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Monarch Mountain, sheriff: Attempted sex assaults not kept from public

POSTED: 01/05/2015

The Chaffee County Sheriff's Office and Monarch Mountain are defending themselves against allegations they failed to publicize two attempted sex assaults at the ski area in an effort to not scare away holiday visitors.
The attempted assaults were reported over a two-week span starting last month and not made public until the sheriff's office distributed a press release on Friday.
"We all feel vulnerable," said Miki Hodge, a frequent Monarch visitor who lives in Salida and has been outspoken about her anger at the lack of publicity. "We're the backbone of that resort."
The Monarch Mountain sign at Chaffee County’s Monarch Ski Area.
The Monarch Mountain sign at Chaffee County's Monarch Ski Area. (Jason Blevins, Denver Post file photo)
The first attempted assault happened on Dec. 19 at the ski area located about 20 miles west of Salida on U.S. 50 off Monarch Pass. The date of the second incident has not been released.
The resort has not made its own announcement about the incidents to skiers and riders.
"We did not inform patrons at the resort when the information was released," said Jessie Smith, a spokeswoman for the ski area. "We left the distribution of the information to the sheriff's office, it being their investigation."
"Public safety is always our number one concern," said Undersheriff John Spezze, calling the idea that information was withheld "totally erroneous

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Shop owner beat employees with live lizard
Mike Moffitt Published 11:01 am, Wednesday, January 7, 2015





Benjamin Herman Siegel, 40, owner of Siegel Reptiles in Deerfield Beach, Fla., faces battery and animal cruelty charges.

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Why Iraqi army can't fight, despite $25 billion in U.S. aid, training

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National Security
Prosecutors weigh charges against David

January 9 at 7:53 PM
Federal prosecutors have recommended that David H. Petraeus face charges for providing classified documents to his biographer, raising the prospect of criminal proceedings against the retired four-star general and former CIA director

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HGTV Picks Anti-Gay, Anti-Choice Extremist For New Reality TV Show
SUBMITTED BY Brian Tashman on Tuesday, 5/6/2014 4:00 pm
UPDATE: HGTV has "decided not to move forward" with the show.

UPDATE II: Additional remarks of Benham attacking homosexuality as "destructive" and "demonic" have also surfaced.

Last month, the HGTV network announced that it will launch a new reality TV show, “Flip it Forward,” starring David and Jason Benham. The twin brothers will “leverage their good-natured sibling rivalry to help families find a fixer-upper and transform it into the dream home they never thought they could afford.”

What the announcement didn't mention is that at least one of the Benhams is not just a real estate dealer but also a dedicated right-wing activist in the mold of his father, Flip Benham, who has headed the abortion-clinic protest group Operation Save America ever since it split from the militant anti-choice group Operation Rescue.

As leader of OSA, Benham has condemned the interfaith Sandy Hook memorial, protested in front of mosques while shouting “Jesus Hates Muslims” and blamed the Aurora shooting on the Democratic Party, which he said promotes a “culture of death.”

He has also protested LGBT pride events, interrupted church services during a sermon by “sodomite Episcopalian bishop” Gene Robinson and was found “guilty of stalking a Charlotte abortion doctor after passing out hundreds of ‘wanted’ posters with the physician's name and photo on it.” OSA* even blamed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on abortion rights:

As smoke rises from the ashes in New York City the nation and the world’s attention is turned towards the evil that has committed this heinous crime. A crime of passion that has shed the innocent blood of thousands of victims both male and female young and old. The question is who is responsible for the carnage those who did the detestable act or whose sins brought it about.

God’s word clearly says bloodshed begets bloodshed He also tells us whatsoever a man sows so shall he reap. What we as a nation have sowed in shedding innocent blood on a daily basis at abortion clinics has come home to roost upon all of us. Yes whether we like it or not we are all guilty of permitting the sin of abortion in our nation. This includes you and I (Pro-life) pro-choice and the entire network of our society.
Flip's son, David Benham, led a prayer rally — Charlotte 7:14 — outside of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2012, which he told conservative radio host Janet Mefferd was needed to stop “homosexuality and its agenda that is attacking the nation” and “demonic ideologies tak[ing] our universities and our public school systems”

He told Mefferd that his brother Jason joined him in organizing the DNC prayer protest.

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Dublin priest says he is gay during Mass – receives standing ovation



January 09,2015 01:53 AM
A Dublin priest received a standing ovation from his congregation this week as he called for same sex marriage equality in Irela

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Revelations could damage Hillary
Columnists Opinion
By Cal Thomas / Syndicated Columnist
PUBLISHED: Monday, January 12, 2015

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Explaining climate change science & rebutting global warming misinformation

Scientific skepticism is healthy. Scientists should always challenge themselves to improve their understanding. Yet this isn't what happens with climate change denial. Skeptics vigorously criticise any evidence that supports man-made global warming and yet embrace any argument, op-ed, blog or study that purports to refute global warming. This website gets skeptical about global warming skepticism. Do their arguments have any scientific basis? What does the peer reviewed scientific literature say?



Corrosive Seawater, Not Low pH, Implicated As Cause of Oyster Deaths
Posted on 12 January 2015 by Rob Painting
Key Points:
Because of the geologically-rapid emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by human industrial activities, and the subsequent dissolution of this CO2 into the global oceans, ocean pH and carbonate saturation state are currently declining in tandem - a process known as ocean acidification.
Over geological timescales, however, ocean pH and carbonate saturation (corrosiveness) tend to become disassociated. This explains why the ancient oceans were highly saturated with carbonates and therefore conducive to calcification (calcium carbonate shell formation) at times of high CO2 in Earth's past even though ocean pH was lower than it is today.
Waldbusser et al (2014) conducted a series of experiments with oyster and mussel juvenile life stages (larvae) which enable them to distinguish between the individual responses to carbonate saturation and ocean pH, something not done in typical ocean acidification laboratory experiments
The authors surprisingly found that, except at extremely low concentrations, ocean pH by itself had little impact on larvae growth. As expected though, low carbonate saturation was very detrimental to larvae growth and thus survival. This work implicates carbonate undersaturation as the key mechanism responsible for the large-scale die-off of oyster larvae along the North American Pacific coastline over the last decade.

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FBI's role stays the same as footprint grows in ND

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August 9,2015

FARGO -- In North Dakota, it's rare to see G-men wearing dark blue jackets emblazoned with the letters "FBI." But lately, the bureau has been increasing its presence in the state with the hope of stamping out organized crime, particularly in the oil patch.

The FBI has had satellite offices, also known as resident agencies, in Bismarck, Fargo, Grand Forks and Minot for decades. And this summer, a resident agency was established in Williston in response to the illegal activity that has accompanied the oil boom, said Kyle Loven, spokesman for the FBI's Minneapolis office, which oversees agents in Minnesota and the Dakotas.

Although the FBI has created this new outpost in western North Dakota and sent more agents to the region, the bureau continues to tackle the same sorts of cases as before.

Local authorities still look to the bureau to investigate interstate drug rings, bank robberies, kidnappings, white-collar fraud, terrorist threats, as well as serious crimes on American Indian reservations.

Loven said reservation crime accounts for much of the bureau's workload in North Dakota. Under the Major Crimes Act of 1885, the FBI has jurisdiction over certain crimes on reservations, such as murder, rape, arson and burglary.

Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault II said the FBI tries to maintain a good relationship with his tribe. And by working with the bureau, tribal members benefit, he said.

"There's going to be multiple levels of jurisdiction, especially on reservations, and it's in the best interest that everybody work together. And usually when the FBI show up, it's because they have a case," Archambault said. "They're not going to show up and pursue something that isn't going to lead to prosecution."

Exactly when the FBI's resident agencies were established in North Dakota is unclear. But the FBI's presence in the state began shortly after the bureau opened an office in the Twin Cities around World War I, Loven said.

John Fox, the FBI's staff historian, said the Williston office is the first resident agency the FBI has opened in the U.S. in roughly 20 years. The city previously had a resident agency, but it was closed in 1960 for an unknown reason, Fox said.

Loven said that even though the ne

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Aug. 15 2015, 9:37 a.m.

James Baldwin’s FBI file contains 1,884 pages of documents, collected from 1960 until the early 1970s. During that era of illegal surveillance of American writers, the FBI accumulated 276 pages on Richard Wright, 110 pages on Truman Capote, and just nine pages on Henry Miller. Baldwin’s file was closer in size to activists and radicals of the day — for example, it’s nearly half as thick as Malcolm X’s.

In his new biography, All Those Strangers, Douglas Field decodes these files with great literary and historical finesse. Baldwin often said that his relation to politics was that of a “witness,” but he was vehemently stalked, harassed

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US-appointed egg lobby paid food blogs and targeted chef to crush vegan startup

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California
Oil giants derail California bill to reduce gasoline use by 50%
With only two days left in the legislative session, oil industry successfully rallies for amendment to ambitious environmental bill SB350

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The United States Air Force Historical Research Agency maintains hundreds of thousands of historically significant U.S. Air Force documents representing some 70 million pages of interest to historians, researchers, and Air Force buffs. These include unit histories, special studies, personal papers, end-of-tour reports, oral histories, interview transcripts, and more.

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U.S.
Stripping J. Edgar Hoover’s Name From the FBI Building
The Confederate flag has been taken down at South Carolina’s Capitol.
Why not get J. Edgar Hoover’s name off the Bureau’s headquarters?

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OCTOBER 2015 ISSUE
Now that the Confederate flag has b

As it happens, the government is planning to move the FBI from its
brutalist building on Pennsylvania Avenue to a new home in the D.C.
suburbs. Hoover’s name, according to an FBI spokesman, will not
automatically convey. In deciding what to call the new facility,
Congress will be required to confront Hoover’s legacy. Some
traditionalists, in much the same manner as Confederate-flag
defenders, will insist that the status quo commemorates a noble, if
flawed, history. They should be ignored. The Martin Luther King Jr.
FBI Building has the ring of justice to me.

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Former FBI Agent Robert Lustyik Sentenced in Bribery Case
The Sleepy Hollow resident pleaded guilty in December, 2014.



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Brooklyn man suing after NYPD cop allegedly stole $1,300 from him
during stop-and-frisk


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Monday, September 14, 2015,

A Brooklyn construction worker who claimed a cell phone video showed
an NYPD cop snatching a thick wad of cash from him during a
stop-and-frisk has filed a federal lawsuit to recoup his money.

Lamard Joye, 36, was interviewed by prosecutors from the Brooklyn
district attorney's office and the department's Internal Affairs
Bureau's investigators about the incident last September in a Coney
Island playground, but no official actions have been taken against
Officer William Montemarano, according to the suit filed Sunday in
Brooklyn Federal Court.

Joye contends the $1,300 was his salary and he has the pay stub and
surveillance photos from a check cashing store to prove it, said his
lawyer Robert Marinelli.


JEFF BACHNER/FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Lateefah Joye and her brother Lamard are suing after an NYPD cop
allegedly stole a wad of cash and pepper-sprayed them during a
stop-and-frisk last year.
Joye's sister Lateefah Joye, a professional basketball player in
Europe, is also suing the city and Montemarano because she was
pepper-sprayed in the face when she tried


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Tucson police wrong to hide cell-tracking data, ACLU suit claims


September 15 2015
PHOENIX — Tucson police purposely hides its use of technology that
allows it to track the cellphones of people — innocent or otherwise —
the American Civil Liberties Union is claiming.

In new legal filings, Attorney Darrell Hill told the state Court of
Appeals the city has admitted the equipment it has purchased allows it
to collect personal data of people who are not subject to criminal
investigations. Hill said that includes text messages, call history,
location data and emails.

Hill said attorneys for the city admit to using that equipment without
first getting a warrant “or any other form of judicial review.”

“In addition, as a matter of Tucson Police Department practice, any
written reference to the use of the technology in TPD reports is
purposely hidden,” the ACLU


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For a hustler in the Boston underworld, the odds of stepping on somebody's toes were great. Deegan had murdered a hood named Anthony Sacramone, who was affiliated with the Winter Hill gang. Deegan was associated with the McLaughlin brothers in Charlestown, a competing faction. In the ongoing tit-for-tat of the Boston gang wars, Deegan having killed Sacramone meant that someone would be looking for revenge. Someone, in this case, was Barboza and Jimmy Flemmi.

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Deegan also owed Jimmy Flemmi three hundred dollars, which, by the dictates of gangster logic, was further justification to use him as an example.

At the time, there had been many killings in the Boston underworld—so many that Barboza and Flemmi decided that, in the interest of protocol and self-preservation, they would first get approval for the Deegan hit from the North End mafia boss Jerry Angiulo.

The Italians wanted nothing to do with the crazy war going on between the Winter Hill Mob and the Charlestown crew. At a meeting in the North End, Angiulo told Flemmi and Barboza, "You can't kill someone just because you had an argument with him." The boss told the two hoods that he would only sanction the hit if capo di tutti capi Raymond Patriarca gave his approval.

A meeting was set up for Barboza and Flemmi to convene with "the Office" in Providence. Barboza was excited; it would be his first face-to-face meeting with Patriarca, a big moment for someone who harbored dreams of becoming a made man.

They met the Godfather at Badway's Garage in the Federal Hill section of Providence. Raymond Patriarca showed up looking like exactly what he was: mafia royalty. He wore a lavish, tailored suit and had a diamond pinky ring that caught the light and sparkled.

The sit-down lasted forty-five minutes. Jimmy Flemmi made the case for killing Deegan. "He's a sneak, and I don't fuckin' trust him," he told Patriarca.

Later, the results of this meeting would remain in dispute. Patriarca insisted that he never authorized the Deegan hit but simply told the two killers that if they received approval from Jerry Angiulo, then they would have his approval. Flemmi and Barboza took this as a yes and began planning the hit.

After the meeting, Flemmi said to Barboza, "You didn't have much to say in there. What were you thinking?"

Said Barboza, "I was thinking how I could bite his finger and get that diamond ring."

What none of the men at the meeting in Providence realized was that the location where they met to discuss the killing of Deegan was bugged by the FBI's organized crime division. It was an illegal wire, known as a "gypsy wire," unauthorized by any court of law but fully sanctioned by Director J. Edgar Hoover.

There are multiple FBI memos, never revealed until many decades later, that show the FBI knew what was coming next. They sat back and let it happen.

March 12, 1965, Barboza, Flemmi, and four other gangsters traveled to Chelsea, where it was known Deegan and two others were to take part in the robbery of a finance company located inside the Lincoln National Bank. One of Deegan's partners was Roy French. Unbeknownst to Deegan, French was a traitor working in cahoots with Barboza and Flemmi.

The robbery was an inside job: a contact at the bank was going to leave an alleyway door open for Deegan and French to enter, where a couple bags of cash would be waiting for them to snatch. It was Barboza and Flemmi's plan to murder Deegan as he was in the midst of the heist.

Jimmy Flemmi was in the getaway car, with Barboza and two others acting as gunmen. The idea was for Roy French to shoot Deegan, but the killers were leaving nothing to chance.

Deegan was gunned down in the alleyway. The autopsy revealed that he had been hit with six bullets from three different guns.

On the night of the murder, the one Deegan accomplice who was not inon the killing was able to escape. Barboza and Jimmy the Bear heard that he was currently in the custody of police. Barboza was worried that this manwould rat them out. He told the Bear that they might have to go on the run.

Jimmy the Bear smiled. It was then that he told Barboza not to worry, he had it covered. The Bear explained that for months he had secretly been meeting with an FBI agent named H. Paul Rico. The Bear was facing charges on another murder he'd done with Barboza, and Paul Rico had suggested to Flemmi that he could make those charges go away if he was willing to become an informant. Jimmy Flemmi had officially signed on as a Top Echelon Informant on March 12, the exact day that he and Barboza murdered Teddy Deegan.

The FBI was fully aware of what they were getting into with Jimmy Flemmi. On March 9, following Flemmi and Barboza's secretly recorded meeting with Patriarca in Providence, a memo was sent from the special agent in charge (SAC) of the Boston field office to Director Hoover. The memo stated, "[Jimmy] Flemmi is suspected of a number of gangland murders and has told [the informant] of his plans to be recognized as the No. One 'hit man' in this area as a contract killer. . . . Flemmi told the informant that all he wants to do now is kill people, and that it is better than hitting banks. . . . Informant said, Flemmi said he can now

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Newport News police partner with Norfolk FBI to host community forum
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Newport News Police Department
Various Hampton Roads law enforcement agencies are coming together to a host community forum Tuesday night on building trust between law enforcement and the community.


Various Hampton Roads law enforcement agencies are coming together to a host community forum Tuesday night on building trust between law enforcement and the community.


Norfolk Federal Bureau of Investigation is partnering with the Newport News Police Department, Norfolk's FBI Citizens Academy Alumni Association and the Newport News Citizen Police Academy Alumni Association in sponsoring the event, called "Bridging the Gap."

On hand at the event will be the top federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia, U.S. Attorney Dana Boente; FBI Special-Agent-in-Charge John Adams, who leads the agency's Hampton Roads office; Newport News Commonwealth's Attorney Howard Gwynn; Newport News Police Chief Richard Myers; and Newport News Sheriff Gabe Morgan.

Also speaking will be Pastor Willard Maxwell of New Beach Grove Baptist Church; Chuck Harrison, director of missions for the Peninsula Baptist Association; Rev. Kevin Swann from Ivy Baptist Church; and Ahmed Noor, a professor at Old Dominion University.

The event will occur from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday at the Mariner's Museum. It is free and open to the public.

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Former FBI Agent: Plot Against Pope Wasn’t Serious Threat
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Mom of man shot by police resolves her misdemeanor case
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Susan Hunt, the mother of a 22-year-old man shot and killed by two Saratoga Springs police officers last year, has resolved her own misdemeanor case stemming from an altercation with police.

Judge Carolyn Howard signed a diversion agreement in the case Monday, according to court records, agreeing that misdemeanor charges against Hunt would be dismissed in six months if Hunt violates no laws and completes grief counseling.

A diversion agreement does not require a plea from the defendant and essentially puts the case on hold until it is eventually dismissed, contingent on the terms of the agreement being met.

The agreement was finalized out of court Monday, and any subsequent hearings have been canceled.

Last week Hunt marked the one-year anniversary of the death of her son, Darrien Hunt, who was shot six times by two Saratoga Springs police officers who had confronted him about a souvenir katana sword he was carrying.

Darrien Hunt was shot in the back as he ran from the officers, who said they believed he was a threat to patrons in nearby businesses

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St. Louis landfill fire could reach radioactive waste in months
State-commissioned reports support residents’ fears about proximity of smoldering fire to Manhattan Project waste


September 18, 2015
ST. LOUIS — A fire smoldering underneath a landfill north of St. Louis since 2010 could reach radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project in as little as three months, according to a report released by Missouri’s attorney general.

Much of the uranium used to make the first nuclear weapons was processed in downtown St. Louis, and the waste was moved around the region for decades. In 1973 a private company that bought some of the waste from the U.S. government illegally dumped it at the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton, Missouri, a northern suburb of St. Louis.

As reported in part three of Al Jazeera’s May series looking at the effects of the Manhattan Project on St. Louis and its suburbs, the extent of the contamination, in terms of severity and location, at the landfill remains largely unknown, but researchers have concluded that it is likely far worse than previously thought.

The underground fire was discovered in an adjacent landfill in 2010 and has continued to move toward the known radioactive waste, according to the state reports. The landfill’s owner, Arizona-based Republic Services, maintains that the fire is not spreading. A representative for the company told The Missouri Times that the state’s reports were scientifically inaccurate, overstated and irresponsible.

One of the reports released by Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster concluded that the underground fire could reach the West Lake Landfill’s known radioactive waste in three to six months — the consequences of which remain largely unknown.

“I don’t understand why we’re just sitting back, as a city and as a nation, just letting this happen,” said Dawn Chapman, a resident who has been organizing to raise awareness about the situation.

More than 3 million people live in the St. Louis metropolitan area.

“Not only does the landfill e

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Movie theater shooter's attorneys plan to call police use of force expert

Monday, September 21, 2015
Defense attorneys for Curtis Reeves, the retired Tampa police captain accused of shooting a man in a Wesley Chapel movie theater in 2014, are planning to call a use of force expert in his murder trial next year.



Arrested in January 2014 in the fatal shooting of Chad Oulson at the Grove Cobb Theatre, Reeves, 73, was accused of pulling a gun on Oulson during an argument over Oulson's refusal to stop texting during movie previews. Witnesses said they saw popcorn fly and heard a shot ring out. The bullet hit Oulson in the chest, killing him, and grazed the left hand of his wife, Nicole.

Reeves' attorneys have argued that when he pulled a handgun from his pocket and shot Oulson, he was acting in self-defense after the younger man attacked him. Their list of potential witnesses for the trial shows they have retained retired FBI agent Philip Hayden, who specializes in cases where law enforcement officers shot or used force against people under questionable circumstances.

Among the cases in which Hayden previously served as an expert witness was one in which a Baltimore FBI agent mistook an unarmed 20-year-old for a suspect in an armed bank robbery and shot him in the head.

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Baseball's early black players faced injustice, humiliation and now a curious grad student

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New Hampshire Library Ignites Quarrel Over the Dark Web
After the Lebanon library announced that patrons could use the anonymous Tor Web browser, the Department of Homeland Security expressed concern, which prompted a debate over free speech and security.



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- For a few days this month, a little library in New England ignited an outsized squabble between law enforcement and civil libertarians.

The Lebanon, N.H., library had announced plans to dedicate its computers to the Tor network, which enables users to surf the Web without anyone knowing who they are. The Tor browser takes people to the dark Web, the wildest territory of the Internet, where users can exchange information in total anonymity.

Supporters of Tor call it a crucial means of ensuring free speech and defeating censorship and repression worldwide. Critics say Tor allows terrorists, child pornographers and drug dealers to operate with impunity.

After hearing about the library’s plan, a Department of Homeland Security agent alerted the local police, who in turn contacted the library to express their concern. The Lebanon library said it would drop out of Tor but changed its mind once again after an outcry by defenders of online expression.

The library could be forgiven if it thought it was doing something entirely innocent. After all, the government has supported the anonymous Web service from the start.

The U.S. Navy launched Tor a decade ago. The National Science Foundation and the Department of State spend millions on it.

Meanwhile, the National Security Agency, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have emphasized its exploitation

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