Wayne MADSEN (USA):

Dziennikarz śledczy, autor i felietonista. 20 lat doświadczenia w instytucjach bezpieczeństwa. Będąc oficerem marynarki USA zarządzał pierwszym systemem komputerowym bezpieczeństwa US Navy. Często udziela się jako komentator w sprawach politycznych oras bezpieczeństwa narodowego na Fox News jak i  ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera i MS-NBC.

Był zaproszony by złożyć zeznania przed Kongresem USA, Trybunałem do Spraw Kryminalnych dla Rwandy, oraz na panelu antyterrorystycznym organizowanym przez rząd Francji. Jest członkiem the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) jak i the National Press Club. Mieszka w  Waszyngtonie.

Był korespondentem w :

• Tshwane, South Africa
• Helsinki, Finland
• Pekin, China
• Londyn, UK
• Bangkok, Thailand

Motto dziennikarstwa śledczego:

"COMFORT THE AFFLICTED AND AFFLICT THE COMFORTABLE"

"Poszkodowanych nie nękaj, drażnij zadowolonych"

Wayne Madsen w swych publikacjach opiera się na wiadomościach zdobytych  lub uzyskiwanych w oparciu o jego szerokie osobiste kontakty w stolicy, Washingtonu.

Napisał The Village Voice, The Progressive, Counterpunch, Online Journal, CorpWatch, Multinational Monitor, News Insider, In These Times, and The American Conservative.

Swoje kolumny posiadał lub posiada w The Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Columbus Dispatch, Sacramento Bee, i Atlanta Journal-Constitution, i w wielu innych.

Madsen jest autorem:

• • The Handbook of Personal Data Protection (London: Macmillan, 1992), zalecana książka w sprawach ochrony i bezpieczeństwa danych;
  • Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999 (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999);
  • współ-autor America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II (Dandelion, 2003);
  • autor Jaded Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops & Brass Plates and Overthrow a Fascist Regime on $15 a Day.

Madsen regularnie obecny na Russia Today. Jest często zapraszany do programów informacyjnych jako czołowy komentator wydarzeń na Fox News, jak również pokazywał się na  ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, i MS-NBC. Madsen był również zaproszony przez Billa O'Reilly i Seana Hannity do udziału w ich popularnych talk show.

Po okresie służby i pracy w Marynarce Wojennej pracował dla National Security Agency,  Naval Data Automation Command, Department of State, RCA Corporation, i Computer Sciences Corporation.

Madsen był starszym członkiem (Senior Fellow) w Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), organizacji obrony praw obywatelskich i wolności osobistych.

  Biography:

Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author and syndicated columnist. He has written for The Village Voice, The Progressive, Counterpunch, Online Journal, CorpWatch, Multinational Monitor, News Insider, In These Times, and The American Conservative. His columns have appeared in The Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Columbus Dispatch, Sacramento Bee, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among others.

 Madsen is the author of The Handbook of Personal Data Protection (London: Macmillan, 1992), an acclaimed reference book on international data protection law; Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999 (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999); co-author of America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II (Dandelion, 2003); author of Jaded Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops & Brass Plates and Overthrow a Fascist Regime on $15 a Day.

Madsen is a regular contributor on Russia Today. He has been a frequent political and national security commentator on Fox News and has also appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, and MS-NBC. Madsen has taken on Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity on their television shows.  He has been invited to testifty as a witness before the US House of Representatives, the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and an terrorism investigation panel of the French government.

Madsen has some twenty years experience in security issues. As a U.S. Naval Officer, he managed one of the first computer security programs for the U.S. Navy. He subsequently worked for the National Security Agency, the Naval Data Automation Command, Department of State, RCA Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation. Madsen was a Senior Fellow for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a privacy public advocacy organization.

Madsen is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the National Press Club.

Wayne Madsen (born April 25, 1954) is a controversial Washington, D.C.-based investigative journalist, author and columnist who has been described by critics including Andrew Sullivan at the Atlantic Monthly, CBS, and Salon as a conspiracy theorist and conspiracy minded blogger^[1][2][3] He is the author of the blog Wayne Madsen Report.^[4]

 Background and Early Life

Madsen was born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania on 28 April 1954 to an American mother and a Danish mariner who had served on a Danish merchant vessel that shipped arms to Republican Spain during the Spanish Civil War and who later joined the International Brigades fighting against General Franco. His grandmother, who emigrated to the U.S. with his father after World War II was Victoria Madsen, a Danish communist party official and newspaper reporter who, during World War II was a leader in the Danish resistance movement which was involved in organising the smuggling of Danish Jews to Sweden.^[5][6] In the 1950s Victoria Madsen was deported by the FBI after attempting to organise hospital employees into a union.^[7]

Madsen attended the University of Mississippi where he joined the Navy ROTC.

Career U.S. Navy

Upon graduation from Mississippi, he joined the U.S. Navy. He was commissioned an ensign and underwent training at the Surface Warfare School. Later he was assigned to anti-submarine acoustic sensing operations. He subsequently received a Navy Unit Commendation for being part of the team that found the first acoustic signature of a Soviet Alfa class submarine.^[5]

In 1982 he was stationed at the Coos Head Naval Facility. Naval Facility Coos Head had an allowance of twelve officers, ninety-five enlisted and 15 civilians. At Coos Head he was involved in a sting operation conducted by the FBI and NCIS which ultimately ended in the arrest of his commanding officer Lt Cmdr Lawrence William Frawley for pedophilia on 11 September. Madsen was awarded a Navy Achievement Medal for his involvement and assistance in the investigation.^[8] He was later given a bad fitness report by his executive officer, Lt. Cmdr. Marney Finch.^[9]

His new commanding officer at Coos Bay transferred him to Washington D.C. He resigned from the Navy in 1985 as a Lieutenant, having been passed over for promotion. Madsen described himself as the "most senior lieutentant in the Navy"^[10] at the time of his resignation and has blamed his lack of advance on a powerful group of pedophiles hidden in the top of the U.S. Navy ranks. Madsen notes that independent investigations into illegal homosexual activity in the federal government by other journalists were eventually published by the Washington Times in 1989.^[11][12]

In 1984 he "benefitted from the 1983 bombing of the Computer Area in the Washington Navy Yard" and the 1984 White House screening of the movie War Games which he suggests prompted President Reagan into putting money ito computer security. He was loaned in 1984 to the NSA by the Navy to work in computer security.^[11]

Post Navy Career

Between 1985 and 1989 Madsen held a series of jobs, first working for RCA as a government consultant on contracts for the National Security Agency (NSA). Later he worked for the Navy's Naval Data Automation Command as a civilian employee. After this Madsen briefly established his own consulting firm, then worked for the National Bureau of Standards, and later for the State Department.^[11]

In 1990 Madsen joined CSC, working there from 1990 until 1997,^[11] when he joined the Electronic Privacy Information Center(EPIC) as a senior fellow. In late January 2005 Madsen left EPIC, attributing his departure to Republican pressure to remove Washington insiders aligned with the Democrats or liberal causes.^[11]

Blogger and Independent Journalist

In 2005 Madsen became a blogger and free-lance journalist.^[7] He currently edits the Wayne Madsen Report, which he describes as following in the tradition of Drew Pearson, Jack Anderson's famous "Washington Merry-Go-Round" syndicated column, and columns by I.F. Stone. His columns have appeared in The Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Columbus Dispatch, Sacramento Bee, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution.^[13]

Madsen is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Association of Former Intelligence Officers, and the National Press Club (USA).^{[14][dead link]}

Madsen says that in 2001 he was denied a press pass as an Internet journalist to cover the first inauguration of George W. Bush.^[15]

 Reporting and Opinions

In 2000, Madsen expressed concern over the Carnivore Internet information monitoring program of the FBI and Project Echelon of the National Security Agency which he said were threats to the privacy rights of Americans.^[16][17] In 2002 he suggested to the Guardian newspaper that the United States Navy had aided in an attempted overthrow of Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez.^[18] In January 2002 he expressed concern over the possible use of torture by the United States government against suspected terorrists,^[19] as well as possible plans to use the military in domestic law enforcement, in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.^[20]

In 2003 he said that he had uncovered information linking the September 11 attacks to the government of Saudi Arabia as well as to Bush administration.^[21] In 2005, he wrote than an unidentified former CIA agent claimed that the USS Cole was actually hit by a Popeye cruise missile launched from an Israeli Dolphin-class submarine.^[22]

In 2005 he said that the pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC, had pressured American politicians to stay away from protests against the Iraq war.^[23]

In 2006 he criticized the Iraq Study Group, saying:

"I think it is a whitewash group and nothing will come of it, except that they may concoct some reason for the US to stay the course in Iraq, with perhaps a little more international support, like Germany and Canada. The commission is a whitewash because the members are all consummate Washington insiders, many of whom have a political and financial stake in the successful outcome of the war. The longer the war goes on the more money they make."^[24]

Later that year he criticized the movie industry for indirectly causing suffering in Africa by promoting diamonds in movies like Breakfast At Tiffany's and Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend. He included Leonardo DiCaprio, whose film Blood Diamond dealt with the issue, as well as Russell Simmons who is selling a line of "nonconflict diamonds." Madsen said about them, "It's a p.r. campaign. They should be saying, 'Don't buy diamonds at all.'"^[25]

In a 2008 ArabNews article, Madsen is quoted as suggesting that the criminal prosecution of New York State governor Eliot Spitzer was partly due to the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad.^[26]

In July 2009, Madsen released a report claiming the existence of a Q Group within the National Security Agency. This unit is, according to Madsen, tasked with concealing US government involvement in 9/11.^[27]

In 2010, Madsen reported in the Pakistan Daily on claims by General Hamid Gul, the former head of Pakistans Intelligence Service, that Xe Services, the company formerly known as Blackwater, had been conducting false flag operations in Pakistan that were blamed on the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. The claims were supported by General Mirza Aslam Beg, former Pakistani Army Chief of Staff, who claimed that former President Pervez Musharraf approved the operations. Several terrorist attacks in Pakistan have been blamed on Blackwater by Pakistani Islamic leaders and Blackwater has been accused of smuggling weapons and munitions into Pakistan.^[28]

Obama birth certificate

Also on June 9, 2008 he reported that unnamed "GOP dirty tricks operatives" had found a Kenyan birth certificate registering the birth of Barack Obama, Jr., on August 4, 1961. "However, the registration is a common practice in African countries whose citizens abroad have families with foreign nationals."^[29][30] This birth certificate was a cornerstone of the "Kenyan Born" subset of the so-called birther conspiracy theories, and Madsen's article was cited in a Washington state petition challenging Obama's eligibility to serve.^[31]

2009 swine flu man-made

On April 25, 2009, Madsen suggested that some unidentified UN World Health Organization officials and scientists believed the 2009 new H1N1 strain of swine flu virus appeared to be the product of U.S. military sponsored gene splicing, as opposed to natural processes, citing as evidence the presence of genetic material from strains not occurring in pigs (such as bird flu and different forms of human flu), the lack of transmission from pigs to humans and the flu disproportionately affecting young adults when compared to other strains of flu.^[32][33] The virus was later declared by the CDC to be a combination of four different viruses: North American swine flu, North American avian flu, human H1N1 flu and a swine flu strain found in Asia and Europe. While it can not be ruled out that the virus was created in a research laboratory or vaccine factory, another explanation is that the virus is the "long predicted" result of modern farming techniques. New Scientist magazine cited the example of a H1N2 influenza pandemic in the 1990s that only affected pigs in the United Kingdom. This subtype of the H1N2 was also a reassortment (mix) of swine, human and avian strains.^[34]

 Israeli Control of CNN

He currently asserts that members of AIPAC and Israel's Mossad dominate CNN's management and urges his readers to boycott CNN and its advertisers until they are fired. He has begun a project to oppose Israel as a threat to world peace.^[35]