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Is Mark Cuban really guilty of an SEC violation for insider trading? Or is this just a political hit job for George W. Bush because Mark financed a movie critical of the government’s involvement in 9-11, and their domestic terrorist agenda of mass murder for oil?

Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team, is now being accused of insider trading due to his involvement with the 9-11 documentary Loose Change.

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The SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) is persecuting him over an old stock trade from 2004. The persecution began after he exchanged emails about the 9-11 documentary Loose Change with an SEC lawyer named Jeffery Norris, in the Fort Worth, Texas office.

“A person close to Mr. Cuban provided me with a copy of an e-mail message said to have been sent by Jeffrey Norris, an S.E.C. lawyer in the Fort Worth regional office,”

writes Floyd Norris (no relation to the SEC lawyer) of the New York Times.

“This e-mail message seems to have been sent after an exchange in which Mr. Norris complained that Mr. Cuban had financed a movie called ‘Loose Change’ that discusses the president’s actions relating to Sept. 11.”

In the email sent to Cuban, Jeffrey Norris trashes the documentary and labels it a “conspiracy theory” then proceeds to accuse Cuban of “smearing the good name of a patriot like President Bush.” He then says he will forward the email to Christopher Cox, the chairman of the SEC, who was nominated for that position by President Bush. Although it can’t be proved yet, it appears that in his anger Mr. Norris gave the SEC the idea to go after Mark Cuban for his intention of financing Loose Change, not for any serious criminal behavior in regard to stock trading.

Quotes from the emails in question:

“Since Chairman Cox may not know the background, I will explain. Mark Cuban is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and has participated in distributing the vicious and absurd documentary, Loose Change, which posits that President Bush planned the demolition of the World Trade Center as a pretext for going to war against Iraq. We have had some past exchanges about my opinion that Mr. Cuban’s support for this project is irresponsible and immoral.”

“If this upsets you, I wonder how George Bush feels,” Mr. Norris wrote. “I assume that Mr. Cox would view your involvement with ‘Loose Change’ much as I do. After all, he served his country as a Republican congressman from Orange County for nearly 20 years and was appointed by President Bush.”

Just for the record: The Loose Change documentary does not accuse President Bush “directly”, of involvement in the plans to carry out the September 11, 2001 attacks, but then mindless neocons and uneducated Bush supporters take great pride in misrepresenting facts and making absurd allegations with no basis in reality whatsoever.

Mark Cuban on the film Loose Change:

“My only response is to quote JFK: ‘We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.’ “

Mark Cuban, in a release on his blog adds this on the SEC case:

“I am disappointed that the Commission chose to bring this case based upon its Enforcement staff’s win-at-any-cost ambitions. The staff’s process was result-oriented, facts be damned. The government’s claims are false and they will be proven to be so.”

Just for the record: It should be noted that Mark Cuban never financed the production of Loose Change, and Charlie Sheen didn’t narrate it. They backed out from their commitments after Bill O’Reilly made his attacks.

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Just something to think about:
An SEC prosecution is what you get for having an opinion and try to freely express it. Free speech is dying. Can you hear the death cry now?

Sources:
Criticism of film won’t deter Cuban by James Ragland DallasNews.com

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9/11 widows call for new investigation after revelations of White House, commission ties
by Nick Juliano

The widows whose political activism was largely responsible for the establishment of a commission to investigate the September 11 attacks say a new book revealing the backstory of the 9/11 Commission proves that their initial concerns about its executive director were correct and demonstrate the need for another investigation.

Philip Shenon, who covered the proceedings for the New York Times, has written a new book, The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation, which was released Tuesday. The book reveals the close ties between commission executive director Philip Zelikow and White House advisers Karl Rove and Condoleezza Rice.

The Commission also reveals that aside from one staff member, no one on the 9/11 investigative panel reviewed what was perhaps the most robust treasure trove of pre-9/11 intelligence on al Qaeda — records from the National Security Agency, which conducts electronic surveillance and codebreaking for the US Intelligence Community.

“General Michael Hayden, who headed the NSA at the time, was eager to cooperate and share what his organization had with the 9/11 Commission, but Executive Director Zelikow was not interested,” 9/11 widows Patty Casazza, Monica Gabriellle, Mindy Kleinberg and Lorie Van Auken said in a statement reacting to the book.

“Why didnt Phil Zelikow make reviewing these vital NSA documents a Commission priority?” they ask. “It seems clear that not every fact and lead was followed in this investigation compromising the validity of the Commission’s final report and its findings.”

The 9/11 widows called for Zelikow to resign or be fired from the Commission back in 2004, when his ties with Rice and Rove were first revealed. Shenon’s book, they say, proves their concerns were right all along.

“It is abundantly clear that Philip Zelikow should have immediately been replaced when the first rumblings of his impropriety and conflicts of interest surfaced,” they said. “When all of this information became clear, the Commissioners and the press should have called for Zelikows resignation. We did. Shamefully, most were silent.”

As washingtonpost.com columnist Dan Froomkin notes, “This isn’t the first time it’s turned out that the 9/11 Commission wasn’t getting the full picture. It’s not even the second.”

Bob Woodward revealed in his book State of Denial, that 9/11 Commission members were not told of a July 10, 2001, meeting in which then-CIA Director George Tenet tried to warn Rice and Bush about the need to focus on al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, while the president and his confidant were distracted by their pursuit of a missile defense system.

In another Bush administration exposé, investigative reporter Ron Suskind revealed the president’s brush-off of the ominous memo warning “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”:

“All right,” Bush told the panicked CIA briefer who interrupted the president’s vacation to deliver the warning in person. “You’ve covered your ass, now.”

The 9/11 widows also fault the Commission for relying too much on information gained from “second and third hand knowledge of interrogations of tortured individuals, detainees that were being held in secret locations.”

They say Shenon’s book reveals information that “only scratches the surface” of what happened within the government before the 9/11 attacks.

“The bottom line is that the most deadly attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor remains dangerously unexamined,” they write. “This can only be remedied with an investigation guided by the facts and conducted outside the reach of those with a vested interest in suppressing the truth.”

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