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US motion alleges Sidley lawyer intended to ‘embarrass and harass’ with deposition questions
Oct 19, 2015, 05:45 am CDT
The U.S. Justice Department is alleging that Sidley Austin lawyers questioned an FBI agent during a deposition “in a manner designed to annoy, embarrass and harass” the agent and the FBI.
The motion for a protective order claims the lawyers are abusing the discovery system in their representation of a Florida couple, Jill and Scott Kelley. The Kelleys are suing the government for allegedly leaking their personal emails in a cyberstalking investigation that led to exposure of former Gen. David Petraeus’ affair with his biographer. The National Law Journal (sub. req.) and the Drudge Report have stories on the motion (PDF).
The government contends that during the Sept. 2 deposition a Sidley lawyer “fished for facts to support an unsubstantiated theory” that FBI agents “conducted their investigation for lascivious or other improper motives.” Those questions went too far afield of the search for admissible evidence in the plaintiffs’ privacy lawsuit, the filing alleges.
The Kelleys claim the government leaked information about them after they requested a federal investigation into harassing emails from an anonymous person who, their suit alleges, turned out to be Paula Broadwell, the biographer of former Gen. David Petraeus. The suit is proceeding on just one count alleging violation of the U.S. Privacy Act, which requires federal officials to protect the identity and personal information of witnesses, the Miami Herald reports.
The government probe led to disclosure of Broadwell’s affair with Petraeus, who resigned from his position as CIA director. Jill Kelley has alleged that government leaks led to speculation about her own relationship with Petraeus, with whom she had no romantic involvement. Her acquaintance with Petraeus, she has previously maintained, stemmed from her role as a volunteer social coordinator for a military base in Tampa.
The motion seeks to bar a second deposition of the FBI agent, and to uphold a government lawyer’s instruction that the agent not answer several questions, including: “When did you first suspect that Paula Broadwell was the author of the cyberstalking emails?” and “Does the FBI investigate the sex lives of private citizens?” It also asked U.S.
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WikiLeaks releases documents from CIA director's personal AOL account
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Publication follows the hacking of John Brennan’s email account on Monday, allegedly by high school students who call themselves Crackas With Attitude
CIA director John Brennan
Authorities have said that John Brennan’s personal email account did not contain any classified information. Photograph: Yuri Gripas/Reuters
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WikiLeaks on Wednesday released documents it said had been collected from CIA director John Brennan’s personal AOL account, the first in what the group said would be a series of publications.
The personal email account of the US’s top spy was compromised by hackers who claimed to be high school students. Those hackers had threatened on Twitter to release the same documents.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks)
October 21, 2015
ANNOUNCE: We have obtained the contents of CIA Chief John Brennan's email account and will be releasing it shortly.
The embarrassing leaks include a questionnaire for the official’s security clearance marked: “Review copy – Do not retain.”
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Other documents included an early version of the Limitations on Interrogations Techniques Act of 2008, a bill defining the limits of interrogation methods. Also released was a letter from Missouri Republican senator Christopher Bond, then a member of the Senate select committee on intelligence.
All the documents in the WikiLeaks cache are from 2008 and before. Brennan assumed office in 2013.
The hack is an embarrassment not just for Brennan and for the CIA, but also for AOL and parent company Verizon. The sensitivity of the material in the account notwithstanding, the hackers have said that they were able to obtain a Verizon employee ID number and, with that, the last four digits of Brennan’s credit card on file, which was all that was needed to reset the email password for the US’s top intelligence official.
The leak arrived one day before former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton was scheduled to testify about her own personal email accounts before a congressional panel established to investigate the
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/o ... nan-emails" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Publication follows the hacking of John Brennan’s email account on Monday, allegedly by high school students who call themselves Crackas With Attitude
CIA director John Brennan
Authorities have said that John Brennan’s personal email account did not contain any classified information. Photograph: Yuri Gripas/Reuters
Wednesday 21 October 2015 16.18 EDT
Last modified on Wednesday 21 October 2015 16.32 EDT
WikiLeaks on Wednesday released documents it said had been collected from CIA director John Brennan’s personal AOL account, the first in what the group said would be a series of publications.
The personal email account of the US’s top spy was compromised by hackers who claimed to be high school students. Those hackers had threatened on Twitter to release the same documents.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks)
October 21, 2015
ANNOUNCE: We have obtained the contents of CIA Chief John Brennan's email account and will be releasing it shortly.
The embarrassing leaks include a questionnaire for the official’s security clearance marked: “Review copy – Do not retain.”
Advertisement
Other documents included an early version of the Limitations on Interrogations Techniques Act of 2008, a bill defining the limits of interrogation methods. Also released was a letter from Missouri Republican senator Christopher Bond, then a member of the Senate select committee on intelligence.
All the documents in the WikiLeaks cache are from 2008 and before. Brennan assumed office in 2013.
The hack is an embarrassment not just for Brennan and for the CIA, but also for AOL and parent company Verizon. The sensitivity of the material in the account notwithstanding, the hackers have said that they were able to obtain a Verizon employee ID number and, with that, the last four digits of Brennan’s credit card on file, which was all that was needed to reset the email password for the US’s top intelligence official.
The leak arrived one day before former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton was scheduled to testify about her own personal email accounts before a congressional panel established to investigate the
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How to Spy the 9/11 Lie
Posted on October 4, 2015 by Kevin Ryan
Spy-the-Lie-2785550A recent book written by veteran CIA officers describes how deception can be identified by simple observational techniques. In Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception, authors Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, and Susan Carnicero outline a number of verbal and visual behavioral clues that are demonstrated by people who lie in response to questioning. These proven techniques for recognizing deception can be easily applied to see that U.S. leaders have lied repeatedly about the attacks of 9/11.
The authors make clear that there are two important guidelines to employ when analyzing these verbal and visual clues. First, timing is important. Due to the fact that people think ten times faster than they speak, the behaviors are more important when the first one occurs within five seconds of the question. Secondly, when the behavioral clues occur in groups of two or more, called clusters, they are more indicative of deception on the part of the person being questioned. The more clues exhibited, the more clear the deception becomes.
Let’s take a look at some examples.
In a December 15, 2001 press conference, President George W. Bush was asked an unexpected question about 9/11. In a remarkably delayed response, Bush exhibited both a verbal clue for deception, the failure to answer, and a visual clue called an anchor-point movement. The latter is when the anxiety raised by the question causes the person questioned to shift his body to relieve physical instability. As Bush replied, he shook his head, moved his hands, and seemed to be shuffling his feet uncomfortably.
Reporter: Do you agree or disagree with the RNC that [a question of your advanced knowledge of 9/11] borders on political hate speech?
Bush: Uh, yeah, there’s time for politics and, uh, you know… time for politics and, uh… I, uh, it’s an absurd insinuation.”
If the reporter had been a CIA interrogator, like any of the three authors of the book, this response would have raised an immediate red flag that the issue needed further examination.
In April 2004, Bush was asked a question about why he could only meet with the 9/11 Commission if Vice President Cheney was with him. He responded in a stuttering, repetitive fashion that demonstrated the “failure to answer” clue as well as something called non-specific denial, in which the question is refuted with unrelated verbiage. As Bush repeated his diversionary answer, he also smiled—another indication of deception when dealing with any serious subject matter.
Reporter: “Why are you and the vice president insisting on appearing together before the 9/11 Commission?”
Bush: “Because the 9/11 Commission wants to ask us questions. That’s why we’re meeting and I look forward to meeting with them and answering their questions.”
Reporter: “My question was why are you appearing together, rather than separately, which was their request?”
Bush: “Because it’s a good chance for both of us to answer questions, that the 9/11 Commission is, uh, looking forward to asking us, and I’m looking forward to answering them.”
Not long after Bush and Cheney finally agreed to their unrecorded, secretive interview with 9/11 Commission members, Bush’s national security advisor Condoleezza Rice gave testimony under oath. In that testimony, she demonstrated at least six of the CIA’s verbal clues to deception including isolated denial, selective memory, an overly specific answer, and a process or procedural response. Rice was also seen going into attack mode, responding to Commissioner Ri
How to Spy the 9/11 Lie
Posted on October 4, 2015 by Kevin Ryan
Spy-the-Lie-2785550A recent book written by veteran CIA officers describes how deception can be identified by simple observational techniques. In Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception, authors Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, and Susan Carnicero outline a number of verbal and visual behavioral clues that are demonstrated by people who lie in response to questioning. These proven techniques for recognizing deception can be easily applied to see that U.S. leaders have lied repeatedly about the attacks of 9/11.
The authors make clear that there are two important guidelines to employ when analyzing these verbal and visual clues. First, timing is important. Due to the fact that people think ten times faster than they speak, the behaviors are more important when the first one occurs within five seconds of the question. Secondly, when the behavioral clues occur in groups of two or more, called clusters, they are more indicative of deception on the part of the person being questioned. The more clues exhibited, the more clear the deception becomes.
Let’s take a look at some examples.
In a December 15, 2001 press conference, President George W. Bush was asked an unexpected question about 9/11. In a remarkably delayed response, Bush exhibited both a verbal clue for deception, the failure to answer, and a visual clue called an anchor-point movement. The latter is when the anxiety raised by the question causes the person questioned to shift his body to relieve physical instability. As Bush replied, he shook his head, moved his hands, and seemed to be shuffling his feet uncomfortably.
Reporter: Do you agree or disagree with the RNC that [a question of your advanced knowledge of 9/11] borders on political hate speech?
Bush: Uh, yeah, there’s time for politics and, uh, you know… time for politics and, uh… I, uh, it’s an absurd insinuation.”
If the reporter had been a CIA interrogator, like any of the three authors of the book, this response would have raised an immediate red flag that the issue needed further examination.
In April 2004, Bush was asked a question about why he could only meet with the 9/11 Commission if Vice President Cheney was with him. He responded in a stuttering, repetitive fashion that demonstrated the “failure to answer” clue as well as something called non-specific denial, in which the question is refuted with unrelated verbiage. As Bush repeated his diversionary answer, he also smiled—another indication of deception when dealing with any serious subject matter.
Reporter: “Why are you and the vice president insisting on appearing together before the 9/11 Commission?”
Bush: “Because the 9/11 Commission wants to ask us questions. That’s why we’re meeting and I look forward to meeting with them and answering their questions.”
Reporter: “My question was why are you appearing together, rather than separately, which was their request?”
Bush: “Because it’s a good chance for both of us to answer questions, that the 9/11 Commission is, uh, looking forward to asking us, and I’m looking forward to answering them.”
Not long after Bush and Cheney finally agreed to their unrecorded, secretive interview with 9/11 Commission members, Bush’s national security advisor Condoleezza Rice gave testimony under oath. In that testimony, she demonstrated at least six of the CIA’s verbal clues to deception including isolated denial, selective memory, an overly specific answer, and a process or procedural response. Rice was also seen going into attack mode, responding to Commissioner Ri
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couple of stories about FBI agents/CIA agents working with local
police to bring heroin and cocaine into our communities plus
bonus story
1.
http://powderburns.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Welcome to the official website of retired DEA Agent Celerino "Cele" Castillo III. Cele Castillo served for 12 years in the Drug Enforcement Administration where he built cases against organized drug rings in Manhattan, raided jungle cocaine labs in the amazon, conducted aerial eradication operations in Guatemala, and assembled and trained anti-narcotics units in several countries.
The eerie climax of agent Castillo's career with the DEA took place in El Salvador. One day, he received a cable from a fellow agent. He was told to investigate possible drug smuggling by Nicaraguan Contras operating from the Ilopango Air Force Base.
Castillo quickly discovered that the Contra pilots were, indeed, smuggling narcotics back into the United States - using the same pilots, planes and hangers that the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, under the direction of Lt. Col. Oliver North, used to maintain their covert supply operation to the Contra
2.
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The Big White Lie: The Deep Cover Operation That Exposed the CIA Sabotage of the Drug War Paperback – October 8, 2012
by Michael Levine (Author), Laura Kavanau-Levine (Contributor)
Read more
3.
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Bonus story
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc ... ct/412351/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The FBI Director’s Troubling Comments on the ‘Ferguson Effect’
James Comey worries that a spike in crime in some cities is caused by police who are afraid to do their jobs because of public scrutiny.
A protestor films riot police in Cleveland.
October 26 2015
The Ferguson effect is the Bigfoot of American criminal justice: Fervently believed to be real by some, doubted by many others, reportedly glimpsed here and there, but never yet attested to by any hard evidence.
On Friday, FBI Director James Comey professed himself at least open to believing that the phenomenon—the idea that scrutiny of police since the death of Michael Brown in August 2014 has emboldened criminals and made police reluctant to effectively fight crime—is real. While there are plenty of experts who disagree, what makes Comey’s comments so rattling is that if there is an observable Ferguson effect, it may suggest that many law-enforcement agencies have come to rely on abusive or questionable practices, rather than developing other crime-control strategies that could be successful even under public scrutiny.
“The question that has been asked of me, is whether these kinds of things are changing police behavior all over the country,” Comey said during a speech at the University of Chicago Law School. “And the answer is, I don’t know. I don’t know whether this explains it entirely, but I do have a strong sense that some part of the explanation is a chill wind blowing through American law enforcement over the last year. And that wind is surely changing behavior.”
As Comey acknowledged, there’s no clear proof of a connection. There have been anecdotal stories that argue that criminals are getting bolder—in Baltimore, for example, where violent crime spiked after Freddie Gray’s death in police custody in April—but as Ta-Nehisi Coates has pointed out, most arguments for the Ferguson effect come down to coincidence and hand-waving. Here’s what Comey said Friday:
I’ve been part of a lot of thoughtful conversations with law enforcement, elected officials, academics, and community members in recent weeks. I’ve heard a lot of theories—reasonable theories.
Maybe it’s the return of violent offenders after serving jail terms. Maybe it’s cheap heroin or synthetic drugs. Maybe after we busted up the large gangs, smaller groups are now fighting for turf. Maybe it’s a change in the justice system’s approach to bail or charging or sentencing. Maybe something has changed with respect to the availability of guns.
These are all useful suggestions, but to my mind none of them explain both the map and the calendar in disparate cities over the last 10 months.
A major obstacle to assessing the recent spike is that social scientists struggle to explain fluctuations in the crime rate even when there is copious data to work with. As Inimai Chettiar explained in a deep dive in February, the huge downward trend in crime in the U.S. in the last two decades remains largely unexplained. There’s a raft of theories, none of which effectively explains the drop by itself, and all of which in aggregate still leave most of the decline unaccounted for. Any explanation for the recent rise is likely to be even more speculative, but giving credence to the Ferguson effect risks cutting the police-reform push off at the knees. Comey has not been blind to the importance of scrutinizing the police. During a speech in February, he called for better collection of data about police use of force, angrily denouncing the lack so far. He again spoke of the need for some scrutiny on Friday.
“Part of that behavior change is to be welcomed, as we continue to have important discussions about police conduct and de-escalation and the use of deadly force,” Comey said. “Those are essential discussions and law enforcement will get better as a result.”
But he added: “We can’t lose sight of the fact that there really are bad people standing on the street with guns. The young men dying on street corners all across this country are not committing suicide or being shot by the cops. They are being killed, police chiefs tell me, by other young men with guns.”
Related Story
'It's Time for Good Cops to Do Something About Bad Cops'
The implication of this argument is far more worrisome. (Though whether Comey should trust what those police chiefs are saying in the absence of the data he called for is another question.) The police-reform push and the Black Lives Matter movement arose in response to some clearly troubling
police to bring heroin and cocaine into our communities plus
bonus story
1.
http://powderburns.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Welcome to the official website of retired DEA Agent Celerino "Cele" Castillo III. Cele Castillo served for 12 years in the Drug Enforcement Administration where he built cases against organized drug rings in Manhattan, raided jungle cocaine labs in the amazon, conducted aerial eradication operations in Guatemala, and assembled and trained anti-narcotics units in several countries.
The eerie climax of agent Castillo's career with the DEA took place in El Salvador. One day, he received a cable from a fellow agent. He was told to investigate possible drug smuggling by Nicaraguan Contras operating from the Ilopango Air Force Base.
Castillo quickly discovered that the Contra pilots were, indeed, smuggling narcotics back into the United States - using the same pilots, planes and hangers that the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, under the direction of Lt. Col. Oliver North, used to maintain their covert supply operation to the Contra
2.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-White-Lie ... 0985238623" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Big White Lie: The Deep Cover Operation That Exposed the CIA Sabotage of the Drug War Paperback – October 8, 2012
by Michael Levine (Author), Laura Kavanau-Levine (Contributor)
Read more
3.
http://narconews.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Bonus story
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc ... ct/412351/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The FBI Director’s Troubling Comments on the ‘Ferguson Effect’
James Comey worries that a spike in crime in some cities is caused by police who are afraid to do their jobs because of public scrutiny.
A protestor films riot police in Cleveland.
October 26 2015
The Ferguson effect is the Bigfoot of American criminal justice: Fervently believed to be real by some, doubted by many others, reportedly glimpsed here and there, but never yet attested to by any hard evidence.
On Friday, FBI Director James Comey professed himself at least open to believing that the phenomenon—the idea that scrutiny of police since the death of Michael Brown in August 2014 has emboldened criminals and made police reluctant to effectively fight crime—is real. While there are plenty of experts who disagree, what makes Comey’s comments so rattling is that if there is an observable Ferguson effect, it may suggest that many law-enforcement agencies have come to rely on abusive or questionable practices, rather than developing other crime-control strategies that could be successful even under public scrutiny.
“The question that has been asked of me, is whether these kinds of things are changing police behavior all over the country,” Comey said during a speech at the University of Chicago Law School. “And the answer is, I don’t know. I don’t know whether this explains it entirely, but I do have a strong sense that some part of the explanation is a chill wind blowing through American law enforcement over the last year. And that wind is surely changing behavior.”
As Comey acknowledged, there’s no clear proof of a connection. There have been anecdotal stories that argue that criminals are getting bolder—in Baltimore, for example, where violent crime spiked after Freddie Gray’s death in police custody in April—but as Ta-Nehisi Coates has pointed out, most arguments for the Ferguson effect come down to coincidence and hand-waving. Here’s what Comey said Friday:
I’ve been part of a lot of thoughtful conversations with law enforcement, elected officials, academics, and community members in recent weeks. I’ve heard a lot of theories—reasonable theories.
Maybe it’s the return of violent offenders after serving jail terms. Maybe it’s cheap heroin or synthetic drugs. Maybe after we busted up the large gangs, smaller groups are now fighting for turf. Maybe it’s a change in the justice system’s approach to bail or charging or sentencing. Maybe something has changed with respect to the availability of guns.
These are all useful suggestions, but to my mind none of them explain both the map and the calendar in disparate cities over the last 10 months.
A major obstacle to assessing the recent spike is that social scientists struggle to explain fluctuations in the crime rate even when there is copious data to work with. As Inimai Chettiar explained in a deep dive in February, the huge downward trend in crime in the U.S. in the last two decades remains largely unexplained. There’s a raft of theories, none of which effectively explains the drop by itself, and all of which in aggregate still leave most of the decline unaccounted for. Any explanation for the recent rise is likely to be even more speculative, but giving credence to the Ferguson effect risks cutting the police-reform push off at the knees. Comey has not been blind to the importance of scrutinizing the police. During a speech in February, he called for better collection of data about police use of force, angrily denouncing the lack so far. He again spoke of the need for some scrutiny on Friday.
“Part of that behavior change is to be welcomed, as we continue to have important discussions about police conduct and de-escalation and the use of deadly force,” Comey said. “Those are essential discussions and law enforcement will get better as a result.”
But he added: “We can’t lose sight of the fact that there really are bad people standing on the street with guns. The young men dying on street corners all across this country are not committing suicide or being shot by the cops. They are being killed, police chiefs tell me, by other young men with guns.”
Related Story
'It's Time for Good Cops to Do Something About Bad Cops'
The implication of this argument is far more worrisome. (Though whether Comey should trust what those police chiefs are saying in the absence of the data he called for is another question.) The police-reform push and the Black Lives Matter movement arose in response to some clearly troubling
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Surprise testimony during Fattah Jr.'s trial: FBI agent admits sharing information with
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The lead investigator in the federal bank and tax fraud case against Chaka "Chip" Fattah Jr. testified in federal court Wednesday that he was a source for an Inquirer reporter and tipped her off to a 2012 raid by the FBI at Fattah´s Ritz-Carlton condo.
Last updated: Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 7:11 PM
Posted: Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 2:58 PM
In a surprise turn, the lead investigator in the federal case against Chaka "Chip" Fattah Jr. testified Wednesday that he tipped off an Inquirer reporter in 2012 to FBI raids at his Ritz-Carlton condo and offices at Logan Square.
Under questioning from prosecutors, FBI Special Agent Richard Haag said he contacted reporter Martha Woodall during the investigation to learn more about Fattah's work at a for-profit education firm. In exchange, he said, he provided Woodall limited information about the federal probe. He said he did not share any grand jury material.
More coverage
Who will Fattah Jr. call as witnesses?
Prosecutors: Fattah dimed out partner
Feds link Fattah Jr. to defunct education firm
Haag's revelation kicked off a chaotic day in court and prompted Fattah to call for a mistrial.
It also marked the first time federal authorities have confirmed there is at least some truth behind one of his longest standing complaints.
In a lawsuit he filed last year against the FBI, IRS and the U.S. Justice Department, Fattah contended that agents gave the press advanced notice of the
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20151 ... uirer.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The lead investigator in the federal bank and tax fraud case against Chaka "Chip" Fattah Jr. testified in federal court Wednesday that he was a source for an Inquirer reporter and tipped her off to a 2012 raid by the FBI at Fattah´s Ritz-Carlton condo.
Last updated: Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 7:11 PM
Posted: Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 2:58 PM
In a surprise turn, the lead investigator in the federal case against Chaka "Chip" Fattah Jr. testified Wednesday that he tipped off an Inquirer reporter in 2012 to FBI raids at his Ritz-Carlton condo and offices at Logan Square.
Under questioning from prosecutors, FBI Special Agent Richard Haag said he contacted reporter Martha Woodall during the investigation to learn more about Fattah's work at a for-profit education firm. In exchange, he said, he provided Woodall limited information about the federal probe. He said he did not share any grand jury material.
More coverage
Who will Fattah Jr. call as witnesses?
Prosecutors: Fattah dimed out partner
Feds link Fattah Jr. to defunct education firm
Haag's revelation kicked off a chaotic day in court and prompted Fattah to call for a mistrial.
It also marked the first time federal authorities have confirmed there is at least some truth behind one of his longest standing complaints.
In a lawsuit he filed last year against the FBI, IRS and the U.S. Justice Department, Fattah contended that agents gave the press advanced notice of the
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Agents admit filter to screen private attorney-client emails had holes
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October 28 2015
FBI agents didn't filter out attorney email addresses, law firm Internet domain names or the names of associate attorneys and support staff when processing emails seized from the accounts of indicted St. George businessman Jeremy Johnson, according to testimony in federal court on Thursday.
And an agent on the team prosecuting Johnson said he went through a database that contained emails even before those involving at least two of Johnson's attorneys were filtered out.
The agents testified Thursday at a federal court hearing called to gather evidence about whether the prosecution had access to, or read, private emails between Johnson and his attorneys after gathering them up through a sealed search warrant.
Communications between attorneys and their clients are considered privileged in the U.S. legal system, meaning they are normally supposed to be private, so prosecutors, investigators and outside parties are not to have access to them.
But in Johnson's case, where he and three other officers in his online marketing company face charges related to bank fraud, the FBI used a May 17, 2013, search warrant to obtain emails from Johnson's Gmail accounts, including thousands between Johnson and his attorneys.
FBI Special Agent Randy Kim, who works at the agency's local computer forensics lab, said after receiving the emails from a member of the prosecution team he filtered out those that contained the names of attorneys from a list provided by another agent. But under questioning from Johnson attorney Rebecca Skordas, Kim said he filtered out emails using names only.
"So if there were email addresses associated with these individuals you didn't do a search of those addresses?" Skordas asked.
"Correct," Kim responded, answering the same way when asked about the domain names of law firms and names of others associated with those firms such as paralegals.
Skordas is expected to file a motion to dismiss the case based on assertions the team of prosecutors and investigators violated Johnson's attorney-client privilege by gathering and then having access to thousands of his emails with attorneys.
FBI Special Agent Jason Henrikson, who obtained the warrant that sought evidence of alleged witness tampering by Johnson, testified that he was aware that the search warrant would gather up all Johnson's emails from those accounts, including ones with attorneys.
Henrikson said he provided Kim with discs from Google and a list of attorneys for filtering that he had obtained from the U.S. attor
http://www.sltrib.com/home/3116874-155/ ... fullpage=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
October 28 2015
FBI agents didn't filter out attorney email addresses, law firm Internet domain names or the names of associate attorneys and support staff when processing emails seized from the accounts of indicted St. George businessman Jeremy Johnson, according to testimony in federal court on Thursday.
And an agent on the team prosecuting Johnson said he went through a database that contained emails even before those involving at least two of Johnson's attorneys were filtered out.
The agents testified Thursday at a federal court hearing called to gather evidence about whether the prosecution had access to, or read, private emails between Johnson and his attorneys after gathering them up through a sealed search warrant.
Communications between attorneys and their clients are considered privileged in the U.S. legal system, meaning they are normally supposed to be private, so prosecutors, investigators and outside parties are not to have access to them.
But in Johnson's case, where he and three other officers in his online marketing company face charges related to bank fraud, the FBI used a May 17, 2013, search warrant to obtain emails from Johnson's Gmail accounts, including thousands between Johnson and his attorneys.
FBI Special Agent Randy Kim, who works at the agency's local computer forensics lab, said after receiving the emails from a member of the prosecution team he filtered out those that contained the names of attorneys from a list provided by another agent. But under questioning from Johnson attorney Rebecca Skordas, Kim said he filtered out emails using names only.
"So if there were email addresses associated with these individuals you didn't do a search of those addresses?" Skordas asked.
"Correct," Kim responded, answering the same way when asked about the domain names of law firms and names of others associated with those firms such as paralegals.
Skordas is expected to file a motion to dismiss the case based on assertions the team of prosecutors and investigators violated Johnson's attorney-client privilege by gathering and then having access to thousands of his emails with attorneys.
FBI Special Agent Jason Henrikson, who obtained the warrant that sought evidence of alleged witness tampering by Johnson, testified that he was aware that the search warrant would gather up all Johnson's emails from those accounts, including ones with attorneys.
Henrikson said he provided Kim with discs from Google and a list of attorneys for filtering that he had obtained from the U.S. attor
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Texas DPS says FBI agent 'accidentally shot' during investigation in Crosbyton
Posted: October 30, 2015 - 7:51am | Updated: October 30, 2015 - 12:46pm
A Lubbock-based FBI agent was accidentally shot by a member of a state law enforcement agency Thursday evening while helping apprehend a suspect during an investigation in Crosbyton.
Mike Orndorff, an FBI special agent assigned to the Lubbock Resident Agency, was part of a group
Texas DPS says FBI agent 'accidentally shot' during investigation in Crosbyton
Posted: October 30, 2015 - 7:51am | Updated: October 30, 2015 - 12:46pm
A Lubbock-based FBI agent was accidentally shot by a member of a state law enforcement agency Thursday evening while helping apprehend a suspect during an investigation in Crosbyton.
Mike Orndorff, an FBI special agent assigned to the Lubbock Resident Agency, was part of a group
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A Halloween Trick and A Challenge To The FBI:
October 31, 2015Uncategorized
I cannot but help hearing echoes of J. Edgar Hoover. I wonder if Director Comey his reincarnation? He is sure up to Hoover’s old tricks.
In doing research for my planned book I have studied the involvement of J. Edgar Hoover in various historical moments in our country’s history. It was back in 1919 or 1920 when he was running the Justice Department’s radical bureau that he came out with a warning to all police departments in the nation that the Reds were planning major disturbances throughout our county on the 4th of July. The cities went to great lengths preparing and the day came and went and nothing unusual occurred. It was after that sanity returned to America and the Hoover’s creation known as the “Red Scare” pretty much went into the history books. Hoover, the man behind much of the scare at age 24, would go on to become director of the FBI for 48 years.
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A Halloween Trick and A Challenge To The FBI:
October 31, 2015Uncategorized
I cannot but help hearing echoes of J. Edgar Hoover. I wonder if Director Comey his reincarnation? He is sure up to Hoover’s old tricks.
In doing research for my planned book I have studied the involvement of J. Edgar Hoover in various historical moments in our country’s history. It was back in 1919 or 1920 when he was running the Justice Department’s radical bureau that he came out with a warning to all police departments in the nation that the Reds were planning major disturbances throughout our county on the 4th of July. The cities went to great lengths preparing and the day came and went and nothing unusual occurred. It was after that sanity returned to America and the Hoover’s creation known as the “Red Scare” pretty much went into the history books. Hoover, the man behind much of the scare at age 24, would go on to become director of the FBI for 48 years.
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Average Secret Service Agent Had Just 25 Minutes of Training in 2013
REUTERS/Larry Downing
By Eric Katz, Government Executive
February 13, 2015
An independent panel investigating the recent failures of the Secret Service told Congress on Thursday that agents were trained at “unacceptable” levels, drawing outrage from lawmakers who mostly agreed on the need to overhaul the agency.
The panel, which issued its initial findings in December, told members of the House Oversight and Government
Average Secret Service Agent Had Just 25 Minutes of Training in 2013
REUTERS/Larry Downing
By Eric Katz, Government Executive
February 13, 2015
An independent panel investigating the recent failures of the Secret Service told Congress on Thursday that agents were trained at “unacceptable” levels, drawing outrage from lawmakers who mostly agreed on the need to overhaul the agency.
The panel, which issued its initial findings in December, told members of the House Oversight and Government
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Ben Carson
Ben Carson: Egyptian pyramids were grain stores, not pharaohs' tombs
Republican presidential hopeful stands by remarks made in 1998, but criticised ‘scientists’ who he said claimed pyramids were built by ‘alien beings’
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Ben Carson: Egyptian pyramids were grain stores, not pharaohs' tombs
Republican presidential hopeful stands by remarks made in 1998, but criticised ‘scientists’ who he said claimed pyramids were built by ‘alien beings’
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Rightwingers push 'moral' coal only after they doomed a truly moral alternative
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Even discounting climate change, coal is less cost-effective for the developing world. A well-financed leap to renewables is the way forward
‘The much-touted idea of ‘clean coal’ has proved to be a fantasy.’
‘The much-touted idea of ‘clean coal’ has proved to be a fantasy.’ Photograph: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Images
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Around the developed world, the age of coal is drawing to a close. Coal-fired power plants are closing down just about everywhere. They are being replaced by renewables and gas-fired plants, or rendered unnecessary by improved energy efficiency. Some jurisdictions, including Ontario in Canada and Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, are already coal-free.
There is no 'moral case for coal' in Australia, just an imported PR line
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Others will follow, including whole nations like the UK, which is likely to close its last coal-fired station sometime in the 2020s. Even China, where new coal-fired power stations were opening on a weekly basis until recently, is reducing its use of coal. Many Chinese coal mines are closing, but the biggest effect has been to slash imports, down by around 30% so far this year.
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The reasons for this development are not hard to find. Rapid reductions in the burning of fossil fuels are necessary if we are to prevent catastrophic climate change. Calculations of the “carbon budget” consistent with holding global warming to 2C show that global emissions of greenhouse gases must peak by around 2025 and decline thereafter.
Of all the fossil fuels, coal is by far the worst. It is twice as carbon-intensive as gas, its main competitor in electricity generation. And, in addition to its effects on the global climate, coal is responsible for toxic emissions of mercury, sulphur dioxide and other pollutants, estimated to cause millions of deaths every year.
The much-touted idea of “clean coal” has proved to be a fantasy. Carbon capture and storage, in which the exhaust gases from coal-fired power stations are captured and sequestered underground, is hopelessly uneconomic. One hugely expensive pilot project opened in Canada last year. Many others have been abandoned, such as Zerogen in Australia, White Rose in the UK and FutureGen in the US.
The idea implicit in the moralist case for coal is that India should recapitulate the Industrial Revolution.
Even research on the technology has largely dried up. Australian “clean coal” funding, once in the billions, has slowed to a trickle. Coal is, and always will be, dirty and dangerous.
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The implication is obvious: the phasing out of fossil fuels must begin with coal. The world needs to stop opening new coal mines, and close existing mines in line with declining global use of coal.
This obvious message is not one that coal mining companies and the Australian government want to hear. Faced with the end of coal in the developed world, and even in China, they have switched to a new argument, notably propounded by Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg.
Frydenberg and others argue that we have a moral obligation to supply coal to poorer countries like India, in order that they can take the cheapest possible path to meeting their needs for more energy.
It is far from obvious that coal is in fact the cheapest source of energy for India. Large parts of the country have yet to be connected to the electricity grid, and might do better to move straight to renewables. And the health effects of burning coal, serious in developed countries, are far worse in India. Pollution from coal is estimated to kill more than 100,000 people in India each year.
These health effects could be mitigated, and many lives saved, with modern pollution control technology but that would eliminate m
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Even discounting climate change, coal is less cost-effective for the developing world. A well-financed leap to renewables is the way forward
‘The much-touted idea of ‘clean coal’ has proved to be a fantasy.’
‘The much-touted idea of ‘clean coal’ has proved to be a fantasy.’ Photograph: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Images
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Last modified on Monday 9 November 2015 18.52 EST
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Around the developed world, the age of coal is drawing to a close. Coal-fired power plants are closing down just about everywhere. They are being replaced by renewables and gas-fired plants, or rendered unnecessary by improved energy efficiency. Some jurisdictions, including Ontario in Canada and Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, are already coal-free.
There is no 'moral case for coal' in Australia, just an imported PR line
Jason Wilson
Others will follow, including whole nations like the UK, which is likely to close its last coal-fired station sometime in the 2020s. Even China, where new coal-fired power stations were opening on a weekly basis until recently, is reducing its use of coal. Many Chinese coal mines are closing, but the biggest effect has been to slash imports, down by around 30% so far this year.
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The reasons for this development are not hard to find. Rapid reductions in the burning of fossil fuels are necessary if we are to prevent catastrophic climate change. Calculations of the “carbon budget” consistent with holding global warming to 2C show that global emissions of greenhouse gases must peak by around 2025 and decline thereafter.
Of all the fossil fuels, coal is by far the worst. It is twice as carbon-intensive as gas, its main competitor in electricity generation. And, in addition to its effects on the global climate, coal is responsible for toxic emissions of mercury, sulphur dioxide and other pollutants, estimated to cause millions of deaths every year.
The much-touted idea of “clean coal” has proved to be a fantasy. Carbon capture and storage, in which the exhaust gases from coal-fired power stations are captured and sequestered underground, is hopelessly uneconomic. One hugely expensive pilot project opened in Canada last year. Many others have been abandoned, such as Zerogen in Australia, White Rose in the UK and FutureGen in the US.
The idea implicit in the moralist case for coal is that India should recapitulate the Industrial Revolution.
Even research on the technology has largely dried up. Australian “clean coal” funding, once in the billions, has slowed to a trickle. Coal is, and always will be, dirty and dangerous.
Advertisement
The implication is obvious: the phasing out of fossil fuels must begin with coal. The world needs to stop opening new coal mines, and close existing mines in line with declining global use of coal.
This obvious message is not one that coal mining companies and the Australian government want to hear. Faced with the end of coal in the developed world, and even in China, they have switched to a new argument, notably propounded by Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg.
Frydenberg and others argue that we have a moral obligation to supply coal to poorer countries like India, in order that they can take the cheapest possible path to meeting their needs for more energy.
It is far from obvious that coal is in fact the cheapest source of energy for India. Large parts of the country have yet to be connected to the electricity grid, and might do better to move straight to renewables. And the health effects of burning coal, serious in developed countries, are far worse in India. Pollution from coal is estimated to kill more than 100,000 people in India each year.
These health effects could be mitigated, and many lives saved, with modern pollution control technology but that would eliminate m
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Can the Government Put a Price Tag On Your Right to Choose Your Lawyer?
Posted: 11/12/2015 11:07 am EST Updated: 2 hours ago
When, if ever, can the government effectively prevent a criminal defendant from using their legitimate assets to hire a lawyer? That's the fundamental question that the Supreme Court confronts in Luis v. United States--a question that implicates the integrity of the criminal justice system. The Court should squarely hold that the government cannot "freeze" legitimate assets a defendant needs to hire the advocate he or she believes will best represent them at trial, simply because there is probable cause to believe that the defendant has committed a crime.
In 2012, the federal government charged Sila Luis with conspiracy to commit Medicare fraud. The scope of the alleged fraud was staggering--over $45 million, stemming from claims for home health services that were neither medically necessary nor actually performed. The government invoked the Fraud Injunction Act, a federal statute that authorizes a "restraining order" against assets when a person is "alienating or disposing of property, or intends to alienate or dispose of property" that is "obtained from" or "traceable to" certain federal offenses. In such cases, § 1345(a)(2)(B) permits a court to prohibit the use of either tainted property "or property of equivalent value" before trial in order to ensure that sufficient assets are available to satisfy any judgment. But rather than just freeze the allegedly tainted property, the federal government asked the district court below to freeze all of Luis's assets, including those that were not even allegedly obtained through fraud. The district court did so.
It is highly questionable whether the Fraud injunction Act authorizes the restraint of all of Luis's assets. As an amicus brief filed by Americans for Forfeiture Reform points out, the relevant statutory provisions are written in the present tense, strongly suggesting that the statute is designed "to stop fraudulent conduct before or while it is happening." The district court, however, concluded that Luis "has alienated or disposed of property, and
Can the Government Put a Price Tag On Your Right to Choose Your Lawyer?
Posted: 11/12/2015 11:07 am EST Updated: 2 hours ago
When, if ever, can the government effectively prevent a criminal defendant from using their legitimate assets to hire a lawyer? That's the fundamental question that the Supreme Court confronts in Luis v. United States--a question that implicates the integrity of the criminal justice system. The Court should squarely hold that the government cannot "freeze" legitimate assets a defendant needs to hire the advocate he or she believes will best represent them at trial, simply because there is probable cause to believe that the defendant has committed a crime.
In 2012, the federal government charged Sila Luis with conspiracy to commit Medicare fraud. The scope of the alleged fraud was staggering--over $45 million, stemming from claims for home health services that were neither medically necessary nor actually performed. The government invoked the Fraud Injunction Act, a federal statute that authorizes a "restraining order" against assets when a person is "alienating or disposing of property, or intends to alienate or dispose of property" that is "obtained from" or "traceable to" certain federal offenses. In such cases, § 1345(a)(2)(B) permits a court to prohibit the use of either tainted property "or property of equivalent value" before trial in order to ensure that sufficient assets are available to satisfy any judgment. But rather than just freeze the allegedly tainted property, the federal government asked the district court below to freeze all of Luis's assets, including those that were not even allegedly obtained through fraud. The district court did so.
It is highly questionable whether the Fraud injunction Act authorizes the restraint of all of Luis's assets. As an amicus brief filed by Americans for Forfeiture Reform points out, the relevant statutory provisions are written in the present tense, strongly suggesting that the statute is designed "to stop fraudulent conduct before or while it is happening." The district court, however, concluded that Luis "has alienated or disposed of property, and
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NYPD officer pleads guilty to shooting wife to death
November 17 2015
Former police officer Kevin Canty with his attorney Mark Pollard (l.) at Queens Supreme Court.
Former police officer Kevin Canty with his attorney Mark Pollard (l.) at Queens Supreme Court.
An ex-NYPD officer admitted to viciously gunning down his wife in front of their two young children because he thought she was having an affair.
Kevin Canty, 44, pleaded guilty Tuesday to hitting his wife Jessica, 40, with seven bullets as their 6 and 9-year-old children watched in horror inside t
NYPD officer pleads guilty to shooting wife to death
November 17 2015
Former police officer Kevin Canty with his attorney Mark Pollard (l.) at Queens Supreme Court.
Former police officer Kevin Canty with his attorney Mark Pollard (l.) at Queens Supreme Court.
An ex-NYPD officer admitted to viciously gunning down his wife in front of their two young children because he thought she was having an affair.
Kevin Canty, 44, pleaded guilty Tuesday to hitting his wife Jessica, 40, with seven bullets as their 6 and 9-year-old children watched in horror inside t
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REALLY?!
Government Compares NSA Whistleblower to Ft. Hood Shooter, Soviet Spies
11.18.151:15 PM ET
A U.S. government espionage task force is advising its defense industry partners that whistleblowers can be as dangerous as terrorists and spies.
During a “webinar” on Tuesday, an official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s National Insider Threat Task Force showed a PowerPoint slide with examples of “insider threats.” Thomas Drake, who exposed part of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program in 2005, is next to Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan, Navy Yard killer Aaron Alexis, and FBI-agent-turned-Soviet-spy Robert Hanssen.
Not only is Drake not a murderer or spy, the government was forced to drop all 10 of the original espionage-related charges against him after he rejected numerous plea deals. Drake did plead guilty to a misdemeanor, and since leaving the NSA has actively campaigned for government transparency and accountability.
Drake told The Daily Beast that government is “still ticked that I escaped prison or any conviction as a felon, giving others hope because I kept my freedoms when under the gun after so many years — albeit at a very high professional and personal price.”
More than just sour grapes, Drake says, this kind of blacklisting is a tacit personal threat.
“Apparently I have damaged the U.S. more than the likes of Alger Hiss, the Walkers, Pollard, the Falcon and the Snowman, and even Ellsberg—none of them are listed. There is no question and it's chilling — I am on a National Threat List. And a clear warning to me with respect to the exercise of my First Amendment rights.”
“Apparently I have damaged the U.S. more than the likes of Alger Hiss.”
Patricia Larsen, an ODNI official, gave a history of “insider threats” during the webinar beginning with Daniel Ellsberg, whose copying of the Pentagon Papers she characterized as patently criminal. (Charges against Ellsberg were dropped in 1973 when it was revealed the FBI used warrantless wiretaps on him.)
The webinar was entitled “Simple Steps and Guidance to Secure Classified Networks” and is part of defense industry publication C4ISRNET’s (C4ISR is a military acronym for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence) “Thought Leadership Series,” and purported to teach participants information security skills and to familiarize them with threats to documents and networks.
Larsen emphasized that any employees and contractors who damage an entity’s reputation, be it government or business, by exposing inside information should be considered insider threats, as they “would be in the business world.”
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REALLY?!
Government Compares NSA Whistleblower to Ft. Hood Shooter, Soviet Spies
11.18.151:15 PM ET
A U.S. government espionage task force is advising its defense industry partners that whistleblowers can be as dangerous as terrorists and spies.
During a “webinar” on Tuesday, an official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s National Insider Threat Task Force showed a PowerPoint slide with examples of “insider threats.” Thomas Drake, who exposed part of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program in 2005, is next to Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan, Navy Yard killer Aaron Alexis, and FBI-agent-turned-Soviet-spy Robert Hanssen.
Not only is Drake not a murderer or spy, the government was forced to drop all 10 of the original espionage-related charges against him after he rejected numerous plea deals. Drake did plead guilty to a misdemeanor, and since leaving the NSA has actively campaigned for government transparency and accountability.
Drake told The Daily Beast that government is “still ticked that I escaped prison or any conviction as a felon, giving others hope because I kept my freedoms when under the gun after so many years — albeit at a very high professional and personal price.”
More than just sour grapes, Drake says, this kind of blacklisting is a tacit personal threat.
“Apparently I have damaged the U.S. more than the likes of Alger Hiss, the Walkers, Pollard, the Falcon and the Snowman, and even Ellsberg—none of them are listed. There is no question and it's chilling — I am on a National Threat List. And a clear warning to me with respect to the exercise of my First Amendment rights.”
“Apparently I have damaged the U.S. more than the likes of Alger Hiss.”
Patricia Larsen, an ODNI official, gave a history of “insider threats” during the webinar beginning with Daniel Ellsberg, whose copying of the Pentagon Papers she characterized as patently criminal. (Charges against Ellsberg were dropped in 1973 when it was revealed the FBI used warrantless wiretaps on him.)
The webinar was entitled “Simple Steps and Guidance to Secure Classified Networks” and is part of defense industry publication C4ISRNET’s (C4ISR is a military acronym for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence) “Thought Leadership Series,” and purported to teach participants information security skills and to familiarize them with threats to documents and networks.
Larsen emphasized that any employees and contractors who damage an entity’s reputation, be it government or business, by exposing inside information should be considered insider threats, as they “would be in the business world.”
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NRA Defends Americans From Obama’s War On Due Process
Posted by Bob Owens on November 23, 2015 at 3:59 pm
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The Obama Administration is attempting to use the Paris terrorist attacks to scare American citizens into giving up their constitutional rights.
Josh Earnest, President Obama’s Press Secretary is attempting to argue that nearly one million people who have not be charged with any crimes—including 300,000 who have no ties to any known terrorist groups at all—should be stripped of their basic constitutional due process rights in their latest scheme to undermine the rights of American citizens. The National Rifle Association quickly fired back with both barrels.
Unlike the White House’s attempts to scare American citizens into giving up their basic right to due process, the NRA then went in depth and explained why the current system works, without compromising our civil liberties.
The claim driving these media assaults on the NRA i
Posted by Bob Owens on November 23, 2015 at 3:59 pm
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The Obama Administration is attempting to use the Paris terrorist attacks to scare American citizens into giving up their constitutional rights.
Josh Earnest, President Obama’s Press Secretary is attempting to argue that nearly one million people who have not be charged with any crimes—including 300,000 who have no ties to any known terrorist groups at all—should be stripped of their basic constitutional due process rights in their latest scheme to undermine the rights of American citizens. The National Rifle Association quickly fired back with both barrels.
Unlike the White House’s attempts to scare American citizens into giving up their basic right to due process, the NRA then went in depth and explained why the current system works, without compromising our civil liberties.
The claim driving these media assaults on the NRA i
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Why is the largest Earth science conference still sponsored by Exxon?
Posted on 6 January 2016 by Guest Author
Ploy Achakulwisut is a PhD candidate in atmospheric chemistry at Harvard University. Ben Scandella is a PhD candidate in environmental science at MIT. Britta Voss earned a PhD in Earth science from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
“Thank You to Our Sponsors: ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell...” This was the first message to greet us upon arrival at the 2015 American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting - the world’s largest gathering of Earth and space scientists.
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AGU 2015 fall meeting “Thank you to our sponsors” board.
As aspiring and early career environmental scientists, this was a dismaying welcome, for we are immensely disturbed and angered by the well-documented complicity of these companies in climate denial and disinformation. For example, recent investigative journalism has shed light on the fact that ExxonMobil,informed by their in-house scientists, has known about the devastating global warming effects of fossil fuel burning since the late 1970s, but spent the next decades funding disinformation campaigns to confuse the public, slander scientists, and sabotage science - the very science conducted by thousands of AGU members. Even today, ExxonMobil and Chevron continue to fund the American Legislative Exchange Council, a lobbying group that routinely misrepresents climate science to US state legislators and attempts to block pro-renewable energy policies.
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Latest data shows cooling Sun, warming Earth
Posted on 5 January 2016 by MarkR
Lots of studies into the Sun-climate link have reported that recent changes in the heat output by the Sun are simply too small to explain much of the recent global warming. Even 5 years ago it was clear that Earth's temperature isn't tracking solar activity very well.
And now including data up to 2015, that pattern is even clearer. In each case the 2015 result is based on slightly incomplete data: up to end-November for temperature and mid-October for solar activity. It shows that in the 5 years since we first published a version of the figure below, Earth's surface has continued to warm despite declining solar activity.
Temperature versus solar activity with PMOD
Data sources: temperature, solar activity pre-1978, solar activity 1978-onwards.
The temperature record is from NASA and the solar heat output arriving at the top of Earth's atmosphere, the "Total Solar Irradiance" comes from two sources. From 1978 we have satellite measurements, in this case from PMOD (data here). Before that, the heat output was not measured directly, but instead it has to be estimated from measurements of sunspots, which look something like this.
Why is the largest Earth science conference still sponsored by Exxon?
Posted on 6 January 2016 by Guest Author
Ploy Achakulwisut is a PhD candidate in atmospheric chemistry at Harvard University. Ben Scandella is a PhD candidate in environmental science at MIT. Britta Voss earned a PhD in Earth science from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
“Thank You to Our Sponsors: ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell...” This was the first message to greet us upon arrival at the 2015 American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting - the world’s largest gathering of Earth and space scientists.
agu sponsor board
AGU 2015 fall meeting “Thank you to our sponsors” board.
As aspiring and early career environmental scientists, this was a dismaying welcome, for we are immensely disturbed and angered by the well-documented complicity of these companies in climate denial and disinformation. For example, recent investigative journalism has shed light on the fact that ExxonMobil,informed by their in-house scientists, has known about the devastating global warming effects of fossil fuel burning since the late 1970s, but spent the next decades funding disinformation campaigns to confuse the public, slander scientists, and sabotage science - the very science conducted by thousands of AGU members. Even today, ExxonMobil and Chevron continue to fund the American Legislative Exchange Council, a lobbying group that routinely misrepresents climate science to US state legislators and attempts to block pro-renewable energy policies.
Read more...
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Latest data shows cooling Sun, warming Earth
Posted on 5 January 2016 by MarkR
Lots of studies into the Sun-climate link have reported that recent changes in the heat output by the Sun are simply too small to explain much of the recent global warming. Even 5 years ago it was clear that Earth's temperature isn't tracking solar activity very well.
And now including data up to 2015, that pattern is even clearer. In each case the 2015 result is based on slightly incomplete data: up to end-November for temperature and mid-October for solar activity. It shows that in the 5 years since we first published a version of the figure below, Earth's surface has continued to warm despite declining solar activity.
Temperature versus solar activity with PMOD
Data sources: temperature, solar activity pre-1978, solar activity 1978-onwards.
The temperature record is from NASA and the solar heat output arriving at the top of Earth's atmosphere, the "Total Solar Irradiance" comes from two sources. From 1978 we have satellite measurements, in this case from PMOD (data here). Before that, the heat output was not measured directly, but instead it has to be estimated from measurements of sunspots, which look something like this.
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January 25, 2016
Stock Buybacks and the Wall Street Sharktank: “A Whole Lotta Stealin’ Goin’ On”
Let’s say you lend your brother-in-law, Pauli, 5,000-bucks so he can get his fledgling construction business off-the-ground. Then, you find out a week later that ‘good-old Pauli’ has shot the wad playing the horses at Long-acres and buying cocktails for his loafer-friends at Matt’s Mad Dog tavern? Would you feel like you’d been ripped off?
Sure you would. But when some slick corporate fraudster pulls the same scam, no one even raises an eyebrow.
What am I talking about?
I’m talking about the way that corporate bosses are allowed to take the hard-earned money from Mom and Pop investors and divide it among their freeloading shareholder friends via stock buybacks. You see, buybacks
January 25, 2016
Stock Buybacks and the Wall Street Sharktank: “A Whole Lotta Stealin’ Goin’ On”
Let’s say you lend your brother-in-law, Pauli, 5,000-bucks so he can get his fledgling construction business off-the-ground. Then, you find out a week later that ‘good-old Pauli’ has shot the wad playing the horses at Long-acres and buying cocktails for his loafer-friends at Matt’s Mad Dog tavern? Would you feel like you’d been ripped off?
Sure you would. But when some slick corporate fraudster pulls the same scam, no one even raises an eyebrow.
What am I talking about?
I’m talking about the way that corporate bosses are allowed to take the hard-earned money from Mom and Pop investors and divide it among their freeloading shareholder friends via stock buybacks. You see, buybacks
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Shootings and racist messages prompt DoJ inquiry into San Francisco police
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The FBI Deemed Agents Faultless in 150 Shootings - The New York ...
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Jun 18, 2013 - In most of the shootings, the F.B.I.'s internal investigation was the only .... the bureau's image goes down the toilet if it doesn't investigate itself ...
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Shootings and racist messages prompt DoJ inquiry into San Francisco police
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The FBI Deemed Agents Faultless in 150 Shootings - The New York ...
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Major Wildfire Outbreak in Central and Western Africa as Drought, Hunger Grow More Widespread
The major news organizations haven’t picked it up yet, but there’s a massive wildfire outbreak now ongoing over Central and Western Africa. These wildfires are plainly visible in the NASA/MODIS satellite shot — covering about a 1,400 mile swath stretching from the Ivory Coast, through Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon and on across the Central African Republic, the Congo, and Gabon.
(Very large wildfire outbreak in Central Africa in the February 10 LANCE-MODIS satellite shot. For reference, bottom edge of frame covers about 350 miles. Image source: LANCE MODIS.)
Smoke from these fires is extremely widespread — stretching over almost all of Western and Central Africa, blanketing parts of Southern Africa and ghosting on out over the Southern Atlantic Ocean. Together with these massive fires we have what appears to be a rather significant CO2 plume showing up in the Coperinicus monitoring system (see below). It’s a signature reminiscent of the amazing Indonesian wildfires that, during a few weeks of the Fall of 2015, matched the CO2 emission of Germany. The satellite representation of these fires is so strong that it’s difficult to believe that no news of the fires has hit the mainstream media. But, so far, there hasn’t even been a peep.
The intensely burning fires now rage across a region of Africa experiencing both severe heat and drought with temperatures hitting well over 40 C in Nigeria and over 36 C throughout the broader region today. An extreme heatwave occurring in tandem with a new kind of flash drought event that’s becoming more and more common as human fossil fuel emissions keep forcing the world into higher and higher temperatures ranges.
(The Copernicus CO2 monitor shows an intense CO2 plum issuing from very intense wildfires over Central and Western Africa on Wednesday, February 10th. Other CO2 hotspots include China, the Northeast US, Northern South America, Southeast Asia, and a region stretching from Siberia through to the Arctic. It’s worth noting that Northern Hemisphere CO2 levels now range from 400 to 414 parts per million. Image source: CAMS CO2 Monitoring.)
Central Africa is but the most recent region to feel the effects of extreme drought and related risks to food security. For through 2015 and on into early 2016, both drought and hunger grew in scope and intensity across Africa. An impact that is almost certainly related to the combined influences of a near record El Nino and global average temperatures that are now in the range of 1.1 degrees Celsius hotter those seen at the end of the 19th Century.
El Nino + Global Warming’s Impact on African Drought Risk
As a human-forced heating of the globe warms the world’s airs and waters, the rate of evaporation and precipitation intensifies. On the wet end of the spectrum, the added heat and atmospheric moisture provides more available energy for storms. But on the dry end, droughts can appear more rapidly, become more intense and, in many cases, become longer-lasting. Effects can generate entirely new weather patterns — as seen in increasing instances of heat and drought appearing over the US Southwest or the progressively more stormy conditions showing up over the North Atlantic. Or they can intensify an already prevailing pattern.
(Large sections of Africa suffering from severe drought as of February 7th in the Africa Flood and Drought Monitor graphic above. Widespread areas in red show soil moisture levels hitting their lowest possible rating in the monitor over widespread regions during recent days.)
In the case of the latter, it appears that just such an event may be happening now across Africa. During typical strong El Nino years, heat and drought were already at risk of intensifying — particularly for regions of Southern and Eastern Africa. But now, with global temperatures 1.1 C hotter than those seen during the late 19th Century, the drought risk is amplified. Added average atmospheric heat sets base conditions in which water evaporates from the soil more rapidly — so a pattern that would typically result in drought risk becomes far more intense and dangerous.
Over the past year, intense drought has impacted widespread regions across eastern and southern Africa. Sections of South Africa experienced its lowest levels of rainfall since record-keeping began in 1904 even as widespread drought from the Horn of Africa and regions south and westward put millions at risk of a growing hunger crisis.
Hunger Crisis Spreads, Fear of Famine Grows
According to The World Food Program and a February 10 report from VICE News, the widespread and growing drought is taking its toll. Skyrocketing local food prices, mass displacement due to political instability, and failed crops due to the driest conditions in 35 to 111 years are all having an impact. Now, more than 20 million people are at risk of hunger across Africa.
In Zimbabwe, President Mugabe declared a state of emergency as more than a quarter of the 13 million population struggled to access food. Many families were reported to have gone more than a week without a meal amidst heightening concerns over potential food riots. In Somalia, more than 3.7 million people faced acute food insecurity even as 58,000 children were at risk of dying during 2016 due to lack of food. Nearly 10 million people in Sudan were reported at risk of going hungry even as 40,000 were identified as potential immediate casualties due to the growing crisis. In Ethiopia, massive livestock losses due to drought are resulting in the worst food crisis since 1984 — a year that saw an estimated 1 million die due to famine.
(A food emergency — shown in red — emerges in East Africa even as food crises erupt across Central and Southern Africa. Food emergency regions indicated in red on this map are just one level below famine. Image source: Famine Early Warning System.)
Meanwhile, according to the Famine Early Warning System, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Yemen, Zambia, Mozambique and Madagascar all faced potential food crises through March. Risk of hunger is also compounded by a large number of displaced persons throughout Africa with East Africa alone hosting over 5.1 million refugees across South Sudan, Burundi, and Yemen.
Rain patterns are expected to shift eastward, bringing some relief to sections of the Horn of Africa even as drought is predicted to expand into the regions of Central Africa now experiencing intense wildfires.
Links:
LANCE MODIS
Famine Early Warning System
The World Food Program
VICE News
South Africa Experiences Its Lowest Rainfall Levels in 111 Years
CAMS CO2 Monitoring
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Major Wildfire Outbreak in Central and Western Africa as Drought, Hunger Grow More Widespread
The major news organizations haven’t picked it up yet, but there’s a massive wildfire outbreak now ongoing over Central and Western Africa. These wildfires are plainly visible in the NASA/MODIS satellite shot — covering about a 1,400 mile swath stretching from the Ivory Coast, through Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon and on across the Central African Republic, the Congo, and Gabon.
(Very large wildfire outbreak in Central Africa in the February 10 LANCE-MODIS satellite shot. For reference, bottom edge of frame covers about 350 miles. Image source: LANCE MODIS.)
Smoke from these fires is extremely widespread — stretching over almost all of Western and Central Africa, blanketing parts of Southern Africa and ghosting on out over the Southern Atlantic Ocean. Together with these massive fires we have what appears to be a rather significant CO2 plume showing up in the Coperinicus monitoring system (see below). It’s a signature reminiscent of the amazing Indonesian wildfires that, during a few weeks of the Fall of 2015, matched the CO2 emission of Germany. The satellite representation of these fires is so strong that it’s difficult to believe that no news of the fires has hit the mainstream media. But, so far, there hasn’t even been a peep.
The intensely burning fires now rage across a region of Africa experiencing both severe heat and drought with temperatures hitting well over 40 C in Nigeria and over 36 C throughout the broader region today. An extreme heatwave occurring in tandem with a new kind of flash drought event that’s becoming more and more common as human fossil fuel emissions keep forcing the world into higher and higher temperatures ranges.
(The Copernicus CO2 monitor shows an intense CO2 plum issuing from very intense wildfires over Central and Western Africa on Wednesday, February 10th. Other CO2 hotspots include China, the Northeast US, Northern South America, Southeast Asia, and a region stretching from Siberia through to the Arctic. It’s worth noting that Northern Hemisphere CO2 levels now range from 400 to 414 parts per million. Image source: CAMS CO2 Monitoring.)
Central Africa is but the most recent region to feel the effects of extreme drought and related risks to food security. For through 2015 and on into early 2016, both drought and hunger grew in scope and intensity across Africa. An impact that is almost certainly related to the combined influences of a near record El Nino and global average temperatures that are now in the range of 1.1 degrees Celsius hotter those seen at the end of the 19th Century.
El Nino + Global Warming’s Impact on African Drought Risk
As a human-forced heating of the globe warms the world’s airs and waters, the rate of evaporation and precipitation intensifies. On the wet end of the spectrum, the added heat and atmospheric moisture provides more available energy for storms. But on the dry end, droughts can appear more rapidly, become more intense and, in many cases, become longer-lasting. Effects can generate entirely new weather patterns — as seen in increasing instances of heat and drought appearing over the US Southwest or the progressively more stormy conditions showing up over the North Atlantic. Or they can intensify an already prevailing pattern.
(Large sections of Africa suffering from severe drought as of February 7th in the Africa Flood and Drought Monitor graphic above. Widespread areas in red show soil moisture levels hitting their lowest possible rating in the monitor over widespread regions during recent days.)
In the case of the latter, it appears that just such an event may be happening now across Africa. During typical strong El Nino years, heat and drought were already at risk of intensifying — particularly for regions of Southern and Eastern Africa. But now, with global temperatures 1.1 C hotter than those seen during the late 19th Century, the drought risk is amplified. Added average atmospheric heat sets base conditions in which water evaporates from the soil more rapidly — so a pattern that would typically result in drought risk becomes far more intense and dangerous.
Over the past year, intense drought has impacted widespread regions across eastern and southern Africa. Sections of South Africa experienced its lowest levels of rainfall since record-keeping began in 1904 even as widespread drought from the Horn of Africa and regions south and westward put millions at risk of a growing hunger crisis.
Hunger Crisis Spreads, Fear of Famine Grows
According to The World Food Program and a February 10 report from VICE News, the widespread and growing drought is taking its toll. Skyrocketing local food prices, mass displacement due to political instability, and failed crops due to the driest conditions in 35 to 111 years are all having an impact. Now, more than 20 million people are at risk of hunger across Africa.
In Zimbabwe, President Mugabe declared a state of emergency as more than a quarter of the 13 million population struggled to access food. Many families were reported to have gone more than a week without a meal amidst heightening concerns over potential food riots. In Somalia, more than 3.7 million people faced acute food insecurity even as 58,000 children were at risk of dying during 2016 due to lack of food. Nearly 10 million people in Sudan were reported at risk of going hungry even as 40,000 were identified as potential immediate casualties due to the growing crisis. In Ethiopia, massive livestock losses due to drought are resulting in the worst food crisis since 1984 — a year that saw an estimated 1 million die due to famine.
(A food emergency — shown in red — emerges in East Africa even as food crises erupt across Central and Southern Africa. Food emergency regions indicated in red on this map are just one level below famine. Image source: Famine Early Warning System.)
Meanwhile, according to the Famine Early Warning System, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Yemen, Zambia, Mozambique and Madagascar all faced potential food crises through March. Risk of hunger is also compounded by a large number of displaced persons throughout Africa with East Africa alone hosting over 5.1 million refugees across South Sudan, Burundi, and Yemen.
Rain patterns are expected to shift eastward, bringing some relief to sections of the Horn of Africa even as drought is predicted to expand into the regions of Central Africa now experiencing intense wildfires.
Links:
LANCE MODIS
Famine Early Warning System
The World Food Program
VICE News
South Africa Experiences Its Lowest Rainfall Levels in 111 Years
CAMS CO2 Monitoring
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Speaking of candidates. Here’s a little Hillary trivia for the readers:
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DO YOU KNOW THIS MAN?
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He is Edward “Ed” Mezvinsky, born January 17, 1937. Then you’ll probably say, “Who is Ed Mezvinsky?”
Well, he is a former Democrat congressman who represented Iowa’s 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for two terms, from 1973 to 1977.
He sat on the House Judiciary Committee that decided the fate of Richard Nixon.
He was outspoken saying that Nixon was a crook and a disgrace to politics and the nation and should be impeached.
He and the Clintons were friends and very politically intertwined for many years.
Ed Mezvinsky had an affair with NBC News reporter Marjorie Sue Margolies and later married her after his wife divorced him.
In 1993, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, then a freshman Democrat in Congress, cast the deciding vote that got President Bill Clinton’s controversial tax package through the House of Representatives.
In March 2001, Mezvinsky was indicted and later pleaded guilty to 31 of 69 counts of bank fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud.
Ed Mezvinsky embezzled more than $10 million dollars from people via both a Ponzi scheme and the notorious Nigerian e-mail scams.
He was found guilty and sentenced to 80 months in federal prison.
After serving less than five years in federal prison, he was released in April 2008 and remains on federal probation.
To this day, he still owes $9.4 million in restitution to his victims.
About now you are saying, “So what!”
Well, this is Marc and Chelsea Mezvinsky.
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That’s right; Ed Mezvinsky is Chelsea Clinton’s father-in law.
Now Marc and Chelsea are in their early thirties and purchased a 10.5 million dollar NYC apartment (after being married in George Soros’ mansion).
Has anyone heard mention of any of this in any of the media?
If this guy was Jenna or Barbara Bush’s, or better yet, Sarah Palin’s daughter’s father-in- law, the news would be an everyday headline and every detail would be reported
over and over.
And yet say there are no double standards in political reporting.
And people are already talking about Hillarious as our next President!
And then there is possibly Chelsea for president in our future!
Chelsea Clinton earned $600,000 a year when working for NBC and now works for the Clinton Foundation and sits on many boards.
The cycle never ends!
Lying and corruption seem to make some candidates more popular.
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. ~~ Thomas Jefferson
“ America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ~ ~Abraham Lincoln
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DO YOU KNOW THIS MAN?
http://100percentfedup.com/wp-content/u ... DINLAW.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
He is Edward “Ed” Mezvinsky, born January 17, 1937. Then you’ll probably say, “Who is Ed Mezvinsky?”
Well, he is a former Democrat congressman who represented Iowa’s 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for two terms, from 1973 to 1977.
He sat on the House Judiciary Committee that decided the fate of Richard Nixon.
He was outspoken saying that Nixon was a crook and a disgrace to politics and the nation and should be impeached.
He and the Clintons were friends and very politically intertwined for many years.
Ed Mezvinsky had an affair with NBC News reporter Marjorie Sue Margolies and later married her after his wife divorced him.
In 1993, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, then a freshman Democrat in Congress, cast the deciding vote that got President Bill Clinton’s controversial tax package through the House of Representatives.
In March 2001, Mezvinsky was indicted and later pleaded guilty to 31 of 69 counts of bank fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud.
Ed Mezvinsky embezzled more than $10 million dollars from people via both a Ponzi scheme and the notorious Nigerian e-mail scams.
He was found guilty and sentenced to 80 months in federal prison.
After serving less than five years in federal prison, he was released in April 2008 and remains on federal probation.
To this day, he still owes $9.4 million in restitution to his victims.
About now you are saying, “So what!”
Well, this is Marc and Chelsea Mezvinsky.
http://100percentfedup.com/wp-content/u ... hment.jpeg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
That’s right; Ed Mezvinsky is Chelsea Clinton’s father-in law.
Now Marc and Chelsea are in their early thirties and purchased a 10.5 million dollar NYC apartment (after being married in George Soros’ mansion).
Has anyone heard mention of any of this in any of the media?
If this guy was Jenna or Barbara Bush’s, or better yet, Sarah Palin’s daughter’s father-in- law, the news would be an everyday headline and every detail would be reported
over and over.
And yet say there are no double standards in political reporting.
And people are already talking about Hillarious as our next President!
And then there is possibly Chelsea for president in our future!
Chelsea Clinton earned $600,000 a year when working for NBC and now works for the Clinton Foundation and sits on many boards.
The cycle never ends!
Lying and corruption seem to make some candidates more popular.
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. ~~ Thomas Jefferson
“ America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ~ ~Abraham Lincoln
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Saturday, 26 March 2016
BRUSSELS; CIA MOSSAD FALSE FLAG INSIDE-JOBS; GLADIO
Salah Abdeslam, or a Mossad body double.
Salah Abdeslam is alleged to be a planner of the 22 March 2016 attack in Brussels.
Salah Abdeslam was allegedly involved in the Paris Attack of 13 November 2015.
While Salah Abdeslam was on the run, he was stopped and let go by police, 3 times.
Salah
On 7 December 2015, a Belgian police officer told his bosses exactly where Salah Abdeslam was living - at 79 rue des Quatre Vents, Molenbeek, in Brussels.
dailymail
It was not until 18 March 2016 that 'Salah Abdeslam was arrested' at 79 rue des Quatre Vents.
The arrest of the man said to be Salah Abdeslam
'Salah Abdeslam was questioned for only one hour in the four days before the Brussels massacre.'
Israeli daily Ha’aretz revealed that Belgian intelligence had precise information on when the attacks would occur and what their targets would be.
Theresa May (responsible for MI5) and Jan Jambon (responsible for the Belgian security services)
The conclusion must be that certain security services organised both the Paris and Brussels attacks.
Salah Abdeslam would be the ideal recruit for the security services, as he drank alcohol and worked as a boy prostitute.
Certain security services are alleged to be heavily involved in the trade in child sex slaves, guns and heroin.
Saturday, 26 March 2016
BRUSSELS; CIA MOSSAD FALSE FLAG INSIDE-JOBS; GLADIO
Salah Abdeslam, or a Mossad body double.
Salah Abdeslam is alleged to be a planner of the 22 March 2016 attack in Brussels.
Salah Abdeslam was allegedly involved in the Paris Attack of 13 November 2015.
While Salah Abdeslam was on the run, he was stopped and let go by police, 3 times.
Salah
On 7 December 2015, a Belgian police officer told his bosses exactly where Salah Abdeslam was living - at 79 rue des Quatre Vents, Molenbeek, in Brussels.
dailymail
It was not until 18 March 2016 that 'Salah Abdeslam was arrested' at 79 rue des Quatre Vents.
The arrest of the man said to be Salah Abdeslam
'Salah Abdeslam was questioned for only one hour in the four days before the Brussels massacre.'
Israeli daily Ha’aretz revealed that Belgian intelligence had precise information on when the attacks would occur and what their targets would be.
Theresa May (responsible for MI5) and Jan Jambon (responsible for the Belgian security services)
The conclusion must be that certain security services organised both the Paris and Brussels attacks.
Salah Abdeslam would be the ideal recruit for the security services, as he drank alcohol and worked as a boy prostitute.
Certain security services are alleged to be heavily involved in the trade in child sex slaves, guns and heroin.
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American wreckage
“Buckle up, America. The voting demolition derby that was the New York primary on Tuesday was merely the crash test for the coming voting wreckage in November: a carefully planned pile up…..”
American wreckage
“Buckle up, America. The voting demolition derby that was the New York primary on Tuesday was merely the crash test for the coming voting wreckage in November: a carefully planned pile up…..”
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automated death
May 14, 2016 Uncategorized “shadow work”, artificially intelligent autonomous weapon systems, automated death, automation, conversation, existential implications, Facebook, intention gone awry, Internet of Things, Nafeez Ahmed, social robots, targeting, The Terminator, Twitter
automated death
You thought torture was over the top?
“An unclassified 2016 Department of Defense (DoD) document, the Human Systems Roadmap Review, reveals that the US military plans to create artificially intelligent (AI) autonomous weapon systems, which will use predictive social media analytics to make decisions on lethal force with minimal human involvement.
Despite official insistence that humans will retain a “meaningful” degree of control over autonomous weapon systems, this and other Pentagon documents dated from 2015 to 2016 confirm that US military planners are already developing
automated death
May 14, 2016 Uncategorized “shadow work”, artificially intelligent autonomous weapon systems, automated death, automation, conversation, existential implications, Facebook, intention gone awry, Internet of Things, Nafeez Ahmed, social robots, targeting, The Terminator, Twitter
automated death
You thought torture was over the top?
“An unclassified 2016 Department of Defense (DoD) document, the Human Systems Roadmap Review, reveals that the US military plans to create artificially intelligent (AI) autonomous weapon systems, which will use predictive social media analytics to make decisions on lethal force with minimal human involvement.
Despite official insistence that humans will retain a “meaningful” degree of control over autonomous weapon systems, this and other Pentagon documents dated from 2015 to 2016 confirm that US military planners are already developing
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2 stories
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First 7 Students Graduate with Newly Created Minor in Homeland Security
The College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the State University of New York in Albany.
The first seven students graduated with a newly created minor in homeland security and other emergency fields at a New York state college, the Washington Times reports.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that the students may play an important role in responding to emergencies that range from terrorism to extreme weather.
The first academic year at the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the State
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2.
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Nichols says bombing was FBI op
Detailed confession filed in S.L. about Oklahoma City plo
Published: Wed, Feb. 21, 2007, 12:00 a.m. MST
The only surviving convicted criminal in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is saying his co-conspirator, Timothy McVeigh, told him he was taking orders from a top FBI official in orchestrating the bombing.
A declaration from Terry Lynn Nichols, filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, has proven to be one of the most detailed confessions by Nichols to date about his involvement in the bombing as well as the involvement of others. However, one congressman who has investigated the bombings remains skeptical of Nichols' claims.
The declaration was filed as part of Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue's pending wrongful death suit against the government for the death of his brother in a federal corrections facility in Oklahoma City. Trentadue claims his brother was killed during an interrogation by FBI agents when agents mistook his brother for a suspect in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation.
The most shocking allegation in the 19-page signed declaration is Nichols' assertion that the whole bombing plot was an FBI operation and that McVeigh let slip during a bout of anger that he was taking instruction from former FBI official Larry Potts.
Potts was no stranger to anti-government confrontations, having been the lead FBI agent at Ruby Ridge in 1992, which led to the shooting death of Vicki
1.
First 7 Students Graduate with Newly Created Minor in Homeland Security
The College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the State University of New York in Albany.
The first seven students graduated with a newly created minor in homeland security and other emergency fields at a New York state college, the Washington Times reports.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that the students may play an important role in responding to emergencies that range from terrorism to extreme weather.
The first academic year at the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the State
- See more at: http://ticklethewire.com/2016/05/16/fir ... ity/#.dpuf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
2.
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Nichols says bombing was FBI op
Detailed confession filed in S.L. about Oklahoma City plo
Published: Wed, Feb. 21, 2007, 12:00 a.m. MST
The only surviving convicted criminal in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is saying his co-conspirator, Timothy McVeigh, told him he was taking orders from a top FBI official in orchestrating the bombing.
A declaration from Terry Lynn Nichols, filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, has proven to be one of the most detailed confessions by Nichols to date about his involvement in the bombing as well as the involvement of others. However, one congressman who has investigated the bombings remains skeptical of Nichols' claims.
The declaration was filed as part of Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue's pending wrongful death suit against the government for the death of his brother in a federal corrections facility in Oklahoma City. Trentadue claims his brother was killed during an interrogation by FBI agents when agents mistook his brother for a suspect in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation.
The most shocking allegation in the 19-page signed declaration is Nichols' assertion that the whole bombing plot was an FBI operation and that McVeigh let slip during a bout of anger that he was taking instruction from former FBI official Larry Potts.
Potts was no stranger to anti-government confrontations, having been the lead FBI agent at Ruby Ridge in 1992, which led to the shooting death of Vicki
