James Kallstrom

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Former Director, Office of Public Security for State of New York and TWA800 (->) Investigator James Kallstrom held various important positions in 2001-2002. He is Senior Executive Vice President of the MBNA Bank (->) and Assistant Director in charge of the New York FBI. With the help of MBNA Corp, the FBI tried to trace the hijackers credit cards. Almost at the same time, former FBIHQ Thomas Pickard  started a new job at MBNA (Wilmington, Delaware) as well, as a Senior Vice Chairman right after September 11 2001 and only a few weeks after he and Louis J. Freeh forced FBI Anti-Terror specialist John O'Neill out of his job. Louis J. Freeh started a job at MBNA in September 2001, too, supporting yet another ex-FBI agent, Lewis Schiliro, who supervised several counterterrorism investigations, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and BioTerror conferences by Jerome Hauer * (->), who organised the security job at the Twin Towers for John O' Neill (->).

* This conference was on July 26, 1999, conference in New York for journalists and "thought leaders," on bioterrorism and "Reporting on Weapons of Mass Destruction - Responsibility, Reliability, Readiness." Among participants at this 1999 conference Schiliro and Brigadier General Bruce Lawlor of the U.S. Army (consultant to the Defense Science Board), who is today, unsurprisingly Senior Director for Protection and Prevention, Office of Homeland Security. Source: http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/bcsia/esdp.nsf/bios/lawlorbruce

The story of MBNA and Kallstrom is rather obscure. In April 2001, MBNA had to deal with check fraud. Involved was Intelligent Finance, a Halifax-backed Internet bank and a bogus account for a guy named Vindel. http://www.mbnasucks.org/kallstrom.html Interesting is the bio of another director of the MBNA Corporation: Bernadine P. Healy. She serves as a trustee of the Battelle Memorial Institute (->) and is President and CEO of the American Red Cross. http://yahoo.marketguide.com/mgi/biograph.asp?rt=biograph&rn=5570N 

On May 10, 2001, a few months before September 11, she testified on "human challenges that we will face during a WMD attack": http://www.slu.edu/colleges/sph/csbei/bioterrorism/official/congress.htm 

Thanks to OBM Watch (who is keeping a list of information removed from government websites) we learned, that on "January 17, 2002, James K. Kallstrom, Director of the Office of Public Security and James G. Natoli, Director of the Office of State Operations in New York, issued a confidential memo to agency heads and commissioners on "agency sensitive information." The memo instructs agencies to review all "sensitive" information held by the agency and what information is made publicly accessible via the Internet, freedom of information, or other ways. Sensitive information should no longer be made available to the public except where specifically required by law. Logs over the past year of who has accessed sensitive information should be made available to the Office of Public Security and the Office of State Operations. All of this was to be accomplished by February 17 and certified by agency heads through a confidential report..."
Source: http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/213/1/1

/ More disturbingly, Kallstrom became Head of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the federal Office of Homeland Defense, the U.S. Coast Guard, and Entergy officials at Indian Point (Tinfoil Alert? ->) to assess the long-term security needs at the nuclear plant Indian Point. http://www.state.ny.us/governor/press/year01/oct19_01.htm

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