The following is a letter to waynemadsenreport.com from the parents of Kenneth Wayne Ford, Jr., who was convicted for allegedly stealing classified documents from the National Security Agency. Washington insider Wayne Madsen documents on his website that Ford was framed by NSA for revealing Iraq had no WMDs. Get the full story with recent updates at www.waynemadsenreport.com, and the first The Bay Net posting on the issue HERE.

There was a travesty of justice that occurred on December 15, 2005 in Courtroom 4-C of the United States District Court For The District Of Maryland, in Greenbelt, Md., Kenneth Wayne Ford, Jr., an honest and honorable young African-American male,holding 3 degrees, 2 undergraduate and 1 graduate, was judged guilty, in a two-count indictment, by a jury of by no means his peers.  Ford faces up to 15 years in prison and up to $500,000 in fines. He is to be sentenced on March 1, 2006.   The jury consisted of 4 black and 7 white females of varying ages and 1 over-30 white male.  No one looked like him.  There were 3 black males – 2 older, 1 younger and 1 older white female who turned out to be alternates.   We have no idea of any jury member’s educational level.  However, with all the evidence given, there is no honest way they could have returned guilty verdicts, leading us to believe they were tampered with.  Not only that, but this case involves FBI crimes, prosecutorial misconduct and obstruction of justice.  These cruel and unjust actions must be made known publicly.

Unless checked, every citizen is in danger of this kind of abuse.

The 1st count was under Federal Criminal Code 793 – Espionage.  Special Federal Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was not able to charge Libby with a Code 793.  He carefully explained that in order to do that, he must be able to prove definite intent to harm the country.  Perhaps he should have consulted with United States Assistant Prosecutor David I. Salem and Justice Dept. Branch Chief of Counterintelligence Maryclaire Rourke who, through being dishonest and by manipulating the law, was able to charge and prosecute Ford under the Espionage Act.  Neither did they prove Ford had intent to harm the country nor did they have any evidence of Ford doing any wrongdoing.  They accused Ford of having thousands of sheets of highly classified NSA documents strewed-about and in boxes in his home.  They had pictures of his home and pictures of some of the documents that were allegedly in his home. However, these pictures of the documents were not taken in his home, but at an FBI facility.

There was one picture taken in his home that showed a far-off shot of a box and beside the box was a folder, which Ford kept resumes in.  The folder which you could hardly see in the picture, was pointed to as being classified.  Indeed, in court, Prosecutors Salem and Rourke had put a white label on it saying “This Folder Contains Secret Documents”.  There was not one picture showing any classified documents in Ford’s home.  During the rampaging of Ford’s home, there was prepared FBI Receipt For Property Seized / Form 597.   This is an official listing of every thing seized from the home.  Ironically, there was not one of the alleged thousands of sheets of cl