The Slaughterhouse Informer

A Compendiium of Various Official Lies, Business Scandals, Small Murders, Frauds, and Other Gross Defects of Our Current Political, Business and Religious Moral Lepers.

Presenting a new magazine that contains material that is not found elsewhere and is very difficult to post on the Internet. The ‘Voice of the White House’ will appear in each issue containing material not found on TBR News for very obvious reasons.This publication will appear once a week, on Wednesday, every week, will be ten pages in length and is available by subscription only. The price is $5.00 a month and can be paid via PayPal or by check, sent to ‘Morris Productions, 3015 E. New York St. Ste A2-190, Aurora, Il 60504.’ If you don’t like it, and Bush supporters can read the Drudge Report for free, you can cancel at any time.

Civil insurrection in America and government countermeasures: The official papers

By Bradley Moscrip

An in-depth study of official American plans to construct FEMA detention centers in America and specific recent U.S. Army domestic counterinsurgency plans. Here is a sampling of the ebook contents:

Gun Control by Confiscation

As the American general population is known to be the most heavily armed in the world, immediately upon the declaration of Martial Law and the execution by the military of counterinsurgency programs, it has been determined that the BATF, will begin the process of rounding up all rifles, pistols and so-called assault weaponry from the civil population. Lists of gun collectors obtained from firearms dealers, gun magazine subscription lists and other sources will be the basis for these mass confiscations. Gun owners will be supplied documentation by the BATF showing which pieces have been confiscated so that in the future, they will be told, they can recover their weapons when the state of emergency has passed. In actuality, weapons that do not have a high value or are not suitable for arming loyalist police forces, will be destroyed by order

This study is available from tbrnews at $5.00 by PayPal  

The Voice of the White House

            Washington, D.C., May 1, 2009: “For years, the far right wing of the Republican party, allied with Evangelical Christians, banking interests and Jewish groups aimed at establishing an iron-clad dictatorship in this country, a dictatorship that would protect, defend and advance their respective needs and views. They were so blatantly obvious and so clumsy that the electorate eventually abandoned them. The decline and fall of all the right wingers and their various components has been hysterically funny. Old Murdoch, heading into his second childhood, Rush Limbaugh the voice of the empty barrel, FOX News and various religious lunatice seem to be unable to grasp the very obvious fact that the great pendulum of public opinion is swinging away from them and when this pendulum swings, it never stops along the way. I am sending on a typical posting by a Christian group that very accurately reflects the mindless fears of these people. It is pure, and very crude, fright tactics and while this might have had some effect in years past, now it is only of interest to people seeking humor on the Internet or psychologists.”

Pastors in the Pulpit Subject to Imprisonment for “Hate Crimes”

 Pastors at risk; Hate Crimes Bill favoring certain "classes" more than others

April 1, 2009

by Kade Hawkins

ProphecyNewsWatch,

House agrees to muzzle pastors with 'hate crimes' plan

The U.S. House today approved a federal "hate crimes" bill that would provide special  protections to homosexuals but leave Christian ministers open to prosecution should their teachings be linked to any subsequent offense, by anyone, against a "gay."

The vote, 249-175, came despite intense from Republicans who argued the measure would create a privileged class.

Bishop Harry Jackson Jr. of the High Impact Leadership Coalition also condemned the action, offering a warning about the nation's future.

Jackson said the action puts "sexual orientation" in a specially protected class under federal law.

"Based on history, it really isn't something that needs to be  protected," he said. "There's a problem that this is going to mark the first time that a protected class status is given to … whatever sexual orientation one has."

He said the experience in other countries has led to prosecution of Christians. In Sweden, for example, a minister was sentenced to  30 days in jail for preaching from Leviticus.

Similar state laws have resulted in similar results. In Philadelphia several years ago, a  73-year-old grandmother was jailed for trying to share Christian tracts with people at a homosexual festival, Jackson said. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., said H.R. 1913 will create "thought crimes," and U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., said it will end equality in the U.S.

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, charged the plan will divide America into groups of more favored versus less. He again cited USC Title 18, Section 2a, the foundation of H.R. 1913, which says anyone who through speech "induces" commission of a violent hate crime "will be tried as a principal" alongside the active offender. But there is no epidemic of hate in the U.S., he noted.

Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., introduced a striking argument: If  Miss California, Carrie Prejean, who supports traditional marriage, had slapped the homosexual judge who derided her on the stage under H.R. 1913 she could be indicted as a "violent hate criminal," facing a possible 10 years in prison. But, Forbes said, if the homosexual judge had slapped her, she would have had no special protection under H.R. 1913.

Andrea Lafferty, executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition, said, "The Anti-Christian Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives has acted today to lay the legal foundation and framework to investigate, prosecute and persecute pastors, youth pastors, Bible teachers, and anyone else whose Bible speech and thought is based upon and reflects the truths found in the Bible.

"A pastor's sermon could be considered 'hate speech' under this legislation if heard by an individual who then acts aggressively against persons based on 'sexual orientation.' The pastor could be prosecuted for 'conspiracy to commit a hate crime'" she said.

"This Democrat-controlled Congress has now elevated pedophiles and other bizarre sexual orientations, as well as drag queens, transgenders, lesbians and gay men to the level of protection of that already given to African Americans, Hispanics and other minorities in the law," she said.

House Republican leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the Democrats have placed a higher value on some lives compared to others, a decision he said is unconstitutional.

Not happy with just making Christian teachings on homosexuality illegal, supporters have approved a law that also provides grant money for so-called "sensitivity-training" to provide pro-homosexual propaganda, noted the public-interest legal group Liberty Counsel.

When a plan virtually identical to the current Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 was developed in the last Congress, Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala., admitted during a hearing on the bill it could be used to prosecute pastors merely for preaching against homosexuality under the premise that they could be "inducing" violence in someone.

The bill ultimately failed then because President Bush determined it was unnecessary – the crimes banned in the legislation already are addressed by other laws – and it probably was unconstitutional.

"The federal hate crimes bill is bad news for everyone," said Brad Dacus of Pacific Justice Institute, who testified in Congress against the bill two years ago. "Instead of treating all crime victims equally, it creates a caste system where select groups, such as gays and lesbians, are given greater priority in the criminal justice system.  This is not progress; it is political correctness. In other nations and states, the adoption of hate crimes legislation has been the first step toward widespread suppression of speech and ideas critical of homosexuality," he said.

Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel has spoken out against H.R. 1913 a number of times. "As has proved to be true in both Europe and Canada, this Orwellian piece of legislation is the direct precursor to freedom killing and speech chilling 'hate speech' laws. It represents a thinly veiled effort to ultimately silence – under penalty of law – morally, medically and biblically based opposition to the homosexual lifestyle," he said.

Barber said the 14th Amendment already provides that victims of violent crimes are afforded equal protection under the law "regardless of sexual preference or proclivity." Barber cited FBI statistics showing there were about 1.4 million violent crimes in the U.S. in 2007, but only 1,512 were presumed to be "hate crimes." And two-thirds of those involved claims of "hateful" words, touching and shoving. Under the specifications of the law, a Christian needn't touch a homosexual to face  charges, he noted.

"If the homosexual merely claims he was subjectively placed in 'apprehension of bodily injury' by the Christian's words  then, again, the Christian can be thrown in prison for a felony 'hate crime,'" he said.

WND reported previously that the plan was introduced by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., who said, "The bill only applies to bias-motivated violent crimes and does not impinge public speech or writing in any way."

Section 10 of the act states, "Nothing in this Act, or the amendments made by this Act, shall be construed to prohibit any expressive conduct protected from legal prohibition by, or any activities protected by the free speech or free exercise clauses of, the First Amendment to the Constitution."

However, critics cite United States Code Title 18,  Section 2, as evidence of how the legislation could be used against people who merely speak out against homosexuality. It states: Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as a principal.

Jeff King, president of International Christian Concern, warned Christians to speak up before the legislation passes. He said they are acting like the proverbial frog in a slowly heating kettle that boils to death. "They need to wake up and take action to oppose this threat to religious liberty."

The Grand Plot

Published with permission from the Slaughterhouse Informer, No. 35, April 29, 2009

April 26, 2009

by Bradley Moscrip

b.moscrip@yahoo.com

“President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Arnold L. Raphel, Brig. Gen. Herbert M. Wassom (head of" the Military Assistance Advisory Group at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad), and 27 others died August 17, 1988, when President Zia's plane exploded minutes after taking off in eastern Pakistan.”

Official U.S. Department of State bulletin

          On December 25, 1979, the Soviet Union made the colossal tactical error of invading Afghanistan. The CIA at once began to implement earlier plans and moved to support Afghanistan resistance groups with weapons, most notably the Stinger missile that was used to bring down Soviet attack helicopters and other aircraft.

          The then-President of Pakistan, a military dictator named Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, had no sympathy with the Russians and, following several conferences with U.S. State Department and military personnel, declared his “full and unconditional support” of the radical Mujahideen. In this joint project, the United States shipped tons of weapons intended for the rebels through Pakistan. Unfortunately for the CIA’s plans, General Zia siphoned off at least 70% (and the reports of the U.S.military attache indicated that the actual figure was approaching 90%) of the American weapons for his own domestic projects.

          As one of these included arming Pakistani troops for action in the disputed Kashmir area, strong objections from India were another reason for CIA ire. The government of Pakistan demanded that they alone must supervise the distribution of these weapons to the Afghan rebels.

          The outraged CIA officials, via the DCI, William Webster, prepared an aide memoire for President Reagan that states, falsely, that Zia had “gone over to the Russians” and was sabotaging the attacks on them.

          In January of 1988, Reagan, in a discussion with Secretary of State George Schulz, stated that in his opinion (based solely on the deliberately falsified CIA reports) Zia “ought to be removed from office,” and that, “at the earliest moment.”  Feeling that this could be construed as a mandate, Webster and his top aides initiated a plan to remove Zia.

          In light of this, it was no surprise when on August 17, after reviewing a Pakistani armor parade in Bahawalpur, Zia and a party of officials, to include the U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Arnold Raphel and the head of the U.S. military mission to Pakistan, General Herbert M. Wassom, boarded the Presidential aircraft. 

          The official aircraft, a C-130 Hercules took off without incident. The airfield control tower then lost contact with the pilot and suddenly, the plane went into a steep dive, then recovered, regaining altitude. Then it dove a second time and crashed, killing all aboard. The Pakistani government always believed the crash was due to sabotage and it concluded that “the most probable cause of the crash was a criminal act of sabotage perpetrated in the aircraft.”

          Inside the CIA, the death of top American officials was shrugged off and one period internal memo referred casually to “collateral damage.”

          The Presidential aircraft’s hydraulic system was deliberately sabotaged by a team of CIA specialists to include:

The team leader was:

Robert Townley, actually William E. Colby,  3028 Dent Place, Washngton, D.C., 20007

Kenneth Mackey, actually Paul Hazelton Crandall, 12020 Sunrise Valley Dr. Reston, Va  22091
Thomas Beadleman, actually Neil Thomas Parker, 2800 Woodley Rd, NW, Washngton, D.C.20008
Jim Prentiss, actually Timothy R. Norwich, 3440  S. Jefferson St., Falls Church, VA 22041
Jose Fernandez, actually  Juan Dubendorf, , 3618 Villa Verde Rd., Dallas, TX, 75234
 
Editor’s comment: The subscription lists for the Slaughterhouse Informer contained names of persons who had connections with various U.S. governmental agencies. Their main interest in reading this journal was to extract and pass on articles of interest. With the advent of Mr. Moscript’s very pointed and specific articles on   CIA activities around the globe, a number of subscribers dropped out, stating, in at least two cases, that the Moscrip articles were “a disgrace” and that “I do not believe our CIA would ever do the terrible things he has intimated.” On the other hand, while they lost ten subscribers they gained thirty so the balance is still in the favor of truth and justice.

From the international Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

          For the purposes of this Convention, the term "torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions. . .

                No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political in stability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.

                An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture. . .

                No State Party shall expel, return ("refouler") or extradite a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture.

                Each State Party shall ensure that all acts of torture are offences under its criminal law. The same shall apply to an attempt to commit torture and to an act by any person which constitutes complicity or participation in torture.

                Each State Party shall make these offences punishable by appropriate penalties which take into account their grave nature. . .

                Upon being satisfied, after an examination of information available to it, that the circumstances so warrant, any State Party in whose territory a person alleged to have committed any offence referred to in article 4 is present shall take him into custody or take other legal measures to ensure his presence. The custody and other legal measures shall be as provided in the law of that State but may be continued only for such time as is necessary to enable any criminal or extradition proceedings to be instituted.

Black-hole balance sheets
by Antal E Fekete

Our title is borrowed from a caption of the Chicago economist and monetary scientist Melchior Palyi (1892-1970) writing on the fiscal and monetary legerdemain of the US government in his Bulletin #401, dated February 27, 1960, as follows:

Faking balance sheets legalized

                A corporation publishing faked balance sheets would be barred from every stock exchange. It may even face criminal prosecution. The objective is to protect the public against fraud. But exactly the same fraudulent practice has been legalized in so 5ar as commercial and savings banks, and life insurance companies are concerned.

                They can carry government bonds on their books at par value. A $1,000 bond may be quoted in the market at $800 or less; the balance sheet of your bank will still show it at $1,000. The purpose of this regulation, adopted by all federal and state supervisory agencies and by the Securities Exchange Commission as well, is to give those bonds a sacrosanct status and guarantee against paper losses. Thereby they are promoted to an absolutely safe and "liquid" status. The bank examiners count the bonds of the federal government, whatever their maturity and actual market price may be, as prime liquid assets, just like cash. The more bonds in the portfolio, the more liquid is the bank by the examiners' standards - never mind the paper losses.

                It is small wonder that the banks purchase long-term federal obligations, thereby creating a market for them. The result is that with rising interest rates and declining values of medium- and long-term securities, the modest capital and undivided surplus of the banks - reserves against losses - are impaired. In the case of quite a few banks, the entire capital and all reserves have been lost. In some cases, even a part of the deposits has been wiped out.

Silence of the Sea

                But the public knows nothing about this sad situation. No newspaper dares to discuss it, or the preposterous practices of the government at the root of it. The "Silence of the Sea" covers them up. Those on the inside (and insight) hope and pray that a recession will reduce the pressures on the capital market, lower interest rates, raise bond prices, and wipe out the losses. Very likely it will; but what about the next cycle? And, above all, for how long, or how many times, will the depositors and savers permit themselves to be fooled and victimized? Sooner or later every legerdemain, however clever or subtle, is exposed - and backfires.

                A further consequence is that the bond portfolio of the banks "freezes up". By selling bonds, the bank would convert paper losses into real losses, which would skyrocket if major amounts were liquidated. While the boom and high interest rates obtain, the "prime liquidity" turns out to be the very opposite, unless the bonds are monetized at, and the losses shifted onto, the Federal Reserve. But the central bank can be relied upon to resist the "temptation" to absorb either or both.

                The above was written in 1960. In 2009, we are wondering what has hit our banks. No mystery there. It was not subprime mortgages nor other loose lending practices. The banking crisis is entirely self-inflicted or, more precisely, government-inflicted, the origins of which - faking balance sheets - go back almost 90 years.

                That practice cannot go on forever. The day of reckoning comes when capital is called upon to do what it is supposed to do: to tie over the bank during a temporary setback. The kitty is opened, and found empty. Bank capital is gone, due to earlier legerdemain in trying to paper over paper losses.

                The situation is actually worse, as far as the condition of our banks is concerned. So far, deposits have not been affected during this crisis. Depositors feel secure in the belief that they are protected by the government and its deposit insurance scheme. Here is Palyi, writing in the same article on this subject:

Dumping ground for the federal debt

                Government agencies that have no other choice in investing their funds, though they are not organs of the Treasury, are an obvious dumping ground for the debt of the federal government. A most interesting case in point is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). It sinks the "insurance" premiums paid by the banks into long-term government bonds, as a guaranty fund representing less than 2 percent of "insured" deposits. The FDIC itself has brought out in its Report for 1957 that, in effect, deposit insurance is relevant only in the case of a banking crisis - in which case it would not be helpful at all. All its funds would be exhausted at once if a single one among the eight or 10 biggest banks would get into trouble, to say nothing of a wide-spread bank-run.

                The public's impression is that the government guarantees deposits which it does not. Worse still, in order to make good on the "insurance" of even a small fraction of "insured" deposits, the FDIC would have to liquidate its own holdings, which would break the bond market. Not only is this a phony arrangement which serves only to mislead the public, but it also induces the banks to neglect building up their capital accounts properly for the protection of the deposits. Rather, they rely on the "insurance" - and on their own holdings of government securities.

The hare-brained Geithner-plan

                Now, 50 years later, we have a fully fledged banking crisis on hand, and the FDIC will soon face its first real test since its establishment in the 1930s. Is deposit "insurance" a myth as suggested by Palyi, designed to mislead the public? There is plenty of evidence that it is.

                Why did the big Wall Street banks not sell government bonds from their portfolios before begging Congress for bailout money? On the face of it, this would have been a good time to sell, as the bonds are quoted above par value by the market, thanks to a super-low interest-rate structure. Could it be that the bond market is rigged? Could it be that high bond values are artificially maintained, for example by tempting bond speculators to the long side of the market with risk-free profits, and threatening those on the short side with sudden death - the essence of open market operations as I have long suggested? This time we shall find out.

                If you examine the latest measures initiated under Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, there is indeed reason for alarm. Geithner openly invites private investors to speculate, risk free, in buying the toxic assets of the banking system. The risks, should they materialize, are covered by pledging, most improperly, the assets of the FDIC. If the gamble succeeds, private investors may keep the assets they have bought on the cheap. Otherwise, the FDIC will pick up the tab and will reimburse investors for their losses.

                Let me ask the only relevant question. Why would private investors, in their right mind, speculate in toxic assets which have no market, given the fact they can already speculate, directly and risk-free, in the "ultimate" asset that is held in the guaranty fund for those toxic assets, that do have a market in which the troubled banks compete with overseas central banks for the bonds of the US government? The Geithner-plan is a hare-brained plan, and is bound to fail.

Portfolio frozen as the Antarctic

                When it does, there will be a run on the banks. It will be ugly and unstoppable. Only about 10% of the money supply is in the form of Federal Reserve notes, and people will be scrambling for them. The printing presses will be run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and they will still not be able to meet the demand. Apparently, foreigners are already scrambling for Fed notes. They could of course have Fed deposits in the form of electronic money, but they wouldn't touch them with a 10-foot pole. They want dollars they can fold.

                Make no mistake about it, behind this unprecedented world panic and bank run is the book-keeping legerdemain that the US government and its bank examiners have adopted after the 1921 panic in the bond market. Thereby the commercial and savings banks, as well as insurance companies, in the US were authorized to carry government bonds at par value in the balance sheet, as if they were a cash item, in complete disregard for what they would fetch in the open market.

                Moreover, banks and insurance companies could also use them as gambling chips, buying and selling them to pocket risk-free profits. They just have to second-guess the Federal Reserve. Whenever the Fed has nature's urge to go to the open market to relieve itself (read: to buy more bonds for the purposes of collateral in order to be able to increase the money supply), they could pre-empt it in buying the bonds first. In this way they bid up the price of bonds and then dump them in the lap of the Fed for a quick profit.

                Now the whole shady scheme of misleading the public through balance-sheet hocus-pocus is coming unstuck. Make-believe bond values have backfired badly. As it turns out, the banks' portfolio of government bonds is as frozen as the Antarctic - just as Palyi predicted 50 years ago that it would be.

Grand Canyon holes in balance sheets

                The banks cannot liquidate those portfolios without revealing Grand Canyon-size holes in their balance sheet, several times larger than bank capital. They desperately need to retain their portfolio of government bonds for "window-dressing" purposes, that is, to show at least the remnants of what had been bank capital in happier times.

                They desperately try to hide the fact that even the ruins of their capital are gone. The much advertised "stress-test", no doubt, is using the same metric that has steered the banking system to the ground during the past 90 years: the metric assuming that government bonds can never lose value, and bank balance sheets are there to falsify based on that false metric.

                Such an assumption is especially dangerous when the interest-rate structure is at the low-end of the spectrum, and the country is suffering from a chronic balance of payments deficit. It is difficult to see how one can treat the stress-test and its results with respect.

                We shall see how adroitly Fed chairman Ben Bernanke will handle the printing press, which he is in the habit of boasting that the US government has given him to use in a situation like this. He will not be able physically to print Fed notes so fast as to replace electronic money that has been lost, or will be lost through rejection by the public.

                Electronic money had been created in the belief that nothing more was needed to pacify the markets. But it is one thing to create electronic money with a click of the mouse; it is quite another thing to print Fed notes on real paper with real ink.

                This is the secret of deflation, and the answer to the much-debated question whether you can have hyperinflation and deflation all at the same time. The answer is that you can, because hyperinflation refers to electronic money that people reject, and deflation refers to Fed notes that people hoard.

                The moment of truth has arrived. You cannot fool all the people all of the time. The emperor is naked: the tailors who created his garments are impostors. Too bad for the impostors. Unlike in Hans Andersen's story where they decamped in a hurry, Bernanke and Geithner stayed and will have to face the ire of the emperor - and that of the people when they find out that their deposits are gone with the wind.

                Antal E Fekete has since 2001 been consulting professor at Sapientia University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In 1996, Professor Fekete won the first prize in the International Currency Essay contest sponsored by Bank Lips Ltd of Switzerland.

How Do You Distinguish an "Enraged" Republican from a Republican Who Claims to Be "Enraged?"

April 30, 2009

by Dean Baker

The American Prospect

I don't know the answer to that one but perhaps the Post can tell us. It told readers that Republican members of Congress "were enraged" over the $1.2 trillion deficit projected for the 2010 budget.

Given that the major cause of the deficit is an economic crisis brought about by the policies pursued by a Republican president some people may wonder whether the Republicans really were enraged, as opposed to just trying to score political points. However, the Post was able to determine that the Republican rage was genuine. Perhaps they can share their method for distinguishing real rage from feigned outrage with their readers.

The Müller Washington Journals   1948-1951

Excerpt 17

                At the beginning of December, 1948, a German national arrived in Washington, D.C. to take up an important position with the newly-formed CIA. He was a specialist on almost every aspect of Soviet intelligence and had actively fought them, both in his native Bavaria where he was head of the political police in Munich and later in Berlin as head of Amt IV of the State Security Office, also known as the Gestapo.

                His name was Heinrich Müller.

                When Heinrich Müller was hired by the CIA¹s station chief in Bern, Switzerland, James Kronthal in 1948, he had misgivings about working for his former enemies but pragmatism and the lure of large amounts of money won him over to what he considered to be merely an extension of his life-work against the agents of the Comintern. What he discovered after living and working in official Washington for four years was that the nation¹s capital was, in truth, what he once humorously claimed sounded like a cross between a zoo and a lunatic asylum. His journals, in addition to personal letters, various reports and other personal material, give a very clear, but not particularly flattering, view of the inmates of both the zoo and the asylum.

Müller moved, albeit very carefully, in the rarefied atmosphere of senior policy personnel, military leaders, heads of various intelligence agencies and the White House itself. He was a very observant, quick-witted person who took copious notes of what he saw. This was not a departure from his earlier habits because Heinrich Müller had always kept a journal, even when he was a lowly Bavarian police officer, and his comments about personalities and events in the Third Reich are just as pungent and entertaining as the ones he made while in America.

The reason for publishing this phase of his eventful life is that so many agencies in the United States and their supporters do not want to believe that a man of Müller¹s position could ever have been employed by their country in general or their agency in specific.

Introduction

In the early morning hours of September 25, 1963, a grave was opened in the West Berlin Kreuzberg military cemetery and the contents removed for forensic examination. The marker indicated that the occupant of the grave was Heinrich Müller, born April 28, 1900, and killed in the street fighting in Berlin in 1945 when the Soviet Army seized the German capital. The memorial stone did not indicate that Müller had been an SS-Gruppenführer and a Lieutenant General in the German Police and that since 1935, was the head of the German Gestapo or the Secret State Police.

The exhumation had been requested by the West German Ludwigsburg Center that dealt with ex-Nazis sought for prosecution. This Center had information that Müller was not dead and was, in fact, gainfully employed by a foreign government. One of the first steps in proving this was to ascertain whether the corpse in the grave was that of Heinrich Müller who had been issued a death certificate from the Death Bureau of Berlin-Center numbered 11 706/45.

A subsequent pathological examination proved that there were the remains of three different men in the grave, none of whom were Heinrich Müller.

                Given the position Müller occupied in the Third Reich and the role he played during its course, the question arises as to why no writer or historian has made any attempt to produce an in depth work on the head of the Gestapo. Aside from several pages in two of Heinz Höhne’s books and some material in Aronson, there is almost nothing in print about Heinrich Müller, and much of that extremely superficial or inaccurate. Although considerable information does exist in official files in archives, Müller has fallen through the cracks for several reasons.

Primarily, Heinrich Müller was a man who neither sought nor encouraged publicity. Unlike many of Hitler’s satraps, Müller disliked public display and was rarely photographed. Also, Müller was devoted to hard work and results, and preferred to work in private.

Secondarily, writers are drawn to the dramatic and the flamboyant, not the cold and secretive. Most treatments of historical personages consist, in the main, of wholesale filchings from previous writers, gotten up in new clothing but without substance. In the academic world, this is not called plagiarism, which it is, but instead labeled as research, which it is not.

Thirdly, U.S. intelligence agencies give every appearance of being singularly displeased by any mention of the name of Heinrich Müller.

In 1973, West German authorities issued a warrant for the arrest of Heinrich Müller, having good reason to believe that he did not die in Berlin in 1945. Correspondence, still classified in US files, between German legal agencies and their US counterparts indicates unhappiness, frustration and growing displeasure on the part of the Germans and classic stonewalling on the part of the Americans. Portions of Müller’s US CIC files now in Ft. Meade, Maryland, have been censored. None of the documents refused to researchers deal with immediate postwar searches for Müller but cover a much later period. The reasons given for continued classification is that their release would adversely affect US national security.

Historical Background

Living comfortably in Switzerland under the name of Schwartzer after the end of the Second World War, as an intelligence resource of the Swiss government, Heinrich Müller was contacted in 1948 by his onetime deputy in the Gestapo, SS-Oberführer Willi Krichbaum. Krichbaum, a long-time personal acquaintance of Müller, had been a senior Gestapo official in the Southeastern Grenz-Polizei or Border Police and had headed the Geheime Feld Polizei, the investigative and enforcement  body of the Abwehr since September of 1939.

In 1946, former SS Colonel Krichbaum was Gehlen’s chief agent recruiter stationed in Bad Reichenhall. Krichbaum was responsible for locating former Gestapo and SD agents and securing positions for them inside the Gehlen Organization.

This organization, located at the former Nazi official complex at Pullach southeast of Munich, became affiliated with the CIA when that organization was officially founded in 1948. According to Müller’s papers, Krichbaum had been in touch with his former chief through ex-Gestapo personnel living in Switzerland and opened discussions with the Americans about the possibility of employing Müller.

The head of this organization, Lt Colonel James Critchfield of the CIA, had heard rumors that the head of the Gestapo had fled to Switzerland and was working with Swiss intelligence. Through the services of former SS-Oberführer Krichbaum, Critchfield made contact with Müller in early 1948

Because of Müller’s knowledge and expertise in matters concerning Soviet intelligence, backed with archival material that the former head of the Gestapo had hidden in Berlin and Switzerland, the CIA expressed an immediate and intense interest in recruiting Müller. Krichbaum acted as a go-between in the negotiations with his former superior who was chafing at his comfortable but boring retirement and the CIA controlled Gehlen Organization under Colonel James Critchfield.[1]

It was never a question of the Americans threatening Müller with exposure if he did not cooperate, but more a question if Müller was willing to work for a former enemy. In the event, because of his detestation of communism and the perceived opportunity to do further damage to this system, Müller had little difficulty in working for American intelligence.

                After the war and his resettlement in Switzerland, Müller resumed keeping his journals and he brought these with him to the United States in 1948. Heinrich Müller¹s journals were certainly never intended for publication or justification. They are always brutally frank, cynical, highly informative and at least for some readers, entertaining. Müller did not suffer fools gladly and even though he had to work with his former enemies, there was no reason for him not to perform private literary surgery on their overweight, alcoholic bodies and flabby personalities.

                The CIA offered him a job. He took it and used his position to ingratiate himself with the President of the United States and the Director of the FBI as well as to marry into a wealthy and influential Washington family. He had no hesitation in exchanging information and confidences with a high-level Soviet agent although his raison d¹etre was to assist his new employers in tracking down and exposing the same people. At one time, he had the same agent to dinner with two of the senior members of the CIA and, from his notes, thoroughly enjoyed the irony of the situation. In fact, it could be said that Müller always seemed to enjoy the ironical side of his work, took nothing seriously and filled his journals with comments and asides which the complaisant and conventional view with genuine horror and, more often than not, great disgust.

                In Washington, Müller lost no time in climbing the social ladder and filling his Georgetown home with a fortune in art stolen by the Germans during the war. Some of this art, which included portions of the famed Amber Room, he sold off for the private purses of his co-workers in the CIA. He once gave a small, very private dinner for the President to which Müller wore all of his Third Reich and Imperial decorations and while sitting across from President Truman, discussed the activities of Senator Joseph McCarthy, a man to whom Müller was supplying inside information to aid him in his reign of terror.

                Müller had known the British-Soviet spy, Harold “Kim” Philby who worked for everyone from the Nazis to the communists, before the war and renewed his acquaintance when Philby was sent to Washington as British liaison to the FBI and CIA.

                There are several instances where Müller, Philby and Viktor, his NKVD friend, would sit in the refined atmosphere of Washington¹s highly exclusive Metropolitan Club library and discuss all manner of highly classified information. In return for his hospitality, Müller was given an equal amount of highly classified Soviet and British information that his CIA employers found of great value. This high level information trading between putative enemies is typical of the intelligence communities of all nations and is certainly the rule, not the exception.

                Initially, when Müller came to Washington in 1948, he was not fluent in English and was certainly a stranger, but he quickly adapted. From trivia about his water pipes and the weather, Müller¹s journals quickly expand into detailed, highly opinionated, coverage of the Red spy hunts, the internecine fighting in the nation's capital, open warfare between the FBI and the CIA, and Müller¹s negative and often highly entertaining views on the top levels of the CIA. It is in these passages that Müller wields the knife as well as the bludgeon.

                Although happily married, Müller had no problem conducting brief but intense affairs with the bored and unsatisfied wives of his closest co-workers, affairs which he had no problem entering in his journals, along with any significant pillow talk he gleaned from his romps in a Gretna Green hotel bedroom.

                Becoming a friend of Sothenes Behn, wealthy and powerful head of IT&T, Müller took a great interest in the American stock market and with the advent of the Korean War, began to buy stock in companies dealing with the Pentagon. He obtained highly secret, inside information on contracts to be let by the American military and he and his Soviet spy friend began to invest heavily in the market.

                In his relations with his personal staff, Müller clearly emerges as a kind and very considerate man but outside of his inner circle, he was entertaining, pleasant... and utterly ruthless. He kept at least one assassin on his staff and had no qualms when this man dispatched people who Müller felt might have identified him as the former head of the Gestapo. At the same time, Müller encouraged romances among his staff members, gave extensive financial support to the family of one assistant and certainly was very kind and affectionate to his dog.

                Although it is doubtful if Müller could have added valuable medical knowledge to his other attributes, nevertheless, he instructed his CIA co-workers in various methods of giving unwanted people sudden heart attacks.

                When he first came to Washington, Müller noted that a number of inconvenient people, to include James Forrestal, were being thrown out of upper floor windows to their deaths on the pavement below. He suggested that an induced heart attack was far less dangerous to people passing by on the sidewalk beneath the victim.

                One of the criticisms of the series on, and by, Heinrich Müller is that the tenor of the conversations held between American government officials and the former chief of the Gestapo is outrageously cynical, manipulative and amoral on the part of all parties involved. There seems to be an image fixed in the minds of a few which has all leading members of a government in general and the CIA in particular, participants in an elegant and refined tableau reminiscent of a dinner at Thomas Jefferson¹s Montecello where serious matters of state were debated by high-minded gentlemen over port and a pipe of fine Virginia tobacco. In reality, the days when gentlemen were to be found in government are long over and forgotten with only the memory lingering on to uplift the spirits of the hopeful and trusting. Pragmatism and ruthlessness have replaced manners and morals so that the private discussions of Presidents, Congressmen, Cabinet members and heads of intelligence agencies sound far more like a sit-down in a Brooklyn clam house between Mafia dons than an eighteenth century literary salon. As Müller himself often said, morals and ethics are excellent norms but not very effective techniques.

                Nearly all of the historical events depicted in these books run counter to the history which has been taught in the schools or depicted in an endless flood of works on the Second World War and the years subsequent. In the main, this is because the propaganda of those eras has been codified by the participants themselves and embroidered by a following legion of obedient court historians, poured into literary concrete and pointed to with great pride by their creators.

                The survival and employment by the United States of Heinrich Müller and a significant number of his former agents is contained in American archives but for reasons that are entirely obvious, these papers are still sealed with the highest security classifications. Even though all the participants in this event are long dead, governments, like corporations, are living entities and the sins of the fathers are not to be visited upon their children.

                The journals of Heinrich Müller are by their very nature, revisionistic in the extreme and because of this revision of favorite myths and legends, abhorrent to the orthodox as well as those who chance to be employed by the same agencies that Müller so brutally scores. In order to refute his ugly depictions of national icons, legions of historians, government officials and ubiquitous academics have been improving their shining hours by frantic and extensive searches in various archives and official records on two continents. The sole purpose of their labors is to attempt to disprove the myriad allegations of ignorance, idleness and vice expressed by the former head of Hitler¹s secret police in his private journals. The sum and total of all this wasted labor can be found in such unhappy comments as are found in a British intelligence journal which states with shrill authority that because there were two typographical errors in three volumes, the contents of all of them have no historical value whatsoever.

                Intellectual acuity is not a hallmark of either the members of British intelligence or the CIA. Most especially the latter.

Excerpt No 17

Wednesday, 7. February, 1951.

                I have completed the negotiations with Angleton concerning the Italian Foreign Office papers. There are nearly 15,000 pages there that the Gestapo seized in Rome from the Italian FO in the Palazzo Chigi in 1943.

                Kappler (the head of the SS and police in Rome, ed.) grabbed them on Ribbentrop's orders and they were shipped to Berlin for evaluation. After the 20th of July, we took custody of them and I later had them hidden in the walled-up cellar in a villa in Dahlem along with the rest of my files.

                These were in a side room, also walled-up, and when we got my other records in 1948, I didn't bother to tell them about the Italian files. These we got a few months ago and I brought them to the attention of Angleton because of his intense interest in Italy.

                After all, he had lived there with his family once and then during the war, was with the OSS in Sicily where he acted as a middleman between the U.S. government and the Sicilian Mafia. He dealt with Luciano at the time and is still believed to have very strong connections with both the Italian and American Mafias. When I showed him some sample pages of the Chigi papers, he became very interested and wanted to get them.

                I found out that there were Italian police reports in there about the Mafia in Sicily. Mussolini hated them and was trying to eradicate them from Italy. Of course, Angleton wants them to help his friends and I am willing to oblige. He does not know that I am aware of his connections and his stupid lie that he wants to "have an overview of Italian history" is sheer nonsense.

                When I told A. that these files would cost the CIA a quarter of a million dollars, he didn't twitch an eyelid. There is a great deal of money lying around and he paid it without protest...and in cash! Of course I have a microfilmed copy of the lot!

                This is what happens when an intelligence agency speaks in hushed tones about "National Security", gets huge sums of money from a gullible, and often frightened Congress, and knows with great glee that they won't have to account for a pfennig of any of it.

                My God, they do steal at that!

                "It costs money to send my son to Harvard," they say with a wink as they stuff their briefcases with big bills. Also, do not forget that sun porch on the summer home up on Lake Vagina or even the summer home itself.

                Of course the Government pays for their cars and all the expensive and useless trips they and their wives take to Lisbon, London and Paris. Here, they get to inspect the local office, meet with important whores (if their wives aren't along) and manage to get drunk on very expensive vintage wines. If they go to England, they drink piss-warm beer and eat food that would gag a hyena but then they can buy a suit (on the expense account of course) on Saville Row and cohabit with tarts in phone kiosks while talking to their wives about the wonderful show at the Buckingham Palace when the guard was changed.

                Actually, I would prefer to work with the Mafia if I had to deal with the criminal element. I understand that they, at least, have a code of honor. My associates certainly do not.

                What will I do with all the money?

                Why go to Cuba as the emissary of Colonel Behn and enjoy myself at the casinos and other places. As a note here: The CIA operation in Cuba is run by some demi-intellectual snob with fewer brains than a piss ant. If you gave a white mouse a Harvard degree, they would make him station chief in Mexico! Of course there will be a good deal of Angleton’s money left over to use on the furnishings for my chapel. I suppose this is what they mean by the difference between the Sacred and the Profane. The place is a wreck and very close to the road but it ought to be rebuilt. If it proves to be too much of a chore, we will use one of the rooms in the main house. (In the event, the ruined chapel is still in ruins and can be seen today as a heap of stones beside the road. ed.)

Wednesday, 14. March, 1951.

                A letter by Roosevelt has surfaced in a New York paper, which is not unexpected.

                I have a copy of the article on the desk here. In this letter, which appeared in the papers of a Spanish diplomat and was reprinted in a French paper last month, Roosevelt is writing to a Jewish politician about wanting to give Stalin freedom of action in eastern Europe and a warm-water port. He asked this politician to broach the matter to Stalin.

                Yesterday, the State Department alleged that this letter was a forgery but without any substantive argument.

                I cannot see why anyone would bother to falsify something so obvious. Everyone knows that Roosevelt would have given Stalin anything he wanted and all Roosevelt wanted in return was Stalin's full cooperation in his United Nations idiot project.

                Roosevelt was far too stupid to have original thoughts and in this business, was only aping Wilson's League of Nations. Roosevelt should have taken note of the opposition to this in America and the eventual defeat of the project.

                The letter is probably genuine but at this point, no one cares except the leftovers of the New Deal and other Roosevelt-worshippers. And one can trust absolutely nothing coming out of the State Department who are a nest of fairies and proto-communists.

                An entertaining lunch with Philby who was in a terrible state about some dinner he gave last January for important people. It seems that disgusting Burgess, who is living with Philby for some obscure reason, made an appearance and caused havoc with the guests with his drunken and aggressive behavior. Philby said that among the insulted were (William K. ed.) Harvey, the chief of the CIA counterintelligence section and his wife. Philby said that B. so insulted the wife that they all left and he is now afraid that Harvey is "very vindictive" towards him. And with reason. I asked P. why he had permitted this oafish fairy to disrupt his work and he had no answer at all.

                I have been asked to "chat up" Harvey and find out just what he is up to.

Friday, 23. March, 1951.

                I had my dinner with the Harveys at a small restaurant that specializes in Spanish food. I met Frau Harvey for the first time. Her name is Libby (for Elizabeth no doubt) and she is rather thin and dark-haired. She also drinks like her fat husband. Both of them loathe Burgess and, because of him, Philby. Harvey said Burgess insulted his wife and that he suspected both of them of being spies. I tried to dismiss the Philby suspicion by saying that Philby was no doubt reporting on Washington affairs to Whitehall but Harvey thinks to Moscow as well. He has no proof but is certainly persistent and this, coupled with his vindictiveness and position in the CIA does not look that good for P.

                The wife is obviously encouraging his attacks. Women love to stir up disharmony and the Chinese ideogram for trouble is two women under one roof. One can assume from his actions that Burgess would fall into the female category although what Philby sees in him is something I would prefer not to contemplate. Himself, probably.

                Both the Harveys poured down the martinis ( a filthy concoction that tastes like cleaning fluid) until finally, dear Libby slipped off her shoe and stuffed her wriggling foot into my crotch. Under the table of course, but in the condition her husband was, she could have ripped off her dress and scrambled up onto the table and he would have gone on talking to his plate. After her contortions, accompanied by her entertaining act of sticking her tongue out and wiggling it like a pink flannel necktie, she put her shoe back on (God be praised!) and wrote her telephone number on a piece of paper and stuck it into my jacket pocket.

                All this time, Harvey himself was muttering about Hoover and what an asshole he is. Apparently, H. worked for the FBI and Hoover sacked him with some nasty comments about being a drunk.

                The food was interesting for a change but the evening was a total waste except for the foot action and the wagging tongue. The Harvey woman certainly gets heated up with a few drinks. One or two more, and I have no doubt she would have crawled under the table and fellated me before the dessert!

                On the way out of the restaurant, she fell down and when her drunken husband tried to lift her up, he fell down. I had the manager call a taxicab as they were obviously too drunk to drive, either one of them, and I didn't want to give them a ride in my new Cadillac because one or both of them would have spewed all over the seats.

                William King Harvey was thirty-five when he encountered Müller. A native of Indiana, Harvey had been an FBI agent stationed in New York until he was fired by Hoover for being a chronic alcoholic. Harvey, who had considerable knowledge of Soviet espionage, then took his knowledge, and his drinking habits, to the CIA where he soon became chief of counterintelligence. His wife, Libby, a native of Kentucky, was a woman of little sophistication and was not able to function in Washington society without resort to an extensive ration of dry martinis. Harvey, known as the Pear because of his short, fat body, disliked Hoover and engaged in open warfare with his former superior. He was a loud, aggressive man who developed a strong personal dislike for Harold Philby and attacked him constantly, eventually eroding Philby's standing with British intelligence and leading to his defection to Russia in 1963. Ten years earlier, his nemesis, Harvey, was transferred to Berlin to head the CIA office there.

                In 1952, Harvey had divorced his wife, Libby, and obtained custody of their young son. He never discovered that Müller had a brief but steamy affair with his wife, who eventually committed suicide, but blamed her fall from grace to a connection with "some German bastard." Other problems were the official cause of their breakup but the Teuton who so encrusted him with horns remained his friend and the two of them ended up in BOB or Berlin Operations Base, the CIA nerve center in Berlin.

                Harvey indeed was a man with a considerable knowledge of Soviet intelligence operations but Müller had an infinitely greater knowledge and Harvey depended heavily on his Swiss friend for information and assistance with German. Harvey, like so many other CIA specialists in Germany, was unable to read, write or speak a word of German.

                There is a very strong reason to believe that Harvey, far from being an enemy of Hoover, was in fact still in contact with his former chief and passed along inside information to him about the working of the CIA, an organization that was feared and disliked by the FBI chief.

                After Harvey returned from his duty in Berlin, he became involved in other serious matters for the CIA and in 1963, became involved under James Angleton, in the assassination of John Kennedy. Harvey was in charge of the assassination squad and later dealt with Mary Pinchot Meyer, Kennedy’s mistress and former wife of Cord Meyer, a senior CIA official.

Editor’s note: Readers wishing to purchase all of the conversations will find them in a hard- backed edition, published by Bender Publishing. The book is heavily referenced and well-illustrated: It is priced at $35.95.

http://www.bender-publishing.com/MullerJournals-WashingtonYears.html

Pentagon uses Facebook, Twitter to spread message

May 1, 2009

by Sagar Meghani

Associated Press

FORT MONROE, Va. - You don't often hear a three-star general using the word "friend" as a verb.

But for Lt. Gen. Benjamin Freakley and other Army brass, a new era has brought a new language - and new tools like online social networks Twitter and Facebook - for seeking out young recruits and spreading the military's message.

Freakley, who heads the Army command that oversees recruiting, says social networking sites offer another way to reach tomorrow's soldiers.

"They live in the virtual world," Freakley said. He cited Facebook as a key component in targeting 18-to 24-year-olds. "You could friend your recruiter, and then he could talk to your friends."

                Even Gen. Raymond Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, has a new Facebook page to answer questions about the mission in Iraq and spread the word about what the troops are accomplishing there.

The Army isn't the only branch of the military with Facebook friends or that has a following on Twitter. The Air Force has also established a Facebook page, Twitter feeds and a blog, while the Marine Corps is using various networking sites mainly for recruiting purposes. The Navy is "experimenting" with several forms of online media, and some of its commands are using Twitter, a spokesman said. Even the Coast Guard commandant regularly updates his Facebook status while traveling.

The Army has also added to its Web site video games, a virtual recruiter and clips that answer commonly asked questions about life in uniform.

Showing off the videos during an interview at his office at Fort Monroe, Freakley said some of the questions were surprising: Can I have a dog in the Army? Can I buy a truck in the Army? Can I be married in the Army?

The Army, Freakley said, wants to answer those questions.

Earlier this year, the Army established an online and social media division within its public affairs office. The division's director, Lt. Col. Kevin Arata, said the search is on every day to find new avenues online to reach not only soldiers, but their families and the general public.

"We know that's where they are, and we need to go to them," Arata said.

The Army recently launched its own Facebook page, which contains much the same information as its official Web site.

Lindy Kyzer, who updates the site, along with the Army's Twitter feed and blog, says the networking sites add a different dimension: chat.

"We really try to make it an open forum," Kyzer said, adding that negative posts are not removed. The Army has deleted some comments it deemed not "family friendly."

"Everyone has an opinion and it's amazing that the Army is showing both sides," said Danny Andazola, a 24-year-old Army reservist from Denver who has posted on the Facebook page. "When younger people see comments from both sides, it can easily help them decide if the Army culture is for them."

                The Coast Guard also maintains a presence online.

Adm. Thad Allen, Coast Guard commandant, routinely updates his Facebook status from his cell phone while traveling. He also posts video blogs from overseas, said a spokesman, Lt. Tony Migliorini.

The services' presence beyond their Web sites represents what Arata called a "culture shift."

"I'm sure there was the same pushback years ago when somebody invented the telephone. 'Ooh, you can't talk there because somebody might hear you.' Well, that's the whole point. We want people to hear us."

Comment: If a significant number of internet users believe in Planet X, the weird 9/11 myths and HAARP fictions, why not believe the crap dished up by the military? Since the Army and Marine Corps have lost many, many trained me, the Pentagon is frantic to build up their base and are resorting to every dirty, and transparent, story to lure the unsuspecting into their clutches. BH

Minnesota orders ISPs to blacklist gambling sites

May 1, 2009

by Declan McCullagh

cnet

            The state of Minnesota has handed Internet providers a 7-page blacklist (PDF) of gambling Web sites that they're supposed to prevent customers from accessing, a move that raises First Amendment and technical concerns.

"We are putting site operators and Minnesota online gamblers on notice and in advance," said John Willems, a Minnesota Department of Public Safety official, in a statement. Companies that received the list of off-limits Web sites--which was made public on Thursday--include AT&T, Comcast, Qwest, and Sprint/Nextel.

The Department of Public Safety's letters to the Internet providers say that "gambling is illegal within Minnesota" and claim that a federal law "requires upon notice by a law enforcement agency that you do not allow your systems to be used for the transmission of gambling information."

Federal law says that a "common carrier" must "discontinue or refuse, the leasing, furnishing, or maintaining" of any service if it's being used to transmit gambling-related information. (The U.S. Supreme Court and the Federal Communications Commission, however, have suggested that neither cable providers nor DSL providers are "common carriers.")

Joe Brennan of the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association in Washington, D.C. said on Thursday evening that his group just found out about the blacklist and is consulting with First Amendment attorneys to evaluate its options.

Minnesota's move echoes what happened in Pennsylvania about six years ago. The Keystone State enacted a law permitting the state attorney general to deliver orders to Internet providers telling them to block possibly illegal Web sites.

But a federal judge in Philadelphia struck down the law in 2004 on First Amendment grounds, saying: "There is little evidence that the act has reduced the production of child pornography or the child sexual abuse associated with its creation. On the other hand, there is an abundance of evidence that implementation of the Act has resulted in massive suppression of speech protected by the First Amendment."

One reason the law failed to survive the court challenge was because of the way the modern Web is designed. Because many Web sites can share one Internet Protocol (IP) address, blocking the IP address makes the entire list of sites inaccessible. (An expert report prepared for the trial says that out of over 20 million .com, .net, and .org domains, over two-thirds of the sites shared an IP address with at least 50 other Web sites. In many cases, Web sites shared an IP address with thousands of other sites.)

Minnesota's efforts may suffer from the same overbreadth problem. Its blacklist includes GetMinted.com, a gambling site with an IP address listed of 194.36.21.124.

Sharing that IP address is another site called Cashcade--a domain devoted not to a virtual casino, but to a parent company's corporate site, with a product list and hyperlinks to a gambling news Web site that it owns.