I have never written a diary before, so please forgive my fumbling awkwardly forward. I thought it worthwhile to get some attention on this for those who might be more in-the-know than myself. There is an article in the Reno Gazette Journal, that bastion of shallow GOP propaganda, regarding the unsealing of documents relating to Etreppid and Jim Gibbons, and well... someone who might just know SOMETHING about the various, and now enabled, ongoing, illegal, surveillance programs. This/These is/are the same program(s) that Alpo Gonzales keeps referring to under various terms as the one(s) the President has approved uh.. before, after or during the time when it/they were illegal.
Here's a link to the full story.
http://news.rgj.com/...
Treppid court documents unsealed
Martha Bellisle (MBELLISLE@RGJ.COM)
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
August 4, 2007
In a statement unsealed by the court Friday, former eTreppid software designer Dennis Montgomery said his special technology has been used to thwart or warn of terrorist attacks around the world.
But company owner Warren Trepp tried to halt the use of the life-saving technology in order to get more money from the government, the documents said.
According to the extremely disgruntled sounding Montgomery,
His software helped stop the terrorist plan to blow up jetliners leaving London for the U.S. in August 2006, and helped lead to the U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed al-Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi last year,
Montogmery says his boss Trepp
instructed me to stop processing (redacted words) 'output' on two occasions ...on both National Security grounds because he was not being paid what Trepp had promised.
Montogmery left the company in January 2006.
My sense is that this guy might know a bit about the types of surveillance being authorized and how the program(s) is/are run.
In addition, Etreppid is the company that Jim Gibbons, current Governator of Nevada, supposedly took kickbacks from for sending Government contracts to.
Among the officials loyal to Trepp, he said, was Gov. Jim Gibbons. He said Gibbons, while in Congress, "admitted" that he "made phone calls" to the U.S. Attorney's office in Nevada and the Reno FBI and instigated the raid on Montgomery's home in search of source code. The raid was later ruled unconstitutional.
Gibbons has flatly denied these claims, saying they are "the same old fabrication" Montgomery made up when he first filed suit against eTreppid last year.
So, here is my thought... maybe Montgomery might be willing to spill what he knows to the right person, both about the surveillance technologies and the political machinations that got the technology into the Fed's hands and Gibbons into the governor's Mansion.
Let me be the first to say that there might be nothing here. But let me also be the first to say that it is an intriguing story worth a look for some intrepid, Etreppid, explorer.
Oh and by the way, I believe that Daniel Bogden, the US Attorney removed from office last year, might have been investigating some part of this.