Joint Terrorism Task Force: Full Audio of FBI Press Conference

and his time to move back to where he came from has come...move on dude!

Agent Jordan,

The greatest threat to the region is THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT !

As an enlisted member in the Army one of my duties was to process security clearances for those individuals whose positions required them. I must begin by acknowledging that this was 20 years ago but knowing the Army they are not likely to have changed these procedures significantly, and essentially same procedures applied to any branch of government.

Now, the full investigation for a Top Secret Clearance takes time, yes. Friends and neighbors, school teachers are interviewed. Records are reviewed, etc etc. This can take 90-120 days, but the interim? Unless my memory has failed me or procedures have changed quite a bit, that can be done in a day.

If there was a demonstrable need for a person to begin classified work and a National Agency Check as well as a satisfactory initial interview had been completed, an Interim Security Clearance could be issued. There is no way you can convince me that a senior agent like Jordan could not have a NAC run on someone within 15 minutes. The interviews take about 1/2 hr to 45 min. The Interim Clearance takes 5 min to type up. Done deal.

Mayor Potter has a demonstrable need for access: officers that he is responsible for are being used by outside agencies and he has a duty to oversee their actvities. I bet he can pass a National Agency Check, and I bet he gives a pretty clean pre-clearance interview too. The only danger he rationally poses to the JTTF is if he finds out that PPB officers are being used in ways that violate State law and puts a cramp in the style of the FBI.

When I think about the greatest threat specific to this region, I think of the vanishing forests. I think of callous privateers swarming in to strip the once lush mountains of the last remaining stands of wilderness, exchanging something that means so unimaginably much to all of us for a few silver coins in their dark, cold, cavernous pockets. I think of the thin web of life that sustains us all being shredded before our very eyes, and the finality of what it will mean when these forests are really, irrevocably, gone. Terror, to me, is knowing how close we really are to that ending place.

A forest that took millenia to create can never, ever be replaced. From the first lichens leaching nutrients off the primordial stone, setting the stage and allowing the first tentative vascular plants to emerge, building up biomass until the first fern fronds unfolded, to the first tentative gymnosperms, the first pioneering angiosperms, and at long last, the first giant conifers reaching toward the heavens, our forests are unique and complex, and cannot simply be "grown" by tree companies, or by anyone else. Once they have been stripped to bare earth, the starting point has changed forever. The same gestatinal chemistry is no longer there. These forests were a once-in-forever affair. And from the first gnashing chainsaws, to the last mighty cracking fall to the ground, this can never be undone. A primordial forest, once gone, can never be regrown, recreated. If we leave the earth alone for a million years, new ecosystems will emerge. But we will never have another pacific rainforest like those being torn away from us now. And if we do not leave the earth alone, then human avarice will destroy so much that the fabric of life itself will be torn asunder here, and the earth will look like any lifeless rock in space. That's the greatest threat I can name.

And where does the FBI stand on that? They're profiling forest activists and arresting them as "terrorists." While timber barons trade our future for their bloody profits, those who try to stop them and to protect the earth are incarcerated, harassed, intimidated, threatened, and bludgeoned by agents of the FBI. While corporate lumber parasites make "logs" and dollars out of the last trees standing, Tre Arrow faces the possibility of 80 years in prison for allegedly standing up for the forests. While the ancient forests of the Siskiyous try desperately to regenerate in the face of human-caused peril, the FBI supports law enforcers who tackle and arrest little old ladies trying to stop the saws. While chainsaws and ignorance foolishly gnaw down the birthplace of everything from the water we drink to the air we breathe to the peace in our souls, the FBI says they will protect us from those who would save us from ourselves. Thanks, but I think we can do without that kind of "protection."

suspected that at the root of it all was a fucking LIE...the technique the FBI uses most

where the FBI guy cowardly dodged the question about terrorism being the greatest theat that we face.

so then, who vetted Jeff Gannon's past before he was given access to the inner chambers of the Presidency of the United States? How did Jeff (?) do on HIS polygraph and 'lengthy detailed investigation'? Sure a lot of Homos around Bush. Wonder what Falwell thinks of that?