9/11 whistleblower Indira Singh on the election

[Minstrel Boy]

For more on Indira Singh, see this.


November 9, 2004 0800 PDT (FTW) - I guess a lot of people are trying to come to terms with what the election result means for them. I was hoping at the very least, given even a worst case scenario regarding Kerry, that his victory would have meant the shape of our national nightmare had changed; we'd have about 3 months breathing room at the very least.

For me, the protections that might have been in place prior to this election are gone. Prior to today, Bush couldn't really claim the American people had a given him a mandate to do whatever he pleased. Today he has such a mandate. Among those who voted for him, many were threatened by my blowing the whistle on the FBI's coverup of 9/11, specifically the case of Ptech {the PROMIS-derived software which ran interoperability between FAA and NORAD, and which proved to have financial connections to "Al Qaeda" personnel. -Editor}. Wouldn't they also assume they have a mandate to do whatever they please and be able to get away with it?

Currently, anyone taking on the Bush administration's complicity in 9/11 is treading on seriously dangerous grounds. Any redemption that I might have gained from a change in Administration, a change in people taking a chance to hire me, has gone. Secret grand juries are as dangerous a concept as secret trials.

Therefore I am seriously making plans to leave the country. I became a citizen of the United States of America, not some Saudi or Nazi version thereof. For me, this is real. I hold real data implicating the Bush Administration in the events of 9/11. For me to do something with it, I have to leave, if only to be able to breathe.

Indira Singh

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/110904_personal_reflection.shtml

[Soup Bean]

1. Mandates sure are a lot cheaper than they used to be.

Time was, you'd need more than a little over half the voters of the US to have such sweeping powers of change....

[seemslikeadream]

2. blueprinted the process for nuclear waste disposal

NPR Weekend All Things Considered December 8, 2002 (8:00 PM ET)



First, it's important to stress that no Ptech employees have been arrested, and authorities do not officially characterize the raid into the company's offices as a terrorism investigation. So the company, which has a number of Muslim employees, may well be innocent of any wrongdoing. But there have been some troubling questions raised about Ptech by its own employees and others close to the company. The story sounds like something out of a Tom Clancy novel on cybersnooping. Joe Bergantino is a reporter with the Boston CBS affiliate WBZ-TV. He's been working on the Ptech story for months, but he says he held off airing it at the request of federal investigators.

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ARNOLD: Indira Singh was one of the first people to raise alarm about Ptech. She's a risk management and computer systems consultant. Singh was working with a major Wall Street bank and was thinking of using Ptech's software and consulting services. While checking on the company, she talked to an ex-employee. She says that person told her that some people at Ptech were concerned that one of its central investors was Yasin al-Qadi, who the FBI suspects of financing terrorist groups. Singh says she was told that at least several other employees and executives had ties to organizations suspected by the US government of funding terrorism. Singh says given that Ptech was doing work for the FBI, the Air Force, Navy and a host of other agencies, she became very concerned.

Ms. SINGH: I called the FBI directly.

ARNOLD: Singh says she'd learned that an ex-Ptech employee had also called the Boston office of the FBI months before, soon after the attacks on September 11th. So when she called that same office in May of this year, she hoped to hear that Ptech had been investigated and cleared of suspicion or was being aggressively looked into. She doesn't believe that it was.

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Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said Ptech's software has now been scrutinized and it in no way jeopardizes the security of the country. But some security experts think the government is downplaying the potential threat. John Pike is a defense and intelligence analyst who heads up GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington-based non-profit policy group.

Mr. JOHN PIKE (GlobalSecurity.org): When you look at all of the different military security agencies that they have as customers, it's very difficult to imagine how they would not be encountering sensitive information, classified information.

ARNOLD: Indira Singh now believes that some Ptech employees had access to lots of information that could be dangerous in the hands of terrorists. She says Ptech did work for the Department of Energy in which it essentially blueprinted the process for nuclear waste disposal. She says Ptech employees could have learned how nuclear waste is transported and where it's stored. The company denies any ties to terrorist groups. Chris Arnold, NPR News, Boston.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2002/021208-secure01.htm

[Minstrel Boy]

3. "Indira, you don’t know who you’re dealing with."

When Singh flew to Washington D.C. to meet some of the ex-Ptech employees to verify their allegations, she received another shock. “I met with five extraordinarily scared people. These people were scared for their lives, and for their families. Some were about to leave the country. They told me, ‘Indira, you don’t know who you’re dealing with.’

Sadly, when she told us what happened next, it came as no surprise: When Singh alerted authorities, and her employer, what she encountered was the inexplicable wrath of a top Wall Street Bank, as well as an official wall of silence at the FBI.

“I took everything I had at that point back to my boss at JP Morgan Chase,” she states. “He didn’t want to deal with it. So I called his boss, because at this point I realized I was sitting on dynamite.”

“The various heads of the security functions at the bank set up an interview with me, and it quickly escalated to the bank’s General Auditor, who introduced himself to me as JP Morgan Chase’s ‘chief thug.’... He basically told me to keep my mouth shut and look the other way, and enjoy a wonderful life here at JP Morgan, and if I didn’t I was out.”

Alerting the bosses at one of America’s largest banks to a terror threat had certainly produced a strange result. Singh had entered a hall of mirrors, especially after she discovered that the terrorist threat was real.

http://www.madcowprod.com/mc4522004.html

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. She's still alive? Not for long.

:scared: Avoid small aircraft, Indira.

[Minstrel Boy]

4. kick n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. I wonder what

Yasin al-Qadi has been up to lately?