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Utah FBI agent charged with allegedly choking girlfriend


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Crime » Police say the woman, who lives with the FBI agent in his Avenues home, had marks on her neck and a bump on her head.

A Utah FBI agent has been charged for allegedly throwing a woman he lives with to the ground and choking her.

Special Agent Adam Grant Quirk was charged Monday in 3rd District Court with aggravated assault, a third-degree felony.

Quirk, 36, also was charged with criminal mischief and damaging or interrupting a communication device, which are class-B misdemeanors.

No court dates have been set.

On Saturday, the woman Quirk lives with locked herself in the bathroom after he began drinking at his Avenues are home and became belligerent, according to the charges. She also took and hid Quirk’s phone "to keep him from doing hurtful things on it while being intoxicated," the charges add.



Quirk demanded that she unlock the door, and when she didn’t, he allegedly started throwing her things out the back door, according to the charges. When she opened the door, Quirk allegedly threw her to the floor by her hair and neck and then choked her, the charges add.


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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Case Update: FBI Agent Edward Preciado Convicted for Murdering Kimberly Long
Hammered in Vegas

Detectives followed a trail that traversed the kitchen, then continued across the dining room and through the hallway. The bloody footprints faded noticeably with each step up the staircase. More bloody footprints led to the outside of the garage. These trails would later lead the detectives to hidden evidence.

The rising garage door revealed Jeffrey Preciado’s father, covered in his victim’s blood. Former FBI agent Edward Preciado-Nuño stood over the lifeless body of Kimberly Ann Long. The 31-year-old mother lay in a pool of blood on the cold garage floor. Two bloody claw hammers were on the floor nearby. Staring at the detectives, Preciado-Nuño said, “She hit me with a hammer, so I hit her back.” The smaller hammer allegedly used by Kimberly was found beside her left hand. She was right-handed.

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Preciado-Nuño has been sentenced to 8 to 20 years in prison for slaying Kimberly Long. Outrageously, his attorney, Tom Pitaro, asked the judge to sentence Preciado-Nuño to probation, because of his career in the FBI.


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Victim's Sister Haunted by Slaying a Year After FBI Agent Confessed : Crime: Susan Smith's family, believing her death was motivated by more than an unwanted pregnancy, is pursuing further investigation.
July 07, 1991

PIKEVILLE, Ky. — One year into his 16-year sentence, the only FBI agent ever charged with a homicide is coming to grips with life in prison.

Mark Putnam reads, exercises, works in the prison hospice and chapel, and is talkative during calls to his family. He is adjusting.

But the sister of Susan Daniels Smith--the woman Putnam strangled, the woman whose body he hid for 12 months while her family agonized over her disappearance--is not.

Because of Shelby Ward's persistence--and the wrongful-death suit the family has filed against Putnam--Susan Daniels Smith's body was exhumed in May and the autopsy on her resumed, two years after she was killed.



"It seems like it won't go away," Ward said of the case.

The 28-year-old woman, Putnam's informant and lover, was reported to have been four months pregnant when she was strangled on June 8, 1989, but medical examiner's officials say they have yet to find any trace of a fetus.

In his written confession, Putnam said he strangled Smith in a fit of rage because she was threatening to tell his wife and superiors that she was carrying his child. Putnam, who already had been transferred to Miami, dumped the body off a coal mine road in the eastern Kentucky hills and returned to his wife and two children.

A year later, apparently racked by guilt, he offered to lead authorities to her body. In exchange, he was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of first-degree manslaughter.

Ward, whose clamorings about her sister's disappearance first brought the case to light, still insists that there was more than an unwanted pregnancy behind the killing--and she believes that the autopsy, halted two years ago at the request of the family, might prove that.

Ward said FBI Agent Ron Poole, who was Putnam's superior and knew about the pregnancy, had talked with her about Putnam.

"He said he knew some things on Mark Putnam that was awful . . . furnishing informants with guns and drugs--Susan, too," she said. "There's a lot of things I've not told the press . . . things that my sister told me."


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FBI Official Gets Six Years

Thursday, March 13, 2008
In a courtroom crowded with his friends from law enforcement, a former FBI official was sentenced yesterday to six years in prison for torturing his girlfriend at knifepoint and gunpoint during a six-hour ordeal in her Crystal City high-rise apartment.

Carl L. Spicocchi, 55, a 19-year FBI veteran who had run the Toledo office and was on temporary assignment in Washington, pleaded guilty in Arlington County Circuit Court last year to two felony counts of abduction and using a firearm in the Aug. 23 attack.

"This obviously was a horrific crime," Circuit Court Judge James F. Almand said. "It requires a substantial sentence and a substantial amount of time."


Spicocchi, who is married, believed his girlfriend was dating another man and attacked her in a jealous rage, according to court records. But the girlfriend, who said she was too fearful of Spicocchi to appear in court yesterday, said in a statement that she was not unfaithful.

"He thought she was cheating on him, but she wasn't," said Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Lisa Bergman. The attack "came completely out of the blue," Bergman said.

In the statement, read by Bergman, the woman gave this account: When she came home that day, she found Spicocchi hiding in a closet, armed with a gun and a 10-inch knife. He stripped her and wrapped her in tape, then dragged her around the apartment by her hair. He forced the gun into her mouth and held the knife to her throat. He beat her repeatedly. He told her that he would cut open her veins and that, because of his training, he knew how long it would take the blood to drain from her body.

"He said I had met my match," she said in the statement.

He told her that he planned to kill her and that she would soon join her father, who had died 10 months earlier. He said that he would write a check for $100,000 from her account and flee to South America after she was dead and that he had a plane ticket for a 6 a.m. flight.

Finally, the woman said, she escaped by running into the hall and screaming for help. "The attack on me was unprovoked," she said in her statement. "I feel lucky to have escaped the monster."

She said Spicocchi had told her he had been divorced for four years.

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ACLU Appeals Decision Which Created Immunity for FBI Agents Involved in Torturing US Citizens Abroad



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The American Civil Liberties Union has appealed a federal district court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit brought by an American citizen who alleges he was detained and tortured by FBI agents in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia in violation of his constitutional rights.

Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, ruled in June, “The facts alleged in this case and the legal questions presented are deeply troubling.” But, he added, “Although Congress has legislated with respect to detainee rights, it has provided no civil remedies for US citizens subject to the appalling mistreatment [Amir] Meshal has alleged against officials of his own government.”

Sullivan essentially decided the courts are powerless when it comes to protecting US citizens from being tortured by US government officials while they are abroad.

In the organization’s appeal [PDF], the ACLU argues the district court erred in deciding that Meshal had no remedy available to him after FBI agents were directly involved in unlawfully detaining and torturing him during an investigation that took place outside the United States.

The district court correctly recognized that Meshal did not “forefeit the protection” of the US Constitution by “traveling abroad and that US law enforcement agents may not subject a US citizen to months of near-incommunicado detention without access to counsel or any kind of hearing before a judicial officer.” It also understood he had a constitutional right not to be coercively interrogated as a captured US citizen who was threatened with “disappearance, torture and death.”

But the ACLU contends the district court committed errors in judgment when it ignored the fact that the Supreme Court has rejected a “national security” exception.

The district court also inappropriately overlooked Meshal’s citizenship, how Congress has wanted a remedy available to US citizens wrongly imprisoned and tortured by law enforcement officials, how the judiciary has experience handling these exact types of cases and the danger of immunizing law enforcement officials from being held accountable for abuses.

“No US citizen would have the opportunity to bring suit if the case in some way involves national security unless and until Congress enacts a statute providing a remedy,” if the district court’s decision is allowed to stand, the ACLU added.

Meshal was in the Horn of Africa when, on January 24, 2007, Kenyan soldiers captured and interrogated him. He was “hooded, handcuffed and flown to Nairobi, where he was taken to the Ruai Police Station and questioned by an officer of Kenya’s Criminal Investigation Department.”

The police informed him they had to “find out what the United States wanted to do with him before he could send him back to the United States.” He remained in detention without access to a telephone or his attorney for a week.

On February 3, “three Americans,” who turned out to be FBI agents, interrogated Meshal and told him he would be handed over to the Kenyans and remain stuck in a “lawless country” if he did not cooperate. The agents also accused him of “having received weapons and interrogation resistance training in an al Qaeda camp.”

Supervising Special Agent Chris Higgenbotham, one of the officials sued, allegedly threatened Meshal with transfer to Israel where the Israelis would “make him disappear.” Meshal was informed that another US citizen he had met in Kenya, Daniel Maldonado, who was also seized by Kenyan soldiers, “had a lot to say about” him and his story “would have to match.”

Another agent, Supervising Special Agent Steve Hersem, allegedly told Meshal “Egyptian authorities were very interested in speaking with him and ‘had ways of making [him] talk.’” He threatened to subject Meshal to the same torture that the protagonist in Midnight Express experiences if he did not “cooperate and admit his connection with al Qaeda.” Hersem also informed Meshal, “You made it so that even your grandkids are going to be affected by what you did.”

On February 9, Meshal was flown by Kenyan officials to Somalia with twelve others. He was “detained in handcuffs in an underground room with no windows or toilets,” which was referred to as “the cave.” This was allegedly to prevent pressure from Kenyan courts to halt his detention and interrogation by FBI agents.

About a week later, Meshal was transported in handcuffs and a blindfold to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He was held there in incommunicado detention for a week before Ethiopian officials started to regularly transport him to a villa with other prisoners where he would be interrogated by FBI agents on a daily basis.

While in Ethiopia, an unidentified FBI agent said he would only be sent home if he was “truthful.” Meshal repeatedly asked to speak to his lawyer but agents denied his requests.

Meshal remained in detention for three months and was moved into solitary confinement twice. Then, on May 24, he was taken to the US Embassy in Addis Ababa and flown back to the US.

He was detained for four months and lost eighty pounds. While allegations against him were certainly made, US officials never charged him with a crime.

The ruling in June provides “absolute immunity” for this type of law enforcement abuse creating what the ACLU calls an “unprecedented and unbounded ‘national security’ and ‘foreign relations’ exception.”

From the district court’s decision:

…As the government points out, these claims have the potential to implicate ‘national security threats in the Horn of Africa region; substance and sources of intelligence; the extent to which each government in the region participates in or cooperates with US operations to identify, apprehend, detain, and question suspected terrorists on their soil; [and] the actions taken by each government as part of any participation or cooperation with US operations.’…

In other words, Sullivan agreed with the government that permitting Meshal to sue officials would interfere with affairs that were entirely in the control of the Executive Branch and violate separation of powers. It also may jeopardize close cooperation between the US and other country—perhaps, even an ongoing arrangement to operate a secret detention facility where the US was providing security officers support.

Whether a US citizen is imprisoned and tortured for four years or even forty years, whether they are strangled in a cell, there is now a precedent where a measure of recourse for such rights violations has been foreclosed.

The appeal brought on behalf of Meshal will be important in trying to regain a means for victims to win some level of justice after they are tortured by US law enforcement officials abroad.

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Boston bombers ‘Uncle Ruslan’ was Halliburton contractor‘Uncle Ruslan’ aided terrorists from CIA official’s home →
Boston bombers’ uncle married daughter of top CIA official
Posted on April 26, 2013

The uncle of the two suspected Boston bombers in last week’s attack, Ruslan Tsarni, was married to the daughter of former top CIA official Graham Fuller

The discovery that Uncle Ruslan Tsarni had spy connections that go far deeper than had been previously known is ironic, especially since the mainstrean media's focus yesterday was on a feverish search to find who might have recruited the Tsarnaev brothers.

The chief suspect was a red-haired Armenian exorcist. They were fingering a suspect who may not, in fact, even exist.

It was like blaming one-armed hippies on acid for killing your wife.




Ruslan Tsarni married the daughter of former top CIA official Graham Fuller, who spent 20 years as operations officer in Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Hong Kong. In 1982 Fuller was appointed the National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asia at the CIA, and in 1986, under Ronald Reagan, he became the Vice-Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, with overall responsibility for national level strategic forecasting.



At the time of their marriage, Ruslan Tsarni was known as Ruslan Tsarnaev, the same last name as his nephews Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the alleged bombers.

It is unknown when he changed his last name to Tsarni.

What is known is that sometime in the early 1990’s, while she was a graduate student in North Carolina, and he was in law school at Duke, Ruslan Tsarnaev met and married Samantha Ankara Fuller, the daughter of Graham and Prudence Fuller of Rockville Maryland. Her middle name suggests a reference to one of her father’s CIA postings.

The couple divorced sometime before 2004.

Today Ms. Fuller lives abroad, and is a director of several companies pursuing strategies to increase energy production from clean-burning and renewable resources.

On a more ominous note, Graham Fuller was listed as one of the American Deep State rogues on Sibel Edmonds' State Secrets Privilege Gallery,. Edmonds explained it featured subjects of FBI investigations she became aware of during her time as an FBI translator.

Criminal activities were being protected by claims of State Secrets, she asserted. After Attorney General John Ashcroft went all the way to the Supreme Court to muzzle her under a little-used doctrine of State Secrets, she put up twenty-one photos, with no names.

One of them was Graham Fuller.

"Congress of Chechen International" c/o Graham Fuller
A story about a Chechen oik exec/uncle pairing up with a top CIA official who once served as CIA Station Chief in Kabul sounds like a pitch for a bad movie.

But the two men may have been in business together.

In 1995, Tsarnaev incorporated the Congress of Chechen International Organizations in Maryland, using as the address listed on incorporation documents 11114 Whisperwood Ln, in Rockville Maryland, the home address of his then-father-in-law.

It is just eight miles up the Washington National Pike from the Montgomery Village home where “Uncle Ruslan” met—and apparently wowed, the press after the attack in Boston.

The Washington Post yesterday called him a "media maven," while nationally syndicated Washington Post columnist Ester Cepeda , in a piece with the headline “The Wise Words of Uncle Ruslan” opined that he was her choice for "an award for bravery in the face of adversity.”

Success through indirection, mis-direction, redirection, and protection
Uncle Ruslan’s spy connections go far deeper than was already known, which was that he spent two years working in Kazakhstan for USAID.

But the mainstream media was lookng the other way.

Under the headline “Did 'Misha' influence Tsarnaevs? In Watertown, doubts,” USA Today reported: “Misha. A new name has emerged in the Boston Marathon bombing case—one familiar to the family of the two young men accused of the atrocity and apparently of interest to the Russian and American security services as well.”

Ruslan Tsarni was the first to bring up the supposed man's supposed name. Or rather, he brought up a first name: Misha. But it was enough. We were off to the races…

Attention all cars: Be on lookout for chubby Armenian exorcist
Tsarni described Misha to CNN as being "chubby, a big guy, big mouth presenting himself with some kind of abilities as exorcist . . . having some part-time job in one of the stores, not married. All of the qualifications of a loser, just another big mouth.”

According to Uncle Ruslan, Misha was the man who over a considerable period of time had radicalized Tamerlan.

It seemed strange, then, that in contrast to his “you are there” verbal picture of the man, even with all his supposed concerns, and given his high level of education and abundant resources (Big Sky Energy was paying him in excess of $200,00 a year, according to documents filed with the SEC) Ruslan had somehow never found out just who the bad guy was.

He never got a name, something that in spook-dom is considered something of a faux pas. Then again, no one else had either.

Worse, Tsarni's vivid description seemed to be taken from personal observation, from, in other words…real life. But that isn’t possible. Tsarni had stated he hadn’t been physically in the presence of his Boston relatives since December 2005. And Misha, if he existed, didn’t show up on the scene until 2008 at the earliest.

Still, just a few days later, the entire family began chiming in. Misha anecdotes were flying fast & furious, and the nation’s scribblers were busy uncritically scribbling down their every word.

Maybe their Twitter account got hacked again?
No performance was nearly as masterful, however, as that of the Associated Press.

“Bomb suspect influenced by mysterious radical,” reported the Associated Press.

"Tamerlan's relationship with Misha could be a clue in understanding the motives behind his religious transformation and, ultimately, the attack itself," reported the Associate Press. Only to take it all back in the very next line.

"Two U.S. officials say he had no tie to terrorist groups."

The AP’s “story” about the mysterious “Misha” was 1145 words, long enough for an editor to squeeze in a caveat.

“It was not immediately clear whether the FBI has spoken to Misha or was attempting to,” the national wire service reported. “Efforts over several days by The Associated Press to identify and interview Misha have been unsuccessful.”

The big difference: when you do it, its conspiracy theory. When we do it, its informed speculation.
In any other context, this might be seen as the rankest kind of “conspiracy theory.” But, apparently, when the Associated Press does it, its news.

Then Uncle Ruslan made a clear mis-step.

“An uncle of the alleged bombers claims that Misha, an Armenian convert to Islam, had a huge influence on the elder brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Describing him as an "Armenia exorcist, Tsarni said, “Somehow he just took his brain.”

Armenians are a deeply-rooted Christian community, which is proud of the fact that their country was the first in the world to adopt Christianity as state religion in 301 AD.

Moreover this is the week

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the Sheriff did the rest.


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John E. Ensign, the former Republican senator, gave his final address while in office to the Nevada Legislature in 2011.

By ERIC LICHTBLAU
DECEMBER 29, 2014
WASHINGTON — It was one of Capitol Hill’s most salacious scandals, featuring a senator’s affair with a campaign aide, an outraged husband, tens of thousands of dollars in hush money, illicit lobbying deals with Las Vegas power brokers and a dramatic intervention by a leading Christian ministry.

Now, three years after the fall of former Senator John E. Ensign of Nevada, thousands of pages of previously undisclosed documents reveal new details about the evidence the F.B.I. gathered against Mr. Ensign, a onetime Republican presidential hopeful. The documents, which show that Mr. Ensign’s behavior was more brash than known at the time, also offer new specifics about why the Justice Department decided not to prosecute Mr. Ensign despite an aggressive F.B.I. investigation into the scandal.

The Justice Department recently turned over some 3,000 pages of internal documents from the case to a public watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, known as CREW, after the organization sued under the Freedom of Information Act. The group provided the files to The New York Times, which in 2009 published an investigation of the Ensign case that prompted the F.B.I. inquiry.

Although the broad outlines of the case against Mr. Ensign have been made public, the documents disclose for the first time how much Mr. Ensign strong-armed political donors and business associates in 2008 to find lobbying work for Douglas Hampton, a top aide and close friend. Mr. Ensign was seeking the work in an attempt to placate Mr. Hampton because Mr. Ensign had an affair with Mr. Hampton’s wife, Cynthia Hampton, a campaign aide.

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FBI harassing fossil fuel activists in the Pacific northwest
Alexander Reid Ross

6th January 2015



A grassroots movement of eco-activists is achieving unprecedented success in challenging fossil fuel developments in the Cascadia region of the US's Pacific northwest, writes Alexander Reid Ross. And that has attracted the wrong kind of attention - from local police, FBI and right-wing legislators determined to protect the corporate right to exploit and pollute.
We are organizing a level of civil disobedience not seen in decades to save our neighborhoods, our communities, our salmon, and our climate. And that scares the $#!% out of the powers that be.
In August 2014, two activists with the environmentalist group Rising Tide spent a week riding the backwoods highways of Idaho monitoring a megaload.
That's big rig hauling equipment for processing tar sands oil that's wide enough to take up two lanes of road, too high to fit under a freeway overpass, can be longer than a football field, and can weigh up to 1,000,000 pounds.
They had no idea that they would soon be wrapped up in a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe that encompassed three states and several environmentalist groups.
Helen Yost of Moscow, Idaho, and Herb Goodwin of Bellingham, Washington, have spent years travelling through area the bioregion of Cascadia to halt megaloads, from Washington and Oregon to Idaho and up through Montana.
They are used to harassment from law enforcement. That week, Goodwin said, the two were stopped on average twice a night, by law-enforcement agencies ranging from state troopers to local police in Sandpoint and Moscow.
Usually carrying equipment to upgrade and expand tar sands mining in Alberta, Canada, megaloads make a tortuous crawl along rural roads at night to avoid traffic, questions, and complaints.
Organizing resistance - too successful to ignore

But activists like Goodwin and Yost have been remarkably successful at organizing the people in mountain country. In August 2013, more than a hundred people in Idaho participated in a four-day mobile blockade of a megaload on US 12 headed for the Nez Perce reservation.
The Nez Perce Nation said the megaloads threatened treaty-reserved resources, historic and cultural resources, and "tribal member health and welfare." Tribal chair Silas Whitman was one of the blockaders arrested, while activists from Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), the group Yost helped form, played important support roles.
Rising Tide North America's network, spun out of the Earth First! grassroots environmentalist movement in 2005, now spans the Cascadia bioregion, with chapters in Seattle, Spokane, Olympia, Bellingham, and Vancouver, Washington; Portland, Oregon; Moscow, Idaho; Missoula, Montana; and Vancouver, B.C.
In the last six months, they have collaborated on an average of a blockade per month, and have helped to spearhead the movement against fossil fuel exports through the Pacific Northwest.
The network has worked in solidarity with indigenous peoples to halt megaloads, has marched in pickets with unions to shut down ports, and has aided community groups to stop permits for coal, oil, and gas terminals on the Pacific Coast.
The FBI steps in

On Oct. 9, Herb Goodwin was approached at his home in Bellingham by two FBI agents asking about a group called Deep Green Resistance (DGR).
The FBI and Joint Terrorism Taskforce had previously contacted several members of DGR and their families both by phone and through home visits in places as dispersed as Georgia, New York and Seattle.
Goodwin was alarmed but not surprised when the lead agent "flashed a badge and claimed to be from the FBI." Refusing to tell him anything beyond her first name, 'Brenda', she provided a sloppy excuse for not presenting a business card.
The other person identified himself as 'Al Jensen', and his card identified him as a member of the Criminal Intelligence Unit of the Bellingham Police Department.
"Jensen jocularly mentioned that we knew each other from the Occupy movement / camp and train blockade, attempting to coax up conversation", Goodwin said in an e-mail. "I did not take the bait."
The Occupy encampment in Bellingham lasted for two months in the winter of 2011-12. Goodwin was one of four people arrested during the eviction, which came about two weeks after the mass blockade of a coal train Jensen mentioned. He says he recognized the detective's face, but didn't know his name:
"I think he was one of the undercover guys who was shifting in and out of our camp for the couple of months we had the camp up. I got a lot more surveillance after the Bellingham coal train blockade. I had people scoping out my apartment off and on for a couple months after that ... I could see people scoping me from cars with binoculars."

Goodwin says he is not a member of DGR, but suggests that it has drawn the interest of the FBI for advocating an 'underground' strategy to dismantle industrial civilization. At the same time, he adds,
"all the people remotely connected with DGR call themselves 'aboveground,' and they say that they're going to be involved in the same kind of aboveground actions that other activist groups are, but as far as I know they haven't really done anything."

There is no love lost between DGR and Rising Tide. In February 2014, Rising Tide North America signed a letter along with some 40 other groups, such as Greenpeace, the National Lawyers Guild, and Tar Sands Blockade, petitioning the University of Oregon to cancel a keynote address by one of DGR's leaders at an environmental-law conference on the grounds that the group's transphobic beliefs promote "exclusionary hate that breeds an environment of hostility and violence."
Questioning a Rising Tide activist about DGR seemed to blur some important differences between the groups, but activists still saw between the lines. The FBI inquisition was an obvious campaign to silence dissent, Yost says: "When Herb got visited we knew it wouldn't be long before they came around to someone from Idaho."
Habeas corpus battle in rural Idaho

On 9th October, the same day Goodwin was visited by the FBI, an activist named Alma Hasse attended a public meeting of the Payette County Planning and Zoning Commission to testify against the expansion of a gas-processing facility in the area, along the Oregon border northwest of Boise.
She recommended that the five Commission members recuse themselves from the permitting process on the grounds that they had signed oil and gas leases with Alta Mesa, the company seeking approval. (All three of the county commissioners have signed oil and gas leases as well.)
An associate of Yost and Goodwin, Hasse has worked in rural Idaho for years, agitating and organizing against fracking and oil trains. Cofounder of Idaho Residents Against Gas Extraction (IRAGE), which works with WIRT, she regularly attends Payette County government public meetings and brings up problems with their processes.
This time, something was different. The Commission members closed the meeting to the public, brusquely challenging Hasse's testimony, and ordering her to leave or face arrest. After insisting on her right to participate in the public meeting, she was arrested and kept in jail for a week without being charged or even processed.
In protest against her mistreatment by the Commission, Hasse refused to give her name. Though the police knew her, and called her 'Alma' when they talked about her, they refused her requests for a telephone call until she obtained a PIN number, which she could only get after being processed.
Police refused to process Hasse until she volunteered her name. Instead of booking her as 'Jane Doe' (a formality, since they already knew her name), they kept her in a cell by herself.
"I felt like it was a game", Hasse says. "They had my name. I had to sign in to testify at the public hearing, so both my name and my address were on the sign-in sheet." She also had been granted a permit to carry a concealed weapon by the county sheriff's office, so they had her Social Security number, date of birth, and fingerprints.
When police asked for her name, Hasse would tell them that they already knew her name, and that she wanted to talk to her attorney. They refused, which she insists was a violation of her civil rights and right of habeas corpus.
Only after she drew attention to her incarceration by going on a hunger strike, supported by a media campaign led by her husband and civil disobedience spearheaded by her daughter and WIRT, was she allowed to go free.
"I felt like I had to stand on principle", Hasse says. "At some point, we as citizens have to stand up and assert our rights, because if we don't, we're just going to be steamrolled."
When the FBI sends texts

On 10th December, Helen Yost of WIRT received three phone calls from an unfamiliar number in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Thinking they were from a telemarketer, she did not answer them. But nine days later, she awoke to another call from the same number. She had anticipated the text message that followed for years.
"Helen, I am trying to get a hold of you to speak with you. An issue has come up, and I need to speak with you. Please give me a call. I am an FBI agent. SA Travis Thiede."

Yost responded within ten minutes: "NO!"
Agent Thiede's reply came four minutes later: "OK, I understand, just wanted to have a conversation with you. Thanks."
According to his LinkedIn profile, Thiede joined the FBI in 1997 after serving in the Army and as a police officer in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was involved in the providing security at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and the investigation of a power-station bombing on the games' last day.
Yost believes that the agent's calls were related to her role as an organizer with WIRT. On 10th December, the day the first ones were placed, she had just returned to Moscow from a road trip organizing for the third annual Stand Up! Fight Back! Against Fossil Fuels in the Northwest!
She'd been in Sandpoint on 8th December and in Spokane, about 35 miles from the FBI office in Coeur d'Alene, on 9th December.
Continuing harassment

After years of dedicated activism, Hasse and Yost were not surprised. Groups like IRAGE and Rising Tide have felt the presence of the FBI for years.
The intensity of repression depends on the success of their campaigns, and not since the late 1990s has the Pacific Northwest seen so much mass action for environmental causes. During that period, the FBI inaugurated a broad strategy of repression, known by activists as the Green Scare, to track down suspects implicated in actions deemed 'eco-terrorist'.
According to leaked documents, its surveillance net was so large that officers even tailed random Subaru-driving patrons of a farmers' market. Earth Liberation Front spokesperson Craig Rosebraugh was subpoenaed eight times to testify before grand juries.
The FBI's Operation Backfire led to 13 people being indicted and nine convicted on various charges, including arson. Of the other four, one committed suicide in jail, two are still fugitives, and one escaped prison time by turning snitch, but was later jailed on heroin charges.
That era is said to have ended in 2006, but the bureau is still using agent provocateurs to infiltrate environmental and social-justice movements. (One was recently arrested for failing to register as a sex offender and for credit-card fraud.)
In 2008, a young man named Eric McDavid was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison, after an agent provocateur who called herself 'Anna' seduced him into talking about committing acts of sabotage at a cabin in Northern California the FBI had rented and wired for her.
Repressive 'ag-gag' laws against fossil fuel activists

Legislation such as the 2006 federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, largely drafted by the far-right corporate American Legislative Exchange Council, has expanded the criminalization of advocacy for the environment and animal rights.
Because of Idaho's new 'ag-gag' law - enacted in February after animal rights activists released videos of dairy workers abusing cows, it outlaws filming or recording agricultural operations without permission - activists in Payette County are afraid to take photographs of new fossil fuel wells and processing plants.
The surveillance has continued apace, as well. In 2011, activists with WIRT heard from an arrested megaload blockader that the local police were communicating with the FBI. They wrangled two meetings with the police and sheriff, but did not get any substantial information regarding the extent of federal involvement.
That fall, minutes after Yost received a call from an activist telling her that a protest was about to begin, police showed up and shined flashlights into people's cars. She believes they learned the protest's location by tapping her phone.
The local sheriff also approached associates of a professor at a university in Spokane and asked them about why he 'Liked' WIRT's Facebook page.
In June 2013, the FBI called the parents of an activist with Portland Rising Tide, and six other activists who have worked with Rising Tide Seattle were visited by FBI terrorism expert Matthew Acker and forensics leader Kera O'Reilly. There was also a third agent, who did not give his information.
The agents asked about the movement against tar-sands and fossil-fuel shipments. It was apparent immediately that the target was the Summer Heat action scheduled for that July 27, a joint effort with 350.org that would send a hundred or more kayaks and boats into the Columbia River for a symbolic blockade on to protest coal barges, oil-by-rail, and gas pipelines.
"My [attorney] was not able to find out what or why they were bothering my sweet folks, but I will tell you why", one activist whose parents were visited wrote.
"Its because Portland Rising Tide is outreaching, training, and organizing hundreds of Pacific NWers of all age groups to engage in a level of civil disobedience not seen in decades. We are going to do it to save our neighborhoods, our communities, our salmon, and our climate. And that scares the $#!% out of the powers that be."



Alexander Reid Ross is a contributing moderator of the Earth First! Newswire and works for Bark. He is the editor of Grabbing Back: Essays Against the Global Land Grab (AK Press 2014) and a contributor to Life During Wartime (AK Press 2013).

This article originally appeared at DefendingDissent.org.

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State-Sponsored Terrorism: Cases of Aafia Siddiqui & Alicia Partnoy
January 8, 2015


Why do citizens of a democratic society ignore state-sponsored terrorism? As U.S. citizens, we have seen numerous cases where our own state was the chief perpetrator of torture and human rights violations but have hesitated to speak out against it. Do we think our government always acts in our best interest or do we overlook these cases because we believe that the victims deserve it? Let us look at two stories that indicate U.S. involvement in human rights violations that offer no evidence as justification.


Aafia Siddiqui
Aafia Siddiqui
In March 2003, Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani national with an AB and PhD from American universities, and three of her children disappeared from Karachi, Pakistan. It was not until 2008 that the U.S .reported to have custody of her with no explanation about where she had been for five years. According to officials, Siddiqui was arrested and detained in Afghanistan on the suspicion of terrorism. They claim that during her detainment she picked up a rifle and shot at U.S. servicemen. Elaine Whitfield Sharp, Siddiqui’s lawyer, argued to CNN the implausibility of the story, saying, “The woman is a PhD. Is a woman like this really that stupid?”

Siddiqui is accused of having connections with Al-Qaeda but the claim has no supporting evidence. Her exact location however is still unclear. U.S. and Pakistani officials initially admitted to keeping her at a detention facility, while others reported her being held outside of Kabul. Arab prisoners who escaped from prison at Bagram in 2005 reported seeing a woman at the base. Abu Yahya Al-Libi told an Arab News channel about a Pakistani woman known as “Prisoner 650.” Siddiqui’s sister, Fauzia, reported her sister had been raped and tortured which was “a crime beyond anything she was accused of.” Fauzia Siddiqui continued that “she has had no access to any lawyer” and she urged officials to “presume her to be innocent before proven guilty.” The case clearly violates the legal principle of being “innocent until proven guilty.” An even uglier fact is that her three children still remain missing.

Siddiqui’s story is similar with another much earlier case in U.S. history, which also received no media attention at the time. This is the case of Alicia Partnoy.

Alicia Partnoy
Alicia Partnoy
For years, Latin-Americans have suffered the effects of terrorism sponsored by military regimes who have been indoctrinated, trained, and funded by the U.S. In Argentina, for example, citizens often were disappeared, tortured, or killed due to suspicions of “state subversion.” However suspicions do not justify the violation of human rights. The “science of torture” principles taught by FBI Agent Dan Mitrione to South American regimes in the 1960s are still behind techniques outlined in CIA interrogation manuals and supplied to Latin American regimes today.

These interrogation techniques supplied by the CIA and matching U.S. guidelines were used to torture Argentinian citizen Alicia Partnoy. Considered a communist subversive, Partnoy was kidnapped from her home by the military regime in January 1977 following the military coup after the death of President Juan Perón in 1976. Imprisoned for two and a half years, she was tortured and subjected to various experiments. In her book The Little School, she describes her experiences in detail. She was blindfolded, molested, beaten, held in solitude, starved, and forced to live under inhumane conditions.

These two cases show a common theme. Both Siddiqui and Partnoy were considered guilty without trial. Their imprisonment was justified by the argument that they were part of “insurgencies.” In 1968, “insurgents” meant communists like Alicia Partnoy. Today, insurgents now mean “radical Islamists” including people like Aafia Siddiqui. Despite the years, the parallel between the cases and tactics is evident. Torture and suppression of suspected “subversives” is done not because of reason, but because of the fear associated with the label “communist” and “Islamist.” Both Siddiqui and Partnoy had unsubstantiated charges against them. They were put through inhumane conditions and deprived of basic human rights. Partnoy was able to reveal her treatment in her book, but Siddiqui’s family and friends are the only ones that can speak for her.

Why do we hesitate to speak out against such violations of human rights? Is it lack of awareness? If so, this article calls for more research into their cases. Is it fear? If so, then I am afraid that we, too, are victims of state-sponsored terrorism. The U.S. has a track record of accusing and convicting people with little evidence: weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; the Yemeni wedding bombed by drones included Al-Qaida terrorists; the supposed Communists embedded in the U.S. government during McCarthyism.

As a country founded on free speech and human rights, we should not rely on torture and human rights violations to preserve them. Whether or not these victims were innocent or guilty of the crimes of which they were accused, the weak evidence against them should have given them the benefit of the doubt. For Partnoy, her release, distinguished career, and the collapse of the Argentinean military regime proved her innocence. For Siddiqui, if her innocence is difficult to determine, it should at least not overshadow the innocence of her three children who are still yet to be found. We should feel compelled to stand up against state-sponsored terrorism and demand a fair trial for Aafia Siddiqui and everyone whose

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Even now, after Stingray has been public knowledge over a year, the government still would rather let people go than admit to it's use.

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FBI Lies: The “National Security” Ruse
July 25, 2015

Evita PeronThe other day I wrote about the FBI’s dark hole into which everything it gets involves with disappears until sometime much later when it may tell its own version of what happened. The worst words you will hear if you are interested in learning something about an event that just happened is that“the FBI is investigating” or “the FBI is involved.”

A Globe article on Friday gets right to the heart of this matter. The headline of the story is: “Officials weigh national security with public’s right to know in terrorism cases.”

The story relates to Alexander Coccolo the young man with the garbled mind who apparently has been mentally ill since he was a young boy. He was living in Adams, MA, far over the edge of poverty, and as mentally ill people do had found disfavor in the society around him, ranted about it, and told how he supported such evil terrorist groups as ISIS even though he could hardly support himself.

As far as I can see despite his mental illness he has never committed acts of violence but his writings and statements were such that the FBI sicced one of its informants on him after being tipped off to his erratic behavior by his father. With the help of the informant and under the watchful eye of the FBI Cicollo advanced his plan to help terrorism. On a Thursday he bought a pressure cooker which he planned to use at a bar or a college to murder innocent people. On the next day, Friday, July 4, he was handed four guns by the FBI informant which he could never have purchased himself. He was immediately arrested.

One thing is clear from all we know: Cicollo was a sick guy who may have been dangerous once he had the means to do so. He was a lone wolf, as most poor disturbed people are. He lived mostly in his own warped world; with no connection to any terrorist groups.

The article is written by Milton J. Valencia who covers the federal court for the Globe. This means he has to deal with FBI agents so he has to play along with their game and the Globe’s long standing policy of currying favor with the FBI and the local U.S. Attorney’s office.

The situation that caused the article to be written was the concern of the people living in the neighborhood that they witnessed that a “swarm of law enforcement officers, some in hazmat suits, had converged on the rundown apartment on Murray Street.” They “feared the worst” . . . “There was so many rumors,”. . . “A lot of people were very upset. . . . It makes me scared because you don’t expect it.” But they could get no information for nine days.

Why? The article says the “authorities,” which in this case I believe is the cognomen for the FBI, say they kept the arrest and other information secret for “national security reasons.” The lie, as expected, was rubber stamped by Carmen Ortiz’s office which noted the FBI hid the information because it: “wanted to avoid jeopardizing the investigation by unnecessarily publicizing it.” How do you jeopardize an investigation that is over?

We are being fed total lies. Nothing, absolutely nothing involving Cicollo related to our national security. The FBI knew his every step for months — he was a sick kid with a sick idea with no connection to sick terrorists. That in no way implicates national security.

The article goes on to talk about the imagined balance the FBI and courts have to make in weighing national security against the public’s right to know.

As far as there being a tug or war between the courts and the FBI, when a federal prosecutor sought to have Cicollo’s documents unsealed two days after the arrest, the court (probably with some back door input from the FBI) kept it sealed another week. The courts will routinely bend over backwards to please the FBI when the words: “national security” are tossed into the pot.

Do you see where this can lead! Will people be picked up and held for “national security” reasons. Think Argentina. Seriously. Are we heading in that direction where your relative can disappear and if you inquire about what happened you will we will be told the “national security” lie? If you press further, you will be advised you are interfering or hindering an FBI agent in the course of his duties and may be charged yourself.

Dire days are ahead. FBI Director Comey is demagoguing the matter taking a page out of J. Edgar Hoover’s scrap-book with the almost daily warnings about ISIS. It happened before. Think of the Red Scare, the Palmer Raids, the Red Ark. Fear is being used here. We have to be alert to that and the lies if we are to remain free.

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vaughn-gunsVince Vaughn’s intemperate comments spurred a second look at the financial fraud his mother was involved in seven years ago. That brought new

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FBI Had 12-Page File On George Carlin Because He Made Jokes About Government
By John Vibes | August 20, 2015





(ANTIMEDIA) Comedian George Carlin is known as one of the most controversial and outspoken entertainers of his time, and as far as the government is concerned, he could have possibly been a terrorist.
Carlin was not a violent or criminal person in any way, but he said things during his routines that struck at the root of the problems in our society. He went into great detail about corruption in government and business.
During the 1978 Supreme Court case, FCC v Pacifica Foundation, the government cited Carlin’s work as an example of profanity. They used his “Seven Dirty Words” segment to show the type of language that was being used in records and broadcasts. However, the government’s interest in his work did not stop there.
Just after his 1969 appearance on the Jackie Gleason show, Carlin caught the attention of the FBI because he made jokes about then-FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. According to the government, Carlin had “referred to the Bureau and the Director in a satirical vein.”
They added that his act was “considered to be in very poor taste” and “it was obvious that he was using the prestige of the Bureau and Mr. Hoover to enhance his performance.”
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After Carlin’s appearance on the show, the staff of Jackie Gleason received a number of anonymous letters — allegedly from fans but possibly from the FBI — condemning Carlin for speaking about the government in the critical way that he did. It has been proven that the FBI has indeed sent threatening letters to public figures in the past, pretending to be concerned colleagues or a member of the public, including to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Anyone that speaks out against the injustices of the world, whether they are a dangerous terrorist or a harmless comedian, will receive unwanted attention from government.
Below is a video showing Carlin’s deep political analysis in action:


Read the 12 pages of FBI documents on Carlin here.
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GREENWOOD—The life of a government whistleblower is often frustrating and lonely. That’s according to Jane Turner, a former FBI agent who endured the wrath of the agency she loved when she exposed wrongdoing on the inside.

Turner, who now lives in the Twin Cities area, spoke to nearly fifty local residents last week as part of a regular meeting of the Greenwood Seniors group, at Greenwood Town Hall.

For Turner, becoming an FBI agent had been a dream since she was a girl growing up in Rapid City. At the time, the FBI didn’t allow female agents, but after the death of J. Edgar Hoover in 1972, the bureau opened up opportunities for women, and Turner, now 64, was eager to sign up. After completing her training at Quantico, she took the oath in 1978, and was one of only about 100 women in the bureau at the time.

Her career took off soon after her first postings in Seattle and New York City. She became a profiler and eventually an advanced police instructor in addition to her regular investigatory beat.

Over the years, she worked on a number of famous cases, and was present at the arrest of Christopher Boyce (Flight of the Falcon), and was involved in investigations that captured the Green River killer, the Central Park Preppie Murderer and abortion clinic bombers.

She voluntarily took an assignment in Minot in 1988, where she became the first female senior resident agent. In North Dakota, she worked primarily on Fort Berthold and Turtle Mountain Indian Reservations, and worked cooperatively with 14 county sheriffs in the northwestern part of the state.

Turner soon learned that FBI agents, as well as local law enforcement, routinely ignored serious, sometimes horrific, crimes with Indian victims and perpetrators.

Turner ran into friction from her Minneapolis-based supervisor when she sought to reopen serious sexual abuse cases, some involving deaths of young children, that other agents had closed as accidental deaths. She said she was told the FBI doesn’t reopen cases because it would be an acknowledgement of error, something the agency is loath to do. But Turner refused to back down, and got the local U.S. attorney to prosecute one of the cases, involving the violent anal rape of a young Indian boy, resulting in the conviction of the boy’s father. The original agent in charge had written up the boy’s serious internal injuries as resulting from a car accident.

Later, Turner found that male agents were being paid more than females, even when their case statistics demonstrated female agents were completing more investigations. When she filed a complaint with the Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission, her supervisor

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Cameron said that cyber threats are the bane of modern age andthey have to be dealt with effectively. The first exercise will have participants like Wall Street and Bank of England. Their critical national infrastructure will be tested as well. Funding will be made available to train a batch of expert cyber agents. Obama agreed with Cameron and said that domestic measures will be taken to strengthen the law. The Centcom Twitter account was suspended on Monday following an attack by hackers claiming to support the Islamic State….”

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[It’s three years old and I’d guess ‘state-of-the-art’ has leap-frogged beyond anything you’ll learn here.]

https://eforensicsmag.com/cyber-war-gam ... -response/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[This one is from this past April 2015 and looks useful to those still working in the dark.]

http://img.deusm.com/darkreading/2015/0 ... cuirty.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;





http://www.darkreading.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[informational resource?]



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“If governments listen in on people’s conversations, it’s not the microphone’s fault!”

https://theintercept.com/2015/09/08/how ... -internet/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Traditionally penetration testing tools target hosts one at a time. SWARM differs in that it can deploy any CANVAS module, exploit or reconnaissance tool against large sections of a cyber range in minutes to hours.

SWARM is fast enough to run multiple times a day against even the biggest set of IPs. This allows for massive returns during your testing and modeling.

More?:

https://www.immunityinc.com/products/swarm/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Link includes multiple pdf’s and a video

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Nick Merrill: the man who may unlock the secrecy of the FBI's controversial subpoenas
27 November stands to mark a victory a decade in the making for Merrill, who was served with a national security letter in 2004 and said he was ‘terrified’ of revealing the extent of the information he was being asked to hand over

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015 ... rveillance" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Thursday 17 September 2015 07.30 EDT Last modified on Thursday 17 September 2015 07.39 EDT


For over a decade, Nick Merrill could say nothing about the FBI subpoena he received in 2004 – not to his wife, his ailing father nor his closest friends. Merrill didn’t even know if consulting an attorney about it would land him in a jail cell.

But now, after more than a decade of court challenges, Merrill is on the verge of revealing an unprecedented amount of detail about what the FBI and its partner agencies believe they can obtain without a warrant, using a controversial form of nonjudicial subpoena called a national security letter (NSL).

Unless the US Justice Department challenges a federal judge’s order that was kept secret until Monday, 27 November will be a landmark date for transparency in the post-9/11 era. The black bars obscuring the specific kinds of data the FBI sought from Merrill in 2004 will lift, revealing categories of information the bureau seeks to acquire outside the normal warrant process.

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2. Stories



1.

Spokesman: Tulsa sheriff "misconstrued" information about alleged threats


http://m.newsok.com/article/5447952" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


September 18, 2015
Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz "misconstrued" information from an earlier briefing when he said Thursday night that threats had been made against his office, according to a Sheriff's Office spokesman.
Glanz made the comment before a packed house at Tulsa Tech's Health Science Center, where 21 cadets representing the Sheriff's Office and other agencies celebrated their completion of a 240-hour Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training reserve officer academy.
After shaking each cadet's hand, Glanz turned to the crowd, saying:
"There's a few things we're still trying to work through. There's a lot of threats. I was talking to an FBI agent today — the Black Lives Matter have been doing demonstrations at state fairs, so one of the things we're … not going to do this year is use you in the fair like we have (in the past)."



2.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/199 ... int-lawyer" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


July 19, 1992
BOSTON — An FBI agent screening a prominent black lawyer for a federal judgeship forced the lawyer to submit a footprint and then posted the print and joked about the stunt, the Boston Herald reported Saturday. Both the agent and his supervisor were suspended for the prank, which happened about a month ago, the newspaper said, citing sources it didn't identify. The agent, whose name was not disclosed, told lawyer Walter Prince that collecting footprints was standard procedure. Then he hung the print on a wall at the Boston FBI office. ''There can be no question that this type of behavior is entirely unacceptable and abhorrent to the department,'' Justice Department spokesman Paul McNulty said Friday night in a statement. Prince practices criminal and civil law and has lectured at Boston College Law School.




Also see


Sources ID FBI agent who took footprint from judge candidate - The ...
http://www.highbeam.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; › ... › Jul - Sep 1992 › July 22, 1992
Jul 22, 1992 - The FBI agent who forced a black Boston lawyer who is a candidate for a federal judgeship to give a footprint as part of a background check ...
Ex-judge nominee cites FBI in suit Alleges footprint was humiliating ...
http://www.highbeam.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; › ... › Oct - Dec 1994 › December 15, 1994
Dec 15, 1994 - A Boston lawyer, ordered to provide a footprint to an FBI agent conducting a background check for a federal judgeship, filed a lawsuit in US ...

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See link for full story


http://boingboing.net/2015/09/21/fbi-ag ... e-for.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

FBI agent faces discipline for alleged polygraph countermeasures
The unnamed career FBI agent could lose their job for allegedly gaming the widely discredited, unscientific polygraph tests that are the US government's equivalent to witch-ducking stools.
Retired FBI scientist, supervisory special agent, and polygraph critic Dr. Drew Richardson published his (eye-wateringly detailed and especially damning) memo to the FBI in support of the agent:

6. In a general sense, no physiological lie response has ever been identified within the human body. Furthermore, I believe probable-lie control question test (PL-CQT) polygraphy, a group of polygraph exam formats widely known by the general public as the so-called “lie detector” test and which are commonly used in FBI polygraph examinations, have little to no value as a diagnostic instrument for determining truth and falsehood. I believe this to be the case for a variety of reasons, one overriding one to be subsequently discussed.

Previous surveys of the members of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Fellows of the American Psychological Association’s Division I (General Psychology) would indicate that my previously-stated general opinion regarding CQT polygraph testing is shared by a large majority of scientists with relevant scientific backgrounds. If, on average, the polygraph examinee is found to have greater responses to relevant questions, he is found to be deceptive, and is found to be non-deceptive, if again, on average, the responses are greater for control questions. These consequences could include (in a criminal matter) further investigation, prosecution, conviction, imprisonment, loss of family, friends, money, reputation, etc. In an administrative and/or screening setting, an inquiry subsequent to a false positive polygraph result might include loss or denial of employment, loss of income, reputation, and general embarrassment amongst many possible consequences and outcomes. Again this has absolutely nothing to do with lying, but with an innocent examinee being concerned about the consequences of being branded a liar; these consequences are those aforementioned and which are clearly associated with the relevant question issues and not the “stealing while in high school” type of control/comparison questions.

This is perfectly consistent with the autonomic nervous system (ANS) physiology being measured by a polygraph examiner and a variable that cannot be reasonably controlled for by that examiner. Peer-reviewed research published in the scientific literature has suggested that the false positive rate (falsely accusing an innocent examinee of being deceptive) could

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FBI suspected of protecting Hillary Clinton from criminal charges

The upper-echelon members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are ... that it's not even clear what Mrs. Clinton provided to any government agency.

September 25 2015


http://www.leaderandtimes.com/index.php ... -&catid=29" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;<img src="/images/boards/smilies/redface.gif" align="absmiddle" alt="[redface]" border="0" />pinion&Itemid=58



Also see how FBI protected her 20 years ago




Failure of the Public Trust - FBI Cover Up
fbicover-up.com
The federal investigative records on this web site prove the existence of an FBI / Independent Counsel / Media cover-up of the murder of deputy White House ...

Proof
Court Documents
Failure of The Public Trust

Miquel Rodriguez
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Vince Foster's death: An FBI cover-up? - WND
http://www.wnd.com/2000/08/4230" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Aug 19, 2000 · Vince Foster's death: An FBI cover-up? Independent researcher discusses investigations, current legal action Published: 08/19/2000 at 1:00 AM
The Death of Vincent Foster | WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/.../FOSTER_COVERUP/foster.php
The Death of Vincent Foster By Michael Rivero. Evidence Of A Cover-up INTRODUCTION This is the story that nobody dares touch. This is the story that ended my career ...
Vince Foster's Death: An FBI Cover-Up?
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/death.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Vince Foster's death: An FBI cover-up? Vince Foster's death: An FBI cover-up? Independent researcher discusses investigations, current legal action
Order now
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Order now " ... Vince Foster's death: An FBI cover-up? ... The book presents documented evidence supporting the trio's belief in an FBI cover-up surrounding Foster's ...
Vince Foster’s death: An FBI cover-up? - WorldNetDaily
http://www.wnd.com/2000/08/4229" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Public Trust.” The book presents documented evidence supporting the trio’s belief in an FBI cover-up surrounding Foster’s death. Zoh Hieronimus recently ...
The Fix Is In: Hillary’s Benghazi Cover-up Like Vince Foster ...
canadafreepress.com/article/51811
The Fix is in: Hillary's Benghazi cover-up--like Vince Foster death investigation, During the Foster death investigations, like Benghazi, investigators were also ...
New Evidence Exposes Vince Foster Murder
http://www.bigeye.com/vfoster.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Vince Foster, Deputy White House ... FBI agent Lawrence Monroe interviewed Knowlton for the Office of regulatory ... if there was a cover-up surrounding the death of ...
THE VINCE FOSTER CASE - Progressive Review
prorev.com/foster.htm
MARCH 2004. SUPREME COURT JOINS THE VINCE FOSTER COVER-UP. REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS - The U.S. Supreme Court today unanimously rejected the ...
Hillary Clinton Vince Foster murder/suicide coverup, The ...
beforeitsnews.com › Obama Birthplace Controversy
Apr 16, 2015 · Hillary Clinton Vince Foster murder/suicide coverup, The strange death of Vincent Foster, Christopher Ruddy investigation, NewsMax articles resurrected by ...

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Brandon Mayfield is a practicing lawyer.

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/o ... /72854498/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


The recent revelations about a forensic analyst at Oregon State Police’s crime lab in Bend likely tampering with evidence will have shocked many Oregonians. As many as 1,000 cases may now have to be reopened, causing added stress to victims and potentially revealing that innocent defendants have been wrongfully convicted.

Add to that the news that a second OSP analyst has been investigated in a separate incident for providing inflated testimony in court cases and a casual observer might well conclude that there is a need for a thorough examination of what exactly is going on inside the OSP forensics division.

These news stories came as no surprise to me, however. I know from personal experience that when it comes to forensic examination without proper safeguards, the opportunity for bias is virtually certain. Sometimes the bias in the examination is against the target and sometimes it is a refusal to admit that police departments and their labs make mistakes.

In March 2004, ignoring contrary findings from Spanish police, the FBI wrongly identified my fingerprints as matching a print discovered after the Madrid train bombing which killed nearly 200 people. The FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office had no evidence to link me to the bombing other than the print which Spanish police’s own tests had concluded was not a match to my fingerprints.

Instead of admitting their mistakes, the FBI continued to pursue me. I was arrested and held for more than two weeks without charge in connection to a case that I knew could see me eligible for the death penalty if convicted.

A 2006 review by the U.S. Department of Justice into what went wrong in my case found that the FBI overlooked “important differences” between my prints and those found in Spain and that “the FBI Laboratory’s overconfidence in the skill and superiority of its examiners prevented it from taking the [Spanish police report] as seriously as it should have.”

My case and the subsequent investigations also revealed a serious lack of standardization and blind review in fingerprint identification procedures.

The simplest and single most effective way of ensuring that bias and a desire to prosecute at any cost, regardless of the facts and evidence, does not taint forensic evidence and analysis is to make crime labs completely separate from police departments. This is common practice, for example, in many British police forces. In the U.S., most forensic work is done inside police departments despite recommendations from the National Academy of Sciences that this should end.

It is therefore high time we follow the example of a growing number of countries around the world and put up real walls between law enforcement and crime labs to ensure that bias and the desire to make a case against an individual regardless of the strength of the evidence against them is kept to a minimum.

Brandon Mayfield of Beaverton is a lawyer. He and his daughter, Sharia, a Georgetown law student, have written a detailed account of Brandon’s 2004 arrest and its implications in their book, “Improbable Cause.” Mayfield can be reached at mayfieldbrandon@hotmail.com.

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Psychologist accused of enabling US torture backed by former FBI ...
http://www.theguardian.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; › Law › Torture
Jul 12, 2015 - Psychologist accused of enabling US torture backed by former FBI chief .... etc - can get away with anything because the administrations allow ...



The Psychologists Who Taught the C.I.A. How to Torture (and ...
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/daily-ne ... ure-report" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Dec 10, 2014 - The Senate's torture report reveals that the C.I.A. tortured detainees in ways ... F.B.I. and C.I.A. personnel that the psychologists had jumped lanes, as the ... interrogation technique] which only they were approved to employ, ...


Architects Of CIA Torture Program Raked In $81 Million, Report ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/. ... 6296758.ht.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Dec 9, 2014 - WASHINGTON -- Two psychologists were paid $81 million by the CIA to advise on and ... in traditional interrogation methods used by the CIA and the FBI. ... interrogation technique] which only they were approved to employ.

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http://www.inquisitr.com/2462299/julie- ... -virginia/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


October 1, 2015
Julie Serna, Art Gonzales: ‘Dateline’ Airs Case Of Ex-FBI Agent Who Killed Wife In Fatal Shooting In Virginia

Julie Serna Gonzales, the mother-of-two who was shot and killed by her estranged husband, former FBI agent Art Gonzales, will be the next interesting story to make the cut for Dateline NBC. This latest episode entitled, “The Agent’s Wife,” will look into the terrifying events that led to the fatal shooting death of the former Las Cruces, New Mexico, mother-of-two. Dateline NBC has been following the case for years and has watched closely as new details have emerged. The Art Gonzales case has been in the news since April, 2013, and has gone through three trials.
Julie Serna Gonzales in happier times with her two sons.
Julie Serna Gonzales in happier times with her two sons. Photo Credit: Eric Olsen, Stafford Commonwealth’s Attorney/Facebook

Police were dispatched to a home located at 59 Alderwood Drive in Virginia, where they found the body of a Hispanic woman lying dead on the kitchen floor. The home belonged to the victim’s estranged husband, Arthur Bernard Gonzales, a former FBI agent. Gonzales told law enforcement officials that he shot his wife in self defense after she came at him with a knife. To protect himself, he shot her with his.40-caliber Glock. The dead woman was identified as Julie Serna, aka Julie Serna Gonzales. Before the killing that day, Julie Serna had just finished having lunch with a friend.

In the infamous 911 call, Arthur Gonzales, casually told the operator that he had to shoot his wife because she attacked him. The 911 call was heavily criticized because the dispatcher was unable to get the correct spelling of the street name. The dispatch call also came in to the Las Cruces dispatch center, instead of the one in Virginia, according to the Las Cruces Sun News.
Art Gonzales on trial for the death of his wife.
The Trial of Art Gonzales Photo Credit: Walter Michot/Twitter

An autopsy report concluded that the Julie Serna Gonzales had sustained four gunshot wounds to the chest. She was buried by her loving family a short time later. Family and friends took up donations in order to establish some sort of trust fund for the two sons that she left behind. A Facebook page has been created in her memory.

Julie Serna was described by people who knew her as a wonderful woman who loved her kids. She was also described as a woman who liked to smile and keep physically fit.

Arthur Gonzales has maintained that he did not plan to kill his wife but felt compelled to protect himself after she violently confronted him with a weapon in hand. Those who support Julie Serna Gonzales don’t buy his story.

Art and Julie Gonzalez were married for almost 20 years and had just bought the home in Virginia in 2010, before the tragic twist of events. Some believe that a jittery and stressed out Gonzalez reacted too quickly due to the pressures that were going on in his life at the time. Others say that he concocted a plan to murder his wife for his own benefits.

A short timeline of events makes the case a bit easier to understand.

On Friday, April 19, 2013, Julie finishes up lunch with a friend. She is later shot and killed in the home of her estranged husband. In May, 2013, Art Gonzales is finally arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the death of Julie Serna. In October, 2013, he is supposed to head for trial, but the case is postponed. In March, 2014, Arthur B. Gonzales’ first trial begins.

Many community members believed that Art Gonzales was receiving special treatment because of his work as a former FBI agent, stating that upon his arrest the same judge had issued a bond amount that was several hundred thousand dollars less than other criminals that had court dates around the same time. Some also believed that there was a cover-up surrounding the case. These are some of the theories that Dateline NBC will be examining tonight.

Don’t miss Dateline NBC’s latest true-crime case on Friday at 10/9 central on NBC. After the show, sound off below to state your opinion about whether Art Gonzales killed his wife, Julie Serna, in self

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USDOJ/OIG | Federal Bureau of Investigation Reports
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A Review of the FBI's Use of Pen Register and Trap and Trace Devices Under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 2007 through 2009, Oversight and ..

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[PDF]A Review of the FBI's Handling of the Brandon Mavfield Case
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4. III. Organization of the OIG Report ... of the FBI Laboratory's. Responses ... A. _Effect of the Patriot Act on the Mayfield Investigation .................... 14. 1. ...... The OiG's Report is divided into seven chapters. Chapter One ...... 200,_ tn cnn,_nir_cvr

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http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/ne ... is-refusal" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Federal magistrate challenges FBI’s refusal to name agent involved in New Orleans East fatal shooting


More than two years after an FBI agent fatally shot a man in New Orleans East, a federal magistrate said Thursday he knows of “no good reason” why the agent’s identity should continue to be shielded while the government defends his actions in a related wrongful-death lawsuit.

U.S. Magistrate Joseph Wilkinson Jr. summoned attorneys for the Justice Department and the family of Allen Desdunes — whose July 2013 shooting death remains shrouded in mystery — to appear before him next week and explain why the agent’s name should remain sealed more than a year into the civil litigation over Desdunes’ death.

“I am aware of no good reason, in fact or in law, why the name of this defendant should continue to be kept secret,” Wilkinson wrote in an order published Thursday. “If any particular provision of the Privacy Act, which the government apparently relies upon, stretches so far as to undermine the important public nature of the court’s public record, it has not been cited to me.”

Wilkinson’s order came a few days after The New Orleans Advocate published an article examining the conflicting practices of area law enforcement agencies on identifying officers involved in fatal shootings.

While the New Orleans Police Department and Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office routinely release the names of officers who use deadly force, the federal government has gone to great lengths to protect the name of the FBI agent who fatally shot Desdunes during a drug investigation.

The names of three other FBI agents and four New Orleans police officers involved in the case have been made public during the civil proceedings. But the agent who fatally shot Desdunes near a Motel 6 on the Interstate 10 Service Road has been referred to only as “John Doe #1” in court papers.

The lawsuit claims Desdunes was unarmed and that his death was racially motivated.

An FBI spokesman declined to comment on the case last week, citing the pending litigation. The Justice Department has said it will not charge the FBI agent for killing Desdunes, but the government has declined a Freedom of Information Act request seeking investigative reports about the incident.

Wilkinson, in his two-page order, said an earlier protective order he allowed in the civil case had been intended to facilitate out-of-court discovery between the parties, “not the perpetual sealing of (the agent’s) nam

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HomeUSA
No Eric Garner or Tamir Rice: FBI fails to adequately count civilian deaths by police
Published time: 16 Oct, 2015 04:57
Edited time: 16 Oct, 2015 20:21

https://www.rt.com/usa/318824-fbi-count-deaths-fail/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


An old saying goes: “lies, damned lies, and statistics.” It may not quite apply to a new FBI report on officer-involved shootings, but the phrase expresses some of the frustrations felt by activists on behalf of the victims who went uncounted.

Released Thursday, the FBI’s figures for police-on-civilian deadly shootings lacked adequate substance and included errors, according to a report by the Guardian. The data was collected on a voluntary basis from local police departments, but 99 percent of them did not volunteer any information.

The FBI counted 439 police killings for the year 2014 based on reports from 224 local law enforcement agencies, of which there are 18,000 in the country. That’s up from 392 homicides reported in 2009, but the number of reporting agencies also increased from 196 in the same year. No trend can be surmised from the data.

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