Daniel Hopsicker is an investigative journalist. He used to work for NBC. Daniel's work includes his book "Barry and the Boys'":
This journalistic tour de force presents the story of Barry Seals career in intelligence and drug and gun running - from its inception as a teenager working along side Lee Oswalld in the New Orleans CAP under David Ferrie, to its conclusion, "in a hail of bullets, with George Bushs private phone number in his wallet."
It is rare these days for a single work to offer more than a few minor details of new information to add to our overall understanding of cold war crimes of State. It is even more rare to find a book in this category that satisfies both the intellects need for new information and the hearts desire for human interest and style. Hopsickers work - the result of two and a half years of full-time field investigation, living out of suitcases and pushing the limits of his own personal safety in his quest for "the story" - delivers all of this by the planeload.
http://www.historyamericas.com/Barry_and_the_Boys_The_CIA_the_Mob_and_Americas_Secret_History_09706
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Since 9-11 Hopsicker has been following the story of the flight school where Atta the lead hijacker trained in Florida. From day one he's stayed on the story. The man epitomizes the hero of the American working class popularized by Dashiell Hammett's fat, cold eyed, detective the Continental Op. Daniel is a journalist. He is doing his job. Hopsicker's new book "Terrorland" is the result of two solid years of work. What he is uncovering in Florida is a great American Detective Story, pulp fiction in the making, right before our very eyes. TRUE CRIME:
Although the FBI has denied it even existed, the terrorist support network that provided assistance to Mohamed Atta and his fellow hijackers remains in place in Florida.
Pointing to current and recent cases involving suspected members of the terrorist infrastructure, private investigators say the network is not only operational but that its members show little or no fear of federal authorities.
Several recent cases in the Venice-Sarasota area illustrate what one investigator called this "frightening situation."
The first involves 38-year-old Sarasota `businessman' Wissam Taysir Hammoud, a native of Lebanon. Just three days before Christmas last year, while last-minute preparations for the approaching holiday occupied most thoughts, Hammoud went shopping, too... for a hit man.
Hammoud was willing to pay to have two men killed in particularly grisly ways: a federal informant and an agent with the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Hit Man's Headless Holiday
According to the federal complaint, Hammoud told the hit man he wanted the informant tied to a tree, ordering him to then `slowly cut pieces of his (the informants) body off."
When he ran out of limbs to cut off, the hit man was told, the informant was to be beheaded.
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Very basically. Dean won! What does this have to do with the above? Dean's campaign shifted power back to the people. How? Very simply, by adopting technological change. The writing is on the wall. Support the people that are telling you the truth, here, in our "media."
The Empire crumbles. Hopsicker's books are smash hits in Germany. Don't underestimate the power that Internet publishing has given to the little guy. Pretty soon our government will call on you or your children to kill out of fear, to kill for peace. Real men don't say "superpower."
A Silent Non Violent Revolution!
" ... but my life of education hasn't hurt me none. I can read the writing on the wall." Paul Simon: Kodachrome.