ED WOODS AND F.B.I MISCONDUCT
"I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will
support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same;
that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of
evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office
on which I am about to enter.... So help me God."
"After joining up, Kenny became a shooting
star: In 2004, he was promoted to sergeant first class with less than 10 years
of service – not far outside of normal promotions if Kenny hadn’t been charged
in 1996 with providing alcohol to his 11-year-old niece and inappropriately
touching and kissing the kid. But he received only an Article 15 nonjudicial
punishment for actions that would have led to administrative separation, if not
court-martial, for any less-connected soldier. No big surprise, since Leslie Blade says
guardian-angel Woods( ED WOODS) is adamant that the sergeant deserves to have
his life changed"
Many Peltier supporters are aware of his
long time nemesis, self righteous, ex- F.B.I agent, Ed Woods. Woods has created
an “anti- Peltier,” website and has made it his life’s mission to see that
Leonard Peltier, an innocent man, will never again see the light of freedom. But
who is this “Ed Woods,” and what is this organization that he worked/works for
really all about? So this piece will be about, “investigating the
investigators,” so to say.
Quoted above is the constitutional oath
that all F.B.I agents and law enforcement agents swear on upon entering office.
While perusing Mr. Woods’ infamous website, I came across an article in which
former director of the F.B.I, Louis Freeh, was quoted:
"Mr. Freeh goes on to state, "I believe in the
basic truth that lying, cheating or stealing is wholly inconsistent with
everything the F.B.I stands for and cannot be tolerated." This is a very ironic
statement in that anyone who has studied the true history of the F.B.I would
know that, “lying, cheating and stealing,” is the cornerstone of how the F.B.I
in reality operates. One need only examine the illegal COINTELPRO policies that
were instituted by F.B.I founder, J. Edgar Hoover that targeted almost every
single minority group in this country, for a prime example.
There was recently a conference in
Sioux Falls , SD , on the AIM occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973. Two of the
participants were former F.B.I men, Joseph Trimbach and David Price. In the
conference these two men were confronted on their personal wrong doings and on
F.B.I misconduct in general related to Pine Ridge and the Wounded Knee
occupation. Both men were arrogantly defiant regarding their own culpability.
Trimbach held to the lie that his committing of Perjury during the Wounded Knee
trials by lying about an affidavit that he signed ordering an illegal wire tap
and denying knowledge of F.B.I informant, Douglass Durham, was a simple
oversight.
Price, when confronted
about Myrtle Poor Bear and a letter by 8th circuit judge, Heaney that
stated that the F.B.I agents were, “equally responsible,” for the death of the
two agents during the Jumping Bull conflict was equally evasive and defiant. For
a little history, Price was one of the agents that while cultivating Louis Moves
Camp as a phony witness for the Means/Banks trial took him out on the town and
got him liquored up. When he met a young woman they looked the other way when
Moves Camp took the woman back to his room and allegedly raped her. The next day
Price was hard at work getting the rape charges dropped so they can continue
their cultivation of the false witness to put on the stand ( it was later found
out that M.C was actually in California and not at Wounded Knee regarding the
events he was testifying about). Agent Ron Williams, one of the men that was
killed at Jumping Bull along with Joe Stuntz and Jack Coler, assisted Price in
the cover up and the manufacturing of the false witness. This does not
necessarily justify his fate, but from this you can see that Williams and all
the other agents that were in SD at the time were no angels worthy of statues
made for them or buildings named after them. Regarding Myrtle Poor Bear, Price
was the one that interrogated the mentally fragile woman by showing her pictures
of Annie Mae Aquash’s mutilated body while threatening to do worse to her and
take her children away if she did not cooperate with them to forge the phony
affidavits that were used to extradite Leonard Peltier from Canada .
But when Price was asked about his involvement/culpability during this
conference he danced around the questions as if he were Muhammad Ali. “Lying,
cheating and stealing,” indeed, and remember the oath that these public
servants took before GOD on the constitution of the U.S.A?
“Judge Heaney of
the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, who heard an appeal in Peltier's case
(denied on a technicality) wrote in a 1991 letter to Sen. Daniel Inouye,
D-Hawaii: "The United States government overreacted at Wounded Knee . Instead of
carefully considering the legitimate grievances of the Native Americans, the
response was essentially a military one which culminated in the deadly firefight
on June 26, 1975 ... The United States government must share responsibility with
the Native Americans for the ... firefight ... the government's role can
properly be considered a mitigating circumstance." Judge Heaney, in this letter,
recommended clemency/commutation of sentence for Mr. Peltier as part of the
healing process.”
But what about “All-American, “ex F.B.I
agent,” Ed Woods? Would he engage also in such illegal behavior and break his
constitutional oath as well? Research by one of Peltier’s attorney’s has
uncovered some startling revelations on Mr. Woods himself to confirm the
affirmative. It was uncovered that Woods, while on active duty in Cincinnati ,
was involved in the investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing. During a raid in
which a suspect was cornered, Woods had a tape recorder and was recording the
proceedings. The suspect, Peter Langon was shot repeatedly and then
interrogated/ tortured by Woods himself. When the witness was being interrogated
he screamed out to be able to consult with his attorney but was this captured by
Woods’ tape recorder? Let’s consult the court records:
“During his testimony, Woods told jurors he
turned on a tape recorder in his surveillance car as fellow agents were about to
close in on Langon. Five minutes later he shut off the recorder, Woods
said.
He never turned the recorder on and off
during those five minutes or erased any portion of the recording, Woods
testified.
Anthony J. Pellicano, owner of
Forensic Audio Lab, disagrees.
His nine-hour analysis of the tape shows that
someone turned the recorder on and off NINE TIMES during the 1996 taping,
Pellicano told the Dispatch yesterday. Also, someone erased a portion of the
tape between the gunfire and Langon's SHOUTED requests for an attorney, he
said."
Strike 1. Woods commits Perjury, lying to GOD
under oath. But what was Woods trying to cover up by lying about the tape
recorder? Did it have something to do with illegal TORTURE and interrogation?
Let’s consult Langon’s own testimony:
23) On Jan. 18th, 1996, I was arrested in
Columbus , Ohio , while leaving Guthrie's house. During my arrest, I never fired
or even pointed a weapon at anyone. Nevertheless, despite being an informant for
the Secret Service, a SWAT Team comprised of FBI agents, Deputy U.S Marshals and
other law enforcement personnel fired 48 rounds at me that day. They never
offered me an opportunity to surrender prior to shooting me.
24) After being stomped and kicked by arresting
officers and undergoing surgery for gun shot wounds in the hospital emergency
room, I was chained to a wall in a police station and questioned by FBI Special
Agent, ED WOOD'S. I did not want this interrogation. I wanted a lawyer, and I
asked for one repeatedly. My requests for an attorney, however, were
refused.
25) Instead of obtaining an attorney for me,
Agent Woods insisted on playing phone messages from Guthrie's answering machine
on a tape recorder. When Agent Woods TAUNTED ME with the inference that my
associates had betrayed me, and would testify against me, I had had enough. I
told him: "You're going to have problems with your witnesses, because they have
the blood of Oklahoma City on their hands." Agent Woods definitely took note.
"You certainly have my attention now" he said. This turn of events put an end to
the interrogation soon thereafter.
STRIKE 2. Illegal Interrogation,
Torture and denying the suspect the right to consult an attorney.
So the investigation continues and
Woods/ the F.B.I, like Douglass Durham in AIM, are in need of an
informant/snitch to rat out the others. So who does Woods turn to? None other
then convicted felon, Neo Nazi, White Supremacist, Wife beater, and child
molester, Shawn Kenny. But it’s not enough for Woods to use this monster as an
informant. He takes it a step further by taking on the role of ,”personal
savior,” for Kenny by helping him to get illegally instated into the army and
then by making sure that he’s, ‘taken care of,” once he’s in there:
“Why? Because Somebody Up There, probably FBI
agent Ed Woods, now retired, has been watching over Kenny, at least since he
turned snitch when caught red-handed – literally – passing dye-stained bills
related to a bank robbery. Tabatha says: “Thank God my husband was never
charged. God was looking out for him.”
God and the U.S. government.
For example, when the Secret Service searched
Kenny’s trailer back in the bad ol’ days and found unauthorized weapons, Kenny
got a pass even though it’s a serious violation of the law for convicted felons
to possess firearms.
And Kenny’s buddies ranged from the neo-Nazi
bank robbers to Timothy McVeigh. But while they all got their due, Kenny got the
Army – and the Army apparently got the Snitch Promotion Program.
After joining up, Kenny became a shooting star:
In 2004, he was promoted to sergeant first class with less than 10 years of
service – not far outside of normal promotions if Kenny hadn’t been charged in
1996 with providing alcohol to his 11-year-old niece and inappropriately
touching and kissing the kid. But he received only an Article 15 nonjudicial
punishment for actions that would have led to administrative separation, if not
court-martial, for any less-connected soldier.
No big surprise, since Leslie Blade says
guardian-angel Woods is adamant that the sergeant deserves to have his life
changed.”
STRIKE 3. Fronting for a Neo-Nazi
monster.
So let’s stop and digest this for a
moment. Woods is intent on keeping Peltier, an innocent man that got convicted
in a farce of a trial that was overflowing with F.B.I misconduct similar to what
has been illustrated above, for the rest of his life yet he’s willing to front
for this Nazi monster and believes, “he deserves to have his life changed?”
Does anyone else besides me see the blatant moral inconsistency? Is Woods a
racist and does he have direct ties to the Neo- Nazi’s himself? It wouldn’t
surprise me considering the Bureau’s well documented past ties to Hitler and the
Nazi party:
“J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the
FBI (and virulently anti-communist) was a great admirer of the Nazis and was a
pen pal of Heinrich Himmler (Reichsfuhrer of the Nazi SS, head of the... Gestapo, and second most powerful leader of
the ...Nazi party). Hoover sent Himmler a personal invitation to attend the 1937
World Police Conference in Montreal , and in 1938 welcomed one of Himmler's top
aids to the U.S. In June 1939, when the Nazi SS was conducting savage attacks
against Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals throughout Germany , Hoover personally
autographed a photo of himself and sent it in response to a request, to KRIPO,
the Nazi criminal police agency. He continued communication with Nazi police
until December 4, 1941 (three days before Pearl Harbor ).”
http://youtu.be/KPEXoW05qYk
And
then there is Mr. Woods’ own email conversation that he had with former F.B.I
agent, Wesley Swearingen, that’s documented on Woods’ website that sheds some
more light on the racist history of the Bureau:
"Many friends have no idea what I'm
talking about when I mention FBI abuses. I myself could NOT BELIEVE what I was
seeing
when I worked on the Racial Squad in Los Angelous.
Although
only about a dozen agents were die hard racists, urged on by J.Edgar Hoover and
his Sycophants on the Racial Desk
at the Bureau, just a handful of bad apples
are enough to spoil the whole bushel. In fact, the whole LA office was nothing
like Memphis , Chicago , Louisville or New York City ." Swearingen
F.B.I
" I began to help Geronimo Pratt's attorney's in 1979. The
FBI claimed from 1979 to 1997 in several court hearings, that Pratt was guilty
of murder. I attended
a court hearing in L.A in 1984 and heard my fellow agents
testify that Pratt was guilty of murder. The FBI denied that they had paid
Oakland police to operate an illegal wiretap, having received information
from that tap that placed Pratt in Oakland at the time of the murder. This all
came out in a hearing in 1997, when an honest Judge ordered the FBI to produce
the original documents. Some of the same agents who framed Pratt worked on AIM
cases. Pratt was released in 1998, pending a new trial. The L.A district
attorney did not retry Pratt, because the FBI informant perjured himself during
the 1972 trial. Pratt sued the L.A.P.D and the FBI, and in 2000 he won a
settlement of 4.5 million." Swearingen F.B.I
So what can
be concluded from all this? Is Ed Woods a credible voice that can be trusted to
comment impartially on Leonard Peltier’s case or is he just another lying,
crooked law enforcement agent with an agenda that has violated his oath to
defend the constitution of the U.S.A. ? I believe the answer, based on what has
been shared thus far, is obvious. So, in my opinion, Mr. Woods can go on whining
about Peltier as long as he wants but more and more it’s becoming apparent that
his assertions are dubious and it’s F.B.I misconduct, not a fair trial, that
lead to Peltier’s false conviction. To quote the moniker of the promising young
film maker, Preston Randolph’s, upcoming film, the heart of Leonard Peltier’s
case represents, “The imprisonment of an innocent man by the lies of a guilty
government.” And for a taste of irony, Woods in his most recent babbling on his
website, attacked the young filmmaker and compared him to a well known Nazi film
maker/ propagandist. Was this filmmaker also a friend and associate of Mr.
Hoover’s, I’m wondering? Hoover himself engaged in, “Nazi-like,” propaganda when
he inserted informants into the media to manipulate how the Bureau was
portrayed. In fact, Mr. Woods website itself can be considered a remnant from
this same mold of old F.B.I propaganda.
So what can
be asserted from this? Instead of being given the privilege and being “puffed
up” to look like someone important by being granted the permission to testify
against Leonard at his parole hearing, this twisted, sycophant low life, Ed
Woods, should rather be in prison himself. Why? To quote one of the most
notorious of J. Edgar Hoover’s COINTELPRO victims, Martin Luther King JR.,
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere.”
And let’s end
up with some quotes from Ed Woods himself from his fabled website:
“But an important
question to be asked is why are we even discussing these Agents at this
juncture? The answer is simple, because FBI Agents are held to a higher
standard; higher than the average citizen, and by most accounts, above that of
other law enforcement. And so they should be. They reach a standard that many
would not care to maintain for themselves or others. Regrettably, only a handful
have damaged the reputation of many loyal, dedicated and professional public
servants. It can easily be proven that the record of the approximately eleven
thousand current Agents, and the tens of thousands of former and retired agents
who have served honorably over the past ninety-four years, exceed the
performance of any other organization; in law enforcement or not. The percentage
of those who have not met this extraordinarily high standard is almost too small
to measure and is barely a fraction of the total. But the actions of a very few
who cannot conform to the highest standards demanded does not condemn the entire
organization. The standards for entering the Bureau are arguably the highest of
all public or private sector jobs. If there is any doubt about that claim; pick
up an application. Yet, there is no shortage of those who are willing to join.
The
Media
There are those
who would like nothing better than to dismantle the FBI. They smell blood in the
water and are in a frenzy for headlines. But with all the negative press, what
is lost in the process are the countless accomplishments and thousands of
successful investigations and prosecutions every year that the public is not
reminded about. There are far too many to even begin listing here. And even
through all this turmoil, the FBI is still doing its job, and doing it very
well.
A paramount
example is the Oklahoma City Bombing case itself. This investigation, arguably
the most significant domestic case ever, was handled professionally from
beginning to end as revealed by the massive amounts of evidence and thousands of
leads and interviews that were handled properly and expeditiously resulting in
swift justice for America's most notable mass-murderer. On this point, ICT and
the NPPA, as well as the vast majority of Americans from all corners, are in
full agreement; categorizing McVeigh for what he was, "the most horrific of
terrorists." Although, as with Peltier, we must ensure that due process is
followed to the letter, even as we all agree unequivocally on one point, McVeigh
is guilty. ED WOODS
* There is more
irony in this in that based on what has been presented, Woods himself strayed
far from, “playing it straight,” in the Oklahoma City Bombing investigations and
he himself has fallen way bellow the high standards that he has set for the
Bureau. Another blow to his own, already questionable, credibility.
One Neo- Nazi monster is given the chair while another one is granted an
illegal pass into the army with privileges and someone somewhere calls this,
“justice?”
“How Kenny got into the Army in spite of his criminal history -- and his
white supremacist tattoos -- is something of a puzzle. So is his promotion just
months after the Army convicted him on morals charges involving an 11-year-old
girl.
But what really distinguishes Kenny is his alleged relationship with the
man who killed 168 people by blowing up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in
Oklahoma City in 1995. A new book based on death row interviews with McVeigh
mentions Kenny five times.
Kenny couldn't be reached for comment, of course. His wife, Tabatha Kenny
of Cheviot, told a reporter she'd ask him to contact CityBeat. She also said the
Army has greatly benefited her family. She means the U.S. Army. It was Kenny's
membership in the other army, the Aryan Republican Army (ARA), that ties him to
McVeigh.
Kenny and other ARA members met with McVeigh in Elohim City , a right-wing
militia center in Oklahoma , before the Oklahoma City bombing, according to
Secrets Worth Dying For: Timothy James McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing.
But the book isn't the first to raise questions about a Cincinnati link to the
Oklahoma City bombing. A CityBeat investigation shows that, within days of the
massacre, the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service were asking the same thing.
But perhaps most troubling of all is Kenny's own account of his mission
before joining the military. In 1996 he gave secret testimony to a federal grand
jury in Philadelphia detailing the ARA's violent intentions. CityBeat
obtained a transcript of the testimony.
"We had planned on robbing banks and armored cars," he testified. "Proceeds
were to fund the cause, the movement or whatever. Buy guns, ammo, distribute out
to other people, like-mindedness groups, to further their cause."
Contributed by Mark Holtzman
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