September 30, 2004

Like most of the people connected with the White House, I watched the first debate. I know from the inside that Bush was heavily prepared by his staff but they cannot overcome his chronic inability to react to any hostile questions. Kerry is a polished speaker and Bush is not. He may come across in Iowa as a forceful and brave leader but to me, and I do not like him at all, he came across as a very petulant man who had become used to having his way and goes into a snit when he is crossed. Also, it’s known around the Monkey Palace that Bush carries a small prompter, cunningly disguised as a hearing aid, so at press conferences his handlers, comfortably behind the scenes, can whisper answers to him.

Sometime, for technical reasons, their answers are garbled and that is one of the reasons he says so many unintelligible things…he didn’t understand his handler’s instructions. However, considering how much gets leaked from around here, one source told me that the Kerry people were aware of this secret prompter and electronically blocked it, causing Bush to shake his head because all he was getting was static as his frantic aides tried to slip answers to him. If this is true, Bush and Rove are being paid back in their own coin! (Redacted) told me and (redacted) that when the debate was over, Bush had to be medicated, he was so angry. He was shaking so badly he spilled the contents of a cup of coffee. It’s a given that I don’t like Bush. He is not all there most of the time and simply cannot think quickly or effectively and, in truth, I can feel sorry for him. He knows what to say but it is impossible for him to say it! He struggles to find what he knows is a good answer but the words will not come out. I understand that when he was drinking, he could be entertaining and quick but now that he is off the sauce (and rumors that Bush is boozing it up again are false. He is medicated but I am positive he does not drink) he has a real problem with responses. Anyone who saw Fahrenheit 911 and watched his reaction to the news of the WTC attack will recognize this.

On a personal level, I certainly have the capacity to sympathize with Bush but his stubbornness, inability to admit error coupled with his piss-poor reaction times do not make him an effective leader, especially in such dangerous times. He is incapable of cutting our losses and getting out of a totally unproductive Iranian venture. His gross hubris and inability to admit error precludes this. The draft issue is continuing to boil up but no one here wants to get within ten feet of it. Will there be a draft? everyone asks. All of the machinery is right in place but Bush can’t have this unless there is a serious national emergency. It would be the kiss of death for Congress to push this through, especially in an election year. One of Bush’s top aide’s secretaries said that Bush is praying “real heard” for another Pearl Harbor so he “can take real control over the destiny of America” and achieve Manifest Destiny, something that McKinley tried over a hundred years ago and failed to accomplish. In an age of global cooperation, Bush is dragging us back into the McGuffy Reader Era of Isolationism and Jingoism. And we will all pay for it. Through a front, Bush bought a tica or coffee plantation in Costa Rica where he can retire and not worry about being shot at. Around here, everyone is really scared that the Arabs will blow up the White House with them in it. If they tried, there would be damned little to stop them. Our intelligence agencies and law enforcement groups are as useless as tits on a boar pig and spend most of their time grabbing for more power and dissing their rivals to worry about the rest of us. And we will pay for that, too…

September 27, 2004

One of the real hot spots of this campaign is the draft issue. People are walking on eggs here in the Monkey Palace. On the one hand, the President has set up all the machinery for a draft and plans to push it through when and if he gets a second term. Rove and his boys would like to put a spin on this and have their toadies in the press deny it but too many people are in the know so their best bet is to hunker down, invent something of superficial interest they can flog in the press until November and hope to God the draft issues doesn’t spill over its banks before then. Someone suggested, only partially in jest, that terrorists should kidnap one or both of the nasty Bush brats and threaten to cut off their heads! This is a standard joke around here but look for the truth in the jest, kids. They are frantic here to refocus public attention on unimportant issues like the Scott Peterson trial or the Florida Hurricanes. One of the more entertaining letters than came in here was from some religious nut (Bush loves them and sucks up to their leaders on a daily basis) that said that God was punishing Florida for stealing the last election!~ Someone made a copy of this and posted it in the mess. It was ripped down by furious Secret Service agents who are even now dusting it for fingerprints but a number of people saw it and I suspect the same mischief-maker will put up another copy soon…

September 20, 2004

This afternoon, while schmoozing a minor aide, I saw a copy of a Pentagon memo concerning the forthcoming draft. I could not copy this and it took me about twenty minutes, in brief segments, to read it through. The White House and the Pentagon have worked out a plan to call up all reservists and National Guard units if and when Bush is reelected. The moment that the election results are poured in concrete, orders, now drawn up and waiting, will be issued throughout the United States. I am not speaking of a few units but all US Guard and Reserve units. On the same subject, the pending Universal Draft is also a done deal. Everything is place awaiting the President’s signature. This is planned for June of 2005 and contains some real shockers.

Women will be called up as well as men. There will be absolutely no deferments of any kind permitted. Persons with medical problems such as diabetes, cardio-vascular disease, chronic asthma, physical deformities such as a club foot or hunch back, vision problems, etc. will be called up!

If a draftee has a medical problem but can move around, they are subject to the draft but will be assigned to non-military positions such as clerk-typists, maintenance positions and so on. There will be absolutely no deferments for someone with a family to support or who is enrolled in any kind of a school. Students may be permitted to complete their semester and will then be compelled to report at once to their nearest enlistment center.

For example, as I read it, an 18 year old girl with two children and no husband to support her will be subject to the draft. There was a discussion about what to do with the children and if the family cannot raise them during the draftee’s tour of duty, then some kind of Federal Child Care center will have to suffice. The nominal ages covered are from 18 through 26 but a special exception is now in the orders for anyone with what the Army calls “technical skills” such as proficiency in computers, foreign language skills and so on. These poor jerks are subject to the draft until they are 35! Again, no deferments will be allowed unless the subject is already working for a government agency and is certified by his superiors as “vital” to whatever “war effort” the Army deems important.

These orders, note, came from the desk of George W. Bush to Rumsfeld but Bush will cite a vague“national crisis” to cover his useless ass. The top brass at the Pentagon are having fits about this. Why? Because for decades they have been downsizing, closing bases and so on. I have been told by Pentagon people that they would have no place to put the anticipated great flood of draftees if and when the draft is activated. One said to me, “Where the fuck do these dimbulbs expect us to house them? In local hotels?”

September 5, 2004

More grist for your mill. Great concern here about the terrible incident in Russia and the dead children. The people here are afraid that Putin will overreact and launch a punitive attack on the people who siezed the school. Putin is very tough and Bush and his people do not really like him. In the first place, Putin sabotaged US government and business attempts to get their hands on the Russian oil industry. The Oligarchy, mostly crooks like our very own Richard Perle, had their crooked hands on everything until Putin began to elbow them out of the picture. He wants Russian oil to remain in Russian hands and we do not. The CIA got through a regime change in Georgia that would make their territory available for oil pipelines controlled by US firms and then decided to grab up the Ukraine as well. Putin knows all about this and is not happy. The Bush people see Russia as a weak Third World country whose natural resources are rightfully theirs by right of being stronger. Bush does not like to be crossed so an aroused Putin throwing his military might around, so close to Iraq, causes them spastic colon. Bush said that he understood Putin’s soul and Putin thinks Bush is a madman….

There is an article a friend of mine was paid by the Administration to write to the effect that George Bush is really a brilliant man who carefully hides his great intellect behind the façade of a stupid, vicious person who is inarticulate and stupid. His Malapropisms are infamous but, this fellow is writing, this is only a front to let the American pubic realize that old George is as dumb as they are. The fact is, there is something physical wrong with Bush. Probably he fried his brains, what few he had, with coke and booze and is stumbling around like old Uncle Tim who is developing Alzheimer’s Disease. I have seen our Prez close up and believe me, there is something very weird about him. He can’t listen to anyone for more than ten minutes before his eyes get glassy and he starts to tell baseball stories. Rove is a fat, vicious asshole who would kick a pregnant woman in the belly if he thought it would get old Georgie reelected. Bush is a nut but Rove is a royal s.o.b.. Look what he tried to do to Kerry.

August 23, 2004

I spent several hours with one of our staff just returned from Iraq and got the following, really awful story from him. It appears that electricity is an on and off again matter in Baghdad. Also, note that it is very hot in Iraq this time of year. What does this have to do with anything? Just this. A GI gets killed here. Shot by an Arab. He lies around until someone can pick up the body and transport it to the centralized mortuary. Where it lies around until the corpse, or pieces of it, are identified. Then it does not go into a refrigerated area because there really isn’t one. The body goes into a rubber body bag and from that, into a steel military coffin which is neatly sealed shut. By this time, the occupant is pretty well gone off. My colleague tells me, and I hate to even think about it, that according to GI staff members, very often no one really knows what corpse is in what coffin. These are taken out to the Baghdad airport, put into unrefrigerated storage areas for shipment back to Dover. By the time the dead arrive in the States, they are very long gone and the coffins are shipped directly to the local mortuary where the deceased lived. Of course stateside, they are kept in the coolers but by that time, it is past necessity. Local morticians are given official strong suggestions that they not open the coffins and in most cases, they do not. In one case I was told of, the family wanted to put keepsakes in with their son and husband but when the box was opened, two of them fainted, the stench was so bad. It later turned out that instead of a Caucasian son, they had an African-American daughter to bury! The government apologized to the livid parents and will cut them a check. The family was told the U.S. military had no idea where their son and husband actually ended up. One of our sick editors asked his man from Baghdad if he got any pictures! Some people have no taste and I hope you are reading this!

No one with more than a 10 IQ believes that we have won in Iraq. We set up a government of handpicked Quislings (most of whom are being paid by the CIA) that are hated by the average Iraqi and the resistance is growing more proficient and worse every day. Senior officers are of the opinion that we ought to get out while we still can. It’s the general feeling that the sacred mosque under siege is going to be blown up, either by them on purpose or us by stupid accident. If and when that happens, holy hell will break loose amongst the Shiites and anti-US activity will really take off.

August 14, 2004

What did I tell you? The Democrats were outing Republican gays and threatening to go after gay members of Congress, both House and Senate. They started doing this, a lower level first with the understanding they would “move right up the ladder,” until they got into Bush’s top echelon of advisors. Rove, a nasty and vicious true Christian activist, then decided to show up the Democrats and his people set up and nailed the Democratic Governor of New Jersey. This was to be a two-pronged attack: First, humiliate the Governor and force him to either resign or pay off the Rove people (have to make it somewhere, buddy) and second, if he would not be blackmailed, to force him out before the November elections and rig an election so that the Republicans could have another state house. I said this would be very ugly before it was over. Rove himself is not gay but he has other personal habits that are probably much worse. Look for the Demos to nail Rove and remove him from Bush’s side.

August 12, 2004

Because it is known at the White House that I am Jewish, the following information was given to me by a sympathetic Christian lady. There is a so-called “think tank” called the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). It is very active in support of very right wing Israeli causes and is the breeding ground for many of the neo cons that direct US foreign policy. It is also considered an army of the Likud and very supportive of Ariel Sharon. AEI has been “funding” certain important Administration figures with large grants designed entirely to either buy their support for Likud activities or to keep them in line. For example, Cheney’s wife got a $125,000 “grant” from AEI and there are others. The Republicans, outraged that a number of prominent GOPs are being outed for homosexuality, have gotten a nice Jewish boy to out the Governor of New Jersey. If this mutual outing goes on, there will be many vacant seats in Congress, believe me. Billions of “aid” dollars and money supposedly held in trust over the sale of Iraqi oil has been looted by members of this Administration. I mean outrageous pocket stuffing.

A report, heavily classified and For Eyes Only (but Xeroxed) states that over a billion dollars has gone Dixie and there are questions about certain firms with specific connections to both Perle and Wolfowitz are front and center in the, never to go anywhere, investigation.

Remember that Bush favorite, Douglas Feith was charged with being an Israeli agent of influence and booted out of his sensitive position. He did return after Bush grabbed power. The Israeli’s have managed to get into a system called MAROON SHIELD that consists of Sensitive Compartmented Information on NSA and CIA functions and agents in the Middle East. This program includes Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) intelligence on NSA and CIA operations in the Middle East and around the world, including technical details of how the NSA intercepted microwave communications and information on the highly classified MAROON SHIELD satellite intelligence system.

August 9, 2004

Here are some bits of candy for you and your readers. You will be hearing much about certain “important terrorist revelations” allegedly obtained from the laptop of a “top alQuaeda” operative that was “captured” in Pakistan. Don’t believe any of it, children. One of my sources in the Monkey Palace has shown me an evaluation that states that all of this has been faked from old intercepts by the Special Collections Service in Beltsville, Maryland, who have faked other “Osama bin Laden tapes” This concocted “intelligence” was then stuck into a Dell laptop put together in Austin, Texas and sold to a reliable Pakistani stool pigeon. This has faked “Osama bin Laden” material on it and the White House has built a great propaganda campaign around it. The gist of the faked messages is that there will be an attack in the US just before the elections. Remember, you heard it here first!

Bush is desperate to find an excuse to postpone the election because the Monkey Palace’s private (and very accurate) polls show Bush below a 20% approval rating! In this election, the younger voters are very probably going to vote en bloc and be instrumental in booting the creep out. Bush and his people detest blacks, gays and any kind of liberal plus all Catholics. Karl Rove told a secretary that “all Catholic priests are a pack of queers” and referred to the Catholics as “mackerel snappers.” Wonderful! I wonder what they have to say about us Jews? While on the subject of electronic matters, I suppose you know that the US, through NSA, electronically tracks all prominent heads of state from France, Germany, Russia, England, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, Turkey, Spain and Canada and monitors all of their personal and governmental conversations. Speaking of the NSA, they are supposed to maintain and monitor spy satellites that dot the skies. Fact is that due to carelessness and general inefficiency, most of these surveillance satellites are totally inoperative between 50 to 75% of the time and many countries know exactly when a spy satellite is due to pass overhead (because the Russians know the tracks and have passed this information out to certain putative Putin allies [pun intended]) so hide things until they are out of range. Another multi-billion boondoggle shoved off on the public. The fact that the satellites were not working is the reason that the Indian and Pakistani A bomb tests were not observed. Wonderful how They are Protecting us!

August 6, 2004

This is going to be the filthiest Presidential campaign in history, bar none. We get serious “pep talks” from mid-level and even senior White House staff members. Most of these are sick, vicious people who are like the type Hitler loved. (A nice nickname in my newsroom for the Prez is ‘Adolf Bush.’ My senior editor said, ‘Hitler had his Poland and Bush has his Iraq.”) Bush started out filled with arrogance but now he and his boys are running very scared. Real, not faked, polls show him with a below 20% approval rating! They are going to put out a release on Kerry claiming his dad was CIA (which he was) and then tie this to the 9/11 intelligence failings. Remember the Robert Hansen case? The senior FBI official who worked for the Russians? You may not know this but Hansen was the top FBI computer man with access to all the US intelligence systems. He spied on DIA, CIA, the Pentagon, the White House, of course the FBI and a host of other agencies tied in to the DoJ computer system. He became a good personal friend of Judge Freeh which caused that worthy to take a very early retirement. Believe me, this man knew everything, I mean everything, and passed it all on to the Russians. And did you know that the Russians sold him back to the US for double what they had paid him over the years? The CIA bribed an SVR official to give them the dirt on H. just to embarrass the FBI (who had in turn embarrassed them over Ames) If the Company hadn’t done this, H. would still be draining away all of our top secret data and passing it to Moscow. The FBI had no intentions of “outing” him because of the embarrassment and in-house efforts to track down a suspected more were severely discouraged by Freeh himself!

These people all hate each other and are not, repeat not, going to work together. They have told Bush to fx*! off with his “Intelligence Czar” nonsense and that will go nowhere, believe me. Beltway turf wars are bloodier than the Tarawa campaign and there are no prisoners taken. The CIA is threatening to release the bank account information (the black accounts, not the white ones) of top Bush people who have hundreds of millions of stolen bucks stashed in Swiss and offshore banks. The price of silence on this fun and games is to give up any idea, genuine or not, of revamping the Intelligence community. On the other hand, several other alphabet agencies are planning to ambush senior CIA operatives with really nasty leakage. Murders and drug connections are prominent.

Someone with CIA -connections is now “outing” gay Republicans in public and this is causing spastic colon here. So many “straight” and respectable men are trembling in their clubs now. There are more practicing gays among the Republicans than there are in the entire Frisco Castro district and that is saying something. Bush &Co had better be careful about their pit bull attacks on Kerry because that is a sword that cuts both ways. I will send you under separate cover a list of the bank accounts. Everyone is leaking everything now and it’s a reporter’s paradise on earth. The barn is on fire and the frantic rats are biting each other trying to escape! Look for some really big-name defections soon...

July 31, 2004

More info about Ashcroft’s desire to put us all in camps for “reeducation as loyal Americans and true Christians.” I mentioned Ashcroft’s “ideas” about “neutralizing” evil influences in the United States. Here is more. Special U.S. Army units are trained for putting down any kind of civil insurrection. These units are small, very well-equipped and are considered to be the most elite units the Army now possesses. They have not seen any foreign combat duty: They are designed solely as domestic control units. I can give you some interesting specifics and there is a lot more where this comes from.

There are centers around the United States where these units are based. For instance, Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois is one such base. These units have an interesting form of rapid deployment command centers. These consist of what appear to be commercial tractor trailers with such things as the names of well-known moving van companies, or other major corporations such as Wal-Mart or Radio Shack on the sides. These units are not for transporting goods but are prefab command centers. The special units can move these via the highways in perfect safety from a base of operations to a “hot” area where “domestic terrorists” might be operating. These “domestic terrorists” might be peace groups, irate farmers, angry union workers and so on. The mobile command centers move into an area disguised, as I have said, like standard commercial vehicles. Then, when a defense perimeter has been established, the units are put together in squares, four to a side, and these are, in turn, linked together, forming a large, fully-equipped Army center, complete with all electronic gear needed to supervise the command of troops that will be airlifted into the secured area by helicopters. Targets in the “main areas of resistance” will have been identified previously and the incoming troops will be directed to these areas, preferably at night. I want to point out that there are sixteen such bases throughout the United States to include Hawaii but not Alaska. There are standing orders on file, and some have been leaked, as to how to deal with “civil disobedience” in general. Specific orders about individual targets are prepared on an as-needed basis.

Also, “Regional Detention Centers” have been designated and prepared for use if and when they are needed. These lie in remote areas such as northern Maine, west Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana and eastern Washington state. There are eleven such Regional Detention Centers now prepared for immediate use with prefab barracks, wire perimeters and military positions constructed on any approaches to these very easily supervised camps. Urban areas have been excluded from this program because civilians are under no circumstances to be aware of their existence nor will access from the civilian sector be easy or permitted. (Here, I am quoting from an official overview but minus the weird military terminology) I may move to Israel if this keeps up! Now in all objectivity, merely setting these things up does not mean they will be used…but they can if the circumstances warrant it and Ashcroft and other are bending the President’s ear about this. Not everyone is happy about this sort of thing and probably the strongest detractors are, oddly enough, the professional military. That is why Bush is having so much friction with the Pentagon people and others. I am sure Powell doesn’t know about this or he would resign. There are many decent men among the military and a very significant number of the senior ones do not like Bush. For one thing, having a Commander in Chief who was a chronic drunk and druggie does not go over very well and Bush has not been making things easier by hectoring and harassing his senior military people. Right now they are complaining but that may change. So might the presidency if it keeps up.

July 29, 2004

First there was your posting of my notes on our sick President and then Capitol Hill Blue just did another number on the same theme. You can imagine the mess around the Monkey Palace today! Now, it appears that there are at least three stool pigeons loose here and they have brought in the FBI and the Secret Service to do damage control. Bush is almost literally foaming, Karl Rove and other great lights are threatening the Patriot Act against anyone who is caught! “This is a wartime Presidency and anyone passing out secrets will be charged!” is the word. All phones are tapped now and all laptops are rudely grabbed and checked for notes, harmless secretaries are bullied and threatened with lie detector tests. In fact, the Head Monkey now want all White House personnel given lie detector tests every week! You can imagine how good this is for morale! Iraq is a mess; Powell says we are in it to stay and that is not a good omen for the November elections. Brother Jeb is setting up another fraud in Florida even though the major media is being very informative. They do not care around here. Legal or illegal, if it will get Bush elected again and guarantee all of them their power-trip jobs, everything and anything goes. Believe me, I know many of the lesser ones around here and the Capitol Hill reportage is accurate and devastating to the entire staff. I understand they are really going in for the lie detector scam and have set up a room in the basement just for this. I am told they are warning the staff that they either take tests or get fired with vague but sinister warnings about violations of national security and long stretches in cells at Atlanta for those who won’t make things easy and confess. I and others are not employees and my editor says if they even try that with us, the media will rise up in a body and hang Bush on a White House tree!”

July 30, 2004 “A junior staffer told me this one. It seems her daughter had been injured in a car accident. It was nothing serious and she told no one here about it. One of the senior staff came into her office and asked how her daughter was doing. The woman had only once mentioned this and that on her office telephone to her sister. She compared notes with others and discovered that all incoming and outgoing routine calls are taped and monitored. Ashcroft has been suggesting to the President that somehow the dissident voices in this country need to be silenced. Ashcroft in conjunction with Army Military Police units have prepared a scenario about how to clamp down iron controls here. I have seen a copy of this, which has not been adopted but it does show a mind-set. Certain internet sites should be closed down. These are sites that actively promote : anti-Bush remarks or support abortion, “globalism,” “secular humanism,” “Satanism,” homosexuality, anti-Semitism, or that are anti-Christian, or pro-Muslim and who are critical of such Republican luminary nuts as Tom DeLay and Ashcroft himself. The arrest and expulsion of all Muslim residents of the United States including Americans who may have converted is a strong Ashcroft suggestion. Ashcroft views the Muslim faith as “Satanic” and “evil” and claims that the expulsion of these people will “start the healing processes in America.” Ashcroft strongly dislikes African-Americans as well but there is nothing about putting them back in the cotton fields or deporting them. As a Jew, I was delighted to see that Jews would be tolerated and encouraged but with the understanding that they would all convert to Christianity within a given period of time.

Maybe Bush and Ashcroft will take a page from Hitler and make all Muslims wear a yellow crescent on their coats! This has very serious implications for me especially as a Jew whose grandparents were harassed and chased out of Germany in 1936, Do you realize that these people are stone nuts? That the President is a nasty, pill-popping sick man who hates everyone and especially anyone who dares to criticize him or any of his policies? At one time, and I have been a witness to this, Bush could be very outgoing and pleasant with staff but not now. Mean looking and snappish with everyone, he uses really filthy language to express his anger. He makes obscene gestures, curses in a loud voice, slams doors, throws books and, once, a paperweight from his desk at a clerk. (He missed) He gobbles pills like Rush Limbaugh and I suspect he is numb most of the time now. The slippery staff’s well-oiled machine is starting to make weird noises and Bush cannot tolerate this. "You told me this would work! Goddam it, you fucked up, you asshole! Get with it or get out!” This nice bit I have on tape.

Old Georgie was never too well-wrapped but it was kept quiet. Now that the pressure is really on him and he is beginning to realize that large numbers of Americans actually distrust and dislike him, he was first shocked and later enraged. This man does not belong with the nuclear football anywhere near him. He is basically unbalanced and under so much pressure that God knows what he might do. A young secretary told me that one minute she has seen Bush very smooth, very friendly and very much collected and then, for absolutely no reason she could see, turn instantly into a nasty, shouting man who got very threatening and abusive to a military officer whom, she said, was very correct and polite. This frightened her, the suddenness of it, and what was worse, he suddenly switched back to being a friendly man again. This is not normal behavior. I asked her if the Army colonel had been abusive in any way and she said that he certainly had not and she was ten feet away when Bush suddenly started yelling curses. She said there was nothing to explain this and that she never saw a person explode in that way and then go right back to regular conversation just as if he had not called a professional military officer an “asshole” and a “motherfucker” in front of others. The Colonel got very red in the face but said nothing. No one is allowed to ever talk about these eruptions which senior staff put down, in public at least, to the “President’s extreme concerns for the safety of the American people.

July 21, 2004

I have several interesting bits for you and your readers. Never mind the Democratic Convention or the 9-11 Report. The military adventures of King George are really a lot more important. There is no question that Bush wants to attack (read ’neutralize’) both North Korea and Iran. The press has been publishing stories about how Iran supported bin Laden and how North Korea has rejected the attempts of the peace-loving Bush to mediate the problems existing between the two countries. Nothing could be further from the truth, believe me. The spin people are now passing out press releases about this, trying to damp it down and prevent pre-emptive strikes by our new victims. A very secret report is floating around about the serious problems with our commercial shipping ports. According to this, over nine million cargo containers arrive in the States every year and the much-vaunted but entirely useless Homeland Security geeks can only examine about 2% of these. Much propaganda and bs about how our ever vigilant boys are searching everything to protect us. This report says that a freighter full of dirty bombs could sail into Baltimore, Norfolk, New York, San Diego, San Francisco or Seattle and explode on cue and there is not a damned thing our security people could do about it. In fact, the first thing these guys would know was when the walls of their offices blew in and they were deposited twenty miles away, well-done. The 9-11 report is fine, as far as it goes but no one here expects anything to be done. None of the alphabet agencies will give up any power and Bush is not the man to force a reorganization through. Oh yes, he will bleat about it for a while but in the end, they will all go back to their turf wars and someday, Boston will glow green, what’s left of it.

And another thing. The Bush brothers are bold as brass. The talk here is that Florida will be the leader in vote stealing again but I think that this time, the public is well aware of their tricks last time and Bush and company had better be very careful to walk right down the middle of the road or some large and angry mob will shove him into the ditch in bits and pieces. The Fahrenheit movie has taken in over a hundred millions bucks but the Bush toadies in the media claim that it won’t influence the elections at all. These thick heads need a wake up call with a sledge hammer.

The real polls, and most of them are faked just for the folks at home, show Bush about to take a Carter-like bath but the bully boys with the crosses on their coats stick their fingers in their hairy ears and whistle ‘Rock of Ages’ while trotting by the cemetery. And here is a lovely bit of news you will not hear on FOX, or CNN either. It seems the Iranians, determined to put a stop to American imperialism, have determined to grab off all the area’s oil. They are behind the attacks in Iraq and are now holding very private talks with the Wahhabists of Saudi Arabia. Purpose? To encourage and finance the overthrow of the Saud dynasty in that country and to replace it with a fundamentalists government, so hostile to the US that it will cut off all oil. This is known to a number of people. My sources are: A friend of my cousin who was Special Forces once and is now a Blue Dragon man and head of personal security for several Saudi rebels. Also, a Russian colleague with connections completely confirmed this and neither know each other. They could hold a public meeting with big signs and a hired band, in the lobby of the Hay-Adams for all the notice the CIA would take of it. This is true economic warfare and all of us will really suffer if they are successful.

July 16, 2004

The brass here is delighted that they were able to arm-twist a compliant Congress into postponing the release of a Congressional report on who knew what and when until after the election. Their aim is to throw just enough doubt into the very valid belief that George W. Bush was given false information about WMD to influence the undecided voter [both of them]. This is pure crap and everyone around here knows it. Bush demanded “any information” that would bolster his drive to war and refused to accept anything less. George W., by the way, is the source for the miserable tortures in Iraqi jails. It went from Bush, who wanted wholesale shootings of prisoners, through Rumsfeld, who toned it down, to the troops. Both of these jokers are guilty as hell of fostering a deliberate U.S. policy of violations of the Geneva Convention. Their rationale? We are all-powerful and no one will dare to contradict us.

Also, they believe, the American people are divided into two distinct groups: the Good People who are all ultra right wingers, the Jesus freaks who are insane and the business world that expects complete support from Bush. [In exchange for huge bribes] And then there is the other side, the Bad People, composed, as they see it, of Muslims, queers, left wing idiots, niggers (oh yes, that word is occasionally heard in the Monkey Palace), sociopaths, secular humanists, Catholics, feminists and anyone and any group that does not realize that George W. Bush was called to the Monkey Palace by God Almighty and who serves at God’s personal command. Anyone, they reason (!) that questions Bush, Cheney, Rove and a legion of the damned, questions God and for that reason, must be put into camps, reeducated and disenfranchised.

If you think this is some kind of rant, believe me, I hear it almost every day. And anyone who does not believe me, ought to see our beloved Prez shuffling around here, eyes glaring and mouth turned down to realize that his not-so-secret plans for the rest of us would make Hitler look like Mother Teresa. One of the outraged staffers said this morning that ‘Bush is a man against whom God has witnessed.’ One of Bush’s less appealing traits is his refusal to admit that he was wrong. Bush is a chronic and dismal failure, even now. He was a failure in school, in business, in the military [where he was 86’ed from flying because of his public use of drugs and alcohol, and in his personal life. Now that he claims to have found God, he cannot be wrong on anything. If he actually came to grips with the very obvious fact that his entire life was a study in failure and rejection, he would probably slip his rail and be found talking to himself in his Fuhrerbunker.

July 15, 2004

“The Monkey Palace” is taking on the aspects of a gay bar at frantic hour. The inclusion of Edwards on the Kerry ticket, the plummeting Bush poll numbers, the imminence of a raging civil war in Iraq, the growing defections of “Willing Coalition” members and on and on are turning this place into a muted mad house. Bush is, according to [redacted], gobbling tranquilizers and screaming at anything that moves. The latest bit of lunacy is this business about cancelling the election in November because of trumped up “terrorist” charges. They dragged out the dimbulb, Ridge, to propose that, because he “knew” there would be “terrorist” disruptions of the election, that it ought to be postponed for a “safer time.” If that ever happened, the mobs would be carrying Bush’s head on a pike up and down Pennsylvania Avenue to the cheers of thousands and finally, someone with some sense realized that this just would not work like the last Florida rip-off so they quickly pretended that it was all “a misunderstanding” and want the rest of us to forget about it.

This place is guarded like Fort Knox. There are more anti-antiaircraft rockets, machine guns, snipers and electronic snooping gear on the White House roof than at Aberdeen Proving Ground. In contrast to the Administration’s strange lethargy prior to 9/11, the standing orders are that the President must be notified immediately of any “potentially hostile” aircraft entering into Washington Defense Zone airspace at which time, Bush will rush frantically down to the air raid bunker and close the bank vault- thick steel door behind him. Cheney will probably have a fatal heart attack down in his own bunker [a farting mouse could also cause this, so bad off is our de facto President’s disintegrating pump these days] and the government will be run [into the ground] by the Likud boys. The RNC has teams out trying to find out if Edwards ever had sex with the mother of his own children or has overdue library books and Bush is looking at maps of North Korea in his Map Room! The general public would not believe how scary things are here, no matter how hard you try to alert them. I am planning to write a book about all of this, providing

I don’t get caught talking out of school and it will be very successful, believe me. Some of the help here are most cooperative because not all of them are rabid Jesus freaks and view the White House as a very weird and dangerous place to work. And oddly enough, a number are grossly offended [as am I] about enforced staff prayer meetings and the omnipresent pictures of Jesus, the Destroyer of all Muslims and Democrats, glaring at you from every office wall.

July 10, 2004

Several bits of info your readers might find interesting. Firstly, I saw a purloined briefing in which it states that US Special Forces and other groups are not, repeat not, to nail Osama bin Laden!

The Bush people want him alive and threatening us so they can use these threats to clamp down on this country! Because of faked threats of terrorist “actions”, elections will be cancelled until further notice, the military will go to a National Internal Crisis mode and we will, for certain, have martial law.

Also, a number of lower level staffers are quitting the Monkey Palace because they are getting afraid of what our Prez and his bully boys are up to. Also some comments here about the CIA faking material. The CIA did not fake material. The Bush people, Rice and others, ordered them to produce certain supportive reports for Bush to use as an excuse for attacking Iraq. Bush was not mislead by a boneheaded CIA as he and his allies in Congress want you to believe.

Cheney is dying of heart trouble and his dope popping doctor is off the case. I would bet five to ten that Dick gets off the ticket and they put Frist on. That one is a nasty piece of work (See note below). He once got nailed for torturing and killing stray cats and is a real dyed-in-the-wool sadistic Jesus freak. (Is there any other kind?)

We are heading into big trouble, kids, believe me. Some people think Ashcroft is a nut but he does just what Bush wants him to. The Moore movie is keeping the rest rooms full here, believe me. This movie has the capability of destroying Bush come November, that is if the Fuhrer doesn’t declare a national emergency and have himself appointed Dictator for Life. He won’t get the black vote because he does not like them and Ashcroft positively hates the “Sons of Ham” as he calls them. The Mexicans don’t vote and we hear daily that Bush is not vicious enough for the Christian right and they might decide to support an Ashcroft presidency. Ashcroft is a man who thinks calico cats are Satan himself and a friend at Justice says they view him there as a first class wacko who would be better for everyone if he were out in St. Elisabeth’s nut house in a rubber room.

June 24, 2004

I have been sending out all sorts of interesting material from inside the Monkey Palace to just about everyone. As you are the only ones, so far, who have been publishing it and citing me (others are publishing but not citing) here are some really interesting stories for your readers to chew on. First off, the Moore flick is causing spastic colon inside the Monkey Palace. They have dragged out all kinds of poor souls with a desire to suck the Imperial bum to trash the film but it isn’t going to do any good. And some comments about the President: You speak about King George when referring to Bush. Queen George might be more to the point. Yes, our beloved leader has certain social problems that would not endear him to the Christian Right if they knew.

When he was at Yale, Georgie hung out with drag queens when he wasn’t getting shit faced at the frat house! And this didn’t stop once he left Yale and went to Texas to copycat his dear old dad, the military pilot. George likes to prance on the wild side when no one is looking but you can’t hide that sort of thing for too long. Oh yes, his top aides know all about his “close friendships”, especially with the black drag queen, but talk about it around here you dare not do. He keeps that part of his life away from here, believe me, but most of his top people know about it. One of his very top aides got into a bit of trouble years back at a Church Retreat where he gave some sweet and very young thing some booze and little pills to disinhibit her and was playing CPR with her when someone walked in. That cost our non-hero, a Bush stalwart, a lot of money. The Bush family know all about this but no one else does. If the born-again wierdos knew about this, they never would have voted en bloc for Curious George. They would probably stone him but then, let’s face it, George has been stoned before, many, many times! He’s given up coke, pot, booze and probably drag queens because God doesn’t approve of such things (neither would the voters in Iowa) and he is certain he will be reelected. Once, we were permitted to bring our families to the White House for a social function but my wife, who knows what I do, refused to come and would certainly not bring our young son. He might get Jesus n one ear and a hot tongue in the other. Sick, sick, sick.

June 10, 2004

One of my more important contacts inside the Monkey Palace here is a relatively innocent clerk-typist who is being courted by a White House security agent. In order to impress her, he has been talking. Unfortunately, someone got wind of his loose mouth and he has been reassigned elsewhere. Apparently, threats against the President's health and safety are reaching incredible proportions. He could not attend his daughter's graduations because of "heightened security concerns" and a correspondent from Italy notes that Bush had massive security while in that country.

The Vatican security people said that they had to strongly increase their measures following strident demands from the Secret Service, when Bush visited the Pope and that the latter viewed Bush as "not quite normal" and a "most unpleasant personage."

Bush apparently tried to bully the Pope who responded in public, admonishing him for his actions and insisting on US withdrawal from Iraq. As is well-known, the Pentecostal President detests Catholics, calling them, among other things, "Whores of Babylon."

The crooked Italian Prime Minister will now permit the stationing of US troops and aircraft in his country (the Turks are fighting shy of this) but asked for, and got, a bribe for doing so. Public sentiment in Italy is strongly opposed to the lunatic and dangerous Bush policies and growing. They do not want another Madrid bombing in their country and Italian papers view Bush as a "disturbed and disturbing" person.

Bush is going to remove troops from South Korea. Washington and Seoul denied this at the time but the NYT ran an article that the 2nd US Division would be transferred to Iraq. There were a number of official qualifiers but the message is clear: If the troops now involved in the occupation of Iraq are not rotated very soon, there is every reason to expect outbreaks of mutiny among their ranks.

We have input from local papers across the country that states that recruitment has dropped off 90%.

On the way to the Georgia conference, Bush said on his plane, and was overheard: ‘I know I am being tested. You know God has placed me in the White House to do his will and now it looks like a bunch of evil Satanists are ganging up on me. They will pay for this, believe me. When I get reelected, and God will guarantee this, these sons of bitches will pay for disputing me. I don’t care what these liberal faggots say about our mistreatment of terrorists. These are idol worshippers and they are trying to hurt us. Can’t the people see that I am protecting them?’ This is a quote taken from a clandestine pocket tape recorder. My source, a senior clerk, told me several times that Bush is becoming so erratic and explosive that his staff is trying to keep out of sight, even in the White House.

Some random comments: Old-time White House staffers have told me recently that Reagan was a very decent and genuinely friendly person. I personally deplore his politics but as a man, he was so far above this one as to be a farce. Rove has been angling for the widow Reagan to stump for George but is beginning to discover that the entire family, and most of the Reagan friends and co-workers are either disgusted by Bush or actually detest him. They see him as a complete phony who uses his hyped up religious views to get votes. [Redacted] told me she thought Bush was really not religious because his “language was so foul around women” that no real Christian would ever think or talk in that manner.

It is very difficult to convey an opinion in print but I will make an effort. George Bush, the President, is one of the meanest, vindictive men I have ever met. Initially, when everything was going his way, the atmosphere of the White House was one of triumph and euphoria but now that Bush’s past deeds are about to crush him, he has reverted to what he was before he stopped boozing: a mean and spiteful person, given to a foul mouth and expressing really vulgar contempt for anyone and everyone who dares to cross him. Example: When Gore gave a strong and effective anti-Bush speech a few months ago, I heard Bush say (at a distance but he doesn’t care who hears his outbursts) “Who the fuck cares what that shithead thinks? They should have stuck him in the funny farm instead of his crazy dumb ass wife.” That is a direct quote. Rove is not much better either. Both of them remind me of a couple of interior decorators swinging their purses at a rival. They both give me the creeps and I am not the only one around the Monkey Palace to think, and now talk, that way.

Considering his gay contacts at Yale (a notorious black drag queen was one of them) Bush is projecting badly here. I think Hannibal Lecter would make a better president than this one.

If the vicious and stupid neo cons who instigated all of this crap are so determined on having their wars, why not draft them and ship them all off to Baghdad? It would be a sheer delight to see a picture of a barbequed Wolfowitz, in bits and pieces, dangling from a bridge.

June 4, 2004

Here is an interesting conundrum for you and your people to chew on: The Pentagon is hastily moving US troops stationed in Europe and Asia either to Iraq or to nearby areas like Italy. They are moving two divisions from Germany, one from South Korea and others from different areas. Also, main headquarters is being shifted from England to Italy. Now couple this information with the extension of tours of duty of all American military units now on active service, Kerrey’s “backdoor draft” and we have an interesting situation. If Bush wants to withdraw from Iraq within a month, why all of these troop movements? I had dinner with a friend of my wife’s whose husband is a civilian with the DoD and from that source I learn that we are not going to get out of Iraq. Loud proclamations that we are going to leave will be made but at the very last moment, the new puppet régime there, bought and paid for by the US, will make an “impassioned appeal” to Bush to allow American troops to remain “for just a little while” until the fledgling new and democratic Iraqi government can get safely off the ground.

This request, as I understand it, was written in the White House, sent to the Pentagon and forwarded to Iraq. The scenario has been carefully scripted, down to the last “sad but resolute” GI interview from a soldier that really wants to go home but realizes now that our beloved President has the vision and compassion to assist the growth of democracy in an area where it has never been before. Sounds just like something Josef Stalin would order done. No, we are not going to get out of Iraq at all; we will be there for at least five more years according to three sources who ought to know. Recruitment has effectively stopped so the military won’t release those men whose tours are over. They will stay in either until Bush is defeated in November or, if he is reelected, he can institute the draft he and his people have carefully planned for all along.

When I said a few days ago that the witch hunt for leakers has died down, I was wrong. It has just gone underground but is still just as intense. Bush is in a crazy rage about all the resistance he has been facing. He believes very firmly that he is acting on the orders of God Almighty and that anyone, be it the head of the CIA or some rogue reporter, must be punished for daring to thwart the Will of God! Some of the saner staffers here are becoming distinctly edgy and some are thinking of quitting but God help any of them who quit and talk! They have signed agreements to never, never discuss anything that they have learned while in the White House. I said before that Bush was a mean, vicious man and it is starting to slop out of the Presidential bedpan into the halls of power. I said there is something really wrong with this man (I personally think that he is as crazy as a loon…an unscientific diagnosis but given what I have seen and heard of him, not inaccurate) and events will prove me right!

May 31, 2004

Bush has told the CIA chief to either resign or be forced to take the entire blame for the Iraq prison scandal. It is always pleasant to see how much trouble you can cause and still not get into trouble yourself. You have been posting my comments (but not all of them…why?) and one of the staff in the White House replied. You posted his objections, gave me the courtesy of rebutting him and it all went up. This fellow made the mistake of putting down his DoD address at the White House with disastrous results. His address was on the DISA system and after your posting, the system was immediately attacked from outside and there were serious problems. Their Niper and Sniper nets were put in danger and there is now hell to pay here. They still haven’t found me, not for want of trying, but they do hate your site. Someone here said you were a “Satanist Communist bastard” with “no respect for what our wonderful President is trying to do.” That’s a direct quote, by the way. I have it on my pocket recorder in case you are interested.

Bush had a Rose Garden Experience with the tame members of the press. Questions, known in advance, were asked of him and he responded with his coached answers. He didn’t look very good all in all. Someone asked him about rising gas prices and like some small child, he squalled “It’s all the fault of Congress! They wouldn’t pass my wonderful energy bill so blame them.” Pathetic. We have rising gas prices because the Bush people have invaded an Arab country, declared a religious Crusade against the evil Muslims and generally behaved like a bull in a china shop. Since Muslims control most of the world’s oil, we wonder why they took so long to retaliate. The poor Saudis are caught between the rock of Arab fundamentalism and the hard place of American business needs. When they announced that they were unilaterally going to increase production at Bush’s strong demand, the fundamentalists attacked foreign workers there, killing quite a few and scaring the shit out of the rest. The survivors are now fleeing in huge numbers, causing terrible damage to Saudi oil production. This was a shot across the Saud family bows and now we have to see which way they will jump. If they support Bush, they will also suffer more “incidents” and eventually be toppled. If they support the fundamentalists, the Bush people will threaten to invade them. Of course Bush can’t do this because he can’t even conquer Iraq so this is an idle threat and the Arabs know it. If gas prices continue to escalate, Bush is doomed in November.

In my opinion, he is doomed anyway. If this trend isn’t reversed, people here are afraid of criminal actions, impeachment proceedings (which are unlikely now) and other, less pleasant things. The Bush people hate anyone who does not agree with them and slavishly obey the President’s every wish, tolerate the British, love Israel and detest China (a growing business rival.) The security people are now having a full plate and people like me who leak have dropped a notch on the screen but we are still there. You will see a lot more very serious leaks before it is over and it won’t be over until November, we all hope. Nixon had the character (?) to resign when he saw he had lost the game but they will have to drag Bush screaming out of the Oval Office. The rest of them will all flee to Israel where they will be safe from prosecution. That’s Israel’s problem in the end. Arab suicide bombers on one side and the Neo Cons on the other.

May 27, 2004

Even though they are still very much annoyed, and even frightened by leaks coming from inside the White House, they are now are even more frightened of leaks from the Pentagon. The Army doesn’t like being blamed for the Iraqi prison mess in light of the “tough” interrogations (resulting in nearly fifty dead prisoners) that were inaugurated by Rumsfeld personally. The question about Bush knowing about this is foolish. Of course Bush knew about it. Bush is a Crusader who wants the Holy Land for Christians and tame Jews and he absolutely loathes Muslims. “Idolaters” and “heathens” is what he calls them often and loudly around the plant. Over the past few weeks, poor Bush has been taking heavy body blows. It has him taking uppers now because he was generally pretty depressed and with the endless media feeding frenzies swirling around him, he is pretty much of a wreck.

Still, the President will never admit he is wrong. How could he be when God appointed him to be President? You think this is some kind of a Democratic joke? Think again. He has said, once in my presence, that God put him in the White House and most of the drooling staff here agrees with him. The more pressure put on him, the more withdrawn he is becoming. He will never fire Rice or Rumsfeld because he would be totally lost without them. Cheney has a really bad pump and he could peg out any day now so where would that leave the President? Believe me when I say that Bush is totally a creature of his aides. He won’t read and never watches TV. Maybe you noticed this but he did not go to the college graduation services for either of his beautiful daughters. Why? The Secret Service says that the schools received so many death threats that it was decided early on that he would not appear there. It got so bad that the daughters wouldn’t go either. Bush is scared to death he will be killed so he never goes anywhere without a massive guard. If he goes to a town in Iowa to talk, the guards go in first, secure the areas, put men in the hall for 48 hours. No one is allowed to protest either on camera or in the Imperial Presence. They map out his grand entrance with care, stuff the hall with loyal Republicans bussed in from as far away as Nebraska (!) and anyone with an anti-Bush or anti-war sign is moved, by force if necessary, to a area a mile away from where God’s Lieutenant is speaking. And God help you if you were standing in the “approved” crowd and suddenly whip out a negative sign or shout something bad at him. Off you go to be harassed by the Secret Service. They photograph you and warn you never, never to do that again or they will lock you up in the local slammer whenever Bush comes into the neighborhood.

Private polls here show that Bush is the most hated President since Lincoln but we, none of us, ever see these. Rove said that Gore was a “traitor” to the United States and should be locked up. Ditto for General Zinni who is really jabbing at his ex-Commander in Chief. They stopped trying to find me and are now frantically doing much-too-late damage control. With most of the media turning against Bush, his fanatic followers are scared that he will lose in November and even more important, that there is the possibility of some kind of punitive action being used against him. He lies constantly to the military (which is a no-no in the end) and Congress, started a war knowing full well that he was full of shit but Cheney told him, along with Rummy, that it would all be over in a week and the stupid rag heads would run off into the desert and we would have all that nice oil. God help anyone who dared to dispute this. Now we are stuck with a brain-damaged weirdo in the Oval Office, surrounded by a pack of vicious war criminals who sound like something from one of Hitler’s big party rallies in the ‘30s. Ashcroft is a lying KKK reject who keeps bleating about terrorist attacks. No one has any idea where he gets his input but that one is about as nutty as Frist and Ridge. The plan was to announce a major terrorist attack coming up really soon. When it doesn’t materialize (because it was never planned) then the Strange Ones can have a solemn press conference and announce that they were able to prevent something that they made up in the first place. They do this for religious and political reasons. You have no idea the great contempt these strange ducks have for the American voters. They look upon us as a pack of stupid sheep that they, the Divine Shepherds, have to lead to an Imperium that they neither need nor want. More later. I have some really lovely stories about Karl Rove that you can have the next time I write.