(http://family-of-hal-turner.blogspot.com)Last week, we announced that we would begin telling you what the FBI paid Hal Turner to do. Today, we begin that process with a fascinating story about Israeli involvement with 9/11, and an FBI counter intelligence operation against the ADL and AIPAC.
The information in this story comes from letters written by Hal Turner from federal prison before he got out on bail. He remains free, awaiting a third trial on charges he “threatened” 3 judges. Hal Turner is presently under a “gag order” imposed by the court. That order prevents him from speaking to the media and from using the internet. The information in this story was written in letters to us before that gag order was imposed on Hal. We, Hal’s family, are not subject to any such gag order, so we’ve decided to publish the letters Hal mailed to us from prison so you, the American people, can know the truth.
In any case below where links to outside media sources are included in this story, these links were researched by us to corroborate information provided by Hal in his letters from prison. Here now, Hal Turner’s first “mission” as a National Security Intelligence Operative with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.
Just weeks after being recruited into the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, Hal Turner got a phone call from one of the top people inside the FBI to arrange a meeting. During that call, it was made clear to Turner that he was to keep this meeting secret from his regular FBI contacts, Agent Stephen Haug and Det. Leonard Nerbetski!
The meeting took place a week or so later at a small diner on Market Street at the intersection of Flemming Street in Newark, NJ, just blocks north of the Newark Police Precinct. In attendance was a top level Special Agent in Charge and a Supervising Special Agent from FBI Newark.
The FBI told Turner that they had been familiar with his show for quite some time and there were problems within the FBI and US Justice Department that Turner was in a unique position to help with. This didn’t make sense to Turner because by his own admission, he was a nobody. He had a relatively small internet webcast which at the time had maybe 20,000 listeners per night and his radio show was only carried on about two dozen radio stations throughout America.
Even with the radio audience, Turner wasn’t even a blip on any media radar screen. Despite the small radio audience, Turner’s web site had about two million unique visitors a year and Turner didn’t see how he could possibly be in any position at all to help.
The FBI went on to explain their thinking and the explanation astonished Turner. We think it will absolutely fascinate you too.
September 11 – FBI Newark Had Advance Warning
The discussion began with the attacks of September 11 and how the FBI in Newark had been approached and warned about such attacks more than a full YEAR before the attacks took place.
The FBI told Turner that in March of 2000, a Pakistani-born British citizen named Niaz Khan walked into the FBI’s Newark, NJ office and told them he had been recruited by Osama Bin Laden’s group to hijack airplanes and was now in the U.S. to carry out such a plan.
Niaz Khan had been a waiter in a Curry restaurant in London, had become disgruntled at his life and became receptive to the preaching of a local Muslim Cleric. He learned about Jihad and decided that since his life was so miserable, he was willing to die for Allah.
Bin Laden’s group trained him in hijacking techniques, how to smuggle weapons through airport security, how to overpower passengers and the like. They flew him from London, to Pakistan and elsewhere so he could familiarize himself with real life airport security procedures to prepare.
Once he arrived at JFK Airport in New York, Al Qaida wired him about a quarter million dollars with instructions to recruit and train others for the attacks, but Khan got cold feet. Instead of using the money to recruit others, Khan travelled to Atlantic City and gambled away most of the money!
Fearful that AL-Qaida would find him and kill him for what he’d done, Khan walked into the FBI office in Newark, NJ and spilled his guts. FBI Newark interviewed him for 6 weeks. They administered at least two separate lie detector tests and Khan passed both!
Despite the evidence, a strange order came down from FBI Headquarters in Washington: Cut Khan loose. FBI HQ told FBI Newark to put Khan on a plane back to Britain and forget about him. FBI HQ said that British Intelligence, known as MI-5, would interview Khan once he arrived in Britain. So, despite the time and effort put into investigating Khan, FBI Newark complied with the instructions from HQ and sent Khan back to Britain.
On September 11, 2001, the attacks Khan had warned about, took place. The FBI people told Turner they were devastated because everyone in FBI Newark instantly remembered Niaz Khan and realized the attacks could have been prevented. This motivated FBI Newark to go after the 9-11 investigation with a vengeance, but each time they tried, more strange orders came down from FBI HQ in Washington, telling FBI Newark to back off.
Bear in mind that Hal Turner was being told all of this by the FBI in the summer of 2003 shortly after he was recruited by the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). More than a year later, this part of Hal Turner’s story was confirmed by main stream media sources when NBC News, the London “Guardian” Newspaper and The London “Independent” newspaper all published stories containing the facts laid out above.
The Israeli Connection to 9-11
The FBI went on to tell Turner that on September 11, 2001 a series of things took place in addition to the attacks themselves, which lead FBI Newark to believe the state of Israel was deeply involved in the events of that day.
First, while the World Trade Center was under attack in lower Manhattan, a white Chevy van was directly across the Hudson River in Liberty State Park in Jersey City. A group of 5 men were with the van and they had set up video cameras before the attacks took place. When the jetliners slammed into the World Trade Center, witnesses in Liberty State Park watched in horror as the men with the white van cheered with joy as the attacks took place. The witnesses called police with a description of the van and of the men.
Police issued a “BOLO” (Be On the Look Out) for the van. A couple hours later, a police officer in East Rutherford, NJ was patrolling Route 3 near Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands. This location provided a clear view of the World Trade Center which was about four miles to the east.
The officer came upon a moving-van-type of truck parked on the service road next to the highway where a number of men were standing and cheering with joy as the World Trade Center towers collapsed. The officer confronted them men, who produced ID showing they were Israeli citizens. The answers they gave to the Officer’s questions raised great suspicion with the officer so he arrested all the men on “suspicion” of involvement with the attacks.
The moving-van, from a company named Urban Moving Systems of Weehawken, NJ, was impounded and the FBI was notified. Bomb-sniffing dogs were brought to the van and they “alerted” to the presence of explosives. Packages inside the vehicle were x-rayed by portable x-ray machine, but none contained explosives.
Found inside the van were maps of New York City with certain locations highlighted. FBI Newark obtained search warrants for Urban Moving Systems offices in Weehawken, NJ. But upon arrival, the offices were vacant; cleaned out. A check of company personnel revealed a majority of the company’s employees were . . . . . Israelis . . . . . and they had flown out of the country within days of the attacks. All of them flew to . . . . . Israel.
The FBI went on to tell Hal Turner that the Israelis who were arrested with the moving van were detained in jail and repeatedly questioned. One man refused a lie detector test for ten weeks and when he finally relented and took the test, he failed. Then, a strange order came down from FBI HQ in Washington: Let the men go.
FBI HQ told FBI Newark that the men were Israeli intelligence agents from the Mossad (The Israeli version of the CIA) and they had been in the US to track militant Arabs. But FBI Newark didn’t believe that explanation. FBI Newark believed the men were part of the attacks of 9-11 and the whole story about them being in the US to track Arabs was merely a “cover story.”
Bear in mind that Hal Turner was being told this by the FBI in 2003. The main stream media confirmed this aspect of Hal’s story in June, 2002, when ABC News “20/20” ran a major story confirming the facts laid out above. The ABC News story can still be seen at: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123885&page=1
Second, on the day of the 9-11 attacks, rumors swirled that some 4,000 Jewish people who worked in the World Trade Center, just happened to not show up for work on 9-11. This was also reported on AL-MANAR Television news in Beirut, Lebanon shortly after the attacks. FBI Newark began investigating that claim and a week or so later, another strange order came down from FBI HQ: Stop the investigation.
Third, hours before the attacks of 9-11, an Israeli company named Odigo, allegedly received an instant message warning the attacks against the World Trade Center were going to take place that morning. Odigo alerted Israeli authorities but somehow, Israel “dropped the ball” and didn’t tell the US.
The main stream media revealed this information just days after the attacks of 9-11. One such example of this coverage can still be found in the Israeli News Service called HAARETZ at: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=77744&contrassID=/has
But as before, when FBI Newark began investigating the claims that ODIGO had gotten an instant message hours before the attacks, FBI HQ told FBI Newark to stop investigating.
Last but certainly not least, ICTS an Israeli owned security company, sells services to every airport from which the hijacked 9-11 planes operated, including security, sometimes through wholly owned subsidiaries like Huntleigh USA Corporation.
The FBI told Turner that such an incredible feat of hijacking four aircraft without a single arrest at the gate would require the resources of a nation-state. This is even more true with the revelation that at least one gun had managed to be aboard a hijacked plane.
The one company that had inside access to all of the airports from which hijacked planes departed on 9-11, and to the airports used by Richard Reid, the shoe bomber was ICTS, an Israeli company.
The FBI told Hal Turner that FBI Newark believed that it was no accident that Israel failed to pass along the pre-attack information from Odigo. They went on to tell Turner that FBI Newark believed that Israel knew the attacks were going to take place because Israel was involved in the attacks. The evidence, they said, is irrefutable.
The two high-level FBI people who met with Hal Turner that day told him they believed the FBI HQ was compromised. They told Hal that anytime any investigation was opened into a possible Israeli connection to 9-11, FBI HQ squashed the investigation. It was clear to FBI Newark that FBI HQ had security leaks who were thwarting any investigation of Israeli involvement in 9-11 and they had a plan to plug those leaks.
ADL and AIPAC Infiltration of US Law Enforcement
The FBI told Turner that the Israeli government maintains a vast spy network and major propaganda machines inside the United States. The “fronts” for that spy network and the source of the major propaganda are the Anti Defamation League (ADL) and the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
These groups promote themselves as being supportive of Jewish people and Jewish interests. They also tout themselves as guardians against “hate” and “anti-Semitism.” The reality, however, is quite different. The FBI explained that these groups are information –gathering networks and propaganda outlets. They seek-out anyone who espouses views contrary to Israel then smear and discredit such people as Anti-Semites, Bigots, Racists or even Nazis. In addition, whenever the state of Israel does something horrific, like bombing innocent Palestinians, invading another country or killing “militants,” ADL and AIPAC launch intense propaganda campaigns to smooth-over public relations.
The FBI told Hal Turner that whenever members of these two groups identify a potential “threat” to Jewish or Israeli interests, they engage intense efforts to find out anything and everything they can about the “threat.” So whenever a media personality, media outlet or political candidate says or does anything which conflicts with the Israeli agenda, the ADL and AIPAC go into attack mode.
The FBI explained that one way the ADL gets information about people they perceive as “threats” is by infiltrating law enforcement agencies in the USA to gain access to confidential police records. The ADL has a notorious history of doing this and has been caught several times accessing and possessing confidential police files. One such example of ADL illegally accessing police files, covered by the “Los Angeles Times” newspaper, can be read here: http://articles.latimes.com/1993-04-17/news/mn-24002_1_illegal-spying
The FBI explained to Turner that AIPAC also has a very long history of actual espionage against the United States and provided Turner with un-redacted, classified documents for him to view proving what they claimed. You can read declassified or redacted versions of those same documents at this link: http://www.irmep.org/ila/economy/
The FBI wanted to exploit this aspect of ADL/AIPAC conduct to identify leaks and plug them.
Counter-Intelligence Operation
The FBI told Hal Turner that the fastest way to achieve this goal was for the FBI to attach an electronic “symbol” to Turner’s FBI records. This way, whenever any law enforcement agency or someone inside the Justice Department made an inquiry into FBI files about Hal Turner, the FBI computer system would read the “symbol” and secretly generate a report to the Joint Terrorism task Force showing who made the inquiry, the agency they were with, and the date and time the inquiry was made. This would allow the JTTF to identify ADL/AIPAC infiltrators and plug the information leaks.
This made sense to Turner, but he asked what he would have to do to make this system work? Why would the ADL or AIPAC even bother with him? The FBI told him to wait a few days until the FBI could put the electronic symbol on his files. Once Turner was notified that the symbol was in place, he was to go on the air and on the internet and ferociously attack jews and Israel with a level of vitriolic hatred akin to Josef Goebbels from the former Third Reich in World War 2 Nazi Germany. Turner agreed to do it but was warned in very strong terms to never reveal this operation to anyone, including to his primary JTTF contacts, Stephen Haug and Leonard Nerbetski. In order for the operation to work, he was told, no one could know about it, especially FBI HQ.
About two weeks later, Hal Turner got a call from Special Agent Stephen Haug, his primary contact at JTTF. Haug told Turner that the FBI had decided to place an electronic symbol on his file to “make certain Hal wasn’t concealing any police troubles from the FBI during his time with JTTF.” That’s what Haug thought, but Turner knew the truth. That phone call was the signal for Turner to let loose with anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli venom for the counter-intelligence operation and he did so with gusto.
Hal Turner went on the air and on his web site and let loose with every form of vitriolic filth imaginable about Jews and Israel. It didn’t take long for the ADL and AIPAC to take the bait.
Astonishing results!
Within weeks, dozens of unauthorized inquiries were being made into Hal Turner’s FBI files from law enforcement agencies around the country. Unauthorized accesses were made from within the Department of Justice, from within the FBI, from the Secret Service, from the US Marshal Service, from the US Capitol Police, from the Pennsylvania State Police and many other agencies. Each time an inquiry was made, a secret report of it went to the JTTF.
Over the coming months, JTTF made personal visits to those agencies and took up the issue of unauthorized access. They knew which operator did it, from which agency, from which computer terminal and those people were called on the carpet. It was made clear that such accesses to FBI files were not to be done in the future unless they were part of a legitimate and documented police investigation. It was made very clear that if future unauthorized accesses were made, the agency itself could find its access to FBI databases CUT OFF and anyone making such unauthorized accesses would be criminally prosecuted! Word of this spread like wildfire within law enforcement circles.
About 9 months later, in a casual phone conversation with the Special Agent in Charge of FBI Newark, it was revealed to Hal Turner that this operation netted “over 100” leaks. The FBI told Hal Turner that his work was the single most successful counter-intelligence effort in years and the nation owed Hal a debt of gratitude for cutting off unauthorized access to FBI files.
Investigating 9-11 and Israel, the end result:
With most of the pro-Israel leaks in the legal system plugged, FBI Newark was able to more thoroughly investigate what really happened on 9-11. The results? Well, let’s just say that when the real culprit behind 9-11 was properly identified by a preponderance of evidence, he was “dealt with.”
You heard about it in January, 2006, but never made the connection between what you heard in 2006 and what happened on 9-11. What YOU heard was that Israeli leader Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke. Yea. Right. A “stroke.” . . . . . . .
The truth is that Ariel Sharon was identified by US Intelligence Agencies as being the key to the attacks of 9-11. It was Israel and its intelligence agencies that funded and facilitated the Arabs who ultimately were duped into pulling-off the attacks.
The problem was that politically, Sharon and Israel were untouchable. For years Israel has bought-off half the US Congress, so our elected officials damn sure wouldn’t take any action. Instead, a decision was taken within the US Intelligence Community to take action.
Ariel Sharon had suffered a mini stroke in mid-December 2005 and at that time it was found he suffered from cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), a brain disorder which, in conjunction with anticoagulant medication prescribed after his first stroke, greatly increased his risk of cerebral hemorrhage.
With this information in U.S. hands, and with all the evidence we needed pointing to Sharon’s involvement in the attacks of 9-11, medical folks within the US intelligence community were consulted. It was decided that the introduction of certain Amino acids with a concentrated dose of blood-thinners would guarantee Ariel Sharon would suffer an immediate cerebral hemorrhage. All it would take was a needle to the neck and Sharon would literally blow a gasket within hours.
That needle was administered by US intelligence operatives who were able to surreptitiously gain access to Mr. Sharon at his Sycamore Ranch in the Negev region of Israel. He blew a gasket and suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage within minutes which basically resulted in brain death.
As panic ensued at the Sycamore ranch as Ariel Sharon went into convulsions, the US Intelligence operatives quietly slipped away undetected.
To all the world, it was a natural medical disaster that destroyed Ariel Sharon. To Intelligence Operatives like Hal Turner, the truth was quite different; and quite satisfying too.
That was one small part of the price Israel was to pay for their role in helping to kill almost 3,000 Americans on 9-11. No war. No political haggling. No investigations. No court. No Trial by jury. Just (brain) dead; exactly the way Israel itself deals with its enemies. We wonder how they like it now that its been done to them?
Until publication of this blog page, no one else in the entire world has ever released this fact. Now, the whole world knows.
Israel was to pay a further price for their role in 9-11 when they invaded Lebanon in 2007. We’ll talk more about that in an upcoming article describing what Hal Turner did for the FBI and the CIA during his trip to Brazil.
The U.S. Intelligence Community isn’t finished punishing Israel yet. If Congress doesn’t like it, they can go fuck themselves because the intelligence community has all the dirt on them too. Any member of Congress who steps out of line knows his dirt would be dumped on national TV, so Congress will keep quiet and pretend nothing’s going on. The intel community will take care of this Israeli business and when it’s over, justice will have prevailed.
Interesting Tid-Bit
One interesting tid-bit of information about 9-11 that may be of interest to you is a law suit brought by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the year 1998. The Port Authority owns the World Trade Center and at that time in 1998, it became known to Port Authority engineers that the World Trade Center towers suffered from a serious design flaw: The exterior stainless steel of the two towers was attached directly to the interior structural steel girders.
By attaching the stainless steel directly to the steel girders, in the presence of saltwater air from New York Harbor, caused oxidation of the structural steel to occur much more rapidly than anyone expected. Put simply, the steel girders holding up the two world trade center towers was disintegrating from this oxidation and ultimately, the two towers would have to be taken apart and fixed.
The Port Authority filed a claim with its insurance company to have them pay for this design flaw. The Insurance company refused, so the Port Authority sued the Insurance company in the United States District Court in Newark, New Jersey. The case was heard before the Honorable John Bissell.
Ultimately, Judge Bissell found in favor of the Insurance company. If anyone was going to pay to have the two towers taken apart and fixed, it would have to be the Port Authority itself. Look up the case on the US District Court’s PACER System. All the records are still there for everyone to see.
Instead of fixing the world trade center towers, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey sold its leases for tenants inside the World Trade Center, to Larry Silverstein, an ardent pro-Israel real estate developer. Silverstein stood to make a billion dollars from buying the leases . . . . . until he found out that the two buildings were going to fall down from the oxidation of the steel structure.
So with the WTC buildings headed for collapse anyway, and with billions at stake, the FBI speculated to Hal Turner that a plan was hatched to destroy the two buildings in an act of “terrorism.” This would get the government to foot the reconstruction bill, incense the American people into going to war, and ultimately, shift the war from terrorists to Saddam Hussein of Iraq, who was the biggest enemy of the State of Israel in the middle east.
In one fell swoop, the World Trade center, which was falling down anyway, would be taken care of, America would go to war against Israel’s biggest enemy, and the American people would pay for it all with their lives and national fortune.
The big government guys and their defense contractor buddies would get rich from bombing Iraq and Afghanistan back to the stone age, then double their money with government contracts to rebuild it all. No one in the nation had a clue as to how it all fit together. Until now.
Now, you know the truth
In his role as a national security intelligence operative for the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, Hal Turner protected America and its citizens from people with foreign loyalties who were illegally misusing police records to achieve their political, social and cultural goals. He also became privy to incredible information from intelligence operations of many kinds. Hal revealed these things to us after his own government betrayed him. We have now revealed some of what Hal told us, to all of you.
In doing what he did to plug the leaks of police information from pro-Israeli infiltrators, Hal begot powerful enemies in the ADL and AIPAC. Those groups had never been so cleverly outfoxed before. They had never faced this level of counter-intelligence operation and they fell for it hook-line-and-sinker. They got caught red-handed and a whole slew of their henchmen in law enforcement got straightened out, thus cutting-off (at least temporarily) the ADL/AIPAC flow of police information.
Perhaps that’s why representatives from ADL have been attending Hal Turner’s recent trials. Clearly, they want to get back at Hal for so successfully cutting-off their access to law enforcement records. Too bad for the ADL and AIPAC that Hal Turner is a loyal American who puts America ahead of Israel.
More than a year later, the FBI told Hal that the operation was so successful; they had another operation they needed him to do. This one would target the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, AL and its role in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
More on that in our next installment of “What the FBI Paid Hal Turner To Do.”
Coming soon:
Hal Turner’s Brazil Trip: How the FBI and CIA arranged for Hal Turner to deliver military satellite communication hook-ups to a man from Syria for the Lebanese Militia to defeat the Israeli Army months before Israel invaded Lebanon, and;
Nuclear Theft: How Six U.S. Nuclear-tipped Cruise Missiles were successfully STOLEN from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and were to be used to destroy 6 American cities to usher-in the “New World Order” Thankfully, the theft was stopped even though those nuclear cruise missiles sat, unguarded and out in the open at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana for more than 12 hours. Guess whose White House authorization code was used to release the weapons for transport? Was it Dick Cheney’s? Maybe that’s why Cheney was in a wheel chair at Barack Obama’s inauguration – maybe someone beat the hell out of him for what he’d done. Check back to find out.
BTW: We wonder if Assistant US Attorney William Hogan is glad he brought a case against Hal Turner now that a whole slew of dirty government inside-information is starting to pour out? Still think he’s a “street snitch?” Still think this is all a “Walter Mitty secret agent fantasy?” Congratulations Mr. Hogan! Rest assured, this is just the beginning. Oh, by the way Mr. Hogan, all the powerful interests that Hal Turner exposed to us in his writings from prison – mailed through his attorneys as “legal mail” so no one at the prisons could read it first - will have YOU and your boss, Patrick Fitzgerald, to thank for all their dirty laundry coming out in public. Ain’t “free speech” grand?
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
What the FBI Paid Hal Turner to do
(http://family-of-hal-turner.blogspot.com) -- Using the contents of letters written to us from federal prison, We, the Family of radio host and blogger Hal Turner, are going to begin telling you what the FBI paid Hal to do. These letters were written from the Essex County Correctional Center (ECCC) in Newark, NJ, from the Federal Transfer Center (FTC) in Oklahoma City, OK, from the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Chicago and from the Hudson County Correctional Center (HCCC) in New Jersey throughout 2009. All of them were written and mailed before a gag order was imposed on Hal by a federal Court. That gag order forbids Hal from talking to the media, but it cannot stop us, Hal’s family, from publicly revealing what was sent to us before the gag order was imposed.
As most of you know, last June, the US Attorney’s Office in Chicago ordered the arrest of radio host and blogger Hal Turner. Turner had written an editorial which criticized 3 federal judges on the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago and the US Attorney decided that Hal’s editorial was a “threat.”
In the editorial, Turner pointed out that the 3 judges had violated the US Constitution and willfully ignored a recent US Supreme Court ruling. He went on to say the judges were “traitors” to the United States and nothing more than “tyrants.” He quoted Thomas Jefferson who wrote “The tree of liberty must be replenished from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots.” He then said “Let me be the first to say this plainly, these judges deserve to be killed. Their blood will replenish the tree of liberty.”
The US Attorney’s office in Chicago claims that saying the judges “deserve to be killed” is a threat to actually go out and murder them! Hal Turner says the word “deserve” is an opinion which is protected by the First Amendment.
The government arrested Hal Turner twenty one days after his editorial was published. They charged Hal with “Threatening to assault and murder three United States Judges.” The charge has no merit whatsoever.
Saying someone “deserves” something is an opinion. Nothing the US Attorney says can convert an opinion into a threat. We expect Hal will ultimately prevail in this case, although he’s already been through two full trials, both of which ended in hung juries. A third trial is tentatively scheduled for April 12, 2010 at the US District Court in Brooklyn, NY.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recruited radio host and blogger Hal Turner into their Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) in June, 2003. They “tasked” Hal to do and say things that would flush out radicals before they could commit acts of violence or domestic terrorism. The operation was very successful. Hal Turner protected America from people who would do us harm.
During his years with the JTTF, Hal rose from a Confidential Informant/ Privileged Media Source, to Extra-territorial Source, to National Security Intelligence Operative. Hal worked with Agents from the FBI, The Secret Service, the US Marshal Service, the CIA and even military officials in the Pentagon. He had access to CLASSIFIED material and direct lines of information from a variety of government insiders.
It was through those government insiders that Hal was able to report to all of you about the coming collapse of the US Dollars as a currency. When that takes place, the US Dollar, Canadian Dollar and Mexican Peso will all be merged into a new currency called THE AMERO. Old “dollars” will be redeemed at less than ten cents on the dollar, which is how the US Government will wipe out more than 90% of its multi-trillion debt. Creditors all over the world will be screwed out of their life savings in one fell swoop.
Hal made a YouTube video about this in the year 2008. That video appears below, and this story with more important information continues below the video:
It was those same government insiders who leaked the “Bank Stress Test” results to Hal. When he reported those results, proving that 16 of the top 19 banks in America are “technically insolvent” it sent bank stock values plummeting in April, 2009. The plunge was so terrible that no less than the United States Treasury issued a statement that day, claiming “The report by Hal Turner of North Bergen, NJ regarding Bank stress test results is false. Turner cannot have those results because we don’t have them yet.”
The same day, Bloomberg Business news reported that Turner could, in fact, have the results because ten days earlier, the federal reserve had told Citibank and Goldman Sachs to keep the results secret.
The fact that the US Treasury got caught in a lie only made bank stock values fall further. When that day was done, bank stock values on stock markets around the world, plunged an incredible $2.3 BILLION in value. This begot Hal Turner many powerful enemies. Two months later, a US Attorney indicted Hal on a bullshit charge of “threatening” some judges, and Hal’s voice on the radio and the internet was silenced.
As the popularity of Hal’s radio show and web site grew, the friends he’d made inside government began leaking information to Hal.
It was those government insiders that confirmed to Hal the manufacture and deployment of prisoner rail cars. Hal obtained video of one such group of rail cars in New Jersey and posted that video on Youtube for all the world to see. That video appears below and this story continues below the video.
It was those same government insiders who alerted Hal to the FACT that the US Army and National Guard are right now – at this very moment – advertising on their web sites for “Internment camp guards” here in the United States. Don’t take our word for it, look it up right now yourselves. Why would our own government be hiring “internment camp guards” unless they plan to intern Americans right here in the USA?
In his role as a national security intelligence operative, Hal Turner dealt with FBI Agents in the war zones of Iraq and later, in the war zones of Afghanistan. Hal traveled outside the United States and uncovered plots to supply the Iraqi resistance. He prevented the fire-bombing and murder of college students in the USA, he thwarted a plot to bomb a federal courthouse in Virginia, obtained credible information of a plan to attack with Mortars, the election-night celebration of Barack Obama in Grant Park in Chicago, stopped the sale of US military “stealth” technology on the black market, obtained valuable information about the Bombing of the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, stopped narcotics funding of a terrorist enterprise and much more.
While working for the FBI, Hal Turner performed many tasks both inside and outside the USA that affected the national security of the United States. He also learned many things. Inside things; the kinds of things you don’t read about in newspapers.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll reveal things that will absolutely fascinate you. Some of it will frighten you. Some of it will absolutely disgust you. But when we’re finished, you’ll have a better understanding of what’s really going on inside the United States Government and why they’re trying so hard to throw Hal in prison to shut him up for good.
So spread word about this blog and check back often. We’ll put the info together and get it out during the weeks ahead. Slowly but surely, everything will be told. Rest assured an awful lot of rich muckity-mucks and government big shots are not going to like what’s revealed. Thankfully, we have it all from our family member, Hal Turner; a certified national security intelligence operative as confirmed by the sworn testimony of Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in New York City, Amy Pickett.
Agent Pickett testified at Hal’s first trial and a snippet of the trial transcript is shown below to prove what we say is true. Read it, then spread the word. This blog will reveal the facts that the government is trying so hard to conceal. Hal Turner may be silenced, but we, his family, are not.
First, a little background:
As most of you know, last June, the US Attorney’s Office in Chicago ordered the arrest of radio host and blogger Hal Turner. Turner had written an editorial which criticized 3 federal judges on the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago and the US Attorney decided that Hal’s editorial was a “threat.”
In the editorial, Turner pointed out that the 3 judges had violated the US Constitution and willfully ignored a recent US Supreme Court ruling. He went on to say the judges were “traitors” to the United States and nothing more than “tyrants.” He quoted Thomas Jefferson who wrote “The tree of liberty must be replenished from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots.” He then said “Let me be the first to say this plainly, these judges deserve to be killed. Their blood will replenish the tree of liberty.”
The US Attorney’s office in Chicago claims that saying the judges “deserve to be killed” is a threat to actually go out and murder them! Hal Turner says the word “deserve” is an opinion which is protected by the First Amendment.
The government arrested Hal Turner twenty one days after his editorial was published. They charged Hal with “Threatening to assault and murder three United States Judges.” The charge has no merit whatsoever.
Saying someone “deserves” something is an opinion. Nothing the US Attorney says can convert an opinion into a threat. We expect Hal will ultimately prevail in this case, although he’s already been through two full trials, both of which ended in hung juries. A third trial is tentatively scheduled for April 12, 2010 at the US District Court in Brooklyn, NY.
NOW, SOME DICEY FACTS:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recruited radio host and blogger Hal Turner into their Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) in June, 2003. They “tasked” Hal to do and say things that would flush out radicals before they could commit acts of violence or domestic terrorism. The operation was very successful. Hal Turner protected America from people who would do us harm.
During his years with the JTTF, Hal rose from a Confidential Informant/ Privileged Media Source, to Extra-territorial Source, to National Security Intelligence Operative. Hal worked with Agents from the FBI, The Secret Service, the US Marshal Service, the CIA and even military officials in the Pentagon. He had access to CLASSIFIED material and direct lines of information from a variety of government insiders.
It was through those government insiders that Hal was able to report to all of you about the coming collapse of the US Dollars as a currency. When that takes place, the US Dollar, Canadian Dollar and Mexican Peso will all be merged into a new currency called THE AMERO. Old “dollars” will be redeemed at less than ten cents on the dollar, which is how the US Government will wipe out more than 90% of its multi-trillion debt. Creditors all over the world will be screwed out of their life savings in one fell swoop.
Hal made a YouTube video about this in the year 2008. That video appears below, and this story with more important information continues below the video:
It was those same government insiders who leaked the “Bank Stress Test” results to Hal. When he reported those results, proving that 16 of the top 19 banks in America are “technically insolvent” it sent bank stock values plummeting in April, 2009. The plunge was so terrible that no less than the United States Treasury issued a statement that day, claiming “The report by Hal Turner of North Bergen, NJ regarding Bank stress test results is false. Turner cannot have those results because we don’t have them yet.”
The same day, Bloomberg Business news reported that Turner could, in fact, have the results because ten days earlier, the federal reserve had told Citibank and Goldman Sachs to keep the results secret.
The fact that the US Treasury got caught in a lie only made bank stock values fall further. When that day was done, bank stock values on stock markets around the world, plunged an incredible $2.3 BILLION in value. This begot Hal Turner many powerful enemies. Two months later, a US Attorney indicted Hal on a bullshit charge of “threatening” some judges, and Hal’s voice on the radio and the internet was silenced.
As the popularity of Hal’s radio show and web site grew, the friends he’d made inside government began leaking information to Hal.
It was those government insiders that confirmed to Hal the manufacture and deployment of prisoner rail cars. Hal obtained video of one such group of rail cars in New Jersey and posted that video on Youtube for all the world to see. That video appears below and this story continues below the video.
It was those same government insiders who alerted Hal to the FACT that the US Army and National Guard are right now – at this very moment – advertising on their web sites for “Internment camp guards” here in the United States. Don’t take our word for it, look it up right now yourselves. Why would our own government be hiring “internment camp guards” unless they plan to intern Americans right here in the USA?
In his role as a national security intelligence operative, Hal Turner dealt with FBI Agents in the war zones of Iraq and later, in the war zones of Afghanistan. Hal traveled outside the United States and uncovered plots to supply the Iraqi resistance. He prevented the fire-bombing and murder of college students in the USA, he thwarted a plot to bomb a federal courthouse in Virginia, obtained credible information of a plan to attack with Mortars, the election-night celebration of Barack Obama in Grant Park in Chicago, stopped the sale of US military “stealth” technology on the black market, obtained valuable information about the Bombing of the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, stopped narcotics funding of a terrorist enterprise and much more.
While working for the FBI, Hal Turner performed many tasks both inside and outside the USA that affected the national security of the United States. He also learned many things. Inside things; the kinds of things you don’t read about in newspapers.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll reveal things that will absolutely fascinate you. Some of it will frighten you. Some of it will absolutely disgust you. But when we’re finished, you’ll have a better understanding of what’s really going on inside the United States Government and why they’re trying so hard to throw Hal in prison to shut him up for good.
So spread word about this blog and check back often. We’ll put the info together and get it out during the weeks ahead. Slowly but surely, everything will be told. Rest assured an awful lot of rich muckity-mucks and government big shots are not going to like what’s revealed. Thankfully, we have it all from our family member, Hal Turner; a certified national security intelligence operative as confirmed by the sworn testimony of Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in New York City, Amy Pickett.
Agent Pickett testified at Hal’s first trial and a snippet of the trial transcript is shown below to prove what we say is true. Read it, then spread the word. This blog will reveal the facts that the government is trying so hard to conceal. Hal Turner may be silenced, but we, his family, are not.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Skeletons in the closet of US Attorney Prosecuting Hal Turner
Chicago, IL – (http://family-of-hal-turner.blogspot.com) Assistant U.S. Attorney William R. Hogan is the man prosecuting radio host and Blogger Hal Turner over an Editorial on Turner’s web site from June, 2009.
During Turner’s second trial last week, Mr. Hogan introduced “evidence” from Turner’s web site dating all the way back to the year 2002. He even stooped so low as to raise an issue about a Letter-to-the-editor of a local newspaper Turner wrote in the year 1998.
None of Hogan’s “evidence” had anything to do with the charges against Mr. Turner, but Hogan used those pieces of “evidence” to muddy-the-waters in Turner’s trial. Clearly Hogan was trying to get the jury to Hate Mr. Turner so as to wrongly convict him. Hogan’s effort failed – again. The jury in the second trial was hung with the vote being 10 – 2 in favor of ACQUITTAL.
Seeing as Mr. Hogan thought it proper to dig into Hal Turner’s background, we decided it might be interesting to delve into Mr. Hogan’s Background. So, we did.
Oh, what a treasure trove of dirt we found! It turns out that Assistant United States Attorney William R. Hogan has quite a shady past.
Hogan has been with the US Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago) for many years. In that time he developed a reputation as a man willing to win at any cost; even if it meant allegedly bribing witnesses, committing fraud, lying to juries and allowing inmates who “snitch” to get sex, drugs and unsupervised telephone access!
On at least one occasion, an inmate-turned--snitch was brought to the US Attorney’s Office where he was later caught having sex on the U.S. Attorney’s conference room table with his girlfriend! For Mr. Hogan, it didn’t seem to matter as long as he won.
While such antics didn’t seem to matter to Mr. Hogan, they mattered to the Illinois State Bar Association. A State Ethics Panel filed Ethics charges of fraud and suppression of evidence against Hogan for his alleged role in the botched prosecutions of El Rukn street gang members.
The ethics accusations against Hogan - the lead prosecutor of the El Rukns from 1988 to 1993 - allege that he withheld evidence from defense lawyers, made inaccurate statements to jurors and later gave inmates unfettered access to sex, drugs and unsupervised telephone use so they could run their street gang from the US Attorney’s office!
The most damning allegation - that Assistant U.S. Attorney William R. Hogan Jr. knew about positive drug tests of two cooperating witnesses and failed to tell defense attorneys about it!
The uproar over Hogan’s conduct was so serious that a federal judge threw out three El Rukn convictions which triggered a litigation nightmare that reached far beyond three defendants.
Defense attorneys said the judge's ruling could be the "death knell" for 34 other El Rukn trial convictions, spur the reversal of witness plea agreements and prompt motions in other cases - including an Operation Greylord case, the John Cappas investigation and a civil case involving a mob trial.
"It has tremendous implications," said law Professor Richard Kling, one of three attorneys who won new trials for El Rukn gang members.
After a nearly three-year probe, the U.S. Justice Department fired Hogan then fought to keep secret testimony by FBI agents and other witnesses called during the investigation.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William R. Hogan was notified that he was FIRED in a 16-page letter dated April 11 from Justice Department official David Margolis.
As most common folks already know, the legal system is infested with sleaze and back-room-deals. A couple deals later and all of a sudden, Mr. Hogan got his job back. Evidence of any wrongdoing was quietly squashed and Mr. Hogan had to lay low for awhile; obeying the rules and minding his P’s and Q’s.
All that changed with the trial of Hal Turner. It seems Mr. Hogan – who probably should have been disbarred – is back to his old tricks.
During trial #2 in the Hal Turner case, a particularly intense confrontation took place between Mr. Hogan and Mr. Turner. While Turner was testifying, he hinted that the financial records from the FBI were not complete Hogan asked “Are you suggesting my office has withheld evidence? Turner shot back “Yes.” Then let loose with a litany of proof.
Rather than describe it, we’ll let you read the actual court transcript to see for yourselves, then we’ll continue this story below. . . . .
Well, well, well. Old habits seem to die hard. Based on what’s in the court transcript above, it seems that Mr. Hogan is back to his old habits of suppressing evidence and lying to juries.
Hogan knows his case against Hal Turner is pure trash. He knows that Turner merely advocated violence in a context that did not lend itself to imminent lawlessness. He knows that such advocacy is protected by three separate US Supreme Court Decisions: “Brandenburg v. Ohio” “U.S. v. Watts” and “NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware.” But Mr. Hogan doesn’t seem to care about those rulings. He’s apparently trying to blur the line between advocacy and “threats.”
The only problem is, if he’s successful, it will forever smash 50 years of rock solid free speech case law. And if he gets away with it by successfully criminalizing Hal Turner’s opinion, then his brethren in other US Attorney’s Offices will be able to criminalize EVERYONE’S opinions.
Mr. Hogan opened the door to Hal Turner’s past. Turnabout is fair play.
The best part is, there are far more skeletons in Mr. Hogan’s closet. His Divorce is particularly dicey, but we’ll leave that alone; at least for now.
Hal Turner is not alone in this fight. His family, friends and intelligence operatives he worked with for years, are in this fight too. If cunning misdirection and sleazy character assassination is the path the government chooses to pursue, they’d better realize such tactics work both ways.
Everybody has skeletons in their closet. As we’ve just shown, we can dig them up.
If you doubt the facts herein, read about them for yourself in the New York Times and elsewhere, below:
New York Times Coverage: http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/05/us/judge-reverses-3-convictions-in-gang-cases.html?scp=2&sq=El%20Rukn&st=cse
Ethics Charges Filed: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-4324752.html
Suppression of Evidence: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-4296288.html
Convictions Overturned Because of Hogan Misconduct: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-4173736.html
Hogan Gets FIRED: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-4331137.html
During Turner’s second trial last week, Mr. Hogan introduced “evidence” from Turner’s web site dating all the way back to the year 2002. He even stooped so low as to raise an issue about a Letter-to-the-editor of a local newspaper Turner wrote in the year 1998.
None of Hogan’s “evidence” had anything to do with the charges against Mr. Turner, but Hogan used those pieces of “evidence” to muddy-the-waters in Turner’s trial. Clearly Hogan was trying to get the jury to Hate Mr. Turner so as to wrongly convict him. Hogan’s effort failed – again. The jury in the second trial was hung with the vote being 10 – 2 in favor of ACQUITTAL.
Seeing as Mr. Hogan thought it proper to dig into Hal Turner’s background, we decided it might be interesting to delve into Mr. Hogan’s Background. So, we did.
Oh, what a treasure trove of dirt we found! It turns out that Assistant United States Attorney William R. Hogan has quite a shady past.
Hogan has been with the US Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago) for many years. In that time he developed a reputation as a man willing to win at any cost; even if it meant allegedly bribing witnesses, committing fraud, lying to juries and allowing inmates who “snitch” to get sex, drugs and unsupervised telephone access!
On at least one occasion, an inmate-turned--snitch was brought to the US Attorney’s Office where he was later caught having sex on the U.S. Attorney’s conference room table with his girlfriend! For Mr. Hogan, it didn’t seem to matter as long as he won.
While such antics didn’t seem to matter to Mr. Hogan, they mattered to the Illinois State Bar Association. A State Ethics Panel filed Ethics charges of fraud and suppression of evidence against Hogan for his alleged role in the botched prosecutions of El Rukn street gang members.
The ethics accusations against Hogan - the lead prosecutor of the El Rukns from 1988 to 1993 - allege that he withheld evidence from defense lawyers, made inaccurate statements to jurors and later gave inmates unfettered access to sex, drugs and unsupervised telephone use so they could run their street gang from the US Attorney’s office!
The most damning allegation - that Assistant U.S. Attorney William R. Hogan Jr. knew about positive drug tests of two cooperating witnesses and failed to tell defense attorneys about it!
The uproar over Hogan’s conduct was so serious that a federal judge threw out three El Rukn convictions which triggered a litigation nightmare that reached far beyond three defendants.
Defense attorneys said the judge's ruling could be the "death knell" for 34 other El Rukn trial convictions, spur the reversal of witness plea agreements and prompt motions in other cases - including an Operation Greylord case, the John Cappas investigation and a civil case involving a mob trial.
"It has tremendous implications," said law Professor Richard Kling, one of three attorneys who won new trials for El Rukn gang members.
After a nearly three-year probe, the U.S. Justice Department fired Hogan then fought to keep secret testimony by FBI agents and other witnesses called during the investigation.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William R. Hogan was notified that he was FIRED in a 16-page letter dated April 11 from Justice Department official David Margolis.
As most common folks already know, the legal system is infested with sleaze and back-room-deals. A couple deals later and all of a sudden, Mr. Hogan got his job back. Evidence of any wrongdoing was quietly squashed and Mr. Hogan had to lay low for awhile; obeying the rules and minding his P’s and Q’s.
All that changed with the trial of Hal Turner. It seems Mr. Hogan – who probably should have been disbarred – is back to his old tricks.
During trial #2 in the Hal Turner case, a particularly intense confrontation took place between Mr. Hogan and Mr. Turner. While Turner was testifying, he hinted that the financial records from the FBI were not complete Hogan asked “Are you suggesting my office has withheld evidence? Turner shot back “Yes.” Then let loose with a litany of proof.
Rather than describe it, we’ll let you read the actual court transcript to see for yourselves, then we’ll continue this story below. . . . .
Well, well, well. Old habits seem to die hard. Based on what’s in the court transcript above, it seems that Mr. Hogan is back to his old habits of suppressing evidence and lying to juries.
Hogan knows his case against Hal Turner is pure trash. He knows that Turner merely advocated violence in a context that did not lend itself to imminent lawlessness. He knows that such advocacy is protected by three separate US Supreme Court Decisions: “Brandenburg v. Ohio” “U.S. v. Watts” and “NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware.” But Mr. Hogan doesn’t seem to care about those rulings. He’s apparently trying to blur the line between advocacy and “threats.”
The only problem is, if he’s successful, it will forever smash 50 years of rock solid free speech case law. And if he gets away with it by successfully criminalizing Hal Turner’s opinion, then his brethren in other US Attorney’s Offices will be able to criminalize EVERYONE’S opinions.
Mr. Hogan opened the door to Hal Turner’s past. Turnabout is fair play.
The best part is, there are far more skeletons in Mr. Hogan’s closet. His Divorce is particularly dicey, but we’ll leave that alone; at least for now.
Hal Turner is not alone in this fight. His family, friends and intelligence operatives he worked with for years, are in this fight too. If cunning misdirection and sleazy character assassination is the path the government chooses to pursue, they’d better realize such tactics work both ways.
Everybody has skeletons in their closet. As we’ve just shown, we can dig them up.
If you doubt the facts herein, read about them for yourself in the New York Times and elsewhere, below:
New York Times Coverage: http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/05/us/judge-reverses-3-convictions-in-gang-cases.html?scp=2&sq=El%20Rukn&st=cse
Ethics Charges Filed: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-4324752.html
Suppression of Evidence: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-4296288.html
Convictions Overturned Because of Hogan Misconduct: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-4173736.html
Hogan Gets FIRED: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-4331137.html
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
JURY VOTES 10 – 2 FOR ACQUITTAL; NJ BLOGGER STILL FREE
Brooklyn, NY – (http://family-of-hal-turner.blogspot.com) For the second time in three months, radio Shock-Jock and blogger Hal Turner has thwarted government efforts to convict him of threatening to murder 3 United States Judges. Jurors in the most recent case announced they were deadlocked yesterday, but returned to continue deliberations today.
Despite sending about 8 separate notes to the judge asking questions about the law and about evidence exhibits, Jurors once again announced they were deadlocked at 3:00 PM today.
The Judge called the Jury out into the courtroom and gave a modified version of the Allen Charge which instructs jurors how important a case is and that they should give further consideration to any fellow jurors who saw the facts in other ways. This instruction, under federal rules, is a last-ditch effort to help a jury come to a unanimous verdict.
In an extraordinary departure from the norm, Judge Donald Walter added a summary of the jury instructions to the Allen Charge in an effort to make clear the jury’s task. This hybrid instruction to the jury utterly failed to break the deadlock.
The hybrid Allen Charge was not the only irregularity in the trial. In fact, the second trial was skewed from the start by Judge Walter. Instead of allowing both the government and the Defense to give opening statements one-after-the-other, Judge Walter ordered the defense to wait until the government’s case was over before allowing them to give an opening statement. This served to bolster the government’s case by slanting the first half of the trial in the government’s favor.
Another strange alteration of trial procedure was an order by Judge Walter forbidding the Defense from mentioning Hal Turner’s role as an Intelligence Operative for the FBI unless Turner himself took the Witness stand. This requirement would have gutted the defense unless Turner testified; but Turner took to the stand with gusto.
Trial turned Slugfest
In a brutal two-day cross examination by Assistant US Attorney William Hogan, Turner absolutely shined. Time after time, as Hogan tried to paint Turner as a liar and a man who was simply wrong about the laws regarding freedom of speech, Turner let loose with responses that utterly destroyed Hogan’s line of questioning.
At times, the interactions between Hogan and Turner became so intense that the Judge had to warn both men “this is not a high school debate. Everyone will keep their voices down.” Despite that admonishment, both men engaged each other with a tenacity seldom seen in any American courtroom.
At times, Hogan became so flustered by the verbal beating being dished out by Turner, that Hogan fumbled for papers at the Prosecution lectern and was even seen talking to himself! If that wasn’t embarrassing enough, Hogan repeatedly found himself being told to “shut up” or “sit down” by Judge Walter. In one particularly amazing moment, Judge Walter told the Assistant United States Attorney “Mr. Hogan, sit down and don’t get up unless I tell you to.” The courtroom broke out in laughter as Hogan sat, slack-jawed, at the embarrassing rebuke.
In blistering responses to Hogan’s various accusations, Turner fired back with irrefutable facts, backed up by documents. Turner’s memory of events from years earlier foiled absolutely every attempt by the government to twist or manipulate the facts of the case.
After two days of hammering Turner over the content of his web site, it was clear to most observers in the courtroom that the case had become little more than a Bolshevik “show trial.” One courtroom observer remarked “This looks like the kind of trial we used to hear about in the former Soviet Union where the ruling regime put dissenters on trial.” Another attendee stated bluntly “This case is cloaked in legitimacy, but what the government is doing stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.”
The government was clearly trying to prosecute Turner for the ideology espoused on his web site and its raucous racial content. In fact, every piece of the government’s “evidence” had absolutely nothing to do with the charge against Turner. None of the web postings or e-mails brought-up on cross examination, had anything to do with the three judges Turner was accused of threatening. Clearly, the jury saw through the scam and instead focused on the blog posting that initiated the charges against Turner.
The prosecution began over an editorial Turner published last June which criticized three federal judges who violated the US Constitution and who ignored a recent US Supreme Court ruling. The editorial called the Judges "traitors" and said they "deserve to be killed."
The government claims that "deserve to be killed" is a threat to actually go kill them. Hal Turner says "deserve" is an opinion; protected free speech.
Jurors Gagged but speak out anyway
According to two jurors who sat on the case, the final vote was ten to two in favor of acquittal. The Jurors, who demanded anonymity because the Judge ordered them to stay away from the media, were incensed by that instruction. “When the judge first gave us the case, his written instructions said we could not tell anyone our vote until after the case was over. But when we finally came to the end, the Judge came in and specifically told us we were not to talk to the media,“ said One Juror.
The other Juror echoed those sentiments saying “The real reason they don’t want us talking to the media is because the prosecution lost so badly. They don’t want anyone to know their case was shit.”
Both Jurors confirmed that the two hold-outs were members of the jury who took great offense to one particular posting on Turner’s web site from the year 2008. In that posting, offered as “evidence” by the prosecution, Turner suggested the inauguration of Barack Obama “looked like a scene from planet of the apes.”
Historic Appearances by 3 Judges – Backfires!
Making this mistrial even more spectacular was the testimony of three United States Appellate Court Judges. The same judges Turner is accused of threatening. This trial marked the first time in the history of the United States that three sitting judges took the witness stand to testify against a defendant. It back-fired.
One Juror said “they let those judges come into court from a special side door instead of all the other witnesses who came and went like everyone else. It was clear to us that the judges were getting special treatment and that was just unfair to the Defendant.” The other Juror who spoke with us said “The judges were pompous and arrogant. The one guy (Judge Posner) actually whined about having to be in court – as though we weren’t good enough for him to be bothered with” she said.
All three judges took the stand and claimed they believed Turner’s editorial was a threat to murder them. But each looked like a complete fool when defense attorneys elicited that not one judge asked for protection from the US Marshal Service.
As the mistrial was declared, Turner was assigned a federal public defender because this case has sent him into Bankruptcy. Terms of Turner’s release from prison prevent him from working. He is under house arrest, forbidden to speak to the media or even to discuss his case with anyone but his immediate family. In fact, the only difference between the bail restrictions on Hal Turner and those imposed on Mafia Boss John Gotti is that Gotti had to post $4 Million bail while Turner got out on $500,000. All the other terms of Turner’s release are as severe as those on John Gotti.
A third trial for Hal Turner is tentatively scheduled to begin April 12.
More coverage:
http://www.northjersey.com/news/031010_Jury_enters_third_day_of_deliberations_in_trial_of_shock_jock_Hal_Turner.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jzBi0fWBvJIDUVijJgw7oQJRMYrQD9EC22JG1
Turner remains free on $500,000 bail as the government scrambles to cover their second dismal showing.
Despite sending about 8 separate notes to the judge asking questions about the law and about evidence exhibits, Jurors once again announced they were deadlocked at 3:00 PM today.
The Judge called the Jury out into the courtroom and gave a modified version of the Allen Charge which instructs jurors how important a case is and that they should give further consideration to any fellow jurors who saw the facts in other ways. This instruction, under federal rules, is a last-ditch effort to help a jury come to a unanimous verdict.
In an extraordinary departure from the norm, Judge Donald Walter added a summary of the jury instructions to the Allen Charge in an effort to make clear the jury’s task. This hybrid instruction to the jury utterly failed to break the deadlock.
The hybrid Allen Charge was not the only irregularity in the trial. In fact, the second trial was skewed from the start by Judge Walter. Instead of allowing both the government and the Defense to give opening statements one-after-the-other, Judge Walter ordered the defense to wait until the government’s case was over before allowing them to give an opening statement. This served to bolster the government’s case by slanting the first half of the trial in the government’s favor.
Another strange alteration of trial procedure was an order by Judge Walter forbidding the Defense from mentioning Hal Turner’s role as an Intelligence Operative for the FBI unless Turner himself took the Witness stand. This requirement would have gutted the defense unless Turner testified; but Turner took to the stand with gusto.
Trial turned Slugfest
In a brutal two-day cross examination by Assistant US Attorney William Hogan, Turner absolutely shined. Time after time, as Hogan tried to paint Turner as a liar and a man who was simply wrong about the laws regarding freedom of speech, Turner let loose with responses that utterly destroyed Hogan’s line of questioning.
At times, the interactions between Hogan and Turner became so intense that the Judge had to warn both men “this is not a high school debate. Everyone will keep their voices down.” Despite that admonishment, both men engaged each other with a tenacity seldom seen in any American courtroom.
At times, Hogan became so flustered by the verbal beating being dished out by Turner, that Hogan fumbled for papers at the Prosecution lectern and was even seen talking to himself! If that wasn’t embarrassing enough, Hogan repeatedly found himself being told to “shut up” or “sit down” by Judge Walter. In one particularly amazing moment, Judge Walter told the Assistant United States Attorney “Mr. Hogan, sit down and don’t get up unless I tell you to.” The courtroom broke out in laughter as Hogan sat, slack-jawed, at the embarrassing rebuke.
In blistering responses to Hogan’s various accusations, Turner fired back with irrefutable facts, backed up by documents. Turner’s memory of events from years earlier foiled absolutely every attempt by the government to twist or manipulate the facts of the case.
After two days of hammering Turner over the content of his web site, it was clear to most observers in the courtroom that the case had become little more than a Bolshevik “show trial.” One courtroom observer remarked “This looks like the kind of trial we used to hear about in the former Soviet Union where the ruling regime put dissenters on trial.” Another attendee stated bluntly “This case is cloaked in legitimacy, but what the government is doing stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.”
The government was clearly trying to prosecute Turner for the ideology espoused on his web site and its raucous racial content. In fact, every piece of the government’s “evidence” had absolutely nothing to do with the charge against Turner. None of the web postings or e-mails brought-up on cross examination, had anything to do with the three judges Turner was accused of threatening. Clearly, the jury saw through the scam and instead focused on the blog posting that initiated the charges against Turner.
The prosecution began over an editorial Turner published last June which criticized three federal judges who violated the US Constitution and who ignored a recent US Supreme Court ruling. The editorial called the Judges "traitors" and said they "deserve to be killed."
The government claims that "deserve to be killed" is a threat to actually go kill them. Hal Turner says "deserve" is an opinion; protected free speech.
Jurors Gagged but speak out anyway
According to two jurors who sat on the case, the final vote was ten to two in favor of acquittal. The Jurors, who demanded anonymity because the Judge ordered them to stay away from the media, were incensed by that instruction. “When the judge first gave us the case, his written instructions said we could not tell anyone our vote until after the case was over. But when we finally came to the end, the Judge came in and specifically told us we were not to talk to the media,“ said One Juror.
The other Juror echoed those sentiments saying “The real reason they don’t want us talking to the media is because the prosecution lost so badly. They don’t want anyone to know their case was shit.”
Both Jurors confirmed that the two hold-outs were members of the jury who took great offense to one particular posting on Turner’s web site from the year 2008. In that posting, offered as “evidence” by the prosecution, Turner suggested the inauguration of Barack Obama “looked like a scene from planet of the apes.”
Historic Appearances by 3 Judges – Backfires!
Making this mistrial even more spectacular was the testimony of three United States Appellate Court Judges. The same judges Turner is accused of threatening. This trial marked the first time in the history of the United States that three sitting judges took the witness stand to testify against a defendant. It back-fired.
One Juror said “they let those judges come into court from a special side door instead of all the other witnesses who came and went like everyone else. It was clear to us that the judges were getting special treatment and that was just unfair to the Defendant.” The other Juror who spoke with us said “The judges were pompous and arrogant. The one guy (Judge Posner) actually whined about having to be in court – as though we weren’t good enough for him to be bothered with” she said.
All three judges took the stand and claimed they believed Turner’s editorial was a threat to murder them. But each looked like a complete fool when defense attorneys elicited that not one judge asked for protection from the US Marshal Service.
As the mistrial was declared, Turner was assigned a federal public defender because this case has sent him into Bankruptcy. Terms of Turner’s release from prison prevent him from working. He is under house arrest, forbidden to speak to the media or even to discuss his case with anyone but his immediate family. In fact, the only difference between the bail restrictions on Hal Turner and those imposed on Mafia Boss John Gotti is that Gotti had to post $4 Million bail while Turner got out on $500,000. All the other terms of Turner’s release are as severe as those on John Gotti.
A third trial for Hal Turner is tentatively scheduled to begin April 12.
More coverage:
http://www.northjersey.com/news/031010_Jury_enters_third_day_of_deliberations_in_trial_of_shock_jock_Hal_Turner.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jzBi0fWBvJIDUVijJgw7oQJRMYrQD9EC22JG1
Turner remains free on $500,000 bail as the government scrambles to cover their second dismal showing.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Hal Turner to Change Legal Team
Brooklyn, NY -- Radio host and blogger Hal Turner told his two attorneys today that at the end of his current trial, they will no longer represent him.
Turner explained that his legal team has had two full chances to defeat the government charges against him but the future remains unclear.
Turner's first trial in December ended in a hung jury. Today, Jurors in his second trial told the judge they "will not ever" come to a unanimous decision.
While the present jury was told to resume deliberations tomorrow, it now appears likely Turner's second trial will also result in a hung jury.
Whether the present jury is hung or if the worst happens and Turner is convicted, the Turner Family feels a new set of eyes on this case will achieve better results.
Turner explained that his legal team has had two full chances to defeat the government charges against him but the future remains unclear.
Turner's first trial in December ended in a hung jury. Today, Jurors in his second trial told the judge they "will not ever" come to a unanimous decision.
While the present jury was told to resume deliberations tomorrow, it now appears likely Turner's second trial will also result in a hung jury.
Whether the present jury is hung or if the worst happens and Turner is convicted, the Turner Family feels a new set of eyes on this case will achieve better results.
Friday, March 5, 2010
POWERFUL EVIDENCE: FBI PAID TURNER TO SAY JUDGE “WORTHY OF DEATH”
Brooklyn, NY (Family-of-Hal-Turner.blogspot.com)– The federal criminal trial of radio shock-jock Hal Turner took a dramatic turn this week when the defense proved with actual FBI documents that Turner was paid to go on national TV and say a federal judge was “worthy of death.” It was revealed last July that for years, Turner was a National Security Intelligence Operative for the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.
Using two video clips from two separate national television shows, along with FBI pay vouchers and payment memos, defense lawyers flatly proved the FBI not only allowed Turner to say a federal judge was “worthy of death” but the FBI later allowed him to mention several elected public officials BY NAME and say they “deserve to be killed.’
Even more astonishing, less than two weeks after his appearance on national TV shows and posting the courthouse addresses of three Chicago judges, the FBI paid Turner $3,000 for doing it!
The icing on the cake: The payment memo issued to explain the $3,000 payment to Turner clearly states it was “. . . . . not illegal or criminal to post the Judges addresses on TURNERS web site. . . . .”
This may have been all Turner needed to drive a stake through the heart of the government’s case against him, which charges Turner with “Threatening to assault and murder three United States Judges.” The government is prosecuting Turner over an editorial he published last June which criticized three federal judges who violated the US Constitution and who ignored a recent US Supreme Court ruling. The editorial called the Judges "traitors" and said they "deserve to be killed."
The government claims that "deserve to be killed" is a threat to actually go kill them. Hal Turner says "deserve" is an opinion; protected free speech.
As a large screen descended from the courtroom ceiling and the lights dimmed, the courtroom stared in stunned disbelief as video of Turner from the national TV show “DATELINE NBC” showed the facts. In that video, which aired in April 2005, turner boldly repeated a statement he made on his worldwide radio show in 2002 that a ruling made by a federal judge made her “worthy of death.” When asked by DATELINE correspondent John Murphy if Turner still believed that, he replied “Yep . . . . . that’s my opinion.”
Watch that video now then read the rest of the story – and view additional evidence – below:
When the DATELINE video finished, Turner was still on the witness stand and explained that in late February of 2005, the mother and husband of a federal Judge in Chicago had been brutally murdered. The FBI suspected White Supremacists were involved in those killings and they met with Turner the following morning to plot a strategy.
At a meeting which took place at the Coach House Diner on Kennedy Blvd in North Bergen near Turner’s home, Turner testified that Special Agent Stephen M. Haug of the FBI and Detective Leonard Nerbetski of the New Jersey State Police spoke with Turner about using his extremist radio show to flush out information about the murders.
At that meeting, Turner testified, a plan was proffered to “poke fun at the murders” to see if it would flush out information from any White Supremacists who may have been involved. Turner testified that he was told to “ratchet-up the rhetoric” and to do so in a way that would “enhance his image as an anti-government radical.”
Within an hour of that meeting, Turner returned to his North Bergen home and uploaded to his radio show web site, a photo of the Judge whose family had been killed beneath a banner headline which read “GOTCHA.”
Defense lawyers showed the web page to Jurors who appeared quite taken aback by what they saw. You can see the actual evidence in a .PDF file by clicking HERE.
Turner continued his testimony by saying after appearing on DATELINE NBC, he was invited to appear on FOX NEWS CHANNEL. On March 5, 2005, Turner appeared live during a segment of “At Large with Geraldo Rivera” and again repeated that a federal judge was “worthy of death.” Then, in a move that shocked even the jaded Geraldo Rivera, Turner went on to publicly name three additional judges on the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals and said they “would now feel the same scorn as Judge Lefkow.” He proceeded to name the Judges as a slack-jawed Geraldo sat in stunned disbelief.
You can see the FOX NEWS video – which was played in open public court and is shown here as evidence from that public courtroom – then read more and see more evidence below.
When the video from FOX NEWS CHANNEL finished playing, the lights in the courtroom returned to normal and Jurors then got an earful of more shocking defense evidence. Audio from a “Hal Turner Radio Show” was played from one year later which let the jury hear Turner name several elected officials and public university professors. Turner said they were “legitimate targets” for betraying the United States by supporting illegal aliens. Turner let loose by saying they “deserve to be killed” and later saying “I advocate anyone who can get close enough to go do it!”
LISTEN TO THE COURTROOM AUDIO CLIP HERE
After the audio clip, Turner was asked if he was arrested for what he’d said and testified “no.”
The icing on the cake came when defense lawyers produced an FBI pay voucher which shows the Bureau paid Turner $3,000 on March 18. The cherry-on-top to the defense was a memo accompanying the pay voucher which read in part “. . . . . . there was nothing illegal or criminal about publishing the Judges addresses on TURNER’S web site. . . . .” View a .PDF of those documents HERE
Whether this is strong enough to overcome the government case remains to be seen. In a despicable act of treachery, Assistant US Attorney William Hogan used material from Turner’s web site from as far back as 2002 in an effort to smear Turner as a vile racist. So desperate was Hogan to win, that he even produced a letter to the editor of a local newspaper from the year 1998 wherein Turner had criticized another federal judge. If that wasn’t low enough, Hogan then produced information about Turner having to leave his real Estate job with COLDWELL BANKER in 1997 because protesters threatened to picket the realtor over Turner’s on-air remarks as a caller to radio station 77 WABC in New York!
Turner was on the witness stand for more than two days and the majority of that time was spent deflecting government playing the race card. According to numerous persons in attendance, Turner was masterful at rebuking the government on almost every point.
Making matters quite interesting was the repeated need for Judge Donald Walter to tell Mr. Hogan to “stop.” In one extraordinary moment on Friday, Judge Walter had to tell Assistant US Attorney Hogan, “Sit down and don’t get up until I tell you to.” So stunning was this open display of judicial discontent that spectators at the rear of the courtroom broke out in laughter as Hogan sat down with a look of stunned disbelief.
Seeing the rising pitch and intensity of the exchanges between Hogan and Turner, the Judge admonished both men “This is not a high school debate. Keep your voices down.”
Hogan was clearly rattled by Turner, who fought for his freedom tenaciously. Hogan repeatedly fumbled for papers at the Prosecution lectern and was even seen talking to himself as he clumsily fumbled for documents.
The trial has been a media event, with print journalists from the AP and newspapers throughout New York City and New Jersey in attendance. Producers from a very prominent TV news show have also been in the courtroom every day. If he wins the case, Turner is expected to appear on CBS News “60 Minutes” within weeks.
The trial will resume Monday when the Defense is expected to call Special Agent Stephen M. Haug and Special Agent Dan Brunner, both from the FBI. Haug is expected to testify that Turner was a reliable and productive part of the Joint Terrorism Task Force and continued to supply information to the FBI after the Bureau cut ties with Turner in 2007. Agent Brunner is expected to rebuke Government claims that Turner was no longer desirable to the FBI when he is asked to testify about contacts with Turner as recently as March 2009.
If things go as expected, closing arguments would probably take place on Tuesday with the Jury being given the case either late Tuesday or Wednesday.
Hal Turner faces 10 years in federal prison if convicted.
Using two video clips from two separate national television shows, along with FBI pay vouchers and payment memos, defense lawyers flatly proved the FBI not only allowed Turner to say a federal judge was “worthy of death” but the FBI later allowed him to mention several elected public officials BY NAME and say they “deserve to be killed.’
Even more astonishing, less than two weeks after his appearance on national TV shows and posting the courthouse addresses of three Chicago judges, the FBI paid Turner $3,000 for doing it!
The icing on the cake: The payment memo issued to explain the $3,000 payment to Turner clearly states it was “. . . . . not illegal or criminal to post the Judges addresses on TURNERS web site. . . . .”
This may have been all Turner needed to drive a stake through the heart of the government’s case against him, which charges Turner with “Threatening to assault and murder three United States Judges.” The government is prosecuting Turner over an editorial he published last June which criticized three federal judges who violated the US Constitution and who ignored a recent US Supreme Court ruling. The editorial called the Judges "traitors" and said they "deserve to be killed."
The government claims that "deserve to be killed" is a threat to actually go kill them. Hal Turner says "deserve" is an opinion; protected free speech.
As a large screen descended from the courtroom ceiling and the lights dimmed, the courtroom stared in stunned disbelief as video of Turner from the national TV show “DATELINE NBC” showed the facts. In that video, which aired in April 2005, turner boldly repeated a statement he made on his worldwide radio show in 2002 that a ruling made by a federal judge made her “worthy of death.” When asked by DATELINE correspondent John Murphy if Turner still believed that, he replied “Yep . . . . . that’s my opinion.”
Watch that video now then read the rest of the story – and view additional evidence – below:
When the DATELINE video finished, Turner was still on the witness stand and explained that in late February of 2005, the mother and husband of a federal Judge in Chicago had been brutally murdered. The FBI suspected White Supremacists were involved in those killings and they met with Turner the following morning to plot a strategy.
At a meeting which took place at the Coach House Diner on Kennedy Blvd in North Bergen near Turner’s home, Turner testified that Special Agent Stephen M. Haug of the FBI and Detective Leonard Nerbetski of the New Jersey State Police spoke with Turner about using his extremist radio show to flush out information about the murders.
At that meeting, Turner testified, a plan was proffered to “poke fun at the murders” to see if it would flush out information from any White Supremacists who may have been involved. Turner testified that he was told to “ratchet-up the rhetoric” and to do so in a way that would “enhance his image as an anti-government radical.”
Within an hour of that meeting, Turner returned to his North Bergen home and uploaded to his radio show web site, a photo of the Judge whose family had been killed beneath a banner headline which read “GOTCHA.”
Defense lawyers showed the web page to Jurors who appeared quite taken aback by what they saw. You can see the actual evidence in a .PDF file by clicking HERE.
Turner continued his testimony by saying after appearing on DATELINE NBC, he was invited to appear on FOX NEWS CHANNEL. On March 5, 2005, Turner appeared live during a segment of “At Large with Geraldo Rivera” and again repeated that a federal judge was “worthy of death.” Then, in a move that shocked even the jaded Geraldo Rivera, Turner went on to publicly name three additional judges on the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals and said they “would now feel the same scorn as Judge Lefkow.” He proceeded to name the Judges as a slack-jawed Geraldo sat in stunned disbelief.
You can see the FOX NEWS video – which was played in open public court and is shown here as evidence from that public courtroom – then read more and see more evidence below.
When the video from FOX NEWS CHANNEL finished playing, the lights in the courtroom returned to normal and Jurors then got an earful of more shocking defense evidence. Audio from a “Hal Turner Radio Show” was played from one year later which let the jury hear Turner name several elected officials and public university professors. Turner said they were “legitimate targets” for betraying the United States by supporting illegal aliens. Turner let loose by saying they “deserve to be killed” and later saying “I advocate anyone who can get close enough to go do it!”
LISTEN TO THE COURTROOM AUDIO CLIP HERE
After the audio clip, Turner was asked if he was arrested for what he’d said and testified “no.”
The icing on the cake came when defense lawyers produced an FBI pay voucher which shows the Bureau paid Turner $3,000 on March 18. The cherry-on-top to the defense was a memo accompanying the pay voucher which read in part “. . . . . . there was nothing illegal or criminal about publishing the Judges addresses on TURNER’S web site. . . . .” View a .PDF of those documents HERE
Whether this is strong enough to overcome the government case remains to be seen. In a despicable act of treachery, Assistant US Attorney William Hogan used material from Turner’s web site from as far back as 2002 in an effort to smear Turner as a vile racist. So desperate was Hogan to win, that he even produced a letter to the editor of a local newspaper from the year 1998 wherein Turner had criticized another federal judge. If that wasn’t low enough, Hogan then produced information about Turner having to leave his real Estate job with COLDWELL BANKER in 1997 because protesters threatened to picket the realtor over Turner’s on-air remarks as a caller to radio station 77 WABC in New York!
Turner was on the witness stand for more than two days and the majority of that time was spent deflecting government playing the race card. According to numerous persons in attendance, Turner was masterful at rebuking the government on almost every point.
Making matters quite interesting was the repeated need for Judge Donald Walter to tell Mr. Hogan to “stop.” In one extraordinary moment on Friday, Judge Walter had to tell Assistant US Attorney Hogan, “Sit down and don’t get up until I tell you to.” So stunning was this open display of judicial discontent that spectators at the rear of the courtroom broke out in laughter as Hogan sat down with a look of stunned disbelief.
Seeing the rising pitch and intensity of the exchanges between Hogan and Turner, the Judge admonished both men “This is not a high school debate. Keep your voices down.”
Hogan was clearly rattled by Turner, who fought for his freedom tenaciously. Hogan repeatedly fumbled for papers at the Prosecution lectern and was even seen talking to himself as he clumsily fumbled for documents.
The trial has been a media event, with print journalists from the AP and newspapers throughout New York City and New Jersey in attendance. Producers from a very prominent TV news show have also been in the courtroom every day. If he wins the case, Turner is expected to appear on CBS News “60 Minutes” within weeks.
The trial will resume Monday when the Defense is expected to call Special Agent Stephen M. Haug and Special Agent Dan Brunner, both from the FBI. Haug is expected to testify that Turner was a reliable and productive part of the Joint Terrorism Task Force and continued to supply information to the FBI after the Bureau cut ties with Turner in 2007. Agent Brunner is expected to rebuke Government claims that Turner was no longer desirable to the FBI when he is asked to testify about contacts with Turner as recently as March 2009.
If things go as expected, closing arguments would probably take place on Tuesday with the Jury being given the case either late Tuesday or Wednesday.
Hal Turner faces 10 years in federal prison if convicted.
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