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msfreeh
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I know I know you are going to say ". I got deep pockets and got this one covered ". and let's be honest who cares" it was not my children, besides all your posts about the criminal justice system crime
family have given us premature psychic numbing. "


2 reads about your tax dime being used by your bodyguards
to protect you from your bodyguards

How is this bodyguard thang working out for you?

Hey I am just the messenger, eh?


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Statements against ex-Sheriff Edward Bullock could weigh heavily in civil case, experts say

Former Warren County Sheriff Edward Bullock is brought into Superior Court in a wheelchair March 12, 2014, for a hearing. Bullock recently had a hip operation and was in a wheelchair for his appearance in court.
Bill Adams | The Express-Times
Matthew Bultman | The Express-Times By Matthew Bultman | The Express-Times
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on August 24, 2014 at 7:00 AM, updated August 24, 2014 at 7:13 AM

Statements made by former Warren County employees revealing years of suspicion that ex-Sheriff Edward Bullock had a perverted interest in young boys carry potentially heavy weight in civil litigation against Bullock and the county, according to legal experts.

The experts, including one with experience in similar lawsuits, agreed the county appears vulnerable as the statements indicate those in a position of authority knew -- or should have known -- Bullock may have been preying on children but took no steps to prevent it.

"It's very significant that people would come forward," said Jeffrey Fritz, a Philadelphia-based attorney who represented numerous victims in the Jerry Sandusky case at Penn State. "It's the smoking gun."

Anthony Bocchino, a law professor at Temple University and civil procedure expert, agreed.

"One would think they could make out the claim against the county without too much trouble," he said.

Allegations resurface

Bullock, now 86, took over the sheriff's office in 1982 and ultimately left in disgrace. He resigned in 1991 amid charges he tried to curry sexual favors from an undercover New Jersey State Police trooper at the Phillipsburg Mall.

Bullock, formerly of Phillipsburg, pleaded guilty to a charge of official misconduct and served nine months in the Hunterdon County Jail.

He faded from the public eye until 2012, when allegations of sexual abuse were made in a tort claim, a legal notice generally filed leading up to a civil lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed in April 2013.

Spurred by the civil action, prosecutors launched a criminal investigation and a grand jury indicted Bullock in February on three counts each of aggravated sexual assault and sexual assault. Prosecutors say he began sexually abusing the victim, a then 10-year-old boy, in December 1986 and the abuse continued for more than a year.

Bullock, who now lives in Ocean County, New Jersey, has pleaded not guilty to the charges and remains free on $100,000 bail.

Together, the charges and civil lawsuit have brought renewed focus on Bullock's tenure as sheriff and county officials' handling of a scandal involving him then.

In a three-part series published earlier this month in The Express-Times, former Warren County officials told the newspaper they had suspicions about Bullock dating to the 1980s, and a former freeholder said he privately raised concerns then that Bullock might expose the county to liability.

In statements to a private detective working for the plaintiff -- the transcripts of which were obtained by the newspaper -- a former sheriff's officer also expressed a belief there was a "general knowledge" of Bullock's alleged behavior, yet "no one seemed to care" and it became a running joke among staffers.

'Problem in the sheriff's office'

Bocchino, who said he knew of the case based only upon media reports, called the claims "incredible."

"Given the facts laid out in articles, it doesn't seem like there's much question there was a problem in the sheriff's office there," he said. "It's incredible to me. This whole story is incredible to me that this was allowed to go on."

A secretary for Bullock's attorney, Brian White, declined comment on the lawyer's behalf and Jerald Howarth, the attorney representing Warren County in the civil litigation, did not return a phone message.

Mark Crawford, director of the New Jersey Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said the parallels are stark between what is alleged to have happened in Warren County and previous high-profile sexual abuse scandals involving the Catholic church, Penn State and the Boy Scouts.

People are often hesitant to be a whistleblower, particularly if the person is in a position of authority or is well respected within the community, Crawford said. There can be additional concerns over bad publicity being brought upon the organization, he said.

"Whenever you have an institution that has a vested interest in keeping a reputation, people tend to look the other way," Crawford said. "Instinctively, they try to protect their own reputation, so to speak, instead of doing the right thing.

"It appears this may be one of those examples," he said.

Kenneth Lanning is a former FBI agent, who worked in the agency's behavioral science unit, and authored the book, "Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis." He said cover-ups or cases of people looking the other way often come down to two factors: ignorance and damage control.

"These are two predominant ones that seem to explain why so many organizations do such a poor job of dealing with this," he said.

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Another FBI agent Child Abuse expert who studied Child Abuse at home by banging his 3 daughters starting when they were 6. months old.



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Friday May 18, 1990
Daughters win sex-abuse case against father

In a precedent-setting case, a Belmont woman this week won a multimillion-dollar jury award against her father for sexual and physical abuse. In an interview yesterday, she said she filed the suit because she wanted to let a "little girl" from beverly know that not everyone gets away with child abuse.

An all female jury in Denver Wednesday awarded Sharon Simone, 45, and her sister $1.2 million each after a trial in which the two testified that their father, a former FBI agent and adviser to law-enforcement agencies on child abuse, had sexually abused and beaten them while they were growing up.

Simone said she filed the suit after reading about an 8-year-old girl from Beverly who had been taken to court to watch her abuser's sentencing - only to watch him go free.

'I had not filed a lawsuit against my father at that time, but after I read that article, I felt such an outrage and such a connection to that girl,' Simone said. 'I decided then that I was going to show this little girl that not everyone who abuses children gets away with it.'

Simone was referring to an article by Globe columnist Bella English regarding the case of Michael R. Ferguson, a 41-year-old former shop teacher who had pleaded guilty to raping his neighbor's daughter. His young victim went to Superior Court with her parents on the day.

Ferguson was to be sentenced because they had been told that the sight of her attacker being led off to prison would help her on the long road to recovery from the experience.

Instead, Judge John T. Ronan gave Ferguson a suspended sentence. Ronan said that in deciding against incarceration, he had given considerable weight to a half-dozen character witnesses, including the pastor of Ferguson's church, who had spoken on his behalf.

'I decided that I was going to hold my father accountable for [this girl], for my sister, for my brothers and for myself,' Simone said. 'I want to tell that little girl, whoever she is, that not everyone who abuses a child will walk away without knowing what they have done to your soul.'

Several lawyers said the colorado case is precedent-setting both because of the size of the award and the type of case. Similar cases have been filed in Massachusetts, but none has yet gone to trial.

'I think this verdict will pave the way for other suits,' said Kathleen Franco Domenico, one of the Denver attorneys who represented Simone and her sister, Susan Hammond, 44, who lives in southern California. 'There has been a reluctance to bring these suits because the nature and extent of the injuries aren't recognized for a long time and, in many
'I want to tell that little girl, whoever she is, that not everyone who abuses a child will walk away without knowing what they have
done to your soul.' SHARON SIMONE

States, statutes of limitations apply.'
In the Denver case, Domenico said, the judge ruled that the statute of limitations did not apply in cases of child sexual or physical abuse. In 1988, Judge Herbert Abrams of the Massachusetts Superior Court reached a similar ruling in an incest case, but that case was settled out of court last year.

In their 1989 lawsuit, Simone and her sister testified that their father, Edward J. Rodgers, had repeatedly beaten and sexually abused them between 1944 and 1965. At the trial, Rodgers admitted that he had hit his wife and may have hit his children, but said he did not remember doing so.

Rodgers, now 72, had been employed for years as a chief investigator of the el Paso County district attorney’s office in Colorado, and as an adviser in child abuse cases. he previously had worked for the FBI for 27 years.

Rodgers’ attorney, Thomas Gresham, said he had been unable to locate his client since april 24, Domenico said the last she had heard Rodgers was reported to be near the Texas-Mexico border. Simone and Hammond say they doubt they will ever collect the money awarded to them.

Child protection specialists say that women who were abused as children are increasingly turning to the courts for redress, in part because criminal charges are very rarely brought against abusive parents or family friends. and when they are, judges and others are often reluctant to believe that outwardly repectable middle-class men would cause serious harm to children.

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e • San Juan • Press Releases • 2014 • Sixteen Former Puerto Rico Police Officers Plead Guilty to Running Criminal Organization from the Police Department...

Sixteen Former Puerto Rico Police Officers Plead Guilty to Running Criminal Organization from the Police Department
Former Officers Convicted of Racketeering, Robbery, Extortion, and Firearms Charges
U.S. Department of Justice August 25, 2014

Office of Public Affairs (202) 514-2007/TDD (202) 514-1888

WASHINGTON—Sixteen former Puerto Rico police officers have pleaded guilty for their roles in a criminal organization run out of the police department. The officers used their affiliation with law enforcement to commit robbery and extortion, to manipulate court records in exchange for bribes, and to sell illegal narcotics.

msfreeh
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Conservative Bruce Gagnon lives in Maine. I interviewed him 2 years ago
for the documentary I have been making about Maine artist Robert Shetterly. see
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Here is the website of Bruce.
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The Pentagon’s Strategy for World Domination: Full Spectrum Dominance, from Asia to Africa
By Bruce Gagnon
Global Research, August 25, 2014
Plymouth Institute for Peace Research

Current US military space policy is primarily geared toward two countries, China and Russia.

In May 2000 the Washington Post published an article called “For Pentagon, Asia Moving to Forefront.” The article stated that, “The Pentagon is looking at Asia as the most likely arena for future military conflict, or at least competition.” The article said the US would double its military presence in the region and essentially attempt to manage China.

Missile-Defense-How-it-would-workThe Pentagon’s missile system.

The Pentagon has become the primary resource extraction service for corporate capital. Whether it is Caspian Sea oil and natural gas, rare earth minerals found in Africa, Libya’s oil deposits, or Venezuelan oil, the US’s increasingly high-tech military is on the case.

President Obama’s former National Security Adviser, Gen. James Jones had previously served as the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. In 2006, Gen. Jones told the media,

“NATO is developing a special plan to safeguard oil and gas fields in the [Caspian Sea] region…. Our strategic goal is to expand to Eastern Europe and Africa.”

In a past quadrennial National Intelligence Strategy report, former U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair claimed that Russia “may continue to seek avenues for reasserting power and influence in ways that complicate U.S. interests…[and] China competes for the same resources the United States needs, and is in the process of rapidly modernizing its military.”

Using NATO as a military tool, the US is now surrounding Russia and easily dragged the supposedly European-based alliance into the Afghanistan war and Libya attack. The US is turning NATO into a global military alliance, even to be used in the Asian-Pacific region.

ENERGY & MISSILE OFFENSE

In mid-March of 2009 the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA) held a conference in Washington. At that meeting Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) stated, “Missile defense is an important element of our nation’s defense. For example, it is a high priority to field effective defenses for our forward-deployed forces against the many hundreds of existing short- and medium-range missiles.”

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Patriot missiles.

The Obama administration is currently deploying “missile defense” (MD) systems in Turkey, Romania, Poland and on Navy destroyers entering the Black Sea. The NATO military noose is tightening around Russia.

Russia has the world’s largest deposits of natural gas and significant supplies of oil. The US has recently built military bases in Romania and Bulgaria and will soon be adding more in Albania. NATO has expanded eastward into Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, right on Russia’s border. Georgia, Ukraine, Sweden and Finland are also on the list to become members of the cancerous NATO.

An Indian journalist observes,

“The arc of encirclement of Russia gets strengthened. NATO ties facilitate the [eventual] deployment of the US missile defense system in Georgia. The US aims to have a chain of countries tied to ‘partnerships’ with NATO brought into its missile defense system – stretching from its allies in the Baltic to those in Central Europe. The ultimate objective of this is to neutralize the strategic capability of Russia and China and to establish its nuclear superiority. The National Defense Strategy document, issued by the Pentagon on July 31, 2008, portrays Washington’s perception of a resurgent Russia and a rising China as potential adversaries.”

Just as we have seen the balkanization of Yugoslavia, Libya, and Iraq by US-NATO it appears that the same strategy has been developed for Russia. With NATO’s continuing military encirclement of Russia the plan appears to be to draw Moscow into a military quagmire in Ukraine that will weaken that nation. The Rand Corporation has studies that call for the break-up of Russia into many smaller pieces thus giving western corporations better access to the vast resource base available there.

The recent announcement by BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) that they have created a $100 billion international development bank to rival the IMF and World Bank has angered western corporate controlled governments who don’t want any challenge to their management of the global economy. Directly after the BRICS announcement we witnessed an escalation of the US-NATO funded and directed civil war in Ukraine.

The Harper government is now recommending that Canada join the US missile defense program. Canadian military corporations are itching to open the flood gates to the national treasury – the profits from a junior partnership with the US in an arms race in space are too much to pass up. But first more cuts must be made to the Canadian national health care program and other valuable social welfare programs. In the US the military industrial complex has targeted the “entitlement programs” – Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and what is left of “welfare” for defunding to help pay for the expensive military space technology agenda.

Canada has also undertaken the construction of “armed combat vessels” at the Irving Shipyard in Halifax. This $25 billion program, the largest military appropriation in Canadian history, was supported by every political party in the country. Why does Canada need such a monumental war ship building program?

THE NAVY’S EXPANDING ROLE

As ice melts in the Arctic, the US Navy anticipates that it will have to increase its presence in the region to “protect shipping”. Over the past 25 years, the Arctic has seen a 40% reduction in ice as a result of global warming. Maine’s Independent Senator Angus King recently wrote “gas and oil reserves that were previously inaccessible” will soon be available for extraction. Last spring Sen. King took a ride on a US nuclear submarine under the Arctic ice. Also along for the ride was Admiral Jonathan Greenert, the chief of naval operations, who told the New York Times: “We need to be sure that our sensors, weapons and people are proficient in this part of the world,” so that we can “own the undersea domain and get anywhere there.”

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A new Navy report called “US Navy Arctic Roadmap: 2014-2030” states: “Ice in the Arctic has been receding faster than we previously thought…and offers an increase in activity.” The Arctic region holds a plethora of undiscovered fossil fuels and natural resources, including an estimated 90 billion barrels of oil, 1,669 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 44 billion barrels of natural gas liquids, the roadmap says.

The report warns that the Navy will face serious logistical challenges and will need to examine ways to distribute fuel in the region to “air and surface platforms”. Operating bases will be needed to host deployed military personnel. Partnerships with nations that border the Arctic and more warships will be needed to ensure that the undersea resources are kept in the hands of US-NATO and away from competitors like Russia.

US Secretary of War Chuck Hagel stated in late 2013 that, “By taking advantage of multilateral training opportunities with partners in the region, we will enhance our cold-weather operational experience, and strengthen our military-to-military ties with other Arctic nations.”

SCUPPERING PEACE

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Report: FBI Official Used 'Poor Judgment' in Suit


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The Justice Department inspector general has criticized a former top FBI agent in Milwaukee for showing "extremely poor judgment" in response to a discrimination lawsuit against the agency.

The report issued Wednesday involves Justin Slaby, a Wisconsin native who had lost his left hand in an Army training accident and was later turned down for a job as an FBI agent. He sued, saying he was denied a fair chance at the job.

The report found that Teresa Carlson, the former leader of the Milwaukee FBI field office, appeared to seek to influence the testimony of a special agent scheduled to testify in that case

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taxpayer funded FBI agents caught again creating terror...
that is how we should spend our tax dime,eh?


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FBI informant exposed as neo-Nazi rally organizer in Florida
Friday, March 2, 2007


History of fascist and government collaboration

One year ago, on Feb. 25, 2006, a neo-Nazi rally was held in Orlando, Fla. It was a rally of only 22 neo-Nazis, but it was protected by over 300 police who surrounded the fascists to assure their "freedom of speech."

More than 500 people—African American and white—came out to demonstrate vigorously against the fascists, who
nazi rally in florida
had deliberately picked the historic African American neighborhood of Parramore to convey their terrorist message.

But the police support for the neo-Nazis in Orlando went beyond their security mobilization to protect them.

On Feb. 14, 2007, a prosecutor in an Orlando courtroom inadvertently exposed the fact that the organizer of that 2006 rally was an FBI informant. His name is David Gletty. According to the FBI, he was paid $20,000 for two years. Gletty did more than inform: he secured the permits and spearheaded the racist rally organizing with obvious approval from the police, city officials and the FBI.

The reaction to the news of the FBI’s involvement is of anger in the African American community of this central Florida town. Leaders of the state’s NAACP and local organizations are demanding a more complete investigation into the role of the FBI and police.

Without the 300 heavily-armed SWAT police, the neo-Nazis’ targeting of Orlando’s African American community—with a minuscule number of 22 fascists—would never have been possible given the mass opposition from the people of Orlando.

Time and again, in every region of the United States, when small bands of Nazis or the Klan announce a rally, they invariably receive a permit and massive police protection from the justifiable wrath of the people. Without such police protection, the fascists would not be able to hold a public action.

But the revelation of FBI involvement in Orlando exposes a much closer collaboration between the government, police agencies, and Klan and Nazi groups than most people are aware of.

The FBI’s deadly hostility to the Black community and its leaders is sometimes explained as a thing of the past because of the 50-year dictatorial rule of J. Edgar Hoover.

As FBI director for 50 years, Hoover was a virulent racist and anti-communist who oversaw the FBI’s notorious COINTELPRO program and secretly declared war on African American leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and many others. COINTELPRO targeted revolutionary and progressive organizations, including African American organizations struggling for civil rights. It also targeted radical organizations that emphasized Black power and the right to self-defense.

The nurturing and protection of the paramilitary racist organizations by the state—police and courts—goes back even further than Hoover’s rise to police power in the 1920s. And the government’s hand-in-hand relationship continues to the present.

Orlando’s deputy police chief Pete Gauntlett, in an interview with the Sun-Sentinel newspaper, made that relationship clear, "We let them express their free speech and let them do what they're allowed to do, but we wanted to have control."

Freedom of speech as a cover

Sam Marcy, a Marxist leader in the United States, wrote in the book, "The Klan and the Government, Foes or Allies," about the links between the capitalist state and fascist organizations.

"The far more important problem is the reciprocal relations between the capitalist government and the Klan. More often than not, the former is made to appear rather hostile to the Klan. The public impression conveyed is that the government is forced under the law (the First or "Free Speech" amendment to the constitution) to defend and secure the Klan’s rights.

"In reality, however, the capitalist government has covertly encouraged and promoted the Klan over many decades. It is often completely overlooked in current discussions and in the press and media reports that the durability of the Klan rests on solid long-term bonds to the state, and that the two share a common political ideology, for the most part."

Just as the right of speech does not extend to acts harmful to people, like shouting "fire" in a theater, Klan and Nazi rallies are terrorist acts whose objective is only to rally their forces to carry out racist terror and must be vigorously opposed. However, relying on the state to stop them is a dangerous illusion.

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I think you have something to say. But your posts are so long I don't think I'll ever know.

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Experimental Ebola drug heals all monkeys in study
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer
Updated 5:53 am, Monday, September 1, 2014

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Report: FBI, Mesa firm lost $1.2 million

Billy House
Republic Washington Bureau
Jun. 15, 2006 12:00 AM

The FBI "wasted" $1.175 million on a contract with a Mesa-based software company to help modernize how the nation's largest crime lab keeps track of evidence in its custody, according to a Department of Justice report.

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when you smell like sulphur you have to convince the public you don't stink

The show is called Hellboy Redux


see link for full taxpayer funded propaganda machine


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FBI Radio: Public Service or Self-Serving?

September 02, 2014 /



Listen to the radio and you might run across a segment that sounds something like a news report. A newsy music introduction plays as woman’s officious-sounding voice begins narrating a story. In a stilted delivery that appears to mimic that of a news anchor, the woman states, “In a move demonstrating the FBI’s valuable role of protecting national security, Director James Comey creates a separate Intelligence Branch…”

It turns out this isn’t a news report at all. And the “news anchor” is actually a public affairs specialist.

How many tax dollars are being spent for the FBI to promote itself?

You might call the radio spot a faux news report brought to you by the FBI. It’s called “FBI This Week,” produced and distributed regularly on the radio, via podcasts and on the Internet along with three other FBI productions.

Is this a much-needed public service? Or self-serving propaganda? Are the segments masquerading as independent news reports? And just how many tax dollars are being spent on the FBI’s promotional efforts?

“[T]he programs that we produce are ultimately designed to aid and assist the public in protecting itself against crime,” says Susan McKee, the FBI’s chief of investigative publicity and public affairs.

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notice the spin. yea and if any other company operated like this they would be sued out of existence....

couple of reads follow your tax dime



Risky business: Informants sometimes go bad

By: James V. Franco, The Record
07/24/2006



TROY - Alberto "AJ" Rivera was let out of jail two months before he allegedly shot and killed Amanda Burns, sources said, to work for the FBI as a confidential informant to infiltrate the Latin Kings street gang.

According to several sources, the Safe Streets Task Force, a multi-agency effort headed up by the FBI to target violent street crime, requested Rivera's release to get information on the brutal 2003 murder of Latin Kings member Miguel Alcalde.

Gang members Michael Sanchez and Eric Lugo pleaded guilty to shooting and stabbing Alcalde before leaving his body in the Poestenkill Gorge. But, sources said, FBI Special Agent Charles Kessler was using Rivera to find out who higher up the street-gang ladder ordered the hit.

It remains unclear if Rivera provided any information of value before he was arrested for Burns' murder.

In an odd twist, on Oct. 26, 2005, the day after Burns was shot, Rivera called Kessler and told him the Latin Kings were on to what he was doing and asked the agent to get him out of Troy. Kessler and another member of the task force picked him up that same day and took him to a safe house, a motel in Schenectady, where two weeks later he was arrested by Troy detectives for shooting Burns, sources said.

Rivera has a long arrest record - two felony convictions and a charge of attempted murder for slashing a man with a samurai sword that was later reduced to assault - and was in Rensselaer County jail in 2005 when he made the deal with the FBI and local liaisons to the task force that include members of the Troy Police Department.

According to records, on June 24 of that year he was arrested and charged with felony possession of a stolen .44 magnum handgun. Fifty-two days later, on Aug. 15, with the case still pending, he was back on the streets working for the FBI as an informant, sources said.

"I believe if he was still in jail like he should have been, Amanda would be alive today. There are more people to blame than just AJ," said Burns' mother, Jacqueline Pazdur, who refrained from commenting further because of the pending the trial.

Rivera pleaded not guilty to shooting the 21-year-old mother, and in statements to police, blamed a man with dreadlocks for the crime. Another man, Derrick Rosa, is charged with selling Rivera the alleged murder weapon for $50 and a half-ounce of marijuana. Their trials are slated for the fall.
FBI Supervisory Special Agent Paul Holstein, also the public information officer, would not comment for this story. Kessler could not be reached for comment.

Troy Police also refused comment, as did Rivera's attorney, Tim Nugent.
The night Burns was shot, she was sitting in an SUV talking to her estranged boyfriend, Charles Smith, 45, about what has been described as a bitter custody battle over their son. While parked in a Lansingburgh alley, a man, alleged to be Rivera, smashed out the driver's side window and shot across Smith, hitting Burns several times.

A motive for the murder is sketchy - the two did know each other, and Burns was a good friend of Rivera's family.

Police, for the time being, are treating Smith as a witness, not a suspect. There are reports that Burns saw Rivera fleeing a suspicious fire, but because she was murdered, it cannot be substantiated by law enforcement at this time.

Rivera's History

According to arrest records and personal accounts, Rivera has been in trouble to one degree or another his whole life.

In 1999, at age 19, he was charged with attempted murder for slashing a man with what was described as a samurai sword.

A year later he was arrested for stabbing someone and he routinely found himself in handcuffs for smaller crimes like burglary and possession of drugs.
But he always managed to avoid long stints in jail - he never did state time - by providing information on other criminals, according to law enforcement sources.

"With his criminal record, how do you get 52 days for possession of a stolen weapon?" said Rivera's mother, Grace Heath, a friend of Burns and Pazdur. "His favorite saying was 'Don't you ever forget there is nothing I can't do and get away with except murder.'

"He's been a snitch for years."

The samurai sword incident, according to media accounts and his statement to police, was precipitated by a man, Allen Rivers, looking to get revenge on Rivera for flipping on one of Rivers' friends.

In a statement to police on May 3, 1999, Rivera said: "He then came in the house and accused me of ratting out Damian Lewis, saying I was a snitch and snitches die ... prepare yourself to die."

Rivera thought Rivers had a gun, so he armed himself with a three-foot sword and in the end chopped off some of Rivers' fingers and inflicted lacerations to his arm and chin by striking him with the sword.

Rivera was arrested a short time after the attack. He pleaded guilty to assault, was sentenced to the eight months he already served in jail and released back onto the streets.



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April 16, 2014
A Long Tradition of Blowback
The FBI and Its Lethal Informants
by PETER LEE

Lot of talk about bad guys being FBI assets recently. Thanks to his lawyers, the Interwebs are a-hum with speculation that the FBI neglected to hoover up Tamerlan Tsarnaev a.k.a. the Elder before the Boston marathon bombing because the Bureau was already in touch with him and trying to turn him as an asset, not because the Russians withheld crucial information.

Yesterday it also transpired that Glenn Miller, the white supremacist linked to the shootings in Overland Park, had allegedly worked with the FBI as an informer. In CounterPunch, James Ridgeway quotes an aggrieved white supremacist outlet that accused Miller:

“In the 1980′s Glenn Miller was a self-styled KKK leader in North Carolina. He made contact with The Order, which was famous for armored car heists. Apparently he convinced The Order to make him part of an “above ground/legal” wing of the group. He then provided information to the FBI and testified against other members of the “legal” wing that were receiving money obtained from the armored car heists.”

This sort of risky business looks suspiciously like FBI standard procedure.

Reading Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy’s biography of Whitey Bulger, the notorious—and notoriously protected—Boston gangster who parlayed his FBI relationship into legal impunity and a municipal crime empire, one learns that this sort of arrangement spanned generations in the Bureau:

[Boston crime figure Frank] Salemme claims [FBI agent Paul] Rico’s animosity toward the McLaughlin gang stemmed from the McLaughlins’ typically careless and insulting ways—specifically their bawdy claims that Rico and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover were lovers…Rico…got even by helping [rival gang] Winter Hill pick off the Mclaughlin gang, one by one. He helped Winter Hill set up the 1964 murder of Ronnie Dermody….But Dermody was small change.

It might be worth noting that Dermody, while being small change, was also Rico’s informant. But in order to ingratiate himself with a higher level gangster, Rico set up the hit by booking a meeting with Dermody, but arranging for the gunman to show up instead…and then let the gunman lie low at his house for a couple days.

And there’s more:

Rico and [his partner Dennis Condon] wanted …”Punch” McLaughlin…in the grave…Rico followed Punch…then told [gangster Steve] Flemmi that Punch was taking the bus…Flemmi fired six times into Punchy’s chest as he was boarding the bus. The next time Flemmi saw Rico, the FBI agent told him, “Nice shooting”.[Cullen and Murphy Whitey Bulger W.W. Norton & Co., 2013 pp. 78-79]

This was several years before Flemmi became an FBI official informant and his case would presumably subject to some kind of formal supervision. Before then, apparently, orchestrating gang hits off the books was simply part of the creative, improvisational side of Paul Rico.

After Rico and Condon retired, John Connolly took over as the FBI Boston office go-to guy for handling informants. He gave Whitey Bulger free rein in return for suspiciously meager tips and suspiciously large handouts, a combination that landed Connolly in federal prison for racketeering and, in 2011, confinement in Florida state prison to serve the rest of a 40-year sentence for second degree murder as an accessory to a Bulger rubout.

In Boston, the justification was always that the FBI was using “good” (or not-as-bad) gangsters to take down worse gangsters—the McClaughlin gang for Rico and Condon, and the New England Mafia for John Connolly.

If this reminds you of something, well it should. For the edification of readers, here is the Wikipedia entry for Tsarist Russia’s Department for Protecting the Public Security and Order, colloquially known as the Okhrana:

The Okhrana used many seemingly unorthodox methods in the pursuit of its mission to defend the monarchy; indeed, some of the Okhrana’s activities even contributed to the wave of domestic unrest and revolutionary terror that they were intended to quell…The exposure of Yevno Azef (who had organized many assassinations, including that of Plehve) and Dmitri Bogrov (who assassinated Stolypin in 1911) as Okhrana double agents put the agency’s methods under great suspicion…

And, in the category of Nobody Could Have Foreseen:

Just as the Okhrana had once sponsored trade unions to divert activist energy from political causes, so too did the secret police attempt to promote the Bolshevik party, as the Bolsheviks seemed a relatively harmless alternative to more violent revolutionary groups. Indeed, to the Okhrana, Lenin seemed to actively hinder the revolutionary movement by denouncing other revolutionary groups and refusing to cooperate with them. To aid the Bolsheviks at the expense of other revolutionaries, the Okhrana helped Roman Malinovsky, a police spy who had managed to rise within the group and gain Lenin’s trust, in his bid to become a Bolshevik delegate to the Duma. To this end, the Okhrana sequestered Malinovsky’s criminal record and arrested others candidates for the seat. Malinovsky won the seat and led the Bolshevik delegation in the Fourth Duma until 1914, but even with the information Malinovsky and other informants provided to the Okhrana, the police were unprepared for the rise of Bolshevism in 1917.

Don’t be surprised if the US government is keeping tabs on and, indeed, keeping in touch with bad guys. And, I suppose, when a bad guy predictably does something bad, don’t be surprised if the US government isn’t particularly eager to reveal everything it actually knew.

It’s a long tradition.

Peter Lee wrote a ground-breaking essay on the exposure of sailors on board the USS Reagan to radioactive fallout from Fukushima in the March issue of CounterPunch magazine. He edits China Matters.

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let me get this right.
Teacher allows FBI agents to team up with students to create logo
for Cyber Security office at Baltimore FBI?

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Dumbing Us Down - The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

A brilliant book by New York State teacher of the year: John Taylor Gatto

Reviewed by Shaun Kerry, M.D.
Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions, but to destroy the capacity to form any." --Hannah Arendt

In this rare and insightful book, Gatto explains the seven lessons that are taught in most schools. They constitute a damaging and costly national curriculum. Here is a summary of those principles, as expressed by the author in the first person voice:


1. Confusion: I teach too much, and everything that I teach is out of context. The orbiting of planets, the law of large numbers, slavery, adjectives, architectural drawing, dance, assemblies, etc.

Editors note: I have met countless college graduates whose heads are filled with volumes of academic jumble, but who cannot focus, live under constant stress, can't make a decent income, and can't maintain a stable relationship with a member of the opposite sex.

2.Class Position: I teach students that they must remain in the class into which they were born, the class where they belong. If I do my job well, my students will be unable to imagine themselves somewhere else. They will envy and fear the upper classes, and have contempt for the lower classes.

3. Indifference: I teach children not to care too much about anything, even though they may desire to do so. I demand that my students become completely involved in my lessons, vigorously competing with each other for my favor.

4.Emotional Dependency: By using stars and red checks; smiles and frowns; prizes and punishments; or honors and disgraces, I force children to become emotionally dependent upon my praise. This ensures my power over them. My students surrender their will to the predestined chain of command. Rights may be granted or withheld by any authority without appeal, because rights do not exist inside a school. Even the right to free speech - free thought as well - is suspended within the confines of the classroom. Individuality is a contradiction of class theory.
5. Intellectual Dependency: Good students wait for a teacher to tell them what to do. This is the most important lesson that is imparted to our children in school: We must wait for other people - better trained than ourselves - to direct us and give meaning to our lives.

6. Provisional Self-Esteem: I teach children that their self-respect should depend upon expert opinion. My student's are constantly evaluated and judged. Report cards, grades, and tests all teach us that children should not trust themselves or their parents, but instead, should rely upon the expert evaluations of certified officials. People need to be told what they are worth.

7. One Can't Hide: I teach students they are always watched; that each individual is
under constant surveillance by either my colleagues or myself. This forces my students to behave appropriately, because they fear that someone is watching them, and will punish them if they behave wrongly. There is no private time. Furthermore, I assign a type of extended schooling called "homework," which ensures that the effects of my classroom travel into private households. When students might otherwise use free time to learn something unauthorized from a parent, through exploration, or by apprenticing to some wise person in the neighborhood, they are kept occupied with homework.

Presently, few people can imagine a different educational system. When proponents of educational reform bring up the aforementioned flaws, they are met with traditional opposition: "Kids have to learn to follow orders, if they ever expect to keep a job." or "They have to go to school so they can learn to read and write."

Prior to around 1850, schooling - as it is understood in the traditional sense - was not considered very important anywhere. Schooling existed, but not to the extent that it presently does. Furthermore, students only attended the amount of school that they felt necessary. Even without rigid curriculum and mandatory attendance policies, people still learned to read, write, and do arithmetic. Recently, Senator Kennedy's office released a paper stating that prior to compulsory education, the literacy rate was 98%. Following the implementation of compulsory education, the figure never exceeded 91%. Additionally, the skills of reading, writing, and performing arithmetic - when the pupil is eager and willing to learn - can be mastered much more quickly than our present school system leads people to believe. When an individual genuinely wants to learn something, the speed at which he is able to comprehend that subject matter is greatly increased.


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Linganore High seniors tapped by FBI for logo design

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| Posted Jan 29, 2013

Three Linganore High School seniors can now say they've done work for the FBI.

Helen Snell, Alex McCaslin and Kate Russo teamed up to design a logo for the Baltimore bureau's newly formed Cyber Task Force.

Their finished work will be featured on staff uniforms, letterhead and ceremonial items.

“It's unreal,” McCaslin, 18, said Monday during an interview at Linganore. “I feel like it does look professional.”

The badge features an eagle holding the state flags of Maryland and Delaware, which the Baltimore bureau encompasses, and binary code.

There were some specifics that the bureau wanted in the design, according to Snell.

“They left a lot of room for creativity,” said Snell, 17.

The students used Adobe Illustrator to complete the template, but the first attempt didn't stick.

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It is not the mercenary Ryan Lathrop"s fault.
He was being all he can be, Semper Fi..ing
this Sand Camel just like he did for Exxon Mobil in Iraq
and Afghanistan so you could fill up your SUV at
$3.50 gallon.




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Former top lawyer for city Public Advocate says NYPD cops roughed her up during unwarranted arrest: suit
Chaumtoli Huq, 42, says in the suit filed late Tuesday in Manhattan Federal Court that she was waiting for her husband and two young children outside a Times Square eatery when cops arrested her for no reason.



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Wednesday, September 3, 2014, 1:10 PM

A former top lawyer for Public Advocate Letitia James isn’t exactly advocating for the NYPD’s policing practices.

In a blistering lawsuit filed late Tuesday in Manhattan Federal Court, Chaumtoli Huq, 42, says NYPD officers used “unreasonable and wholly unprovoked force” when they arrested her without cause while she was leaving a pro-Palestinian protest in July.

The bust was “characteristic of a pattern and practice of the NYPD in aggressive overpolicing of people of color and persons lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights,” the suit says.

Huq, who says in her lawsuit she’d taken a leave of absence as James’ general counsel to work on factory conditions in her native Bangladesh a day before the arrest, says she believes she was targeted because she’s a Muslim woman.

Huq was wearing a traditional South Asian tunic while waiting for her husband and their 6- and 10-year-old kids to come out from a bathroom stop at Ruby Tuesday's in Times Square when she was told to leave by an officer, the suit says.

She said she explained she was waiting for her family and then the officer “without any legal basis, grabbed Ms. Huq, turned her and pushed her against the wall and placed her under arrest.”
Huq was waiting for her husband and two young children who were going to the bathroom inside the Ruby Tuesday’s in Times Square in July. Google Maps Huq was waiting for her husband and two young children who were going to the bathroom inside the Ruby Tuesday’s in Times Square in July.

When she said she was in pain, one of the officers, Ryan Lathrop, allegedly told her, “Shut your mouth.” When he found out she had a different last name than her hubby, he told her “In America, wives take the names of their husbands.”

She was held for nine hours after the officers falsely claimed she had refused instructions to move and had “flailed her arms and twisted her body” to make it hard for them to handcuff her, the suit says.

She accepted an Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal five days later, meaning the charges against her will be dropped if she does not got rearrested within the next few months.

Her lawyer, Rebecca Heinegg, said her client accepted the plea deal because her planned fellowship in Bangladesh made it impossible for her to fight the charges over a protracted period of time.

Huq’s suit blames the officers’ conduct on “city policies, practices and/or customs of failing to supervise, train, instruct and discipline police officers and encouraging their misconduct.” It also says the department has a “practice or custom of officers lying under oath, falsely swearing out criminal complaints, or otherwise falsifying or fabricating evidence.”
New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, left, has called for NYPD cops to be equipped with cameras to record their interactions with people. Vanessa A. Alvarez/AP New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, left, has called for NYPD cops to be equipped with cameras to record their interactions with people.

While the suit describes Huq as being “on leave” from the Public Advocate’s office, a rep for James said she no longer works there, and her last day of work was July 18 — the day before the arrest.

James didn’t comment on the suit, but has been a critic of the NYPD’s use of stop-and-frisk in minority communities and a proponent of body cameras for NYPD officers — which could have come in handy for this case.

Huq’s suit seeks unspecified damages for her “physical, psychological and emotional injuries, mental anguish, suffering, lost wages, humiliation and embarrassment” — and also retraining for Midtown South cops.

A rep for the city Law Department said, “We will review the lawsuit.”

Huq told the Daily News via email from Bangladesh that she had gone to the rally not “as a lawyer, but as a mom.”
Huq says in her suit that an officer who arrested told her to "shut your mouth," after she complained that she was in pain. Mohammed N. Mujumder via Facebook Huq says in her suit that an officer who arrested told her to "shut your mouth," after she complained that she was in pain.

“I was hesitant to bring a case. My job is to be behind the scenes, and help all New Yorkers,” she said, but she realized “that I can use what happened to me to raise awareness about overpolicing in communities of color. I want there to be a dialogue on policing and community relations,” she said.

DNAinfo, which first reported on Huq’s arrest, said she filed a complaint about the officers’ conduct with the Civilian Complaint Review Board.

NY1 reported last month that Lathrop is also under investigation by the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau, which is investigating an incident in which the cop allegedly confiscated the phone of someone who was taping him and then roughed him up.

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FBI Agent Defends Actions of Mexican Police on Rampart
October 19, 2000|

The FBI's top agent in Los Angeles on Wednesday defended the Mexican authorities' actions in an ongoing murder investigation involving two former Los Angeles police officers.

James V. DeSarno, an assistant director of the FBI, said Mexican federal agents have been swift and professional in responding to requests for assistance by U.S. authorities investigating the statements of 23-year-old Sonia Flores.

Flores, the onetime lover of ex-Officer Rafael Perez, said the bodies of three people allegedly killed by Perez and a former partner were buried in the hills above Tijuana. Her lawyer charged earlier this week that Mexican authorities failed to find any human remains when they excavated the site because they were digging in the wrong place.

DeSarno said he was confident that was not the case.

"We certainly trust that the Mexican police did what they were asked to do," DeSarno said. "We were dealing with a skilled team of investigators."

With doubts about Flores' credibility mounting, she appeared on CNN Wednesday, detailing charges she made to the FBI last month and during an interview with The Times two weeks ago.

Flores, her face shaded from view, reasserted her allegation that she had witnessed Perez and then-LAPD Officer David Mack kill two people during a botched drug deal in the mid-1990s.

She alleges that the bodies of those victims and that of another woman allegedly killed by Mack were buried in Mexico in hopes that if they were discovered they would be presumed to be victims of the region's drug wars.

According to investigative documents obtained by The Times, Flores' accusations against Perez go far beyond the double homicide. She has implicated Perez in yet another shooting. In that case, Flores said, Perez, with the help of another LAPD officer, did a drive-by shooting of a gang member who had threatened to expose his corrupt acts.

She also contends that Perez and Mack were involved in a bank robbery together. Mack was convicted of a 1997 bank robbery and is serving time in federal prison. His two accomplices in that crime remain at large and most of the $722,000 stolen has not been recovered.

Flores said the bank robbery was planned by Mack and Perez in her presence at a "crash pad" apartment that LAPD officers rented near the Rampart police station, according to FBI documents. Flores also said that two women, whom she did not identify, were involved in the holdup.

"She said that Perez wanted to teach her to shoot a gun so she could be involved. However, she declined," the FBI document states.

As with the murder allegations, law enforcement sources have expressed doubts about Flores' charges. Nonetheless, investigators have sought to corroborate her allegations. They have tested the apartment near downtown Los Angeles, where she said the double homicide occurred, seized a BMW she says was used to dispose of the bodies and negotiated with Mexican authorities to excavate the alleged burial site in Tijuana.

To date, however, no concrete evidence linking Perez to the slayings or the bank robbery have been publicly produced, said Winston Kevin McKesson, Perez's attorney.

"Ms. Flores has absolutely no credibility," McKesson said. "Why her allegations remain a pertinent issue is a mystery to me."

Attorney Donald M. Re, who represents Mack, has also said Flores' charges are baseless.

The U.S. attorney and the FBI, however, continue to investigate Flores' allegations, sources close to the probe said.

Perez pleaded guilty last year to stealing eight pounds of cocaine from LAPD evidence facilities. In exchange for a lighter prison sentence for the drug thefts, he agreed to identify other allegedly corrupt officers. His admissions about his own conduct and allegations against fellow officers are the basis for what has become known as the Rampart scandal.

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Yep....you will be paying for the civil lawsuit.


Not to worry the Man is not related to you,eh?
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Police Tase Black Man Who Was Sitting On A Chair While Waiting To Pick Up His Kids

by Aviva Shen Posted on August 29, 2014 at 1:58 pm Updated: August 29, 2014

The shooting of unarmed teenager Mike Brown rekindled a debate about why police seem to target African Americans. Cell phone video posted this week suggests that clashes between unarmed black men and police can happen over little more than sitting on a chair.

Chris Lollie, 28, says he was waiting to pick up his children in a skyway in St. Paul, Minnesota, after working the night shift in a nearby restaurant. A security guard told him the seemingly public area he was sitting in was reserved for employees. Lollie, suspecting he’s being singled out for his race, responded that there was no sign saying so. The guard called the police, who confronted Lollie.

The video begins while a female officer is questioning Lollie as the two of them walk down the skyway. In the video, Lollie calmly but firmly explains that he’s waiting for his children that he knows his rights. The conflict quickly escalates when a second, male officer arrives. “I’ve got to go get my kids,” Lollie tells the second officer, asking him not to touch him. “You’re going to go to jail, then,” the second officer says. “Put your hands behind your back or things are going to get ugly.”

“I haven’t done anything wrong,” Lollie says over and over again, before the officer screams, “Put your hands behind your back!” and uses his taser on him.

Watch it:

Police said Lollie was acting aggressively, and filed charges for trespassing, disorderly conduct, and obstructing the legal process, according to the Pioneer Press. All three charges were dropped last month after surveillance video and witness statements were shown in court. Lollie told the Pioneer Press that throughout the ordeal, he was “trying my hardest to maintain my calm demeanor just because I know if I do anything outside of these bounds, they could really do some damage to me.”

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Infighting, retaliation mark FBI-DEA relationship at fusion center
April 1, 2014 |

Resentments between FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration employees who worked together at a fusion center led to a lengthy dispute – and alleged retaliation – says a report from the Justice Department office of inspector general.

The problems took place at the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces Fusion Center, which the DOJ describes as "the cornerstone of OCDETF's intelligence efforts." The fusion center, whose director was a DEA employee at the time of the audit, consists mostly of detailees from the FBI and DEA, and produces intelligence products in response to requests from agencies.

FBI personnel believed that they "were spending the vast majority of their time working on non-FBI matters and that the FBI was doing more than its share of work at the center," the report (pdf) says. An "adversarial working atmosphere" developed between FBI employees and the center's leadership. In the view of the FBI detailees, the center also failed to prioritize requests from the FBI.

In January 2013, the FBI decided that it would require its detailees to handle all the agency's requests, instead of letting some of them be assigned to detailees from the DEA, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Internal Revenue Service or the various other agencies that staff the center. The FBI also wanted its personnel to be supervised by fellow FBI employees only.

The DEA employee in charge of the fusion center responded by suspending all FBI employees' access to the center's database for more than a month.

"We believe that a dispute of this significance, which lasted ov

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Bill Montgomery's Office Hires "Islamaphobe" to Instruct County Prosecutors on Muslim "Threat"
BTue., Sep. 9 2014 at 10:44 AM


The Maricopa County Attorney's Office is sponsoring a training session for its prosecutors and other law enforcement officials on Muslim extremism, taught by individuals described as having an anti-Muslim agenda by various civil rights organizations.

The all-day event, scheduled for September 19 at a hotel in Tempe, is titled "Understanding the Threat," according to a flier advertising the training. It promises the seminar will "cover threats posed to our local communities by Hamas, Hezbollah and Shariah Law."

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The flier advertising the MCAO's upcoming training session for its prosecutors on the Muslim "threat"

Currently posted to the website for the Western Arizona Law Enforcement Training Academy, the flier features an illustration of the yellow Gadsden flag, frequently associated with Tea Party activists these days, and a green crossed-swords symbol associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Both the title and the placement of the illustrations are identical to those for the website of John Guandolo, a former FBI agent listed on the flier as being one of the training session's instructors.

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The illustrations from Guandolo's website, also used on the flier above

Guandolo is a controversial figure whose conspiracy-minded statements and seminars for law enforcement have drawn fire from such organizations as the ACLU and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

For instance, according to Salon.com and other news outlets, Guandolo has claimed that current CIA director John Brennan is secretly a Muslim.

CAIR has a video of Guandolo making this claim on its YouTube site.

In 2013, Salon.com reported the following:

On Friday, John Guandolo, the vice president of the Virginia-based Strategic Engagement Group (SEG), appeared on the Boca Raton-based radio show of Tom Trento, the president of the anti-"Shariah Islam" group The United West, formerly the Florida Security Council. Guandolo described how Brennan has supposedly "interwoven his life professionally and personally with individuals that we know are terrorists and he has given them access" to top officials in the federal government and "brought known Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood leaders into the government and into advisory positions."

Guandolo continued that what "some would say is most disturbing, Mr. Brennan did convert to Islam when he served in an official capacity on behalf of the United States when he served in Saudi Arabia" and it "was the culmination of a counterintelligence operation against him to recruit him" by foreign operatives.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has blasted Guandolo as a "disgraced conspiracy theorist," who "continues to offer so-called trainings that reveal `the Muslim Brotherhood's infiltration of the US Federal Bureaucracy and its coverup by our own government.'"

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September 11, 2014
Why Netanyahu's Relentless War Will Backfire
ISIS is Israel’s Key Ally Against a Palestinian State
by JONATHAN COOK

Nazareth.

An image speaks a thousand words – and that is presumably what Israel’s supporters hoped for with their latest ad in the New York Times.

Two photographs are presented side by side. One, titled ISIS, is the now-iconic image of a kneeling James Foley, guarded by a black-hooded executioner, awaiting his terrible fate. The other, titled Hamas, is a scene from Gaza, where a similarly masked killer stands over two victims, who cower in fear.

A headline stating “This is the face of radical Islam” tries, like the images, to equate the two organisations.

We have heard this line repeatedly from Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who tweeted “Hamas is ISIS” after the video of Foley’s beheading aired. Last week, in a speech addressed to the family of Steven Sotloff, ISIS’s latest victim, he called Hamas and ISIS “tentacles of a violent Islamist terrorism.”

Netanyahu’s depiction of Hamas and ISIS, or Islamic State, as “branches of the same poisonous tree” is a travesty of the truth.

The two have entirely different – in fact, opposed – political projects. ISIS wants to return to a supposed era of pure Islamic rule, the caliphate, when all Muslims were subject to God’s laws (sharia). Given that Muslims are now to be found in every corner of the globe, the implication is that ISIS ultimately seeks world domination.

Hamas’s goals are decidedly more modest. It was born and continues as a national liberation movement, seeking to create a Palestinian state. Its members may disagree on that state’s territorial limits but even the most ambitious expect no more than the historic borders of a Palestine that existed a few decades ago.

ISIS aims to sweep away Palestine and every other Arab state in the region.

That is the key to interpreting the very different, if equally brutal, events depicted in the two images.

ISIS killed Foley, dressed in Guantanamo-style orange jumpsuit, purely as spectacle – a graphic message to the world of its menacing agenda. Hamas’ cruelty was directed at those in Gaza who collaborate with Israel, undermining any hope of Palestinian liberation from Israel’s occupation.

The extra-judicial execution of collaborators may be ugly but it has a long tradition among resistance movements fighting asymmetrical wars. Militants among the Marxist revolutionaries of Latin America and the Catholic nationalists in Ireland, as well as the Allied resistance in Nazi Europe and the Jewish underground against the British in Palestine, had nary a Muslim in their ranks but they brutally punished those who betrayed them.

ISIS’s reported 20,000 foot soldiers have quickly taken over swaths of Iraq and Syria in a murderous and uncompromising campaign against anyone who rejects not only Islam but their specific interpretation of it.

Hamas – split between political and militant factions – has shown...
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How One Man Refused to Spy on Fellow Muslims for the FBI—And Then Lost Everything


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On the night of December 9, 2011, Siham Stewart called her husband, Ayyub Abdul-Alim, as he closed down his corner store, Nature's Garden, in Springfield, Massachusetts. She asked him to bring home a gallon of milk. A few minutes later, she watched from the window of their second-floor apartment as he was seized in the street and handcuffed by two police officers.

Forty-eight hours after Abdul-Alim's arrest, FBI agent James Hisgen and Springfield police officer Ronald Sheehan offered him the chance to walk away free of charges if he agreed to become an informant on the Muslim community. He refused the deal and is now held at the Cedar Junction maximum-security prison in Massachusetts, facing up to sixteen years behind bars.

While awaiting trial, Abdul-Alim discovered that his wife received cash payments from the FBI totaling at least $11,949. The receipts were signed by Sheehan and Hisgen. Stewart testified against Abdul-Alim in court and admitted to working as an informant. This past April, Abdul-Alim was found guilty of illegal possession of a firearm that he alleges the officers planted on him as part of their attempt to pressure him to work for the FBI.

Abdul-Alim, 36, grew up in New York City in a family of African-American and Puerto Rican heritage. Prior to his arrest, he founded and ran the Quran and Sunnah Community Center in Springfield, which offered free meals and prayer services, and Connections Transportation, which transported people to visit their loved ones in prison. He was also a small business owner, an apartment complex manager, a husband, and a father figure to Stewart's son.

His life began to change in 2010 after he returned from a three-week religious trip to Mecca. Abdul-Alim reports that he began to receive calls from James Hisgen, an agent at the FBI's Springfield field office, who asked him questions such as, "Do you love America?" and told him to call back if he was interested in working as an informant.

In early 2011, Hisgen showed up at Abdul-Alim's mosque, Masjid Al Tawheed, with two other agents. According to the Imam, Dr. Ishmael Ali, Hisgen claimed he was from the Springfield Building Department and demanded to search the mosque. Dr. Ali turned him away because he did not have a warrant. Dr. Ali recalled that in the two years leading up to his arrest, Abdul-Alim continually sought advice on how to get the FBI agents to leave him alone.

Since 9/11, a key element in the FBI's counter-terrorism tactics has been the aggressive recruitment and deployment of large numbers of informants among Muslim communities in the United States. Part of the purpose is to gather information on political or community activism, which the FBI frames as a precursor to extremist violence. But the tactics also fit a familiar pattern—one that harkens back to the FBI's history of targeting the civil rights and Black Power movements of the 1960s, when it was likewise asserted that extremist ideologues were fueling violence.

At that time, FBI agents were each expected to hire at least one informant to report on the goings-on of black people. African-Americans were watched by FBI informants everywhere they congregated: churches, bookstores, bars, restaurants, college classrooms and other gathering spots. In addition to providing information on activist leaders, the informants served as "listening posts" for blanket information on black communities.

The FBI believed that the civil rights movement was a front for Communist subversion and that the urban rebellions of black youth were instigated by Communist agitators. Systematic spying, it was thought, would help prevent riots but ultimately the purpose was to disable the growing radicalism of black America. Black Muslims—branded the "extremists" of the day—were seen as especially politicized, and prominent community figures such as Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X were placed on NSA and FBI watch lists. Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad had been on the FBI's radar since World War II; in 1942, agents had arrested him on charges of draft evasion.

The best-known FBI initiative directed at the black liberation movement was COINTELPRO—short for Counterintelligence Program. It was launched in 1956 to infiltrate the Communist Party but shortly afterwards was expanded to include the ongoing surveillance of black activists. Disinformation campaigns, arrests on trumped-up charges, faked evidence, and assassinations were used to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" black movements, according to the FBI's own documents. But COINTELPRO was just one initiative within the FBI's wider surveillance and criminalization of black organizations.

Abdul-Alim's parents were themselves caught up in these longer histories of FBI surveillance. His father was active with the Black Panther Party in New York and his mother was a member of the Young Lords, the radical Puerto Rican youth group that was, like the Panthers, targeted by the FBI. Both parents were involved in the Mosque of the Islamic Brotherhood, a Harlem-based Muslim congregation founded by an associate of Malcolm X and whose attendees have faced decades of surveillance.

Today, black Muslims stand at the intersection of the War on Drugs' institutional racism and the War on Terror's institutional Islamophobia: their race frames them as prone to gang violence, their religion as a terrorist threat. Abdul-Alim's case shows the extreme measures the FBI is willing to use to pressure Muslims to work as informants on the terror war's domestic front.

On the night of his arrest, Sheehan instructed two Springfield Police officers to stop Abdul-Alim as he approached a store. According to a police radio transcript, the officers pat-frisked Abdul-Alim and told Sheehan that he was clear of any weapons. Sheehan ordered them to conduct a second search and, according to one transcript, they again responded that Abdul-Alim did not have any weapons.

Sheehan asked over the police radio, "Is the subject in earshot?" and then asked one of the officers, Angel Berrios, to step away. This is where the record ends. Abdul-Alim alleges that Berrios then pushed him against the police car, pulled down his pants and boxers, probed his testicles, spread his buttocks and yelled out, "Gun!"

The officers handcuffed Abdul-Alim and placed him in a police cruiser. Abdul-Alim alleges that Sheehan then approached the vehicle and asked, "Are you ready to make the deal of a lifetime?" When Abdul-Alim protested, he was told to "think it over" on his way to the police station.

Sheehan, who is also a member of the Springfield Joint Terrorism Task Force, immediately called his FBI supervisor to notify him of the arrest.

Forty-eight hours after the arrest, it became apparent what the "deal of a lifetime" would involve. As Abdul-Alim awaited arraignment at the Springfield police station, Sheehan and Hisgen questioned him for about an hour. Abdul-Alim recalls Hisgen saying, "You may remember I called you about a year ago requesting a meeting to discuss possible information you may have that could be helpful, but you refused to meet with me. Maybe you'll be more willing to cooperate now." At this point, Abdul-Alim recognized Hisgen as the same man who had called him for months and attempted to search his mosque. He recounted these events to The Nation from behind a plexiglass barrier in Hampton County Jail.

Abdul-Alim, who had been convicted of dealing cocaine in 2003, assumed the interrogation regarded drugs or gangs. Hisgen allegedly said, "I'm not interested in that nickel and dime $#!%. I want the real $#!%. Like terrorism $#!%."

"They said that I was facing ten years, but I could walk away right now if I agreed to be an informant," recalls Abdul-Alim. "They said that they would give me the names of specific people who they wanted me to target, and I would use anti-government propaganda to incite them to violent action. They implied that they would provide me with guns and bombs to give people." Hisgen and Sheehan did not record the interrogation.

Abdul-Alim refused the deal and was held at the Hampden County Correctional Center for two and a half years awaiting trial. In December 2013, the prosecution introduced a new set of charges. Police officers claimed that, shortly after Abdul-Alim's arrest, they had conducted a search of the apartment complex he managed and discovered a bag of guns in an empty suite. "They supposedly sat on this information for two years, which is definitely very unusual," said Abdul-Alim's public defense attorney, Thomas Robinson.

In April 2014, a four-day trial began on the original gun charges but it was riddled with inconsistencies. The officers could not agree on simple details, including how many times they searched Abdul-Alim, or the location and time that they allegedly found the gun. The gun was originally described by police and a ballistic expert as a .22 revolver but later identified in court as a .25 semi-automatic pistol manufactured in 1908.

A police forensics analysis conducted three days after the arrest found that there were no fingerprints on the gun. In contradiction to police procedure, the arresting officers failed to retrieve surveillance videos of the arrest scene, wear gloves while handling the weapon, or write a complete police report.

In Court, Siham Stewart testified as an informant saying she had been paid by the police and the FBI but denied that the payments were related to Abdul-Alim. She said that, whenever she was short on rent money, she would call "Ron," referring to Officer Sheehan, and he would pay her in cash. Abdul-Alim says that Stewart convinced him to sign his bank accounts and store over to her while he was in jail. She sold the store, took his money, and left.

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"If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state
of civilization, it expects what never was and never
will be.... If we are to guard against ignorance and
remain free, it is the responsibility of
every American to be informed."

- Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826),
3rd US President
*Editor's Notes*:

A lot of time has happened since the last Flyby News (FN) issue, 15 years
and the Cassini-Earth flyby
<http://www.flybynews.com/cgi-local/news ... 3143,77148,,
which was posted on 18 August. The events of September 11, 2014 in
Greenfield, MA was unique and wonderful. I was able to interview five
individuals in the studio at GCTV <http://gctv.org, [the program is
expected to be aired and online in a couple of weeks]. In the evening more
than fifty individuals came to the 9-11 truth event at The Garden Cinemas,
featuring Massimo Mazzucco's documentary, September 11 - The New Pearl
Harbor
<http://www.luogocomune.net/site/modules ... &artid=167.
Previews and other films were shown too, with a lively discussion on our
current state of affairs. Being with community based on reality on this
anniversary was heart-felt.

Throughout history wars have been mostly about controlling resources, the
use of military might for financial gain. This runs against principles in
the US Constitution, but since Kennedy's assassination and US military coup
d'etat, I guess the US Constitution lost its incentive for those taking
sworn oaths to behold and protect. The control over my generation's minds
became apparent when the peace movement did not investigate the events of
September 11, 2001, although it was being used as justification for
"endless wars" and the war on terror. People chose only to look at some
issues, too afraid to even admit being too scared to consider such a level
of corruption exists. Yet the harness of denial, and yokes of distraction,
and fear has taken over many minds, as if the novel by George Orwell, 1984
has come to life.

FN issue, Fracking War Terrorism and Transformation
<http://www.flybynews.com/cgi-local/news ... 5260,50520,
was about the emergence of a fracked gas pipeline proposal through my land
and state. On a list serve focused on stopping the pipeline, I sometimes
share information that shows its relationship with military geopolitical
ownership. I tried to open up this up with the list serve and posted about
this Democracy Now program, "Expanding U.S. Strikes to ISIS in Syria, Has
Obama Opened New Phase of "Perpetual War"?"
<http://www.democracynow.org/2014/9/23/e ... to_isis_in,
(broadcast 23 September, 2014).

Here is a response I received from one neighbor:

"..enjoyed your presentation and the 9/11 Truth movie last week at the
Garden Cinema. It is depressing, but informative. I will continue to get
news from your Flyby News organization as I need . . . I would greatly
appreciate it if you would keep good solid separation of the Pipeline and
Fracked Gas issue, news and discussion on the NGpipeline group separate
from your Flyby News anti-war opinions and information. I think there are
enough people who know of your group and if they wish to read, listen or
participate they will join your group. Please Jonathan, keep the two issues
separate and discontinue your use of NQpipeline for your anti-war
sentiments. . . I don't think it helps your cause, no matter how important
you may feel it is, to push into another group's very specific discussion.
Thank you Jonathan."

Unless we understand what we are up against, how can we effectively plan to
stop such a proposal while being threatened by federal eminent domain. It
all makes no sense to be forced to live with pressurized gas pipes, a
limited resource that endangers our water, earth, and air. And because of
the federal threat, I am proposing a referendum vote question in 2016 to
build the basis for our demanding that we have the right to protect our
environment. I believe such a vote, if supported, could go the distance for
educating and mobilizing people simply to stand in the way of such a
proposal in Massachusetts. That could give a blow for their northeast USA
pipeline expansion and fracking Mother Earth. Our energy investment dollars
must go to protecting our well being. Clean technology is capable, it is
only the political will or treachery that is doing more harm than good.
Everything else in the contrary is only more propaganda.

"The Fake Terror Threat Used To Justify Bombing Syria"
<https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014 ... ing-syria/

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October 23, 2014

How America and Britain Crushed the Government of Their "Ally" Australia
The Forgotten Coup
by JOHN PILGER

Across the political and media elite in Australia, a silence has descended on the memory of the great, reforming prime minister Gough Whitlam, who has died. His achievements are recognised, if grudgingly, his mistakes noted in false sorrow. But a critical reason for his extraordinary political demise will, they hope, be buried with him.

Australia briefly became an independent state during the Whitlam years, 1972-75. An American commentator wrote that no country had “reversed its posture in international affairs so totally without going through a domestic revolution”. Whitlam ended his nation’s colonial servility. He abolished Royal patronage, moved Australia towards the Non-Aligned Movement, supported “zones of peace” and opposed nuclear weapons testing.

Although not regarded as on the left of the Labor Party, Whitlam was a maverick social democrat of principle, pride and propriety. He believed that a foreign power should not control his country’s resources and dictate its economic and foreign policies. He proposed to “buy back the farm”. In drafting the first Aboriginal lands rights legislation, his government raised the ghost of the greatest land grab in human history, Britain’s colonisation of Australia, and the question of who owned the island-continent’s vast natural wealth.

Latin Americans will recognise the audacity and danger of this “breaking free” in a country whose establishment was welded to great, external power. Australians had served every British imperial adventure since the Boxer rebellion was crushed in China. In the 1960s, Australia pleaded to join the US in its invasion of Vietnam, then provided “black teams” to be run by the CIA. US diplomatic cables published last year by WikiLeaks disclose the names of leading figures in both main parties, including a future prime minister and foreign minister, as Washington’s informants during the Whitlam years.

Whitlam knew the risk he was taking. The day after his election, he ordered that his staff should not be “vetted or harassed” by the Australian security organisation, ASIO – then, as now, tied to Anglo-American intelligence. When his ministers publicly condemned the US bombing of Vietnam as “corrupt and barbaric”, a CIA station officer in Saigon said: “We were told the Australians might as well be regarded as North Vietnamese collaborators.”

Whitlam demanded to know if and why the CIA was running a spy base at Pine Gap near Alice Springs, a giant vacuum cleaner which, as Edward Snowden revealed recently, allows the US to spy on everyone. “Try to screw us or bounce us,” the prime minister warned the US ambassador, “[and Pine Gap] will become a matter of contention”.

Victor Marchetti, the CIA officer who had helped set up Pine Gap, later told me, “This threat to close Pine Gap caused apoplexy in the White House. … a kind of Chile [coup] was set in motion.”

Pine Gap’s top-secret messages were de-coded by a CIA contractor, TRW. One of the de-coders was Christopher Boyce, a young man troubled by the “deception and betrayal of an ally”. Boyce revealed that the CIA had infiltrated the Australian political and trade union elite and referred to the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, as “our man Kerr”.

Kerr was not only the Queen’s man, he had long-standing ties to Anglo-American intelligence. He was an enthusiastic member of the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom, described by Jonathan Kwitny of the Wall Street Journal in his book, ‘The Crimes of Patriots‘, as, “an elite, invitation-only group… exposed in Congress as being founded, funded and generally run by the CIA”. The CIA “paid for Kerr’s travel, built his prestige… Kerr continued to go to the CIA for money”.

When Whitlam was re-elected for a second term, in 1974, the White House sent Marshall Green to Canberra as ambassador. Green was an imperious, sinister figure who worked in the shadows of America’s “deep state”. Known as the “coupmaster”, he had played a central role in the 1965 coup against President Sukarno in Indonesia – which cost up to a million lives. One of his first speeches in Australia was to the Australian Institute of Directors – described by an alarmed member of the audience as “an incitement to the country’s business leaders to rise against the government”.

The Americans and British worked together. In 1975, Whitlam discovered that Britain’s MI6 was operating against his government. “The Brits were actually de-coding secret messages coming into my foreign affairs office,” he said later. One of his ministers, Clyde Cameron, told me, “We knew MI6 was bugging Cabinet meetings for the Americans.” In the 1980s, senior CIA officers revealed that the “Whitlam problem” had been discussed “with urgency” by the CIA’s director, William Colby, and the head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield. A deputy director of the CIA said: “Kerr did what he was told to do.”

On 10 November, 1975, Whitlam was shown a top secret telex message sourced to Theodore Shackley, the notorious head of the CIA’s East Asia Division, who had helped run the coup against Salvador Allende in Chile two years earlier.

Shackley’s message was read to Whitlam. It said that the prime minister of Australia was a security risk in his own country. The day before, Kerr had visited the headquarters of the Defence Signals Directorate, Australia’s NSA where he was briefed on the “security crisis”.

On 11 November – the day Whitlam was to inform Parliament about the secret CIA presence in Australia – he was summoned by Kerr. Invoking archaic vice-regal “reserve powers”, Kerr sacked the democratically elected prime minister. The “Whitlam problem” was solved, and Australian politics never recovered, nor the nation its true independence.

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Two Hawaii cops suspended after beat down at game room
Surveillance footage at a Doc’s Game Room in Honolulu shows Officer Vince Morre attacking two men after he failed to find an eluding suspect at the business. He lobbed a stool at Jordan Topinio’s head on his way out of the store without making an arrest. The 25-year-old was hospitalized with head injuries after the



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Federal investigator probing Secret Service prostitution allegations resigns over his own sex scandal: report
Department of Homeland Security investigator David Nieland was allegedly seen in a Broward County, Fla., building suspected to be used for prostitution. A prostitute also reportedly said he paid her for sex, but he denies the allegations.


October 29, 2014,

Department of Homeland Security investigator David Nieland had been investigating a Secret Service prostitution scandal.

Department of Homeland Security investigator David Nieland had been investigating a Secret Service prostitution scandal.
The federal investigator probing allegations that Secret Service agents and a White House volunteer hired prostitutes in Colombia has resigned over his own problem with a prostitute in Florida, it was reported Tuesday.

Department of Homeland Security investigator David Nieland left the agency Aug. 9, according to The New York Times.

He cited health as the reason — but department officials said he left after refusing to answer questions from officials at Homeland Security about the Florida incident, The Times reported.

Nieland was allegedly seen in a building under surveillance for prostitution in Broward County, Fla.

A prostitute later identified him and said he paid her for sex, The Times reported.

In an email to the paper, Nieland said the allegations were not true.

Nieland was in charge of probing the 2012 scandal that involved Secret Service agents bringing hookers back to their hotel rooms ahead of President Obama’s arrival in Colombia.

A White House volunteer also brought a prostitute to the hotel, The Washington Post reported — but the information was quashed because it would embarrass the administration ahead of November elections.

Thirteen Secret Service agents were implicated in the international imbroglio, which cost some of them their jobs.

Nieland told staff members of a Senate Homeland Security subcommittee that he was asked to delete derogatory information about the volunteer from the 65-page public report, The Times reported.

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Deputy Moses Baker: Former PBSO deputy accused of having sex with prostitutes in patrol car

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Oct 30, 2014


PBSO deputy resigns after prostitution allegations

Age former Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy was told to either give up his badge, or possibly face criminal charges for allegedly having sex with prostitutes in his patrol car.

Former Deputy Moses Baker resigned in July after an internal affairs investigation started in February.

According to the internal affairs investigation report, several prostitutes told investigators they had sexual relations with Baker.

The Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office contacted the governor's office because they felt uncomfortable handling the case due to Baker's law enforcement ties in the county.

Baker's father is a judge and his sister is a prosecutor with the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office.

The Martin County State Attorney's Office was selected to handle the investigation.

According to their executive assignment disposition memorandum: "During the week of February 23, 2014 PBSO Internal Affairs received information that Deputy Baker had engaged in sexual activity with known prostitutes while on duty."

A letter was sent to Governor Rick Scott on Oct. 23rd stating that the investigation was finished.

According to the letter, Baker had to:

1. Immediately relinquish his certificate as a law enforcement officer.
2. Take an HIV test and submit the results to the state attorney's office.
3. Complete a five hour class called "Prostitution Impact Prevention Education Class."

According to the letter, "As a result of this, no charges will be filed against Mr. Baker. Mr. Baker has completed these requirements, therefore this case is closed."

Former FBI Agent and attorney Stuart Kaplan reviewed the reports for WPTV.

"Clearly any deputy or any law enforcement officer having sex in a marked patrol car under any circumstances is inappropriate," Kaplan said.

He says the situation was handled correctly.

"I think they did an excellent job on the

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Huntsville schools paid $157,000 to former FBI agent, social media monitoring led to 14 expulsions



November 01, 2014





HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Huntsville City Schools paid a former FBI agent $157,000 last year to oversee security improvements, including the investigation of social media activity of public school students.

That online snooping effort, according to records provided on Thursday, led to the expulsion of just 14 students last school year. Of those students, 12 were African-American.

Madison County Commissioner Bob Harrison said the numbers suggest the system is targeting social media activities of black children. "That is effectively targeting or profiling black children in terms of behavior and behavioral issues," said Harrison.

But board member Laurie McCaulley, the only African-American member of the city school board, said expulsions are caused by serious offenses, involving weapons, drugs or sex.

"These numbers tell me that I have kids with some major issues," said McCaulley. "What I think the board is doing is trying to provide a safe environment for all children."

AL.com on Oct. 1 requested public records listing expulsions by race and expenses related to the security consultants involved in the online investigations known as the SAFe program. On Oct. 30, Huntsville City Schools provided records showing the system expelled 305 students last year. Of those, 238 were black.

That means 78 percent of all expulsions involved black children in a system where 40 percent of students are black. Expulsions related to social media investigations through the SAFe program were a small part of that total. Of those 14 expulsions related to SAFe, 86 percent involved black students.

The system also provided paperwork stating the system paid former FBI agent Chris McRae $157,190 in the last fiscal year. McRae runs the SAFe program. (Although the system took weeks to respond, this figure had been shared online by board candidate Elisa Ferrell a month ago.)

The SAFe program came to light through internal documents provided to AL.com. In subsequent interviews, Superintendent Casey Wardynski said the system security personnel investigated the social media accounts of 600 out of 24,000 city students since January.

Wardysnki has said the program operates on tips from teachers or students. Security personnel look for images of guns or gang signs on social media sites like Facebook


Keith Ward, spokesman for city schools, said McRae oversees the SAFe program, but also handles other consulting work related to security.

The system this week provided a 2012 proposal showing a list of salaries to be paid through T&W Operations, the consulting firm that employs McRae. Huntsville provided records showing $586,000 to be paid for salaries of T&W employees. That includes money for McRae, but also money for at least four other individuals in data

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
FBI Files on Catholic Leaders


Our government has been keeping track of Catholic leaders for decades. One of the leaders it closely tracked was Archbishop Fulton Sheen.

For those of you who are too young to know who he was, Archbishop Sheen was the face of Catholicism for decades years in the USA. He had wildly popular weekly TV and radio shows that he hosted for a national audience for almost 40 years. He was also an author, columnist and considered one of the best preachers of the 20th Century.

This meant that the FBI kept detailed notes on him. Many of these files have been made public (with many redactions) for several years. Interesting to note that Sheen had an ongoing correspondence with J. Edgar Hoover, the Director of the FBI. A few of the files are about allegations Sheen had sympathies for the Fascists. He did not and I don't think the FBI bought those either.

Some other correspondence was because the Communists didn't like him, because he was very vocal about opposing them. So, Hoover and others supported his opposition and there was internal dialogue about it.

A quick search also found files on other Catholics, including:
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Cesar Chavez
What can we take away from this?

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