it's my distinct privilege to welcome to the White House three of the five living survivors of the USS Arizona. This is their first time to our Nation's Capital: Ken, Lauren, and Don. I hope this trip does honor to you and your truly heroic service, and we want to thank you, thank you all. That is so great. Thank you very much.
Colorado Springs, CO, resident Donald G. Stratton. Thank you.
The President. Thank you for giving me the nicest hardware, plus a beautiful hat. Right? Very, very beautiful. Thank you.
For these three World War II veterans, December 7, 1941, the brutal attack on Pearl Harbor is forever seared into their memories. It's also seared into America's memory, because on that grim day, this mighty Nation was roused to defend freedom itself.
Each of them has a harrowing story of courage to share. They tell us of the American spirit under fire and of the will of our people to defeat threats to our Nation and to the civilized world.
One of the heroes with us today is Ken Potts. Ken was on the shore at Pearl Harbor when the attack began. Rather than flee from the fire and the chaos, he drove his small boat into the blazing hot water. He climbed aboard the sinking Arizona, and he carried off passengers one by one.
Ken, it is an honor to meet you, an American hero whose love of our country and love of his brothers was greater than his concern for his own safety. And he paid a very big price. He's gone through life in a little bit worse condition than he could have, but he was very, very happy that he did it.
We're deeply grateful that you're here today with us nearly 76 years after that December morning. You are a living witness to history and a living example of true American courage. Ken, so how are you doing? All right?
Provo, UT, resident H. Kenton Potts. Fine.
The President. You doing good?
Mr. Potts. Good
The President. You're feeling good?
Mr. Potts. Good.
The President. You'd better believe it. [Laughter] He looks good to me. Thank you very much. Fantastic. Thank you.
Lauren Bruner and Donald Stratton are also with us. They were on the deck of the USS Arizona, doing their duty, when the ship was engulfed by massive, massive flames. They were both fortunate enough to be rescued by another courageous hero, Joe George, whose daughter, Joe Ann, is with us today. Joe was in a boat next to the USS Arizona and, when he saw several men still standing, hurled a rope onto the deck of the ship at tremendous risk to himself. Lauren and Don clung to that rope, and hand over hand, they crossed through the 70 feet of flames, burning endlessly.
The story of Lauren and Don's devotion and duty doesn't end there. Despite suffering terrible burns, still with them today, they both served in the Navy for years after, fighting in some of the greatest Pacific engagements in World War II. Lauren and Don, thank you very much for your lifetime of service and your lifetime of sacrifice. Thank you very much. Thank you.
Mr. Stratton. Thank you.
The President. Feel pretty good, right? Looks good to me.
Mr. Stratton. Well, I'm hanging in there.
The President. Have long are you together? Listen to this one, folks. [Laughter]
Mr. Stratton. Sixty-seven years. My wife.
The President. That's a long time. That's beautiful. That's beautiful. Thank you.
Mr. Stratton. You bet. Thank you.
The President. That is beautiful.
As Lauren and Don will tell you, they're here because one man, Joe George, stopped at nothing to save them. Joe George rescued six men that day. He is no longer with us, but he will always honor and remember a man—and we will always do this—whose courage knew no limits. His name will go down in history: very brave, very strong.
Joe Ann, your father makes us all proud. Thank you for inspiring our Nation by telling the story of your father: a true patriot; a well-known man; a man that goes down, really, in the history with the Arizona; and a total hero. Thank you very much. Thank you, Joe Ann. That's very nice.
Cabot, AR, resident Joe Ann Taylor. We're very proud of him.
The President. Thank you. You should be, right? Thank you, sweetheart. That's so nice. Thank you for being here. I think you loved him, huh?
Ms. Taylor. I loved him very much. And I know you understand, because you have your daughters.
The President. I do.
Ms. Taylor. You understand the relationship.
The President. That's true. Thank you, Joe Ann. Appreciate it.
There are many remarkable things that I witness as President, but nothing can take the place of meeting heroes like those with us today. In them we see the strength of our Nation, the courage of our men and women in uniform, the resolve to never accept failure, and the belief that justice will always triumph and that the America—and the America that we know and love, the United States—will always prevail. We will always prevail.
And by the way, we're building it up bigger—you know this. Lieutenant Junior Grade Matthew Previts, USN. Yes, sir.
The President. We're building it up bigger and stronger and better than ever before. Our military is very proud again, aren't they?
Lt. (J.G.) Previts. Yes, sir.
The President. They see what's happening.
Lt. (J.G.) Previts. Indeed.
The President. They're looking at the day's budget, and they're seeing lots of ships, right? [Laughter] And lots of planes. Lots of great equipment.
Lt. (J.G.) Previts. Yes, sir.
The President. Ken, Lauren, Don, and Joe Ann, I want to thank you for reminding us who we are, where we come from, and why we never, ever give up. Your story gives us all inspiration to do the right thing for our country, our countrymen, and for our God. Thank you very much for being here. Thank you very much. It's a great honor. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you all.
White House Personnel Changes
Q. Mr. President, what are you trying to accomplish with your staff shakeup today? Can you explain to us what you're trying to accomplish?
The President. Make America great again.
Q. Anything you can tell us?
Mr. Stratton. It's getting there. It's getting there.
The President. We're getting there, right?
Mr. Stratton. Oh, you bet.
The President. We're getting there fast. You want to hear this, folks. It's very interesting. Just a very beautiful statement. Very beautiful statement.
Mr. Stratton. All the people we met today and all the people who were lined along—as we went along, you could tell, with our military and everything, that this country is coming together again, and we're going to be there.
The President. That's good. And now I know why you married this guy such a long time. [Laughter] Come here. That's beautiful. Thank you.
I could never have said it that well, believe me. [Laughter] Believe me. Thank you. That's so nice. Thank you very much. Appreciate it.
[At this point, the President greeted and thanked all the participants.]
Thank you, everybody. Thank you.
NOTE: The President spoke at 2:51 p.m. in the Oval Office at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to Torrance, CA, resident Lauren F. Bruner, Grass Valley, CA, resident Louis A. Conter, and Morris, OK, resident Lonnie D. Cook, survivors of the attack on the USS Arizona.
Citation: Donald J. Trump: "Remarks During a Meeting With Survivors of the Attack on the USS Arizona and an Exchange With Reporters," July 21, 2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1917
October 1917
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following events occurred in October 1917
October 10, 1917 (Wednesday)
The first novel of the science fiction series Barsoom, A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs was published in hardcover by A.C. McClurg & Company.
from my online journal as Kerry Burgess
Also, in recent days I was seriously considering purchasing a mobile phone. That new Samsung Galaxy S7 edge phone caught my eye and I really starting to wanted to pre-order one
I haven't shopped for a mobile phone in decades though and soon rejected the cost.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20150301/jihadi_john_unmasked-28ec62f87e.html
excite news
AP Essay: 'Jihadi John' won't have the same impact unmasked
Mar 1, 3:47 PM (ET) [ Sunday 01 March 2015 ]
By GREGORY KATZ
LONDON (AP) — As "Jihadi John," he was a terrifying figure, his identity concealed by a black mask, his threatening tone backed up by his oversize, serrated knife and his willingness to use it in the name of Islamic State and its self-declared caliphate.
His professional-looking videos began with a political rant and ended with his victims lying dead at his feet, severed heads cupped in the sands of Syria. He seemed both judge and executioner, savoring each fresh kill.
After the 9/11 attacks on the U.S., many believed that terrorists would turn to crude weapons of mass destructions to attack cities. Few predicted that a man with a knife and a video production team could have such an impact using a medieval technique.
Now that he has been exposed as Mohammed Emwazi, the tall man with the British accent and mocking tone is no longer a mystery. He is revealed as one more furious young Londoner, in this case a well-educated, middle-class jihadi in his mid-20s who turned against his adopted country after he moved to Britain from Kuwait as a boy.
His unmasking may well have reduced his usefulness to the cause.
For one thing, with his identity known, and the global distribution of pictures of him looking slightly goofy in an ill-fitting Pittsburgh Pirates baseball cap, Emwazi may become less sinister to viewers, less able to send chills up the spines of people who abhor Islamic State's claim to be killing civilians in the name of Islam.
If he kills again on camera, the element of surprise will be gone and the reaction may well be, "Oh, him again."
Also, now that authorities know who he is, there is little doubt he will become the target of a drone attack if the U.S. or Britain can learn his precise whereabouts. The pressure on him could make him less valuable to Islamic State militants — perhaps even a liability.
Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism specialist with the Swedish National Defense College, said Emwazi can be expected to play a reduced role in the organization because every time he speaks on a mobile phone he risks having his location pinpointed, sparking drone fire that could kill him and others.
https://mic.com/articles/155352/new-report-finds-police-officers-abuse-databases-to-look-up-women-neighbors-celebrities
Mic
New report finds police officers abuse databases to look up women, neighbors, celebrities
By Anna Swartz Sept. 28, 2016
Police officers have easy access to law enforcement databases filled with confidential information, the kind that won't turn up in a simple Google search: criminal records, driving histories, home addresses, even a person's Social Security numbers and eye color.
The databases are meant as tools to assist in police work, but an unsettling new report from the Associated Press found that officers abuse those databases to learn about and even harass neighbors, journalists, politicians, romantic partners and more. In one case, an Ohio officer used a confidential database to look up information about an ex-girlfriend; the officer later pled guilty to stalking her.
There's no official record accounting for abuse of these databases by officers nationwide, but the AP report found 325 cases of law enforcement officers and employees who were fired, suspended or resigned over issues regarding misusing databases between 2013 and 2015, and more than 250 cases of officers and employees receiving reprimands over similar abuses.
From 9/15/1965 ( premiere US TV series "I Spy" ) To 9/27/2013 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess: The Homestead Apartments Day 1 - Spokane Valley, Washington State, United States ) is 17544 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/14/2013 is 17544 days
http://www.newsweek.com/2013/11/15/biggest-little-cia-shop-youve-never-heard-243964.html
Newsweek
IN THE MAGAZINE U.S.
THE BIGGEST LITTLE CIA SHOP YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF
BY JEFF STEIN ON 11/14/13 AT 5:36 PM
NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 9: A man walks along Wall Street in Manhattan on October 9, 2012 in New York City. State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli will release his annual report on employment and earnings October 9, in New York' City's financial industry, one of the worlds largest. While employment is still down thousands of positions since the economic crisis of 2008, DiNapoli has said that last year the sector employed 166,600 people in hedge funds, investment banks and securities trading firms. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
A few years ago, an American company placed a want ad for an aerospace engineering consultant in an Asian newspaper. It quickly drew a flurry of applicants - one of whom was just the kind of person the company was looking for: someone who worked in that country's missile program, someone who was a little sleazy, someone looking to make a little cash on the side.
This was a CIA front operation, and soon that eager applicant was supplying the spy agency with details on his country's ballistic missile program.
That kind of covert activity is a specialty of the CIA's National Resources Division, a little-known, U.S.-based component of the agency's National Clandestine Service.
The CIA's main business is sending operatives abroad to recruit spies and, especially since 9/11, chasing down terrorists for its target-hungry drone pilots. But NR, as it's known, is the agency's stay-at-home division. It's nothing like Homeland, however, with operatives running about with guns in the D.C. suburbs (though its 1960s-era predecessors once spied on antiwar and civil rights activists and recruited Cuban exiles to harass Fidel Castro). It also works with the FBI and NSA in bugging foreign diplomatic missions there.
Think of it as a more cuddly CIA. Its main business is to openly gather information from Americans who've traveled to places the CIA is interested in, particularly hard targets like North Korea, and to inveigle foreigners in the U.S. - officials, scientists and students - into spying when they return home.
For the men (and women) of the CIA's principal espionage corps, working abroad under cover, often in some of the world's nastiest neighborhoods, National Resources looks like the country club of Spy-Ville, a 9-to-5 domestic job, free of risk and stress, a refuge for the lazy, the incompetents and the burnouts.
"We look down on NR: You're a slacker, you're going home every night and watching TV, while I'm here in Moscow with the Russians looking up my ass with a microscope. We're not working for the same organization," says one veteran overseas operative, echoing a common view. "In Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, whatever, I'm not only living in rotten conditions, I've got a hostile intelligence service following me around."
Says another: "The problem is - they'll deny it - but NR's recruitments [of spies] are not to the same standards" as the rest of the clandestine service. "They're under the gun more than others to recruit by the numbers. They'll recruit a Moroccan because he's a Moroccan, not because he has access. And it's a crapshoot when they go back home.... In general, their recruitments are not viewed that positively." (The CIA declined comment for this story.)
NR's operations also irritate the turf-conscious FBI, which is in charge of domestic counterintelligence and counterterrorism and also recruits foreigners here as spies. Others argue that its intimate relations with top U.S. corporate executives willing to have their companies fronting for the CIA invites trouble at home and abroad.
All of which makes a few spy veterans question how valuable the NR is.
NR swelled with new CIA recruits after 9/11, but it wasn't supposed to be that way. At a time when then-CIA director George Tenet was boasting about dispatching CIA spies around the globe to hunt down terrorists, scores of new hires were suddenly showing up in NR's domestic offices, far from the action of places like the Middle East, Pakistan, or North Africa. As recently as 2010, a former CIA operative who writes under the pseudonym Ishmael Jones told me, "more than 90 percent" of the agency's clandestine corps were living and working "entirely within the United States."
Why? According to Jones, the agency chickened out, targeting Chinese, Russians, Pakistanis, Saudis, and other foreigners for recruitment while they were visiting the United States, rather than in their own countries where the secret police are ubiquitous.
That's half-true, says a former CIA executive with extensive foreign experience, who says the new recruits landed in NR out of a bureaucratic screwup, not because the CIA was risk-averse: "What happened was, we hired a massive amount of people, and it occurred to nobody that we needed State Department plus ambassadorial approval to assign these people to overseas embassies [under diplomatic cover]. Say you tell an ambassador we're going to assign six new people to his embassy. How is he going to explain to the local interior minister that his staff is going from 12 to 18?"
He can't, the former official says. And if he could, the local secret police would quickly take notice of the new embassy staff, putting everyone else new to the embassy under scrutiny. "So State said, 'F**k that. We have no space.'" (The problem was eventually eased by shunting undercover operatives into other U.S. facilities, he adds.)
Thus hundreds of new case officers - the agency's term for spy recruiters and handlers - were pushed into NR.
Today, according to knowledgeable sources, NR has offices in about a dozen cities, down from about three times that two decades ago because of cost-cutting, sources said. Naturally, they're located in places where foreign officials, military officers, scientists and students - as well as Americans who travel abroad on business - congregate, cities like New York, Boston, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit (where there's a large Arab population nearby) and Denver, which is such a hotbed of U.S. military and intelligence activity that the CIA considered moving NR there entirely in 2005. After much criticism, it stayed put.
In any event, since some CIA case officers discovered along the line that they weren't suited for - or really disliked - learning foreign languages and spying in hostile territory, NR was the perfect job for them.
"At a Christmas party once," recalls a retired CIA operative with extensive overseas experience who did a stint in a Midwestern city, "a guy let me know he had no interest in working in the clandestine world - 'I don't do dark street corners at night,' he said. Well, I loved dark street corners at night.... In that same office, you have people going out to meet academics and so forth and people going out the same door under an alias to recruit sources."
The FBI is said to despise the CIA's domestic recruiting operations. According to a 2005 account by The Washington Post's Dana Priest, the two sides had "highly contentious" negotiations over who could do what, "with the FBI saying that it should control and approve the CIA's domestic activities.... " That wasn't going to happen, so in the end, the two sides just promised to play nice.
But that hasn't always happened.
"There are a lot of problems with NR and the FBI," says a former senior CIA executive. "You have good one-on-one relationships, but you have terrible [FBI]-field-office-to-[CIA]-station relationships. The FBI guards its turf jealously...and NR just in general hasn't handled those relationships well." It's not uncommon for NR offices "to lie" to the FBI about operations they have going, the former CIA official says. And vice versa.
In New York City, NR operatives work with the FBI and NYPD on counterterrorism cases - the head of NYPD's intelligence division, David Cohen, is a former NR chief - but they also cultivate their own sources on Wall Street, especially looking for help keeping track of foreign money sloshing around in the global financial system, while recruiting companies to provide cover for CIA operations abroad. And once they've seen how the other 1 percent lives, CIA operatives, some say, are tempted to go over to the other side.
"New York has a particular problem, and that's attrition," says this former CIA executive. "They get a pretty nice housing allowance and all that, but you've got an officer who, as part of his portfolio, he's supposed to be meeting with Joe Blow at Morgan Stanley or Goldman Sachs. And after a year or two of this, it begins to fray. And you've got these people at Goldman Sachs who take a look at you and say, 'You know, you're a good guy, you've got all the skill sets we need, and, oh, by the way, we'll basically triple your salary.' And it's, you know, 'When do I start?' So attrition is a big problem."
Any conversation with operations veterans about NR begins with a 30-minute litany of its supposed shortcomings. But eventually, they'll grant that it has value.
The best thing NR does, they say, is "finding and cultivating contacts in the local business world," says another former CIA executive. "They look for guys who have been to China, Mongolia, Vietnam, or whatever to debrief - all the way up to arranging with a company to provide cover for us."
Former senior U.S. government officials are happy to share information with the CIA from their foreign travels, they explain. George H.W. Bush, a former CIA director who until his recent illness continued to meet with prime ministers, had "a standing appointment with the Houston station," recalls another former CIA executive. "He'd say, 'When I come back, I'll tell you everything I got.'
"And that's another reason NR stays in regular contact with top Wall Street and other corporate executives.
It also knows some titans of finance are not above being romanced. Most love hanging out with the agency's top spies - James Bond and all that - and being solicited for their views on everything from the street's latest tricks to their meetings with, say, China's finance minister.
JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sach's Lloyd Blankfein, one former CIA executive recalls, loved to get visitors from Langley.
And the CIA loves them back, not just for their patriotic cooperation with the spy agency, sources say, but for the influence they have on Capitol Hill, where the intelligence budgets are hashed out.
One New York commercial real estate tycoon, who the source asked Newsweek not to name, was "a regular contact." In exchange, he was "kept happy by bringing him down to the Farm" - the CIA's training facility in Virginia - "and letting him shoot off weapons, [and] see some of the things we're doing down there.
"And everyone," he says, "went away happy."
http://www.tv.com/shows/green-acres/oliver-buys-a-farm-53137/
tv.com
Green Acres Season 1 Episode 1
Oliver Buys A Farm
Aired Sep 15, 1965 on CBS
AIRED: 9/15/65
From: L1 - The Homestead [mailto:L1.homestead@riverstoneres.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 2:07 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Move date
Hi Kerry!
I received your email yesterday but it has been so busy that I haven't had a chance to read through it. I will keep working on it through the week :)
The person who is currently in B-304 only had a 3 month lease but they were hoping to extend it a little further into September for employment reasons. Would you be okay with moving your move date back a few days to September 27th? If not this person is okay with leaving early, it would just be ideal for them to stay that extra little bit.
Again either way is fine with us we just wanted to at least run it by you.
Thanks Kerry!
Desiree Vick
Leasing Consultant
l1.homestead@riverstoneres.com
509.928.3428 OFFICE
509.443.5871 FAX
The Homestead Apartments
15720 E 4th Ave
Spokane Valley, WA 99037
From: L1 - The Homestead [mailto:L1.homestead@riverstoneres.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 1:22 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: RE: Apt B-304
And I am going to send you over a new lease that has your move date as September 27th. Sorry to make you sign all over again. Though the current tenant is VERY grateful to have the extra few days. Thank you again!
Desiree Vick
Leasing Consultant
l1.homestead@riverstoneres.com
509.928.3428 OFFICE
509.443.5871 FAX
The Homestead Apartments
15720 E 4th Ave
Spokane Valley, WA 99037
www.thehomesteadapts.com
www.riverstoneres.com
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome [ Star Trek: The Original Series television episode ]
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
(Inside the obelisk chamber, Kirk starts to stand and is hit by and electrical discharge. He collapses across a control panel.)
Captain's Log, stardate 4842.6. First Officer Spock commanding. Numerous search parties and repeated sensor probes of the area have failed to locate Captain Kirk.
[Obelisk]
(Spock is standing where Kirk was when he disappeared.)
From 10/26/2010 ( premiere US TV series episode "Stargate Universe"::"Cloverdale" ) To 9/27/2013 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess: The Homestead Apartments Day 1 - Spokane Valley, Washington State, United States ) is 1067 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/4/1968 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Paradise Syndrome" ) is 1067 days
From 5/9/2001 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek: Voyager"::"Homestead" ) to 7/19/2007 ( Los Angeles Times reports "Plame's suit against Cheney, others dismissed, The ex-CIA operative wanted them to pay for blowing her cover." ) is 2262 days
From 7/19/2007 ( Los Angeles Times reports "Plame's suit against Cheney, others dismissed, The ex-CIA operative wanted them to pay for blowing her cover." ) to 9/27/2013 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess: The Homestead Apartments Day 1 - Spokane Valley, Washington State, United States ) is 2262 days
From 8/4/1947 ( premiere US film "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" ) To 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 17496 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/27/2013 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess: The Homestead Apartments Day 1 - Spokane Valley, Washington State, United States ) is 17496 days
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https://denver.cbslocal.com/2018/10/17/nick-hague-nasa-soyuz-astronaut/
4 CBS Denver
‘From Normal To Something Wrong Pretty Quick’: Astronaut Describes Soyuz Aborted Launch
October 17, 2018 at 3:16 pm
Nick Hague
“The first thing I noticed was being shaken fairly violently side to side as that safety system pulled us away from the rocket,” said Hague. “You’re a little bit startled. And then I saw the booster failure light inside the capsule. And at that point I realized hey we’re not going to make it to orbit today. And then your training kicks in and you’re… you’re ready to respond
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/20/nation/na-plame20
Los Angeles Times
The Nation
Plame's suit against Cheney, others dismissed
The ex-CIA operative wanted them to pay for blowing her cover.
July 20, 2007 Richard B. Schmitt Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to hold Vice President Dick Cheney and others personally responsible for damages arising from the 2003 disclosure of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates ruled that the civil suit by Plame and her husband, former envoy Joseph C. Wilson IV, was preempted by laws that protect federal workers.
He ruled that the actions of Cheney and other officials, though arguably "highly unsavory," were within the scope of their government service. Federal officials are normally granted immunity from being sued in an individual capacity as long as their actions fall within their customary duties in government.
Lea Anne McBride, Cheney's spokeswoman, said the vice president was "pleased" about the dismissal.
Lawyers for Plame and Wilson said they were disappointed but not surprised with the 41-page ruling, and said they would appeal.
The suit has paralleled a separate criminal investigation by a special prosecutor that resulted in the perjury conviction in March of former Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
Libby, whose prison sentence of 30 months in the criminal case was commuted by President Bush, was also named in the Plame suit. So were Karl Rove, Bush's political strategist, and Richard L. Armitage, former deputy secretary of State.
Rove and Armitage have acknowledged that they gave information about Plame to columnist Robert Novak for a column Novak wrote that appeared on July 14, 2003, in which Plame's identity was publicly revealed. Libby's federal trial showed that Libby also spoke with reporters about Plame and that Cheney was his source for that information.
In their lawsuit, Plame and Wilson claimed that the four men violated their constitutional rights, including their rights to privacy and equal protection under the law.
Wilson also claimed that the officials violated his free-speech rights. Plame's identity was exposed eight days after an opinion piece by Wilson appeared in the New York Times, in which he accused the Bush administration of twisting prewar intelligence in Iraq.
The trial revealed a focused campaign within Cheney's office to discredit Wilson.
"The alleged means by which defendants chose to rebut Mr. Wilson's comments and attack his credibility may have been highly unsavory," Bates wrote. "But there can be no serious dispute that the act of rebutting public criticism, such as that levied by Mr. Wilson against the Bush administration's handling of prewar foreign intelligence, by speaking with members of the press is within the scope of defendants' duties as high-level executive branch officials."
Bates, who said he was not offering an opinion on the merits of the case, said the case was also barred by other statutes that Congress had enacted to cover instances of alleged harm to CIA operatives and other federal employees.
The judge also expressed sympathy toward arguments by lawyers for Cheney and the others that allowing suits by former clandestine officers would "inevitably require judicial intrusion into matters of national security."
Lawyers for Wilson and Plame said they disagreed with Bates' reasoning. Though the judge said the plaintiffs should have sued under the federal Privacy Act, courts have interpreted that law as not covering actions by the offices of the president and vice president. The lawyers said the decision thus unfairly left private individuals without recourse against those officials.
"Our argument is, you cannot preclude a civil suit based on a statute that gives no remedy," said Erwin Chemerinsky, a Duke University law professor and a lawyer for Plame and Wilson.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039808/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Release Info
USA 4 August 1947 (Chicago, Illinois) (premiere)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039808/fullcredits
IMDb
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Full Cast & Crew
Danny Kaye ... Walter Mitty
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
Sean O'Connell: Do you mind? I'm working.
Todd, eHarmony customer support (cellular phone): This is one of the best profiles I've ever done. And our refund policy, well, we don't have one...
Walter Mitty (cellular phone): Todd, I got to go.
Walter Mitty: Sean.
Sean O'Connell: Yeah.
Walter Mitty: It's Walter. Mitty. Walter Mitty.
Sean O'Connell: Seriously?
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http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome [ Star Trek: The Original Series television episode ]
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
MIRAMANEE: Wait.
(They kneel at the sight of Kirk. Then one gets up and walks up the steps to him, and puts his hand to her forehead.)
KIRK: Who are you?
MIRAMANEE: We are your people. We've been waiting for you to come to us.
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2013 11:47 PM
To: L1 - The Homestead
Subject: RE: Low priority - background information
So anyway, I was just looking around at the news today and I looked closer at the news incident described below and I noted something interesting about that incident.
I searched for the non-specific street address they list in the news article and I saw instantly there is a doctor listed right there nearby named Dr. Jimenez.
That area also seems familiar because I think I rode bicycles through there a long time ago with a co-worker at Microsoft who had chose that route. The map shows the nearby bridge is dismantled now but I think that back in the year 2000 or so that is where we crossed over that river. I recall passing by the Boeing plant.
There's no real particular reason I am telling you any of this. This is just an example of the bizarre that I note on a regular basis and I just cannot believe I am stupid enough to believe that sort of thing is coincidence.
I am describing here now to you because of how I wrote that since I am soon to move into your community I want to be more open at the beginning about the things that I see happening around me. I don’t see myself sitting around talking to people about it and I am not really even certain at this point if I am ever going to resume making new posts on my blog.
There's really nothing you can do about it but before I leave here I just wanted to share a few insights about what I see happening around here and that I believe is a conspiracy and I still just do not really understand their objective.
My belief is that people are being managed by other people into doing the bizarre stuff I am noting in the public news and I think the better informed you are then the less likely you are to being managed by those unidentified forces and I guess their objective is simply that notion of the "hypocrisy of authority" I wrote of before. The basic example I made is that law enforcement authority in the United States are hypocrites because they do not charge their friends for committing the crimes other people commit in the United States and that get punished for.
From: L1 - The Homestead
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Friday, September 6, 2013 12:04 PM
Subject: RE: Now here's where it starts to get scary.
Hi Kerry,
I am really sorry but a few of your emails were spotted by upper management and I was told that any emails coming through our system need to be work related. I hope you understand. Please feel to contact me anytime with anything pertaining to The Homestead.
Thank you so much Kerry!
Desiree Vick
Leasing Consultant
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1971 film "The Omega Man" DVD video:
00:23:04
US Army Colonel Robert Neville: How does that grab you, Caesar? Your move, Imperator.
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http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
[Forest]
(Bare-chested Kirk is chasing laughing Miramanee through the trees.)
KIRK: Miramanee. Come here. Miramanee.
(He catches her and they kiss.)
MIRAMANEE: Each time your arms hold me is as joyous as the first.
KIRK: I'm happy. I'm so happy. If it weren't for the dreams, my mind would be completely at peace.
MIRAMANEE: I thought you no longer had the dreams, that you no longer saw the strange lodge which moves through the sky.
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http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
MIRAMANEE: Perhaps you would like to bathe now.
KIRK: Miramanee, tell me about the Wise Ones.
MIRAMANEE: Tell? But a god knows everything.
KIRK: Not this one. Tell me.
MIRAMANEE: The Wise Ones brought us here from far away. They chose a medicine chief to keep the secret of the temple and to use it when the sky darkens.
KIRK: Secrets of the temple.
MIRAMANEE: There are no lacings. (his uniform top) How is this thing removed?
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
[Lodge]
ELDER: Miramanee has said that you appeared to her and to her handmaiden from the walls of the temple, just as our legend foretells. We do not doubt the words of our priestess, but these are troubled times, and we must be sure.
KIRK: I'll answer anything I can, but as I told you, many things are strange to me.
SALISH: He knows nothing of our danger. How could he save us?
ELDER: It is against custom to interrupt a tribal elder at council, even for the medicine chief.
SALISH: Elder, words will not save us when the skies darken. We must be certain. I say he must prove he is a god.
ELDER: Our skies have darkened three times since the harvest. The last time worst of all. Our legend predicts such danger and promises that the Wise Ones who planted us here will send a god to save us, one who can rouse the temple spirit and make the sky grow quiet. Can you do this?
KIRK: I came from the temple, as Miramanee said, and it was a beginning for me here. But I came from the sky, too. Only I can't remember. I can't remember.
http://gateworld.net/universe/s2/transcripts/205.shtml
GateWorld
STARGATE UNIVERSE
CLOVERDALE
EPISODE NUMBER - 205
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 10.26.10
On the alien planet we get another look at the growths on Scott's arm. It looks as if a blue fungus has covered his upper forearm. He is now lying still with his eyes closed and T.J., wearing medical gloves, has her fingers pressed to the pulse on his neck.
JOHANSEN: OK, he's out again. Guys, we can move him.
(Standing up, she moves out of the way as the men move towards him. Chloe goes over to T.J.)
ARMSTRONG: You'll be able to help him once we're back on the ship, right?
RUSH: We can't risk taking him on board. It's too dangerous.
ARMSTRONG: What?!
JOHANSEN: Rush is right. You saw how quickly the organism spreads on contact. It could take over the whole ship.
ARMSTRONG: He can't stay here, either!
GREER: Chloe.
(He hands her his rifle and bends down to Scott, then looks at Eli and Volker who are also bent down.)
GREER: Are you ready? One, two, three.
(Between them, they lift Scott's unconscious body, Greer holding his shoulders, Eli his legs and Dale supporting his torso and backside. The girls grab the bags containing T.J.'s medical kit and other equipment.)
GREER: We got you.
(Eli nods.)
GREER: Go.
(Eli turns and begins to stumble in the direction of the Stargate. Volker and Greer follow, Ronald encouraging the younger man to lead them away more quickly.)
GREER: Come on, come on, move your feet, Eli, come on.
WALLACE: OK!
(Rush takes his bag over to the girls for them to carry.)
RUSH: I'll run ahead, contact Destiny, try to get them to send back medical supplies. If I'm fast, I'll get back before you reach the Gate, OK?
JOHANSEN: Yeah-yeah, good, go.
(Rush jogs towards the men carrying Scott.)
RUSH: Eli.
WALLACE: Yeah. Whoa, stop.
(The men stop momentarily so that Rush can catch them up.)
RUSH: Remote.
(He digs in Eli's jacket pocket to get the remote device from it.)
RUSH: OK.
(He chases off as the others start to stumble onwards with their load. Somewhere nearby, something hisses and rattles ominously.)
CLOVERDALE. Matt leads the others into the family house. He looks around the kitchen appreciatively as he passes through.
MATT: Wow. Oh, this hasn't changed one bit!
(Grinning, he continues into the sitting room. Eli follows him, camera raised to his shoulder as he films.)
ELI: Matt is clearly moved seeing the old homestead again.
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http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome [ Star Trek: The Original Series television episode ]
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
[Obelisk chamber]
KIRK: (dazed and confused) Where am I? What place is this? What are these? (phaser and communicator) I feel should know. They're familiar and yet unfamiliar. How did I get here? Who am I? Try to remember.
(He finds a flight of stairs and walks up
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1980/02/19/down-on-the-farm-learning-how-to-spy-for-the-cia/fbe2f23c-ab8d-4fba-aab2-1c1da55f1c53
The Washington Post
Down on 'The Farm': Learning How to Spy for the CIA
By Ted Gup February 19, 1980
The courses have leaned to the exotic:
Code work, lock picking (called "Picks and Locks"), opening packages without detection ("Flaps and Seals"), how to evade hostile pursuers ("Defensive Driving") and arranging pick-up of clandestine material ("Drops").
For nearly 25 years, neophyte spies have left Washington to attend what some call Spy U., a training base here operated by the Central Intelligence Agency to prepare its agents for real-life cloak-and-dagger work overseas.
The heavily-forested, 10,000-acre site is secretive, but hardly remote. Known as Camp Peary to outsiders and "The Farm" to CIA insiders, the base is a $37 million complex nestled in deer-filled woods and tidal recesses within minutes of two of Virginia's biggest tourist attractions -- Colonial Williamsburg and Busch Gardens.
But if few of the area's, one million annual visitors know Camp Peary exists, even fewer local residents -- used to restricted areas at the dozen-odd military bases in Tidewater -- show much curiosity about its role.
The CIA prefers it that way.
"You can't conduct that kind of training in the middle of G.W.," says William Colby, the former CIA director who visited the facility and lectured there during his years as the agency's chief.
Chain-link fence and stern-gazed military sentries keep away unwelcome outsiders, although local repairmen occassionally are premitted on the base to perform maintenance work. When a local softball team sponsored by Lee Williams Exxon in Williamsburg played Camp Peary recently, the squad was met at the gate and accompained to a playing field. The visitors won both games of a doubleheader, then were promptly escorted back off the base.
Like a longtime neighbor who keeps to himself, Camp Peary has gone about its quiet business since the days when white-haired, pipe-smoking Allen Dulles, then the CIA's director, established it to provide paramilitary training agency operatives.
Before that, it was a prisoner-of-war amp for captured German soldiers, and before that a training base for Naval construction battalions (the Seabees). Ellis Bingley remembers when it was just a sleepy little Tidewater community known as Magruder.
Bingley lived in a house there from 1921 to 1943. In 1976, he was permitted to visit his old house under military escort, but was not allowed to enter.
"It's a big secret. Hasn't much leaked out about it. News is right scarce," say Bingley.
J. Patrick McGarvey, in a 1972 book called "The CIA: The Myth and the Madness," described an ornate mock border scene on The Farm, "replete with high barbed wire fences, plowed strips, watchtowers, roving patrols and searchlights." The recruits' mission was "to case the place" undetected.
Aerial photographs, taken by local authorities for tax purposes and a available to the public, show widely scattered clusters of barracks and guest houses, an enormous warehouse, a gymnasium, target ranges and a long, private air strip with a huge "R" for "Restricted" painted on it.
But since the mid-1970s, paramilitary activities at the Farm have been on the decline. Today the basic training courses continue, but there are also top-secret conferences and "think tank" sessions there.
There are occasional signs of humor. A movie shown recently at the base theater was "The In-Laws," a spoof about a CIA agent's adventures in a fictitious Latin American country. One alumnus of the Farm, who asked not to be named, talked of encountering new recruits wearing trench coats in the middle of summer because they thought it would fit the CIA image.
Whatever the base's business, many civilians in the Newport News-Williamsburg area, which is thickly populated by retired military officers, refuse even to acknowledge that Camp Peary is run by the CIA.
"If it is, it is," says Williamsburg city manager Frank Force. "We try to be good neighbors. We're quite patriotic here."
Ostensibly, Camp Peary is a Defense Department -- not CIA -- installation known as the Armed Forces Experimental Training Activity. It is carried on the Navys inventory of bases, but the Navy refers calls to the Defense Department. Defense says only that it is "top secret." c
For the insatiably curious, Camp Peary has a public affairs officer, John Turnicky, to handle outsiders' inquiries. Contacted recently, Turnicky said there was nothing he could reveal.
"My job's very enjoyable. It's very simple. Goodby," he said politely, hanging up the phone.
from my online journal as Kerry Burgess
December 16, 2017 at 6:42 pm Pacific Time USA
I haven't been to downtown Spokane's Riverfront Park very often. The first time I can specifically recall being there was the first day of Autumn in 2015
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/09/raymond-why-dont-you-pass-time-by.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 12:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003)
Radio: This is an official Colonial government broadcast. All ministers and officials should now go to Case Orange. Repeat: This is an official Colonial government broadcast. All ministers and officials should now go to Case Orange.
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http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/09/raymond-why-dont-you-pass-time-by.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 12:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
Mission Impossible
Pilot
Hello.
I'm looking for a special recording.
Collector series.
I don't know.
We have some record players in stock.
I'll take care of the gentleman, Suzie.
Would you get me last week's invoices, please? Exactly what recording were you looking for? Pavane in G by Ernest Vone and the Pansymphonic Orchestra.
1963.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
Good morning, Mr Briggs.
http://www.tv.com/shows/mission-impossible/pilot-69649/trivia/
tv.com
Mission: Impossible Season 1 Episode 1
Pilot
Aired Saturday 9:00 PM Sep 17, 1966 on CBS
Quotes
Recorded Voice: Good morning, Mr. Briggs. General Rio Dominguez, the dictator of Santa Costa, makes his headquarters in the Hotel Nacionale. We've learned that two nuclear warheads furnished to Santa Costa by an enemy power are contained in the hotel vault. Their use is imminent. Mr. Briggs, your mission, should you decide to accept it, would be to remove both nuclear devices from Santa Costa. As always, you have carte blanche as to method and personnel, but of course should you or any member of your IM Force be caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. As usual, this recording will decompose one minute after the breaking of the seal. I hope it's "welcome back," Dan. It's been a while.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Final Countdown (1980)
Release Info
USA 1 August 1980
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0288477/releaseinfo
IMDb
Ghost Ship (2002)
Release Info
USA 22 October 2002 (Westwood, California) (premiere)
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-06/news/mn-1284_1_shuttle-flight
Los Angeles Times
NASA's New Endeavour Faces Challenging, Potentially Dangerous Flight : Science: Shuttle voyage will include spacewalks and a satellite-rescue mission. The seven-person crew will also practice construction in orbit.
May 06, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
WASHINGTON — The nation's newest space shuttle, Endeavour, is scheduled to lift off at 4:06 p.m. PDT Thursday on its maiden voyage and one of the most challenging missions in the 11-year history of the shuttle program.
If things go as planned, Endeavour's seven-day flight will include a record three spacewalks, the delicate and potentially dangerous rescue and relaunch of a $150-million communications satellite, and a practice run at assembling parts of the planned space station Freedom 200 nautical miles above the Earth.
In addition, the six men and one woman aboard will test the latest devices that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has devised for its four-shuttle fleet.
Originally scheduled for Monday evening, the beginning of Endeavour's maiden voyage was moved back three days until Thursday to permit a daylight launch. Officials said Tuesday that poor weather conditions could lead to a further delay. Thunderstorms expected Thursday put the chance of launch at 30%, and Friday's weather could present a similar problem, they said.
With Endeavour's scheduled launch coming as Congress renews the debate over the future of America's manned space program, "the general theme of this mission seems to be the human role in space," said John E. Pike, director of the space policy project for the American Federation of Scientists. "To demonstrate or evaluate just what you can do with people that you can't do some other way, I think that's what this . . . is all about."
Endeavour's mission, the 47th shuttle flight since Columbia was launched in 1981, is of particular interest to Californians. The new shuttle's pilot, Air Force Lt. Col. Kevin P. Chilton, 36, grew up in Westchester and graduated from St. Bernard High School in Playa del Rey.
In Huntington Beach, engineers at McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Co., which is building a major portion of the planned, $30-billion space station, are relying on the assembly practice sessions to help them evaluate procedures and complete final, detailed design work.
Named after the 18th-Century ship that was the first command of Capt. James Cook, the British explorer, the $2-billion Endeavour replaces the shuttle Challenger, which exploded in 1986, killing seven crew members and stalling the U.S. manned space program for more than two years.
Completed a year ago by workers at Rockwell International in Palmdale, Endeavour has a host of new features intended to improve navigation, foster safer landings and permit longer flights.
The most difficult task the crew will attempt is the rescue of Intelsat VI, a 9,000-pound, 17 1/2-foot-tall, 12-foot-wide communications satellite. It was lost in a useless, low-Earth orbit in March, 1990, when a booster rocket failed to fire.
Intelsat--the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization--is a consortium of 122 nations that owns and operates a 17-satellite system that transmits television, telephone, facsimile, data and telex signals. The organization is paying NASA $93 million for the rescue operation.
If successful, the mission will put the satellite in position in time to transmit images of the 1992 Summer Olympics from Barcelona, Spain, to points around the world.
The operation will begin hours after launch, when satellite controllers at Intelsat headquarters in Washington start maneuvering Intelsat VI into an orbit 200 nautical miles above the Earth, 100 miles lower than its current flight path.
Four days into the mission, Endeavour's commander, Navy Capt. Daniel C. Brandenstein, 49, will move the shuttle into rendezvous position. As the shuttle approaches, astronauts Pierre J. Thuot, 36, a Navy commander, and Rick Hieb, also 36, will begin the first of the mission's three spacewalks.
Thuot will ride the shuttle's mechanical arm toward the slowly rotating satellite. In one of the trickiest maneuvers of the mission, Thuot will attach a "capture bar" to the bottom of the satellite, secure the bar with a special tool and then manually halt the satellite's rotation with a wheel built into the bar.
Astronaut Bruce E. Melnick, 42, a U.S. Coast Guard commander working inside the shuttle, will use the mechanical arm to pull the satellite into the cargo bay. There, Thuot and Hieb will attach the satellite to a 23,000-pound, solid-fuel rocket motor carried aloft by the shuttle.
Then the satellite and its new motor will be jettisoned from the spacecraft by four large springs. When the rocket motor is fired, it will propel the satellite into a transition orbit 45,000 miles above the Earth, before setting it down in a permanent position about 23,000 miles above the Atlantic.
This part of the mission is particularly dangerous, Pike said. "Any (spacewalk) is risky in the sense that deep-sea diving is risky," he said. "You're in a very hostile environment, and there's not much between you and that hostile environment. You have all of the same pressure problems . . . plus you have space debris to worry about."
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-06/news/mn-1284_1_shuttle-flight/2
Los Angeles Times
(Page 2 of 2)
NASA's New Endeavour Faces Challenging, Potentially Dangerous Flight : Science: Shuttle voyage will include spacewalks and a satellite-rescue mission. The seven-person crew will also practice construction in orbit.
May 06, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
The mass and rotation of the satellite add to the potential problems, Pike said. "It's kind of like floating around a swimming pool with a bunch of elephants."
After they deploy the satellite, Endeavour's astronauts will twice more venture outside, five and six days into the mission, to practice techniques that will be used beginning in late 1995 to assemble space station Freedom in orbit.
Astronauts Kathryn G. Thornton, 39, and Thomas D. Akers, a 40-year-old Air Force lieutenant colonel, will team up for the second spacewalk, while Thuot and Hieb will handle the third.
During the spacewalks, the astronauts will build a pyramid intended to simulate a section of the 300-foot-long aluminum truss structure that will serve as the backbone of the space station. They will use the pyramid as a substitute for the orbiting station and practice the complex berthing maneuvers that will be required when the shuttle brings up additional pieces of the station for assembly in space.
The crew will also test five devices intended to assist future astronauts in working outside the space shuttle and the space station.
Engineers at McDonnell Douglas Space Systems are particularly interested in the ability of the astronauts "to be able to position that (pyramid) in the correct place, to be able to dock it and mate it to the other station component," said Bob Overmyer, McDonnell Douglas' director of operations for the space station project.
In addition, Overmyer said, engineers are "eagerly awaiting information to come back to us on the preference on the size and shape of the hand holds, for better gripping . . . so we can get on with our design."
1980 film "The Final Countdown" DVD video:
US Navy Captain Matthew Yelland - USS Nimitz CVN 68 commanding officer: Dan, what's this all about? What do you make of it?
US Navy Commander Dan Thurman - USS Nimitz CVN 68 executive officer: Nostalgia broadcasting on the Armed Forces band.
Captain Yelland: Broadcasting after a strike? Nah.
Warren Lasky - United States Department of Defense civilian contractor employee: Excuse me. Captain?
Captain Yelland: Yes?
Warren Lasky: Sir, is it possible that this could be part of some secret naval maneuver?
Captain Yelland: Course not.
Dan Thurman: There are a few people who'd like to watch us work under pressure.
Captain Yelland: What are you saying, Dan?
Dan Thurman: The Department of Defense sent him out here. Maybe they wanted to give him something to watch.
Captain Yelland: Now, that makes more sense than anything else so far.
Warren Lasky: Now, wait a minute, gentlemen. You may be the victims of some kind of joke. But whether the Pentagon's behind it or the Kremlin or some little green men from Mars, I promise you, I'm as much in the dark about it as you are.
US Navy lieutenant Perry: Captain, we're getting something you might want to hear.
Captain Yelland: In the Plot Room.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/will-obama-refight-reagans-war-with-iran-117587_Page3.html#.V7hpSpgrKUk
POLITICOMAGAZINE
What Obama Should Learn From Reagan’s War With Iran
It’s been nearly 30 years since the U.S. Navy fought Iran in the Persian Gulf. How much longer will that peace last?
By DAVID B. CRIST
May 03, 2015
The missile boat Joshan advanced toward the American armada. Commanded by Captain Abbas Mallek, the Joshan served as an Iranian squadron flagship and was a near legendary boat in the Iranian Navy, having executed some of the first attacks on Iraq at the outset of their war. The Joshan closed to within 12 miles of the much larger American force, and Mallek fired off the sole remaining anti-ship missile in Iran’s inventory. The missile came within 100 feet of striking the large American cruiser USS Wainwright. For this act of bravery, Mallek lost his leg and half his crew as the Joshan disintegrated in a barrage of American missiles.
By the end of the day, the U.S. had lost one Marine attack helicopter and its two-man crew. Iran had lost half its operational navy and at least 60 servicemen.
The last act of this drama turned into a tragedy. On July 3, 1988, the USS Vincennes, commanded by an aggressive captain, instigated a fight with Revolutionary Guard boats inside Iranian territorial waters. In the middle of this firefight created by the Americans, an Iranian passenger jet took off from Bandar Abas, oblivious to the battle ranging on the water below. Due to incompetence and procedural errors, the Vincennes mistook the Airbus for an Iranian fighter. She launched two missiles, downing the airliner and killing 290 innocent civilians. In the aftermath, the U.S. government was less than honest about what had transpired and American culpability. (Amazing, the captain of the Vincennes still received a Legion of Merit medal for his time in command.)
Later that month, Iran finally accepted a ceasefire with Iraq, ending the war and the naval conflict with the U.S. But Iran has never forgotten the Vincennes. The current commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Navy, Admiral Ali Fadavi, commanded the Iranian vessels during the Vincennes engagement more than a quarter-century ago. He has never forgiven the Americans for what he sees as a deliberate act of terrorism. Why else, he’s said, would you give a medal to a captain who shot down an airliner if it was not deliberate?
***
Fadvai is hardly alone in the Iranian leadership in remembering the Tanker War—that conflict began an intense study of the U.S. military for many of today’s leadership. The lessons of their youth have combined with their observations from two American wars against Iraq, convincing Iranian leaders that they cannot contend with the Americans in a large, conventional war. However, their strategy of the 1980s had been a correct one. Mines, swarms of small boats and land-based cruise missiles could overwhelm the much larger and sophisticated American warships in the confined waters of the Gulf. One Iranian admiral correctly observed that a lone missile from the Joshan had nearly knocked out the largest U.S. warship in the Persian Gulf. More small boats armed with missiles, they surmised, would have made the battle a costly one for the U.S. Navy.
Today, Iran’s entire military strategy centers on defeating the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf. What started as an improvised mosquito fleet of small boats has grown into a force of some 3,000 small boats, now reinforced by sophisticated anti-ship missiles and wake-homing torpedoes. During the last conflict with the U.S, Iran used five or six oil platforms as patrol bases from which to conduct hit-and-run attacks; today more than 150 have been identified and linked with the Revolutionary Guard. Iran currently possesses between 3,000 and 5,000 mines, many forward-deployed to be quickly laid against Gulf Arab or American targets.
Iran has refined its tactics by using the U.S Navy itself as the guinea pigs. Iranian boats frequently conduct high-speed approaches on U.S. warships. One such incident in January 2008 nearly resulted in a shooting war as three American ships, led by the USS Hopper, believed they were under attack from Iranian mines and fast boats. Only the cool head of a senior naval commander prevented combat.
While Iran studied the lessons of its conflict with the United States, the Pentagon paid far less attention than it should have. Few in uniform took Iran’s military threat seriously. I saw this apathy firsthand in a 2009 briefing I gave on Iranian mining operations during the 1980s. A senior intelligence officer—noticeably displaying a lack of interest in history—openly dismissed the idea of Iranian mining. In another case, one three-star quipped that destroying the Iranian small boats would be like “clubbing baby seals.”
But a new generation of officers, battle-hardened by insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, grasped Iran’s unconventional strategy. As one Army general said to me, “Iran’s naval mines in the Gulf shipping lanes are the just the watery version of the IEDs we faced on the main roads of Iraq.” Beginning in 2010, under Marine General James Mattis and his successor Army General Lloyd Austin, the military revamped its thinking about Iran, supported by more enlightened Navy leadership. A new approach emerged as CENTCOM built a joint force tailored to challenge Iran’s ability to control the Persian Gulf, surprising similar to those employed in 1987 as once again the U.S. military re-discovered its own history.
Following new sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program, Iran again threatened to mine the Strait of Hormuz in July 2012. Its senior naval commander, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, warned that closing the international waterway would be “easier than drinking a glass of water.” CENTCOM moved quickly to counter Iran’s move, deploying more ships and convening an international mine-clearing exercise as a signal of American resolve. However, like Colin Powell after the Roberts mining, Obama’s National Security Advisor Tom Donilon urged caution again concerned about starting a war. He pulled in the reins on CENTCOM, greatly restricting what actions local commanders could take without White House approval. The episode passed without further escalation.
While much has changed in the Middle East since the last conflict with Iran, this latest dustup with Iran in the Strait shows the continuing tension between Washington and Tehran. Despite the prospect of a historic nuclear agreement, Obama may find that fighting and talking frequently go hand in hand, as other presidents have learned before him.
A nuclear agreement does not lessen the need for military preparedness. The two nations have different strategic goals in the region. Tehran rejects the current status quo of American preeminence and interprets the U.S. 5th Fleet in the Persian Gulf and the U.S. military bases in the region as aimed against Tehran. The wars in Syria and Yemen have now put the two nations on opposing sides of ongoing conflicts. As the threat of the Islamic State recedes, Iran will correctly view U.S. support as shifting back to the removal of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Washington is equally hostile to Iranian attempts to expand its influence across the Middle East. Tehran’s support for Hezbollah, Shiite militias in Iraq, and the Houthis in Yemen is viewed as a threat to Israel and Saudi Arabia. Any or all these could lead to a military confrontation, one likely to be played out again between old foes in the Persian Gulf.
And it could all begin with a single boarding incident gone wrong.
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1980 film "The Final Countdown" DVD video:
USS Nimitz CVN 68 operations officer: Sir, I think you ought to see these aerial reconnaissance photographs of Pearl Harbor.
US Navy Captain Matthew Yelland - USS Nimitz CVN 68 Commanding Officer: Turn that off!
USS Nimitz CVN 68 operations officer: Yes, sir.
Captain Yelland: That'll be all. You.
US Navy Commander Dan Thurman - USS Nimitz CVN 68 Executive Officer: It's not Pearl Harbor.
Captain Yelland: Sure as hell is.
USS Nimitz CVN 68 operations officer: Look at that old battlewagon.
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- posted by Kerry Burgess 10:32 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 18 October 2018
