FBI: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Targeting Plotters Inside America

The New York Daily News (5-31-07) reports:

The FBI has increased its use of secret search warrants over the past two years because of a "high tempo of terrorist activity," a top official said yesterday.

FBI Assistant Director John Miller said the 2,176 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act search warrants approved last year, compared with only 1,754 granted in 2005, mostly targeted plotters inside America.

"We're seeing a very high tempo of terrorist activity, not just based on the cases you're seeing being brought in the United States," Miller said in an interview yesterday for C-SPAN's "Newsmaker" program.

Miller said the warrants, issued by a secret federal court in Washington, are usually not a "way to a prosecution," but are "an intelligence tool." [full text]

Maoist MIM Announces a Pause in the Ward Churchill Struggle!

"I've received...unqualified support from hard-line Maoists.....[T]he Maoist International Movement (MIM) have used their weekly papers to advance some of the best analysis of my case and its implications yet published"--Ward Churchill

The Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM), which has given its support to the tenured Plagiarist of Ethnic Studies Ward Churchill, announces a pause its struggle:

"At the moment, we are going to pause the Ward Churchill struggle to see what happens with the faculty and regents. We have given indications that undercover federal forces are involved and the mud involved with that. If the regents punish Ward Churchill, the struggle is only just getting started."

For more MIM spy mania about Wardo see here.

On 3/17/07, MIM scolded vigilante-spy bloggers who fail to appreciate that they are tripping up the FBI by exercising their free speech [video].

ACTA Issues Press Release about President Brown's Decision to Fire Ward Churchill

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Anne D. Neal, 202-467-6787

ACADEMIC FREEDOM WINS IN COLORADO

Churchill Decision a Victory for Faculty Who Adhere to Professional Standards

WASHINGTON, DC (May 29, 2007)—The University of Colorado administration’s conclusion that professor Ward Churchill should be fired is a victory for academic freedom and professional standards, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni said today. After more than two years of fact-finding, CU’s president, Hank Brown, recommended that Churchill be dismissed.

[See President Brown's letter to the Chair of the Board of Regents here. The letter seems to have been leaked, probably not by President Brown.]

“CU had a serious obligation to respect Churchill’s due process rights and it did that,” said ACTA president Anne D. Neal. “Now, after a lengthy investigation uncovered clear academic misconduct, anything short of firing him would have been unthinkable.”

Churchill gained nationwide attention in 2005, when it was discovered that he had compared the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to Nazis. At that time, amid demands for his immediate firing, ACTA called upon CU to provide Churchill with academic due process. Faced with accusations of research misconduct, five duly-constituted groups of academics thereafter examined Churchill’s research and found troubling evidence of misconduct:

In March 2005, a review team announced its finding that the “allegations of plagiarism, misuse of others’ work and fabrication” against Churchill “may constitute research misconduct.”

In September 2005, the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct found that seven charges against Churchill merited “full investigation.”

In May 2006, after performing that investigation, the Investigative Committee of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct released a 125-page report charging that Churchill “committed several forms of academic misconduct.”

In June 2006, a majority of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct said in a report that Churchill should be dismissed for severe, repeated, deliberate, and harmful acts of scholarly misconduct. CU-Boulder’s interim chancellor agreed.

This month, the Privilege and Tenure Committee’s confidential report was leaked to the media. According to the Associated Press, it said Churchill’s work fell “below minimum standards of professional integrity and…requires severe sanctions” and that he “committed multiple acts of plagiarism, fabrication and falsification.”

After reviewing the evidence, Brown sustained the Boulder chancellor’s recommendation that Churchill be dismissed, in a letter dated Friday.

“This is not about dissent on campus,” ACTA’s Neal concluded. “Academics have a right to say whatever they want in the public forum. But academic freedom—which governs classroom speech and research—brings with it responsibility. And when professors fail to be responsible, they abuse the sacred trust we place in them, and sanctions are in order. President Brown’s decision is a victory for CU’s scholarly reputation and for all its faculty who do adhere to professional standards, perform rigorous research, and engage in sound scholarship.”

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, national organization dedicated to academic freedom, academic quality, and accountability. ACTA has a network of trustees and alumni around the country and has issued numerous reports on higher education, including The Vanishing Shakespeare, How Many Ward Churchills?, Intellectual Diversity: Time for Action, The Hollow Core, and Losing America’s Memory: Historical Illiteracy in the 21st Century. For further information, contact ACTA at (202) 467-6787.

American Forces Free Over 40 Iraqi Hostages from an Al Qaeda Hideout

A preliminary report on FOX News says that the American forces have rescued over 40 Iraqi hostages from an Al Qaeda hideout.

Usually, when the military finds these Al Qaeda safe houses, they are empty or the hostages have already been murdered; but this time the Americans were tipped off by Iraqis who don't like Al Qaeda.

FOX reports:

Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, the top U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said it was the largest number of detained Iraqis ever found in a single Al Qaeda hide-out. Some among the 41 had been held as long as four months...

Caldwell said a tip to U.S. forces from Iraqis in Diyala led to the rescue operation:

"The people in Diyala are speaking up against Al Qaeda," he said. Caldwell said U.S. troops have been engaging more directly with Iraqi civilians in Diyala in recent weeks since an additional 3,000 U.S. troops entered the province.

FOX has a special Iraq Center devoted to news about the war in Iraq.

I am proud that our armed forces are in Iraq helping the Iraqis get rid of these terrorists who bomb, kidnap, torture, and murder. One of the kidnapped victims was a 14-year-old boy who was being tortured by being bound and hung from the ceiling.

America and Arab countries are also sending the Lebanese government weapons so they can get rid of the Al Qaeda who have taken over a Palestinian enclave in Tripoli, Lebanon. The Al Qaeda typically hide behind civilians and use them as human shields.

Here is an Al Qaeda torture manual captured by the Americans and released by the Department of Defense.

Stephano and Trinculo Defend Ward Churchill!

Picture credit

Serial miscalculators Stephano and Trinculo were observed running around the Blogosphere last night with crayons, drawing mustaches on Mimi Wesson, and urging everyone to sober up.

MIM scribbled:

"The sooner the University of Colorado kangaroo committee and Hank Brown realize that their struggle is going down in flames, the better for everyone involved. The reactionaries' effort will be futile...

It's time for the University of Colorado to give it up. In most universities, someone with as much notoriety and influence in a field who had taught as long as Ward Churchill would be paid a lot more than $96,000. The University of Colorado was getting a great bargain."

Snapple discussed this state of affairs with her freewheeling flagship alter Towanda, and Towanda's prediction is that Professor Wardo's bubble is about to burst [video].

Ward Churchill's Unoriginal Big Lie!

"Mischief makers tried to provoke the Indians against the whites by telling them that they were to be exterminated by smallpox, introduced in clothing sent to them"---Stearn and Stearn. The Effect of Smallpox on the Destiny of the Amerindian (102)

The University of Colorado's Tenured Plagiarist of Ethnic Studies Ward Churchill has claimed in many articles (see pages 40-41) that the American Army deliberately infected Indians with smallpox by giving them infected blankets.

When scholars and newspapers showed that Churchill's "sources" actually said the opposite of what he claimed, Churchill began to tell newspapers he had new proof of his claims.

In 2005, Churchill told the Rocky Mountain News (6-8-05):

"What happened at Fort Clark was far worse than I indicated. Far worse....And now I've got the documentation, the paper, to prove it. So next time I iterate it, it's going to be a much sharper finding on genocidal intent with Fort Clark."

Ward Churchill still has not produced the paper documentation of the U.S. Army's genocidal intent.

In 2005, Ward Churchill told the University of Winnipeg student newspaper The Uniter (11-17-2005; see pages 10-11) something a bit different:

"...[W]ith regard to my so-called academic misconduct or regarding fabricating historical events...

[I]n 1837...the U.S. Army [deliberately gave smallpox- infected blankets] to the Mandan at Fort Clark in the upper Missouri river. I never developed it in any depth [Actually,Ward Churchill has made this claim in six articles he published between 1994 and 2003. These articles are listed in the CU Report on pages 40-41], it is self-evident that it happened by what my people have told me [Ward Churchill falsely claims that he is an Indian, so he doesn't have to provide any evidence]. I put a couple citations behind it for people to look at and draw their own conclusions, the citations don’t say what I said, which is not unusual but in this case this is considered fraud. I never considered an in-depth treatment of it [See pages 40-41], but I am now. And guess what? Not only what I said was true but it was far worse than what I said. They should have left it alone. It turns out there was an actual war department policy, not a couple of lonely officers at an outpost that could be an anomaly."

Churchill "cites" The Effect of Smallpox on the Destiny of the Amerindian (1945) by E. Wagner Stearn, Ph.D. and Allen E. Stearn, Ph.D. to give the impression that his claim is documented by these respected scholars. In fact, this book actually chronicles in painstaking detail the attempts of the American government to innoculate Indians against smallpox. Near the end of the book, the authors even write:

"If, in the foregoing pages, some facts have been stated which incriminated the white conquerers and settlers, the history is replete with instances of great heroism and devotion of large numbers of white men throughout the centuries, who labored to alleviate the sufferings of, and finally brought the protection to, the conquered people through vaccination at their own trouble and expense" (139).

In a discussion about the health effects on Indians of the construction of the Pacific Railroad, the Searn and Stearn book even mentions that some trouble-makers tried to convince Indians that the whites planned to deliberately infect them with contaminated clothing:

"Mischief makers tried to provoke the Indians against the whites by telling them that they were to be exterminated by smallpox, introduced in clothing sent to them" (102).

It seems like Ward Churchill is not the first person to try to sow distrust between Americans with this lie.

I have other posts about Churchill's claims about smallpox. For example, see here, here, here, here and here [Search "smallpox" for all references].

Allegations that the American Army uses biowarfare are a staple of communist propaganda.

Ward Churchill Ignorant about Adolf Eichmann's Central Role in the Holocaust

Musical selections from Schindler's List

"Eichmann took a keen interest in Auschwitz from its founding and visited there on numerous occasions. He helped Höss select the site for the gas chambers, approved the use of Zyklon-B, and witnessed the extermination process." [full text]

Here is a short video about the NAZI war criminal Adolf Eichmann: Nazi Criminal Adolf Eichmann Sentenced to Death - 15/12/1961

A female college student got into a discussion with Ward Churchill [video] about what Adolf Eichman did in NAZI Germany during the Holocaust. Ward Churchill showed himself to be extremely ignorant or mendacious about Eichmann's role in the Holocaust. Probably both.

Ward Churchill characterized the people who died in the World Trade Center on 9-11 as "Little Eichmanns," but he was very offended that "brave" people anonymously use the internet tell other people how "wrong" they are even though the "brave" people don't know the people they are criticizing.

Ward Churchill seems to be suggesting that the criticism of him for his cruel words about the victims of 9-11 is unfair because people don't know him; however, it seems to me that Ward Churchill is always telling the whole world how wrong the "Little Eichmanns are, and he doesn't know them.

Ward Churchill is also fond of writing anonymously. He even writes articles, has other people sign them, and then cites his own ghost-written articles!

Ward Churchill!

Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye, with never a thought for the great plank in your own? Or how can you say to your brother, "let me take the speck out of your eye", when all the time there is that plank in your own? You hypocrite! First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s. [Matthew 7:3 through 7:5]

When I watched this [video], I realized something about Ward Churchill's debating style. He argues by calling his opponent as well as his opponent's ethnic or religious group ignorant. Then he spews out a lot of made-up "facts" as if he is some big expert.

The young woman speaking in the video said she was confused about why Churchill called the people murdered on 9-11 "Little Eichmans."

The arrogant Churchill responded by belittling the young woman's education or intelligence, saying, "I'm sure that there's more than one thing confusing you [about my views]."

Churchill suggested that perhaps this bright young student did not even know who Eichmann was. When she told him that she knew who Eichmann was because she is Jewish, Churchill found fault with Jews and claimed that "a whole lot of Jewish people [mistakenly] thought [Eichman] ran Auschwitz."

In fact, Eichmann was an administrator at Dachau. He visited Auschwitz and involved himself in the decisions about the gas chambers at that huge death camp.

"Eichmann helped Heydrich organize the Wannsee Conference in Berlin during which Heydrich and Eichmann along with 15 Nazi bureaucrats planned the extermination of the entire Jewish population of Europe and the Soviet Union...Eichmann took a keen interest in Auschwitz from its founding and visited there on numerous occasions. He helped Höss select the site for the gas chambers, approved the use of Zyklon-B, and witnessed the extermination process. [full text]

The young woman said that Eichmann massacred Jews.

Churchill told her "no," that she was wrong about Eichman massacring Jews, although he was "accused by Israel of doing that." Churchill minimized Eichmann's crimes and claimed that Eichmann "primarily arranged train schedules."

This is disgusting. Adolf Eichmann was the person who organized the logistics for getting the Jews to the camps.

Churchill claimed that Eichmann wasn't accused of massacring Jews. He said there was one charge that he killed someone but that the person who made the accusation wasn't credible. In fact, Eichmann was convicted on all counts, including crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Churchill told the young students that they should read Eichmann in Jerusalem.

According to Wikipedia, Eichmann "was a high-ranking Nazi and SS Obersturmbannführer (equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel). Due to his organizational talents and ideological reliability, he was tasked by Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich to facilitate and manage the logistics of mass deportation to ghettos and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe....

In 1933 when the Nazis came to power in Germany, Eichmann returned to that country and submitted an application to join the active duty SS regiments. This was accepted, and in November of 1933, Eichmann was promoted to Scharführer and assigned to the administrative staff of the Dachau concentration camp....

In 1942, Reinhard Heydrich ordered Eichmann to attend the Wannsee Conference as recording secretary, where Germany's anti-Jewish measures were set down into an official policy of genocide. To this Final Solution of the Jewish Question Eichmann was tasked as Transportation Administrator, which put him in charge of all the trains which would carry Jews to the Death Camps in the territory of occupied Poland...

[I]n 1944, he was sent to Hungary [and] at once went to work deporting Jews and was able to send four hundred thousand Hungarians to their deaths in the Nazi gas chambers." [Full text]

It seems to me that Churchill is the one who doesn't know who Eichmann was.

Churchill falsely claimed that he has been tenured and the University of Colorado for 20 years.

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

Picture credit and excellent timeline at Amazon

In March 2002, the Atlantic Monthly published and article by Charles C. Mann called "1491." This interesting article surveyed different theories about the peopling of the Western Hemisphere and the cultures that developed prior to the European discovery of America. This article is also available here.

In 2005, Mann published his book, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus.

I read both the 2002 article and the 2005 book when it was published and thought both were very interesting.

The article begins:

The Atlantic Monthly March 2002

1491

Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly more populous and sophisticated than has been thought—an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe. New evidence of both the extent of the population and its agricultural advancement leads to a remarkable conjecture: the Amazon rain forest may be largely a human artifact

by Charles C. Mann

The plane took off in weather that was surprisingly cool for north-central Bolivia and flew east, toward the Brazilian border. In a few minutes the roads and houses disappeared, and the only evidence of human settlement was the cattle scattered over the savannah like jimmies on ice cream. Then they, too, disappeared. By that time the archaeologists had their cameras out and were clicking away in delight...[See the full text here or here.]

Cancer Ward

The cage was empty but it had the usual notice reading "Macaque Rhesus." It had been hurredly scrawled and nailed to the plywood. It said: "The little monkey that used to live here was blinded because of the senseless cruelty of one of the visitors. An evil man threw tobacco in the Macaque-Rhesus's eyes."

Oleg was struck dumb. Up to then he had been strolling along smiling with knowing condescension, but now he felt like yelling and roaring across the whole zoo, as though the tobacco had been thrown into his own eyes, "Why?" Thrown into its eyes, just like that! "Why? It's senseless! Why?" - Kostoglotov in Cancer Ward

Picture credit and Short sound clip of This is Our Last Sunday/Ta ostatnia niedziela (WMA format), the theme song for the Russian film Burnt By the Sun. The song is also colloquially known as the Suicide Tango. The man in the picture (above) is a Soviet NKVD operative named Mitya. [video of scene in Burnt by the Sun]

Cancer Ward (1968), by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is an allegory about post-Stalin Russia. Wikipedia comments:

"As the title hints, the plot focuses on a group of cancer patients as they undergo therapy. The novel deals with political theories, mortality and hope, themes that are often explored either through descriptive passages or the conversations the characters have within the ward, which is a microcosm of the post Stalin Russian Communist regime...

Cancer Ward the novel, makes many allegorial references to the state of Soviet Russia, in particular the quote from Kostoglotov "A man dies from a tumour, so how can a country survive with growths like labour camps and exiles?" highlights the comparison between cancer overtaking the patient with the police state overtaking Russia.

Solzhenitsyn himself writes in an appendix to Cancer Ward that the 'evil man' who threw tobacco in the macaque's eyes at the zoo is meant to directly represent Stalin, and the monkey the innocent prisoner. The other zoo animals also have significance, the tiger reminiscent of Stalin and the squirrel running itself to death the proletariat.

On the light side:
Viktor Huliganov tells his audience not to poison other people by smoking in public and sings "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." [Video]

Canadian Ojibways Support the Family of Leah Kelly, Ward Churchill's Late Wife

Ward Churchill and his friends try to make it seem like the "persecution" of the "Indian" Ward Churchill is something the "right wing media" cooked up. This is nothing but sleight-of-hand designed to take the focus off who really complained about Ward Churchill for years--Indians.

This official Annual General Assembly Resolution (below) was written in 2004 by Canadian Ojibway Indians. They were supporting the family of Ward Churchill's late wife, the Ojibway Indian Leah Kelly.

This resolution was written in July 2004, long before the criticism of Ward Churchill became national news in early 2005. The Indian law Professor John LaVelle also criticised Ward Churchill in 1996.

Indians, even Indians from a foreign country, complained about Churchill's dishonest scholarship long before it became a story for the national media in early 2005.

Ward Churchill and his friends try to make it seem like the "persecution" of the "Indian" Ward Churchill is something the "right wing media" cooked up. This is nothing but sleight-of-hand designed to take the focus off who really complained about Ward Churchill for years--Indians.

The Canadian Ojibway were offended by Ward Churchill's exploitation of Leah Kelly's tragic death. The Ojibway say that Churchill wrote false information about Leah and her family. When they complained, Churchill threatened the Kellys.

Here is Ward Churchill's side.

Notice that even Churchill admits he abused his Indian wife:

"I broke and slammed [my wife] back against our bedroom wall, telling her that if she kept it up, she’d be apt to land in a hospital."

Churchill also claims in the article that Leah's alcoholism was the result of generations of white oppression. However, there is no evidence that Ward Churchill himself is anything but a white man, and Leah's family says that their daughter and sister did not abuse alcohol until she was married to Churchill.

Ward Churchill's sister, Rhonda, reportedly even says that Churchill tried to push Leah out of a moving car.

Churchill's denigration of the Kelly family has continued on Try-Works, a pro-Churchill blog.

Try-Works claims to be an advocate for Indian voices, but really they intimidate and repress Indian voices. They dismiss Rhonda Kelly's testimony as the ravings of a lunatic and a drunk. I think that is just racist stereotyping used to make people ignore Indians who take on this white man, Professor Ward Churchill.

What does Try-Works say about an entire tribe of Canadian Indians? Are they all a bunch of ignorable drunks, too?

And since when was Ward Churchill an honest tea totaller?

I have written many articles about Leah Kelly. The first post is here, and this post has a picture of Leah. The interested reader can use the search feature in the top left of the page to search for more articles about Leah or Rhoda.

Here is what the Kelly's tribe, the Ojibway Indians of Canada, say about Ward Churchill:

ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Resolution no. 56/2004
July 20, 21 & 22, 2004, Charlottetown, PEI
subject:
SUPPORT FOR LEAH KELLY’S FAMILY
Moved by:
Chief Gary Kishqueb, Lac Des Milles Lac First Nation, ON
Seconded by:
Proxy Goyce Kakegamic, Cat Lake First Nation, ON
DECISION:
Due to lack of quorum on July 22, 2004, the Co-Chair referred the resolution to the AFN Executive Committee. On October 3, 2004, in Ottawa, ON, the AFN Executive Committee recommended action to implement the resolution.
WHEREAS Leah Kelly, a member of the Ojibways of Onegaming First Nation, died on June 1, 2000, in a car accident in Boulder, Colorado; and
WHEREAS Leah is the subject of the biography ‘In My Own Voice” written by Ward Churchill, her surviving husband, published in 2001; and
WHEREAS the family of Leah Kelly is angered by the lack of research that went into the making of this book relating to Leah and her family’s history; and
WHEREAS in the attempt to inform the author and publisher of “In My Own Voice” that there were many inaccuracies in the book, the family was met with threats by the author; and
WHEREAS serious false allegations and insinuations are made in the book against Leah Kelly and family members; and
WHEREAS a screenplay based on “In My Own Voice” is currently in the works by the author of the book despite the disapproval by the family of Leah Kelly.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED the Assembly of First Nations support the family of the Leah Kelly by denouncing “In My Own Voice” as an inaccurate portrayal of the life of Leah Kelly and her family; and
FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED the Assembly of First Nations denounce the book and anticipated film as a continuation of the inaccurate portrayals of First Nations people in Canada and their histories; and
FINALLY BE IT RESOLVED the Chiefs in Assembly direct the National Chief state the healing of our First Nations people comes through the telling of our own stories by our own people.

Where's That Apocryphal Document from the War(d) Department?

In November 2005, Ward Churchill twice told the Winnipeg University student newspaper The Uniter (pages 10-11) that he never developed his idea that the U.S. Army deliberately infected the Mandan with smallpox "in any depth," but according to the University of Colorado investigation, Ward Churchill has made this claim in six articles he published between 1994 and 2003. These articles are listed in the CU Report on pages 40-41. In 2005, Ward Churchill told The Uniter that he had evidence that the apocryphal Mandan genocide was "an actual war department policy;" but it is now 2007, and he has never produced the evidence.

Ward Churchill has published two remarkably contrasting accounts of how he uses footnotes.

In his 1997 book A Little Matter of Genocide, Ward Churchill demonstrated not only his cynical hypocrisy but the fact that he knows perfectly well what the rules are for footnotes:

"[I]t is a matter not just of courtesy, but of ethics, to make proper attribution to those upon whose ideas and research one relies."
[page 10; Cited from page 11 of the Report of the Investigative Committee of the standing Committee on Research Misconduct at the University of Colorado at Boulder concerning Allegations of Academic Misconduct against Professor Ward Churchill]

In 2005, Ward Churchill told the University of Winnipeg student newspaper The Uniter (11-17-2005; see pages 10-11) something a bit different:

"...[W]ith regard to my so-called academic misconduct or regarding fabricating historical events...

[I]n 1837...the U.S. Army [deliberately gave smallpox- infected blankets] to the Mandan at Fort Clark in the upper Missouri river. I never developed it in any depth, it is self-evident that it happened by what my people have told me. I put a couple citations behind it for people to look at and draw their own conclusions, the citations don’t say what I said, which is not unusual but in this case this is considered fraud. I never considered an in-depth treatment of it, but I am now. And guess what? Not only what I said was true but it was far worse than what I said. They should have left it alone. It turns out there was an actual war department policy, not a couple of lonely officers at an outpost that could be an anomaly."

It is now May 2007, and Ward Churchill still has not produced evidence that infecting the Mandan smallpox was "actual war department policy." He never showed this proof to the University of Colorado scholars who investigated him for his dishonest scholarship.

Even if Ward Churchill were to produce some document from the War(d) Department, he still would have misrepresented what the scholars he cited wrote, because he dishonestly attributed his claim that the Mandan were deliberately infected with smallpox-infected blankets to these other scholars, and the scholars he cited never wrote that the Mandan were deliberately infected with smallpox-infected blankets.

Churchill claims that it is "self evident" that the U.S. Army deliberately gave the Mandans smallpox because of "what my people have told me." This is a lot like Ward Churchill's apocryphal evidence that he is an Indian because his grandma told him so.

Ward Churchill twice told the Winnipeg University student newspaper The Uniter (pages 10-11) that he never developed his idea that the U.S. Army deliberately infected the Mandan with smallpox "in any depth," but according to the University of Colorado investigation, Ward Churchill has made this claim in six articles he published between 1994 and 2003. These articles are listed in the CU Report on pages 40-41.

The C.U. Committee has damned Ward Churchill's "scholarship" right out of his own mouth!

Committee Report on Ward Churchill Sent to President Brown

"[I]t is a matter not just of courtesy, but of ethics, to make proper attribution to those upon whose ideas and research one relies."---Ward Churchill! (Heh!)

The University of Colorado's faculty publication The Silver and Gold Record reports that the the Privilege and Tenure panel members have sent their recommendation about Ward Churchill's conduct [video] to President Hank Brown.

Ward Churchill claims that the majority of the panel felt that Churchill's conduct [video] merited "something other than termination." Of course, Churchill often mischaracterizes the words of other professors.

The University can't release this report because of confidentiality, and Churchill isn't releasing the report so that we can see for ourselves what the professors wrote. The Great White Wardo expects us to buy a pig in a poke. From him! Yeah, right!

The Silver and Gold Record (5-10-07) reports:

President Hank Brown has finally received the report from the Privilege and Tenure Committee regarding dismissal of Ward Churchill of UCB ethnic studies, CU officials announced Tuesday.

Churchill told S&GR that the report is a "mixed bag" because even though it contains errors, the majority of the P&T panel members have recommended something "other than termination." Brown now has 15 business days to weigh the entire record of the case and decide how to proceed. If Brown opts against dismissal, the case would be closed, and Brown could choose to reinstate Churchill or impose disciplinary sanctions.

If Brown disagrees with a P&T recommendation against dismissal, he must send the matter back to P&T, which would have 15 days to reconsider and issue a second report to the president. At that time, regardless of the second P&T recommendation, Brown could send the dismissal to the Board of Regents for approval. Churchill would then have 20 business days to respond to the president's decision to dismiss and to decide whether he wants a private hearing with the board.

Any action the regents take on the recommendation must be done in public.

Churchill said he is not planning to release the P&T report at this time.

CU spokesperson Michele McKinney said yesterday, "It would be highly inappropriate for us to comment on a personnel matter that is under review."

Anarchist Claims That Ward Churchill Tried to Build Alliances Between the Left and the US Militia Movement

An anarchist site claims that Boulder, Colorado's tenured Plagiarist of Ethnic Studies Ward Churchill "was engaged in trying to build alliances between the left and the insane nutbars in the US Militia Movement."

I have no idea what this anarchist is talking about, but hope to be able to clarify this claim about Wardo's strange bedfellows before too long.