Data Theft Chart - PERSONAL DATA THEFTS 2005-2009

Data Theft Chart

PERSONAL DATA THEFTS 2005-2009

Target	Date	Number of persons affected	Type of data	Method
University of Florida	Feb. 2009	97,200	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Rio Grande Food Project	Feb. 2009	36,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Federal Aviation Administration	Feb. 2009	45,000	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus OH	Feb. 2009	23	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Parkland Health and Hospital System, TX	Feb. 2009	9,300	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Kaiser Permanente	Feb. 2009	29,500	med data, DOBs	Physical theft
Royal Liverpool University Hospital UK	Feb. 2009	354	NINs, DOBs	Physical theft
Baystate Medical Center Pediatrics, Springfield MA	Feb. 2009	unknown	medical	Physical theft
Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles	Feb. 2009	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
British Council	Jan. 2009	2,000	NINs, DOBs	Physical theft
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University NHS Trust (UK)	Jan. 2009	5,000	NINs, DOBs	Physical theft
Heartland Payment Systems	Jan. 2009	unknown	Credit card nos.	Hacking
Monster.com	Jan. 2006	unknown	DOBs	Hacking
Southwest Oregon Community College	Jan. 2009	200	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Univ. of Oregon Youth Transition Program	Jan. 2009	2,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Blue Ridge Community Action (NC)	Jan. 2009	300	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Continental Airlines	Jan. 2009	230	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
H.M. Prison Preston (UK)	Jan. 2009	6,360	NINs, DOBs	Physical theft
Merrill Lynch	Dec. 2008	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
RBS WorldPay	Dec. 2008	1,500,000	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Lakes Region General Hospital, NH	Dec. 2008	1,500	med data	Physical theft
Pulte Homes, Las Vegas	Dec. 2008	15,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Oak Tree Health Center (UK)	Dec. 2008	8,000	NINs, DOBs	Physical theft
The Bar Council (UK)	Dec. 2008	3,000	NINs, financial data	Physical theft
Oregon Health & Science Univ.	Dec. 2008	890	Med data, DOB	Physical theft
Hewlett-Packard	Dec. 2008	"several thousands"	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Bill Dube Ford/Toyota, Dover MA	Dec. 2008	10,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Ohio University-Chillicothe	Dec. 2008	38	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)	Dec. 2008	16,857 (Katrna evacuees)	SSNs, DOBs	Leak
NSMC-Salem Hospital (MA)	Dec. 2008	50	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
C-W Group (Vancouver)	Dec. 2008	3,200,000	SINs, DOBs	Physical theft
Dept. of Homeland Security	Dec. 2008	3,000	SSNs, DOBs	"Data loss"
US Army, Nuremberg, Germany	Dec. 2008	6,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Starbucks	Nov. 2008	97,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Maryland Dept. of Environment	Nov. 2008	>1,300	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Jackson-Madison Co. School System (TN)	Nov. 2008	200	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Trapeze Group (UK) Ltd.	Nov. 2008	7,500	children contact data	Physical theft
Christus Health Care	Nov. 2008	"thousands"	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Harvard Law school	Nov. 2008	21,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
No. Carolina Div. of Aging and Adult Services	Nov. 2008	85,045	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Baylor Health Care System	Nov. 2008	100,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Arizona Dept. of Economic Security	Nov. 2008	40,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Bank of Ireland	Nov. 2008	894	financial data	Physical theft
Naval Computer and Telecommunications Stations Naples, Italy	Nov. 2008	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Medical Mutual of Ohio	Oct. 2008	36,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
KRM Management	Oct. 2008	5,700	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
City of Goodyear, Arizona	Oct. 2008	570	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
UK Armed Forces	Oct. 2008	1,700,000	NINs, DOBs	Physical theft
Network Rail, Vodafone, BSkyB, British Transport Police	Oct. 2008	100,000	NINs, DOBs	Physical theft
University of North Dakota	Oct 2008	84,554	SSNs, DOBs, financial data	Physical theft
West Virginia Dept. of Administration	Oct 2008	535	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
T Mobile	Oct 2008	17,000,000	personal data	Physical theft
Royal Air Force (UK)	Sep 2008	50,000	Service nos., DOBs	Physcal theft
Tennessee State Univ.	Sep 2008	9,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Winchester GP (UK)	Sep 2008	15,000	NINs, DOBs	Physical theft
Univ. of Pittsburgh	Sep 2008	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
GS Caltex (Korea)	Sep 2008	11,100,000	SSNs, DOBs	Leak
National Offender Management Service (UK)	Sep 2008	5,000	NINs, DOBs	Physical theft
Reynoldsburg, Ohio School District	Aug 2008	4,259	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Kansas State Univ.	Aug 2008	86	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
UK Home Office	Aug 2008	"tens of thousands" of criminals	NINs, DOBs	Physical theft
Kingston Tax Service (WA)	Aug 2008	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Charter Communications	Aug 2008	>9,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Dept. of Social and Family Affairs (Ireland)	Aug 2008	380,000	financial data	Physical theft
Harris County (TX) Hospital District	Aug 2008	1,200	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Arapahoe Community College	Aug 2008	15,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Countrywide Financial Corp.	Aug 2008	2,000,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Stepping Hill Hospital, UK	Aug 2008	1, 581	NINs, DOBs	Physical theft
Ohio Dept. of Jobs and Family Services	Jul 2008	2,600	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Anheuser-Busch	Jul 2008	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Hillsborough Community College	Jul 2008	2,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Tinley Park, IL	Jul 2008	20,400	SSNs	Physical theft
Minnesota Veteran's Home	Jul 2008	336	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary (Scotland)	Jul 2008	89	medical data	Physical theft
Bristol Myers-Squibb	Jul 2008	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Missouri National Guard	Jul 2000	2,000	SSNs, DOBs	Unknown
Ft. Lewis Army Base	Jul 2008	900	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Yan Chai Hospital (Hong Kong)	Jul 2008	3,000	ID card nos., DOBs	Physical theft
Associated Newspapers (Daily Mail) (UK)	Jul 2008	"thousands"	personal, financial data	Physical theft
Texas Dept. of Public Safety	Jun 2008	826	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
CNET Networks	Jun 2008	6,500	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Virgin Media (UK)	Jun 2008	3,000	financial data	Physical theft
Castlecroft Medical Practice (UK)	Jun 2008	11,000	NINs, DOBs	Physical theft
Dickson County (TN) Board of Education	Jun 2008	850	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics	Jun 2008	2,200,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
East Tennessee State University	Jun 2008	6,200	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Stanford University	Jun 2008	72,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Canadian Canola Growers Association	Jun 2008	32,000	SINs, DOBs	Physical theft
AT&T	Jun 2008	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Medisure, UK	Jun 2008	"thousands"	NINs, DOBs	Physical theft
Conncticut Dept. of abor	Jun 2008	2,100	SSNs, DOBs	"Lost"
Walter Reed Army Medical Center	Jun 2008	1,000	SSNs, DOBs	Leak
State Street	May 2008	45,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
HealthSpring (Tenn.)	May 2008	9,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
BNY Mellon Shareowner Services	May 2008	4,500,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Univ. of Florida College of Medicine	May 2008	1,900	SSNs, DOBs	Loss
Greil Memorial Psychiatric Hospital	May 2008	"hundreds"	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Spring Independent School District, Texas	May 2008	8,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
BB&T Insurance	May 2008	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
First Calgary Savings	May 2008	"hundreds"	Personal data	Physical theft
Pfizer	May 2008	13,000	Salary info, Employee ID Nos.	Physical theft
Coos County, Oregon	May 2008	500	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank (HK)	May 2008	159,000	financial data	Physical theft
SAIC	May 2008	1,376	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Iredell County, NC	Apr 2008	468	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Boots Dental Plan (UK)	Apr 2008	34,000	financial data	Physical theft
General Internal Medicine, Lancaster, PA	Apr 2008	12,000	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Chrysler Financial, Windsor ONT	Apr 2008	unknown	Financial data	Physical theft
College Invest/Colorado Dept. of Higher Education	Apr 2008	200,000	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Bank of Ireland	Apr 2008	10,000	Financial, medical data	Physical theft
Central Collection Bureau, Indiana	Apr 2008	700,000	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
University of Miami, FL	Apr. 2008	47,000	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Connecticut State University system	Apr. 2008	3,400	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
University of Virginia	Apr 2008	8,000	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center	Apr 2008	40,000	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Pfizer	Apr 2008	800	credit card data	Physical theft
Antioch University	Mar 2008	70,000	SSNs, Dobs	Hacking
Bank of New York Mellon Shareowners Service	Mar 2008	3,500	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
National Institutes of Health	Mar 2008	2,500	Dobs, medical data	Physical theft
Agilent Technologies	Mar 2008	51,000	Dobs, SSNs	Physical theft
Rhode Island Dept. of Administration	Mar 2008	1,400	Dobs, SSNs	Physical theft
University Health Care of Utah	Mar 2008	4,800	Dobs, SSNs	Physical theft
Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Western New York	Mar 2008	40,000	Dobs, SSNs	Physical theft
Nevada Dept. of Public Safety	Mar 2008	109	Dobs, SSNs	Physical theft
Madeley Health Clinic, Telford, UK	Mar 2008	>200	Dobs, medical treatment	Physical theft
Newfoundland Eastern School District	Feb 2008	28,000	Medicare numbers	Physical theft
Russells Hall Hospital (UK)	Feb 2008	5,123	Medical data	Physical theft
Lifeblood blood center, Memphis	Feb 2008	321,000	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Modesto (CA) City Schools	Feb 2008	15,000	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Jefferson Co. Public Schools (CO)	Feb 2008	2,900	Student ID Nos, Dobs	Physical theft
Memorial Hospital, South Bend, In.	Feb 2008	4,300	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Diocese of Providence	Feb 2008	5,000	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Univ. of Minnesota Reproductive Medicine Center	Jan 2008	3,100	Medical data	Physical theft
South Carolina Dept. of Health and Environmental Control	Jan 2008	400	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ	Jan 2008	300,000	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Wake Co. (NC) Emergency Medical Services	Jan 2008	850	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Georgetown University	Jan 2008	38,000	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
T. Rowe Price	Jan 2008	35,000	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Marine Corps Community Services, Japan	Jan 2008	4,000	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Fallon Community Health Services (MA)	Jan 2008	29,800	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Penn State Univ.	Jan 2008	677	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
UK Ministry of Defense	Jan 2008	600,000	NINs, passport, medical data	Physical theft
GE Money/Iron Mountain	Jan 2008	>150,000, possibly 650,000	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Tennessee Tech Univ.	Jan 2008	990	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Kraft Foods	Jan 2008	20,000	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Oldham (UK) NHS Primary Care Trust	Jan 2008	148	NINs, Dobs, medical data	Physical theft
University of Akron	Jan 2008	800	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Dorothy Haines Elementary School, Georgia	Jan 2008	unknown	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
New Mexico State Univ.	Jan 2008	unknown	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
US Air Force	Dec 2007	10,501	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Staten Island University Hospital	Dec 2007	88,000	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Florida Dept. of Children and Families	Dec 2007	unknown	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Health Net, Connecticut	Dec 2007	5,000	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Utah Workers Compensation Fund	Dec 2007	2,800	SSNs, Dobs	Physical theft
Davidson County TN Election Commission	Dec 2007	337,000	SSNs	Physical theft
Minnesota Dept. of Commerce, Promissor Corp.	Dec 2007	219 state licensees	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Skipton Financial Services, UK	Dec 2007	14,000	NINs, DOBs	Physical theft
Dormitory Authority of State of New York	Dec 2007	800	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Pennsylvania Dept. of Aging	Dec 2007	21,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
HM Revenue and Customs, Cardiff, Wales	Dec 2007	6,500	NINs, DOBs	Physical theft
Royal Bolton Hospital, UK	Dec 2007	350	NINs, DOBs	Physical theft
West Penn Allegheny Health System, PA	Dec 2007	42,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Deloitte & Touche	Dec 2007	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Iowa Dept. of Natural Resources	Dec 2007	7,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Sutter Lakeside Hospital, CA	Dec 2007	45,000	SSNs, DOBs, medical data	Physical theft
TriCare Europe	Dec 2007	>4700	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Citizen's Advice, Northern Ireland	Dec 2007	60,000	NINs, DOBs	Physical theft
Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Dec 2007	12,000 lab visitors, 1990-2004	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Memorial Blood Centers, Minneapolis	Dec 2007	268,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Prescription Advantage, Massachusetts	Nov 2007	150,000	SSNs, DOBs	unknown
Forrester Research, Massachusetts	Nov 2007	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
TelSell, Netherlands	Nov 2007	30,000	Visa/MC info	Physical theft
Roudebush Veterans Medical Center, Indianapolis	Nov 2007	12,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, Alberta	Nov 2007	270 children	medical data	Physical theft
State of Nevada Personnel Office	Nov 2007	"hundreds"	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
H.M. Revenue & Customs (UK)	Nov 2007	25,000,000	NINs, DOBs	Physical theft
Battelle & Battelle LLC, Ohio	Nov 2007	>600	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Veterans Affairs Dept.	Nov 2007	185,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Service Canada	Nov 2007	1,600	SINs, DOBs	Physical theft
A. J. Falciani Realty Co. (NJ)	Nov 2007	500-1000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Commerce Bank, Cherry Hill, NJ	Nov 2007	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Carolinas Medical Center-North East	Nov 2007	28,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Butte Community Bank	Nov 2007	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
HM Revenue and Customs	Nov 2007	15,000	NINs, DOBs	Physical theft
City University of New York	Oct 2007	20,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Hartford Financial Services Group	Oct 2007	230,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
University of Nevada, Reno	Oct 2007	16,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
US Postal Service, Oahu	Oct 2007	3,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
University of Akron	Oct 2007	1,200	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Dixie State College	Oct 2007	11,000	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency	Oct 2007	200,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physiclal theft
University of Cincinnati	Oct 2007	7,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance	Oct 2007	virtually all Louisiana college applicants over oast 9 years	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Home Depot	Oct 2007	10,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Administaff	Oct 2007	159,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Transportation Security Administration	Oct 2007	3,930 HAZMAT drivers	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
King Co., Washington Transportation Dept.	Oct 2007	1,400	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Semtech	Oct 2007	690	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Carnegie Mellon University	Oct 2007	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
University of Iowa	Oct 2007	187	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Her Majesty's Customs (UK)	Oct 2007	400	financial data	Physical theft
Kartenhaus, Hamburg, Germany	Oct 2007	66,000	credit card nos.	Physical theft
Athens (GA) Regional Health Service	Oct 2007	1,441	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Massachusetts Div. of Public Licensure	Oct 2007	450,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Gap Inc.	Sep 2007	800,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
ABN Amro Mortgage Co.	Sep 2007	5,000	SSNs, DOBs	Data leak
City of Columbus, Ohio	Sep 2007	3,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
University of Michigan Nursing School	Sep 2007	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
St. Edmundsbury Borough Council (UK)	Sep 2007	1,380	NINs, DOBs	Physical theft
TD AmeriTrade	Sep 2007	3,600,000	"personal data"	Hacking
TennCare/Americhoice Inc.	Sep 2007	67,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare	Sep 2007	300,000+	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
McKesson	Sep 2007	"thousands"	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Pfizer, Inc.	Aug 2007	34,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Johns Hopkins Hospital	Aug 207	5,783	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario	Aug 2007	3,300	DOBs, medical data	Physical theft
Maryland Department of the Environment	Aug 2007	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
AT&T	Aug 2007	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Connecticut Department of Revenue Services	Aug 2007	100,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
American Ex-Prisoners of War	Aug 2007	35,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Loomis Chaffee School	Aug 2007	"several hundreds"	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
New York City Financial Information Services Agency	Aug 2007	280,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
West Virginia Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists	Aug 2007	4,387	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Foothill-De Anza College	Aug 2007	3,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Monster.com and USAJobs.gov	Aug 2007	1,446,000	personal data	Hacking
Toshiba General Hospital (Japan)	Aug 2007	51,156	DOBs, personal and medical data	Physical theft
Idaho National Guard	Aug 2007	3,400	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Pfizer	Aug 2007	950	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Providence Alaska Medical Center	Aug 2007	250	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Legacy Health Clinic, Oregon	Aug 2007	747	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Tele2 (Norway)	Aug 2007	60,000	National Personal Identity Numbers, DOBs	Physical theft
Loyola University	Aug 2007	5,800	SSNs, DOBs	Discarded hard drive
Yale University	Aug 2007	10,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Alabama Medicaid/EDS	Aug 2007	498	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Merrill Lynch	Aug 2007	30,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
First Reponse Finance (UK)	Aug 2007	"thousands"	personal data	Physical theft
Verisign	Aug 2007	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Kellogg Community Federal Credit Union (Mich.)	Aug 2007	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Capital Health (Edmonton, Alberta)	Aug 2007	20,000	Health Card Numbers, DOBs	Physical theft
E. On	Jul 2007	3,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
University of Toledo	Jul 2007	1,800	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Yuba County Child Support Services	Jul 2007	70,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
City of Virginia Beach	Jul 2007	2,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
American Education Services	Jul 2007	5,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Aflac	Jul 2007	152,000 Japanese customers	Policy nos. DOBs	Physical theft
St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis	Jul 2007	51,000	SSNs, DOBs	Data leak
Cricket Communications	Jul 2007	300	Credit card nos.	Physical theft
Western Union	Jul 2007	20,000	Credit card nos.	Hacking
Disney Movie Club	Jul 2007	unknown	Credit card nos.	Physical theft
Cuyahoga County	Jul 2007	3,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Resona Bank, Japan	Jul 2007	980,000	Account nos.	Physical theft
Securitas	Jul 2007	100,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Highland University	Jul 2007	420	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Fidelity National Information Services	Jul 2007	2,300,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Harrison County (NV) Schools	Jun 2007	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Bowling Green State University	Jun 2007	199	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Ohio Bureau of Worker's Compensation	Jun 2007	439	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Texas First Bank	Jun 2007	4,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
American Airlines	Jun 2007	300 pilots, other employees	SSNs, DOBs	Data leak
Tokyo University Hospital	Jun 2007	120	DOBs, medical daya	Physical theft
Texas A&M Corpus Christi	Jun 2007	8,000	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
State of Ohio	Jun 2007	over 1,000,000	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
Coastal Community Credit Union	Jun 2007	120,000	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
Eden Project (Cornwall, UK)	Jun 2007	500	DOBs, National Insurance Nos.	Physical theft
Grand Valley State University	Jun 2007	3,000	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
Pfizer	Jun 2007	17,000	DOBs, SSNs	Hacking
Concordia Hospital	Jun 2007	3,000	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
Bank of Scotland	May 2007	62,000	Mortgage acct. nos., DOBs	Physical theft
Fresno County	May 2007	10,000	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
North Carolina Department of Transportation	May 2007	25,000	DOBs, SSNs	Hacking

Target	Date	Number of persons affected	Type of data	Method
University of Colorado's College of Arts and Sciences' Academic Advising Center	May 2007	44,998	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Yuma (AZ) School District	May 2007	91	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officers Standards and Education	May 2007	229,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Northwestern University	May 2007	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Lucent/Alcatel	May 2007	200,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
IBM	May 2007	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Birmingham Veterans Medical Center	May 2007	unknown	SSNs, DOBs, Unique Physician ID Nos. (UPINs)	Physical theft
UCI Medical Center, CA	May 2007	300	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Highland Hospital, Rochester, NY	May 2007	13,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Texas Health and Human Services Commission	May 2007	9,000,000	DOBs, SSNs	Two week "loss"
University of Missouri	May 2007	22,396	DOBs, SSNs	Hacking
US Transportation Security Administration	May 2007	100,000	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
Marks and Spencer (UK)	May 2007	20,000	DOBs, NINs	Physical theft
Royal Cornwall Trusts National Health Service (UK)	May 2007	5,000	DOBs, National Insurance Numbers (NINs)	Physical theft
Louisiana State University	Apr. 2007	750	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
New Zealand Inland Revenue Department	Apr. 2007	unknown on 106 missing computers	financial data	Physical theft
Maryland Dept. of Natural Resources	Apr. 2007	1,400	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
J. P. Morgan Chase	Apr. 2007	47,000	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
University of New Mexico	Apr. 2007	3,000	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
Caterpillar, Inc.	Apr. 2007	unknown	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
Neiman Marcus	Apr. 2007	160,000	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
Baltimore County Dept. of Health	Apr. 2007	6,000	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
Census Bureau	Apr. 2007	30,000	SSNs	Leak
Ohio State University	Apr. 2007	17,500	DOBs, SSNs	Hacking
Univ. of California, San Francisco	Apr. 2007	3,000	DOBs, SSNs, cancer patient data	Physical theft
Bank of America	Apr. 2007	unknown	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
New Horizons Community Credit Union, CO	Apr. 2007	9,000	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
ChildNet, Broward County FL child welfare services	Apr. 2007	12,000	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
Georgia Dept. of Community Health/Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.	Apr. 2007	2,900,000	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
Chicago Public Schools	Apr. 2007	40,000	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
Florists' Mutual Insurance Company (Hortica)	Apr. 2007	unknown	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
DCH Health Systems	Apr. 2007	6,000	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
Internal Revenue Service	Apr. 2007	480	DOBs, SSNs, tax data	Physical theft
University of California, San Francisco	Apr. 2007	46,000	DOBs, SSNs	Hacking
University of Montana - Western	Mar. 2007	500	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
Naval Station San Diego	Mar. 2007	unknown	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
Los Angeles County Child Support Services	Mar. 2007	243,000	DOBs, SSNs	Physical theft
National Health System (UK)	Mar. 2007	11,500	DOBs, addresses of children	Physical theft
Halifax Bank (UK)	Mar. 2007	13,000	Mortgage, financial data	Physical theft
US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC)Fort Monroe, VA	Mar. 2007	16,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Group Health Cooperative Health Care System, Washington state	Mar. 2007	31,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Swedish Urology Group, Seattle	Mar. 2007	hundreds	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Tax Service Plus, Santa Rosa, CA	Mar. 2007	4,000	SSNs, DOBs, tax info	Physical theft
Ohio State Auditor	Mar. 2007	2,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Empire Blue Cross	Mar. 2007	75,000	SSNs, DOBs, medical data	Physical theft
California National Guard, San Diego Naval Base	Feb. 2007	1,300	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Metropolitan State College of Denver	Feb. 2007	988	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Hospital for Sick Children, Ontario, Canada	Feb. 2007	unknown	medical data	Physical theft
Tokyo University of Science	Feb. 2007	8800	Personal data	Physical theft
Gulf Coast Medical Center	Feb. 2007	9900	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Japan Post Office	Feb. 2007	290,000	Financial data	Physical theft
Worcester County Council, UK	Feb. 2007	19,000	National insurance, bank data	Physical theft
Speedmark	Feb. 2007	35,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Seton Hospitals, Austin	Feb. 2007	7800	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Iowa Department of Education	Feb. 2007	160,000	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Kaiser Permanente	Feb. 2007	22,000	SSNs, DOBs, medical data	Physical theft
State of Indiana	Feb. 2007	5600	Credit card numbers	Hacking
Radford University, Family Access to Medical Insurance Security (FAMIS)	Feb. 2007	2400	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
St. Mary's Hospital, Leonardtown, MD	Feb. 2007	130,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Johns Hopkins University	Feb. 2007	52,000* These did not include past/present employees of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, which works closely with the NSA, CIA, and other US intelligence agencies	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
New York State Department of Labor	Feb. 2007	527	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Wisconsin Legislative Human Resources Office	Feb. 2007	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
CTS Tax Service	Feb. 2007	800	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Massachusetts Dept. of Industrial Accidents	Jan. 2007	1,200	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
University of Missouri	Jan. 2007	1,220	SSns, DOBs	Hacking
Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL	Jan. 2007	48,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Massachusetts National Guard, Lowell	Jan. 2007	unknown	personal data on recruits	Physical theft
Vermont Department of Human Services	Jan. 2007	70,000	SSNs, DOBs, bank account numbers	Hacking
Salina Regional Health Center	Jan. 2007	1,100	SSNs, DOBs, medical data	Physical theft
Eastern Illinois University	Jan. 2007	1,400	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield	Jan. 2007	50,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Vanguard University	Jan. 2007	over 5,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Rutgers University-Newark	Jan. 2007	200	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Xerox	Jan. 2007	297	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Chicago Board of Elections	Jan. 2007	1,300,000	SSNs	Missing CDs
Greenville County (NC) School District	Jan. 2007	"thousands"	SSNs, DOBs	Temporarily "missing"
Internal Revenue Service - Kansas City	Jan. 2007	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
KB Homes	Jan. 2007	2,700	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce - Talvest Fund	Jan. 2007	470,000	Personal financial data	Physical theft
MoneyGram International	Jan. 2007	79,000	Bank account nos.	Hacking
Rincon del Diablo Municipal Water District, CA	Jan. 2007	500	Credit card nos.	Physical theft
University of New Mexico	Jan. 2007	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
University of Notre Dame	Jan. 2007	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Selma, North Carolina Fire Department	Jan. 2007	volunteer firemen	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
North Carolina Department of Revenue	Dec. 2006	30,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
TJX, Corp. (T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, etc.)	Dec. 2006	45.7 million	credit card data	Hacking
Academic Magnet High School, Charleston, SC	Dec. 2006	hundreds	personal data	Physical theft
Key Bank	Dec. 2006	9,300	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Deaconess Hospital, IN	Dec. 2006	128	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Towers Perrin	Dec, 2006	tens of thousands	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Bank of America	Dec. 2006	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
US State Department	Dec. 2006	700	Passport application data	Physical theft
Santa Clara County, CA	Dec. 2006	2,500	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
City of Wickliffe, OH	Dec. 2006	125	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Geisinger Health Systems	Dec. 2006	25,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Aetna/Concentra Preferred Systems	Dec. 2006	130,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
St. Vrain Valley School District, CO	Dec. 2006	600	Medicaid Numbers	Physical theft
University of Colorado, Boulder	Dec. 2006	17,500	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Boeing	Dec. 2006	382,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
UCLA	Dec. 2006	800,000	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Independent Living Funds (UK)	Dec. 2006	19,000	NINs, DOBs, bank data	Physical theft
Premier Bank	Dec. 2006	1,800	account data	Physical theft
West Virginia Air National Guard	Dec. 2006	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Nassau Community College	Dec. 2006	21,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
University of Idaho	No.v 2006	300,800	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Pennsylvania Dept. of Transportation	Nov. 2006	11,384	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Academic Magnet High School, Charleston, SC	Nov. 2006	hundreds	personal data	Physical theft
Cal State, Los Angeles	Nov. 2006	2,534	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Scotland Yard/Logica CMG	Nov. 2006	15,000	National Insurance, DOBs	Physical theft
Indiana Dept. of Health, Breast and Cervical Cancer Program	Nov. 2006	7,500	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Kaiser Permanente Colorado	Nov. 2006	38,000	Medical ID Nos., DOBs	Physical theft
Connors State College	Nov. 2006	22,500	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Los Alamos National Lab/KSL Services	Nov. 2006	1000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Calgary Health Region	Nov. 2006	1000 children	Personal and medical data	Physical theft
Butte County, California	Nov. 2006	n/a	electronic voting machine	Physical theft
Starbucks	Nov. 2006	60,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Villanova University	Nov. 2006	1243	DOBs, driver's license numbers	Physical theft
Greater Media, Boston	Nov. 2006	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Muskogee Veterans Hospital	Nov. 2006	1400	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Manhattan Veterans Medical Center	Oct. 2006	"hundreds"	SSNs, DOBs, medical data	Physical theft
US Army Cadet Command	Oct. 2006	4600	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Hancock Askew & Co.	Oct, 2006	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Gymboree	Oct. 2006	20,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Children's Hospital, Akron, OH	Oct. 2006	200,000	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Colorado Dept. of Human Services/Affiliated Computer Systems (ACS)	Oct. 2006	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Ontario Science Center	Oct. 2006	unknown	Personal and credit card info	Physical theft
Dept. of Homeland Security/Transportation Security Administration/Portland International Airport	Oct. 2006	500	SSNs, DOBs	"Lost"
St. Francis Hospital/Advanced Receivable Strategy	Oct. 2006	260,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Allina Hospitals and Clinics	Oct. 2006	14,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
T-Mobile	Oct. 2006	43,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Germanton Elementary School	Oct. 2006	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Capistrano School District, CA	Oct. 2006	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center	Oct. 2006	400	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Troy Athens High School, MI	Oct. 2006	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
US Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton	Oct. 2006	2400	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Willamette Educational Service District Office, OR	Oct. 2006	4500	high school student personal data	Physical theft
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Security Badging Office	Oct. 2006	6,939	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Brock University, Canada	Oct. 2006	70,000	credit card, bank acct. numbers	Hacking
Adams State College	Sep. 2006	184	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Univ. of Texas, Arlington	Sep. 2006	2500	SSNs, grades	Physical theft
North Carolina Dept. of Motor Vehicles	Sep. 2006	16,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Dept. of Homeland Security: FEMA and Coast Guard	Sep. 2006	unknown	post-Katrina/Rita data	Physical theft
American Family Insurance	Sep. 2006	more than 2,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Mercy Medical Center, Merced County CA	Sep. 2006	295	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Univ. of Texas, San Antonio	Sep. 2006	64,000	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Law firm of Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, San Francisco	Sep. 2006	500	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Michigan Dept. of Community Health	Sep. 2006	4000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
DePaul Medical Center, Norfolk, VA	Sep. 2006	over 100	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Purdue University	Sep. 2006	2400	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Erlanger Hospital (TN)	Sep. 2006	4150	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Nagasaki University Hospital	Sep. 2006	9,000	DOBs, diagnoses of hematology patients	Physical theft
General Electric	Sep. 2006	"thousands"	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder	Sep. 2006	1,372	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
St. Francis County Court House, AR	Sep. 2006	unknown	judicial information	Physical theft
US Commerce Dept./Census Bureau	Sep. 2006	possibly hundreds of millions	personal information	Physical theft
Linden Lab/Second Life	Sep. 2006	650,000	personal information	Hacking
BMO Bank of Montreal	Sep. 2006	900	financial information	Physical theft
Florida National Guard	Sep. 2006	100	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Nationwide Retirement Solutions	Sep. 2006	38,443	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Wells Fargo Health Plan	Aug. 2006	unknown	SSNs, prescription data	Physical theft
LabCorp Monroe NJ Patient Service Center	Aug. 2006	unknown	SSNs,	Physical theft
AT&T	Aug. 2006	19,000	Credit card numbers, other financial data	Hacking
PortTix	Aug. 2006	2,000	Credit card information	Hacking
University of Minnesota	Aug. 2006	13,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Department of Education/Affiliated Computer Systems (ACS)	Aug. 2006	21,000	SSNs, DOBs, financial daya	Leak
Sovereign Bank	Aug. 2006	"thousands"	"Personal" information	Physical theft
Dominion Resources	Aug. 2006	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration/DOT	Aug, 2006	193 motor carrier drivers	Commercial driver's license numbers, DOBs	Physical theft
AFLAC	Aug. 2006	162	SSNs, DOBs, police information	Physical theft
PSA Health Care	Aug. 2006	51,000	SSNs, DOBs, health information	Physical theft
Troy William Beaumont Hospital	Aug. 2006	28,473	SSNs, DOBs, medical information	Physical theft
HCA, Inc.	Aug. 2006	"thousands"	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
California Dept. of Mental Health	Aug. 2006	9,468	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Chevron	Aug. 2006	29,000	SSNs, DOBs, financial data	Physical theft
Sonoma-Williams	Aug. 2006	1,200	SSNs, DOBs, financial data	Physical theft
Kaiser Permanente	Aug. 2006	160,000	DOBs, Medical record numbers	Physical theft
Unisys/Dept. of Veterans Affairs	Aug. 2006	38,000	SSNs, DOBs, medical information	Physical theft
U.S. Department of Transportation	Jul 2006	133,000 transportation workers, including pilots	SSNs, DOBs, addresses	Physical theft
US Bank	Jul 2006	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Dollar Tree	Jul 2006	1000	ATM PINs	Hacking
Belhaven College	Jul 2006	300	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Sentinel Insurance	Jul 2006	112,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
U.S. Navy	Jun-Jul 2006	31,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Cingular Wireless	July 2006	Unknown	Corporate data	Physical theft
Naval Safety Center	July 2006	over 100,000	SSNs, DOBs	Leak
Automated Data Processing (ADP)	July 2006	hundreds of thousands	financial data	Leak
Bisys Group, Inc.	July 2006	61,000 hedge fund investors	SSNs, financial data	Physical theft
U.S. Department of Agriculture	July 2006	350 employees	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
University of Tennessee	July 2006	36,000	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Northwestern University	July 2006	17,000	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
National Association of Securities Dealers	July 2006	76 NASD investigators plus securities dealers under investigation	Investigation data	Physical theft
Moraine Park Technical College, WI	July 2006	1,500	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
University of Iowa	July 2006	280	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Montana Pubic Health and Human Services Dept.	July 2006	Unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Armstrong World Industries	July 2006	12,000	SSNs, financial data	Physical theft
New York Dept. of Homeless Services	July 2006	8,400	SSNs, DOBs	Leak
CS Stars	July 2006	540,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Nelnet	July 2006	188,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Madrona Medical Group	June 2006	6,000	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
City of Hattiesburg, Mississippi	June 2006	23,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Vassar Brothers Medical Center	June 2006	257,800	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Compass Health	June 2006	unknown	SSNs, DOBs, other personal data	Physical theft
Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Minneapolis	June 2006 (reported) (occurred in 2005)	60	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Western Illinois University	June 2006	180,000	SSNs, credit card data	Hacking
Cape Fear Health System	June 2006	24,350	SSNs, medical data	Physical theft
University of Michigan Credit Union	June 2006	5,000	SSNs, financial data on paper files	Physical theft
Nebraska Treasurer's Office	June 2006	300,000	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Minnesota Department of Revenue	June 2006	2,400 taxpayers/48,000 businesses	SSNs, other personal data	Physical theft
Allstate, Huntsville, AL	June 2006	Unknown	Insurance info	Physical theft
Department of the Navy	June 2006	28,000	SSNs, DOBs	Leak
Department of Agriculture	June 2006	26,000	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
San Francisco State University	June 2006	3,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
ING Bank	June 2006	13,000	SSNs, financial data	Physical theft
University of Alabama - Birmingham	June 2006	9,800	SSNs, medical data	Physical theft
VISA USA	June 2006	possibly millions	financial data	Leak
Federal Trade Commission	June 2006	1,100 FTC employees	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Denver Election Commission	June 2006	150,000	Voter's records	Physical theft
Oregon Dept. of Revenue	June 2006	2,200	Tax records	Trojan horse
Union Pacific Railroad	June 2006	30,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
KDDI Telco, Japan	June 2006	4,000,000	Phone numbers, DOBs	Leaked
Minnesota State Auditor	June 2006	493 state employees	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
New York State Controller's Office	June 2006	1,300 state employees	SSNs, financial data	Physical theft
Humana Medicare Program	June 2006	17,000	SSNs, DOBs,Medical info	Poss. compromise
Hanford Nuclear Reservation	June 2006	4,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Royal Ahold (Giant, Tops, Stop & Shop supermarkets)	June 2006	Unknown number	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Buckeye Community Health Plan (Ohio)	June 2006	72,000	SSNs, medical data	Physical theft
Internal Revenue Service	June 2006	291 IRS employees	SSNs, fingerprints, DOBs	Physical theft
CUSO Mortgage Co.	May 2006	1,695	SSNs, DOBs, financial data	Hacking
Old Mutual Capital, Inc.	May 2006	6500 shareholders	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
YMCA Rhode Island	May 2006	65,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Equifax	May 2006	2,500	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
University of Delaware	May 2006	1,076	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Sacred Heart University	May 2006	unknown	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Mercantile Potomac Bank	May 2006	48,000	SSNs, account data	Physical theft
Florida International University	May 2006	thousands	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
American Red Cross, Texas	May 2006	unknown	DOBs, medical information	Physical theft
University of Kentucky	May 2006	6,500	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Miami University of Ohio	May 2006	851	SSNs, DOBs	Loss of hardware
American Institute of CPAs	May 2006	330,000	SSNs, DOBs	Loss of hardware
Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corp.	May 2006	1,300,000	SSNs, DOBs	Loss of hardware
University of Ohio Hudson Health Center	May 2006	60,000	SSNs, medical data	Hacking
Humana Medicare Program	May 2006	250 Medicare applicants	Paper applications	Physical theft
Wells Fargo Bank	May 2006	unknown	SSNs, account data	Physical theft
Dept. of Veterans Affairs	May 2006	28,700,000	SSNs, medical information	Physical theft
Columbus Bank & Trust	May 2006	2,000	Credit card data	Physical theft
Department of Transportation IG Office Miami	Apr 2006	unknown	case files	Physical theft
Boeing	Apr. 2006	3,600	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
University of Ohio	Apr 2006	137,000	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Purdue Engineering School	Apr 2006	1,351	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Department of Defense	Apr 2006	14,000	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Aetna	Apr 2006	38,000	SSNs, other data	Physical theft
Morgan Stanley, Clydesdale Bank (UK), Master Card	Apr 2006	2,000	Credit card data	Hacking
University of Texas McCombs Business School	Apr 2006	197,000	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Fraser Health Authority, Br. Columbia	Apr 2006	thousands	SINs, DOBs	Physical theft
University of Alaska Fairbanks	Apr 2006	38,941	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Ohio Secretary of State	Apr 2006	7,700,000	voters SSNs	"Leak" on CDs
Iron Mountain, Inc.	Apr 2006	17,000 Long Island Railroad employees and retirees, Bronx VA Hospital	SSNs, other data	Physical theft
American Red Cross	Mar 2006	8,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
American International Group (AIG)/Medical Excess LLC	Mar 2006	930,000	SSNs, medical information	Physical theft
U.S. Marine Corps	Mar 2006	207,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Georgia Technology Authority	Mar 2006	570,000	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Vermont State Colleges	Mar 2006	14,000	SSNs, credit data	Physical theft
Verizon	Mar 2006	significant number	SSNs, other data	Physical theft
Hewlett-Packard/Fidelity Investments	Mar 2006	196,000	SSNs, other data	Physical theft
Ernst & Young	Mar 2006	thousands of records on IBM employees	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Medco Health Solutions	Mar 2006	4600	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Hotels.com	Feb 2006	243,000	Credit card information	Physical theft
Choice Point	Feb 2006	150,000	Subscriber data	Leak
Georgetown University	Feb 2006	41,000 elderly DC residents	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Metropolitan College (Denver)	Feb 2006	93,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Olympic Funding Chicago	Feb. 2006	unknown	SSNs, financial data	Physical theft
Ernst & Young	Feb. 2006	unknown	SSNs, financial data	Physical theft
Deloitte & Touche	Feb. 2006	9,000 McAfee employees	SSNs, financial data	Physical theft
PriceWaterhouseCoopers	Feb. 2006	4,000	SSNs, health data	Physical theft
Mount St. Mary's Hospital (NY)	Feb. 2006	unknown	SSNs, health data	Physical theft
US Department of Agriculture	Feb. 2006	350,000	SSNs, DOBs	Leak
Providence Home Services	Jan. 2006	365,000	SSNs, medical data	Physical theft
State of Hawaii	Jan. 2006	40,000 state employees plus family members	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Ameriprise Financial, Inc.	Jan. 2006	226,000	SSNs, financial data	Physical theft
People's Bank	Jan. 2006	90,000	SSNs, financial data	Physical theft
Atlantis Resorts (Bahamas)	Jan. 2006	55,000	SSNs, credit data	Physical theft
California National Guard	Jan. 2006	hundreds of Guardsmen	SSNs, other data	Physical theft
University of Washington Medical Ctr.	Jan. 2006	1,600	SSNs, medical data	Physical theft
Marriott	Dec. 2005	206,000	SSNs, credit data	Physical theft
Ford Motors	Dec. 2005	70,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
LaSalle Bank/ABN Amro Mortgage	Dec.2005	2,000,000	SSNs, financial data	Lost/recovered
First Trust Bank	Dec.2005	thousands	SSNs, financial data	Physical theft
ING Bank	Dec. 2005	8,500	SSNs, financial data	Physical theft
TransUnion	Nov. 2005	3,623	credit data	Physical theft
Boeing	Nov. 2005	161,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Safeway	Nov. 2005	1,400	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Keck School of Medicine (USC)	Nov. 2005	50,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Univ. of Tennessee Medical Center	Oct. 2005	3,800	SSNs, medical data	Physical theft
Wilcox Memorial Hospital	Oct. 2005	130,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
National Nuclear Safety Administration	Sep 2005	1,500	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
Children's Health Council (Palo Alto)	Sep. 2005	6,000	SSNs, medical data	Physical theft
North Fork Bank	Sep. 2005	9,000	SSNs, financial data	Physical theft
Kent State University	Sep. 2005	100,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
J. P Morgan Chase	Aug.2005	unknown	SSNs, financial data	Physical theft
Arizona Biodyne (Blue Cross/Blue Shield)	Jul 2005	57,000	SSNs, medical data	Physical theft
City National Bank (LA)	Jul 2005	unknown	SSNs, financial data	Physical theft
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.	Jun 2005	6,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
American Red Cross, Texas	Jun 2005	unknown	DOBs, medical information	Physical theft
Motorola	Jun 2005	unknown	financial, call data	Physical theft
U.S. Department of Justice/Omega Travel	Jun 2005	80,000	travel, credit data	Physical theft
Cleveland State University	Jun 2005	44,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
California Dept. of Health Services	May 2005	21,600	SSNs, medical data	Physical theft
Colorado State Health Department	May 2005	1,600 families	SSNs, medical data	Physical theft
Lexis-Nexis	May 2005	310,000	Phone records	Hacking
Bank of America, Wachovia, Commerce Bancorp, PNC Bank NA	May 2005	676,000	Bank account information	Hacking
Valdosta State	May 2005	40,000	SSNs, DOBs	Hacking
MCI	April 2005	16,500	SSNs, employment data	Physical theft
Georgia Southern Univ.	April 2005	thousands	SSNs, credit card	Hacking
San Jose Medical Group	April 2005	185,000	SSNs, medical data	Physical theft
Iron Mountain, Inc.	Mar 2005	600,000 Time Warner employees	SSNs, financial data	Physical theft
University of California, Berkeley	Mar 2005	100,000	SSNs, DOBs	Physical theft
Ameritrade	Feb. 2005	200,000	SSNs, financial data	Physical theft
Bank of America	Feb. 2005	1,200,000 Federal employees	SSNs, credit data	Physical theft
Australian High Tech Crime Center	Feb. 2005	3,500	financial data, law enforcement data	Loss

Political Journalism Incest Chart

Political Journalism Incest Chart

This matrix is a spotlight on those members of the corporate media and public relations spin machine, and their mostly GOP/neo-con shill relatives, especially their spouses. (Additions are welcome):

Journalist/Propagandist	Relative	Job title of spouse/relative
Howard Kurtz, Washington Post and CNN Reliable Sources host	Sheri Annis (wife)	Pres. Fourth Estate Strategies, GOP campaign consultant, 2002 spokesperson for Arnold Schwarzenegger, media consultant for various anti-immigration California propositions, including Prop. 227, which eliminated various California bi-lingual education programs. Has written for the neo-con National Review.
James Carville, NBC Meet the Press guest, Hillary Clinton adviser and promoter of the corporate-funded and anti-labor and anti-progressive Democratic Leadership Council.	Mary Matalin (wife)	Long-time confidante of Vice President Dick Cheney and was a member of the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), which helped "sell the war" in Iraq. Matalin and Carville often appear on Meet the Press together as dueling Washington insiders -- which is a ruse designed to deceive the public.
Chris Matthews, NBC and MS-NBC, Hardball host	Jim Matthews (brother)	GOP Lt. Gov, running mate of 2006 GOP gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania Lynn Swann.
	Kathleen Matthews (wife)	Executive Vice President for Global Communications and Public Affairs at Marriott International. Willard Mitt Romney is named for J. Willard Marriott, the founder of the corporation who was also a close friend of the Romney family.
Campbell Brown, NBC News	Dan Senor (husband)	Former Coalition Provisional Authority chief spokesman, contributor to Fox News, former intern for American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), senior associate of The Carlyle Group. director US-Israel Business Exchange (USIBEX). Senor is working as an aide to Democrat-turned-independent/Republican candidate Joe Lieberman. Adviser to Mitt Romney presidential campaign.
	Wendy Senor Singer (sister-in-law)	Head of AIPAC office in Jerusalem.
William Kristol, Editor, Weekly Standard, columnist, New York Times	Irving Kristol (father) Gertrude Himmelfarb (mother)	Mentor to Norman Podhoretz, leader of American Jewish Committee. Former editorial page editor Wall Street Journal
	Saul Singer (brother-in-law)	Opinion editor of Jerusalem Post.
Michael Ledeen, American Enterprise Institute, Karl Rove adviser, formerly with The New Republic.	Barbara Ledeen (wife)	Staffer, Senate Republican Conference.
	Simone Ledeen (daughter)	Former Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority adviser to occupation Iraqi Ministry of Finance for northern Iraqi affairs
Brit Hume, Managing Editor, Fox News, Washington	Kim Schiller Hume (wife)	Former Fox News Washington Bureau Chief, Vice President Fox News.
	Virginia Hume (daughter)	Attorney with Quinn & Gillespie, co-founded by former RNC Chair and current top Bush aide Ed Gillespie.
Carl Cameron, Fox News	Pauline Cameron (wife)	Campaigned for George W. Bush's 2000 election.
John Ellis, Fox News	George W. Bush (cousin)	In charge of 2000 election projections for Fox News.
Tucker Carlson, MSNBC	Richard Carlson (father)	Vice Chairman of neo-con Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), member Scooter Libby Legal Defense Fund Trust
Danielle Pletka, American Enterprise Institute	Stephen Rademaker (husband)	Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation. Reported to John Bolton, then Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs prior to his appointment as UN Ambassador in 2005.
Veronique Rodman, American Enterprise Institute	Peter Rodman (husband)	Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. Former senior editor of National Review and signatory of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). Although PNAC recently closed its doors, its core members are connected to successor neo-con elements, including FDD and the Committee on the Present Danger.
Bob Schieffer, CBS News	Tom Schieffer (brother)	U.S. Ambassador to Japan, former U.S. Ambassador to Australia, former President of the Texas Rangers baseball team when G. W. Bush made millions from a $700,000 investment as general partner.
Anne Applebaum, Washington Post	Radek Sikorski (husband)	Defense Minister, later Foreign Minister, of Poland, former Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Jim VandeHei, The Politico	Autumn Hanna (wife)	Former aide to Rep. Tom DeLay.
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News	Alan Greenspan (husband)	Former Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank
Daniel Pipes, Columnist, New York Post, Jerusalem Post	Richard Pipes (father)	Former consultant to Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson, Ronald Reagan adviser, and Harvard professor. Leading neocon.
John Podhoretz, Fox News, New York Post, National Review, Weekly Standard, regular on CNN's Reliable Sources	Norman Podhoretz (father) Midge Decter (mother)	Retired Editor-in-chief Commentary (magazine of the American Jewish Committee) and Project for the New American Century member. Heritage Foundation, Project for the New American Century, Harper's, Commentary, Jamestown Foundation, Hoover Institution, Hudson Institute, Accuracy in Media.
Norman Podhoretz, Retired Editor-in-chief Commentary (magazine of the American Jewish Committee) and Project for the New American Century member.	Elliott Abrams (son-in-law) Steven Munson (son-in-law)	Deputy National Security Adviser to George W. Bush Political director for Voice of America. One time aide to Jeanne Kirkpatrick.
Francis B. Coombs, Jr. Managing Editor, Washington Times	Marian Kester Coombs (wife)	Contributor to anti-Semitic and racist Occidental Quarterly, edited by Kevin Lamb, former Managing Editor for Human Events and Evans-Novak Political Report.
Robert Kagan, Columnist, Washington Post, Co-founder of Project for the New American Century (PNAC),	Victoria Nuland (wife)	Bush administration Permanent Representative to NATO.
	Fred Kagan (brother)	Resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute and major force behind the "surge" in Iraq.
	Donald Kagan (father)	West Point miltary professor. Leading neocon.
Kevin Martin, FCC Chairman, authority over broadcasters and mergers and former General Counsel, 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, Member 2000 Bush-Cheney Florida vote recount team,	Catherine "Cathie" Martin (wife)	Special prosecutor witness against Scooter Libby and Assistant to the President for Plans and Programs. Spokesperson for Vice President Dick Cheney, Named as source of information to news media about Valerie Plame Wilson's covert CIA identity.
George Will, ABC News, columnist	Mari Maseng Will (wife)	Republican operative for some two decades for former Sen. and 1996 GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole (R-KS) and current Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC), the 2006 National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair.
Ron Brownstein, Los Angeles Times	Eileen McMenamin (wife)	Communications Director for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).
Joseph DiGenova, frequent news commentator and former DC US Attorney	Victoria Toensing, (wife) also law partner	Both DiGenova and Toensing are longtime paid consultants for the Republican Party who are rarely identified as such in their media commentaries, but instead as former federal prosecutors.
Brent Bozell, Founder and President of Media Research Center and member of boards of Council of National Policy and American Conservative Union	William F. Buckley, Jr. (uncle)	Longtime conservative Republican activist and publisher of neo-con National Review.
	James L. Buckley (uncle)	Former Conservative Party Senator for New York and current judge US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Dick Morris, GOP strategist and Fox News commentator	Eileen McGann (wife)	CEO of Vote.com, a GOP-oriented web site that pushes Morris's books and links to the Drudge Report.
Billy Bush, Cohost, NBC Universal Access Hollywood	George W. Bush (First cousin)	President of the United States
Danielle Ann Crittenden, Editor, Women's Quarterly, Blogger, Huffington Post	David Frum (husband)	Former George W. Bush speechwriter. Coined phrase, "Axis of Evil."
Chris Caldwell, Senior Editor, Weekly Standard, a Rupert Murdoch publication	Robert Novak (father-in-law)	Chicago Sun Times and Washington Post columnist, involved with Karl Rove in outing Valerie Plame Wilson as CIA agent.
Mark Woodward, Executive Editor, Bangor Daily News	Bridget Woodward (wife)	Staffer for Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins.
Dan Abrams, MSNBC General Manager	Elliott Abrams (second cousin)	Assistant National Security Adviser and leading neocon policy maker for Bush Mideast policies.
	Floyd Abrams (father)	New York attorney; Abrams represented Judy Miller and the New York Times in the Scooter Libby case. Also, consultant & actor for the upcoming Hollywood docu-fable "Nothing But The Truth" promoting the Miller/Libby worldview.
Chuck Todd. NBC News Political Director (decided to ban Mike Gravel from NBC presidential debate at Drexel Univ., 30 Oct. 2007)	Kristian Denny Todd (wife)	Press Secretary for Virginia Democratic Sen. Jim Webb.
R. Emmett Tyrell, Editor, American Spectator	Anne Tyrell (daughter)	Spokeswoman for Blackwater USA
Lowry Mays, Chairman, Clear Channel	Mike McCaul (son-in-law)	US Representative (R-TX)
Alan Colmes, "Liberal" side on Fox's Hannity & Colmes	Jocelyn Crowley (wife)	Sister of Monica Crowley, Republican pundit and sometimes fill-in for Hannity.
Rush Limbaugh, Radio talk show host	Stephen Limbaugh Sr. (uncle)	Senior US Federal judge Missouri
	Stephen Limbaugh, Jr. (cousin)	Missouri Supreme Court judge. Nominated by President Bush for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
Pat Buchanan, MSNBC commentator, McLaughlin Group panelist	Bay Buchanan (sister)	Chair of Tom Tancredo for President campaign
Elsa Arnett, Boston Globe reporter, daughter of former CNN reporter Peter Arnett	John Yoo (husband)	Former Justice Dept. senior attorney. Contributed to Patriot Act and author of White House torture memos. Visiting scholar American Enterprise Institute.
Matt Cooper, formerly Time magazine reporter who was used by Karl Rove to reveal CIA agent Valerie Plame's status. Now editor for Conde Nast Portfolio	Mandy Grunwald (wife)	Major adviser to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
Mark Halperin, political reporter formerly of ABC News and now with Time.	Mort Halperin (father)	Adviser to Barack Obama.
David Gregory, NBC News White House correspondent	Beth Wilkinson (wife)	Vice Pres./General Counsel of Fannie Mae
Christiane Amanpour, CNN	Jamie Rubin (husband)	Former Madeleine Albright press spokesman

CIA collected open source information on Kennedy assassination conspiracies

The Central Intelligence Agency collected a number of articles from open sources that dealt with conspiracies to assassinate President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The CIA was particularly interested in articles that mentioned alleged CIA involvement in the assassination.

The articles, now declassified, were held in official files maintained by the CIA.

The CIA was interested in the investigation of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison into Kennedy's assassination. The agency maintained a New Orleans Times-Picayune article from January 21, 1970, the headline of which was "CIA Killed JFK, Says Garrison."

A CIA analyst annotated with two check marks passages in the article by Robert Pack. One concerned Garrison's statement at a New Orleans dinner: "Speaking at a $100-a-plate testimonial dinner in the International Room at the Roosevelt Hotel, Garrison said that his statement that the Central Intelligence Agency was responsible for the former President's death was 'not speculation.'"

The other passage notated was: "'The Warren Commission Report,' Garrison declared, "told you what did not happen. The United States government was involved in the assassination.'"

Garrison's comments on the Warren Report mirror those that are today said about the 9/11 Commission Report -- that both reports were whitewashed designed to cover up monumental crimes of the state.

Garrison is also quoted as stating, "The CIA was the agency involved. The CIA killed John Kennedy. But they're not so smart that they can't kill the President of the United States without someone finding out."

Garrison also said that he was subjected to an Internal Revenue Service investigation that was drawn out in order to intimidate him away from his investigation of Kennedy's assassination. At the testimonial dinner, comedian Mort Sahl accused The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Life, and Look of trying to unseat Garrison as District Attorney because of his probe into the JFK assassination. Sahl also said President Lyndon Johnson sealed in the National Archives for 75 years many documents concerning the JFK assassination.

Garrison was later charged with and cleared of charges that he was involved in taking bribes and being involved in protecting illegal pinball machine operations in New Orleans. Garrison eventually became a Louisiana Appeals Circuit Court judge.

Attending the testimonial dinner praising Garrison's work were Louisiana Lt. Governor C. C. "Taddy" Aycock, representing Governor John McKeithen who was to attend but could not due to his father's funeral; New Orleans Mayor Victor Schiro, Louisiana Attorney General P. F. Gremillion. and Mayor-nominee Moon Landrieu, the father of current Louisiana U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu.

The CIA files also contained a New York Times article dated January 17, 1970, in which former Dallas Police Chief Jesse E. Curry revealed in a book that "the physical evidence and eyewitness accounts do not clearly indicate what took place on the sixth floor of Texas School Book Depository at the time John F. Kennedy was assassinated."

Curry wrote that eyewitnesses reported seeing two men standing at the window from which the shots were fired. The eyewitnesses were turned over by the Dallas Police to the FBI for questioning. However, Curry notes the presence of the second man never appeared in the FBI report. Curry also revealed that a paraffin test taken of the side of Oswald's right face did not reveal nitrates from firing a rifle. Curry said Oswald only had a positive nitrate pattern on his hand consistent with the firing of the revolver that killed police officer J. D. Tippitt.

The CIA files also contain an article from the Lincoln (Nebraska) Star, dated September 30, 1972, that recounts the statements of Dean Morris, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan and Minutemen. Morris contended that the CIA and "far right groups" assassinated President Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Morris said the Minutemen taught its members how to make bombs and conduct assassinations.

Another article found in CIA files, one from the June 1970 issue of Ramparts, reported on an interview with Minuteman founder Robert Bolivar DePugh. DePugh is quoted as saying that renegade Minutemen were involved in President Kennedy's assassination. DePugh told the magazine that he had "some evidence that might explain unanswered questions about events in Dealey Plaza in Dallas." Again, a CIA analyst placed a check mark next to that particular paragraph.

Another article maintained by the CIA is one from the Sunday Boston Globe, dated October 24, 1971, about a seminar in Cambridge, Massachusetts where Vincent Salandria, an attorney from Philadelphia, said the CIA was largely responsible for the killing of Kennedy and that Kennedy's national security aide, McGeorge Bundy, was aware of the CIA's efforts to assassinate Kennedy. Salandria also said elements of the military, in addition to the CIA, were involved in the plot to kill Kennedy in order to "eliminate a thaw in the Cold War."

CIA files also contain a very brief item from the Washington Observer, dated May 1, 1971: "A retired high-ranking Federal official has confided to WO that during the Batista regime in Cuba, vast amounts of American small arms were smuggled to Fidel Castro. And while this anonymous official was investigating this flagrant violation of the Neutrality Act, CIA Director Allen Dulles, suddenly intervened and brought pressure to kill the investigation. All records and evidence adduced were ordered burned. Ironically, a man involved in the Castro arms smuggling conspiracy was in Dallas on the day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Serving as a member of the Warren Commission, Allen Dulles averted a probe of this suspect's activities at that time. This is one of the biggest, unsolved mysteries of the Central Intelligence Agency.

George H. W. Bush has been long rumored to have been involved in CIA activities in the Caribbean during the 1950s, using his Zapata Off-shore Drilling Company as a CIA front. On November 22, 1963, Bush was checked into the Dallas Sheraton Hotel, although he maintains that he was in Tyler, Texas that day. In any event, Bush returned to Midland, Texas from Dallas on November 23, 1963.

The CIA was also interested in a story in the September 16, 1970, Los Angeles Times concerning remarks made by California Republican Senator George Murphy. Murphy said he believed the assassins of John and Robert Kennedy were acting "under orders." On Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted assassin of Robert Kennedy, Murphy declared, "I am not certain this young man did it by himself. Neither are you. Neither are the courts."

On the slayings of both Kennedys, Murphy said, "Somebody, I think, instigated them."

The CIA files also contain an editorial from the September 5, 1970, Grand Rapids Press. The editorial concerned anticipated speculation concerning the deaths of Abraham Zapruder, 65, the amateur photographer who filmed the assassination of Kennedy in Dallas and James Eric Decker, Sheriff of Dallas County for 22 years. Decker was supposed to have been given custody of Oswald on the day Oswald was shot. However, Decker was, instead, given custody of Jack Ruby, Oswald's assassin. The editorial warned against drawing any conspiratorial conclusions from the deaths, during the same weekend, of Zapruder and Decker.

Obama Justice Department has some atoning in order

Former Department of Justice lawyer Thomas Tamm, who worked in the department's Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR) and brought attention to the illegal National Security Agency (NSA) warrantless electronic surveillance program code named "Stellar Wind," remains under investigation by the Eric Holder Justice Department for having the fortitude to expose the closely-guarded program to public light.

Tamm was one of only a handful of Justice, FBI, NSA, CIA, government contractor, and military personnel who exposed illegal activities on the part of the George W. Bush administration and paid the price by being subjected to a political vendetta carried out by Bush and Cheney operatives. WMR has reported on many of these unsung heroes who once served and still serve inside the intelligence and law enforcement communities.

In 2007, Tamm's home in Potomac, Maryland was raided by zealous FBI agents who suspected him of leaking details of the so-called "Terrorist Surveillance Program" (TSP) to journalists. Tamm tried to inform Congress about the illegal program but was rebuffed by, among others, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, Representative John Conyers (D-MI).

At the time of its inception after 9/11, the TSP or as NSA and the Oval Office referred to it, "Stellar Wind," was so classified that only the Attorney General and one other person in the Justice Department knew about it. The TSP totally bypassed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants that the OIPR prepared for approval by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). U.S. Judge James Robertson was so incensed about the bypassing of the FISC, he resigned from it in protest on December 20, 2005. U.S. Judge Royce Lamberth, nominated by President Ronald Reagan and who served as Presiding Judge of the FISC until 2002, was also adamantly opposed to TSP and its systematic bypassing of his court.

The Bush administration, notably Vice President Dick Cheney's chief counsel, David Addington, argued that the FISC was an impediment in what was referred to as "ticking time bomb" cases, those investigations that required immediate and ongoing authority to wiretap. However, there is a "ticking time bomb" clause in the FISA that can bypass the FISC with the authorization of the Attorney General.

The Cheney and Addington argument was largely a ruse in order to allow them and their cohorts in the administration to conduct "fishing expeditions" aimed not at terrorists or potential terrorists but a political "enemies list" drawn up by the Bush White House.

Tamm was also the first person within Justice who corroborated what NSA personnel were reporting about the agency conducting illegal data mining. One of those individuals was NSA employee Russell Tice, who was also subjected to an FBI investigation and government harassment.

Although the govenrment employees who brought attention to the high-level criminality involving the TSP/Stellar Wind were and, in some cases like that of Tamm, are still being investigated, no criminal investigations were brought against the telecommunications companies that participated in the criminal conspiracy to spy on Americans illegally. In fact, Congress gave the telecommunications firms immunity from lawsuits and prosecution as a result of a deal worked out with the Bush administration. One of those senators who voted for the immunity deal is Barack Obama.

After the FBI conducted interviews of all OIPR employees in their quest for the leaker, on August 1, 2007, 12 government vehicles pulled in front of Tamm's home in Potomac, Maryland. Eighteen armed federal agents wearing body armor stormed into Tamm's home while his wife was cooking breakfast. Tamm was removed from his home by the agents who spent seven hours going through his and his family's property. The FBI agents even asked Tamm if there were any "secret rooms" in his house. They also inquired about any weapons in the house and whether he had been visited at home by reporters from The New York Times.

The agents tore through every room, awakening Tamm's son and daughter. The agents seized all the lap top computers, including those of Tamm's children, and a 10-year old lap top. Also seized were the Tamm family's Christmas card list and a calendar with doctors appointments.

After two days, Tamm was offered a deal that he could plead guilty to a felony in return for his testifying against journalists, including the New York Times'James Risen, and their sources at the NSA. Three days later Michael Isikoff of Newsweekphoned Tamm -- someone had leaked information about the FBI raid to Isikoff. Tamm's identity as a source about the TSP was revealed by Isikoff in the December 22, 2008, issue of Newsweek.

Tamm is no stranger to the FBI. His father was a career FBI agent and Tamm watched the 1961 inauguration of President John F. Kennedy from the Pennsylvania Avenue office window of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. However, Tamm's father always lamented the fact that the FBI, under Hoover, wiretapped civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King.

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) member Jane Harman (D-CA) was aware of the existence of the illegal program but recently criticized it when it was revealed that her agreement with Israeli intelligence to apply pressure on the Justice Department to drop their espionage case against two American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobbyists in return for AIPAC's support in making her the chairman of HPSCI was the subject of electronic eavesdropping. The surveillance may have involved both TSP monitoring and that authorized by a legal FISC warrant.

The lead FBI agent who has been assigned since 2005 to investigate Tamm is Jason Lawless.

The Obama administration owes it to the American people and to those government public servants who brought attention to impeachable and prosecutable high crimes and misdemeanors by Bush administration officials, including Bush and Cheney, to immediately drop the "witch hunt" against those who served the public interest and upheld the Constitution of the United States to which they took an oath to protect against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Individuals like Bush, Cheney, John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, Addington, and John Bolton showed themselves to be domestic enemies of the Constitution.

Another piracy operation that was coordinated from Langley, Virginia.

February 22, 2006 -- BREAKING NEWS. Cheney/Libby compromises of CIA nuclear counter-proliferation operations rolled up ultra-sensitive maritime interdiction operation in Southeast Asian waters.

According to two CIA sources, the revelations by Vice President Dick Cheney and his former Chief of Staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, about classified CIA counter-proliferation operations, including the exposure of Valerie Plame Wilson and her Brewster Jennings & Associates clandestine work, eventually resulted in the compromise of the CIA's most sensitive nuclear components interdiction program. Cheney recently contended that he has the unilateral right to declassify classified information per an Executive Order signed by President Bush.

The CIA's maritime interdiction program was designed to stop suspect cargo vessels on the high seas, mostly in the Straits of Malacca and the South China Sea, and search them for nuclear material and missiles and their respective components. The unique and most sensitive aspect of the CIA program was the use of Southeast Asian sea pirates to gain access to the interdicted vessels. The CIA's interdiction program began in the early 1990s, around the same time that Brewster Jennings and Associates began its counter-proliferation activities.

Special armed CIA units, masquerading as pirates themselves, accompanied the actual pirates on their fast boats when they attacked merchant vessels identified by other intelligence as likely trafficking in nuclear and missile cargo. The CIA teams, wearing personal dosometers and using Geiger counters and other radiation detection equipment, would inspect cargo holds and containers as the "official pirates" off-loaded commercial cargo such as electronic equipment, small vehicles, and other merchandise. The quid pro quo was that the CIA would not interfere with the pirates' looting of commercial cargo and the pirates would give the CIA teams first access to the cargo holds and containers. The two teams also provided each other mutual security. In most cases, the CIA had arranged to pay off local police, maritime police, and coast guards not to interfere with the joint CIA-pirate gang operations. The U.S. Navy was also instructed not to interfere in the pre-arranged piracy actions.

Another neo-con compromise of a super-secret CIA counter-proliferation operation revealed

The success of the program was measured in the amount of material and components interdicted -- for about a decade, the CIA managed to interdict tons of uranium, plutonium, nuclear triggering components, and missiles and missile components such as guidance systems and other military electronics.

After the exposure of the CIA's other counter-proliferation activities, it was not long before Asian and other international criminal gangs and syndicates, particularly those involving Russian-Israeli gangsters and smugglers tied to Cheney, Libby, and convicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and police and military forces in the region realized that a cooperative arrangement existed between certain pirate groups and U.S. intelligence. The joint CIA-pirate gang interdictions affected a very small percentage of the tens of thousands of vessels that annually transited the Straits of Malacca.

The joint operations were launched from numerous small islets, coves, sheltered rivers, and lagoons that predominate the Malay peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and other islands in the South China Sea and Straits of Malacca. Aceh-based pirates in northern Sumatra and Philippines-based pirates reportedly proved to be the most reliable for the CIA. Targeted merchant ships included North Korean-, Panamanian-, Liberian-, Iranian-, Pakistani-, Chinese-, Ukrainian-, Honduran-, and Bahamian-flagged ships. Most of the vessels were transiting between North Korea, China (including Macao), Pakistan, Iran, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

McChrystal tried to warn Bush administration about sensitive details in the Pat Tillman killing in Afghanistan but he was ignored.

Obama chops Afghanistan commander. Gen. David McKiernan replaced by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, for commander of Joint Special Operations Command. McChrystal tried to warn Bush administration about sensitive details in the Pat Tillman killing in Afghanistan but he was ignored.

August 1-2, 2007 -- SPECIAL REPORT -- The Tillman killing: Fratricide or homicide?

Three former high ranking Pentagon officials and one active duty general testified under oath on August 1 before Rep. Henry Waxman's Government Oversight and Government Committee on the April 22, 2004 death in Afghanistan of NFL star-turned-US Army Ranger Pat Tillman. All four witnesses, including former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, defaulted to the commonly-used and overly-lawyered phrases by Bush administration officials testifying before Congress: "I don't recall" and "I have no recollection of that."

What was witnessed on August 1 concerning the Pentagon's failure to inform the Tillman family and the public about the facts concerning the death of Tillman was an exercise in obfuscation and rampant amnesia by individuals who at one time ran the U.S. war efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Even ranking Republican member Tom Davis used the dreaded "conspiracy" word to describe the Pentagon's handling of the Tillman case. Davis said, "There are no good answers to the necessarily tough questions raised about how the facts of this friendly-fire incident were handled, by whom and when. Testimony from our previous hearing, and the results of six separate Army investigations, all show the tragic truth can only fall somewhere between screw-up and cover-up, between rampant incompetence and elaborate conspiracy. And once you're descending that continuum, it almost doesn't matter whether the failure to follow Army regulations about updated casualty reports and prompt family notification was inadvertent, negligent or intentional."

The facts brought forward in today's hearing strongly suggest that the Tillman matter was handled by a cover-up that was intentional.

Rumsfeld testified he does not remember when he learned that the Tillman death was a possible fratricide. Rumsfeld's memory certainly seems to be foggy, at best. Rumsfeld said he recalled that he first learned about the fratricide angle on or about May 20, 2004, from his civilian assistant Robert Rangel who had been informed about it by Rumsfeld's military assistant, Army Colonel Steve Bucci, who had heard about the Tillman fratricide in Iraq, from where Bucci had just returned. It is important to note that Tillman was killed in Afghanistan but details of the Tillman killing were known by some U.S. military personnel in Iraq before Rumsfeld claimed he knew about it. Democratic Rep. Diane Watson of California pointed out that Rumsfeld had often repeated "I don't recall" during his testimony.

The Tillman family was not notified about the fratricide until May 26, 2004.

Rumsfeld also said that he did not recall informing the White House, known for its micro-managing of almost every facet of the Afghanistan and Iraq campaigns, including the Abu Ghraib and Jessica Lynch cover-ups, about the Tillman fratricide. More amazingly, Rumsfeld testified that he first learned of Tillman's death in the press in April 2004.

Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Richard Myers said he regretted that the Army "did not do its duty" in the Tillman case and revealed that the Army did not follow its own regulations. However, Myers claimed that he was not in the chain of command for the Tillman matter since it was an Army issue and he served in a joint command activity answerable to the Defense Secretary and National Security Council. Myers said he did not recall talking to the White House about the Tillman matter, although he conceded that public affairs channels may have circulated information about the fratricide between the Pentagon and White House. Brown also said he did not inform the White House about Tillman.

Lt. Gen. Philip Kensinger, the former commanding general of the US Army's Special Forces Command, was formally censured yesterday by Army Secretary Pete Geren for his "failure of leadership" in the Tillman investigation. Kensinger appears to be the White House's and Republicans' scape goat for the Tillman matter. Kensinger refused to accept a subpoena to testify before the House committee today and his current whereabouts, according to Committee Chairman Waxman, are unknown. Waxman said that U.S. Marshals were unsuccessful in locating Kensinger or serving the subpoena. An independent panel is considering whether to recommend that Kensinger be busted from three stars to two stars as punishment. The star removal was strongly supported by California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, someone whose record includes car theft.

There was much discussion of an April 29, 2004, "P-FOR" or "Personal For" message sent by then-Major General Stanley McChrystal, commander of the Joint Special Operations Command and Afghan Task Force, to Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command General Bryan "Doug" Brown, General Kensinger, and Commander of U.S. Central Command Gen. John Abizaid, both headquartered in Tampa, Florida. Abizaid was an "action" addressee on the P-FOR and Kensinger and Brown were "Info" addressees, similar to a cc: addressee. The Tillman P-FOR, a high priority, sensitive, and rare message sent to the commanders and which was not for general distribution, stated that there was a strong likelihood of fratricide in the Tillman death. Rumsfeld testified that he did not recall seeing the P-FOR.

However, the P-FOR from McChrystal said that it was important to let the Defense Secretary and President know about the possibility of fratricide before they made an incorrect and potentially embarrassing statements concerning the death. Abizaid testified that he told Myers that it was "important to let the leadership know" about the P-FOR. Abizaid said he was referring to Rumsfeld and Bush. Abizaid testified that he did not inform the White House about the details of Tillman's death.

The P-FOR was sent four days before the memorial service for Tillman at which the public was told Tillman died as the result of "enemy fire."

Abizaid testified that on April 28, 2004, the day before the P-FOR was sent by McChrystal, Tillman's platoon leader told him that Tillman was killed by enemy fire. However, on the evening of April 22, Tillman's team member Private First Class Bryan O'Neal, reported that he suspected fratricide in Tillman's death. That statement appears in the Army 15-6 report required for all hostile combat deaths. However, someone, whose identity is yet unknown, re-wrote O'Neal's statement to reflect that "Corporal Tillman was killed by the enemy."

However, O'Neal's original statement had been altered to suggest Tillman's death was from enemy fire. O'Neal testified earlier about the alteration before Waxman's committee.

Even after the McChrystal P-FOR was sent to Abizaid and Brown, the Army announced that Tillman would be awarded the Silver Star at his memorial service in May 3, 2004. The Silver Star citation for Tillman said the honor was awarded for "gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States." In answer to a question from Democratic Rep. William "Lacy" Clay from Missouri, Rumsfeld said he did not know who awarded the Silver Star because the Secretary of Defense does not involve himself in that process. Rumsfeld and Myers said the decision was solely that of the Army. Brown and Abizaid also said they did not know who awarded Tillman the Silver Star. Clay informed the witnesses and the committee that the Silver Star for Tillman was awarded by the President of the United States.

Waxman suggested the White House was interested in spinning the Tillman death because it wanted to shift public opinion away from April revelations about prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib to something it could hype: the heroic death of a brave and well known American soldier at the hands of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Waxman then asked the most famous question in Washington when it comes to scandals: "What did the White House know and when?" Waxman thought it odd that during the time of Tillman's death from what was thought to have been enemy fire, 97 White House officials sent and received hundreds of emails regarding Tillman. Waxman said that weeks later, after friendly fire was admitted, there were no emails from the White House concerning Tillman.

However, both Waxman and Davis agreed that further evidence about the Tillman death may be gleaned from personal email accounts from the field in Afghanistan. Today, the committee requested the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command and the Pentagon's Inspector General to inform the committee if "subjects and witnesses were asked about the use of personal email accounts to communicate about the Tillman matter, whether such communications were obtained and reviewed . . . and, if not whether [CID and the IG] intend to secure and review them now."

Waxman and Davis wrote to the two Defense activities that the committee had "received information from a former Department of Defense official that information from the field was often transmitted to DoD officials through personal email accounts."

Ohio Democrat Dennis Kucinich asked Rumsfeld if he ever coordinated press strategy with the White House concerning the war and specifically mentioned the contractor, the Rendon Group, which has been at the forefront of drafting and distributing pro-war propaganda on behalf of the Pentagon. Rumsfeld denied he discussed press strategy on the Tillman case with the White House but conceded that Rendon and other contractors had Pentagon contracts to develop press strategies. Kucinich maintained that the Pentagon had outsourced the management of the news to contractors like the Rendon Group and that it was Defense Department strategy to cover-up incidents like the Tillman, Abu Ghraib, and Jessica Lynch cases. Rumsfeld said there was no evidence of a cover-up in any of the cases mentioned by Kucinich.

However, a White House-to-Pentagon email released by the committee strongly suggests that there was a willful attempt to cover-up the Tillman fratricide in order to maximize positive spin. An email sent from White House staffer Jeanie S. Mamo to the Pentagon's Public Affairs chief Larry DiRita on April 23, 2004, a day after Tillman's death and after PFC O'Neal's report that fratricide was likely involved. Also, by April 23, suspected fratricide was also known by Tillman's other Alpha Company Rangers, including 1SG Fuller, CSM Birch, Maj. Scott, Col. Nixon, Maj. Hodne, LTC Bailey, and CPT Saunders.

Mamo's email to DiRita says that Larry Yeager, a "terrific" reporter for Sports Illustrated, needed to talk to someone at the Pentagon regarding Tillman. Yeager's email was also forwarded to DiRita. It requested Mamo to help him on what would be an "awesome piece" in Sports Illustrated. The Mamo email strongly suggests a close relationship between Yeager and the Bush White House. It states Yeager "had a one-on-one interview with President Bush and knows Gov. Bush [Florida Governor Jeb Bush] as well." Mamo also states that Yeager wrote a story about Qusay and Uday Hussein and "their torture of Olympic athletes" and "has since been back to Iraq to write a follow-up on the reorganization of the Olympic team." As if to signal to DiRita that Yeager was a trusted embedded journalist, she adds, "Don gets it." The Defense Department even redacted from the disclosed email Yeager's phone numbers at the Manhattan offices of Sports Illustrated, which is owned by AOL Time Warner.

One person who apparently was not as "in" as the Sports Illustrated reporter was General Bantz Craddock, Rumsfeld's senior military assistant. On July 27, 2007, Craddock, who as Commander of US Southern Command in Miami, oversees the operations at Guantanamo Bay, told the Waxman committee about being kept out of the loop by DiRita and Rumsfeld's other close advisers: "I will also tell you there could have been discussions and meetings that I would not have been privy to because occasionally that happens. The fact of the matter is -- and I'll just tell you that DiRita and I occasionally got into a bit of a dither over the fact that I felt that he was not informing me of military issues or that he felt I was usurping his authority to deal with political issues."

Craddock gave a picture of Rumsfeld and his civilian advisers keeping senior military officers out of the loop, something that has been confirmed to this journalist by other senior officers who served in the Pentagon under Rumsfeld. Craddock told that committee that Rumsfeld's office never contacted him for details about the Tillman killing.

The picture that is being developed from the Waxman hearings is that the death of Pat Tillman was advertised as an enemy combat death in order to create favorable spin for the White House and Pentagon and help both organizations recover from Abu Ghraib. Tillman's memorial service, Silver Star award, and Sports Illustrated "awesome" article were all part of a carefully designed spin, likely involving the Rendon Group and other professional contract spinmeisters, as suggested by Kucinich.

If the White House and Pentagon were able to cover up the details of the aftermath of Tillman's death, what could they have been prepared to do after they were informed that the star recruit was keeping a diary and was prepared to speak out against the Iraq war after his enlistment?

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Additional details:

At least 30 people knew about the Tillman fratricide before Donald Rumsfeld said he was informed about it. General Bantz Craddock, Rumsfeld's chief military assistant, told the House Committee on July 27, 2007, that he heard about the Tillman fratricide from his next door neighbor in Fort Myer, General Jim Lovelace. Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland said Tillman's mother, Mary Tillman, said Rumsfeld's contention that he did not know about Tillman until much later was "not credible."

Cummings asked Rumsfeld if he believed there was a cover-up. Rumsfeld responded that "no one in the White House suugested there be a cover-up." Richard Myers said the White House, Joint Chiefs of Staff or Office of the Secretary of Defense were not involved in a cover-up. John Abizaid and Doug Brown also denied a cover-up.

Abizaid said he did not receive the P-FOR until May 6, 2004, although it was sent on April 29. On April 23, Abizaid said he was phoned by McChrystal and was told that Tillman had been killed. Abizaid said the P-FOR was sent to Tampa, CENTCOM's headquarters, but was not re-transmitted to Abizaid in the Middle East until May 6. Abizaid said he then called Myers and told him that Tillman had been killed by friendly fire.

Myers testified that he did not remember Abizaid's phone call and said he never saw the P-FOR. Myers also said that when he was informed of the incident he "was not sure" that fratricide was "common knowledge." Myers also said he could not recall whether he informed Rumsfeld of the fratricide.

Rumsfeld said that although he remembered drafting a letter to the Tillman family, he could not recall when he learned of Tillman's death. Although President Bush was to refer to the Tillman death in a May 1, 2004 speech, Rumsfeld said he could not recall discussing Tillman with the White House.

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Cuba's Biggest "Crime": a Desire to be a Sovereign and Independent State

By SAUL LANDAU

This conversation took place on April 1, 2009. Our film crew received Justice Department approval to talk with “the prisoner,” with a prison official in the room. Before his 1998 arrest, Gerardo Hernandez directed the operations of the other Cuban State Security agents who infiltrated violent groups in the Miami area for the purposes of stopping them from carrying our terrorist attacks on tourist sites in Cuba. We took complete and careful notes.

Saul Landau: Later you went to prison at Lompoc [California]?

Gerardo Hernandez: Yes, we had a legal battle to get us out of “the hole” and into the general population. Then came the trial, and after the trial, another month back in “the hole.” Then, after the sentencing, they sent us to different penitentiaries. I was sent to Lompoc in 2003, and into “the box.” That happened in all 5 prisons on the same day. It still isn’t clear why, or who gave the order. Lompoc is a very old prison, apart from “the hole,” which is where they send people who attack guards or set fire to mattresses; for the incorrigible, “the box,” a basement below “the hole” -- 10 double-doored cells. They put me down there, in my underwear, barefoot for a month. I didn’t know if it was day or night, because you’re inside for 24 hours. There’s no hour of recreation or anything. A leak dripped from the cell above. Whenever that person flushed the toilet, dirty water would run down my cell’s walls.

I complained about health dangers. But they had planned to keep us there for one year for “special administrative measures.” They had warned me I wouldn’t have any contacts, no visits, no nothing. To communicate with my lawyer, I had to submit a letter. I had to make an envelope out of a piece of paper, and seal it with toothpaste. Nothing to read, nothing to write with, nothing! That was quite a difficult month. They [prison authorities] told us we’d be there for a year, and at the end of that year they’d review our cases; we could be there indefinitely. When the guards planned to take me for a bath 3 or 4 guards would handcuff me. The other cells had their exterior doors open. The interior door was like a closed fence, but the iron exterior door that isolated you completely, was left open, so people wouldn’t go crazy. But mine was always closed. When they’d take me to shower, they’d close the other doors so no one would even see me -- because one of the rules was that I could have contact with no one. I was there for a month, not knowing if it was day or night, dirty water running down my walls, barefoot, with the light on 24 hours a day; hearing screams of people around me, some of whom gone crazy. One day, a Thursday, they brought me papers to sign, saying I would be there for one year. The following Tuesday, without explanation, just as they’d brought me there without knowing anything, they took me out. We found out that lots of people had protested outside the prison. Members of Congress had inquired about us.

Landau: Under what pretext were you thrown in “the box?” How did you keep sane?

Hernandez: Pretext? None. The lieutenant who took me to the hole asked me: “Why are you going to the hole?” I said, “You’re asking me? You should be telling me.” When I asked they’d tell me, “Orders from above.” Coincidentally, this took place a month before we were to present our appeals, when we most needed contact with our lawyers on finalizing the appeal documents. We [the five] went to “the hole,” a mysterious coincidence, right before our appeal.

How could I stand it? We were acutely aware of the wide support from people trying to get us justice. That really affected us. We knew Cuba would protest, but also that friends throughout the world, including in this country, would do everything possible to free us. We did get out of the hole, finally. Indeed, protests took place in many countries, and in front of the Bureau of Prisons. Such actions really give you hope, strength. And you know you can’t turn on your comrades… people who wouldn’t fail you and hope you won’t fail them. So, you spend all day thinking: “Nothing can happen to me in here, I can’t have a panic attack, a nervous breakdown, I cannot yield, not even a little bit because too many people out there will hold that against me.” That gives you strength.

Landau: Did you think about your family?

Hernandez: The U.S. government won’t give her [wife] a visa to visit me -- for 10 years. Denying me the chance to see my wife is part of this process; the interrogation, incentives to betray, months of solitary confinement, The FBI’s or Administration’s plans didn’t materialize. Initially, they thought: “Arrest these Castro agents, threaten them and they’ll grovel, because this is the richest and best country in the world. Cuba is a poor country, a dictatorship…” For the past 50 years, they’ve told Americans, “Cuba is hell -- but you can’t go there to see for yourself.”

Americans are free to do many things, but not travel 90 miles to visit that country to check the government’s claims. They planned for ‘the 5’ to switch sides, create this fantastic propaganda show: we’d denounce whatever they thought we should denounce, condemn the revolution; like they do with defecting athletes or musician. All you have to say is: “I come here seeking freedom.” The government squeezes the maximum from them; then they’re forgotten. That was more or less the plan for us, but it didn’t work. In retaliation they were going to make our lives as difficult as possible. For 10 years. Prisoners e-mail their families. They don’t let me use e-mail, not even with my wife.

Landau: What did Cuba do to the United States to deserve punishment for 50 years?

Hernandez: Cuba’s biggest “crime”: its desire to be a sovereign and independent nation. History goes back beyond 50 years. Cuba was winning the independence war against Spain [1895-98], when the United States said: “This is no good for us!” Suddenly and mysteriously, the USS Maine explodes [in Havana Harbor], the pretext for U.S. intervention to defeat Spain. Then they put the Platt Amendment in Cuba’s constitution [allowing U.S. intervention].

Go back much further: Cuba, the ripe fruit, would fall into U.S. hands; Cuba is in the U.S.’ backyard. That little island suffers the misfortune of being 90 miles from the most powerful country in the world. Cuba refused to be the U.S. spa and brothel like in the good old days when marines urinated on the Jose Marti statue. Those times remain present in the minds of Cubans. Cuba’s worst crime is to be free and sovereign -- without the U.S. Ambassador dictating as he did for about half a century. That’s why Cuba cannot be forgiven; for wanting to have its own system. Remember they [U.S. companies] owned the casinos, industries, best land; they practically owned the country. That ended in 1959; something for which they can’t forgive us.

Landau: You’re being punished as a symbol of “disrespect?”

Hernandez: Yes, but there’s another fundamental element, in my opinion. The FBI was in an uncomfortable position, because it became known that the FBI had penetrated the Brothers to Rescue using Juan Pablo Roque [another Cuban intelligence agent]. He was their agent; they paid him to give them information. When this came out, the FBI looked bad to the extreme right wingers in Miami. The FBI looked for a scapegoat, so they could say: “We nabbed these five guilty ones.”

Landau: What did Brothers to the Rescue hope to achieve with your trial?

Hernandez: Mainly, an economic goal. Some of them have legitimate political views and are patriots in their own way, but many are in it for economic reasons. The anti-Castro industry is a multi-million dollar industry. For 50 years, people have lived off it: radio commentators to heads of the 3,500 organizations sucking up federal money to “achieve freedom in Cuba;” or taking donations from the elderly to buy arms for the “liberation of Cuba.” It never occurred to [Jose] Basulto to fly into Cuban airspace while people were giving him money to patrol the waters off Florida. He’d bought a few small planes with that donated money. When people stopped giving -- why would they do so if the Coast Guard would send rafters back to Cuba -- he thought, “I better invent something else.” That’s when he started flying into Cuban airspace… to keep money coming in.

Also, in my opinion, Basulto, who is intelligent, may have wanted to provoke a serious conflict. They dream of the day the U.S. Army would wipe those revolutionaries off the planet. Upon those ashes they’d rebuild their own Cuba; the Cuba they had before the revolution. What they haven’t been able to do, the U.S. Army would do for them. That’s why they call the Bay of Pigs a “betrayal.” They thought the U.S. Army would support them at the Bay of Pigs. That was Kennedy’s betrayal. So, I don’t doubt Basulto intended to create an international conflict. It didn’t matter how many Cubans or Americans would die. All that mattered was getting their country back, what they consider to be their country.

Landau: In Miami, there was a rumor: Basulto was a Cuban agent. All his missions ended in failure or disaster.

Hernandez: That second part is true, but the first part… I doubt it. It’s a shame that lives were lost [after the February 1996 shoot down of Brothers’ planes] but I assure you Cuba did everything possible to prevent it. They sent 16 diplomatic notes through official channels, asking the U.S. not to allow The Brothers to fly into Cuban airspace.

Saul Landau is currently making (with Jack Willis) a film on the Cuban Five. His other films are available on DVD from roundworldproductions@gmail.com. He is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies and autho of A BUSH AND BOTOX WORLD (Counterpunch A/K).

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Washington's annual "navel gazing" exercise otherwise known as the White House Correspondents' Dinner

This editor has previously bemoaned Washington's annual "navel gazing" event, otherwise known as the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Over the past eight years, the event has been dominated by the likes of George W. Bush, Karl Rove, and other principals of the Bush-Cheney crime syndicate.

On May 2, 2006, I wrote the following about the annual black tie and "red carpet" affair that combines Hollywood celebrities with inside-the-Beltway politicos:

"While Washington's anemic and pathetic press corps "wooed and wowed" Saturday night at the collection of 2700 Hollywood glitterati and the Beltway's political punditocracy, literati, and lobbying and business elite at the annual navel gazing and self-indulgent White House Correspondents Dinner, serious investigative journalists have been delving into the numerous burgeoning GOP scandals bubbling under the Beltway."

In the days before the 2006 event, a federal grand jury was meeting in Washington and hearing testimony about the Bush White House's leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson's name to several media types who were fawning over Bush and his team at the annual dinner at the Hilton Hotel, known locally as "the Hinckley Hilton," the place where Bush family friend John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan in March 1981.

The atmosphere in DC during the dark years of Bush is definitely brightening a bit under Barack Obama. Courtesy of a veteran radio correspondent for the old Mutual Broadcasting Network who worked with Larry King, I was invited, albeit at the last minute, to attend the pre- and post-dinner parties at the Hilton, which are actually more popular than the dinner mainly because they are where rumors are swapped and "intelligence" is gathered.

There was the chance to finally meet Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, with whom I sparred on his program a few years back over the so-called "War on Christmas." O'Reilly is actually amiable when off camera.

I also ran into former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his wife, number three, who I first met at the GOP Convention in Philadelphia in 2000. Gingrich is strongly rumored to have plans to run for president in 2012.

Also had a brief chat with Ed Shultz about visiting Minot, North Dakota, last year and traveling through his home town of Fargo in pursuit of the story about the "missing" nuclear weapons from Minot Air Force Base.

I also saw CBS News' Bob Schieffer and we had a brief talk about his driving Lee Harvey Oswald's mother from Fort Worth to Dallas after her son was charged with assassinating President Kennedy. Ironically, present at the dinner was Mariska Hargitay, the daughter of actress Jayne Mansfield, who, 1967, was riding in the back seat of the automobile with her two brothers when the vehicle struck the back of a semi-trailer truck. The collision killed her mother, her attorney and boyfriend Sam Brody, and the driver. WMR previously reported that Mansfield was on her way to New Orleans to give District Attorney Jim Garrison notes taken by her friend, columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, from her jail cell interview with Oswald's killer, Jack Ruby.

It was nice to meet longtime Washington insider and politico Peter Fenn, who served as an adviser to Al Gore during the 2000 presidential campaign. I also congratulted Virginia's Senator and former Governor Mark Warner on his drubbing of the GOP Senate candidate last November. Warner, incidentally, defeated former Virginia Governor and Republican National Committee chairman Jim Gilmore, who has been relegated to the pages political trivia.

I did not have the opportunity to run into Rahm Emanuel, who was present at the dinner with his two brothers, Hollywood uber-agent Ari, and National Institutes of Health scientist Zeke. I also did not have the chance to meet Keith Olbermann, who once said if there was any truth to my report about the Ohio election being stolen by Bush in 2004, he would carry me on his back to received my Pulitzer Prize. Sad, because I had a riding crop at the ready.

The information gleaned from Saturday night will be highlighted in this week's WMR reports.

Much to my surprise, I discovered that WMR is read by a number of people who work for what is commonly referred to as the "mainstream media." And some of the subjects of WMR investigations were also present: at one point I ended up talking to General Michael Hayden, the former director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the CIA. He told me he is still in the DC area and living in McLean, Virginia. Our brief conversation did not go much beyond that subject and the event I attended at CIA headquarters last December that honored a Cold War-era Polish spy for the CIA.

Editor (right) with one of our readers (left) who will be familiar to many viewers of "The McLaughlin Group." We sat next to one another in the press box at the Philly convention when George W. Bush accepted the presidential nomination. No one then could have predicted how that event would change the world -- for the worse.

After DC's great and near-great Saturday night, it is now time to get back to investigating a few of them.