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Selling ‘Peace Groups’ on US-Led Wars
December 25, 2014

Since the anti-war protests on Vietnam, the U.S. government has made “perception management” of the American people a high priority, feeding them a steady diet of propaganda about foreign crises, even getting “peace groups” to buy into “pro-democracy” wars, write Margaret Sarfehjooy and Coleen Rowley.

By Margaret Sarfehjooy and Coleen Rowley

“War is peace” double-speak has become commonplace these days. And, the more astute foreign policy journalists and commentators are beginning to realize the extent of how “liberal interventionists” work in sync with neocon warhawks to produce and sustain a perpetual state of U.S. war.

More and more “peace and social justice” groups are even being twisted into “democracy promotion,” U.S. militarism style. But rarely do we get a window to see as clearly into how this Orwellian transformation occurs as with the “Committee in Solidarity with the People of Syria” (CISPOS) based in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, a spin-off of “Friends for a Nonviolent World” (FNVW), steering its Quaker-inspired founding in nonviolence to promote speakers and essayists with strong ties to the violent uprising to topple the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad, resulting in a war that has already taken some 200,000 lives.


Do the real pacifist members approve? Or even know?

Middle Eastern expats who support U.S. intervention in their countries are especially effective in promoting their message to Western audiences because they provide “proof” of the demonization of governments that the U.S. plans to invade and dominate, and often peace groups include these expats in presentations believing them to be representatives of an entire country.

In Minneapolis, FNVW and its spin-off CISPOS hosted several events with Syrian expats who were on record as supporting the U.S. bombing of their country. (This isn’t only happening in the U.S. In April 2011, a Vancouver peace group documented its objection to the fact that other Canadian “peace” groups were sponsoring speakers who justified and advocated “in favour of the NATO bombing of Libya.”)

Often Syrian “experts” speaking to peace groups, such as FNVW/CISPOS’s upcoming speaker, Mohja Kahf, have ties to the early destabilization of Syria. This American Prospect article documents how Najib Ghadbian, Kahf’s husband of over 20 years (apparently up to last year when they divorced) was one of the Syrian dissidents who attended the early 2006 meeting with Liz Cheney (then-Vice President Dick Cheney’s daughter), along with other Syrian dissidents to plan how to destabilize Syria and topple its government. Like some Syrian version of Ahmed Chalabi, the neocons’ choice to run post-invasion Iraq, Kahf’s husband apparently got himself invited to Liz Cheney’s “Iran-Syria Operations Group” by having signed the “Damascus Declaration” in 2005, the year before.

When Najib and Mohja sat down for a long 2011 interview with The Arkansas Traveler, they discussed their involvement with the Syrian Revolution, even joking about Ghadbian becoming the next Prime Minister. Kahf and Ghadbian reportedly divorced in 2013 but when CISPOS-FNVW first published her long essays, they were still appearing together at Syrian revolutionary meetings and speaking forums. Additionally, CISPOS’s latest handout (December 2014) lists Ghadbian’s organization, http://www.etilaf.us" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (The National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary Forces) as a resource “For More Information on Syria and How to Help.”

Resources for information on Syria often come from “citizen journalists” with deep ties to neocons and U.S. government sources. From the State Department’s website , the $330 million in support for the Syrian opposition includes training for networks of citizen journalists, bloggers and cyber-activists to support their documentation and dissemination of information on developments in Syria.

Syrian dissidents received funding from the Los Angeles-based Democracy Council, which ran a Syria-related program called the “Civil Society Strengthening Initiative” funded with $6.3 million from the State Department. The program is described as “a discrete collaborative effort between the Democracy Council and local partners” to produce, among other things, “various broadcast concepts.”

James Prince, the founder and President of the Democracy Council, is also an adviser to CyberDissidents.org , a project created in 2008 by the Jerusalem-based Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies, founded and funded by Sheldon Adelson, a patron and confidant of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Other resources include postings on social media and alternative websites with sensational stories such as the anti-Assad activist “Gay Girl in Damascus” who turned out to be a middle-aged American man in Scotland or Syrian Danny Abdul Dayem, who was frequently interviewed using fake gun fire and flames in his interviews.

With all of the information about Syria, what are we to believe as true? We know the facts about recent U.S. interventions in Middle Eastern countries. Why would Syria be any different?

Afghanistan is still in shambles with the majority of the people living in extreme poverty; Libya, which had the highest GDP per capita and life expectancy on the continent, is now a failed state; Western intervention transformed Iraq from an emerging country with moderate prosperity into an impoverished country with a starving population. In the lead-up to each intervention, “experts” emerged to explain that while anti-imperialism is good in general and in past scenarios, this time is different. Is it?

Isn’t it time for war-weary Americans to wise up and stop falling for these pretexts of bringing democracy and human rights to foreign countries through training and funding of “color (and umbrella) revolutions,” inciting of coups and regime changes and eventually, through U.S.-NATO military might?

Liberal interventionists clearly assist neocon warhawks towards their mutual goal of “full spectrum dominance” under the euphemistic guise of Pax Americana. Only the “Pax” always turns out to be endless war and occupation.

Margaret Sarfehjooy is an anti-war activist and registered nurse in Minnesota. Coleen Rowley is a retired FBI agent and former Minneapolis Division legal counsel.

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Did the Pope just apply for a concealed carry permit?


You don’t have to be a believer to recognise that the leader of a billion Catholics has emerged as a global champion of social justice. That’s something of a turnaround both for the Vatican hierarchy – and an Argentinian pope whose record under his country’s dictatorship was less than heroic.

But Pope Francis is making up for lost time: denouncing capitalism and the “tyranny” of the market, condemning inequality as the “root of social evil”, rejecting Islamophobia and western warmaking – and even claiming communists are closet Christians who “have stolen our flag”.

Add to that his rejection of Vatican pomp, purge of the curia and attempts to soften dogma on everything from sexuality to contraception, and no wonder the conservative backlash is in full swing.

A couple of months back the pope told a visiting Latin American social movement leader he would eat only in the Vatican canteen. Was that to demonstrate his common touch? the activist asked. Not at all, the pope replied. He just didn’t trust what they might serve him in the papal apartments. Given Vatican history, he has reason enough to be wary – and both Catholics and non-Catholics have reason to hope he sees off his forces of darkness.

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Fierce Bay Area winds causing power outages, BART delays
, Tuesday, December 30, 2014



more climate change damage
insurance rates to go up again



High winds were wreaking havoc Tuesday as trees fell on cars, caused power outages and prompted major delays on BART.
BART service stopped between the 24th Street Mission Station in San Francisco and Balboa Park Station shortly after 1 p.m., and a “major delay” remained systemwide because of fallen trees and branches on the tracks, agency officials said.
“One train struck some of the debris, however, it traveled to Glen Park Station, and everyone is safe,” said BART spokesman Jim Allison.
Trees fell in several cities around the Bay Area, including in Oakland and between Meridian Park and Interstate 680 in Concord, as a result of winds that gusted up to 50 mph.
There were power outages reported throughout the region, including in Hayward, Concord, Bay Point, Brentwood, Pleasanton and Vallejo.
The winds are the result of a storm system from the Pacific Northwest that moved through the region Monday night and is now heading south

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DECEMBER 4, 2013
How the FBI Conspired to Destroy the Black Panther Party
The assassination of BPP leader Fred Hampton 44 years ago was just the beginning.
BY G. FLINT TAYLOR
On Dec. 4, it will have been 44 years since a select unit of 14 Chicago police officers, under the direction of Cook County State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan, executed a predawn raid on a West Side apartment that left Illinois Black Panther Party (BPP) leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark dead, several other young Panthers wounded and seven raid survivors arrested on bogus attempted murder charges. Though Hanrahan and his men claimed there had been a shootout that morning, physical evidence eventually proved that in reality, the Panthers had only fired a single shot in response to approximately 90 from the police.

In the wake of the raid, Illinois BPP Minister of Defense Bobby Rush stood on the steps of the bullet-riddled BPP apartment and declared that J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were responsible for the raid. At the time, Rush had no hard proof to back up his claims. Over the course of the next eight years, however, activists and lawyers, myself included, would eventually discover the truth: The FBI had, in fact, played a central role in the assassinations, and Hanrahan’s initial lies were only the top layer of what proved to be a massive cover-up.

The first evidence to support Rush’s allegation surfaced in March 1971, when a group of anonymous activists who called themselves the “Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI” broke into a small FBI office in Media, Pa. to expropriate more than 1,000 documents. In doing so, the Commission exposed the FBI’s “COINTELPRO” program, a secret counterintelligence program created to, as the L.A. Times put it in 2006, “investigate and disrupt dissident political groups in the United States.“ According to the Commission’s purloined documents, Hoover had directed all of the Bureau’s offices to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit and otherwise neutralize” African-American organizations and leaders, including the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Nation of Islam, Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown.

Two years later, it was publicly revealed in an unrelated case that Chicago Black Panther Party Chief of Security William O'Neal was a paid informant for the FBI. At the time, I was a young lawyer working with my colleagues at the People’s Law Office on a civil rights lawsuit we had filed on behalf of the Hampton and Clark families and the survivors of the December 4th raid. We quickly subpoenaed the Chicago FBI’s Black Panther Party files. In response, the FBI produced a small number of documents that included a detailed floor plan of the BPP apartment specifically identifying the bed where Hampton slept, which O’Neal had supplied to Hanrahan before the raid by way of his FBI control agent.

For the following two years, we focused on unearthing further details about the FBI's involvement in the conspiracy and sought the Chicago office's COINTELPRO file in order to establish a direct link between the FBI's program and the raid. When the government would not produce the file—and District Court Judge Joseph Sam Perry refused to compel them to do so—we turned to the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations for help.

A staff member of the Committee, which was created in the wake of the Watergate scandal to investigate rampant abuses by all United States intelligence agencies, including the FBI, informed us in late 1975 that there were several documents in the Chicago office definitively establishing the link we sought. Armed with this information, we were able to persuade Judge Perry, who had previously declared those documents irrelevant after privately reviewing them, into ordering the FBI to produce the file. And just as the Select Committee had promised, the documents revealed the FBI's efforts to foment violence against Fred Hampton and the Chicago Panthers. One document, dated Dec. 3, 1969, specifically classified the anticipated raid on the West Side apartment as part of the COINTELPRO program.

In January of 1976, our team embarked on what would turn out to be one of the longest civil trials in federal court history. Two months in, O'Neal's FBI control agent, Roy Mitchell, blundered on the witness stand and inadvertently indicated that the FBI had not actually produced all of the Chicago Black Panther files Judge Perry, likely not knowing what was about to happen, ordered that they do so. The next day, a shaken Justice Department supervisor wheeled into court shopping carts, on which were stacked almost 200 volumes of FBI files on the BPP.

The government spent the next two weeks producing several volumes of documents each day. The files contained directives to destroy the Panther's Breakfast for Children Program and disrupt the distribution of the BPP newspaper, extensive wiretap overhears and evidence that the charismatic Hampton had been specifically targeted for intensive surveillance and disruption.

The last volume produced by the government was O'Neal's control file. In it was yet another smoking gun: a memo from the Chicago office to FBI Headquarters requesting a $300 bonus to reward O'Neal for his information, which the memo asserted was of “tremendous value.” A return memo from Headquarters approved this request.

Despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Judge Perry exonerated the FBI defendants and their lawyers of any wrongdoing in suppressing the documents and later dismissed the FBI defendants from the case. But in April 1979, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the trial judge, finding that the FBI and its government lawyers had obstructed justice by suppressing the BPP files. The Court of Appeals also concluded that there was substantial evidence to support the conclusion that the FBI defendants, in planning and executing the raid, had participated in a “conspiracy designed to subvert and eliminate the Black Panther Party and its members,” thereby suppressing a “vital radical-Black political organization.” The Court further found there to be convincing evidence that these defendants also participated in a separate post-raid conspiracy to “conceal the true character of [their] pre-raid and raid activities,” to “harass the survivors of the raid” and to “frustrate any [legal] redress the survivors might seek.”

The next year, this landmark decision withstood a challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court. It stands today as judicial recognition of outrageous federal and local criminality and cover-up.

However, it is important not to relegate the Hampton assassination and subsequent conspiracy to the annals of history. We would do well, after all, to remember Director Hoover’s line from a 1964 COINTELPRO memorandum in which he claimed credit for “disrupting” and “neutralizing” the Communist Party:

Over the years, our approach to investigative problems in the intelligence field has given rise to a number of new programs, some of which have been most revolutionary, and it can be presumed that with a continued aggressive approach to these problems, new and productive ideas will be forthcoming.

In light of the current revelations concerning the systemic illegal activities of the National Security Agency and the FBI in the name of fighting terrorism, such “new and productive ideas” seem closer at hand than ever.

G. FLINT TAYLOR
G. Flint Taylor is a founding partner of the People’s Law Office and has represented numerous survivors of police torture, including Andrew Wilson and Darrell Cannon, in Chicago for more than 25 years.

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: Kentucky police officer caught on camera with wife accidentally shooting self in elevator
Darryl Jouett had just finished dinner with his wife before his gun discharged in a Cincinnati, Ohio, elevator, sending him to the hospital. He was released Monday,


January 5, 2015,


This officer better take steps to ensure his safety.

An off-duty northern Kentucky police officer was caught on camera accidentally shooting himself in an elevator in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Saturday night.

Surveillance video shows Officer Darryl Jouett of Erlanger, Ky., talking with a woman in a parking garage elevator while holding a box and briefly pulling a gun out of his pocket and glancing at it.

While fumbling to holster the weapon, it accidentally fires near his abdomen and Jouett falls to his knees for several moments before stumbling out of the elevator and clutching a wall.

Officer Darryl Jouett briefly pulled his gun out in front of his wife before it accidentally fired.

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US Will Prosecute You For Your Politics
By Sean Nevins | January 8, 2015



Rasmieh Yousef OdehRasmieh Yousef Odeh, 67, center, gestures toward her supporters outside federal court in Detroit, Monday, Nov. 10, 2014.
WASHINGTON — On Dec. 11, Rasmea Yousef Odeh, 67, an American citizen originally from Lifta, Palestine, was released on bond after spending five weeks in jail at Port Huron, Michigan. She was imprisoned and awaiting sentencing after being convicted on Nov. 10 of lying on her naturalization form to become a U.S. citizen. Sentencing for her crime will take place in March.
While it may seem like the arms of the U.S. Department of Justice have done wonders by meticulously combing through immigration docu

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Understanding Oil Qaeda
Posted on July 31, 2015 by Kevin Ryan

In The Al Qaeda Network: A New Framework For DefiningThe Enemy,
Katherine Zimmerman of the American Enterprise Institute describes the
terrorist groups affiliated with Al Qaeda. Zimmerman is seen as a
leading expert on the Al Qaeda network, having testified about it to
Congress and written about it for The Washington Post, the Weekly
Standard, and the Huffington Post.

Al Qaeda region 2In her analysis, Zimmerman identified the
geographical locations of the groups said to be within the Al Qaeda
network. These locations outline an area encompassing parts of
Northern Africa and all of the Middle East. This region, in which the
entire Al Qaeda network is based, represents about 15% of the total
land on planet earth.

What is special about this land that might lead its inhabitants to a
life of terrorism? Some, including Zimmerman, say that this region
correlates to the land of Islam and that therefore the correlation is
simply an indication that Muslims are prone to terrorism.

However, the known distribution of the world’s population of Muslims
does not support that contention. According to the Pew Research
Center, only about 55% of the world’s Muslims live inside the Al Qaeda
network region.

The other possibility is that, since the area is rich in untapped
resources, powerful people have used claims of terrorism as a pretext
to invade. That possibility is definitely supported by evidence. For
example, ten years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, U.S. officials
began openly admitting that the war in Iraq was motivated by the
desire to seize oil. U.S. military leaders including General John
Abizaid, head of the U.S. military in Iraq, and Defense Secretary
Chuck Hagel have said that the war was about oil. Even former Federal
Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan admitted it.

Geographical correlation also supports this possibility much better.
When the region outlined by Zimmerman’s Al Qaeda network is
superimposed on a map of oil reserves by country, over 70% of the
world’s oil reserves fall within the same area.

If one considers only oil reserves that are not yet fully within the
control of the world’s superpowers (the U.S., Russia, China, and the
E.U.), about 90% of what is left is within Zimmerman’s region. Only
Venezuela, with 6.5% of the remaining oil, stands out. It is therefore
not surprising that the U. ...

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Posted Sep 6, 2015 at 12:01 AM

"Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword," by David Shipler. Knopf. 311 pages.

Every American loves freedom of speech. That is, until someone offends your sensibilities, “endangers” your children, expresses a political opinion you find abhorrent, or blows the whistle on wrongdoing in security agencies that are supposed to protect us. Pulitzer Prize-winner David K. Shipler has written a vibrant analysis of our ambivalent relationship with the single most important right we have under the U.S. Constitution. After all, if we can’t talk about what’s wrong with the country, what will be right with it?
A 22-year veteran of The New York Times and the author of six previous books, Shipler writes with crisp, concise earnestness as he illustrates the conflicts that constipate the national discourse today. In defense of their liberties, conservatives rail against government interference but object to certain kinds of speech on moral or political

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Oregon college shooting is 994th mass gun attack in US in three years

Umpqua community college shooting is an event that is becoming almost ‘routine’ says Barack Obama

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Priest alleged to have pulled gun on boy because he was a Dallas Cowboys fan

Kevin Carter alleged to have pointed musket at eight-year-old after he said he would support New York Giants’ rivals


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Scott and Jill Kelley's legal case persists long after the Gen. David Petraeus scandal



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Scott and Jill Kelley sued the federal government in June 2013. A judge dismissed all but one of the couple's 14 allegations: that government officials violated the couple's privacy rights by leaking Jill Kelley's name and hostile emails the couple received from an anonymous sender, later revealed to be Paula Broadwell, who was having an affair with Gen. David Petraeus. [Times (2009)]
Natalie Khawam, left, Gen. David Petraeus, Scott and Jill Kelley and Holly Petraeus watch the Gasparilla parade from the Kelleys' Bayshore Boulevard lawn. The Kelleys became friends of the general and his wife. [Times (2010)]
Gen. Davis Petraeus, left, shakes hands with Paula Broadwell, co-author of "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus." Angered by Jill Kelley's rapport with Petraeus and other top military brass at MacDill Air Force Base, Broadwell in 2012 sent anonymous emails to Marine Gen. John Allen and others that disparaged Kelley. She also sent emails to Scott Kelley accusing his wife of having an affair. [Associated Press (2011)]
FBI Special Agent Frederick Humphries II said in a deposition obtained by CNN that his bosses displayed animosity toward Jill Kelley, marginalized her as a victim and regarded her as a "femme fatale."
Scott and Jill Kelley sued the federal government in June 2013. A judge dismissed all but one of the couple's 14 allegations: that government officials violated the couple's privacy rights by leaking Jill Kelley's name and hostile emails the couple received from an anonymous sender, later revealed to be Paula Broadwell, who was having an affair with Gen. David Petraeus. [Times (2009)]
Natalie Khawam, left, Gen. David Petraeus, Scott and Jill Kelley and Holly Petraeus watch the Gasparilla parade from the Kelleys' Bayshore Boulevard lawn. The Kelleys became friends of the general and his wife. [Times (2010)]
Gen. Davis Petraeus, left, shakes hands with Paula Broadwell, co-author of "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus." Angered by Jill Kelley's rapport with Petraeus and other top military brass at MacDill Air Force Base, Broadwell in 2012 sent anonymous emails to Marine Gen. John Allen and others that disparaged Kelley. She also sent emails to Scott Kelley accusing his wife of having an affair. [Associated Press (2011)]
FBI Special Agent Frederick Humphries II said in a deposition obtained by CNN that his bosses displayed animosity toward Jill Kelley, marginalized her as a victim and regarded her as a "femme fatale."
Scott and Jill Kelley sued the federal government in June 2013. A judge dismissed all but one of the couple's 14 allegations: that government officials violated the couple's privacy rights by leaking Jill Kelley's name and hostile emails the couple received from an anonymous sender, later revealed to be Paula Broadwell, who was having an affair with Gen. David Petraeus. [Times (2009)]

A federal judge has called Jill and Scott Kelley's lawsuit against the federal government "thin on facts." A top legal expert calls the complaint "sloppy" and far from conclusive.
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Scott and Jill Kelley to seek reporters' testimony in Petraeus-related lawsuit


Yet two years after it was filed, the lawsuit steadily advances for the South Tampa socialite and her physician husband who played supporting roles in a saga that exposed then-CIA director David Petraeus' affair with biographer Paula Broadwell.

The paparazzi has long since moved on to other scandals, but the Kelleys' suit persists, fueled by the testimony of several current and former high ranking officials — such as U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta — and an FBI agent who vouched for Jill Kelley.

The case is proceeding on a single allegation against that FBI and Department of Defense: that government officials violated the couple's privacy rights by leaking Jill Kelley's name and hostile emails the couple received from an anonymous sender, later revealed to be Broadwell.

That means the lawsuit hinges on who in the government said what and to whom. Attorneys for both sides are interviewing witnesses and preparing for a possible trial. At least some kind of victory for the Kelleys appears plausible, experts say.

"They may not be the most attractive plaintiffs in the world, but there's a certain moral appeal to the argument that this kind of humiliation just shouldn't happen," said Bob Weisberg, a Stanford University professor and expert in privacy law. "Unless some files accidentally fell out of a drawer when the wind blew, somebody did something wrong at some point."

• • •

Filed in June 2013, the Kelleys' lawsuit claims the couple was victimized twice: once by Broadwell and again by government officials who leaked inaccurate and derogatory information about the couple.

A judge dismissed all but one of the Kelleys' 14 allegations. The remaining claim cites the U.S. Privacy Act, which requires federal officials to protect the identity and personal information of witnesses.

"The dissemination of private information to the media presents considerable risk of negative consequences for the individuals involved," said Mary Anne Franks, a University of Miami School of Law professor who specializes in privacy law. "The Kelleys do seem to have suffered significantly due to the government's handling of their information."

Angered by Jill Kelley's rapport with Petraeus and other top military brass at MacDill Air Force Base, Broadwell in 2012 sent anonymous emails to Marine Gen. John Allen and others that disparaged Kelley. She also sent emails to Scott Kelley accusing his wife of having an affair.

The suit claims the Kelleys gave the FBI permission to access one of Scott Kelley's emails, but the FBI accessed others anyway.

After Petraeus' resignation, stories by the Associated Press and other outlets quoted unnamed government officials who identified Jill Kelley. A Washington Post editor contacted Kelley and said he had seen some of the harassing emails.

News reports also cited anonymous government sources saying Jill Kelley engaged in suggestive communications with Allen and that officials were investigating possible adultery between the two. Kelley denied an inappropriate relationship with Allen, who was cleared of wrongdoing.

Petraeus later pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information. Broadwell was not charged.

Claiming emotional trauma, damaged reputations and financial harm, the Kelleys seek unspecified monetary damages and a formal apology, among other demands.

The FBI has denied the allegations. A spokeswoman for the Justice Department declined to comment. The Kelleys' Washington attorney, Alan C. Raul, did not return messages.

U.S. Judge District Judge Amy Jackson Berman called the complaint "thin on facts" but cited media accounts as enough evidence to allow the case to proceed to the discovery phase.

That's a low legal bar to clear, said Weisberg, the Stanford professor who called the complaint a sloppy, "kitchen sink" approach.

"There are some facts offered to suggest someone in the government leaked stuff and there was no good reason for it," he said. "The question is, do (the Kelleys) have enough evidence to prove there were illegal disclosures."

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As they depose witnesses, some with big names and titles, the Kelleys' attorneys hope to gather that evidence.

At least one witness — the FBI agent Jill Kelley first contacted about the emails — has given their case a boost.

Special Agent Frederick Humphries II said in a deposition obtained by CNN that his bosses displayed animosity toward Jill Kelley, marginalized her as a victim and regarded her as a "femme fatale." Humphries said he believed someone at FBI headquarters leaked Kelley's name in what "seemed to be a purposeful attempt to discredit both Mrs. Kelley and myself."

"(The Kelleys') lawyers have to prove intentional and willful conduct on the part of the government, and certainly (Humphries) helps show intent on the part of the FBI, " said Bruce Jacob, dean emeritus and professor at Stetson University College of Law.

Franks, the Miami law professor, said the evidence paints a particularly troubling picture of Jill Kelley's "plight."

"She was a victim of threats and harassment who was turned into the object of lurid speculation and ridicule after she reported h

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Federal officer arrested after fatal shooting of boyfriend in Chula Vista
Fatal shooting


October 18 2015



A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer has been arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting her boyfriend in their apartment in Chula Vista.
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A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was arrested Saturday on suspicion of fatally shooting her boyfriend in their apartment in Chula Vista.

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Nearly 40% of homeless youths are LGBT, and I'm currently one of them
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It’s hard to tell I’m homeless, because I manage to find a couch to sleep on nightly. But I am, and I’m hiding in plain sight
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Plaintiff seeks $600,000 from MPD over ‘unlawful’ 2013 arrest

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A Mobile man has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city, its police chief, and an officer of the Mobile Police Department for a 2013 arrest he claims was unwarranted. Khzemar James, 39, is seeking a jury trial and at least $600,000 in damages after a November 2013 traffic stop led to his arrest for carrying a pistol without a permit.

In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court Oct. 15 (embedded below), James claimed he was stopped by officer Kevin Kelley at around 9:45 p.m. on Nov. 6, 2013, near the intersection of Kennedy and Adams streets in the Campground neighborhood just west of downtown. James, whom the complaint identifies as a Marine Corps veteran, alleges he presented a valid pistol permit to officer Kelley while also informing the officer of the location of a pistol within his vehicle, but Kelley confiscated both and arrested James for carrying a pistol without a permit.

Two days later, the Mobile County District Attorney’s office issued a motion ordering James released from custody, stating that “insufficient facts exist which will afford a reasonable expectation of conviction” and noting the office would not pursue his prosecution.

In April 2014, James notified the city of his intent to sue, claiming the costs and time of his imprisonment, as well as the publishing of his mugshot in a periodical routinely distributed in many gas stations and convenience stores in Mobile, constituted “physical discomfort, inconvenience, mental suffering, defamation, violations of my civil rights and deprivation of my liberty.”

The complaint filed this week incl

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Fort Campbell Officials Live Up to Negative Expectations in Response to Freedom of Information Act Request

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Two weeks after I submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to Army officials at Fort Campbell, Ky., I received a response today that shows officials at the home of the vaunted 101st Airborne Division lived up to my negative expectations.

The reply to my FOIA request lived up to my low expectations for the Army.

Shown above, the response letter from Freedom of Information and Privacy Act Officer Valerie M. Florez contained the following paragraph:

The US Army does not have jurisdiction and does not control prosecutions in Hopkinsville or Christian County, Kentucky Courts where [name of Major Martin’s accuser redacted] is facing charges. Perhaps Hopkinsville or Christian County courts may be able to assist you in contacting the correct party or [name of Major Martin’s accuser redacted]‘s attorneys. Any documents or correspondence from or between the military attorneys mentioned are part of an ongoing case involving Major Martin (US vs Martin). Any of this correspondence is exempt from release and would be withheld under Freedom of Information Act Exemption Five, attorney-work product and/or attorney-client privilege.

The letter from Ms. Florez — and particularly the paragraph above — runs 180 degrees counter to what I included in my Oct. 12 FOIA request, the “meat” of which appears below:

To Whom It May Concern:

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act (5 USC, and Public Law 106-554), I would like to request copies of the following documents from the Staff Judge Advocate at Fort Campbell, Ky:

Any and all print and/or electronic communications — including, but not limited to handwritten and computer-generated notes, letters, email messages and text messages — between any individual(s) assigned to the Staff Judge Advocate staff at Fort Campbell, Kentucky — including but not limited to Major Jacob D. Bashore, Captain James P. Garrett, Major Jenny S. Whyte-Schlack — and any civilian attorney(s) and/or their associates representing accused bigamist [name of Major Martin’s accuser redacted] in legal matters in Christian County, Ky.


Please do not attempt to avoid fulfillment of this request by contending that the items requested are not releasable because they concern

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Patricia Cornwell: 'I grew up with fear'
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Sunday, November 8, 2015
Oregon County Passes Initiative Allowing Sheriff to Void Gun Control Laws If He Thinks They’re Unconstitutional
Coos County residents smoothly approved the Second Amendment Preservation Ordinance Tuesday with more than 60 percent voting for its passage. The ordinance bars public employees from using county funds to enforce any laws the sheriff deems unconstitutional. It also prohibits enforcement of Oregon’s recent law requiring background checks on private gun transfers, including transactions between friends. County employees who violate the measure could face a $2,000 fine.

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Maine closes border after bomb detonated at CMP building

Maine Terrorist Back In State .Picariello Guilty Of 78 Bombing .
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eBay scammer steals identity of special agent investigating him
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A cybercriminal who ran a mere eBay scam became a more significant collar for the US Department of Justice after he successfully stole the identity of the special agent investigating him.

Rohit Jawa, 25, has pleaded guilty to eight counts of wire fraud, and one count of stealing a special agent's identity which he then used to fraudulently gain access to privileged law enforcement databases – from which he stole the personal identifying information of multiple victims.

According to court documents, Jawa's mischief began in January 2013. He controlled "a set of at least 19 eBay and 18 PayPal accounts ... engaged in a scheme to defraud eBay buyers and eBay's third-party parcel insurance company".

Investigating these fraudulent accounts, agents from the United States Postal Service's Office of the Inspector General (USPS OIG) obtained search warrants to dig into the email addresses. These were hosted by 1&!1 Mail and Media, a provider which lets users register multiple addresses under a single account.

The agents found "numerous conversations where buyers reported to the seller that they had not received a purchased item, despite Postal Service tracking history showing the item had been delivered."

In the case of insured parcels, the seller would file a claim with eBay's third-party insurance company, using the tracking history as evidence the Postal Service had lost the parcel – or it had been stolen. For uninsured parcels, the seller would use the tracking history to prove to eBay he had shipped the purchased item to the buyer, causing eBay to decide disputes in his favour.

Other messages in those accounts contained Postal Service tracking numbers for parcels the seller had sent, supposedly using eBay-generated Postal Service shipping labels, but which the buyer claimed to have never received despite Postal Service tracking history showing the parcel had been delivered.

As customers on eBay/PayPal are only provided with the five-digit ZIP code of where a package was delivered, if a shipping label address is changed to a different address within the same ZIP code, this creates a tracking history that makes it appear as if the Postal Service has delivered the package to the expected destination, rather than an unrelated address within that local area.

Agents found irregularities comparing the destination addresses eBay provided to the Postal Service, with the addresses on the labels as seen by the Postal Service's mail processing equipment.

"A seller can then use this legitimate-looking tracking history to convince eBay, a buyer, or an insurance company that he sent the purchased item to the buyer, when he actually mailed an empty box to a random address in the same ZIP code to generate tracking history," the agents said.

Special Agent John Watson stated in his affidavit in support of the criminal complaint, that in his "training and experience, this kind of manipulation of a shipping label is a strong indication of fraud."

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A victim of this fraud scheme complained to the Postal Service about his missing parcel. His complaint eventually reached a USPS OIG special agent, who began looking into it as an incident of mail theft by a Postal Service employee.

Corresponding with the seller via one of the 1&1 email addresses, the agent requested additional information about the missing parcel – doing so quite explicitly as a special agent, not suspecting any criminality on the part of the seller.

Jawa, the seller, then requested the agent provide him with a copy of his credentials as verification of his identity, which the OIG agent did.

Two days later after receiving this information, the FBI received a request using the special agent's identity with a secondary email address registered to 1&1.

This was for an account with Law Enforcement Online, a web portal which provides access to criminal intelligence and other highly privileged information for law enforcement officials. A day later, someone purporting to be the special agent phoned FBI tech support and successfully obtained a temporary username and password for that account.

Using the @leo.gov email which came with the LEO account, Jawa then corresponded with several police forces requesting accounts be made for him on their internal services. Although he was only successful in one instance, he

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Harvard 'black tape' vandalism brings law school's controversial past to fore

Tape placed over portraits of tenured black faculty comes after ‘art-action’ by black students attempting to draw attention to school seal’s slavery roots
The Harvard Law School’s seal is derived from the crest of Isaac Royall Jr, a wealthy and ruthless slaveholder whose endowment founded the school.
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Derecka Purnell was one of the first Harvard law students to see the black tape placed over about six portraits of Harvard Law School’s tenured black faculty Wednesday morning. “I was surprised to see it ...” Purnell said, before reconsidering: “Actually, I wasn’t surprised at all.”

The incident comes at a moment when, nationwide, college students are demanding action against the entrenched white supremacy and racism they say still pervades campus life. Even at elite liberal universities such as Harvard – places where some might believe that racist symbols and behavior are a relic of the past – these discussions and protests persist.

And it’s working. In response to student demands, administrators at Princeton University announced Friday that they would consider renaming a dormitory currently named for former US president Woodrow Wilson, based on his well-documented racist views.

At Harvard, the tape that was pasted across the faces of black professors appears to have been taken from an “art-action” in which student activists placed black gaffer tape over the law school seal in several locations of the school’s main hub, Wasserstein hall. The action was carried out by members of the campus group Royall Must Fall (RMF) and was intended to draw attention to the seal’s history as the family crest of the wealthy and ruthless slaveholder Isaac Royall Jr.
The Harvard Law School seal.
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Royall, whose endowment founded the law school in 1817, gained his immense wealth by way of his family’s Antigua plantation, where in the mid-1730s “seventy-seven enslaved people were burned alive, six were hanged, and five were broken on the wheel” in retaliation for a slave uprising, according to an open letter from RMF to the school’s dean, Martha Minow. The school adopted his family crest in 1936 as a part of a fundraising campaign.

Alexander Clayborne, a spokesperson for RMF, told the Guardian that the art-action was meant to be educational. “It was purely meant to call attention to the fact that the Harvard seal is the seal of a slaver and should be removed.”

He called the response of taking that tape and placing it on the faces of black professors “an act of blatant racial intimidation”.

“I think it’s part and parcel of the backlash that black students have seen around the country,” Clayborne said, referencing threats like those made against black students at the University of Missouri and Howard University last week.

Clayborne said that while the campus protest movements around the country have catalyzed RMF’s efforts, they drew their inspiration from student protests in South Africa which successfully organized to force the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes from the University of Cape Town campus. Rhodes was one of the architects of South African apartheid and the Royall Must Fall movement is part of a larger effort to decolonize the campus.

Eve Ewing, a doctoral candidate at Harvard’s school of education said that the incident had meaning for black students throughout Harvard’s campus, not just at the law school. “The act of putting the tape over the crest is a symbolic act that’s meant to say the legacy of slavery is not going to encompass what we want this institution to stand for.

“To take that tape and say, ‘Actually, we’re going to erase the legacy of important scholars who have paved the way for black scholars in higher ed’ makes it even more insulting.”

This is not the first time controversy has bubbled up around Royall’s legacy at the school. In 2003, when now supreme court justice Elena Kagan was named dean of Harvard Law School, she declined the endowed Royall professorship and instead chose a new chair in the name of Charles Hamilton Houston, the first black American on the Harvard Law Review.

Dr Ronald Sullivan, one of the black professors whose face was vandalized by the tape, said: “I’ve learned more

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Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Editorial: Federal corruption watchdogs are being denied access to necessary information/ LA Times

See the blog post below this one (from the NYT) on how Inspector Generals from over 70 federal agencies have been (illegally) (and continue to be) denied information by the agencies they are supposed to oversee. This thwarts the Inspector Generals from doing their jobs to root out corruption and mismanagement. This denial of information is supported at the highest levels (i.e., by the White House). The Inspector General system, placing independent watchdogs in executive branch agencies, was instituted by Congress in 1978 as a check and balance to executive branch power.

Now, a month later, the LA Times has editorialized about this huge problem to our democracy. They suggest that Congress fix it during the next session. I think a lawsuit might speed things along, since the executive branch is not complying with the Inspector Generals Act:

Since Congress created the first inspectors general for federal agencies in 1978, these in-house watchdogs have proved their worth again and again. Inspectors general have investigated the CIA's inhumane “enhanced interrogation methods,” revealed abuses in the FBI's acquisition of telephone and other records, and documented the selective enforcement by the Internal Revenue Service of regulations governing political spending by tax-exempt groups.

Given the nature of their mission, it is not terribly surprising to learn from inspectors general for several federal agencies that their work is being hampered by the unwillingness of the officials they monitor to provide some necessary information — despite the fact that the Inspector General Act requires that inspectors general have access to “all records, reports, audits, reviews, documents, papers, recommendations or other material” necessary to do their job.

The Justice Department has come under particular — and deserved — criticism for stymieing the work of its inspector general. Beginning in 2010, FBI lawyers argued that some records couldn't be shared because of protections in federal law. In July, the department's Office of Legal Counsel concluded that the inspector general could be denied access to some information in three categories: the contents of wiretaps, grand jury proceedings and credit information.
The author of that opinion, Deputy Assistant Atty. Gen. Karl R. Thompson, concluded that the Inspector General Act's requirement that inspectors general have access to “all records” must be qualified in light of the provisions of the federal Wiretap Act, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and Section 626 of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. His opinion said that the department could provide the inspector general with information protected by these laws for “many, but not all” of its investigations.

That isn't good enough for Michael E. Horowitz, the department's inspector general, who said that without greater access “our office's ability to conduct its work will be significantly impaired.” But the problem isn't confined to the Justice Department. In a letter to congressional leaders, the council representing inspectors general from throughout the government warned that the Office of Legal Counsel's opinion “represents a potentially serious challenge to the authority of every inspector general and our collective ability to conduct our work thoroughly, independently and in a timely manner.”

In fairness to the Justice Department, laws must be read in conjunction with others. And, legal interpretation aside, it's important to protect the privacy of personal information, including financial records and the products of electronic surveillance, which can capture private conversations of innocent people. But in such sensitive situations, information can be provided to inspectors general with the understanding that it will be redacted in any public report.

A Justice Department spokeswoman said that the department would support legislation to clarify Congress' intent. Fortunately, there is a bipartisan effort in Congress to make it clear that, irrespective of other laws, inspectors general are entitled to “all records” necessary for them to perform their vital function. Enacting such a law must be a priority when Congress returns to work.

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