Espionage diversions in Washington to take attention away from AIPACgate and the CIA leak case?
Israel has long maintained that as a "close U.S. ally," it does not spy on the United States. That stance makes the story that ABC News broke late yesterday all the more bizarre. It was revealed that a Philippine spy ring was operating in the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. The Philippines is also a U.S. ally. The espionage case surrounded Leandro Aragoncillo, a naturalized U.S. citizen from the Philippines who was assigned to the Vice President's staff in 1999 while a member of the U.S. Marine Corps. Al Gore was Vice President when Aragoncillo was first assigned to the White House. Aragoncillo was charged with stealing classified information in Cheney's office that dealt with detrimental information on Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Aragoncillo was accused of passing the information to opposition politicians in the Philippines who were trying to oust Arroyo.
Aragoncillo went to work for the FBI at an intelligence office at Fort Monmouth, NJ. It was there the FBI began its espionage investigation of the FBI employee after it was discovered he was downloading and transmitting by e-mail classified documents, including some 36 secret documents, from the FBI computer system. The documents reportedly contained information on the Philippines. It would have been unusual for the FBI to have held so many classified documents on the Philippines, a country that is not considered to be a hostile intelligence nation and is not placed by the FBI in the same category as such nations as China, Israel, Russia, Taiwan, India, North Korea, and South Korea. A former Philippine National Police deputy director, Michael Ray Aquino, was accused of receiving the documents from Aragoncillo. Last March, Aquino was arrested by Federal authorities on unrelated immigration charges.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
I don't think so. I think these arrests and accusations are trumped. In order to eliminate or at best discredit individuals in the peoples White House. Individuals that do not even know what they know but can fill in the blanks, connect the dots for someone that can see and think outside of the box. It is a clean up operation as I see it.
Leandro Aragoncillo Michael Ray Aquino
Occupation:
FBI Intelligence Analyst. Hired July 2004, suspended 12 Sept 2005
Retired US Marine with 21 years service, 1983-2004. Gunnery Sergeant. Stationed in Japan, Guantanamo Bay, Quantico, VA, Assignment to the White House between 1999 and 2002 as "administration chief" of the security detail assigned to Vice President Cheney.
Six Good Conduct Medals and a Humanitarian Service Medal
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Former Deputy Directory of the Philippines National Police Intelligence Group under the government of former president Joseph Estrada
Former senior superintendent of the now-disbanded Philippines Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force
Age:
46 years old
39 years old
Home:
Woodbury, NJ
Queens, NY
March 2005: arrested by immigration authorities for overstaying his visa
Birthplace: Philippines, came to US in 1984 Philippines
Citizenship: United States in 1991 Philippines
Family: Wife, two children Wife, one son
http://www.cicentre.com/Documents/DOC_A ... quino.html
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Spies from the Philippines give me a break. I can see the Mossad infiltrating U.S. Intel Agencies but no way in hell can you convince me that Philippine Intel penetrated the White House for the first time in history. If you accept that I know a 13 year old kid selling a bridge in Brooklyn real cheap.
Will this innocent woman be the next to bite the neo con dust. The young lady is in way over head and has no idea with whom she deals. She is clearly not a spy therefore her life is in grave danger.
Filipinos in White House Circle of Power
JENNIE L. ILUSTRE, May 21, 2003
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Susan Bonzon Ralston is a major player among the top four Filipino Americans at the White House. As Executive Assistant to Karl C. Rove, the most powerful senior advisor to President George W. Bush, she’s so close to the orbit of power that it’s amazing she’s warm and accessible.
Susan assists Rove in “overseeing the strategic planning, political affairs, public liaison, and intergovernmental affairs efforts of the White House.” That’s actually four major offices.
But surprise: She answers her own phone. She promptly replies to email messages, that 21st-century daily activity which is both a blessing and a curse.
Last Friday became even busier for her after President Bush, his job approval rating hovering in the 70s, launched his reelection campaign. But the unflappable Susan told Philippine News to “call me back at 1:15 this afternoon.”
Other top officials at the White House are Noel Francisco, special assistant to the President, Office of Counsel to the President, and Cesar Conda, assistant to the Vice President for Domestic Policy.
Patrick Bumatay is a staff assistant in the Office of Counsel to the President. He serves as an aide to Counsel to the President Alberto R. Gonzales.
But Susan’s proximity to Rove puts her at the center of the President’s domestic agenda. Rove masterminded the Republicans’ historic victory at last November’s midterm elections. With a staff of 60, he will run the President’s campaign from the White House.
http://www.philippinenews.com/news/view ... f2e6d5989e
T D Bonzon MD
May 22, 2003 07:34:32
Susan, my eldest daughter, was guest speaker at the Rizal Heritage Center, Chicago where she met with some local Filpino leaders.
Your article is complimentary.
Thanks a bunch.
TDB
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This young American woman idolizes K. Rove and GWB and she will be asked to testify and swear on a Bible and what do you believe this Holy Roman Catholic naive Lady will tell? Here is a video of her beliefs.
http://www.uswtv.com/specialreport/200507/155.htm
Will she be arrested as a spy next or simply suicided?
And what about this man who has connections to all as well as blogger A. Huffington. Is he also a spy?
http://www.alzona.com/friends.html
Here is why this woman is in trouble and why we should all be worried about her safety. She has no idea what she knows and the impact her testimony can create. Keep her alive make her known to the world. Please.
"On April 20th, 2000, Jack Abramoff's personal assistant Susan Ralston wrote a memo (
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/ralst ... 02000.html) outlining guidelines for doling out skybox seats to clients, politicians and Capitol Hill staffers," Josh Marshall wrote
"As presidential adviser Karl Rove set up shop in the West Wing in 2001, he was looking for an assistant to serve as the trusted gatekeeper of his new fiefdom. Superlobbyist and Republican fundraiser Jack Abramoff was happy to lend a hand. Abramoff knew just the right person for the job: his own assistant, Susan Ralston. She interviewed with Rove and got the position," Peter H. Stone wrote (
http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweek ... 327nj1.htm) in the March 27, 2004, National Journal. "For a staunch conservative and smooth GOP operative like Abramoff, losing a valuable aide was well worth the opportunity to ingratiate himself with the president's senior political adviser."
Ralston "was of course one of many Team Abramoff players who got seconded into the [Bush] administration. Given the close relationship between Abramoff and Grover Norquist, it's probably not surprising that she also had an arrangement with Norquist in which he gave her direction on who to let through to Rove," Josh Marshall wrote (
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archiv ... php#006598) in his Talking Points Memo September 21, 2005. ...
"When the Plame affair [see below] went before a Federal grand jury, Ralston was compelled to testify, and had to leave the job with Rove," Anton Chaitkin wrote (
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2005/3 ... ndict.html) in the August 26, 2005, issue of Executive Intelligence Review............
"When the Plame affair [see below] went before a Federal grand jury, Ralston was compelled to testify, and had to leave the job with Rove," Anton Chaitkin wrote (
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2005/3 ... ndict.html) in the August 26, 2005, issue of Executive Intelligence Review...........
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?ti ... B._Ralston
PANTHER
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