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as a good criminal justice consumer,
you know the voter and taxpayer who
funds the electronic cesspools called
prisons that have a 75% failure rate
and the police who are nothing more than
returning serial killers with PTSD
from Iraq the consumer would ask
were FBI agents involved in murdering
the 3 civil rights workers?
Was Sheriff Rainey who was charged with their murders but acquitted
by an all white jury, a graduate of the FBI Academy?

Later in the 1990's FBI Director Louis Freeh
claimed New York FBI agent Lyndley DeVecchio
sent his informant Mafia psychopath Greg Scarpa Sr
to find out what happened to the civil rights workers.
see.
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FBI agent DeVecchio was under investigation for collaborating
with Scarpa in several murders.
Scarpa had murdered over 100 women and men
while working as a FBI informant and was known as the Grim Reaper.
A book called The Killing Machine was based on his life.so you can now safely guess FBI Director Louis Freeh was
fibbing about Scarpa and Devecchio hoping to
divert attention from the FBI public relations nightmare that was
also happening in Boston as well.
see

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Were FBI agents involved murdering the three civil rights
workers?

World News | November 24, 2014

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Honour for civil rights workers

The FBI poster of the civil rights workers who were shot by Klansmen.
The FBI poster of the civil rights workers who were shot by Klansmen.

Three US civil rights workers who were killed by Ku Klux Klansmen in 1964 are going to be posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

The murders and subsequent FBI investigation was the subject of the Academy Award nominated film Mississippi Burning in 1998.

The workers were in Neshoba County, Mississippi, to look into a church burning when they were shot by Klansmen.

The FBI launched a massive investigation that it dubbed ‘Mississippi Burning’ and the three bodies were found 44 days later, buried in an earthen dam.

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Police Constable Charged for Offence of Carnal Knowledge
November 21, 2014 Posted in Crime & Accident |
On Monday we reported of an incident of carnal knowledge, where it was reported that a 15 year old runaway child from the Cayo District, reported missing by her father, and was later found in Dangriga in the company of an interdicted police officer in Dangriga, identified as 28 year old PC Rupert Thomas.
According to reports Police Constable seduced the 15 year old minor, who during their time together allegedly had sexual intercourse with her at Seine Bight Village, Stann Creek District.
A medical examination was conducted on the minor that certified that the child is carnally known.
28 year old Police Constable Rupert Thomas has since been charged for the offense of Carnal Knowledge, and will be spending the next three months on remand at the Belize Central Prison.
It also must be noted that this is not his first offense of this nature. In December 2013 PC Rupert Thomas was arraigned in court for allegedly fondling a 14 year old girl while she slept. The fourteen year old girl had allegedly run away from home and had spent the night at the resid

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former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik is on Fox News being
interviewed about Ferguson MO and the riots
last night after the Brown Verdict came in.
Kerik was NYPD Commissioner when 911 occurred.
Is he part of the 911 coverup?


A smart criminal justice consumer would know
Mr Kerik's Rap Sheet
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Kerik's tenure as police commissioner included overseeing the police response to the September 11 attacks in 2001.

Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, President George W. Bush appointed Kerik as the interior minister of the Iraqi Coalition Provisional Authority. In 2004, Bush nominated Kerik to be the head of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Kerik soon withdrew his nomination, explaining that he had employed an illegal immigrant as a nanny. In 2006, Kerik pleaded guilty to two unrelated ethics violations after an investigation by the Office of the Bronx District Attorney and was ordered to pay $221,000.

In 2009, Kerik pleaded guilty[2] before U.S. federal prosecutors to 8 charges including criminal conspiracy, tax fraud, and lying under oath.[3] Kerik was sentenced to four years in federal prison on February 18, 2010

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Unorthodox forensic practices shown in Ferguson documents


NOVEMBER 26, 2014
When Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson left the scene of the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, the officer returned to the police station unescorted, washed blood off his hands and placed his recently fired pistol into an evidence bag himself.

Such seemingly unorthodox forensic practices emerged from the voluminous testimony released in the aftermath of a grand jury decision Monday night not to indict Wilson.


The transcript showed that local officers who interviewed Wilson immediately after the shooting did not tape the conversations and sometimes conducted them with other police personnel present. An investigator with the St. Louis County Medical Examiner’s office testified that he opted not to take measurements at the crime scene.

‘‘I got there, it was self-explanatory what happened,’’ said the investigator, whose name was not released, in his grand jury testimony. ‘‘Somebody shot somebody. There was no question as to any distances or anything of that nature at the time I was there.’’

The investigator, described as a 25-year veteran, did not take his own photographs at the scene of the shooting because his camera battery was dead, he said. Instead, he relied on photographs shot by the St. Louis County Police Department.


The medical examiner and Ferguson Police Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

When Wilson returned to the police department after the shooting, he was permitted to drive by himself. No one photographed his bloodied hands before he washed up at the station because ‘‘there was no photographer available.’’

Later, injuries to Wilson’s head caused by punches he said were thrown by Brown were photographed by a local detective at the Fraternal Order of Police building, not at police headquarters.

An FBI agent interviewed by the grand jury said he did tape his interview with Wilson. The agent, who was not identified, said Wilson washed up immediately after the shooting because he was worried about the danger presented by some one else’s blood, not about preserving evidence.

‘‘His concern was not of evidence, but as a biohazard or what possible blood hazards it might attract,’’ said the agent, who like other witnesses was not identified by name.

At the crime scene, the medical examiner did not see stippling, the residue of gunpowder on clothing that can indicate shots fired at close range. Eventually an autopsy found evidence of stippling.

In the extended interviews, prosecutors do not come across as particularly aggressive or curious. But they do question police procedures on a couple of occasions, including the failure by Ferguson and St. Louis County investigators to tape their interviews with the officer after the shooting.

Why not tape these answers? a detective with St. Louis County was asked. ‘‘It is just common practice that we do not,’’ the detective said.

Prosecutors also asked why Wilson was permitted to handle evidence in the case himself. ‘‘He had informed me that after he responded to the police station, he had packaged his weapon and then he directed my attention to an evidence envelope,’’ said the St. Louis County detective. Is it customary for the person who was involved in such an incident ‘‘to handle and package their own gun as evidence?’’ the detective was asked.

Not according to the rules of the St. Louis County Police Department, the detective said. But Ferguson may have had its own rules, the detective said. He was not aware of ‘‘any policies or procedures they have in place’’ on the topic.

‘‘Darren Wilson had told me that he had packaged the weapon and it was currently in that evidence bag,’’ the detective told the grand jury. ‘‘Now, at that point in time I never checked to verify that, it was done later,’’ the detective said.

The accounts occasionally revealed inconsistencies. For example, two investigators who interviewed Wilson immediately after the incident said Wilson told them only one shot was fired by Wilson from inside the Chevy Tahoe police cruiser.

But in his testimony, Wilson said two shots were fired inside the car, among several misfires.

The shots and misfires preceded the fatal shooting of Brown on the street a few moments later. The shots were fired from the car after Wilson said Brown had reached in to the vehicle, swinging at the officer and grabbing for his pistol.

Wilson described Brown as having the intimidating size of ‘‘Hulk Hogan.’’ At one point, he said, Brown pushed his pistol down toward the floor, eventually forcing the firearm into the officer’s thigh. Wilson said Brown appeared to be trying to squeeze the trigger. Eventually, Wilson described getting free of Brown’s grip and raising his weapon toward his attacker. The first attempts by Wilson to get off a round at his attacker failed, he said, as the gun only clicked without firing a bullet.

Wilson ultimately said he fired two shots inside the vehicle. After one shot fired he noticed shattered glass and saw blood on his hand, an indication, he said, that Brown had been hit.

However, a Ferguson police officer and a detective with the St. Louis County Police said that Wilson told them only one shot was fired inside the car. The two officers — one a 38-year veteran of the Ferguson police force and the other a county detective — were among the first to talk with Wilson after the fatal shooting. Wilson and the other officers said the weapon failed to fire multiple times inside the vehi

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Goldman Sachs and Wall Street want to know

FactCheck: do black Americans commit more crime?

November 27, 2014


FactCheck: do black Americans commit more crime?

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interview

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Donald Lacy’s historic interview: Gary Webb tells how the CIA flooded Black neighborhoods with crack cocaine
November 29, 2014

‘Superheroes,’ which Donald Lacy calls ‘the most important play written in the last 25 years,’ was inspired by Gary Webb; it runs through Dec. 21 at the Cutting Ball Theater, 277 Taylor St., San Francisco

by Donald E. Lacy Jr.

In “Superheroes,” Donald Lacy as Rev reassures Britney Frazier, who plays Magnolia, the Rick Ross character’s girlfriend. She’s the one who gives the story of the CIA-crack connection to the reporter.
I want to invite my community to come see the world premiere of a play I have the pleasure of acting in called “Superheroes.” The play is written and directed by one of our Bay Area artistic geniuses, Sean San Jose, and looks at the impact of the crack cocaine epidemic on Black and Brown communities.

The play is 10 years in the making and has been workshopped for the past four-five years. The cast is incredible, featuring Juan Amador, Myers Clark, Delina Patrice, Britney Frazier and Ricky Saenz. It is a powerful slice of life realism that will be presented at the Exit Theater, 277 Taylor St. in San Francisco, a few feet from Glide Memorial Church. This is a co-production between Campo Santo and Cutting Ball Theater.

The idea for the play was inspired by Sean being at a live broadcast of my Wake Up Everybody show from the Jahva House when I interviewed Gary Webb in front of a live studio audience. Wake Up Everybody is heard every Saturday morning, 7 a.m.-12 noon, on KPOO 89.5 FM and on the web at http://www.kpoo.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. The interview took place in June 2004.

For over a year we did my Wake Up Show at the Jahva House, thanks to D’Wayne Wiggins. I had read “Dark Alliance,” and I knew about the possibilities of the CIA and crack cocaine before the series came out. But “Dark Alliance” was the smoking gun that proved it. So here it is.

I am honored and thankful to the San Francisco Bay View for printing this 50-minute radio interview that I did with a true American hero, who sacrificed everything, including his life, to tell the truth. It is incumbent on us to hold the U.S. government accountable for the facts that Mr. Webb uncovered. I am honored to present to you The Great Gary Webb!


Transcript

Donald Lacy: Broadcasting live from the Jahva House. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, it’s a pleasure to welcome to our microphone journalist Mr. Gary Webb. How are you, sir?

Gary Webb: I’m fine. How are you?

Donald Lacy: Good, good. We meet at last. We have been trying to get you – and first of all let me congratulate you for the series “Dark Alliance” that appeared in the San Jose Mercury; it was very thought-provoking, very pivotal journalism. First of all, how did the story come to you and subsequently make it to the paper?

Gary Webb: The story came to me in sort of in a roundabout way, which is usually the way stories come to reporters. I had been working on a series of articles about the drug war and looking specifically at the asset forfeiture laws, where they go in and take people’s houses away and take their cars away from them if they’re a drug dealer. And I had done a series on that for the Mercury and had gotten the law abolished.

And after that series came out, I had a call from a woman who lived here in Oakland, ironically, who said that her boyfriend had a similar situation. He was in jail and he had been in jail for three years and had never been brought to trial. All of his assets – all of his houses, all of his businesses – had been confiscated and she thought that it might make a good follow-up story to what I was working on.

And I said well, it might, but I had already done this story a lot of times and I didn’t see anything new in what she had to say. You know, it’s sad but it’s a fact of life in the drug wars. You know, you don’t have to be guilty to lose your property.

And then she said, “Well, there’s something about this story that I’m sure that you haven’t written about before,” and I said, “What’s that?” And she said, “One of the witnesses in this case used to work with the CIA, and he used to sell crack cocaine in Los Angeles.”

And I said: “Wait a minute. He used to work in the CIA and he sold drugs?” And she said, “Yeah,” and I said, “Do you have documents?” because I didn’t believe her, and she said, “Yeah, I can prove it.”

So I said, “Let me take a look at it.” So I go over to Oakland and I met her and she had a lot of documents. And I don’t know what the federal government was thinking to release these things to her.

But there were grand jury transcripts and FBI reports about this drug ring that existed here in the Bay Area and LA for about 10 years during the ‘80s and ‘90s and the grand jury testimony was that during the startup of this drug ring, they had been selling drugs to support the Contras, which was the Nicaraguan army the CIA was supporting in Central America.

Donald Lacy: During the Reagan administration?

Gary Webb: Yes, during the Reagan-Bush administration. And the thing that struck me about it was that this grand jury transcript was the testimony of somebody who had been a drug dealer for a long time.

Donald Lacy: This is Freeway Ricky?

Gary Webb: No, this is a guy named Danilo Blandon, who was a Nicaraguan who had come to the United States after the revolution in Nicaragua and had started selling drugs in LA. And at the point in time when he was testifying before the grand jury, he was now working for the government. And I thought, well, if the government is putting this guy on the stand and he’s saying this, they must believe it or they wouldn’t have him up there testifying.

The all Black and Brown cast of “Superheroes,” running Nov. 21-Dec. 21 at the Cutting Ball Theater, 277 Taylor in Frisco, from left, are Britney Frazier, Myers Clark, Delina Brooks, Donald Lacy, Juan Amador and, in front, Ricky Saenz. This play is a must-see for the Black and Brown communities and everyone who cares about justice.
The all Black and Brown cast of “Superheroes,” running Nov. 21-Dec. 21 at the Cutting Ball Theater, 277 Taylor in Frisco, from left, are Britney Frazier, Myers Clark, Delina Brooks, Donald Lacy, Juan Amador and, in front, Ricky Saenz. This play is a must-see for the Black and Brown communities and everyone who cares about justice.
So I went back to my editors, and I said I think we have an interesting story here. We have a federal witness – we’ve got a guy here who’s working for the federal government saying he sold drugs to support the Contras. I think this is a good story. And they agreed.

It had been something that had been sort of rumored during the ‘80s, but nobody ever nailed it down. So they turned me loose on it, which wasn’t unusual. I had been an investigative reporter at that point for 17 years, I’d won a lot of awards and I had written for the Mercury for nine years and they said, “If you see a story, go after it.” So I started working on it. It took me like a year to finish it up, but that’s how it got started.

Donald Lacy: So once you found this story or this story found you, what was Freeway Rickey’s involvement? Was he a distributor for Blandon?

Gary Webb: I didn’t know about Freeway Rick until about halfway through the story. I was concentrating on these Nicaraguans who were bringing cocaine into the country, and it turned out that Freeway Rick was their customer. I had some familiarity with Rick because when I was doing the asset forfeiture series, I had ­­­­­researched his case.

And I knew from reading the LA Times story that this guy was the biggest crack dealer in LA during the early ‘80s. And suddenly it occurred to me, well, if this was the biggest crack dealer during the ‘80s and he was buying his cocaine from the Nicaraguan Contras, there’s a bigger story here than I thought.

At that point I went back to my editors, and I said, “Look, I think this a pretty big story now, and I think we need to go to Nicaragua, I think we need to go to Central America and I think we need to go around the country to sort of tie up these loose ends and document this thing,” because from what I knew about Rick and from what I knew about the quantity of cocaine these Nicaraguans were bringing it into the country, this was a huge, huge drug ring that had a major impact on LA and had never been written about before.

Donald Lacy: So then when you went back to your editors and said we’ve got a bigger story here. We need to go around to these various places and tie up these loose ends and see how this whole puzzle fits together. Then what happened?

Gary Webb: Well, I ended up down in Nicaragua interviewing a drug kingpin named Norwin Meneses, who was the head of a drug operation. He had been living here in San Francisco for a long time and running a drug ring out of a couple of houses in the Mission district and in Pacifica. And he was in jail in Nicaragua at the time, and we set up an interview with him and we went to talk to him.

He basically admitted that, yeah, he had been working with the Contras, that this was part of an effort to fund the Contras because Congress had cut off money for supporting them. These men thought what they were doing was very patriotic, and frankly a lot of Americans thought the Contras were – well, Reagan described them as the moral equivalent of the founding fathers.

The idea that they were selling drugs was to them – you know, the end justifies the means – that old saying. And they were using cocaine to sell here in the United States and using the money to buy weapons for the Contras – trucks, uniforms and that sort of thing.


So once we sort of completed the circle – we had Blandon as the guy who was down in LA selling to Rick, and we had Meneses as the guy who was selling the drugs to Blandon and bringing them into the country. And then we started wondering how can a drug ring of this size operate for this long in the midst of the war on drugs without anybody ever busting them?

So that’s what we decided to do next is to try to find out how. What happened, we found out, is that they were being protected the whole time they were selling drugs – from the time these planes left Colombia until the time they arrived in San Francisco, it was a protected operation. The FBI knew about it, and they weren’t allowed to investigate it. The DEA knew about it. The specific agents found out about it. They weren’t allowed to investigate it, or their investigations were compromised.

The LA County Sheriff’s Department found out about it, and they actually tried to do something about it. And their investigation was blown, and the officers believed it was blown by the CIA, because at that point in time, if anybody had found out that the Contras were dealing coke, it would have been the end for the public support in the United States.

The thing to me that made this so outrageous was that once this cocaine came into the country, it didn’t just disappear, you know, and that’s sort of where the trail ended with these previous investigations. And we tracked it back down to the street and found out that Freeway Rick’s customers, the Crips and the Bloods, who were turning it into crack and selling it all through South Central and eventually through the United States.

So when we put all this stuff together, we did a story that said this was the first major drug pipeline into South Central, this was the drug ring that fed the crack epidemic and caused it to explode in South Central and that was the extent, in essence, of the three-day series we did for the Mercury.

Donald Lacy: And then from that South Central base, it spread up here and like an octopus antenna it spread all over the country.

Gary Webb: Ironically, it started here simultaneously – I mean here being Oakland and the Bay Area – simultaneously with it starting down in South Central, because half the Contra drug operation was based here in the Bay Area. When I went back and I dug out old police raid files, I found out they had safe houses here in Oakland for the people they were selling it to, and they were starting making inroads into the Black community up here at the same time they were making inroads down in South Central.

Donald Lacy: If you’re tuning in late, our guest once again Mr. Gary Webb, the author of the searing series of articles that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News, “Dark Alliance,” and we’re here of course discussing this crack cocaine epidemic.

Now, I want to get back to the complicity of the government and the CIA in particular. But it had to go further than the CIA – in other words, the CIA wasn’t just operating as some lone independent wing without the Reagan administration. And then what was Oliver North’s connection to this whole crack cocaine distribution and the Iran-Contra scandal?

Gary Webb: Well, first of all, the idea that the CIA is this rogue elephant agency that operates on its own is nonsense. They report directly to the president. And during these years, William Casey was the head of the CIA. He was Reagan’s former campaign manager; he was a friend of his. So Casey was basically the one who was in charge of this. Whether Reagan knew about it personally or not I’ve never been able to tell. But William Casey certainly knew about it.

And one of the things that came out after my series came out, thanks largely to Maxine Waters, was this document called the Memorandum of Understanding, which had been signed between the CIA a
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More Questions Than Answers in Case of Woman Shot Dead by Secret Service

December 1 2014

It's been a year since Miriam Carey was shot dead by Secret Service agents outside the Capitol, and as the Washington Post points out in a new investigation into the incident, many aspects of her death still make no sense.


What We Know About Miriam Carey, the Woman Killed at the U.S. Capitol
Yesterday afternoon, Miriam Carey was shot to death by police at the U.S. Capitol after leading a…
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Carey, a 34-year-old dental hygienist from Connecticut, was shot to death by Secret Service and Capitol police on Oct. 3, 2013 after she made a U-turn at a White House checkpoint.


Suspect Killed at U.S. Capitol After Car Chase From White House
Up to a dozen shots were fired outside of the U.S. Capitol this afternoon, sending the Capitol,…
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According to police and witness accounts, Carey was in a two-door Infiniti with her one-year-old daughter when she drove into a restricted area near the White House. A plainclothes officer tried to erect a portable barrier to prevent her from exiting back out onto the public roadway, and she forced her way past him, launching the police chase.

At the time, reports indicated she had

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Let’s Not Forget Duane Andrews and SAIC
Posted on June 4, 2014 by Kevin Ryan

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Both before and after 9/11, one private company had a greater impact on counterterrorism programs in the United States than any other. That company, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), also profited more from the events of 9/11 than any other. Its chief operating officer (COO), Duane Andrews, was a man who had expertise-level knowledge of the vulnerabilities that were exploited on 9/11. He also just happened to be a long-time, close colleague of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.

SAIC feeds on terrorism, having won many of its record number of government contracts through the national security state that has arisen via the War on Terror. Through its numerous contracts and employee security clearances, it has become a private business that cannot be distinguished from a permanent form of government. In short, SAIC is “the fraternal twin of the intelligence establishment.”[1]

With regard to 9/11, SAIC’s impact cannot be overstated as the company:

Created the national databases that tracked and identified terrorists
Supplied U.S. airports with terrorism screening equipment
Predicted and investigated terrorist attacks against U.S. infrastructure including national defense networks and the World Trade Center (WTC)
Helped create the official account for what happened at the WTC both in 1993 and after 9/11
Was a leader in research on thermitic materials like those found in the WTC dust[2]
Employed the leader of the robotics team that scoured the pile at Ground Zero, using equipment capable of eliminating explosives
Provided the information to capture the alleged mastermind of the attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM)
Furthermore, Dick Cheney’s long-time protégé, Duane P. Andrews, ran SAIC’s government business for thirteen years, from 1993 to 2006, and was therefore a principal character in these activities. During this time, Andrews was also a leading corporate representative on government commissions and taskforces that evaluated threats to U.S. defense and information systems.

duane-andrewsAndrews’ history with Cheney goes back decades. In the Vietnam War, he was a special operations soldier in the U.S. Air Force. He then got a position as a staff member for the U.S. House Intelligence Committee. During his time in that position, Cheney was a prominent member of the House Intelligence Committee along with Lee Hamilton, the future 9/11 Commission vice-chairman.

Later, George H.W. Bush nominated Andrews for the post of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (ASD/C3I). This led to Andrews being personally responsible for giving Secretary of Defense Cheney his daily intelligence briefs.

Cheney and Andrews used false information to start the Gulf War. This included satellite photos allegedly showing a build-up of Iraqi troops on the Saudi Arabian border, which were later shown by St. Petersburg Times reporter Jean Heller to represent a false claim.[3] The false information also included the testimony of the 15-year old Kuwaiti royal, Nayirah.

Andrews left the Pentagon in 1993 to become President and COO of SAIC’s federal business, which accounted for a majority of the company’s revenues. Andrews personally managed SAIC’s programs for the National Security Agency (NSA), and other agencies within the U.S. intelligence community, in the years leading up to 9/11 and afterward.

As the man hired to defend the U.S. against attacks on its defense information systems, Andrews became a critical part of the national security apparatus. All the while, he continued to consider Dick Cheney his personal, lifelong hero.[4]

SAIC and the road to 9/11

SAIC worked for many years in close partnership with oil-rich royals in the Middle East, particularly those that have become suspect with regard to 9/11. The first international contract that the company won was for training the Kuwaiti Defense Forces, starting in 1976. Three years later, SAIC secured its biggest and longest lasting international contract, training the Saudi Arabian navy.

In 1986, SAIC was hired by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) “to conduct a general security review of the WTC” with respect to terrorism. SAIC’s report rated the public areas of the WTC as very attractive targets for terrorism, emphasizing especially the basement levels.[5] Perhaps coincidentally, the Kuwaiti-owned security company Stratesec was hired by the PANYNJ in 1991 to provide a similar review and report.

After Andrews joined the company, SAIC was hired to investigate the 1993 bombing of the WTC, an event that was remarkably like the one that it had foreseen in 1986.[6] Moreover, SAIC ultimately provided input that led to producing the official account of what happened. The company boasted that — “After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, our blast analyses produced tangible results that helped identify those responsible.”[7]

In the early 1990s, SAIC was also a leader in developing technology for aviation security. At the time, SAIC had been contracted by a congressional advisory panel, led by L. Paul Bremer and Brian Michael Jenkins among others, to evaluate terrorist threats with regard to airport security.[8] By 1994, the company’s explosives detection equipment was installed in major airports around the country, including in New York City, Miami, and Washington, DC.[9]

Under Andrews, SAIC was heavily focused on analyzing risks to U.S. defense information systems and led the partnership between the U.S. government and industry in that area. As the chairman of a Defense Science Board taskforce on information warfare, Andrews learned about the specific vulnerabilities of U.S. national defense systems. In early 1997, he reported to Congress that U.S. defense systems were a “target-rich environment” and that attacks on certain facilities and information systems “would seriously affect the ability of the Department of Defense to carry out its assigned missions and functions.”[10] Andrews went on to build and secure the Defense Information System Network (DISN). The secret component of the DISN, which was called SIPRnet, linked command and control systems throughout the United States.

As of March 2001, SAIC was also part of the National Coordinating Center for telecommunications (NCC). NCC provided oversight to the agency that, on the morning of 9/11 but before the attacks began, implemented a secret communications system (SRAS) for the first time. The system had been developed in conjunction with the Continuity of Government (COG) plans that Dick Cheney had worked on for nearly twenty years along with Richard Clarke, who implemented COG for the first time as the events of 9/11 proceeded.[11]

The fact that Andrews was the most knowledgeable person in terms of the vulnerabilities of information and communications networks for U.S. national security seems a worthy point for further consideration. That’s because so many inexplicable problems occurred with defense communications networks on 9/11, including the following.

There were serious problems with the National Military Command Center’s conference calls that morning. Important participants could not be connected or were repeatedly dropped from the calls, including the FAA.[12]
U.S. national security facilities were in an information void on 9/11. Agencies that should have known the most about an ongoing terrorist event were blind to the ongoing attacks.[13]
The SIPRnet did not have any information about the attacks even as late as the afternoon of 9/11.[14]
President Bush complained of poor communications in that he “could not reach key officials, including Rumsfeld” and “The line to the White House shelter conference room – and the Vice-President- kept cutting off.”[15]
In the mid-1990s, SAIC created the U.S. systems for tracking terrorist suspects. For the FBI, SAIC developed CODIS, the national DNA database, and NCIC, the national criminal background check system.[16] To clarify, when in August 2001 Robert Fuller of the FBI went to search for Khalid Al-Mihdhar and Nawaf Al-Hazmi’s alleged presence in the United States via the NCIC system, he was checking a database built by SAIC. Although Fuller found nothing, the 9/11 Commission Report said that such checks should have unearthed driver’s licenses, car registrations, and telephone listings for Al-Mihdhar and Al Hazmi, all of which were in their names.[17] This fact alone should be enough to call for the investigation of SAIC with regard to 9/11.

SAIC purchased Boeing Information Services (BIS) in 1999. BIS specialized in information systems integration, logistics, networking, and outsourcing, and dealt with management of data communications to Boeing aircraft. Its work in progress included “a five-year Defense Information Systems Network contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency”, and “the Army’s Reserve Component Automation System, a 12-year contract worth $1.6 billion that the company won in 1991.”[18]

Andrews was a member of Donald Rumsfeld’s commission on national security uses of space. This commission argued that the US should avoid international agreements that limit the deployment of weapons in space, and that, in order to avoid a “Space Pearl Harbor,” the US needed to “develop the capability for power projection in, from, and through space.”[19] As a result, SAIC’s missile defense contracts tripled between 2001 and 2004, going from $47 million to $169 million in value.

SAIC and the WTC After 9/11

It turns out that SAIC was one of the first organizations to show up at Ground Zero. The company claimed in its 2004 shareholder report that — “Following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, we responded rapidly to assist a number of customers near ground zero in New York City and in Washington, D.C.”[20] In one of these instances, “SAIC technicians raced to Ground Zero within hours to install an ad hoc communications network for first responders and local financial companies.”[21] Therefore, SAIC was in control of at least some of the communications at Ground Zero.

Perhaps the most interesting SAIC connection to the cleanup was John Blitch, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army’s Special Forces, who was said to have retired from the Army just the day before 9/11. It was reported that Blitch was “filling out the paperwork in an out-processing office of the Pentagon on the morning of September 10, 2001,” and that after “three years at the helm of the Defense Department’s Tactical Mobile Robots Program,” he was “leaving to direct the Center for Intelligent Robotics and Unmanned Systems at the Science Applications International Corporation.”[22]

Instead of traveling to his SAIC office in Colorado on 9/11, as he had planned, “Blitch scrapped the trip…and headed for New York. On the road, Blitch donned his fatigues, dug out his military ID, and worked his cell phone, summoning colleagues from Florida to Boston to pack up their finest tactical robots and rendezvous at Ground Zero.” And “Over the next 11 days, the group’s 17 robots squeezed into spaces too narrow for humans, dug through heaps of scalding rubble, and found seven bodies trapped beneath the mountains of twisted steel and shattered concrete.”[23]

Blitch was experienced at such search missions, and had done “ground-breaking research in robot assisted search and rescue conducted during the Oklahoma City Bombing response”.[24] By May 2001, laser technology was being used by Blitch’s robot program. It was reported that — “Robots are performing quite successfully in the field of explosive ordnance disposal (EOD)”… and “EOD units [include] a laser weapon for ordnance neutralization…[used to] burn unexploded ordnance.”[25]

Therefore, SAIC had the means and opportunity to neutralize any unwanted explosives that might have been buried in the pile at Ground Zero. That’s interesting in that SAIC supplied the largest contingent of non-governmental investigators to the NIST WTC investigation after 9/11. That investigation went to great lengths in order to avoid consideration of explosives.

Manufacturing and Profiting From War

SAIC went on to play an integral role in the “War on Terror”, and was even responsible for capturing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. It was SAIC staff and technology that “tease[ed] out crucial clues about Mohammed’s activities from intercepted text messages that he sent to his al Qaeda operatives using as many as 20 different cell phones.”[26]

After 9/11, SAIC was hired to fix the problems it had created with terrorist tracking systems. Duane Andrews was personally in charge of the project called Trailblazer, which was originally launched in 1999 but ostensibly was not tested for operational use by the U.S. government until six years later. The system was meant to translate all NSA intercepts, including telephone, email and other electronic information, into actionable intelligence.

An oft-cited example of the failures that Trailblazer was meant to avoid was the reported incident in which messages stating “tomorrow is zero hour” and “the match begins tomorrow” were intercepted by the NSA on September 10, 2001 but not translated until September 12th. The Trailblazer system was not the answer to those problems, however, and was ultimately a total failure. After 6 years and $1.2 billion spent, the NSA cancelled the project in 2005.

Another huge failure led by SAIC was with the FBI system called Virtual Case File (VCF), which was intended to solve the supposed information sharing problem that prevented the FBI from tracking terrorists like Al-Mihdhar and Al-Hazmi, who lived for years with an FBI informant. VCF was meant to provide a centralized database of terrorism related information that all FBI agents could utilize. However, after three years and hundreds of millions in costs, VCF was written off as “the most highly publicized software failure in history.”[27]

SAIC’s 9/11 profiteering didn’t stop there. While helping NIST to determine the causes of the WTC destruction, “SAIC personnel were instrumental in pressing the case that weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, and that war was the only way to get rid of them.”[28] The company helped supply the faulty intelligence that said Saddam had WMDs and then profited from the invasion by generating Iraq contracts worth billions of dollars. In 2003 alone, SAIC pulled in $5.4 billion in government revenue.

With the help of SAIC, John Poindexter of Iran-Contra fame was able to convince the U.S. government to hire him to ensure “Total Information Awareness” as a result of the 9/11 attacks. Through related programs, SAIC won major contracts for management of huge IT systems that involved spying on Americans and running the Joint Intelligence Operations Centers (JIOCs).[29]

Considering the incredible growth in contracts that SAIC realized from the events of 9/11, any independent investigation into those events should carefully consider the role played by that company and its leadership. Andrews and his company were integral to the counterterrorism programs of the United States in the years prior to 9/11. The company’s role included creating the national databases that tracked and identified terrorists, supplying airport screening equipment, predicting and investigating terrorist attacks against the WTC, helping to create the official account for what happened at the WTC after 9/11, and providing the information to capture KSM. Undoubtedly, SAIC’s impact on the counterterrorism programs of the United States prior to 9/11 was unique and pervasive.

Duane Andrews should be a person of specific interest because he had expert knowledge of the vulnerabilities of the U.S. defense and information systems at a time when many of those systems failed catastrophically. If anyone knew how to exploit weaknesses in the telecommunications and electronic systems of the U.S. defense department, it was Duane Andrews. His history of being closely aligned with the activities of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, for the twenty years prior to 9/11, provides additional reason to suspect him.

Notes

[1] Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Washington’s $8 Billion Shadow, Vanity Fair, March 2007, http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/feat ... ency200703" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[2] Kevin R. Ryan, The Top Ten Connections Between NIST and Nanothermites, Journal of 9/11 Studies, July 2008

[3] Morris Berman, Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire, W. W. Norton & Company, 2011

[4] Laura Rozen, The First Contract, The American Prospect, March 30, 2007, http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=12612" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[5] New York County Supreme Court, Matter of World Trade Ctr. Bombing Litig, 2004 NY Slip Op 24030 [3 Misc 3d 440], January 20, 2004

[6] New York State Law Reporting Bureau, In The Matter of World Trade Center Bombing Litigation, 2004 NY Slip Op 24030 [3 Misc 3d 440], January 20, 2004, http://www.courts.state.ny.us/reporter/ ... _24030.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[7] Science Applications International Corporation, Annual Report 2004 http://www.saic.com/news/pdf/Annual-Report2004.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[8] U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Technology Against Terrorism: The Federal Effort, OTA-ISC-481, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, July 1991.

[9] A. Maureen Rouhi, Government, Industry Efforts Yield Array Of Tools To Combat Terrorism, Chemical & Engineering News, July 24, 1995

[10] Statement by Duane P. Andrews, Chairman, Defense Science Board Task Force on Information Warfare & Defense, https://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1997_hr/h970320a.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[11] Matthew Everett, Backup Communications System Was ‘Miraculously’ Switched on for ‘Exercise Mode’ and Ready for Use on 9/11, Shoestring 9/11, January 10, 2011, http://shoestring911.blogspot.com/2011/ ... m-was.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[12] Matthew Everett, The Repeatedly Delayed Responses of the Pentagon Command Center on 9/11, Shoestring 9/11, November 7, 2010

[13] Matthew Everett, Why Were U.S. Intelligence Facilities in an ‘Information Void’ During the 9/11 Attacks?, Shoestring 9/11, August 19, 2012

[14] Ibid

[15] The 9/11 Commission Report, p 40. Note that these communication failures helped ensure that the President was out of the loop for a longer period of time.

[16] Science Applications International Corporation, Press Release, August 24, 1994

[17] National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, The 9/11 Commission Report, 2004, p 539

[18] Nick Wakeman, Boeing Information Services Sale Has Industry Abuzz, Washington Technology, Jan 21, 1999

[19] Report of the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization

[20] SAIC shareholder report, 2004, http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ ... R_2004.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[21] William Launder, Homeland Security Goes Public, Forbes.com, 08.03.06, http://www.forbes.com/2006/08/02/saic-h ... 3saic.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[22] Michael Behar, The New Mobile Infantry: Battle-ready robots are rolling out of the research lab and into harm’s way, Wired, Issue 10.05 | May 2002, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.05/robots.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[23] Ibid

[24] American Android Corp webpage, About Us, http://www.americanandroid.com/about.jb.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[25] Sandra I. Erwin, Battlefield Robots: Not Just ‘Entertainment’, National Defense, May 2001, http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/ ... s4252.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[26] Paul Kaihla, US: In The Company Of Spies, CorpWatch, May 1st, 2003, http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=7892" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[27] Harry Goldstein, Who Killed the Virtual Case File?: How the FBI blew more than $100 million on case-management software it will never use, IEEE Spectrum, September 2005

[28] Charlie Cray, “Science Applications International Corporation,” CorpWatch, http://www.corpwatch.org/section.php?id=17" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ; cf. Barlett and Steele, “Washington’s $8 Billion Shadow.”

[29] Tim Shorrock, QinetiQ Goes Kinetic: Top Rumsfeld Aide Wins Contracts from Spy Office He Set Up, CorpWatch, January 15, 2008

mikecorbeil says:
June 6, 2014 at 7:57 pm
Another very good article, and if it and others by you of the “Another Nineteen: …” sort or vein, “Demolition Access To The WTC Towers”, General Ralph Eberhardt, … were fiction, then it’d all surely make for the best thriller story ever.

This unfortunately isn’t fiction though. No Mr or Agent James Bond is going to rescue this world. And James Bond stories aren’t about The People, i.e., general populations, rescuing this world; and they’re the only ones who have any potential for doing it.

SAIC? Hell.

The heart sinks when thinking that voters need to wake up, for if they’re ever going to do it in sufficient numbers, then turtles nonetheless walk faster. Turtles can also run, but voters seem to be rather badly crippled, showing little progress. The progress needs to be tremendous, for it isn’t only about cleaning up or out the Executive Branch. It’s also about doing the same with Congress and the US military officer corps. The latter aren’t elected or appointed by The People, i.e., voters of the general electorate, but the officer corps definitely needs to be cleaned up/out.

Other government departments and agenices also need to be cleaned up or out, but if the Executive Branch, Congress and military officer corps were cleaned up/out, then it should then be easy enough to see to the other corrections that need to be made, … I think anyway.

Who, what forces, could oppose the US military, if it finally became truly honourable and, therefore, Constitutional and respectful as well as defender of the Bill of Rights, as well as the international laws, conventions and treaties that the US isn’t only co-signatory to, but is also co-founder of?

N) as a Departure Controller.

Ben Sliney, FAA National Operations Manager at the Air Traffic Control System Command Center (ATCSCC) based at Herndon, Vaginia.

Colin Scoggins, Military Liaison based at Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC).

Ben Sliney was on his first day in the job as the Federal Aviation Administration National Operations Manager on September 11, 2001, when he gave the historic command to shut down American airspace.  Colin Scoggins was the military liaison and an air traffic controller at FAA’s Boston Center.  Dan Creedon, departure controller for the Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) at Reagan National Airport, Washington, D.C., diverted aircraft away from American Flight 77, which later rammed into the Pentagon.

The moderator was Lynn Spencer, author of Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11 (Free Press, 2008).

The symposium, “Navigating Chaos: Aviation’s Response on 9/11,” was organized by The University of Texas at Dallas McDermott Library’s Special Collections department.

Unfortunately the copy from C-Span was filled with sound and video errors. Some still exist near the beginning but I tried my best (over days I might add) to iron out as many as I could and piece it all back together. The full version can be found at the C-Span link below:

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

Boston Police brass, union wary of cameras on cops

Wednesday, December 3, 2014


Police body cameras — the supposed silver bullet tool to end all doubt in law enforcement interactions — could

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FBI Supervisors Conditt and Spicocchi assisted by
FBI agent Seese,
spoke to an overflow crowd of job applicants
attending a FBI Job Fair in Albany NY.

Unfortunately their Di**less Tracy Watches
became activated while speaking and they
had to leave to investigate a VBIP
a voter buggering in progress
Very special agent Keller took over from them
and told the audience to remain calm there was
plenty of taxpayer money in their budget since
the FBI created 911 and plenty of FBI jobs to protect
American taxpayers from another FBI 911 until the
next FBI Budget Cycle. Dang that's a lot of FBI's in one
sentence, eh?

couple of reads


1.
http://m.cbs6albany.com/article?id=11144250" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Albany FBI hosts open house for job seekers
WRGB-1 Dec 4 2014
ALBANY -- For the first time, the Albany FBI office held an open house, and ... push for hiring folks with a cyber background," says special agent Michael Keller


2.

FBI agent Ryan Seese sentenced to prison in two Peeping Tom ...
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index. ... _pris.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Dec 28, 2010 - A Dauphin County judge this morning sentenced former FBI agent Ryan Seese, 37, of Derry Township, to 1 to 23-1/2 months in county prison ...
Ex-FBI agent doesn't have to register as sex offender for peeping ...
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index. ... to_re.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Jul 11, 2014 - Ryan Seese received a prison term for sneaking into women's bathrooms at the Hershey Middle School and a private gym.
AZ - Ex-FBI agent (Ryan Seese) doesn't have to register as sex ...
sexoffenderissues.blogspot.com/.../az-ex-fbi-agent-ryan-seese-doesnt-have....
Jul 11, 2014 - AZ - Ex-FBI agent (Ryan Seese) doesn't have to register as sex offender for peeping Tom incidents in Hershey, elsew


3.
FBI Agent Sentenced For Abduction - Newsplex
http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlines/16647881.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Mar 13, 2008 - The prison time is part of a 10-year suspended sentence handed down Tuesday in Arlington County Circuit Court. 55-year-old Carl Spicocchi ...
[US] FBI Agent Spicocchi - where did his piddly dv assault charge go?
behindthebluewall.blogspot.com/.../us-fbi-agent-spinocci-where-did-his.ht...
Oct 19, 2007 - Carl Lee Spicocchi, 55, is charged with ABDUCTION and USE OF A FIREARM IN ... Mr. Spicocchi will appear in court Nov. .... Sentenced to l.

4.
USATODAY.com - Ex-FBI internal affairs chief pleads guilty
usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/.../2004-02-17-ex-fbi-ia-chief_x.htm
Feb 17, 2004 - The former chief internal watchdog at the FBI has pleaded guilty to sexually ... John H. Conditt Jr., 53, who retired in 2001, was sentenced last ...
[PDF]Former FBI agent sentenced in sexual assault 09 ... - FBI Whistlestop
http://www.fbiwhistlestop.com/FBI/Conditt.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Feb 13, 2004 - Retired FBI agent John Conditt Jr. admitted he sexually assaulted his ... Conditt pleaded guilty after he was indicted last year so the judge ...
"The Mother Of All Black Ops": How FBI Agents Cover Up For Each ...
9-11themotherofallblackoperations.blogspot.com/.../how-fbi-agents-cover-...
Feb 14, 2010 - In 2004, when former FBI Agent, John Conditt, was convicted of molesting the young daughter of two other agents, he was sentenced to 12 ...
FBI ex-boss admits assaulting 6-year-old girl - Free Republic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1080786/posts" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Feb 18, 2004 - John H. Conditt Jr., 53, was sentenced last week to 12 years in prison in ... FBI officials said Tuesday they had no information to suggest that ...

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This is what happens when you have a copwatch group
in your community
http://www.portlandcopwatch.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Dan Handelman is co founder of Portland Copwatch.
Portland Copwatch is part of the National Coalition
on Police Accountability created by Mary Powers in Chicago.


couple of stories

1.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/inde ... nsi_3.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Portland City Council to consider withdrawing from Joint Terrorism Task Force

Protesters stormed into Portland City Hall in 2011 to deliver petitions to policymakers’ offices opposing involvement in the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. When the group couldn’t get beyond a lobby security point, protesters began shouting “City Council Come on Down!” Only then-Commissioner Randy Leonard appeared, helping a representative deliver the petitions and talking the group into moving back outside, where the demonstration began.
on December 02, 2014 at 11:14 AM, updated December 02, 2014 at 11:15 AM
The Portland City Council, led by Mayor Charlie Hales, is considering withdrawing city police officers from the federal Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Hales on Monday scheduled a Dec. 18 meeting where the City Council will consider "withdrawal from JTTF involvement." The 2 p.m. meeting is scheduled to run 90 minutes.

The move from Hales, a long-time skeptic of task force involvement, may have the political support in City Hall to dissolve the Police Bureau's hazy relationship with the group. Commissioners Amanda Fritz and Steve Novick have questioned involvement and have criticized the city's skimpy annual reports about the partnership.

Neither Dana Haynes nor Sara Hottman, spokespeople for Hales, immediately responded to a request for comment Tuesday morning.

For more than a decade, Portland's involvement with the FBI-led anti-terrorism task force has proven controversial. The city's on-again, off-again relationship with the group has sparked public debate and concern from local politicians.

The Joint Terrorism Task Force investigates domestic and international terrorism threats such as bombings. The Washington County Sheriff's Office, Oregon State Police and the Port of Portland have all assigned full-time officers, while eight other municipalities -- includi


also see.


Civilian Investigator of Burge Recalls the Excitement, but Now Feels
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/us/20 ... wanted=all" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Jun 19, 2010 - Jon Burge is currently on trial in Chicago, accused of lying about torturing ... “ They did great work,” Mary Powers of Citizens Alert, a decades-old ...
Police Board Fires Burge For Brutality - Page 2 - Chicago Tribune
articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-02-11/news/9303177820...burge/2
Feb 11, 1993 - "We are very pleased about Burge and commend the Police Board for such an unprecedented decision," said Mary Powers, who heads ...
3 Cops Charged With Brutality - Page 2 - Chicago Tribune
articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-11-13/news/9104110974_1.../2
Nov 13, 1991 - Attorneys for Burge, led by former Assistant State`s Atty. William ... ``It`s sad for Burge,`` said Mary Powers, coordinator of Citizens Alert, a police ...
Jon Burge - Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/jon-burge/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Mayor Emanuel Rides the Fence as Police Torturer Jon Burge Is Released From .... By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm ... Forcing the powers-that-be to tell is the truth is an effective way to further blot the ...
Emanuel's lack of outrage on Police Cmdr. Evans' case highlights gap
http://www.suntimes.com/.../emanuels-la ... -evans-cas.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
By MARY MITCHELL September 6, 2014 11:50AM ... Evans had to turn in his police powers and be stripped of them,” Emanuel said. ... to become a Chicago police commander in the wake of the infamous Jon Burge police brutality cases?
Chicago Torture Justice Memorials
chicagotorture.org/
“The fight for justice in the torture cases will not be over until all Burge torture ...... Critical Resistance, Chicago; Mary D. Powers, Coordinator of Citizens Alert ...
Burge and the Accountables - Gang Research
http://www.gangresearch.net/Torture/supers2.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
In 1983 Martin was appointed Commander of Area 2 and serves as Burge's direct ... On September 14, 1989, Mary Powers, and other community activists ...
[PDF]Justice Advocates: Citizens Alert and Police Accountability Timeline
http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/...us/.../Ci ... _FINAL.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
points Mary Powers, a CA board member, to the advisory ... CA's Mary Powers addresses the annual meeting ... Commander of Detectives Jon Burge and his of- .

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Key interview missing from Ferguson documents
TheNewsTribune.com-
It doesn't appear that the documents include a transcript or a recording of a two-hour FBI and county police interview with Brown's friend, Dorian Johnson, who ...

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a smart criminal justice consumer would know
about the history of Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O'Toole
and women's eye sockets, eh?

2. reads


1.


http://www.krem.com/story/news/local/no ... /20140999/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Woman punched by Seattle police officer wants him fired
Linda Byron 9:21 a.m. PST December 9, 2014

SEATTLE -- Twenty-three-year-old Miyekko (Koko) Durden-Bosley says she still can't believe the police officer who punched her while she was handcuffed in a patrol car will not be charged in state court.

"I definitely do think he should have been charged with a crime," Durden Bosley said. "It just hurts. It devastates."

Durden-Bosley says she's still suffering from the punch last June that broke her eye socket and caused a concussion.

"I just have really bad headaches on my right hand side," she said.

The Washington State Patrol investigated


2.



Kathleen O'Toole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_O'Toole
Jump to Snelgrove Controversy - [edit]. While serving as Commissioner of the Boston Police, O'Toole was a central figure in the controversy surrounding ...
‎Upbringing - ‎Career - ‎Snelgrove Controversy - ‎Ireland
CNN.com - Boston police accept 'full responsibility' in death of Red ...
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/22/fan.death/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Oct 22, 2004 - Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen O'Toole speaks of ... Preliminary findings indicate that Victoria Snelgrove, a journalism student at ...
Top-cop finalist from Boston: 'There needs to be a sense of urgency ...
seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2023600336_chiefotoolexml.html
May 13, 2014 - Today's profile: Kathleen O'Toole, former Boston police .... Hours later, O'Toole went to see Snelgrove's parents, embracing her mother.
[PDF]THE DEATH OF VICTORIA SNELGROVE Appointed ... - City of Boston
http://www.cityofboston.gov/Images_Docu ... 3-8954.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
May 25, 2005 - Appointed by Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen M. O'Toole ..... Victoria Snelgrove died after being struck by a less-lethal projectile fired by ...
Boston takes blame for death - ESPN.com - Go.com
sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2004/news/story?id=1906735
Oct 22, 2004 - Victoria Snelgrove, a 21-year-old journalism major at Emerson College, was ... Police Commissioner Kathleen O'Toole said officers were using ...
Who's the punk Commissioner O'Toole?
http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archiv ... eath2.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Boston police admitted to shooting Victoria Snelgrove on October 20th during ... so we're not surprised that Police Commissioner Kathleen O'Toole confessed to ...
Real Change News | Ms. Fix-it
realchangenews.org/index.php/site/archives/9004
May 28, 2014 - Kathleen O'Toole's reputation for police reform prompted Murray to pick ... The Boston Police Department paid Snelgrove's family $5 million in a ...

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Being the smart criminal justice consumer you already
know FBI Voter Fraud Whistleblower Leonard Gates
who was committing voter fraud for the FBI


two stories about voter fraud and media spin.
Did I mention political malpractice?


1.

http://m.lakenewsonline.com/article/201 ... /141219836" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Missouri Elections Integrity Task Force meets for the first time
Posted Dec. 10, 2014 @ 1:28 pm

A new Elections Integrity Task Force convened Tuesday in Jefferson City. Organized by Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander, the task force aims to bring together local, state and federal law enforcement and election authorities to open new lines of communication and establish best practices for responding to alleged violations in the elections process.
"[The] meeting was the first time these agencies met at the same table to coordinate efforts that will protect the integrity of Missouri’s elections," Kander said. "Together we’ve proactively defined clear roles for addressing elections-related issues, which will ensure a rapid and collaborative response to any future alleged violations."
The task force discussed the 2014 primary and general elections, and will meet each election year going forward to ensure Missouri elections remain fair, secure and accessible.
The Lake of the Ozarks area has a representative on this committee - Chief Laura Wright of the Camdenton Police Department.
Other members of the task force include:
• Secretary of State Jason Kander
• Daniel M. Nelson, Assistant United States Attorney, Western District of Missouri
• John Bodenhausen, Assistant United States Attorney, Eastern District of Missouri
• Special Agent in Charge William Woods, FBI St. Louis Office
• Special Agent in Charge Michael Kaste, FBI Kansas City Office
• Chief Darryl Forté, Kansas City Police Department
• Platte County Prosecuting Attorney Eric Zahnd
• Boone County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Knight
• Carroll County Clerk Peggy McGaugh
• Cape Girardeau County Clerk Kara Clark Summers
• Shelby County Clerk Tracy Smith

2.


Privacy Died Long Ago
In Uncategorized on 06/03/2013 at 9:12 pm
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart of Cincinnati swears in George H. W. Bush as director of the CIA as President Gerald Ford watches. REUTERS/George Bush Presidential Library and Museum.

The great forgotten Cincinnati wiretap scandal

By Gregory Flannery

Americans no longer assume their communications are free from government spying. Many believe widespread monitoring is a recent change, a response to terrorism. They are wrong. Fair warning came in 1988 in Cincinnati, Ohio, when evidence showed that wiretapping was already both common and easy.

Twenty-five years ago state and federal courtrooms in Cincinnati were abuzz with allegations of illegal wiretaps on federal judges, members of Cincinnati City Council, local congressional representatives, political dissidents and business leaders.

Two federal judges in Cincinnati told 60 Minutes they believed there was strong evidence that they had been wiretapped. Retired Cincinnati Police officers, including a former chief, admitted to illegal wiretapping.

Even some of the most outrageous claims – for example, that the president of the United States was wiretapped while staying in a Cincinnati hotel – were supported by independent witnesses.

National media coverage of the lawsuits, grand jury hearings and investigations by city council and the FBI attracted the attention of U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and the late U.S. Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.).

As Americans wonder about the extent to which their e-mails, cell-phones and text messages are being monitored, they would do well to look back at a time before any of those existed. Judging by what was revealed in Cincinnati, privacy died long before anyone had ever heard of Osama bin Laden or al Q’aeda.

Turbulence

In 1988 Leonard Gates, a former installer for Cincinnati Bell, told the Mount Washington Press, a small independent weekly, that he had performed illegal wiretaps for the Cincinnati Police Department, the FBI and the phone company itself.

A week after the paper published his allegations, a federal grand jury began hearing testimony.

Gates claimed to have performed an estimated 1,200 wiretaps, which he believed illegal. His list of targets included former Mayor Jerry Springer, the late tycoon Carl Lindner Jr., U.S. District Judge Carl Rubin, U.S. Magistrate J. Vincent Aug, the late U.S. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio), the Students for a Democratic Society (an anti-war group during the Vietnam War), then-U.S. Rep. Tom Luken (D-Cincinnati) and then-President Gerald Ford.

A second former Cincinnati Bell installer, Robert Draise, joined Gates, saying he, too had performed illegal wiretaps for the police. His alleged targets included the Black Muslim mosque in Finneytown and the General Electric plant in Evendale. Draise’s portfolio was much smaller than Gates’s, an estimated 100 taps, because he was caught freelancing – performing an illegal wiretap for a friend.

Charged by the FBI, Draise claimed he had gone to his “controller” at Cincinnati Bell, the person who directed his wiretaps, and asked for help. If he didn’t get it, he said, he’d tell all. When the case went to federal court, Draise didn’t bother to hire an attorney. He didn’t need one. In a plea deal, federal prosecutors dropped the charge to a misdemeanor. Found guilty of illegal wiretapping, his sentence was a $200 fine. The judge? Magistrate J. Vincent Aug.

If Gates and Draise had been the only people to come forward, they could easily be dismissed as cranks – disgruntled former employees, as Cincinnati Bell claimed. But some police office officers named by Gates and Draise confirmed parts of their allegations, insisting, however, that there were only 12 illegal wiretaps. Other officers not known to Gates and Draise also admitted to illegal wiretaps. Some of the officers received immunity from prosecution in exchange for their testimony. Others invoked their Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate themselves.

“Due to the turbulent nature of the late ’60s and early ’70s, wiretaps were conducted to gather information,” said a press release signed by six retired officers. “This use began in approximately 1968 and ended completely during the Watergate investigation.”

The press release, whose signers included former Police Chief Myron Leistler, listed 12 wiretaps, among them “a black militant in the Bond Hill area” and a house on either Ravine or Strait streets rented by “the SDS or some other radical group.”

The retired cops’ lawyer said there were actually three Cincinnati Bell installers doing illegal wiretaps, but declined to identify the third.

The retired officers denied knowledge of “any wiretaps involving judges, local politicians, prominent citizens and fellow law enforcement officers or city employees.”

Getting rid of Aug

Others had that knowledge, however.

Howard Lucas, former security chief at the Stouffer Hotel downtown, said he caught Gates and three cops trying to break into a telephone switching room shortly before President Gerald Ford stayed at the hotel.

“I said, ‘Do you have a court order?’ and they all laughed,” Lucas told the Mount Washington Press.

The four men left. But they returned.

“A couple days later, in the back of the room, I found a setup, a reel-to-reel recorder concealed under some boxes,” Lucas said.

Ford stayed at the Stouffer Hotel in July 1975 and June 1976 – two years after the Watergate scandal, when Cincinnati Police officers claimed the bugging ended.

Then there was the matter of a former guard at the U.S. Courthouse downtown. He said he had found wiretap equipment there in 1986 and 1987, just a year before the wiretap scandal broke.

“I heard conversations you wouldn’t believe,” he said. “I heard a conversation one time. they were talking about getting rid of U.S. Magistrate Aug.”

The wiretapping started with drug dealers and expanded to political and business figures, according to Gates. In 1979, he testified, he was ordered to wiretap the Hamilton County Regional Computer Center, which handled vote tabulations. His handler at the phone company allegedly told Gates the wiretap was intended to manipulate election results.

“They had the ability to actually alter what was being done with the votes. … He was very upset through some of the elections with a gentleman named Blackwell,” Gates testified.

J. Kenneth Blackwell is a former member of Cincinnati Council, and 1979 was an election year for council.

Something went wrong on Election Night, Gates testified. His handler at the phone company called him.

“He was panicking,” Gates testified. “He said we had done something to screw up the voting processor down there, or the voting computer.”

News reports at the time noted an unexpected delay in counting votes for city council because of a computer malfunction.

Cincinnati Bell denied any involvement in illegal wiretapping by police or its own personnel. Yet police officers, like Gates, testified the police received equipment – even a truck – and information necessary to effectuate the wiretaps. The owners of a greenhouse in Westwood even came forward, saying the police stored the Cincinnati Bell truck on their property.

‘Say it louder’

Gates claimed that his handler at Cincinnati Bell repeatedly told him the wiretaps were at the behest of the FBI. He named an FBI agent who, he said, let him into the federal courthouse to wiretap federal judges.

Investigations followed – a federal grand jury, which indicted no one; a special investigator hired by city council, the former head of the Cincinnati FBI office; the U.S. Justice Department, sort of.

U.S. Sen. Paul Simon asked then-Attorney General Richard Thornburgh to look into the Cincinnati wiretap scandal. Federal judges, members of Congress and even the president of the United States had allegedly been wiretapped. Simon’s effort went nowhere. His press secretary told the Mount Washington Press that it took three months for the Attorney General to respond.

“The senator’s not pleased with the response,” Simon’s press secretary said. “It didn’t have the attorney general’s personal attention, and it said Justice (Department) was aware of the situation, but isn’t going to do anything.”

The city of Cincinnati settled a class-action lawsuit accusing it of illegal wiretapping, paying $85,000 to 17 defendants. It paid $12,000 to settle a second lawsuit by former staffers of The Independent Eye, an underground newspaper allegedly wiretapped and torched by Cincinnati Police officers in 1970.

Cincinnati Bell sued Leonard Gates and Robert Draise, accusing them of defamation. The two men had no attorneys and represented themselves at trial. Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Fred Cartolano refused to let the jury hear testimony by former police officers who had admitted using Gates and Draise and Cincinnati Bell equipment. In a 4-2 vote, the jury ruled in the phone company’s favor, officially adjudging the two whistleblowers liars.

During one of the many hearings associated with the wiretap scandal, an FBI agent was asked what the agency would do if someone accused the phone company of placing illegal wiretaps. He testified the FBI would be powerless; it needed the phone company to check for a wiretap.

“It would go back to Bell,” the agent testified. “We would have no way of determining if there was any illegal wiretapping going on.”

The FBI agent was the person Gates had accused of opening the federal courthouse at night so he could wiretap federal judges.

One police sergeant offered no excuses for the illegal wiretapping. Asked why he didn’t bother with the legal niceties, such as getting a warrant, as required then by federal law, he said, “I didn’t deem it was necessary. We wanted the information, and went out and got it.”

At one point, covering the scandal for the Mount Washington Press, I received a phone call from a sergeant in the Cincinnati Police Department. He invited me to the station at Mount Airy Forest, where he proceeded to wiretap a fellow police officer’s phone call. I listened as the other officer talked to his wife.

“Say hello,” the sergeant told me.

I did. There was no response.

“Say it louder,” the sergeant said.

I did. No response.

“You can hear them, but they can’t hear you,” the sergeant said. “Any idiot can do a wiretap. You know that’s true because you just saw a policeman do it.”

Privacy is dead. Its corpse has long been moldering in the grave.

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Leonard Gates, a 23-year Cincinnati Bell employee until he was fired in 1986, ... computer program through the FBI that gave it access to the county computer used ... The commercial also features former Bell employee Robert Draise, who was ...

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Torture and Police Killings Cut From the Same Cloth of Injustice



Posted: 12/11/2014 10:56 am

America's snooze alarm went off again yesterday. Slowly, fitfully, people are starting to wake up from a long national slumber. Our psychic clock radio switched on this time to a Middle Eastern jazz riff, punctuated by the screams of the tortured. The powerful damnation of the Senate's lengthy and comprehensive report on torture by the CIA during its post-9/11 counter-terrorism program proves that there is truth... and then there is truth acknowledged. Yes, the new details are stunning, shocking, alarming -- I'd hoped, unsuccessfully, to make it through my entire life without pondering "rectal rehydration" -- but the broader message of the terror report is exactly what a dedicated minority of folks have been saying for years, to a nation basking in plausible denial.

To sum up:

"Enhanced interrogation" is a bogus term meaning "torture when it's done by Americans." The CIA -- and, more importantly, our highest-ranking government officials -- lied about how extensive it was. There was an extensive effort to manipulate the media and U.S. public opinion. Many innocent people were caught up in this violent web. The American torture tactics produced no useful intelligence. To the contrary, the widespread use of these practices inspired a new generation of anti-Americanism, among groups like ISIS that now dress its victim on the orange jumpsuits of the gulag we constructed. Meanwhile, U.S. officials and operatives violated a plethora of laws, both domestic and international, to make this happen.

Did I mention that torturing human beings is immoral?

Beyond the important new details, the real value of the Senate torture report was simply this: To put an uncomfortable seal of official truth on what we already knew -- an inconvenient truth that many folks, from Dick Cheney to the average citizen, had desperately wished to throw down America's volcano-sized memory hole. That's the good news, I guess. The bad news is that we're not having the appropriate nation conversation: What comes next? That's because we all know that this torture report, which should trigger a wave of prosecutions and other major recriminations, was in fact not the beginning, but the end. There will be no prosecutions. There will be no accountability, no justice.

It's the American way... the modern one, anyway.

It seemed like something of a coincidence that this huge story about the American torture regime broke at a time when suddenly, surprisingly, the largest mass protest movement in more than 40 years had taken to the streets of major American cities from Boston to Los Angeles, from Miami to Seattle. You could make the case that the torture report was something of an interruption; after all, it knocked the protests about police killings out of the lead-story position on cable news for the first time in more than a week. It see it differently. I think these two stories -- CIA agents torturing terror suspects, police gunning down unarmed black men in U.S. cities -- are cut from the same cloth.

When you ask why are so many people out in the street (at the start of winter, no less), I'd say we've reached a tipping point, in the original, pre-Malcolm Gladwell use of the term. The scale that's tipping, simply, is justice. It was already going over when the torture report hit like a ton of bricks.

Think of it this way. Start with a nation peering over the precipice of empire, afraid of losing everything. Real-life events (9/11, higher crime rates in poor urban communities) are exploited to create widespread anxiety and fear. Authorities declare an endless "war" not against nations but against vague concepts ("terror," "drugs"). The masses are whipped up -- aided and abetted by a ratings-starved news media, including talk radio -- against The Other (Arabs, U.S. blacks and Latinos). That public elects officials who cast a wide net that criminalizes not just the actual bad guys, but entire classes of people. Civil liberties are the first casualty (warrantless wiretapping, stop and frisk). Law enforcement, at the nexus of these fears, and under immense pressure, responds with brutality (torture, police violence). The end result is state-sanctioned violence against people on the margins, with little or no rights.

And what makes such an unjust moral universe possible? The complete absence of accountability, a rot that's been festering in the American body politic for decades now. It was in the mid-1970s that Richard Nixon shocked TV viewers by telling David Frost that "when the president does it, that means it is not illegal." The 37th president was wrong in the moral sense, but he was emboldened by the pardon he'd been given by his successor, Gerald Ford. Today, it's not just the president, or the vice president, or all the president's men. When a millionaire does it, that means it is not illegal (or at least punishable). Or when a Wall Street CEO does it. Or a cop, or an FBI agent. There is little that the elite, the wealthy, the powerful -- and their protectors -- can't get away with America in 2014. It's what sets elites apart, in an increasingly separate and unequal society. And these elites know it. Which is why it's happening more often.

But everyday people are catching on. There's a reason that the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner would cause protests so many cities, many 1,000 or more miles away. It's because we've all seen the abuses, no matter where we live. In hometown of Philadelphia, people are tired of reading about police officers committing gross misconduct -- punching a women on video at a parade, or cutting the security cam to the bodega the cops are allegedly robbing -- and winning their jobs back, if they're even disciplined in the first place. Students are the University of Pennsylvania are wondering why a campus that trains the nation's elites isn't contributing some of its wealth to dilapidated public schools just blocks away. In a time of mass incarceration, they've seen neighborhoods and families ripped apart by the "war on drugs" and "broken windows" policing -- with people arrested for selling "loose cigarettes" or hassled just for walking in the street -- even as the mortgage fraudsters and stock scammers who looted billions from the global economy in the 2000s walk free.

The web of injustice keep growing larger. Just today, Congress is trying to sneak through an outrageous budget bill that increases the amount of money that millionaires can give to political parties by a factor of 10, and which would undo some of the Wall Street reforms meant to prevent another financial calamity like the crisis of 2008. Again, it's because the politicians know that they can't be held accountable -- because they drew up the election maps to make sure won't. And maybe the news that no one will be punished for torture made them even bolder. These things are contagious, after all.

Yet every day, more citizens are radicalized. They feel it in their souls -- that the bigger forces that killed Tamir Rice and Akai Gurley are in some way responsible for the death of Gul Rahman, an Afghani who was arrested in a case of a mistaken identity and froze to death. They wonder why Daniel Pantaleo, who placed the chokehold on Eric Garner, still has his job, but then they wonder the same thing about the Goldman Sachs traders who peddled toxic loans. They ask why Darren Wilson wasn't charged with a crime for shooting Michael Brown, and then they ask why Dick Cheney wasn't indicted, either.

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Tucson can keep cellphone tracking info secret, judge rules
Arizona Daily Star-
And Lt. Kevin Hall acknowledged the agency has not sought or obtained a ... sworn statement from Bradley Morrison, chief of the FBI's Tracking Technology Unit.

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Over 50% of FBI agents come from local law enforcement.

There is no difference between the local and Federal law enforcement
crime family.

2 stories

1.
AP demands FBI never again impersonate journalist | Fox News
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Nov 10, 2014 - Comey revealed in a New York Times op-ed column last week that an FBI agent had posed as an AP reporter to help catch a 15-year-old ...


2.
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N.J. trooper who photographed protesters at Christie event was posing as media, AG says
on December 14, 2014 at 7:32 AM, updated December 14, 2014 at 8:34 AM




TRENTON — A State Police trooper who was caught photographing protesters during one of Gov. Chris Christie’s town halls in March was posing as a member of the media in order to provide extra protection for the governor, an internal investigation has found.

The review was conducted by acting state Attorney General John Hoffman after the incident sparked backlash from Democrats and free speech advocates.

Hoffman concluded the plain-clothed trooper assumed the identity of a photographer to “blend in with the press pool” as part of a security detail, a spokesman, Paul Loriquet, said.

“The trooper took that position inside with his supervisor’s approval, but was providing security from that vantage point and was not there to take photographs,” Loriquet said. “His supervisor did not instruct him to take photographs.”

The review, disclosed in response to a request from NJ Advance Media, found no misconduct on the part of the trooper, but Hoffman concluded that posing as a member of the media is not an approved tactic for security details, Loriquet said.

During the March 18 event in South River, a man standing with the media began taking photos when about a dozen protestors stood up and began shouting at Christie to stop his “corrupt” doling out of Hurricane Sandy aid money.

The protestors were escorted out of the event shortly afterwards. When a reporter approached the man with the camera, he identified himself as a State Police trooper. The trooper’s identity was not disclosed by the attorney general.

Security for Christie had been tightened at the time amid coordinated protests over the controversial September 2013 lane closings at the George Washington Bridge, as well as questions about whether th

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Oswald not guilty


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call the office of the Mayor and City Manager
and express your opinion
(All City of Victoria Phone Numbers begin with area code 361)

EMERGENCIES- POLICE, FIRE, AMBULANCE 911
Police Department - non emergency calls for service
573-3221
Fire Department / Ambulance - non emergency
573-3222
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Animal Control Department
578-3564
Abandoned Buildings
485-3330
Abandoned Vehicles
485-3330
Air Quality
485-3230
Ambulance Bill Payments
485-3081
Appliance Pickup (take to City landfill)
485-3220
Birth Certificates
485-3040
Brush Pickup & Tree Limb Collection
485-3220
Building Inspections & Permits
700 Main Center, Suite 122
485-3320
Building Inspections Request Line
485-3333
Building Permits
485-3320
Building Permits Fax
485-3326
City Hall, 105 W. Juan Linn
485-3000
City Manager & City Council
105 W. Juan Linn
485-3030

Texas police officer uses stun gun on 76-year-old during routine traffic stop
Local police chief announces investigation into Nathaniel Robinson’s use of stun gun, after pulling mechanic over for a class C misdemeanour

Monday 15 December 2014 13.45 EST

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A Texas police officer is under investigation for using a stun gun on a 76-year-old mechanic he had pulled over for an expired inspection certificate.

In dashboard-cam footage uploaded by local newspaper the Victoria Advocate, officer Nathaniel Robinson, who is 23, can be seen slamming Pete Vasquez on to the hood of the police car. He then puts him in a restrictive hold, before the two abruptly fall out of the camera’s field of vision.

Soon after, Robinson returns into sight holding his stun gun, shouting “put your hands behind your back.”

Police later confirmed the stun gun had been used twice on Vasquez.

The car was a dealer vehicle, and so Vasquez was exempt from being cited. If he had been cited, an expired inspection certificate is a class C misdemeanour.

The Victoria police chief, Jeffrey Craig, told the Advocate that he was opening an investigation into the incident. “Public trust is extremely important to us. Sometimes that means you have to take a real hard look at some of the actions that occur within the department,” he said. Craig also apologised to Vasquez.

Larry Urich, a co-worker of Vasquez who witnessed the incident, told the Guardian that he made Robinson aware that the car had dealer plates, and that the expired sticker was not a violation. He said he had called Robinson a “goddamned Nazi stormtrooper”.

“It’s a tragedy,” Urich said. “There was absolutely no reason to grab and try and restrain this 76-year-old guy. This was a muscled-up cop who was in absolutely no distress whatsoever.” Urich said that he saw Vasquez Sunday evening, and that his shoulder, back and arm were hurting. “I’ve known the guy for years,” he said. “He’s a nice, sweet, gentle man. I’ve never seen him be smart-aleck, or rude to anyone.”

Urich said that he had the utmost respect for the Victoria police department, but that in his opinion this should be a firing offence for Robinson. “You just don’t do this to senior citizens.”

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Journalist Faces Sentencing Today for Daring to Investigate Government Insiders –


December 15 2014


Barrett Brown faces eight and a half years in prison today for the crime of being a journalist. For any U.S. media outlet that claims to practice journalism, this story should be front page news.
Officially, Brown is charged with three crimes: (1) transmitting a threat in interstate commerce, (2) obstructing the execution of a search warrant, and (3) being an accessory after the fact to an unauthorized access to a protected computer.
Unofficially, Brown is being prosecuted for founding Project PM, a WikiLeaks-like website which dares to investigate “the intelligence contracting industry, the PR industry’s interface with totalitarian regimes, the mushrooming infosec/’cybersecurity’ industry, and other issues constituting threats to human rights, civic transparency, individual privacy, and the health of democratic institutions.”
On March 6, 2012, FBI agent Robert Smith raided Brown’s apartment and Brown’s mother’s house, supposedly looking for information on the hack of intelligence firm HBGary. Agent Smith took away Brown’s computers, which contained Brown’s research into contractors who spy or conduct information warfare on behalf of government and corporate clients.
Barrett Brown faced over 100 years in prison if convicted on all original charges
Following the raid, Barrett Brown faced 100 years in prison for sharing a link on the leaked Stratfor emails, emails which revealed that Stratfor (called the “shadow CIA” by some) had allegedly partnered with a former Goldman Sachs director and other informants in order to profit from insider trading, among other dirty laundry. After prosecutors dropped the 11 charges related to Brown’s sharing a link, the only “crimes” the government had left to charge Brown with resulted from the raid on Brown’s apartment, where Brown allegedly hid his own laptops (aka obstructing the execution of a search warrant) and tried to protect Jeremy Hammond , now in prison for hacking Stratfor, from getting caught (being an accessory after the fact to an unauthorized access to a protected computer). As the FBI held on to his computers, Brown posted a pissed-off YouTube video lashing out at Agent Smith (transmitting a threat in interstate commerce).

While the government would argue that Brown is not being politically prosecuted, the government has taken many actions that say otherwise. Beyond seeking 100 years of jail time for Brown, the government has prosecuted Brown’s mother for obstruction (resulting in six months probation and a $1,000 fine), tried to seize Brown’s legal defense fund, obtained a gag order preventing Brown from speaking about his own case, tried to identify contributors to the website where Brown and others researched links between intelligence companies and governments, and argued that Brown seeks to overthrow the U.S. government.
For anyone horrified that the government would equate researching intelligence companies with trying to overthrow the government, today’s sentencing of Barrett Brown is a major event. Barrett Brown has already spent two years in prison for daring to be a real journalist.
The question now is, how much longer will the First Amendment be locked in a jail cell?

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guess what former FBI agent runs the Security Dept at
Aetna?

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Aetna rate hike excessive, California insurance commissioner says
Dave Jones
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones lashed out at health insurer Aetna for raising premiums as much as 20% on some small businesses starting Jan. 1. 2015



California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones says Aetna is imposing excessive rate hikes on small employers
California voters rejected Prop. 45, which would have enabled Dave Jones to block health insurance rate hikes
Health insurance giant Aetna Inc. is imposing excessive rate hikes on more than 5,000 small employers, according to California's insurance commissioner.

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As always our goal is to become better criminal justice
consumers

Here is a good lesson about one of the most important tools in a
taxpayer funded FBI agent' s toolbox.

The tool is called. plausible denial


The New York Times is the principal public relations
bureau for the Bureau of the FBI....kinda redundant...

You know Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue is
currently suing the FBI to turn over the surveillance
videotapes taken of the Murragh Building just before
during and just after the Oklahoma City bombing.
Taxpayer funded FBI agents say they can't find them.
So FBI Director. James ' I don't torture' Comey not to be
confused with Robert ' BCCI Coverup ' Mueller turns
to his buddies at the New York Times to run this timely
story to show the Judge when the FBI goes back into court next
week with Jesse Trentadue.
Notice I made no mention of very special SL FBI agent
Adam Quirk who allegedely threatened Jesse Trentadue's
no 1 key witness so the witness never showed up to
testify. Say what ,You recognize the name of Adam Quirk
as the FBI agent who was arrested this week for beating up
his girl friend?

see
FBI Agent Accused of Witness Tampering Arrested as OKC Bombing ...
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3 days ago - FBI Agent Adam Grant Quirk was arrested over the weekend following ... submitted by attorney for the plaintiff in the case, Jesse C. Trentadue v.


Judge to FBI: Go probe yourself on OKC bombing
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Aug 27, 2014 hearing on the matter, in which Trentadue accuses the FBI of threatening ... the name of the FBI agent who had contacted him, Adam Quirk.


Now for some FBI Plausible Denial



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F.B.I. Evidence Is Often Mishandled, an Internal Inquiry Finds


The J. Edgar Hoover F.B.I. building in Washington. Auditors have found many problems with how the bureau handles evidence.

DECEMBER 19, 2014
F.B.I. agents in every region of the country have mishandled, mislabeled and lost evidence, according to a highly critical internal investigation that discovered errors with nearly half the pieces of evidence it reviewed.

The evidence collection and retention system is the backbone of the F.B.I.’s investigative process, and the report said it is beset by problems. It also found that the F.B.I. was storing more weapons, less money and valuables, and two tons more drugs than its records had indicated.

The report’s findings, based on a review of more than 41,000 pieces of evidence in F.B.I. offices around the country, could have consequences for criminal investigations and prosecutions. Lawyers can use even minor record-keeping discrepancies to get evidence thrown out of court, and the F.B.I. was alerting prosecutors around the country on Friday that they may need to disclose the errors to defendants.

Many of the problems cited in the report appear to be hiccups in the F.B.I.’s transition to a computer system known as Sentinel, which went online in 2012 and was intended to move the bureau away from a case-management system based on paper files. But other problems, including materials that disappeared or were taken from F.B.I. evidence rooms and not returned, are more serious.

“A majority of the errors identified were due in large part to human error, attributable to a lack of training and program management oversight,” auditors wrote in the report, which was obtained by The New York Times.

F.B.I. officials on Friday said that they decided on their own to conduct the review after discovering during an internal audit that there might be issues with the record keeping for evidence.

“The FBI identified issues primarily related to the migration of its earlier record-keeping process to its updated case management system,” said Michael Kortan, the F.B.I.’s chief spokesman. “The bureau is now strengthening procedures in field offices across the country to improve administrative consistency and record-keeping.”


The F.B.I. is separately dealing with the fallout from a case at its Washington office, where an agent is under investigation for tampering with evidence. That has led to the dismissal of convictions in some drug cases. Though the internal review is unrelated to that matter, the issues are so entwined that the F.B.I. plans to distribute the report to dozens of lawyers involved whose cases were affected by the Washington investigation, officials said.

The errors cited in the audit range in severity from computer glitches and duplicate bar codes to evidence that could not be located. The investigation found that federal agents had removed 1,600 pieces of evidence from storage and had not returned them for more than four months. One piece of evidence in a drug case has been signed out since 2003. Another piece of evidence has been out since 2006, the report found.

Because the audit was based on a sample, the actual number of items that have been checked out and not returned is probably much higher.

The results also varied by field office. In Newark, Honolulu, Milwaukee, Washington and Richmond, Va., for instance, auditors found problems with the handling of more than 70 percent of firearms in evidence. By comparison, offices in El Paso, New Haven and Sacramento turned up error rates in the single digits.

When Sentinel went online, the bureau said it would streamline investigations and make it easier for analysts and agents to “link cases with similar information through expanded search capabilities.” It was also supposed to make information more quickly available to investigators in different field offices.

A report released in September by the Department of Justice inspector general found that Sentinel had, overall, reduced the number of lost documents and made it easier to share information.

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San Francisco deputy choked sleeping hospital patient, arrested victim for instigating: cops
Michael R. Lewelling claimed he arrested a man while he was patrolling San Francisco General Hospital in November because the suspect hit him with his cane. But hospital video showed the 33-year-old deputy wake the sleeping victim and then assault him when he tried to walk away from the confrontation. The officer was arrested for perjury, filing a false police report and battery.
December 20, 2014, 1:55 PM Updated: Saturday, December 20, 2014, 3:21 PM

A San Francisco sheriff’s deputy choked a patient inside General Hospital, and wrote a fake police report to say the victim was the instigator, police said.

A San Francisco sheriff’s deputy choked a patient inside General Hospital, and wrote a fake police report to say the victim was the instigator, police said.
A San Francisco sheriff’s deputy choked a patient napping in a hospital waiting room, and then faked a report to say the man attacked him, police said.

San Francisco County Deputy Michael R. Lewelling was arrested Friday for the November incident. The 33-year-old officer was charged with four felonies, including perjury and filing a false police report, and misdemeanor battery.

On Nov. 3, Lewelling filed a police report claiming a man in San Francisco General’s waiting room hit him with a wooden cane while he was patrolling the hospital. Records showed he arrested the man.

But video from inside the emergency room waiting room showed the victim never raised his cane, officials said.

The tapes showed the man sleeping while waiting for a doctor’s appointment.

Lewelling woke him up, and when the victim tried to walk away, the deputy grabbed his shirt’s collar, threw him back in the chair and knocked his cane away, the video showed.

San Francisco deputy Michael R. Lewelling was charged with perjury and filing a false police report.

San Francisco deputy Michael R. Lewelling was charged with perjury and filing a false police report.
Then he grabbed the man’s throat and choked him, prosecutors said.

"The fact that a Sheriff's Deputy allegedly battered a patient at San Francisco General Hospital is unnerving," District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement.

He continued: "What's worse is that he's also alleged to have perjured himself on a police report, unforgivable conduct that

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Staten Island cop pawns off jewelry stolen from boyfriend's mom: authorities
Police Officer Stacey Staniland, 29, faces burglary, criminal possession of stolen property and petty larceny charges after taking necklaces and bracelets from an Egbert Ave., Port Richmond, home belonging to her boyfriend’s mother.



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A Staten Island cop is accused of stealing jewelry from her boyfriend's mom and then pawning them off.

A Staten Island cop is accused of stealing jewelry from her boyfriend's mom and then pawning them off.
A Staten Island cop was arrested after she swiped, and then pawned, jewelry belonging to her boyfriend’s mother, authorities said Friday.

Police Officer Stacey Staniland, 29, faces burglary, criminal possession of stolen property and petty larceny charges after taking necklaces and bracelets from an Egbert Ave., Port Richmond, home belonging to her boyfriend’s mother.

Staniland entered the home and took the baubl

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Former Winston County deputy pleads guilty to federal charges of extorting woman to make meth



December 22, 2014 at 7:44 PM




BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- A former Winston County sheriff's deputy pleaded guilty in federal court to using his authority to extort a woman into manufacturing methamphetamine. His charges also allege he made her cook meth in a home with a child
Grady Keith Concord, 42, of Lynn entered his guilty pleas before U.S. District

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