February 9, 2016
How Corporations Killed Medicine
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Along the path toward the creation of a global capitalist system, some of the most significant steps were taken by the English enclosure movement.
Between the 15th to 19th centuries, the rich and the powerful fenced off commonly held land and transformed it into private property. Land switched from a source of subsistence to a source of profit, and small farmers were relegated to wage laborers. In Das Kapital, Marx described the process by coining the term land-grabbing. To British historian E.P. Thompson, it was “a plain enough case of class robbery.”
More recently, a similar enclosure movement has taken place. This time, the fenced-off commodity is life-saving medicine. Playing the role of modern-day lords of the manor are pharmaceutical corporations, which have taken a good that was once considered off-limits for private profiteering and turned it into an expensive commodity. Instead of displacing small landholders, this enclosure movement causes suffering and death: Billions of people across the globe go without essential medicines, and 10 million die each year as a result.
Many people curse the for-profit medicine industry. But few know that the enclosure erected around affordable medicines is both relatively new and artificially imposed. For nearly all of human history, attempting to corner the markets on affordable medicines has been considered both immoral and illegal.
It’s time now to reclaim this commons, and reestablish medicines as a public good.
Medicines as a Public Good
Most of us define public goods broadly. We use the term to refer to benefits like law enforcement, street lights, and mass transit, which are collectively provided and deliver shared value to all. Economists narrow down that definition somewhat, saying that public goods are non-rivalrous and non-excludable in their consumption.
Non-rivalrous means that any one person can benefit from a good without reducing others’ opportunity to benefit as well. My eating an apple prevents you from consuming it, so that’s a rivalrous good. But I can watch the same TV show as you without lessening your opportunity to enjoy it as well — that’s non-rivalrous.
Non-excludable means what it sounds like: A person cannot be prevented from consuming the good in question. Clean air is a good that can be enjoyed by all without the possibility of denying access to those who don’t register or pay a fee. But access to a private swimming pool is an excludable good. The classic example of a non-rivalrous, non-excludable public good is a lighthouse: One ship benefitting from its warning doesn’t subtract from any other ships’ chances of enjoying a similar benefit, and there’s no practical way of limiting the lighthouse’s warnings to a select few.
As the English enclosure movement proved, exclusivity can be artificially created by literally or figuratively walling off common access. Exclusivity can be undone as well: The modern open-source software movement takes a good that some have tried to make exclusive — software code — and freely shares it, leading to a plethora of creative developments.
In terms of medicines, an individual pill is rivalrous, but the details of the formula for creating that pill are not. Knowledge is a classic public good, in that it can be shared widely without penalty to the original owner. As Thomas Jefferson said, “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening me; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”
The public health implications of access to medicines generate another core quality of public goods: positive externalities.
One person’s consumption of an essential medicine provides clear benefits beyond the direct consumer. Vaccines, for example, prevent the recipient both from getting ill and from spreading the disease to others. If a society vaccinates widely enough, the chain of disease transmission is broken, leading to the quintessential public good of mass immunity. Global distribution of the smallpox vaccine, for example, has led to the eradication of a disease that once infected 50 million people a year.
Even less obviously social medicines allow their recipients to better contribute to the social fabric and economic productivity of their communities. These medicines save costs for the broader society, too. When a diabetic takes insulin or a person with a risk for heart disease takes cholesterol-reducing medicine, they not only function better: They also lower their prospects of needing more expensive medical treatment, which is a cost often shared across societies.
Conversely, a lack of access to medicine causes enormous social problems in terms of contagion and economy-depressing illnesses.
So it’s little wonder that, for nearly all of human history, societies have treated medicine as a commonly held benefit. Until well past the middle of the 20th century, few countries allowed individuals or companies to hold exclusive rights to produce medicines. And governments have long been involved early and often in the pharmaceutical industry, creating the very opposite of a laissez faire market. Most industrialized governments tightly regulate the production and distribution of medicine, while actively promoting vaccinations and encouraging safe use of other medicines. Governments are both leading funders of medicine research and top purchasers of the end products of that research.
When governments don’t take a sufficiently activist role in the field of medicines, public opinion pushes them further. In the 1990s and 2000s, advocates gave voice to passionate outrage over the devastating human cost of patent-priced HIV/AIDS medicines, which limited access to sufferers who could afford expensive treatments. U.S. activists threw the ashes of AIDS victims on the lawn of the White House, while African activists called treatment-resistant government ministers murderers. The protests led to the dismantling of patent price barriers — and then to massive public programs to distribute the medicine at low or no cost.
Among governments and the public alike, medicines continue to be treated as a good quite distinct from consumer items like cell phones or flat-screen TVs. A human right to access essential medicines has found its way into international treaties and national constitutions. A moral claim for universal access to essential medicines has been put forth not only by faith-based organizations and civil society actors, but also by many drug developers themselves. Jonas Salk, for example, declined to pursue a patent for the polio vaccine, saying the patent belonged to the people. The creator of the first synthetic malaria vaccine donated the patent to the World Health Organization.
As Salk said in 1952: “Would you patent the sun?”
The Enclosure of Essential Medicines
The origins of modern intellectual property law can be traced back to the occasional awards of exclusive rights to artists in ancient Persia and Greece.
“Letters patent,” meaning open letters, were issued in 14th century England to induce foreign craftsmen to relocate there. Attempts to coordinate global intellectual property rules led to the 1883 Paris Convention and the 1886 Berne Convention, and eventually to the creation of the United Nations’ World Intellectual Property Organization in 1967. But nations who signed on to those agreements retained the ability to determine the length of patents and what products would be covered. For many nations, that flexibility meant excluding medicines from patent protection. For example, Germany’s patent law of 1877 labeled medicines as “essential goods,” along with food and chemicals, and prohibited any attempts to patent them.
In the middle of the 20th century, several post-colonial nations adopted similar laws. India’s patent law extended only to the processes for creating medicines, not the drugs themselves. The law opened the door for Indian pharmaceutical manufacturers to reverse-engineer patented drugs and then devise different, cheaper production methods. India soon became known as “the pharmacy of the developing world.” Brazil, Mexico, and other Central and South American countries also adopted limits on the patentability of medicines.
European countries like Italy and Sweden didn’t grant pharmaceutical patents until the 1970s, and Spain refused to do so until 1992. Even when medicine patents were given, many nations granted liberal access to compulsory licenses for patented drugs, meaning that generic manufacturers were free to make the drugs and pay a royalty to the patent holders. During the period between 1962 and 1992, Canada granted 613 licenses to import or manufacture pharmaceutical products.
As commerce became increasingly global, this state of affairs deeply concerned pharmaceutical companies. Over time, an industry that once competed on the basis of manufacturing innovation and price had come to rely on the profits of patent monopolies. At one time in the mid-20th century, for example, Pfizer drew a full 33 percent of its global sales from just two patented drugs. So — as extensively chronicled in Peter Drahos’ and John Braithwaite’s 2002 book, Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy? — Pfizer took the lead in an ambitious campaign to create a global system of intellectual property protection: an enclosure of essential medicines.
The first step in that effort was countering the dominant international view that medicine compounds were not private property that could or should be owned by companies and individuals. Economists call this process the transformation of a public good into a “club good,” like taking a public park and turning it into a gated dues-required golf course. A July 1982 op-ed in the New York Times by the chair of Pfizer International, entitled “Stealing from the Mind,” started the process of creating that club good. The column charged that U.S. inventions were being “stolen” by governments that didn’t protect patent rights. When governments outside the U.S. refused to block generic manufacturing, the pharmaceutical industry argued, they were indulging acts of piracy.
But there was little in the way of binding international law to back up that position. So the industry pushed directly for the U.S. government to make intellectual property protection a priority in all trade negotiations. Of course, inserting monopoly patent rights into trade agreements runs counter to those agreements’ stated purpose of dismantling barriers to global competition. Yet the pharmaceutical industry, reliably at the top of the list in both lobbying expenditures and political campaign contributionsin the United States, quickly found willing partners on Capitol Hill and in the White House. The U.S. soon adopted intellectual property protection as a litmus test for its trade partners.
The approach was to offer carrots to patent-resistant countries — enhanced access to U.S. markets and some reductions in the subsidies of U.S. agricultural exports — while simultaneously brandishing some imposing sticks. In 1984, aggressive pharmaceutical sector lobbying helped amend the U.S. Trade Act to give the president the authority to impose duties on or withdraw trade benefits from any nation that did not provide “adequate and effective” protection for U.S. intellectual property.
A few years later, the law was amended again, this time to give the U.S. trade representative the power to put offending countries on what became known as a Special 301 watch list, a designation dreaded by countries whose economies relied on trade with the United States. The two countries that resisted pharmaceutical patents most vigorously, India and Brazil, were placed in the more serious “priority” watch list.
Against this ominous backdrop, the World Trade Organization in 1986 convened talks to create a global intellectual property agreement. At the time the talks began, more than 40 of the 90 counties involved refused to grant patents for pharmaceutical products, and others that did grant them adopted strict limits. But over the course of years of negotiations, U.S. trade pressure wore down the resistance. By April of 1994, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, aka TRIPS, was signed by 123 government ministers. The deal was one of the foundational documents of the World Trade Organization, and immediately became the most significant intellectual property agreement of modern times.
TRIPS transformed an uneven worldwide patchwork of intellectual property law into a blanket of standards mandating protection for holders of patents, copyrights, and trademarks. For patent holders, that protection features at least 20 years of government-granted monopolies on their products, including medicines. TRIPS also requires each nation to award intellectual property rights regardless of national origin, a boon for multinational pharmaceutical corporations and a death blow to their local manufacturing rivals.
The enclosure of essential medicines was complete.
The Fallacy of the Patent Incentive
When pushing for the TRIPS agreement and other mechanisms to extend medicine patent rights, pharmaceutical corporations justify enclosure by claiming that patents are necessary to spur innovation. If medicinal discoveries can be immediately copied and sold to others, the argument goes, no organization will devote the resources needed for research and development of new medicines.
In economic terms, this presents the classic “free rider” problem. Their solution was the temporary patent monopoly, which is lucrative enough to incentivize medical research.
Again, the echoes reverberate from the land enclosure movement, where the justification for massive property appropriation was the so-called “tragedy of the commons”: A good communally held doesn’t provide anyone with the incentive to invest in its development. (The second component of the tragedy of the commons — that freely available goods are subject to overuse — doesn’t apply to the medicine situation. Remember that a medicinal formula is non-rivalrous, so its use by a manufacturer in India doesn’t prevent a Connecticut company from using the same formula as m
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Like Rafael Cruz, Rubio’s parents left Cuba before Castro came to power. Mario and Oriales Rubio left Cuba in 1956 but were not naturalized as U.S. citizens until 1975, making Senator Rubio a classic anchor baby. However, Cruz, who was born in Calgary, does not even appear to have “anchor baby” citizenship rights.
The heart of the GOP’s caudillo aficionados is southern Florida and its Cuban expatriate community. This immigrant sector has propelled into office a virtual Cuban mafia from the Miami area, including Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, U.S. Representative Mario Diaz-Balart, and his brother, Lincoln Diaz-Balart. The father of the Diaz-Balart brothers was Rafael Diaz-Balart, the Majority Leader of the Cuban House of Representatives and a supporter of the Batista regime.
The Cuban expatriate community could have never achieved the power they now maintain in the Republican Party had it not been for the financial patronage extended to them by two well-known Cuban-American mobsters, Santo Trafficante, Jr., in Tampa and Jose Miguel Battle, Sr., of Union City, New Jersey, both of whom had links to the CIA and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Not just Republicans benefited from the Cuban mafia’s largesse. New Jersey’s indicted Democratic Senator Robert Menendez largely owes his political fortunes, which started in Union City, to Battle’s crime syndicate. Another Democrat, former Senator Robert Torricelli, who resigned in 2002 amid a Senate ethics probe, was linked to Battle’s North Jersey Cuban mafiosi.
Ted Cruz has much in common with George W. Bush’s failed nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, Miguel Estrada, who was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, long a backwater for CIA operations in Central America and the Caribbean. Estrada, a Harvard Law graduate, has a right-wing extremist track record that is emblematic of so many Republican Latino politicians and judges.
Ted Cruz’s desire to assassinate the Iranian leader is borne out of Cruz’s family’s culture of respecting the institution of the caudillo, the Latin American strongman who limits any threat to the ruling oligarchy or the corporate business interests by staging a coup d’état. Rubio’s celebration of the sudden resignation of Boehner at the same far-right Christian Values Voter Summit where Cruz spoke is also an indication of Rubio’s cultural affinity to caudillo politics. Although the age of the caudillo in Latin America is, thankfully, largely a thing of the past, the concept remains alive and well with the likes of Cruz, Rubio, and their supporters, Latino and non-Latino.
Politics and gender studies professor Meg Mott of Marlboro College in Vermont summed up nicely in a statement to The Christian Science Monitor the definition of a caudillo politician: “In the Spanish-speaking world, this type of leader is known as a Caudillo, the man on horseback who takes out the bad guys and leads his people to safety. He’s rough and he doesn’t care about fine things like legal rights, but that very roughness means he can get things done.” Although the statement was, ironically, in reference to Latinos possibly supporting the anti-immigrant Donald Trump, it could apply to any of the right-wing GOP Latinos running for office, including Cruz, Rubio, and Latino-wannabe Jeb Bush. Jeb Bush’s Latino son, George P. Bush, the Texas Land Commissioner and an aspiring national-level politician, combines the caudillo enthusiasm of the son of a right-wing Mexican immigrant with the oligarchic history of the Bush-Walker dynasty, a volatile mixture that should frighten every American citizen.
The Bush family has long surrounded itself with fascist Latino-Americans and resident aliens who have carried out patently undemocratic tasks for the CIA and the State Department. These have included the Cuban-Jewish immigrant from Havana Otto Reich, a key member of the Nicaraguan contra support network; Roger Noriega, the Mexican-American diplomat who helped arrange coups against Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti and Manuel Zelaya in Honduras; Orlando Bosch, the exiled Cuban CIA agent who carried out a number of terrorist attacks in the United States, Cuba, Venezuela, Barbados, Trinidad, Panama, and elsewhere; Luis Posada Carriles, another CIA contractor exiled in the United States who carried out terrorist attacks, many in league with Bosch, around the Caribbean region; Joe Fernandez, the Cuban-American and CIA agent who also used the alias Tomas Castillo and was part of Oliver North’s secret operation to smuggle drugs out of and weapons into Central and South America; Felix Rodriguez, the Cuban immigrant and CIA officer who was also a key part of the Iran-contra scandal; and Jose Rodriguez, the Puerto Rican former chief of the National Clandestine Service of the CIA who helped institute the CIA’s rendition and torture program and then presided over the destruction of congressionally-subpoenaed videotapes of illegal torture sessions.
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Like Rafael Cruz, Rubio’s parents left Cuba before Castro came to power. Mario and Oriales Rubio left Cuba in 1956 but were not naturalized as U.S. citizens until 1975, making Senator Rubio a classic anchor baby. However, Cruz, who was born in Calgary, does not even appear to have “anchor baby” citizenship rights.
The heart of the GOP’s caudillo aficionados is southern Florida and its Cuban expatriate community. This immigrant sector has propelled into office a virtual Cuban mafia from the Miami area, including Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, U.S. Representative Mario Diaz-Balart, and his brother, Lincoln Diaz-Balart. The father of the Diaz-Balart brothers was Rafael Diaz-Balart, the Majority Leader of the Cuban House of Representatives and a supporter of the Batista regime.
The Cuban expatriate community could have never achieved the power they now maintain in the Republican Party had it not been for the financial patronage extended to them by two well-known Cuban-American mobsters, Santo Trafficante, Jr., in Tampa and Jose Miguel Battle, Sr., of Union City, New Jersey, both of whom had links to the CIA and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Not just Republicans benefited from the Cuban mafia’s largesse. New Jersey’s indicted Democratic Senator Robert Menendez largely owes his political fortunes, which started in Union City, to Battle’s crime syndicate. Another Democrat, former Senator Robert Torricelli, who resigned in 2002 amid a Senate ethics probe, was linked to Battle’s North Jersey Cuban mafiosi.
Ted Cruz has much in common with George W. Bush’s failed nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, Miguel Estrada, who was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, long a backwater for CIA operations in Central America and the Caribbean. Estrada, a Harvard Law graduate, has a right-wing extremist track record that is emblematic of so many Republican Latino politicians and judges.
Ted Cruz’s desire to assassinate the Iranian leader is borne out of Cruz’s family’s culture of respecting the institution of the caudillo, the Latin American strongman who limits any threat to the ruling oligarchy or the corporate business interests by staging a coup d’état. Rubio’s celebration of the sudden resignation of Boehner at the same far-right Christian Values Voter Summit where Cruz spoke is also an indication of Rubio’s cultural affinity to caudillo politics. Although the age of the caudillo in Latin America is, thankfully, largely a thing of the past, the concept remains alive and well with the likes of Cruz, Rubio, and their supporters, Latino and non-Latino.
Politics and gender studies professor Meg Mott of Marlboro College in Vermont summed up nicely in a statement to The Christian Science Monitor the definition of a caudillo politician: “In the Spanish-speaking world, this type of leader is known as a Caudillo, the man on horseback who takes out the bad guys and leads his people to safety. He’s rough and he doesn’t care about fine things like legal rights, but that very roughness means he can get things done.” Although the statement was, ironically, in reference to Latinos possibly supporting the anti-immigrant Donald Trump, it could apply to any of the right-wing GOP Latinos running for office, including Cruz, Rubio, and Latino-wannabe Jeb Bush. Jeb Bush’s Latino son, George P. Bush, the Texas Land Commissioner and an aspiring national-level politician, combines the caudillo enthusiasm of the son of a right-wing Mexican immigrant with the oligarchic history of the Bush-Walker dynasty, a volatile mixture that should frighten every American citizen.
The Bush family has long surrounded itself with fascist Latino-Americans and resident aliens who have carried out patently undemocratic tasks for the CIA and the State Department. These have included the Cuban-Jewish immigrant from Havana Otto Reich, a key member of the Nicaraguan contra support network; Roger Noriega, the Mexican-American diplomat who helped arrange coups against Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti and Manuel Zelaya in Honduras; Orlando Bosch, the exiled Cuban CIA agent who carried out a number of terrorist attacks in the United States, Cuba, Venezuela, Barbados, Trinidad, Panama, and elsewhere; Luis Posada Carriles, another CIA contractor exiled in the United States who carried out terrorist attacks, many in league with Bosch, around the Caribbean region; Joe Fernandez, the Cuban-American and CIA agent who also used the alias Tomas Castillo and was part of Oliver North’s secret operation to smuggle drugs out of and weapons into Central and South America; Felix Rodriguez, the Cuban immigrant and CIA officer who was also a key part of the Iran-contra scandal; and Jose Rodriguez, the Puerto Rican former chief of the National Clandestine Service of the CIA who helped institute the CIA’s rendition and torture program and then presided over the destruction of congressionally-subpoenaed videotapes of illegal torture sessions.
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The 1989 massacre of 16-year-old Celina Ramos, her mother Elba Ramos, and six Jesuit priests in El Salvador, that galvanized opposition to the U.S. relationship with Central American death squads and that sparked the movement to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas, is making headlines again.
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We celebrate the arrests of the perpetrators in El Salvador, and the decision by Magistrate Judge Kimberly Swank in North Carolina, to grant the extradition of SOA graduate Inocente Orlando Montano to stand trial in Spain. *SOA Watch also maintains that the U.S. officials who conspired with the Salvadoran military, and who are responsible for the training and funding of the death squads must be held to account as well. Will you make a donation to SOA Watch today, to demand accountability for human rights abuses?
The journey of SOA Watch is closely tied to the lives of 16-year-old Celina Ramos, her mother Elba Ramos, and Jesuit priest dissidents Ignacio Ellacuría, Ignacio Martín-Baró, Segundo Montes, Juan Ramón Moreno, Joaquín López y López, Amando López. The first SOA Watch vigil took place in 1990 on the anniversary of the massacre. We have been accompanied by the many who became ancestors before their time, drawing from their courage and continuing their resistance. We have been uplifted, educated, inspired, and humbled by the movements of the Americas as we have fought together against, coups, trade agreements, environmental devastation, military training, and human rights violations.
Along the way our sacred story, the story of Celina, Elba and the Jesuits has deepened and broadened. It has become the story of the torture survivor, the displaced campesino, the threatened union worker, the refugee and the migrant. The stories of all those who suffer at the hands of the school has taught us that the School of the Americas is more than just a tool of war. The School of the Americas is a tool of domination that engulfs economies, electoral processes, resources, and communities. It fractures, breaks, steals and sends its victims on long journeys to the borders that scar the lands of North and South.
The martyrs teach us the power of solidarity. They remind us that the beloved community emerges from a struggle that has no guarantees and is nourished by a desire that dares to name its vision. Today, the people of the Americas are facing a crisis – a migrant crisis – whose root cause traces back to the SOA. A deepening of solidarity calls us to journey to the border and journey with the migrants.
As social movement organization with roots on both sides of the border, we ask you to join us, as we broaden the path we have journeyed, to include the School and the border. Come with us to the US/Mexico border from October 7-10, 2016.
Please make a donation to SOA Watch: https://org.salsalabs.com/o/727/p/salsa ... e_KEY=6045" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Let's build our collective imagination as an antidote to empire in our voices, our songs, our direct action, our legislation, our Vigil, our Puppetistas and our hearts.
in peace and solidarity,
Hendrik Voss
SOA Watch
Read the Media Release here: http://soaw.org/news/news-alerts/4357-s ... xtradition" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
We celebrate the arrests of the perpetrators in El Salvador, and the decision by Magistrate Judge Kimberly Swank in North Carolina, to grant the extradition of SOA graduate Inocente Orlando Montano to stand trial in Spain. *SOA Watch also maintains that the U.S. officials who conspired with the Salvadoran military, and who are responsible for the training and funding of the death squads must be held to account as well. Will you make a donation to SOA Watch today, to demand accountability for human rights abuses?
The journey of SOA Watch is closely tied to the lives of 16-year-old Celina Ramos, her mother Elba Ramos, and Jesuit priest dissidents Ignacio Ellacuría, Ignacio Martín-Baró, Segundo Montes, Juan Ramón Moreno, Joaquín López y López, Amando López. The first SOA Watch vigil took place in 1990 on the anniversary of the massacre. We have been accompanied by the many who became ancestors before their time, drawing from their courage and continuing their resistance. We have been uplifted, educated, inspired, and humbled by the movements of the Americas as we have fought together against, coups, trade agreements, environmental devastation, military training, and human rights violations.
Along the way our sacred story, the story of Celina, Elba and the Jesuits has deepened and broadened. It has become the story of the torture survivor, the displaced campesino, the threatened union worker, the refugee and the migrant. The stories of all those who suffer at the hands of the school has taught us that the School of the Americas is more than just a tool of war. The School of the Americas is a tool of domination that engulfs economies, electoral processes, resources, and communities. It fractures, breaks, steals and sends its victims on long journeys to the borders that scar the lands of North and South.
The martyrs teach us the power of solidarity. They remind us that the beloved community emerges from a struggle that has no guarantees and is nourished by a desire that dares to name its vision. Today, the people of the Americas are facing a crisis – a migrant crisis – whose root cause traces back to the SOA. A deepening of solidarity calls us to journey to the border and journey with the migrants.
As social movement organization with roots on both sides of the border, we ask you to join us, as we broaden the path we have journeyed, to include the School and the border. Come with us to the US/Mexico border from October 7-10, 2016.
Please make a donation to SOA Watch: https://org.salsalabs.com/o/727/p/salsa ... e_KEY=6045" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Let's build our collective imagination as an antidote to empire in our voices, our songs, our direct action, our legislation, our Vigil, our Puppetistas and our hearts.
in peace and solidarity,
Hendrik Voss
SOA Watch
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March 24 2016
EXCLUSIVE: NYPD cop shoots, kills Bronx family’s beloved dog in incident captured on video (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT)
Updated: Thursday, March 24, 2016, 9:08 PM
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One minute Yvonne Rosado was dancing with her pet pit bull inside their Bronx apartment — and the next, her dog was dead in the hallway, a city cop’s bullet in its head.
A gruesom video captured the officer, responding to a domestic violence call at a neighboring apartment, pumping a fatal gunshot into beloved 4-year-old Spike.
The pet’s devastated owner says the cop needlessly lost his cool when the typically pleasant pooch, its tail wagging happily, wandered outside before the Feb. 13 tragedy.
“The officer just reacted badly,” a teary Rosado told the Daily News on Thursday. “I was screaming, ‘He’s friendly! He’s friendly!’ But he still did that to my dog.”
DOG SURVIVES NYPD SHOOTING, COP IN HOSPITAL FOR RINGING EARS
Rosado, 42, said Spike posed a threat to no one, comparing her slain dog to a fluffy Sesame Street favorite.
“He was like a big Snuffleupagus — a gentle giant,” she told The News. “He w
EXCLUSIVE: NYPD cop shoots, kills Bronx family’s beloved dog in incident captured on video (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT)
Updated: Thursday, March 24, 2016, 9:08 PM
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One minute Yvonne Rosado was dancing with her pet pit bull inside their Bronx apartment — and the next, her dog was dead in the hallway, a city cop’s bullet in its head.
A gruesom video captured the officer, responding to a domestic violence call at a neighboring apartment, pumping a fatal gunshot into beloved 4-year-old Spike.
The pet’s devastated owner says the cop needlessly lost his cool when the typically pleasant pooch, its tail wagging happily, wandered outside before the Feb. 13 tragedy.
“The officer just reacted badly,” a teary Rosado told the Daily News on Thursday. “I was screaming, ‘He’s friendly! He’s friendly!’ But he still did that to my dog.”
DOG SURVIVES NYPD SHOOTING, COP IN HOSPITAL FOR RINGING EARS
Rosado, 42, said Spike posed a threat to no one, comparing her slain dog to a fluffy Sesame Street favorite.
“He was like a big Snuffleupagus — a gentle giant,” she told The News. “He w
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Thursday, March 24, 2016Last Update: 2:11 PM PT
Cops Call Cheating Rampant in NYPD Promotion Test
MANHATTAN - Aspiring lieutenants have gamed the New York City Police Department's civil-service exams through a cheat sheet posted on a popular online message board, nine sergeants claim in a federal lawsuit.
On April 18, 2015, more than 2,400 sergeants filed into high school classrooms spread throughout Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan to take an exam for a promotion.
Sgt. Jonathan Blatt and eight of his comrades say that only 164 - or 6.8 percent of all test-takers - passed, but those who flunked the first time saw their luck suddenly improve upon reexamination.
Roughly 48 percent of the 80 sergeants who took the makeup passed.
That's because, between the two test dates, many police reviewed the answers on the department's online message board "Rising Star," according to a 13-page complaint filed on Thursday.
The lawsuit filed by sergeant's lawyer Randolph McLaughlin, from Newman Ferrarra LLP, reads a report from a poorly supervised grade school.
"Prior to sitting for the exam, cellphones and other electronic devices were not removed from the test-takers," the complaint states. "In fact, on at least one occasion, a proctor instructed test-takers who had a telephone to turn it off."
"In a number of classrooms," it continues, proctors would either take their eyes off the police or leave the room entirely.
If test-takers had to use the bathroom during the nearly seven-hour exam, they did not have to sign out of or back into the room, the sergeants say.
"Test-takers in the restroom were observed to be whispering among themselves regarding the ongoing examination," the complaint states.
Beyond "lax supervision," the sergeants say in their lawsuit that the "less-than-ideal" test settings included classrooms with "their windows open and outside noises were noticeable throughout."
"Furthermore, activities were being conducted throughout and outside of the high schools where the exams were being administered," the complaint states.
On Feb. 17 this year, New York's Department of Citywide Administrative Services published a list of 204 candidates who got passing scores, including the alleged cheaters, the sergeants say.
"Allowing officers who cheated and/or who disseminated information regarding the Lieutenants Exam's questions or answers prior to the makeup exam (and have thus not shown to be qualified) to be promoted to lieutenant could endanger the lives of police officers working under them and the public at large," the complaint states.
With officers set to be promoted on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer set a hearing date on Monday afternoon for the sergeants to show cause for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction delaying that date.
Sgt. Blatt said in a statement that he was "pleased" with the development.
"We filed this suit to protect the integrity of the promotion process, and hope that the court agrees with us," he said.
When asked to confirm an investigation within the department, the NYPD replied that it was "aware of certain issues that have been raised concerning the 2015 lieutenant promotional make-up exam."
Thursday, March 24, 2016Last Update: 2:11 PM PT
Cops Call Cheating Rampant in NYPD Promotion Test
MANHATTAN - Aspiring lieutenants have gamed the New York City Police Department's civil-service exams through a cheat sheet posted on a popular online message board, nine sergeants claim in a federal lawsuit.
On April 18, 2015, more than 2,400 sergeants filed into high school classrooms spread throughout Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan to take an exam for a promotion.
Sgt. Jonathan Blatt and eight of his comrades say that only 164 - or 6.8 percent of all test-takers - passed, but those who flunked the first time saw their luck suddenly improve upon reexamination.
Roughly 48 percent of the 80 sergeants who took the makeup passed.
That's because, between the two test dates, many police reviewed the answers on the department's online message board "Rising Star," according to a 13-page complaint filed on Thursday.
The lawsuit filed by sergeant's lawyer Randolph McLaughlin, from Newman Ferrarra LLP, reads a report from a poorly supervised grade school.
"Prior to sitting for the exam, cellphones and other electronic devices were not removed from the test-takers," the complaint states. "In fact, on at least one occasion, a proctor instructed test-takers who had a telephone to turn it off."
"In a number of classrooms," it continues, proctors would either take their eyes off the police or leave the room entirely.
If test-takers had to use the bathroom during the nearly seven-hour exam, they did not have to sign out of or back into the room, the sergeants say.
"Test-takers in the restroom were observed to be whispering among themselves regarding the ongoing examination," the complaint states.
Beyond "lax supervision," the sergeants say in their lawsuit that the "less-than-ideal" test settings included classrooms with "their windows open and outside noises were noticeable throughout."
"Furthermore, activities were being conducted throughout and outside of the high schools where the exams were being administered," the complaint states.
On Feb. 17 this year, New York's Department of Citywide Administrative Services published a list of 204 candidates who got passing scores, including the alleged cheaters, the sergeants say.
"Allowing officers who cheated and/or who disseminated information regarding the Lieutenants Exam's questions or answers prior to the makeup exam (and have thus not shown to be qualified) to be promoted to lieutenant could endanger the lives of police officers working under them and the public at large," the complaint states.
With officers set to be promoted on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer set a hearing date on Monday afternoon for the sergeants to show cause for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction delaying that date.
Sgt. Blatt said in a statement that he was "pleased" with the development.
"We filed this suit to protect the integrity of the promotion process, and hope that the court agrees with us," he said.
When asked to confirm an investigation within the department, the NYPD replied that it was "aware of certain issues that have been raised concerning the 2015 lieutenant promotional make-up exam."
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Judge: FBI-tied child porn collector 'not a danger' to school
Seattle man gets $1,000 fine, isn't banned from home across from Ballard school
BY LEVI PULKKINEN, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF Updated 3:06 pm, Friday, April 8, 2016
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This just in from attorney Mike Kuzma
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America’s heart of darkness
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Mossack Fonseca, poor people, prisons, profits, rascals, rich people,
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Seattle man gets $1,000 fine, isn't banned from home across from Ballard school
BY LEVI PULKKINEN, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF Updated 3:06 pm, Friday, April 8, 2016
2.
This just in from attorney Mike Kuzma
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America’s heart of darkness
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https://robertscribbler.com/2016/04/26/ ... he-arctic/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Republican Climate Change Denial is Blinding Our Ability to Observe
the Arctic
Denial.
It’s all-too-often what happens to the powerful when they are
confronted with the consequences of their own bad actions. It can best
be said that denial is blindness — the willful inability to open one’s
eyes to the tough reality of the world. In literature, we can see
denial in the tragic sin of hubris and in the metaphor of Oedipus the
King gouging his own eyes out as a result of his failure to come to
terms with the warnings of prophecy.
In the psychological sense, denial involves the inability to cope with
reality such that a person will act in an irrational fashion to the
point of generating fantasies that the object of said denial does not
exist. Behaviorally, this results in an increasing degradation of a
person’s ability to confront or cope with the object of denial — to
the point of ardent, irrational, and possibly destructive outbursts
when faced with it.
Arctic sea ice loss.
Ever since 1979 an array of satellite sensors has allowed our
scientists to directly observe the sea ice in the Arctic. Since that
time, and as a human-forced warming of the world ramped up, the area
which that ice covers has dramatically shrunken. So much so that by
this year, 2016, there’s a risk that not only will a new all-time
record low be reached, but that by the end of this summer almost all
the ice in the Arctic Ocean will be melted out entirely. A risk that a
new climate change related event will start to take shape in the
Arctic. The blue ocean events.
(Arctic sea ice area as measured by observational satellites and most
recently by F17. The bottom line of the graph measures days of the
year. The left side of the graph measures sea ice area. The
corresponding intersections determine sea ice area on any given day of
a year in the record. The up and downward swoop of eac
1.
CAPA
Ed <[email protected]>
To Ed <[email protected]>
Wednesday, April 27, 2016 1:05 PM
Click to View Full HTML
________________________________
From: Bill Kelly <[email protected]>
Subject: CAPA
Will you kindly read this, consider joining and pass it on to anyone
you know who is interested in these issues. Also attached as word doc.
Thank you, Bill Kelly
CAPA
Citizens Against Political Assassinations
Washington, DC
Dear Friends and Associates:
As a researcher and/or student of the JFK assassination, you may be
aware that The JFK Act of 1992 requires the release of all government
records on the assassination of President Kennedy by October 2017. The
president of the United States at that time will be responsible for
its enforcement.
Our recently formed nonprofit organization, Citizens Against Political
Assassinations (CAPA), will continue the fight we started decades ago
to get the law passed and ensure this Act is enforced as well as
undertake similar national initiatives on other political
assassinations to see the truth is revealed and justice prevails. To
do this we need your help and support.
CAPA plans to pursue the release of the remaining JFK records, file
Freedom of Information Act requests for more records, take legal
actions to enforce the law and undertake public education efforts to
see that the forces that orchestrated such assassinations will no
longer be able to influence government policies. These initiatives
require funding to be effective.
Please help by joining us and providing whatever financial support you
can afford, volunteering your time as part of a CAPA Committee,
contacting your congressional representatives, and spreading the word
on social media about CAPA, our mission, programs and legal
initiatives. Time is running out to do something about these horrific
crimes and cover-ups.
There is power in numbers so join this worthy endeavor to bring truth
and justice to those who have been killed for their beliefs. Thank
you.
The CAPA Board of Directors: Dr. Cyril Wecht, Andrew Kreig, Larry
Schnapf, Esq., Jerry Policoff, Michael Nurko, Bill Kelly and Ben
Wecht.
CAPA Board of Advisors: Professor Peter Dale Scott, Dr. John Newman,
Marie Fonzi, David Talbot, Alan Dale, Bill Simpich, and Dr. Gary
Aguilar.
Add your name to ours, become a CAPA member and serve on a CAPA board
or committee. Join us: Send check or money order - $50 yearly dues or
a donation to:
Citizens Against Political Assassinations - CAPA P.O. Box 7641,
Lancaster, Pa., 17604-7641
Or you can become a member on line via Pay Pal at our web site. For
more information on participating, please visit us on line:
http://capa-hq.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; or like us at:
https://www.facebook.com/Citizens-Again ... 374745875/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
and for emergencies and breaking news and updates:
https://twitter.com/HQ_CAPA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; .
[http://capa-hq.com/wp-content/uploads/2 ... e_crop.jpg]<http://capa-hq.com/>
Citizens Against Political Assassinations<http://capa-hq.com/>
capa-hq.com
Americans deserve prompt and thorough disclosure of the facts
surrounding the nation's major assassinations, according to a new
research group on the occasion of ...
If you have further questions please contact CAPA Secretary Bill Kelly
at (609) 425-6297
2.
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Censored ... 8/Y/M.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Censored, Surveilled, Watch-Listed, & Jailed: The Absurd Citizenry Of
The American Police State - BlackListed News
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Censored ... .../M.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
5 hours ago - Express yourself on social media: The FBI, CIA, NSA and
other government .... in the eyes of the FBI (and its network of
snitches) if you: express libertarian ...
3
http://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-re ... iated-pres" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
FBI failed to follow its own rules when it impersonated The Associated
Press in a 2007 investigation
Hannah Bloch-Wehba | Freedom of Information | Commentary | April 28,
2016
The FBI failed to follow its own rules when agents impersonated an
Associated Press reporter in order to locate a criminal suspect in
2007, according to documents newly released in response to a FOIA
lawsuit
4.
https://theintercept.com/2016/04/28/let ... ommittees/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
LETTER DETAILS FBI PLAN FOR SECRETIVE ANTI-RADICALIZATION COMMITTEES
Cora Currier, Murtaza Hussain
Apr. 28 2016, 1:02 p.m.
Illustration: The Intercept
OF THE PLANS put forward by the federal government to identify and
stop budding terrorists, among the least understood are the FBI’s
“Shared Responsibility Committees.”
The idea of the committees is to enlist counselors, social workers,
religious figures, and other community members to intervene with
people the FBI thinks are in danger of radicalizing — the sort of
alternative to prosecution and jail time many experts have been
clamoring for. But civil liberties groups worry the committees could
become just a ruse to expand the FBI’s network of informants, and the
government has refused to provide details about the program.
The Intercept has obtained a letter addressed to potential committee
members from the FBI, outlining how the process would work. While the
letter claims that committees will not be used “as a means to gather
intelligence,” it also makes clear that information from the
committees may be shared widely by the FBI, including with spy
agencies and foreign governments, and that committee members can be
subpoenaed for documents or called to testify in cases against the
people they are trying to help. At the same time, committee members
are forbidden even from seeking advice from outside experts
5.
Page 1 ANALYSIS OF SUCCESSFUL COMMUNIST INFORMANT INTERVIEWS (Not for
Dissemination Outside the Bureau) FEDERAL ...
https://cryptome.org/2016/04/fbi-snitches.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
time of the program for developing top-level security informants. ...
methods the Communist Party uses in its efforts to uncover FBI
informants, and how to ...
Republican Climate Change Denial is Blinding Our Ability to Observe
the Arctic
Denial.
It’s all-too-often what happens to the powerful when they are
confronted with the consequences of their own bad actions. It can best
be said that denial is blindness — the willful inability to open one’s
eyes to the tough reality of the world. In literature, we can see
denial in the tragic sin of hubris and in the metaphor of Oedipus the
King gouging his own eyes out as a result of his failure to come to
terms with the warnings of prophecy.
In the psychological sense, denial involves the inability to cope with
reality such that a person will act in an irrational fashion to the
point of generating fantasies that the object of said denial does not
exist. Behaviorally, this results in an increasing degradation of a
person’s ability to confront or cope with the object of denial — to
the point of ardent, irrational, and possibly destructive outbursts
when faced with it.
Arctic sea ice loss.
Ever since 1979 an array of satellite sensors has allowed our
scientists to directly observe the sea ice in the Arctic. Since that
time, and as a human-forced warming of the world ramped up, the area
which that ice covers has dramatically shrunken. So much so that by
this year, 2016, there’s a risk that not only will a new all-time
record low be reached, but that by the end of this summer almost all
the ice in the Arctic Ocean will be melted out entirely. A risk that a
new climate change related event will start to take shape in the
Arctic. The blue ocean events.
(Arctic sea ice area as measured by observational satellites and most
recently by F17. The bottom line of the graph measures days of the
year. The left side of the graph measures sea ice area. The
corresponding intersections determine sea ice area on any given day of
a year in the record. The up and downward swoop of eac
1.
CAPA
Ed <[email protected]>
To Ed <[email protected]>
Wednesday, April 27, 2016 1:05 PM
Click to View Full HTML
________________________________
From: Bill Kelly <[email protected]>
Subject: CAPA
Will you kindly read this, consider joining and pass it on to anyone
you know who is interested in these issues. Also attached as word doc.
Thank you, Bill Kelly
CAPA
Citizens Against Political Assassinations
Washington, DC
Dear Friends and Associates:
As a researcher and/or student of the JFK assassination, you may be
aware that The JFK Act of 1992 requires the release of all government
records on the assassination of President Kennedy by October 2017. The
president of the United States at that time will be responsible for
its enforcement.
Our recently formed nonprofit organization, Citizens Against Political
Assassinations (CAPA), will continue the fight we started decades ago
to get the law passed and ensure this Act is enforced as well as
undertake similar national initiatives on other political
assassinations to see the truth is revealed and justice prevails. To
do this we need your help and support.
CAPA plans to pursue the release of the remaining JFK records, file
Freedom of Information Act requests for more records, take legal
actions to enforce the law and undertake public education efforts to
see that the forces that orchestrated such assassinations will no
longer be able to influence government policies. These initiatives
require funding to be effective.
Please help by joining us and providing whatever financial support you
can afford, volunteering your time as part of a CAPA Committee,
contacting your congressional representatives, and spreading the word
on social media about CAPA, our mission, programs and legal
initiatives. Time is running out to do something about these horrific
crimes and cover-ups.
There is power in numbers so join this worthy endeavor to bring truth
and justice to those who have been killed for their beliefs. Thank
you.
The CAPA Board of Directors: Dr. Cyril Wecht, Andrew Kreig, Larry
Schnapf, Esq., Jerry Policoff, Michael Nurko, Bill Kelly and Ben
Wecht.
CAPA Board of Advisors: Professor Peter Dale Scott, Dr. John Newman,
Marie Fonzi, David Talbot, Alan Dale, Bill Simpich, and Dr. Gary
Aguilar.
Add your name to ours, become a CAPA member and serve on a CAPA board
or committee. Join us: Send check or money order - $50 yearly dues or
a donation to:
Citizens Against Political Assassinations - CAPA P.O. Box 7641,
Lancaster, Pa., 17604-7641
Or you can become a member on line via Pay Pal at our web site. For
more information on participating, please visit us on line:
http://capa-hq.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; or like us at:
https://www.facebook.com/Citizens-Again ... 374745875/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
and for emergencies and breaking news and updates:
https://twitter.com/HQ_CAPA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; .
[http://capa-hq.com/wp-content/uploads/2 ... e_crop.jpg]<http://capa-hq.com/>
Citizens Against Political Assassinations<http://capa-hq.com/>
capa-hq.com
Americans deserve prompt and thorough disclosure of the facts
surrounding the nation's major assassinations, according to a new
research group on the occasion of ...
If you have further questions please contact CAPA Secretary Bill Kelly
at (609) 425-6297
2.
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Censored ... 8/Y/M.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Censored, Surveilled, Watch-Listed, & Jailed: The Absurd Citizenry Of
The American Police State - BlackListed News
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Censored ... .../M.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
5 hours ago - Express yourself on social media: The FBI, CIA, NSA and
other government .... in the eyes of the FBI (and its network of
snitches) if you: express libertarian ...
3
http://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-re ... iated-pres" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
FBI failed to follow its own rules when it impersonated The Associated
Press in a 2007 investigation
Hannah Bloch-Wehba | Freedom of Information | Commentary | April 28,
2016
The FBI failed to follow its own rules when agents impersonated an
Associated Press reporter in order to locate a criminal suspect in
2007, according to documents newly released in response to a FOIA
lawsuit
4.
https://theintercept.com/2016/04/28/let ... ommittees/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
LETTER DETAILS FBI PLAN FOR SECRETIVE ANTI-RADICALIZATION COMMITTEES
Cora Currier, Murtaza Hussain
Apr. 28 2016, 1:02 p.m.
Illustration: The Intercept
OF THE PLANS put forward by the federal government to identify and
stop budding terrorists, among the least understood are the FBI’s
“Shared Responsibility Committees.”
The idea of the committees is to enlist counselors, social workers,
religious figures, and other community members to intervene with
people the FBI thinks are in danger of radicalizing — the sort of
alternative to prosecution and jail time many experts have been
clamoring for. But civil liberties groups worry the committees could
become just a ruse to expand the FBI’s network of informants, and the
government has refused to provide details about the program.
The Intercept has obtained a letter addressed to potential committee
members from the FBI, outlining how the process would work. While the
letter claims that committees will not be used “as a means to gather
intelligence,” it also makes clear that information from the
committees may be shared widely by the FBI, including with spy
agencies and foreign governments, and that committee members can be
subpoenaed for documents or called to testify in cases against the
people they are trying to help. At the same time, committee members
are forbidden even from seeking advice from outside experts
5.
Page 1 ANALYSIS OF SUCCESSFUL COMMUNIST INFORMANT INTERVIEWS (Not for
Dissemination Outside the Bureau) FEDERAL ...
https://cryptome.org/2016/04/fbi-snitches.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
time of the program for developing top-level security informants. ...
methods the Communist Party uses in its efforts to uncover FBI
informants, and how to ...
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Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood boys and girls
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NH ANGLE
http://www.unionleader.com/section/AGGREGATION" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Rapist deputy asks Belknap County cases to be dismissed
LACONIA — Convicted rapist and former sheriff's deputy Ernest Justin Blanchette has asked that a Belknap County Superior Court judge dismiss the four cases he faces locally because he wasn't employed by the Department of Corrections
Follow
The FBI Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny Wiretapping Your Amazon Echo
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-fbi- ... 1776092971" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
May11 2016
An Amazon Echo, which the FBI can neither confirm nor deny has ever been hacked during an investigation (Gizmodo)
Back in March, I filed a Freedom of Information request with the FBI asking if the agency had ever wiretapped
May 12, 2016 - 06:59 PM EDT
Overnight Cybersecurity: Mozilla presses FBI to disclose hacking trick
BY KATIE BO WILLIAMS
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity ... ue-in-mass" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Privacy
by Tim Cushing
Thu, May 12th 2016 3:33pm
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160 ... base.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Filed Under:
biometric database, biometrics, fbi, fingerprints, ngis, privacy
Permalink.
FBI Doesn't Want Privacy Laws To Apply To Its Biometric Database
from the and-doesn't-want-to-let-citizens-know-how-THEIR-privacy-is-affected dept
The FBI has been building a massive biometric database for the last eight years. The Next Generation Identification System (NGIS) starts with millions of photos of criminals (and non-criminals) and builds from there. Palm prints, fingerprints, iris scans, tattoos and biographies are all part of the mix.
Despite having promised to deliver a Privacy Impact Assessment of the database back in 2012, the FBI's system went live towards the end of 2014 without one. That's a big
http://www.commercialappeal.com/busines ... 56671.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
FBI joint training at UT Memphis prepares for bioterrorism threat
May 12, 2016 -- A representative of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presents a case study during the Memphis Joint Criminal-Epidemiological Investigations Workshop at the University of Tennessee Health Sciece Center.
By Kevin McKenzie of The Commercial Appeal
Updated: 5:10 p.m. 0
The law enforcement, public health, emergency responders and others who might play a role
http://news.trust.org/item/20160512214753-14m2x/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
U.S. Senator Rand Paul to back bill blocking FBI hacking expansion
by Reuters
Thursday, 12 May 2016 21:42 GMT
By Dustin Volz
WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) - Kentucky Senator Rand Paul plans to become the first Republican co-sponsor of legislation to block a pending judicial rule change that would let U.S. judges issue search warrants for remote access
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/0 ... ok-tirade/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
NH ANGLE
http://www.unionleader.com/section/AGGREGATION" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Rapist deputy asks Belknap County cases to be dismissed
LACONIA — Convicted rapist and former sheriff's deputy Ernest Justin Blanchette has asked that a Belknap County Superior Court judge dismiss the four cases he faces locally because he wasn't employed by the Department of Corrections
Follow
The FBI Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny Wiretapping Your Amazon Echo
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-fbi- ... 1776092971" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
May11 2016
An Amazon Echo, which the FBI can neither confirm nor deny has ever been hacked during an investigation (Gizmodo)
Back in March, I filed a Freedom of Information request with the FBI asking if the agency had ever wiretapped
May 12, 2016 - 06:59 PM EDT
Overnight Cybersecurity: Mozilla presses FBI to disclose hacking trick
BY KATIE BO WILLIAMS
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity ... ue-in-mass" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Privacy
by Tim Cushing
Thu, May 12th 2016 3:33pm
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160 ... base.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Filed Under:
biometric database, biometrics, fbi, fingerprints, ngis, privacy
Permalink.
FBI Doesn't Want Privacy Laws To Apply To Its Biometric Database
from the and-doesn't-want-to-let-citizens-know-how-THEIR-privacy-is-affected dept
The FBI has been building a massive biometric database for the last eight years. The Next Generation Identification System (NGIS) starts with millions of photos of criminals (and non-criminals) and builds from there. Palm prints, fingerprints, iris scans, tattoos and biographies are all part of the mix.
Despite having promised to deliver a Privacy Impact Assessment of the database back in 2012, the FBI's system went live towards the end of 2014 without one. That's a big
http://www.commercialappeal.com/busines ... 56671.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
FBI joint training at UT Memphis prepares for bioterrorism threat
May 12, 2016 -- A representative of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presents a case study during the Memphis Joint Criminal-Epidemiological Investigations Workshop at the University of Tennessee Health Sciece Center.
By Kevin McKenzie of The Commercial Appeal
Updated: 5:10 p.m. 0
The law enforcement, public health, emergency responders and others who might play a role
http://news.trust.org/item/20160512214753-14m2x/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
U.S. Senator Rand Paul to back bill blocking FBI hacking expansion
by Reuters
Thursday, 12 May 2016 21:42 GMT
By Dustin Volz
WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) - Kentucky Senator Rand Paul plans to become the first Republican co-sponsor of legislation to block a pending judicial rule change that would let U.S. judges issue search warrants for remote access
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These Miamians, including Chicken Kitchen's CEO, show up in the ...
Miami Herald- May 15 2016
“It's not the days of Scarface anymore,” said Scott Moritz, a former FBI agent who works for finance consultancy Protiviti. “But Miami is a very international city,
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US policing Opinion
Giving the 'Ferguson effect' a new name won't make it truer
Samuel Sinyangwe
FBI director James Comey attributed a crime spike to police being scared of a viral video this week. That’s a theory that’s already been widely debunked
‘Crowd-sourced efforts demonstrate, at minimum, that police have not been “less aggressive”. If anything, the police appear to have doubled-down on the type of aggression that generated public scrutiny in the first place.’ Photograph: Alamy
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Friday 13 May 2016 12.05 EDT Last modified on Friday 13 May 2016 12.37 EDT
This week, FBI director James Comey used his platform to reignite public debate over the nefarious “Ferguson effect” theory, claiming national scrutiny of police was driving a “significant jump in murder rates” in US cities. Armed with anecdotes rather than facts, he asserted that more black and Hispanic men were dying because “lots and lots of police officers” were being less aggressive in their work for fear of being the next “viral video”.
This theory, as many experts have noted, relies on assumptions that are not supported by the facts. Unfortunately, we don’t have comprehensive official statistics on police use of force because the FBI, which Comey heads, has failed to collect this data. But crowd-sourced efforts demonstrate, at minimum, that police have not been “less aggressive”. If anything, the police appear to have doubled-down on the type of aggression that generated public scrutiny in the first place.
According to the Mapping Police Violence database, police killed 696 people nationwide in 2014 before the Ferguson protests began on 9 August. Police killed 739 people over the same time period in 2015 according to that database – the Guardian’s The Counted project recorded 709. Either way, an increase.
This year is no different. Police have already killed more people to date this year than they had killed by this point of 2014.
And there hasn’t been a crime wave alongside these increased killings, contrary to Comey’s assertion. Analyses by the Marshall Project and the Department of Justice found no evidence that violent crime has significantly increased in the nation’s largest
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Omaha FBI office inspection reports are missing from COINTELPRO era
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Omaha COINTELPRO proposal against Charles Knox was censored by the FBI to hide dirty tricks
FBI
A spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation has admitted that six annual inspection reports of the Omaha field office cannot be located. “We were unable to locate records,” said David Hardy, Section Chief of the Records Management Division.
Hardy sought to find annual internal inspection reports for the Omaha FBI office during the years 1967-1973. Hardy said, “we conducted a search of the locations or entities where records...would reasonably be found.”
The missing FBI records span the tenures of Paul Young and Fletcher Thompson as Special Agents in Charge. Both Young and Thompson proposed counterintelligence actions against “Black Nationalists” in Omaha under the illegal counterintelligence operation code-named COINTELPRO. Young targeted the Omaha Two, Edward Poindexter and Wopashite Mondo Eyen we Langa (former David Rice) of the National Committee to Combat Fascism. Thompson targeted Charles Knox of the Black Revolutionary Party.
The missing inspection reports would have shed light on clandestine dirty tricks. J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI for nearly a half-century, kept tight control of the Bureau and the COINTELPRO program. To avoid documenting the more serious crimes committed by FBI agents, Hoover established a sophisticated “Do Not File” system for the most “sensitive” operations. Counterintelligence measures that needed to be kept secret were documented on temporary files captioned Do Not File. The Special Agent in Charge would keep the documentation in an office safe instead of the regular filing system. During the annual office reviews the contents of the safe would be examined, verified, and destroyed with the inspectors making summary statements in the inspection reports.
Mark Felt, the “Deep Throat” of Watergate infamy, was in charge of the Inspection Division and functioned as a quality control officer. Felt did not object when FBI agents broke the law with counterintelligence actions. Instead, Felt's task was to make sure the misdeeds were being done efficiently and effectively. A typical office review would consist of an inspection team drawn from FBI headquarters and other field offices and could take several weeks. Files would be studied, the safe examined, and interviews conducted during the inspections. The inspection reports were detailed and comprehensive.
The FBI has posted the annual inspection reports of the Domestic Intelligence Division which are hundreds of pages long and catalog counterintelligence actions all over the country. Two of the national inspection reports mentioned Omaha. One discussed the name change from the United Front to Combat Fascism to the National Committee to Combat Fascism. The other inspection report told of FBI collaboration with Omaha police against Charles Knox.
The Omaha Two targets were ultimately convicted of the 1970 murder of an Omaha policeman after the FBI Laboratory withheld a report on the identity of an anonymous 911 caller who lured the officer to a bombing. Both Poindexter and Mondo denied any role in the crime. Poindexter remains imprisoned at the maximum-security Nebraska State Penitentiary. Mondo died at the prison in March. FBI files on the two men were both redacted and withheld. The missing inspection reports may have exonerated the two Black Panther leaders but now the extent of FBI manipulation of the case will likely never be known.
After Paul Young obtained the conviction of the Omaha Two he was promoted to the Kansas City FBI office. Fletcher Thompson followed Young and sought Hoover's approval for a COINTELPRO action against Charles Knox who had moved from Des Moines, Iowa to Omaha. FBI records do not disclose if Hoover approved of the plot against Knox. The specifics of the propo
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SECURITY DATE OF PUBLICATION: 05.15.16.
05.15.16
TIME OF PUBLICATION: 7:00 AM.
7:00 AM
EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT HOW THE FBI HACKS PEOPLE
RECENT HEADLINES WARN that the government now has greater authority to hack your computers, in and outside the US. Changes to federal criminal court procedures known as Rule 41 are to blame; they vastly expand how and whom the FBI can legally hack. But just like the NSA’s hacking operations, FBI hacking isn’t new. In fact, the bureau has a long history of surreptitiously hacking us, going back two decades.
That history is almost impossible to document, however, because the hacking happens mostly in secret. Search warrants granting permission to hack get issued using vague, obtuse language that hides what’s really happening, and defense attorneys rarely challenge the hacking tools and techniques in court. There’s also no public accounting of how often the government hacks people. Although federal and state judges have to submit a report to Congress tracking the number and nature of wiretap requests they process each year, no similar requirement exists for hacking tools. As a result, little is known about the invasive tools the bureau, and other law enforcement agencies, use or how they use them. But occasionally, tidbits of information do leak out in court cases and news stories.
A look at a few of these cases offers a glimpse at how FBI computer intrusion techniques have developed over the years. Note that the government
These Miamians, including Chicken Kitchen's CEO, show up in the ...
Miami Herald- May 15 2016
“It's not the days of Scarface anymore,” said Scott Moritz, a former FBI agent who works for finance consultancy Protiviti. “But Miami is a very international city,
1.
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US policing Opinion
Giving the 'Ferguson effect' a new name won't make it truer
Samuel Sinyangwe
FBI director James Comey attributed a crime spike to police being scared of a viral video this week. That’s a theory that’s already been widely debunked
‘Crowd-sourced efforts demonstrate, at minimum, that police have not been “less aggressive”. If anything, the police appear to have doubled-down on the type of aggression that generated public scrutiny in the first place.’ Photograph: Alamy
@samswey
Friday 13 May 2016 12.05 EDT Last modified on Friday 13 May 2016 12.37 EDT
This week, FBI director James Comey used his platform to reignite public debate over the nefarious “Ferguson effect” theory, claiming national scrutiny of police was driving a “significant jump in murder rates” in US cities. Armed with anecdotes rather than facts, he asserted that more black and Hispanic men were dying because “lots and lots of police officers” were being less aggressive in their work for fear of being the next “viral video”.
This theory, as many experts have noted, relies on assumptions that are not supported by the facts. Unfortunately, we don’t have comprehensive official statistics on police use of force because the FBI, which Comey heads, has failed to collect this data. But crowd-sourced efforts demonstrate, at minimum, that police have not been “less aggressive”. If anything, the police appear to have doubled-down on the type of aggression that generated public scrutiny in the first place.
According to the Mapping Police Violence database, police killed 696 people nationwide in 2014 before the Ferguson protests began on 9 August. Police killed 739 people over the same time period in 2015 according to that database – the Guardian’s The Counted project recorded 709. Either way, an increase.
This year is no different. Police have already killed more people to date this year than they had killed by this point of 2014.
And there hasn’t been a crime wave alongside these increased killings, contrary to Comey’s assertion. Analyses by the Marshall Project and the Department of Justice found no evidence that violent crime has significantly increased in the nation’s largest
2.
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Omaha FBI office inspection reports are missing from COINTELPRO era
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May 15, 2016
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Omaha COINTELPRO proposal against Charles Knox was censored by the FBI to hide dirty tricks
FBI
A spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation has admitted that six annual inspection reports of the Omaha field office cannot be located. “We were unable to locate records,” said David Hardy, Section Chief of the Records Management Division.
Hardy sought to find annual internal inspection reports for the Omaha FBI office during the years 1967-1973. Hardy said, “we conducted a search of the locations or entities where records...would reasonably be found.”
The missing FBI records span the tenures of Paul Young and Fletcher Thompson as Special Agents in Charge. Both Young and Thompson proposed counterintelligence actions against “Black Nationalists” in Omaha under the illegal counterintelligence operation code-named COINTELPRO. Young targeted the Omaha Two, Edward Poindexter and Wopashite Mondo Eyen we Langa (former David Rice) of the National Committee to Combat Fascism. Thompson targeted Charles Knox of the Black Revolutionary Party.
The missing inspection reports would have shed light on clandestine dirty tricks. J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI for nearly a half-century, kept tight control of the Bureau and the COINTELPRO program. To avoid documenting the more serious crimes committed by FBI agents, Hoover established a sophisticated “Do Not File” system for the most “sensitive” operations. Counterintelligence measures that needed to be kept secret were documented on temporary files captioned Do Not File. The Special Agent in Charge would keep the documentation in an office safe instead of the regular filing system. During the annual office reviews the contents of the safe would be examined, verified, and destroyed with the inspectors making summary statements in the inspection reports.
Mark Felt, the “Deep Throat” of Watergate infamy, was in charge of the Inspection Division and functioned as a quality control officer. Felt did not object when FBI agents broke the law with counterintelligence actions. Instead, Felt's task was to make sure the misdeeds were being done efficiently and effectively. A typical office review would consist of an inspection team drawn from FBI headquarters and other field offices and could take several weeks. Files would be studied, the safe examined, and interviews conducted during the inspections. The inspection reports were detailed and comprehensive.
The FBI has posted the annual inspection reports of the Domestic Intelligence Division which are hundreds of pages long and catalog counterintelligence actions all over the country. Two of the national inspection reports mentioned Omaha. One discussed the name change from the United Front to Combat Fascism to the National Committee to Combat Fascism. The other inspection report told of FBI collaboration with Omaha police against Charles Knox.
The Omaha Two targets were ultimately convicted of the 1970 murder of an Omaha policeman after the FBI Laboratory withheld a report on the identity of an anonymous 911 caller who lured the officer to a bombing. Both Poindexter and Mondo denied any role in the crime. Poindexter remains imprisoned at the maximum-security Nebraska State Penitentiary. Mondo died at the prison in March. FBI files on the two men were both redacted and withheld. The missing inspection reports may have exonerated the two Black Panther leaders but now the extent of FBI manipulation of the case will likely never be known.
After Paul Young obtained the conviction of the Omaha Two he was promoted to the Kansas City FBI office. Fletcher Thompson followed Young and sought Hoover's approval for a COINTELPRO action against Charles Knox who had moved from Des Moines, Iowa to Omaha. FBI records do not disclose if Hoover approved of the plot against Knox. The specifics of the propo
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SECURITY DATE OF PUBLICATION: 05.15.16.
05.15.16
TIME OF PUBLICATION: 7:00 AM.
7:00 AM
EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT HOW THE FBI HACKS PEOPLE
RECENT HEADLINES WARN that the government now has greater authority to hack your computers, in and outside the US. Changes to federal criminal court procedures known as Rule 41 are to blame; they vastly expand how and whom the FBI can legally hack. But just like the NSA’s hacking operations, FBI hacking isn’t new. In fact, the bureau has a long history of surreptitiously hacking us, going back two decades.
That history is almost impossible to document, however, because the hacking happens mostly in secret. Search warrants granting permission to hack get issued using vague, obtuse language that hides what’s really happening, and defense attorneys rarely challenge the hacking tools and techniques in court. There’s also no public accounting of how often the government hacks people. Although federal and state judges have to submit a report to Congress tracking the number and nature of wiretap requests they process each year, no similar requirement exists for hacking tools. As a result, little is known about the invasive tools the bureau, and other law enforcement agencies, use or how they use them. But occasionally, tidbits of information do leak out in court cases and news stories.
A look at a few of these cases offers a glimpse at how FBI computer intrusion techniques have developed over the years. Note that the government
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Book Report
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Heat is online
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Taking Five to Think Big on Global Warming
05/23/2016 02:53 pm ET | Updated 8 hours ago
Ross Gelbspan
A writer and former journalist for the Boston Globe and Washington Post who maintains the website heatisonline.org
Climate change is the biggest threat facing humanity. It requires all the countries of the world to work cooperatively to limit its progress and manage its increasingly disruptive impacts. It demands our very biggest commitment. But first, let’s take five to think big about it.
No nation can address the warming individually or manage its impacts single handedly, without putting itself at a competitive disadvantage. The consequences of climate
New evidenve linking FBI agents to 911 Anthrax attack
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FBI’s Computer Analysis Response Team (CART) agents set up a work area in 2004 in Bruce Ivins office to copy his electronic files created September 2001 and October 2001 but the FBI has refused to provide the documents obtained by FBI’s CART agents in response to Ken Dillon’s FOIA request
Posted by Lew Weinstein on May 23, 2016
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taxpayers
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May 25, 2016 62°
LAUSD has paid out $300 million in 4 years to students sexually abused by teachers
Settlements related to the sexual misconduct of former teacher Robert Pimentel, center, have reached $58 million, which is part of a growing tab for L.A. Unified.
RICHARD WINTON,
Howard Blume
May 25, 2016, 7:00 a.m.
In a recent court hearing, one young man after another claimed that former Franklin High football coach Jaime Jim
In other FBI news.,...,.
FBI agent Brad Orsini tried to murder
JFK assassination researcher Dr Cyril Wecht MD
two stories
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Pine-Richland H.S. Teen To Attend FBI Leadership Conference
May 24, 2016 5:02 PM By Sarah Arbogast
Filed Under: FBI, FBI National Academy of Associates, Jessica Lott, Pine Richland School District, Pine-Richland High School, Sarah Arbogast
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – A local student is getting the opportunity of a lifetime.
She’s heading to the FBI academy in Virginia for some special training.
Jessica Lott still has a couple more years before she graduates from Pine-Richland High School, but she is already thinking about her future.
“I want to go into the business field and marketing,” Lott said.
She wants to be a leader in those areas someday and an award she just won will help with that.
Lott was just presented with a Reward of Achievement from the FBI National Academy of Associates.
In June, she’ll travel to Quantico, Virginia and spend eight days at the FBI academy.
“I think it’s going to be really hard just because it’s going to be new, but I’m really looking forward to it because there’s going to be so many opportunities that will come from it,” she said.
“She’ll be exposed to classrooms, physical fitness, lectures, and learn about leadership within the FBI,” FBI Special Agent Brad Orsini said.
“I think she’s a great choice. I think she’s going to have a blast down there and I think just base
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Timeline: The investigation and trial of Cyril H. Wecht | Pittsburgh Post ...
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Jan 27, 2008 - The disciplinary reports of lead FBI agent Bradley Orsini are unsealed, revealing that he had been ...
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Hawaii could be first to put gun owners in national FBI database
Hawaii News Now-
Hawaii could become the first state to enter gun owners into a national database. It would automatically notify police in Hawaii if a firearms owner is arrested in ...
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Book Report
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Wet Bulb Temp Alert
Heat is online
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Taking Five to Think Big on Global Warming
05/23/2016 02:53 pm ET | Updated 8 hours ago
Ross Gelbspan
A writer and former journalist for the Boston Globe and Washington Post who maintains the website heatisonline.org
Climate change is the biggest threat facing humanity. It requires all the countries of the world to work cooperatively to limit its progress and manage its increasingly disruptive impacts. It demands our very biggest commitment. But first, let’s take five to think big about it.
No nation can address the warming individually or manage its impacts single handedly, without putting itself at a competitive disadvantage. The consequences of climate
New evidenve linking FBI agents to 911 Anthrax attack
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpr ... -has-refu/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
FBI’s Computer Analysis Response Team (CART) agents set up a work area in 2004 in Bruce Ivins office to copy his electronic files created September 2001 and October 2001 but the FBI has refused to provide the documents obtained by FBI’s CART agents in response to Ken Dillon’s FOIA request
Posted by Lew Weinstein on May 23, 2016
***
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taxpayers
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May 25, 2016 62°
LAUSD has paid out $300 million in 4 years to students sexually abused by teachers
Settlements related to the sexual misconduct of former teacher Robert Pimentel, center, have reached $58 million, which is part of a growing tab for L.A. Unified.
RICHARD WINTON,
Howard Blume
May 25, 2016, 7:00 a.m.
In a recent court hearing, one young man after another claimed that former Franklin High football coach Jaime Jim
In other FBI news.,...,.
FBI agent Brad Orsini tried to murder
JFK assassination researcher Dr Cyril Wecht MD
two stories
1.
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2016/05/ ... onference/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Pine-Richland H.S. Teen To Attend FBI Leadership Conference
May 24, 2016 5:02 PM By Sarah Arbogast
Filed Under: FBI, FBI National Academy of Associates, Jessica Lott, Pine Richland School District, Pine-Richland High School, Sarah Arbogast
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – A local student is getting the opportunity of a lifetime.
She’s heading to the FBI academy in Virginia for some special training.
Jessica Lott still has a couple more years before she graduates from Pine-Richland High School, but she is already thinking about her future.
“I want to go into the business field and marketing,” Lott said.
She wants to be a leader in those areas someday and an award she just won will help with that.
Lott was just presented with a Reward of Achievement from the FBI National Academy of Associates.
In June, she’ll travel to Quantico, Virginia and spend eight days at the FBI academy.
“I think it’s going to be really hard just because it’s going to be new, but I’m really looking forward to it because there’s going to be so many opportunities that will come from it,” she said.
“She’ll be exposed to classrooms, physical fitness, lectures, and learn about leadership within the FBI,” FBI Special Agent Brad Orsini said.
“I think she’s a great choice. I think she’s going to have a blast down there and I think just base
2.
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Jan 27, 2008 - The disciplinary reports of lead FBI agent Bradley Orsini are unsealed, revealing that he had been ...
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Hawaii could be first to put gun owners in national FBI database
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CHIEF OF THE CIA’S ‘BIN-LADEN’ UNIT TELLS THE WORLD THAT AL-QAEDA NEVER EXISTED
ARJUN WALIAMAY 30, 2016
The number of ‘whistleblowers’ that have emerged over the years regarding the ongoing ‘war against terror’ is truly eye-opening. Unfortunately, many remain innocently ignorant given the fact that mainstream corporate media will not touch this stuff. They are, however, very quick to jump on the ‘terrorist’ bandwagon when an alleged attack is carried out, supposedly by ‘The Islamic State.’
As prominent author and Canadian economist Dr. Michel Chossudovsky said, a statement that’s been used in several articles here at Collective Evolution:
We are dealing with a criminal undertaking at a global level…The global war on terrorism…is fake, it’s based on fake premises. It tells us that somehow America and the Western world are going after a fictitious enemy, the Islamic state, when in fact the Islamic state is fully supported and financed by the Western military alliance and America’s allies in the Persian Gulf. They say Muslims are terrorists…they’re not the product of Muslim society, and that should be abundantly clear…The global war on terrorism is a fabrication, a big lie and a crime against humanity.
The statement above was spoken at the International Conference on the New World Order, which was organized and sponsored by the Perdana Global Peace Foundation. The idea is called ‘false flag terrorism,’—the idea that powerful people are involved in supporting, perpetuating, and fabricating terrorist attacks, like 9/11 and what recently happened in Brussels, in order to create a heightened national global security state to justify the infiltration of other countries for ulterior motives. This motive, many believe, is for the creation of a New World Order. Don’t get me wrong, these attacks do happen, and people do die, but the story behind them is, I believe, as do many others, a lie.
Again, this idea has been expressed numerous times. Another great example comes from former British foreign secretary, Robin Cook ,who told us that:
The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al-Qaeda, and any informed intelligence officer knows this. But, there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an intensified entity representing the ‘devil’ only in order to drive TV watchers to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism.
The list is long one. Below is a video of Michael Scheuer being interviewed by RT news. Scheuer is a former CIA intelligence officer of 20 years. He is also an author, foreign policy critic, and a political analyst. Currently, he works as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. One of his assignments during his long career was serving as the CIA’s Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station.
Washington’s enemy is an enemy that doesn’t exist. It didn’t exist when Bin Laden was alive, it doesn’t exist now.
Another alternative viewpoint you don’t hear from mainstream media. Someone with a background like
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MAY 29, 2016 BY DEAN JAMES
Sheriff Issues EPIC “Explanation” After Deputies Shoot Cop Killing Illegal Alien 68 Times…
Dean James III% AMERICA’S FREEDOM FIGHTERS –
You are going to love this.
Ten years ago, an illegal alien named Angilo Freeland shot and killed a sheriff’s deputy and his dog in Lakeland, Florida, which led police on a manhunt that resulted in another officer being shot.
The cop killing illegal ended up dying in a hail of gunfire.He was hit 68 times by the SWAT team members’ shots! Hell yeah!
Looks like Florida has a sheriff like Arizona has, “You kill a policeman it means no arrest… no Miranda rights… no negotiations… nothing but as many bullets as we can shoot into you- period,” said Polk County Florida Sheriff, Grady Judd.
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Colorado
Former Colorado sheriff turns self in after extortion and kidnapping charges
Terry Maketa has faced barrage of accusations for allegedly discriminating against workers who would not sleep with him and pressuring a domestic abuse victim to reverse a statement – so that she was jailed while her abuser kept his job
Terry Maketa is accused of extortion and kidnapping, among other charges. Photograph: Police photo
Josiah Hesse
Monday 30 May 2016
Last week, a former Colorado sheriff turned himself in to police custody following a grand jury indictment that charged him with extortion, tampering with a witness or victim, second-degree kidnapping and three counts of official misconduct. An undersheriff and commander were also booked on various charges.
Terry Maketa was sheriff of El Paso County for 12 years, until 2014. El Paso County is home to the conservative Christian city of Colorado Springs, known for its Republican voters and evangelicals.
His indictment came after a three-year effort among colleagues to hold
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Monday, May 30, 2016
An unknown assailant broke into an FBI agent’s vehicle in San Francisco, stealing a gun along with the agent’s badge, city police officials said.
The FBI agent reported that his vehicle had been broken into around 12:30 p.m. Sunday at the corner of Hayes and Pierce streets in Alamo Square, just 1½ blocks away from the city’s famous Painted Ladies, said Officer Carlos Manfredi, a spokesman for the San Francisco Police Department.
A .40-caliber Glock 27 was taken from the agent’s vehicle, Manfredi said, adding that theagent also reported his badge and other credentials were stolen
A San Francisco sheriff deputy’s gun was stolen from his home near Visitacion Valley in March.
Three handguns were stolen from an FBI vehicle parked in a Benicia neighborhood in January.
A .40 caliber handgun belonging to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was also lost in February after he left it on top of his car.
Handguns stolen from federal agents were used in two homicides last year. Oakland muralist Anotonio Ramos was shot with an ICE agent’s stolen gun and the gun used in the infamous shooting of San Francisco resident Kathryn Stei
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BI Gets Warrantless E-mail Snooping Added to Two Senate Bills
The New American -
The FBI already uses its controversial National Security Letters (NSLs) to obtain telephone billing records without a warrant while preventing service providers ...
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Iran forces messaging apps to move data to Iranian servers
Today’s news proves once again that encryption is a cornerstone of the freedom of speech. Every time the FBI asks for a backdoor, the FBI also endangers countless numbers of people around the world who just want to be able to criticize their government freely.
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch's Law Firm Tied to Hillary Clinton
Center for Research on Globalization -
It's well known that if the FBI recommends prosecution in the Hillary Clinton email case, the decision will be put in the hands of Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
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India-US to sign 2 key pacts during Homeland Security Dialogue
Financial Express - 10 hours ago
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Man linked to former Mission police officer pleads guilty to drug ...
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CHIEF OF THE CIA’S ‘BIN-LADEN’ UNIT TELLS THE WORLD THAT AL-QAEDA NEVER EXISTED
ARJUN WALIAMAY 30, 2016
The number of ‘whistleblowers’ that have emerged over the years regarding the ongoing ‘war against terror’ is truly eye-opening. Unfortunately, many remain innocently ignorant given the fact that mainstream corporate media will not touch this stuff. They are, however, very quick to jump on the ‘terrorist’ bandwagon when an alleged attack is carried out, supposedly by ‘The Islamic State.’
As prominent author and Canadian economist Dr. Michel Chossudovsky said, a statement that’s been used in several articles here at Collective Evolution:
We are dealing with a criminal undertaking at a global level…The global war on terrorism…is fake, it’s based on fake premises. It tells us that somehow America and the Western world are going after a fictitious enemy, the Islamic state, when in fact the Islamic state is fully supported and financed by the Western military alliance and America’s allies in the Persian Gulf. They say Muslims are terrorists…they’re not the product of Muslim society, and that should be abundantly clear…The global war on terrorism is a fabrication, a big lie and a crime against humanity.
The statement above was spoken at the International Conference on the New World Order, which was organized and sponsored by the Perdana Global Peace Foundation. The idea is called ‘false flag terrorism,’—the idea that powerful people are involved in supporting, perpetuating, and fabricating terrorist attacks, like 9/11 and what recently happened in Brussels, in order to create a heightened national global security state to justify the infiltration of other countries for ulterior motives. This motive, many believe, is for the creation of a New World Order. Don’t get me wrong, these attacks do happen, and people do die, but the story behind them is, I believe, as do many others, a lie.
Again, this idea has been expressed numerous times. Another great example comes from former British foreign secretary, Robin Cook ,who told us that:
The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al-Qaeda, and any informed intelligence officer knows this. But, there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an intensified entity representing the ‘devil’ only in order to drive TV watchers to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism.
The list is long one. Below is a video of Michael Scheuer being interviewed by RT news. Scheuer is a former CIA intelligence officer of 20 years. He is also an author, foreign policy critic, and a political analyst. Currently, he works as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. One of his assignments during his long career was serving as the CIA’s Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station.
Washington’s enemy is an enemy that doesn’t exist. It didn’t exist when Bin Laden was alive, it doesn’t exist now.
Another alternative viewpoint you don’t hear from mainstream media. Someone with a background like
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MAY 29, 2016 BY DEAN JAMES
Sheriff Issues EPIC “Explanation” After Deputies Shoot Cop Killing Illegal Alien 68 Times…
Dean James III% AMERICA’S FREEDOM FIGHTERS –
You are going to love this.
Ten years ago, an illegal alien named Angilo Freeland shot and killed a sheriff’s deputy and his dog in Lakeland, Florida, which led police on a manhunt that resulted in another officer being shot.
The cop killing illegal ended up dying in a hail of gunfire.He was hit 68 times by the SWAT team members’ shots! Hell yeah!
Looks like Florida has a sheriff like Arizona has, “You kill a policeman it means no arrest… no Miranda rights… no negotiations… nothing but as many bullets as we can shoot into you- period,” said Polk County Florida Sheriff, Grady Judd.
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Colorado
Former Colorado sheriff turns self in after extortion and kidnapping charges
Terry Maketa has faced barrage of accusations for allegedly discriminating against workers who would not sleep with him and pressuring a domestic abuse victim to reverse a statement – so that she was jailed while her abuser kept his job
Terry Maketa is accused of extortion and kidnapping, among other charges. Photograph: Police photo
Josiah Hesse
Monday 30 May 2016
Last week, a former Colorado sheriff turned himself in to police custody following a grand jury indictment that charged him with extortion, tampering with a witness or victim, second-degree kidnapping and three counts of official misconduct. An undersheriff and commander were also booked on various charges.
Terry Maketa was sheriff of El Paso County for 12 years, until 2014. El Paso County is home to the conservative Christian city of Colorado Springs, known for its Republican voters and evangelicals.
His indictment came after a three-year effort among colleagues to hold
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Monday, May 30, 2016
An unknown assailant broke into an FBI agent’s vehicle in San Francisco, stealing a gun along with the agent’s badge, city police officials said.
The FBI agent reported that his vehicle had been broken into around 12:30 p.m. Sunday at the corner of Hayes and Pierce streets in Alamo Square, just 1½ blocks away from the city’s famous Painted Ladies, said Officer Carlos Manfredi, a spokesman for the San Francisco Police Department.
A .40-caliber Glock 27 was taken from the agent’s vehicle, Manfredi said, adding that theagent also reported his badge and other credentials were stolen
A San Francisco sheriff deputy’s gun was stolen from his home near Visitacion Valley in March.
Three handguns were stolen from an FBI vehicle parked in a Benicia neighborhood in January.
A .40 caliber handgun belonging to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was also lost in February after he left it on top of his car.
Handguns stolen from federal agents were used in two homicides last year. Oakland muralist Anotonio Ramos was shot with an ICE agent’s stolen gun and the gun used in the infamous shooting of San Francisco resident Kathryn Stei
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BI Gets Warrantless E-mail Snooping Added to Two Senate Bills
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Iran forces messaging apps to move data to Iranian servers
Today’s news proves once again that encryption is a cornerstone of the freedom of speech. Every time the FBI asks for a backdoor, the FBI also endangers countless numbers of people around the world who just want to be able to criticize their government freely.
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch's Law Firm Tied to Hillary Clinton
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It's well known that if the FBI recommends prosecution in the Hillary Clinton email case, the decision will be put in the hands of Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
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India-US to sign 2 key pacts during Homeland Security Dialogue
Financial Express - 10 hours ago
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Memhis Jury says FBI agents
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Posted: Fri 12:05 PM, Jun 03, 2016 | Updated: Fri 8:43 PM, Jun 03, 2016
HARLAN COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - Kentucky State Police have arrested Lynch Police Chief Jackie Stewart on Friday.
State Police say they also arrested Stewart's girlfriend Rettie Morris.
KSP said the arrest came after a multi-agency investigation into narcotics in Appalachia was taken over by the FBI.
A federal indictment naming Stewart and
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Operation Condor: A transnational criminal conspiracy, uncovered
LUZ PALMÁS ZALDUA 4 June 2016
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The EPA is still stonewalling Inspector
General’s office
POSTED AT 10:01 AM ON JUNE 4, 2016
The troubles at the Environmental Protection Agency continue unabated this month, but this time we’re
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Bureau of Prisons breaks space-time continuum to deny FOIA
by JPat Brown
June 02, 2016
Five years ago, Jason Smathers filed a FOIA request with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. A week later, the BOP closed out the request due to lack of interest - three days before they even acknowledged receiving it.
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CVE Watch
Department of Education refuses to release its feedback of FBI’s Counter-Extremism website
by Waqas Mirza
June 01, 2016
The Department of Education has rejected a FOIA request for departmental feedback on the FBI’s Countering Violent Extremism website, which recruits teachers to spy on “troubled” Muslim teens.
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Parents refusal to get vaccine forced the Minnesota zoo to put down their meerkats
by JPat Brown
May 31, 2016
With debate raging over the Cincinnati Zoo’s decision to euthanize an endangered gorilla after a child fell into its enclosure, documents from a similar incident ten years prior raise the same questions about parental responsibility and stringent laws concerning animal safety.
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The NSA’s guide to the internet is the weirdest thing you’ll read today
by JPat Brown
May 27, 2016
The NSA has a well-earned reputation for being one of the tougher agencies to get records out of, making those rare FOIA wins all the sweeter. In the case of Untangling the Web, the agency’s 2007 guide to internet research, the fact that the records in question just so happen to be absolutely insane are just icing on the cake - or as the guide would put it, “the nectar on the ambrosia.”
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2 stories
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Half of Indiana police don't report hate crimes data to FBI
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — More than half of Indiana's police agencies failed to file hate crime reports with the FBI between 2009 and 2014, a trend
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Lynch police chief arrested following FBI investigation
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Posted: Fri 12:05 PM, Jun 03, 2016 | Updated: Fri 8:43 PM, Jun 03, 2016
HARLAN COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - Kentucky State Police have arrested Lynch Police Chief Jackie Stewart on Friday.
State Police say they also arrested Stewart's girlfriend Rettie Morris.
KSP said the arrest came after a multi-agency investigation into narcotics in Appalachia was taken over by the FBI.
A federal indictment naming Stewart and
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Officer fires gun at Pine Ridge hospital
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Operation Condor: A transnational criminal conspiracy, uncovered
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The EPA is still stonewalling Inspector
General’s office
POSTED AT 10:01 AM ON JUNE 4, 2016
The troubles at the Environmental Protection Agency continue unabated this month, but this time we’re
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Bureau of Prisons breaks space-time continuum to deny FOIA
by JPat Brown
June 02, 2016
Five years ago, Jason Smathers filed a FOIA request with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. A week later, the BOP closed out the request due to lack of interest - three days before they even acknowledged receiving it.
Read More
CVE Watch
Department of Education refuses to release its feedback of FBI’s Counter-Extremism website
by Waqas Mirza
June 01, 2016
The Department of Education has rejected a FOIA request for departmental feedback on the FBI’s Countering Violent Extremism website, which recruits teachers to spy on “troubled” Muslim teens.
Read More
Parents refusal to get vaccine forced the Minnesota zoo to put down their meerkats
by JPat Brown
May 31, 2016
With debate raging over the Cincinnati Zoo’s decision to euthanize an endangered gorilla after a child fell into its enclosure, documents from a similar incident ten years prior raise the same questions about parental responsibility and stringent laws concerning animal safety.
Read More
The NSA’s guide to the internet is the weirdest thing you’ll read today
by JPat Brown
May 27, 2016
The NSA has a well-earned reputation for being one of the tougher agencies to get records out of, making those rare FOIA wins all the sweeter. In the case of Untangling the Web, the agency’s 2007 guide to internet research, the fact that the records in question just so happen to be absolutely insane are just icing on the cake - or as the guide would put it, “the nectar on the ambrosia.”
Read More
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122 degrees: Palm Springs breaks record — and it could get hotter
Coping with the heat wave in Southern California
June 20, 2016, 6:46 p.m.
Every so often someone walks into the Palm Springs Visitors Center raring to burn through hiking trails like they're British adventurer and TV personality Bear Grylls.
For those people, Ceej Juarez, who provides information about hiking trails in the Agua Caliente Indian reservation, has to be a voice of reason. And that is never as important a job as it was on Monday, when a torrid heat wave sent temperatures to 122 degrees in the resor
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Meet the FBI Informant Who Organized Neo-Nazi Gathering Attended by Jo Cox Murder Suspect in 2000
We turn now to look at Thomas Mair, the British man who killed British parliamentarian Jo Cox last week. Mair reportedly yelled out "Britain First" during the attack—a reference to the far-right, anti-immigrant political party of the same name which is pushing for Britain to leave the EU in tomorrow’s Brexit referendum. In court on Friday, Mair gave his name as "Death to traitors, freedom for Britain." Cox was a vocal advocate for Britain to remain in the European Union. More information is coming to light about Mair’s ties to neo-Nazi groups in the United States and Britain. Meanwhile, a former paid FBI informant named Todd Blodgett has revealed he met Thomas Mair at a neo-Nazi gathering that the informant set up in London in 2000. Joining us now is Todd Blodgett, who once worked with several leaders of the far right, including Willis Carto, who founded the Liberty Lobby, and William Pierce, leader of the neo-Nazi National Alliance.
AMY GOODMAN: We move on to our next segment now, the story of the assassination of a British Labour leader. Juan?
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, we turn now to Britain, which is continuing to mourn last week’s murder of parliamentarian Jo Cox. She was stabbed and shot last week in her district after meeting with constituents. Her murderer, Thomas Mair, reportedly yelled out "Britain First" during the attack—a reference to the far-right, anti-immigrant political party of the same name which is pushing for Britain to leave the EU in tomorrow’s Brexit referendum. Cox was a vocal advocate for Britain to remain in the European Union.
More information is coming to light about Mair’s ties to neo-Nazi groups in the United States and Britain. The Southern Poverty Law Center here in the U.S. has revealed Mair is a longtime supporter of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Documents released by the center show Mair has spent over $500 buying periodicals and other items from the group, including a manual that contained information on how to build a pistol. In addition, The Daily Telegraph is reporting Mair subscribed to S.A. Patriot, a South African magazine published by White Rhino Club, a pro-apartheid group.
AMY GOODMAN: Meanwhile, a former paid FBI informant named Todd Blodgett has revealed he met Thomas Mair at a neo-Nazi gathering that the informant set up in London in 2000. Beginning in the mid-'90s, Blodgett worked with several leaders of the far right, including Willis Carto, who founded the Liberty Lobby, and William Pierce, leader of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Blodgett was also a co-owner of Resistance Records, the world's largest neo-Nazi music label. Todd Blodgett is joining us now from his home in Iowa.
Todd Blodgett, welcome to Democracy Now! Tell us what you know about this man, Thomas Mair, who killed Jo Cox.
TODD BLODGETT: Yes, thank you. I met Tommy—he was known as Tommy when I met him in about May of 2000. I had just begun working as a paid FBI informant in March of that year. William Pierce, who was the main guy with Resistance Records, but also my co-owner, wanted to convene a meeting in London, because there was a Leeds chapter and another chapter of the National Alliance. And the purpose of the meeting was to promote Resistance Records, let people know that William Pierce was the—was the new owner of it—he bought it from Willis Carto—and also to gain readerdom, gain more customers and get distributors for Resistance Records. And Mair was one of the people invited to the meeting. There were about maybe 17 or 18 people at that meeting. And it took place just off of the Strand in London in the spring of 2000. And as I said, he attended the meeting along with Stevie Cartwright, Richard Barnbrook, Nick Griffin, who was sort of like the David Duke of England at that time, and several other people who were either members of the National Alliance or supporters of the NA.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Now, why were you at that meeting representing Mr. Pierce?
TODD BLODGETT: Well, of course, Pierce did not know that I had agreed to work for the bureau at that point. And he wanted to go over to England—
AMY GOODMAN: For the FBI.
TODD BLODGETT: For—yeah, for the FBI, that’s correct. He, himself, wanted to go, but he was precluded by law from being able to go there, due to the fact that he couldn’t get in. I mean, his views kept him out of—out of England, so he sent me in his stead, because he and I were the co-owners of Resistance Records at that time. And when I began with the FBI, I told them about what Pierce wanted to do. And right away, they said, "Well, we’re going to accompany you." So, the day before I arrived in London, two FBI agents, an IRS agent and a JTTF agent—that would be the Joint Terrorism Task Force—flew in ahead of me, and they had me meet with the two people, two guys, from the MI5. They gave me a cellphone to use when I was there and that kind of thing. So, that’s how it all worked out.
AMY GOODMAN: Why did you decide to work for the FBI? I mean, were you a neo-Nazi true believer?
TODD BLODGETT: I was never a true believer. I was never a Holocaust denier. I’m not a bigot or a racist or anything. I was basically—I guess the best way to say it is I was—I was greedy. I was an opportunistic profiteer. I didn’t look at the consequences to myself or to others of what I was doing. And I never wanted to be a Resistance Records shareholder, but Willis Carto of Liberty Lobby owed me money. And when he went bankrupt, he—when Liberty Lobby went bankrupt, they gave me stock in Resistance Records in lieu of that, and that’s how I became a co-owner.
What had happened with regard to Pierce was, is that after the deal was signed with Pierce and he gave me a consulting contract he insisted I take as part of my stock sale—he wouldn’t buy the shares without it—we went to a place called the University Club of D.C. The Washington Post got a hold of the article, and it caused a big uproar there, and I was expelled from the club. I was given the option to resign or be expelled. I was expelled. And basically, that’s when the FBI caught notice of this, and the agents came to my office in downtown D.C., and they said, "Look, we’re not after you, but we know you’ve worked with all these people—Willis Carto, Pierce, David Duke—all the head honchos among the racist right, as a profiteer. Will you help us?" And that’s when I agreed to—I agreed to go on as a paid informant.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Now, this meeting that occurred in 2000 in—I think it was in Leeds in England, these were some of the top neo-Nazi or white supremacist leaders in England. What kind of interaction did you have with Thomas Mair? And what impression did you take away from him at that meeting?
TODD BLODGETT: Well, first of all, the meeting was actually in downtown London, not Leeds, but there were several people from the Leeds chapter at this meeting. And I—as far as Thomas Mair, I would say that most people describe him—he was kind of like a working-class guy, but very well read. I mean, he was discussing a book or two that he had read by David Irving, the Holocaust-denying pseudohistorian, who I also monitored. He would probably—I guess the best way to describe him is just nondescript, well mannered. When you go to a meeting like this, any kind of gathering, the guys—they’re always all guys—there’s a lot of bravado, a lot of macho, a lot of braggadocio going on. People talk about who they beat up last week and how they took on six guys and kicked their butt. They brag about their womanizing. Mair was none of those. He didn’t do any of that. He got—he came by himself. He actually left by himself. As he got there, he was respected by the people that were there. He knew some. They knew him by name. He was not an outgoing guy. If you were to ask me at the end of that meeting, say, a wall of guys there, who would have been the least likely to even start a fistfight, I would have said Tommy Mair.
AMY GOODMAN: According to British media reports, Thomas Mair, or Tommy Mair, as you call him, was a subscriber to the pro-apartheid magazine, South African Patriot in Exile.
TODD BLODGETT: I read that.
AMY GOODMAN: This week, the Southern Poverty Law Center published two letters that Mair wrote to editors of the magazine. In 1999, Thomas Mair wrote, quote, "I was glad you strongly condemned 'collaborators' in the White South African population. In my opinion the greatest enemy of the old Apartheid system was not the African National Congress and the Black masses but White liberals and traitors." And then, in a 1991 letter to the publication, Mair wrote, quote, "The nationalist movement in the U.K. also continues to fight on against the odds. ... Despite everything I still have faith that the White Race will prevail, both in Britain and in South Africa, but I fear that it’s going to be a very long and very bloody struggle." Those the words of Thomas Mair. Todd Blodgett, what was your reaction when you heard who was the man who murdered the Labour MP, Jo Cox?
TODD BLODGETT: When I first saw his picture, and I recognized him right off, when I first heard his name, I remembered it, you know, my first reaction was, gosh, I mean, this is—aside from the fact it’s a horrible thing, I thought, you know, this wasn’t the kind of guy I would have picked out to do that. I would have thought someone like Stevie Cartwright or someone would be more likely to do that. They were the more—you know, the more brutal types. But then I realized a lot of people that I monitored, which included a guy named Wade Page, who did a similar thing—he went into a—I think it was a Hindu temple in Wisconsin, and killed a bunch of people about three years ago—sometimes it’s those very kind of guys that are the most lethal, which is why Tommy Mair and people like him represent such a huge challenge to MI5 and the FBI and other law enforcement, because they can be dormant for many years. They can be on the radar, then they go off the radar. They’re the kind that—you know, they’re not the kind that—Tommy Mair was not the kind of guy you’d pick out to start a fight in a bar. He was not like a tough kind of guy. He didn’t pose as a tough guy. He just basically was a nondescript kind of guy. And I thought, you know, obviously he is not—his hatred has not changed. He just found an outlet for it, and he finally decided to try to go out in a blaze of glory. And that’s—that was my reaction.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Todd Blodgett, you did this undercover work for the FBI, but yet you’ve also been public since then about your activities. Are there any concerns on your part of your own personal safety as a result of the work you did to uncover the activities of some of thes white supremacist groups?
TODD BLODGETT: There are—I do have some concerns. I live in Texas, as well as in Iowa. And I’ve had strangers walk up to me in bars in Texas and call me—I won’t say this name, these words, on the air, but, you know, they’ll use the N-word, they’ll use derogatory names for Jewish people, and they’ll say I’m a blankety-blank lover or a race traitor, that kind of thing. So there’s always that concern. But I will say this—I want to get this out: I have a concealed-carry permit that’s good in 37 states, and I can legally—I am legally armed. I’m armed right now. And so, if they want to try to make a fight with me, they might take me out, but I’m going to take them with me.
AMY GOODMAN: The presidential election right now, the support that Donald Trump has gotten from, for example, David Duke—right?—the former Klan leader—
TODD BLODGETT: Right.
AMY GOODMAN: —white supremacist, your thoughts on white supremacists in this country, Klan support of Donald Trump?
TODD BLODGETT: I think it’s very tragic. I mean, anyone has a right to support who they want to. But I worked for Reagan for many years, and when Reagan was endorsed by the KKK in the fall of 1980, his response was a great response. He said, "Look, just because they like my philosophy doesn’t mean I buy theirs." Trump kind of stumbled over that thing. I don’t think Donald Trump is a white supremacist, but I’m very disturbed by the fact that he’s got support from them, and I’m also disturbed by the comment he made about the judge. I can’t think of—Judge Curiel, I think his name is. But he made a—he made a stupid reference to the fact that he’s of Hispanic descent, which is totally irrelevant to the case. I worked with David Duke. I monitored him for the FBI. I’ve done—you know, I monitored all these people. They’re, without exception, a bunch of sociopaths. They’re just bad people. And most of their supporters tend to be bad people, too. So I don’t want to see that kind of thing being any part of the Republican Party. I’m still a Republican. I was for Jeb Bush for the nomination; before that, for Dr. Carson. But I don’t want to see that part—I want this flushed out of the party.
AMY GOODMAN: What is it about Donald Trump, you think, that attracts white supremacists, neo-Nazis?
TODD BLODGETT: I think it is because they recognize, in their world, to their way of thinking, demographics are destiny. That was one thing that William P
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Three high-ranking officers in the NYPD acted as “cops on call” for two deep-pocketed de Blasio donors — as long as their “elves” plied them with gifts and bankrolled a highflying lifestyle that included hookers, free hotels and expensive meals.
Deputy Chief Michael Harrington, Deputy Inspector James Grant an
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Chicago Cop Rightly Fired After Woman's Suicide
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A Chicago police officer was properly fired for spending time with a domestic-violence victim who later picked up his gun and killed herself, the Illinois Appellate Court ruled.
Sgt. Steven Lesner responded to a domestic violence call from Catherine Weiland and her boyfriend at North Side restaurant in February 2009.
Two other officers responded to the call and removed the boyfriend. Lesner then offered Weiland a ride home in his police car.
On the way back to her apartment, Weiland asked Lesner to stop and buy her a bottle of wine. He agreed.
Lesner stayed at Weiland's apartment for 40 minutes, talking to her brother and father, who lived in separate units in the same building.
He agreed to drive them back to the restaurant to retrieve Weiland's car. Lesner also gave Weiland a card with his personal cell-phone number.
She used it to call Lesner and invite him back to her apartment for a drink after his shift. Lesner put his duty firearm in his locker and strapped his auxiliary firearm to his ankle.
Lesner bought beer for himself and more wine for Weiland before returning to her apartment. While they were watching television, Lesner had his feet on a table and took off the gun when he thought Weiland was not looking, because "it looks kind of stupid."
When Lesner went to use the restroom, Weiland picked up his gun and shot herself in the head.
An investigation revealed
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TWA 800: IF YOU SAW SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING
Exclusive: Jack Cashill seeks more testimony about downing of plane over Long Island
JACK CASHILL
This July marks the 20th anniversary of the shoot down of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island. As such, it may well represent the last opportunity for those with inside information to come forward.
In the last week or two, as I have started to promote my new book on this subject, “TWA 800: The Crash, the Cover-Up, and the Conspiracy,” I have heard from a number of people with stories to tell. If you know something or know someone who does, please email me at [email protected].
Although most have given me permission to use their names, some have preferred that I not. To equalize things, I will refer to each of my correspondents only by a first name pseudonym.
Sam, the air safety chairman for the Airline Pilot’s Association, arrived at the crash scene on the first day. “From the get-go the FBI was all over us, no notebooks, no cameras, no nothing,” said Sam.
This was unprecedented. Sam worked through the National Transportation Safety Board. The NTSB was supposed to be in charge of the investigation. Under orders from the Clinton Justice Department, the FBI seized control on Day 1.
Sam soon identified a part of the plane that showed obvious damage from an external explosion. He had it tested it for explosive residue on site. It tested positive.
The next day he asked what happened to the p
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After complaints, Missouri sheriff removes disparaging photos of Obama, Clinton from office wall
When Scott Bringhurst went to the Gasconade County, Mo., sheriff's office last week
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Creating terrorists: The FBI's dark history of provoking violent attacks
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John Guandolo: Black Lives Matter Working 'In Conjunction' With 'Jihadis'
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Meet the FBI Informant Who Organized Neo-Nazi Gathering Attended by Jo Cox Murder Suspect in 2000
We turn now to look at Thomas Mair, the British man who killed British parliamentarian Jo Cox last week. Mair reportedly yelled out "Britain First" during the attack—a reference to the far-right, anti-immigrant political party of the same name which is pushing for Britain to leave the EU in tomorrow’s Brexit referendum. In court on Friday, Mair gave his name as "Death to traitors, freedom for Britain." Cox was a vocal advocate for Britain to remain in the European Union. More information is coming to light about Mair’s ties to neo-Nazi groups in the United States and Britain. Meanwhile, a former paid FBI informant named Todd Blodgett has revealed he met Thomas Mair at a neo-Nazi gathering that the informant set up in London in 2000. Joining us now is Todd Blodgett, who once worked with several leaders of the far right, including Willis Carto, who founded the Liberty Lobby, and William Pierce, leader of the neo-Nazi National Alliance.
AMY GOODMAN: We move on to our next segment now, the story of the assassination of a British Labour leader. Juan?
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, we turn now to Britain, which is continuing to mourn last week’s murder of parliamentarian Jo Cox. She was stabbed and shot last week in her district after meeting with constituents. Her murderer, Thomas Mair, reportedly yelled out "Britain First" during the attack—a reference to the far-right, anti-immigrant political party of the same name which is pushing for Britain to leave the EU in tomorrow’s Brexit referendum. Cox was a vocal advocate for Britain to remain in the European Union.
More information is coming to light about Mair’s ties to neo-Nazi groups in the United States and Britain. The Southern Poverty Law Center here in the U.S. has revealed Mair is a longtime supporter of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Documents released by the center show Mair has spent over $500 buying periodicals and other items from the group, including a manual that contained information on how to build a pistol. In addition, The Daily Telegraph is reporting Mair subscribed to S.A. Patriot, a South African magazine published by White Rhino Club, a pro-apartheid group.
AMY GOODMAN: Meanwhile, a former paid FBI informant named Todd Blodgett has revealed he met Thomas Mair at a neo-Nazi gathering that the informant set up in London in 2000. Beginning in the mid-'90s, Blodgett worked with several leaders of the far right, including Willis Carto, who founded the Liberty Lobby, and William Pierce, leader of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Blodgett was also a co-owner of Resistance Records, the world's largest neo-Nazi music label. Todd Blodgett is joining us now from his home in Iowa.
Todd Blodgett, welcome to Democracy Now! Tell us what you know about this man, Thomas Mair, who killed Jo Cox.
TODD BLODGETT: Yes, thank you. I met Tommy—he was known as Tommy when I met him in about May of 2000. I had just begun working as a paid FBI informant in March of that year. William Pierce, who was the main guy with Resistance Records, but also my co-owner, wanted to convene a meeting in London, because there was a Leeds chapter and another chapter of the National Alliance. And the purpose of the meeting was to promote Resistance Records, let people know that William Pierce was the—was the new owner of it—he bought it from Willis Carto—and also to gain readerdom, gain more customers and get distributors for Resistance Records. And Mair was one of the people invited to the meeting. There were about maybe 17 or 18 people at that meeting. And it took place just off of the Strand in London in the spring of 2000. And as I said, he attended the meeting along with Stevie Cartwright, Richard Barnbrook, Nick Griffin, who was sort of like the David Duke of England at that time, and several other people who were either members of the National Alliance or supporters of the NA.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Now, why were you at that meeting representing Mr. Pierce?
TODD BLODGETT: Well, of course, Pierce did not know that I had agreed to work for the bureau at that point. And he wanted to go over to England—
AMY GOODMAN: For the FBI.
TODD BLODGETT: For—yeah, for the FBI, that’s correct. He, himself, wanted to go, but he was precluded by law from being able to go there, due to the fact that he couldn’t get in. I mean, his views kept him out of—out of England, so he sent me in his stead, because he and I were the co-owners of Resistance Records at that time. And when I began with the FBI, I told them about what Pierce wanted to do. And right away, they said, "Well, we’re going to accompany you." So, the day before I arrived in London, two FBI agents, an IRS agent and a JTTF agent—that would be the Joint Terrorism Task Force—flew in ahead of me, and they had me meet with the two people, two guys, from the MI5. They gave me a cellphone to use when I was there and that kind of thing. So, that’s how it all worked out.
AMY GOODMAN: Why did you decide to work for the FBI? I mean, were you a neo-Nazi true believer?
TODD BLODGETT: I was never a true believer. I was never a Holocaust denier. I’m not a bigot or a racist or anything. I was basically—I guess the best way to say it is I was—I was greedy. I was an opportunistic profiteer. I didn’t look at the consequences to myself or to others of what I was doing. And I never wanted to be a Resistance Records shareholder, but Willis Carto of Liberty Lobby owed me money. And when he went bankrupt, he—when Liberty Lobby went bankrupt, they gave me stock in Resistance Records in lieu of that, and that’s how I became a co-owner.
What had happened with regard to Pierce was, is that after the deal was signed with Pierce and he gave me a consulting contract he insisted I take as part of my stock sale—he wouldn’t buy the shares without it—we went to a place called the University Club of D.C. The Washington Post got a hold of the article, and it caused a big uproar there, and I was expelled from the club. I was given the option to resign or be expelled. I was expelled. And basically, that’s when the FBI caught notice of this, and the agents came to my office in downtown D.C., and they said, "Look, we’re not after you, but we know you’ve worked with all these people—Willis Carto, Pierce, David Duke—all the head honchos among the racist right, as a profiteer. Will you help us?" And that’s when I agreed to—I agreed to go on as a paid informant.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Now, this meeting that occurred in 2000 in—I think it was in Leeds in England, these were some of the top neo-Nazi or white supremacist leaders in England. What kind of interaction did you have with Thomas Mair? And what impression did you take away from him at that meeting?
TODD BLODGETT: Well, first of all, the meeting was actually in downtown London, not Leeds, but there were several people from the Leeds chapter at this meeting. And I—as far as Thomas Mair, I would say that most people describe him—he was kind of like a working-class guy, but very well read. I mean, he was discussing a book or two that he had read by David Irving, the Holocaust-denying pseudohistorian, who I also monitored. He would probably—I guess the best way to describe him is just nondescript, well mannered. When you go to a meeting like this, any kind of gathering, the guys—they’re always all guys—there’s a lot of bravado, a lot of macho, a lot of braggadocio going on. People talk about who they beat up last week and how they took on six guys and kicked their butt. They brag about their womanizing. Mair was none of those. He didn’t do any of that. He got—he came by himself. He actually left by himself. As he got there, he was respected by the people that were there. He knew some. They knew him by name. He was not an outgoing guy. If you were to ask me at the end of that meeting, say, a wall of guys there, who would have been the least likely to even start a fistfight, I would have said Tommy Mair.
AMY GOODMAN: According to British media reports, Thomas Mair, or Tommy Mair, as you call him, was a subscriber to the pro-apartheid magazine, South African Patriot in Exile.
TODD BLODGETT: I read that.
AMY GOODMAN: This week, the Southern Poverty Law Center published two letters that Mair wrote to editors of the magazine. In 1999, Thomas Mair wrote, quote, "I was glad you strongly condemned 'collaborators' in the White South African population. In my opinion the greatest enemy of the old Apartheid system was not the African National Congress and the Black masses but White liberals and traitors." And then, in a 1991 letter to the publication, Mair wrote, quote, "The nationalist movement in the U.K. also continues to fight on against the odds. ... Despite everything I still have faith that the White Race will prevail, both in Britain and in South Africa, but I fear that it’s going to be a very long and very bloody struggle." Those the words of Thomas Mair. Todd Blodgett, what was your reaction when you heard who was the man who murdered the Labour MP, Jo Cox?
TODD BLODGETT: When I first saw his picture, and I recognized him right off, when I first heard his name, I remembered it, you know, my first reaction was, gosh, I mean, this is—aside from the fact it’s a horrible thing, I thought, you know, this wasn’t the kind of guy I would have picked out to do that. I would have thought someone like Stevie Cartwright or someone would be more likely to do that. They were the more—you know, the more brutal types. But then I realized a lot of people that I monitored, which included a guy named Wade Page, who did a similar thing—he went into a—I think it was a Hindu temple in Wisconsin, and killed a bunch of people about three years ago—sometimes it’s those very kind of guys that are the most lethal, which is why Tommy Mair and people like him represent such a huge challenge to MI5 and the FBI and other law enforcement, because they can be dormant for many years. They can be on the radar, then they go off the radar. They’re the kind that—you know, they’re not the kind that—Tommy Mair was not the kind of guy you’d pick out to start a fight in a bar. He was not like a tough kind of guy. He didn’t pose as a tough guy. He just basically was a nondescript kind of guy. And I thought, you know, obviously he is not—his hatred has not changed. He just found an outlet for it, and he finally decided to try to go out in a blaze of glory. And that’s—that was my reaction.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Todd Blodgett, you did this undercover work for the FBI, but yet you’ve also been public since then about your activities. Are there any concerns on your part of your own personal safety as a result of the work you did to uncover the activities of some of thes white supremacist groups?
TODD BLODGETT: There are—I do have some concerns. I live in Texas, as well as in Iowa. And I’ve had strangers walk up to me in bars in Texas and call me—I won’t say this name, these words, on the air, but, you know, they’ll use the N-word, they’ll use derogatory names for Jewish people, and they’ll say I’m a blankety-blank lover or a race traitor, that kind of thing. So there’s always that concern. But I will say this—I want to get this out: I have a concealed-carry permit that’s good in 37 states, and I can legally—I am legally armed. I’m armed right now. And so, if they want to try to make a fight with me, they might take me out, but I’m going to take them with me.
AMY GOODMAN: The presidential election right now, the support that Donald Trump has gotten from, for example, David Duke—right?—the former Klan leader—
TODD BLODGETT: Right.
AMY GOODMAN: —white supremacist, your thoughts on white supremacists in this country, Klan support of Donald Trump?
TODD BLODGETT: I think it’s very tragic. I mean, anyone has a right to support who they want to. But I worked for Reagan for many years, and when Reagan was endorsed by the KKK in the fall of 1980, his response was a great response. He said, "Look, just because they like my philosophy doesn’t mean I buy theirs." Trump kind of stumbled over that thing. I don’t think Donald Trump is a white supremacist, but I’m very disturbed by the fact that he’s got support from them, and I’m also disturbed by the comment he made about the judge. I can’t think of—Judge Curiel, I think his name is. But he made a—he made a stupid reference to the fact that he’s of Hispanic descent, which is totally irrelevant to the case. I worked with David Duke. I monitored him for the FBI. I’ve done—you know, I monitored all these people. They’re, without exception, a bunch of sociopaths. They’re just bad people. And most of their supporters tend to be bad people, too. So I don’t want to see that kind of thing being any part of the Republican Party. I’m still a Republican. I was for Jeb Bush for the nomination; before that, for Dr. Carson. But I don’t want to see that part—I want this flushed out of the party.
AMY GOODMAN: What is it about Donald Trump, you think, that attracts white supremacists, neo-Nazis?
TODD BLODGETT: I think it is because they recognize, in their world, to their way of thinking, demographics are destiny. That was one thing that William P
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Three high-ranking officers in the NYPD acted as “cops on call” for two deep-pocketed de Blasio donors — as long as their “elves” plied them with gifts and bankrolled a highflying lifestyle that included hookers, free hotels and expensive meals.
Deputy Chief Michael Harrington, Deputy Inspector James Grant an
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Chicago Cop Rightly Fired After Woman's Suicide
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A Chicago police officer was properly fired for spending time with a domestic-violence victim who later picked up his gun and killed herself, the Illinois Appellate Court ruled.
Sgt. Steven Lesner responded to a domestic violence call from Catherine Weiland and her boyfriend at North Side restaurant in February 2009.
Two other officers responded to the call and removed the boyfriend. Lesner then offered Weiland a ride home in his police car.
On the way back to her apartment, Weiland asked Lesner to stop and buy her a bottle of wine. He agreed.
Lesner stayed at Weiland's apartment for 40 minutes, talking to her brother and father, who lived in separate units in the same building.
He agreed to drive them back to the restaurant to retrieve Weiland's car. Lesner also gave Weiland a card with his personal cell-phone number.
She used it to call Lesner and invite him back to her apartment for a drink after his shift. Lesner put his duty firearm in his locker and strapped his auxiliary firearm to his ankle.
Lesner bought beer for himself and more wine for Weiland before returning to her apartment. While they were watching television, Lesner had his feet on a table and took off the gun when he thought Weiland was not looking, because "it looks kind of stupid."
When Lesner went to use the restroom, Weiland picked up his gun and shot herself in the head.
An investigation revealed
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Federal prosecutors object to providing Oregon standoff defendants details on law enforcement response
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TWA 800: IF YOU SAW SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING
Exclusive: Jack Cashill seeks more testimony about downing of plane over Long Island
JACK CASHILL
This July marks the 20th anniversary of the shoot down of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island. As such, it may well represent the last opportunity for those with inside information to come forward.
In the last week or two, as I have started to promote my new book on this subject, “TWA 800: The Crash, the Cover-Up, and the Conspiracy,” I have heard from a number of people with stories to tell. If you know something or know someone who does, please email me at [email protected].
Although most have given me permission to use their names, some have preferred that I not. To equalize things, I will refer to each of my correspondents only by a first name pseudonym.
Sam, the air safety chairman for the Airline Pilot’s Association, arrived at the crash scene on the first day. “From the get-go the FBI was all over us, no notebooks, no cameras, no nothing,” said Sam.
This was unprecedented. Sam worked through the National Transportation Safety Board. The NTSB was supposed to be in charge of the investigation. Under orders from the Clinton Justice Department, the FBI seized control on Day 1.
Sam soon identified a part of the plane that showed obvious damage from an external explosion. He had it tested it for explosive residue on site. It tested positive.
The next day he asked what happened to the p
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After complaints, Missouri sheriff removes disparaging photos of Obama, Clinton from office wall
When Scott Bringhurst went to the Gasconade County, Mo., sheriff's office last week
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Creating terrorists: The FBI's dark history of provoking violent attacks
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John Guandolo: Black Lives Matter Working 'In Conjunction' With 'Jihadis'
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officers arrested 1,100 times per year, or 3 per day, nationwide
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NYPD detectives' union chief slams 'out of control' CCRB
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Black Lives Matter crashes LGBT mural unveiling in Toronto
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: Saturday, June 25, 2016
Black Lives Matter protesters chanting “No pride in police” crashed a Toronto Police news conference Friday, where Chief Mark Saunders unveiled a mural honouring the local LGBTQ community. (JOHNNYOATLEY/VIA TWITTER)
A group of Black Lives Matter activists barged into a Toronto police department ceremony, where cops unveiled a mural honoring the LGBT community as a public apology for a decades-old anti-gay raid.
The protesters, chanting “No pride in police,” said the cop's gesture was nothing more than a publicity stunt “used to mask the reality of police relations amongst the queer and trans community, black people, indigenous people, sex workers et cetera,” local BLM co-founder Rodney Diverlus, 26, told the Toronto Star.
The mural was meant to celebrate the history of Toronto’s gay community and serve as a re
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The FBI Is Anonymously Calling LGBT Witnesses 'Not Credible'
A number of gay men are on the record, but the FBI is anonymously calling them "not credible."
JUNE 25 2016 1:10 PM
The FBI still has provided no explanation for what led Omar Mateen to kill 49 people and wound 53 others in an attack on a gay nightclub on Latin Night. But someone at the FBI is anonymously telling multiple media outlets that Omar Mateen didn’t have a secret gay life.
The witnesses who’ve come forward aren’t buying it, and some are striking back at the FBI for its failures leading up to the shooting. The FBI had interviewed Mateen a number of times before the shooting and removed him from a terrorist watchlist.
Kevin West had first told the Los Angeles Times he talked with Mateen on the gay dating app, Jack’d, for a year.
"It's almost certain that he covered his tracks," West told the Orlando Sentinel in response to the FBI’s anonymous quotes. "Lots of people are still secretive about it. They say they don't show their face online because, 'I'm not out to my family, or because of my career.'"
In other words, the FBI is naive if it really expected to find gay dating apps on Mateen’s phone, or anything in his Internet browsing history
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Nevada deputy accused of misconduct in drug probe
2:11 PM, Jun 25, 2016
- A former Washoe County sheriff's deputy faces a felony charge of misconduct after he allegedly sold sensitive information to a purported drug dealer.
The sheriff's office says Andrew Casacca of Sparks was booked into the Washo
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Police officer charged with sex crime resigns, Brunswick chief says
The officer is accused of sending explicit photos of himself to an undercover agent he believed was a minor.
BRUNSWICK — A Maine police officer charged with sending explicit pictures of himself to an undercover agent he thought was a 13-year-old girl has resigned from the Brunswick police department.
According to court paperwork, the Department of Homeland Security began investigating Brosnan after tracking him to a complaint from a parent in Arizona, who found his daughter having inappropriate conversations with someone online.
Court records show Brosnan then having conversations with a special agent posing as a 14-year-old girl, several of which became sexual and included pictures of him naked and asking for pictures in return.
On one occasion Brosnan asked for a picture of her without a bra on and stated that he would “like to make her pregnant.”
He also posted a series of videos of himself.
In one he appeared to say, “Come on baby, you have seen me, let’s go, let me see.”
Wednesday Brunswick’s Police Chief Richard Rizzo says he is disappointed and shocked
WCSH-TV reports that Brunswick Police Chief Richard Rizzo announced the resignation of 25-year-old Garrett Brosnan, of Bath, on Saturday.
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Alabama police officer arrested, accused of sexually assaulting man while on duty
on June 15, 2016 at 11:58 AM, updated June 15, 2016 at 12:27 PM
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A Montgomery police officer was arrested Tuesday and charged in the sexual assault of a man.
Deonte Lashawn Hamner, 27, is charged with first-degree sodomy, a Class A felony Montgomery police
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NYPD pull prank on rookie
Sunday, June 26, 2016, 8:37 PM
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The joke's on them.
A crew of NYPD nincompoops who pulled a locker-room prank on an ambitious rookie in Brooklyn may be facing departmental charges now that the precinct’s commander is treating the practical joke like a felony crime, the Daily News has learned.
On Friday, someone yanked out Police Officer Patrick Kurek’s locker inside the 72nd Precinct stationhouse in Sunset Park, turned it upside down, and put it back in its place, police source
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FBI Budget For Surveillance Tech To Reach Close To $1B: What Is ...
Tech Times-
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With the request for additional budget of over $100 million for next year, the budget of the FBI's Operational Technology Division inches closer ...
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JUNE 26, 2016 | PETER DALE SCOTT
CLASSIC WHOWHATWHY: WAS TAMERLAN TSARNAEV A DOUBLE AGENT RECRUITED BY THE FBI?
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officers arrested 1,100 times per year, or 3 per day, nationwide
By Tom Jackman June 22 2016
also see
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NYPD detectives' union chief slams 'out of control' CCRB
Sunday, June 26, 2016, 4:37 PM
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Black Lives Matter crashes LGBT mural unveiling in Toronto
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/b ... -1.2687796" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
: Saturday, June 25, 2016
Black Lives Matter protesters chanting “No pride in police” crashed a Toronto Police news conference Friday, where Chief Mark Saunders unveiled a mural honouring the local LGBTQ community. (JOHNNYOATLEY/VIA TWITTER)
A group of Black Lives Matter activists barged into a Toronto police department ceremony, where cops unveiled a mural honoring the LGBT community as a public apology for a decades-old anti-gay raid.
The protesters, chanting “No pride in police,” said the cop's gesture was nothing more than a publicity stunt “used to mask the reality of police relations amongst the queer and trans community, black people, indigenous people, sex workers et cetera,” local BLM co-founder Rodney Diverlus, 26, told the Toronto Star.
The mural was meant to celebrate the history of Toronto’s gay community and serve as a re
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The FBI Is Anonymously Calling LGBT Witnesses 'Not Credible'
A number of gay men are on the record, but the FBI is anonymously calling them "not credible."
JUNE 25 2016 1:10 PM
The FBI still has provided no explanation for what led Omar Mateen to kill 49 people and wound 53 others in an attack on a gay nightclub on Latin Night. But someone at the FBI is anonymously telling multiple media outlets that Omar Mateen didn’t have a secret gay life.
The witnesses who’ve come forward aren’t buying it, and some are striking back at the FBI for its failures leading up to the shooting. The FBI had interviewed Mateen a number of times before the shooting and removed him from a terrorist watchlist.
Kevin West had first told the Los Angeles Times he talked with Mateen on the gay dating app, Jack’d, for a year.
"It's almost certain that he covered his tracks," West told the Orlando Sentinel in response to the FBI’s anonymous quotes. "Lots of people are still secretive about it. They say they don't show their face online because, 'I'm not out to my family, or because of my career.'"
In other words, the FBI is naive if it really expected to find gay dating apps on Mateen’s phone, or anything in his Internet browsing history
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http://www.ktnv.com/news/nevada-deputy- ... e_88579925" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Nevada deputy accused of misconduct in drug probe
2:11 PM, Jun 25, 2016
- A former Washoe County sheriff's deputy faces a felony charge of misconduct after he allegedly sold sensitive information to a purported drug dealer.
The sheriff's office says Andrew Casacca of Sparks was booked into the Washo
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http://www.pressherald.com/2016/06/25/t ... s-a-minor/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Police officer charged with sex crime resigns, Brunswick chief says
The officer is accused of sending explicit photos of himself to an undercover agent he believed was a minor.
BRUNSWICK — A Maine police officer charged with sending explicit pictures of himself to an undercover agent he thought was a 13-year-old girl has resigned from the Brunswick police department.
According to court paperwork, the Department of Homeland Security began investigating Brosnan after tracking him to a complaint from a parent in Arizona, who found his daughter having inappropriate conversations with someone online.
Court records show Brosnan then having conversations with a special agent posing as a 14-year-old girl, several of which became sexual and included pictures of him naked and asking for pictures in return.
On one occasion Brosnan asked for a picture of her without a bra on and stated that he would “like to make her pregnant.”
He also posted a series of videos of himself.
In one he appeared to say, “Come on baby, you have seen me, let’s go, let me see.”
Wednesday Brunswick’s Police Chief Richard Rizzo says he is disappointed and shocked
WCSH-TV reports that Brunswick Police Chief Richard Rizzo announced the resignation of 25-year-old Garrett Brosnan, of Bath, on Saturday.
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Alabama police officer arrested, accused of sexually assaulting man while on duty
on June 15, 2016 at 11:58 AM, updated June 15, 2016 at 12:27 PM
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A Montgomery police officer was arrested Tuesday and charged in the sexual assault of a man.
Deonte Lashawn Hamner, 27, is charged with first-degree sodomy, a Class A felony Montgomery police
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NYPD pull prank on rookie
Sunday, June 26, 2016, 8:37 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bro ... -1.2689029" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The joke's on them.
A crew of NYPD nincompoops who pulled a locker-room prank on an ambitious rookie in Brooklyn may be facing departmental charges now that the precinct’s commander is treating the practical joke like a felony crime, the Daily News has learned.
On Friday, someone yanked out Police Officer Patrick Kurek’s locker inside the 72nd Precinct stationhouse in Sunset Park, turned it upside down, and put it back in its place, police source
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FBI Budget For Surveillance Tech To Reach Close To $1B: What Is ...
Tech Times-
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/16705 ... ent-on.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
With the request for additional budget of over $100 million for next year, the budget of the FBI's Operational Technology Division inches closer ...
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JUNE 26, 2016 | PETER DALE SCOTT
CLASSIC WHOWHATWHY: WAS TAMERLAN TSARNAEV A DOUBLE AGENT RECRUITED BY THE FBI?
http://whowhatwhy.org/2016/06/26/classi ... uited-fbi/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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POLITICS
Families Of Charleston Shooting Victims Sue FBI For Letting Roof Buy A Gun
A mistake in Roof’s background check made the purchase possible.
07/03/2016 07:57 am ET
Family members of the people killed in an attack on a South Carolina church last
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http://www.trunews.com/fbi-names-question-orlando/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
FBI: Give Us the Names of Those Who Question Orlando
FBI: Give Us the Names of Those Who Question Orlando
In a letter dated June 20, 2016, the FBI ‘asked’ local law enforcement and government leaders to report the identities of anyone requesting information on events during the infamous Orlando Massacre of June 12th.
In an expansion to a previous story by TRUNEWS, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office released a letter received from the FBI instructing them to deny all requests for information and refer news outlets seeking information to the feds. The letter was authored by Tampa, Florida’s Special Agent in Charge Paul Wysopal.
The letter reads, in part:
As you know, this is an active, on-going investigation being conducted by the FBI. The FBI considers information obtained from state and local law enforcement agencies in furtherance of its investigation to be evidence, or potential evidence. Accordingly, the FBI is concerned that public disclosure of such records or information at this time will adversely affect our ability to effectively investigate the shooting and bring the matter to resolution; could endanger the safety of witnesses, law enforcement officers, and other individuals who have participated in or are otherwise connected with the investigation; and risks unduly prejudicing any prosecutions that may result from the investigation.
However, further in the letter, a darker tone emerges, as not only is the FBI asking for a suppression of the release of the information, but to direct all inquiries for such information to the Bureau.
Then, stunningly, the FBI asks local officials to actually turn over the names of anyone even REQUESTING information regarding the investigation into the Orlando Massacre. In the following paragraph, the highlighted portion shows Agent Wysopal ‘asking’ local authorities to notify the FBI of any such request:
The FBI, therefore, requests that you direct requesters seeking records or information pertaining to the investigation to the FBI to request such information. We further ask that you immediately notify the FBI of any request your agency receives pursuant to Florida’s Sunshine Law or any equivalent law, or other judicial, legislative or administrative process, for records or information pertaining to the FBI’s active, on-going investigation so that the FBI can seek to prevent disclosure through appropriate channels, as necessary. Finally, to the extent your agency is obligated to respond to a request under Florida’s Sunshine Law for records and information pertaining to the FBI’s pending investigation, including information that your agency has provided to the FBI in furtherance of our investigation, we request you withhold the records pursuant to FLA. STAT. 119.71 and any other applicable exemption to help ensure that the FBI’s investigation can proceed unimpeded.
(TRUNEWS has copies of this letter from Wysopal and local officials in hand)
What that means is that any private citizen, any reporter, or any media outlet that even requests for information related to the Orlando Massacre can have their identities turned over to the FBI. The implications of having local officials serve as the stifling arm of oppression by an investigative arm of the federal government is chilling.
Are these the earmarks of a new ‘American Gestapo’?
We see this reflected in some of the history of the Nazi regime. In this article from The History Learning Site,
Hitler’s police state worked on the rule that if you said nothing, no harm, could come to you. If you had doubts about the way the country was going, you kept them to yourself – or paid the price. As nearly 17 million people had not voted for either the Nazis or the Nationalist in March 1933, a large and visible police force was required to keep this sizeable group under observation and control.
In Nazi Germany the police were allowed to arrest people on suspicion that they were about to do wrong. This gave the police huge powers. All local police units had to draw up a list of people in their locality who might be suspected of being “Enemies of the State”. This list was given to the Gestapo – the Secret Police. The Gestapo had the power to do as it liked. Its leader – Reinhard Heydrich – was one of the most feared man in Nazi Germany. His immediate chief was Heinrich Himmler. Both men ran their respective branches with ruthless efficiency.
This ‘request’ by the FBI to law enforcement and other local officials to ‘rat out’ those who are merely seeking truth are draconian and oppressive strategies to stifle freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2699869" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Crime U.S. World Politics
Family of slain North Dakota informant files wrongful death suit
BY LAURA BULT
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Tuesday, July 5, 2016, 5:12 PM
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U.S. World Politics
Third dead dog found in home of former Georgia officer
BY ALFRED NG
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, July 5, 2016, 9:47 PM
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2700578" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
KING: Don't try to make sense of police killing of Alton Sterling
SHAUN KING
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, July 6, 2016, 1:18 AM
As I glanced down at my phone and began quickly thumbing through the messages, it became evident that a grave injustice had taken place. Dozens of people had already seen what I had not — the brutal and callous slaying of 37-year-old Alton Sterling by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I gathered from the messages that a bystander had filmed it from their car.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyp ... -1.2700445" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
NYC Crime Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Education Obituaries
NYPD cop gets light penalty for 2012 attack on mentally ill man
Tuesday, July 5, 2016, 9:39 P
Mohamed Bah charged at cops with a knife and was shot dead. He was mentally ill.
The lieutenant who ordered police to burst into a mentally ill man's apartment received a slap on the wrist from the NYPD for improperly escalating the fatal confrontation, new documents show.
Lt. Michael Licitra brok
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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bra ... -1.2700391" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
NYC Crime Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Education Obituaries
Bratton ripped over pensions for NYPD scandal cops
BY THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, July 5, 2016, 9:26 PM
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Minority cops call out Police Commissioner Bill Bratton for not receiving the same pension plan courtesy as NYPD chiefs involved in probe. (BARRY WILLIAMS/FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
Advocates for
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NYC
Man who filmed Eric Garner chokehold to take plea deal
Wednesday, July 6, 2016, 5:46 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/man ... -1.2701695" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Eric Garner video - Unedited version
NY Daily News
00:00 / 11:08
The man who filmed the chokehold death of Eric Garner is likely heading to prison for four years, the Daily News has learned.
Ramsey Orta, 24, who was in Manhat
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2701115" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Baton Rouge Police Department internally investigated 35 use of force complaints in its most recent year of available data — and not one case led to charges against its cops.
The department has now drawn national scrutiny and outrage after the death of Alton Sterling — a man who was fatally shot by two police officers who pinned him to the ground
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2701178" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Chelsea Manning reportedly attempted suicide in prison
Wednesday, July 6, 2016, 4:03
Chelsea Manning reportedly rushed to hospital following suicide attempt at Kansas prison
NY Daily News
00:00 / 01:24
Chelsea Manning was rushed to the hospital after CNN sources say she attempted suicide while behind bars.
The former U.S. soldier, 28, who is currently imprisoned at the U.S. Discplinary Bar
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2701170" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The police shooting of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge was not the first time body cameras worn by cops in the Louisiana capital came loose.
State Rep. Denise Marcelle, who has been at the forefront of growing protests over the shooting of the man pinned down by two cops, said the Baton Rouge police chief told her the body cameras of both officers fell off during the
12.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... -1.2701557" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
NYPD has 'widespread practice and custom' of harassing recorders
Wednesday, July 6, 2016, 5:11 PM
Ruben An (l.) was arrested for filming police while they made an arrest. He's seeking an injunction barring cops from interfering with people recording police interactions. (JEFFERSON SIEGEL/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
The NYPD has a "widespread practice and custom" of interfering with people who record police officers, a new lawsuit charges.
In papers filed in Manhattan Federal Court, lawyers from the Legal Aid Society and the white shoe law firm of Proskauer Rose say cops are routinely violating the First Amendment right
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fam ... 4c43c0bd47" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
POLITICS
Families Of Charleston Shooting Victims Sue FBI For Letting Roof Buy A Gun
A mistake in Roof’s background check made the purchase possible.
07/03/2016 07:57 am ET
Family members of the people killed in an attack on a South Carolina church last
2.
http://www.trunews.com/fbi-names-question-orlando/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
FBI: Give Us the Names of Those Who Question Orlando
FBI: Give Us the Names of Those Who Question Orlando
In a letter dated June 20, 2016, the FBI ‘asked’ local law enforcement and government leaders to report the identities of anyone requesting information on events during the infamous Orlando Massacre of June 12th.
In an expansion to a previous story by TRUNEWS, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office released a letter received from the FBI instructing them to deny all requests for information and refer news outlets seeking information to the feds. The letter was authored by Tampa, Florida’s Special Agent in Charge Paul Wysopal.
The letter reads, in part:
As you know, this is an active, on-going investigation being conducted by the FBI. The FBI considers information obtained from state and local law enforcement agencies in furtherance of its investigation to be evidence, or potential evidence. Accordingly, the FBI is concerned that public disclosure of such records or information at this time will adversely affect our ability to effectively investigate the shooting and bring the matter to resolution; could endanger the safety of witnesses, law enforcement officers, and other individuals who have participated in or are otherwise connected with the investigation; and risks unduly prejudicing any prosecutions that may result from the investigation.
However, further in the letter, a darker tone emerges, as not only is the FBI asking for a suppression of the release of the information, but to direct all inquiries for such information to the Bureau.
Then, stunningly, the FBI asks local officials to actually turn over the names of anyone even REQUESTING information regarding the investigation into the Orlando Massacre. In the following paragraph, the highlighted portion shows Agent Wysopal ‘asking’ local authorities to notify the FBI of any such request:
The FBI, therefore, requests that you direct requesters seeking records or information pertaining to the investigation to the FBI to request such information. We further ask that you immediately notify the FBI of any request your agency receives pursuant to Florida’s Sunshine Law or any equivalent law, or other judicial, legislative or administrative process, for records or information pertaining to the FBI’s active, on-going investigation so that the FBI can seek to prevent disclosure through appropriate channels, as necessary. Finally, to the extent your agency is obligated to respond to a request under Florida’s Sunshine Law for records and information pertaining to the FBI’s pending investigation, including information that your agency has provided to the FBI in furtherance of our investigation, we request you withhold the records pursuant to FLA. STAT. 119.71 and any other applicable exemption to help ensure that the FBI’s investigation can proceed unimpeded.
(TRUNEWS has copies of this letter from Wysopal and local officials in hand)
What that means is that any private citizen, any reporter, or any media outlet that even requests for information related to the Orlando Massacre can have their identities turned over to the FBI. The implications of having local officials serve as the stifling arm of oppression by an investigative arm of the federal government is chilling.
Are these the earmarks of a new ‘American Gestapo’?
We see this reflected in some of the history of the Nazi regime. In this article from The History Learning Site,
Hitler’s police state worked on the rule that if you said nothing, no harm, could come to you. If you had doubts about the way the country was going, you kept them to yourself – or paid the price. As nearly 17 million people had not voted for either the Nazis or the Nationalist in March 1933, a large and visible police force was required to keep this sizeable group under observation and control.
In Nazi Germany the police were allowed to arrest people on suspicion that they were about to do wrong. This gave the police huge powers. All local police units had to draw up a list of people in their locality who might be suspected of being “Enemies of the State”. This list was given to the Gestapo – the Secret Police. The Gestapo had the power to do as it liked. Its leader – Reinhard Heydrich – was one of the most feared man in Nazi Germany. His immediate chief was Heinrich Himmler. Both men ran their respective branches with ruthless efficiency.
This ‘request’ by the FBI to law enforcement and other local officials to ‘rat out’ those who are merely seeking truth are draconian and oppressive strategies to stifle freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
3.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2699869" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Crime U.S. World Politics
Family of slain North Dakota informant files wrongful death suit
BY LAURA BULT
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Tuesday, July 5, 2016, 5:12 PM
4.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/d ... -1.2700486" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
U.S. World Politics
Third dead dog found in home of former Georgia officer
BY ALFRED NG
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, July 5, 2016, 9:47 PM
5.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2700578" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
KING: Don't try to make sense of police killing of Alton Sterling
SHAUN KING
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, July 6, 2016, 1:18 AM
As I glanced down at my phone and began quickly thumbing through the messages, it became evident that a grave injustice had taken place. Dozens of people had already seen what I had not — the brutal and callous slaying of 37-year-old Alton Sterling by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I gathered from the messages that a bystander had filmed it from their car.
6.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyp ... -1.2700445" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
NYC Crime Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Education Obituaries
NYPD cop gets light penalty for 2012 attack on mentally ill man
Tuesday, July 5, 2016, 9:39 P
Mohamed Bah charged at cops with a knife and was shot dead. He was mentally ill.
The lieutenant who ordered police to burst into a mentally ill man's apartment received a slap on the wrist from the NYPD for improperly escalating the fatal confrontation, new documents show.
Lt. Michael Licitra brok
7.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bra ... -1.2700391" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
NYC Crime Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Education Obituaries
Bratton ripped over pensions for NYPD scandal cops
BY THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, July 5, 2016, 9:26 PM
14
Tweet
Minority cops call out Police Commissioner Bill Bratton for not receiving the same pension plan courtesy as NYPD chiefs involved in probe. (BARRY WILLIAMS/FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
Advocates for
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NYC
Man who filmed Eric Garner chokehold to take plea deal
Wednesday, July 6, 2016, 5:46 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/man ... -1.2701695" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Eric Garner video - Unedited version
NY Daily News
00:00 / 11:08
The man who filmed the chokehold death of Eric Garner is likely heading to prison for four years, the Daily News has learned.
Ramsey Orta, 24, who was in Manhat
9.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2701115" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Baton Rouge Police Department internally investigated 35 use of force complaints in its most recent year of available data — and not one case led to charges against its cops.
The department has now drawn national scrutiny and outrage after the death of Alton Sterling — a man who was fatally shot by two police officers who pinned him to the ground
10.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2701178" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Chelsea Manning reportedly attempted suicide in prison
Wednesday, July 6, 2016, 4:03
Chelsea Manning reportedly rushed to hospital following suicide attempt at Kansas prison
NY Daily News
00:00 / 01:24
Chelsea Manning was rushed to the hospital after CNN sources say she attempted suicide while behind bars.
The former U.S. soldier, 28, who is currently imprisoned at the U.S. Discplinary Bar
11.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2701170" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The police shooting of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge was not the first time body cameras worn by cops in the Louisiana capital came loose.
State Rep. Denise Marcelle, who has been at the forefront of growing protests over the shooting of the man pinned down by two cops, said the Baton Rouge police chief told her the body cameras of both officers fell off during the
12.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... -1.2701557" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
NYPD has 'widespread practice and custom' of harassing recorders
Wednesday, July 6, 2016, 5:11 PM
Ruben An (l.) was arrested for filming police while they made an arrest. He's seeking an injunction barring cops from interfering with people recording police interactions. (JEFFERSON SIEGEL/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
The NYPD has a "widespread practice and custom" of interfering with people who record police officers, a new lawsuit charges.
In papers filed in Manhattan Federal Court, lawyers from the Legal Aid Society and the white shoe law firm of Proskauer Rose say cops are routinely violating the First Amendment right
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Bahamas warns young male natives in U.S. to be careful with cops
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2705372" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Saturday, July 9, 2016, 11:55 PM
Bahamas Issues Travel Advisory For United States
Inform
00:00 / 00:46
Bahamian lives matter, too.
The warm-weather nation
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The New Immoral Age: How Technology Offers New Ways of Killing ...
Center for Research on Globalization-
The agent (the public person) cannot have looser moral rules than the principal ... National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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Sheriff's deputy suspected of having sex with women at Joshua Tree jail
July 11 2016
A San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy was
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FBI'S Blatant Malfeasence
Behind Decision Not to Charge Clinton
By Tom Fitton
http://ticklethewire.com/2016/07/11/fox-news/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
There is the bipartisan pretense that the FBI is the only government agency in Washington that is above reproach. Yet, this is the agency that collaborated with Lois Lerner and the IRS in an effort to criminally prosecute opponents of Barack Obama. Then, unsurprisingly, this same FBI (and Justice Department) found nothing worth prosecuting in their own blatant malfeasance.
Again, this is the same FBI whose Keystone Cops approach to counter-terrorism failed to prevent eminently preventable terrorist acts ranging from the Boston Marathon bombing to the Orlando massacre. In fact, we now know that an FBI supervisor actually told one Florida police department investigating Omar Mateen, “We do
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The Fix
56 percent of Americans disapprove of FBI decision to exonerate Hillary Clinton
By Scott Clement July 11 at 7:00 AM
Poll:
Majority of Americans Disagree
with Decision Not to Charge Hillary Clinton
Most Americans disagree with the FBI’s recommendation against charging Hillary Clinton with a crime over her e-mail practices, a Washington Post-ABC News poll found.
A majority of those surveyed also said her handling of e-mails are concerning if she becomes president.
6.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-b ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Politics
Behind a Bill Clinton speaking engagement: A $1,400 hotel phone bill and $700 dinner for two
Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
Evan Halper
When former presidents and other dignitaries traveled to California to wax nostalgic
7.
Rockwell Collins, Inc. (NYSE: COL) today announced it has successfully completed the acquisition of ARINC Incorporated from The Carlyle Group for $1.4 billion.
This company is one of many that is involved with the development of technologies related to law enforcement surveillance and black ops implementation.
https://www.rockwellcollins.com/Data/Ne ... close.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
8.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen ... -1.2707421" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Eric Garner's sister and brother release song, 'I Can't Breathe'
Monday, July 11,2016
Eric Garner's family is keeping his dying words on everyone's lips.
Two years after Garner died after being placed in an illegal police chokehold during an arrest for selling illegal cigarettes, his siblings released a song entitled, "I Can't Breathe."
The New York Daily News front page after a grand jury refused to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the chokehold that resulted in Garner’s death.
Ellisha Flagg sings on the thre
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Politics
Bahamas warns young male natives in U.S. to be careful with cops
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2705372" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Saturday, July 9, 2016, 11:55 PM
Bahamas Issues Travel Advisory For United States
Inform
00:00 / 00:46
Bahamian lives matter, too.
The warm-weather nation
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The New Immoral Age: How Technology Offers New Ways of Killing ...
Center for Research on Globalization-
The agent (the public person) cannot have looser moral rules than the principal ... National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
3.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Sheriff's deputy suspected of having sex with women at Joshua Tree jail
July 11 2016
A San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy was
4.
FBI'S Blatant Malfeasence
Behind Decision Not to Charge Clinton
By Tom Fitton
http://ticklethewire.com/2016/07/11/fox-news/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
There is the bipartisan pretense that the FBI is the only government agency in Washington that is above reproach. Yet, this is the agency that collaborated with Lois Lerner and the IRS in an effort to criminally prosecute opponents of Barack Obama. Then, unsurprisingly, this same FBI (and Justice Department) found nothing worth prosecuting in their own blatant malfeasance.
Again, this is the same FBI whose Keystone Cops approach to counter-terrorism failed to prevent eminently preventable terrorist acts ranging from the Boston Marathon bombing to the Orlando massacre. In fact, we now know that an FBI supervisor actually told one Florida police department investigating Omar Mateen, “We do
5.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the ... e-clinton/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Fix
56 percent of Americans disapprove of FBI decision to exonerate Hillary Clinton
By Scott Clement July 11 at 7:00 AM
Poll:
Majority of Americans Disagree
with Decision Not to Charge Hillary Clinton
Most Americans disagree with the FBI’s recommendation against charging Hillary Clinton with a crime over her e-mail practices, a Washington Post-ABC News poll found.
A majority of those surveyed also said her handling of e-mails are concerning if she becomes president.
6.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-b ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Politics
Behind a Bill Clinton speaking engagement: A $1,400 hotel phone bill and $700 dinner for two
Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
Evan Halper
When former presidents and other dignitaries traveled to California to wax nostalgic
7.
Rockwell Collins, Inc. (NYSE: COL) today announced it has successfully completed the acquisition of ARINC Incorporated from The Carlyle Group for $1.4 billion.
This company is one of many that is involved with the development of technologies related to law enforcement surveillance and black ops implementation.
https://www.rockwellcollins.com/Data/Ne ... close.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
8.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen ... -1.2707421" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Eric Garner's sister and brother release song, 'I Can't Breathe'
Monday, July 11,2016
Eric Garner's family is keeping his dying words on everyone's lips.
Two years after Garner died after being placed in an illegal police chokehold during an arrest for selling illegal cigarettes, his siblings released a song entitled, "I Can't Breathe."
The New York Daily News front page after a grand jury refused to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the chokehold that resulted in Garner’s death.
Ellisha Flagg sings on the thre
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FBI Octopus
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Frank Barnett, former governor of American Samoa, dies
Knoxville News Sentinel-
While he first served as a special agent for the FBI before becoming a founding partner of the Baker, Worthington, Barnett and Crossley law firm, his career ...
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Questions of security and unity loom on eve of Republican National ...
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Former FBI agent Steve King has been going to Republican conventions since 1972, but the Janesville resident is overseeing all the planning and staging of the ...
1.
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Possible FBI misconduct irrelevant in standoff case, judge rules
The Register-Guard-
Prosecutors last month revealed the investigation into an FBI agent's apparent shooting of Finicum and alleged FBI tampering with evidence at the scene was .
2.
Politics
Alabama sheriff’s deputies refused service at Taco Bell
Sunday, July 17, 2016, 3:09 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2714880" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
3.
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/ar ... -87854721/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
July 17, 2016
ACLU, other groups sue Baton Rouge police over treatment of shooting protesters
4.
http://environews.tv/071716-editorial-n ... utrageous/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
EDITORIAL: Newly Uncovered Secret Rules Allowing FBI To Spy on ...
EnviroNews
FBI spying on reporters poses a great threat to journalism — and to the American democracy, and will make correspondents and whistleblowers with sensitive
5.
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Strengthening Whistleblower Protections
Another bill introduced last week falls on the other end of the spectrum from Yoho’s bill. Introduced by Congressmen Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), it would strengthen the whistleblower protections for FBI employees who report waste, fraud, and abuse.
The FBI Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (H.R. 5790) would do the following:
Protect whistleblowers who make disclosures within their chain of command
Facilitate the identification of retaliation against whistleblowers
Give the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General sole authority to investigate claims of retaliation
“Whistleblowers play an indispensable role in rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse within federal agencies,” said Chaffetz. “As the only federal law enforcement employees exempt from the Whistleblower Protection Act, FBI whistleblowers need a process they can count on to protect them. They shouldn’t have to worry about losing their jobs for telling the truth. The existing process simply doesn’t work.”
6.
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/twa-800-t ... -counting/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
TWA 800: Twenty Years and Counting [Video]
Accuracy In Media-
That “wall” kept the CIA and FBI from sharing information in the run-up to September 11. Cashill wrote that “a newly unearthed treasure trove of CIA documents .
7.
http://pbsotalk.ru/viewforum.php?f=80" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
former Tampa Bay Sheriff's Deputy Mark Dougan has fled to Russia
after being attacked by FBI agents when he set up a website
exposing corruption in law enforcement.
Dougan has set up his same website in
Russia
see
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http://touch.latimes.com/#section/2426/ ... -87876025/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
July 18, 2016
Judge throws out ex-L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca's plea deal, saying 6 months in prison is not enough
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca leaves the federal courthouse in Los Angeles on Feb. 10.
July 18, 2016, 1:20 p.m.
A federal judge rejected a plea agreement Monday under which former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca would have served up to six months
8.
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National News
Judicial Watch Obtains Documents Revealing FBI Declared Mateen “NOT” to be a Terrorist
July 18, 2016 |
“We do NOT believe he is a terrorist... I don’t believe he will go postal or anything like that.”
(Washington, DC) -- Judicial Watch today released previously undisclosed documents from the St. Lucie, Florida, Sheriff’s Department revealing the FBI informed the sheriff’s office in late 2013 that Omar Mateen was “NOT” a terrorist and was no threat to “go postal.” [Emphasis in original] The email from the St. Lucie Sheriff’s Department details the remarks were made during a phone conversation with Randall Glass, the Florida regional resident in charge for the FBI. Other documents show Mateen admitted to initially lying to the FBI about past statements tying him to the Boston Marathon bombers, the Fort Hood terrorist, and al Qaeda terrorists in Kenya.
Judicial Watch obtained the document as result of its June 14, 2016, public records request seeking the following:
Any and all records regarding, concerning, or related to a deceased individual named Omar Mateen, a/k/a Omar Mir Seddique... This request includes, but is not limited to, any and all records of communications between any official, employee, or representative of the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office and any other individual or entity regarding, concerning, or related to Mr. Mateen.
Included among the documents obtained by Judicial Watch is a September 27, 2013, email memo from former St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Department Major Michael Graves to Sheriff’s Department Director of Detention Patrick Tighe.
FBI concluded a several month long thorough investigation of one of our G4S employees, Omar Mateen, who works at the courthouse. Last night, I spoke with FBI SAC [Special Agent in Charge] Rand Glass who informed me they believe this individual has been making comments about his capabilities via his alleged middle eastern [sic] terrorist contacts as a form of tit for tat -- who is the biggest and baddest rhetoric. Reportedly, Mateem [sic] told FBI he did this because a deputy who no longer works at the courthouse kept calling him a “towel head.” Mateen denied saying some of the things the FBI knows he did say. If he were smart he should not lie to them about any portion of the investigation (federal offense). They plan to speak to him again regarding his discrepancy.
Rand told me “We do NOT believe he is a terrorist.” Yesterday, the FBI spoke with him in person and reportedly Mateen became very upset that someone contacted the FBI. Regarding this demeanor, Rand said, “I don’t believe he will go postal or anything like that.”
At the time of the FBI interview, Mateen was employed by the security company G4S and served as a security guard at the St. Lucie County courthouse in 2013. Shortly after the email memo from Graves to Tighe, the Sheriff’s Department demanded that G4S remove Mateen from his position. In addition to its work in St. Lucie, G4S is a major contractor with the Department of Homeland Security, providing security at America’s ports and along the Mexican border.
The new documents also include a report from Michael Hogsten, Deputy General Counsel for G4S, in which he describes his November 6, 2013, interview with Mateen regarding the terrorist’s earlier questioning by the FBI:
Was alone with FBI -- were very respectful and courteous. Not rough or disrespectful at all. Asked if related to Ft. hood [sic] shooter, or Boston bomber, asked if Obama was a Muslim -- asked if Obama was citizen -- were about conspiracy things at work.
A. )After Boston bombing occurred -- everyone got really nasty -- I said -- know what I’m related to Boston bomber is my first cousin and matter of fate -- related to ft hood [sic] shooter -- I know Kenya mall shooters -- said so they would leave me alone.
B.)Explained to FBI -- that I said this to get them off my back...
C.) Initially he denied -- saying things; however, one
9.
http://www.madcowprod.com/2016/07/16/sa ... 11-attack/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Why were Saudis “bulletproof” even AFTER the 9/11 Attack?
Posted on July 16, 2016 by Daniel Hopsicker
The first hugely shocking revelation in the 28-page secret chapter of the Joint Congressional Intelligence Committee Inquiry into the 9/11 attack occurs less than half-way down the very first page, and raises the chief question arising out of the release.
The story of the 9/11 attack is a story of Saudis in Florida. But the until-now classified pages report show that fully one year after the attack the CIA and FBI remained inexplicably uncomfortable with the essential fact of any real 9/11 investigation: that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi.
10.
http://northfulton.com/stories/Former-C ... cted,94534" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Former Cumming police officer indicted
Charged with accepting bribe for unlawfully accessing law enforcement database
Posted Monday, July 18, 2016 12:00 am
CUMMING, Ga. — Former Cumming Police Officer Nathan VanBuren has been arraigned after being charged with wire fraud and computer fraud, according to a report by the Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office.
VanBuren, 34, is accused of asking for money under false pretenses from someone recently arrested. He was arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Judge Janet F. King and was indicted by a federal grand
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Hillary Clinton Failed Lie Detector's Stress Test Amid Email Scandal ...
The Inquisitr-
Hillary Clinton, the FBI, and the Attorney General failed a psychological stress test amid the email scandal, an insider claims. Taped comments by Hillary Clinton, ...
11.
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/3 ... out-police" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Why We Dream About a World Without Police
Monday, 18 July 2016 09:43
By William C. Anderson, Praxis Center |
Police line up during a Black Lives Matter protest in West Baltimore, Maryland, April 29, 2015. (Photo: Arash Azizzada / Flickr)
The last few years have been rough. President Obama's last term in the White House has given many of us some of the most polarizing times we have ever experienced. It goes without saying that many have felt hopeless after being promised a change. Political disillusionment has clouded the air in a country struggling to find its true identity. In the midst of all this, unrelenting police violence has been in the spotlight driven by organized resistance to police brutality and renewed media interest. Police violence hasn't necessarily gotten worse, but it's being talked about more. This national conversation is absolutely necessary and should not let up. It's important to utilize the tools we have -- like our words -- to rebel. Using words as resistance, Truthout recently published their first anthology, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? edited by Maya Schenwar, Joe Macare and Alana Yu-lan.
As the United States prepares to cast votes in the presidential election, people are reflecting. It's no surprise to hear representatives of the political establishment making promises about which of society's ailments they have a cure for. Each candidate appeals to the desires of their base. Politicians are expected to at least pretend that they care about bettering the lives of people in this nation. One of the issues that candidates have not been able to avoid is police violence. Trump has said he believes the police in this country are "amazing people" and Black Lives Matter is "trouble" while Clinton has attempted to ally herself with "Black Lives Matter" and sought to distance herself from an anti-Black past that included supporting her husband's 1994 Crime Bill. Both Trump's intentional ignorance and Clinton's performance of understanding illuminate the dire nature of people on the ground finding our own solutions.
The never-ending cycle of extra-judicial killing by police recently took the life of Alton Sterling, and immediately, we saw the standard reactions of grief, disgrace, and faith in an ineffective justice system. But voices speaking out against demands to "let the system work" and "let the police do their job" are increasing. Many of us want more from our society. The work to amplify and make these voices heard is exhausting, but necessary. Our lives depend on collecting our thoughts and ideas to build and strengthen movements for a more just and humane world without police violence.
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect questions the necessity of the police from several different angles. While some might talk about possibly reforming the police, many of the contributors to this anthology question the police down to their very existence. Contributors from different perspectives center the importance of a movement against state violence that appropriately challenges white supremacy. That message is central to much of the thinking in the book's essays, and it's something I often think about myself.
My piece, 'Killing Africa,' discusses the pressing need for an international Black movement. I went about this by describing the killing of Charly "Africa" Leundeu Keunang by the LAPD.
I was devastated by the online circulation of Africa's death, and I wanted to write something meaningful. Africa's killing embodies the need for a global Black movement. His nickname, Africa, immediately brought to mind the African diaspora. That he was a Cameroonian immigrant with a stolen identity duri
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FBI Octopus
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Frank Barnett, former governor of American Samoa, dies
Knoxville News Sentinel-
While he first served as a special agent for the FBI before becoming a founding partner of the Baker, Worthington, Barnett and Crossley law firm, his career ...
also see
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Questions of security and unity loom on eve of Republican National ...
WTMJ-TV (press release) (registration) (blog)-
Former FBI agent Steve King has been going to Republican conventions since 1972, but the Janesville resident is overseeing all the planning and staging of the ...
1.
http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/ ... s.html.csp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Possible FBI misconduct irrelevant in standoff case, judge rules
The Register-Guard-
Prosecutors last month revealed the investigation into an FBI agent's apparent shooting of Finicum and alleged FBI tampering with evidence at the scene was .
2.
Politics
Alabama sheriff’s deputies refused service at Taco Bell
Sunday, July 17, 2016, 3:09 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2714880" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
3.
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/ar ... -87854721/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
July 17, 2016
ACLU, other groups sue Baton Rouge police over treatment of shooting protesters
4.
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EDITORIAL: Newly Uncovered Secret Rules Allowing FBI To Spy on ...
EnviroNews
FBI spying on reporters poses a great threat to journalism — and to the American democracy, and will make correspondents and whistleblowers with sensitive
5.
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Strengthening Whistleblower Protections
Another bill introduced last week falls on the other end of the spectrum from Yoho’s bill. Introduced by Congressmen Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), it would strengthen the whistleblower protections for FBI employees who report waste, fraud, and abuse.
The FBI Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (H.R. 5790) would do the following:
Protect whistleblowers who make disclosures within their chain of command
Facilitate the identification of retaliation against whistleblowers
Give the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General sole authority to investigate claims of retaliation
“Whistleblowers play an indispensable role in rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse within federal agencies,” said Chaffetz. “As the only federal law enforcement employees exempt from the Whistleblower Protection Act, FBI whistleblowers need a process they can count on to protect them. They shouldn’t have to worry about losing their jobs for telling the truth. The existing process simply doesn’t work.”
6.
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/twa-800-t ... -counting/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
TWA 800: Twenty Years and Counting [Video]
Accuracy In Media-
That “wall” kept the CIA and FBI from sharing information in the run-up to September 11. Cashill wrote that “a newly unearthed treasure trove of CIA documents .
7.
http://pbsotalk.ru/viewforum.php?f=80" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
former Tampa Bay Sheriff's Deputy Mark Dougan has fled to Russia
after being attacked by FBI agents when he set up a website
exposing corruption in law enforcement.
Dougan has set up his same website in
Russia
see
http://pbsotalk.ru/viewforum.php?f=80" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
7.
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/2426/ ... -87876025/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
July 18, 2016
Judge throws out ex-L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca's plea deal, saying 6 months in prison is not enough
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca leaves the federal courthouse in Los Angeles on Feb. 10.
July 18, 2016, 1:20 p.m.
A federal judge rejected a plea agreement Monday under which former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca would have served up to six months
8.
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National News
Judicial Watch Obtains Documents Revealing FBI Declared Mateen “NOT” to be a Terrorist
July 18, 2016 |
“We do NOT believe he is a terrorist... I don’t believe he will go postal or anything like that.”
(Washington, DC) -- Judicial Watch today released previously undisclosed documents from the St. Lucie, Florida, Sheriff’s Department revealing the FBI informed the sheriff’s office in late 2013 that Omar Mateen was “NOT” a terrorist and was no threat to “go postal.” [Emphasis in original] The email from the St. Lucie Sheriff’s Department details the remarks were made during a phone conversation with Randall Glass, the Florida regional resident in charge for the FBI. Other documents show Mateen admitted to initially lying to the FBI about past statements tying him to the Boston Marathon bombers, the Fort Hood terrorist, and al Qaeda terrorists in Kenya.
Judicial Watch obtained the document as result of its June 14, 2016, public records request seeking the following:
Any and all records regarding, concerning, or related to a deceased individual named Omar Mateen, a/k/a Omar Mir Seddique... This request includes, but is not limited to, any and all records of communications between any official, employee, or representative of the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office and any other individual or entity regarding, concerning, or related to Mr. Mateen.
Included among the documents obtained by Judicial Watch is a September 27, 2013, email memo from former St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Department Major Michael Graves to Sheriff’s Department Director of Detention Patrick Tighe.
FBI concluded a several month long thorough investigation of one of our G4S employees, Omar Mateen, who works at the courthouse. Last night, I spoke with FBI SAC [Special Agent in Charge] Rand Glass who informed me they believe this individual has been making comments about his capabilities via his alleged middle eastern [sic] terrorist contacts as a form of tit for tat -- who is the biggest and baddest rhetoric. Reportedly, Mateem [sic] told FBI he did this because a deputy who no longer works at the courthouse kept calling him a “towel head.” Mateen denied saying some of the things the FBI knows he did say. If he were smart he should not lie to them about any portion of the investigation (federal offense). They plan to speak to him again regarding his discrepancy.
Rand told me “We do NOT believe he is a terrorist.” Yesterday, the FBI spoke with him in person and reportedly Mateen became very upset that someone contacted the FBI. Regarding this demeanor, Rand said, “I don’t believe he will go postal or anything like that.”
At the time of the FBI interview, Mateen was employed by the security company G4S and served as a security guard at the St. Lucie County courthouse in 2013. Shortly after the email memo from Graves to Tighe, the Sheriff’s Department demanded that G4S remove Mateen from his position. In addition to its work in St. Lucie, G4S is a major contractor with the Department of Homeland Security, providing security at America’s ports and along the Mexican border.
The new documents also include a report from Michael Hogsten, Deputy General Counsel for G4S, in which he describes his November 6, 2013, interview with Mateen regarding the terrorist’s earlier questioning by the FBI:
Was alone with FBI -- were very respectful and courteous. Not rough or disrespectful at all. Asked if related to Ft. hood [sic] shooter, or Boston bomber, asked if Obama was a Muslim -- asked if Obama was citizen -- were about conspiracy things at work.
A. )After Boston bombing occurred -- everyone got really nasty -- I said -- know what I’m related to Boston bomber is my first cousin and matter of fate -- related to ft hood [sic] shooter -- I know Kenya mall shooters -- said so they would leave me alone.
B.)Explained to FBI -- that I said this to get them off my back...
C.) Initially he denied -- saying things; however, one
9.
http://www.madcowprod.com/2016/07/16/sa ... 11-attack/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Why were Saudis “bulletproof” even AFTER the 9/11 Attack?
Posted on July 16, 2016 by Daniel Hopsicker
The first hugely shocking revelation in the 28-page secret chapter of the Joint Congressional Intelligence Committee Inquiry into the 9/11 attack occurs less than half-way down the very first page, and raises the chief question arising out of the release.
The story of the 9/11 attack is a story of Saudis in Florida. But the until-now classified pages report show that fully one year after the attack the CIA and FBI remained inexplicably uncomfortable with the essential fact of any real 9/11 investigation: that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi.
10.
http://northfulton.com/stories/Former-C ... cted,94534" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Former Cumming police officer indicted
Charged with accepting bribe for unlawfully accessing law enforcement database
Posted Monday, July 18, 2016 12:00 am
CUMMING, Ga. — Former Cumming Police Officer Nathan VanBuren has been arraigned after being charged with wire fraud and computer fraud, according to a report by the Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office.
VanBuren, 34, is accused of asking for money under false pretenses from someone recently arrested. He was arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Judge Janet F. King and was indicted by a federal grand
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Hillary Clinton Failed Lie Detector's Stress Test Amid Email Scandal ...
The Inquisitr-
Hillary Clinton, the FBI, and the Attorney General failed a psychological stress test amid the email scandal, an insider claims. Taped comments by Hillary Clinton, ...
11.
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Why We Dream About a World Without Police
Monday, 18 July 2016 09:43
By William C. Anderson, Praxis Center |
Police line up during a Black Lives Matter protest in West Baltimore, Maryland, April 29, 2015. (Photo: Arash Azizzada / Flickr)
The last few years have been rough. President Obama's last term in the White House has given many of us some of the most polarizing times we have ever experienced. It goes without saying that many have felt hopeless after being promised a change. Political disillusionment has clouded the air in a country struggling to find its true identity. In the midst of all this, unrelenting police violence has been in the spotlight driven by organized resistance to police brutality and renewed media interest. Police violence hasn't necessarily gotten worse, but it's being talked about more. This national conversation is absolutely necessary and should not let up. It's important to utilize the tools we have -- like our words -- to rebel. Using words as resistance, Truthout recently published their first anthology, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? edited by Maya Schenwar, Joe Macare and Alana Yu-lan.
As the United States prepares to cast votes in the presidential election, people are reflecting. It's no surprise to hear representatives of the political establishment making promises about which of society's ailments they have a cure for. Each candidate appeals to the desires of their base. Politicians are expected to at least pretend that they care about bettering the lives of people in this nation. One of the issues that candidates have not been able to avoid is police violence. Trump has said he believes the police in this country are "amazing people" and Black Lives Matter is "trouble" while Clinton has attempted to ally herself with "Black Lives Matter" and sought to distance herself from an anti-Black past that included supporting her husband's 1994 Crime Bill. Both Trump's intentional ignorance and Clinton's performance of understanding illuminate the dire nature of people on the ground finding our own solutions.
The never-ending cycle of extra-judicial killing by police recently took the life of Alton Sterling, and immediately, we saw the standard reactions of grief, disgrace, and faith in an ineffective justice system. But voices speaking out against demands to "let the system work" and "let the police do their job" are increasing. Many of us want more from our society. The work to amplify and make these voices heard is exhausting, but necessary. Our lives depend on collecting our thoughts and ideas to build and strengthen movements for a more just and humane world without police violence.
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect questions the necessity of the police from several different angles. While some might talk about possibly reforming the police, many of the contributors to this anthology question the police down to their very existence. Contributors from different perspectives center the importance of a movement against state violence that appropriately challenges white supremacy. That message is central to much of the thinking in the book's essays, and it's something I often think about myself.
My piece, 'Killing Africa,' discusses the pressing need for an international Black movement. I went about this by describing the killing of Charly "Africa" Leundeu Keunang by the LAPD.
I was devastated by the online circulation of Africa's death, and I wanted to write something meaningful. Africa's killing embodies the need for a global Black movement. His nickname, Africa, immediately brought to mind the African diaspora. That he was a Cameroonian immigrant with a stolen identity duri
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PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has confirmed that it is working with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to probe
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Fulton runoffs for sheriff, solicitor, judge to be decided Tuesday
Posted: 5:49 p.m. Friday, July 22, 2016
Several contentious Fulton County runoffs will be decided Tuesday, as voters go to the polls to vote in races for sheriff, solicitor general and superior court judges.
In the sheriff’s race, incumbent Ted Jackson is facing off against Richard Lankford, who held the position more than 20 years ago. Jackson, the former FBI chief agent in Atlanta, last defeated Lankford in 2012. The winner will face Republican Ben Cowart
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Austin police apologize after video shows black woman's violent arrest
Breaion King dragged and thrown to ground after traffic stop escalated
Officer told her ‘people’ fear of black people’s ‘violent tendencies’
Breaion King is overcome with emotion as she describes being pulled from her car and thrown to the ground by an Austin police officer during a traffic stop in 2015.
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Stopped by police for going 15mph over the speed limit, Breaion King pulled into a fast-food joint’s parking lot. Within a minute of an officer asking to see her driver’s license, the schoolteacher was dragged out of her car and thrown to the ground.
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Texas
Rape victim sues after being jailed during trial for 'mental breakdown'
Plaintiff who suffers from bipolar disorder was detained to ensure she would testify against attacker and was incorrectly entered into the jail’s computer system as a defendant, lawsuit allege
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California
California police officer charged with on-duty sexual assault of five women
officer Noah Winchester allegedly targeted ‘vulnerable women’ as young as 17 while with the San Mateo police in north
July 22 2016
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Ten Lessons for Creating Safety Without Police
Thursday, 14 July 2016 00:00
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Members of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood enjoy a Memorial Day cookout on May 24, 2009. Bed-Stuy is one of several Central Brooklyn neighborhoods that has benefited from the Safe OUTside the System collective. (Photo: Clementine Gallot)
How can we create safety collectively? How can we challenge hate and police violence by using community-based strategies rather than relying on the police?
For the past 10 years, the Safe OUTside the System (SOS) Collective -- an anti-violence program led by and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit, trans and gender non-conforming (LGBTSTGNC) people of color (POC) in Central Brooklyn, New York, specifically Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights and Bushwick neighborhoods -- has been working to answer these questions. After a decade of organizing, the three SOS Coordinators, founding coordinator Ejeris Dixon (2005–2010), the second coordinator Che J. Rene Long (2010–2014), and the current coordinator Tasha Amezcua (2014–present) co-wrote this piece to share the lessons we've learned over the years. We also asked SOS members from the past 10 years about their reflections on our successes, struggles and our hopes for the future. We write these lessons for all the people seeking to address violence and envision safer c
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Townhall Tipsheet Matt Vespa
FBI
FBI Says No Agent Investigating Clinton's Emails Refused To Sign Non-Disclosure Agreement
Matt Vespa |Posted: Jul 15, 2016 1:00 PM
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protesters decry FBI no-knock raid
http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/investig ... /279172774
Investigator ' Police tactics involving protesters attacked
July 21, 2016
Rod Webber describes himself as a flower-bearing artistic filmmaker.
The Boston native, dubbed "The Flower Guy" has been in Cleveland every day of the Republican National Convention
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2721723" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
An Arkansas man was the victim of excessive police force when he was Tasered repeatedly for refusing to give an officer his name during an encounter on Fourth of July, a new lawsuit says.
Blytheville, Ark., police officer Stephen Sigman, the target of the lawsuit, charged Chardrick Mitchell with resisting arrest, obstruction of justice and disorderly conduct.
But shocking body cam footage of the exchange shows Sigman not telling Mitchell he was under arrest until he fired the Taser gun at the man's back, who was casually walking a
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Senator stiff-armed over concerns of FBI 'double standard' for Hillary ...
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The FBI has refused for a second time in six months to answer key lawmakers' formal questions about the bureau's handling of the Hillary ...
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WUSA9.com
FBI Searching for Weapons Stolen From Agent's Vehicle
Patch.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The FBI's Washington Field Office is trying to recover a set of weapons, equipment and ammunition that was stolen this month from an ...
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FCC selects Telcordia to run sensitive national database routing ...
The Journal-
The database is particularly important for the FBI and other law enforcement agencies that query the database every day, several million times a year, in the ...
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Attorneys ask for medical exam of suspect accused of killing JPSO deputy
Jerman Neveaux, 19, of, New Orleans man, was arrested in the fatal shooting of Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Detective David Michel Jr. on June 22. (Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office)
on July 22, 2016 at 3:26 PM, updated July 22, 2016 at 3:35 PM
The attorneys for Jerman Neveaux, the 19-year-old New Orleans man accused of fatally shooting Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Detective David Michel, have asked the court for medical exams and physical therapy to identify possible spinal and internal injuries they say he received during his arrest, according to court records
Martin Regan and Adam Beckman filed a motion this week to have the Sheriff's Office obtain CT scans of Neveaux's brain, facial bones, abdomen and pelvis. The attorneys also asked for a CT scan of Neveaux's spine to assess "spinal cord contusions associated with his abnormal gait" and loss of control of certain muscle, the motion says.
Use of force questioned in arrest in deputy's death
A witnesses recorded cellphone video of the suspect's arrest.
"We know there's definitely an issue with his walk that he's had for several weeks, a clear indication to the doctor that there is some injury," Regan said Friday.
Neveaux was arrested and booked with first-degree degree murder after authorities said he shot Michel three times in the back when the deputy stopped him as he was walking near Manhattan Boulevard and Ascot Road in Harvey on June 22.
Neveaux was hospitalized for three days following his arrest. Sheriff Newell Normand has said Neveaux suffered a fractured eye socket and oth
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WikiLeaks Shares Voter Names, Addresses in Hillary Clinton Email ...
Inverse-
Today's data dump is part of a series revealing emails sent from Clinton's private email server, which has outraged voters at least partly because the FBI decided ...
WikiLeaks says the release contains 19,252 emails; 891 documents; 175 spreadsheets; and “thousands” of images that were attached to those emails. Many of the messages have news value, and journalists will surely find stories to write about how the Clinton campaign operates. But it’s hard to argue that the inclusion of this personal information, which means little to the public but could allow people’s lives to be ruined simply because they donated to a political campaign, is justified even to those who want to read Clinton’s emails.
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Microsoft's president explains the company's quiet legal war for user privacy; Q&A
FRIDAY , JULY 22, 2016 - 1:00 PM
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Apple’s legal battle over encryption dominated headlines earlier this year, but another
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Union boss claims state undercover agents sabotaging Corbyn’s Labour leadership
Union boss Len McCluskey has accused British intelligence agencies of using agents provocateurs to undermine Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
The Unite general secretary said he believed spies were using “dark practices” in an attempt to “stir up trouble” and suggested they could be behind the abuse of MPs on social media.
McCluskey told the Guardian he thought the truth would come out in 30 years, when classified government documents are released into the public domain.
Asked if he believed online abuse of Corbyn’s critics was posted by people trying to discredit his supporters, he said: “Of course, of course. Do people believe for one second that the security forces are not involved in dark practices?
“We found out just a couple of years ago that the chair of my union then, the Transport and General Workers Union, was an MI5 informant at the time that there was a strike taking place that I personally as a worker was involved in. [In] 1972, I was on strike for six weeks. And 30 years later it comes out that the chair of my union at that time was an MI5 informant.”
When asked again if he believed classified documents would reveal the involvement of British intelligence agents in Corbyn’s leadership strife, McCluskey said: “Well I tell you what, anybody who thinks that that isn’t happening doesn’t live in the same world that I live in.
“Do you think that there’s not all kinds of rightwingers who are not secretly able to disguise themselves and stir up trouble? I find it amazing if people think that isn’t happening.”
Labour MP Angela Eagle, who dropped out of the leadership race to back ‘unity candidate’ Owen Smith, dismissed McCluskey’s comments as “over the top.”
“These are serious issues. Rape threats,
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Saturday, 23 July 2016
MACC working with FBI
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PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has confirmed that it is working with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to probe
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Fulton runoffs for sheriff, solicitor, judge to be decided Tuesday
Posted: 5:49 p.m. Friday, July 22, 2016
Several contentious Fulton County runoffs will be decided Tuesday, as voters go to the polls to vote in races for sheriff, solicitor general and superior court judges.
In the sheriff’s race, incumbent Ted Jackson is facing off against Richard Lankford, who held the position more than 20 years ago. Jackson, the former FBI chief agent in Atlanta, last defeated Lankford in 2012. The winner will face Republican Ben Cowart
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... rest-video" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Austin police apologize after video shows black woman's violent arrest
Breaion King dragged and thrown to ground after traffic stop escalated
Officer told her ‘people’ fear of black people’s ‘violent tendencies’
Breaion King is overcome with emotion as she describes being pulled from her car and thrown to the ground by an Austin police officer during a traffic stop in 2015.
Friday 22 July 2016 13.51 EDT Last modified on Friday 22 July 2016 14.10 EDT
Stopped by police for going 15mph over the speed limit, Breaion King pulled into a fast-food joint’s parking lot. Within a minute of an officer asking to see her driver’s license, the schoolteacher was dragged out of her car and thrown to the ground.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... er-lawsuit" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Texas
Rape victim sues after being jailed during trial for 'mental breakdown'
Plaintiff who suffers from bipolar disorder was detained to ensure she would testify against attacker and was incorrectly entered into the jail’s computer system as a defendant, lawsuit allege
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... al-assault" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
California
California police officer charged with on-duty sexual assault of five women
officer Noah Winchester allegedly targeted ‘vulnerable women’ as young as 17 while with the San Mateo police in north
July 22 2016
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Ten Lessons for Creating Safety Without Police
Thursday, 14 July 2016 00:00
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/3 ... collective" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Members of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood enjoy a Memorial Day cookout on May 24, 2009. Bed-Stuy is one of several Central Brooklyn neighborhoods that has benefited from the Safe OUTside the System collective. (Photo: Clementine Gallot)
How can we create safety collectively? How can we challenge hate and police violence by using community-based strategies rather than relying on the police?
For the past 10 years, the Safe OUTside the System (SOS) Collective -- an anti-violence program led by and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit, trans and gender non-conforming (LGBTSTGNC) people of color (POC) in Central Brooklyn, New York, specifically Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights and Bushwick neighborhoods -- has been working to answer these questions. After a decade of organizing, the three SOS Coordinators, founding coordinator Ejeris Dixon (2005–2010), the second coordinator Che J. Rene Long (2010–2014), and the current coordinator Tasha Amezcua (2014–present) co-wrote this piece to share the lessons we've learned over the years. We also asked SOS members from the past 10 years about their reflections on our successes, struggles and our hopes for the future. We write these lessons for all the people seeking to address violence and envision safer c
5.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/ ... y-n2193139" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Townhall Tipsheet Matt Vespa
FBI
FBI Says No Agent Investigating Clinton's Emails Refused To Sign Non-Disclosure Agreement
Matt Vespa |Posted: Jul 15, 2016 1:00 PM
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protesters decry FBI no-knock raid
http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/investig ... /279172774
Investigator ' Police tactics involving protesters attacked
July 21, 2016
Rod Webber describes himself as a flower-bearing artistic filmmaker.
The Boston native, dubbed "The Flower Guy" has been in Cleveland every day of the Republican National Convention
7.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2721723" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
An Arkansas man was the victim of excessive police force when he was Tasered repeatedly for refusing to give an officer his name during an encounter on Fourth of July, a new lawsuit says.
Blytheville, Ark., police officer Stephen Sigman, the target of the lawsuit, charged Chardrick Mitchell with resisting arrest, obstruction of justice and disorderly conduct.
But shocking body cam footage of the exchange shows Sigman not telling Mitchell he was under arrest until he fired the Taser gun at the man's back, who was casually walking a
8.
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Senator stiff-armed over concerns of FBI 'double standard' for Hillary ...
Fox News-
The FBI has refused for a second time in six months to answer key lawmakers' formal questions about the bureau's handling of the Hillary ...
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WUSA9.com
FBI Searching for Weapons Stolen From Agent's Vehicle
Patch.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The FBI's Washington Field Office is trying to recover a set of weapons, equipment and ammunition that was stolen this month from an ...
10.
http://www.the-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dl ... =mobileart" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
FCC selects Telcordia to run sensitive national database routing ...
The Journal-
The database is particularly important for the FBI and other law enforcement agencies that query the database every day, several million times a year, in the ...
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http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/201 ... eveau.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Attorneys ask for medical exam of suspect accused of killing JPSO deputy
Jerman Neveaux, 19, of, New Orleans man, was arrested in the fatal shooting of Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Detective David Michel Jr. on June 22. (Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office)
on July 22, 2016 at 3:26 PM, updated July 22, 2016 at 3:35 PM
The attorneys for Jerman Neveaux, the 19-year-old New Orleans man accused of fatally shooting Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Detective David Michel, have asked the court for medical exams and physical therapy to identify possible spinal and internal injuries they say he received during his arrest, according to court records
Martin Regan and Adam Beckman filed a motion this week to have the Sheriff's Office obtain CT scans of Neveaux's brain, facial bones, abdomen and pelvis. The attorneys also asked for a CT scan of Neveaux's spine to assess "spinal cord contusions associated with his abnormal gait" and loss of control of certain muscle, the motion says.
Use of force questioned in arrest in deputy's death
A witnesses recorded cellphone video of the suspect's arrest.
"We know there's definitely an issue with his walk that he's had for several weeks, a clear indication to the doctor that there is some injury," Regan said Friday.
Neveaux was arrested and booked with first-degree degree murder after authorities said he shot Michel three times in the back when the deputy stopped him as he was walking near Manhattan Boulevard and Ascot Road in Harvey on June 22.
Neveaux was hospitalized for three days following his arrest. Sheriff Newell Normand has said Neveaux suffered a fractured eye socket and oth
12.
WikiLeaks Shares Voter Names, Addresses in Hillary Clinton Email ...
Inverse-
Today's data dump is part of a series revealing emails sent from Clinton's private email server, which has outraged voters at least partly because the FBI decided ...
WikiLeaks says the release contains 19,252 emails; 891 documents; 175 spreadsheets; and “thousands” of images that were attached to those emails. Many of the messages have news value, and journalists will surely find stories to write about how the Clinton campaign operates. But it’s hard to argue that the inclusion of this personal information, which means little to the public but could allow people’s lives to be ruined simply because they donated to a political campaign, is justified even to those who want to read Clinton’s emails.
13.
Microsoft's president explains the company's quiet legal war for user privacy; Q&A
FRIDAY , JULY 22, 2016 - 1:00 PM
http://www.standard.net/Business/2016/0 ... y-Q-A.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Apple’s legal battle over encryption dominated headlines earlier this year, but another
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Union boss claims state undercover agents sabotaging Corbyn’s Labour leadership
Union boss Len McCluskey has accused British intelligence agencies of using agents provocateurs to undermine Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
The Unite general secretary said he believed spies were using “dark practices” in an attempt to “stir up trouble” and suggested they could be behind the abuse of MPs on social media.
McCluskey told the Guardian he thought the truth would come out in 30 years, when classified government documents are released into the public domain.
Asked if he believed online abuse of Corbyn’s critics was posted by people trying to discredit his supporters, he said: “Of course, of course. Do people believe for one second that the security forces are not involved in dark practices?
“We found out just a couple of years ago that the chair of my union then, the Transport and General Workers Union, was an MI5 informant at the time that there was a strike taking place that I personally as a worker was involved in. [In] 1972, I was on strike for six weeks. And 30 years later it comes out that the chair of my union at that time was an MI5 informant.”
When asked again if he believed classified documents would reveal the involvement of British intelligence agents in Corbyn’s leadership strife, McCluskey said: “Well I tell you what, anybody who thinks that that isn’t happening doesn’t live in the same world that I live in.
“Do you think that there’s not all kinds of rightwingers who are not secretly able to disguise themselves and stir up trouble? I find it amazing if people think that isn’t happening.”
Labour MP Angela Eagle, who dropped out of the leadership race to back ‘unity candidate’ Owen Smith, dismissed McCluskey’s comments as “over the top.”
“These are serious issues. Rape threats,
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Joseph T. Nolan
Posted Jul 28, 2016 at 2:01 AM
NEWTON - Father Joseph T. Nolan, a beloved priest and long-time teacher at Boston College, died on Monday, July 25, 2016, at his home in Newton, Massachusetts.
Father Nolan was a classic example of what the Catholic Church calls "a delayed vocation," having come to the priesthood after three years with the FBI, two years as an officer in the Navy, and pausing to pick up a graduate degree before finally heading to the seminary.
At his golden jubilee (the 50th anniversary of his entering the priesthood) in 2003, he faced the question of why he had shifted vocations. He said, "It was easier to get confessions." Many came to know Father Nolan during the three decades he preached at St. Ignatius Church on the Boston College campus. Around the country, many more knew him from seminars and courses he gave on liturgy and preaching, and from the newsletter he edited, “Good News.”
Father Nolan was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, son of James L. and Lillian C. Nolan. He was educated in Winthrop public schools, and graduated from Boston College in 1942, where he won the coveted Fulton Medal for debating and was proud to have his name inscribed on a wall in the college’s iconic tower building, Gasson Hall.
Upon graduating from BC, Father Nolan went to work for the FBI doing fingerprint analysis, and was eventually assigned as a special agent to Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1944, the FBI "invited" many of its personnel to join the armed forces, and Father Nolan became an ensign in the Naval Reserve, sworn in at the FBI office. After boot camp, he was sent to communications school at Harvard, then overseas duty in Recife, Brazil, and Manila in the Philippines.
In his autobiography, Liturgical Journeys, he tells movingly of a chance meeting with his brother, James, a radio operator, on Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). His other brother, John, was in the 8th Air Force in the European theatre. After the war, Father Nolan returned to the FBI and was assigned to the New York office. He said later that New York enabled him to get in touch again with Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker, and to date one of the workers
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Georgia police officer fired for flying Confederate flag at home
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Crime
Shady Bronx strip club has retired NYPD cop on payroll
July 27, 2016, 4:00 AM
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Talking terrorism: A discussion group on Terrorism in the Middle East meets the second and fourth Tuesday of the month at 10 a.m. at the Citizens Center, 10 Welcome St.
Jay White, a retired FBI agent and former member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, leads the discussion. He is an adjunct faculty member at several area colleges and is knowledgeable on the topic of terrorism and the Middle East.
Call Kathy Bresnahan or Rita LaBella at 978-374-2390 if you are interested in participating in the group
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Students get glimpse of law enforcement careers at first-ever 'Future ...
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Charlie Grady, spokersperson for the FBI in New Haven, speaks to participants in ... Before the presentation, an FBI agent the students
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FBI Public Relations/Manufacturing Consent
Netflix plans to do filming in Butler
Butler Eagle (subscription)
According to imdb.com, it's about an agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit tracking down serial killers and rapists. The lead, according to imdb.com, will be ...
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FBI agents protected Congressman Gary Condit
Defense Makes New Allegations Against Former Congressman Gary Condit in Chandra Levy Case
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May 23, 2016, 11:27 AM ET
WATCH New Allegations Ahead of Retrial in Chandra Levy Case
New allegations made by the defense in a new trial for the man accused of murdering Chandra Levy are raising questions about the disappearance of Levy, the FBI intern who vanished in May 2001 and whose remains were found the next year in Washington, D.C.,'s Rock Creek Park.
The Washington murder case ended the career of former California Congressman Gary Condit, who was at one point the primary suspect before police ruled him out despite his romantic link to Levy. Condit's alleged secret sex life is now in the spotlight after defense attorneys for Ingmar Guandique, the man sentenced to 60 years in prison for killing 24-year-old Levy, filed a new motion last week.
Guandique, an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, was convicted by a jury in 2010 based on a jailhouse confession to other inmates. However, his conviction was later set aside. Last year, prosecutors dropped their opposition to Guandique's attorneys' request for a new trial.
Guandique is facing a new trial this fall.
The new motion filed by Guandique's lawyers claims that "aggressive sex involving bondage" may have killed Levy.
When Levy's body was found in 2002 in Rock Creek Park, investigators found a pair of knotted tights nearby. Defense attorneys claim Condit may have used the tights to restrain Levy during a rough sex act gone wrong.
Condit's DNA was found at Levy's home, providing proof of the affair, but authorities ruled Condit out as a suspect after it came to light that a predator -- allegedly Guandique -- had been attacking female joggers in the park.
Condit was once a powerful Democrat on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee. He famously broke with his party over the Monica Lewinsky scandal, demanding that then-president Bill Clinton "come clean" about his affair with Lewinsky.
Condit has denied he had anything to do with Levy's murder. He returned to private life after losing to a primary challenger in 2002.
Levy's parents, Robert and Susan Levy, are split over the defense's efforts to reevaluate Condit's possible role in their daughter's murder.
"I think Condit was fooling around and doing that but it doesn't prove he was the murderer," Robert Levy told ABC News.
Susan Levy added, "Young women can be caught up in the web of predators or powerful people and you don't know what happened to them."
The defense motion claims that Condit had "a powerful motive to either kill and/or cover-up the circumstances of her death, whether her death was intentional or accidental."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Deborah Sines, prosecuting the Guandique case a second time, in court called the new motion, "a sensational, salacious and an effort to taint the jury pool."
Condit's civil attorney, L. Lin Wood, described the defense strategy from Guandique's lawyers as "reprehensible."
"Mr. Condit was long ago cleared by law enforcement in connection with her murder
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Chandra Levy's mother shocked by Gary Condit rough-sex reputation
New York Daily News-May 20, 2016
Chandra Levy was a 24-year-old Bureau of Prisons intern with a bright ... She told the FBI that Condit "expressed a preference for an iron bed ...
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Prosecutors drop murder charge against Chandra Levy’s accused killer
Updated: 3:18 p.m. on Thursday, July 28, 2016
D.C. prosecutors have dropped murder charges against Ingmar Guandique, the man previously convicted of the 2001 murder of Chandra Levy.
Citing “recent unforeseen developments” in their bid to retry Guandique, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District announced Thursday that it had moved to dismiss the case.
Without disclosing the specifics of the recent developments, prosecutors issued a statement Thursday that said, “The Office has concluded that it can no longer prove the murder case against Mr. Guandique beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Guandique was convicted of Levy’s murder in 2010 and sentenced to 60 years in prison. The D.C. Public Defenders Service pursued a new trial for the illegal Salvadoran immigrant after prosecutors disclosed in 2013 that a key witness in the case, jailhouse informant Armando Morales, had lied when he testified he had never previously provided information to law enforcement in other criminal cases.
Morales testified during the 2010 trial that Guandique had admitted
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FBI Dropped Hillary’s Email Case. But Just Weeks Later a Fresh Investigation–Into Clinton Foundation
Just weeks after a bruising public battle over Hillary Clinton’s private email server came to an end at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a fresh inquiry has been launched into the activities of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) submitted the call for an investigation into the foundation on July 15th, which has been referred to the FBI, IRS, and FTC.
The IRS has acknowledged the req
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Documents indicate IRS officials knew of Tea Party targeting since ...
Fox News-
A new batch of FBI documents released Thursday by Judicial Watch indicates that several senior Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials were ...
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FBI Octopus
BDO Consulting Adds Highly Decorated FBI Veteran John Riggi to ...
Business Wire (press release)
A highly decorated, 28-year veteran of the FBI, Mr. Riggi will provide strategic consulting services and advise organizations on cyber risk ...
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Turkey's prosecutor includes CIA, FBI in coup allegations
Xinhua-
"The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) provided training in several subjects to the cadre belonging to
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Virginia State Police, FBI confirm 'activity' in ongoing investigation at Petersburg Police Department
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.http://www.richmond.com/news/local/cent ... e16eb.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Posted: Thursday, July 28, 2016 1:15
Officials with the Virginia State Police and FBI have confirmed there was "activity" at the Petersburg Police Department last weekend in connection to an investigation about money missing from the evidence room.
"There was activity at the Petersburg Police Department over the weekend in connection to the ongoing investigation being conducted by the Virginia State Police," Sgt. Stephan Vick said in an email.
In January, the state police launched an investigation after a request from Petersburg Commonwealth's Attorney Cassandra Conover amid allegations of corruptions and misdeeds by city police.
Last year, Petersburg police acknowledged that at least $13,356 in cash connected with three criminal cases disappeared from the evidence room. The Petersburg Public
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Joseph T. Nolan
Posted Jul 28, 2016 at 2:01 AM
NEWTON - Father Joseph T. Nolan, a beloved priest and long-time teacher at Boston College, died on Monday, July 25, 2016, at his home in Newton, Massachusetts.
Father Nolan was a classic example of what the Catholic Church calls "a delayed vocation," having come to the priesthood after three years with the FBI, two years as an officer in the Navy, and pausing to pick up a graduate degree before finally heading to the seminary.
At his golden jubilee (the 50th anniversary of his entering the priesthood) in 2003, he faced the question of why he had shifted vocations. He said, "It was easier to get confessions." Many came to know Father Nolan during the three decades he preached at St. Ignatius Church on the Boston College campus. Around the country, many more knew him from seminars and courses he gave on liturgy and preaching, and from the newsletter he edited, “Good News.”
Father Nolan was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, son of James L. and Lillian C. Nolan. He was educated in Winthrop public schools, and graduated from Boston College in 1942, where he won the coveted Fulton Medal for debating and was proud to have his name inscribed on a wall in the college’s iconic tower building, Gasson Hall.
Upon graduating from BC, Father Nolan went to work for the FBI doing fingerprint analysis, and was eventually assigned as a special agent to Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1944, the FBI "invited" many of its personnel to join the armed forces, and Father Nolan became an ensign in the Naval Reserve, sworn in at the FBI office. After boot camp, he was sent to communications school at Harvard, then overseas duty in Recife, Brazil, and Manila in the Philippines.
In his autobiography, Liturgical Journeys, he tells movingly of a chance meeting with his brother, James, a radio operator, on Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). His other brother, John, was in the 8th Air Force in the European theatre. After the war, Father Nolan returned to the FBI and was assigned to the New York office. He said later that New York enabled him to get in touch again with Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker, and to date one of the workers
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Georgia police officer fired for flying Confederate flag at home
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Shady Bronx strip club has retired NYPD cop on payroll
July 27, 2016, 4:00 AM
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Talking terrorism: A discussion group on Terrorism in the Middle East meets the second and fourth Tuesday of the month at 10 a.m. at the Citizens Center, 10 Welcome St.
Jay White, a retired FBI agent and former member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, leads the discussion. He is an adjunct faculty member at several area colleges and is knowledgeable on the topic of terrorism and the Middle East.
Call Kathy Bresnahan or Rita LaBella at 978-374-2390 if you are interested in participating in the group
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Students get glimpse of law enforcement careers at first-ever 'Future ...
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Charlie Grady, spokersperson for the FBI in New Haven, speaks to participants in ... Before the presentation, an FBI agent the students
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FBI Public Relations/Manufacturing Consent
Netflix plans to do filming in Butler
Butler Eagle (subscription)
According to imdb.com, it's about an agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit tracking down serial killers and rapists. The lead, according to imdb.com, will be ...
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FBI agents protected Congressman Gary Condit
Defense Makes New Allegations Against Former Congressman Gary Condit in Chandra Levy Case
http://abcnews.go.com/US/defense-makes- ... d=39300558" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
May 23, 2016, 11:27 AM ET
WATCH New Allegations Ahead of Retrial in Chandra Levy Case
New allegations made by the defense in a new trial for the man accused of murdering Chandra Levy are raising questions about the disappearance of Levy, the FBI intern who vanished in May 2001 and whose remains were found the next year in Washington, D.C.,'s Rock Creek Park.
The Washington murder case ended the career of former California Congressman Gary Condit, who was at one point the primary suspect before police ruled him out despite his romantic link to Levy. Condit's alleged secret sex life is now in the spotlight after defense attorneys for Ingmar Guandique, the man sentenced to 60 years in prison for killing 24-year-old Levy, filed a new motion last week.
Guandique, an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, was convicted by a jury in 2010 based on a jailhouse confession to other inmates. However, his conviction was later set aside. Last year, prosecutors dropped their opposition to Guandique's attorneys' request for a new trial.
Guandique is facing a new trial this fall.
The new motion filed by Guandique's lawyers claims that "aggressive sex involving bondage" may have killed Levy.
When Levy's body was found in 2002 in Rock Creek Park, investigators found a pair of knotted tights nearby. Defense attorneys claim Condit may have used the tights to restrain Levy during a rough sex act gone wrong.
Condit's DNA was found at Levy's home, providing proof of the affair, but authorities ruled Condit out as a suspect after it came to light that a predator -- allegedly Guandique -- had been attacking female joggers in the park.
Condit was once a powerful Democrat on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee. He famously broke with his party over the Monica Lewinsky scandal, demanding that then-president Bill Clinton "come clean" about his affair with Lewinsky.
Condit has denied he had anything to do with Levy's murder. He returned to private life after losing to a primary challenger in 2002.
Levy's parents, Robert and Susan Levy, are split over the defense's efforts to reevaluate Condit's possible role in their daughter's murder.
"I think Condit was fooling around and doing that but it doesn't prove he was the murderer," Robert Levy told ABC News.
Susan Levy added, "Young women can be caught up in the web of predators or powerful people and you don't know what happened to them."
The defense motion claims that Condit had "a powerful motive to either kill and/or cover-up the circumstances of her death, whether her death was intentional or accidental."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Deborah Sines, prosecuting the Guandique case a second time, in court called the new motion, "a sensational, salacious and an effort to taint the jury pool."
Condit's civil attorney, L. Lin Wood, described the defense strategy from Guandique's lawyers as "reprehensible."
"Mr. Condit was long ago cleared by law enforcement in connection with her murder
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Chandra Levy's mother shocked by Gary Condit rough-sex reputation
New York Daily News-May 20, 2016
Chandra Levy was a 24-year-old Bureau of Prisons intern with a bright ... She told the FBI that Condit "expressed a preference for an iron bed ...
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... e-retried/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Prosecutors drop murder charge against Chandra Levy’s accused killer
Updated: 3:18 p.m. on Thursday, July 28, 2016
D.C. prosecutors have dropped murder charges against Ingmar Guandique, the man previously convicted of the 2001 murder of Chandra Levy.
Citing “recent unforeseen developments” in their bid to retry Guandique, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District announced Thursday that it had moved to dismiss the case.
Without disclosing the specifics of the recent developments, prosecutors issued a statement Thursday that said, “The Office has concluded that it can no longer prove the murder case against Mr. Guandique beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Guandique was convicted of Levy’s murder in 2010 and sentenced to 60 years in prison. The D.C. Public Defenders Service pursued a new trial for the illegal Salvadoran immigrant after prosecutors disclosed in 2013 that a key witness in the case, jailhouse informant Armando Morales, had lied when he testified he had never previously provided information to law enforcement in other criminal cases.
Morales testified during the 2010 trial that Guandique had admitted
9.
http://ijr.com/2016/07/659555-fbi-dropp ... oundation/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
FBI Dropped Hillary’s Email Case. But Just Weeks Later a Fresh Investigation–Into Clinton Foundation
Just weeks after a bruising public battle over Hillary Clinton’s private email server came to an end at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a fresh inquiry has been launched into the activities of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) submitted the call for an investigation into the foundation on July 15th, which has been referred to the FBI, IRS, and FTC.
The IRS has acknowledged the req
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Documents indicate IRS officials knew of Tea Party targeting since ...
Fox News-
A new batch of FBI documents released Thursday by Judicial Watch indicates that several senior Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials were ...
11.
FBI Octopus
BDO Consulting Adds Highly Decorated FBI Veteran John Riggi to ...
Business Wire (press release)
A highly decorated, 28-year veteran of the FBI, Mr. Riggi will provide strategic consulting services and advise organizations on cyber risk ...
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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016- ... 547667.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Turkey's prosecutor includes CIA, FBI in coup allegations
Xinhua-
"The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) provided training in several subjects to the cadre belonging to
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Virginia State Police, FBI confirm 'activity' in ongoing investigation at Petersburg Police Department
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Posted: Thursday, July 28, 2016 1:15
Officials with the Virginia State Police and FBI have confirmed there was "activity" at the Petersburg Police Department last weekend in connection to an investigation about money missing from the evidence room.
"There was activity at the Petersburg Police Department over the weekend in connection to the ongoing investigation being conducted by the Virginia State Police," Sgt. Stephan Vick said in an email.
In January, the state police launched an investigation after a request from Petersburg Commonwealth's Attorney Cassandra Conover amid allegations of corruptions and misdeeds by city police.
Last year, Petersburg police acknowledged that at least $13,356 in cash connected with three criminal cases disappeared from the evidence room. The Petersburg Public
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Teens learn about future law enforcement careers in Yale-FBI program
Yale News
Twenty-six anxious teens were driven by their parents to the Yale campus on July 24; there members of the FBI and Yale Police Department (YPD) awaited their .
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NYC Crime Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Education Weather Obituaries
NYPD incident with Assemblyman reminder of needed reform
BY JUMAANE WILLIAMS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, August 1, 2016, 7:57 PM
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KING: Want to be a violent racist with job security? Become a cop
KING: Police should be routinely tested for drugs and steroids
KING: Cops must be trained more than cosmetologists in America
also see
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KING: Policing for profit in America must be banned
SHAUN KING
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, August 1, 2016,
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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bra ... -1.2734560" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
NYPD cop Gordon has been under investigation since Friday for the comments. To an audience of some 1,500 Facebook friends, he called First Lady of New York City Chirlane McCray a “former crack addict” and described the public he is sworn to protect as “sheep.”
Black Lives Matter supporter rips down blue ribbons for police
He also disrespected black people, saying, “Stop acting like anyone owes you anything. Slavery ended 149 years ago.”
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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/pro ... -1.2734170" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Protesters hold 'Occupy City Hall' rally, demand Bratton be fired
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, August 1, 2016, 12:07
Protesters at a Black Lives Matter protest inside City Hall Park calling for NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton to be fired. (ANGUS MORDANT/FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
Black lives matter activists demanded Monday Mayor de Blasio fire NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton during a full day of protests at City Hall.
Around 100 protesters had gathered in City Hall park before noon, holding workshops, group discussions and speeches. Many vowed to sleep in the park overnight and not leave until their demands were met. A large rally calling for the “Occupation of City Hall” was planned for 6 p.m.
"We want to envision the world without the police," Nabil Hassein, 27, said. "We're about abolition."
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http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/08/ ... ion-debate" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
FBI director calls for restart of smartphone encryption debate
AppleInsider (press release)
FBI Director James Comey appears ready to relaunch the debate about encryption legislation with tech companies before "something terrible happens," and
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http://patch.com/georgia/alpharetta/mil ... ip-program" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Milton Student Completes FBI Youth Leadership Program
Patch.com-
MILTON, GA -- Rising Milton High School sophomore Jack Miller was chosen to represent the FBI National Academy Associates' Georgia Chapter at the FBI ...
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NSA whistleblower: The agency has all of Hillary's deleted emails
American Thinker (blog)-
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201 ... mails.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
“So if the FBI really wanted them they can go into that database and get them right now,” he stated of ... They have them all and the FBI can get them right there.”.
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What to Do About Lawless Government Hacking and the Weakening ...
EFF-
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The problem became especially clear this year during the San Bernardino case, involving the FBI's demand that Apple rewrite its iOS operating system to defeat ...
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http://www.therecorder.com/home/id=1202 ... 6070203225" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Breyer: Courthouse Bugs Violate Fourth Amendment
The Recorder-
Between December 2009 and September 2010, the FBI used hidden microphones in four locations outside the San Mateo County Courthouse in Redwood City ...
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http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ ... 2a605.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Joe Gyan
Former Sorrento Police Chief Earl Theriot Jr. and the town owe $50,000 in damages to a woman who Theriot forced to perform sexual acts on him in his office while she was intoxicated in 2013, a Baton Rouge federal judge decided Monday.
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Teens learn about future law enforcement careers in Yale-FBI program
Yale News
Twenty-six anxious teens were driven by their parents to the Yale campus on July 24; there members of the FBI and Yale Police Department (YPD) awaited their .
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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyp ... -1.2734717" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
NYC Crime Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Education Weather Obituaries
NYPD incident with Assemblyman reminder of needed reform
BY JUMAANE WILLIAMS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, August 1, 2016, 7:57 PM
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KING: Want to be a violent racist with job security? Become a cop
KING: Police should be routinely tested for drugs and steroids
KING: Cops must be trained more than cosmetologists in America
also see
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KING: Policing for profit in America must be banned
SHAUN KING
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, August 1, 2016,
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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bra ... -1.2734560" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
NYPD cop Gordon has been under investigation since Friday for the comments. To an audience of some 1,500 Facebook friends, he called First Lady of New York City Chirlane McCray a “former crack addict” and described the public he is sworn to protect as “sheep.”
Black Lives Matter supporter rips down blue ribbons for police
He also disrespected black people, saying, “Stop acting like anyone owes you anything. Slavery ended 149 years ago.”
4.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/pro ... -1.2734170" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Protesters hold 'Occupy City Hall' rally, demand Bratton be fired
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, August 1, 2016, 12:07
Protesters at a Black Lives Matter protest inside City Hall Park calling for NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton to be fired. (ANGUS MORDANT/FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
Black lives matter activists demanded Monday Mayor de Blasio fire NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton during a full day of protests at City Hall.
Around 100 protesters had gathered in City Hall park before noon, holding workshops, group discussions and speeches. Many vowed to sleep in the park overnight and not leave until their demands were met. A large rally calling for the “Occupation of City Hall” was planned for 6 p.m.
"We want to envision the world without the police," Nabil Hassein, 27, said. "We're about abolition."
5.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/08/ ... ion-debate" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
FBI director calls for restart of smartphone encryption debate
AppleInsider (press release)
FBI Director James Comey appears ready to relaunch the debate about encryption legislation with tech companies before "something terrible happens," and
6.
http://patch.com/georgia/alpharetta/mil ... ip-program" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Milton Student Completes FBI Youth Leadership Program
Patch.com-
MILTON, GA -- Rising Milton High School sophomore Jack Miller was chosen to represent the FBI National Academy Associates' Georgia Chapter at the FBI ...
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NSA whistleblower: The agency has all of Hillary's deleted emails
American Thinker (blog)-
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201 ... mails.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
“So if the FBI really wanted them they can go into that database and get them right now,” he stated of ... They have them all and the FBI can get them right there.”.
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What to Do About Lawless Government Hacking and the Weakening ...
EFF-
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/w ... l-security" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The problem became especially clear this year during the San Bernardino case, involving the FBI's demand that Apple rewrite its iOS operating system to defeat ...
9.
http://www.therecorder.com/home/id=1202 ... 6070203225" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Breyer: Courthouse Bugs Violate Fourth Amendment
The Recorder-
Between December 2009 and September 2010, the FBI used hidden microphones in four locations outside the San Mateo County Courthouse in Redwood City ...
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Joe Gyan
Former Sorrento Police Chief Earl Theriot Jr. and the town owe $50,000 in damages to a woman who Theriot forced to perform sexual acts on him in his office while she was intoxicated in 2013, a Baton Rouge federal judge decided Monday.
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http://ticklethewire.com/2016/08/11/fbi ... -evidence/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The FBI is hoping to find a cell phone app hat allows undercover agents and informants to secretly record audio and video that would be streamed back to government servers.
FedScoop.com reports the app will be used for “covert, evidentiary audio collection from smartphones” and will be streamed in courtroom-ready format.
“The basic capability will be audio, but GPS location information is also desired and eventually video capability,” reads a request for information’s draft techni
2.
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/ar ... -87991338/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Aspiring agents do not learn from mistakes of FBI's 'shameful' assassination of
Martin Luther King
August 10 2016
Dressed in plainclothes to blend in with tourists at the National Mall, a few dozen FBI agents in training fanned out across the Martin Luther ...
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http://thefreethoughtproject.com/fbi-me ... ation-mlk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Assassination of MLK
The FBI and Memphis Police Admit Their Involvement in the Assassination of MLK
Andrew Emett January 18, 2016
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COURTS & CRIME
AUGUST 9, 2016 5:08 PM
FBI whistleblower who made sex claims against colleagues headed back to court
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/crime/a ... 47467.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A former Sacramento-based FBI special agent who turned whistleblower and successfully challenged his subsequent firing now must take his case to court again.
In at least a temporary reversal of fortune for ex-agent John C. Parkinson, the Justice Department this week persuaded a full federal appeals court to reconsider an earlier decision that the FBI wrongly fired the Iraq War veteran.
The move marks the latest turn for Parkinson, a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel who served in the FBI’s Sacramento office for about 10 years, beginning in 1999. It’s also relatively uncommon for the appeals court itself, which rarely convenes all 12 of its active judges to review a smaller panel’s decision.
“We believe the original . . . panel decision was correct,” attorney Jesselyn A. Radack said Tuesday, adding that “Lt. Col. Parkinson has been phenomenally patient since blowing the whistle eight years ago on FBI pilots misusing government aircraft to solicit prostitutes, and he remains confident justice will ultimately prevail.”
Radack is national security and human rights director for the Whistleblower & Source Protection Program at ExposeFacts, a whistleblower advocacy group. Along with fellow attorney Kathleen M. McClellan, she has been representing Parkinson.
The appeals court ordered a rehearing Monday.
Parkinson’s original whistleblower allegations were incendiary, charging two fellow agents with sexual improprieties. In one 2008 whistleblowing letter, Parkinson alleged that a Sacramento-based colleague had a “career-long pattern of soliciting sex with prostitutes.” This agent, Parkinson alleged, “utilized the FBI’s plane to fly at night to Reno, Nevada, for the sole purpose of engaging prostitutes in acts of illicit sex.”
Another Sacramento-based colleague, Parkinson alleged, had a “history of viewing Internet pornography” during work hours.
“Mr. Parkinson was concerned that (the two colleagues) would defile the furniture by engaging in sexual activity and masturbating on it and watching pornography on the television,” his attorneys recounted in a filing with
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Judge orders black man man free after 28 years, cites unfair trial
By EMERY P. DALESIO
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FBI, mental health facility blamed for ignoring Scott killer's warning ...
Knoxville News Sentinel
Potter said Jones had sought help from Peninsula Hospital and the FBI. Clinical ... Bureau of Investigation Agent Jerry Spoon, but no one would meet with him.
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COPS & COURTS Posted August 10 Updated August 11 2016
Lincoln County deputy indicted on 22 counts related to sexual abuse of minors
Kenneth L. Hatch, a 17-year veteran of the department and the 2015 deputy of the year, is accused of abusing three girls and furnishing one of them marijuana.
BY DENNIS HOEY STAFF WRITER
[email protected] | @DennisHoey | 207-791-6365
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The FBI is hoping to find a cell phone app hat allows undercover agents and informants to secretly record audio and video that would be streamed back to government servers.
FedScoop.com reports the app will be used for “covert, evidentiary audio collection from smartphones” and will be streamed in courtroom-ready format.
“The basic capability will be audio, but GPS location information is also desired and eventually video capability,” reads a request for information’s draft techni
2.
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/ar ... -87991338/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Aspiring agents do not learn from mistakes of FBI's 'shameful' assassination of
Martin Luther King
August 10 2016
Dressed in plainclothes to blend in with tourists at the National Mall, a few dozen FBI agents in training fanned out across the Martin Luther ...
3.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/fbi-me ... ation-mlk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Assassination of MLK
The FBI and Memphis Police Admit Their Involvement in the Assassination of MLK
Andrew Emett January 18, 2016
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COURTS & CRIME
AUGUST 9, 2016 5:08 PM
FBI whistleblower who made sex claims against colleagues headed back to court
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/crime/a ... 47467.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A former Sacramento-based FBI special agent who turned whistleblower and successfully challenged his subsequent firing now must take his case to court again.
In at least a temporary reversal of fortune for ex-agent John C. Parkinson, the Justice Department this week persuaded a full federal appeals court to reconsider an earlier decision that the FBI wrongly fired the Iraq War veteran.
The move marks the latest turn for Parkinson, a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel who served in the FBI’s Sacramento office for about 10 years, beginning in 1999. It’s also relatively uncommon for the appeals court itself, which rarely convenes all 12 of its active judges to review a smaller panel’s decision.
“We believe the original . . . panel decision was correct,” attorney Jesselyn A. Radack said Tuesday, adding that “Lt. Col. Parkinson has been phenomenally patient since blowing the whistle eight years ago on FBI pilots misusing government aircraft to solicit prostitutes, and he remains confident justice will ultimately prevail.”
Radack is national security and human rights director for the Whistleblower & Source Protection Program at ExposeFacts, a whistleblower advocacy group. Along with fellow attorney Kathleen M. McClellan, she has been representing Parkinson.
The appeals court ordered a rehearing Monday.
Parkinson’s original whistleblower allegations were incendiary, charging two fellow agents with sexual improprieties. In one 2008 whistleblowing letter, Parkinson alleged that a Sacramento-based colleague had a “career-long pattern of soliciting sex with prostitutes.” This agent, Parkinson alleged, “utilized the FBI’s plane to fly at night to Reno, Nevada, for the sole purpose of engaging prostitutes in acts of illicit sex.”
Another Sacramento-based colleague, Parkinson alleged, had a “history of viewing Internet pornography” during work hours.
“Mr. Parkinson was concerned that (the two colleagues) would defile the furniture by engaging in sexual activity and masturbating on it and watching pornography on the television,” his attorneys recounted in a filing with
5.
http://www.aberdeennews.com/wire/us/jud ... c15c8.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Judge orders black man man free after 28 years, cites unfair trial
By EMERY P. DALESIO
6.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/crime-cour ... 25041.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
FBI, mental health facility blamed for ignoring Scott killer's warning ...
Knoxville News Sentinel
Potter said Jones had sought help from Peninsula Hospital and the FBI. Clinical ... Bureau of Investigation Agent Jerry Spoon, but no one would meet with him.
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http://www.pressherald.com/2016/08/10/l ... of-minors/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
COPS & COURTS Posted August 10 Updated August 11 2016
Lincoln County deputy indicted on 22 counts related to sexual abuse of minors
Kenneth L. Hatch, a 17-year veteran of the department and the 2015 deputy of the year, is accused of abusing three girls and furnishing one of them marijuana.
BY DENNIS HOEY STAFF WRITER
[email protected] | @DennisHoey | 207-791-6365
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Police Politics Prostitution
http://www.policeprostitutionandpolitic ... &Itemid=53" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.courier-journal.com/story/ne ... /89234682/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
EDUCATION
Former FBI agent to review JCPS investigations
Jefferson County Public Schools is working with a retired FBI agent to review several of its past internal investigations where students were injured from the actions of adult staff members.
FBI Agent Sentenced In Underage Sex Case
http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlines/6017521.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
February 23, 2007
A former FBI analyst has been sentenced for having sex with a young Spotsylvania County girl.
Forty four year old Anthony Lesko entered an Alford Plea to the charges in a Spotsylvania County Circuit to nine counts of felony indecent liberties upon a child.
The plea means that Lesko does not admit guilt but believes that there is enough evidence to convict him. Lesko was sentenced to seven years in prison with 15 years
http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/icymi-fb ... n-ads-lsd/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The FBI authorized informants to break the law 22,800 times over four years, report Layer 8’s Dell Cameron and Patrick Howell O’Neill. Documents obtained by Layer 8 through the Freedom of Information Act show informants committed 5,649 acts of so-called “otherwise criminal activity” in 2013 and 5,577 such acts in 2014. Previous reporting by USA Today and the Huffington Post show similar figures for 2011 and 2012, respectively.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/08/traff ... took-over/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Traffic Surged To A Child Porn Ring After The FBI Took Over
Way back in February 2015, the FBI infiltrated Playpen, a child pornography ring on the dark web. After taking control of the site, the FBI could have shut it down. But it didn’t.
Image: Getty Images
Instead, the FBI kept it running for two weeks so that it could deliver malware to visitors. That malware was then used to identify more than 100 individuals who were eventually indicted on charges of child pornography. While taking down paedophiles is a good thing, the legality of the operation, and the implications of what it means for the FBI to be able to hack innocent people, are more complicated issues.
As you might imagine, the people arrested as part of Operation Playpen are pretty pissed about the whole thing and are petitioning the court to throw out the indictments. One of the lawyers for an original administrator of Playpen is now claiming not only that the FBI made the website run faster and more efficiently but the agency also increased traffic. The motion, as noted by Motherboard, argues that the government really just drove a lot more users to a lot of really terrible stuff.
The motion reads:
As a result, the n
Dark web child porn site ran 'much better' with FBI in charge – lawyer
Mirage News-
Membership on the largest “dark web” child pornography site rose by a third and it ran “much better” while it was operated secretly by the FBI, one defense ...
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-stando ... ers_p.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Oregon standoff prosecutors ordered to provide details about improper Facebook data sharing
A defense lawyer in the Oregon standoff case found that federal prosecutors improperly shared raw Facebook account data on 10 defendants with all 26 alleged conspirators, contrary to a search warrant's parameters.
on August 23, 2016 at 1:32 PM, updated August 23, 2016 at 6:49 PM
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-stando ... ers_p.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered prosecutors to provide an accurate, chronological accounting of who did what with privileged, raw Facebook account data belonging to 10 Oregon standoff defendants that should have been sealed but ended up being shared with all co-defendants.
U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown found the government's reports on the handling of the evidence full of gaps.
Brown also will allow the defense to reopen its motion to suppress the Facebook material. She struck her previous ruling that dismissed the motion, saying it was based on "inaccurate information provided by the government.''
The judge's order came after an FBI agent and three members of the Oregon U.S Attorney's Office were called to testify on the matter. But their statements seemed to add to the court's confusion.
Brown said she's still not satisfied anyone has a "complete picture of who accessed
Black man shot by cops after calling to report robbery
Tuesday, August 23, 2016, 4:16 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2762748" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A man who had called 911 because an armed suspect stole his wife's car keys in front of the couple's east-side home was shot by police after he came out armed. (INDYSTAR.COM)
Few cases typify everything that is wrong with gun rights, police brutality and racial profiling like this one.
Early Tuesday in Indianapolis, an African-American woman
Leonardo DiCaprio Drops Out of Hosting Hillary Clinton Fundraiser
I4U News-
...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... l-problems" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Neuroscience
Childhood concussion linked to lifelong health and social problems
Study suggests that even mild childhood head injuries can increase the risk of low educational attainment, psychiatric hospitalisation and early death
The researchers say more should be done to prevent children and adolescents from experiencing head injuries. Photograph: Kevin Britland/Alamy
Nicola Davis
http://www.policeprostitutionandpolitic ... &Itemid=53" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.courier-journal.com/story/ne ... /89234682/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
EDUCATION
Former FBI agent to review JCPS investigations
Jefferson County Public Schools is working with a retired FBI agent to review several of its past internal investigations where students were injured from the actions of adult staff members.
FBI Agent Sentenced In Underage Sex Case
http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlines/6017521.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
February 23, 2007
A former FBI analyst has been sentenced for having sex with a young Spotsylvania County girl.
Forty four year old Anthony Lesko entered an Alford Plea to the charges in a Spotsylvania County Circuit to nine counts of felony indecent liberties upon a child.
The plea means that Lesko does not admit guilt but believes that there is enough evidence to convict him. Lesko was sentenced to seven years in prison with 15 years
http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/icymi-fb ... n-ads-lsd/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The FBI authorized informants to break the law 22,800 times over four years, report Layer 8’s Dell Cameron and Patrick Howell O’Neill. Documents obtained by Layer 8 through the Freedom of Information Act show informants committed 5,649 acts of so-called “otherwise criminal activity” in 2013 and 5,577 such acts in 2014. Previous reporting by USA Today and the Huffington Post show similar figures for 2011 and 2012, respectively.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/08/traff ... took-over/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Traffic Surged To A Child Porn Ring After The FBI Took Over
Way back in February 2015, the FBI infiltrated Playpen, a child pornography ring on the dark web. After taking control of the site, the FBI could have shut it down. But it didn’t.
Image: Getty Images
Instead, the FBI kept it running for two weeks so that it could deliver malware to visitors. That malware was then used to identify more than 100 individuals who were eventually indicted on charges of child pornography. While taking down paedophiles is a good thing, the legality of the operation, and the implications of what it means for the FBI to be able to hack innocent people, are more complicated issues.
As you might imagine, the people arrested as part of Operation Playpen are pretty pissed about the whole thing and are petitioning the court to throw out the indictments. One of the lawyers for an original administrator of Playpen is now claiming not only that the FBI made the website run faster and more efficiently but the agency also increased traffic. The motion, as noted by Motherboard, argues that the government really just drove a lot more users to a lot of really terrible stuff.
The motion reads:
As a result, the n
Dark web child porn site ran 'much better' with FBI in charge – lawyer
Mirage News-
Membership on the largest “dark web” child pornography site rose by a third and it ran “much better” while it was operated secretly by the FBI, one defense ...
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-stando ... ers_p.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Oregon standoff prosecutors ordered to provide details about improper Facebook data sharing
A defense lawyer in the Oregon standoff case found that federal prosecutors improperly shared raw Facebook account data on 10 defendants with all 26 alleged conspirators, contrary to a search warrant's parameters.
on August 23, 2016 at 1:32 PM, updated August 23, 2016 at 6:49 PM
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-stando ... ers_p.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered prosecutors to provide an accurate, chronological accounting of who did what with privileged, raw Facebook account data belonging to 10 Oregon standoff defendants that should have been sealed but ended up being shared with all co-defendants.
U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown found the government's reports on the handling of the evidence full of gaps.
Brown also will allow the defense to reopen its motion to suppress the Facebook material. She struck her previous ruling that dismissed the motion, saying it was based on "inaccurate information provided by the government.''
The judge's order came after an FBI agent and three members of the Oregon U.S Attorney's Office were called to testify on the matter. But their statements seemed to add to the court's confusion.
Brown said she's still not satisfied anyone has a "complete picture of who accessed
Black man shot by cops after calling to report robbery
Tuesday, August 23, 2016, 4:16 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2762748" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A man who had called 911 because an armed suspect stole his wife's car keys in front of the couple's east-side home was shot by police after he came out armed. (INDYSTAR.COM)
Few cases typify everything that is wrong with gun rights, police brutality and racial profiling like this one.
Early Tuesday in Indianapolis, an African-American woman
Leonardo DiCaprio Drops Out of Hosting Hillary Clinton Fundraiser
I4U News-
...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... l-problems" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Neuroscience
Childhood concussion linked to lifelong health and social problems
Study suggests that even mild childhood head injuries can increase the risk of low educational attainment, psychiatric hospitalisation and early death
The researchers say more should be done to prevent children and adolescents from experiencing head injuries. Photograph: Kevin Britland/Alamy
Nicola Davis
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1.
http://www.whistleblowers.org/campaigns ... nsic-fraud" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Forensic Fraud
Commencing in 1993, the NWC took on the daunting task of documenting forensic fraud and abuses in the world-renowned FBI crime lab. As a direct result of information disclosed by an FBI scientist, Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, the US Department of Justice issued an extensive report validating most of the whistleblower's claims.
As a result, the FBI agreed to unprecedented reforms including: outside accreditation of its crime lab, the appointment of an objective, independent scientist to oversee lab operations, and removal of various lab officials who had engaged in forensic misconduct.
After leading a successful six-year campaign to reform the FBI's Forensic Crime Lab, the NWC's Forensic Justice Project (FJP) commenced a review of misconduct in crime labs nationwide. The cases under review have impacted many potential wrongful convictions, have resulted in the review of thousands of cases, and have given freedom to wrongfully convicted defendants. In addition to reviewing misconduct at state crime labs, the FJP continues to monitor and expose problems within the FBI crime lab.
Visit the Whistleblower Protection Blog for updates on the FJP.
FBI admits to flawed forensics analyses for cases
Read more »
Court TV: FBI Crime Lab
Court TV: Dr. Whitehurst's allegations against the FBI crime lab.
Read more »
Good Morning America: FBI Crime Lab Scandal OJ Simpson Case
Good Morning America: FBI Crime Lab Scandal OJ Simpson Case.
Read more »
CBS Nightly News: FBI Lab Scandal
CBS Nightly News: FBI Lab Scandal, 1998.
Read more »
2.
http://www.skyvalleychronicle.com/BREAK ... ce-2599633" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
FBI Agent Gets 36 Months in Prison for Stealing Drug ...
Sky Valley Chronicle-
(LOS ANGELES, CA.) -- A former FBI special agent was sentenced Monday to 36 months in prison for stealing over $136,000 in drug proceeds seized during the
3.
http://nypost.com/2016/09/03/inside-the ... hn-lennon/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Inside the US government's secret war against John Lennon
New York Post-
On March 1, 1972, the FBI had John Lennon and Yoko Ono in its sights. A federal agent declared that the superstar couple would be arrested for “interstate ..
4.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/footb ... -1.2776994" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Cops counter-protest against Kaepernick is the real selfish act
Saturday, September 3, 2016, 2:45 PM
5.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2776912" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Cop Ben Fields not being charged is why Kaepernick protests
Saturday, September 3, 2016, 2:23 PM
After an outrageously long 11-month investigation into a 15-second incident that was caught on video, an ex-South Carolina cop will not be charged for grabbing a young girl by her neck while she was sitting in her classroom, yanking her out of the desk, tossing her across the room, then handcuffing her ... for having a cellphone in class.
6.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2776424" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Teenager at center of police sex scandals arrested in Florida
Friday, September 2, 2016, 7:51 PM
Celeste Guap, real name Jasmine Absulin, was arrested for battery in Florida. (MARTIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE)
The teenage sex worker at the center of scandals involving multiple California police departments has been arrested at a rehab center in Florida.
Celeste Guap, now 19, told reporters earlier this year that she had sex with dozens of officers from Bay Area forces, including three while she was underage.
Seven Bay Area departments are linked to a scandal where Guap said she had sex with dozens of police officers. (FACEBOOK)
The daughter of an Oakland police dispatcher, Guap also said that she was tipped off about prostitution raids that could have seen her arrested.
7.
Senior Activities
Whidbey News-Times
Getting Ready for Medicare-SHIBA, 9:30 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 17. Aging and Fraud Prevention with Ethan Via, Special Agent, FBI, 1-2:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 20.
8.
a volunteer civilian review police board with subpoena powers
would set and enforce standards of performance for law enforcement
personnel in every community.
Tell us what you think of this idea and any success you have had
implementing this model.
the board would be comprised of volunteers with the board changed every 3 years.
One goal of the board is to allow the voters and taxpayers to determine
how they want to meet their needs for safety and what standards are needed to implement this model.
The volunteer civilian review board would hire .
and fire people who work for the criminal justice
system providing for the community"s safety needs.
This would be based on the standards of performance set by the board.
District Attorney Sim Gill determined the shooting was justified under the law, but Salt Lake City police policy is tougher on when officers can shoot.a
http://kutv.com/news/local/slc-civilian ... ice-policy" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
(KUTV) Six months after two Salt Lake City police officers fired on Abdi Mohamed near the homeless shelter, a civilian review board has determined the shooting was “not within” the police department’s policy on the use of deadly force.
9.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/smoking-gu ... ot/5543794" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Smoking Gun? FBI Reveals Hillary Could Not Recall Briefings Due ...
Center for Research on Globalization
FBI Reveals Hillary Could Not Recall Briefings Due To Concussion, Clot. By Tyler Durden. Global Research, September 04, 2016. Zero Hedge 2 September ...
10.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the ... t-hackers/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The FBI's latest mission: Be cool enough to recruit Wackers
Washington Post-Sep 2, 2016
The FBI has struggled for years to attract enough fresh Wacker talent to defend America's computers. One problem? A culture clash between ...
12.
http://tucson.com/news/local/crime/fbi- ... c81c9.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
An FBI special agent who pleaded guilty to indecent exposure in connection with an incident at the University of Arizona was sentenced Thursday to five days in jail and three years probation.
Pima County Justice of the Peace Jose Luis Castillo also ordered Ryan Seese, 34, to undergo a psycho-sexual evaluation and participate in any treatment programs recommended as a result, said Deputy Pima County Attorney Jesse Delaney.
Seese was cited last May on suspicion of public sexual indecency, criminal trespassing and indecent exposure after a custodial worker told officers she opened a bathroom stall in the Student Union and saw Seese masturbating, according to UA police.
13.
FBI agent misconduct reveals sex, lies and videotape
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/27/siu.fb ... documents/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
By Scott Zamost and Kyra Phillips, CNN Special Investigations Unit
January 27, 2011 10:07 a.m. EST
FBI misconduct revealed
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Internal documents obtained by CNN show misconduct by agents, supervisors
One document says one employee shared information with his news reporter girlfriend
More than 300 FBI employees out of 34,000 are disciplined each year, the bureau says
For more on this story, watch"The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer" tonight at 5 p.m. ET
Editor's note: Some content in this report may be offensive to readers. For more on this CNN exclusive story, watch Kyra Phillips' full report on "The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer" tonight starting at 6 p.m. ET.
Washington (CNN) -- An FBI employee shared confidential information with his girlfriend, who was a news reporter, then later threatened to release a sex tape the two had made.
A supervisor watched pornographic videos in his office during work hours while "satisfying himself."
And an employee in a "leadership position" misused a government database to check on two friends who were exotic dancers and allowed them into an FBI office after hours.
These are among confidential summaries of FBI disciplinary reports obtained by CNN, which describe misconduct by agency supervisors, agen
http://www.whistleblowers.org/campaigns ... nsic-fraud" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Forensic Fraud
Commencing in 1993, the NWC took on the daunting task of documenting forensic fraud and abuses in the world-renowned FBI crime lab. As a direct result of information disclosed by an FBI scientist, Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, the US Department of Justice issued an extensive report validating most of the whistleblower's claims.
As a result, the FBI agreed to unprecedented reforms including: outside accreditation of its crime lab, the appointment of an objective, independent scientist to oversee lab operations, and removal of various lab officials who had engaged in forensic misconduct.
After leading a successful six-year campaign to reform the FBI's Forensic Crime Lab, the NWC's Forensic Justice Project (FJP) commenced a review of misconduct in crime labs nationwide. The cases under review have impacted many potential wrongful convictions, have resulted in the review of thousands of cases, and have given freedom to wrongfully convicted defendants. In addition to reviewing misconduct at state crime labs, the FJP continues to monitor and expose problems within the FBI crime lab.
Visit the Whistleblower Protection Blog for updates on the FJP.
FBI admits to flawed forensics analyses for cases
Read more »
Court TV: FBI Crime Lab
Court TV: Dr. Whitehurst's allegations against the FBI crime lab.
Read more »
Good Morning America: FBI Crime Lab Scandal OJ Simpson Case
Good Morning America: FBI Crime Lab Scandal OJ Simpson Case.
Read more »
CBS Nightly News: FBI Lab Scandal
CBS Nightly News: FBI Lab Scandal, 1998.
Read more »
2.
http://www.skyvalleychronicle.com/BREAK ... ce-2599633" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
FBI Agent Gets 36 Months in Prison for Stealing Drug ...
Sky Valley Chronicle-
(LOS ANGELES, CA.) -- A former FBI special agent was sentenced Monday to 36 months in prison for stealing over $136,000 in drug proceeds seized during the
3.
http://nypost.com/2016/09/03/inside-the ... hn-lennon/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Inside the US government's secret war against John Lennon
New York Post-
On March 1, 1972, the FBI had John Lennon and Yoko Ono in its sights. A federal agent declared that the superstar couple would be arrested for “interstate ..
4.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/footb ... -1.2776994" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Cops counter-protest against Kaepernick is the real selfish act
Saturday, September 3, 2016, 2:45 PM
5.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2776912" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Cop Ben Fields not being charged is why Kaepernick protests
Saturday, September 3, 2016, 2:23 PM
After an outrageously long 11-month investigation into a 15-second incident that was caught on video, an ex-South Carolina cop will not be charged for grabbing a young girl by her neck while she was sitting in her classroom, yanking her out of the desk, tossing her across the room, then handcuffing her ... for having a cellphone in class.
6.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2776424" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Teenager at center of police sex scandals arrested in Florida
Friday, September 2, 2016, 7:51 PM
Celeste Guap, real name Jasmine Absulin, was arrested for battery in Florida. (MARTIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE)
The teenage sex worker at the center of scandals involving multiple California police departments has been arrested at a rehab center in Florida.
Celeste Guap, now 19, told reporters earlier this year that she had sex with dozens of officers from Bay Area forces, including three while she was underage.
Seven Bay Area departments are linked to a scandal where Guap said she had sex with dozens of police officers. (FACEBOOK)
The daughter of an Oakland police dispatcher, Guap also said that she was tipped off about prostitution raids that could have seen her arrested.
7.
Senior Activities
Whidbey News-Times
Getting Ready for Medicare-SHIBA, 9:30 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 17. Aging and Fraud Prevention with Ethan Via, Special Agent, FBI, 1-2:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 20.
8.
a volunteer civilian review police board with subpoena powers
would set and enforce standards of performance for law enforcement
personnel in every community.
Tell us what you think of this idea and any success you have had
implementing this model.
the board would be comprised of volunteers with the board changed every 3 years.
One goal of the board is to allow the voters and taxpayers to determine
how they want to meet their needs for safety and what standards are needed to implement this model.
The volunteer civilian review board would hire .
and fire people who work for the criminal justice
system providing for the community"s safety needs.
This would be based on the standards of performance set by the board.
District Attorney Sim Gill determined the shooting was justified under the law, but Salt Lake City police policy is tougher on when officers can shoot.a
http://kutv.com/news/local/slc-civilian ... ice-policy" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
(KUTV) Six months after two Salt Lake City police officers fired on Abdi Mohamed near the homeless shelter, a civilian review board has determined the shooting was “not within” the police department’s policy on the use of deadly force.
9.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/smoking-gu ... ot/5543794" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Smoking Gun? FBI Reveals Hillary Could Not Recall Briefings Due ...
Center for Research on Globalization
FBI Reveals Hillary Could Not Recall Briefings Due To Concussion, Clot. By Tyler Durden. Global Research, September 04, 2016. Zero Hedge 2 September ...
10.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the ... t-hackers/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The FBI's latest mission: Be cool enough to recruit Wackers
Washington Post-Sep 2, 2016
The FBI has struggled for years to attract enough fresh Wacker talent to defend America's computers. One problem? A culture clash between ...
12.
http://tucson.com/news/local/crime/fbi- ... c81c9.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
An FBI special agent who pleaded guilty to indecent exposure in connection with an incident at the University of Arizona was sentenced Thursday to five days in jail and three years probation.
Pima County Justice of the Peace Jose Luis Castillo also ordered Ryan Seese, 34, to undergo a psycho-sexual evaluation and participate in any treatment programs recommended as a result, said Deputy Pima County Attorney Jesse Delaney.
Seese was cited last May on suspicion of public sexual indecency, criminal trespassing and indecent exposure after a custodial worker told officers she opened a bathroom stall in the Student Union and saw Seese masturbating, according to UA police.
13.
FBI agent misconduct reveals sex, lies and videotape
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/27/siu.fb ... documents/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
By Scott Zamost and Kyra Phillips, CNN Special Investigations Unit
January 27, 2011 10:07 a.m. EST
FBI misconduct revealed
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Internal documents obtained by CNN show misconduct by agents, supervisors
One document says one employee shared information with his news reporter girlfriend
More than 300 FBI employees out of 34,000 are disciplined each year, the bureau says
For more on this story, watch"The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer" tonight at 5 p.m. ET
Editor's note: Some content in this report may be offensive to readers. For more on this CNN exclusive story, watch Kyra Phillips' full report on "The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer" tonight starting at 6 p.m. ET.
Washington (CNN) -- An FBI employee shared confidential information with his girlfriend, who was a news reporter, then later threatened to release a sex tape the two had made.
A supervisor watched pornographic videos in his office during work hours while "satisfying himself."
And an employee in a "leadership position" misused a government database to check on two friends who were exotic dancers and allowed them into an FBI office after hours.
These are among confidential summaries of FBI disciplinary reports obtained by CNN, which describe misconduct by agency supervisors, agen
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Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood boys and girls
Link du jour
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Bonus Read
Soaring ocean temperature is 'greatest hidden challenge of our generation.'
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... generation" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
NASA
By Oliver Milman The Guardian Sep 06
An International Union for Conservation of Nature report warns that ‘truly staggering’ rate of warming is changing the behaviour of marine species, reducing fishing zones and spreading disease. more…
FBI Corporate Octopus
GEOHuntsville names retired FBI assistant director
Garcia recently retired as an assistant director over Directorate of Intelligence with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), where he oversaw the agency's ...
Cryptzone CSO Appointed to Corporate Council for the Citizens ...
Cryptzone-
Taddeo is also the former Special Agent in Charge of the Special Operations/Cyber Division of the FBI's New York Office. At Cryptzone, he is responsible for ...
High School Students Get Inside Look at FBI Careers
Federal Bureau of Investigation (press release) (blog)-
Since 2008, the FBI's Washington Field Office (WFO) has hosted the annual Future Agents in Training (FAIT) program, which provides a hands-on approach to ...
2.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/crime-cour ... 61101.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
WATCHFUL EYE
FBI tactic in child porn sting under attack in Rockwood case
By Jamie Satterfield of the Knoxville News Sentinel
Update
When "teddybear555" logged onto The Playpen, a "dark web" child-pornography bulletin board, from a home in Rockwood last year, he had no idea his host was the FBI.
Neither did the tens of thousands of other users across the U.S. and the world who, in the two weeks the FBI played the role of child pornography purveying host, posted or swapped at least 48,000 images and 200 videos of the sexual abuse of children. The agency called the sting "Operation Pacifier." So far, more than 180 people have been arrested in the U.S., including Thomas Allan Scarbrough, a funeral director at Scarbrough Funeral Home in Rockwood.
But the FBI isn't drawing praise for its groundbreaking defeat of technology that affords anonymity to seekers of illicit goods on hidden websites. In court and out, the FBI is taking a beating, with judges across the nation, including in Knoxville, declaring constitutional violations and Internet privacy advocates crying foul.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Clifford Shirley has become the latest jurist to deem the FBI's search warrant process in its takeover of The Playpen server as an illegal search and a violation of federal rules of criminal procedure. He issued his opinion late last month in Scarbrough's case and joins at least six other federal judges in the nation to so rule.
But Shirley refused to toss out the evidence gleaned as a result of Operation Pacifier, ruli
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/busin ... .html?_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Whistle-Blowing Insiders: ‘Game Changer’ for the S.E.C.
White Collar Watch
By PETER J. HENNING SEPT. 6, 2016
4.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/aclu-t ... mail-users" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Activists to FBI:Show
Us Your Warrant for Mass Hack of TorMail Users
September 6, 2016 // 07:05 AM EST
Mass hacking is now one of the FBI's established tactics for fighting crime on the dark web. In February 2015, the agency hit at least 4,000 computers all over the world in an attempt to identify visitors of a child pornography site.
But questions remain about another FBI operation from 2013, in which the agency may have hacked users of a dark web email service called TorMail even if they weren’t suspects of a crime. Now, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is trying to unseal the court docket sheet containing the search warrant used to deploy malware against users of the service. If the ACLU were then to get access to the warrant itself, it may reveal the true scale of the FBI’s controversial hacking campaign.
TorMail was a site based on Freedom Hosting, a web host that provided easy-to-set-up Tor hidden services. In 2013, the FBI seized Freedom Hosting; according to media reports at the time, anyone visiting a Freedom Hosting site was met with a “Down for Maintenance” message. Researchers soon found that that page contained malicious code designed to de-anonymise users
5.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/lawmaker-ca ... 1473201610" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Lawmaker Calls on FBI to Provide Files Tied to Financial Crisis
Wall Street Journal-
Mr. Pascrell in a letter, a copy of which was provided to The Wall Street Journal, referenced reports that the FBI had expressed concerns as ...
6.
Atty: Says Comey’s ‘God Complex’ Drove Him To Shield Hillary Clinton From Justice
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-president ... n-justice/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
6 Sep 2016
Washington12
A former senior federal prosecutor says FBI Director James Comey’s decision to recommend that Justice Department prosecutors not to pursue charges against Hillary Clinton regarding her handling of sensitive electronic correspondence flowed from Comey’s own inflated ego and view of his role in history.
Comey’s reputation inside the Department of Justice was that he was a very black-and-white thinker, which is why the FBI director’s July 5 recommendation to DOJ prosecutors not to prosecute Clinton was such a shock, says Joseph E. diGenova, who served as President Ronald W. Reagan’s U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. During his four-year tenure, diGenova prosecuted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard and many officials inside the administration of Washington’s Mayor Marion Barry
“This is what I call ‘a legacy or epitaph decision,’ he was not going to be remembered as the person, who had stopped the first female nominee from a major party from running for president,” diGenova said. “It is as simple as that. He made a political positio
7.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/bill ... -1.2780584" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Mayor's cover-up: de Blasio fights to hide Garner cop's records
EDITORIALS
Tuesday, September 6, 2016, 7:00 PM
Mayor de Blasio's interpretation of the law to hide the records of cops involved in deadly actions is wrong. (JAMES KEIVOM/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
One and only one person is leading the fight to prevent the public from learning the disciplinary history of the police officer who choked Eric Garner to death: Mayor de Blasio.
The mayor says he is bound by state law to conceal Officer Daniel Pantaleo’s record before Garner’s death — and he will surely say that he is similarly barred from revealing any punishment
8.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/201 ... -klan-hood" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
City of Portland has no plans to remove graffiti of Gov. Paul LePage in Ku Klux Klan hood
However, the city's mayor says he would liked to see the graffiti removed.
9.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2780638" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
New Haven police chief resigns after restuarant tirade, outcry
BY TOBIAS SALINGER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, September 6, 2016, 8:44 PM
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http://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2 ... dy-cameras" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Boston’s police commissioner, union spar over body cameras
, updated on September 6, 2016
Police Commissioner William Evans testifies Tuesday during the body camera hearing at Suffolk Superior Court. —Jessica Rinaldi / The Boston Globe
BOSTON (AP) — Boston’s police commissioner squared off in court Tuesday with the leader of the city’s largest police union over a plan to have 100 officers wear body cameras, as lawyers for each side accused the other of having “unclean hands” in a long-simmering dispute over police accountability.
A pilot program was scheduled to start last week. But after no officers volunteered, Commissioner William Evans ordered 100 officers to wear the cameras. That prompted the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association to ask a judge to issue an injunction to halt the program until a new agreement can be negotiated.
Union President Patrick Rose testified Tuesday that the city violated its agreement with the u
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Bonus Read
Soaring ocean temperature is 'greatest hidden challenge of our generation.'
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NASA
By Oliver Milman The Guardian Sep 06
An International Union for Conservation of Nature report warns that ‘truly staggering’ rate of warming is changing the behaviour of marine species, reducing fishing zones and spreading disease. more…
FBI Corporate Octopus
GEOHuntsville names retired FBI assistant director
Garcia recently retired as an assistant director over Directorate of Intelligence with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), where he oversaw the agency's ...
Cryptzone CSO Appointed to Corporate Council for the Citizens ...
Cryptzone-
Taddeo is also the former Special Agent in Charge of the Special Operations/Cyber Division of the FBI's New York Office. At Cryptzone, he is responsible for ...
High School Students Get Inside Look at FBI Careers
Federal Bureau of Investigation (press release) (blog)-
Since 2008, the FBI's Washington Field Office (WFO) has hosted the annual Future Agents in Training (FAIT) program, which provides a hands-on approach to ...
2.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/crime-cour ... 61101.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
WATCHFUL EYE
FBI tactic in child porn sting under attack in Rockwood case
By Jamie Satterfield of the Knoxville News Sentinel
Update
When "teddybear555" logged onto The Playpen, a "dark web" child-pornography bulletin board, from a home in Rockwood last year, he had no idea his host was the FBI.
Neither did the tens of thousands of other users across the U.S. and the world who, in the two weeks the FBI played the role of child pornography purveying host, posted or swapped at least 48,000 images and 200 videos of the sexual abuse of children. The agency called the sting "Operation Pacifier." So far, more than 180 people have been arrested in the U.S., including Thomas Allan Scarbrough, a funeral director at Scarbrough Funeral Home in Rockwood.
But the FBI isn't drawing praise for its groundbreaking defeat of technology that affords anonymity to seekers of illicit goods on hidden websites. In court and out, the FBI is taking a beating, with judges across the nation, including in Knoxville, declaring constitutional violations and Internet privacy advocates crying foul.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Clifford Shirley has become the latest jurist to deem the FBI's search warrant process in its takeover of The Playpen server as an illegal search and a violation of federal rules of criminal procedure. He issued his opinion late last month in Scarbrough's case and joins at least six other federal judges in the nation to so rule.
But Shirley refused to toss out the evidence gleaned as a result of Operation Pacifier, ruli
3.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/busin ... .html?_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Whistle-Blowing Insiders: ‘Game Changer’ for the S.E.C.
White Collar Watch
By PETER J. HENNING SEPT. 6, 2016
4.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/aclu-t ... mail-users" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Activists to FBI:Show
Us Your Warrant for Mass Hack of TorMail Users
September 6, 2016 // 07:05 AM EST
Mass hacking is now one of the FBI's established tactics for fighting crime on the dark web. In February 2015, the agency hit at least 4,000 computers all over the world in an attempt to identify visitors of a child pornography site.
But questions remain about another FBI operation from 2013, in which the agency may have hacked users of a dark web email service called TorMail even if they weren’t suspects of a crime. Now, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is trying to unseal the court docket sheet containing the search warrant used to deploy malware against users of the service. If the ACLU were then to get access to the warrant itself, it may reveal the true scale of the FBI’s controversial hacking campaign.
TorMail was a site based on Freedom Hosting, a web host that provided easy-to-set-up Tor hidden services. In 2013, the FBI seized Freedom Hosting; according to media reports at the time, anyone visiting a Freedom Hosting site was met with a “Down for Maintenance” message. Researchers soon found that that page contained malicious code designed to de-anonymise users
5.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/lawmaker-ca ... 1473201610" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Lawmaker Calls on FBI to Provide Files Tied to Financial Crisis
Wall Street Journal-
Mr. Pascrell in a letter, a copy of which was provided to The Wall Street Journal, referenced reports that the FBI had expressed concerns as ...
6.
Atty: Says Comey’s ‘God Complex’ Drove Him To Shield Hillary Clinton From Justice
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-president ... n-justice/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
6 Sep 2016
Washington12
A former senior federal prosecutor says FBI Director James Comey’s decision to recommend that Justice Department prosecutors not to pursue charges against Hillary Clinton regarding her handling of sensitive electronic correspondence flowed from Comey’s own inflated ego and view of his role in history.
Comey’s reputation inside the Department of Justice was that he was a very black-and-white thinker, which is why the FBI director’s July 5 recommendation to DOJ prosecutors not to prosecute Clinton was such a shock, says Joseph E. diGenova, who served as President Ronald W. Reagan’s U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. During his four-year tenure, diGenova prosecuted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard and many officials inside the administration of Washington’s Mayor Marion Barry
“This is what I call ‘a legacy or epitaph decision,’ he was not going to be remembered as the person, who had stopped the first female nominee from a major party from running for president,” diGenova said. “It is as simple as that. He made a political positio
7.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/bill ... -1.2780584" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Mayor's cover-up: de Blasio fights to hide Garner cop's records
EDITORIALS
Tuesday, September 6, 2016, 7:00 PM
Mayor de Blasio's interpretation of the law to hide the records of cops involved in deadly actions is wrong. (JAMES KEIVOM/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
One and only one person is leading the fight to prevent the public from learning the disciplinary history of the police officer who choked Eric Garner to death: Mayor de Blasio.
The mayor says he is bound by state law to conceal Officer Daniel Pantaleo’s record before Garner’s death — and he will surely say that he is similarly barred from revealing any punishment
8.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/201 ... -klan-hood" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
City of Portland has no plans to remove graffiti of Gov. Paul LePage in Ku Klux Klan hood
However, the city's mayor says he would liked to see the graffiti removed.
9.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2780638" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
New Haven police chief resigns after restuarant tirade, outcry
BY TOBIAS SALINGER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, September 6, 2016, 8:44 PM
10.
http://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2 ... dy-cameras" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Boston’s police commissioner, union spar over body cameras
, updated on September 6, 2016
Police Commissioner William Evans testifies Tuesday during the body camera hearing at Suffolk Superior Court. —Jessica Rinaldi / The Boston Globe
BOSTON (AP) — Boston’s police commissioner squared off in court Tuesday with the leader of the city’s largest police union over a plan to have 100 officers wear body cameras, as lawyers for each side accused the other of having “unclean hands” in a long-simmering dispute over police accountability.
A pilot program was scheduled to start last week. But after no officers volunteered, Commissioner William Evans ordered 100 officers to wear the cameras. That prompted the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association to ask a judge to issue an injunction to halt the program until a new agreement can be negotiated.
Union President Patrick Rose testified Tuesday that the city violated its agreement with the u
