April 22, 2005
KGW's Bizarre JTTF Headline
Reports An Entirely Bogus Story Element
For the past three hours, KGW's website has carried the headline shown in the above screenshot, after an evolution across the day of both its main headline and that used on the article itself from ones reporting that the Mayor had pulled out of the JTTF (untrue at this stage) to ones indicating that he plans to do so (more accurate).
As you can see, their main page headline has reverted to reporting that he's already pulled out, something he cannot do until Council passes the proposal next week, and even then it doesn't actually happen for another 60-90 days.
But that's not the bizarre part. That second bit is the bizarre part because nothing in the information released by the Mayor's office today says that the City will be creating its "own terror unit".
In fact, the summary of the new protocol (that link goes, ironically enough, to KGW's own copy of it) clearly says this: "CIU will not conduct independent terrorist investigations."
That CIU stands for Criminal Intelligence Unit, the part of the Portland Police Bureau to which the JTTF-assigned officers will be returned. Not only does the summary make that clear, but KGW's own report says nothing whatsoever about the City starting its "own terror unit".
So the operative and obvious questions are: What, precisely, does KGW think is going on, and why in the world have they been publishing an erroneous headline for at least three hours now?
Comments (35)
myrln on 22 Apr 2005
Most likely explanation? They're boneheads.
Jack Peek on 22 Apr 2005
Daily News Poll Results
Do you agree with Portland pulling out of the terror task force?
Yes 23%
No 73%
Unsure 4%
1902 Total Votes
HEY..Are these people "intolerant" or alot smarter then some others I can name.
The One True b!X on 22 Apr 2005
Web polls are entirely unscientific and represent absolutely nothing of use or value -- except an indication, in this case, that someone like Lars Larson or similar wingnut rallied his or her radio troops to flood the poll with responses.
The One True b!X on 23 Apr 2005
Eight hours since first sighting and the bogus headline remains on KGW's website.
Jack Peek on 23 Apr 2005
Web polls are entirely unscientific and represent absolutely nothing of use or value -- except an indication, in this case, that someone like Lars Larson or similar wingnut rallied his or her radio troops to flood the poll with responses.
Chris: WHY DON'T YOU .....ahh, never mind!
Then write about the articule titled "JIHAD COMES TOO A SMALL TOWN".
You lack one thing in your writing that will not get you up in league with the guy from WWEEK, that being balance. Are you afraid of balance?
Are you ready to toss this city over to real documentation of what is happening, or are you saying "lets just let them run over us in the name of "diversity?"
The One True b!X on 23 Apr 2005
Jack I don't know a damned thing about any of the people who write the things you spray around willy nilly to people in this town. How do I know they are credible? How do I know that woman isn't making up that entire story? Am I supposed to spend the next two months of my life looking into whether or not this "Northeast Intelligence Network" you keep spamming us with is a credible source of information?
Jack Peek on 23 Apr 2005
OK...you asked for it!
Northeast Intelligence Network Now Listed on NATO Site
9 March 2005: The Northeast Intelligence Network is now listed on the Official NATO STARnet DTIN (NATO Defense Against Terrorism Information Node) webpage. The NATO node is designed to be a single point of access for information pertaining to defense against terrorism interests of NATO elements, NATO member countries, and partner countries. All agencies and organizations are listed in alphabetical order.
The Northeast Intelligence Network is honored to be listed with such intelligence organizations such as the CIA, NSA and a host of government and industry giants. It is a tremendous acknowledgment of which we are very proud.
Welcome to the NATO STARnet Defense Against Terrorism Information Node (DTIN)
This node is designed to be a single point of access for information pertaining to defense against terrorism interests of NATO elements, NATO member countries, and partner countries.
Move the mouse over the topic or organization type name to see a description or click on the name to see a list of records in that area.
Topic Area Descriptions and Resources:
Counter Terrorism
Critical Infrastructure Protection
Cyberterrorism
Security
Policy
Training
Threat Assessment/Reduction
Threat Profiling
Proliferation Control
CBRN (Chemical/Biological/ Radiological/ Nuclear Warfare)
Terrorist Incidents
Other DTIN related
Organization Type Descriptions and Resources:
Academic Entity
Government Agency
International Organization
Library
NATO Entity
News Organization
Non-profit Enterprise
Private Enterprise
Professional Organization/Association
Research Institute
Other
Hey Mr. Small town guy, this group is real, its not right or left, or even in the middle, its not one country, its many countries...ITS A WAR and you don't get it...ITS SAD!
Its not sad,I take that back..it's scary as hell!
The One True b!X on 23 Apr 2005
Actually, Jack, the last time you brought that up as some sort of credibility, I looked into it and it actually demonstrates nothing about NIN's credibility.
But I'll have to go dig all that up again because I don't have it on the top of my head.
Jack Peek on 23 Apr 2005
You do that! I'm sure if you use those good skills you do have, an look at the mess that Potter just got us into, you will maybe provide us with a different picture...DON'T SLANT IT, this is no longer just "right and left" issues.
And let's speak for a moment about who started all this crap...."RANDY(I'm a firemen..25 YRS, just ask him )Leonard, He pulled the mayor by his nose in the name of all the things you guys post about and made it alot easier for things none of us want to happen. It's a "win --win,for him, if all the Muslim extremist(NOTE: NOT ALL OF THEM) do nothing he has his name on the paper that took us out of the JTTF.
If we are nailed again...HE CAN SAY "THE BUCK STOP'S WITH THE MAYOR!"
That makes him then what? A VERY DANGEROUS ELECTED OFFICAL.. and a polictian of a brilliant nature not seen in sometime. SCARY!
The One True b!X on 23 Apr 2005
What's more, Northeast Intelligence Network, I noticed, seems to beleve that nearly every unfortunate thing that's happened in the four years since 9/11 is because of terrorists. I see lots of references to them claiming to have found some sort of amorphous "evidence" that things like run-of-the-mill train derailments and power blackouts were actually terrorist attacks.
I'd be amazed if the NEIN people can sleep at night, what with them seeing terrorism in every single thing that happens.
The One True b!X on 23 Apr 2005
Do you ever actually read the news, Jack? Or just what alarmists post to their "intelligence" website (which apparently, I gather, even the U.S. military blocked access to on their computers).
Leonard didn't somehow drag Potter into this. Potter got irked at the way he felt Robert Jordan was acting towards him.
Oh, sorry, inconvenient facts that don't comport with your worldview. I forget that those just float rights through your head without any impact or notice.
Jack Peek on 23 Apr 2005
WOW...you are not in the same league with the guy at WWEEK. You were nailed,an this last post just proves it.
McVeigh worked alone in the Oklahoma bombing say you and others....BS!
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher Considers Hearings to Expose the Middle East Connection OKC Bombing
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Davis’s seminal investigative work bears more relevance today in defining future threats to national security than ten years ago when a Middle Eastern truck bomb shattered middle America – killing and wounding hundreds of men, women, and children.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, CIA Director Porter Goss, and FBI Director Robert Mueller recently warned Congress that Al-Qaeda terrorists will soon strike the homeland. Security officials are bracing for a succession of Oklahoma-style truck bombings – the nightmare of April 19 revisited.
Preventing the next wave of attacks presents a daunting challenge. Why? The would-be killers have vanished from the law enforcement radar screen. Islamic sleeper agents in the U.S. are actively enlisting non-Arabs, non-Muslims, and disaffected Americans of all ethnicities to carry out future operations.
The Third Terrorist exposes Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols as the first documented cases of “lily white” recruitment in the morphing face of international terrorism. Institutional failure to address this unholy alliance a decade ago may, one day, be measured in body bags.
The April 2005 paperback release of The Third Terrorist includes exciting updates and newly uncovered intelligence that frames April 19, 1995 as the explosion that sounded the Islamist declaration of war:
· In March 2005, Osama bin Laden anointed the top organizer of the insurgency in Iraq, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, to assist Al-Qaeda in executing attacks inside the United States. The notorious Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri, bin Laden’s No. 2 man, delivered the communiqué. Learn clandestine details about Zawahiri’s 1995 foray to Oklahoma to ensure the Murrah Building bomb would net the maximum body count.
· Iran, the world’s most prolific sponsor of terror, defiantly refuses to abandon nuclear ambitions. U.S. leaders fear the Islamist nation will, one day, arm terrorists. This lethal partnership has already been forged in the ashes of Oklahoma City. Author Jayna Davis is the only journalist in the country to obtain a 1995 classified government warning to the FBI. The alert, which was issued weeks before the bomb detonated, clearly predicted that Iran-sponsored Islamic extremists had recruited two “lily whites” to obliterate an American federal building in “the heart of the U.S.” Iran hit us a decade ago, when will it strike again?
· Adam Gadahn, a California native and U.S. citizen, has answered the call to become bin Laden’s handpicked messenger of death. “Allah willing, the streets of America will run red with blood,” vowed Gadahn in a fiery videotaped diatribe which aired worldwide in late 2004. Shrouded in traditional Arab headdress, the radicalized Muslim convert known as “Azzam the American” foreshadowed impending horror that would dwarf 9-11. Al-Qaeda chose one of our own to announce the next wave or terror. The Third Terrorist outlines chilling reasons why the selection of a homegrown spokesman could signal a repeat of April 19, 1995.
Jack Peek on 23 Apr 2005
Leonard didn't somehow drag Potter into this. Potter got irked at the way he felt Robert Jordan was acting towards him.
There maybe a reason that Jordan was "acting' toward's him alright...THE GUY IS AN IDIOT!
Rank an file cops think so, alot of us who voted for him(like me) now think so, and the majority very soon of the cities in the nation will think so too. Think all you want about "there is no terror threat" said "fat Mikey Moore" ..that statement may haunt him and hopefully you for along time.
Howie on 23 Apr 2005
that statement may haunt him and hopefully you for along time.
hopefully?
The One True b!X on 23 Apr 2005
So what you're saying, Jack, is that you hope there are more terrorist attacks so that your political opponents suffer an embarassment?
Mitchell Santine Gould on 23 Apr 2005
I'm not interested in the subject of this post because I'm so concerned about JTTF (although I am positively thrilled by the city's stand).
No, what is interesting to me is to see this as an example of business as usual with "The Media:" its misunderstandings, misrepresentations, and downright lies.
Now, at this point, of course, I am expected to make exceptions for The Washington Post, the New York Times, NPR, etc ad nauseum. To hell with that: they all play mind-games, at least by filtering out which stories are to be considered newsworthy, if by no other tactic.
What I don't understand is, with everything we've been through, why anyone else would lack my measureless contempt for "The Media."
pdxkona on 23 Apr 2005
Because "The Media' are people. They went to school, ate top ramen on the way to journalism class, graduated, and were thrilled to get a job, any job. Once there they soak up everything they can- including the bad practices that you disagree with.
But underneath it all, what you make consider a inanimate juggernaut, are really many many different, diverse, human people.
Jack Peek on 23 Apr 2005
So what you're saying, Jack, is that you hope there are more terrorist attacks so that your political opponents suffer an embarassment?
Oh sure ...yep, that's it..it's the left saying the same thing about Bush...more attacks, and he did nothing, already heard that line.
If there is one and its traced to PDX in anyway, I WON'T BE THE ONE SPEAKING ABOUT IT.
It will be the dead and maimed peoples loved ones that are left. Get off the BS ...Pdx F -UP!
The Saber of Moderation on 23 Apr 2005
Actually, Jack, there is a pretty persuasive case to be made that McVeigh and Nichols didn't act on their own. But the connection is not Middle Eastern... it's closer to midwestern.
Oh, and there's more than one jihad, so you might want to specify which one you mean. :-)
myrln on 23 Apr 2005
Jack, you keep accusing others of "slanting," but exactly what is it you think you do? You slant so far that it's bent you until you haven't a clue of how you don't provide pertinent, supportable statements. You rant and rave, which accomplishes nothing more than to further terrify yourself and drive you deeper into seeing ghosts in everything anyone else says or does and on every streetcorner. Watch out, 'cause if you keep that up, pretty soon you'll be seeing even those closest to you as potential terrorists. Take a deep breath. Try to imagine the world's not out to get you. Unless you have some info that terrorists are indeed after Jack Peek personally. If so, please share it so the police can provide protection.
Elaine of Kalilily on 23 Apr 2005
I am sooo very tired of trying to make sense out of Peek's ungrammatical and illiterate attempts to argue his paranoic stance. He's obviously not a very smart guy and doesn't know how to present his case intelligently. I suggest that everyone else who comments here just ignore him whenever he starts the illogical ranting. He reminds me of my 89 year-old increasingly demented mom who creates her own reality in which she believes that someone is stealing her stuff, but it's really herself who puts things away and then forgets where she put them. Her mind creates "evidence" that someone was there and robbed her. Like my mom, Peek thinks he's being rational and logical, but everyone with half a brain can see how off the wall he really is. Deal with him as I deal with my mom. Let him rant and then go ahead and address what's really real.
thatgirl on 23 Apr 2005
Jack--I would like to follow your posts, but could you indicate when you are quoting someone else's posts? It would just make them easier to read. Thx.
Jack Peek on 24 Apr 2005
With the "demograpfics" of this city being as they are, its like swimming upstream with great white sharks trailing blood.
In time, we will see who makes it to shore.
Don't count you money folks just yet!
De dge on 24 Apr 2005
Every single thing I've ever seen this Peek dude write here makes it seem like he's on crack. At best.
He's usually good for a laugh, though. And so is "northeast intelligence network." NIN sounds like a little cabal of pale men with hyperactive egos running around playing Jack Ryan.
I understand he says things you may want to refute or at least investigate, but engaging him only results in more of his trollish, small-minded invective.
Kevin DeNameblad on 24 Apr 2005
Mr Peek seems a fit candidate for the newly formed Oregon Minuet Men. The goal they hold is to patrol for UnAmerican thought, to keep the public informed about the UnAmerican activiteis of the domestic enemy, and to take on what the overburdened enforcements agencies simply can not.
Why do you shirk your duty Mr Peek? I have not seen you a the OMM meetings, why is this? Could it be that you need reeducation?
Sid on 24 Apr 2005
What explains it? Perhaps a phone call from the DOJ? It wouldn't surprise me if the DOJ has Oregon's larger news bureaus on speed-dial.
Dave Lister on 25 Apr 2005
What I find interesting is that the local media, including the Oregonian, is announcing that Portland is "pulling out" of the JTTF. This announcement in advance of the council vote which is actually required for the pull out. I guess the assumption is the votes are lined up, or they think the mayor can do it on his own.
Jack Peek on 26 Apr 2005
Oh come now Dave, your alot smarter then that..even the morning man "your friend Bob" commented this am after his interview with Potter that it seemed like all was in place and a few that don't have a real job like B!X,can show up to get their time on camera and get their well you know..."VIEW"s in the record, then the (5) white guys, will do as they damn well please and play this out to the demographics of this city and county that are killing the rest of us and the state as well
The real news ...is RON WYDEN, an the interview Lars did from DC this AM.
If those words from the lady who went to Wydens office,(her son was a NY firefighter,was being the operative word), if those words from her talks with WYDEN, aren't national news in the future, then we can all kiss our butts goodbye at sometime in the near future.
The guy even made my personal favorite,arrogant,elected("you have too have thick skin)his words, RANDY LEONARD,look like a saint.
Maybe B!X,if you don't have anything better to do then clean the old apartment/headquarters, you can report on that interview.
The One True b!X on 26 Apr 2005
You heard it, Jack, so why don't you go post to that blog you never seem to put up and report on it yourself.
You really miss the point of blogging, Jack. The point is you don't need to wait around for someone else to report crap. You can do it yourself.
But, as I said, you're clearly more interested in being able to gripe and complain about other people not doing things, rather than simply going off and doing them yourself.
So, like, whatever. Carry on.
Mike Munk on 27 Apr 2005
Letters to the Big O that won't be printed:Your fevered support of the JTTF has infected your headlines and news columns. If you had supported Mayor Potter's efforts to safeguard our civil liberties, I'm sure your front page head April 23, "Portland opts out of anti-terror task force," would have read "FBI opts out." Because AG Gonzales' justice department was afraid other cities would demand the same protections for their citizens that our elected leaders asked for, they rejected the request that the City Attorney apply for security clearance sufficient to offer informed legal counsel to the Portland police officers assigned to the JTTF. And the Bush administration even refused to allow Mayor Potter to decide how to monitor what his officers were doing.
But the consistent message of your editorials and news reports was that it was Portland who was "pulling out".
In reporting the story, your reporters and editors consistently relied and gave prominence to well know supporters of the JTTF, such as Josh Krandon, Derek Foxworth and FBI agents Hadley McCann and Charlie Mathews. Only representatives of the ACLU were quoted in support of the City's position.
Headline writers worked deligently to to produce what read like intentionally provocative sidewalk flyers: " City's position could cause image problem." "Losing close ties to task force could hamper Portland cases." "Don't disconnect the dots."
A pro civil liberties bias could have suggested to readers that "City's position could boost image" or "Losing close ties could reduce political spying"?
Finally, when you note that the two officers to be withdrawn from the JTTF will return to their Criminal Intelligence Unit, you imply that its illegal spying was confined to the "1970s and 1980s". In fact, the CIU is the current incarnation of the Portland police Red Squad which has been spying on political radicals, labor organizers and civil rights advocates for more than 80 years.
Michael Munk
Letters to the Editor April 26 was devoted to reader reactions to the Bush's administration's decision to end Portland's participation in the JTTF. Of the 10 letters selected, six supported its decision and were critical of Mayor Tom Potter's and other elected leaders' efforts to adequately safeguard the civil liberties of its citizens. Four supported the Mayor.
Of the six critics of the city's elected leaders, three hail from the suburbs of Beaverton, Lake Oswego and Oregon City and two from the more distant communities of Canby and La Grande. Only one actually lives in Portland. But the Mayor is directly accountable only to his constituents, which all his four supporters happen to be.
Of course, folks are free to denounce policies adopted in foreign jurisdictions, but I suppose the lesson your selection teaches is an illustration of Mr. Dooley's ancient political observation: Where you stand depends on where you sit.
Michael Munk
Jack Peek on 27 Apr 2005
And that my boy, is why some reporters, NEVER GET THE BIG ONE, like the guy at WWEEK.
Jack Peek on 27 Apr 2005
If you had supported Mayor Potter's efforts to safeguard our civil liberties...question; WHOSE? POTENTIAL TERRIOST USING OUR OWN LAWS TO KILL US?
Of the six critics of the city's elected leaders, three hail from the suburbs of Beaverton, Lake Oswego and Oregon City and two from the more distant communities of Canby and La Grande. Only one actually lives in Portland. But the Mayor is directly accountable only to his constituents, which all his four supporters happen to be.
Question: You think a "dirty bomb" in PDX with an east wind, set off in in SE, doesn't catch Beaverton?
In fact, the CIU is the current incarnation of the Portland police Red Squad which has been spying on political radicals, labor organizers and civil rights advocates for more than 80 years.
QUESTION: And the ELF/TREY ARROW are your version of the Boy scouts? Oh that's right, the ELF would be sensetive to "radical Islam!"
City's position could cause image problem."
SIMPLY ANSWER..yep!
Here's the deal Mikey, like your namesake who say's there is no terriost threat, hello, there is one.
Dave Lister on 27 Apr 2005
Jack Peek writes:
"Oh come now Dave, your alot smarter then that..even the morning man "your friend Bob" commented this am after his interview with Potter that it seemed like all was in place and a few that don't have a real job like B!X,can show up to get their time on camera and get their well you know..."VIEW"s in the record, then the (5) white guys, will do as they damn well please and play this out to the demographics of this city and county that are killing the rest of us and the state as well"
Huh???
Jack Peek on 27 Apr 2005
"Oh come now Dave, your alot smarter then that.
Guess not!
Jack Peek on 28 Apr 2005
So the vote to remove this city from the JTTF is near. The city will become a "beacon" of oversight for the nation...OR WILL IT?
They came to call themselves "Katibat Al-Mawt," which prosecutors said loosely translated to "squad of death."
Nothing loose about it. That's what it means.
Court documents that depicted the seven as a loose-knit group who studied books and films on jihad and participated in firearms and martial-arts training before the Sept. 11 attacks. Members expressed interest in becoming martyrs.
The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, whose Taliban government supported Osama bin Laden, prompted the six men of the group to join the fight against U.S. forces.
The question of the day: Who were these folks, and what were they doing here?
If folks like Randy Leonard think there is no "sleeper cells' in this area, then what the hell is a Katibat Al-Mawt doing here?
If sleeper cells are in the community's midst, no one from the Portland FBI has ever told him, Leonard said.
"It's frightening people and having government based on fear rather than acceptance" said Randy!
HELLO RANDY..HELLO,What the hell is a Katibat Al-Mawt doing here?
There is a reason to fear, I fear people who don't fear.
A big PS: You people who jumped me for one "terror handbook" found...the training, and planning and firearms stuff didn't come from the "INTOLERANT" BOY SCOUTS HANDBOOK ... YOU INFIDELS!