Branstad Announces New Division Designed to Help Wrongly Convicted People
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DES MOINES, Iowa -- Governor Branstad announced he's launching a new division designed to help people who are wrongly convicted of crimes.
“We also know in a system operated by humans, mistakes can be made including wrongful convictions,” Branstad said.
The Wrongful Conviction Division will focus on hair comparison analysis. The FBI recently admitted to serious errors in testimony on those tests, many times overstating how close hair from a crime scene matched a defendant.
The FBI trains the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation on hair analysis methods, so the Public Defender's Office wants to review cases where hair comparison analysis was used.
They’re looking at cases from 1980-2000, which was a time when DNA analysis wasn't widely used.
“One of the things that is exciting about this is, if we are able to identify any cases in which those mistakes were made, that hair should be under glass somewhere,” said Iowa State Public Defender Adam Gregg. "We could be able to use DNA technology in order to test those hairs and find out whether they got the right person, and if they didn’t, then we will
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July 30, 2008 -- "Franklin Coverup" author wins court battle:
Former Nebraska Republican state legislator John DeCamp, whose book on pedophilia, Satanic rituals, and top GOP politicians, The Franklin Coverup, which is in its second edition, earned him a lawsuit from former Omaha police chief Robert Wadman, successfully argued his case yesterday before a Utah judge. Wadman, who said DeCamp's book contained "lies," had his libel case against DeCamp thrown out.
Wadman unsuccessfully sought to have DeCamp's book withdrawn from publication. The civil trial against DeCamp was held in Ogden, Utah where Wadman teaches criminal justice at Weber State University. Wadman became Omaha, Nebraska's Police Commissioner in 1982 after having served as Utah's Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety. Wadman was at the center, along with other top Omaha officials and politicians, of the 1980s scandal involving Omaha's Franklin Credit Union and its chief, rising GOP star Lawrence King who was also implicated in a child abduction and prostitution ring with tentacles into the Republican National Committee and the Bush 41 White House. After Omaha, Wadman became chief of police in Wilmington, North Carolina, where, according to DeCamp, he badgered Wilmington police Sgt. Robert Clatty, North Carolina's primary expert law enforcement expert on Satanic ritual abuse. Wadman claimed there was no such thing as Satanic ritual abuse, according to DeCamp.
DeCamp was assisted in his long investigation of the politically-connected pedophilia circuit operating out of Omaha, an implicating the Catholic Church's Boys Town orphanage, by his Vietnam War veteran colleague, former CIA director William Colby. Colby's body was fished out of the Chesapeake Bay in April 1996 in what DeCamp described in his book as "the most questionable of circumstances."
WMR caught up with DeCamp by phone after the Ogden trial.
Wadman is a senior official in the Mormon Church and the fact that DeCamp won in a trial conducted in the very Mormon Ogden is an indication of the victory achieved by those who continue to try to expose America's darkest and most disgusting secret.
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July 30, 2008 -- "Franklin Coverup" author wins court battle:
Former Nebraska Republican state legislator John DeCamp, whose book on pedophilia, Satanic rituals, and top GOP politicians, The Franklin Coverup, which is in its second edition, earned him a lawsuit from former Omaha police chief Robert Wadman, successfully argued his case yesterday before a Utah judge. Wadman, who said DeCamp's book contained "lies," had his libel case against DeCamp thrown out.
Wadman unsuccessfully sought to have DeCamp's book withdrawn from publication. The civil trial against DeCamp was held in Ogden, Utah where Wadman teaches criminal justice at Weber State University. Wadman became Omaha, Nebraska's Police Commissioner in 1982 after having served as Utah's Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety. Wadman was at the center, along with other top Omaha officials and politicians, of the 1980s scandal involving Omaha's Franklin Credit Union and its chief, rising GOP star Lawrence King who was also implicated in a child abduction and prostitution ring with tentacles into the Republican National Committee and the Bush 41 White House. After Omaha, Wadman became chief of police in Wilmington, North Carolina, where, according to DeCamp, he badgered Wilmington police Sgt. Robert Clatty, North Carolina's primary expert law enforcement expert on Satanic ritual abuse. Wadman claimed there was no such thing as Satanic ritual abuse, according to DeCamp.
DeCamp was assisted in his long investigation of the politically-connected pedophilia circuit operating out of Omaha, an implicating the Catholic Church's Boys Town orphanage, by his Vietnam War veteran colleague, former CIA director William Colby. Colby's body was fished out of the Chesapeake Bay in April 1996 in what DeCamp described in his book as "the most questionable of circumstances."
WMR caught up with DeCamp by phone after the Ogden trial.
Wadman is a senior official in the Mormon Church and the fact that DeCamp won in a trial conducted in the very Mormon Ogden is an indication of the victory achieved by those who continue to try to expose America's darkest and most disgusting secret.
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US declines to pay damages to Homeland Security supervisor wounded in gov't office shooting
Gov't: No damages for US official injured in office shooting
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WASHINGTON A Homeland Security Department employee, Kevin Kozak, rarely sleeps through the night and when he does, he sometimes wakes in a sweat. During the days, he can't forget — flashing back to the smoke-filled room where a disgruntled federal agent fired 23 times at him inside a government office building, shattering his hand and left leg.
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FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2012 file photo, a Homeland Security police car is shown parked outside the Long Beach, Calif., Federal Courthouse in Long Beach, Calif. On Feb. 16 an ICE agent opened fire on a supervisor, and then was shot and killed by another agent. The supervisor...
FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2012 file photo, a Homeland Security police car is shown parked outside the Long Beach, Calif., Federal Courthouse in Long Beach, Calif. On Feb. 16 an ICE agent opened fire on... (Associated Press)
This FBI photo acquired by the Associated Press shows the shooting scene at a Long Beach, Calif., Federal Courthouse in Long Beach, Calif. On Feb. 16 an ICE agent opened fire on a supervisor, and then was shot and killed by another agent. The Homeland Security Department missed clear warning...
This FBI photo acquired by the Associated Press shows the shooting scene at a Long Beach, Calif., Federal Courthouse in Long Beach, Calif. On Feb. 16 an ICE agent opened fire on a supervisor, and then...
In this photo taken Oct. 25, 2015, Kevin Kozak is seen near his home in Southern California. Kozak is still struggling with debilitating injuries from the Feb. 16, 2012 gun battle in his office. He underwent seven surgeries to repair his hand, which was in 150 pieces and may yet...
In this photo taken Oct. 25, 2015, Kevin Kozak is seen near his home in Southern California. Kozak is still struggling with debilitating injuries from the Feb. 16, 2012 gun battle in his office. He underwent... (Associated Press)
In this photo taken Oct. 25, 2015, Kevin Kozak shows his hand near his home in Southern California. Kozak is still struggling with debilitating injuries from the Feb. 16, 2012 gun battle in his office. He underwent seven surgeries to repair his hand, which was in 150 pieces and may...
In this photo taken Oct. 25, 2015, Kevin Kozak shows his hand near his home in Southern California. Kozak is still struggling with debilitating injuries from the Feb. 16, 2012 gun battle in his office.... (Associated Press)
This photo provided by Kevin Kozak shows a drawing by his son Teo after Kozak was shot inside a government office building in California in 2012. Kozak said his son and daughter are the main reason he fought to survive the shooting attack. He said they have suffered irreparable harm...
This photo provided by Kevin Kozak shows a drawing by his son Teo after Kozak was shot inside a government office building in California in 2012. Kozak said his son and daughter are the main reason he... (Associated Press)
This photo provided by Kelly Kozak, taken March 19, 2011, shows Kevin Kozak with his daughter in their Southern California home. Kozak, injured in a shooting by a federal agent inside a government office building says he can’t seek damages in the case because he is a government employee. (Kelly...
This photo provided by Kelly Kozak, taken March 19, 2011, shows Kevin Kozak with his daughter in their Southern California home. Kozak, injured in a shooting by a federal agent inside a government office... (Associated Press)
This photo provided by Kelly Kozak, taken March 19, 2011, shows Kevin Kozak with his son Teo in their Southern California home. Kozak, injured in a shooting by a federal agent inside a government office building says he can’t seek damages in the case because he is a government employee....
This photo provided by Kelly Kozak, taken March 19, 2011, shows Kevin Kozak with his son Teo in their Southern California home. Kozak, injured in a shooting by a federal agent inside a government office...
"They're called daymares," he said. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Kozak described the February 2012 shooting that unfolded inside the Long Beach offices of U.S. Homeland Security Investigations, which he said left him permanently disabled.
The Associated Press reported this week a new government investigation concluded that the Homeland Security Department had missed clear warning signs of supervisory agent Ezequiel "Zeke" Garcia's descent toward violence and could have intervened before he started the deadly gun battle that left him dead.
Kozak spent seven months in a wheelchair and two years in physical therapy, re-learning how to walk. Doctors say if the pain continues to worsen, he may have to lose his leg.
The Homeland Security Department had briefly revoked Garcia's authority to carry a gun, badge and credentials in August 2011, six months before the shootings, because he told his Los Angeles supervisor, John Rocha, that he had been taking Vicodin over the previous eight months for back pain. The agency returned Garcia's gun after a cursory review — even though Rocha objected because he worried Garcia was suicidal or might hurt others.
Rocha said he was overruled and didn't formally document his concerns over fears Garcia might sue him. More than three years after the shootings, the government hasn't changed its rules to make it harder for federal agents to get their guns back in such cases.
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Gov't: No damages for US official injured in office shooting
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WASHINGTON A Homeland Security Department employee, Kevin Kozak, rarely sleeps through the night and when he does, he sometimes wakes in a sweat. During the days, he can't forget — flashing back to the smoke-filled room where a disgruntled federal agent fired 23 times at him inside a government office building, shattering his hand and left leg.
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FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2012 file photo, a Homeland Security police car is shown parked outside the Long Beach, Calif., Federal Courthouse in Long Beach, Calif. On Feb. 16 an ICE agent opened fire on a supervisor, and then was shot and killed by another agent. The supervisor...
FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2012 file photo, a Homeland Security police car is shown parked outside the Long Beach, Calif., Federal Courthouse in Long Beach, Calif. On Feb. 16 an ICE agent opened fire on... (Associated Press)
This FBI photo acquired by the Associated Press shows the shooting scene at a Long Beach, Calif., Federal Courthouse in Long Beach, Calif. On Feb. 16 an ICE agent opened fire on a supervisor, and then was shot and killed by another agent. The Homeland Security Department missed clear warning...
This FBI photo acquired by the Associated Press shows the shooting scene at a Long Beach, Calif., Federal Courthouse in Long Beach, Calif. On Feb. 16 an ICE agent opened fire on a supervisor, and then...
In this photo taken Oct. 25, 2015, Kevin Kozak is seen near his home in Southern California. Kozak is still struggling with debilitating injuries from the Feb. 16, 2012 gun battle in his office. He underwent seven surgeries to repair his hand, which was in 150 pieces and may yet...
In this photo taken Oct. 25, 2015, Kevin Kozak is seen near his home in Southern California. Kozak is still struggling with debilitating injuries from the Feb. 16, 2012 gun battle in his office. He underwent... (Associated Press)
In this photo taken Oct. 25, 2015, Kevin Kozak shows his hand near his home in Southern California. Kozak is still struggling with debilitating injuries from the Feb. 16, 2012 gun battle in his office. He underwent seven surgeries to repair his hand, which was in 150 pieces and may...
In this photo taken Oct. 25, 2015, Kevin Kozak shows his hand near his home in Southern California. Kozak is still struggling with debilitating injuries from the Feb. 16, 2012 gun battle in his office.... (Associated Press)
This photo provided by Kevin Kozak shows a drawing by his son Teo after Kozak was shot inside a government office building in California in 2012. Kozak said his son and daughter are the main reason he fought to survive the shooting attack. He said they have suffered irreparable harm...
This photo provided by Kevin Kozak shows a drawing by his son Teo after Kozak was shot inside a government office building in California in 2012. Kozak said his son and daughter are the main reason he... (Associated Press)
This photo provided by Kelly Kozak, taken March 19, 2011, shows Kevin Kozak with his daughter in their Southern California home. Kozak, injured in a shooting by a federal agent inside a government office building says he can’t seek damages in the case because he is a government employee. (Kelly...
This photo provided by Kelly Kozak, taken March 19, 2011, shows Kevin Kozak with his daughter in their Southern California home. Kozak, injured in a shooting by a federal agent inside a government office... (Associated Press)
This photo provided by Kelly Kozak, taken March 19, 2011, shows Kevin Kozak with his son Teo in their Southern California home. Kozak, injured in a shooting by a federal agent inside a government office building says he can’t seek damages in the case because he is a government employee....
This photo provided by Kelly Kozak, taken March 19, 2011, shows Kevin Kozak with his son Teo in their Southern California home. Kozak, injured in a shooting by a federal agent inside a government office...
"They're called daymares," he said. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Kozak described the February 2012 shooting that unfolded inside the Long Beach offices of U.S. Homeland Security Investigations, which he said left him permanently disabled.
The Associated Press reported this week a new government investigation concluded that the Homeland Security Department had missed clear warning signs of supervisory agent Ezequiel "Zeke" Garcia's descent toward violence and could have intervened before he started the deadly gun battle that left him dead.
Kozak spent seven months in a wheelchair and two years in physical therapy, re-learning how to walk. Doctors say if the pain continues to worsen, he may have to lose his leg.
The Homeland Security Department had briefly revoked Garcia's authority to carry a gun, badge and credentials in August 2011, six months before the shootings, because he told his Los Angeles supervisor, John Rocha, that he had been taking Vicodin over the previous eight months for back pain. The agency returned Garcia's gun after a cursory review — even though Rocha objected because he worried Garcia was suicidal or might hurt others.
Rocha said he was overruled and didn't formally document his concerns over fears Garcia might sue him. More than three years after the shootings, the government hasn't changed its rules to make it harder for federal agents to get their guns back in such cases.
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F.B.I. Tool to Identify Extremists Is Criticized
NOV. 1, 2015
There is a difference between mentally ill mass murderers and fundamentalist religious murderers, although the lines may seem blurred at...
Shireen 32 minutes ago
I think this is a good opportunity for the people of the FBI to examine their biases. It is making them blind to serving in the best way.
The F.B.I. is about to introduce an interactive program it developed for teachers and students, aimed at training them to prevent young people from being drawn into violent extremism. But Muslim, Arab and other religious and civil rights leaders who were invited to preview the program have raised strong objections, saying it focuses almost entirely on Islamic extremism, which they say has not been a factor in the epidemic of school shootings and attacks in the United States.
The program, according to those who saw it at F.B.I. headquarters, called “Don’t Be a Puppet,” leads the viewer through a series of games and tips intended to teach how to identify someone who may be falling prey to radical extremists. With each successful answer, scissors cut a puppet’s string, until the puppet is free.
In the campaign against terrorists such as the Islamic State, law enforcement agencies have been stepping up efforts to identify those susceptible to recruitment. The agencies have enlisted the cooperation and advice of religious and community leaders. But the controversy over the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s new online tool is one more indication that there is no consensus on who should be involved in detecting and reporting suspects, and where to draw the line between prevention and racial or religious profiling.
“The F.B.I. is developing a website designed to provide awareness about the dangers of violent extremist predators on the Internet,” a spokeswoman for the agency said late Sunday, “with input from students, educators and community leaders.”
The F.B.I. had told the community organizations that the program would be available online as soon as Monday. The organizations’ leaders spoke to a reporter only after learning that the F.B.I. was likely to proceed despite their concern that the program would stigmatize Arab and Muslim students, who are already susceptible to bullying.
“Teachers in classrooms should not become an extension of law enforcement,” said Arjun S. Sethi, an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Sethi, who specializes in counterterrorism and law enforcement, was invited by the F.B.I. to give feedback on the program.
“The program is based on flawed theories of radicalization, namely that individuals radicalize in the exact same way and it’s entirely discernible,” he said. “But it’s not, and the F.B.I. is basically asking teachers and students to suss these things out.”
He said the F.B.I.’s program amounted to “misplaced priorities.”
“The greatest threat facing American schoolchildren today is gun violence,” he said. “It’s not Muslim extremism.”
Teachers do not always have the training or judgment to identify extremists, said several religious leaders who mentioned the Muslim student in Texas who was detained and handcuffed after taking a clock he built to school.
The F.B.I. held several meetings last summer to present the online program, along with a larger strategy for involving community leaders in preventing radicalization. The Arab and Muslim groups received an email inviting them to a meeting to give feedback on Oct. 16.
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About six organizations representing American Muslims, Arabs, Yemenis and Sikhs were at the meeting, where they were given a quick run-through of portions of the online program. It covered different types of violent groups and ideologies, and enumerated some personality changes that might indicate radicalization, according to those who attended. It showed a map of places terrorists have targeted, and included interviews with victims of terrorist attacks.
Abed A. Ayoub, the legal and policy director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, recalled: “They were getting blowback from everybody. It was a very tense meeting.”
“They wanted teachers in social studies, civics and government classes to show this to their students,” said Hoda Hawa, the director of policy and advocacy for the Muslim Public Affairs Council. “But the website will be accessible by anyone.”
She and others interviewed were particularly troubled by a question that she said asked the user to identify which of four or five posts on social media should raise alarm. Among the choices were a person posting about a plan to attend a political event, or someone with an Arabic name posting about going on “a mission” overseas. The correct answer was the posting with the Arabic name.
“What kind of mission? It could have been humanitarian. It could have been religious,” Ms. Hawa said.
Mr. Ayoub said, “If this is shown to middle and high school students, it’s going to result in the bullying of these children.”
A report issued by the 9/11 review commission in May suggested that the F.B.I. , as a law enforcement and intelligence agency, was not “an appropriate vehicle” for producing prevention programs to counter violent extremism.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/02/us/fb ... .html?_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
F.B.I. Tool to Identify Extremists Is Criticized
NOV. 1, 2015
There is a difference between mentally ill mass murderers and fundamentalist religious murderers, although the lines may seem blurred at...
Shireen 32 minutes ago
I think this is a good opportunity for the people of the FBI to examine their biases. It is making them blind to serving in the best way.
The F.B.I. is about to introduce an interactive program it developed for teachers and students, aimed at training them to prevent young people from being drawn into violent extremism. But Muslim, Arab and other religious and civil rights leaders who were invited to preview the program have raised strong objections, saying it focuses almost entirely on Islamic extremism, which they say has not been a factor in the epidemic of school shootings and attacks in the United States.
The program, according to those who saw it at F.B.I. headquarters, called “Don’t Be a Puppet,” leads the viewer through a series of games and tips intended to teach how to identify someone who may be falling prey to radical extremists. With each successful answer, scissors cut a puppet’s string, until the puppet is free.
In the campaign against terrorists such as the Islamic State, law enforcement agencies have been stepping up efforts to identify those susceptible to recruitment. The agencies have enlisted the cooperation and advice of religious and community leaders. But the controversy over the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s new online tool is one more indication that there is no consensus on who should be involved in detecting and reporting suspects, and where to draw the line between prevention and racial or religious profiling.
“The F.B.I. is developing a website designed to provide awareness about the dangers of violent extremist predators on the Internet,” a spokeswoman for the agency said late Sunday, “with input from students, educators and community leaders.”
The F.B.I. had told the community organizations that the program would be available online as soon as Monday. The organizations’ leaders spoke to a reporter only after learning that the F.B.I. was likely to proceed despite their concern that the program would stigmatize Arab and Muslim students, who are already susceptible to bullying.
“Teachers in classrooms should not become an extension of law enforcement,” said Arjun S. Sethi, an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Sethi, who specializes in counterterrorism and law enforcement, was invited by the F.B.I. to give feedback on the program.
“The program is based on flawed theories of radicalization, namely that individuals radicalize in the exact same way and it’s entirely discernible,” he said. “But it’s not, and the F.B.I. is basically asking teachers and students to suss these things out.”
He said the F.B.I.’s program amounted to “misplaced priorities.”
“The greatest threat facing American schoolchildren today is gun violence,” he said. “It’s not Muslim extremism.”
Teachers do not always have the training or judgment to identify extremists, said several religious leaders who mentioned the Muslim student in Texas who was detained and handcuffed after taking a clock he built to school.
The F.B.I. held several meetings last summer to present the online program, along with a larger strategy for involving community leaders in preventing radicalization. The Arab and Muslim groups received an email inviting them to a meeting to give feedback on Oct. 16.
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About six organizations representing American Muslims, Arabs, Yemenis and Sikhs were at the meeting, where they were given a quick run-through of portions of the online program. It covered different types of violent groups and ideologies, and enumerated some personality changes that might indicate radicalization, according to those who attended. It showed a map of places terrorists have targeted, and included interviews with victims of terrorist attacks.
Abed A. Ayoub, the legal and policy director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, recalled: “They were getting blowback from everybody. It was a very tense meeting.”
“They wanted teachers in social studies, civics and government classes to show this to their students,” said Hoda Hawa, the director of policy and advocacy for the Muslim Public Affairs Council. “But the website will be accessible by anyone.”
She and others interviewed were particularly troubled by a question that she said asked the user to identify which of four or five posts on social media should raise alarm. Among the choices were a person posting about a plan to attend a political event, or someone with an Arabic name posting about going on “a mission” overseas. The correct answer was the posting with the Arabic name.
“What kind of mission? It could have been humanitarian. It could have been religious,” Ms. Hawa said.
Mr. Ayoub said, “If this is shown to middle and high school students, it’s going to result in the bullying of these children.”
A report issued by the 9/11 review commission in May suggested that the F.B.I. , as a law enforcement and intelligence agency, was not “an appropriate vehicle” for producing prevention programs to counter violent extremism.
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Fiscal Times: When It Comes Criminal Justice Reform, FBI Director James Comey Is Wiser
FBI Director James Comey
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When it comes to criminal justice reform, whom are you going to believe? James Comey, the nation’s top cop, or politicians eager to curry favor with the black community?
FBI chief James Comey earned himself a summons to the Oval Office last week by telling the truth about the war on crime. President Obama suggests that racial bias has led to too many black men being locked up and vows to combat “disparities in the application of criminal justice.” Comey argues that tough policing in minority neighborhoods has saved thousands of black lives and that the recent upsurge in homicides may reflect the “YouTube” effect — making police officers nervous to do their jobs. The good news is that Comey, imbued with an impressive independence streak, has another 8 years to serve. Even though Obama could presumably pressure him to resign, he can’t fire him.
Democrats and Republicans alike have hopped aboard the criminal justice bandwagon, noting the large incarceration rate in the United States and the disproportionate number of prisoners of color. Hillary Clinton hit a common theme when she noted in a speech last spring, “It’s a stark fact that the United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population, yet we have almost 25 percent of the world’s total prison population.” She fails to note that the disparity stems fromhigher crime rates. Homicides in the U.S. run seven times the rate in other developed countries, according to a 2011 study from the Harvard School of Public Health and the UCLA School of Public Health.
Clinton also gets it backwards with her next statement: “The numbers today are much higher than they were 30, 40 years ago, despite the fact that crime is at historic lows.”
Many would suggest that crime is at historic lows because so many criminals have been put behind bars. Comey made that case recently, speaking at the University of Chicago Law School. He reminds us that not so long ago, urban crime, especially in minority neighborhoods, was horrific. In New York City, 2,000 homicides a year was considered the norm in the 1980s and 1990s; last year there were 328. As Comey notes, “White people weren’t dying; black people were dying. Most white people could drive around the problem. If you were white and not involved in the drug trade as a buyer or a seller, you were largely apart from the violence.”
looks like you have not read DEA supervisor Mike Levine's book White Lies
about the CIA and local cops bringing heroin into our communities.
Yep DEA agent Celerino Castillo wrote about this in Powder Burns.
Yep Gary Webb
wrote about it.
Ditto for LAPD narcotics detective Mike Ruppert.
Monday, September 7, 2015
The Real Afghanistan Surge is in Heroin Production and Tripled Opium Cultivation since the US military arrived/ UN and US Government documents
Recently I worked in another Maine city and was astonished at the number of patients I encountered who were using heroin. I had never seen anything like it, during a lifetime practicing medicine. In New Hampshire, it was said, deaths from heroin now exceed deaths from car accidents. Massachusetts (population under 7 million) had 1,000 deaths related to (all) opioids in 2014, "the highest ever recorded." According to CDC, in the two years between 2010 and 2012, heroin overdose rates in the Northeast (where I live) tripled.
The US now has 600,000 heroin users, triple the amount of five years earlier, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency. Or it may have between 800,000 and 2.6 million, according to RAND report estimates published by the White House in 2014.
I've heard stories on NPR about insufficient state funding of heroin treatment facilities. I've heard about plans to make Narcan injections available to iv drug users, for overdoses. Another popular angle I've seen repeated over and over (and one currently pushed by the US Drug Enforcement Agency and the White House Office on National Drug Control Policy) claims legal prescriptions for narcotics increased, then became harder to get, so users switched to heroin, which was also cheaper.
Marijuana used to be claimed the "entry" drug to heroin, but now prescription narcotics have assumed that role. How times change. The narrative we have been given is that a massive increase in heroin use has nothing to do with increased supply. (This violates the laws of arithmetic and economics, not to mention common sense.)
If increased prescriptions for controlled substances was the primary cause of the heroin epidemic, then Americans would also be using more cocaine. The massive increase in ADHD drug prescriptions (presumed "entry" drugs for cocaine) should have caused a cocaine explosion.
While prescriptions for narcotics (hydrocodone and oxycodone) increased 4.5-fold between 1991 and 2007 in the US, prescriptions for ADHD stimulants rose even more, by 7-fold, according to National Institute on Drug Abuse testimony to Congress in 2008:
Total number of prescriptions dispensed by US retail pharmacies - shows trends increasing from 1991 to 2007, see caption
But in fact, the DOJ-DEA 2014 National Drug Threat Assessment Summary notes that cocaine availability "remains stable at historically low levels throughout most domestic markets along the East Coast." So prescription drug users are switching to heroin, but not switching to cocaine. Hmmm. Might this be because we have no large military-CIA presence currently in cocaine-trafficking areas, as we did during the 1980s Contra war in Nicaragua, when cocaine use was at high levels? (Coca plants are only grown in South America's Andes.) According to a 2010 UN document, "Based on seizure figures, it appears that cocaine markets grew most dramatically during the 1980s, when the amounts seized increased by more than 40% per year". (See this 1987 Senate hearing and this for evidence of CIA and State Dept. connivance with cocaine trafficking by the Contras.)
You can frame stories about the current heroin problem in many ways. But the real heroin story isn't being discussed--which is that since the US military entered Afghanistan in 2001, its opium production doubled, per the UN Afghanistan Opium Survey 2014, page 34. The area under opium cultivation in Afghanistan has tripled. And the resulting heroin appears to more easily make its way deep into our rural, as well as urban communities. CDC noted, "Between 2002 and 2013, the rate of heroin-related overdose deaths nearly quadrupled, and more than 8,200 people died in 2013."
The graph below is from the 2014 UN Opium Survey:
The world supply of opium increased 5-fold between 1980 and 2010, according to the UN."Afghanistan account for around 90% of global illicit opium production in recent years. By itself, Afghanistan provides 85% of the estimated global heroin and morphine supply, a near monopoly."(see pp 37-38).
“The narcotics trade poisons the Afghan financial sector and undermines the Afghan state’s legitimacy by stoking corruption, sustaining criminal networks, and providing significant financial support to the Taliban and other insurgent groups,” John F. Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan reconstruction, said in an October 2014 letter to the heads of the Departments of Defense, State and Justice, which have all played major roles in the failed drug intervention effort. “Despite spending over $7 billion to combat opium poppy cultivation and to develop the Afghan government’s counter-narcotics capacity, opium poppy cultivation levels in Afghanistan hit an all-time high in 2013."
Despite the (now) US $8.4 billion spent to defeat this trade, it just keeps growing. The costs of US reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan total "$110 billion, after adjusting for inflation, [which] exceeds the value of the entire Marshall Plan effort to rebuild Western Europe after World War II" according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, speaking in May 2015.
The Special Inspector General noted elsewhere that, "US reconstruction projects, particularly those devoted to “improved irrigation, roads, and agricultural assistance” were probably leading to the explosion in opium cultivation."
Only 1.2% of the acreage used for Afghan opium production (which is estimated at 224,000 hectares or 554,000 acres) was eradicated in 2014, according to the UN. Burma is the world's second largest producer of opium, according to the UN, currently growing only about 10% as much as Afghanistan. But Mexico has been increasing production and is #3.
According to the UN World Drug Report, in the 1990's Afghanistan supplied opium that was converted into half the world's heroin production. According to University of Wisconsin Professor Alfred McCoy, the rapid 1980s rise in Afghani opium production came about through CIA efforts to create, arm and fund the mujahedeen using opium sales. (After defeating the Soviets in Afghanistan the mujahedeen morphed into Al Qaeda). By 2010, Afghanistan supplied 90% of the world's total heroin.
But the DEA, White House and other official US sources claim that US heroin derives almost entirely (96%) from Latin American-grown opium (based on seizures of shipments); the DEA in 2014 claimed that Latin America was the source for the vast majority of US heroin, with southwest Asia (i.e., Afghanistan) accounting for only 4% of US heroin in 2012.
This is highly unlikely. In 2008, the UN estimated that the US and Canada accounted for 13% of global heroin use. Ninety-five percent of global heroin derives from Afghanistan, Burma, Thailand and Laos. Latin America (mainly Mexico, with a small amount from Colombia) does not produce enough to supply the majority of US heroin, let alone 96%. In fact, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy undercut its own claim when it noted Mexico had (only) 10,500 hectares under poppy cultivation in 2012 and Colombia 1,100 hectares in 2009, while Afghanistan had 154,000 hectares in 2012 and 224,000 hectares in 2014 per UN estimates.
This DEA claim, based on heroin interdiction, suggests something entirely different: that heroin shipments coming by air from Afghanistan are at lower risk of being seized than heroin coming from Latin America. Might some be entering via official government channels, when so much materiel and so many people (soldiers, aid workers, diplomats and contractors) fly directly between the US and Afghanistan? [At the same time, some Afghan-origin heroin does enter the US by way of Mexico.]
Putting aside the issue of the provenance of the US heroin supply for the moment, surely we can look at heroin as we would any other global commodity.
Congruent with the 1980s mujahedeen fight against the Soviets [here is the blameless UN phrasing: "...the Soviet invasion in 1979, [which] triggered the mass production of opiates in Afghanistan"] and then -- in a repeat performance -- congruent with the US presence in Afghanistan since 2001, Afghanistan rapidly expanded opium production, and the global supply of heroin increased concomitantly. The price dropped as a result. New buyers entered the market. And the US now has several hundred thousand new addicts. Russia and the rest of Europe (with overland access to Afghanistan) have even more. The resulting social problems are hugely tragic and hugely costly for millions of families, and for our societies as a whole.
If we start being honest about why there is a major heroin epidemic, maybe we can get serious about solving the problem with meaningful eradication and interdiction. Aerial spraying of crops with herbicides or similar methods has been prohibited in Afghanistan, but it works. In 2014, Britain's former Ambassador to Afghanistan (2010-2012) called for legalization and regulation of illicit drugs as one means of attacking the problem.
Looking beyond the Mexican border for heroin, and inspecting all flights from southwest Asia, including military and CIA flights, could have a large impact on supply as well.
Serious measures are needed. Total world production of opiates always gets consumed: historically, the market for opiates has been extremely elastic. Land under poppy cultivation (in Afghanistan, Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle and Mexico) continues to increase. Without meaningful efforts to reduce opium production and entry of narcotics into the US, the epidemic of heroin addiction could become a considerably bigger problem than it is today.
UPDATE: From the Sept 7 Wall Street Journal, we learn that a US "friendly fire" airstrike in southern Afghanistan on Sept 6 "hit a 30 member elite counternarcotics police unit as they were on a mission..."
At least 11 died in "one of the deadliest friendly fire incidents in the country in recent years." Here is the Reuters story. The US denied the strike in Helmand province, but admitted to airstrikes in the adjacent province of Kandahar. According to the Guardian, "The US is the only member of the NATO coalition known to have carried out bombing raids in Afghanistan this year." The AP/WaPo on 9/8/15 reported that, "Brigadier General Shoffner [Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications in Afghanistan] said 'based on information we received [on 9/8], we feel it is prudent to investigate the airstrike our forces conducted in Kandahar.'"
The airstrike killed approximately as many people as died in counternarcotics efforts in all Afghanistan throughout 2014.
UPDATE: Helmand is the major opium-producing province in Afghanistan; military efforts in Helmand are managed primarily by the UK. In 2010, the magazine The Week accused UK soldiers of importing heroin back to Europe and Canada in military planes.
I will have more to say about the subject of heroin in a later post. Let me credit Professor Alfred McCoy's work, which provided me historical background: he is probably the world's foremost scholar on the subject of the global production and trade in illicit drugs.
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When it comes to criminal justice reform, whom are you going to believe? James Comey, the nation’s top cop, or politicians eager to curry favor with the black community?
FBI chief James Comey earned himself a summons to the Oval Office last week by telling the truth about the war on crime. President Obama suggests that racial bias has led to too many black men being locked up and vows to combat “disparities in the application of criminal justice.” Comey argues that tough policing in minority neighborhoods has saved thousands of black lives and that the recent upsurge in homicides may reflect the “YouTube” effect — making police officers nervous to do their jobs. The good news is that Comey, imbued with an impressive independence streak, has another 8 years to serve. Even though Obama could presumably pressure him to resign, he can’t fire him.
Democrats and Republicans alike have hopped aboard the criminal justice bandwagon, noting the large incarceration rate in the United States and the disproportionate number of prisoners of color. Hillary Clinton hit a common theme when she noted in a speech last spring, “It’s a stark fact that the United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population, yet we have almost 25 percent of the world’s total prison population.” She fails to note that the disparity stems fromhigher crime rates. Homicides in the U.S. run seven times the rate in other developed countries, according to a 2011 study from the Harvard School of Public Health and the UCLA School of Public Health.
Clinton also gets it backwards with her next statement: “The numbers today are much higher than they were 30, 40 years ago, despite the fact that crime is at historic lows.”
Many would suggest that crime is at historic lows because so many criminals have been put behind bars. Comey made that case recently, speaking at the University of Chicago Law School. He reminds us that not so long ago, urban crime, especially in minority neighborhoods, was horrific. In New York City, 2,000 homicides a year was considered the norm in the 1980s and 1990s; last year there were 328. As Comey notes, “White people weren’t dying; black people were dying. Most white people could drive around the problem. If you were white and not involved in the drug trade as a buyer or a seller, you were largely apart from the violence.”
looks like you have not read DEA supervisor Mike Levine's book White Lies
about the CIA and local cops bringing heroin into our communities.
Yep DEA agent Celerino Castillo wrote about this in Powder Burns.
Yep Gary Webb
wrote about it.
Ditto for LAPD narcotics detective Mike Ruppert.
Monday, September 7, 2015
The Real Afghanistan Surge is in Heroin Production and Tripled Opium Cultivation since the US military arrived/ UN and US Government documents
Recently I worked in another Maine city and was astonished at the number of patients I encountered who were using heroin. I had never seen anything like it, during a lifetime practicing medicine. In New Hampshire, it was said, deaths from heroin now exceed deaths from car accidents. Massachusetts (population under 7 million) had 1,000 deaths related to (all) opioids in 2014, "the highest ever recorded." According to CDC, in the two years between 2010 and 2012, heroin overdose rates in the Northeast (where I live) tripled.
The US now has 600,000 heroin users, triple the amount of five years earlier, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency. Or it may have between 800,000 and 2.6 million, according to RAND report estimates published by the White House in 2014.
I've heard stories on NPR about insufficient state funding of heroin treatment facilities. I've heard about plans to make Narcan injections available to iv drug users, for overdoses. Another popular angle I've seen repeated over and over (and one currently pushed by the US Drug Enforcement Agency and the White House Office on National Drug Control Policy) claims legal prescriptions for narcotics increased, then became harder to get, so users switched to heroin, which was also cheaper.
Marijuana used to be claimed the "entry" drug to heroin, but now prescription narcotics have assumed that role. How times change. The narrative we have been given is that a massive increase in heroin use has nothing to do with increased supply. (This violates the laws of arithmetic and economics, not to mention common sense.)
If increased prescriptions for controlled substances was the primary cause of the heroin epidemic, then Americans would also be using more cocaine. The massive increase in ADHD drug prescriptions (presumed "entry" drugs for cocaine) should have caused a cocaine explosion.
While prescriptions for narcotics (hydrocodone and oxycodone) increased 4.5-fold between 1991 and 2007 in the US, prescriptions for ADHD stimulants rose even more, by 7-fold, according to National Institute on Drug Abuse testimony to Congress in 2008:
Total number of prescriptions dispensed by US retail pharmacies - shows trends increasing from 1991 to 2007, see caption
But in fact, the DOJ-DEA 2014 National Drug Threat Assessment Summary notes that cocaine availability "remains stable at historically low levels throughout most domestic markets along the East Coast." So prescription drug users are switching to heroin, but not switching to cocaine. Hmmm. Might this be because we have no large military-CIA presence currently in cocaine-trafficking areas, as we did during the 1980s Contra war in Nicaragua, when cocaine use was at high levels? (Coca plants are only grown in South America's Andes.) According to a 2010 UN document, "Based on seizure figures, it appears that cocaine markets grew most dramatically during the 1980s, when the amounts seized increased by more than 40% per year". (See this 1987 Senate hearing and this for evidence of CIA and State Dept. connivance with cocaine trafficking by the Contras.)
You can frame stories about the current heroin problem in many ways. But the real heroin story isn't being discussed--which is that since the US military entered Afghanistan in 2001, its opium production doubled, per the UN Afghanistan Opium Survey 2014, page 34. The area under opium cultivation in Afghanistan has tripled. And the resulting heroin appears to more easily make its way deep into our rural, as well as urban communities. CDC noted, "Between 2002 and 2013, the rate of heroin-related overdose deaths nearly quadrupled, and more than 8,200 people died in 2013."
The graph below is from the 2014 UN Opium Survey:
The world supply of opium increased 5-fold between 1980 and 2010, according to the UN."Afghanistan account for around 90% of global illicit opium production in recent years. By itself, Afghanistan provides 85% of the estimated global heroin and morphine supply, a near monopoly."(see pp 37-38).
“The narcotics trade poisons the Afghan financial sector and undermines the Afghan state’s legitimacy by stoking corruption, sustaining criminal networks, and providing significant financial support to the Taliban and other insurgent groups,” John F. Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan reconstruction, said in an October 2014 letter to the heads of the Departments of Defense, State and Justice, which have all played major roles in the failed drug intervention effort. “Despite spending over $7 billion to combat opium poppy cultivation and to develop the Afghan government’s counter-narcotics capacity, opium poppy cultivation levels in Afghanistan hit an all-time high in 2013."
Despite the (now) US $8.4 billion spent to defeat this trade, it just keeps growing. The costs of US reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan total "$110 billion, after adjusting for inflation, [which] exceeds the value of the entire Marshall Plan effort to rebuild Western Europe after World War II" according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, speaking in May 2015.
The Special Inspector General noted elsewhere that, "US reconstruction projects, particularly those devoted to “improved irrigation, roads, and agricultural assistance” were probably leading to the explosion in opium cultivation."
Only 1.2% of the acreage used for Afghan opium production (which is estimated at 224,000 hectares or 554,000 acres) was eradicated in 2014, according to the UN. Burma is the world's second largest producer of opium, according to the UN, currently growing only about 10% as much as Afghanistan. But Mexico has been increasing production and is #3.
According to the UN World Drug Report, in the 1990's Afghanistan supplied opium that was converted into half the world's heroin production. According to University of Wisconsin Professor Alfred McCoy, the rapid 1980s rise in Afghani opium production came about through CIA efforts to create, arm and fund the mujahedeen using opium sales. (After defeating the Soviets in Afghanistan the mujahedeen morphed into Al Qaeda). By 2010, Afghanistan supplied 90% of the world's total heroin.
But the DEA, White House and other official US sources claim that US heroin derives almost entirely (96%) from Latin American-grown opium (based on seizures of shipments); the DEA in 2014 claimed that Latin America was the source for the vast majority of US heroin, with southwest Asia (i.e., Afghanistan) accounting for only 4% of US heroin in 2012.
This is highly unlikely. In 2008, the UN estimated that the US and Canada accounted for 13% of global heroin use. Ninety-five percent of global heroin derives from Afghanistan, Burma, Thailand and Laos. Latin America (mainly Mexico, with a small amount from Colombia) does not produce enough to supply the majority of US heroin, let alone 96%. In fact, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy undercut its own claim when it noted Mexico had (only) 10,500 hectares under poppy cultivation in 2012 and Colombia 1,100 hectares in 2009, while Afghanistan had 154,000 hectares in 2012 and 224,000 hectares in 2014 per UN estimates.
This DEA claim, based on heroin interdiction, suggests something entirely different: that heroin shipments coming by air from Afghanistan are at lower risk of being seized than heroin coming from Latin America. Might some be entering via official government channels, when so much materiel and so many people (soldiers, aid workers, diplomats and contractors) fly directly between the US and Afghanistan? [At the same time, some Afghan-origin heroin does enter the US by way of Mexico.]
Putting aside the issue of the provenance of the US heroin supply for the moment, surely we can look at heroin as we would any other global commodity.
Congruent with the 1980s mujahedeen fight against the Soviets [here is the blameless UN phrasing: "...the Soviet invasion in 1979, [which] triggered the mass production of opiates in Afghanistan"] and then -- in a repeat performance -- congruent with the US presence in Afghanistan since 2001, Afghanistan rapidly expanded opium production, and the global supply of heroin increased concomitantly. The price dropped as a result. New buyers entered the market. And the US now has several hundred thousand new addicts. Russia and the rest of Europe (with overland access to Afghanistan) have even more. The resulting social problems are hugely tragic and hugely costly for millions of families, and for our societies as a whole.
If we start being honest about why there is a major heroin epidemic, maybe we can get serious about solving the problem with meaningful eradication and interdiction. Aerial spraying of crops with herbicides or similar methods has been prohibited in Afghanistan, but it works. In 2014, Britain's former Ambassador to Afghanistan (2010-2012) called for legalization and regulation of illicit drugs as one means of attacking the problem.
Looking beyond the Mexican border for heroin, and inspecting all flights from southwest Asia, including military and CIA flights, could have a large impact on supply as well.
Serious measures are needed. Total world production of opiates always gets consumed: historically, the market for opiates has been extremely elastic. Land under poppy cultivation (in Afghanistan, Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle and Mexico) continues to increase. Without meaningful efforts to reduce opium production and entry of narcotics into the US, the epidemic of heroin addiction could become a considerably bigger problem than it is today.
UPDATE: From the Sept 7 Wall Street Journal, we learn that a US "friendly fire" airstrike in southern Afghanistan on Sept 6 "hit a 30 member elite counternarcotics police unit as they were on a mission..."
At least 11 died in "one of the deadliest friendly fire incidents in the country in recent years." Here is the Reuters story. The US denied the strike in Helmand province, but admitted to airstrikes in the adjacent province of Kandahar. According to the Guardian, "The US is the only member of the NATO coalition known to have carried out bombing raids in Afghanistan this year." The AP/WaPo on 9/8/15 reported that, "Brigadier General Shoffner [Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications in Afghanistan] said 'based on information we received [on 9/8], we feel it is prudent to investigate the airstrike our forces conducted in Kandahar.'"
The airstrike killed approximately as many people as died in counternarcotics efforts in all Afghanistan throughout 2014.
UPDATE: Helmand is the major opium-producing province in Afghanistan; military efforts in Helmand are managed primarily by the UK. In 2010, the magazine The Week accused UK soldiers of importing heroin back to Europe and Canada in military planes.
I will have more to say about the subject of heroin in a later post. Let me credit Professor Alfred McCoy's work, which provided me historical background: he is probably the world's foremost scholar on the subject of the global production and trade in illicit drugs.
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How the FBI Tried to Block Martin Luther King’s Commencement Speech
The untold story of a government plot, a maverick college president, and the most important
Jun 11, 2014
Their one and only meeting lasted barely a minute. On March 26, 1964, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X came to Washington to observe the beginning of the Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act. They shook hands. They smiled for the cameras. As they parted, Malcolm said jokingly, “Now you’re going to get investigated.”
That, of course, was well underway. Ever since Attorney General Robert Kennedy had approved FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s request in October 1963, King had been the target of extraordinary wiretapping sanctioned by his own government. By this point, five months later, the taps were overflowing with data from King’s home, his office, and the hotel rooms where he stayed.
Henry Griffin/AP Photo
The data the FBI mined—initially about King’s associations with Communists and later about his sexual life—was used in an attempt to, depending on your point of view, protect the country or destroy the civil rights leader. Hoover and his associates tried to get “highlights” to the press, the president, even Pope Paul VI. So pervasive was this effort that it extended all the way to the small campus in Western Massachusetts, Springfield College, where I have taught journalism for the past 15 years.
In early 1964, King was invited by Springfield President Glenn Olds to receive an honorary degree and deliver the commencement address on June 14. But just days after King accepted the invitation, the FBI tried to get the college to rescind it. The Bureau asked Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall, a corporator of Springfield College, to lean on Olds to “uninvite” King, based on damning details from the wiretap.
related story
The FBI and Martin Luther King
“I'm trying to wait until things cool off,” King said, “until this civil rights debate is over—as long as they may be tapping these phones, you know."
Read the full story by David Garrow in the July/August 2002 Atlantic
King’s biographers have recorded little about this episode. Neither David Garrow nor Taylor Branch—who both won Pulitzers for books about King—ever mentioned Glenn Olds by name or title. Saltonstall is relegated to a one-sentence footnote in Garrow’s The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr., a groundbreaking 1981 book that unmasked the Bureau’s extensive surveillance of the civil rights leader. In the hardcover edition of Branch’s 2006 book, At Canaan’s Edge, the third volume of a towering trilogy about America in the King years that took more than two decades to create, the renowned historian wrote that Saltonstall had “helped block an honorary degree at Springfield College, by spreading the FBI’s clandestine allegations that King was a philandering, subversive fraud.”
There was just one problem with this lively statement. Nobody blocked an honorary degree for Martin Luther King at Springfield College.
It was a small lapse by a formidable researcher and masterful storyteller. But lurking beneath this mistake is a great and almost entirely untold story about the most important figure of the civil rights era and a maverick college president facing his moment of truth.
The students in Springfield’s class of 1964 lived a Forrest Gump-like connection with U.S. history. Born just after the attack on Pearl Harbor, they came to college at the dawn of a new decade. In the fall of their freshman year, Massachusetts’ native son John F. Kennedy appeared at a rally in downtown Springfield one day, and got elected president of the United States the next. In the fall of their senior year, they flocked to the few black-and-white televisions on campus to join America’s grim vigil when JFK was shot. The following June, they expected to turn their tassels from right to left in the presence of Martin Luther King.
For most of their college days, there was an innocence to this group of American youth, at a time just before the ’60s became The Sixties. During their freshman year, they wore beanies. Their social worlds included hootenannies, panty raids, and carefully regulated visiting hours in single-sex dorms, with strict rules of “doors open, feet on the floor.” Many students of the almost exclusively white class learned The Twist from Barry Brooks, a popular “Negro” student from Washington, D.C., who earned election to the Campus Activities Board.
These students, at the tail end of the so-called “Silent Generation,” were less inclined to question authority or conventional wisdom than their younger siblings would later be. They’d also chosen to attend Springfield College, an old YMCA school, known as the birthplace of basketball and best regarded at the time for producing wholesome teachers of physical education. “It was,” says Barry Brooks, “sort of an apple pie kind of place.”
Members of the class were only vaguely familiar with Glenn Olds, who served as college president from 1958 to 1965. He was a trim and conservatively dressed man with receding blond hair and an engaging grin. He sometimes hosted groups of students at his on-campus house, serving apples, cheese, and water. He never drank alcohol or caffeine. He began each morning with calisthenics.
Glenn Olds meets with Nigerian students at Springfield College in 1963. (Springfield College Archives)
But there was nothing drab about him. Olds was a man marked by dazzling dualities. Raised by a Mormon mother and a Catholic father, he became a Methodist minister. Working from a young age as a logger and a ranch hand, he went on to get a Ph.D. from Yale, penning his dissertation on “The Nature of Moral Insight.” While at Springfield, he maintained an office in Washington, working on progressive programs for Democratic presidents—the Peace Corps for Kennedy and VISTA for Johnson—but later worked full-time for Nixon
Education
How the FBI Tried to Block Martin Luther King’s Commencement Speech
The untold story of a government plot, a maverick college president, and the most important
Jun 11, 2014
Their one and only meeting lasted barely a minute. On March 26, 1964, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X came to Washington to observe the beginning of the Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act. They shook hands. They smiled for the cameras. As they parted, Malcolm said jokingly, “Now you’re going to get investigated.”
That, of course, was well underway. Ever since Attorney General Robert Kennedy had approved FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s request in October 1963, King had been the target of extraordinary wiretapping sanctioned by his own government. By this point, five months later, the taps were overflowing with data from King’s home, his office, and the hotel rooms where he stayed.
Henry Griffin/AP Photo
The data the FBI mined—initially about King’s associations with Communists and later about his sexual life—was used in an attempt to, depending on your point of view, protect the country or destroy the civil rights leader. Hoover and his associates tried to get “highlights” to the press, the president, even Pope Paul VI. So pervasive was this effort that it extended all the way to the small campus in Western Massachusetts, Springfield College, where I have taught journalism for the past 15 years.
In early 1964, King was invited by Springfield President Glenn Olds to receive an honorary degree and deliver the commencement address on June 14. But just days after King accepted the invitation, the FBI tried to get the college to rescind it. The Bureau asked Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall, a corporator of Springfield College, to lean on Olds to “uninvite” King, based on damning details from the wiretap.
related story
The FBI and Martin Luther King
“I'm trying to wait until things cool off,” King said, “until this civil rights debate is over—as long as they may be tapping these phones, you know."
Read the full story by David Garrow in the July/August 2002 Atlantic
King’s biographers have recorded little about this episode. Neither David Garrow nor Taylor Branch—who both won Pulitzers for books about King—ever mentioned Glenn Olds by name or title. Saltonstall is relegated to a one-sentence footnote in Garrow’s The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr., a groundbreaking 1981 book that unmasked the Bureau’s extensive surveillance of the civil rights leader. In the hardcover edition of Branch’s 2006 book, At Canaan’s Edge, the third volume of a towering trilogy about America in the King years that took more than two decades to create, the renowned historian wrote that Saltonstall had “helped block an honorary degree at Springfield College, by spreading the FBI’s clandestine allegations that King was a philandering, subversive fraud.”
There was just one problem with this lively statement. Nobody blocked an honorary degree for Martin Luther King at Springfield College.
It was a small lapse by a formidable researcher and masterful storyteller. But lurking beneath this mistake is a great and almost entirely untold story about the most important figure of the civil rights era and a maverick college president facing his moment of truth.
The students in Springfield’s class of 1964 lived a Forrest Gump-like connection with U.S. history. Born just after the attack on Pearl Harbor, they came to college at the dawn of a new decade. In the fall of their freshman year, Massachusetts’ native son John F. Kennedy appeared at a rally in downtown Springfield one day, and got elected president of the United States the next. In the fall of their senior year, they flocked to the few black-and-white televisions on campus to join America’s grim vigil when JFK was shot. The following June, they expected to turn their tassels from right to left in the presence of Martin Luther King.
For most of their college days, there was an innocence to this group of American youth, at a time just before the ’60s became The Sixties. During their freshman year, they wore beanies. Their social worlds included hootenannies, panty raids, and carefully regulated visiting hours in single-sex dorms, with strict rules of “doors open, feet on the floor.” Many students of the almost exclusively white class learned The Twist from Barry Brooks, a popular “Negro” student from Washington, D.C., who earned election to the Campus Activities Board.
These students, at the tail end of the so-called “Silent Generation,” were less inclined to question authority or conventional wisdom than their younger siblings would later be. They’d also chosen to attend Springfield College, an old YMCA school, known as the birthplace of basketball and best regarded at the time for producing wholesome teachers of physical education. “It was,” says Barry Brooks, “sort of an apple pie kind of place.”
Members of the class were only vaguely familiar with Glenn Olds, who served as college president from 1958 to 1965. He was a trim and conservatively dressed man with receding blond hair and an engaging grin. He sometimes hosted groups of students at his on-campus house, serving apples, cheese, and water. He never drank alcohol or caffeine. He began each morning with calisthenics.
Glenn Olds meets with Nigerian students at Springfield College in 1963. (Springfield College Archives)
But there was nothing drab about him. Olds was a man marked by dazzling dualities. Raised by a Mormon mother and a Catholic father, he became a Methodist minister. Working from a young age as a logger and a ranch hand, he went on to get a Ph.D. from Yale, penning his dissertation on “The Nature of Moral Insight.” While at Springfield, he maintained an office in Washington, working on progressive programs for Democratic presidents—the Peace Corps for Kennedy and VISTA for Johnson—but later worked full-time for Nixon
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When states charge for public defenders, poor defendants are doomed
Making indigent people on trial pay for bad representation helps ensure they won’t be well defended – and their inability to pay up is another legal ding
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We are creating an infinite regression that traps poor Americans in the justice system. Photograph: Alexander Kozachok/Getty Images
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We usually lay blame at the feet of wardens and corrections officers for inmate recidivism. They didn’t offer enough treatment. The staff is abusive. Prisoners are discharged without education or job skills.
But the creeping trend toward requiring indigent defendants in the US legal system to pay for public defenders proves that recidivism starts before any defendants even hit a correctional facility – and that it springs directly from the process that was designed to defend them. They receive substandard representation that essentially guarantees convictions and incarceration. They are saddled with the bills for this representation and incarceration and then it becomes a crime not to pay them.
Donate blood or go to jail: when did US judges become vampires?
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Since 1963, when the US supreme court decided Gideon v Wainwright, any defendant who can’t afford an attorney is entitled to have one appointed to protect the right to counsel as provided in the sixth amendment of the US constitution.
While the phrase “absolutely free” doesn’t appear in any of the supreme court decisions on the right to counsel, neither do the phrases “at cost” or “on layaway”. Public defenders are supposed to be appointed at no cost to the defendant – not because of a legal requirement, but out of fairness and common sense, to give everyone equal access to t
When states charge for public defenders, poor defendants are doomed
Making indigent people on trial pay for bad representation helps ensure they won’t be well defended – and their inability to pay up is another legal ding
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We are creating an infinite regression that traps poor Americans in the justice system. Photograph: Alexander Kozachok/Getty Images
Monday 9 November 2015 07.15 EST
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We usually lay blame at the feet of wardens and corrections officers for inmate recidivism. They didn’t offer enough treatment. The staff is abusive. Prisoners are discharged without education or job skills.
But the creeping trend toward requiring indigent defendants in the US legal system to pay for public defenders proves that recidivism starts before any defendants even hit a correctional facility – and that it springs directly from the process that was designed to defend them. They receive substandard representation that essentially guarantees convictions and incarceration. They are saddled with the bills for this representation and incarceration and then it becomes a crime not to pay them.
Donate blood or go to jail: when did US judges become vampires?
Steven W Thrasher
Read more
Since 1963, when the US supreme court decided Gideon v Wainwright, any defendant who can’t afford an attorney is entitled to have one appointed to protect the right to counsel as provided in the sixth amendment of the US constitution.
While the phrase “absolutely free” doesn’t appear in any of the supreme court decisions on the right to counsel, neither do the phrases “at cost” or “on layaway”. Public defenders are supposed to be appointed at no cost to the defendant – not because of a legal requirement, but out of fairness and common sense, to give everyone equal access to t
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Victims' hopes for justice fade as rape kits are routinely ignored or destroyed
Tens of thousands of boxes have collected in ‘rape kit backlog’ as some states lack rules on how long evidence should be kept while some police departments destroy kits after a year
Tens of thousands of rape kits have created a ‘rape kit backlog’ over decades.
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Susan Kendrick Shuenemann was on the phone with her sister blocks from her new home in Savannah, Georgia, when a man interrupted and asked for directions. She didn’t know the area, and told him so.
She was watching him walk away when he turned, snapped his fingers and marched back. She turned away from him. Moments later she heard a pistol cock next to her head.
She said he forced her to the backyard of an abandoned house, made her undress, and shot her in the gut. He dragged her under the vacant building and raped her in a filthy crawlspace, she said. Then, he walked away.
She made her way to an ambulance hours later after performing a grim mental calculus: if she died right here, would her family find her?
“Just help me to survive it,” she thought when she passed out in the back of the ambulance. “Now, that would change over the course of time, because you become aware that it would have been easier to not have survived it.”
Shuenemann was just 19 years old then, a beauty school student in Savannah in 1985. She passed out for most of her ambulance ride and some time at the hospital, as doctors worked to remove a bullet that pierced her liver and colon, fragmented and lodged a quarter-inch from her spine.
She wouldn’t find out for nearly 20 years, working on another rape victim’s case at the Barrow County district attorney’s office, that doctors collected evidence in a rape kit that night, and that it made it all the way to the Georgia bureau of investigations. It would be almost two years more before she discovered it was destroyed, discarded by police in 1988. She said she reported her assault to police at the time, but her case was closed less than a year later. Savanah-Chatham police did not comment on Schuenemann’s allegations, despite multiple requests.
“There was always the question, and there’s still the question honestly, could it still exist somewhere? But I do believe that Savannah [police] and the GBI as well as the DA’s office have looked thoroughly,” she said. “I drove myself crazy for a couple years about it, because it was so hard to fathom. To find out it once existed, and to find out it was gone – it was devastating.”
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Her case is not uncommon.
For decades, tens of thousands of boxes of DNA evidence that nurses meticulously gathered from the bodies and clothing of sex assault victims sat stacked in storage rooms, ignored. Later, this mountain of untested evidence would be known as the “rape kit backlog”.
As scrutiny of disregarded rape kits mounted, a portrait of a more difficult to tally sort emerged – rape kits police destroyed. As with the rape kit backlog, there is no national tally of the kits police destroyed. But increasingly, local media have published reports of police destroying rape kits in states as disparate as Utah, Kentucky and Colorado.
In some cases, police destroyed kits because they deemed allegations unfounded, alleged that victims didn’t cooperate or arrested suspects without the benefit of DNA. In others, victims never filed a police report and relinquished DNA to a group of anonymous rape kits known as non-reporting or “Jane Doe” evidence, collected in case they one day decide they can report.
In 2013, in Aurora, Colorado, police department workers derailed a prosecution when they destroyed a rape kit from a 2009 assault. The error was discovered when a detective got a hit on an offender DNA profile, went to pick up the rape kit and was told it no longer existed. Shortly thereafter, police stopped all evidence destruction while they investigated, and found workers destroyed evidence in 48 rape cases between 2011 and 2013.
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In Salt Lake City, 222 of the 942 kits collected between 2004 and 2014 were destroyed. Of those, just 59 were tested and went to court.
In Hamilton County, Tennessee, sheriff’s employees destroyed rape kits with marijuana and cocaine from drug busts, angering the local prosecutor who said he wasn’t consulted.
In Kentucky, the state auditor discovered some police departments routinely destroyed rape kits after a year, even though the state had no statute of limitations for rape. The perpetrators could have been prosecuted as long as they were alive. He wouldn’t hazard a guess at how many kits had been destroyed by police.
“You may have a hit against the national DNA database, and when law enforcement or prosecutors are notified, [they] find out evidence has been destroyed,” said Kentucky state auditor Adam Edelen. “That’s a scandal – it’s a tragedy.”
The destruction of rape kits comes as lawmakers take a keen interest in adding arrestee DNA to CODIS (short for the Combined DNA Index System). That national database was designed to serve as a bank of DNA from both suspects and from crime scenes. Advocates, however, contend that the destruction of rape kits represents the nation’s prioritization of offender DNA over crime scene DNA.
“[What] we are seeing is very retarded movement in the testing of crime scene evidence. In other words, you can collect all the offender evidence you want; if you have nothing to compare it to – in other words, crime scene evidence – you’re going to solve very few crimes,” said Rebecca Brown, policy director at the Innocence Project. Studying evidence retention policies was one of her first projects when she started at the agency in 2005, she said.
Most state lawmakers, she said, fail to provide guidance on when to test and retain crime scene evidence, which in the case of a sexual assault is a rape kit.
Alabama, for example, collects DNA from everyone arrested for any felony, and from people arrested for some misdemeanor sex crimes. But the state has no statute governing how long police should keep DNA evidence collected from crime scenes, such as rape kits, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures and the National Center for Victims of Crime (both in 2013).
“We are seeing huge changes in policy around the collection of evidence from offenders: in other words, a huge increase in the collection of swabs of people,” she said.
Experts said about half of states have laws to tell police how long to preserve evidence, everything from DNA to handguns involved in serious crimes, but even those tend to focus on keeping evidence after conviction. That leaves unsolved crimes in legal limbo.
Contrast Alabama’s lack of a statute with Mississippi: there, evidence must be preserved for the length of time a crime is unsolved or until a convicted person is released from custody, the National Center for Victims of Crime reported. This kind of statute, advocates say, provides greater protection not just for victims of crimes but for the wrongfully convicted.
States lacking evidence retention laws are not split between liberal or conservative, nor are they geographically grouped. They span from Vermont to Tennessee and from Pennsylvania to Utah.
“There is no rhyme or reason,” said Brown. “We can’t even divine a pattern to share with you. We’ve seen good laws in states like Texas … My home state [of New York] has no [evidence] preservation law, so there’s just an incredible mix.”
One kind of kit in particular, called a “non-reporting” or “Jane Doe” kit, is particularly vulnerable to destruction. Beginning in 2009, the Violence Against Women Act required states accepting grant money to provide a way for women to undergo a rape exam without reporting a crime to police. VAWA also allowed states to determine how long to keep those kits, who offers them and where they are kept.
The provision, meant to encourage rape victims to preserve evidence, even if they weren’t ready to report, means that thousands of anonymous kits sit untested in rape crisis centers, hospitals and police departments for as little as a month or indefinitely.
For example, in Florida, policies for how long to keep anonymous rape kits varied widely between crisis centers where they were collected. As of 2009, kits at a Tampa Bay Area clinic were kept for as little as 30 days, but kits from victims in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties will be held for up to four years by the sheriff’s department, according to data collected by the Florida Council Against Sexual Violence.
Shuenemann said her case was closed within nine months of the incident, after she couldn’t identify her perpetrator from dozens of mugshots. A former police chief, Michael Berkow, told the Denver Post in 2007 that the loss of her evidence was a failure.
“Think about all of the cases, not just rape but any form of sexual assault, murder, all the cases where evidence has not
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Tens of thousands of boxes have collected in ‘rape kit backlog’ as some states lack rules on how long evidence should be kept while some police departments destroy kits after a year
Tens of thousands of rape kits have created a ‘rape kit backlog’ over decades.
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Susan Kendrick Shuenemann was on the phone with her sister blocks from her new home in Savannah, Georgia, when a man interrupted and asked for directions. She didn’t know the area, and told him so.
She was watching him walk away when he turned, snapped his fingers and marched back. She turned away from him. Moments later she heard a pistol cock next to her head.
She said he forced her to the backyard of an abandoned house, made her undress, and shot her in the gut. He dragged her under the vacant building and raped her in a filthy crawlspace, she said. Then, he walked away.
She made her way to an ambulance hours later after performing a grim mental calculus: if she died right here, would her family find her?
“Just help me to survive it,” she thought when she passed out in the back of the ambulance. “Now, that would change over the course of time, because you become aware that it would have been easier to not have survived it.”
Shuenemann was just 19 years old then, a beauty school student in Savannah in 1985. She passed out for most of her ambulance ride and some time at the hospital, as doctors worked to remove a bullet that pierced her liver and colon, fragmented and lodged a quarter-inch from her spine.
She wouldn’t find out for nearly 20 years, working on another rape victim’s case at the Barrow County district attorney’s office, that doctors collected evidence in a rape kit that night, and that it made it all the way to the Georgia bureau of investigations. It would be almost two years more before she discovered it was destroyed, discarded by police in 1988. She said she reported her assault to police at the time, but her case was closed less than a year later. Savanah-Chatham police did not comment on Schuenemann’s allegations, despite multiple requests.
“There was always the question, and there’s still the question honestly, could it still exist somewhere? But I do believe that Savannah [police] and the GBI as well as the DA’s office have looked thoroughly,” she said. “I drove myself crazy for a couple years about it, because it was so hard to fathom. To find out it once existed, and to find out it was gone – it was devastating.”
Advertisement
Her case is not uncommon.
For decades, tens of thousands of boxes of DNA evidence that nurses meticulously gathered from the bodies and clothing of sex assault victims sat stacked in storage rooms, ignored. Later, this mountain of untested evidence would be known as the “rape kit backlog”.
As scrutiny of disregarded rape kits mounted, a portrait of a more difficult to tally sort emerged – rape kits police destroyed. As with the rape kit backlog, there is no national tally of the kits police destroyed. But increasingly, local media have published reports of police destroying rape kits in states as disparate as Utah, Kentucky and Colorado.
In some cases, police destroyed kits because they deemed allegations unfounded, alleged that victims didn’t cooperate or arrested suspects without the benefit of DNA. In others, victims never filed a police report and relinquished DNA to a group of anonymous rape kits known as non-reporting or “Jane Doe” evidence, collected in case they one day decide they can report.
In 2013, in Aurora, Colorado, police department workers derailed a prosecution when they destroyed a rape kit from a 2009 assault. The error was discovered when a detective got a hit on an offender DNA profile, went to pick up the rape kit and was told it no longer existed. Shortly thereafter, police stopped all evidence destruction while they investigated, and found workers destroyed evidence in 48 rape cases between 2011 and 2013.
Advertisement
In Salt Lake City, 222 of the 942 kits collected between 2004 and 2014 were destroyed. Of those, just 59 were tested and went to court.
In Hamilton County, Tennessee, sheriff’s employees destroyed rape kits with marijuana and cocaine from drug busts, angering the local prosecutor who said he wasn’t consulted.
In Kentucky, the state auditor discovered some police departments routinely destroyed rape kits after a year, even though the state had no statute of limitations for rape. The perpetrators could have been prosecuted as long as they were alive. He wouldn’t hazard a guess at how many kits had been destroyed by police.
“You may have a hit against the national DNA database, and when law enforcement or prosecutors are notified, [they] find out evidence has been destroyed,” said Kentucky state auditor Adam Edelen. “That’s a scandal – it’s a tragedy.”
The destruction of rape kits comes as lawmakers take a keen interest in adding arrestee DNA to CODIS (short for the Combined DNA Index System). That national database was designed to serve as a bank of DNA from both suspects and from crime scenes. Advocates, however, contend that the destruction of rape kits represents the nation’s prioritization of offender DNA over crime scene DNA.
“[What] we are seeing is very retarded movement in the testing of crime scene evidence. In other words, you can collect all the offender evidence you want; if you have nothing to compare it to – in other words, crime scene evidence – you’re going to solve very few crimes,” said Rebecca Brown, policy director at the Innocence Project. Studying evidence retention policies was one of her first projects when she started at the agency in 2005, she said.
Most state lawmakers, she said, fail to provide guidance on when to test and retain crime scene evidence, which in the case of a sexual assault is a rape kit.
Alabama, for example, collects DNA from everyone arrested for any felony, and from people arrested for some misdemeanor sex crimes. But the state has no statute governing how long police should keep DNA evidence collected from crime scenes, such as rape kits, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures and the National Center for Victims of Crime (both in 2013).
“We are seeing huge changes in policy around the collection of evidence from offenders: in other words, a huge increase in the collection of swabs of people,” she said.
Experts said about half of states have laws to tell police how long to preserve evidence, everything from DNA to handguns involved in serious crimes, but even those tend to focus on keeping evidence after conviction. That leaves unsolved crimes in legal limbo.
Contrast Alabama’s lack of a statute with Mississippi: there, evidence must be preserved for the length of time a crime is unsolved or until a convicted person is released from custody, the National Center for Victims of Crime reported. This kind of statute, advocates say, provides greater protection not just for victims of crimes but for the wrongfully convicted.
States lacking evidence retention laws are not split between liberal or conservative, nor are they geographically grouped. They span from Vermont to Tennessee and from Pennsylvania to Utah.
“There is no rhyme or reason,” said Brown. “We can’t even divine a pattern to share with you. We’ve seen good laws in states like Texas … My home state [of New York] has no [evidence] preservation law, so there’s just an incredible mix.”
One kind of kit in particular, called a “non-reporting” or “Jane Doe” kit, is particularly vulnerable to destruction. Beginning in 2009, the Violence Against Women Act required states accepting grant money to provide a way for women to undergo a rape exam without reporting a crime to police. VAWA also allowed states to determine how long to keep those kits, who offers them and where they are kept.
The provision, meant to encourage rape victims to preserve evidence, even if they weren’t ready to report, means that thousands of anonymous kits sit untested in rape crisis centers, hospitals and police departments for as little as a month or indefinitely.
For example, in Florida, policies for how long to keep anonymous rape kits varied widely between crisis centers where they were collected. As of 2009, kits at a Tampa Bay Area clinic were kept for as little as 30 days, but kits from victims in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties will be held for up to four years by the sheriff’s department, according to data collected by the Florida Council Against Sexual Violence.
Shuenemann said her case was closed within nine months of the incident, after she couldn’t identify her perpetrator from dozens of mugshots. A former police chief, Michael Berkow, told the Denver Post in 2007 that the loss of her evidence was a failure.
“Think about all of the cases, not just rape but any form of sexual assault, murder, all the cases where evidence has not
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couple of stories
1.
Bernard F. 'Bernie' Norton Sr., retired FBI agent who later headed Internal Investigation Division for city police, dies
Bernard Norton, Sr.
Bernard F. "Bernie" Norton Sr. was a retired career FBI agent from Lutherville. (handout / Baltimore Sun)
Frederick N. RasmussenFrederick N. RasmussenContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun
Bernard F. "Bernie" Norton Sr. served with the FBI, Navy and Baltimore Police Department.
Bernard F. "Bernie" Norton Sr., a retired career FBI agent who later served as head of the Internal Investigation Division of the Baltimore Police Department, died Friday of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at HeartHomes in Lutherville. He was 97.
Bernard Francis Norton Sr.
2.
How deep are the problems in Baltimore's police department ...
There's obviously a severe problem in the Baltimore Police Department, and it needs to be addressed now The decision by Baltimore State's Atty. Marilyn J. Mosby to ...
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Baltimore's Real Police Problem: Unions
In Baltimore, the government is confronted with a choice between two constituencies: unions and people in need.
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Shields and Brooks on Baltimore police problems - PBS NewsHour
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week's news, including charges against Baltimore ...
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Baltimore Police Chief: 'We Are Part Of The Problem'
Baltimore Police Chief Anthony Batts admitted a lot of the tension between the public and the police comes from a distrust in "law enforcement as a whole ...
[Search domain m.huffingtonpost.com] m.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/06/baltimore-police_n_7223858.html
Whistleblower cop on problems with Baltimore P.D. | MSNBC
Former Baltimore P.D. Detective Joe Crystal was labeled a rat after turning in a fellow officer who beat a handcuffed suspect. He joined Chris Hayes to weigh in on ...
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3.
psssst!
The figure of 200,000 unsolved murders is actually much,much higher.
The police do not declare a missing person a murder until the body is found.
Over 90,000 persons go missing each year.
Is that another 90,000 murders?
see.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... /16110709/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/30/395069137 ... unresolved" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Open Cases: Why One-Third Of Murders In America Go Unresolved
March 30, 2015 5:04 AM ET
Morning Edition
7:03
Detective Mark Williams (right) speaks with an officer in Richmond, Va. A decade ago, amid a surge in violent crime, Richmond police were identifying relatively few murder suspects. So the police department refocused its efforts to bring up its "clearance rate."
Detective Mark Williams (right) speaks with an officer in Richmond, Va. A decade ago, amid a surge in violent crime, Richmond police were identifying relatively few murder suspects. So the police department refocused its efforts to bring up its "clearance rate."
Alex Matzke for NPR
If you're murdered in America, there's a 1 in 3 chance that the police won't identify your killer.
A Story In Two Parts
Martin Kaste reported this audio story in two parts on Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Listen to Part 1 above. To hear Part 2, click the audio link below.
To Catch Up On Unsolved Murders, Detroit Detectives Mine Cold Cases
6:42
E
To use the FBI's terminology, the national "clearance rate" for homicide today is 64.1 percent. Fifty years ago, it was more than 90 percent.
And that's worse than it sounds, because "clearance" doesn't equal conviction: It's just the term that police use to describe cases that end with an arrest, or in which a culprit is otherwise identified without the possibility of arrest — if the suspect has died, for example.
Criminologists estimate that at least 200,000 murders have gone unsolved since the 1960s, leaving family and friends to wait and wonder.
"It's like the boogeyman," says Delicia Turner. Her husband, Anthony Glover, was found murdered — along with a friend — in Boston in 2009. Police never made an arrest. She says the open case preys on her mind. "You don't know if you're walki
1.
Bernard F. 'Bernie' Norton Sr., retired FBI agent who later headed Internal Investigation Division for city police, dies
Bernard Norton, Sr.
Bernard F. "Bernie" Norton Sr. was a retired career FBI agent from Lutherville. (handout / Baltimore Sun)
Frederick N. RasmussenFrederick N. RasmussenContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun
Bernard F. "Bernie" Norton Sr. served with the FBI, Navy and Baltimore Police Department.
Bernard F. "Bernie" Norton Sr., a retired career FBI agent who later served as head of the Internal Investigation Division of the Baltimore Police Department, died Friday of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at HeartHomes in Lutherville. He was 97.
Bernard Francis Norton Sr.
2.
How deep are the problems in Baltimore's police department ...
There's obviously a severe problem in the Baltimore Police Department, and it needs to be addressed now The decision by Baltimore State's Atty. Marilyn J. Mosby to ...
[Search domain http://www.latimes.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;] latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-baltimore-201505...
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Baltimore's Real Police Problem: Unions
In Baltimore, the government is confronted with a choice between two constituencies: unions and people in need.
[Search domain thefederalist.com] thefederalist.com/2015/05/12/baltimores-real-police-problem...
Shields and Brooks on Baltimore police problems - PBS NewsHour
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week's news, including charges against Baltimore ...
[Search domain http://www.pbs.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;] pbs.org/newshour/bb/brooks-shields-baltimore-poli...
Baltimore Police Chief: 'We Are Part Of The Problem'
Baltimore Police Chief Anthony Batts admitted a lot of the tension between the public and the police comes from a distrust in "law enforcement as a whole ...
[Search domain m.huffingtonpost.com] m.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/06/baltimore-police_n_7223858.html
Whistleblower cop on problems with Baltimore P.D. | MSNBC
Former Baltimore P.D. Detective Joe Crystal was labeled a rat after turning in a fellow officer who beat a handcuffed suspect. He joined Chris Hayes to weigh in on ...
[Search domain http://www.msnbc.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;] msnbc.com/all-in/watch/whistleblower-cop-on-problem...
3.
psssst!
The figure of 200,000 unsolved murders is actually much,much higher.
The police do not declare a missing person a murder until the body is found.
Over 90,000 persons go missing each year.
Is that another 90,000 murders?
see.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... /16110709/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/30/395069137 ... unresolved" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Open Cases: Why One-Third Of Murders In America Go Unresolved
March 30, 2015 5:04 AM ET
Morning Edition
7:03
Detective Mark Williams (right) speaks with an officer in Richmond, Va. A decade ago, amid a surge in violent crime, Richmond police were identifying relatively few murder suspects. So the police department refocused its efforts to bring up its "clearance rate."
Detective Mark Williams (right) speaks with an officer in Richmond, Va. A decade ago, amid a surge in violent crime, Richmond police were identifying relatively few murder suspects. So the police department refocused its efforts to bring up its "clearance rate."
Alex Matzke for NPR
If you're murdered in America, there's a 1 in 3 chance that the police won't identify your killer.
A Story In Two Parts
Martin Kaste reported this audio story in two parts on Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Listen to Part 1 above. To hear Part 2, click the audio link below.
To Catch Up On Unsolved Murders, Detroit Detectives Mine Cold Cases
6:42
E
To use the FBI's terminology, the national "clearance rate" for homicide today is 64.1 percent. Fifty years ago, it was more than 90 percent.
And that's worse than it sounds, because "clearance" doesn't equal conviction: It's just the term that police use to describe cases that end with an arrest, or in which a culprit is otherwise identified without the possibility of arrest — if the suspect has died, for example.
Criminologists estimate that at least 200,000 murders have gone unsolved since the 1960s, leaving family and friends to wait and wonder.
"It's like the boogeyman," says Delicia Turner. Her husband, Anthony Glover, was found murdered — along with a friend — in Boston in 2009. Police never made an arrest. She says the open case preys on her mind. "You don't know if you're walki
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Police union calls LAPD's new Preservation of Life medal 'a terrible idea'
Charlie Beck
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck during a criminal justice reform forum in Washington on Oct. 22.
Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck's comments didn't draw much attention -- at first.
In his weekly remarks to the Police Commission on Tuesday, the chief announced that the LAPD would award a new medal this year to officers who showed "commendable restraint" during situations where they might otherwise use deadly force.
See the most-read stories this hour >>
The Preservation of Life medal, Beck said, would be a top department honor, on the same level as the prestigious Medal of Valor. During a time of intense national scrutiny of how police officers use deadly force, Beck said, he wanted to "recognize the many times that Los Angeles police officers are able to save lives by their restraint."
But not everyone agreed with the chief's move. The union that represents rank-and-file officers published a blog post later this week calling the award a "terrible idea that will put officers in even more danger.
"This award will prioritize the lives of sus
Police union calls LAPD's new Preservation of Life medal 'a terrible idea'
Charlie Beck
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck during a criminal justice reform forum in Washington on Oct. 22.
Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck's comments didn't draw much attention -- at first.
In his weekly remarks to the Police Commission on Tuesday, the chief announced that the LAPD would award a new medal this year to officers who showed "commendable restraint" during situations where they might otherwise use deadly force.
See the most-read stories this hour >>
The Preservation of Life medal, Beck said, would be a top department honor, on the same level as the prestigious Medal of Valor. During a time of intense national scrutiny of how police officers use deadly force, Beck said, he wanted to "recognize the many times that Los Angeles police officers are able to save lives by their restraint."
But not everyone agreed with the chief's move. The union that represents rank-and-file officers published a blog post later this week calling the award a "terrible idea that will put officers in even more danger.
"This award will prioritize the lives of sus
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Barry Seal wasn’t starring in a Jason Borne movie
Posted on November 13, 2015 by Daniel Hopsicker
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As MCA Universal prepares a preemptive strike against America’s most important recent history—the public assassination of one of the original American Drug Lords in a movie starring a world- famous Scientologist playing a man outweighing him by a good hundred pounds—it may be time to stand up for what's left of the truth.
Barry Seal wasn’t starring in a Jason Borne movie
Posted on November 13, 2015 by Daniel Hopsicker
255170
As MCA Universal prepares a preemptive strike against America’s most important recent history—the public assassination of one of the original American Drug Lords in a movie starring a world- famous Scientologist playing a man outweighing him by a good hundred pounds—it may be time to stand up for what's left of the truth.
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Despite sound bites, presidential candidates are resisting the urge to polarize on police violence
In August, Sen. Marco Rubio called growing resentment in the African American community toward the criminal justice system "a legitimate issue." (John Raoux / Associated Press)
Are we heading back to the 1960s, when cities and campuses spiraled into chaos and conservatives won elections by demanding law and order? In a period that has seen riots over police conduct in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore, attacks on police officers in New York and other cities, and now student protests, it sometimes feels that way.
Last week, several Republican candidates sounded as if they were reviving the tough justice theme that helped Ronald Reagan and Richard M. Nixon rise to power almost half a century ago. Donald Trump derided university presidents who bow to student demands as “weak, ineffective people,” and said he wouldn't have quit if he had been in charge at the University of Missouri. Ben Carson warned that if society coddles students, “We will move much further toward anarchy than anybody can imagine.” And Chris Christie said it was all President Obama's fault: “This is a product of the president's own unwi
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la ... olumn.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Despite sound bites, presidential candidates are resisting the urge to polarize on police violence
In August, Sen. Marco Rubio called growing resentment in the African American community toward the criminal justice system "a legitimate issue." (John Raoux / Associated Press)
Are we heading back to the 1960s, when cities and campuses spiraled into chaos and conservatives won elections by demanding law and order? In a period that has seen riots over police conduct in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore, attacks on police officers in New York and other cities, and now student protests, it sometimes feels that way.
Last week, several Republican candidates sounded as if they were reviving the tough justice theme that helped Ronald Reagan and Richard M. Nixon rise to power almost half a century ago. Donald Trump derided university presidents who bow to student demands as “weak, ineffective people,” and said he wouldn't have quit if he had been in charge at the University of Missouri. Ben Carson warned that if society coddles students, “We will move much further toward anarchy than anybody can imagine.” And Chris Christie said it was all President Obama's fault: “This is a product of the president's own unwi
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Re: What does the smart criminal justice consumer do?
A large body of evidence exists that local,state and Federal law
enforcement has worked closely with the CIA to destabalize our cities
by bringing heroin and cocaine into our cities and towns
just Google CIA heroin cocaine
couple of stories, one about a DEA agent
one about a FBI agent
1.
Retired lawmen aid in defense of former federal agent
http://www.tbo.com/news/crime/retired-l ... -20151122/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Published: November 22, 2015
TAMPA — Former federal agent Robert Quinn pleaded guilty to a federal crime on Friday, but he still has the admiration and loyalty of fellow retired lawmen.
About 20 federal agents — most of them retired admire and respect Quinn so much, they chipped in to pay for Quinn’s legal defense, according to Bob Mazur, a retired U.S. Customs and Drug Enforcement Administration agent who organized the collection.
Retired DEA Agent Quinn, 58, of Largo admitted he lied to FBI agents to cover up the possible crimes of a friend who was another retired DEA agent. The friend had been handed a shopping bag with more than $200,000 in cash to help a convicted marijuana importer win release from prison, according
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Justice For John
Justice for wrongfully convicted retired FBI agent John Connolly
http://justiceforjohn.com/background-of-john-connolly/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Bio of John Connolly
John Connolly is proud of his having grown up in South Boston in a hard-working family of very modest means. Under such circumstances, he greatly appreciated the opportunity to attend and graduate from Boston College, to attend Suffolk Law School, and earn a graduate degree in Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Today he is married to a wonderful supportive wife, and is the proud father of three terrific teenage boys. It should be of no surprise given his background, that he became a highly decorated and respected FBI Special Agent for approximately 23 years. John retired from the FBI honorably in 1990, accepting the position of being the Director of Government Affairs for one of New England’s largest utilities.
John Connolly retired from the FBI with numerous commendations for his investigative accomplishments in the field of organized crime. These numerous commendations, documented in court records, included eight (8) personal commendations from every FBI Director, from J. Edgar Hoover to Judge William Sessions. To read the commendations click here.
John Connolly, for the majority of his FBI career, was a street agent who put his life on the line by dealing – at the behest of the U.S. Department of Justice – with some of the most dangerous individuals in the world. In 1973, John first became assigned to the FBI office in Boston, and remained in this assignment until his retirement in 1990. He was primarily charged with developing so-called Top Echelon Criminal Informants, and this effort was particularly successful in New England.
The FBI’s Top Echelon Criminal Informant Program was at the time relevant to John’s career deemed to be a secret FBI program. It was designed by the FBI to recruit high-ranking criminals as informants in the U. S. Justice Department’s war on the American Mafia.
John Connolly was advised by FBI headquarters that he had developed more “member sources,” actual Mafia members, as Top Echelon informants, than any other FBI Agent and was periodically assigned to lecture to other FBI agents at the FBI Academy
Google CIA heroin cocaine
enforcement has worked closely with the CIA to destabalize our cities
by bringing heroin and cocaine into our cities and towns
just Google CIA heroin cocaine
couple of stories, one about a DEA agent
one about a FBI agent
1.
Retired lawmen aid in defense of former federal agent
http://www.tbo.com/news/crime/retired-l ... -20151122/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Published: November 22, 2015
TAMPA — Former federal agent Robert Quinn pleaded guilty to a federal crime on Friday, but he still has the admiration and loyalty of fellow retired lawmen.
About 20 federal agents — most of them retired admire and respect Quinn so much, they chipped in to pay for Quinn’s legal defense, according to Bob Mazur, a retired U.S. Customs and Drug Enforcement Administration agent who organized the collection.
Retired DEA Agent Quinn, 58, of Largo admitted he lied to FBI agents to cover up the possible crimes of a friend who was another retired DEA agent. The friend had been handed a shopping bag with more than $200,000 in cash to help a convicted marijuana importer win release from prison, according
2.
Justice For John
Justice for wrongfully convicted retired FBI agent John Connolly
http://justiceforjohn.com/background-of-john-connolly/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Bio of John Connolly
John Connolly is proud of his having grown up in South Boston in a hard-working family of very modest means. Under such circumstances, he greatly appreciated the opportunity to attend and graduate from Boston College, to attend Suffolk Law School, and earn a graduate degree in Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Today he is married to a wonderful supportive wife, and is the proud father of three terrific teenage boys. It should be of no surprise given his background, that he became a highly decorated and respected FBI Special Agent for approximately 23 years. John retired from the FBI honorably in 1990, accepting the position of being the Director of Government Affairs for one of New England’s largest utilities.
John Connolly retired from the FBI with numerous commendations for his investigative accomplishments in the field of organized crime. These numerous commendations, documented in court records, included eight (8) personal commendations from every FBI Director, from J. Edgar Hoover to Judge William Sessions. To read the commendations click here.
John Connolly, for the majority of his FBI career, was a street agent who put his life on the line by dealing – at the behest of the U.S. Department of Justice – with some of the most dangerous individuals in the world. In 1973, John first became assigned to the FBI office in Boston, and remained in this assignment until his retirement in 1990. He was primarily charged with developing so-called Top Echelon Criminal Informants, and this effort was particularly successful in New England.
The FBI’s Top Echelon Criminal Informant Program was at the time relevant to John’s career deemed to be a secret FBI program. It was designed by the FBI to recruit high-ranking criminals as informants in the U. S. Justice Department’s war on the American Mafia.
John Connolly was advised by FBI headquarters that he had developed more “member sources,” actual Mafia members, as Top Echelon informants, than any other FBI Agent and was periodically assigned to lecture to other FBI agents at the FBI Academy
Google CIA heroin cocaine
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msfreeh
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a couple of stories about FBI racism and science
1.
USDOJ/OIG FBI Labs Report
https://oig.justice.gov/special/9704a/02newrud.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
In 1991, the FBI OPR opened an investigation concerning Rudolph after Whitehurst ... leave, and that Rudolph and his technician Edward Bender were racists.
2.
http://www.ccenterdispatch.com/news/nat ... 55da1.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Convict in 3 sex crimes freed by DNA tied to fugitive rapist
: Monday, November 23, 2015 9:46 pm
Attorneys, Alex Simpson, left, and Raquel Cohen representing Luis Vargas, not seen, who has been in prison for 16 years, take questions from the media outside Los Angeles Superior court, after Vargas was exonerated Monday, Nov. 23, 2015, in Los Angeles. A judge exonerated Vargas, who was convicted of three rapes, after DNA evidence linked the crimes to a serial rapist on the FBI's most wanted list. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
3.
Former Los Alamos Scientist Wen Ho Lee Criticizes FBI of Racism ...
http://www.civilrights.org/.../former-l ... icizes-fbi.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Former Los Alamos Scientist Wen Ho Lee Criticizes FBI of Racism. Feature Story by Celeste Berry - 1/28/2002. Dr. Lee was terminated from his job as a physicist ...
FBI director says racism not epidemic in police but is 'cultural ...
http://www.theguardian.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; › US News › FBI
Feb 12, 2015 - In the most sweeping remarks about police and racial tensions from a top US law enforcement official since a spate of controversial killings, the ...
The FBI Laboratory: An Investigation Into Laboratory Practices and ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0788170872" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Michael R. Bromwich - 1998
An Investigation Into Laboratory Practices and Alleged Misconduct in ... by FBI OPR substantiated the allegation that Rudolph made racist remarks at work or ...
1.
USDOJ/OIG FBI Labs Report
https://oig.justice.gov/special/9704a/02newrud.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
In 1991, the FBI OPR opened an investigation concerning Rudolph after Whitehurst ... leave, and that Rudolph and his technician Edward Bender were racists.
2.
http://www.ccenterdispatch.com/news/nat ... 55da1.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Convict in 3 sex crimes freed by DNA tied to fugitive rapist
: Monday, November 23, 2015 9:46 pm
Attorneys, Alex Simpson, left, and Raquel Cohen representing Luis Vargas, not seen, who has been in prison for 16 years, take questions from the media outside Los Angeles Superior court, after Vargas was exonerated Monday, Nov. 23, 2015, in Los Angeles. A judge exonerated Vargas, who was convicted of three rapes, after DNA evidence linked the crimes to a serial rapist on the FBI's most wanted list. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
3.
Former Los Alamos Scientist Wen Ho Lee Criticizes FBI of Racism ...
http://www.civilrights.org/.../former-l ... icizes-fbi.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Former Los Alamos Scientist Wen Ho Lee Criticizes FBI of Racism. Feature Story by Celeste Berry - 1/28/2002. Dr. Lee was terminated from his job as a physicist ...
FBI director says racism not epidemic in police but is 'cultural ...
http://www.theguardian.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; › US News › FBI
Feb 12, 2015 - In the most sweeping remarks about police and racial tensions from a top US law enforcement official since a spate of controversial killings, the ...
The FBI Laboratory: An Investigation Into Laboratory Practices and ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0788170872" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Michael R. Bromwich - 1998
An Investigation Into Laboratory Practices and Alleged Misconduct in ... by FBI OPR substantiated the allegation that Rudolph made racist remarks at work or ...
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msfreeh
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http://www.latimes.com/local/education/ ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
UC system divests $30 million in prison holdings amid student pressure
Inmates from California pass through a metal detector at the Florence Correctional Center, a prison operated by Corrections Corporationp of America in Florence, Ariz., in 2007
The University of California system has sold about $30 million of its holdings in companies that operate private prisons after students voiced their opposition to such investments.
The move, which did not require regent approval, came after system administrators met with students this month and as undergraduates throughout the nation have been pushing administrators to sell interests in fossil fuels and companies that aid Israeli occupation of the West Bank. In June, Columbia University divested from private prison companies after student pressure.
The total amount of the UC system prison sell-off is small compared with the system's nearly $100 billion portfolio, but students and alumni who have been advocating for the move say it is significant, at least symbolically.
"By selling their shares they're sending a message ... that the UC system is against human rights abuses," said Kamilah Moore, who graduated from UCLA in 2014 and is a field organizer for the Afrikan Black Coalition, a student advocacy group.
See more of our top stories on Facebook >>
Many students pushing for divestment are involved with black advocacy groups and say prisons have a large, adverse impact in their communities. African Americans make up nearly 40% of the U.S. incarcerated inmates even though they account for about 12% of the total population, accor
UC system divests $30 million in prison holdings amid student pressure
Inmates from California pass through a metal detector at the Florence Correctional Center, a prison operated by Corrections Corporationp of America in Florence, Ariz., in 2007
The University of California system has sold about $30 million of its holdings in companies that operate private prisons after students voiced their opposition to such investments.
The move, which did not require regent approval, came after system administrators met with students this month and as undergraduates throughout the nation have been pushing administrators to sell interests in fossil fuels and companies that aid Israeli occupation of the West Bank. In June, Columbia University divested from private prison companies after student pressure.
The total amount of the UC system prison sell-off is small compared with the system's nearly $100 billion portfolio, but students and alumni who have been advocating for the move say it is significant, at least symbolically.
"By selling their shares they're sending a message ... that the UC system is against human rights abuses," said Kamilah Moore, who graduated from UCLA in 2014 and is a field organizer for the Afrikan Black Coalition, a student advocacy group.
See more of our top stories on Facebook >>
Many students pushing for divestment are involved with black advocacy groups and say prisons have a large, adverse impact in their communities. African Americans make up nearly 40% of the U.S. incarcerated inmates even though they account for about 12% of the total population, accor
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msfreeh
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Re: What does the smart criminal justice consumer do?
L.A. County jail inmates were handcuffed to a wall for hours on 'potty watch'
http://www.latimes.com/local/countygove ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
L.A. County Jail in Castaic
The North Facility of the Pitchess Jail in Castaic
One jail inmate, clad only in boxer shorts and socks, was handcuffed to a wall for up to 11 hours.
Another was cuffed to the wall for as many as eight or nine hours, causing bleeding and severe pain to
http://www.latimes.com/local/countygove ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
L.A. County Jail in Castaic
The North Facility of the Pitchess Jail in Castaic
One jail inmate, clad only in boxer shorts and socks, was handcuffed to a wall for up to 11 hours.
Another was cuffed to the wall for as many as eight or nine hours, causing bleeding and severe pain to
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msfreeh
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Re: What does the smart criminal justice consumer do?
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Sipsey Street Irregulars
The ORIGINAL gathering place for a merry band of Three Percenters. (As denounced by Bill Clinton on CNN!)
Monday, January 4, 2016
David Codrea: "Anti-Gun Political Clerk Admits to Lies, Terrorism and Racist Frame Job."
Although his former aide pleaded guilty on Dec. 16, Samad hasn’t said a word about it since then on his Facebook page and Twitter feed, or on the newsletter he released the day after the plea. That’s curious, since he had no problem claiming his share of the spotlight when he thought he had a grievance to exploit.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 7:03 PM No comments:
"How the ‘militia internet’ is responding to the standoff in Oregon."
Vanderboegh certainly considers the federal government the bigger threat, and also writes that “[w]e must get across to the Feds that if they do not end this peacefully, if they go for a dynamic raid that gets people killed, that they will start a national conflagration.” However, he also thinks “that the government has an absolute duty to see that the situation ends without violence,” and that people shouldn’t “ANSWER THE SIREN CALL AND GO [to Malheur]” (emphasis his).
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:58 PM No comments:
ZeroHedge: "Oregon Standoff: A Terrible Plan That We Might Be Stuck With."
"Mike Vanderboegh has outlined similar thoughts expertly in this article. Everything he has written is exactly what was going through my own mind when I heard of the happenings in Oregon. Ammon Bundy and companions are not the tip of the spear. Not even close. What I do fear is that they are cannon fodder beckoning a nationwide government crackdown to which I and others will then be forced to personally respond to with equal f*cking measure. And all of this on the worst possible terms and at a very inconvenient time (executive actions on gun control mere weeks from now)."
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:56 PM No comments:
So, since when has this anti-constitutional tyrant wannabe ever evinced an interest in what was "legal"?
Reuters: "Obama's gun control options each have legal pitfalls."
Posted by Dutchman6 at 9:15 AM 9 comments:
Esquire Magazine: "What's Happening in Oregon Is Nothing Less Than Armed Sedition."
Collectivist using the "S" word.
See also: Some “Armed” Protest Occupations Are More Equal Than Others. (Some of the comments are interesting.)
Posted by Dutchman6 at 9:11 AM
Sipsey Street Irregulars
The ORIGINAL gathering place for a merry band of Three Percenters. (As denounced by Bill Clinton on CNN!)
Monday, January 4, 2016
David Codrea: "Anti-Gun Political Clerk Admits to Lies, Terrorism and Racist Frame Job."
Although his former aide pleaded guilty on Dec. 16, Samad hasn’t said a word about it since then on his Facebook page and Twitter feed, or on the newsletter he released the day after the plea. That’s curious, since he had no problem claiming his share of the spotlight when he thought he had a grievance to exploit.
Posted by Dutchman6 at 7:03 PM No comments:
"How the ‘militia internet’ is responding to the standoff in Oregon."
Vanderboegh certainly considers the federal government the bigger threat, and also writes that “[w]e must get across to the Feds that if they do not end this peacefully, if they go for a dynamic raid that gets people killed, that they will start a national conflagration.” However, he also thinks “that the government has an absolute duty to see that the situation ends without violence,” and that people shouldn’t “ANSWER THE SIREN CALL AND GO [to Malheur]” (emphasis his).
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:58 PM No comments:
ZeroHedge: "Oregon Standoff: A Terrible Plan That We Might Be Stuck With."
"Mike Vanderboegh has outlined similar thoughts expertly in this article. Everything he has written is exactly what was going through my own mind when I heard of the happenings in Oregon. Ammon Bundy and companions are not the tip of the spear. Not even close. What I do fear is that they are cannon fodder beckoning a nationwide government crackdown to which I and others will then be forced to personally respond to with equal f*cking measure. And all of this on the worst possible terms and at a very inconvenient time (executive actions on gun control mere weeks from now)."
Posted by Dutchman6 at 6:56 PM No comments:
So, since when has this anti-constitutional tyrant wannabe ever evinced an interest in what was "legal"?
Reuters: "Obama's gun control options each have legal pitfalls."
Posted by Dutchman6 at 9:15 AM 9 comments:
Esquire Magazine: "What's Happening in Oregon Is Nothing Less Than Armed Sedition."
Collectivist using the "S" word.
See also: Some “Armed” Protest Occupations Are More Equal Than Others. (Some of the comments are interesting.)
Posted by Dutchman6 at 9:11 AM
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msfreeh
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Re: What does the smart criminal justice consumer do?
The Strangest FBI 302 of All Time: A Look Into How Weird the FBI Really Is. Whitey: The Joe Berlinger Film:
January 8, 2016
http://thetrialofwhiteybulger.com/the-s ... /#comments" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
On October 17, 1984, James A. Ring, the supervisor of the FBI’s organized crime squad in Boston wrote a memorandum to the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) James W. Greenleaf. On October 18, 1984, Greenleaf responded to this memorandum.
Ring took over the supervision of the organized crime squad in 1983. His memorandum starts out by saying Flemmi is in a closed status but “information volunteered by this individual is accepted.” Figure that one out.
Flemmi is closed on their books. They are still using him as an informant as if he were not closed. If nothing else, this shows the FBI records are deliberately false. Both the SAC and supervisor don’t even blink an eye at this. Flemmi
January 8, 2016
http://thetrialofwhiteybulger.com/the-s ... /#comments" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
On October 17, 1984, James A. Ring, the supervisor of the FBI’s organized crime squad in Boston wrote a memorandum to the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) James W. Greenleaf. On October 18, 1984, Greenleaf responded to this memorandum.
Ring took over the supervision of the organized crime squad in 1983. His memorandum starts out by saying Flemmi is in a closed status but “information volunteered by this individual is accepted.” Figure that one out.
Flemmi is closed on their books. They are still using him as an informant as if he were not closed. If nothing else, this shows the FBI records are deliberately false. Both the SAC and supervisor don’t even blink an eye at this. Flemmi
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see link for full story
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/08/ ... rebellion/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Unhinged in Burns: Inside the Malheur Rebellion
Burns, Oregon.
A man who proclaims himself a member of the Alaska Militia limps up to you in a parking lot with a grey ponytail and an earring in his left ear. “We’re just here for our civil rights,” he assures you (and himself), “They’re coming at us from all sides, but then they’ll find we’re just businessmen.” He’s worked as a king crab fisherman for decades. “There are twenty more of us coming down. This should have happened a long time ago. I knew the Hammonds. I grew up with them.”
In Burns, the militiamen are present in visible numbers, having descended on the small town after the father-and-son Hammond duo was sent back to prison for an arson at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuse that surrounds their 12,000 acre ranch. The militiamen’s demeanor tends to bear similar traits, though not totally distinguishable from the locals in these parts. Many of them grey-bearded bespectacled men who seem out of joint and out of place, they come largely from a white working class background angered by the state of the US to the point of feeling completely lost and at odds with the modern world.
The presence of utter frustration is palpable and contagious. At times, one feels a sense of being at war, although the sides are indeterminable. In their martial struggle, the militias seem only partially conscious of a battlefield that they are imposing on the daily lives of the citizens of Burns, because for them it is their way of life. Yet, they do not seem to heed the concerns of other Patriot movement members like the Oath Keepers, nor does the denunciation of the Mormon Church seem to shake their will. That space of autonomy is crucial to the present moment.
Yet the frustration among locals, many of whom are Mormons, is perhaps greater than that of the militias giving press conferences at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and milling around Burns. We met briefly with an organizer in the area attending meeting after meeting of community members fed up with the chaos.
However, while the community appears to stand against the fiasco, there are important nuances.
“I don’t know what’s going on, I want to stay neutral,” one clerk told us. “You can mind your business all you like, and then somebody wants to come around and put you in theirs. I just run my shop, I’m a mom, and I don’t want anything to do with whatever’s going on.”
According to her, militia members called in a threat to the local schools stating that they would shoot the children of the BLM employees, so the district shut down schools for the day. The terror in her voice was palpable, and she had even considered joining the initial march that sparked the occupation of the wildlife refuge by a breakaway group led by the Bundy brothers.
Significant anger about the schools closing mixes in with the feeling that teenagers are being shown a terrible example, while the children have no place to go. Among three friends in Burns, two had been contacted by the FBI, and joked about being able to exchange numbers by phone or card.
“My company doesn’t have an opinion,” one of the local women declared, “but I have one. You know me.”
“I want to go somewhere were there are no reporters,” she declared, pausing for dramatic irony. “And there isn’t any! I want to go home.”
A History of Anger and Heartache
The last time Burns was “this popular,” one local explained, was the late 1980s when a large forest fire caused consternation among the community, and limited the supply of gasoline to a trickle. It is beautiful country in the low desert, rimmed by ridges and foothills. Sparsely populated Harney County has its origins as an illegal break-away from Grant County involving renegades who stole official records, and brought them to the new county sear in Burns, which today numbers around 2,700 people.
According to Charlotte Roderique, in her fifth year as chair of the Burns Paiute tribe, which comprises about 350 people in somewhere around 750 acres lying northwest of Burns, the local Natives have a history of abuse from both officials and vigilantes in the area. The Paiute lands, she stated at Wednesday morning’s press conference, have never been ceded to the government, and “we never gave up our rights to aboriginal territories from the Cascades to the Blue Mountains[.]”
The mood was tense and the room full at the Burns Paiute Tribal Center building during the conference. A video played on a large screen above the podium depicting traditional practices and lands of the Burns Paiute, and Roderique appeared confident, flanked on both sides by her comrades and supporters.
Although a treaty was signed in 1868 promising that the US federal government would ensure the rights of the Indigenous peoples, it was never ratified by the Senate, she explained. There is a tacit agreement, however, that the Paiute can use the Refuge for their own purposes, excluding hunting. The Wildlife Refuge contains artifacts dating back 15,000 years, and holds a vital position in the lives of the Paiute.
Among other things, the region served as a wintering ground for settlers, ranchers, trappers, and others in the area drawn in by the cold. It could be a place of community and prosperity, yet “by their actions,” Roderique explained, the militias “are desecrating one of our sacred sites, they are endangering our children and families… they do not belong here.”
When she heard that the militias insisted that they were giving the land back to those to whom it rightfully belongs, Roderique jokes, she immediately began preparing to write an acceptance letter on behalf of the Paiute. “We have no sympathy for those who are trying to take the land from their rightful owners.”
“[P]eople have to have a certain mind frame in order to do things like this,” she said, as the screen behind her showed a coyote slinking between sandhill cranes. “They have a mindset… They have already in their mind decided what they want to do. Any rational conversation I don’t think is going to sink in.”
The moment seemed evocative of a quote by the late poet John Trudell: “It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit.”
Roderique expressed an inter-generational heartache and anger over the mistreatment of the Paiute people by the US government, as well as the dams and lack of wildlife caused by settler practices in the region. Another tribal member, Jarvis Kennedy, explained the history of displacement, when the Paiute were offered a mere 10 acres in the city dump in return for the theft of all their lands.
The occupiers, we were told, are not from the area, and most are from out of state—as far away as California, Idaho, Montana, and of course Nevada. These are people with a will to die for a cause, but nobody will give them the satisfaction. So their hangers-on exist in a kind of limbo here in Burns, a ghoulish plane between life and death for which Malheur (a French word meaning bad luck, trouble, grief, and woe) seems an appropriate place.
Refuge or Sanctuary
We approached the wildlife refuge at around 2pm, soon after a news conference had ended. As the media began to clear out, we entered the compound directly. A large pickup truck was parked with two men inside chatting with a group of people.
“Can we walk in?”
“Are you with media, supporters, militia?”
“We’re with media.”
“You’ve got a first amendment right,” one man told us. “I’m not going to tell you you can’t.”
Walking through the compound, we were surprised at its size. A small house marked museum, comfortable looking buildings with their shades drawn, and a considerable number of vehicles. As the Bundys were in a meeting, we decided to return to the people at the entrance, but then a truck emerged down the path.
We flagged down their truck, and asked if we could speak with the two men inside, both
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/08/ ... rebellion/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Unhinged in Burns: Inside the Malheur Rebellion
Burns, Oregon.
A man who proclaims himself a member of the Alaska Militia limps up to you in a parking lot with a grey ponytail and an earring in his left ear. “We’re just here for our civil rights,” he assures you (and himself), “They’re coming at us from all sides, but then they’ll find we’re just businessmen.” He’s worked as a king crab fisherman for decades. “There are twenty more of us coming down. This should have happened a long time ago. I knew the Hammonds. I grew up with them.”
In Burns, the militiamen are present in visible numbers, having descended on the small town after the father-and-son Hammond duo was sent back to prison for an arson at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuse that surrounds their 12,000 acre ranch. The militiamen’s demeanor tends to bear similar traits, though not totally distinguishable from the locals in these parts. Many of them grey-bearded bespectacled men who seem out of joint and out of place, they come largely from a white working class background angered by the state of the US to the point of feeling completely lost and at odds with the modern world.
The presence of utter frustration is palpable and contagious. At times, one feels a sense of being at war, although the sides are indeterminable. In their martial struggle, the militias seem only partially conscious of a battlefield that they are imposing on the daily lives of the citizens of Burns, because for them it is their way of life. Yet, they do not seem to heed the concerns of other Patriot movement members like the Oath Keepers, nor does the denunciation of the Mormon Church seem to shake their will. That space of autonomy is crucial to the present moment.
Yet the frustration among locals, many of whom are Mormons, is perhaps greater than that of the militias giving press conferences at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and milling around Burns. We met briefly with an organizer in the area attending meeting after meeting of community members fed up with the chaos.
However, while the community appears to stand against the fiasco, there are important nuances.
“I don’t know what’s going on, I want to stay neutral,” one clerk told us. “You can mind your business all you like, and then somebody wants to come around and put you in theirs. I just run my shop, I’m a mom, and I don’t want anything to do with whatever’s going on.”
According to her, militia members called in a threat to the local schools stating that they would shoot the children of the BLM employees, so the district shut down schools for the day. The terror in her voice was palpable, and she had even considered joining the initial march that sparked the occupation of the wildlife refuge by a breakaway group led by the Bundy brothers.
Significant anger about the schools closing mixes in with the feeling that teenagers are being shown a terrible example, while the children have no place to go. Among three friends in Burns, two had been contacted by the FBI, and joked about being able to exchange numbers by phone or card.
“My company doesn’t have an opinion,” one of the local women declared, “but I have one. You know me.”
“I want to go somewhere were there are no reporters,” she declared, pausing for dramatic irony. “And there isn’t any! I want to go home.”
A History of Anger and Heartache
The last time Burns was “this popular,” one local explained, was the late 1980s when a large forest fire caused consternation among the community, and limited the supply of gasoline to a trickle. It is beautiful country in the low desert, rimmed by ridges and foothills. Sparsely populated Harney County has its origins as an illegal break-away from Grant County involving renegades who stole official records, and brought them to the new county sear in Burns, which today numbers around 2,700 people.
According to Charlotte Roderique, in her fifth year as chair of the Burns Paiute tribe, which comprises about 350 people in somewhere around 750 acres lying northwest of Burns, the local Natives have a history of abuse from both officials and vigilantes in the area. The Paiute lands, she stated at Wednesday morning’s press conference, have never been ceded to the government, and “we never gave up our rights to aboriginal territories from the Cascades to the Blue Mountains[.]”
The mood was tense and the room full at the Burns Paiute Tribal Center building during the conference. A video played on a large screen above the podium depicting traditional practices and lands of the Burns Paiute, and Roderique appeared confident, flanked on both sides by her comrades and supporters.
Although a treaty was signed in 1868 promising that the US federal government would ensure the rights of the Indigenous peoples, it was never ratified by the Senate, she explained. There is a tacit agreement, however, that the Paiute can use the Refuge for their own purposes, excluding hunting. The Wildlife Refuge contains artifacts dating back 15,000 years, and holds a vital position in the lives of the Paiute.
Among other things, the region served as a wintering ground for settlers, ranchers, trappers, and others in the area drawn in by the cold. It could be a place of community and prosperity, yet “by their actions,” Roderique explained, the militias “are desecrating one of our sacred sites, they are endangering our children and families… they do not belong here.”
When she heard that the militias insisted that they were giving the land back to those to whom it rightfully belongs, Roderique jokes, she immediately began preparing to write an acceptance letter on behalf of the Paiute. “We have no sympathy for those who are trying to take the land from their rightful owners.”
“[P]eople have to have a certain mind frame in order to do things like this,” she said, as the screen behind her showed a coyote slinking between sandhill cranes. “They have a mindset… They have already in their mind decided what they want to do. Any rational conversation I don’t think is going to sink in.”
The moment seemed evocative of a quote by the late poet John Trudell: “It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit.”
Roderique expressed an inter-generational heartache and anger over the mistreatment of the Paiute people by the US government, as well as the dams and lack of wildlife caused by settler practices in the region. Another tribal member, Jarvis Kennedy, explained the history of displacement, when the Paiute were offered a mere 10 acres in the city dump in return for the theft of all their lands.
The occupiers, we were told, are not from the area, and most are from out of state—as far away as California, Idaho, Montana, and of course Nevada. These are people with a will to die for a cause, but nobody will give them the satisfaction. So their hangers-on exist in a kind of limbo here in Burns, a ghoulish plane between life and death for which Malheur (a French word meaning bad luck, trouble, grief, and woe) seems an appropriate place.
Refuge or Sanctuary
We approached the wildlife refuge at around 2pm, soon after a news conference had ended. As the media began to clear out, we entered the compound directly. A large pickup truck was parked with two men inside chatting with a group of people.
“Can we walk in?”
“Are you with media, supporters, militia?”
“We’re with media.”
“You’ve got a first amendment right,” one man told us. “I’m not going to tell you you can’t.”
Walking through the compound, we were surprised at its size. A small house marked museum, comfortable looking buildings with their shades drawn, and a considerable number of vehicles. As the Bundys were in a meeting, we decided to return to the people at the entrance, but then a truck emerged down the path.
We flagged down their truck, and asked if we could speak with the two men inside, both
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US Judge Names Ex-FBI Director to Help Settle Volkswagen Lawsuits
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A federal judge in California overseeing more than 500 lawsuits filed against German automaker Volkswagen AG over its excess diesel emissions on Monday said he planned to name a former FBI director to help settle the cases.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said he would name Robert S. Mueller, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as "settlement master" in the VW lawsuits.
Mueller, a Washington lawyer, will "use his considerable experience and judgment to facilitate settlement discussions among the various parties in these complex matters," Breyer wrote on Monday.
Breyer said the need for a settlement adviser was "urgent" and will give VW and lawyers for all sides until Jan. 15 to object to the appointment.
FILE - A 2013 Volkswagen Passat with a diesel engine is evaluated at the California Air Resources Board emissions test lab in El Monte, California.
FILE - A 2013 Volkswagen Passat with a diesel engine is evaluated at the California Air Resources Board emissions test lab in El Monte, California.
VW potentially faces billions of dollars in claims from owners of vehicles with excess emissions. Separately, the Justice Department sued VW last week under the Clean Air Act seeking up to $46 billion.
VW has admitted to using software to allow 580,000 vehicles to emit up to 40 times legally allowable pollution. It also faces investigations by 47 state attorneys general.
Breyer said there are "few, if any, people with more integrity, good judgment, and relevant experience" than Mueller.
Breyer said Mueller is "uniquely qualified to work with and earn the trust of the parties, including the consumer and car dealer plaintiffs, the United States government, the Volkswagen defendants, and the interested state governments."
Last month, VW named its own adviser, lawyer Ken Feinberg, to create a VW diesel owner claims program. Feinberg sai
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FBI Director Robert Mueller promised that the FBI will provide their evidence to a ... FBI worked hard to cover up a 9-11 cover-up–and then hide it some more.
Outgoing Director Robert S. Mueller III tells how 9/11 reshaped FBI ...
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Aug 22, 2013 - Outgoing Director Mueller talks about how 9/11 redirected FBI focus from domestic crime to terrorism.
9/11 Cover-up - WantToKnow.info
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9/11 cover-up ten-page summary - Eye-opening 9/11 facts from mass media websites ... [Time, 5/21/02] FBI Director Mueller will later say "there was nothing the ...
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Captain Rodney Stich - 2014 - History
Taus wrote (August 23, 2002): Getting back to FBI Director Mueller. He's implicated in the Boston FBI cover-up and trial of former FBI agent John Connolly back in May-June 2002. ... (Replaced by History ofAviation Disasters: 1950 to 9/11.) ...
Who Did It? - Conspirators - 9-11... Who really did it?
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Robert Mueller — FBI director on 9-11; under his “leadership” FBI field agents' ... Philip Zelikow — led the 9-11 Cover-Up Commission; personally wrote the 9-11 ...
FBI Director Nominee Mueller Helped FBI and DOJ Cover Up ...
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couple of reads
1.
US Judge Names Ex-FBI Director to Help Settle Volkswagen Lawsuits
January 11, 2016
http://m.voanews.com/a/us-judge-names-e ... 41132.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A federal judge in California overseeing more than 500 lawsuits filed against German automaker Volkswagen AG over its excess diesel emissions on Monday said he planned to name a former FBI director to help settle the cases.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said he would name Robert S. Mueller, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as "settlement master" in the VW lawsuits.
Mueller, a Washington lawyer, will "use his considerable experience and judgment to facilitate settlement discussions among the various parties in these complex matters," Breyer wrote on Monday.
Breyer said the need for a settlement adviser was "urgent" and will give VW and lawyers for all sides until Jan. 15 to object to the appointment.
FILE - A 2013 Volkswagen Passat with a diesel engine is evaluated at the California Air Resources Board emissions test lab in El Monte, California.
FILE - A 2013 Volkswagen Passat with a diesel engine is evaluated at the California Air Resources Board emissions test lab in El Monte, California.
VW potentially faces billions of dollars in claims from owners of vehicles with excess emissions. Separately, the Justice Department sued VW last week under the Clean Air Act seeking up to $46 billion.
VW has admitted to using software to allow 580,000 vehicles to emit up to 40 times legally allowable pollution. It also faces investigations by 47 state attorneys general.
Breyer said there are "few, if any, people with more integrity, good judgment, and relevant experience" than Mueller.
Breyer said Mueller is "uniquely qualified to work with and earn the trust of the parties, including the consumer and car dealer plaintiffs, the United States government, the Volkswagen defendants, and the interested state governments."
Last month, VW named its own adviser, lawyer Ken Feinberg, to create a VW diesel owner claims program. Feinberg sai
2.
The Fatal Flaw In The 911 Coverup - Rense.com
http://www.rense.com/general51/fatal.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Know how to tell the difference between the truth and lies of 9/11? ... Why did FBI director Robert Mueller say very publicly to the Commonwealth Club of San ...
Robert Mueller Archives - 911Truth.Org
http://www.911truth.org/tag/robert-mueller/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
FBI Director Robert Mueller promised that the FBI will provide their evidence to a ... FBI worked hard to cover up a 9-11 cover-up–and then hide it some more.
Outgoing Director Robert S. Mueller III tells how 9/11 reshaped FBI ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/...muell ... 70-0b54-11.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Aug 22, 2013 - Outgoing Director Mueller talks about how 9/11 redirected FBI focus from domestic crime to terrorism.
9/11 Cover-up - WantToKnow.info
http://www.wanttoknow.info/911coverup10pg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
9/11 cover-up ten-page summary - Eye-opening 9/11 facts from mass media websites ... [Time, 5/21/02] FBI Director Mueller will later say "there was nothing the ...
Increasing Attention to Allegations of 9/11 FBI Cover-Up | 28Pages.org
28pages.org/2014/.../increasing-attention-to-allegations-of-911-fbi-cover-u...
Sep 19, 2014 - Increasing Attention to Allegations of 9/11 FBI Cover-Up ... obstruction of justice by George Bush, Dick Cheney and FBI Director Robert Mueller:.
DOJ-Judicial Crimes Against the People: - Google Books Result
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0932438946" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Captain Rodney Stich - 2014 - History
Taus wrote (August 23, 2002): Getting back to FBI Director Mueller. He's implicated in the Boston FBI cover-up and trial of former FBI agent John Connolly back in May-June 2002. ... (Replaced by History ofAviation Disasters: 1950 to 9/11.) ...
Who Did It? - Conspirators - 9-11... Who really did it?
http://www.whodidit.org/cocon.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Robert Mueller — FBI director on 9-11; under his “leadership” FBI field agents' ... Philip Zelikow — led the 9-11 Cover-Up Commission; personally wrote the 9-11 ...
FBI Director Nominee Mueller Helped FBI and DOJ Cover Up ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/690785/posts" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Aug 1, 2001 - FBI Director Nominee Mueller Helped FBI and DOJ Cover Up .... from FBI agents Coleen Rowley and Ken Williams before the 9/11 attacks ...
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Since I was a young boy, some of the most enjoyable time with my family has been spent hunting. My dad and I didn’t bond on a golf course, instead we bonded in the backwoods of Southwest Alabama. This is the same tradition I have enjoyed with my sons.
My family, like most families in Southwest Alabama, has always owned firearms. While we mainly use our weapons for hunting, there is also a basic interest in having firearms to help protect our family.
The right to keep and bear arms is a right given to every American in the Second Amendment of the Constitution. I am deeply concerned by any efforts in Washington that would restrict South Alabamians right to own a firearm.
For example, last week President Barack Obama announced that he would be taking a series of executive actions aimed at reducing gun violence. In reality, these actions would have little to no impact on reducing violence, but they would infringe on our Second Amendment right to bear
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Since I was a young boy, some of the most enjoyable time with my family has been spent hunting. My dad and I didn’t bond on a golf course, instead we bonded in the backwoods of Southwest Alabama. This is the same tradition I have enjoyed with my sons.
My family, like most families in Southwest Alabama, has always owned firearms. While we mainly use our weapons for hunting, there is also a basic interest in having firearms to help protect our family.
The right to keep and bear arms is a right given to every American in the Second Amendment of the Constitution. I am deeply concerned by any efforts in Washington that would restrict South Alabamians right to own a firearm.
For example, last week President Barack Obama announced that he would be taking a series of executive actions aimed at reducing gun violence. In reality, these actions would have little to no impact on reducing violence, but they would infringe on our Second Amendment right to bear
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‘Nothing happens to the police’: forced confessions go unpunished in Chicago
A five-month investigation reveals five officers were accused of using torture to coerce 11 false confessions for murder – and remain on the force
Harold Richardson, Vincent Thames, Terrill Swift, MIchael Saunders, known as ‘the Englewood Four’, whose 1994 rape and murder convictions were overturned after new DNA evidence linked another person to the crime.
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On a breezy June evening in 1995, twenty years before the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald would envelop Chicago in scandal, Derrick Flewellen hobbled into St Bernard’s Hospital on the south side of the city, seeking care for an open wound on his right foot. As the night progressed and Flewellen’s girlfriend kept him company, the 31-year-old was treated with antibiotics and pain medicine before being bandaged up and discharged around 2am the next morning.
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But soon after his departure from the hospital, Flewellen would again be in pain. Two Chicago Police detectives, Francis Valadez and Steve Buglio had arrived to St Bernard’s in search of Flewellen and allegedly intimidated the couple into heading straight to violent crimes unit headquarters from the hospital, for questioning. According to testimony from the criminal trial that eventually saw Flewellen’s acquittal for two murder charges, based on DNA evidence, he was heard screaming from inside a police interrogation room, in the hours that followed, after Valadez – now one of 22 district commanders leading the Chicago Police force – stomped on Flewellen’s injured foot and proceeded to crush the wheels of a metal chair into his wounds.
In all, Flewellen says in his lawsuit that seven detectives beat him over the course of 36 hours, ignoring his pleas for a lawyer, sleep and pain medication while threatening that the Department of Children and Family Services would take his girlfriend’s infant son away from her. Following the barrage, he “confessed”.
“My life totally changed,” said Flewellen, speaking to the Guardian by phone from the Chicago suburb where he now lives with his sister. “Being falsely accused of murder and having three, four detectives slapping me around to get a confession … It wasn’t pretty, I got beat up, tortured. I have been beaten up by inmates, I’ve been beaten up by Cook County Sheriff’s Police. I almost got stabbed in there after they posted my picture on the news.”
Derrick Flewellen Photograph: Courtesy of Derrick Flewellen
Unable to afford bond, Flewellen languished for four-and-a-half years in Cook County Jail before a judge would find him not guilty, even after each of the officers who interrogated Flewellen testified against him. Six months after he was set free, Flewellen
A five-month investigation reveals five officers were accused of using torture to coerce 11 false confessions for murder – and remain on the force
Harold Richardson, Vincent Thames, Terrill Swift, MIchael Saunders, known as ‘the Englewood Four’, whose 1994 rape and murder convictions were overturned after new DNA evidence linked another person to the crime.
Thursday 28 January 2016 09.10 EST Last modified on Thursday 28 January 2016 10.43 EST
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On a breezy June evening in 1995, twenty years before the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald would envelop Chicago in scandal, Derrick Flewellen hobbled into St Bernard’s Hospital on the south side of the city, seeking care for an open wound on his right foot. As the night progressed and Flewellen’s girlfriend kept him company, the 31-year-old was treated with antibiotics and pain medicine before being bandaged up and discharged around 2am the next morning.
The Counted: people killed by police in the United States in 2015 – interactive
The Guardian is counting the people killed by US law enforcement agencies this year. Read their stories and contribute to our ongoing, crowdsourced project
Read more
But soon after his departure from the hospital, Flewellen would again be in pain. Two Chicago Police detectives, Francis Valadez and Steve Buglio had arrived to St Bernard’s in search of Flewellen and allegedly intimidated the couple into heading straight to violent crimes unit headquarters from the hospital, for questioning. According to testimony from the criminal trial that eventually saw Flewellen’s acquittal for two murder charges, based on DNA evidence, he was heard screaming from inside a police interrogation room, in the hours that followed, after Valadez – now one of 22 district commanders leading the Chicago Police force – stomped on Flewellen’s injured foot and proceeded to crush the wheels of a metal chair into his wounds.
In all, Flewellen says in his lawsuit that seven detectives beat him over the course of 36 hours, ignoring his pleas for a lawyer, sleep and pain medication while threatening that the Department of Children and Family Services would take his girlfriend’s infant son away from her. Following the barrage, he “confessed”.
“My life totally changed,” said Flewellen, speaking to the Guardian by phone from the Chicago suburb where he now lives with his sister. “Being falsely accused of murder and having three, four detectives slapping me around to get a confession … It wasn’t pretty, I got beat up, tortured. I have been beaten up by inmates, I’ve been beaten up by Cook County Sheriff’s Police. I almost got stabbed in there after they posted my picture on the news.”
Derrick Flewellen Photograph: Courtesy of Derrick Flewellen
Unable to afford bond, Flewellen languished for four-and-a-half years in Cook County Jail before a judge would find him not guilty, even after each of the officers who interrogated Flewellen testified against him. Six months after he was set free, Flewellen
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Fusion Center Issues New Statement on Its Warning That Police Should Watch Out for Don't-Tread-on-Me Flags
Many unanswered questions remain about both the bulletin and the DHS-funded intelligence-sharing operation that produced it.
|Feb. 9, 2016 2:33 pm
ProblematicToday the Utah Statewide Information and Analysis Center, a "fusion center" partly funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, responded to the controversy over a bulletin it sent to law enforcement officers last week.
The bulletin, which was first covered here at Reason, had been distributed in anticipation of last Friday's funeral for LaVoy Finicum, the rancher killed during the occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. The document warned that "[c]aravans of individuals traveling to the funeral services may be comprised of one or more armed extremists," and it displayed several "visual indicators" that an officer might be dealing with "extremist and disaffected individuals." These images ranged from the Gadsden flag (a popular patriotic symbol featuring a rattlesnake and the slogan "Don't Tread on Me") to an altered version of the skull-and-lightning-bolt logo favored by fans of the Grateful Dead.
Today the fusion center issued this statement:
The Utah Statewide Information and Analysis Center released an officer safety bulletin on February 3, 2016, regarding events surrounding the funeral of LaVoy Finicum. The bulletin was intended to inform law enforcement officers of the funeral and potential safety concerns based on recent events in Oregon and Nevada.
The bulletin contains symbols that may or may not be espoused by criminal extremist individuals or groups. We understand that law-abiding citizens also espouse these symbols, and we acknowledge so in the bulletin. Public safety personnel are always expected to evaluate and utilize all information in the context of their training in Constitutional Law and rules of criminal procedure.
There was no intent to offend or single out individuals and groups who use these symbols for historical or legitimate purposes. We will attempt to articulate those distinctions clearer in the future.
A few follow-up questions come to mind:
"How to tell a sovereign citizen from a Deadhead..."1. Precisely how does the center intend to "attempt to articulate those distinctions clearer in the future"? It's true that the bulletin acknowledged that "law-abiding citizens also espouse [sic] these symbols," and we mentioned that fact in our story. It's just that the agency's acknowledgement consisted, in its entirety, of this poorly worded and perfunctory aside:
[T]hough some or parts of these symbols are representative of patriotic and American revolutionary themes[,] they are often associated with extremism[.]
There was no breakdown of which symbols had multiple meanings or what different contexts they might be expected to appear in. The information that was included was often extremely limited: The Gadsden flag, for example, was simply identified as an image "commonly displayed by sovereign citizen extremists." So: What exactly do they plan to change?
2. Does the agency plan to address any other criticisms? The Utah bulletin didn't just do a poor job of explaining what the symbols it included might mean, thus making it more likely that a driver might be mistaken for an "extremist." It also failed to discuss what a cop should do if he does come across a bona fide "extremist." As former FBI agent Mike German complained to me last week, "What will the officers know after reading this that they didn't before? Here all they know is to be afraid if they see a Gadsden flag, which could result in an unnecessarily hostile encounter that would increase the chances of violence. There's nothing here that would help them correctly identify someone who held these beliefs, understand what might trigger hostile reactions, or how to talk to them in a way that would defuse any unnecessary tension." The statement released today does not deal with these issues.
3. Is there a larger pattern here? It would be comforting to think this was just one poorly drafted document. But fusion centers across the country have a history of producing work with similar problems, including an infamous "strategic report" in Missouri that identified the Gadsden flag as "the most common symbol displayed by militia members and organizations." More broadly, a 2012 congressional investigation concluded that the centers' output was "oftentimes shoddy, rarely timely, sometimes endangering citizens' civil liberties and Privacy Act protections, occasionally taken from already-published public sources, and more often than not unrelated to terrorism." According to the congressional investigators, nearly a third of these reports weren't even circulated after they were written—sometimes because they contained no useful information, sometimes because they "overstepped legal boundaries."
Four years later, is this Finicum bulletin typical of the Utah agency's work? Is it typical of fusion centers in general? Is any sort of review process underway?
These are among the issues I wanted to raise with the agency after I acquired its document last week, but at the time it didn't respond to my calls and emails. And today? Sgt. Todd Royce, the public affairs officer who sent me the statement, tells me "there will be no further comment on the report."
Fusion Center Issues New Statement on Its Warning That Police Should Watch Out for Don't-Tread-on-Me Flags
Many unanswered questions remain about both the bulletin and the DHS-funded intelligence-sharing operation that produced it.
|Feb. 9, 2016 2:33 pm
ProblematicToday the Utah Statewide Information and Analysis Center, a "fusion center" partly funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, responded to the controversy over a bulletin it sent to law enforcement officers last week.
The bulletin, which was first covered here at Reason, had been distributed in anticipation of last Friday's funeral for LaVoy Finicum, the rancher killed during the occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. The document warned that "[c]aravans of individuals traveling to the funeral services may be comprised of one or more armed extremists," and it displayed several "visual indicators" that an officer might be dealing with "extremist and disaffected individuals." These images ranged from the Gadsden flag (a popular patriotic symbol featuring a rattlesnake and the slogan "Don't Tread on Me") to an altered version of the skull-and-lightning-bolt logo favored by fans of the Grateful Dead.
Today the fusion center issued this statement:
The Utah Statewide Information and Analysis Center released an officer safety bulletin on February 3, 2016, regarding events surrounding the funeral of LaVoy Finicum. The bulletin was intended to inform law enforcement officers of the funeral and potential safety concerns based on recent events in Oregon and Nevada.
The bulletin contains symbols that may or may not be espoused by criminal extremist individuals or groups. We understand that law-abiding citizens also espouse these symbols, and we acknowledge so in the bulletin. Public safety personnel are always expected to evaluate and utilize all information in the context of their training in Constitutional Law and rules of criminal procedure.
There was no intent to offend or single out individuals and groups who use these symbols for historical or legitimate purposes. We will attempt to articulate those distinctions clearer in the future.
A few follow-up questions come to mind:
"How to tell a sovereign citizen from a Deadhead..."1. Precisely how does the center intend to "attempt to articulate those distinctions clearer in the future"? It's true that the bulletin acknowledged that "law-abiding citizens also espouse [sic] these symbols," and we mentioned that fact in our story. It's just that the agency's acknowledgement consisted, in its entirety, of this poorly worded and perfunctory aside:
[T]hough some or parts of these symbols are representative of patriotic and American revolutionary themes[,] they are often associated with extremism[.]
There was no breakdown of which symbols had multiple meanings or what different contexts they might be expected to appear in. The information that was included was often extremely limited: The Gadsden flag, for example, was simply identified as an image "commonly displayed by sovereign citizen extremists." So: What exactly do they plan to change?
2. Does the agency plan to address any other criticisms? The Utah bulletin didn't just do a poor job of explaining what the symbols it included might mean, thus making it more likely that a driver might be mistaken for an "extremist." It also failed to discuss what a cop should do if he does come across a bona fide "extremist." As former FBI agent Mike German complained to me last week, "What will the officers know after reading this that they didn't before? Here all they know is to be afraid if they see a Gadsden flag, which could result in an unnecessarily hostile encounter that would increase the chances of violence. There's nothing here that would help them correctly identify someone who held these beliefs, understand what might trigger hostile reactions, or how to talk to them in a way that would defuse any unnecessary tension." The statement released today does not deal with these issues.
3. Is there a larger pattern here? It would be comforting to think this was just one poorly drafted document. But fusion centers across the country have a history of producing work with similar problems, including an infamous "strategic report" in Missouri that identified the Gadsden flag as "the most common symbol displayed by militia members and organizations." More broadly, a 2012 congressional investigation concluded that the centers' output was "oftentimes shoddy, rarely timely, sometimes endangering citizens' civil liberties and Privacy Act protections, occasionally taken from already-published public sources, and more often than not unrelated to terrorism." According to the congressional investigators, nearly a third of these reports weren't even circulated after they were written—sometimes because they contained no useful information, sometimes because they "overstepped legal boundaries."
Four years later, is this Finicum bulletin typical of the Utah agency's work? Is it typical of fusion centers in general? Is any sort of review process underway?
These are among the issues I wanted to raise with the agency after I acquired its document last week, but at the time it didn't respond to my calls and emails. And today? Sgt. Todd Royce, the public affairs officer who sent me the statement, tells me "there will be no further comment on the report."
