Who Let the Dogs Fly?

It could be coincidence.  It could be conspiracy.  Someone in a position to investigate should be asking the question:  Why did the Israeli security company fail not once but at least twice in letting shoe bombers and crotch bombers onboard international flight?  How many "mistakes" will they be allowed to make before their contracts are terminated?

If I screw up a job I get fired.  When is International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS) going to be held accountable for letting known terrorists board planes over and over again?  Or are they doing a really terrific job at planting false flags?

Why is the American press silent on the Israeli role in NW Flight 253?
By Patrick Martin
16 January 2010
Nearly a week ago, on January 10, the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz carried a news article by correspondent Yossi Melman pointing out the role of an Israeli security firm, International l (ICTS), in the failed attempt to detonate a bomb on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253.
ICTS subsidiaries I-SEC and PI are responsible for security screening of passengers at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, where accused suicide bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded the Detroit-bound jet. The company uses screening technology to profile passengers and identify security risks, based on the experience of the Israeli intelligence services. Former El Al Airlines and Shin Bet security personnel established ICTS in 1982 to market their expertise, and many US airlines use their services or technology.[...]
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/f253-j16.shtml

OpEd News carried this report from Britain suggesting an Israeli connection to the 9/11 Commission here:

The Chilcot Inquiry: Britain's 9/11 Commission
January 4, 2010
By Maidhc O' Cathail
All too often, official inquiries are conducted by the very people who should themselves be under investigation.
In this respect, Britain's Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraq war bears a distressing similarity to the 9/11 Commission.
In a remarkable symmetry, both inquiries involve a Jewish Zionist historian, who not only advised his country's leader to go to war against Iraq, but actually provided the ideological justification for that unnecessary war.
Perhaps Philip Zelikow was one of the few people who was not surprised by his appointment as executive director of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, better known as the 9/11 Commission. After all, the Professor of History at the University of Virginia had shown uncanny prescience in foreseeing an event such as 9/11 itself. In 1998, as project director of the Catastrophic Terrorism Group, Zelikow had written:
    "An act of catastrophic terrorism that killed thousands or tens of thousands of people " would be a watershed event in America's history". Like Pearl Harbor, such an event would divide our past and future into a 'before' and 'after."{...}
This report goes on to discuss British allies to the neocon agenda.  The whole article can be read here:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Chilcot-Inquiry-Brita-by-Maidhc-O-Cathail-100104-369.html

As we go down memory lane we find Google provides even more scary connections between Israel, ICTS, false flags and excuses to bomb other nations. Check out this blog from 2005 which examined the London terror bombings:

Saturday, July 30, 2005
The London bombs, Israel and ICTS
Christopher Bollyn, American Free Press 
[...]  Like 9/11 and other "false flag" acts of terror, the London bombings occurred during a large-scale terrorist exercise that took place at the same time and locations as the actual explosions.
Peter Power, former high-ranking employee of Scotland Yard and member of its Anti-Terrorist Branch, told BBC 5 and ITV News that his company, Visor Consulting, had carried out "crisis exercises," with an unnamed private company.
The exercise envisioned "almost precisely" the bombings that actually occurred, Power said.
Power described the simulation of "simultaneous attacks on a underground and mainline station" and "bombs going off precisely at the railway stations" at which the actual bombings occurred.
"There were a few seconds when the audience didn't realize whether it was real or not," he said. On ITV, Power suggested that the unnamed partner in the terror exercise was concerned about Jewish buildings and banks being targeted.
AFP contacted Visor Consultants, the mayor of the City of London, Scotland Yard, and the transportation authority to ask about the identity of the unnamed partner in the terror exercise.
A likely candidate is an Israeli company called International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS) International N.V., an aviation and transportation security firm headed by "former [Israeli] military commanding officers and veterans of government intelligence and security agencies."
Menachem Atzmon, convicted in Israel in 1996 for campaign finance fraud, and his business partner Ezra Harel, took over management of security at Boston's Logan Airport in 1999 through Huntleigh USA, a subsidiary of ICTS.[my bold] Until his 1996 conviction, Atzmon was president of the Israel Development Fund (IDF), a U.S. tax-exempt foundation funneling money illegally to the Likud party of Sharon and Netanyahu, according to author Anton Chaitkin.[...]
[...]Atzmon and Harel were majority owners of ICTS. The convicted Likud criminal's [Atzmon] firm was in charge of security at Logan Airport, Chaitkin wrote – inspecting the validity of passports and visas, searching cargo, screening passengers – when two airliners were hijacked from there on Sept. 11, 2001, and demolished the World Trade Center towers in New York.[...]
[...] "Was ICTS International, or one of its affiliates, involved in the July 7 terror exercise in London?" AFP asked ICTS spokesperson Petra Snoek at company headquarters in Amstelveen, Holland.
"Herewith I would like to inform you that ICTS International is not operating in the U.K.," Snoek wrote.
But ICTS International does have a subsidiary in Britain called ICTS U.K. Ltd., located in London's Tavistock House South, precisely where the double-decker bus was bombed on July 7.
A receptionist at ICTS U.K. Ltd. said the office was temporarily closed after the bombing due to damage, but that the company was indeed part of ICTS International.[...]
http://london-bombs.blogspot.com/2005/07/london-bombs-israel-and-icts.html

One more log to throw on the fire is this piece from Rense.com describing Mossad agents dancing in the streets while watching the towers burn and collapse on 9/11.  Why were these guys allowed to return to Israel, without any scrutiny, while Muslim males in the NYC area lived under fear of instant disappearance if they whistled in the wrong direction?

Mossad - The Israeli Connection To 911
By Christopher Bollyn
Exclusive to American Free Press, 4-14-5
U.S. investigators and the controlled media have ignored a preponderance of evidence pointing to Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, being involved in the terror attacks of 9/11.
From the very morning aircraft smashed into the World Trade Center (WTC) and the Pentagon, news reports have indicated Israeli intelligence being involved in the events of 9/11 - and the planting of "false flags" to blame Arab terrorists and mold public opinion to support the pre-planned "war on terror."
Shortly after the destruction of the twin towers, radio news reports described five "Middle Eastern men" being arrested in New Jersey after having been seen videotaping and celebrating the explosive "collapses" of the WTC.
These men, from a phony moving company in Weehawken, N.J., turned out to be agents of Israeli military intelligence, Mossad. Furthermore, their "moving van" tested positive for explosives.
Dominic Suter, the Israeli owner of Urban Moving Systems, the phony "moving company," fled in haste, or was allowed to escape, to Israel before FBI agents could interrogate him. The Israeli agents were later returned to Israel on minor visa violations.
The Assistant Attorney General in charge of criminal investigations at the time was Michael Chertoff, [my bold] the current head of the Dept. of Homeland Security. Chertoff, the son of the first hostess of Israel's national air carrier, El Al, is thought to be an Israeli national.
One of the Israeli agents later told Israeli radio that they had been sent to "document the event" - the event which took the lives of some 3,000 Americans.[...]
http://www.rense.com/general64/moss.htm
You've done your research, now have a peaceful Sunday!

Chips Ahoy on Labor Day!

More bureaucracy! More control over citizens' movements! More lack of freedom! Hooray!

Enhanced DMV license available after Labor Day
BY JAMES T. MADORE mailto:james.madore@newsday.com?subject=Newsday.com%20Article 9:52 PM EDT, May 27, 2008
ALBANY - After Labor Day, vacationers on cruise ships to the Caribbean and motorists to Canada will be able to apply for a new driver's license that meets tougher federal identification requirements to re-enter the United States, beginning in June 2009.
Officials said Tuesday that New York would be only the second state in the country, after Washington, to roll out an Enhanced Driver License that doubles as a passport book but costs $20 less. The new license can be obtained only by residents with proof of U.S. citizenship, and it isn't valid for entry to the country by airplane.
Applicants must visit a state Department of Motor Vehicles office with the required proof of identity, such a birth certificate and passport, among others. The process shouldn't take any longer than for the current driver's license, said officials, who also noted obtaining the enhanced license was voluntary
The enhanced license was first raised last fall by then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer as part of a larger plan to offer regular driver's licenses to illegal immigrants in an attempt to reduce traffic accidents and better track residents. The illegal-immigrant component sparked a firestorm, forcing Spitzer to drop it in November. But officials said Tuesday that plans for the enhanced license moved forward with talks between state and federal agencies.
The enhanced license "represents a major step forward that will help the upstate economy [near the Canadian border] and offer a convenience for all New Yorkers who travel in North America," said Gov. David A. Paterson.
U.S. homeland security czar Michael Chertoff hopes other states will follow New York and Washington in advance of a new border inspection regime set to go into effect on June 1, 2009. Under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, residents will have to show a passport or other valid identification, such as the enhanced license, to enter the United States from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean or Bermuda via land or sea.
The new license, costing $80, will resemble the current license except it will include an American flag on the front and have a radio-frequency identification chip allowing border guards to access necessary information. The fee for renewing a driver's license would remain $50.
State Sen. John Flanagan (R-East Northport), a member of his body's Homeland Security Committee, questioned the wisdom of establishing "a two-tiered licensing system" and whether the DMV could administer the program. He cited the agency's issuing of 23,000 driver's licenses to foreign visitors here legally on a temporary basis -- and refusal to rescind them after Spitzer withdrew his license plan.
Assemb. Patricia Eddington (D-Medford), a member of her body's government operations committee, said, "I don't understand why we would need an enhanced driver's license if we have a passport. What purpose does it serve?"
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-stdriv0528,0,2206392.story
Here’s an informative discussion of RFID and a call to allow consumers the ability to disable them from our clothes, blowdryers, whatever:
RFID Chips Are Here

Scott Granneman, 2003-06-26
RFID chips are being embedded in everything from jeans to paper money, and your privacy is at stake.
[...] Several major manufacturers and retailers expect RFID tags to aid in managing the supply chain, from manufacturing to shipping to stocking store shelves, including Gillette (which purchased 500 million RFID tags for its razors), Home Depot, The Gap, Proctor & Gamble, Prada, Target, Tesco (a United Kingdom chain), and Wal-Mart. Especially Wal-Mart.
The retail giant, the largest employer in America, is working with Gillette to create "smart shelves" that can alert managers and stockboys to replenish the supply of razors. More significantly, Wal-Mart intends for its top 100 suppliers to fully support RFID for inventory tracking by 2005. Wal-Mart would love to be able to point an RFID reader at any of the 1 billion sealed boxes of widgets it receives every year and instantly know exactly how many widgets it has. No unpacking, no unnecessary handling, no barcode scanners required.
[...] Right now, you can buy a hammer, a pair of jeans, or a razor blade with anonymity. With RFID tags, that may be a thing of the past. Some manufacturers are planning to tag just the packaging, but others will also tag their products. There is no law requiring a label indicating that an RFID chip is in a product. Once you buy your RFID-tagged jeans at The Gap with RFID-tagged money, walk out of the store wearing RFID-tagged shoes, and get into your car with its RFID-tagged tires, you could be tracked anywhere you travel. Bar codes are usually scanned at the store, but not after purchase. But RFID transponders are, in many cases, forever part of the product, and designed to respond when they receive a signal. Imagine everything you own is "numbered, identified, catalogued, and tracked." Anonymity and privacy? Gone in a hailstorm of invisible communication, betrayed by your very property.
But let's not stop there. Others are talking about placing RFID tags into all sensitive or important documents: "it will be practical to put them not only in paper money, but in drivers' licenses, passports, stock certificates, manuscripts, university diplomas, medical degrees and licenses, birth certificates, and any other sort of document you can think of where authenticity is paramount." In other words, those documents you're required to have, that you can't live without, will be forever tagged.
Consider the human body as well. Applied Digital Solutions has designed an RFID tag - called the VeriChip - for people. Only 11 mm long, it is designed to go under the skin, where it can be read from four feet away. They sell it as a great way to keep track of children, Alzheimer's patients in danger of wandering, and anyone else with a medical disability, but it gives me the creeps. The possibilities are scary. In May, delegates to the Chinese Communist Party Congress were required to wear an RFID-equipped badge at all times so their movements could be tracked and recorded. Is there any doubt that, in a few years, those badges will be replaced by VeriChip-like devices?
Surveillance is getting easier, cheaper, smaller, and ubiquitous. Sure, it's possible to destroy an RFID tag. You can crush it, puncture it, or microwave it (but be careful of fires!). You can't drown it, however, and you can't demagnetize it. And washing RFID-tagged clothes won't remove the chips, since they're specifically designed to withstand years of wearing, washing, and drying. You could remove the chip from your jeans, but you'd have to find it first.
That's why Congress should require that consumers be notified about products with embedded RFID tags. We should know when we're being tagged. We should also be able to disable the chips in our own property. If it's the property of the company we work for, that's a different matter. But if it's ours, we should be able to control whether tracking is enabled.
Security professionals need to realize that RFID tags are dumb devices. They listen, and they respond. Currently, they don't care who sends the signal. Anything your companies' transceiver can detect, the bad guy's transceiver can detect. So don't be lulled into a false sense of security.
With RFID about to arrive in full force, don't be lulled at all. Major changes are coming, and not all of them will be positive. The law of unintended consequences is about to encounter surveillance devices smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/169

This Land Condemned

Acknowledging that you’re in an abusive relationship is the first step towards reclaiming your identity, and it’s not an easy process. It may be that civic relationships can be imbalanced in regards to power and/or co-dependency issues. As news becomes more widespread about the injustices of this administration, maybe the shock will help people recognize the tug around the neck is not a glorious necklace but a pull of the leash.
Government authority is crossing a line
By Raul Reyes
Last week, Eloisa Tamez, 73, lost the latest round in her ongoing fight with the U.S. government. A judge ordered her to let Washington survey her land near Brownsville, Texas. It lies in the path of a proposed border fence. Now, Tamez, heir to an original Spanish land grant dating to the 1700s, fears that her property will be seized with good reason.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff recently waived more than 30 laws in order to expedite construction of the border fence. He did so with little regard for the concerns of residents, local officials and environmentalists.
And though the proposed path would cut through the properties of many citizens, it would bypass land owned by the wealthy and politically connected. The Texas Observer reported that the fence would detour around the River Bend Resort and golf course, as well as developments owned by the Hunt family, whose members are major supporters of President Bush. The fence would also cause irreparable damage to wildlife; two Texas nature preserves would wind up in Mexico. They'd likely have to close. [see blog February 11, 2008, Unpeaceable Kingdom re environmental damage]
[...] Yet two recent polls by CBS and CNN show that Americans rank illegal immigration lowest on their short list of the most pressing national problems.
The fence wouldn't solve our immigration crisis. It would simply divert crossings to other places along the 2,000 mile border. It would do nothing about the 12 million unauthorized migrants already here. In fact, nearly half of all illegal immigrants entered the country legally and overstayed their visas, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. Texas Gov. Rick Perry is right in assessing the fence as a waste of money.
Moreover, Congress has ceded too much power to Chertoff. In 2005, it granted him the authority to waive laws while prohibiting federal appeals courts from reviewing his decisions, undermining the system of checks and balances enshrined in our Constitution. Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club have filed petitions with the Supreme Court challenging the legality of the waiver. I hope the court accepts the case and voids the grant of power. Alternatively, Congress should revoke this power because it is being abused.
In the meantime, Chertoff has free rein to destroy fragile ecosystems, flout our laws and trample on the rights of citizens like Tamez. How sad that we are willing to undermine our Constitution for an expensive, wasteful monument to American insecurity.
Raul Reyes is an attorney in New York and a member of USA TODAY's board of contributors.
Posted at 12:15 AM/ET, April 18, 2008
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/04/government-auth.html
Here is the story from the Houston Star Chronicle. Please be forewarned that I've probably intruded too much bold and comments:
April 11, 2008, 6:21PM
Judge grants U.S. access to land in border fence suit
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, Associated Press
McALLEN, Texas[s] — [...] U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen on Thursday denied Eloisa Tamez's motion to dismiss the government's condemnation lawsuit and ordered her to give six-month access to three acres of land in El Calaboz, part of a Spanish land grant to her family near Brownsville.
Tamez, a 73-year-old nursing program administrator at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, had fought the government since it sued her in late January. Her case, handled by the nonprofit Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law in Los Angeles, was the most time-consuming for Hanen. [Poor Judge Hanen was inconvenienced!]
[...] Tamez had argued that the government's case should be dismissed because it did not negotiate before suing and that talks after the fact should not count. Hanen disagreed, saying that to make the government drop its case only to inevitably refile would be frivolous. [huh? What about settling standards, limits, a sign, guidance?]
[...] Hanen wrote, "the Court is quite sympathetic to both parties. Any landowner, not just Dr. Tamez, would like to know the exact details of what the Government will be doing on his or her property." But the government is in a "Catch-22" because it will not know the scope of its work until it is on the property, Hanen wrote.
"This is certainly a case where the parties are 'unable to agree on a reasonable price,'" Hanen wrote. So the condemnation was allowed to move ahead.
[...] South Texas property owners have given the government its stiffest resistance. Unlike more remote parts of the U.S.-Mexico border, the Rio Grande Valley is heavily populated and closely tied by blood and commerce to sister cities across the Rio Grande.
In pursuit of completing a congressionally-mandated goal of having 670 miles of fencing in place along the U.S.-Mexico border by the end of the year, the Bush administration said last week that it will use its authority to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations.
"Though we will try to accommodate landowner concerns, we cannot indefinitely delay our efforts or engage in endless debate when national security requires that we build the fence," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday.
On Monday, Hanen appeared ready to rule against another of the final holdouts: the Rio Grande City Consolidated Independent School District.
In wording similar to the original Tamez order, Hanen indicated that the school district's arguments against giving access to its 132-acre campus on the Rio Grande would not hold up. He gave the government until April 18 to provide evidence of bona fide negotiations.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5694135.html
And let's finish with this from CNN:
Border fence dispute brings Texas showdown
By Jeanne Meserve, CNN
EL CALABOZ, Texas (CNN) -- Eloisa Tamez said she isn't scared anymore, just determined. "I am not backing down," she said.
Tamez owns three acres of land along the Texas-Mexico border where the Department of Homeland Security would like to build a border fence. The property is a remnant of a 12,000-acre grant from Spain to her family in 1767, before the United States even existed.
"It is my history. It is my heritage," Tamez said.
This week, the Justice Department began legal action against landowners and municipalities who have refused to give government surveyors access to their land.
Tamez expects she will be sued sometime soon, but she is not intimidated.
Asked how long she will fight, she said, "As long as I have to."
[...] Richard Cortez, the mayor of the border town of McAllen, Texas, believes hiring more Border Patrol agents, deepening the Rio Grande, and clearing its banks of tall vegetation would provide better border protection than the fence.
Cortez calls the fence "a multibillion-dollar speed bump," which will slow, but not stop, illegal immigration.
"It is a false sense of security," he said. "America will not be safe. America will continue to waste resources on something that is not going to work."
[...] While expressing support for open dialogue with residents and officials, David Pagan of U.S. Customs and Border Protection wrote in an e-mail, "We do not plan to suspend work on the construction of fence in order to hold a series of additional consultation meetings."
Cortez said his city is contemplating a court test of the law that mandated the construction of the border fence.
And so a battle is being waged by about 100 landowners, those like Eloisa Tamez who are standing firm. "I will not allow them to come and survey my land. I have an American-given right to protect my property," she said.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/17/border.fence/index.html

DHS Blinks! (Thanks to Gov. Schweitzer)

I this this guy is terrific! How does a democrat get elected governor of "red" state Montana, and then stand up to Dept. of Homeland Security's pet project? BIGGGGGG Cahoonahs!
Montana Governor: DHS 'Blinks' on Real ID
By Ryan Singel, March 21, 2008
Montana governor Brian Schweitzer declared victory Friday after the Department of Homeland Security sent his state an extension to the Real ID act, despite his insistence Montana will never comply with a mandate he describes as a "boondoggle."
"If I were writing the headline, it would be 'DHS Blinks," Schweitzer, a Democrat, told THREAT LEVEL by phone late Friday.
Montana's attorney general sent DHS chief Michael Chertoff a letter (.pdf) Friday outlining the security features in Montana's current driver's licenses, which DHS threatened to reject as valid I.D. for boarding airplanes or entering federal buildings come May 11 unless the state promised to comply with Real ID.
DHS responded by interpreting that letter as a request for an extension (.pdf) of the Real ID deadlines until 2010, reversing its previous position that Montana ID cards would be rejected by federal agents.
"I sent them a horse and if they want to call it a zebra, that's up to them," Schweitzer said. "They can call it whatever they want, and it wasn't a love letter."
[...] "They tell us our data is safe," Schweitzer said. "You tell that to the passport people," he said, referring to news that State Department employees snooped in all three major presidential candidates' passport files.
"Do you want your government to have the ability to track where you went, how you got there and when you got home?" Schweitzer asked. "It would be naïve for someone to think this information will not be abused in the future. Virtually every decade these kinds of files have been used to violate people's privacy."
"We already have an ID system they are hoping to get to in seven years," Schweitzer said.
Adding more scorn to the heap, the outspoken governor called Real ID an empty notion and said that DHS isn't even likely to be around in seven years when the final phase of Real ID is scheduled to go into effect.
Schweitzer said he sent the letter to Chertoff "just to keep the guy happy. He seems so grumpy all the time. It doesn't mean anything."

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/montana-gov-dhs.html

REAL (Ugly) ID

Analysis: States fall into line on REAL ID
by Shaun Waterman, Washington (UPI) Feb 18, 2007
All but six states have complied with federal requirements to seek an extension of the deadline they face for implementing more secure driver licenses for U.S. citizens or legal residents only under the REAL ID Act.
[...] New Jersey filed for an extension after Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff personally called Gov. Jon Corzine, according to one account.
Of the six states that have so far not filed, only Delaware was expected to ask for an extension by the May deadline, according to Brian Zimmer, president of the non-profit lobby group Coalition for a Secure Driver's License.
Zimmer said the governors of Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma and South Carolina "appear to have turned their face against implementing the law" -- setting their citizens up for additional document requirements at airports and federal buildings.
[...] Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire, in a statement quietly posted on her Web site last month, said her state was also keeping its options open.
"I will not allow for confusion and chaos at our busy airports," she said, calling the new federal regulations on REAL ID "ambiguous."
[...] Zimmer said citizens of the five hold-out states faced a "nightmare" in May.
"These governors have not told their citizens what will happen," he said. "They have not told them they will have to go out and get passports" or some other federal ID. "This will hit pretty hard in Oklahoma and South Carolina" he said, pointing out that those states were business centers.
The Department of Justice and the General Services Administration, which runs federal buildings, have yet to draw up regulations governing what will happen to defendants and others with a legal right to appear in court if they are unable to present other identity documents. But the Transportation Security Administration, part of Homeland Security, will not allow people to board planes unless they have other identification, said Keehner.
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Analysis_States_fall_into_line_on_REAL_ID_999.html

Unpeaceable Kingdom

Fellow Blogspot Blogger Daniel shows yet more reasons why this "border" bullshit can't/shouldn't work:

Daniel's News & Views
Proof that border walls block wildlife in AZ & SW
Friday, February 08, 2008
Bush/Cheney's border Berlin Walls block and harm wildlife
TUCSON -- This is a recent photo obtained anonymously of desert mule deer stuck at the border wall in southern Arizona.

These deer were trying to cross in to Mexico, maybe they heard DHS Sec. Chertoff was just in town.
http://dpatterson.blogspot.com/2008/02/proof-that-border-walls-block-wildlife.html

Skeletoff Rips Head Off Lacky

Chertoff rips phony press event
"I think it was one of the dumbest and most inappropriate things I've seen since I've been in government," Michael Chertoff said.
"I have made unambiguously clear, in Anglo-Saxon prose, that it is not to ever happen again and there will be appropriate disciplinary action taken against those people who exhibited what I regard as extraordinarily poor judgment," he added.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-10-27-chertoff-press_N.htm
see also: October 26, 2007 How Low Can FEMA Go?

Portland's Dog Day Afternoon

Real alert ties up Topoff 4 exercise
Security - Bomb-sniffing dogs 'alert' on a car shortly before the top Homeland Security official is to arrive
Friday, October 19, 2007, JOSEPH ROSE, The Oregonian Staff
Topoff 4, the gigantic what-if exercise with fictional terrorists detonating a radioactive weapon in downtown Portland, turned into a real-life bomb scare Thursday afternoon. Just before 1 p.m., as police ran a security sweep before Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's arrival at the DoubleTree Hotel near Lloyd Center, something about a car in the parking garage sent bomb-sniffing dogs into a frenzy.
…That something turned out to be the cops and soldiers gathered at the hotel for Topoff. It's likely, police said afterward, that one -- or several -- of the participants who train with explosives had inadvertently left residue on or in their car.

…By the time authorities had figured out the source, Topoff activities at the hotel -- a news briefing and a paper exercise dealing with the aftermath of the mock "dirty bomb" -- had been long since canceled. Chertoff had bailed out.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7133

Just like he did after Katrina slammed those folks on the Mississippi. Heck of a job, Mickey!

War Games Alert

From Oct. 15 - 20, Operation Vigilant Shield 2008 (VS-08) will engage the Pentagon and Homeland Security in war games. The games “…resembles a war-time air scenario rather than an anti-terrorist drill.” In other words, this provides a further blurring of the lines between civil law enforcement and military rule. Be alert, be informed, be prepared.

Dangerous Crossroads:
US Sponsored War Games
by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, October 6, 2007
…the process of "domestic security" has become entrenched and integrated into military planning.
The 'linked exercises" provide an environment which favors the militarization of civilian institutions. They also impart the military with a further opportunity to interfere in domestic civilian law enforcement and judicial functions.

"Another [second 911] attack could create both a justification and an opportunity that is lacking today to retaliate against some known targets [Iran, Syria], according to current and former defense officials familiar with the plan." (WP 23 April 2006).

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6997