April 23, 2006 -- Former National Security Agency (NSA) signals intelligence analyst Kenneth Ford Jr., whose May 2003 analysis of Iraqi communications concluded that the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was not proven and was subsequently set up by the NSA, the FBI, and Justice Department in a crafty operation that saw a classified document placed within his home by an FBI contractor, has been ordered to report to the high security Federal Prison in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania on May 15. Ford was convicted by a tainted jury, acting under the influence of a judge who was "shopped for" by a Federal prosecutor who was carrying out a political vendetta against a member of the intelligence community who challenged the Bush White House line on Iraq. Similarly, the CIA has fired its Inspector General official, Mary O. McCarthy, for leaking the information on CIA secret detention facilities to the media, including The Washington Post. McCarthy was said to have flunked a polygraph, which are being administered to CIA, NSA, and DIA personnel to discover various leakers. [Ed. note: Knowing the close relationship between the Washington Post (Bob Woodward, e.g.) and the New York Times (Judith Miller, e.g.), potential whistleblowers must realize that neither of these corporate-owned newspapers can be trusted to protect their sources, in other words, McCarthy may have been identified from someone within these media corporations who has close ties to the Bush White House and the Republican Party. WMR is a strict journalism venture and will not, under any circumstance, including a court subpoena, disclose the identity of any of our sources).
Ford's six year incarceration marks another Bush regime milestone. Ford will be the first political prisoner of the Bush regime jailed for purely retaliatory reasons over the phony reasons for the Iraq war. His jailing deserves more attention by the media than Martha Stewart received.