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- TRYING TO HIDE THE TRUTH DEPARTMENT -

FBI Translator in Eye of Storm on Retroactive Classification

Washington - Sifting through old classified materials in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, FBI translator Sibel Edmonds said, she made an alarming discovery: Intercepts relevant to the terrorist plot, including references to skyscrapers, had been overlooked because they were badly translated into English.

Edmonds, 34, who is fluent in Turkish and Farsi, said she quickly reported the mistake to an FBI superior. Five months later, after flagging what she said were several other security lapses in her division, she was fired. Now, after more than two years of investigations and congressional inquiries, Edmonds is at the center of an extraordinary storm over US classification rules that sheds new light on the secrecy imperative supported by members of the Bush administration.

In a rare maneuver, Attorney General John Ashcroft has ordered that information about the Edmonds case be retroactively classified, even basic facts that have been posted on websites and discussed openly in meetings with members of Congress for two years. The Department of Justice also invoked the seldom-used "state secrets" privilege to silence Edmonds in court. She has been blocked from testifying in a lawsuit brought by victims of the Sept. 11 attacks and was allowed to speak to the panel investigating the Sept. 11 attacks only behind closed doors.

Meanwhile, the FBI has yet to release its internal investigation into her charges. And the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees the bureau, has been stymied in its attempt to get to the bottom of her allegations. Now that the case has been retroactively classified, lawmakers are wary of discussing the details, for fear of overstepping legal bounds.

"I'm alarmed that the FBI is reaching back in time and classifying information it provided two years ago," Senator Charles E. Grassley, a Republican from Iowa and a leading advocate for Edmonds, said last Friday. "Frankly, it looks like an attempt to impede legitimate oversight of a serious problem at the FBI."

Edmonds, a naturalized US citizen who grew up in Turkey and Iran, said in an interview last week that the ordeal has made her grow disillusioned with the "magical system of checks and balances and separation of powers" that had made her so drawn to the United States. "What I came to see is that it exists only in name," Edmonds said. "Where is the oversight? Who is there to stop him [Ashcroft]?"

In a development that legal analysts say is disturbing, a pattern of retroactive classifications has begun to emerge in recent years, all of them pertaining to - but not limited to - national security. For example, Representative John F. Tierney, Democrat of Massachusetts, is locked in an ongoing battle with the Defense Department over testing requirements for a national missile defense system that were made public in 2000 but have since been declared classified.

Bush administration officials argue that the three-year campaign against terrorism has required unprecedented levels of confidentiality, especially inside intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Critics do not dispute the need for heightened secrecy in the current environment. Edmonds is careful not to discuss standard classified information, such as methods the FBI used to obtain the material she translated.

But she and a growing number of her defenders - who include a government watchdog group, some Sept. 11 families, and Grassley, a Bush administration ally - maintain that the secrecy imposed on her case has jeopardized national security. One of Edmonds's assertions to her superiors included suspicions of espionage within the FBI, which she said the bureau has not addressed.

"Their [the administration's] mantra seems to be that secrecy promotes safety, and I don't think that's true," said David Vladeck, a Georgetown University law professor who is representing the watchdog group Project on Government Oversight in a lawsuit challenging the retroactive classification. "At times, I think secrecy breeds suspicion."

Edmonds's native skills drew her to languages. Born in Istanbul, raised for seven years in Tehran, with Azerbaijani relatives on her father's side, she speaks three languages crucial to intelligence-gathering in the Middle East. She does not speak Arabic. But her specialty languages were no less important after Sept. 11, 2001, when investigators began tracking Al Qaeda and other terrorist connections in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Iran.

She had a job application at the FBI before Sept. 11, and it was accelerated after the attacks so she could start work Sept. 20. One of her main assignments, she said, was to expedite requested translations from field agents, including material that a field agent in Arizona submitted for retranslation on a suspicion that it had not been examined thoroughly before Sept. 11.

"After I retranslated it verbatim, I went to my supervisor to say, 'I need to talk to this agent over a secure line because what we came across in this retranslating is gigantic, it has specific information about certain specific activity related to 9/11,' " Edmonds recalled. "The supervisor blocked this retranslation from being sent to the same agent. The reasoning this [supervisor] gave me was, 'How would you like it if another translator did this same thing to you? The original translator is going to be held responsible.' "

In the end, Edmonds said, the field agent who requested a reinterpretation of the intelligence material "knew there were things that were missing, and yet he was reassured by the Washington field office that the original translation was fine."

Edmonds said the intercept jumped out at her because it contained references to skyscrapers and the US visa application process. Such references might have triggered suspicions at Immigration and Naturalization Services before Sept. 11 if they had been correctly translated, she said, but they seemed unrelated before the attacks, in part because they were gathered during the course of a criminal investigation.

A Phoenix FBI agent was the source of a memo before the attacks warning about Middle Easterners taking flying lessons. Edmonds does not know whether the same agent is related to her case.

Edmonds said she made another troubling discovery: One of her colleagues admitted being a member of an organization with ties to the Middle East that was a target of an FBI investigation. The colleague, also a Turkish translator, invited Edmonds to join the group, assuring her that her FBI credentials would guarantee admission. Edmonds declined to name the organization, because she said it has been under surveillance.

Two months later, Edmonds said, one of the agents she worked with found hundreds of pages of translation that her Turkish-speaking colleague had stamped "not pertinent" and had therefore gone untranslated.

The agent asked Edmonds to retranslate her colleague's work. "We came across 17 pieces of extremely specific and important information that was blocked, and at that point, this agent and I went to the FBI security department in the Washington field office, and found out my supervisor had not reported my original complaints," she said.

Edmonds said she was repeatedly warned that she would be opening a "can of worms" if she kept filing security complaints, but she continued reporting lapses to ever-higher levels of management until, in March 2002, she wrote a letter to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, she said. She also contacted the Senate Judiciary Committee. In response, the FBI confiscated her home computer, challenged her to take a polygraph test, which she said she passed, and terminated her contract.

A Justice Department spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. Previously, officials have said Edmonds was fired for disruptive behavior on the job.

Over the summer of 2002, the Senate Judiciary Committee requested and received unclassified briefings about her case by FBI officials, in which Senate aides said the FBI confirmed much of what Edmonds had alleged. Senators Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, and Grassley, the Republican, wrote letters to Ashcroft, Mueller, and Glenn A. Fine, the inspector general at the Department of Justice, requesting immediate attention to Edmonds's case. They posted their letters on their websites, and Edmonds went public with her story, which was featured in a segment on "60 Minutes" in October 2002.

Edmonds also filed suit against the Justice Department on First Amendment grounds. That prompted Ashcroft to invoke the rare "state secrets" privilege, arguing "the litigation creates substantial risks of disclosing classified and sensitive national security information," a Department of Justice news release said.

Edmonds's lawsuits have since been stalled in court, but other Sept. 11-related cases, involving the independent panel's investigation and civil lawsuits involving victims' relatives, have put her saga back in the spotlight. The Senate Judiciary Committee recently e-mailed staff members informing them the FBI now considers the information related to Edmonds classified and warning them not to disseminate it anymore.

Grassley's and Leahy's offices have removed their letters to Justice officials from their websites, though the letters are still available on the Internet.

Source: Truthout
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/070704A.shtml

- SYMBOLIC GESTURES DEPARTMENT -

U.S. lawmakers request UN observers for Presidential Election

WASHINGTON - Several members of the House of Representatives have requested the United Nations to send observers to monitor the November 2 US presidential election to avoid a contentious vote like in 2000, when the outcome was decided by Florida.

Recalling the long, drawn out process in the southern state, nine lawmakers, including four blacks and one Hispanic, sent a letter Thursday to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) asking that the international body "ensure free and fair elections in America," according to a statement issued by Florida representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, who spearheaded the effort.

"As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election," she said in the letter.

"This is the first step in making sure that history does not repeat itself," she added after requesting that the UN "deploy election observers across the United States" to monitor the November, 2004 election.

The lawmakers said in the letter that in a report released in June 2001, the US Commission on Civil Rights "found that the electoral process in Florida resulted in the denial of the right to vote for countless persons."

The bipartisan commission, they stressed, determined "that the 'disenfranchisement of Florida's voters fell most harshly on the shoulders of black voters' and in poor counties." Both groups vote predominantly Democratic in US elections.

The commission also concluded, the lawmakers added, that "despite promised nationwide reforms (of the voting system) ... adequate steps have not been taken to ensure that a similar situation will not arise in 2004 that arose in 2000."

Thirty-six days after the November 7, 2000 presidential election, after several state court interventions and vote recounts in numerous Florida counties, the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of Republican George W. Bush, awarding him all of Florida's 25 electoral votes.

The ruling tipped the balance against Democratic contender and then vice president Al Gore, who with 267 electoral votes lost to Bush's 271, only one more than the minimum 270 needed to clinch the presidential election.

Source: Yahoo News
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1521&u=/afp/20040702/pl_afp/us_vote_congress_040702062257&printer=1

- STRANGE CREATURES FROM TIME AND SPACE DEPARTMENT -

Winged Creatures Panic Chilean Peasants

Juan Acu'a looks scared. He first runs away from the press and then argues that he's tired of telling his story to the press out of a fear that no one will believe him anyway.

The fact of the matter is that around 2 a.m. on Sunday, he went to drop off his brother-in-law and on his return home, he lived through an indescribable situation that he still cannot understand.

"I was on my way to the small hold where I live and two animals crossed my path--a large one and a small one. One bit my leg while the other went for my face. I shielded myself with my arm to defend myself. Later I jumped into the Canal Fiscal and managed to come up in front of my brother in law's house with my clothing all ripped. They called the ambulance and I was taken to the hospital, getting there at 5:30 a.m. They cured me there, but nothing else," Acu'a explained.

The resident says that the creatures were tremendously strong, and that he was in fear for his life all the time, since he still couldn't figure out what they were.

"I think they may come back. I felt their claws...look at my body. They were always going for my face. I jumped into the canal because they wouldn't go into the water. They followed me along the edge and then flew. They were dog-faced and had wings. This isn't a normal situation, I told myself. They were much stronger than me; they got on top of me," he noted.

Meanwhile, the district attorney of Parral, Ricardo Encina, noted that the injuries had been evidenced, but couldn't tell what caused them.

"He has, in fact, defensive injuries on his arms, shoulders and back. He's very affected by what happened. We've initiated transactions such as a visit to the site, we've spoken to the victim and he has an appointment to see a physician. Then we'll know what we're up against."

The D.A. dismissed the possibility that the wounds were caused by a human.

"All I can think is that it's not an attack by a person, since these arent the cutting wounds we're used to seeing when a knife is involved. Nor does he shows blows, as though someone had given him a beating. Nor does he have the scratches characteristic of someone who fell down by being drunk. That's not what it is, but I couldn't tell you the exact nature of the injuries," he stated.

Ricardo Encina confirmed that a few days ago there were reports of hen slaying's near Parral, but it wasn't possible to determine what kind of animal was involved.

Ana Maria Gajardo, the victim's spouse, is upset by her husband's situation.

"I'm upset because he wasn't hospitalized long enough to run tests. We're concerned about his bruises. I'm afraid that he might get some sort of infection and we don't know what'll happen. I want him to be seen by a doctor, because this is the first case we've had like this," she argues.

According to Maria Gajardo, when she was on her way to work a few hours before the event, she saw "a large bird" in the vicinity of Canal Fiscal.

"This isn't a joke. They take advantage of us because we're poor. If we had money he'd be in the hospital and everything would be taken care of."

Source: Scott Corrales - Institute Of Hispanic Ufology
Diario la Discusion (Chile)

- FIRST STEPS IN NEW ENERGY DEPARTMENT -

Perendev is Tooling Up for Magnetic Motor Mass Production in Europe

All-magnet motor poised to be first to reach market. German manufacturer licensed to manufacture 20 kw unit for Europe and Russia.

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA -- For centuries, inventors have been claiming to come up with magnetic motor designs that use nothing more than the power of permanent magnets for the motive force; and for the same amount of time, mainstream science has responded that this is impossible. "It has been proven mathematically that no combination of permanent magnets in any arrangement will generate power."

History tells us that what has been proven in many people's back yards and garages does not always coincide with mathematics.

Refusing to be daunted by what he considers to be petty dogmas of academic science, inventor Michael J. Brady of Johannesburg not only claims to have produced such a device, but reports that his company, Perendev Power Developments Pty (Ltd) is now in process of manufacturing it on a large scale for markets in Europe, Russia, and Australia.

Perendev's new website was published recently at Perendev-Power.com with the assertion that they have achieved the milestone of producing "the world's first fuelless magnetic engine."

Other inventors who claim to have built working all-magnetic motors would take exception to the Perendev claim to being the first, as stated on the site. Brady mentioned that he had noticed some inaccuracies on the wording on the site and that he would be addressing them.

What is yet to be attained by anyone is a market-ready device. If Perendev continues on the track claimed on its site, it could achieve that distinction, and set the hitherto balking scientists community into motion to come up with theories of why it works.

The site features video footage of an earlier prototype running as well as computer simulations of the newer designs. The prototype video is not skeptic proof, as it does not do a walk-around during acceleration. Brady has been promising another video that would do a walk around before, during, and after motor engagement and acceleration followed by disengagement and deceleration.

A page about the motor says that the motor works "by focusing the magnetic field, the angles of the magnets and a special method of shielding." Also, "the motor does not require external power to start up." Brady reports that tests run have shown no diminution of magnet strength over period of motor operation, which was two months in one instance.

As the stators become engaged, the three rotors with off-set magnet alignment begin to spin. The speed is controlled by a governor. Without the speed control, the device would accelerate to destruction.

Brady also states that a 4 megawatt unit is plausible with this design, and has been rendered in conceptual blue print form.

A German company has licensed the manufacturing and marketing rights for all of Europe and Russia, excluding the U.K., and is in process of tooling up to begin mass production. Two other groups are in process of negotiating licensing terms with from Perendev. One is in the U.K., for rights to manufacture and market in the U.K., and the other is in Australia, for rights down under.

Brady brought a prototype to the Germans in mid March, and said they have been testing it since that time. The prototype has been undergoing testing by TÜV, a German consumer quality control agency.

The name of the German company will be revealed when they have finished tooling up and are ready to begin production, which Brady estimates will take place in a month or two. He said that these units will be consumer ready for application in home use, pending the stamp of approval from TUFF. Brady also plans to allow German television crews to document the device for public view.

Twenty kilowatts is adequate to handle the peak load of most homes. Ran continuously at that rate, the excess produced during average use, which is five percent of peak use, could be sold to the grid for a quick return on investment. It will put out quite a bit more than twenty kilowatts, said Brady. "That is what it is rated to produce continuously."

In May he reported to have tested the unit with a larger alternator rated at 60 kw "with very little degrading of the motor's performance."

Brady has been churning on this idea for thirty years, and actively developing it for approximately the last five.

"We've been through hell -- no money coming from anywhere -- but we made it through." A German citizen working in South Africa for a Hollywood project came and talked to them and told them, "Let's put that behind us and move forward."

Source: E-Media Wire
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/7/emw138231.htm

- UNIVERSAL SYMBOLS DEPARTMENT -

Solving the Mystery of the Three Hares

London - British researchers are heading to a remote part of western China to try and unravel one of archaeology's most puzzling mysteries - why the same sacred symbol has been found in apparently unconnected ancient sites around the world.

Depictions of three hares joined by the ears can be seen in British medieval churches, 13th century Mongol metalwork and temples from China's Sui dynasty of the 6th and 7th Century, the Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday.

Academics have long been baffled as to why the circular motif became prominent in Christian, Islamic and Buddhist cultures separated by such great distances and times, the paper said.

In each place the depiction of the hares, chasing each other in a circle with the ears touching each other's heads, is virtually identical.

A four-strong British research team, led by an archaeologist, will travel to the town of Dunhuang in the western Chinese province of Gansu next month to examine caves which might shed light on the mystery, the report said.

More than 1'000 years ago, Dunhuang was a key staging point on the Silk Road, the famous network of trading routes which linked China with Central Asia and Iran, with branches into Tibet and South Asia.

As well as commodities, the Silk Road saw religions and ideas spread great distances, and the researchers said this could be the key to the hare motif.

"We don't know for sure how the symbol travelled to the West but the most likely explanation is that they were on the valuable oriental silks brought to Western medieval churches to wrap holy relics, as altar cloths and in vestments," art historian Sue Andrew told the Daily Telegraph.

The earliest know example of the symbol is in textile canopies painted on the ceilings of caves in Dunhuang, which the researchers will examine.

The town in famous for a network of caves containing thousands of documents and fabrics from the Silk Road, which were sealed in about 1'000 AD.

The caves and their contents - preserved astonishingly well by the dry local climate - were rediscovered by Hungarian-born, British-based explorer Marc Aurel Stein, who trekked along the Silk Road a series of times between 1900 and 1930.

"It is a very beautiful and stirring image which has an intrinsic power which is quite lovely," archeologist Tom Green, who is leading the team, told the newspaper.

"If we can open a window on something that in the past had relevance and meaning to people separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years, it could benefit our present day understanding of the things we share with different cultures and religions," he said.

Source: Independent Online
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=vn20040706050938133C536200

- NIGHTMARE ON STABLE STREET DEPARTMENT -

Riddle of the Horse Rippers

Investigators flummoxed over motive for the mutilation of ponies.

Kelly Smithson will never forget the day she found her daughter Lauren's missing pony. When she could not see Lacey in the field near her home, Mrs Smithson believed the animal had been stolen.

'I thought some kids had just taken her, but when I saw blood all over the water carriers I thought she was dead. I thought some sickos must have been on the loose,' said Mrs Smithson of Aughton, South Yorkshire.

After a search she found the terrified animal cowering behind a bush. 'She had cuts all over her head - a really deep one near her mouth, and her eye had blown up. The back of her neck was black with bruises where they'd hit her with pieces of burnt wood and concrete slabs. Her backside had a deep cut as well, where they'd stabbed her with a pitchfork.'

After three vicious attacks in less than three months, animal welfare groups fear horse rippers may be on the loose in South Yorkshire.

In April a pony was attacked with a screwdriver near Barnsley. Two weeks after Lacey was stabbed in late May, a horse in a stables near Rotherham had its back legs tied together with rope and its neck slashed. Phil McCarthy of the RSPCA, who is compiling a dossier on the violence, calculates that there are up to 18 attacks a year on horses and possibly many more that go unreported.

According to records kept by the now defunct Metropolitan Police's equine crime prevention unit, between 1983 and 1993 more than 160 horses were attacked or mutilated in the UK.

After the new attacks in South Yorkshire, local people have been quick to draw comparisons with another spate of horse mutilations last year.

In the run-up to the summer solstice, there were at least 12 attacks on horses in fields along the Derbyshire/Yorkshire border.

One horse had eight litres of blood drained from its stomach, while stones depicting five-pointed stars were found in the surrounding fields. Some of the animals had their tails removed, and others had their manes plaited in intricate patterns - signs of black magic practices.

Despite 24-hour surveillance, police caught no one. There had been similar attacks in Nottinghamshire at Hallowe'en the previous year, but no one was arrested.

Concern about the links between the occult and horse attacks has prompted the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to compile a list of attacks for Dr Richard Hoskins, an expert on witchcraft who advised police on the infamous 'torso in the Thames' investigation which examined the links between human sacrifice and black magic.

All those investigating the attacks, however, are cautious about overstating the links between horse ripping and the occult. 'There are all sorts of reasons why horses are being attacked. There are all sorts of people involved and all sorts of motives,' said Doreen Graham of the Scottish society.

Ted Barnes, a field officer with the International League for the Protection of Horses, and a former member of the Met unit, calculates that 80 per cent of suspected horse attacks are not committed by humans.

'In by far the largest percentage of cases where the animal has been harmed, it is either self-inflicted or inflicted by another horse. A lot of people find this hard to believe, but it does happen,' Barnes said.

In the majority of cases where a horse has been attacked by a human, a personal feud is the motive. 'We had a situation a couple of years ago when a husband and wife were getting divorced and he attacked her horse,' said Joanne Kennedy of South Yorkshire Police's horsewatch unit. 'For horse owners it's like a member of the family.'

Psychologists are also studying suggestions of a sexual motive. Research in Germany in the Nineties found one child abuser had a sexual reason for attacking horses. 'Little girls give a lot of love horses, and there is therefore a psychological connection with children. Paedophiles thrive on that tenderness shown by children and animals,' Alexandra Schedel Stuppich, who investigated the case, said at the time.

Given the numerous theories about what lies behind attacks on horses, it is unlikely a definitive explanation will be established until the police make some arrests. Two teenagers are being questioned in connection with the attack on the Smithsons' pony, which is expected to make a full recovery.

Barnes, though, remains doubtful as to whether a complete explanation for why humans attack horses will emerge.

'In my previous life with the Met all sorts of theories from all over the world would drop on my desk. But in the 30 years I've been investigating this, I've never been able to come up with a common denominator,' he said.

Source: Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/animalrights/story/0,11917,1253767,00.html

- A LIFE IN THE SPOTLIGHT DEPARTMENT -

Poltergeists, Prisons and a Life Without Peace

Tina Boyer said she dreams about the house on Blue Ash Road at lot, the house of her childhood on the north side of Columbus, Ohio.

"They're never good dreams either," she lamented to a friend, "and I always find myself thinking - when I wake up - that I wish I could go and bulldoze that house to the ground. Like somehow that would make me feel better."

That house witnessed Boyer's rise to notoriety almost two decades ago. At age 14, when her name was Tina Resch, she became the focus of a debate surrounding her alleged telekinetic abilities.

Paranormalists said she possessed an extraordinary fount of mental energy that allowed her to move objects with her mind. Skeptics dismissed it as a hoax fueled by a mix of public gullibility and sleight of hand.

In time, the public forgot the photo of the airborne telephone and the little girl who made things fly.

Parapsychologist Bill Roll was one of the few witnesses to the case whose intrigue with Boyer's story never dimmed.

"I think that the abilities she had were a natural endowment of the human mind," Roll said in an interview from his home west of Atlanta.

"To understand ourselves fully, we need to know more about people like Tina."

For now, and perhaps for years to come, researching the purported psychokinetic powers of Boyer are out of the question. She is serving a sentence of life plus 20 years at Georgia's Pulaski State Prison.

In 1992, she was charged with murder in the beating death of her 2-year-old daughter, Amber. She claimed her boyfriend was responsible. He blamed her.

He received a 20-year sentence. She agreed to a plea.

"That was a plea bargain that saved her from the electric chair," said Roll, who visits her in prison and wrote the newly published "Unleashed: Of Poltergeists and Murder: The Curious Story of Tina Resch."

"I didn't do it," Boyer told The Columbus Dispatch in 1993 while waiting for her case to come to trial. "I just want to go home."

From infancy, home had always been an elusive commodity to Boyer. Her birth mother abandoned her at Children's Hospital in Columbus when she was 10 months old.

Ping-ponged from one foster home to another, she eventually ended up in the care of Columbus couple John and Joan Resch, who adopted her.

At 14, she became the focus of media attention when witnesses claimed that objects - everything from candlesticks to telephones - appeared to take flight in her presence, unabetted by her hand.

To this day, Roll claims that in a controlled laboratory environment in North Carolina, Boyer was able to move objects on a table out of her reach.

"I really do consider her sort of a natural treasure who needs to be explored, investigated to see if her abilities can be revived in order to understand the brain processes that may have brought on these occurrences," he said.

That is not likely to happen soon.

"The parole board came down very negatively when she applied a couple of years ago," Roll noted. "The assistant district attorney was there and spoke very forcefully against Tina.

"In 2007, she'll be eligible the next time.

"She considers herself innocent and just wants to get out. She blames herself for not taking Amber to the hospital. She's depressed."

Roll said that, although he would like to do more research on Boyer, he would understand completely if, eventually released from prison, she retreated to a life of anonymity.

"She has already made a substantial contribution to science," he said.

Debunkers of the paranormal would most certainly scoff at the observation.

As for the subject herself, at 33, she is likely possessed of enough irony to appreciate the fact that all the examinations, tests and lofty pronouncements from her days under the figurative microscope have nothing at all to do with why - at the end of the day - she feels like a lab rat.

Source: The Daily Camera
http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/health_and_fitness/article/0,1713,BDC_2431_3018039,00.html