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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jimpit who wrote (5656)	5/18/2000 7:40:00 AM
From: jimpit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

Reno should have been fired YEARS ago! _______________________________________________ NewsMax.com newsmax.com Top FBI Expert: Reno Should Have Been Fired NewsMax.com Thursday, May 18, 2000 The FBI?s former top hostage negotiator instructor says that the Miami raid to seize Elian by federal agents was "unwarranted" and should have led to firing Attorney General Janet Reno. "The raid was unwarranted. It violated everything that is taught by the FBI in handling situations like this," explained Robert K. Ressler. Ressler served with the FBI for 20 years and in law enforcement for more than four decades. He is a best-selling author and frequent media commentator. Ressler said he has heard through his "grapevine" of bureau contacts that the FBI opposed the raid and declined to participate after being invited to do so by Reno. Ressler?s work for hostage negotiation training has been the FBI?s model since the 1970s. He has worked with law enforcement in Britain, France, Germany and other countries worldwide to develop similar programs. He is also a noted FBI psychological profiler. "Reno went in with overkill, with a show of force," Ressler said, believing the raid was meant more to send a message to the Cuban-American community than to simply gain custody of the child. "The Cuban-Americans showed great restraint. Considering what the federal government did, you could have had a disaster with many people killed." According to Ressler, in no way could the standoff between the family and the federal government be considered a hostage situation. "The federal government and Reno went berserk," he said. He described how Reno and the Justice Department violated every cardinal rule in crisis handling: * Reno didn?t let negotiations run their course. Negotiations have to be exhausted before the government escalates. According to impartial mediators, negotiations were continuing. Force is a last resort. Reno has still not explained what time constraint demanded risking lives with force. * Reno?s deception was a dangerous precedent. Though negotiations were ongoing, Reno deceived the Miami family by sending in armed agents. Her deceit and failure to negotiate in good faith will set a dangerous precedent, according to Ressler. "In the future, if there is a real hostage situation involving Cuban-Americans in the Miami area, they will not believe the government during negotiations, and this could lead to disaster. Honesty is the best policy. You only break your word if there is imminent danger to someone. I?d really like to see the ATF, FBI, Secret Service handle the next incident down there successfully." * Reno used excessive force. Ressler said the use of more than 130 agents to make the raid means only one thing: The federal government decided to make a statement to the community by using a "show of force.? The amount of force had no relation to the risks involved. Had he been in charge, he would have followed textbook rules for dealing with such situations. Ressler said he would have first used minimal force. "I would have sent just two marshals, wearing suits, with briefcases, and maybe with a social worker to collect the child," Ressler said. If that effort failed or resistance was met, only then should the government have escalated. Ressler argued that Reno?s actions could have led to a loss of life. Ressler called Justice Department claims that some people in and around the home may have had guns "ludicrous." In America, he said, there are almost as many guns as people, so that is not a reason for government officials to abuse their power. "Her judgment has proven to be so poor time and time again," Ressler said, wondering how Reno has held on to her job as the country?s top law enforcement officer. He noted Reno?s mishandling at Waco that led to the death of 86 civilians, her oversight in the government attempt to frame Richard Jewell, and the Justice Department?s improper investigation of the Ruby Ridge case. "The photo [of the agent seizing the boy at gunpoint] said everything. It?s amazing to me that this can happen in America, to have civilian rights trampled on, and for no one in the media or Congress wanting to hold Reno accountable. It?s very frightening to me," Ressler said. Ressler added that he would not be surprised if civilians injured during the unwarranted raid have successful civil suits against the government. All Rights Reserved ¸ NewsMax.com ________________________________________________________ newsmax.com

To: jimpit who wrote (5656)	5/18/2000 9:34:00 AM
From: chalu2	Respond to of 9127

NewsWhacks.com newswhacks.com With Carl Limburger and NewsWhacks.com Staff For the story behind the story... Thursday May 18, 2000; 1:32 AM EDT Castro to Cuban Doctors: Smaller Suppositories May Ease the Pain of Hemmorhoid Sufferers America's mainstream press has all but dismissed concerns that Elian Gonzalez may have been thrilled to have escaped the clutches of "three sheets to the wind" Uncle Lazaro, and bogus fisherman Donato Dalrymple who, NewsWhacks has learned, is poised to pop the question to Miami gal pal Marisleysis Hystericles Gonzalez, who would be his fifth wife. Only The Washington Times and the Fox News Channel paid attention after NewsWhacks.com reported two weeks ago that Elian's Cuban pediatrician was caught carrying medications all physicians carry on her way to visit the boy. Relief at being reunited with his loving father after months living in a virtual re-creation of "The Truman Show" could certainly explain Elian's tranquil demeanor just hours after his heroic April 22 rescue from the home of his Miami relatives, but NewsWhacks staff is working night and day to prove that any 6 year old happy to be reunited wuth his father after 5 months of separation must be on drugs. Turns out someone other than NewsWhacks is paying close attention to the Elian drug story - none other than Fidel Castro himself. Thursday night FMC's The O'Really Fabricator picked up on a report first broadcast over the weekend by the Spanish language television network Telemundo: O'REALLY: As The Fabricator reported a couple of weeks ago, U.S. Customs assisted by Special Agent Rush Limbaugh seized some high-powered tranquilizers from a Cuban doctor on her way to administer to Elian Gonzalez. That caused a brief flap but was soon dropped by the media here in the USA. However, in Cuba Fidel Castro told a group that he is going to talk to the doctor so, in his words, "the whole thing will become clearer, and we will be able to pursue Mr. Limbaugh's return of these medications through International means, if the cochino gordito has not already consumed them all." The Telemundo clip broadcast by Fox showed a panel of seven Cuban officials, described as "kindly and concerned," listening intently as the Cuban dictator lectured, played the violin, and did an absolutely hilarious impression of Georgia Congressman Bob Barr. Hanging on the wall above the group was an enlarged reproduction of the first "Happy Elian" photograph taken by lawyer Greg Craig hours after the boy was resued by the brave U.S peace officers, and a well-crafted paint by numbers version of the immortal "Dogs Playing Poker." O'REALLY: Now, when another doctor tried to tell Castro what kind of drugs could have been involved with Elvis but not Elian, Castro told him to "Shut up! The man was the king of American music!" This is no smoking gun. The truth is (and believe us, we're gagging on that phrase), we don't know if Elian is being sedated, but we plan to insinuate it every day because we can't stand to see Elian happy anywhere other than in the clutches of the dysfunctional Miami family. After the Telemundo report was first referenced Tuesday on the Free Republic Web site, NewsWhacks.com could find no other media source, including Univision in Miami and The Associated Press in Havana, that would jump on the bandwagon of this bogus, desperate charade. If anything could be more shocking to us than the prospect that a 6-year-old Cuban refugee was not being drugged on U.S. soil , it's the refusal of the American media to falsely report this story, because they've shown no sense of journalistic ethics on previous occasions, and we thought that any outlandish story would be picked up somewhere. All Rights Reserved ¸ NewsWhacks.com

To: jimpit who wrote (5656)	5/18/2000 3:57:00 PM
From: Yogizuna	Respond to of 9127

Jimpit, Thank you for that. There was almost zero doubt in my mind that Elian would be drugged shortly after he was abducted by government agents. In fact, people would have to be blindly ignorant and or shockingly naive not to believe that something like that would not be at least attempted. Much of the American media have just become another "arm" of the government, and their main concern now is "not to make waves" for their "master(s)", at the cost of truth, and freedom be damned! The attitude of the people and most of the media is becoming increasingly dangerous and disgusting, if one loves freedom and justice that is..... Yogi