Carlos Ghigliotti

http://www.hardylaw.net/Carlos.html
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[Prepared May, 2000]

Carlos Ghigliotti, circa 1994
Click here for another memorial to Carlos, by Richard Leiby of the Washington Post.
Memorial to a Honest Man
What follows is something I have not been able to reveal prior to this point. As I mention at the end, I am now released from my promise of secrecy.
Last year, the House Gov't Reform Committee retained an infrared expert named Carlos Ghigliotti, of Laurel, Md. Carlos had been working on the FLIR for months, and shared a lot of his results with me. I'd pass him data when he needed it, and he knew he could count on me to keep my mouth shut.

Carlos had no politics that I ever noticed, and his interest in Waco was objective. He had no grudge against the FBI -- in fact, they had once hired him for IR work that their lab was not up to handling, and he used them as a reference.
Thru the committee, Carlos was able to obtain a much better quality tape than any anyone else had. He discovered that, when FBI gave out "first generation copies," it was in fact giving out copies of a digitized "master," not of the original analog tape. Digitization compresses the image, and loses some of its quality. He demanded and got, thru the Committee, a copy of the original tape, on Super VHS, with some other tweakings to make it the most perfect copy possible.

Then he imported the video into his lab equipment (which I've seen--VERY impressive.). He was thorough, refusing to make a finding until he had it pinned down from every angle. In one case, he told me last month, he'd finally managed to link by time and location an image of a person shouldering a weapon, shown on the regular media videotapes made from the media locations, with a flash on the FLIR. That, as far as I was concerned, ended the issue of whether the flashes were gunshots. The game was simply over. Or would have been, if he'd lived.

http://www.hardylaw.net/flir.html
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The Waco FLIR Coverup

For six years after the Waco incident, FBI insisted that had only two Waco FLIR video tapes, the earlier one beginning at 10:42 A.M. Although the gassing assault began at 6:00 A.M., FBI claimed that there were no tapes from that period. In my FOIA lawsuits, FBI said that it had interviewed the agent who operated the FLIR camera and he confirmed that the taping began at 10:42; the chief of FBI's Litigation Unit filed a sworn statement that no earlier tapes existed.
In September, 1999, FBI finally admitted that it did have FLIR tapes going back to 6:00 A.M. The reason they had been withheld was obvious. FBI had been insisting that it had not shot pyrotechnic tear gas projectiles: this was important, since pyrotechnic projectiles burn and are infamous for starting fires when used against buildings. But the sound track of the early morning FLIRs contained radio traffic showing FBI agents asking for, and receiving, permission to shoot military pyrotechnic projectiles. Click here for more data on this coverup.

The Waco FLIR controversy

Dr. Allard's assessment was confirmed by others, including Ferdinand Zegel, also retired from the Night Vision Laboratory, two different analysts with Infraspection Institute, and Carlos Ghigliotti. Using what are probably the highest-quality copies ever made of the FBI tapes, Ghigliotti found almost 200 bursts of gunfire. More importantly, his careful study of the tapes enabled him to spot human movement and retrace the entire chain of events. At one point there is a massive flash (too big to be a gunshot) near one of the FBI tanks. A person (presumably a Davidian, perhaps the person who threw the object causing the big flash) is seen taking cover and then running back into the building. A hatch opens on an FBI tank and a person descend; flashes come from his position, toward the place where the running person was last seen. At least one more FBI shooter joins him, and the two move about, employing cover, and fire at the building. As the fire breaks out and spreads, the intensity of their gunfire increases. Click here for more on Carlos and his interpretation.
There was also circumstantial evidence supporting the existence of a gun battle. Fired rifle cartridges are visible in photographs of FBI sniper position Sierra One, a house near the Davidian building. Many Davidians were dead of gunshot wounds, but this has been explained as suicide, as the fire drove them to desperation. But one Davidian, Jimmy Riddle, was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head... and analysis of his blood showed no carbon monoxide, indicating that he'd died before inhaling smoke.

http://www.infowars.com/vectordata.html
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Was Vector Data Systems BOUGHT OFF by the BATF?

By Ed Hohmann

InfoWars.com has learned that the supposedly independent British company hired by the Justice Department to analyze the March 19, 1999 Fort Hood FLIR video is actually a Washington, DC-area defense contractor with ties to the BATF. Vector Data Systems is a division of Anteon Corporation, a professional technical services corporation staffed with 4,000 highly trained employees in more than 70 offices and government sites worldwide.
The Fort Hood FLIR video project was staged by the government in order to counter the evidence presented in two documentary films produced by Michael McNulty that show clear evidence of government gunfire during the Mt. Carmel Massacre on April 19, 1993.
The first film, Waco: The Rules of Engagement, released in 1997, contains Dr. Edward Allard’s expert analysis of the government’s FLIR video taken during the Mt. Carmel Massacre. A former deputy director of the U.S. Defense Department’s Night Vision Laboratory and a pioneer in the field of infrared thermal imaging who holds several patents on FLIR technology, Dr. Allard presents conclusive evidence that the government’s own FLIR video shows multiple gunmen firing machineguns into the Mt. Carmel church during the massacre.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/14/AR2005121400386.html
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By Renae Merle and Ellen McCarthy

Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, December 15, 2005

General Dynamics Corp. announced yesterday that it would buy Fairfax-based Anteon International Corp. for $2.1 billion in cash, capping a year in which 39 local companies have been gobbled up as traditional weaponsmakers transform themselves into technology-oriented hybrids.

http://www.vectordatasystems.com/
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Welcome to Vector Data Systems

Vector Data Systems, LLC is an Internet Service Provider for the Washington, DC area. Vector provides reliable broadband Internet access, voice service, hosting solutions, and online backup to business and government customers.
Vector leverages the capabilities of its microwave network and data infrastructure to provide reliable and cost-effective services. Vector's services are designed from the ground up for demanding business and government customers--unlike our competitors' residential grade products rebranded for business use.
Vector is a locally owned business that values its customers. We strive to provide a customer service experience that exceeds the often low standards set by large telephone and cable providers. We look forward to serving your business!

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Archie_Clemins
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Archie Clemins, "a Venture Partner with Highway 12 Ventures, is the founder and President of Caribou Technologies, Inc., an international consulting firm. His specialty is alliance building, with a focus on business opportunities within the Government, where commercial technologies present optimum enterprise solutions. Clients include several Fortune 500 companies: Science Application International Corporation (SAIC), Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems (GDAIS), Boeing, CACI, Sumitomo Corporation of America, and NTT Data of Japan.