ROBERT MUELLER – THE ORGANIZER OF 911 – IS MUSCLING HILLARY TO BE THE MOB BOSS OF AN EMPIRE WITHOUT BORDERS OR MORALITY

• Mueller placed his patsy Joseph E. Sullivan at Cloudflare to fix the 2018 midterm elections
• Sullivan is a shill for the Senior Executive Service (SES) shadow government controlled by Mueller
• Sullivan promotes “public-private” corporate fascism in Silicon Valley
• Sullivan tried to cover up the loss of 57 million Uber customer and driver personal data records, was fired, then rehired by Cloudflare that controls FL, OH election encryption keys

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | OPINION | AMERICANS FOR INNOVATION  | NOV. 16, 2018, UPDATED NOV. 17, 2018 | PDF | https://tinyurl.com/y8cz4s8d

 

Fig. 1—Joseph Edwin Sullivan, currently Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Cloudflare.

(NOV. 16, 2018)—New facts suggest that special counsel Robert S. Mueller, III who is running the Trump witch hunt, is also muscling in on the Clinton encryption key tax and surveillance empire.

Their war cry appears to be: "Tax and Surveil!" Ask yourself, if controlling these encryption keys is so central to the mission of the Deep State shadow government and their theft of our Constitutional Republic birthright, shouldn't you be resisting them with all your strength? We posit that if you are not—if you are silent, or worse, if you scoff at those who are fighting, while mindlessly repeating the "conspiracy theory!" epithet*—then that is your first clue that you have been successfully brainwashed and neutralized by incessant mainstream media propaganda—which these miscreants control.

* The "conspiracy theory" epithet is a propaganda mind-control creation of the John F. Dulles-led C.I.A. MKUltra program as a way to divert public attention from the now proven suspicions that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated by the C.I.A. President Kennedy had said in 1961: "I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds" due to their corruption and insubordination. That same C.I.A. protected its power mongering and murdered our duly-elected President. They have never stepped away from their criminality since. 

Now, that same rogue C.I.A. is working to remove another duly-elected President Donald J. Trump—unless we stop them. If we do not protect and defend President Trump, then we do not deserve our Constitutional Republic, and our hard fought sacrifices of time, treasure and life will all be lost. Get off your duffs folks. Take the Red Pill and protect your American heritage! She's not perfect, but at least we can strive. Close your ears to the mind-control propaganda, President Trump supports America's ideals, unlike his fascist globalist opponents. See previous post Dismantle the rogue C.I.A. (PDF).

Traditional mobsters control big city garbage, prostitution, loans, drugs, haulage and so on. They either actually run the business, or shake down enterprises for monthly “protection” payments.

According to Larry Nichols (Jul. 28, 1994 timeline entry), Bill Clinton’s former political advisor in Arkansas and for President, Hillary’s father Hugh Rodham and Dan Rostenkowski took over the Chicago mob after Al Capone. Later, Rostenkowski became the Democrat representative to Congress from the Illinois 5th district (1959 to 1995). In short, these men learned how to turn corruption into political power—without going to jail.

Hugh Rodham encouraged his daughter to become a patent attorney. He told her to corner the market on emerging technologies, which she has done.

MEET ROBERT MUELLER'S PERENNIAL SES SHADOW GOVERNMENT SILICON VALLEY ERRAND BOY—JOSEPH E. SULLIVAN

Fig. 2—Joseph Edwin Sullivan. (Prepared Nov. 09, 2018). Biography and Timeline. Anonymous Patriots. In Feb. 1977, Hillary joined the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, and eventually seized control of a client's promising invention, a quarter-sized quartz device called the QRS-11 that could be used to track planes, cars, trucks, trains, buses, and more generally anything in which it was embedded. James P. Chandler, III Hillary’s legal mentor was a clever black Harvard and George Washington University law professor named James P. Chandler, III. While he coached Bill and Hillary, Chandler was scheming to corner the legal market on protection of software inventions, trade secrets and "the intellectual property of the United States." So he boasted at every opportunity.[This guy is one of the biggest thieves on the planet and belongs either dead,or in a dang dark cell,in some South American prison DC]  When the Clintons came to power in 1993, Chandler became their top outside advisor for intellectual property, patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, economic espionage, counterfeiting and counter intelligence. He immediately wrote and Congress approved (unanimously) The Economic Espionage and Federal Trade Secrets Acts of 1996, and The False Statements Accountability Act of 1996 (officially sanctioned lying to Congress and the courts, that's right, you did not misread). One of Chandler’s strategies was to use his influence over the Clintons to take over the Internet as a way to stay perpetually ahead of Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Israeli, Irish, Indian and French intelligence. So he also boasted. At the same time, Chandler was outside counsel to IBM. He worked closely with IBM inside intellectual property counsel, David J. Kappos (Obama's Patent Office director - 2009-2013), to muscle IBM's competitors with "junk patents" to extort license fees. This activity was the real "patent troll" which Chandler and Kappos have flipped 180 degrees into unfounded media attacks on small inventors as the trolls. THE WEAPONIZATION OF SOCIAL NETWORKING IBM was all the while standing behind Chandler's plan to weaponize the Internet. See our previous post: The Weaponization of Social Media Should Concern Us All (PDF). Within months of Clinton coming to power, Chandler arranged for the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, and a raft of DOJ insiders, including Robert Mueller, James Comey, Duval Patrick and Louis Freeh to hold a Who’s Who conference to promote giving the FBI backdoor encryption access to the emerging commercial Internet, which was in its infancy then. That “Clipper Chip” died in Congress over privacy concerns and inadequate safeguards. Undeterred, Chandler and his FBI/DOJ co-conspirators turned to the Departments of Commerce and Justice to concoct an export license requirement to embed the backdoor key as a prerequisite for sale of their hardware, software and firmware offshore. The list of vendors who embed the NSA Dual_EC_DRBG encryption algorithm to this day is even published. AMERICAN-STYLE FASCISM WAS PERFECTED UNDER CLINTON RULE The Clinton-Chandler-Podesta-Mueller scheme to bypass Congress on encryption backdoors as well as all other technology and Internet policy was hatched. The Clintons began focusing on:  (1) Chandler-drafted executive orders,  (2) some changes to laws triggered by totally staged “terror” threats,  (3) compliant agency Senior Executive Service (SES) appointments, and  (4) cooperation from the private sector in exchange for no-bid contracts. In short, American-style fascism. HIGH TECH MOBSTERISM In keeping with the age-old maxim of “follow the money,“ the real money being made in "Big Data" is through secret taxes on the encryption keys and the sale of information. Prior to social networking however, these Clinton mobsters experimented with various forms of control and revenue, but their systems suffered from data “silos.” Large volumes of data were system specific and not easily transportable across systems. Any ability to tax these transactions was fraught with too many technology and policy hurdles to implement it globally. These mobsters yearned for a way to collect a private, non-governmental tax on each Internet transaction. They also wanted a universal way to spy on people at will. The answer to their evil prayers came on a day in Jan. 2000 when James P. Chandler, III was introduced to Columbus entrepreneur, engineer and inventor Michael T. McKibben. McKibben and his team, in total secrecy, had invented a way to overcome the silo problem and make the Internet scalable. McKibben knew what he was doing engineering-wise and organizationally. He was an accomplished organizational development consultant and a leadership and management author. In the early 1990’s he had rebuilt AT&T’s main email system AT&T AccessPlus 3.0 in time for release with Windows 95 as well as designed a number of personal information managers. SOCIAL NETWORKING SCALABILITY OPENED THE DOOR TO ONE ENCRYPTION KEY PER PERSON, THUS THE ABILITY TO TRACK AND TAX EVERYTHING Hindsight being 20-20, we now see that Chandler, Clinton, Mueller, etc. decided to steal McKibben’s invention (illegal) for infinite Internet scalability, inserted IBM copyrights (illegal), declared it "open source" (illegal), then distributed it free almost overnight to Silicon Valley (illegal) to build the “IBM Internet of Things (IoT),” and thus control universal back end access (illegal)to all the code they had given away. That's right, the entire IoT industry is one mammoth fraud, built on theft, lies, and more lies. With McKibben’s social networking invention in mind, they also reconfigured their approach to “Public Key Infrastructure” (PKI), government documents (p. 6) describe (ref. "late 90's" [when Chandler met McKibben and Leader Technologies] and "Prior to 2004" [when IBM launched EclipseCon 2004, Feb. 02-05, 2004, and they launched Facebook, Feb. 04, 2002]). They also devised a convoluted licensing system that only an unscrupulous lawyer could love whereby “trusted” private companies would maintain not only the public keys used by websites, but also a copy of people’s private keys, ostensibly for disaster recovery convenience. See Fig. 8. TRUST (NOT) These selected PKI Certificate Authorities plaster their cheeky ad words on all their PR. These words include: trust, high standards, security, integrity, verified, trustworthy, assurance, certified, protect, reliable, secure, quality and veritas (Latin: truth). They have proven through focus groups that 99.5% of the public believes their excrement about "trust" and lets them get away with their criminality. Moral: Whenever “public-private” fascist capitalists use words like "trust," run. SEVERAL TYPES OF ENCRYPTION KEYS THAT USE PKI In lay terms, the basic idea behind PKI is that you need to marry up a public key for your recipient’s website with your private key. Those married keys are then used to encrypt your transmission. Its like you need two keys, not one, to open your front door. Then, instead of sending your message through the Internet for anyone to read, your transmission is scrambled while it is on the move. See Fig. 3 below. This type of encryption occurs automatically, presuming each side has purchased their essentially government-mandated Certificate Authority (Hint: Herein is the universal tax on all Internet transactions—run by private corporations controlled by Hillary et al. Want in on this action? No! Deplorables need not apply.) This purchase is Hillary’s dirty little secret for how she taxes the Internet and makes money from each and every transaction all around the planet. Fig. 3—Illustration of unencrypted (plain text) and encrypted data Another use of public and private keys is encrypting files and messages. Both sender and recipient share their public key and each creates a private key. The public key is generally kept on a PKI server. The dirty secret here is that these servers also use various ways to sniff and store your private key without your knowledge. In addition, many if not most of the applications that encrypt and decrypt using this method contain the NSA Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm that enables snoopers to decrypt anything without any keys, public or private. MUELLER IS MUSCLING HILLARY FOR ENCRYPTION KEY TURF Over the last thirty years, the encryption key turf was controlled by Hillary and her mentor Chandler. They let the DOJ and FBI play through corruptocrats like Robert S. Mueller, III and James B. Comey, among others. However, it now appears that Mueller and Chandler quietly recruited Joseph Edmund Sullivan, son of a C.I.A. agent, as the mole to do their dirty work. Sullivan’s mother, Winona Cecile Sullivan ne Yahn, was a C.I.A. agent focused on the Russian spying (1965-67) . She studied Russian at the University of Leningrad, then applied to the C.I.A. to be a spy. Being pleasing to the eye, one needs no imagination to know what she did. The trade craft of deception was well-honed among the Sullivans. Joseph claims he had no knowledge of his mother’s spying, but given his career as a spy himself, this assertion is not credible. And, as we now see, these SES spies like to pass on their insider knowledge to their offspring. From 1992 to 2002, Sullivan worked for the DOJ and specifically for Chandler and Mueller as Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) in Miami, Las Vegas and San Francisco. He only prosecuted 41 cases in total during his work as AUSA. He bragged at his House Judiciary hearing on Jul. 28, 2010 that he was a founding member of the DOJ Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Unit, despite scant few cases on that subject. Ironically, that was the very same day that Leader proved in Leader v. Facebook that Facebook was infringing Leader Technologies' social networking patent on 11 of 11 claims. Sullivan failed to disclose this to Congress. He also failed to disclose Hillary's secret contract for Facebook to build an election winning template. He also failed to disclose his relationship with Leader's patent attorney Chandler, thus being engaged in tampering with a witness. This Mueller Cyber Crime Unit appears to have been a ruse to cover up Mueller’s work to horn in on the Clinton’s money making from taking fees for digital encryption Certificate Authority keys. It appears that the real cyber criminals were Mueller, Chandler and Sullivan. Here’s proof that Sullivan and Mueller collaborated closely. Fig. 4—US v. Avalar, et al, 5:01-cr-20069-JW-1 filed jointly between Robert S. Mueller, III, US Attorney and Joseph E. Sullivan, Assistant US Attorney (CAND filed Apr. 26, 2001). Here’s further proof that Mueller was Sullivan’ mentor: Fig. 5—Joseph E. Sullivan. (Jul. 28, 2010). Chief Security Officer for Facebook testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, hearing on Online Privacy, Social Networking, and Crime Victimization. U.S. House of Representatives. Here is proof that Chandler and Sullivan worked together. This case could only have been prosecuted with Chandler’s approval since it is notoriously known in Washington, D.C. that the U.S. Department of Justice was required to permit Chandler to oversee the prosecutions of his newly minted Federal Trade Secrets Act of 1986 19 USC 1832 for ten (10) years. Fig. 6—US v. Wang, et al, 5:01-cr-20065-JF-1, Joseph E. Sullivan, AUSA with James P. Chandler, III (CAND filed Aug. 24, 2000). SULLIVAN’S MOVE FROM DOJ/FBI TO SILICON VALLEY HAS BEEN TRULY MAGICAL Sullivan was then placed as the top legal and security officer and advisor at Ebay, PayPal, Skype, Facebook, RiskIQ, U.S. Cyber Alliance, Bluecava (Mark Cuban), Airbnb, GURUCUL, Obama’s Presidential Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity (read: get Hillary elected), Uber and now Cloudflare. After eBay, Sullivan bought two homes in Silicon Valley in 2006 worth $5 million—a remarkable achievement for a guy who had made $130,000 per year as an assistant U.S. attorney. Remarkably, Sullivan was hired as chief security officer at Cloudflare despite his epic loss of 57 user and driver records at Uber and his attempt to cover it up six months earlier. That got him fired at Uber. Of course, normally that might have been a career-ending faux pas, but not for Mueller’s and Chandler’s flunky. CLOUDFLARE HIRED TAINTED GOODS—EVIDENTLY BECAUSE MUELLER DIRECTED IT Evidently, Mueller placed his errand boy Sullivan at Cloudflare, but for what purpose? A quick review of Cloudflare’s owners is one clue to Mueller's thinking. It is the same list of shadow government crony corporate beneficiaries like Pelion Ventures, Venrock, NEA (New Enterprise Associates), Union Square Ventures, Greenspring Associates, Fidelity Investments, Google Capital, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu (China). The specter of foreign interference in U.S. elections is evident given Baidu (China)'s substantial ownership stake in Cloudflare. Also, given Google’s now hostile activity in supporting totalitarian regimes in China and Venezuela, and their support of Project Dragonfly and the heinous “social credit score” in China, the risk to free and fair US elections is doubly evident. When one adds the fact that Mueller's Russia probe is a witch hunt that is debilitating our government, has he exposed American election to Chinese influence using Cloudflare, has Mueller not now become an enemy of the state? Fig. 7—Anonymous Patriots. (Prepared Nov. 09, 2018). OHIO - State Election Encryption Authorities, by State, p. 71-72. MX Toolbox. Fig. 7—Anonymous Patriots. (Prepared Nov. 09, 2018). FLORIDA - State Election Encryption Authorities, by State, p. 24-25. MX Toolbox.. MUELLER INFILTRATED CLOUDFLARE VIA SULLIVAN TO GET ACCESS TO SWING STATE ELECTION ENCRYPTION KEYS Given how quickly Cloudflare and Mueller muscled in on Hillary’s Certificate Authority turf, we are observing an evident mob turf war for control of all Certificate Authority taxing and encryption keys. When one considers that Hillary and her 19-year law partner Jerry C. Jones sold ENTRUST to placate Michael Chertoff on Dec. 17, 2013, the specter of a full-on mob turf war seems likely. With the ENTRUST purchase, Chertoff bought Certificate Authority in at least Colorado, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Wyoming. The difference between Chertoff and Mueller is that Chertoff appears to be a soy boy who is satisfied with his little piece of the pie. ROBERT MUELLER: 'OLE MULE FACE DREAMS HE IS KING OF THE WORLD! (HE THINKS QUEEN HILLARY SCREWED UP HER ENCRYPTION KEYS IN 2016) Mueller, on the other hand, wants to be king maker. In the process of giving Michael Chertoff some of the encryption action, Hillary and Jerry C. Jones shifted their Certificate Authority business by purchasing DigiCert, which controls the encryption keys in the following state election systems: Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio (Cloudflare-DigitCert), Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin By grabbing encryption keys in Ohio and Florida, Mueller is challenging Hillary’s turf. ARE MUELLER’S WHEELS FLYING OFF? WE HOPE SO. As an illegitimate special counsel, Mueller is attempting to unseat a duly elected President Donald J. Trump. Mueller has overstepped his special counsel authority by conducting a political witch hunt against his effective enemies including Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Julian Assange, among others. Mueller and Chertoff evidently organized the events of 911 to remove the Constitutional blocks to their SES shadow government takeover of our Constitutional Republic. Mueller has persecuted dozens of FBI and CIA whistle blowers. It is strongly believed that Mueller had his former FBI agent Whitey Bulger assassinate recently just before he was preparing to testify about Mueller. Mueller clearly wants a piece of the Certificate Authority taxing and mass surveillance encryption system that Clintons currently control. Maybe he wants more. Maybe he wants to be the King Mob Boss The Clintons are now in his way. CALL TO ACTION: President Trump can immediately direct his Federal Public Key Infrastructure Policy Authority (FPKIPA) to revoke any and all Certificate Authorities that are engaged in supporting treasonous or seditious activity against the United States. This is a matter of grave national security that falls under the rubric of recent State of Emergency Executive Orders. Specifically, any certificate authorities associated directly or through surrogates with Robert S. Mueller, III, James P. Chandler, III, James B. Comey, Michael Chertoff, Bill & Hillary Clinton, Jerry C. Jones, Joseph E. Sullivan, Orlando Bravo should be revoked immediately.[And I find it troubling that Trump does not act in this matter,DC] Regarding foreign election meddling, any Certificate Authority currently providing services to the state boards of elections that maintain encryption keys offshore should be immediately revoked. As a part of this review, the President should evaluate the qualifications and loyalties of the members of the Federal Public Key Infrastructure Policy Authority (FPKIPA) which is comprised of members "appointed by each federal agency’s CIO, and the group operates under the authority of the Federal CIO Council." It appears that many, if not all, of these chief information officers are stay-behind corruptocrat Senior Executive Service (SES) members who are not loyal to our duly elected President Donald J. Trump. If he cannot fire them due to the convoluted and self-serving SES policies, then he should invoke the Holman Rule and reduce their salaries and benefits to $1. Bookmark: #certificate-authorities | https://tinyurl.com/ycolj834 Fig. 8—Certificate Authorities ILLUSTRATION. (Accessed Nov. 17, 2018). Federal Public Key Infrastructure Guides. CIO.gov, Idmanagement.gov, GSA. See also GSA.https://fpki.idmanagement.gov/ca/ and https://www.idmanagement.gov/fpkipa/ Bookmark: #usa-encryption-keys-swiss-cheese | https://tinyurl.com/ycwdda92 WE ARE SWISS CHEESE—COME ON IN !— U.S.A. ENCRYPTION KEYS ARE FOR SALE TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER ! (THE SCREW JOB IS SO SUBTLE, AND SO DEMONIC—DEVISED BY THE 5TH COLUMN ATTORNEY UNDERGROUND) Fig. 8—Certificate Authorities ILLUSTRATION#2, p.5. (Accessed Nov. 17, 2018). Federal Public Key Infrastructure Guides. CIO.gov, Idmanagement.gov, GSA. See also GSA.https://fpki.idmanagement.gov/ca/ and https://www.idmanagement.gov/fpkipa/ * * * https://americans4innovation.blogspot.com/

PART 16 of 16 EXTREME PREJUDICE:THE TERRIFYING STORY OF THE PATRIOT ACT & THE COVER UPS OF 911 AND IRAQ

EXTREME PREJUDICE:

THE TERRIFYING STORY  OF 

THE PATRIOT ACT & THE 

COVER UPS OF 911 AND IRAQ

BY SUSAN LINDAUER

CHAPTER 33: 

“OFF WITH HER HEAD, ” 

THE RED QUEEN SAID 

I won the battle and carried the day with flying colors. It was a tremendous victory by any standard. I had one morning in court. But in that small window, I proved my declarations had been truthful from the first days of my indictment.

Ah, but did I win the decision? Did the Court accept my competency? 

On September 9, 2008, lame duck President George Bush nominated Judge Loretta Preska to serve on the 2nd Circuit Appellate Court, a major promotion in her career. 618 

Apparently Judge Preska had other ties to the Bush family, as well. Her husband’s law firm handled Daddy Bush’s legal affairs. 

And so, on September 15, 2008, Judge Preska declared me incompetent to stand trial for the second time—six days after receiving her appointment to the higher court. 619 

Neither my 9/11 warnings nor the accuracy of my Pre-War Intelligence mattered a single iota. Assurances from O’Meara that my relationship with Hoven and his intelligence background were fully authentic made no difference. Godfrey’s testimony that he observed no signs of mental instability in almost 20 years proved irrelevant.

Judge Preska declared that my belief that I had “a 95 percent chance of acquittal indicated I could not appreciate the gravity of the charges.” Therefore, she declared that I “could not adequately assist in (my) defense, ” though my own attorney swore otherwise. My advanced understanding of judicial proceedings and high level of social functioning in daily life were also irrelevant, according to Judge Preska. 620

Judge Preska announced her decision moments after Dr. Kleinman concluded his testimony against me. Notably, Dr. Kleinman declared that I wrongly informed him the Prosecution had floated a plea bargain. Dr. Kleinman cited that “mistake” as proof that I could not understand the proceedings, or participate effectively in my own defense—even though my own attorney protested otherwise. 621 

Thanks to my foresight, my Defense had tape recordings of my interviews with Dr. Kleinman. 622 

We had hard proof that Kleinman devoted two hours trying to cajole and manipulate me into pleading guilty to tax charges, something I was not indicted for. 623 Dr. Kleinman pushed hard for a deal, while I steadfastly refused and urged him to move on to different topics. He would come right back to the plea deal. My reply, captured on tape, was that I didn’t owe any taxes, and if there had been a mistake in my filing to the IRS, I would have amended my tax return—and still not owed a dime to the IRS. 

When I rejected the plea bargain, Dr. Kleinman denied the conversation took place. 

Ah, what a difference a tape recorder makes! 

Shaughnessy was appalled. We filed a Motion for Reconsideration, but Judge Preska ignored our appeal. 624 

By this time, no fewer than five independent psychologists and psychiatrists in Maryland had filed evaluations that nothing was wrong with me. They included Dr. Taddesseh and his partner, Dr. Kennedy at Family Health Services; Dr. Tressa Burton at Counseling Plus, who observed me on a weekly basis in Maryland; a second psychiatrist hired by Pretrial Services to evaluate me after Carswell, who’s name Pretrial Services refused to reveal, after he issued a favorable evaluation. And Dr. Richard Ratner, retained by Shaughnessy for the competence hearing. 

That was an unusually high number of psychiatrists for any case—and they all reported that they saw no evidence of “psychiatric symptoms” in my behavior. 

Even Carswell admitted that I showed no signs of depression, delusions or hallucinations. In observation logs, prison staff on M-1 called me “cooperative and pleasant, ” and noted I had “zero behavioral problems” and “functioned well on the unit.” 

Once, when confronted about the fraud of psychiatry in the courtroom, Tressa Burton at Counseling Plus tried to wheedle an excuse. “Maybe they like your politics. If they’re lying, maybe they’re lying to save you. Don’t you want them to save you?” 

“That’s the jury job, ” I told her. 

The Jury’s job, indeed. And no others.

CHAPTER 34: 

DIALOGUE! DIALOGUE! 

AND DEMOCRACY! 

A friend asked what defines me more—my achievements, even if I carry them alone — or my tragedy, which has been very public and excoriating. 

There’s a story that I like very much, about a woman who arrives in Heaven, exhausted and dispirited, after a long journey on the earth marked by many challenges and disappointments. 

The Lord takes her to a stained glass window. “Look, ” he says. “These are the fragments of your life that broke off on your journey. You thought that your soul was fragile like glass. You thought these broken pieces of you were lost forever.”

“But here, you see, I have saved them all for you. I have taken these broken parts, and made a picture of your life in the colors of the glass. Look how the colors form a mosaic that illustrates the story of who you are. All of those dark fragments come from the hard times. But look how those dark colors create shadows around the bright reds, the greens, and the blues from your happier days. And so the darkness accentuates the joyful moments of your life. The darkness calls attention to your light.”

“And together, all of it is beautiful.” 

My friend, John Edward Hurley told me that story, and I think it’s lovely. 

I tell that story, because I believe that whatever price I paid for my journey, it was fully worth the cost. It was a hellacious fight, however. The men and women who did this tried to destroy my confidence and spirituality, my sense of identity and pride in my achievements. 

Most days I think they failed. I take satisfaction that I have never regretted my actions or choices. I never recanted my political or spiritual beliefs, no matter how badly I felt threatened. 

I do believe, however, that my experience sends a warning shot across the bow that our democracy and precious liberties are not so strongly protected as Americans want to believe. 

The attack on my activism was irredeemably corrupt from start to finish. Yet nothing stopped it. None of the civil rights enshrined in our Constitution had any impact slowing its momentum. Except for one shrewd and perceptive Judge, I would have been destroyed. 

That’s the Patriot Act for you. 

Franz Kafka would have been appalled by the deja vu. 

Why go to so much trouble? What were Republican leaders hiding that they had to silence me under false indictment for five years without a trial? 

I believe that answer is important—and surprisingly hopeful for our future. 

Republican leaders wanted to hide the success of dialogue before the Iraqi war in winning Baghdad’s support for anti-terrorism and the 9/11 investigation. My efforts proved diplomacy could achieve results that would have defrayed the conflict, whereas leaders in Washington wanted the world to think War was the only solution.

They were wrong. Dialogue and engagement created a strong opportunity for peace. 

I believe it’s important for all of us to know that, perhaps more important today than ever before. With conflicts and wildfires burning throughout the Middle East, there’s a sense of foreboding, as if our global community is racing to the edge of a cliff. Or getting pushed. 

And what of us then? 

For myself, I believe that we are ignoring a powerful tool that offers the possibility of ratcheting down those conflicts. It is simple. It is communication. 

Dialogue and engagement offer a way forward. That is not idealistic or ineffectual. It can be vigorous and demanding, as Libya and Iraq have shown already. 

In fact, it’s fairly simple. Changing the dynamic in Libya and Iraq started with one woman walking calmly into one embassy, and sitting down with diplomats, and sharing a cup of tea and friendly conversation. From that simple action, we created a back channel for discussion of the major issues interrupting our relationships. 

That’s how the Lockerbie Trial happened. That’s how Libya stopped acting as a sanctuary for terrorists and embraced the concept of nuclear disarmament. Breaking through the isolation of sanctions, we found common ground. And we discovered that our two sides could adopt some measures of friendship. We identified a few common areas of agreement, and we built out from there. 

Libya was totally transformed. And it’s because of dialogue. 

It was the same with Iraq. Most critically, the success of back-channel dialogue achieved all U.S. objectives two years before the invasion. 625 Once international loathing of Iraq’s humanitarian crisis pointed to the collapse of sanctions, U.S. Intelligence adopted an ambitious agenda for securing the maximum interests of the United States in any post sanctions period. And we succeeded to a degree that would have astonished Russia, France and China on the Security Council. 

The results of our dialogue were outstanding, if I say so myself. 

Through a period of intense back channel talks from November 2000 to March 2002, the CIA forced Iraq to accept the return of U.N. weapons inspectors, “with no conditions,” such that Iraq agreed to the most rigorous standards of compliance and maximum transparency ever imposed in history.

Baghdad put up no fight. Quite the opposite, in December, 2000, Iraq’s Ambassador Dr. Saeed Hasan vowed “it would be a short conversation, because Iraq was ready to prove its sincerity on all known U.S. demands.” 

Indeed, Iraq encouraged Washington to consider its vast market potential across all sectors in weighing the value of a future alliance. Senior diplomats voiced Baghdad’s hope that the United States would become a major trading partner after sanctions. Diplomats frequently reminded me that before the 1990 Gulf War, Iraq had been a strong ally of the United States, as a buttress against Iran. That friendship could be renewed, they said. Iraq would show its appreciation. 

The CIA put Baghdad to the test— demanding a lion’s share of reconstruction contracts— a “peace bonanza” for U.S. Corporations. Back channel dialogue won guarantees that U.S. corporations would have the right to return to Baghdad at the same level of market share they enjoyed before the 1990 Gulf War, barring military sales or dual-use production. Most importantly, U.S. corporations would receive priority contracts in telecommunications; health care, hospital equipment, and pharmaceuticals; factory construction and transportation. 

Baghdad offered to buy one million American manufactured automobiles every year for 10 years.

U.S. Oil access was safe and secure, too. As of November 2000, Iraq promised the U.S. would enjoy full rights to participate in all future oil concessions at the first tier level. Iraq also guaranteed that U.S. oil would have rights to hold second and third tier concessions on contracts granted to France and Russia, as a way to guarantee U.S participation. There was no danger of the U.S. getting cut out of Iraqi oil exploration and production. And no other country lost oil contracts, under this arrangement, either. 

From my own vantage point, some of the greatest success in back-channel talks involved Iraq’s cooperation with global anti-terrorism policy. Baghdad agreed that the FBI or Interpol or Scotland Yard could send a Task Force inside Iraq, with authorization to conduct terrorism investigations, interview witnesses, and arrest suspects. The FBI could have interviewed Al Anai, the Iraqi diplomat who allegedly met Mohammad Atta in Prague, Czechoslovakia, per the demands of Senator John McCain and Vice President Richard Cheney.

Moreover, Iraq offered to hand over a treasure trove of banking documents identifying the financial pipeline used by terrorists. And Baghdad freely offered to provide evidence of a Middle Eastern link to the 1993 World Trade Center attack and the Oklahoma City Bombing. 

Finally, on my trip to Baghdad in March 2002, I developed an Iraqi source inside the Mukhabarat willing to act as a covert liaison to the FBI or Interpol. At great personal risk, he agreed to identify who entered the country, when, where they lived, who they met, and their activities. So the FBI Task Force could have tapped a local source for assistance, as well. 

It was a phenomenal achievement—and the Justice Department prosecuted me for it. As they say, no good deed goes unpunished in Washington. 

The help of my Iraqi Intelligence source was icing on the cake, really. If the United States and Britain cared about shutting down terrorist networks and sanctuaries after 9/11, Iraq’s cooperation would have produced the most substantial windfall of any nation.

These were practical actions—not propaganda. 

Through my back channel, our team took the policy speeches in Washington and London, and turned them into something alive and meaningful. Our team understood the practical elements of successful terrorism containment. We’d done this work for a decade, and we understood the necessary structure required to implement it. Our blueprint was outstanding. 

The opportunity for advancing key democratic reforms in Iraq—suggested by Iraqi officials themselves —surprised even me. It was tremendously exciting. Baghdad devised a highly creative platform for integrating Iraqi exiles into the political system. Iraq suggested that foreign embassies—which qualify as sovereign territory— could house returning Iraqi exiles, backed by embassy security, to guarantee their safety, while they reabsorbed into Baghdad society. Returning exiles would have enjoyed the rights to organize political parties with party headquarters, in competition with the Baathist Party, and full access to media, including the rights to create free opposition newspapers and apparatchik. 

That was Iraq’s proposal in March, 2002— one year prior to the invasion. I think it’s an idea worth exploring in other conflict zones, where there’s a large exile population seeking to reestablish itself in the home country. 

Weapons disarmament. Cooperation with global anti- terrorism. Economic reconstruction contracts. Oil contracts for the United States. Major democratic reforms. It’s hard to imagine what more the U.S. and Europe could have required. 

At the risk of sounding crass to an international audience, if the CIA had thought of it, my team would have demanded it from Baghdad, shamelessly. 

As a result, I can say confidently that Washington and London could have achieved every single objective that our leaders demanded from Iraq, without deploying a single soldier to occupy Baghdad, or firing a single missile to damage the country’s infrastructure. Not a single Iraqi mother or child had to die. Nor a single U.S. soldier.

I agreed to help as a back channel, because I hated the misery of sanctions for the Iraqi people. The pre-eminence of the United States was unchallenged at that time. I believed it would be necessary to satisfy U.S. demands in order to resolve the conflict. And so I accepted this role—gladly. And yes, I believe the world would have been better for it. The Middle East, too. And the Iraqi people most of all, for whom I have grieved. 

War has cost us all so much. Iraq has imploded in a sectarian nightmare. The brutality of Occupation made a lie of liberation. Generations of Iraqi children will hate the West. The U.S. has lost a major regional ally in the Middle East for the future, while Iran has gained a powerful partner and neighbor, certain to check U.N. efforts at nuclear containment. 

Our team kept our activities below radar, and out of media range. Yet our approach was results oriented and effective. We accomplished each part of our objectives, which promoted U.S. interests on a broad spectrum. Those were tough standards, too.

That’s why I was held under indictment for five years—through two Presidential elections in 2004 and 2008. Pro-War leaders in Washington would stop at nothing to hide those opportunities from daylight and public scrutiny. Republican leaders particularly enjoyed strutting about in the circus glitz of their national security policy, though it was purely spectacle and showmanship, without hard achievements to support the glamour. It suited Washington to pretend that Saddam’s government had been a stalwart supporter of terrorists in the Middle East, instead of a covetous western ally who despised— and in fact, persecuted— Islamic fundamentalists. 

Why Truth Matters Today 

Given the cynicism of our day—and the thundering rage and desperation the world now faces—I believe it’s critical for Americans and the international community to understand the truth of what dialogue accomplished in Iraq. 

No matter that the conflict loomed large and appeared intractable, hope for peace remained undaunted right to the very end.

The greatest obstacle to peace in Iraq was the ambition of War itself, and the common belief that diplomacy could not achieve results, and therefore would not be worth the time to pursue aggressively. 

That mentality handicapped us. It was wrong. And it needs to change. 

Because contrary to what people think, dialogue did not fail. Our resolve for crisis resolution failed. 

In my personal experience engaging directly with Libya and Iraq —two “pariah” nations in the 1990s— there is never a point at which dialogue cannot achieve results. No matter how difficult it appears, all things are possible through communication. 

There are four necessary ingredients for success, I believe. 

First, dialogue requires the courage of leadership to face problems head on, and to work beyond the level of propaganda. 

Secondly, it requires a commitment to see solutions through to the end, without giving up at the first stumble. I have conservatively estimated that Libyan and Iraqi diplomats met with me 150 times each. In both cases, the work took longer than expected, but accomplished much more than we started out to achieve. By the time the United Nations jumped in, the scope of discussions was much broader and higher grade—and the scale of opportunities was much more dynamic than the public might have imagined. 

Thirdly, I believe that crisis dialogue must be handled covertly at the start, as the most effective method of exploring creative options, and building possible scenarios that have not been considered before. Public debate in the media creates a demand for change, which is necessary and good. But media grandstanding does not advance the development of complex and intricate solutions. Premature media exposure can kill ideas. And that’s self-defeating. The goal should be to nurture an atmosphere of the possible, with a priority for exploring the most innovative strategies for achieving those goals. 

Finally—and this is critical, though somewhat obvious—it’s vital to communicate respect for cultural and religious differences, even for those nations who qualify as our opponents. These individuals must be treated with dignity. They must become partners in bringing about a policy shift. As Iraq’s package of democracy reforms show, they too have ideas and strategies to contribute, which might surprise the most hardened cynic. 

They, too, have a stake in the project’s success. Their cooperation is vital for the end game. 

That was the essence of the approach that I used. And I assure you that we achieved much more than we started off to win, by applying that approach. 

For that matter, consider what my team accomplished with Libya: 

Ongoing conversations with Libyan diplomats, starting in 1995, broke the impasse on the Lockerbie Trial. By 1998, Libya had stopped functioning as a sanctuary for terrorists, and by 2004, Tripoli had renounced the development of Weapons of Mass Destruction, (both causes I championed). Tripoli also moved to develop economic ties with Europe. As of today, Libya has filled a seat on the United Nations Security Council.

Many attribute Libya’s change to the United Nations sanctions. They would be wrong. Dialogue and engagement changed the dynamic with Tripoli, thanks to my team’s efforts, joined by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who moved things forward in a highly effective and covert way. Our process of engagement made a deliberate point of showing respect for Libya’s identity and Islamic heritage, and appreciation for the value of Libya’s potential contributions to North Africa. 

It was dialogue that accomplished those results. 

Dialogue! Dialogue! Dialogue! 

Finally, in the future, for the sake of world peace, the United Nations must embrace its fullest potential as a forum for engagement. The U.N. must take responsibility for attempting crisis resolution. When it came to Iraq and Libya, the United Nations stayed out of discussions until a structural framework for conflict resolution had been reached. In other words, U.N. diplomats only got involved once Libya had agreed to the Lockerbie Trial, and after Iraq agreed to resume weapons inspections, according to the maximum standards dictated by the United States. 

Until an agreement was reached, the United Nations stayed out of crisis talks. 

The United Nations expended no political capital to achieve those results. In fairness, with regards to Iraq, U.S. intelligence wanted to avoid U.N. input, so Washington could control the agenda. However, it’s also true that the U.N. showed no inclination to engage in conflict resolution with Iraq. They were quite happy to stay out of it. The United Nations was never at the front of leadership.

There was a critical exception. Malaysia’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Hasmy Agam and his senior diplomatic staff on the Security Council got involved on the sidelines, from the very beginning of talks in November, 2000. 

Malaysia’s Embassy provided invaluable technical guidance vital to success. Because of their input, we guaranteed that Iraq’s commitment to weapons inspections would comport with U.N. standards for disarmament verification, as necessary to fulfill its obligations for ending the sanctions. 

Likewise, Syria deserves praise for its urgent actions to avert war, as a member of the Security Council. Syria’s Ambassador offered to act as a crisis mediator with Washington in the run up to the Invasion. 

In that success lies hope for future conflicts. The American people and the world community urgently need to know that engagement can be trusted to produce results that are highly effective and reliable.

Dialogue can accomplish the world’s goals—with a little help from democracy. 

I am a huge believer in democracy. It’s a precious thing for ordinary people to contribute to public debates. Democracy empowers the people to offer our own ideas for problem solving. The practice of those freedoms and the process of seeking public input are messy, argumentative and contentious. Yet it’s vital for the public good. We must take special care to safeguard those civil rights, and not tolerate them to be degraded by the “lip service” of Washington politicians. 

Throughout my nightmare on the Patriot Act, it struck me as unforgivable that American soldiers were sent to die and kill for democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan, while the practice of democracy at home was under siege. My crime was actively practicing freedom of speech and criticizing government policy. My team’s warnings about Iraq and 9/11 hit the mark with such a high degree of accuracy that the possibility of exposure frightened leaders in Washington and London. 

But perhaps that misses the point. Even if I had been wrong, I should have the right to speak. Alas, they had power. And they wanted me to understand that I had none.

I was nothing. Just another American. 

Well, that’s fine with me. I happen to enjoy being “just another American.” 

There’s a ubiquitous saying that actions speak louder than words. In which case, all of us should sit up and take notice. The actions of Washington’s leaders betrayed a conviction that Americans should stay out of governance and policy making. If we interject ourselves into the public debate, trusting our rights to contribute, believing this country belongs to us, and our leaders should be accountable to us, then politicians in Washington have decided we should be removed and punished until we accept our disenfranchisement. 

Our participation is no longer welcomed. 

Worst of all, in the Patriot Act, Congress has created a weapon for punishment, if Americans don’t get the message. We can be silenced through secret accusations. The government has no burden to show evidence to a Judge or jury that a crime has been committed. The FBI and Prosecutors have no obligation to acknowledge alibis for the alleged wrongdoing. American citizens can be detained indefinitely without trial. They can lock us up on military bases, abusing the integrity of our soldiers, and deny us access to our attorneys. 

All constitutional protections are formally revoked. 

Wake up people! Americans are not nearly as frightened as they should be. The Patriot Act endangers our way of life as a country, and our purpose as a people. 

Many Americans would like to presume that George Bush did this. And he’s gone. So we’re safe now. 

No mistake could be greater. Republican and Democrats on Capitol Hill orchestrated this attack together. Yes, it was primarily carried out by supporters of Senator John McCain, who reigns over the Senate to this day. But my attackers were petty bureaucrats and party officials of the sort memorialized by Franz Kafka. 

They have not gone away. On the contrary, they have burrowed more deeply into the power structure. They remain entrenched in Washington society at all levels.

Only now I fear they have learned to use the Patriot Act more effectively as a weapon against their fellow Americans. Their actions demonstrate that they will not be dissuaded by American traditions of liberty and justice that they swore to uphold 

That means this kind of thing is going to happen more and more frequently. They’re going to become bolder and more vicious— until Americans demand that the Patriot Act must be repealed. 

Free thinking Americans face the greatest risk of all—regardless of political stripe. 

I was the second American-born citizen targeted by the Patriot Act. I won’t be the last. If you don’t believe me, while I was under indictment, in Maryland where I live, State Police decided that local environmentalists campaigning to stop global warming qualified as potential “terrorists, ” and should be subjected to surveillance allowed by the Patriot Act. 

Applying the ruthless power of the Patriot Act that equates civil disobedience with sedition, Maryland State Police targeted the Chesapeake Climate Action Network—though its members are dedicated to solar energy, wind power and recycling.

In the twisted schematics of the new surveillance culture, the DC Anti-War Network got designated as a “white supremacist group.” Amnesty International got investigated for “civil rights violations.” Animal rights activists working with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) were labeled “a security threat.” Groups opposed to the death penalty were declared “potentially violent.” 

Invoking the Patriot Act, Maryland State Police tapped their phones and monitored the physical movements of group leaders, in broad surveillance operations. At least one State Trooper infiltrated several peace groups to monitor upcoming events. 

I ask myself often. How did America lose its heart? When did we lose faith in the values of liberty in our country? Because that’s what happening today. 

We are afraid of freedom. Unless we take action to repeal the Patriot Act, many more independent thinking Americans will get hurt. We should force our leaders to prove their loyalty to our democracy by disavowing its terrible precepts. It is a law of treachery. There’s nothing “patriotic” about tearing down our beloved Constitution. That’s traitorous.

For myself, I have no regrets for what I paid to support my values. I stood up for what I love. My work gave me the greatest sense of personal satisfaction and adventures that I could have hoped for. 

Knowing the consequences, I would change nothing, even if I could. 

These days I am a “free agent” for peace and nonviolence. I still live in Takoma Park doing animal rescue work, with my little family of dachshunds and kitty cats. 

My Japanese weeping cherry tree, planted the week of my arrest, still grows in my front yard, serene and undisturbed by the tumultuous times of our world. 

Each spring, my peace tree blossoms in white petals again. And though all of us working together failed to stop this tragic War in Iraq, in my heart I am content to know that all of us tried so hard together. 

As Odysseus Elytis wrote about the fight against fascism in Greece: “Let them stone us. Let them say that we walk with our heads in the clouds. Those who have never felt, my friend, with what rock, what blood, what iron and fire we build, dream and sing.” 626

Five days before the inauguration of President Barak Obama, the Justice Department formally dismissed all charges against Susan Lindauer. 627 In five years of indictment as an alleged “Iraqi Agent,” she was never convicted of any crime. And she never stopped demanding her rights to a trial....