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April 19, 2017 Uncategorized “Shattered”, Benedict method, closing of debate, cosmic burst, Facebook’s murderer, fascism of Left, Google, heroin epidemic, Marines to fight NORK in Oz, My Friend Cayla, Sputnik news, suppression of ideas, Syrian fabrication, time thievery, Turkish referendum
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PARENTS IN GERMANY FACE $26,500 FINE IF THEY DON’T DESTROY CONTROVERSIAL ‘MY FRIEND CAYLA’ DOLLS: ‘

After researchers found that My Friend Cayla dolls were recording users’ and sending this information out to a third party specializing in voice-recognition for police and military forces, officials in Germany told parents to get rid of the toys. In case families didn’t take that request seriously, the country’s telecommunications regulator has since clarified that parents who don’t destroy their Cayla dolls could face more than $25,000 in fines. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Federal Network Agency is taking its fight against the connected Cayla doll a step farther, banning the sale, purchase, and ownership of the toy. SOURCE: THE CONSUMERIST

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LEAKED DOCS SHOW GOOGLE CONTRACTORS SUPPRESSED ALTERNATIVE MEDIA, GOOGLE CONFIRMS

Leaked documents now reveal a plan by search engine behemoth Google to censor alternative media through the blatant suppression of search results — and, for all intents and purposes, the censoring appears part of the political establishment’s plan to quash dissent. SOURCE: CLAIRE BERNISH

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FEARS GOOGLE HIRE COULD ALLOW EMPLOYERS TO SEE YOUR ENTIRE SEARCH HISTORY

Job interviews could get even more awkward with Google’s help. IN THIS day and age, every boss is going to quickly Google a prospective employee before asking them to come in for an interview. But now the technology giant is working on project called Google Hire, which The Sun reports will help employers learn perhaps a little bit too much about their new recruits. SOURCE: DAILY MAIL

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UP TO 2.5 MILLION TURKISH VOTES WERE POSSIBLY ‘MANIPULATED,’ INTL OBSERVER SAYS

Alev Korun, an Austrian MP and member of the Council of Europe observer mission, said that there is “a suspicion that up to 2.5 million votes could have been manipulated,” as cited by Reuters. Korun also referred to the Turkish electoral authorities’ move to accept as valid around 1.5 million unstamped ballots and envelopes. SOURCE: RT

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TRUMP ENTHRONES ERDOGAN – DESTROYS ALL TRUST IN U.S. DIPLOMACY

Trump contradicted his speaker, the State Department and his allies by congratulating the Turkish President Erdogan for winning Sunday’s referendum vote. He undermined his diplomacy. Sundays referendum in Turkey makes the presidential office a quasi dictatorial position that leads the executive and can, via decrees, also overrule the legislative and judiciary elements of the state. President Erdogan is now in a dictatorial position. It maybe that a majority of the Turkish voters voted for this change but it is far from certain. The number of votes in doubt because they were not taken in accordance with the legal procedures (2-3 million) is higher than slight majority lead (1.5 million) for the “yes” side. SOURCE: MOON OF ALABAMA

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TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2017

Tradecraft of the counter-spooks

“MIT expert claims latest chemical weapons attack in Syria was staged”. Strikingly odd to see this anywhere in the Lügenpresse (‘Leadership‘; connections to weird religious sects, just not the usual weird religious sect!). Flipping through the comments, they appear to be well over 90% skeptical of the Official Story.

“Snowden’s Box”. Why, when he is so paranoid, did Snowden put that dangerous address on it? Well written, and worth the read for a modern spy story.

An old spy story: “How a spy betrayed the KGB and was double-crossed by an RCMP cop”.

“Goodbye Turkey”. “A Turkey Divided by Erdogan Will Become Prey for the Country’s Enemies”.

“Donald Goes to Canossa”. There’s way too many people in Europe and Japan, and Donald has the solution.

“Bill Kristol celebrates ‘normal’ foreign policy — with Russia replacing Iraq in the new ‘axis of evil’”. The funniest thing about this thing we must not mention is that there is not the tiniest attempt to hide it.

“Will the Mossad Assassinate Iranian president Hassan Rouhani?” (Alexis).

New low for BBC: “BBC: Moderate Syrian Unicorns Would NEVER Blow up Children”. Attempts to ‘false-flag’ the bus bombing.

“This evacuation was attacked by AQ terrorists, not ISIS”.

“Dear Washington: the era of the false flag attack is now over”. Although the woke aren’t fooled any longer, the false flag still serves as something to be served up by the Lügenpresse as the basis for the talking points of the political class.

“Boston Marathon Bombing Cover-Up: A Conversation With Michele Mcphee”:

“Another fact that should have everyone in the country startled is the federal government has said on the record: during Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial and since after his trial that the Tsarnaev brothers did not build those bombs. Well, the immediate response to that should be from everyone in the nation, then who did? Why aren’t you looking for them? That’s another one of the mysteries that is tackled in the book, about this very bizarre robbery that took place ten minutes before the MIT police officer Sean Collier was executed and during that 7/11 robbery, there was a former MIT employee who has been identified as that robber, still not arrested but in June of 2013 was arrested for a different crime altogether when he threatened his mother and said I’ve done something that I’m going to have to answer God for. His mother told police that her son had been friends with Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Police execute a search warrant in his home and find every single component of the bombs that were detonated at the Boston Marathon, including ball bearings that were signature to the bombs that detonated at the finish line. Strangely and inexplicably, that man, Daniel Morley, was not prosecuted for the bombmaking material he had in his home or the threats he made against his mother or never even questioned in connection with the 7/11 robbery which his own family members have identified him as a suspect. Instead, he was put in a mental institution in Massachusetts for two years. Many people believe he was cooperating with the federal government in a different case regarding anarchists and anonymous and now he’s free, driving a bus full of senior citizens when there are a lot of people in Massachusetts who truly believe that he is the true bomb builder.”

and:

“In the end, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was not found by law enforcement and a lot of people believe that’s because the FBI – I know this to be true – when Dzhokhar escaped that wild bomb and bullet in Watertown, he was bleeding. He abandoned that stolen Mercedes and he staggered up a tree, leaving bloody handprints and a blood trail behind. At the time, I was in Watertown like so many other reporters and I was getting text messages from sources saying we’re going to get him, we have a blood trail and then those same sources were told to back off, it was an FBI scene and so the Boston Police Homicide Squad, the state police that had dogs, they were told to back off and we all know that in the end , who found Dzhokhar? A civilian who was going out for a cigarette. The top on his boat was strew and he went to investigate. A civilian! Despite the National Guard doing door to door searches and cops in riot gear without a warrant going into people’s homes, in the end, it was a civilian who found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and when that boat was surrounded, there was a sniper from the NEMLEC Swat Team who was on the second floor of that civilian’s home and he heard Dzhokhar say over again , “The FBI is going to kill me, the FBI is going to kill me.” I don’t think that’s the case whatsoever, but it is incredibly strange that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was bleeding profusely, he leaves these bloody handprints up and down the street where he jumped out of that vehicle and yet they didn’t find him for nearly an entire day. I think it raises a whole new spectrum of questions. Then of course, there’s the question of what they were doing in Watertown in the first place. There is a police report that is referenced in Maximum Harm about Dzhokhar Tsarnaev emerging from 89 Dexter Avenue, which is right around where the shootout took place. There was a story in Saudi Arabia about a student who lived in that house, who had been pulled out of that place by the FBI and arrested but you never heard another word about that guy again, you never heard about 89 Dexter Ave again. Nobody knows where the bombs were built. At the very least, I think there should be some concerns about who else worked with those brothers, who built the bombs and why are we not all that concerned about finding those people?”

“Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Terrorist. Murderer. Federal Informant?”:

“On January 21, 2012, Tamerlan departed from Boston’s Logan Airport and connected at JFK for a flight to Moscow. By then he was on two different terrorist watch lists, though that fact never slowed him down.

The first was the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) database, which is the repository of all international terrorist identifier information shared by the FBI, CIA, and an alphabet soup of U.S. intelligence agencies. The National Counterterrorism Center maintains it by adding biographical or biometric identifiers. The second watch list was TECS, which is not an acronym but takes its name from an outdated system of identification checks from a now-defunct federal agency. TECS, aimed at flagging potential terror suspects as they cross borders, is a system allowing customs agents to file reports about any “encounter with a traveler, a memorable event, or noteworthy item of information particularly when they observe behavior that may be indicative of intelligence gathering or preoperational planning related to terrorism, criminal, or other illicit intention,” according to the DHS. Despite Tamerlan’s being on both of those lists, he still left Logan without a hitch.

Nearly six months later, upon arrival in the United States after spending time overseas in a terrorist hot spot, he faced little to no resistance from U.S. Customs. The purpose of the FBI’s and CIA’s placing Tamerlan on the watch lists was to create an alert any time he traveled. But inexplicably, that never happened.

Then there was the question of his passport, which Tamerlan had reported stolen—or at least that’s what he told his ex-wife, Katherine Russell. The last valid passport that Tamerlan possessed came from Kyrgyzstan, where he had grown up, and was slated to expire on November 16, 2012. Tamerlan applied for a Russian passport to replace the one issued in Kyrgyzstan that he had used to gain entry into the United States as a political refugee in 2002. But, as congressional investigators would discover, he left Russia without ever collecting the new passport.

Still, when Tamerlan landed at Logan on July 17, 2012, he had no problem whatsoever. A customs agent “scanned Tsarnaev’s Alien Registration Card into the computer system used during primary inspection. The card was valid, and as a result, CBP [Customs and Border Protection] took Tsarnaev’s picture, collected his fingerprints, confirmed his identity, and admitted him into the country based on his LPR [legal permanent resident] status,” according to the OIG. However, the report states, the Customs and Border Protection officer who processed Tamerlan told investigators he “could not recall” processing Tamerlan or if he alerted the FBI regarding Tamerlan’s return to the United States without a passport. He did explain to the inspectors that officers like him communicate with the FBI about potential terrorist watch list suspects’ travel with “email, orally, or via ‘sticky note.’”

Stranger still was the testimony from then–Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration policy on April 23, 2013—just days after Tamerlan died—that the name on his airline ticket did not match the name on his green card, saying, “there was a mismatch.” She publicly declined to elaborate.

Surely to stop Tamerlan at the airport for additional screening based on his physical profile alone—he was a Muslim male with a long beard—or because he was leaving a terrorist hotbed would have been insensitive racial profiling. But the idea that a man whose name was on two terrorist watch lists somehow managed to clear customs because, government officials claimed, his name was misspelled on those lists, is inconceivable. This is especially true given the multimillion-dollar computer program the DHS had purchased to prevent that very sort of thing from occurring. Even after the Russians had inexplicably notified the United States in writing about his radicalization in 2011, and despite being on multiple terror watch lists, Tamerlan was allowed to travel to a terrorist hot spot and return without being questioned.

All of this looks strange—even stupendously negligent—to the casual observer. But to the trained eye, it might look like something else entirely. Former Somerville Police Chief Tom Pasquarello, a longtime DEA agent who has supervised his own confidential informants, had noticed similarities between Tamerlan’s case and his own use of so-called CIs during multiple takedowns all over the world. As a longtime law enforcement official, he says, the seeming coincidences cannot be ignored. They make no sense—not Tamerlan’s trip to Russia, nor his return without a passport while on two separate terror watch lists. Unless, that is, Tamerlan was trying to lure like-minded radicals in an effort to collect information and report back to U.S. law enforcement. “You pull a string on Tamerlan’s life,” Pasquarello said, “and all you get is unanswered questions.””

and (my emphasis in red):

“U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, pushed Napolitano for more answers and was told to wait for a classified—secret—briefing. Senator Charles Grassley asked Napolitano how a misspelling could have caused problems in 2012 when the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 had amended certain sections of the Immigration and Naturalization Act pertaining to the control of foreign nationals’ travel. The 2007 law reiterated the need for exit data and required that such data be collected on all foreign nationals who entered the United States under the visa waiver program with the provision that air carriers are required to “collect and electronically transmit” passenger “arrival and departure” data to “the automated entry and exit control system” developed by the federal government. Clearly, according to Napolitano’s testimony, that didn’t happen. Inexplicably, once again she was only willing to answer behind closed doors. It would be better, Napolitano told the senators at the hearing, if they could discuss the matter in a classified setting.

Whatever information Tamerlan’s immigration records contained, the DHS secretary was not at liberty to talk. It was a staggering admission, especially since DHS would eventually be forced to release Tamerlan’s alien file pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by multiple news organizations, including the Boston Globe, in February 2016. Though dozens of pages were completely redacted, including the names of federal agencies that requested Tamerlan receive U.S. citizenship (and waive any fees for the application process), the U.S. Customs file still contained troubling information.

First, Tamerlan had multiple names and dates of birth that he had used. Then there were the two State Department Medical Examination for Immigration or Refugee Applicant forms, which had startling discrepancies. In one, the attached picture was of an unidentified older-looking man wearing a black-collared polo shirt and contained a passport number. In the second, the picture was of a teenage Tamerlan wearing an identical shirt, and the passport number had been redacted.

Another troubling form seemed innocuous at first glance: a notification instructing Tamerlan to report to 170 Portland Street in Boston on October 16, 2012, so he could finally take the official oath and become an American citizen. Even though Tamerlan was legally ineligible, somehow his naturalization application had been reopened on August 28, 2012. Among other things, the October ceremony would have meant an impossibly short turnaround for an application opened just months earlier. It remains unclear whether Tamerlan showed up at 170 Portland Street and what happened if he did show up. But the document suggests that someone was pulling strings to help him obtain the very thing he had been craving so desperately for years.

Tamerlan did not become a citizen on that October day, though the DHS will not say whether he attended. What is clear, however, is that in the weeks after that scheduled appearance, the FBI continued to email immigration officials, prodding them to approve Tamerlan’s citizenship application, according to the Office of the Inspector General’s report. Janet Napolitano, though, would not stick around to answer questions. She quit her job at the DHS months after the Boston Marathon bombings, right around the same time FBI Director Robert Mueller retired, as did the Boston FBI special agent in charge, Richard DesLauriers.

On October 22, 2012—days after the scheduled oath ceremony for Tamerlan was somehow scuttled—an immigration services officer emailed the FBI’s CT Agent saying that Tamerlan’s name had popped up on a terrorist watch list and asking if he “represented a national security concern.” The next day, the CT Agent, who investigated the initial Russian FSB warning in 2011, assured immigration officials in writing that Tamerlan was not a risk if he gained full citizenship: “There is no national security concern related to [Tamerlan Tsarnaev] and nothing that I know of that should preclude issuance of whatever is being applied for,” he wrote. The CT Agent would tell officials that he did not remember whether he searched Tamerlan’s file or public sources before he replied to the immigration official. To this day, the FBI insists that Tamerlan’s case file was closed after the CT Agent’s initial investigation in 2011, and was only reopened after the Boston Marathon attack.

On January 23, 2013, Tamerlan made a second attempt to become a U.S. citizen. He had an interview with Customs officials to discuss documentation related to his arrest for domestic violence and fully expected to walk away with his citizenship. Instead, the officer wrote, the paperwork relating to the dismissal of charges in his domestic violence arrest did not arrive and his status was delayed.

Again.

Two weeks later, on February 6, 2013, an angry Tamerlan walked into Phantom Fireworks in Seabrook, New Hampshire, and asked for the “biggest and loudest” pyrotechnics in the store.”

Tweet (Walid):

“The “impartial” & “non political” #WhiteHelmets join pro-rebel demo in Mare’ today protesting the 4 towns deal. Detestable hypocrites #Syria”

Tweet (Eamon Murphy):

“khrushchev saved us from nuclear war by backing down, exhibiting what might be called “basic sanity””

Tweet (POLITICO) (Trump is more than a bit of a dick):

“A kid asks Trump to sign his hat at the White House Easter Egg Roll. The president signs … and then tosses the hat into the crowd.”

The have found just the filter to identify the least competent ones!: “The FBI Says It Can Finally Find Hackers Who Don’t Smoke Weed”

AT 4/18/2017 04:52:00 AM
MONDAY, APRIL 17, 2017

Whodunit?

“Carter Page Went to Moscow With a Tape of Donald Trump Offering Treason For Hacking”. So far out there Mensch doesn’t seem to have been able to find a paper with low enough standards to publish it, but it is generating some excitement amongst the Clintonistas. What does ‘sources with links to the intelligence community’ and ‘sources close to the intelligence community’ even mean?

Related (Jewesses for WWIII): “Rachel Maddow Is Lost in Her Cold War Conspiracies”. The Traditional Enemies Of Peace carefully built an intellectual framework for future wars: “What Russia-gate Has Wrought” (Parry).

The usual from the Jew-controlled media: “Al-Qaeda Suicide Attack Kills 100+ Children, Women – Whodunit?”. Hiccup.

“Syria: Horrific Onslaught on Aramaic Christian Community of Ma’aloula at Hands of Western Backed “Moderate” Terrorists”.

“Another “curveball”?”

Turkish gas? (also good criticism of Zuesse, who I refuse to link to since that unforgivable misrepresentation of Hersh): “Calling Out Corbett Report”.

“Syria: Neocons Get Almost Giddy”. I’m starting to wonder, given the 180 degree turn, and Donald’s bizarre Easter speech about Passover, if Ivanka wasn’t the only Trump who converted to Judaism.

“” … the end of Turkey as we know it” The Guardian”. Country-dwelling Islamists won the vote, assuming it wasn’t just fraud.

“Trump’s Political Suicide Pushes China, Iran and Russia Closer”.

AT 4/17/2017 10:24:00 AM
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Pence to South Korea: ‘Our trade relationship is falling short’ The Hill. Weird to be raising this while sabre-rattling at the North is on.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/04/links-41817.html

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‘Ready to fight and win’: US marines deployed to Australia amid N. Korean ‘nuclear threat’ | 18 April 2017 | US Marines have begun to touch down in Darwin, in Australia’s tropical north, as the first of some 1,250 “stand ready to fight” against North Korea amid warnings that Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program is a “serious threat” to Canberra.



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Chinese Trucks Give North Korean Missiles A Lift During Big Military Parade | The National Interest Blog

Posted by Michele Kearney at 6:33 PM

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Gaius Publius: New Evidence that Syrian Gas Story Was Fabricated by the White House | naked capitalism

Posted by Michele Kearney at 8:26 AM

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April 18-19, 2017 — Covert meeting in Seychelles revives memories of a planned CIA “false flag” attack (in: WMR GENERAL ARCHIVES April 2017)

Apr 18, 2017

Erik Prince and Team Trump playing in sinister waters in the Seychelles.

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‘The heroin epidemic is killing so many people in the state of Maryland that its medical examiner’s office is straining to keep up, which could threaten its accreditation. Autopsies in the state have grown 40 percent since 2010 – almost 100 more a year.

“Everyone continues to add on work hours and work faster and hopefully not take short cuts,” Dr. David R. Fowler, Maryland’s chief medical examiner, told the Baltimore Sun. “They absorb this extra load. But there is a point where they can’t continue to add to that and expect the system will function.”

Medical examiner pathologists are accredited to carry out a set number of autopsies a year to ensure quality control and confidence in the results. The situation has implications for the criminal justice and public health systems, which rely on the autopsies in court cases.’

Read more: Drug overdose deaths overwhelm Maryland medical examiner’s office

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Facebook and the Murderer – The New Yorker

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By 2020 Two-Thirds Of Wild Animals Will Have Been Wiped Out Over A 50 Year Period As Mass Die-Offs Accelerate All Over The Planet

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The Left’s Descent to Fascism

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Charles Hugh Smith
History often surprises us with unexpected ironies. For the past century, the slide to fascism could be found on the Right (conservative, populist, nationalist political parties).

But now it’s the Left that’s descending into fascism, and few seem to even notice this remarkable development. By Left I mean socialist-leaning, progressive, internationalist/globalist political parties.

What is fascism? There is no one tidy definition, but it has three essential elements:

1) State and corporate elites govern society and the economy as one unified class.

2) This status quo (i.e. The Establishment) seeks to impose a conformity of values and opinion that support the dominant narratives of the status quo via the mass (corporate) media and the state-controlled educational system.

3) Dissent from any quarter is suppressed via mass-media ridicule, the judicial crushing and silencing of whistleblowers, and all the other powers of the central state: rendition, extra-legal imprisonment, political gulags (in our era, disguised as drug-war gulags), character assassination, murder by drone, impoverishing dissenters via firings and blacklists, and on and on.

The Left is now the political wing of the corporatocracy. As Phillipe Poutou, a Ford factory mechanic from Bordeaux who is the sole working-class candidate in France’s presidential election, so deliciously pointed out, the Left and Right status quo candidates are indistinguishable in terms of their self-serving corruption and elitism:Mechanic-Candidate Bursts French Political Elite’s Bubble (NY Times)

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State Department Employee Arrested and Charged With Concealing Extensive Contacts With Foreign Agents | OPA | Department of Justice

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FORMER COORDINATOR OF THE PLUNGE PROTECTION TEAM TO BE NOMINATED BY TRUMP FOR TOP FEDERAL RESERVE POSITION

Politico is reporting that Trump is expected to nominate former Treasury undersecretary Randal Quarles as the Federal Reserve’s top bank regulator. SOURCE: EPJ

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WARREN BUFFETT NOW SELLING US HOUSES TO CHINESE OLIGARCHS

While extolling the virtues of American consumers and praising the US economy, Warren Buffett has started seeking the help – and funds – of Chinese oligarchs to sell houses from his real estate brokerage HomeServices. According to Bloomberg’s Berkshire’s real estate brokerage, HomeServices – currently the second-largest U.S. residential real estate brokerage – acquired as part of Buffett acquisition of an energy business, “is expanding its global reach with a push to attract wealthy Chinese citizens to purchase homes in the U.S”, in the process diverting “hot” Chinese money to the US (see Vancouver and Toronto for the outcome). SOURCE: ZERO HEDGE

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Trade

“TRUMP TO SIGN EXECUTIVE ORDER ON ‘BUY AMERICAN, HIRE AMERICAN’: President Donald Trump will act on one of his signature campaign promises today when he signs an executive order aimed at promoting “Buy American, Hire American” practices. The order, which Trump will sign in Wisconsin this afternoon, will direct Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to lead an investigation into government procurement practices at federal agencies, with a focus on rooting out weak monitoring, enforcement and compliance efforts. It will also task four agencies with re-examining all programs under which workers enter the United States from abroad” [Politico].

2016 Post Mortem

“‘Shattered’ Charts Hillary Clinton’s Course Into the Iceberg” (ha) [New York Times]. “In chronicling these missteps, ‘Shattered’ creates a picture of a shockingly inept campaign hobbled by hubris and unforced errors, and haunted by a sense of self-pity and doom, summed up in one Clinton aide’s mantra throughout the campaign: ‘We’re not allowed to have nice things.’” No nice things. So Clinton delivered the same message internally she delivered to voters.

“‘Shattered’ offers a number of gratifying revelations. Among them: Mrs. Clinton’s tinkering with a certain computer server. Not that server—a different one” [Wall Street Journal].

After losing to Mr. Obama in the protracted 2008 primary, she was convinced that she had lost because some staffers—she wasn’t sure who—had been disloyal. So she “instructed a trusted aide to access the campaign’s server and download the [email] messages sent and received by top staffers.” This tells us, first, that Mrs. Clinton possesses an almost Nixonian paranoia about treachery and, second, that her use of a private email server at the State Department was never the naive “mistake” she pretended it was. In fact, she didn’t want anyone reading her emails the way she was reading those of her 2008 staffers.

Plausible, at least.

There’s a sharp drop in Democratic Party favorability among … (Pew Research)

Minsky on how the world will look and behave with robotic manufacturing

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/04/ ... 82017.html

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A Cosmic Burst Repeats, Deepening a Mystery

April 18th, 2017

Via: Quanta:

To nearly everybody’s surprise, as reported in January in the journal Nature, the bursts originated in a small “dwarf irregular” galaxy, one about a gigaparsec (just over 3 billion light years) away. This made the strength of the signal and its frequent repetitions even more astonishing. “If you’re detecting a bright flash from a gigaparsec, there’s an awful lot of energy associated with it,” Chatterjee said. “The more energy you associate with each event, the harder it gets to explain the repetition. Basically, what’s recharging the battery so quickly?”

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trinlae said…

I find it strange that the wwiii freak out related to North Korea is on high volume, while the news of South Korean president indictment for $52million bribery scandal gets very little coverage, as if the one isnt a context for the other.

It almost looks like the military hype is a message to SouthKoreans daring to fire and jail their leaders, than a message to the North Korean regime.

… In other news, long retired major general Grazioplene got a 30 year old rape of minor charge lodged…leading to popular questions from the public circulating about how it was covered up and he was protected for so long.

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“… What has changed is that an agreement across the society regarding the objectivity of good and evil has largely disappeared. As G.K. Chesterton put it a hundred years ago, “Men today have lost their way. But this is not surprising, for men have always lost their way. The difference is that now they have lost their address….

… the now famous “Benedict Option,” named for the sixth century saint who, at a time of cultural collapse, withdrew to live the Christian life intensely and intentionally. Christians today, Dreher urges, should acknowledge that the cultural war has largely been lost and should stop spending time, energy, and resources fighting it. Instead, they ought, in imitation of St. Benedict, to rediscover, savor, and cultivate the uniquely Christian form of life. This hunkering down is expressed in a variety of ways: homeschooling of children, the creation of “parallel structures,” which is to say, societal forms of resistance to the dominant culture, the opening of “classical Christian schools” where the great moral and intellectual heritage of the West is maintained, the beautiful and reverent celebration of the liturgy, the revival of a sturdy ascetical practice , a profound study of the Bible, the fighting of pornography, challenging the tyranny of the new media, etc”

https://www.wordonfire.org/resources/ar ... e-dilemma/

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Miami U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga. Photo: Federal Bar Association, South Florida Chapter


Secret FBI information about who funded the 9/11 attacks will remain hidden indefinitely after a Miami federal judge reversed herself last week and decided that the FBI was not improperly withholding it from the public.

At the same time, Judge Cecilia Altonaga ruled out holding a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) trial to evaluate the need for such continued secrecy nearly 16 years after the 9/11 attacks. A trial would likely have included testimony from government witnesses in support of continued secrecy as well as others like Bob Graham, the former Florida senator who co-chaired Congress’s Joint Inquiry into 9/11 and believes the FBI documents should be made public.

“The court sees no need for further facts to be elicited at trial,” Altonaga wrote in her seven-page order granting the FBI’s request to keep secret large portions of an FBI slide show titled “Overview of the 9/11 Investigation.” The FBI had argued the information was exempt from public disclosure because it “would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions.”

Altonaga’s decision reversed her May 16 order that the 60-page document – referred to in court papers as “Document 22” – that was shown to the 9/11 Review Commission on April 25, 2014, should be largely opened for public inspection. The commission is also known as the Meese Commission, after its most prominent member, Reagan-era attorney general Ed Meese.

Florida Bulldog attorney Thomas Julin said the judge “should have ordered the FBI to stand trial for its decision to withhold information about its investigation.” He added that an appeal is being considered.

“The order requires the FBI to release information that was illegally redacted. That information will shed light on 9/11, but we did not get everything we wanted,” said Julin. “Much of what we did get confirmed the Bulldog’s reporting about Sarasota has been 100 percent correct and the FBI lied to the public about that. This case may be headed to the Supreme Court.”

Graham disappointed by ruling

Sen. Graham was disappointed by the judge’s ruling. He said the FBI’s 9/11 overview likely contains “important information relating to the funding of 9/11 and presumably the role of Saudi Arabia in doing so. Knowledge of these facts could change public opinion and governmental actions as to the liability of the Saudis as allies and the wisdom of us supplying them with hundreds of billions of dollars of military armaments.”


Bob Graham
Graham said, “The court essentially accepted without detailed substantiation the FBI’s assertions that techniques and procedures would potentially be compromised. I believe a trial was needed at which those unsubstantiated statements would be challenged with questions such as, ‘Over the 16 years since the events of 9/11 occurred have these techniques and procedures which proved to be so ineffective in preventing 9/11 been continued?’”

Florida Bulldog, working with Irish author Anthony Summers, first reported in September 2011 about a secret FBI investigation into a Saudi family living in Sarasota who abruptly departed their home in an upscale, gated community about two weeks before the 9/11 attacks – leaving behind their cars, clothes, furniture and food in the refrigerator. A senior counterterrorism agent said authorities later found phone records and gatehouse security records that linked the home of Abdulaziz and Anoud al-Hijji to 9/11 hijackers, including Mohamed Atta.

The FBI kept its Sarasota investigation secret for a decade. Former Sen. Graham has said the FBI did not disclose it to either the Joint Inquiry or the original 9/11 Commission.

An April 2002 FBI report released by the FBI during the litigation confirmed that account, saying agents found “many connections” between the Sarasota Saudis and “individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001.” The FBI has since sought to discredit that report, saying the unnamed agent who wrote it had no basis for doing so.

The lawsuit forced the FBI to review 1,858 pages of records and to release parts of 713 pages. The FBI withheld 1,145 pages.

“The FBI violated FOIA by failing to respond to the Bulldog’s request for the Meese Commission records,” said Julin. “The Bulldog would not have gotten any of the records if it had not filed the lawsuit.”

The FBI PowerPoint pages Judge Altonaga has now ruled should remain under wraps include:

Two pages titled “Funding of the 9/11 Attacks” and “Early to Mid-2001 Additional Funding”
Pages titled: “Early to Mid-2000: Pilots/Intended Pilots Arrive U.S.”; “Investigative Findings” regarding hijacker “Identification” and “Financial. Ample Financing was provided”; “Early to Mid-2001: Non-pilots arrive U.S.”; “July-August 2001: Knife Purchases”; “August 2001: Reserving 9/11 Tickets”
Four pages titled “Ongoing Investigation”
Who bankrolled the 9/11 attacks is the central question at issue in complex civil litigation in New York in which 9/11 victims – survivors and relatives of the nearly 3,000 dead and businesses that suffered property damage – are seeking enormous damages from the oil-rich monarchy of Saudi Arabia. The country has denied any role in funding the September 11 attacks.

Seeking 9/11 Review Commission files

Florida Bulldog, through its corporate parent Broward Bulldog Inc., sued the FBI in June 2016, seeking records of the 9/11 Review Commission, a congressionally authorized body whose duties included reviewing new evidence not considered by Congress or the original 9/11 Commission. The Review Commission, whose members were chosen, paid and spoon-fed information by the FBI, issued its report in March 2015.

The FBI released a heavily redacted copy of its 9/11 Overview in February. The FBI cited national security, privacy and other reasons to withhold much information, including Exemption 7(E) of the Freedom of Information Act, which protects law enforcement “techniques and procedures.”

On May 16, Judge Altonaga ruled that the FBI had “failed to meet its burden in establishing Exemption 7(E) applies to the redacted information” in the 9/11 Overview because “much of it does not discuss any FBI investigative techniques and procedures; instead the material often encompasses facts and information gathered FBI suspects.”

In early June, the FBI asked Altonaga to reconsider her ruling, arguing that while the overview doesn’t “discuss techniques and procedures, the information contained in the document could still reveal” them. For example, the FBI said it had withheld a photograph taken by a security camera because its release “would disclose the location of the security camera,” possibly enabling future terrorists to circumvent detection.

Attorneys for Florida Bulldog countered that security measures have changed “immensely” since 9/11 and the government had not shown that security measures “that supposedly would be revealed would be of any utility to future terrorists.”

Altonaga’s new order doesn’t address that argument, but nevertheless sided with the FBI, saying the redactions are “necessary to prevent disclosure of FBI techniques or procedures.”









European Scientific Journal Concludes 9/11 was a controlled demolition ( CIA FOIA Documents 9/11 )
May 8, 2017 - The authors of the report are Steven Jones (former Physics Professor at Brigham Young University), Robert Korol (Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at McMaster University in Ontario and a graduate of the ...


European Scientific Journal Concludes 9/11 was a Controlled Demolition In a deafening media silence, the Europhysics News magazine published a study confirming that the 3 rounds of the World Trade Center have been subjected to controlled demolition. The European Scientific Journal , a publication of the European Scientific Institute , published an article titled “ 15 Years Later: On the Physics of High-Rise Building Collapses ,” in which they analyze the collapse of all three World Trade Center buildings.
Europhysics News is not, however, a site that the media could call "complotist" and that is the problem. It is a renowned magazine of the European physics community held by the European Physical Society. The authors of the report are Steven Jones (former Physics Professor at Brigham Young University), Robert Korol (Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at McMaster University in Ontario and a graduate of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering and the Canadian Institute Engineers Mechanical design engineers with more than 25 years experience in structural design in aerospace design Anthony Szamboti (mechanical design engineer with more than 25 years of experience in structural design Aerospace and Communications) and Ted Walter (Director of Strategy and Development for Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, AE911Truth), a non-profit organization that today represents more than 2,500 architects And engineers.

From fires collapse steel skyscrapers? Never seen.

First of all, the authors recall that never before 9/11 a skyscraper with a steel structure did not just collapse following a fire. On the site of the author, we invite you to visit this site. The only reason for these collapses would be controlled demolition. The report for why a fire can not produce the fall of such a building:

Concerning eyewitness accounts, 156 witnesses, including 135 rescuers, claimed to have seen and / or heard explosions before and / or during the collapses. The fact that the Twin Towers were destroyed with the explosive seems to have been the dominant initial opinion for most rescuers. "I thought it was exploding, in fact," said John Coyle, a firefighter. "Everybody, I think at this point thought that these buildings had been blown up."

Conclusion

It should be reiterated that fires have never caused the total collapse of a steel skyscraper before or since September 11. Did we attend an unprecedented event three times on September 11, 2001? NIST reports, which attempt to support this unlikely conclusion, fail to convince an increasing number of architects, engineers, and scientists. Instead, the evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that the three buildings were destroyed by controlled demolition.
Read the study here :
https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/Avice ... ats-du-119

CIA has released to the public declassified versions of five internal documents related to the Agency’s performance in the lead-up to the attacks of September 11, 2001. The documents can be found at CIA’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) online reading room at http://www.foia.cia.gov/collection/decl ... 11-attacks .


Here's a direct link to download the Europhysics News report, 15 Years Later: On The Physics of High-Rise Build Collapses

https://www.europhysicsnews.org/article ... 474p21.pdf

And a link to the entire issue it was published in:
https://www.europhysicsnews.org/article ... 6-47-4.pdf





Confirmation hearing date set for Trump’s FBI pick

July 5, 2017
Updated July 5, 2017 4:22pm


WASHINGTON >> The confirmation hearing for Christopher Wray, President Donald Trump’s choice for FBI director, will be held July 12.




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Two Republican lawmakers say their cars were vandalized
Rep. Sheldon Hanington of Lincoln and Rep. Tim Therriault of China have filed police reports, and Hanington mentioned the vandalism on the House floor during efforts to end the government shutdown.


AUGUSTA — Two Republican lawmakers say their cars were vandalized in recent days, coinciding with hot tempers and frayed nerves at the statehouse where lawmakers were trying to pass a budget amid a government shutdown.

Rep. Sheldon Hanington of Lincoln said his truck was vandalized Saturday night in the driveway of his home. A door was visibly dented and a rock was left in the bed of the truck.

Earlier in the day, protesters had clashed with Hanington in the hallways of the statehouse, according to Rob Poindexter, the spokesman for the Maine House Republicans.

Hanington mentioned the vandalism on the House floor Monday.

There were no witnesses to the damage, but the reports of vandalism prompted speculation that it was related to the unrest over the shutdown.

Poindexter said a second lawmaker, Rep. Tim Therriault of China parked his Mercedes in the legislative parking at the Maine State House on Monday. He later “noticed what he believed to be a mark consistent with a key scratch or possibly someone had hit the vehicle,” Poindexter said.

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Racing to Catch Ludicrously Fast Model 3 Production Ramp, U.S. Automakers Grew EV Sales by 102 Percent in June
Early on, Tesla recognized that responses to climate change were necessary — not just from individuals and governments, but also from industry. And Tesla realized that, when mated with wind and solar energy, electrical vehicles could become a powerful force for driving an energy transition capable of rapidly cutting global carbon emissions.



(Reduction in coal burning and lower than predicted demand for fossil fuels has helped to generate a carbon emissions plateau during 2014 to 2016. Rapid additions of renewable energy sources like wind, solar, and electrical vehicles provides a potential to begin to bend down the global emissions curve near term and reduce the damage that is now being locked in by fossil fuel based carbon emissions. Image source: IEA.)

Tesla’s Market-Driven Response to Climate Change

Electrical vehicles possess a number of key sustainability advantages that aren’t widely talked-about in the public discourse. Electrical motors are considerably more efficient than ICE engines — so broadening EV use lowers energy consumption in transportation while at the same time allowing EVs to draw power from traditional and newly emerging renewable sources. The massive batteries housed in EVs and sold after-market also have the capacity to become a major solar and wind energy storage asset that could ultimately enable the removal of peaking, high emissions, coal and gas plants.

In light of these opportunities, back in the mid 2000s, Tesla made a bold, necessary move. Its leadership decided that it would attempt to become a major automaker dedicated solely to electrical vehicle sales. This business plan would hitch Tesla’s economic future entirely to the success or failure of clean energy ventures. Unlike most present automakers, Tesla would not suffer from divided loyalties to harmful incentives linked directly to fossil fuel based economies. It decided to make its clean energy break by producing top of the market, high-quality electric-only vehicles and, then, by leveraging loyalty to a superior brand, move vertically down into broader market segments.



(If Tesla’s planned Model 3 production ramp to 5,000 vehicles per week by end of 2017 holds true, then the all-electric automaker’s quarterly deliveries are about to go exponential. Image source: EV Obsession.)

Such a disruptive end run on the world’s energy and vehicle markets was bound to encounter stiff resistance and loud detractors. However, if successful, Tesla would force traditional energy and transport players to make a tough choice — follow in Tesla’s footsteps and try to compete, or face dwindling customer bases as a massive wave of innovation completely upended markets. The automaker decided that the best way to goad a broader transition toward electrical vehicles in western markets was to lead it. And that’s exactly what Tesla has been doing.

Major EV Sales Growth on Tap for 2017 Due to Automaker Shift + Model 3 Sales

In the U.S., during 2017, the trend of an emerging industry reaction to Tesla is becoming quite clear. The major automakers are all in a scramble as the imminent arrival of the Model 3 nears. The vehicle, which begins production this month, aims to provide very high quality, Tesla’s trademark swift acceleration, top-notch tech, groundbreaking automation, and 215+ miles of all-electric range for a 35,000 dollar base price. An offering that is disruptive due to quality and accessibility alone. But add to it the 400,000 + preorders that Tesla has accumulated and you’ve got what basically amounts to a volcanic eruption in the global auto market.

In large part, as a response to Tesla’s market-transformation plan, a number of major automakers are deciding to provide their own competing offerings. This year, GM beat the Model 3 to the start line with the 200+ mile range, high-quality Chevy Bolt. Toyota, launched its competitively-priced Prius Prime plug-in hybrid. Nissan redoubled efforts to position its best-selling Leaf all electric vehicle even as it announced plans for a 200+ mile range version in 2018. Meanwhile, Volvo plans to electrify all its vehicles by 2019.





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NYPD cop who encouraged 2-year-old niece to use N-word in Instagram video gets suspended without pay


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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, July 5, 2017, 9:14 PM



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Democrats: Did Americans help Russia hack the election?
Some Republicans say Democrats are playing a dangerous game by stoking such a charged story line without evidence.
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Starting in 2019, all new Volvos will be powered by an electric powertrain


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Border Patrol agent charged with lying to a San Diego grand jury in friend's fraud investigation




A Tucson Border Patrol agent is being charged with lying to a San Diego federal grand jury in connection with a military housing voucher fraud scheme, according to a complaint unsealed last month.

David Wayne Skinner was called to testify about his friend, who was a Camp Pendleton Marine, and another Marine — both reservists who had been on active duty.

Maj. Jason Wild owned a home in Oceanside while Lt. Col. Michael Strom owned a home in Laguna Niguel. As part of the scheme, both men falsely claimed to be renting the other person’s home, according to court records. Both men filed travel expense vouchers with the military asking to be reimbursed for their lease payments, resulting in $147,715 in reimbursements going to Strom and nearly $60,000 to Wild, according to documents.




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Sheriff bound over on forgery charges; case shines spotlight on notary issue
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Vatican police raid drug-fueled gay orgy at top priest's apartment


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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, July 5, 2017, 12:32 PM




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The Bootlegger, the Wiretap, and the Beginning of Privacy
July 5, 2017

Roy Olmstead, pictured arriving at a dock in Steilacoom, Washington, in 1931, was a Prohibition-era rum-runner who found himself at the center of a debate on Americans’ right to privacy.Photograph Courtesy MOHAI / Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection


Nearly a century before a U.S. President accused his predecessor of ordering a “tapp” on his private telephone line, and before he tweeted a warning to the head of the F.B.I. that he had “better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations,” a professional spy, armed with a pack of cigarettes and an earpiece, hid in the basement of the Henry Building, in downtown Seattle, catching crackling bits of words being spoken miles away. Richard Fryant had worked as a wiretapper for the New York Telephone Company, tasked with eavesdropping on his own colleagues, and now took freelance assignments in the Queen City. On this occasion, he was seeking dirt on Seattle’s corrupt mayor—who was suspected of having ties to Roy Olmstead, a local bootlegger—for a political rival. At the behest of his client, Fryant rigged micro-wires to a certain exchange, ELliott-6785, and began to listen.
“They got that load,” one man said, breathing heavily.
“The hell they did—who?” asked another.
“The federals.”
The men speaking on ELliott-6785 hung up, but the conversation had only just begun.
Criminals and Prohibition officials alike called Olmstead “the good bootlegger,” a moniker that reflected his singular business philosophy. He never diluted his whiskey with water or corrupted it with poison; he declined to dabble in the seedier offshoots of his profession, such as drugs or prostitution; and he abhorred violence, forbidding members of his organization from carrying weapons (“No amount of money is worth a human life,” he cautioned). If apprehended, his men were instructed to rely on bribes instead of violence.
Olmstead had a particular respect for policemen, having been a member of the Seattle force for thirteen years, reaching the rank of lieutenant. In 1920, with the onset of Prohibition, the thirty-three-year-old married father of two ventured to the other side of the law, making midnight runs to retrieve imported Canadian liquor from tugboats in the Puget Sound. This practice earned his dismissal from the force and made him a local celebrity. With his old police colleagues on his payroll, he was free to conduct business brazenly and with impunity, often unloading his booze at high noon from trucks marked “Fresh Fish.” Seattle citizens were thrilled to glimpse Olmstead on the street, wearing a fine suit and carrying a wallet fat with money, always ready with a joke. As one acquaintance noted, “It made a man feel important to casually remark, ‘As Roy Olmstead was telling me today.’ ”
Olmstead’s organization, comprised of an ever-growing staff of attorneys, dispatchers, clerks, skippers, navigators, bottlers, loaders, drivers, deliverymen, collectors, and salesmen, dominated the bootlegging scene in the Pacific Northwest. They relied heavily upon the telephone for day-to-day operations, using it to take orders, communicate updates on deliveries, and warn of impending raids, their words coursing across a web of wires connecting the city’s fifty-two thousand devices (approximately one for every six citizens). Olmstead set up his communication headquarters in the Henry Building, just a block from the Federal Building, and established three exchanges: ELliott 6785, 6786, and 6787. One of his men, a former taxi dispatcher, sat during business hours at a roll-top desk, taking and making calls, keeping meticulous records of each transaction. If a serious matter arose, such as an employee’s arrest, Olmstead himself called a friend on the Seattle police force to have it quashed. At the end of each day, the dispatcher unplugged the three telephones, to stop their ceaseless ringing, and the routine began anew in the morning.





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It is perhaps the key piece of forensic evidence in Russia’s suspected efforts to sway the November presidential election, but federal investigators have yet to get their hands on the hacked computer server that handled email from the Democratic National Committee.
Indeed, the only cybersecurity specialists who have taken a look at the server are from CrowdStrike, the Irvine, California-based private cybersecurity company that the DNC hired to investigate the hack — but which has come under fire itself for its work.
Some critics say CrowdStrike’s evidence for blaming Russia for the hack is thin. Members of Congress say they still believe Russia was responsible but wonder why the DNC has never allowed federal investigators to get a look at the key piece of evidence: the server. Either way, a key “witness” in the political scandal consuming the Trump administration remains beyond the reach of investigators.




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Charles Webb, 23, is charged with four counts of introduction of drugs into a penal institution following his indictment on June 26, according to a report from NBC affiliate WBIR in Knoxville. He had only been on the job seven months and has been terminated, according to Sheriff Armando Fontes.

Fellow jail workers Jason Phillips and Alissa Lane were fired from their jobs last week and potential civil rights violations, the sheriff noted.

Charles Webb, 23, is charged with four counts of introduction of drugs into a penal institution following his indictment on June 26, according to a report from NBC affiliate WBIR in Knoxville. He had only been on the job seven months and has been terminated, according to Sheriff Armando Fontes. Fellow jail workers Jason Phillips and Alissa Lane were fired from their jobs last week and potential civil rights violations, the sheriff noted.

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AUGUST 29, 2017 | RUSS BAKER, C. COLLINS AND JONATHAN Z. LARSEN
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FELIX SATER




Who is Felix Sater? It is the question readers of mainstream media outlets have been asking themselves this week after it was revealed that the confidant of President Donald Trump played a role in trying to secure a business deal for the real estate mogul in Moscow.

WhoWhatWhy readers, on the other hand, know all about this Moscow-born “Senior Advisor” to Trump. In the most comprehensive article published anywhere on Sater, we pulled back the curtain on this con man-turned-FBI informant and how he links the president to shady figures in the former Soviet Union.

Significantly, we also underlined an inherent conflict of interest by the FBI — and pointed out why it will be hard for that agency to tell us everything we need to know about this man. The same issue may pose a problem for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, himself a former FBI director.

If you didn’t read the original piece, or if you simply want a refresher on the Felix Sater story now that everyone is talking about him, take a look now.

Reporters: Jonathan Z. Larsen is the former editor of The Village Voice, whose reporting team included the late Wayne Barrett and Robert I. Friedman. These people and the paper produced many of the important early investigative reports on Donald Trump and on the mob. Larsen is now a senior editor and board member of WhoWhatWhy. Russ Baker, a former investigative reporter for The Village Voice, is Editor-in-Chief of WhoWhatWhy. C. Collins is a WhoWhatWhy reporter.

UPDATES: Please see the following for more on this ever-unfolding mystery:

More About Felix Sater — The Problematical Friend Trump Forgot (4/5/2017)

Government Must Tell if Trump Associate Had Russian Mob Ties (4/27/2017)

Felix Sater Links Trump to Comey’s Replacement (5/15/2017)

Listen to a behind-the-scenes interview on this exclusive Trump-Russia-FBI story — a conversation with Russ Baker and Jonathan Larsen on Radio WhoWhatWhy.

***

Donald Trump, Trump Tower
Photo credit: James Hughes / NY Daily News via Getty Image

The Federal Bureau of Investigation cannot tell us what we need to know about Donald Trump’s contacts with Russia. Why? Because doing so would jeopardize a long-running, ultra-sensitive operation targeting mobsters tied to Russian President Vladimir Putin — and to Trump.

But the Feds’ stonewalling risks something far more dangerous: Failing to resolve a crisis of trust in America’s president. WhoWhatWhy provides the details of a two-month investigation in this 6,500-word exposé.

The FBI apparently knew, directly or indirectly, based upon available facts, that prior to Election Day, Trump and his campaign had personal and business dealings with certain individuals and entities linked to criminal elements — including reputed Russian gangsters — connected to Putin.

The same facts suggest that the FBI knew or should have known enough prior to the election to justify informing the public about its ongoing investigation of potentially compromising relationships between Trump, Putin, and Russian mobsters — even if it meant losing or exposing a valued informant.

***

It will take an agency independent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to expose Donald Trump’s true relationship with Moscow and the role Russia may have played in getting him elected.

Director James Comey recently revealed in a congressional hearing for the first time that the FBI “is investigating … the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts.”

However, a two-month WhoWhatWhy investigation has revealed an important reason the Bureau may be facing undisclosed obstacles to revealing what it knows to the public or to lawmakers.

Our investigation also may explain why the FBI, which was very public about its probe of Hillary Clinton’s emails, never disclosed its investigation of the Trump campaign prior to the election, even though we now know that it commenced last July.

Such publicity could have exposed a high-value, long-running FBI operation against an organized crime network headquartered in the former Soviet Union. That operation depended on a convicted criminal who for years was closely connected with Trump, working with him in Trump Tower — while constantly informing for the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ), and being legally protected by them.

Some federal officials were so involved in protecting this source — despite his massive fraud and deep connections to organized crime — that they became his defense counsel after they left the government.

In secret court proceedings that were later unsealed, both current and former government attorneys argued for extreme leniency toward the man when he was finally sentenced. An FBI agent who expressed his support for the informant later joined Trump’s private security force.

In this way, the FBI’s dilemma about revealing valuable sources, assets and equities in its ongoing investigation of links between the Trump administration and Russian criminal elements harkens back to the embarrassing, now infamous Whitey Bulger episode. In that case, the Feds protected Bulger, a dangerous Boston-based mobster serving as their highly valued informant, even as the serial criminal continued to participate in heinous crimes. The FBI now apparently finds itself confronted with similar issues: Is its investigation of the mob so crucial to national security that it outweighs the public’s right to know about their president?

Jack Blum, a former senior Senate investigator and one of America’s foremost experts on white-collar financial crime, sums up the complexity — and the urgency — of the situation:

“What makes this investigation especially difficult is that it will lead into the complex relations between the counterintelligence operations of the FBI and its criminal investigative work,” says Blum.

“Further, it is likely other elements of the intelligence community are involved and that they have ‘equities’ to protect. Much of the evidence, justifiably, will be highly classified to protect sources and methods and in particular to protect individuals who have helped one or another of the agencies involved.”

FBI, New York Office
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“I Can’t Go into Those Details Here”
In his March 20 testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, FBI Director James Comey said that he could not go into detail about its probe into the Trump administration’s Russian connection.

If he had, we might have learned that, for more than three decades the FBI has had Trump Tower in its sights. Many of its occupants have been targets of major investigations, others have been surveilled, and yet others have served as informants. One thing many of them have in common is deep ties to organized crime — including the Russian mafia.

Felix Sater fits all of these categories. A convicted felon, Sater worked in Trump Tower, made business deals with Donald Trump through Sater’s real estate firm, Bayrock, cooperated with the FBI and CIA and was subsequently protected by the DOJ from paying for his crimes. And the Moscow-born immigrant remains deeply linked to Russia and Ukraine.

Based on documents examined by WhoWhatWhy, it is possible to draw certain conclusions that help connect the dots between Trump, the FBI, Russia and the mob.

The resulting picture is not a pretty one for Donald Trump. However, because of its efforts to neutralize the organization of perhaps the world’s most powerful mobster — a man considered a serious national security threat — the Bureau might just have compromised its own ability to provide to Congress or inform the American public about all of the ties that exist between Trump, his presidential campaign and the regime of Vladimir Putin.






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Colorado police officer accused of sexually assaulting woman while on duty



BY DAVID BOROFF
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, August 29, 2017, 3:00 PM





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Jury convicts Chicago officer of excessive force for firing 16 shots at car and wounding 2 teens





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Nearing A Trillion Watts: By End 2017, Global Wind + Solar Capacity Will be 2.4 Times That of Nuclear
by robertscribbler
In 2017, the world will add about 80 gigawatts of new solar capacity. It will also add another 60 gigawatts of new wind capacity. This combined 140 gigawatts will push wind and solar to 940 gigawatts of global capacity -- or nearly one trillion watts. A pace that's ahead of even recent optimistic projections by about 25 gigawatts:



(Historic and projected global wind and solar capacity. Image source: Forecast International.)

Such a total renewable energy generation capability compares to a global 391.5 gigawatts of nuclear energy now in use around the world. In other words, solar energy by end 2017 will come close to surpassing total global nuclear energy capacity. And wind and solar combined will account for 2.4 times the amount of installed nuclear around the world.

The reason wind and solar are now rapidly eclipsing global nuclear capacity is due to simple economic competitiveness alone. By 2022, wind + solar is now expected to exceed 1,600 gigawatts. Or more than 4 times present nuclear capacity. Such a strong build rate comes on the back of rapidly falling costs for renewable energy systems. With wind and solar's levelized costs of production now below that of all other new power sources in many places and with prices bound to continue falling through 2030, base economic incentives for adding renewable energy are now quite high. Add in the fact that these systems produce no harmful particulate or greenhouse gas pollution in use, and the appeal of such clean energy systems is difficult to contest.



(In the U.S. unsubsidized levelized costs of energy vastly favor wind and utility scale solar. And indication that other utility sources such as coal and gas are over subsidized by society. Image source: Clean Technica.)

Increasingly, coal and even gas fired power generation relies on subsidies and an uneven playing field to compete with renewable energy systems. With research from John Abraham indicating that from 2013 to 2015, global fossil fuel subsidies rose from a staggering 4.9 trillion dollars to an astounding 5.3 trillion dollars. And backwards-looking political bodies like the Trump Administration are increasing this highly distorting and harmful subsidy allotment still further.

There's really no excuse for such an unequal and continuously tilting playing field considering the fact that fossil fuels are the main driver of a climate change that is contributing to catastrophic storms like Harvey and a rising ocean that is now threatening hundreds of cities around the globe. Considering the fact that about 7 million people die each year from air pollution primarily related to fossil fuel burning each year alone. With inexpensive and much cleaner alternatives now available, and with these alternatives proving increasingly competitive with the rickety and harmful old energy sources that the world's tax payers unjustly prop up, there's really no excuse in creating further delays for the far less dangerous and harmful clean energy systems we all deserve.

Links:

Forecast International

Clean Technica

Global Solar Capacity Set to Surpass Nuclear

Wind Energy Cost Reductions of 50 Percent Possible by 2030

Global Wind Energy Insight

Global Cumulative Installed Wind Capacity

7 Million Premature Deaths Annually Linked to Air Pollution

Trump Moves to Increase Subsidy for Coal on Federal Lands


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... atastrophe


Why are the crucial questions about Hurricane Harvey not being asked?

This is a manmade climate-related disaster. To ignore this ensures our greatest challenge goes unanswered and helps push the world towards catastrophe


http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/29/co ... cusations/

Child watchdog groups say Colorado youth corrections employee of the month is abusive to children
Employee was subject of 35 abuse and neglect complaints, all unfounded.



http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/29/co ... k-old-son/


Colorado Springs parents charged in killing of 6-week-old son
Infant boy looked like “he was out of an Auschwitz movie”

August 29, 2017 at 6:01 pm
Colorado Springs police arrested John Ostranger, 21, and Donica Mirabal, 23, on Monday after obtaining warrants charging them in the killing on their infant child, police said.Courtesy of CSPDColorado Springs police arrested John Ostranger, 21, and Donica Mirabal, 23, on Monday after obtaining warrants charging them in the killing on their infant child, police said.
The parents of a 6-week-old boy found dead by police in February are being charged with first-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death, Colorado Springs police said.

Police arrested the child’s parents, John Ostranger, 21, and Donica Mirabal, 23, on Monday after obtaining warrants charging them in the killing, police said. The El Paso County Coroner’s Office stated that the infant died as a result of prolonged, intentional neglect and lack of care on the part of Mirabel and Ostranger.



Cyber experts were blocked in their push to patch voting systems in 2016

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation ... rylink=cpy




http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/29/de ... -inequity/

Denver’s gun-related homicides are a study in racial inequity
Black men and women in Denver are twice as likely to die from gunshots — and five times as likely to be murdered by gunfire — as white men and women, according to a new report that nonetheless shows how firearm-related deaths and injuries reach into every corner of the city.


Link du jour

http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/ ... _in_1.html








FBI Octopus

https://unfspinnaker.com/59829/news/unf ... tic-beach/

Ellen Glasser, a UNF instructor of criminology, was elected mayor of Atlantic Beach Tuesday defeating previous mayor Mitchell Reeves, according to the Duval County Supervisor of Elections Mike Hogan.
Glasser won 54 percent of the votes in the primary election on Aug. 29. The retired FBI agent will serve a two year term as mayor.






http://radio.wosu.org/post/akron-mayor- ... r#stream/0

Retired FBI agent Nice who became Chief of Police in Akron forced to resign




Court records show that nephew, Joseph Nice, worked for a car dealership and is facing charges of forgery and theft involving a car. A gag order has been requested in the case, and it’s not clear – if Chief Nice attempted to intervene – and, if so, in which direction he would have been prodding investigators.

As for the other two allegations, Horrigan refused to say anything about the female officer Nice is accused of having a relationship with, nor would he characterize what types of comments Nice is accused of making.

"Not The Nice I Knew"

Council President Marilyn Keith repeatedly said none of that is the James Nice she knew.

“I worked with Chief Nice on a number of occasions on a number of things and have the deepest respect for him. And yet I also have deep respect for our mayor, Dan Horrigan, and I do not believe that Dan Horrigan would have done a knee-jerk reaction to anything.”

Councilwoman Tara Mosley Samples says she and Nice also had a comfortable working relationship.

“We could call each other and if he had an issue with something going on in our community we could always say we could keep it real with each other and we would have conversation about things that bothered him.”

The Beacon Journal is reporting the city says the comments were racial and critical of the physical fitness of other officers. Mosley Samples says – for the city’s sake -- the exact wording will have to be made public at some point.

“It has been a very stressful time for this country and it has brought out things in people that we never thought we would see. And I know this was playing parts in it. Were there racial things said? We don’t know. But something was said for it to get to this point.”

A Reflection On Akron's Police Department?

Horrigan has named Maj. Ken Ball the interim chief, and introduced him at the press conference. His first words.

“I am angry at the circumstances that have brought us here today.” But like Keith and Samples, he says he had never witnessed the comments Nice is accused of making. Nor, he said, did he have an inkling of what an investigation would reveal since Friday night, when top officers became aware of the comments and went to Horrigan. And he says the conduct was Nice’s alone.

“The Akron Police department prides itself on its values in serving our residents ethically and impartially. As the mayor stated, there is no evidence that any of these issues are systemic within this organization. If there were any information that pointed in that direction, it would be dealt with appropriately, swiftly and thoroughly.”

Nice is not commenting – something his attorney says is hard for him. The lawyer, Mike Callahan, did issue a statement saying Nice regrets any inappropriate conduct and comments – and categorically denies anything that hints of criminality.

An Emotional Weekend

The chief’s resignation capped a weekend in which a 17-year-old boy – handcuffed in the back of a cruiser – managed to recover what appears to be a gun he and two others were using in an earlier robbery and shot and killed himself. At least six officers were on the scene, but away from the cruiser.

It, too, was addressed at Monday’s press conference, by Captain Jesse Leeser, who acknowledged the department doesn’t have a firm pat-down policy or know if an appropriate pat-down was done.





http://www.ktvh.com/2017/08/new-profess ... ter-prison

New professional parole board aims to ensure inmates succeed ...
KTVH-
Scott Cruse, a former FBI agent and the board's new chair, tells MTN News that this new board wants to do more to ensure that inmates released from prison ...





http://www.heraldbulletin.com/news/loca ... f6757.html

Former FBI agent Pistole now Anderson University president


A new year at AU for John Pistole
The Herald Bulletin-16 hours ago
“So what does it mean to be a Christ follower in today's society if you are an electrical engineer or if you're a secondary school teacher or you're an FBI agent?



http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/29/fbi-r ... -interest/

FBI Refuses To Turn Over Clinton Email Docs Due To A Lack Of ...
The Daily Caller-
The FBI refused to turn over documents related to its investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails, citing a lack of public interest to justify ...




http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/a ... uby-ridge/

Weaver discusses surrender at Ruby Ridge | The Spokesman-Review
The Spokesman-Review › stories › aug
The colorful presidential candidate had to convince federal agents he could talk Weaver down. Both Gritz and Weaver served in the Army Special Forces. ... Of a Saturday surrender, Weaver told Gritz, “We need to pray on this for a day or so.”



http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/29/ha ... s-history/

Harvey rain is now the heaviest tropical downpour in U.S. history
The rains in Cedar Bayou, near Mont Belvieu, Texas, reached 51.88 inches



https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... icago-will


If Donald Trump won't tackle climate change, then Chicago will
Rahm Emanuel
Across the US, towns and metropolises like mine are united to meet the Paris climate agreement’s targets and protect our residents and businesses









http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/29/de ... rt-ruling/

Son, abused by father, can seek damages from Denver social worker
Denver social worker Kelcey Patton claimed that, as a city employee, she is protected by governmental immunity
A federal appeals court panel has found that a Denver city social worker can be sued for violating the constitutional rights of a boy when she recommended that he be placed in his father’s custody despite knowing that the father was a convicted sex offender.

The boy was later physically and sexually abused by his father.

Monday’s decision by a three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected social worker Kelcey Patton’s claim that, as a city employee, she is protected by governmental immunity.

An attorney for the boy, who is now an adult, said Tuesday the decision allows the victim to seek damages in a lower court from both the worker and the city.

“He was an incredibly vulnerable at-risk child with a borderline IQ when this happened. It made him such an easy target for the abuse, and he needs lifetime care in a residential therapeutic facility,” said attorney Jordan Factor.






https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... news-in-uk


Sky stops broadcasting rightwing US channel Fox News in UK
Sources say decision to stop broadcasting controversial channel is not connected to Fox’s £11.7bn takeover bid for Sky





http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/29/ma ... r-old-boy/

Man blows up underground bunker while cooking hash oil, severely burning 12-year-old boy, sheriff says
Juvenile was burned, suspect charged with child abuse




http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-p ... story.html

Politics
Q&A Why it's harder for African American women to report campus sexual assaults, even at mostly black schools









http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/29/co ... owned-son/



Colorado mother gets 6 years in prison for being drunk while 9-month-old son drowned
Grace Aragon was sentenced for the June 2016 death of Rylan Ryder Kruckenberg

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9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference

Draft Agenda for 9/27/17 Teleconference



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Greetings all,

As we might expect, the anniversary of the 9/11 events this month saw some major commemorative events. That fairy godmother of such events, Barbara Honegger, organized one and was present at or involved with several others, and will be on hand to give us the full rundown. She has helpfully supplied useful links to all of them, and because of the details involved, I think it best to quote her citations in full, even though it will make for a lengthier than usual narrative:
Video of 2017 NYC 9/11 Truth Film Event
From 9/11 Truth to 9/11 Justice
Foley Square/Thomas Paine Park, NYC
Sept. 8th 6:30 to 10:00 PM https://youtu.be/k95mF90HcOg [Note: This is a partial video of the Event by Cat Wattersof NYC who quickly got it up on YouTube. The fulland professional video of the Event with the below screened Films inserted where they came in the Program should be up on YouTube in a week or so and Barbara will send the link when it's posted. ]
A&E's Sept. 11th 1:00 P.M. Press Conference
at the National Press Club with Richard Gage,
Bob McIlvaine and NIST Whistleblower Peter Ketcham.
There were also Qs and As which are not included
in the YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woO1UIrkfuY
Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry Promo Video by Ed Asner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UinyVio76dY
9/11 Truth Action Project / TAP Promo Video: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1640 ... 1lQVTNRYUk
Prof. Hulsey Trailer re University of Alaska WTC 7 Study: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-VNjYXU-CE 2 min. 20 sec.
Sept. 11th 9/11 Event by D.C. 9/11 Truth
Roslyn, Va. 7:00 to 11:00 p.m.
Richard Gage, Christopher Bollyn, Barry Kissin
and Michael Springmann -- with Qs and As
Reactions to the 9/11 Museum Virtual Walking Tour by 9/11 Movement Leaders " target="_blank" style="color: #336699;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"> http://youtu.be/0fJmQUv-b2Q]

Cheryl Curtiss and Cat McGuire will round out this report with a brief summary of the event marking this occasion in their part of the woods.

But the month of September included more than commemorative events. Dr. J. Leroy Hulsey, professor of structural engineering at the University of Alaska, broke new ground with his preliminary report of his research demonstrating the theoretical impossibility of the NIST claim that WTC Building 7 collapsed due to fires. Uh oh! Wayne Coste will provide us with synopsis of this watershed report, and will do so via our Online Meeting visual broadcast as well for those with internet access. Those unable to follow the visual online may download the relevant pdf file here: http://hopeoutloud.org/pentagon/WTC7_Hu ... t_2017.pdf To participate in the live presentation at the online meeting, browse to this url: https://join.freeconferencecall.com/9-1 ... pstatecrim

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FBI agents block access to Boston Marathon bomber. Why?
He can show bombing was a FBI Operation



https://whowhatwhy.org/2017/10/25/doj-c ... -tsarnaev/


OCTOBER 25, 2017 | JAMES HENRY
DOJ CONTINUES TO BLOCK MEDIA ACCESS TO TSARNAEV



For over two years now, WhoWhatWhy has been trying to get the government to give us the details of the justification behind incarcerating convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev under a repressive confinement regime known as Special Administrative Measures (SAMs). SAMs make it nearly impossible for the media to have any access to prisoners.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) refuses to budge and continues to deploy the dubious logic that to confirm or deny the existence of SAMs would be an unwarranted invasion of Tsarnaev’s privacy. This was in response to a request we filed back in 2015 through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), seeking documents about the conditions of Tsarnaev’s confinement. The DOJ denied our request and subsequent appeal.

And yet, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), a division of DOJ, readily confirms that Tsarnaev is in fact being held under SAMs.

WhoWhatWhy twice submitted requests to interview Tsarnaev to the warden of the maximum-security federal penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, referred to as ADX Florence. We sent one in October 2015, and another in August 2017; both times we were told we could not interview him because “Inmate Tsarnaev has Special Administrative Measures,” which, among other things, “restricts [his] communication, to include contact with the media.”

Essentially a form of solitary confinement, SAMs typically bar prisoners from communicating with anybody outside their prison cells, except for a very small number of pre-approved individuals, such as attorneys and inmates’ family members. SAMs were originally justified as a way to prevent members of organized crime from sending to compatriots outside the prison messages that could conceivably result in death or serious bodily injury. In the case of Tsarnaev, this justification rings hollow since DOJ insists that he and his brother Tamerlan had no “nexus” to any terrorist group and acted completely on their own.

But it also has the effect of giving the government total control over the narrative and backstory of a troubling event like the Boston Marathon bombing. No one from the media can speak with Tsarnaev and even his defense team and family are severely restricted in what they can reveal about their communications with him.

ADX Florence
The US Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado. (ADX Florence) Photo credit: FBP / Wikimedia.

Back in April 2016, we highlighted the Kafkaesque situation for a prisoner under SAMs.

We wrote about how DOJ denied our first request under FOIA exemption 7(C); the department stated that “lacking [Tsarnaev’s] consent … even to acknowledge the existence of such records … could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of his personal privacy.” 7(C) is meant to protect the privacy of individuals whose records are held by law enforcement agencies.

We appealed, pointing out that BOP had already confirmed the existence of the SAMs, and it was the very existence of the SAMs that prevented us from getting Tsarnaev’s “consent.” However, DOJ affirmed the denial of our initial request under a slightly modified “categorical” invocation of exemption 7(C) and added for good measure that it was not even “required to conduct a search for the requested records.”

The day after our article ran, officials in the DOJ’s Office of Information Policy (OIP) emailed each other links to the article. How do we know? Because we FOIA’d our FOIA request.

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We had hoped to gain some insight into the decision-making process behind the rejection of our FOIA request and appeal. The results were not very enlightening.

We obtained 29 pages from the DOJ’s OIP in total — 10 of which are the requests and appeals we sent, with their corresponding responses. Another three and a half pages are blacked out and labeled “Non-Responsive Records.” We’re still waiting on records related to the initial request, which are processed by a different office.

It’s not clear what, if anything, OIP officials had to say about our article other than linking to it. Most of the substance of each email between OIP officials is redacted.

Melanie Ann Pustay, OIP
OIP Director Melanie Ann Pustay. Photo credit: DoJ

The balance of the heavily redacted records are processing worksheets and emails between OIP employees. Anything related to decision-making about the appeal is blacked out under (b)(5), the infamous “withhold it because you want to” exemption. FOIA experts roundly criticize the exemption because of its broad language and its increasing use by executive branch agencies.

It’s Who You Know?
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In our ongoing effort to chip away at the wall of silence surrounding Tsarnaev, we also sent him a letter asking if he was willing to be interviewed. We were hoping to preempt any “without his consent” reasoning that we had encountered previously. The envelope was returned — opened — and accompanied by a notice indicating that the “correspondence was not delivered to the inmate because the inmate is not approved to correspond from [sic] you.”

Interestingly, director Peter Berg of Patriots Day, the Hollywood production about the Boston Marathon bombing, was quoted as saying he had corresponded with the incarcerated Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

“I did a lot of research on them,” director Peter Berg supposedly told Total Film magazine. “I met women who had dated them. I met the boxing coach of the older brother. I met the landlord. I wrote two letters to Dzhokhar in prison; he wrote one back [emphasis added].”


http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?i ... type=CMSID

FBI agents block access to Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols. Why?
He can show it was a FBI Operation.As of October 23 2017 case is still before Judge Kimball.

http://www.constantinereport.com/fbi-fi ... nspirator/



FBI Fights Order For Deposition Of Oklahoma City Bombing Conspirator


...... Attorney Jesse Trentdue is seeking to show that his brother Kenneth, a convicted bank robber picked up on a parole violation, was mistaken for an associate of Timothy McVeigh's and killed during an interrogation that got out of hand. ...
...
David Goodhue - AHN Reporter
November 9, 2008
The FBI said this week that it disagrees with U.S. District Court Judge Dale A. Kimball's decision in September to allow Nichols and David Paul Hammer to make a videotaped interview regarding the case and the death of Kenneth Trentdue.
The Justice Department filed notice Nov. 4 that it is asking the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver to reverse Kimball's order.
Attorney Jesse Trentdue is seeking to show that his brother Kenneth, a convicted bank robber picked up on a parole violation, was mistaken for an associate of Timothy McVeigh 's and killed during an interrogation that got out of hand.
McVeigh carried out the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people. He was executed in 2001.
Kenneth Trentdue died at the Federal Transfer Station in Oklahoma City a few months after McVeigh and Nichols were arrested for their roles in the bombing. The government says Kenneth Trentdue committed suicide.
Nichols and Hammer, who is on death row at the federal penitentiary at Terre Haute, Ind., have both supplied Jesse Trentdue with written affidavits concerning McVeigh .
Nichols is serving a life sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary Administration Maximum Security Facility in Florence, Colo. He is now claiming a high-ranking FBI official "apparently" was directing McVeigh in the bombing plot, the Salt Lake Tribune reported this week.







http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-10th-circuit/1321289.html

FindLawCaselawUnited StatesUS 10th Cir.TRENTADUE v. FEDERAL BUREAU INVESTIGATION
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United States Court of Appeals,Tenth Circuit.
Jesse C. TRENTADUE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. FEDERAL BUREAU of INVESTIGATION;  Federal Bureau of Investigation's Oklahoma City Field Office, Defendants-Appellants.


No. 08-4207.
Decided: July 02, 2009
Before TACHA, EBEL, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.Nicholas Bagley, Assistant United States Attorney, Appellate Staff Civil Division, (Gregory G. Katsas, Assistant Attorney General, Brett L. Tolman, United States Attorney, and Mark B. Stern, Assistant United States Attorney, Appellate Staff Civil Division, with him on the brief), of Washington, D.C. for Defendants-Appellants. Jesse C. Trentadue, pro se.
Jesse Trentadue, apparently spurred by concern about the death of his brother in federal custody, has vigorously sought information concerning investigations conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).1  This appeal arises out of his suit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552, to obtain records of the FBI's investigation into the infamous bombing of the Alfred R. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.   His request is limited to records that relate to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and its founder Morris Dees. After initially producing no records, the FBI eventually provided 19 redacted documents, and the district court ruled that the agency need not conduct any further searches of its records.   Several months later, however, Mr. Trentadue moved the court for permission to depose Terry Nichols, a convicted conspirator in the Oklahoma City bombing, and David Paul Hammer, a death-row inmate who purportedly had discussed the bombing with a fellow inmate, Timothy McVeigh, who was executed for his role in the bombing.   In support of the motion, Mr. Trentadue submitted declarations by Nichols and Hammer.   The court granted the motion over the FBI's objections.

The FBI appeals the discovery order, and we reverse.   The FBI submitted declarations to the district court that provide a consistent and uncontradicted showing that it has conducted an adequate search for the records requested by Mr. Trentadue, and there is no reason to believe that depositions of Nichols and Hammer would produce evidence relevant to this FOIA case.

I. FOIA

 FOIA was enacted to enable the public to examine government records.   See Campaign for Responsible Transplantation v. FDA, 511 F.3d 187, 190 (D.C.Cir.2007) (“FOIA is a disclosure statute enacted to facilitate public access to Government documents.” (internal quotation marks omitted)).   The general rule under FOIA is that a person is entitled to copies of a federal agency's records upon making a request that “reasonably describes such records” and that complies with required procedures for such requests.   5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(3)(A)(i).   Certain categories of records, however, are exempt from disclosure.   See id. § 552(b)(1)-(b)(9) and § 552(c)(1)-(c)(3).   When a request is made, the agency ordinarily must “determine within 20 [business] days ․ whether to comply with such request and shall immediately notify the person making such request of such determination and the reasons therefor․” Id. § 552(a)(6)(A)(i).   If the agency decides to comply with the request, “the records shall be made promptly available” to the requester.  Id. § 552(a)(6)(C)(i).   If the agency decides not to comply, the requester can seek relief in federal court.   District courts have “jurisdiction to enjoin the agency from withholding agency records and to order the production of any agency records improperly withheld from the complainant.”  Id. § 552(a)(4)(B).

FOIA does not set forth a general standard regarding how hard an agency must look to find requested records.   On that issue the sole relevant provision, which was added in 1996, states:  “In responding under this paragraph to a request for records, an agency shall make reasonable efforts to search for the records in electronic form or format, except when such efforts would significantly interfere with the operation of the agency's automated information system.”  Id. § 552(a)(3)(C) (emphasis added);  Pub.L. 104-231, § 5(4), 110 Stat. 3048 (1996).   Although § 552(a)(3)(C) concerns only electronic searches, it appears to reflect an implicit assumption by Congress that an agency's search for records need only be “reasonable” in scope and intensity.   The circuit courts to address the issue have so construed FOIA-both in its original form, see Nat'l Cable Television @#$'n, Inc. v. FCC, 479 F.2d 183, 192 (D.C.Cir.1973), and since § 552(a)(3)(A) acquired its present form in 1974, see Meeropol v. Meese, 790 F.2d 942, 956 (D.C.Cir.1986) (adequacy of search “is measured by the reasonableness of the effort in light of the specific request”);  Weisberg v. Dep't of Justice, 705 F.2d 1344, 1351 (D.C.Cir.1983);  Goland v. CIA, 607 F.2d 339, 352 & n. 78, 369-70 (D.C.Cir.1978);  Gillin v. IRS, 980 F.2d 819, 822 (1st Cir.1992) (following Meeropol);  Ruotolo v. Dep't of Justice, Tax Div., 53 F.3d 4, 9 (2d Cir.1995) (agency need not perform search that is “unreasonably burdensome”);  Abdelfattah v. U.S. Dep't of Homeland Sec., 488 F.3d 178, 182 (3d Cir.2007) (per curiam);  Rein v. U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, 553 F.3d 353, 362 (4th Cir.2009) (following Meeropol);  Patterson v. IRS, 56 F.3d 832, 841 (7th Cir.1995) (following Meeropol);  Miller v. U.S. Dep't of State, 779 F.2d 1378, 1383 (8th Cir.1985) (“[T]he search need only be reasonable;  it does not have to be exhaustive.”);  Zemansky v. U.S. EPA, 767 F.2d 569, 571 (9th Cir.1985) (“[A]dequacy of the search ․ is judged by a standard of reasonableness ․”) (internal quotation marks omitted);  Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Fla. v. United States, 516 F.3d 1235, 1257 (11th Cir.2008) (following Meeropol ).

 We follow our sibling circuits.   Their “reasonableness” rule is a realistic interpretation of FOIA. Although FOIA might be read to demand that an agency provide every nonexempt requested document regardless of the cost of locating it, we doubt that Congress would have chosen to impose “unreasonable” burdens on agencies in that regard.

 In light of the reasonable-search requirement, the focal point of the judicial inquiry is the agency's search process, not the outcome of its search.  “The issue is not whether any further documents might conceivably exist but rather whether the government's search for responsive documents was adequate[,] ․ [which is determined under] a standard of reasonableness, and is dependent upon the circumstances of the case.”   Weisberg, 705 F.2d at 1351 (brackets, citations, and internal quotation marks omitted);  see Rugiero v. U.S. Dep't of Justice, 257 F.3d 534, 547 (6th Cir.2001) (“The question focuses on the agency's search, not on whether additional documents exist that might satisfy the request.”);   Office of Info. & Privacy, U.S. Dep't of Justice, Freedom of Information Act Guide at 103-13, 954-58 (2007);  1 James T. O'Reilly, Federal Information Disclosure § 7:4 at 164 (3d ed.   2000) (“The courts require reasonable, not extraordinary, searches by the agency․ The test is adequacy of the search, not existence of any record.”).   The reasonableness of an agency's search turns on “the likelihood that it will yield the sought-after information, the existence of readily available alternatives, and the burden of employing those alternatives.”  Davis v. Dep't of Justice, 460 F.3d 92, 105 (D.C.Cir.2006).

II. BACKGROUND AND PROCEEDINGS BELOW

A. The FOIA Request

On July 19, 2004, Mr. Trentadue submitted a letter to the FBI and its Oklahoma City Field Office, making two requests under FOIA. The first request was for a January 4, 1996, “memorandum from former FBI Director [Louis] Freeh concerning Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center (‘SPLC’)” (which we will call “the Freeh Memorandum”).   J.A. Vol 1 at 39.   The memorandum, according to Mr. Trentadue, referenced an “SPLC informant at Elohim City,” id., the site of what he characterizes as a “white supremacist paramilitary camp compound” in Oklahoma that included persons purportedly involved in the Oklahoma City bombing, id.   Vol. 4 at 986.   Mr. Trentadue's letter attached a newspaper article describing the Freeh Memorandum.

Mr. Trentadue's second request was for records

which, directly or indirectly, report upon, concern, reference or refer to Morris Dees' and/or the SPLC's involvement with and/or connection to the following:  Elohim City, OKBOMB, BOMBROB, Tim McVeigh, Richard Guthrie, Terry Nichols, Dennis Mahon,[ ] Robert Millar, Michael Brescia, Peter Langan and/or Andreas Strassmeir including all contacts Dees or the SPLC may have indirectly had with the foregoing through informants.

Id. Vol. 1 at 40.   OKBOMB is a reference to the FBI's investigation of the Oklahoma City Bombing.   BOMBROB refers to the FBI's investigation of the Mid-West Bank Robbery Gang, a group of neo-Nazis who, according to Mr. Trentadue, were “suspected by the FBI of being involved in the robbery of banks to fund attacks upon the government of the United States.”  Id. at 47.   The request continued:

In searching for documents-records responsive to this Freedom of In [f]ormation Act request, I want you to look beyond the official files at FBI Headquarters and the Oklahoma City Field Office.   Specifically, in addition to all responsive documents-records from the FBI's official files, I want all responsive documents-records from the I-Drive, S-Drive and/or any other electronic device used for purposes of document-evidence storage, retention, holding, review, etc. at FBI Headquarters and/or the Oklahoma City Field Office, including any responsive documents-records from temporary document, record, data and/or evidence storage locations, files and/or facilities regardless of where such storage files or facilities are located.

Id. at 23.

One week later the FBI sent to Mr. Trentadue a form letter confirming receipt of his FOIA request.

B. Mr. Trentadue's Suit

1. The Claim and Summary-Judgment Motions

Because the FBI had not produced the requested records within 20 business days, see 28 C.F.R. § 16.6(b), Mr. Trentadue initiated a FOIA suit against the FBI and the FBI Oklahoma City Field Office on August 20, 2004, in the United States District Court for the District of Utah. (We will refer to the defendants jointly as the FBI.) He alleged that the FBI had a duty under FOIA to produce the requested documents and that there was no legal basis to withhold them.  (Mr. Trentadue later amended his complaint to pursue an additional FOIA request.   For simplicity, we will address that request only when relevant to this appeal.)

The FBI answered on September 20.   It sought dismissal of the complaint, asserting that it was “exercising due diligence to process [Mr. Trentadue's] requests as quickly as possible.”   J.A. at 55.

Mr. Trentadue then moved for partial summary judgment with respect to the Freeh Memorandum, arguing that he had already seen the memorandum, which the FBI had produced in response to a FOIA request from someone else.   He also argued that the FBI had waived any exemptions to production under FOIA by failing to assert them in the letter to him or in its answer to the complaint.

On November 22 the FBI responded to Mr. Trentadue's partial-summary-judgment motion and filed its own summary-judgment motion, contending that it had responded to his request and that his claims were now moot.   It said that it could not provide documents concerning Morris Dees unless it received proof of his death or a privacy waiver signed by him.   As for the remainder of Mr. Trentadue's FOIA request, the FBI said that it could not find any requested documents.   Its memorandum attached a letter to Mr. Trentadue sent by the FBI on November 18.   The letter stated, “Based on the information you provided, we have not located [the Freeh] memorandum through a search of our indices of our Central Records System․” Id. at 77.   And with respect to the remainder of Mr. Trentadue's request (other than the allegedly protected information regarding Dees), the letter said that a search “of the indices in our Central Records System files both at FBI Headquarters and in the Oklahoma City Field Office[ ] has revealed no responsive records.”  Id. at 78.

2. Mr. Trentadue's Allegations of Bad Faith and the FBI Responses

Mr. Trentadue responded to the FBI's memorandum by arguing that the FBI was intentionally withholding documents and acting in bad faith.   To support this allegation, he submitted a redacted copy of the Freeh Memorandum that he had requested and a redacted teletype (which he terms the “BOMBROB-Funding Memorandum”) that he claimed to be “from FBI Director Louie Freeh dealing with the very subjects of Plaintiff's FOIA Request.”   Pl.'s Combined Mem. in Opp'n to FBI Defs. Mot. for Summ. J. & Pl.'s Rule 56(f) Mot. for Continuance Pending Disc. at 5-6, Trentadue v. FBI, No. 2:04 CV 00772 DAK, 2004 WL 3482786 (D.Utah Nov. 30, 2004).   He asserted that these two documents revealed that “FBI Defendants and/or the SPLC had an informant at Elohim City who reported that two weeks before the bombing of the Murrah Building Tim McVeigh contacted Elohim City trying to recruit others to assist him in carrying out that attack․” J.A. 82.   Thus, according to Mr. Trentadue, the “FBI Defendants knew about and fail[ed] to prevent the attack upon the Murrah Building,” and therefore had an incentive to withhold documents showing such knowledge.   Id. at 82-83 (emphasis omitted).   Mr. Trentadue also submitted a declaration from a retired FBI agent, stating his belief (1) that the teletypes were authentic, and (2) that “it would be a simple matter to retrieve either of these teletypes” through searches of the “respective case files for the serial[ ] [numbers] entered on or about the date of each teletype.”  Id. at 96.   As the former FBI agent observed, the Freeh Memorandum listed two file numbers belonging to the OKBOMB investigation, 174A-OC-56120 and 91A-OM-41859, and the BOMBROB-Funding Memorandum listed a third file number belonging to that investigation, 100A-PH-79375.   In addition, Mr. Trentadue argued that Dees's privacy interest was outweighed by the substantial public interest in disclosure.   Finally, Mr. Trentadue filed a request under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56(f) for a continuance “until Plaintiff has completed limited discovery on the existence of the documents and/or records in question.”   Pl.'s Combined Mem. in Opp'n at 3, Trentadue, No. 2:04 CV 00772 DAK, 2004 WL 3482786 (Nov. 30, 2004).

On January 4, 2005, the FBI replied.   It clarified that its position was not “that responsive documents do not exist, only that [its] search did not locate any documents responsive to Plaintiff's request.”   The Federal Defs. Reply Mem. in Supp. of their Mot. for Summ. J. & in Opp'n to Pl.'s Mot. to Strike & Stay Dis. (Defs.Reply) at 6, id.  (Jan. 4, 2005).   It maintained that it had made a good-faith effort to search for the requested documents, warranting summary judgment.   To establish its good-faith search efforts, it attached to its reply a December 9, 2004, declaration of David Hardy, Section Chief of the Record/Information Dissemination Section of the FBI's Records Management Division in Washington, D.C. The declaration explained that the FBI's indices to its Central Records System (CRS) generally refer only to subjects of investigations, suspects, and victims, although other names may be indexed by an investigator or supervisor if considered relevant or necessary for later retrieval.2  It then described the search for the records requested by Mr. Trentadue, stating that the search for records referring to Dees was awaiting a proper privacy waiver and that the search for the other records, using “Southern Poverty Law Center” as the search term, was fruitless.3

On February 17, 2005, the FBI submitted a second declaration by Mr. Hardy.   Attached to the declaration was a redacted copy of the Freeh Memorandum.   The declaration explained why the FBI was now able to produce the document:

(7) The initial search of the CRS indices at FBIHQ and the Oklahoma City Field Office, (“OCFO”) for [the Freeh Memorandum] revealed that, based on the information provided in plaintiff's initial request letter to FBIHQ and the OCFO, the FBI could not locate the original document.

(8) The initial search of the CRS indices at FBIHQ and the OCFO for the [Freeh Memorandum] was conducted by using the search term “Southern Poverty Law Center” as described in the Hardy Declaration ¶ 12.   Additionally, a search for the memorandum using the name “Timothy McVeigh,” failed to reveal the [Freeh Memorandum].

(9) Based on new information [the redacted version of the Freeh Memorandum submitted by Mr. Trentadue] attached as Exhibit A to plaintiff's November 23, 2004 REPLY MEMORANDUM IN FURTHER SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT, it was determined that the document was a teletype dated January 4, 1996.   An electronic search of file 174A-OC-56120 for teletypes dated January 4, 1996, was conducted.   This additional search revealed the teletype in question which was contained within the FBI's OKBOMB investigative file which investigation was conducted pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 844(d).

Second Decl. of David M. Hardy at 3-4 (footnote omitted), Trentadue, No. 2:04 CV 00772 DAK (Feb. 17, 2005).   The declaration did not detail search efforts to find the so-called BOMBROB-Funding Memorandum.

3. The District Court's Initial Ruling

On May 5, 2005, the district court denied the FBI's summary-judgment motion, and granted Mr. Trentadue's partial-summary-judgment motion.  “Given the specific nature of [Mr. Trentadue's] requests ․ and [his] specific evidence that at least some of the requested documents do exist and reasonably should have been found by the FBI,” the district court found that the FBI's search “was not reasonably calculated to discover[ ] the requested documents.”   J.A. Vol. 1 at 159.   It concluded that “[w]hen the FBI's computer search did not identify any responsive documents, it was incumbent upon the FBI to review the actual files for such documents.”  Id. at 160.

In a footnote the district court provided further reason why it doubted the adequacy of the FBI's search.   It cited documents provided by Mr. Trentadue regarding his FOIA request for records relating to the FBI investigation of his brother's death.   One document was a teletype from FBI headquarters to its field offices instructing that documents prepared for the investigation “must not be uploaded into the Automated Case Support [ (ACS) ] system” without prior approval.  Id. at 159 n. 2 (emphasis omitted).   Two other documents were FBI teletypes that the court characterized as indicating that “the FBI lobbied former Senator Don Nickels of Oklahoma to obtain his assurances that no Senate Judiciary Committee oversight would take place with respect to the FBI's handling of the Trentadue investigation.”  Id. at 159-60 n. 2.

The district court also ruled that privacy concerns did not justify withholding or redacting documents because the public interest in the information outweighed any privacy interests of the individuals involved.   Accordingly, the court ordered that by June 15 the FBI must (1) produce unredacted versions of the Freeh Memorandum and the BOMBROB-Funding Memorandum, and (2) manually search the OKBOMB files numbered 100A-PH-79375, 174A-OC-56120, and 91A-OM-41859-the file numbers listed on the redacted copies of the teletypes that Mr. Trentadue had provided the court-for documents responsive to Mr. Trentadue's FOIA request.   The court denied as moot Mr. Trentadue's motion for a continuance pending further discovery, but added that “pon motion, the court will permit Plaintiff to conduct discovery should the FBI fail to produce documents and/or records responsive to his FOIA request.”   Id. at 160.

4. FBI's Motion for Reconsideration and District Court's Revised Order

The FBI moved for reconsideration of the district court's order.   It claimed that (1) the redacted material in the Freeh Memorandum was exempt from disclosure because it would compromise the identity of and information provided by a confidential informant;  (2) the BOMBROB-Funding Memorandum did not reference the SPLC and therefore was not responsive to Mr. Trentadue's initial FOIA request;  and (3) the additional search ordered by the court would be unduly burdensome.

In support of its motion, the FBI submitted a third declaration from David Hardy.   Hardy stated that file number 174-OC-56120, one of the three files to be searched under the court's order, contained about 1,152,000 pages.   He asserted that the manual search ordered by the court would be “extremely time consuming and unprecedented in the history of the FBI FOIA Program.”   Id. at 204.  (The agency's brief below estimated that such a manual search would require “thousands of work hours to complete.”  Id. at 192.)   Mr. Hardy also described interim search efforts that the FBI had conducted in an attempt to comply with the order.   He said that the FBI had manually searched two of the three files named in the order, which contained about 4,100 pages.   And with respect to the 174A-OC56120 file, the agency had performed an electronic search.   He described that search as a

“text search” of the ZyIndex which is not a shared drive, but rather is an automated system component which has been used by the OKBOMB Task Force.   ZyIndex is an off-the[-]shelf software application that indexes words and phrases to allow an electronic retrieval of documents.   An initial “text search” conducted on the ZyIndex indicates that there are approximately 340 documents that are potentially responsive to plaintiff's request.   It took two individuals two days to conduct this burdensome search of the index for the terms “Elohim/Poverty;” “Elhoim/Poverty;” “OKBOMB/Poverty;” “BOMBROB/Poverty;” “McVeigh/Poverty;” “Guthrie/Poverty;” “Nichols/Poverty;” “Mahon/Poverty;” “Millar/Poverty;” “Brescia/Poverty;” “Langan/Poverty;” and “Strassmeir/Poverty.”

Id. at 205 (footnotes omitted).   The 340 potentially responsive documents had not yet been reviewed by the agency to weed out duplicates and to determine whether the documents were responsive and not covered by FOIA exemptions.

In addition, Mr. Hardy provided the context behind the FBI's teletype instructing its field offices not to upload into the ACS system any documents from the investigation into the death of Mr. Trentadue's brother.   Such uploading, Mr. Hardy explained, would have made the text of these classified documents available electronically, thereby jeopardizing the security and privacy of FBI employees.  (Apparently, some FBI employees were subjects of the investigation and others were witnesses.)   The documents would still be retrievable through an electronic search of the FBI's computerized indices.

The district court stayed its initial order pending further briefing.   It added that “[t]o the extent that [the FBI has] discovered documents that are responsive to Plaintiffs's FOIA requests (as interpreted by [the FBI] ) and to which [the FBI does] not assert any FOIA exemption, [it] shall produce such documents as they become available.”  Id. at 239.   On July 22, 2005, the FBI produced 17 documents and filed a “Notice of Release of Documents to Plaintiff” with the court.  Id. at 240.

Still unsatisfied, Mr. Trentadue filed a response to this notice on July 28, 2005.   He claimed that the documents produced were improperly redacted and that the FBI could have produced more documents because (1) the documents produced referenced other responsive documents (e.g., enclosures with teletypes) that were not produced;  (2) the oldest document produced was generated a week after the Oklahoma City Bombing, even though the FBI's undercover investigations had allegedly begun before the bombing;  and (3) the FBI still had not yet performed searches using the terms “Morris Dees” or the initials “SPLC.”

The FBI responded that its production of the 17 documents was not in bad faith.   It maintained that it had not omitted documents that were referenced by the documents it had produced.   Another declaration from David Hardy explained that “f a released document referred to or referenced another document, the referred to or referenced document was also released if it, too, was responsive to plaintiff's FOIA requests․” Id. Vol. 2 at 497.   Likewise, “[e]nclosures referred to by a released document were included in the July 21 release, if the enclosures were located in the FBI's search.   There were two such enclosures.”  Id. at 498. Hardy noted that follow-up searches were sometimes necessary to locate these enclosures, because “[a]s a general matter, in the filing process, enclosures often become separated from their cover documents.”  Id. Two enclosures were not located.   One was a floppy disk;  Hardy stated that “[f]loppy disk enclosures are destroyed in the ordinary course.”  Id. The other was a newspaper article, although the article was “identified [in the released document] with sufficient specificity for [Mr. Trentadue] to obtain the document from public sources, should he so desire.”   Id.

In an order issued on March 30, 2006, the district court declined to reconsider its earlier finding that the FBI's initial search had not been reasonably calculated to uncover responsive documents.   The court did, however, agree with the FBI that it need not produce the BOMBROB-Funding Memorandum, whose failure to mention either Dees or the SPLC made it nonresponsive to Mr. Trentadue's initial FOIA requests.   And it agreed with almost all the FBI's redactions.   Most relevant to this appeal, it “relieved [the FBI] of conducting a manual search of the OKBOMB file․” Id. Vol. 3 at 902.   Instead, the court ordered the FBI to conduct searches like those already conducted but using the names “Morris Dees” (overruling the FBI's privacy contention) and “SPLC” (the FBI had employed the search term poverty in its ZyIndex to cull documents mentioning the Southern Poverty Law Center).   The court noted:

t is so troubling that ․ the disclosed documents also refer to other attachments that at one time appear to have accompanied the document, yet these documents have not been produced. While the FBI's failure to discover documents is not necessarily an indication of bad faith, it is puzzling that so many documents could be referenced but not produced.   But given the nature of Plaintiff's initial FOIA request and the searches that have been conducted by the FBI thus far, the court declines to order further searches beyond what the court has ordered above.   It appears likely, however, that the FBI has not seen the last FOIA request from Plaintiff.

Id. at 901.   After further searching, the FBI produced one additional document.

5. Mr. Trentadue's Motion for Discovery and District Court's Ruling

In February 2007, eight months after the FBI's production of the additional document, Mr. Trentadue filed the motion that generated this appeal.   The motion seeks authorization to take videotaped depositions of Terry Nichols, who was convicted for his role in the Oklahoma City Bombing, and David Paul Hammer, a death-row inmate who claimed to have discussed the bombing in detail with Timothy McVeigh while the latter was on death row.   In the motion Mr. Trentadue reiterated his allegation that the FBI's production of documents had been in bad faith because other responsive documents-especially ones created before the bombing-had to be in FBI files.   The depositions of Nichols and Hammer, he asserted, would “set forth facts establishing a link between Elohim City and the Murrah Building bombing,” thereby “establishing FBI Defendants' apparent complicity in that crime through informants,” id.   Vol. 4 at 988, and would provide evidence of “FBI Defendants' bad faith response to Plaintiff's FOIA requests,” id. at 1008.   To support his motion, Mr. Trentadue submitted declarations by Hammer and Nichols, both of whom gave accounts of alleged involvement of government informants in the bombing.

The FBI opposed the motion, arguing:  (1) the district court lacked jurisdiction to grant discovery because the district court had already resolved all issues in the case and had no authority under FOIA to order discovery designed only to further a private investigation into terrorism;  and (2) Mr. Trentadue had provided no grounds for reopening the case under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) and had presented no evidence to support a suspicion that Defendants had inadequately responded to his FOIA request.

Stating that it had never closed the case, the district court granted Mr. Trentadue's discovery request.   With respect to the merits of the discovery request, the court cited its earlier order stating that “pon motion, the court will allow Plaintiff to conduct discovery should the FBI fail to produce documents and/or records responsive to [his] FOIA requests.”  Id. at 1155 (internal quotation marks omitted;  first brackets in original).   The court then explained:

In light of (1) the court's previous finding that the FBI's original search was not reasonably calculated to locate responsive documents;  (2) the troubling absence of documents to which other documents referred;  and (3) the information that Plaintiff has thus far discovered from Terry Lynn Nichols and David Paul Hammer, the court is persuaded that it continues to maintain jurisdiction over this action, and, furthermore, that by allowing the requested depositions, Plaintiff may be better able to identify the existence of other records responsive to his FOIA request that have not yet been produced.

Id.

The FBI filed a motion for reconsideration.   It reiterated its earlier arguments, but also stressed that discovery in a FOIA action should be limited to “the scope of the agency's search for responsive documents and its indexing and classification procedures,” not expanded into “a fishing expedition into the investigatory action taken by the agency․” Id. at 1161.   Because Nichols and Hammer lacked any knowledge of the FBI's search for records, the FBI argued, deposing them would be tantamount to “conduct[ing] discovery into the Oklahoma City bombing investigation,” an unprecedented move given that neither Mr. Trentadue, nor the court, cited any authority allowing for depositions of nonagency personnel.  Id. The FBI also argued, alternatively, that the court should prohibit video recording of the depositions out of concern for prison security.

The district court denied Defendants' motion except that it ordered that the video show only the deponents and placed other restrictions on the use of video-recording equipment.   The court closed the case, but added that “f Plaintiff is correct and through these depositions he discovers the existence of records responsive to Plaintiff's FOIA request, he may file a motion to reopen the case.”  Id. at 1313.

III. DISCUSSION

The issue before us on appeal is whether the district court properly authorized the depositions of Nichols and Hammer.   The FBI argues that such discovery is inappropriate because (1) the FBI has submitted detailed affidavits establishing the reasonableness of its search, and the district court never found the described search to be inadequate or to have been conducted in bad faith;  (2) discovery in FOIA proceedings is limited to the adequacy of the agency's search processes, not its outcome;  (3) the depositions of Nichols and Hammer can provide no information about the nature or scope of the agency's search;  (4) the declarations of Nichols and Hammer do not even mention the Southern Poverty Law Center or Morris Dees, which are the subjects of the FOIA request;  and (5) videotaped depositions of federal prisoners present substantial security concerns.

 We review the district court's discovery order for abuse of discretion.   See Wood v. FBI, 432 F.3d 78, 82 (2d Cir.2005) (discovery in FOIA case).  “A district court abuses its discretion where it commits a legal error or relies on clearly erroneous factual findings, or where there is no rational basis in the evidence for its ruling.”  Breaux v. Am. Family Mut. Ins. Co., 554 F.3d 854, 866 (10th Cir.2009) (internal quotation marks omitted).

 In our view, issuance of the discovery order was an abuse of discretion.   The only proper purpose that we can see for the depositions of the two prisoners, Nichols and Hammer, would be to establish that the FBI likely possesses documents encompassed by Mr. Trentadue's request.   But taking the depositions for that purpose would be improper because (1) Mr. Trentadue has provided no reason to doubt (a) that the FBI has performed the searches described in the declarations submitted by it and (b) that there are no reasonable methods by which the FBI could locate the requested records beyond those described in the declarations;  and (2) there is no reason to believe that the depositions could produce evidence of the existence of unproduced responsive records.

 First, as we explained at the outset of this opinion, the issue in a FOIA lawsuit challenging an agency's search for records is not whether there exist further documents responsive to a FOIA request but whether the agency conducted a reasonable search for responsive documents.   Perhaps the FBI's initial search was inadequate (an issue we need not address), but the searches ultimately conducted were very thorough.   Not only did it search its CRS indices for records described in Mr. Trentadue's FOIA request, but it manually searched two files and conducted a ZyIndex search of the principal file relating to the Oklahoma City Bombing.   Apparently, the only additional search that could have been conducted would have been a manual search of more than one million pages in that principal file-a search that, according to the FBI, would be an unprecedented FOIA effort by the agency that would take thousands of hours of work. To be sure, the FBI's description of its search effort was in the form of a declaration, not cross-examined testimony.   But declarations and affidavits are the widely accepted, even the preferable, means for an agency to respond to concerns about the adequacy of a FOIA search.   We agree with the Sixth Circuit:

In discharging this burden [to show the adequacy of its search], the agency may rely on affidavits or declarations that provide reasonable detail of the scope of the search.   In the absence of countervailing evidence or apparent inconsistency of proof, such affidavits will suffice to demonstrate compliance with the obligations imposed by the FOIA.

Rugiero, 257 F.3d at 547 (citations, brackets, and internal quotation marks omitted).   See Becker v. IRS, 34 F.3d 398, 405 (7th Cir.1994) (“An agency may establish the reasonableness of its search through affidavits.”);   Church of Scientology of Cal. v. IRS, 792 F.2d 146, 151 (D.C.Cir.1986) (Scalia, J.) (“Summary judgment ․ would require an affidavit reciting facts which enable the District Court to satisfy itself that all appropriate files have been searched, i.e., that further searches would be unreasonably burdensome.   Such an affidavit would presumably identify the searched files and describe at least generally the structure of the agency's file system which makes further search difficult.”);  Perry v. Block, 684 F.2d 121, 126 (D.C.Cir.1982) (per curiam) (“The peculiarities inherent in FOIA litigation, with the responding agencies often in sole possession of requested records and with information searches conducted only by agency personnel, have led federal courts to rely on government affidavits to determine whether the statutory obligations of the FOIA have been met.”);   James T. O'Reilly, supra § 7:5 at 165 (“In general, an agency search is adequate where the affidavit shows a good faith effort to use reasonable means to produce the information sought.”). “Discovery relating to the agency's search and the exemptions it claims for withholding records generally is unnecessary if the agency's submissions are adequate on their face, and a district court may forgo discovery and award summary judgment on the basis of submitted affidavits or declarations.”  Wood, 432 F.3d at 85 (brackets and internal quotation marks omitted).

 An agency “is not required to reorganize its filing system in response to each FOIA request,” Goland, 607 F.2d at 370;  and Mr. Trentadue has failed to suggest any search method that the FBI has not used other than a manual search of the primary Oklahoma City Bombing file-an unreasonably burdensome search that the district court ultimately relieved the FBI from undertaking.   Nor has Mr. Trentadue presented any reason to believe that the FBI's descriptions of its searches have been flawed in any respect.   He and the district court have expressed surprise and concern that the agency did not produce enclosures and other documents referenced in disclosed documents;  but the declaration from the section chief of the FBI's Record/Information Dissemination Section explained that only two enclosures (a floppy disk destroyed in the ordinary course and a newspaper article) were missing and the undisclosed cross-referenced documents were not covered by Mr. Trentadue's FOIA request.   In sum, the FBI's declarations provide an internally consistent and uncontradicted record that it conducted an adequate search for the documents requested by Mr. Trentadue.   See SafeCard Servs., Inc. v. SEC, 926 F.2d 1197, 1200 (D.C.Cir.1991) (“Agency affidavits are accorded a presumption of good faith, which cannot be rebutted by purely speculative claims about the existence and discoverability of other documents.” (internal quotation marks omitted)).

In this light, the discovery sought by Mr. Trentadue cannot be justified.   He has failed to show any possibility that the depositions of Nichols and Hammer would produce relevant evidence in this case.   See Oppenheimer Fund, Inc. v. Sanders, 437 U.S. 340, 351-52, 98 S.Ct. 2380, 57 L.Ed.2d 253 (1978) (“Discovery of matter not ‘reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence’ is not within the scope of Rule 26(b)(1).”);  Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(b)(1) (discovery permitted if it is “reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence”);  see also id. 26(b)(2)(C)(iii) (courts must limit otherwise-permissible discovery if “the burden or expense of the proposed discovery outweighs its likely benefit, considering the needs of the case, the amount in controversy, the parties' resources, the importance of the issues at stake in the action, and the importance of the discovery in resolving the issues”).   Nichols is a convicted coconspirator in the Oklahoma City Bombing and Hammer is a death-row inmate and alleged confidant of Timothy McVeigh, who has been executed for the offense.   Nichols and Hammer clearly have no knowledge regarding FBI procedures in filing and searching for records-which are the only relevant matters in FOIA litigation challenging an agency's records search.   Only present or past agency employees would have knowledge of those matters, which readily explains why we have been cited to no precedent for deposing nonagency personnel in FOIA cases.   Mr. Trentadue (and apparently the district court) may have supposed that the depositions would reveal that the FBI must have created a record that has not been produced in response to Mr. Trentadue's FOIA request.   But even if the existence of such a record were relevant, it is pure speculation that such a revelation would be forthcoming.   After all, Mr. Trentadue's FOIA request was limited to records relating to Morris Dees and the SPLC, yet the declarations of Nichols and Hammer submitted by Mr. Trentadue to the district court make no mention of either Dees or the SPLC.

To conduct the discovery requested by Mr. Trentadue would be an abuse of judicial process.

IV. CONCLUSION

We REVERSE the district court's order granting Mr. Trentadue's motion to conduct discovery.   The parties' motions to supplement the appendix and the record are DENIED.

FOOTNOTES

1.  We see no purpose in expanding upon Mr. Trentadue's beliefs concerning the connection between the investigations and his brother's death.

2.  Mr. Hardy described the CRS as follows:(10) The Central Records System (“CRS”), which is utilized by the FBI to conduct searches in response to FOIA and Privacy Act requests, enables it to maintain all information which it has acquired in the course of fulfilling mandated law enforcement responsibilities.   The records consist of administrative, applicant, criminal, personnel, and other files compiled for law enforcement purposes.   This system consists of a numerical sequence of files broken down according to subject matter.   The subject matter of a file may relate to an individual, organization, company, publication, activity, or foreign intelligence matter.   Certain records in this system are maintained at FBIHQ [FBI headquarters].   Records that are pertinent to specific field offices are maintained in those field offices.Access to the CRS is afforded by the General Indices, which are arranged in alphabetical order.   The General Indices consist of index cards on various subject matters that are searched either manually or through the automated indices.   The entries in the General Indices fall into two categories:(a) A “main” entry-A “main” entry carries the name corresponding with a subject of a file contained in the CRS.(a) A “reference” entry-“Reference” entries, sometimes called “cross-references,” are generally only a mere mention or reference to an individual, organization, etc., contained in a document located in another “main” file.(12) Access to the CRS files at FBI field divisions is also afforded by the General Indices (automated and manual), which are likewise arranged in alphabetical order, and consist of an index on various subjects, including the names of individuals and organizations.   Searches made in the General Indices to locate records concerning a particular subject, such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, are made by searching the subject requested in the index.   FBI field divisions have automated indexing functions.(13) On October 16, 1995, the Automated Case Support (“ACS”) was implemented for all Field Divisions, Legal Attaches (“Legats”), and FBIHQ.   Over 105 million records were converted from automated systems previously utilized by the FBI. ACS consists of three integrated, yet separately functional, automated applications that support case management functions for all FBI investigative and administrative cases, which are:(a) Investigative Case Management (“ICM”)-ICM provides the ability to open, assign, and close investigative and administrative cases as well as set, assign, and track leads.   The Office of Origin (“OO”), which sets leads for itself and other divisions, as needed, opens a case.   The offices that receive leads are referred to as Lead Offices (“LOs”), formerly known as Auxiliary Offices.   When a case is opened, it is assigned a Universal Case File Number (“OCFN”), such as “12-SU-34567,” which is utilized by all FBI offices, including FBIHQ, that are conducting or assisting in the investigation.   The “12” indicates the type of investigation, “SU” indicates the Office of Origin of the investigation, and “34567” denotes the individual case file number for that particular investigation.(b) Electronic Case File (“ECF”)-ECF serves as the central electronic repository for the FBI's official text-based documents.   ECF supports the universal serial concept, where only the creator of a document serializes it into a file, providing single source entry of serials into the computerized system.   All original serials are maintained in the OO case file.(c) Universal Index (“UNI”)-UNI continues the universal concepts of ACS by providing a complete subject/case index to all investigative and administrative cases.   Only the OO is required to index;  however, the LOs may index additional information as needed.   UNI, an 84.5 million record index, provides functions to index names to cases and to search names and cases for the FBI's investigative and administrative cases.   Names of individuals or non-individuals are recorded with identifying information, such as sex, race, event date, date or place of birth, locality, Social Security number, or address.(14) The decision to index names other than subjects, suspects, and victims is a discretionary decision made by the investigative FBI Special Agent (“SA”), the supervisor in the field division conducting the investigation, and supervising FBI SA at FBIHQ.   The FBI does not index every name in its files;  rather, it indexes only that information considered pertinent, relevant, or essential for future retrieval.   Without a “key” (index) to this mass of information, information essential to ongoing investigations could not be readily retrieved.   The FBI files would thus be merely archival in nature and could not be effectively used to serve the mandated mission of the FBI, which is to investigate violations of federal criminal statutes.   Therefore, the General Indices to the CRS files are the means by which the FBI can determine what retrievable information, if any, the FBI may have in its CRS files on a particular subject matter or individualDecl. of David M. Hardy at 4-7, Attach. to Defs. Reply, Trentadue, No. 2:04 CV 00772 DAK.

3.  The declaration stated:(16) A search of the CRS indices at FBIHQ and the Oklahoma City Field Office, and the search of the I and S drives at the Oklahoma City Field Office for records which directly or indirectly, report upon, concern, reference or refer to the SPLC's involvement with and/or connection to Elohim City, BOMBROB, OKBOMB, Timothy McVeigh, Richard Guthrie, Terry Nichols, Dennis Mahon, Robert Millar, Michael Brescia, Peter Langan and/or Andreas Strassmeir including all contacts the SPLC may have indirectly had with the foregoing through informants revealed that FBIHQ and the Oklahoma City Field Office have no records responsive to plaintiff's request.   The search was performed using the search term “Southern Poverty Law Center” as that would be the file containing the information sought.   The search was performed using the search term “OKBOMB” as that is [the] file under which the memorandum would have been placed.(17) A search for records pertaining to Morris Dees will be conducted upon receipt of the completed Privacy Waiver and Certification Form which the FBI provided to plaintiff by letter dated November 18, 2004.   In the absence of this privacy waiver, the records, if they exist, are exempt from disclosure pursuant to Exemptions 6 and/or 7(C), 5 U.S.C. §§ 552(b)(6), (b)(7)(C).  To date, plaintiff has not submitted this form to the FBI.Id. at 8-9.






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Growing impatient with the DEA dragging its feet on the opioid epidemic, members of the Energy and Commerce Committee are threatening to subpoena the agency for information on “pill dumping” in West Virginia.

Chairman of the committee, Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., blasted the DEA for its failure to fully respond to a May 8 request for data on drug suppliers sending millions of opioids into the state, the Hill reports.

“Enough is enough. Will you, on behalf of the DEA, commit today to producing the documents and information we requested, and soon? Or do we simply need to issue a subpoena? Because we are done waiting,” Walden said to DEA Deputy Assistant Administrator Neil Doherty at a hearing.

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December 12, 2017
FBI appears to have investigated - and considered prosecuting - FOIA requesters
Heavily redacted emails discussing the potential investigation conceal the identities of the FBI officials while exposing personal info of requesters
Written by Emma Best
Edited by JPat Brown
A new FOIA release shows the FBI Director’s Office responded to FOIA requests for known files on deceased FBI officials by presenting options that seemingly included a law enforcement investigation/proceeding against the requesters, with one email calling the requests “SUSPICIOUS.” While the emails are heavily redacted to conceal the identities of the FBI officials involved in the discussions, the Bureau repeatedly left personal information of the different FOIA requesters unredacted, despite having clear guidelines and no privacy waivers.

The FBI’s Dead List, which compiles a list of FBI files on subjects the Bureau knows to be dead, can be a wonderful resource for FOIA requesters. The list confirms the existence of specific FBI files as well as the subject’s death, removing the need to provide separate proof of death in order to avoid unnecessary redactions. The FBI has recently begun claiming that they can’t locate the updated copy of the file, a claim that the Department of Justice has upheld on appeal. The most recently released copy of the Dead List identified approximately 7,000 deceased FBI officials on whom the Bureau maintained files. Due to the obvious public interest in these files, they were requested.

To accomplish this, the names of the subjects were extracted from the Dead List and a simple script written to submit FOIA requests for them. The requests were submitted on February 29th 2016, with the script and data made available online so that others could make their own requests and trigger the DOJ’s “rule of three” for frequently requested records, which would see the files posted online by the FBI. The FBI acknowledged a large number of them before they began ignoring them. Over a month later (after the Bureau had exceeded legal time limit), the FBI sent a letter stating that they had “received an exceedingly high volume of submissions” which they would not accept.

According to the Bureau, fulfilling the FOIA requests would have prevented the FBI from fulfilling FOIA requests. Their letter stated that the “manner of submission interfered with the FBI’s ability to perform its FOIA and PA statutory responsibilities as an agency. Accordingly, the FBI did not accept these submissions on February 29th, 2016.”

In response, a new FOIA request was filed for:

All internal memos, letters and emails relating to a voluminous number of FOIA requests that were submitted on February 29th, 2016 and all discussions of how to handle said requests. I also hereby request all email maintenance complaints, logs and other documentation of problems associated with the FBI email system for February and March 2016.
After ten months (again well outside the legal limit), the Bureau finally responded with 25 pages of heavily redacted emails. The FBI provided no records indicating any problems with their email system for February or March, and withheld no pages in their entirety. Since the FBI’s FOIA office is always thorough in their searches and acts in good faith for David Hardy, the FBI’s relevant Section Chief, is an honorable man, it might be safe to assume that these records do not exist. If they did, the Bureau would surely release them, if only to substantiate Hardy’s claim that the submission method caused interference for the FBI. Since the author’s free Gmail account was able to handle the number of emails involved, it’s hardly surprising that the Bureau’s system would be as well.



Perhaps the most revealing thing from the emails is that at least one person from the FBI Director’s Office became involved, as indicated by the DO abbreviation. Though the text of their email is redacted except for a single word, if one believes the b(7)e exemption cited by the Bureau, they discussed “techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions.” There would be no reason to discuss those techniques or procedures in this instance if the Bureau wasn’t considering applying them in response to the FOIA requests.



Another email shows that the Bureau apparently considered the FOIA requests “SUSPICIOUS.”



Other emails show that the FBI’s FOIA office consulted a number of people from the Criminal Justice Information Services division. Among other things, CJIS is responsible for the Bureau’s National Crime Information Center, Uniform Crime Reporting, Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, and the National Incident-Based Reporting System systems.



Despite redacting the names and email addresses of the public servants handling the case, the FBI released not only the author’s name and address in the file (technically improper since there was no waiver, albeit understandable) but the name, email address and home address of another requester who also used the script to file requests. Their name along with their email and physical addresses were left unredacted not once, not twice, not thrice - but seven times, not including the email headers, several of which also showed their name and email address.

It’s hard to imagine that the Bureau, which once hung a sign in their FOIA office instructing people that “when in doubt - cross it out” would fail to redact this information so many times by accident. In context, it’s hard to see it as anything but retaliatory. As Fred Burton (Stratfor’s Vice President of Intelligence) put it, not only is it the sort of pettiness one would expect from the lingering ghost of J. Edgar Hoover - it’s the sort of thing that should be investigated.



After the FBI threw away the separately filed FOIA requests en masse, including the ones that released emails show they had already processed into their FOIPA system, a separate, single request was filed for the files of deceased FBI Officials which the Bureau had identified in the Dead List. In response, the Bureau identified several preprocessed files that it requested duplication fees for in contrast to their typical policy of providing preprocessed materials without duplication or review fees. The Bureau also denied the author the proper fee category. The FBI insisted, among other things, that there had been no demonstration that the author was a journalist, or that a distinct work could be distributed to an audience, despite the original FOIA request citing previous articles that had individually reached over 100,000 readers.



This was appealed to the Department of Justice, which not only upheld the Bureau’s decision but cited logic that is faulty and contradicted by both the law. The DOJ’s arguments included stating that there was no “topic for an article of interest to the intelligence community” - despite the FBI being part of the that community. The DOJ also argued, in a single sentence, that there was no “topical thread” connecting the subjects of the request and that they were all deceased FBI employees. The FBI’s internal emails also contradicted their contention that there was no public interest, as the FBI was fully aware that there were already articles about the requests themselves - a fact which obliviates the Bureau’s contention that there would be no public interest in the results of those requests.



Therefore, the DOJ stated that “the FBI properly categorized you as an “all others” requester for purposes of this request.” [emphasis added] Even according to the DOJ’s own website, this contradicts the law. A second appeal was filed, pointing out that, among other things, “the news-media waiver … focuses on the nature of the requester, not its request.” The courts have also held that if a requester satisfies the news media “criteria as a general matter, it does not matter whether any of the individual FOIA requests does so.”

Nevertheless, the DOJ upheld their original decision.

It seems that when it comes to FOIA requests for FBI files on their deceased officials, the law is used to consider investigations or prosecutions against the requesters and to protect the privacy of the Bureau’s personnel, but not the privacy of the requesters or to fulfill the statutory FOIA requirements – which the FBI incredulously claimed they would be unable to fulfill if they had fulfilled the FOIA requests.

Readers are strongly encouraged to file their own requests for individual files on deceased FBI employees via the list embedded below, or on the request page here.



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Sea ice also melting at fastest past in 1,500 years, US government scientists find
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Media ignores warming in its hurricane coverage
Climate change is the story you missed in 2017. And the media is to blame

Lisa Hymas, The Guardian (U.K.), Dec. 7, 2017

Which story did you hear more about this year – how climate change makes disasters like hurricanes worse, or how President Donald Trump threw paper towels at Puerto Ricans?

If you answered the latter, you have plenty of company. Academic Jennifer Good analyzed two weeks of hurricane coverage during the height of hurricane season on eight major TV networks and found that about 60% of the stories included the word “Trump” and only about 5% mentioned “climate change.”

Trump doesn’t just suck the oxygen out of the room; he sucks the carbon dioxide out of the national dialogue. Even in a year when we’ve had string of hurricanes, heat waves, and wildfires worthy of the Book of Revelation – just what climate scientists have told us to expect – the effect of climate change on extreme weather has been dramatically undercovered. Some of Trump’s tweets generate more national coverage than devastating disasters.

Good’s analysis lines up with research done by my organization, Media Matters for America, which found that TV news outlets gave far too little coverage to the well-documented linkes between climate change and hurricanes. ABC and NBC both completely failed to bring up climate change during their news coverage of Harvey, a storm that caused the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in the continental US When Irma hit soon after, breaking the record for hurricane intensity, ABC didn’t do much better.

Coverage was even worse of Hurricane Maria, the third hurricane to make landfall in the US this year. Not only did media outlets largely fail to cover the climate connection; in many cases, they largely failed to cover the hurricane itself.

The weekend after Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, the five major Sunday political talk shows devoted less than one minute in total to the storm and the humanitarian emergency it triggered. And Maria got only about a third as many mentions in major print and online media outlets as did Harvey and Irma, researchers at the MIT Media Lab found.

When Trump visited Puerto Rico on October 3, almost two weeks after Maria assailed the island, he got wall-to-wall coverage as journalists reported on his paper-towel toss and other egregious missteps. But after that trip, prime-time cable news coverage of Puerto Rico’s recovery plummeted, Media Matters found, even though many residents to this day suffer from electricity outages and a lack of clean water, a dire situation that deserves serious and sustained coverage.

Scientists have been telling us that climate change will make hurricanes more intense and dangerous, an unfortunate reality made all too clear by this year’s record-busting hurricane season. “These are precisely the sort of things we expect to happen as we continue to warm the planet,” climate scientist Michael Mann, a distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State, told Huffington Post

But while nearly three-quarters of Americans know that most scientists are in agreement that climate change is happening, according to recent poll, only 42% of Americans believe climate change will pose a serious threat to them during their lifetimes. Too many still believe – wrongly – that climate disasters are just something that will happen in the future. They are happening now.
In the first nine months of 2017, the US was assailed by 15 weather and climate disasters that each did more than a billion dollars in damage – in the case of the hurricanes, much more. The combined economic hit from Harvey, Irma, and Maria could end up being $200bn or more, according to Moody’s Analytics. And then in October, unprecedented wildfires in Northern California did an estimated $3bn in damage.

Climate change can be hard to see and intuitively grasp. It’s a relatively slow-moving scientific phenomenon caused by pollution from all around the globe. It’s not usually dramatic to watch like a candidate debate or the fallout from a White House scandal.
But an extreme weather event is a moment when people can see and feel climate change – and if they’re unlucky, get seriously hurt by it. When those disasters happen, media outlets need to cover them as climate change stories. And when a number of them happen in quick succession, as they did this year, the media have an even greater responsibility to report the big-picture story about climate change and help the public understand the immediacy of the threat.

If we are to fend off the worst possible outcomes of climate change, we need to shift as quickly as possible to a cleaner energy system. We could expect more Americans to get on board with that solution if they more fully understood the problem – and that’s where the critical role of the media comes in. As the weather gets worse, we need our journalism to get better.

Lisa Hymas is the Climate and Energy Program Director at Media Matters

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Lake County undersheriff indicted on multiple felony charges
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The interagency CACTUS program served as the conduit between CIA’s Operation CHAOS and FBI’s COINTELPRO
December 11, 2017
The interagency CACTUS program served as the conduit between CIA’s Operation CHAOS and FBI’s COINTELPRO
Even after each agecy’s domestic surveillance programs ended, the CACTUS channel continued their efforts and monitored “the idea of corporate complicity” in American imperialism
Written by Emma Best
Edited by JPat Brown
A little known but extremely important part of the history of domestic surveillance by intelligence agencies is the CACTUS program. CACTUS was a highly classified channel used by agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to transmit information about “the New Left, Black Militants and related matters.” This channel was never disclosed in the Church Committee reports, even when the reports discuss information that was transmitted through CACTUS.

A review of the available documents also indicates that the program is older than previous FOIA releases indicate, with one federal judge questioning CIA’s good faith in processing FOIA requests relating to the CACTUS channel when the Agency declared it was “still utilized” in the mid-1980s.

According to a memo released to several researchers, “the CACTUS indicator” was described for FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by CIA Director Richard Helms on April 22nd, 1970. The conclusion by the very few resources to mention the program has been that the program was first introduced on this date.

Director CIA to Director FBI April 22, 1970

SUBJECT: USE OF THE CACTUS INDICATOR

The cryptonym CACTUS has been assigned as a teletype action indicator covering teletype communications between this Agency and your Bureau dealing with the New Left, Black Militants and related matters. Use of this indicator will facilitate prompt and effective action on such communications by this Agency.
A formerly SECRET message between the FBI and CIA Directors shows that the program predates this memo. The message, dated April 18th, 1970, shows that CIA was sending information about Vietnam War protesters to FBI several days before Hoover had the cryptonym explained to him. It’s likely that the explanation was offered in response to a query from Hoover, who apparently was seeing the cryptonym for the first time. Whether the program was new, or simply new to Hoover, isn’t currently clear. A FOIA request to learn more was filed in March of this year, though the FBI has yet to respond (despite having exceeded the legal time limit several times over).

Notably, one of the people involved in the earliest known CACTUS document was Coretta Scott King. Hardly a “black militant,” she was a civil rights icon and the widow of Martin Luther King Jr - himself infamously targeted by the FBI’s COINTELPRO efforts.



The Agency seemed concerned that the campaign might invoke “the idea of corporate complicity” in regards to the Vietnam War. Further tying this monitoring to the COINTELPRO project is the fact that the memo was also signed by Richard Ober, the senior counterintelligence officer at CIA who was directing Operation CHAOS at that time, which was in many respects, the Agency’s equivalent of COINTELPRO. Significantly, the memo was flagged Counterintelligence Special Operations.



Within a few months of the FBI and CIA’s earliest known use the CACTUS channel, it provided the FBI with a piece of evidence they used in their efforts to manipulate and ultimately destroy the Black Panther Party as part of COINTELPRO. When the Church Committee investigated this chapter, they simply noted that the FBI learned where Leary was. No citation is given, and it’s unclear if the Church Committee had any awareness of the Agency’s role in this instance of the U.S. Government meddling in domestic politics.



A formerly SECRET teletype between the CIA and FBI Directors, however, reveals that the information came directly from the highest levels of CIA. This support from CIA gave the FBI the information it needed to create and exploit a chain of events that resulted in Cleaver and his people being expelled.



While this happened when COINTELPRO was still officially authorized, the program is generally believed to have been discontinued just over a year after the CACTUS channel was initiated. After the theft and publication of documents from the FBI’s office in Media, Pennsylvania revealed the existence of COINTELPRO, the Bureau decided that it was too sensitive and operations were to shut down - in theory. A closer reading of the memo issued by Hoover shows that the programs were “discontinued” only in a centralized sense, and laid out a process for authorizing additional COINTELPRO-like projects.



As pointed out in the Church Committee report, this merely got rid of the designator for these types of actions. After noting several such examples, the Committee concluded that it would take a search of all investigative files to locate additional instances of COINTELPRO-like activity after the program was declared discontinued. The CIA program, CACTUS, was unaffected.



A formerly SECRET memo shows that nearly a year after COINTELPRO was officially disbanded, CIA was still using CACTUS to transmit and request information on figures in the “New Left” figures such as John Lennon.



A previously CONFIDENTIAL memo shows that just prior to that, the Agency had been supplying the Bureau with months worth of information about U.S. citizens traveling in Korea, Vietnam or China - including Susan Sontag, on assignment for Esquire.



Another formerly SECRET memo bearing the CACTUS cryptonym shows that nearly two years after COINTELPRO was officially discontinued, CIA was still providing information on the Eldridge Cleaver faction of the BPP.



When the BPP tried to sue over this, the Agency deflected and used a form of graymail by attempting to force the Party to reveal the name of every past and present member or contributor. After the BPP refused, the suit was dismissed.

Other memos show that the Agency was not discriminating in what it decided made someone a “black militant.” While a good case can be made that the BPP had militant members, the Agency also decided that individuals like Ralph Abernathy counted. At the time, Abernathy had a history as a non-violent leader in the Civil Rights movement, and as a friend of MLK. He was also the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Some of the same memos contained information about Noam Chomsky, who the Agency similarly saw as giving aid and comfort to the enemy by advocating against war and criticizing the U.S..



Regardless of whether or not someone was a respected member of the government, even they weren’t immune to the reach of the CIA and CACTUS. Less than two weeks after she became a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Bella Abzug’s name was included on a list of “United States Lawyers Appearing on the World Peace Council’s Mailing List” that was sent to the FBI in a formerly SECRET memo as part of its monitoring of the New Left.



Other memos show that the program wasn’t restricted to issues of national security or foreign involvement. A memo sent from the CIA to the FBI just days before COINTELPRO was ostensibly “discontinued” shows that the Agency was collecting and disseminating information about domestic protests. Significantly, the Agency doesn’t appear to have demonstrated the necessary reasonable belief that these activities were a threat to CIA personnel, installation or facilities to authorize the collection under domestic security concerns.



Another memo shows that the information wasn’t just being shared with the FBI but to other Agencies, like the Secret Service. It’s unknown what other agencies received CACTUS messages, but there’s a very real chance that every major federal law enforcement agency received one. The police forces of major cities, such as the NYPD, may also have received CACTUS messages in the days before fusion centers.



In a declaration dated October 28th, 1986 the Agency claimed that releasing additional files would reveal a “CIA administrative methodology used to restrict the flow of sensitive information” which was “still utilized at the present time.” While FBI’s COINTELPRO and CIA’s CHAOS programs had allegedly been shut down, the liaison program linking the two remained in effect for decades. Presently, there’s no evidence that the CACTUS program has been discontinued.

Significantly, especially in light of the lack of disclosure of CACTUS in either the Rockefeller Commission or the Church Committee, a federal judge noted that the “chain of events raises still more doubt about the care and good faith with which plaintiff’s FOIA requests were processed” in regards to CACTUS.

Similarly, the FBI seems to have had its own concerns about keeping CACTUS as secret as possible. An inventory in the file on Mark Felt (commonly believed to be the composite character known as Deep Throat) shows that CACTUS had its own handling and dissemination protocols. A copy of this has been requested, and the issue of CACTUS in general requires additional research.

In the meantime, the CACTUS BPP memo is embedded below, and you can view the 30 CACTUS documents that have been identified and collected so far here.

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The RATs of hell

the remote anonymous triggering of destruction

Within recent weeks, we have seen a resugence of articles from within the halls of US military, information technology and intelligence agencies and their various PR firms and contractor agencies about the development of and need to use “lethal cyber weapons” or, in other words, computer code that is capable of causing an “enemy’s” critical infrastructure to self-destruct.

This establishes the same kinds of arms races (and arguments about them) about numerous other forms of weaponry, mass destruction, etc., including nuclear weapons, biological and chemical weapons, information warfare, etc.

It is ripe for Hegelian games: we discovered they are working on it, so we must begin to do so ourselves so we can understand how the weaponry works at a technical level and so we can defend ourselves, and force the imposition of controls. Such games soon lead, particularly wirth the application of gaming theory and other advanced pathological hegemonic madness, to:

a “first strike” mentality;

a “let’s do a trial run on some hapless corner of the world” to make sure it works” event;

the development of covert labs and production facilities”;

an “accident”;

and more.

Two years ago, World Affairs Journal noted the swing to the offensive with DARPA’s Plan X whose goal was “to create revolutionary technologies for understanding, planning, and managing cyberwarfare.”

Like their military counterparts, cybersecurity experts in the private sector have become increasingly frustrated by their inability to stop intruders from penetrating critical computer networks to steal valuable data or even sabotage network operations. The new idea is to pursue the perpetrators back into their own networks. “We’re following a failed security strategy in cyber,” says Steven Chabinsky, formerly the head of the FBI’s cyber intelligence section and now chief risk officer at CrowdStrike, a startup company that promotes aggressive action against its clients’ cyber adversaries. “There’s no way that we are going to win the cybersecurity effort on defense. We have to go on offense.”

Nearly half-a-billion dollars have been set aside for the first wave of funding. The buzz phrases include “cyber fires”, “cyberspace joint munitions”, and other similaly-hybrid terms of warfare.

“‘Cyber joint munitions effectiveness’ describes that a particular cyber capability has been evaluated and its effectiveness is known against a particular target,” she said. The target is a person, place or object a commander is eyeing to neutralize, according to the associated Joint Chiefs of Staff policy.

“Cyber fires” has a broader meaning and “can be used for offensive or defensive objectives, and can be designed to create effects in and through cyberspace,” she said.



https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/73 ... dd0128.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

“… Yes, I’ve become quite a student of your operations in this region.

Thirty-four mansions, I think it was, pillaged and burned…under Colonel Montgomery’s expedition of the Combahee….”









“First squad, second platoon.

Fall out to set torches.

Prepare to fire the town.”





The discussion surrounding the firing of cyber arms hearkens back to before the days of Manhattan Project, some former military leaders say.

“It reminds me of the run-up to the strategic bombing campaigns of World War II,” said Cedric Leighton, a retired National Security Agency and Air Force intelligence director. “Just like then, the consequences of an attack using cyber munitions will not be completely foreseeable.”

http://image.slidesharecdn.com/dresden- ... 1418593947" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

“… In the past, some military academics have voiced concerns about the unintended outcomes of such maneuvers. Malicious code released into networks could backfire and harm U.S. individuals or allies, they warned.

“Due to the ‘system of systems’ nature” of cyberspace, it is very difficult to know exactly what effect” defensive or offensive actions will have on U.S. and ally assets “since we can’t be sure exactly how far out the cyber action might spread,” Dee Andrews and Kamal Jabbour wrote in a 2011 article for Air Force Space Command’s Journal for Space & Missile Professionals. “The difficulty in doing a damage estimate before cyber action is taken makes cyber friendly fire difficult to identify and mitigate.”

There are dozens of bullet points on training support work in the contracting documents.

For example, the hired contractor will run exercises on “USCYBERCOM Fires processes” with the Joint Advanced Cyber Warfare Course, the Army Cyberspace Operations Course, the Air Force Weapons School, the Joint Targeting School and other outside groups, the documents state.

[Ed.: I’ll leave it to the reader to do their own research and riff on the recent history of exercises as “cover” for covert ops.]

Certain contract personnel supporting these so-called cyber fires will be subjected to additional background reviews and will have to comply with “need-to-know” classification rules, according to officials.

Beyond unleashing malware, the chosen contract employees will help repel attacks on Defense Department smartphones housing sensitive data, according to the government. This assignment involves analyzing forensics reports on hacked mobile devices and conducting security assessments of mobile apps, among other things…..”

21stcenturywire.com reminds us about “the Stuxnet super virus, one of the most pernicious and reckless military cyber operations to date.

According to US firm Symantec’s research, Stuxnet and its sister virus, Flame, was part of ‘Operation Olympic Games’, a joint venture between the United States and Israel designed to penetrate Iranian (and Russian too) civilian infrastructure networks – including civilian nuclear power facilities.

According to the Washington Post, “The brilliance of Stuxnet lay in [the attackers] being under the radar of the target entity,” Thakur said. Both variants of Stuxnet “tried to do damage in a manner that would seem random” to the targeted party.

Despite being caught red-handed, the US ‘defense’ industrial complex has simply upped its offensive operations and are now talking about how cyber warfare can be used to inflicted “collateral damage”…. Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin are some of the defense firms competing for an upcoming $460 million US Cyber Command project to give the American military the power to turn an enemy’s critical infrastructure against them with weaponized code, according to Defense One. A 114-page draft of a 5-year contract released on September 30 details a plan to get private companies to support military operations with cyberwarfare…. [T]his kind of offensive cyberwarfare isn’t esoteric stuff relegated to one strange corner of the US military. In fact, digital arms designed to kill are now explicitly sanctioned under the Pentagon’s newly-published Law of War manual, with an entire chapter devoted to cyber warfare.

Cyber strikes are allowed even if “it is certain that civilians would be killed or injured — so long as the reasonably anticipated collateral damage isn’t excessive in relation to what you expect to gain militarily,” said retired Major General Charles J. Dunlap, executive director of Duke University’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. “These are essentially the same rules as for attacks employing traditional bombs or bullets”…

Watch this well-done four-minute video on Stuxnet (Direction and Motion Graphics: Patrick Clair; Written by: Scott Mitchell):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSMOs7CF1Eo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[I’ve left autoplay on: note especially the one-hour talk by the Stuxnet “decoder” and the half-hour documentary on military training in cyber defense.]

According to an RT article on cyber-weapons safeguards:

“… A US Defense Department directive [pdf] signed last week sets the stage for safeguards that would limit any collateral damage from dangerous robotic instruments of war, ideally to “minimize the probability and consequences of failures” in drones and other autonomous or semi-autonomous weapons “that could lead to unintended engagements.”

The document, signed by Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, outlines rules stating that those weapons must “be designed to allow commanders and operators to exercise appropriate levels of human judgment over the use of force” by way of “rigorous hardware and software verification and validation.” When those weapons are attacking the cyber-grid, though, the Defense Department doesn’t necessarily seem to think the same precautions need to be put in place.

While the directive is written to explicitly set up safeguards for autonomous and semi-autonomous weapon systems, one subsection of the document acknowledges that it ‘Does not apply to autonomous or semi-autonomous cyberspace systems for cyberspace operations.’ ….”

See the 20-page pdf “Moral Cyber Weapons”:

Moral Cyber Weapons – Part-II-CH-6 – 24Oct2013 (3)





Here is an article on lethal autonomous-weapon systems and cyber-security that says:

“… It is the combination of weapons, ICS and remote control and monitoring technologies which introduces not just more determined threat actors, but also attack vectors via well-known wireless and satellite communication technologies, where a lot of security research has been done.

There have been several examples of attacks. The Iranian Military claimed to have used GPS jamming attacks to force a UAV into an autonomous mode and caused a denial of service, while some researchers, such as Samy Kamkar, have demonstrated command and control over UAVs via wireless protocols.

Researchers have even conducted attacks against tele-operated surgical robots over the Internet and over the last decade there have been many examples of Advanced Persistent Threats using malware such as ‘BlackEnergy’ to target ICS.

The main problem in this arena is the fact that there are zero international laws or treaties on cyber warfare. This is a serious issue given that the strongest cyber weapons, attacks on infrastructure, disproportionally target the weak. These attacks on infrastructure could take out power to hospitals, elderly homes and could render the digital communication, transportation and businesses useless, leaving innocent civilians as the victims. For more see The Tallinn Manual. Improving the accuracy of current systems. This is where computing in warfare has gone the furthest. Drones, Tomahawk missiles and laser guidance systems have allowed for a more humane asymmetrical war. The flip side is that this gives the countries who can afford it an excuse to go to war for less egregious reasons.

More here: http://slideplayer.com/slide/4381887/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



http://i1.wp.com/hackmageddon.com/wp-co ... =397%2C423" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



According to Stefano’s definition: a cyber weapon is:

A device or any set of computer instructions intended to unlawfully damage a system acting as a critical infrastructure, its information, the data or programs therein contained or thereto relevant, or even intended to facilitate the interruption, total or partial, or alteration of its operation.

http://www.hackmageddon.com/2012/04/22/ ... er-weapon/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



On logic bombs, trojan horses and trap doors:

http://www.sans.edu/research/security-l ... b-trp-door" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.cknow.com/cms/vtutor/logic-bombs.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



“… ‘Unlike traditional espionage malware or even the Stuxnet virus that sabotaged Iranian nuclear centrifuges, cyber fires would impact human life, according to former Defense officials and a recently released Defense Department ‘Law of War Manual’ … The manual lays out three sample actions the Pentagon deems uses of force in cyberspace: ‘trigger a nuclear plant meltdown; open a dam above a populated area, causing destruction * ; or disable air traffic control services , resulting in airplane crashes.’ …”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pow ... -military/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

* Reminiscent of the Johnstown, PA flood book by David McCullough and the PBS documentary based on it

[I could not find a reference online or in my own archives to the pronouncement by McCullough narrating the film, but it is relevant here.]



# # # # # #

What happens when a logic bomb escapes the lab?

What happens when one of the people comes to deeply understand the ramifications of the work going on inside one of these secretive offices or schools and gets a conscience? WIll be or she be defenestrated?

Who will write the new novels about the new Dresden and the new Hiroshimae?

Wasn’t Fukushima one of these?

Will we see oligarchs hiring computer hackers to create chaos out of which they can create future wealth, like the hurricane in New Orleans or the actions of some driving cultural chaos in Europe?

Will we see bloggers writing satirical pieces about waking up in a world of moral midgets?

Will we see position papers developed by groups of medical care responders, teachers, and others from under the umbrella of “Citizens for Social Grace”?

Will the people who write those position papers be fired from, and blacklisted away from, meaningful employment?

Is there a Malthusian, Luciferian angle to this?



# # # # # #



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pCFY33LD4c" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: FBI agents give US Police State Swiss Government give US Guerilla Warfare pamphlet

Post by msfreeh »

This link is a pdf of the manual Swiss Guide to Guerilla Warfare

I posted it in my last post
on FBI Sock Puppets

https://alamancerangers.files.wordpress ... stance.pdf






msfreeh wrote: December 12th, 2017, 9:15 pm someone changed link on Swiss Guerilla Warfare manual pdf



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http://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights ... ret-police

Yes, the FBI is America’s secret police
BY JAMES BOVARD, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 12/11/17 08:40 AM EST




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msfreeh wrote: November 16th, 2015, 11:25 am http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/V/Vo/Von ... stance.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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RATs of hell
November 16, 2015 Uncategorized “cyber fires”, “dolphin speak”, attack vectors, Citizens for Social Grace, critical infrastructure, cyber-soldiers, DARPA’s Plan X, defenestration, exercises, Flame, Hegelian games, Law of War manual, lethal cyber weapons, malicious code, malware, Operation Olympic Games, Stuxnet

The RATs of hell

the remote anonymous triggering of destruction

Within recent weeks, we have seen a resugence of articles from within the halls of US military, information technology and intelligence agencies and their various PR firms and contractor agencies about the development of and need to use “lethal cyber weapons” or, in other words, computer code that is capable of causing an “enemy’s” critical infrastructure to self-destruct.

This establishes the same kinds of arms races (and arguments about them) about numerous other forms of weaponry, mass destruction, etc., including nuclear weapons, biological and chemical weapons, information warfare, etc.

It is ripe for Hegelian games: we discovered they are working on it, so we must begin to do so ourselves so we can understand how the weaponry works at a technical level and so we can defend ourselves, and force the imposition of controls. Such games soon lead, particularly wirth the application of gaming theory and other advanced pathological hegemonic madness, to:

a “first strike” mentality;

a “let’s do a trial run on some hapless corner of the world” to make sure it works” event;

the development of covert labs and production facilities”;

an “accident”;

and more.

Two years ago, World Affairs Journal noted the swing to the offensive with DARPA’s Plan X whose goal was “to create revolutionary technologies for understanding, planning, and managing cyberwarfare.”

Like their military counterparts, cybersecurity experts in the private sector have become increasingly frustrated by their inability to stop intruders from penetrating critical computer networks to steal valuable data or even sabotage network operations. The new idea is to pursue the perpetrators back into their own networks. “We’re following a failed security strategy in cyber,” says Steven Chabinsky, formerly the head of the FBI’s cyber intelligence section and now chief risk officer at CrowdStrike, a startup company that promotes aggressive action against its clients’ cyber adversaries. “There’s no way that we are going to win the cybersecurity effort on defense. We have to go on offense.”

Nearly half-a-billion dollars have been set aside for the first wave of funding. The buzz phrases include “cyber fires”, “cyberspace joint munitions”, and other similaly-hybrid terms of warfare.

“‘Cyber joint munitions effectiveness’ describes that a particular cyber capability has been evaluated and its effectiveness is known against a particular target,” she said. The target is a person, place or object a commander is eyeing to neutralize, according to the associated Joint Chiefs of Staff policy.

“Cyber fires” has a broader meaning and “can be used for offensive or defensive objectives, and can be designed to create effects in and through cyberspace,” she said.



https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/73 ... dd0128.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

“… Yes, I’ve become quite a student of your operations in this region.

Thirty-four mansions, I think it was, pillaged and burned…under Colonel Montgomery’s expedition of the Combahee….”









“First squad, second platoon.

Fall out to set torches.

Prepare to fire the town.”





The discussion surrounding the firing of cyber arms hearkens back to before the days of Manhattan Project, some former military leaders say.

“It reminds me of the run-up to the strategic bombing campaigns of World War II,” said Cedric Leighton, a retired National Security Agency and Air Force intelligence director. “Just like then, the consequences of an attack using cyber munitions will not be completely foreseeable.”

http://image.slidesharecdn.com/dresden- ... 1418593947" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

“… In the past, some military academics have voiced concerns about the unintended outcomes of such maneuvers. Malicious code released into networks could backfire and harm U.S. individuals or allies, they warned.

“Due to the ‘system of systems’ nature” of cyberspace, it is very difficult to know exactly what effect” defensive or offensive actions will have on U.S. and ally assets “since we can’t be sure exactly how far out the cyber action might spread,” Dee Andrews and Kamal Jabbour wrote in a 2011 article for Air Force Space Command’s Journal for Space & Missile Professionals. “The difficulty in doing a damage estimate before cyber action is taken makes cyber friendly fire difficult to identify and mitigate.”

There are dozens of bullet points on training support work in the contracting documents.

For example, the hired contractor will run exercises on “USCYBERCOM Fires processes” with the Joint Advanced Cyber Warfare Course, the Army Cyberspace Operations Course, the Air Force Weapons School, the Joint Targeting School and other outside groups, the documents state.

[Ed.: I’ll leave it to the reader to do their own research and riff on the recent history of exercises as “cover” for covert ops.]

Certain contract personnel supporting these so-called cyber fires will be subjected to additional background reviews and will have to comply with “need-to-know” classification rules, according to officials.

Beyond unleashing malware, the chosen contract employees will help repel attacks on Defense Department smartphones housing sensitive data, according to the government. This assignment involves analyzing forensics reports on hacked mobile devices and conducting security assessments of mobile apps, among other things…..”

21stcenturywire.com reminds us about “the Stuxnet super virus, one of the most pernicious and reckless military cyber operations to date.

According to US firm Symantec’s research, Stuxnet and its sister virus, Flame, was part of ‘Operation Olympic Games’, a joint venture between the United States and Israel designed to penetrate Iranian (and Russian too) civilian infrastructure networks – including civilian nuclear power facilities.

According to the Washington Post, “The brilliance of Stuxnet lay in [the attackers] being under the radar of the target entity,” Thakur said. Both variants of Stuxnet “tried to do damage in a manner that would seem random” to the targeted party.

Despite being caught red-handed, the US ‘defense’ industrial complex has simply upped its offensive operations and are now talking about how cyber warfare can be used to inflicted “collateral damage”…. Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin are some of the defense firms competing for an upcoming $460 million US Cyber Command project to give the American military the power to turn an enemy’s critical infrastructure against them with weaponized code, according to Defense One. A 114-page draft of a 5-year contract released on September 30 details a plan to get private companies to support military operations with cyberwarfare…. [T]his kind of offensive cyberwarfare isn’t esoteric stuff relegated to one strange corner of the US military. In fact, digital arms designed to kill are now explicitly sanctioned under the Pentagon’s newly-published Law of War manual, with an entire chapter devoted to cyber warfare.

Cyber strikes are allowed even if “it is certain that civilians would be killed or injured — so long as the reasonably anticipated collateral damage isn’t excessive in relation to what you expect to gain militarily,” said retired Major General Charles J. Dunlap, executive director of Duke University’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. “These are essentially the same rules as for attacks employing traditional bombs or bullets”…

Watch this well-done four-minute video on Stuxnet (Direction and Motion Graphics: Patrick Clair; Written by: Scott Mitchell):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSMOs7CF1Eo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[I’ve left autoplay on: note especially the one-hour talk by the Stuxnet “decoder” and the half-hour documentary on military training in cyber defense.]

According to an RT article on cyber-weapons safeguards:

“… A US Defense Department directive [pdf] signed last week sets the stage for safeguards that would limit any collateral damage from dangerous robotic instruments of war, ideally to “minimize the probability and consequences of failures” in drones and other autonomous or semi-autonomous weapons “that could lead to unintended engagements.”

The document, signed by Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, outlines rules stating that those weapons must “be designed to allow commanders and operators to exercise appropriate levels of human judgment over the use of force” by way of “rigorous hardware and software verification and validation.” When those weapons are attacking the cyber-grid, though, the Defense Department doesn’t necessarily seem to think the same precautions need to be put in place.

While the directive is written to explicitly set up safeguards for autonomous and semi-autonomous weapon systems, one subsection of the document acknowledges that it ‘Does not apply to autonomous or semi-autonomous cyberspace systems for cyberspace operations.’ ….”

See the 20-page pdf “Moral Cyber Weapons”:

Moral Cyber Weapons – Part-II-CH-6 – 24Oct2013 (3)





Here is an article on lethal autonomous-weapon systems and cyber-security that says:

“… It is the combination of weapons, ICS and remote control and monitoring technologies which introduces not just more determined threat actors, but also attack vectors via well-known wireless and satellite communication technologies, where a lot of security research has been done.

There have been several examples of attacks. The Iranian Military claimed to have used GPS jamming attacks to force a UAV into an autonomous mode and caused a denial of service, while some researchers, such as Samy Kamkar, have demonstrated command and control over UAVs via wireless protocols.

Researchers have even conducted attacks against tele-operated surgical robots over the Internet and over the last decade there have been many examples of Advanced Persistent Threats using malware such as ‘BlackEnergy’ to target ICS.

The main problem in this arena is the fact that there are zero international laws or treaties on cyber warfare. This is a serious issue given that the strongest cyber weapons, attacks on infrastructure, disproportionally target the weak. These attacks on infrastructure could take out power to hospitals, elderly homes and could render the digital communication, transportation and businesses useless, leaving innocent civilians as the victims. For more see The Tallinn Manual. Improving the accuracy of current systems. This is where computing in warfare has gone the furthest. Drones, Tomahawk missiles and laser guidance systems have allowed for a more humane asymmetrical war. The flip side is that this gives the countries who can afford it an excuse to go to war for less egregious reasons.

More here: http://slideplayer.com/slide/4381887/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



http://i1.wp.com/hackmageddon.com/wp-co ... =397%2C423" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



According to Stefano’s definition: a cyber weapon is:

A device or any set of computer instructions intended to unlawfully damage a system acting as a critical infrastructure, its information, the data or programs therein contained or thereto relevant, or even intended to facilitate the interruption, total or partial, or alteration of its operation.

http://www.hackmageddon.com/2012/04/22/ ... er-weapon/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



On logic bombs, trojan horses and trap doors:

http://www.sans.edu/research/security-l ... b-trp-door" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.cknow.com/cms/vtutor/logic-bombs.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



“… ‘Unlike traditional espionage malware or even the Stuxnet virus that sabotaged Iranian nuclear centrifuges, cyber fires would impact human life, according to former Defense officials and a recently released Defense Department ‘Law of War Manual’ … The manual lays out three sample actions the Pentagon deems uses of force in cyberspace: ‘trigger a nuclear plant meltdown; open a dam above a populated area, causing destruction * ; or disable air traffic control services , resulting in airplane crashes.’ …”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pow ... -military/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

* Reminiscent of the Johnstown, PA flood book by David McCullough and the PBS documentary based on it

[I could not find a reference online or in my own archives to the pronouncement by McCullough narrating the film, but it is relevant here.]



# # # # # #

What happens when a logic bomb escapes the lab?

What happens when one of the people comes to deeply understand the ramifications of the work going on inside one of these secretive offices or schools and gets a conscience? WIll be or she be defenestrated?

Who will write the new novels about the new Dresden and the new Hiroshimae?

Wasn’t Fukushima one of these?

Will we see oligarchs hiring computer hackers to create chaos out of which they can create future wealth, like the hurricane in New Orleans or the actions of some driving cultural chaos in Europe?

Will we see bloggers writing satirical pieces about waking up in a world of moral midgets?

Will we see position papers developed by groups of medical care responders, teachers, and others from under the umbrella of “Citizens for Social Grace”?

Will the people who write those position papers be fired from, and blacklisted away from, meaningful employment?

Is there a Malthusian, Luciferian angle to this?



# # # # # #



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pCFY33LD4c" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: FBI agents give US Police State Swiss Government give US Guerilla Warfare pamphlet

Post by msfreeh »

https://www.rt.com/uk/434862-assange-john-sweeney-bbc/


The BBC Is a CIA Asset
August 1, 2018 | Categories: Announcements | Tags: |  Print This Article

The BBC Is a CIA Asset
Nothing else can be said for what was once a media organization.
https://www.rt.com/uk/434862-assange-john-sweeney-bbc/


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David Griffin’s new book on 9/11 can be ordered from publisher
September 26, 2018 | Categories: Announcements | Tags: |  Print This Article

David Ray Griffin & Elizabeth Woodworth’s new book about 9/11, 9/11 Unmasked: An International Review Panel Investigation can be purchased direct from the publisher: http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_i ... 565a6ccdb2




https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/0 ... -tsarnaev/


FBI Evidence Proves Innocence of Accused Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Paul Craig Roberts


Aug 17, 2015 · I have been contacted by attorney John Remington Graham, a member in good standing of the bar of the ... As readers know, I have been suspicious of the Boston Marathon Bombing from the beginning.


https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... update-ii/

Law enforcement agencies in California will soon be legally obliged to post their guidelines online
by Jessie Gomez
October 05, 2018
California Governor Jerry Brown signed a handful of bills this week including new legislation that increases transparency within local jurisdictions in California. In addition to the two new laws we wrote about earlier this week SB-978 was signed, which requires law enforcement agencies to publish their “training, policies, practices, and operating procedures.”
Read More



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Historian Seeks Sealed Grand Jury Transcripts In Notorious Lynching of Two Black Couples by White Mob
By Associated Press -
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Southern Poverty Law Center's Hate, Inc. loses the Pentagon but gains Silicon Valley



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I-TEAM: 165 inmates sleeping on county jail floor, union says
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https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/n ... 525503002/

FBI agent from Piscataway pleads guilty to photographing woman in Edison dressing room
Suzanne Russell, Bridgewater Courier NewsPublished 5:06 p.m. ET Oct. 4, 2018



https://www.trentonian.com/news/local/f ... a93c4.html

Cops described former Bordentown police chief Nucera as 'closet racist' who 'held all the cards'


http://www.wdrb.com/story/39237318/laws ... ient-talks

Lawsuit: Shelbyville police illegally recorded attorney-client talks
The suit claims police framed a teen for assault, fabricating evidence, illegally recording him and lying under oath. 

Friday, October 5th 2018, 11:30 AM EDT
Updated: Friday, October 5th 2018, 1:27 PM EDT




https://abcnews.go.com/International/in ... d=58305739
Interpol president reportedly missing in China; French police investigating
* By JULIA MACFARLANE
LONDON — Oct 5, 2018, 10:27 AM ET
*

https://www.foxnews.com/us/rhode-island ... ana-police
Rhode Island gubernatorial, attorney general candidates arrested with 48 pounds of marijuana: police



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pos ... e4283a39ef
Post Nation

Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke convicted of second-degree murder for killing Laquan McDonald

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... story.html
Hooker: Cop I robbed was just 'a trick'

By CATHERINA GIONIO  and THOMAS TRACY

OCT 05, 2018 | 



https://www.straitstimes.com/world/unit ... fbi-report

100 senators and just one copy of FBI report




https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pl ... 70d05146cd

POLITICS 10/05/2018 05:13 pm ET
One Of You Should Just Leak Me The FBI Report
It’s the very least you could do.




https://fox59.com/2018/10/05/iu-profess ... lled-back/
IU professor who lived in same dorm as Kavanaugh says FBI never called back
POSTED 6:44 PM, OCTOBER 5, 2018, BY AISHAH HASNIE



https://www.merrillfotonews.com/2018/10 ... t-library/


Retired FBI agent to share experiences at library
OCTOBER 5, 2018



https://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-r ... alists-and
FBI records records shed light on the agency's impersonation of journalists and documentary filmmakers
Jennifer Nelson |  October 5, 2018
Documents obtained through FOIA lawsuit by the Reporters Committee reveal policies for undercover impersonation of members of the media 
 
Newly public Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) documents outline for the first time the specifics of the agency's guidelines for impersonating members of the news media in undercover activities and operations. The records detail, among other things, that such activities require high-level approval from within the FBI and Justice Department. The FBI released the guidelines after the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit when the agency failed to respond to a request for records about its impersonation of documentary filmmakers, specifically. Additionally, records recently released in connection with a separate FOIA lawsuit filed by the Reporters Committee show that the FBI has engaged in the impersonation of documentary filmmakers on a number of occasions, though questions remain as to just how frequently the FBI relies on this tactic.
 
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Former special agents who once served their country in the fight against mobsters, terrorists and fraudsters often have second careers in the security or investigation departments of big companies and law firms.

However, jumping into the private sector is not without its pitfalls for one-time G-men.  As much as they are prized assets by corporate America for their training, experience and contacts, the good reputation of these former agents also can be cynically exploited by employers with sharp practices or shady reputations as a cover to deflect any suspicion into wrongdoing.

For example, Assistant Director Louis Nichols -- J. Edgar's No. 2 man -- left the FBI in 1957, and took a plum job making $100,000 a year at Schenley Industries which mob lackey Roy Cohn allegedly secured for him, and Louis Rosensteil, the company's president, was suspected of ties to Genovese mobsters Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello.  And former special agent H. Paul Rico left the Boston field office in 1975 to become security head at World Jai Alai, and then was indicted for his alleged role in a 1981 murder as a tool of Winter Hill boss Whitey Bulger although Rico died in 2004 before the charge against him was resolved.

Indeed, in May 1962 while staying at the Volney Hotel in New York City, Meyer Lansky was recorded on a wire describing how the G-men could be co-opted in the private sector as "racketeers" and the "new mafia":
They're nothing but racketeers, every one of them.  After five years they get out, get on a big corporation's payroll.  Now what happens, you and I . . . let's say I work for IBM.  You came.  They say [redacted] is doing  the same business.  He has no FBI guys working for him.  Pop, they chop his legs off.  They find him with a sweetheart, they find him with this, they find him with that.  This thing's gonna get an investigation.  It's a new mafia.

The potential pitfalls for former agents joining the civilian life came to the forefront recently for U.S. Congressman Michael Grimm, a Republican from Staten Island, NY, who spent a decade as a special agent with the FBI until leaving the agency in 2006.  Grimm then opened a restaurant on the Upper East Side called Healthalicious with partner Bennett Orfaly, and federal prosecutors now allege that Orfaly has personal ties to reputed Gambino capo Anthony "Fat Tony" Morelli who "is serving a 20-year prison sentence for racketeering and extortion in an elaborate tax fraud" as reported by Alison Leigh Cowan for The New York Times:

"Mr. Orfaly maintains constant contact" with Mr. Morelli in prison, [Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony] Capozzolo told the court, noting that Mr. Orfaly "has visited him and engaged in telephone conversations."

One unidentified source claims that Morelli is "like an uncle" to Orfaly as reported by Mitchel Maddux and Dan Mangan for the New York Post.

Orfaly is not accused of any wrongdoing, and Grimm previously sold his interest in the restaurant and insists he was unware of Orfaly's supposed ties to Morelli.  In the absense of any evidence to the contrary, Grimm should be entitled to the benefit of the doubt on his claims of ignornance.  In any event, many citizens probably are not thrilled with the idea that a special agent who worked undercover assignments targeting the mob after leaving the FBI became involved with a business partner who allegedly has a personal relationship with a reputed mobster.  It's just not the prettiest picture.

Another former agent got employment at a law firm which subsequently was indicted.  Steve Bursey spent 27 years at the FBI, and among his assignments was serving as the contact agent for undercover agent Joe Pistone who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family as Donnie Brasco.  Immediately following his FBI retirement in 1997 Bursey joined the class action law firm Milberg Weiss to head its investigations department.  In 2006 the law firm was indicted by federal prosecutors for an alleged decades-long scheme in which serial plaintiffs were illegally paid kickbacks out of the attorneys' fees for filing their shareholder lawsuits.  Several heavy-weight partners were convicted for their roles and sent to prison, and the firm itself -- now known simply as Milberg LLP -- settled the criminal case by paying a $75 million fine and hiring a compliance monitor for two years according to a Department of Justice press release:  "the settlement with Milberg reflects the seriousness of what was probably the longest-running scheme ever conducted by a law firm," said United States Attorney Thomas P. O’Brien, and "the monetary payment will punish the firm for allowing this conduct to occur."

Among those convicted for their roles in the scheme was the firm's founding partner Mel Weiss, and Bursey wrote a May 1, 2008 letter to the sentencing judge pleading for leniency on behalf of the crooked lawyer which provides the following:

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ENVISIONING ABOLITION DEMOCRACY
Allegra M. McLeod∗ What is, so to speak, the object of abolition?
Not so much the abolition of prisons but the abolition of a society that could have prisons, that could have slavery, that could have the wage, and therefore not abolition as the elimination of anything but abolition as the founding of a new society.
— Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, The University and the Undercommons1 INTRODUCTION
For decades, police in Chicago chained people in their custody to the wall in dark, windowless rooms and subjected their captives to beatings, electric shocks, anal rape, and racial abuse.2 In July 2016, members of the #LetUsBreathe Collective, created in the aftermath of numerous police killings in Chicago and elsewhere, occupied vacant lots adjacent to the Chicago Police Department’s Homan Square facility — one of the locations where such abuse occurred.3 The Collective sought justice, not through recourse to the criminal courts or civil litigation, but instead by reconceptualizing justice in connection with efforts to end reliance on
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∗ Professor, Georgetown University Law Center. I am grateful to Amna Akbar, Geoff Gilbert, Sora Han, Stephen Lee, and Alexandra Natapoff for their careful engagement with this Essay and to workshop participants at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. I owe thanks also to the editors of the Harvard Law Review and to librarians at Georgetown Law for their outstanding work. And I am most grateful to Sherally Munshi for her brilliant ideas and editorial guidance, steadfast support, and inspiration. This Essay is dedicated to our son, Kiran Bayard, with the hope he lives to see a world that comes closer to realizing abolition democracy.
1 Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses, 22 SOC. TEXT 101, 114 (2004).
2 See Chicago Torture Archive, CHI. STUD., https://www.chicagostudiesresourceportal.com/ resources-portal/2018/2/5/chicago-torture-archive [https://perma.cc/5Q2A-UUCT] (describing the creation of the Chicago Torture Archive, an archive comprised of testimonies of torture victims, torture case findings, documents of police officers sued for torture, media articles, special reports, summaries of evidence, and City Council hearings, among other sources); Juleyka Lantigua- Williams, A Digital Archive Documents Two Decades of Torture by Chicago Police, THE ATLANTIC (Oct. 26, 2016), https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... go-police- torture-decades-now-online/504233/ [https://perma.cc/YA8F-SECB]; see also Spencer Ackerman, Homan Square Revealed: How Chicago Police “Disappeared” 7,000 People, THE GUARDIAN (Oct. 19, 2015, 8:30 AM), https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... e-chicago- police-disappeared-thousands [https://perma.cc/VLC7-PXD6]; Flint Taylor, Opinion, Homan Square Is Chicago’s New “House of Screams,” THE GUARDIAN (Apr. 13, 2016, 7:30 AM), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... e-station- house-of-screams [https://perma.cc/Z8UL-CZY2].
3 SeeDerrickClifton,HowProtestsinFergusonInspiredtheOccupationof“FreedomSquare,” CHI. READER (Aug. 9, 2016), https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/f ... are-homan- square-occupation-ferguson/Content?oid=23089791 [https://perma.cc/64RW-Y9Z5].
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imprisonment and policing.4 The organizers redesignated Homan Square — which shares a name with the Chicago slumlord Samuel Homan5 — “Freedom Square.”6 The organizers’ idea was to begin to realize on a small scale what the scholar and activist Professor Angela Davis, echoing the words of W.E.B. Du Bois,7 has called “abolition democracy.”8
Organizers in Freedom Square and across the city amplified the penal-abolitionist platforms of the Movement for Black Lives and Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100),9 demanding that the state divest from po- licing and imprisonment and invest in new forms of more equitable and just coexistence.10 Freedom Square was to be an experiment in which participants would “imagine a world without police,”11 a world where the 1.4 billion–dollar Chicago police budget12 would be directed away from detaining human beings and toward a democratic revitalization of public education, employment, restorative justice, mental health, hous- ing, addiction treatment, arts, and nutrition.13 Before they disbanded, those engaged in the Freedom Square experiment provided meals to hundreds of people each day and offered educational workshops, cloth- ing, books, and play spaces for neighborhood children.14
Similar efforts took shape beyond Chicago, from New York City, where organizers launched a protest called “Abolition Square” that same summer,15 to Los Angeles, where Black Lives Matter activists occupied
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4 Seeid.;Mission&Vision,#LETUSBREATHECOLLECTIVE,https://www.letusbreathecollective. com/mission-vision [https://perma.cc/9A6T-QD4M].
5 SeeTaylor,supranote2;seealsoJOEALLEN,PEOPLEWASN’TMADETOBURN148,162, 168 (2011) (describing Homan’s controversial and exploitative practices as a Chicago landlord).
6 Maya Dukmasova, Abolish the Police? Organizers Say It’s Less Crazy than It Sounds, CHI. READER (Aug. 25, 2016), https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/p ... -movement- alternatives-cops-chicago/Content? [https://perma.cc/MNB5-ZJGA].
7 See W.E.B. DU BOIS, BLACK RECONSTRUCTION IN AMERICA 163–66 (Routledge 2017) (1935).
8 ANGELA Y. DAVIS, ABOLITION DEMOCRACY 95–96 (2005); see also ANGELA Y. DAVIS, ARE PRISONS OBSOLETE? 105–15 (2003) (discussing an array of abolitionist alternatives to exist- ing systems of policing and incarceration).
9 See Platform, MOVEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES, https://policy.m4bl.org/platform/ [https://perma.cc/BW55-7Y9V] [hereinafter MOVEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES]; BYP100 Announces Release of the Agenda to Build Black Futures, BLACK YOUTH PROJECT 100 (Jan. 15, 2016), https://byp100.org/bbf/ [https://perma.cc/G7G4-98EU].
10 SeeDukmasova,supranote6.
11 #LetUsBreatheCollective,FreedomSquareOccupation&BlockParty,FACEBOOK(Jul.22, 2016), https://www.facebook.com/events/257503834630695/ [https://perma.cc/PE4D-76S7].
12 Chi.,Ill.,AnnualAppropriationOrdinancefortheYear2019,at121(Nov.14,2018).
13 Clifton,supranote3.
14 Seeid.
15 BenNorton,BlackLivesMatterActivistsLaunchAbolitionSquareEncampment,Demanding
Reparations, End to Broken Windows Policing, SALON (Aug. 5, 2016, 3:59 PM), https://www. salon.com/2016/08/05/black-lives-matter-activists-launch-abolition-square-encampment-demanding- reparations-end-to-broken-windows-policing/ [https://perma.cc/HA4Y-LSN2].

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an area near police headquarters and issued calls to “decolonize City Hall.”16 Across the country, contemporary movements against the vio- lence of policing have taken up the cause of penal abolition, denouncing caging and minutely controlling human beings while re-envisioning de- mocracy in genuinely liberatory terms. Through these abolitionist efforts — from those of organizers in Chicago confronting the decades of torture perpetrated by police, to those of people struggling together to address the aftermath of sexual assault and homicide, to those of com- munity members organizing to ensure greater economic well-being and security — a new conception of justice has begun to emerge.
Justice in abolitionist terms involves at once exposing the violence, hypocrisy, and dissembling entrenched in existing legal practices, while attempting to achieve peace, make amends, and distribute resources more equitably. Justice for abolitionists is an integrated endeavor to prevent harm, intervene in harm, obtain reparations, and transform the conditions in which we live.17 This conception of justice works, for example, to eliminate the criminalization of poverty and survival while addressing the criminality of a global social order in which the eight wealthiest men own “the same amount of wealth as” fifty percent of all people on earth.18 To approach justice in these terms requires what Professor Lisa Guenther, an abolitionist philosopher, describes as “collective resistance and revolution at the scene of ‘crime’ itself.”19 Such resistance begins by unmasking the illegitimacy of much of what is subject to criminalization — for instance, the prosecution of immigra- tion offenses, which compose at present more than half of the U.S. fed- eral criminal docket.20 Resistance at the scene of crime itself


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Volume 40 Issue 4


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On February 5, 2018, Baltimore activists organized a successful “cease-fire weekend,” during which no one was killed—and the cops were not to thank. Indeed, as community anti-violence organizers worked to cool hot feuds in order to prove that endless violence was not their destiny, the Baltimore Police Department was sinking ever-deeper into perhaps the most shocking police corruption scandal of the twenty-first century.
            The stark contrast between ordinary city residents risking their safety to fight against violence in their community and a corrupt police force committing and propagating acts of violence in the microcosmic streets of Baltimore raises what may appear at first blush an absurdly radical question: are police obsolete? When Angela Y. Davis asked the same of prisons in her germinal 2003 prison-abolitionist manifesto, Are Prisons Obsolete?, the “prison-industrial complex” was only beginning to enter the lexicon of scholars and activists taking on what was then the fairly recent phenomenon of mass incarceration. Since then, the very foundations of the U.S. criminal legal system have been shaken by a mass awakening to its racist origins and ends. Today, a new abolitionism is on the rise in the tradition of what W. E. B. DuBois called “abolition democracy”—the project of building up radical community-powered institutions to supplant oppressive social structures inherited from the legacy of chattel slavery.
            Until now, that project has set its sights on abolishing the death penalty and mass incarceration. This Article is the first in legal scholarship to seriously imagine abolishing criminal law enforcement as we know it within that larger democratic-abolitionist framework; rather than a negative vision of abolition (i.e. fire all cops), we support the creation of new non-police institutions empowered to supersede the police monopoly on violence reduction. In so doing, we reflect on the structural engines behind the cycles of violence that police are exclusively empowered to combat, and highlight and analyze the parallel work of non-state actors in breaking those cycles. From epidemiologists to community activists to incarcerated individuals, numerous democratic-abolitionist institutions dependent on the non-involvement of the police have taken root in violence-prone communities. Such initiatives hold the potential to empower communities to police themselves. With institutional support from scholars, activists, and policymakers, non-police anti-violence workers can make police obsolete.
INTRODUCTION
“They were simply put, both cops and robbers at the same time.”1
—Assistant United States Attorney Leo Wise
Opening Statement in the Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force Trial
January 23, 2018
“Violence is a part of America’s culture; it is as American as cherry pie.”2
—H. Rap Brown
Chair, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
July 27, 1967
As 2017 drew to a close, Baltimore City saw its annual record for per-capita homicides broken for the second time in three years.3 But on February 5, 2018, residents had something to be hopeful about: a “Ceasefire weekend,” organized by local activists, ended without a single killing4—and the cops were not to thank. Indeed, as community anti-violence organizers throughout the city worked to cool hot feuds in order to prove to the world—to themselves—that violence was not destiny for their city (despite statistical projections to the contrary), the Baltimore Police Department was sinking ever-deeper into perhaps the most shocking police corruption scandal of the twenty-first century.
Eight members of Baltimore’s elite “Gun Trace Task Force” were indicted on federal charges including racketeering, robbery, drug trafficking, overtime fraud, and more.5 Six pleaded guilty,6 and two more were convicted following very public trials.7 Every day of the proceedings brought new details illustrating how police brazenly robbed alleged drug dealers, planted guns on innocent suspects, trafficked stolen guns to known criminals, and defrauded taxpayers by submitting phony overtime claims.8 The criminal conduct of the Baltimore police also undermined the legitimacy of criminal cas




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Abolish the police? Organizers say it’s less crazy than it sounds. 
Grassroots groups around Chicago are already putting abolitionist ideas into practice.







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LAW & JUSTICE
Abolish the Police?
Is policing a public good gone bad?
TRACEY L. MEARES, VESLA M. WEAVER
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"Policing as we know it must be abolished before it can be transformed." In the latest episode of A Political and Literary Podcast, Vesla Weaver talks to Tracey Meares about policing as a public good in a time of police brutality. Drawing from Meares's recent essay in our new print issue, The President's House Is Empty, they articulate an emancipatory vision for policing that is not predicated on racism







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Policing is a Dirty Job, But Nobody’s Gotta Do It: 6 Ideas for a Cop-Free World
It’s time to start imagining a society that isn’t dominated by police

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Suit Alleging Sexual Harassment at FBI’s Training Academy Adds 17th Woman

Training academy in Quantico, Va., via FBI
By Steve Neavling

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A female FBI trainee has become the 17th woman to claim she was sexually harassed at the bureau’s training academy in Quantico, Va.
The Florida woman who was discharged from the training academy joined a lawsuit that alleges the academy is a “good-old-boy network” that exposes women to a hostile work environment, inappropriate jokes and sexual advances beginning in 2015.
The lawsuit was amended to include the unidentified woman’s accusations, The Washington Times reports.



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She Reported Her Cop Husband for Domestic Violence. Now She's Dead.



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Cop who arrested QB for bird poop mistaken as cocaine, resigns


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Man sues police, city after being forced by cops to lick public restroom urinal



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Cop accused of misconduct, witness tampering in financial dispute indicted



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CRIME

Officer: Dallas cop on trial protected other officers when he shot into car, killing woman



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Police: MTA cop tried to photograph woman undressing
By Daniel Tepfer Updated 4:24 pm EST, Tuesday, February 4, 2020




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Santa Clara Police Officer Charged With Workers’ Comp Fraud; Wife Was Convicted Of Same Crime
February 4, 2020 at 5:18 pm
Filed Under:Kenneth Henderson, Mandy Henderson, Santa Clara, Santa Clara


Henderson’s wife Mandy Henderson, a former Santa Clara County Sheriff’s lieutenant, was arrested and convicted last year for felony workers’ compensation fraud, and served time under house arrest for her felony charge. H




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Cop from New Derry convicted of false statements in gun buyback attempt

RICH CHOLODOFSKY | Tuesday, February 4, 2020 6:59 p.m.




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Fired Top Cop Deserves Jussie Smollett Treatment, Send Him A Bill
KONKOL: City Hall should send fired top cop a bill for his misconduct probe, and a message: There's price to pay for lying, cops included.



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Woman accusing former cop of sexual assault awarded settlement


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White Tears Save Cop Convicted Of Planting Drugs On Innocent Couple
The privilege of it all.



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Video shows North Miami Senior High cop threatening to shoot students




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NEWS FEBRUARY 04, 2020

Texas ex-cop gets only probation for raping woman he met on domestic violence call



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Former Pevely Cop Settles in Court





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Cop accused of stealing $6,500 from department






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School Cop Sexually Abused 7 Students In Cottage Grove: Complaint


At the time the inappropriate sexual touching occurred, three of the students were between the ages of 13 and 15 and four were 16 to 17 years of age, according to investigators.
Under Minnesota law, a person is guilty of a felony offense if the person touches a minor's intimate parts, which includes touching of buttocks over clothing; and the person is more than 48 months older than and in a position of authority over the minor.



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Alabama cop sentenced to 14 years for fatally shooting unarmed black man



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New Orleans judge acquits cop accused of attacking girlfriend





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Shadow Inc. Cops To Failure Of App To Deliver Iowa Caucus Results

We sincerely regret the delay in the reporting of the results of last night’s Iowa caucuses and the uncertainty it has caused to the candidates, their campaigns, and Democratic caucus-goers.

The company, which is led by several former members of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, has come under fire from the left as the failure of its app resulted in no official winner in Iowa. While Pete Buttigieg claimed a victory, less than 2 percent of the votes were counted. The candidates have been forced to move on to battle in New Hampshire where the primary is a week away.



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Colorado Senate OKs death penalty repeal bill



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Colorado school district hires former FBI agent tied to claims of sexual assault



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For Gayle Wyche, an agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, the low point came after she had complained about sexual harassment only to have a new supervisor suggest that they work it out by going "barhopping and hot tubbing" on a weekly basis.
For Shirley Garcia, an investigative assistant with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, it came when a male supervisor told her she "ought to use a dildo."
For Suzanne Doucette, formerly an FBI agent for nine years, the exact low is difficult to chart. First, she said, a supervisor physically assaulted her. Then, after she had filed a complaint and testified before a Senate hearing last year, she alleges that the FBI attempted to discredit her, even going so far as to interview her hair stylist






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AGENT SAYS SHE IS LEFT WITH BADGE IN HAND







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* THE MUELLER MEMOS
Mueller Memos Part 5: Hundreds Of Pages Of FBI Witness Interviews Declassified
BuzzFeed News sued the US government under the Freedom of Information Act for the right to see all the work that Robert Mueller’s team kept secret. Today we are publishing the fifth installment of the FBI’s summaries of interviews with witnesses.





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McCabe says Rosenstein wanted Comey advice on a special counsel after helping fire Comey
by Jerry Dunleavy
 | February 04, 2020





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Oregon, FBI proactive in preventing election fraud
NEWS
County, state and federal officials are working to protect the integrity of upcoming elections



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We brought Greg Flannery to speak at Bates College


Privacy Died Long Ago

by Greg Flannery


In 1988 Leonard Gates, a former installer for Cincinnati Bell, told the Mount Washington Press, a small independent weekly, that he had performed illegal wiretaps for the Cincinnati Police Department, the FBI and the phone company itself.
A week after the paper published his allegations, a federal grand jury began hearing testimony.
Gates claimed to have performed an estimated 1,200 wiretaps, which he believed illegal. His list of targets included former Mayor Jerry Springer, the late tycoon Carl Lindner Jr., U.S. District Judge Carl Rubin, U.S. Magistrate J. Vincent Aug, the late U.S. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio), the Students for a Democratic Society (an anti-war group during the Vietnam War), then-U.S. Rep. Tom Luken (D-Cincinnati) and then-President Gerald Ford.
A second former Cincinnati Bell installer, Robert Draise, joined Gates, saying he, too had performed illegal wiretaps for the police. His alleged targets included the Black Muslim mosque in Finneytown and the General Electric plant in Evendale. Draise’s portfolio was much smaller than Gates’s, an estimated 100 taps, because he was caught freelancing – performing an illegal wiretap for a friend.
Charged by the FBI, Draise claimed he had gone to his “controller” at Cincinnati Bell, the person who directed his wiretaps, and asked for help. If he didn’t get it, he said, he’d tell all. When the case went to federal court, Draise didn’t bother to hire an attorney. He didn’t need one. In a plea deal, federal prosecutors dropped the charge to a misdemeanor. Found guilty of illegal wiretapping, his sentence was a $200 fine. The judge Magistrate J. Vincent Aug.
If Gates and Draise had been the only people to come forward, they could easily be dismissed as cranks – disgruntled former employees, as Cincinnati Bell claimed. But some police office officers named by Gates and Draise confirmed parts of their allegations, insisting, however, that there were only 12 illegal wiretaps. Other officers not known to Gates and Draise also admitted to illegal wiretaps. Some of the officers received immunity from prosecution in exchange for their testimony. Others invoked their Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate themselves.






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The DOJ Really Doesn’t Want You to Know What Jared Kushner Told the FBI
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Hot on the Press
Did Police Torch a Cincinnati Paper?
by Gregory Flannery
In These Times, September 6, 1989, p. 7

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Breaking Bad Wolf: One crazy journey from Palm Beach cop to Russian exile


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Veteran police officer, Mark Dougan left law enforcement to expose the rampant corruption he had witnessed within the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. The top-brass within the police were less than pleased though, and Dugan soon became the target of harassment and surveillance. An FBI

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ENGINEERING CONTAGION: AMERITHRAX, CORONAVIRUS, AND THE RISE OF THE BIOTECH-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

PART ONE: ALL ROADS LEAD TO DARK WINTER



A DARK WINTER DESCENDS
In late June 2001, the U.S. military was preparing for a “Dark Winter.” At Andrews Air Force Base in Camp Springs, Maryland, several Congressmen, a former CIA director, a former FBI director, government insiders and privileged members of the press met to conduct a biowarfare simulation that would precede both the September 11 attacks and the 2001 Anthrax attacks by a matter of months. It specifically simulated the deliberate introduction of smallpox to the American public by a hostile actor.
The simulation was a collaborative effort led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies (part of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security) in collaboration with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Analytic Services (ANSER) Institute for Homeland Security and the Oklahoma National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism. The concept, design and script of the simulation were created by Tara O’Toole and Thomas Inglesby of the Johns Hopkins Center along with Randy Larsen and Mark DeMier of ANSER. The full script of the exercise can be read here.
The name for the exercise derives from a statement made by Robert Kadlec, who participated in the script created for the exercise, when he states that the lack of smallpox vaccines for the U.S. populace means that “it could be a very dark winter for America.” Kadlec, a veteran of the George W. Bush administration and a former lobbyist for military intelligence/intelligence contractors, is now leading HHS’ Covid-19 response and led the Trump administration’s 2019 “Crimson Contagion” exercises, which simulated a crippling pandemic influenza outbreak in the U.S. that had first originated in China. Kadlec’s professional history, his decades-old obsession with apocalyptic bioweapon attack scenarios and the Crimson Contagion exercises themselves are the subject of Part III of this series.
 

The Dark Winter exercise began with a briefing on the geopolitical context of the exercise, which included intelligence suggesting that China had intentionally introduced Foot and Mouth disease in Taiwan for economic and political advantage; that Al-Qaeda was seeking to purchase biological pathogens once weaponized by the Soviet U




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Massachusetts man tried to blow up Jewish nursing home in possible hate crime: FBI

By LAUREN THEISEN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
APR 15, 2020 | 11:22 PM





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JANUARY 11, 2013
Inside the Terror Factory
Award-winning journalist Trevor Aaronson digs deep into the FBI’s massive efforts to create fake terrorist plots.







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Exposing the Labyrinth of Institutionalized Crime in the United States: The 'PROMIS' Software Scandal

Join our guest, investigative reporter, newspaper editor, and private detective Cheri Seymour,




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review
Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right
edited by Jeffrey Kaplan





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Doctor handcuffed in front of his home says he was racially profiled

By LAUREN THEISEN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
APR 15, 2020 | 11:20 PM






Thursday, April 16
🔉  The FBI Is Still Hunting For Ways To Call US Activists Terrorists
Jacqueline Lugm, The Real News Network
You Can’t Police Your Way to Public Health
Natalie Shure, The Nation
Coronavirus: Whistleblower Edward Snowden warns governments are building tools of ‘oppression’
Rob Waugh, Yahoo! News
The Covid-19 Response Dispels Any Idea “The Adults in the Room” Will Save Us from Climate Crisis
Sarah Lazare & Adam Johnson, In These Time


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WHY TRUMP’S CONTEMPT FOR OVERSIGHT MAY SINK PANDEMIC STIMULUS




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APRIL 16, 2020
It’s Time for the Forest Service to Curtail Idaho’s Wolf Slaughter in Wilderness Areas
by GEORGE NICKAS
It’s time for the U.S. Forest Service to put a stop to the state of Idaho’s relentless quest to kill as many wolves as it can on our public lands in Idaho, including in wildernesses.
Since being stripped of Endangered Species Act protections and having their “management” turned over to the states, thousands of gray wolves have been needlessly killed on public lands and wilderness areas across Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho. But Idaho’s Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) is carryi





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APRIL 16, 2020
Taxes Paid By Billionaires Decreased 79 Percent Since 1980, as Percentage of Their Wealth
by BOB LORD – CHUCK COLLINS
Conventional economic wisdom says a time of crisis is not the moment to enact tax increases. But, as Eric Toder at the Tax Policy Center recently pointed out: “[Tax experts] can begin to think of the time after the pandemic passes and how government should respond to massive increases in the public debt, and the new tax increases that Congress will need to enact to fund them.”
Initial tax increases should hold harmless working- and




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Thursday, April 16, 2020
byCommon Dreams
'The Public Deserves to Know': Lone Watchdog Demands Federal Reserve Release Names of Corporations Receiving Taxpayer Bailouts
"The Fed will soon lend trillions to companies. But it has not committed to disclosing which private companies are getting taxpayer-backed support. That's wrong."
byJake Johnson, staff writer



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A COVID-19 Vaccine Will Not Be Enough — We Need a Plan to Distribute It



https://www.truthdig.com/articles/joe-biden-unmasked/

April 16, 2019

Joe Biden Unmasked



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“You Don’t Say No to Joe!”: What Biden’s Role in the Last Economic Crisis Says About How He’d Handle This One
Barack Obama tasked his VP with overseeing how funds from the last big stimulus were spent.


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Joe Biden Is the Democratic Nominee. Progressives Are Worried About His Cabinet.
One group has a list of people who SHOULDN’T be considered.



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Elizabeth Warren Just Made Many People Very Happy

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Massive Black Lives Matter protest is largest yet in Portland Maine






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Protests about police brutality are met with wave of police brutality across US









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Russia declares state of emergency over fuel spill in Arctic Circle
By Yaron Steinbuch
June 4, 2020 | 9:23am



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Medway man who made his mark as an Allagash ranger dies of coronavirus

On Sunday, May 31, DiCentes and other family members gathered outside the hospital room, looking through the window. He wasn’t alone, DiCentes said. He was cared for by a nurse who had taken a shine to him, and even though she wasn’t scheduled to work that day, she came in anyway.
The Rogue Ranger, the fisherman, canoe-paddler, moose hunter, Maine Guide, tough talker with a big heart, had reached the end of his journey. That’s when DiCentes saw something that seemed symbolic, and right.

“An eagle flew down,” she said. “And I thought, how fitting.”






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‘Surreal’ PHOTOS of FBI employees kneeling amid protests in DC spark confusion & calls for ‘disciplinary action’
6 Jun, 2020 02:46 / Updated 5 hours ago








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ENTIRE emergency response team of Buffalo Police Department resigns over suspension of cops who pushed elderly protester
5 Jun, 2020 20:09 / Updated 15 hours ago





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Black Providence firefighter says he was racially profiled by cops while in uniform

By JOSEPH WILKINSON

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUN 05, 2020 | 11:08 PM





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Molotov cocktail-tossing Brooklyn lawyers’ home detention revoked; appeals panel sends them back to lock-up, for now

By NOAH GOLDBERG

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUN 05, 2020 | 7:15 PM





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NYC Education Dept. employees call on schools officials to cut ties with NYPD

By MICHAEL ELSEN-ROONEY

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUN 05, 2020 | 5:48 PM


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Philadelphia man freed after 23 years on death row for murder he didn’t commit

By JOSEPH WILKINSON

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUN 05, 2020 | 9:04 PM





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Former Northeastern University deputy AD was walking to Whole Foods. Then the police officers surrounded him. One drew his gun





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Border Patrol Asks Contractors: How Can We Stop People from Breaching the New Walls




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The War on Black Dissent, Part II: COINTELPRO & The Assassination of Fred Hampton
STILL SPYING PODCAST AUGUST 10, 2020 87


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Pompeo’s Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Were Legal—but Heightened Risks of Civilian Casualties in Yemen



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CCRB, the city’s police watchdog agency, must cut budget, lay off staff
By JOHN ANNESE

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 12, 2020 AT 6:38 PM



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Former Boston police union president charged with indecent assault on a child

By Milton J. Valencia and Jeremy C. Fox Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent,Updated August 12, 2020,





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Hperion XP-1 hydrogen fuel-cell supercar touts 1,000-mile range, 221-mph top speed
FUEL CELL August 12, 2020




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Border Patrol Agent with Cache of Ammunition Was Arrested by Mexican Army






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Chinese rail speeding towards exciting future by doubling network length within 15 years & introducing 600kph maglev trains
13 Aug, 2020 14:03 / Updated 4 hours ago



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Ancient part of immune system may underpin severe COVID




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Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Pediatric deaths: Covid (American Academy of Pediatrics data) and Influenza (CDC data and estimates, 2018-19)

According to the AAP, 186 American children have died from Covid-19 through July 30, 2020.

According to the CDC in its latest year reporting on flu deaths, 
"During the 2018–2019 season, 136 deaths in children with laboratory–confirmed influenza virus infection were reported in the United States. However, influenza-associated pediatric deaths are likely under-reported as not all children whose death was related to an influenza virus infection may have been tested for influenza. By combining data on hospitalization rates, influenza testing practices, and the frequency of death in and out of the hospital from death certificates, we estimate that there were approximately 480  deaths associated with influenza in children during 2018–2019."



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Salt Lake City cop suspended for siccing police dog on Black man with hands up
By JESSICA SCHLADEBECK

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 13, 2020 AT 2:09 PM


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Sheriff Villanueva to fire or suspend 26 people involved in off-duty Banditos fight



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Cop accused of stealing $10K from resident, prosecutor says




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Off-duty cop's 911 call about Black youths raises questions
Amid pressure from activists and community leaders, a prosecutor has asked New York State Police for the case file on an incident in which an off-duty police officer claimed he had been shot at by a group of Black people

August 13, 2020, 4:48 PM




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Chicago top cop retires after comparing police reforms to ‘rape’: report
By Lee Brown
August 13, 2020 | 2:



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Two Savannah cops fired for use of excessive force during arrest

ABC NewsAugust 12, 2020


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Massachusetts cops rally, urge Governor Charlie Baker to veto police reform bill




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Minneapolis cop fired for racist Christmas tree decorations reinstated






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Meridian ex-cop facing federal extortion charges. Here's what he's accused of doing.
Keisha Rowe
Mississippi Clarion Ledger




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Delaware County Cop 'Sexted' Minor: District Attorney
A Havertown Man who was working as a part-time police officer in Upland is accused of sending sexually explicit messages to a minor.
By Max Bennett, Patch Staff

Aug 13, 2020 2:54 pm ET | Updated Aug 13, 2020 2:57 pm ET



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Palisades Park rehires cop who was arrested on DWI charges after found passed out in car
Kristie Cattafi
NorthJersey.com

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Bangor replaces investigator hired to probe racism at Bangor High




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• Watch Dr. John Hudak, author of Presidential Pork: White House Influence over the Distribution of Federal Grants
• Answers to 131 myths



https://bangordailynews.com/2020/11/09/ ... ort-finds/

Maine can’t effectively track bills, performance in indigent legal defense system, report finds



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Norman Hascoe (1929-2007)



http://www.golocalworcester.com/busines ... ew-england

The 9 Richest Families in New England




https://nypost.com/2020/11/10/afghan-wo ... ob-as-cop/

Afghan woman left blind from attack after taking job as police officer





https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/1 ... ation.html




Family says off-duty cop terrorized them on Halloween. Forest ...
www.oregonlive.com › crime › 2020/11 › family-says-...
www.oregonlive.com › crime › 2020/11 › family-says-...

— An off-duty Forest Grove police officer faces a criminal mischief allegation after a resident reported that he stumbled into the family's driveway ...


https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/ ... 714306.php

Off-duty rookie LPD cop arrested on DWI allegation
By César Rodriguez, LMTonline.com / Laredo Morning Times Updated 8:21 pm CST, Monday, November 9, 2020


https://www.tmz.com/2020/11/09/lsu-foot ... stigating/

LSU FOOTBALL'S KOY MOORE
ALLEGES POLICE MISCONDUCT DURING STOP
... 3 Officers Placed On Leave

* 11/10/2020 6:25 AM P



https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/ ... 190690002/

Suspended Mount Vernon cop who was secretly recorded has applied for disability retirement
Jonathan Bandler
Rockland/Westchester Journal News



A Mount Vernon police officer who was recorded by a colleague acknowledging misconduct by himself and other members of the narcotics unit filed for disability retirement this summer.



https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/h ... 713544.php

Fired HPD cop accused of pretending to be undercover officer to woo, threaten woman

Nov. 9, 2020 Updated: Nov. 9, 2020 2:52 p.m.



https://www.thecity.nyc/2020/11/10/2155 ... duct-rules

NYPD Watchdog Revamping Rules on Cop Sexual Misconduct Investigations
BY JOSEFA VELASQUEZ AND SYDNEY PEREIRA, GOTHAMIST NOV 10, 2020,






https://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-top-pol ... 42135.html


Official who once called Obama a ‘terrorist leader’ takes over Pentagon policy
By Lara Seligman and Daniel Lippman
,Politico•November 10, 2020



https://theintercept.com/2020/11/09/the ... ladelphia/

THE BATTLE TO COUNT EVERY VOTE IN PHILADELPHIA
Trump targeted the city, knowing its voters could swing the election. And they did.
Paul Abowd, Akela Lacy

November 9 2020, 1:45 p.m




https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgq8nd/ ... econd-term

Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State, Said There Will Be a 'Smooth Transition' to a Trump Second Term

The secretary of state is the latest high-ranking GOP official who has refused to acknowledge that Trump lost the election.
GW
By Greg Walters
November 10, 2020, 1:44pm

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https://news.yahoo.com/heavily-armed-fa ... 23901.html


Heavily Armed Far-Right Mob Floods Oregon Capitol
Winston Ross, Pilar Melendez
Mon, December 21, 2020, 12:23 PM EST





https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/202 ... s-2nd.html


Monday, December 21, 2020
Explosion Yesterday at World's 2nd largest Hydroxychloroquine supplier

Is someone trying to reduce the supply of hydroxychloroquine? According to the Taiwan English News:

An explosion at a pharmaceutical factory in Taoyuan City left two injured and caused a fire early this afternoon, December 20...
Liberty Times reported that the factory produces hydroxychloroquine APIs, and is the world’s second largest HCQ raw material supplier.
Another source tells the same tale.  The Pharmaceutical company is named Sci Pharmtech Inc. The explosion was huge and spread to five other companies.


Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 8:04 PM




https://www.pressherald.com/2020/12/20/ ... -officers/


Maine police union group to start legal defense fund for officers


https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/21/ ... te-police/

New US attorney in Massachusetts shouldn’t let up the pressure on State Police
With the imminent departure of Andrew Lelling, President-elect Biden should appoint a US attorney who will carry on Lelling’s pursuit of corruption cases in the Massachusetts State Police.
By The Editorial BoardUpdated December 21, 2020, 4:00 a.m.






https://www.facebook.com/events/337314977626767/

Stop FBI Repression




https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure/

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory




https://openpolice.org/search?run=1&s=Maine






https://stopfbi.org

Ten Year Anniversary of Founding of CSFR




http://www.politicalresearch.org/2020/0 ... y-sheriffs

Mapping Far-Right and Anti-Immigrant Movement Alignment with County Sheriffs



https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html

Inmate thrown into solitary confinement for speaking to the Daily News about COVID-19 conditions at Brooklyn jail: lawyers
By NOAH GOLDBERG

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 21, 2020 AT 7:00 AM


https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html


Chicago’s top attorney resigns over fallout from botched raid that saw naked Black woman handcuffed in wrong house
By THERESA BRAINE

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 20, 2020 AT 7:35 PM


https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html


Judge gives ousted Milwaukee police chief his job back — a day after city picked interim chief
By NELSON OLIVEIRA

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 19, 2020 AT 3:06 PM


https://freepressonline.com/Content/Def ... /990/68456


Concentration Camps for the Troublesome Poor
The Maine governor has almost nothing in her new proposed budget that would change things
by Lance Tapley


https://www.tmz.com/2020/12/20/canada-c ... id-arrest/

COP THREATENS TO TASE HOCKEY PLAYER
... 'Get On The F***Ing Ground!!!'



https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020 ... rogue-cops

Colorado tries new way to punish rogue cops
Individual officers can no longer claim “qualified immunity” in excessive force cases. However, they still may end up paying zero from their own pockets




https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vyza/ ... lank-range

Outrage After Philippine Cop Caught on Video Killing Mother and Son at Point Blank Range

Observers say a brutal drug war has empowered the police to act without accountability.

By Anthony Esguerra
December 21, 2020,


https://www.foxnews.com/us/george-floyd ... e-officers


Judge in George Floyd case upholds decision to livestream trial against 4 ex-Minneapolis cops



https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020 ... sive-force

Chicago cop pleads guilty to hitting man with baton in Lawndale, sentenced to probation
Officer Brett Kahn faced 11 felony counts when he was indicted in 2016, including aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and official misconduct.
By Matthew Hendrickson@MHendricksonCST Dec 18, 2020, 4:35pm CST



https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/cri ... story.html

Judge declares Jackie Wilson innocent in Jon Burge-related cop killings and refers case for investigation by special prosecutor
By MEGAN CREPEAU

CHICAGO TRIBUNE |
DEC 18, 2020 AT 6:43 PM



https://bangordailynews.com/2020/12/21/ ... hout-2020/

Maine saw 6 signs of a warming climate throughout 2020



https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html

Kansas City Star apologizes for decades of racist coverage
By THERESA BRAINE

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 21, 2020 AT 12:05 AM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5orCrJxv_I

Lady Cops of Afghanistan | RT Documentary



https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html

Grandma who was arrested while naked in her apartment gets $2.4 million payout
By BRIAN NIEMIETZ


DEC 21, 2020 AT 4:54 PM




https://www.justice.gov/usao-edar/pr/fo ... -fbi-money


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, December 21, 2020
Former Greene Co. Sheriff's Lieutenant Pleads Guilty To Stealing FBI Money
Defendant Took Over $30,000 Used In Ruse Undercover Drug Operation
      LITTLE ROCK—A former Green County Sheriff’s Lieutenant has pleaded guilty to stealing over $30,000 used in a ruse undercover drug operation. Allen Scott Pillow, 56, of Paragould, pleaded guilty today to one count of theft of government funds. Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the FBI, announced the guilty plea. Pillow entered his plea earlier today before United


https://www.prnewswire.com/news-release ... 96405.html

Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent, John Caruthers Joins EVOTEK's Cybersecurity team


https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-lying-congre ... 21360.html


FBI was ‘lying to Congress’ about origins of Russia investigation: Rep. Nunes
Sun, December 20, 2020, 10:55 AM EST




https://news.yahoo.com/costa-rican-hybr ... 57232.html


Costa Rican hybrid sailboat could curb carbon emissions
Mon, December 21, 2020, 7:56 AM EST

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https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/1/24/ ... -editorial


The killing of two Black Panthers, the secrets of the FBI — and our nation’s long fight for police reform
Newly released documents shed disturbing light on the FBI’s involvement in a 1969 police raid that resulted in the deaths of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark.
By CST Editorial Board Jan 24, 2021, 4:24pm CST




https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2021 ... itol-jan-6

And the FBI doesn’t want to talk to Arkansas state troopers who WERE at the Capitol Jan. 6?
BY Max Brantley ON January 23, 202111:52 am


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fo ... t-n1255445


Former FBI official-turned-NBC News analyst speaks out against 'bureau bashing'
Frank Figliuzzi says he decided to write his new book, ‘The FBI Way,’ in part to highlight the agency’s values and strict code of conduct.




http://www.dailynebraskan.com/culture/r ... 2a814.html

REVIEW: “MLK/FBI” a scathing critique of FBI’s harassment of Reverend King
*




https://www.inquirer.com/crime/inq/full ... 80316.html

The full list of Philadelphia’s 66 problem cops



https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/ ... 673255002/

Michigan militia members helped FBI crack alleged Whitmer kidnap plot
Robert Snell
The Detroit News



https://www.rt.com/usa/513461-tacoma-police-suv-crowd/

Police SUV plows through crowd of troublemakers in Tacoma in sickening VIDEO
24 Jan, 2021 07:00 / Updated 17 hours ago


https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html

TSA worker forced female traveler to bare her breasts in fake security check
By THERESA BRAINE

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 24, 2021 AT 8:07 PM



https://bangordailynews.com/2021/01/25/ ... -13-times/

Maine passed a law to prevent mass shootings. Police have used it 13 times.


https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html


NYPD cop shoots, wounds car thief as stolen vehicle slams into police van in Queens — but witness says driver had stopped
By THEODORE PARISIENNE and ROCCO PARASCANDOLA

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 25, 2021 AT 9:05 AM


https://www.rt.com/usa/513558-son-repor ... i-capitol/

Turn snitch and get rich: Texas teen gives his own dad in to the FBI, pays his way through college
25 Jan, 2021 14:27


Global ice loss accelerating at record rate, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... tudy-finds



https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-cop- ... -civil-war

Florida cop fired over social media posts supporting Capitol rioters, warning of civil war
Ex-Kissimmee Police Officer Andrew Johnson's posts also criticized Black Lives Matter protests


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/scott-fa ... 4153ac668d


POLITICS 01/23/2021 04:39 pm ET
Cop’s Son Who Punched Officer In Capitol Attack Has A Brother In The Secret Service
Scott Fairlamb, a former ultimate fighter, got pulled into the “conspiracy theory vortex,” one associate said.



https://www.cbs42.com/alabama-news/ex-c ... n-beating/

Cop avoids federal lockup, faces state charges in beating




https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/bre ... story.html

Veteran Chicago cop charged after allegedly choking handcuffed arrestee in 2019 on South Side: officials
By JEREMY GORNER and MEGAN CREPEAU

CHICAGO TRIBUNE |
JAN 23, 2021 AT 7:02 PM



https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/24/ ... -arrestee/

Cop beats compliant arrestee


https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/worldnews ... n-robbery/

BAD COP Glam cop who posted raunchy videos online is sacked after clip showed her brandishing gun on her way to armed robbery


Maine courts begin posting records online, but fees are seen as barrier to access
https://www.pressherald.com/2021/01/25/ ... to-access/


https://www.theroot.com/michigan-cop-fi ... 1846121617

Michigan Cop Fired For Arresting Black Man Who Was Collecting Petition Signatures in His Neighborhood



https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelp ... 10122.html

Philly cop charged with sex assault on minor
by Robert Moran, Updated: January 22, 2021



https://nypost.com/2021/01/24/virginia- ... ring-riot/


NEWS

Virginia cop reportedly bragged that he used Nancy Pelosi’s toilet during riot





https://www.businessinsider.com/former- ... r-art-2021

Houston cop charged with storming the US Capitol changed his story in an interview with the feds. Now he says he was there to see 'historical art'



https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertai ... 541175002/

TV has to 'walk the walk': How cop shows are handling racial justice issues after a summer of protest
Bill Keveney




https://www.foxnews.com/us/capitol-riot ... ed-suicide


Capitol rioter allegedly dragged cop down stairs, attempted suicide
Judge called the evidence “very disturbing and deeply troubling"



https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/cri ... story.html


Chicago cop charged in gambling scheme ordered jailed after he allegedly attacked girlfriend



https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2021/01/25/ ... dia-posts/


New Paltz rapping cop could be fired for social media posts 
by Terence P. Ward/January 25, 2021/0 comments




https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/2 ... occ-461243

TRANSITION 2021
Biden poised to break with Brown, progressives in picking top bank cop
Joe Biden's expected nomination of a former Obama Treasury Department official to regulate national banks is triggering fierce opposition from progressive activists.



https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... y-records/

Six months after the repeal of 50-a, NY police continue to combat the release of disciplinary records
Written by Beryl Lipton, Jon Campbell



https://www.muckrock.com/foi/king-count ... ile-925800

Vacations During January 2021 (Port of Seattle Police Department)


https://www.tapinto.net/towns/belmar-sl ... -s-capitol

Monmouth County Corrections Officer Took ‘Emergency Holiday’ to Participate in Siege on U.S. Capitol
By CATHY GOETZ
January 24, 2021 at 10:38 AM


https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/25/ ... ecame-law/


As legislators scrambled, Baker gained an edge in what became law
Governor won key victories in policing and housing — and rejected the Legislature on others
By Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated January 25, 2021, 1 hour ago



https://www.syracuse.com/tv/2021/01/cri ... -time.html

Crime time: ‘FBI’ returns to CBS tonight | How to watch, live stream, TV channel, time
Updated Jan 24, 2021; Posted Jan 24, 2021


https://santamariatimes.com/news/local/ ... fccc0.html

William Blessing Nolan, Jr. 'was' the Central Coast's FBI
Single agent served the region for years after WWII



https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... 000-images

Selfie-Snapping Rioters Leave FBI a Trail of Over 140,000 Images
By Todd Shields , Kartikay Mehrotra , Naomi Nix , and Jennifer A Dlouhy
January 16, 2021, 6:00 AM


https://www.npr.org/2021/01/18/95674199 ... -blackmail

Documentary Exposes How The FBI Tried To Destroy MLK With Wiretaps, Blackmail

January 18, 20219:00 AM ET
Heard on Fresh Air

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrew ... 3dce9a76b1

EDITORS' PICK|Apr 8, 2021,07:22am EDT|9,512 views
A $2 Billion Government Surveillance Lab Created Tech That Guesses Your Name By Simply Looking At Your Face

https://innocenceproject.org/new-mexico ... ntability/


News 04.07.21
New Mexico Is the Second State to Ban Qualified Immunity
Lawmakers passed the New Mexico Civil Rights Act on Wednesday.
By Daniele Selby


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https://www.police1.com/legal/articles/ ... XZzysJ3st/


Ky. governor vetoes bill curbing police records access
The bill would have allowed any cop, prosecutor and some court employees to shield an array of personal information from the public


https://www.cnn.com/2012/05/15/justice/ ... index.html

FBI agent charged with child porn distribution


https://thegroundtruthproject.org

Project Groundtruth



https://www.umass.edu/history/ellsberg-conference

Ellsberg Conference

UMass Amherst to Host Online Conference on ‘Truth, Dissent, and the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg’ to Commemorate 50th Anniversary Release of Pentagon Papers
Many high-profile figures to participate on April 30 and May 1; Ellsberg will have historic conversation with Edward Snowden; five-part podcast also launched
April 6, 2021
Contact: Ed Blaguszewski 413-695-4522

Friday, April 30, and Saturday, May 1, 2021
Free. Online. Open to All.
“Wouldn’t you go to prison to help stop this war?”
— Daniel Ellsberg

https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/articl ... onference-



https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/ ... ion-police

Wednesday, April 07, 2021
byCommon Dreams
Dozens of House Dems and Progressive Groups Push Biden to Curb Militarization of Police
"It is absurd that the Pentagon has so much funding they can send their 'excess' weaponry to police departments around the country. We need to demilitarize our police and defund the Pentagon now."


https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/ ... gon-budget

Published on
Friday, April 09, 2021
byCommon Dreams
Congress Urged to Reject Biden's 'Unconscionable' $715 Billion Pentagon Budget
"Throwing money at the Pentagon does not keep us safe from modern day threats."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/ ... te-hearing

Published on
Thursday, April 08, 2021
byCommon Dreams
Sanders Slams Big Oil CEO Who Refuses to Testify at Senate Climate Hearing
"These companies are producing a significant percentage of the carbon that we use, which is destroying our planet, and we want to know what they are doing to transform their companies away from fossil fuel."


https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerow ... ab8d84ed36

EDITORS' PICK|Apr 9, 2021,10:20am EDT|584 views
Saudi Crown Prince MBS Pressed The Louvre To Lie About His Fake Leonardo Da Vinci, Per New Documentary



https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html

LAPD bodycam video shows 2019 arrest of Black man who was bringing trash cans inside
By JESSICA SCHLADEBECK

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
APR 09, 2021 AT 12:18 PM



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... tion-drugs

Revealed: Republican-led states secretly spending huge sums on execution drugs


https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html


SEE IT: Black Army officer driving new car held at gunpoint, pepper sprayed by police during traffic stop in Virginia
By NELSON OLIVEIRA

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
APR 10, 2021 AT 11:21 AM


https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html

Queens cops bust down wrong door in no-knock raid and traumatize family: lawsuit
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
APR 10, 2021 AT 9:00 A



https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/ ... 0029236826


Racial Matters
The FBI's Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972
By Kenneth O'Reilly

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html

NYPD cop in botched no-knock raid cleared by CCRB — but watchdog agency says address snafu was hidden from them
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
APR 11, 2021 AT 4:26 PM


https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html

Louisiana police dispatcher arrested after refusing to return $1.2 million accidentally put into account
By DAVID MATTHEWS

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
APR 11, 2021 AT 2:38 PM


https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/ ... allegation

Boston police officer and union chief stayed on force despite multiple child sexual abuse allegation
Boston police have refused to release records pertaining to the 1995 case.

https://www.rt.com/news/520750-sicily-a ... e-refusal/

‘Up to 80%’ of people in Sicily refusing AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine over safety concerns
11 Apr, 2021 18:17


https://www.rt.com/usa/520708-black-liv ... ader-home/

‘Social justice pays well’: BLM leader ripped for ‘buying $1.4 million Los Angeles home’ in predominantly white neighborhood
10 Apr, 2021 21:10


https://www.rt.com/usa/520655-marines-4 ... t-vaccine/

Nearly 40% of Marines have rejected coronavirus vaccine as Dems call on Biden admin to make shots mandatory for troops – reports
10 Apr, 2021 05:21


https://nypost.com/2021/04/11/internal- ... ops-email/


Internal Affairs used facial recognition software against NYPD cops: email
By Craig McCarthy, Tina Moore and Bruce Golding
April 11, 2021 | 4:51pm


https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/ ... 96f23.html

Puppy named Apollo shot to death by NOPD cop in Lower Garden District: ‘Just a little nugget’
A New Orleans police officer shot and killed an 18-week-old puppy in the yard of a Lower Garden District home while responding to a 911 call ...

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/04/11 ... operation/

Los Angeles cop, 2 others, charged in illegal Super Bowl gambling operation



https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne ... rce-rises/

Cops for $1,000 a day: How Seattle spends millions hiring off-duty police officers but does little to monitor their moonlighting
April 11, 2021 at 6:00 am



https://www.fox5dc.com/news/eight-child ... ith-murder

'Eight children without fathers' after off-duty Pentagon cop charged with murder


https://www.theguardian.com/science/202 ... -treatment


Early findings show new drug could be ‘gamechanging’ for brain cancer treatment
Using ipatasertib, researchers say some brain cancers could potentially be made vulnerable to immunotherapy agent

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/ ... epublicans

The Agenda review: how the supreme court became an existential threat to US democracy
Ian Millhiser offers a perfect short read for a key moment in US constitutional history, after Republicans hijacked the



https://www.trentonian.com/news/hamilto ... f6fb1.html



Hamilton cop back on force after allegedly abandoning dog with cancer in Bordentown
Reinstated Hamilton cop Richard Watkins allegedly abandoned his cancer-stricken dog behind a grocery store in Bordentown Township in ...


Fresno police union slams investigation that led to firing of cop with Proud Boy ties
BY CARMEN GEORGE
APRIL 10, 2021 08:43 AM, UPDATED APRIL 10, 2021 04:30 PM
Read more here: https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/ar ... rylink=cpy


https://www.dailydot.com/irl/video-cop- ... black-man/

Video shows cop shoving snow into Black man’s mouth during arrest
'I really can't breathe. I apologize, sir.'
Apr 11, 2021, 11:52 am*



https://news.bitcoin.com/report-claims- ... rocessing/

Report Claims the FBI Uses Bitcoin Mixers During BTC Forfeiture Processing



https://www.palmcoastobserver.com/artic ... nt-seminar

Flagler's black Police Chief Williams selected to attend FBI’s Florida Executive Development Seminar



https://vtdigger.org/2021/04/11/black-m ... fbis-help/

Black man from Barre has been missing for a year; activists want FBI’s help
By Ellie French
Apr 11 2021, 11:40 AM


https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/ ... 3b4e5.html


Former FBI Director Comey to speak at Santa Fe forum

By Scott Wyland swyland@sfnewmexican.com Apr 10, 2021 Updated


https://ksltv.com/459585/cyber-threats- ... -fbi-boss/

Cyber Threats, Counterintelligence Focus For New Salt Lake City FBI Boss



https://theintercept.com/2021/04/11/vir ... abolition/

THE LONG SHADOW OF VIRGINIA’S DEATH PENALTY
Virginia made history when it abolished capital punishment. But for those who were proximate to the state’s 113 executions, closure remains complicated.
Liliana Segura
April 11 2021, 8:20 a.m.



https://theintercept.com/2021/04/10/cam ... institute/

A BILLIONAIRE-FUNDED WEBSITE WITH TIES TO THE FAR RIGHT IS TRYING TO “CANCEL” UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS
Campus Reform and its publisher, the Leadership Institute, are siccing armies of trolls on professors across the country.
Alice Speri
April 10 2021, 7:00 a.m.


https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/09 ... war/print/

APRIL 9, 2021
New Revelations on Germ Warfare: It’s Time for a Reckoning with Our History from the Korean War
BY JEFFREY KAYE

The New York Times, which for years has maintained that U.S. airmen’s statements about use of biological weapons during the Korean War were “false confessions” obtained by Chinese and North Korean torture, never acknowledged the following submission sent to its opinion section in November 2020. I am publishing the article instead at CounterPunch, which is not afraid of uncomfortable truths.


https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/09 ... and-covid/

APRIL 9, 2021
The Only Treatment is Freedom: Mumia Abu-Jamal and COVID
BY JOHANNA FERNÁNDEZ


https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/09 ... ing-place/

APRIL 9, 2021
Climate Hacking Experiments Already Taking Place
BY PATRICK MAZZA


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Deep Dive into Sarasota Deep State
By Daniel Hopsicker -
April 11, 2021

“Sarasota County is to Republicans what Mena, Arkansas was to Clinton-era Democrats: one-party rule enforcing a level of secrecy necessary for large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering operations to flourish.”


https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justi ... ce-reform/

Maryland Legislators Override a Veto to Usher in Sweeping Police Reform
The law is part of growing evidence the Black Lives Matter movement is changing policing



https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avgvd/ ... proud-boys

The Black Church That Could Bankrupt the Proud Boys

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https://theintercept.com/2021/07/22/top ... rump-sign/

EIGHT MONTHS LATER, A VIGILANTE SHOOTING OVER A TRUMP SIGN DIVIDES TOPEKA
Two white men in Kansas shot into a car of Latino teenagers and went home. Almost a year later, neither shooter is in custody.
Akela Lacy
July 22 2021, 9:15 a.m.

http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/ ... 33&t=42246

The Life & Times (And Trial) of Ed Buck



https://www.thedailybeast.com/charlotte ... ker-victim

Florida Cop Threatened Woman He Stalked With Rape and Murder, Boss Says


https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/ ... 041014002/

FBI agent at center of Whitmer kidnap probe assaulted wife after swingers' party, authorities say
Oralandar Brand-Williams
The Detroit News
An FBI agent at the center of the investigation into the plot to kidnap and kill Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is accused of smashing his wife's head against a nightstand and choking her after a dispute stemming from their attendance at a swingers' party, according to court records.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2021/ ... 47620.html

Did FBI Orchestrate the Plot to Kidnap Whitmer?
Ken Bensinger & Jessica Garrison, BuzzFeed July 21, 2021


https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-agent-alle ... ce-1604157

FBI Agent Allegedly Sexually Abused Children, Adults for Years: Police




https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-accused-runn ... 00456.html

FBI accused of running 'fake tip line' during Brett Kavanaugh background check
Jeremy Beaman
Thu, July 22, 2021, 6:06 PM·3 min read


https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... 6-election

Jim Jordan requests case file after watchdog finds ex-senior FBI official misconduct in lead-up to 2016 election
by Daniel Chaitin, Deputy News Editor |
 | July 22, 2021 11:05 PM
 | Updated Jul 23, 2021, 08:58 AM

https://www.rt.com/news/529963-ema-jans ... -disorder/

EU drugs regulator lists rare neurological disorder as potential side effect of Janssen’s Covid jab
22 Jul, 2021 16:0

https://theintercept.com/2021/07/22/min ... -enbridge/

MINNESOTA POLICE EXPECTED PIPELINE BUDGET BOOST TO FUND NEW WEAPONS
The same cops tasked with policing resistance to pipelines anticipate financial benefits from oil companies moving into their areas.
Alleen Brown
July 22 2021, 6:00 a.m.


https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/22/chinese ... dents.html

POLITICS
Chinese prosecutor, ex-NYPD cop charged with stalking, harassing U.S. residents on behalf of China
PUBLISHED THU, JUL 22 202111:54 AM EDTUPDATED THU, JUL 22 20217:07 PM


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/feds- ... NewsSearch

Pipe bomb found at home of former Virginia cop charged in Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection


https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne ... -shooting/

Portland approves $600K to settle cop’s fatal shooting
July 22, 2021 at 8:14 am Updated July 23, 2021 at 4


https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2021/07 ... ompletion/

NEWS
Decades after a cop murdered him, a statue honoring 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez nears completion


https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/22/ ... ntroversy/

Victim F’: Vallejo cop’s alleged quote in kidnapping victim’s book sparks controversy
I just want you to know that in our experience, women who have been sexually assaulted before often pretend that it is ...


https://www.thedailybeast.com/philly-co ... ngs-arrest

Philly Cop Caught on Body Cam Trying to Delete Arrest Vid
CHARGED
Zoe Richards
Breaking News Reporter
Published Jul. 22, 2021 11:01AM ET 


https://patch.com/new-york/harlem/cop-a ... ed-assault

Cop Accused Of Punching Suspect In Harlem Is Charged With Assault
An NYPD sergeant accused of punching a handcuffed man at a Harlem subway station has been suspended and charged with assault.

Posted Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 10:38 am ET

https://qctimes.com/news/state-and-regi ... fa4e2.html

Chicago cop gets 15 months in prison in sports gambling ring tied to Casey Urlacher


https://news.yahoo.com/former-lima-cop- ... 00143.html

Lima Ohio cop gets probation for five felonies

J Swygart, The Lima News, Ohio


https://newsone.com/4176546/chicopee-co ... ook-posts/

Cop Is Rehired Despite His Racist Social Media Posts Encouraging Police Brutality Against Protesters
The mayor of Chicopee, Massachusetts, defended rehiring Michael Wilk one year after calling the disgraced cop's actions racist.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/newsindi ... NewsSearch

Another extortion case registered against former Mumbai top cop Parambir Singh



https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/go ... NewsSearch

Golden Toilet Found in Traffic Cop's Lavish Mansion During Bribery Probe, Video Goes Viral | Watch

https://theintercept.com/2021/07/23/dec ... rcenaries/

THE COUP THAT WASN’T
Bolivia’s defense minister tried to overthrow his country’s elected president. Why did he fail?
Deconstructed
July 23 2021, 6:00 a.m.



https://bangordailynews.com/2021/07/23/ ... estaurant/

Throw axes and eat barbecue at this new Bangor Maine restaurant


https://bangordailynews.com/2021/07/23/ ... iew-finds/

Portland Maine police responded appropriately to Black Lives Matter protest, independent review finds


https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/202 ... d-995.html

Thursday, July 22, 2021
Here is how you do the Big Lie/ CNBC and the 99.5% of deaths in the unvaccinated

First CNBC set up the story.  It provided facts that actually don't mean very much. but sound frightening.  It said the virus is 1,000 times more transmissible than the original. In fact, precisely this strategy was used in the early days of Covid.  

The variant is highly contagious, largely because people infected with the delta strain can carry up to 1,000 times more virus in their nasal passages than those infected with the original strain, according to new data.

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https://theintercept.com/2021/09/09/cov ... -research/

NIH DOCUMENTS PROVIDE NEW EVIDENCE U.S. FUNDED GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH IN WUHAN
U.S.-funded experiment in China posed biosafety risks but did not cause Covid-19 pandemic, scientists say.
Sharon Lerner, Mara Hvistendahl, Maia Hibbett

September 9 2021, 9:03

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html

NYPD in standoff with police union over coronavirus testing and vaccinations
By JOHN ANNESE and LEONARD GREENE

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
SEP 09, 2021 AT 5:05 PM


https://www.nydailynews.com/news/rememb ... -1.2781829

Remembering the Attica Prison riots
SEP 08, 2021



https://www.pressherald.com/2021/09/08/ ... n-jenkins/

Racist comments from Auburn city councilor tarnish agreement to name footbridge after John Jenkins
Leroy Walker said that alleged looting by "dark-colored people" in the South reflects badly on John Jenkins, former mayor of both Lewiston and Auburn who died last year.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/justice- ... b79e814a17

POLITICS 09/09/2021 04:24 pm ET
FBI Seizes Phone Of Oath Keepers Lawyer In ‘Seditious Conspiracy’ Investigation
“I have so much information in there - it’s nuts,” Kellye SoRelle told HuffPost about her iPhone.

By Ryan J. Reilly


https://www.rt.com/usa/534423-nominatio ... tf-pulled/

Biden withdraws Waco liar and gun control advocate David Chipman from ATF nomination
9 Sep, 2021 21:59


https://www.rt.com/usa/534401-coronavir ... ing-fauci/

Fauci never lies? CNN, NYT, WaPo & other MSM outlets IGNORE report showing US funded coronavirus research in Wuhan before pandemic
9 Sep, 2021 18:10



https://www.rt.com/usa/534419-jewish-co ... sm-rising/

Over 90% of Jewish college students claim antisemitism is a problem on campus, 80% say they’ve experienced it – survey
9 Sep, 2021 21:02

https://www.rt.com/news/534400-spain-fo ... vacuation/

Nearly 800 forced to evacuate amid massive wildfire around Spanish resort town (VIDEOS)
9 Sep, 2021 18:39


https://federalnewsnetwork.com/technolo ... ght-board/

Privacy, technology groups urge Biden to revive surveillance oversight board

Justin Doubleday@jdoubledayWFED
September 8, 2021 12:32 pm


https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/202 ... a6b1c8ce2b

States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2021
by Emily Widra and Tiana Herring  


September 2021
Louisiana once again has the highest incarceration rate in the U.S., unseating Oklahoma to return to its long-held position as “the world’s prison capital.” By comparison, states like New York and Massachusetts appear progressive, but even these states lock people up at higher


https://fox11online.com/news/connect-to ... rt-sept-15

Senate hearing over FBI's mishandling of Nassar investigation to start Sept. 15

by AUSTIN DENEAN, Sinclair Broadcast GroupThursday, September 9th 2021



https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/interna ... e-program/

The Oligarch Behind Russia’s Failing Space Program
MANSUR MIROVALEV
09/09/21



https://whowhatwhy.org/cartoon/texas-th ... tar-state/

Texas, the One-Star State
JON RICHARDS
09/07/21


https://whowhatwhy.org/justice/criminal ... locked-up/

CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLITICS
Sirhan May Go Free — But Truth on the Kennedy Assassinations Remains Locked Up
RUSS BAKER AND MILICENT CRANOR
09/05/21
The discussion of Sirhan Sirhan’s possible release elides important questions about a deeply flawed investigation into the murder of Robert F. Kennedy.


https://kansaspress.ku.edu/978-0-7006-2305-1.html

Branding Hoover's FBI
How the Boss's PR Men Sold the Bureau to America

Matthew Cecil

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/ot ... rebranding

https://kkc.com/whistleblower-case-arch ... l-edmonds/

Sibel Edmonds
Home › Portfolio › Sibel Edmonds
FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds worked as a translator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington Field Office. Ms. Edmonds’ father is an Iranian Azerbaijani and her mother is Turkish. She lived in Iran and Turkey before coming to the United States as a student in 1988. She is fluent in Turkish Persian, English and Azerbaijani.
Immediately following the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks in 2001, she reported serious cover-ups, security breaches, and intentional blocking of intelligence that had national security implications. She was fired from her job in March of 2002.
Represented by Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, Ms. Edmonds pursued a successful Freedom of Information Act Case


https://presciant.com/creating-brand-tr ... m-the-fbi/

Creating Brand Trust: Brilliant Marketing from the FBI!



https://edition.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITIC ... /time.fbi/

How the FBI blew the case
The inside story of the FBI whistle-blower who accuses her bosses of ignoring warnings of 9/11. A reading of her entire memo suggests a bracing blueprint for chang


https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/202 ... ublic.html

Thursday, September 9, 2021
Tidbits from the Brown School of Public Health, via CNN

From Ashish Jha's right hand girl, associate dean of the Brown School of Public Health:

"The Delta variant is clearly more transmissible, but somehow, six months after its identification, we still don't know whether it's inherently more dangerous, particularly for children. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is not consistently tracking the many so-called "breakthrough" infections that don't require hospitalization, so we are left guessing how well the vaccines protect from mild and asymptomatic infection...
No matter who you are or where you are, take a minute to think about the basics of air movement and filtration. Our grandparents used to open the windows to clear out the germs. It's time for us to do the same. When you're in a building, make sure the HVAC is turned on... [Why did it take so long to get this simple advice, which I talked about more than a year ago?--Nass]
If you have political power, advocate for science. To move forward, we need good data and good guidelines. Everyone from the CDC to our local public health departments to our school departments and our hospitals needs to collect and share reliable data with the American public. These facts can help us overcome the uneven guidance, the fictions and the disinformation that so many fell prey to in the past year and still now. Myths spread when truth is unknown."
Yes, we need good data.  The issue is not that it is not collected--it is, mostly--but that it is hidden or massaged before we the taxpayers get to see it.  She forgot to mention that narrative control is the enemy of science.  You cannot have both coexisting.
I suggest that every time you hear "Trust the Science" turn it around and say "Trust the Narrative Control."
And every time someone supports mandates for


https://truthout.org/articles/many-fbi- ... -released/

Many FBI Files on 9/11 Remain Classified. Victims’ Families Want Them Released.


https://www.projectcensored.org/police- ... ort-finds/

Police Officers in Schools Fail to Increase Safety, Report Finds


https://www.projectcensored.org/still-u ... ron-good/g

Still-Unanswered Questions About the 9/11 Attacks Featuring Peter Dale Scott, Ben Howard, and Aaron Good
September 6, 2021


https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html

Bureaucratic bungling prevented man who died on Rikers Island from paying $1 bail to get out, family says
By GRAHAM RAYMAN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
SEP 10, 2021 AT 8:55

https://bangordailynews.com/2021/09/10/ ... hdog-says/

Maine’s youth prison continues to use dangerous tactics, watchdog says

by Callie Ferguson


https://bangordailynews.com/2021/09/09/ ... -incident/

Maine Attorney general’s office declines to pursue hate crime charges in Presque Isle incident



https://bangordailynews.com/2021/09/10/ ... -persists/

Bangor Maine jail is functioning without 25 percent of its staff as overcrowding persists


https://bangordailynews.com/2021/09/09/ ... ince-1990/

Inequality has cost the US nearly $23 trillion since 1990


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ate-crisis

The quest to find African American graves before they’re lost to climate crisis

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October 21,2021
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justi ... sts-myths/

What if Everything You Know About Murder Rates and Policing Is Wrong?
Five common myths about the FBI’s homicide data, debunked.


https://evawintl.org/wp-content/uploads ... eGuide.pdf

Addressing Sexual Offenses and Misconduct by Law Enforcement


https://theintercept.com/2021/10/21/vir ... periments/

ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE CONDUCTED RISKY EXPERIMENTS ON MERS VIRUS IN CHINA
Documents released by the NIH contradict previous assertions by the EcoHealth Alliance about its experiments on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan.
Sharon Lerner, Maia Hibbett


https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2 ... -notified/

Nearly $700,000 stolen from Dallas County jail inmate accounts in debit card scheme; FBI notified
County auditors presented the results of an internal investigation to the Commissioners Court and said improvements have been ...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/forme ... NewsSearch

Sheriff’s lieutenant arrested in Aventura. FBI says he took part in Capitol siege.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... 97e4ac49cd

Revealed: pipeline company paid Minnesota police for arresting and surveilling protesters
Enbridge picked up the tab for police wages, training and equipment – and let county police know when it wanted demonstrators arrested

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny- ... 97e4ac49cd

Biden’s DOJ uses a Trump tactic: Federal prosecutors label Black Lives Matter protesters terrorists
By RACHEL BARKOW

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 19, 2021 AT 5:00 AM

https://www.citizensforethics.org/repor ... 97e4ac49cd

DEA approved more than 50 requests for covert surveillance of racial justice protests last summer
By Rebecca Jacobs and Hajar Hammado
October 5, 2021


https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html

Minneapolis cop Mohamed Noor gets drastic sentence reduction for killing of 911 caller
By NELSON OLIVEIRA

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 21, 2021 AT 10:52 AM



https://www.pressherald.com/2021/10/20/ ... n-schools/


Portland school board approves policy defining role of police in schools
The policy, approved unanimously Tuesday, offers clarity for when police should and shouldn't be in schools and on what grounds they're allowed to interview students.


https://samuelwalker.net/wp-content/upl ... wf2003.pdf

POLICE SEXUAL ABUSE OF TEENAGE GIRLS: A 2003 Update on “Driving While Female”
___________________________________________________________________
By
Samuel Walker and Dawn Irlbeck
Police Professionalism Initiative
University of Nebraska at Omaha Department of Criminal Justice

https://www.masslive.com/news/2021/10/m ... ncies.html

Massachusetts town Select Board asks FBI to investigate its own police department for payroll discrepancies
Updated: Oct. 21, 2021, 11:46 a.m. | Published: Oct. 21, 2021, 11:07 a.m.


https://www.chalkbeat.org/2020/6/23/212 ... s-research

Do police keep schools safe? Fuel the school-to-prison pipeline? Here’s what research says.

https://www.pennlive.com/midstate/2014/ ... to_re.html

FBI agent doesn't have to register as sex offender for peeping Tom incidents in Hershey, elsewhere, court says



http://www.copmugshots.com/fbi-mug-shots-update.html

Cop Mug Shots



https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.or ... nk-serpico




Frank Serpico
Retired Police Detective, Author, Lecturer : b. 1936
“A policeman’s first obligation is to be responsible to the needs of the community he serves…The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which an honest police officer can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers. We create an atmosphere in which the honest officer fears the dishonest officer, and not the other way around.

* 1971: Became the first New York City policeman in history to testify about widespread corruption in the department. 
* 1972: Received the NYPD's higest award, The Medal of Honor.
* After being shot and testifying about corruption in the NYPD, Serpico lived in Europe for nearly a decade. 
* Al Pacino played Serpico in the 1973 movie about his life. 

https://theintercept.com/2021/10/21/mor ... urnalists/

MOROCCO’S SURVEILLANCE MACHINE
The Kingdom’s Intelligence Apparatus Fuels a Crackdown on Dissent


https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justi ... epartment/

* CRIME AND JUSTICE
Has the DOJ’s Campaign to Root Out Chinese Spies on College Campuses Gone Too Far?
Inside the case of University of Kansas professor Feng Tao.


https://www.motherjones.com/recharge/20 ... alifornia/

OCTOBER 13, 2021
Reporters Covering Protests Score New Protections Against Police Interference in California


https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/202 ... olice.html

Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Chicago threatens retirements of police who refuse vax--Hardball but it won't get by a judge

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... ar-AAPFMRY
Chicago police officers could face repercussions, including losing retirement benefits, if they choose to not comply with the city's vaccine mandate, according to a memo from the Chicago Police Department...
Un*******believable.  Why do they want to vaccinate us so badly

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... A-ATF.html


How FBI agents made informants MILLIONAIRES: $548m paid out, including $1.4m to parcel company worker, $926k to Amtrak employee and $655k to airline worker

https://www.blackenterprise.com/after-e ... y-was-set/

RACIST ENCOUNTER WITH WHITE FBI AGENT SET ATTORNEY LAWRENCE BLACKMON’S FUTURE
November 25, 20211410


https://www.wbrz.com/news/fbi-investiga ... -a-decade/

FBI investigating child rape allegations that went ignored for a decade
Nov 25,2021

https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Ex-FBI ... 742850.php

FBI internal affairs chief pleads guilty to child molestation
JOHN SOLOMON
Feb. 16, 2004


https://www.ktbs.com/news/former-bossie ... 6bf18.html

Bossier cop gets 20-year prison sentence

BENTON, La. -- A former Bossier City police officer who possessed child porn and sexually abused his dog was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison.



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... i-failures

Parkland shooting families reach $127.5m settlement over FBI inaction
Families of those killed in 2018 Florida attack reach settlement over agency’s failure to investigate tip a month before massacre


https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/ ... 649146.php

FBI agent to run for state senate
.
A former FBI agent from Amarillo wants to be the state senator for the Midland-Odessa region. The District 31 seat in the Texas Senate...



https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show/st ... s-excesses

In ‘My Fugitive,’ a lawyer’s daughter trains her eye on the FBI’s excesses
St. Louis Public Radio | By Sarah Fenske
Published November 24, 2021 at 12:42 PM CST


https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public ... 5CCD96AB14

Durbin, Feinstein, Grassley Press Inspector General, FBI to Act on Larry Nassar Case
Nov 22 2021
Washington–Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) joined Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along wtih a bipartisan group of senators, to seek additional scrutiny of the FBI’s approach to child sex abuse cases following its dereliction of duty in the Larry Nassar case.


https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/sta ... -fbi-agent

Statewide violence demands coordinated police response in MD, says former FBI agent

by Shelley OrmanWednesday, November 24th 2021

https://fcw.com/articles/2021/11/02/fbi ... aring.aspx

GSA addresses plans for FBI headquarters at House hearing
* By Chris RiottaNov 02, 2021


https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xp ... story.html

PBS SHOW OPENS CLOSET DOOR ON FBI DirectOr HOOVER'S SEXUALITY, MOB TIES
By By TOM JICHA and TV/Radio Writer
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Frontline does unto J. Edgar Hoover as he did unto others.
The PBS documentary series tonight peeps into the bedroom and other seamy aspects of the man who guided the FBI for almost a half-century. Two wrongs might not make a right, but they do make for an explosive and deliciously scandalous hour.

Frontline contends that Hoover was "personally corrupt, sexually compromised and tainted by ties to organized crime."
It also alleges Hoover used surreptitiously obtained evidence of John F. Kennedy's womanizing to blackmail him into offering the vice presidency to Lyndon B. Johnson, a Hoover ally.


http://content.time.com/time/subscriber ... 93,00.html

Partners For Life


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4FQTglHwZ0

Two Female Cops Get Fired After Doing This


https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/202 ... inion.html


Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Missouri Circuit Court Judicial Opinion: Unelected health officials are unconstitutionally making laws,

The Brownstone Institute wrote today about this decision of November 22, which is music to my ears.  I have been ruminating on how a CDC-sponsored package of legislation (which began as the "Model Emergency Health Powers Act" in 1999 or 2000, crafted by public health law professor Lawrence O Gostin) became the framework for a takeover of democratic government and a march to totalitarianism.  At least one judge in one little circuit doesn't think this can fly.  Let's hope this is where things start to turn around.
Here are quotes from the decision:
Plaintiffs produced ample evidence that health agency directors throughout Missouri have used the power granted to them by 19 CSR 20-20.040 to exercise unbridled and unfettered personal authority to in effect, legislate... 
DHSS regulations that permit an agency health director to create and enforce orders and take other discretionary “control measures,” which are predominantly set forth in 19 CSR 20-20.040(2) (G)-(1) and (6), are unconstitutional and are therefore invalid…
Plaintiffs presented evidence that these orders issued by health agency directors go into effect without public comment, and become effective once posted on the internet. These bureaucratic edicts are for an indefinite duration until they are removed or edited based on the opinion of the bureaucrat who wrote them…
...DHSS regulations that allow one person to make and enforce laws, and close things down with no standards other than a completely unappealable and unchallengeable “opinion” regarding public health protection...
Missouri’s local health authorities have grown accustomed to issuing edicts and coercing compliance. It is far past time for this unconstitutional conduct to stop...
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-r ... urt-rules/

Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxlYyZ08cEg


The O variant - John Campbell


https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/cr ... 60612.html

May police shooting death of Louisiana infant. Here’s what we know



https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm ... story.html


Sun Sentinel
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Nat Geo's 'Hot Zone' depicts 2001 anthrax attacks in Florida
.
A yearslong investigation by the FBI was completed in 2008 and concluded the letters were mailed by U.S. Army biological scientist Bruce Ivins, who died of a...


https://cryptome.org/0001/meryl-nass.htm

Federal Bureau of Invention? 
Microbiologist Meryl Nass Responds to FBI Closing Anthrax Case

Meryl Nass Source
The FBI's report, documents and accompanying information (only pertaining to Ivins, not to the rest of the investigation) were released on Friday afternoon ... which means the FBI anticipated doubt and ridicule.  The National Academies of Science (NAS) is several months away from issuing its $879,550 report on the microbial forensics, suggesting a) asking NAS to investigate the FBI's science was just a charade to placate Congress, and/or b) NAS' investigation might be uncovering things the FBI would prefer to bury, so FBI decided to preempt the NAS panel's report.
Here are today's reports from the Justice Department, AP, Washington Post and NY Times. The WaPo article ends,
The FBI's handling of the investigation has been criticized by Ivins's colleagues and by independent analysts who have pointed out multiple gaps, including a lack of hair, fiber other physical evidence directly linking Ivins to the anthrax letters. But despite long delays and false leads, Justice officials Friday expressed satisfaction with the outcome.
The evidence "established that Dr. Ivins, alone, mailed the anthrax letters," the Justice summary stated.
Actually, the 96-page FBI report is predicated on the assumption that the anthrax letters attack was carried out by a "lone nut." The FBI report fails to entertain the possibility that the letters attack could have involved more than one actor. The FBI admits that about 400 people may have had access to Ivins' RMR-1029 anthrax preparation, but asserts all were "ruled out" as lone perpetrators. FBI never tried to rule any out as part of a conspiracy, however.
That is only the first of many holes in FBI's case. Here is a sampling of some more.
1. The report assumes Ivins manufactured, purified and dried the spore prep in the anthrax hot room at US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). His colleagues say the equipment available was insufficient to do so on the scale required.
2. But even more important, the letter spores contained a Bacillus subtilis contaminant, and silicon to enhance dispersal. FBI has never found the Bacillus subtilis strain at USAMRIID, and it has never acknowledged finding silicon there, either. If the letters anthrax was made at USAMRIID, at least small amounts of both would be there.
3. Drs. Perry Mikesell, Ayaad Assaad and Stephen Hatfill were 3 earlier suspects. All had circumstantial evidence linking them to the case. In Hatfill's case, especially, are hints he could have been "set up." Greendale, the return address on the letters, was a suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe where Hatfill attended medical school. Hatfill wrote an unpublished book about a biowarfare attack that bears some resemblance to the anthrax case. So the fact that abundant circumstantial evidence links Ivins to the case might be a reflection that he too was "set up" as a potential suspect, before the letters were sent.
4. FBI fails to provide any discussion of why no autopsy was performed, nor why, with Ivins under 24/7 surveillance from the house next door, with even his garbage being combed through, the FBI failed to notice that he overdosed and went into a coma. Nor is there any discussion of why the FBI didn't immediately identify tylenol as the overdose substance, and notify the hospital, so that a well-known antidote for tylenol toxicity could be given (N-acetyl cysteine, or alternatively glutathione). These omissions support the suggestion that Ivins' suicide was a convenience for the FBI. It enabled them to conclude the anthrax case, in the absence of evidence that would satisfy the courts.
5. The FBI's alleged motive is bogus. In 2001, Bioport's anthrax vaccine could not be (legally) relicensed due to potency failures, and its impending demise provided room for Ivins' newer anthrax vaccines to fill the gap. Ivins had nothing to do with developing Bioport's vaccine, although in addition to his duties working on newer vaccines, he was charged with assisting Bioport to get through licensure.
6. FBI's report claims, "Those who worked for him knew that Nass was one of those topics to avoid discussing around Dr. Ivins" (page 41). The truth is we had friendly meetings at the Annapolis, Maryland international anthrax conference in June 2001, and several phone conversations after that. Bruce occasionally assisted me in my study of the safety and efficacy of Bioport's licensed anthrax vaccine, giving me advice and papers he and others had written. I wonder if I was mentioned negatively to discourage Ivins' other friends and associates from communicating with me, since they have been prohibited from speaking freely? Clever.
7. The FBI's Summary states that "only a limited number of individuals ever had access to this specific spore preparation" and that the flask was under Ivins' sole and exclusive control. Yet the body of the report acknowledges hundreds of people who had access to the spores, and questions remain about the location of the spore prep during the period in question. FBI wordsmiths around this, claiming that no one at USAMRIID "legitimately" used spores from RMR1029 without the "authorization and knowledge" of Bruce Ivins. Of course, stealing spores to terrorize and kill is not a legitimate activity.
8. FBI says that only a small number of labs had Ames anthrax, including only 3 foreign labs. Yet a quick Pub Med search of papers published between 1999 and 2004 revealed Ames anthrax was studied in at least Italy, France, the UK, Israel and South Korea as well as the US. By failing to identify all labs with access to Ames, the FBI managed to exclude potential domestic and foreign perpetrators.
9. FBI claims that "drying anthrax is expressly forbidden by various treaties," therefore it would have to be performed clandestinely. Actually, the US government sponsored several programs that dried anthrax spores. Drying spores is not explicitly prohibited by the Biological Weapons Convention, though many would like it to be.
10. The FBI report claims the anthrax letters envelopes were sold in Frederick, Md. Later it admits that millions of indistinguishable envelopes were made, with sales in Maryland and Virginia.
11. FBI emphasizes Ivins' access to a photocopy machine, but fails to mention it was not the machine from which the notes that accompanied the spores were printed.
12. FBI claims Ivins was able to make a spore prep of equivalent purity as the letter spores. However, Ivins had clumping in his spores, while the spores in the Daschle/Leahy letters had no clumps. Whether Ivins could make a pure dried prep is unknown, but there is no evidence he had ever done so.
13. FBI asserts that Bioport and USAMRIID were nearly out of anthrax vaccine, to the point researchers might not have enough to vaccinate themselves. FBI further asserts this would end all anthrax research, derailing Ivins' career. In fact, USAMRIID has developed many dozens of vaccines (including those for anthrax) that were never licensed, but have been used by researchers to vaccinate themselves. There would be no vaccine shortage for researchers.
14. Ivins certainly had mental problems. But that does not explain why the FBI accompanied Ivins' therapist, Ms. Duley (herself under charges for multiple DUIs) and assisted her to apply for a peace order against him. Nor does it explain why Duley then went into hiding, never to be heard from again.
15. FBI obtained a voluntary collection of anthrax samples. Is that the way to conduct a multiple murder investigation: ask the scientists to supply you with the evidence to convict them? There is no report that spores were seized from anyone but Ivins, about 6 years after the attacks. This is a huge hole in the FBI's "scientific" methodology.
16. FBI claims it investigated Bioport and others who had a financial motive for the letters attack, and ruled them out. However, FBI provides not a shred of evidence from such an investigation.
FBI gave this report its best shot. The report sounds good. It includes some new evidence. It certainly makes Ivins out to be a crazed, scary and pathetic figure. If you haven't followed this story intently, you may be convinced of his guilt.
On the other hand, there are reasons why a conspiracy makes better sense. If the FBI really had the goods, they would not be overreaching to pin the crime on a lone nut.
JFK, RFK, George Wallace, Martin Luther King, all felled by lone nuts. Even Ronald Reagan's would-be assassin was a lone nut. Now Bruce Ivins. The American public is supposed to believe that all these crimes required no assistance and no funds.
Does the FBI stand for the Federal Bureau of Invention?
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Dr. Meryl Nass, MD is a leading expert on anthrax and anthrax vaccine. She has offered her research and expert testimony at several Congressional hearings in the U.S.
Dr. Nass's website anthraxvaccine.org offers in depth insight into anthrax, anthrax vaccine, biological warfare and related topics.

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