Did White House S&M ring order special videos from Abu Ghraib?

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The GOP's many Talons
Did White House S&M ring order special videos from Abu Ghraib?

By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer

February 23, 2005—There are interesting connections between the White House credentialed Talon News Service, owned by Houston-based GOP activist Bobby Eberle, Jr., and two other "Talon" entities. One is investment and management company Talon LLC of Detroit, co-founded by Michael T. Timmis, a major contributor to conservative Republican causes. Talon Equity Partners LLC is an adjunct of Talon LLC. The other GOP-connected "Talon" firm is Talon LLC of Houston, a "special purpose entity" established by the now defunct GOP bankroller, Enron.

In April 2000, Enron and LJM2, a co-investment entity headed by Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, set up Talon LLC. Fastow was later indicted and found guilty of multiple counts of fraud. His boss at Enron, CEO Ken Lay, a close friend of and contributor to George W. Bush, was also indicted and is awaiting trial. The Talon entity experienced a 370 percent annualized return on an original investment of preferred Enron stock and made $41 million for LJM2. Investigators in Houston are still trying to determine what happened to Enron's original profits before its stock tanked. There are suspicions that much of the money ended up in well protected and hidden Bush family and GOP coffers.

Timmis is a major contributor to The Fellowship Foundation, a powerful "Christian" fundamentalist operation headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The Fellowship has interlocking relationships with the Leadership Institute, also of Arlington, Virginia, where Talon White House correspondent "Jeff Gannon," a.k.a. James Dale Guckert, took a two-day course at the institute's Broadcast School of Journalism. The Leadership Institute, headed by Virginia Republican official Morton Blackwell, counts such right-wing members of Congress as Tom DeLay, Frank Wolf, Sam Brownback, John Ensign, Todd Tiahrt, Charles Grassley, James Inhofe, Zach Wamp, and Joseph Pitts as members of its "bi-partisan" congressional Board of Advisors. The above Republican members of Congress are also core members of The Fellowship. Gannon has been linked to Fellowship members who are active in two northern Virginia churches heavily influenced by the Fellowship: Little Falls Presbyterian Church in Arlington and McLean Bible Church in nearby McLean. Gannon is also linked to Rev. Rob Schenk, the founder of Washington's National Community Church, a Pentecostal congregation that counts John and Janet Ashcroft as members. It currently meets in a movie theater at Union Station in Washington, DC.

The Fellowship is financially backed by companies with lucrative defense contracts with the Pentagon, many of which are based in northern Virginia. Some of these companies are involved with prisoner detention contracts in Iraq, Cuba, and Afghanistan.

More at

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/022305Madsen/022305madsen.html

[RBHam]

1. I jokingly speculated about this back then...

I figured Rumsferatu was watching live on a closed circuit.

[GR]

2. This Is Very Important...That "Fellowship" Is Positively EVIL...

nfm

[On the Road]

3. There's Nothing Unprecedented About the Man in Charge

taking an interest in the torture process. Idi Amin had a special room set up in his basement where he could hear the screams while he played video games.

[annabanana]

4. whew! My head is spinning

You can't tell the playa's without a scorecard around here. The image of Asscroft and Gannon in the same room is , um, disturbing.

[kilgore65]

5. madsen...good stuff

I love this guy's work... his pieces are always hard hitting and riveting...I agree with the above poster - the Fellowship is positively evil...

[Ian David]

6. Listing of Names, Places and Companies from the article

Talon News Service
Bobby Eberle, Jr.

Talon LLC of Detroit
Michael T. Timmis

Talon Equity Partners LLC

Talon LLC of Houston
Enron and LJM2
Andrew Fastow
Ken Lay

The Fellowship Foundation

The Leadership Institute and The Fellowship Foundation
Morton Blackwell
Tom DeLay
Frank Wolf
Sam Brownback
John Ensign
Todd Tiahrt
Charles Grassley
James Inhofe
Zach Wamp
Joseph Pitts

Little Falls Presbyterian Church in Arlington
McLean Bible Church in McLean.

Rev. Rob Schenk
Washington's National Community Church
John and Janet Ashcroft
movie theater at Union Station in Washington, DC.


Titan of San Diego
Steven Findlay
Titan Dynamics


Affiliated Computer Systems (ACS) of Dallas, Texas

Darwin Deason
First Texas Savings and Gibraltar

[manna]

7. CIA contracters

this is sick

didn't Hilter have these same fetishes?

[manna]

8. What is Sexual Sadism?

What is Sexual Sadism?
It is important to distinguish between "Sadism", which is the term used in conjunction with Sadistic Personality Disorder, and "Sexual Sadism" which may be associated with SPD yet is classified as one of the paraphilias because of the specific sexual component. The two are most certainly related and an understanding of sadism is paramount to the understanding of sexual sadism but this particular section deals only with the paraphilia of sexual sadism.

Sexual sadism refers to the derivation of sexual pleasure from the infliction of pain, suffering and/or humiliation upon another person. The pain and suffering of the victim, which may be both physical and psychological, is pivotal to the sexual arousal and pleasure. The ICD-10 (World Health Organization, 1992) defines sadism as "preference for sexual activity that involves bondage or infliction of pain or humiliation."

http://www.psychdirect.com/forensic/Criminology/para/sadism.htm

[Ian David]

9. SM vs. Abuse

The following Principles and Guidelines are intended to help law enforcement and social services professionals understand the difference between abusive relationships vs. consensual sadomasochism (SM). SM includes a broad and complex group of behaviors between consenting adults involving the consensual exchange of power, and the giving and receiving of intense erotic sensation and/or mental discipline.

SM includes: "intimate activities within the scope of informed consent that is freely given."

Abuse is: "Physical, sexual or emotional acts inflicted on a person without their informed and freely given consent."

More:
http://www.ncsfreedom.org/library/smvsabuse.htm