THE FBI's CONTROL OF THE FOURTH ESTATE CALLED PRESSTITUTES

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couple of reads

1st read


http://www.google.com/#q=trentadue+FBI+ ... m+congress" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Brother of Murder Victim Seeks Details of FBI's u2018Sensitive ...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/.../brother- ... -of-fbis-u.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Feb 1, 2013 - In his motion, Trentadue described the program as one used by the ... place informants on the staffs of members of the United States Congress ...
FBI informants include journalists, WH and Congressional staffers ...
saynsumthn.wordpress.com/.../fbi-informants-include-journalists-wh-and-c...
Nov 2, 2012 - If Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue is right, there are journalists ... FBI informants might also be found on the White House staff, in the offices of ... existence of a government program for recruiting and training informants.
Sensitive Informant Program - Free Republic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2983690/posts" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Jan 30, 2013 - Brother of Murder Victim Seeks Details of FBI's 'Sensitive Informant Program' ... In his motion, Trentadue described the program as one used by the ... informants on the staffs of members of the United States Congress and ...
Keyword: trentadue - Free Republic
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/trentadue/index" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Brother of Murder Victim Seeks Details of FBI's 'Sensitive Informant Program' ... place informants on the staffs of members of the United States Congress and ...


2nd read

Junior G-Man Sen Inhofe: ISIS Developing Plan to Blow Up Major US City

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkou ... d-n1882422" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


| Aug 23, 2015
The administration can deny that the Islamic State (ISIS) is not at war with America all it wants, but their rhetoric, numerous threats, and recent beheading of an American journalist suggest otherwise. And according to one senator, they’re already developing a plan to blow up a major U.S. city.

It is a serious warning coming from Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe as he warns of the potential of another attack on American soil. The senator sat down with Fox 25 to talk about a variety of topics, but as ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the top issue was national security.

“We're in the most dangerous position we've ever been in as a nation,” Senator Inhofe told Fox 25's Phil Cross.



3rd read

http://www.worldbulletin.net/news/14300 ... er-release" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Pakistani doctor's family shun ISIS call for her release




The family of Aafia Siddiqui, currently serving a prison term in the United States for attempted murder, rejected any link to the Islamic State

The family of a Pakistani doctor serving a jail sentence in America for an attack on a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan has rejected the Islamic State’s demand for her release.

Last week it was reported that the insurgents had called for the releasee of Aafia Siddiqui, once listed among the FBI’s seven most wanted al-Qaeda figures, as a condition of releasing Western hostages, including James Foley.

[msfreeh]

couple of reads

1st read


http://www.google.com/#q=trentadue+FBI+ ... m+congress" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Brother of Murder Victim Seeks Details of FBI's u2018Sensitive ...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/.../brother- ... -of-fbis-u.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Feb 1, 2013 - In his motion, Trentadue described the program as one used by the ... place informants on the staffs of members of the United States Congress ...
FBI informants include journalists, WH and Congressional staffers ...
saynsumthn.wordpress.com/.../fbi-informants-include-journalists-wh-and-c...
Nov 2, 2012 - If Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue is right, there are journalists ... FBI informants might also be found on the White House staff, in the offices of ... existence of a government program for recruiting and training informants.
Sensitive Informant Program - Free Republic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2983690/posts" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Jan 30, 2013 - Brother of Murder Victim Seeks Details of FBI's 'Sensitive Informant Program' ... In his motion, Trentadue described the program as one used by the ... informants on the staffs of members of the United States Congress and ...
Keyword: trentadue - Free Republic
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/trentadue/index" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Brother of Murder Victim Seeks Details of FBI's 'Sensitive Informant Program' ... place informants on the staffs of members of the United States Congress and ...


2nd read

Junior G-Man Sen Inhofe: ISIS Developing Plan to Blow Up Major US City

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkou ... d-n1882422" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


| Aug 23, 2015
The administration can deny that the Islamic State (ISIS) is not at war with America all it wants, but their rhetoric, numerous threats, and recent beheading of an American journalist suggest otherwise. And according to one senator, they’re already developing a plan to blow up a major U.S. city.

It is a serious warning coming from Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe as he warns of the potential of another attack on American soil. The senator sat down with Fox 25 to talk about a variety of topics, but as ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the top issue was national security.

“We're in the most dangerous position we've ever been in as a nation,” Senator Inhofe told Fox 25's Phil Cross.



3rd read

http://www.worldbulletin.net/news/14300 ... er-release" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Pakistani doctor's family shun ISIS call for her release




The family of Aafia Siddiqui, currently serving a prison term in the United States for attempted murder, rejected any link to the Islamic State

The family of a Pakistani doctor serving a jail sentence in America for an attack on a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan has rejected the Islamic State’s demand for her release.

Last week it was reported that the insurgents had called for the releasee of Aafia Siddiqui, once listed among the FBI’s seven most wanted al-Qaeda figures, as a condition of releasing Western hostages, including James Foley.

After taxpayer funded FBI agents create ISIS they become available to protect us from ISIS

Can you smell the Sulphur?

see link for full story



How the US Helped ISIS Grow Into a Monster


In his new book, Patrick Cockburn writes that America's failed strategy will only make ISIS stronger.

—By Patrick Cockburn
| Thu Aug. 21, 2014 5:39 PM EDT
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... yria-assad" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. This essay is excerpted from the first chapter of Patrick Cockburn's new book, The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising, with special thanks to his publisher, OR Books. The first section is a new introduction written for TomDispatch.

There are extraordinary elements in the present US policy in Iraq and Syria that are attracting surprisingly little attention. In Iraq, the US is carrying out air strikes and sending in advisers and trainers to help beat back the advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (better known as ISIS) on the Kurdish capital, Erbil. The US would presumably do the same if ISIS surrounds or attacks Baghdad. But in Syria, Washington's policy is the exact opposite: there the main opponent of ISIS is the Syrian government and the Syrian Kurds in their northern enclaves. Both are under attack from ISIS, which has taken about a third of the country, including most of its oil and gas production facilities.

But US, Western European, Saudi, and Arab Gulf policy is to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, which happens to be the policy of ISIS and other jihadis in Syria. If Assad goes, then ISIS will be the beneficiary, since it is either defeating or absorbing the rest of the Syrian armed opposition. There is a pretense in Washington and elsewhere that there exists a "moderate" Syrian opposition being helped by the US, Qatar, Turkey, and the Saudis. It is, however, weak and getting more so by the day. Soon the new caliphate may stretch from the Iranian border to the Mediterranean and the only force that can possibly stop this from happening is the Syrian army.

The reality of US policy is to support the government of Iraq, but not Syria, against ISIS. But one reason that group has been able to grow so strong in Iraq is that it can draw on its resources and fighters in Syria. Not everything that went wrong in Iraq was the fault of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, as has now become the political and media consensus in the West. Iraqi politicians have been telling me for the last two years that foreign backing for the Sunni revolt in Syria would inevitably destabilize their country as well. This has now happened.

By continuing these contradictory policies in two countries, the US has ensured that ISIS can reinforce its fighters in Iraq from Syria and vice versa. So far, Washington has been successful in escaping blame for the rise of ISIS by putting all the blame on the Iraqi government. In fact, it has created a situation in which ISIS can survive and may well flourish.


Using the al-Qa'ida Label

The sharp increase in the strength and reach of jihadist organizations in Syria and Iraq has generally been unacknowledged until recently by politicians and media in the West. A primary reason for this is that Western governments and their security forces narrowly define the jihadist threat as those forces directly controlled by al-Qa'ida central or "core" al-Qa'ida. This enables them to present a much more cheerful picture of their successes in the so-called war on terror than the situation on the ground warrants.

In fact, the idea that the only jihadis to be worried about are those with the official blessing of al-Qa'ida is naïve and self-deceiving. It ignores the fact, for instance, that ISIS has been criticized by the al-Qa'ida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri for its excessive violence and sectarianism. After talking to a range of Syrian jihadi rebels not directly affiliated with al-Qa'ida in southeast Turkey earlier this year, a source told me that "without exception they all expressed enthusiasm for the 9/11 attacks and hoped the same thing would happen in Europe as well as the US"

Jihadi groups ideologically close to al-Qa'ida have been relabeled as moderate if their actions are deemed supportive of US policy aims. In Syria, the Americans backed a plan by Saudi Arabia to build up a "Southern Front" based in Jordan that would be hostile to the Assad government in Damascus, and simultaneously hostile to al-Qa'ida-type rebels in the north and east. The powerful but supposedly moderate Yarmouk Brigade, reportedly the planned recipient of anti-aircraft missiles from Saudi Arabia, was intended to be the leading element in this new formation. But numerous videos show that the Yarmouk Brigade has frequently fought in collaboration with JAN, the official al-Qa'ida affiliate. Since it was likely that, in the midst of battle, these two groups would share their munitions, Washington was effectively allowing advanced weaponry to be handed over to its deadliest enemy. Iraqi officials confirm that they have captured sophisticated arms from ISIS fighters in Iraq that were originally supplied by outside powers to forces considered to be anti-al-Qa'ida in Syria.

The name al-Qa'ida has always been applied flexibly when identifying an enemy. In 2003 and 2004 in Iraq, as armed Iraqi opposition to the American and British-led occupation mounted, US officials attributed most attacks to al-Qa'ida, though many were carried out by nationalist and Baathist groups. Propaganda like this helped to persuade nearly 60% of US voters prior to the Iraq invasion that there was a connection between Saddam Hussein and those responsible for 9/11, despite the absence of any evidence for this. In Iraq itself, indeed throughout the entire Muslim world, these accusations have benefited al-Qa'ida by exaggerating its role in the resistance to the US and British occupation.

Precisely the opposite PR tactics were employed by Western governments in 2011 in Libya, where any similarity between al-Qa'ida and the NATO-backed rebels fighting to overthrow the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, was played down. Only those jihadis who had a direct operational link to the al-Qa'ida "core" of Osama bin Laden were deemed to be dangerous. The falsity of the pretense that the anti-Gaddafi jihadis in Libya were less threatening than those in direct contact with al-Qa'ida was forcefully, if tragically, exposed when US ambassador Chris Stevens was killed by jihadi fighters in Benghazi in September 2012. These were the same fighters lauded by Western governments and media for their role in the anti-Gaddafi uprising.


Imagining al-Qa'ida as the Mafia

Al-Qa'ida is an idea rather than an organization, and this has long been the case. For a five-year period after 1996, it did have cadres, resources, and camps in Afghanistan, but these were eliminated after the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001. Subsequently, al-Qa'ida's name became primarily a rallying cry, a set of Islamic beliefs, centering on the creation of an Islamic state, the imposition of sharia, a return to Islamic customs, the subjugation of women, and the waging of holy war against other Muslims, notably the Shia, who are considered heretics worthy of death. At the center of this doctrine for making war is an emphasis on self-sacrifice and martyrdom as a symbol of religious faith and commitment. This has resulted in using untrained but fanatical believers as suicide bombers, to devastating effect.

It has always been in the interest of the US and other governments that al-Qa'ida be viewed as having a command-and-control structure like a mini-Pentagon, or like the mafia in America. This is a comforting image for the public because organized groups, however demonic, can be tracked down and eliminated through imprisonment or death. More alarming is the reality of a movement whose adherents are self-recruited and can spring up anywhere.

Osama bin Laden's gathering of militants, which he did not call al-Qa'ida until after 9/11, was just one of many jihadi groups 12 years ago. But today its ideas and methods are predominant among jihadis because of the prestige and publicity it gained through the destruction of the Twin Towers, the war in Iraq, and its demonization by Washington as the source of all anti-American evil. These days, there is a narrowing of differences in the beliefs of jihadis, regardless of whether or not they are formally linked to al-Qa'ida central.

Unsurprisingly, governments prefer the fantasy picture of al-Qa'ida because it enables them to claim victories when it succeeds in killing its better known members and allies. Often, those eliminated are given quasi-military ranks, such as "head of operations," to enhance the significance of their demise. The culmination of this heavily publicized but largely irrelevant aspect of the "war on terror" was the killing of bin Laden in Abbottabad in Pakistan in 2011. This enabled President Obama to grandstand before the American public as the man who had presided over the hunting down of al-Qa'ida's leader. In practical terms, however, his death had little impact on al-Qa'ida-type jihadi groups, whose greatest expansion has occurred subsequently.

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Thursday, August 21, 2014
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Where is the breatholator test or blood work?

Never given a test.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

BARNARD, Vt.
Drugs and alcohol are not believed to be factors in the single-car crash in Vermont that seriously injured former FBI director Louis Freeh, state police said Tuesday.

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US Senator from Vermont (D) Patrick Leahy is a made member of the FBI Crime family having been a former prosecutor in the DOJ.

Don Corleone Leahy has protected the FBI from investigation for 39 years since he entered office in 1975.

That is a lot of FBI Guano and Sulpur emissions, eh?


Still no breathalyzer or blood analysis given for DUI....



http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... /14841843/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Ex-FBI chief thanks supporters, hospital after crash


August 30. 2014



BURLINGTON, Vt. — Former FBI director Louis Freeh issued a statement Friday thanking supporters and hospital staff following the car crash in Vermont on Monday that left him with serious injuries.

The eight-sentence statement marked Freeh's first public comments regarding the wreck but included no information about his condition, the extent of his injuries or the crash itself.

"May God bless all of these individuals who are so instrumental in my recovery," Freeh said in the statement, which singled out high-profile supporters and medical personnel for praise.

Freeh, 64, of Wilmington, Del., drove his SUV off Vermont 12 in Barnard, struck a mailbox and bushes and came to rest against a tree. Emergency crews had to cut away the roof of his GMC Yukon to rescue Freeh after the wreck.



Ex-FBI chief's condition remains mystery after crash

The Vermont State Police have yet to release a cause of the crash, but investigators have said they believe alcohol and drugs were not factors.

Freeh has been hospitalized at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., since being airlifted to the facility from the crash scene. The hospital, citing patient confidentiality rules, has declined to release any information about Freeh or even confirm that he is a patient.

Sen Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., visited Freeh on Friday and issued the statement on Freeh's behalf.

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Taxpayer funded FBI agents teaching local
mercenaries the importance of spinning crime information.
as always using the taxpayer dime


Sheriff Announces New Media Relations Liaison
SpaceCoastDaily.com- August 31 2014
Please join me in congratulating both Agent Fernez for a job well done and ... Sheriff Ivey is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and has a Bachelor's ...

http://spacecoastdaily.com/2014/08/sher ... s-liaison/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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http://abc7.com/news/video-purports-to- ... ff/291402/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"When you get this narrow line, and anybody that's not on their side of the line is not human and deserves to die," ABC News consultant and former FBI agent Brad Garrett said.

[msfreeh]

couple of reads

I want to believe...
How about you?


1
http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/ ... 29287.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Former FBI agent to speak at crime commission banquet



09/03/2014 11:36 AM



A retired FBI agent who helped capture “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski will be the keynote speaker at the Wichita Crime Commission’s awards banquet in October.

Candace DeLong was one of three agents selected in 1995 to hunt for the Unabomber, who sent 16 bombs over 17 years, killing six people. She was one of three agents who interviewed Kaczynski after his capture.

DeLong has been called the real-life Clarissa Starling from the movie “Silence of the Lambs,” according to the crime commission. She also can be seen on the Investigation Discovery Channel’s “Deadly Women” TV series where she explores the psychology of female serial killers.

The banquet honoring law enforcement, criminal justice professionals and residents who helped solve and prevent crimes will be held at 6 p.m. on Oct. 23, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Airport Hotel.


2nd read

Frederick Whitehurst FBI Lab scandal Whitehurst ... - Unabombers.com
http://www.unabombers.com/A26.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The FBI's Unabomber Cover-up began long before the Whitehurst Report ever exposed the FBI Lab Scandal and it goes much deeper. Evidence Planting ...
U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and the Unabomber Charade
http://www.unabombers.com/z24.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
SITE KEYS: Unabomber, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno Whitehurst FBI U.S. ... Frederick Whitehurst MKUltra Boylan sketch artist Crime sketch Unabomber ...
Senator James Jeffords refused to investigate... - Unabombers.com
http://www.unabombers.com/z14.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
SITE KEYS: Unabomber, Senator Jim Jeffords (I-Vt), Senator, James, Jeffords, ... Frederick Whitehurst MKUltra Boylan sketch artist Crime sketch Unabomber ...
Much Unabomber evidence is blown Internal FBI audit ... - Collections
articles.baltimoresun.com/.../1996098015_1_unabomber-crime-lab-review
Apr 7, 1996 - Much Unabomber evidence is blown Internal FBI audit can't track down ... criticism by another FBI explosives expert, Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, ...
Frederic Whitehurst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Whitehurst
Frederic Whitehurst was a Supervisory Special Agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory from 1986 to 1998, where he went public as a ...
FBI Laboratory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Laboratory
Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, who joined the FBI in 1982 and served as a Supervisory ... and Other Cases (April 1997) · Frederic Whitehurst's criticism of Unabomber ...
Tainting Evidence - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/ke ... dence.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
As Fred Whitehurst, a mustached Vietnam veteran sat, arms crossed, at the ... the IG looked at -- the World Trade Center bombing, the Unabomber investigation, ...
Frederick Whitehurst's Photos, Phone, Email, Address - Spokeo
http://www.spokeo.com/Frederick+Whitehurst" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
... and public records for free! Find more about Frederick Whitehurst's biography, profile, frederic whitehurst, fbi, fred whitehurst, attorney, bethel nc, and atlanta.
USDOJ/OIG FBI Labs Report - Department of Justice
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We concluded that Frederic Whitehurst cannot effectively function within the ..... explosive devices thought to be associated with the so-called Unabomber.
Tainting evidence : inside the scandals at the FBI crime lab / John F ...
wyld.sdp.sirsi.net/client/en_US/wmc/search/.../ent.../ada;...ps...
A key informant is Dr. Frederick Whitehurst, for 10 years a chemist at one such lab. ... from laziness and bungling in the Unabomber, O.J. Simpson and Oklahoma ...

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When can FBI use National Security letters to go after reporters ...
Boing Boing-September 3. 2014
Two weeks ago, the DOJ Inspector General released a report on the FBI's use of National Security Letters (NSLs)—-the controversial (and ...

[msfreeh]

couple of reads


let god sort out the truth


Retired FBI Agent Lifts the Lid on Unabomber Case
Santa Clara Weekly- Sept 4. 2014
Highly-decorated retired FBI special agent Max Noel discussed the investigation, one of the costliest in FBI history, at the Santa Clara Rotary Club's Aug.


2nd read

see link for FBI Lab whistleblower report on the Unabomber
http://www.google.com/#q=Fred+Whitehust ... +unabomber" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


USDOJ/OIG FBI Labs Report - Department of Justice
http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/9704a/00exesum.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Section II describes the OIG investigation (Part Two of the Report). Section III ... We concluded that Frederic Whitehurst cannot effectively function within the ..... fourteen explosive devices thought to be associated with the so-called Unabomber.
Terry Rudolph Fbi | FBI gets taste of scandal Inattention: Report on ...
articles.baltimoresun.com/.../1997110003_1_crime-lab-unabomber-fbi-lab
Apr 20, 1997 - In 13 attacks attributed to the Unabomber between 1978 and mid-1995, the ... Criticisms of Rudolph by Frederic Whitehurst, a lab agent turned whistle-blower, ... Justice and the FBI Flawed work: Inspector general's report.
Tainting Evidence - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/ke ... dence.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
But the IG's report, shocking as its conclusions were, was severely limited. ... quickly realized that the inspector general's report had to be the beginning, not the end. ... As Fred Whitehurst, a mustached Vietnam veteran sat, arms crossed, at the ... IG looked at -- the World Trade Center bombing, the Unabomber investigation, ...
Frederick Whitehurst FBI Lab scandal Whitehurst Report Unabom
http://www.unabombers.com/A26.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The FBI's Unabomber Cover-up began long before the Whitehurst Report ever exposed the FBI Lab Scandal and it goes much deeper. Evidence Planting ...
Missing: oig
Professionalism/Frederic Whitehurst and the FBI - Wikibooks, open ...
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/Frederic_Whitehurst_and_the_FBI
Jump to Department of Justice Report - Incited by Whitehurst's numerous allegations, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Office of the Inspector General ...
Missing: unabomber
[PDF]Opinion - Florida State University College of Law
http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/flsupct/ ... -93816.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
OIG investigated several individual analysts, the report did not conclude that. Havekost engaged in any ... Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, Ph.D. (Whitehurst), was the supervising analyst in the ... (one of the Unabomber cases). The allegations related ...
Fbi Crime Lab Doj Ig Report 1997 | Prison Legal News
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/.. ... port-1997/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
USDOJ/OIG Special Report The FBI Laboratory: An Investigation into Laboratory .... brought to the OIG's attention by Supervisory Special Agent Frederic Whitehurst, ..... explosive devices thought to be associated with the so-called Unabomber.
labscam - MarijuanaLibrary.org
http://www.marijuanalibrary.org/LABSCAM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Note that many sources are radio news reports, and thus the spelling of many ... ``In all instances, the FBI, or the Department of Justice inspector general's office, or, ... Special Agent Frederic Whitehurst claims that evidence is rigged or slanted to ..... Unabomber Theodore Kacyznski was=20 either =B3incomplete or missing.

[msfreeh]

Hello boys and girls.
Welcome to FBI Director "jimmy the water boarder" Comey's
Manufacturing Consent neighborhood.
Sometimes called "I want to make believe time.

Today's word from the X-Rated Nah I meant X Files is
Public Safety Academy.
Can you say Public Safety Academy boys and girls?



If 3 FBI agents tell us the real story
it must be true,?
Being the good criminal justice consumer
you just read Professor Mathew Cecil's book

How the Media Conned the Public into Loving the FBI: Book Review ...
whowhatwhy.com/2014/04/.../media-conned-public-loving-fbi-book-revie...
Apr 9, 2014 - A review of “Hoover's FBI and the Fourth Estate: The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau's Image” by Matthew Cecil, University ...

So when you see these 3 FBI spinmeisters telling us the FBI was
"media shy". you said ". busted again for lying". ,eh?



couple of reads


1st read
FBI Whistleblower Gets $300,000 - AP News Archive
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/...Whistle ... 146ca32e24.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Mar 11, 1998 - The government also agreed to speed the release to Whitehurst of ... including the Unabomber, World Trade Center bombing and Pan Am 103 ...
Fbi Scandal Of The 70's 80's | Fbi Gets Taste Of Scandal - Page 2 ...
articles.baltimoresun.com/1997-04-20/news/...1_crime...unabomber.../2
Apr 20, 1997 - FBI bosses suspended Whitehurst without pay for a week and put him on probation for six months, but Rudolph, ... Responses like that only accelerated Whitehurst's rage against the FBI machine. ... Much Unabomber evidence is blown Internal FBI audit can't. ... Crime Lab · Unabomber · Center Bombing.
05/13/97 Committee on the Judiciary - Whitehurst Statement
fas.org/irp/congress/1997_hr/h970513w.htm
No other matter of greater importance than the World Trade Center bombing ... and FBI for raising "indications" of misconduct, Dr. Whitehurst's "whistleblowing" ...
Missing: unabomber
Frederic Whitehurst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Whitehurst
Frederic Whitehurst was a Supervisory Special Agent in the Federal Bureau of ... project of the National Whistleblower Center, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization.
Missing: unabomber
Unabomber News History - Drug link investigated in US judge's killing
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Tarnished Badge - TIME
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The Dangers of Dissent: The FBI and Civil Liberties since 1965
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Former FBI agents Jim Freeman, Terry Turchie and Donald Max Noel will talk about their newly released book “UNABOMBER: How the FBI Broke Its Own Rules to Capture the Terrorist Ted Kaczynski” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Redlands Barnes & Noble bookstore, 27460 Lugonia Ave.

“UNABOMBER: How the FBI Broke Its Own Rules to Capture the Terrorist Ted Kaczynski” documents the pursuit of American terrorist Ted Kaczynski, who was convicted of killing three people and injuring 23 through a series of mail bombs.

The authors are the FBI agents who ran the case that they say changed the FBI from the tradition-bound, media-shy agency of J. Edgar Hoover to the high-tech, media-savvy agency of today.

Jim Freeman was the SAC (special agent in charge) appointed by FBI Director Louis Freeh, Terry Turchie was the assistant special agent in charge of the UNABOM Task Force, and Donald Max Noel was the supervisory special agent of the UNABOM Task Force and arresting special agent.

In the book, they recount the story of the FBI’s change from the “corner office” to the agent on the wind-swept streets.

Their book talk is scheduled as a part of the Public Safety Academy of San Bernardino’s annual bookfair, which honors those who were affected by the events of Sept. 11, 2001. The Public Safety Academy will open the bookfair with a presentation of colors, and plans to have family friendly-activities from 5:30 to 7 p.m. All activities are open to the public.

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JFK: How the Media Assassinated the Real Story
By Robert Hennelly & Jerry Policoff

If the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy was one of the darkest tragedies in the republic's history, the reporting of it has remained one of the worst travesties of the American media. From the first reports out of Dallas in November of 1963 to the merciless flagellation of Oliver Stone's JFK over the last several months, the mainstream media have disgraced themselves by hewing blindly to the single-assassin theory advanced by the FBI within hours of the murder. Original, enterprise reporting has been left almost entirely to alternative weeklies, monthly magazines, book publishers, and documentary makers. All such efforts over the last 29 years have met the same fate as Oliver Stone's movie: derision from the mainstream media. At first, the public bought the party line. But gradually, as more and more information slipped through the margins of the media business, and finally through the efforts of Congress itself, the public began to change its mind.

Today, according to a recent New York Times/CBS poll, an astonishing 77 percent of Americans reject the Warren Report's conclusions. How did such a tremendous credibility gap come about? And, assuming that the majority of Americans are right, how did a free press so totally blow one of the biggest stories of the century? To find out, Village Voice has reviewed hundreds of documents bearing on the media's coverage of the assassination, and has discovered a pattern of collusion and co-optation that is hardly less chilling than the prospect of a conspiracy to kill the president. In particular, The New York Times, Time-Life, CBS, and NBC have striven mightily to protect the single assassin hypothesis, even when that has involved the suppression of information, the coercion of testimony, and the misrepresentation of key evidence. The "Voice" has discovered that: Within days of the assassination, the Justice Department quashed an editorial in The Washington Post that called for an independent investigation; within two weeks the FBI was able to crow that NBC had pledged not to report anything beyond what the FBI itself was putting before the American people; only four hours after the murder, Life magazine grabbed up one of the main pieces of evidence--the Zapruder film-- misrepresenting the content to millions of readers in its very first post-assassination issue and then continuing the lie with ever-changing captions and Zapruder frames in its special issue supporting the Warren Commission report; in 1967, a supposedly independent CBS documentary series on the assassination was in fact secretly reviewed and seemingly altered by former Warren Commission member John Jay McCloy, through a "Dad says" memo written by his daughter Ellen McCloy, then administrative assistant of CBS News president Richard Salant; within that same CBS series, the testimony of Orville Nix--an amateur filmmaker who captured the "the grassy knoll" angle on tape--was tailored to fit the requirements of CBS's Warren Commission slant. Much of this unethical and immoral practice was accomplished under the pretext of "sparing the Kennedy family."

Indeed, the coverage of the assassination was complicated by the cross-identification between reporters and the president. The Kennedys were the first, and possibly the last, American political family to so thoroughly cultivate the fourth estate; in the aftermath of the assassination, the media completely relinquished its usual skepticism and opened the door for the government to do whatever it found most expedient. What possible motive could the national media have for failing to properly investigate the Kennedy murder? Perhaps they were genuinely seduced by this "Camelot" they themselves created. And if anyone was going to end Camelot, far better for the memories, far better for the family, that it be a lone psycho than a conspiracy. And if the media were solicitous to the Kennedys in this way, they were positively patronizing to the citizenry. It was Vietnam all over again: the war was good for the country, so don't report how badly it was going; a conspiracy to kill the president would be demoralizing at home and humiliating abroad, so sweep under the rug any evidence pointing in that direction. And then of course there was the national security issue.

Many of the editors who were calling the shots on assassination coverage had come out of World War II. Their country took precedence over the truth; the CIA and FBI were entitled to the benefit of the doubt; the "free press" was sometimes confused with the Voice of America. J. Edgar Hoover, supreme patriarch of the FBI and all-powerful with a distraught Robert Kennedy out of the way, knew just how to exploit the opportunity. Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach recalls that Robert Kennedy, attorney general at the time, was so despondent he didn't even see the point of an investigation. "What the hell's the difference? He's gone," Katzenbach remembers RFK saying before handing over the reins. Just three days after the assassination an internal Justice Department memo from Katzenbach to Bill Moyers, then a top aide to Lyndon Johnson, spelled out the Justice Department's strategy, a strategy that would prevail to a shocking degree right through the end of the decade:

1. The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have confederates who are still at large; and that the evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial.

2. Speculation about Oswald's motivation ought to be cut off, and we should have some basis for rebutting thought that this was a Communist conspiracy or (as the Iron Curtain press is saying) a right-wing conspiracy to blame it on the Communists. Unfortunately the facts on Oswald seem about too pat--too obvious (Marxist, Cuba, Russian wife, etc.). The Dallas police have put out statements on the Communist conspiracy theory, and it was they who were in charge when he was shot and thus silenced.

Katzenbach, whose memo sets out the Warren report results a year before the commission reached them, suggests that a "Presidential Commission of unimpeachable personnel" be appointed to examine evidence and reach conclusions. In closing he writes,

I think, however, that a statement that all the facts will be made public property in an orderly and responsible way should be made now. We need something to head off public speculation or Congressional hearings of the wrong sort.

Such a statement was indeed made, and of course the facts, the files, the evidence never were made public in their entirety. As it turned out, the speculation took years; new Congressional hearings, decades. Today, Katzenbach realizes that allowing Hoover's agents to control the flow of information was a little like letting the fox guard the henhouse. The Senate Church committee report that came out in 1976 confirmed that while investigating the murder "top FBI officials were continually concerned with protecting the Bureau's reputation." Even Katzenbach concedes that Hoover would never "let the agency be embarrassed by any information on the bureau itself. He just would never show it. But how would you know it? What could you do?"

According to an FBI memo obtained by the Voice," it didn't take the FBI or the Justice Department long to get the the press under control. On November 25, 1963, the White House learned that The Washington Post planned an editorial calling for the convening of a presidential commission to investigate the assassination. Though Lyndon Johnson planned to do just that, the strategy was to get the FBI report out first. The memo states that Katzenbach called Washington Post editor Russell Wiggins and told him that "the Department of Justice seriously hoped that the Washington Post would not encourage any specific means" by which the facts should be made available to the public. The memo also describes a conversation an FBI agent had with Al Friendly, The Washington Post's managing editor, discouraging publication of the editorial and suggesting that it would "merely `muddy the waters' and would create further confusion and hysteria." The editorial never appeared. Later that day Hoover triumphantly boasted in another FBI memo that "I called Mr. Walter Jenkins at the White House and advised him that we had killed the editorial in the Post." The FBI had the electronic media wired as well. A December 11, 1963, teletype from the FBI office in New York to J. Edgar Hoover indicates that NBC had given the bureau assurances that it would "televise only those items which are in consonance with bureau report [on the assassination]." The eight-page FBI message details the substance of NBC's research, including the development of leads. "NBC has movie film taken at some one hundred and fifty feet showing a Dallas Police Dept. officer rushing into book depository building while most of police and Secret Service were rushing up an incline towards railroad trestle [in front of the motorcade]."
THE NEW YORK TIMES

The paper of record, The New York Times, led the newsprint pack with the official story. Months before the Warren Commission report was released, Times writer Anthony Lewis got a special exclusive preview and his June 1, 1964, page-one article presented its findings in positively glowing terms; over the years he has continued to attack Warren Commission critics as well as Oliver Stone's film. Lewis has told the Voice that his close ties with the Kennedys, specifically Robert made "it very painful to me personally. Over the years I felt I did not want to get involved as a counterexpert or expert. Maybe with all that has happened, Vietnam and Watergate, today's reporters would have come to it with more resistance. There was at the time a predisposition for the society as a whole to believe." But can "lost innocence" account wholly for the mangling of history and management of information that the major media engaged in during that period?

For the Times, creating a supportive climate for the Warren report seemed an institutional imperative. The Times was going to run the report in the paper and then go commercial with it: collaborating with the Book of the Month Club and Bantam Books to publish it in September of 1964. On May 24, 1964, Clifton Daniel of the Times wrote Warren Commission Chief Counsel J. Lee Rankin expressing gratitude to Chief Justice



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On November 25, 1963, the White House learned that The Washington Post planned an editorial calling for the convening of a presidential commission to investigate the assassination. Though Lyndon Johnson planned to do just that, the strategy was to get the FBI report out first. The memo states that Katzenbach called Washington Post editor Russell Wiggins and told him that "the Department of Justice seriously hoped that the Washington Post would not encourage any specific means" by which the facts should be made available to the public. The memo also describes a conversation an FBI agent had with Al Friendly, The Washington Post's managing editor, discouraging publication of the editorial and suggesting that it would "merely `muddy the waters' and would create further confusion and hysteria." The editorial never appeared. Later that day Hoover triumphantly boasted in another FBI memo that "I called Mr. Walter Jenkins at the White House and advised him that we had killed the editorial in the Post." The FBI had the electronic media wired as well. A December 11, 1963, teletype from the FBI office in New York to J. Edgar Hoover indicates that NBC had given the bureau assurances that it would "televise only those items which are in consonance with bureau report [on the assassination]." The eight-page FBI message details the substance of NBC's research, including the development of leads. "NBC has movie film taken at some one hundred and fifty feet showing a Dallas Police Dept. officer rushing into book depository building while most of police and Secret Service were rushing up an incline towards railroad trestle [in front of the motorcade]."



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How Rep. King Aided Leak He Decried
September 8, 2014

Washington insiders like to swap around sensitive information to show how important they are, but some then protest loudly when a journalist lets the broader public in on the secrets. That can lead to obvious hypocrisies as occurred with Rep. Peter King, writes Marcy Wheeler.

By Marcy Wheeler

On May 7, 2012, then Associated Press reporters Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo broke the story of a thwarted al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) underwear bomb plot by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Within a day, several news outlets — including ABC News, Los Angeles Times, and New York Times – reported that the culprit was actually a Saudi agent.

On May 9, 2012, Rep. Peter King, R-New York, called for an FBI investigation to determine who leaked details of the plot to the AP.
Rep. Peter King, R-New York

Rep. Peter King, R-New York

“I’m calling on the FBI to do a full of investigation of how this was leaked, who’s leaking it. And also the CIA to do an internal investigation,” King said. “This came from such a small circle. Nobody in Congress knew about it. My understanding is very few of anyone in the FBI even knew about it. And yet so much of it was leaked to the Associated Press a week ago, and now someone’s leaking like a sieve. This is really dangerous to the national security.”

The Department of Justice did launch the investigation King demanded. In fact, in early 2013, DOJ obtained the phone records of 20 AP phone lines – affecting 100 AP journalists – without giving the outlet an opportunity to challenge the subpoena. The investigation and excessive subpoena has marked one of the low points of the Obama administration’s crackdown on journalism.

The investigation ended last September when former FBI bomb expert Donald Sachtleben pled guilty to serving as a source to one of the AP journalists. Prosecution documents revealed that, because the government had already been investigating Sachtleben for child porn charges, they already had the means to find his communications with the AP reporters, without compromising the sources of 98 other journalists.

The investigation King demanded ended up needlessly compromising the reporting of a slew of journalists. That’s remarkable, because — as emails newly released by The Intercept‘s Ken Silverstein show — Peter King himself was talking to journalists about the story.

Within hours of the first AP report, Scott Shane, of the New York Times, emailed CIA’s press office asking them to clarify something King told the NYT, based on the briefings King had gotten about the plot.

“‘They said that we don’t have to worry about him anymore, that we don’t have to worry about this guy. That was the exact language they used,’” Shane recounted King explaining, on the record. “Can you help me interpret what Rep. King is saying…?”

As King explained to Wolf Blitzer two days after this conversation with NYT journalists – even as he was calling for an investigation into the people leaking classified information – he had been in a number of Top Secret briefings on the plot. King complained that “so many people are talking about something which is still classified.” Rep. King’s office did not return a request for comment.

Shane explained to ExposeFacts over the weekend that King’s comment led him to wonder whether – and then confirm — the bombing culprit was really an infiltrator.

“I do remember being genuinely puzzled on May 7 by King’s remark that he had been told we ‘don’t have to worry about’ the guy and trying hard that night to get officials to clarify,” Shane described. “The next morning it suddenly occurred to me that the guy might have been an agent,” he continued. “I finally got someone to confirm in the afternoon and we posted a story.”

On May 8 — even before King started calling for an investigation into those leaking classified information — Shane and Eric Schmitt reported, “The suicide bomber dispatched by the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda last month to blow up a United States-bound airliner was actually an intelligence agent for Saudi Arabia who infiltrated the terrorist group and volunteered for the mission, American and foreign officials said Tuesday.”

Shane emphasized that he doesn’t know whether King meant to imply that the culprit was an infiltrator. “I actually have no idea whether King himself at that point knew the guy was a double agent — that was so sensitive that they may have omitted it from his briefing.” But by sharing details from the briefings he had gotten, King provided a clue that led the NYT to learn and report an important new detail about the plot.

That’s not to say Peter King should be investigated for leaking to journalists — as he himself insisted should happen — or lose his access to classified information on the House Intelligence Committee. On the contrary, it’s a good example of how journalists work — and should work.

On the contrary, it shows why the first response to solid national security reporting should not be to demand an investigation. Even an innocuous comment may lead journalists to ask the right questions to flesh out the story. Those kinds of conversations should not be criminalized … even in spite of what King demanded.

Investigative journalist Marcy Wheeler writes the “Right to Know” column for ExposeFacts. She is best known for providing in-depth analysis of legal documents related to “war on terrorism” programs and civil liberties. Wheeler blogs at emptywheel.net and publishes at outlets including the Guardian, Salon and the Progressive. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy. Wheeler won the 2009 Hillman Award for blog journalism.

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Why California’s Smartphone ‘Kill Switch’ Law Should Concern Journalists
September 10, 2014

By Jonathan Peters via CJR

Imagine this.

You’re a journalist covering a street protest, and the local police chief doesn’t like the photos you’re tweeting from your iPhone. One shows an officer arresting a minister. Another shows a protester surrendering as an officer chokes him. Yet another shows a teargas canister landing near a group of young people. The batons and rubber bullets come out, and …

… the chief remotely disables the journalist’s iPhone, rendering it useless.

Soon that will be within the realm of possibility in California—technically, if not legally. Last week Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed into law a bill that requires any smartphone manufactured after June 2015 and sold in California to include a feature that can render the device inoperable, a so-called “kill switch.”

The bill was framed as an antitheft measure, developed to allow a smartphone owner to disable her device if it’s stolen. State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), who authored the bill, said in a statement, “California has just put smartphone thieves on notice. Our efforts will effectively wipe out the incentive to steal smartphones.”

Citing Consumer Reports, the statement said that in the US the number of victims of smartphone theft rose from 1.6 million to 3.1 million between 2012 and 2013. And the bill itself, citing the Federal Communications Commission, said smartphone theft accounts for 30-40 percent of robberies in major cities nationwide, many violent and some resulting in the loss of life.

From an anti-theft and consumer-safety standpoint, a kill switch isn’t a bad idea. In fact, it’s not even a new idea. Apple users already can download the Find My iPhone app to locate a device, track where it’s been, prevent anyone from using it, and erase personal data stored on it. Other companies provide similar services to Android and Blackberry users.

So my concern isn’t that smartphone theft is unfit for a technical response—it’s that the California legislation leaves open the possibility that law enforcement could hit the kill switch and stop newsgathering in its tracks.

To be clear, the scenario outlined above would likely represent an illegal act by law enforcement. A subsection of the law states that any government request “to interrupt communications service utilizing [the kill switch] is subject to Section 7908 of the Public Utilities Code,” which sets standards for such requests.

The standards are decent and generally require law enforcement to obtain a court order before interrupting any communications service by any means. Under § 7908, it would be okay to proceed without a court order only if the agency could prove exigent circumstances after the fact to a judge. (Users will also be able to opt-out of the default kill switch setting, though I question whether opting-out would actually stop a law enforcement agency determined to disable a phone.)

As the Electronic Frontier Foundation pointed out in a letter opposing the California law, it should concern us—journalists especially—that the law gives government actors greater ability to disable smartphones. Recent events in Ferguson, MO, remind us that abuses and police overreach happen. And the § 7908 standards were enacted to address the controversy caused when wireless service was shut off during the 2011 BART protests. With those things in mind, EFF wrote in its letter:

[The law] is not explicit about who can activate [the] switch. And more critically, [it] will be available for others to exploit as well, including malicious actors or law enforcement. While [the law] adopts the requirements of … § 7908 to … limit the circumstances in which government … officials can activate [the switch], the fact remains that the presence of such a mechanism in every phone by default would not be available but for the existence of [the law]. In essence, [the law] mandates the technical ability to disable every phone sold in California, and … § 7908 provides the necessary legal roadmap to do the same.

The San Francisco Examiner reported that the EFF unsuccessfully lobbied to amend the law so only a smartphone’s owner could hit the kill switch, and Wired reported that Apple, Blackberry, Google, and other firms initially opposed the law but dropped their opposition after its effective date was delayed. Meanwhile the CTIA, a trade group for the wireless telecommunications industry, opposed the law.

Notably, California wasn’t the first to pass a kill switch measure—that distinction goes to Minnesota, and Nevada is drafting one now, too. But it’s expected that California’s will be highly influential because the state is home to so many tech firms, and tends to lead other states in tech regulation.

For those reasons California’s move has at least two far-reaching implications. First, manufacturers surely won’t sell a special California phone. They’ll sell just one, with the kill switch, all around the country. Second, § 7908 doesn’t apply outside of California, so people in other states won’t automatically enjoy the court-order safeguards. In other words, the technical means to disable a phone will be available, but the legal means and protections for the user won’t necessarily be.

All of which made me think of what Jack Balkin, the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School, once wrote about the interaction of free speech theory, information policy, and the digital age.

“The practical ability to speak,” Balkin wrote, “rests on an infrastructure of free expression that involves a wide range of institutions, statutory frameworks, programs, technologies and practices.” We have the right to free expression, but policies that regulate the spread of knowledge and information create the context in which that expression occurs.

That means we need to design and regulate technology in a way that respects individual freedoms and the spirit of democracy—and journalism is a necessary ingredient of our democracy. It’s untenable for states to create the potential for government actors to interfere with newsgathering activities simply by hitting a kill switch, however unlikely that action might seem.

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New Book Explores J. Edgar Hoover's Control of the Press

Hoover orders critical journalist investigated, undermined

In this October 15, 1958 FBI document, Director J. Edgar Hoover, with one handwritten note at the end of a memorandum, orders his agents to "press every angle" in their efforts to investigate and undermine a critical journalist, Fred J. Cook. Cook was the author of a very critical (and, looking back, incredibly accurate) alternative history of the FBI published in The Nation that month. When Hoover wrote "Press every angle. H." that order prompted agents to investigate Cook by following any lead imaginable and later, resulted in a lengthy memorandum that was shared with friendly reporters in an effort to get them to do the Bureau's dirty work and publicly undermine Cook's credibility.
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Marking a journalist for arrest

In the 1942 FBI document embedded below, FBI official Percy Foxworth informs J. Edgar Hoover that journalist James A. Wechsler is being placed on the Bureau's illegal Custodial Detention Index with an A1 designation. Individuals so designated were marked for arrest and imprisonment without charges in case of national emergency.
James A. Wechsler, FBI CDI by mcecil

Appearance on PRN's "News Dissector"
Matthew Cecil on PRN's "News Dissector"

Rejecting John Wayne

In this 1966 FBI document, Milton A. Jones of the Crime Records Division updates Hoover and Associate Director Clyde Tolson on plans to add a narrator to The FBI television series that aired Sunday nights on ABC from 1965 to 1974. According to Jones,Jimmy Stewart, who had starred in the 1959 schlockfest The FBI Story on the big screen, was unable to commit to the project. Iconic western star John Wayne was the second choice of producers but was problematic because of his membership in the ultra-conservative John Birch Society. After Jones laid out the history of Wayne's relationship with the Bureau, Hoover and Tolson offered their opinions in handwritten notes on the second page. Hoover simply did not want a narrator, writing, "Other high rated shows don't have them except the Bob Hope Theater & even in that Hope is more an anachronism as he does not appear in the show proper... If we can't put over the story by acting then it can't be very good." Tolson, ever the public relations alarmist, wrote, "I don't think we want anyone connected with the John Birch Society."
John Wayne rejected by J. Edgar Hoover by mcecil

Book excerpt: The shooting of Ben Dickson

When accused bank robber Bennie Dickson was shot and killed outside a St. Louis hamburger shop on April 6, 1939, the FBI reported that the heavily-armed thief had pulled out a gun and threatened the four special agents on the scene. The description was eerily similar to circumstances of the Dillinger shooting right down to the location on a busy city street near an alley and reports of the involvement of a woman informant who led FBI agents to the scene. The killing was justified, according to the Bureau, as an act of self-defense by federal agents in fear of their lives. Ostensibly, it was another feather in J. Edgar Hoover’s cap. His highly-trained investigators, the public was told, had applied all of the powers of the Bureau to locate and eliminate a dangerous, violent criminal who was hiding in plain sight, waiting for an opportunity to strike again. The Collier-Cooper narrative was upheld, according to the FBI’s version of events, and fears that the Bureau could become a danger to civil liberties were unfounded.

Unfortunately for Hoover, though, some St. Louis newspaper accounts directly contradicted the FBI’s version of events. A waitress at the Yankee System Hamburger shop, 19-year-old Gloria Cambron, offered a different account of reckless and careless agents who, with the help of a paid informant, arrived at the last moment and shot Dickson in the back as he attempted to flee. According to Cambron, who watched the shooting through the window of the hamburger shop, Dickson left the shop and when confronted by St. Louis SAC Gerald B. Norris, did not draw a gun. In fact, according to Cambron, Dickson turned and ran, moving quickly to a closed door next to the restaurant entrance that led to an apartment upstairs. As Dickson struggled to open the locked door, his side and back to the special agents approaching from his right, he was shot twice. Cambron also described a mysterious “woman in brown” who had joined Dickson at the hamburger shop, a detail reminiscent of Ana Sage, the “woman in red,” a paid informant who led agents to Dillinger.
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Internal FBI documents corroborated Cambron’s version of the story. In a so-called “Personal and Confidential” letter to Hoover, Norris described the wounds Dickson received. “Agent [withheld, probably the inexperienced John Bush] shot him twice in the body, one bullet entering his shoulder and going down toward the front, and the other going from one side of his body to the other.” If, as the FBI claimed, Dickson had been crouching directly in front of the agents approaching on the sidewalk, drawing his weapon to fire, it seems highly unlikely that the bullets would have followed a back-to-front and side-to-side trajectory. If, however, Dickson had been struggling to open a locked door as Cambron claimed, with the agents approaching from his right side, the trajectories would make sense, one bullet striking his shoulder and proceeding in a line from back to front and another striking his side and moving across the his torso.

The detail of a “woman in brown” likewise undermined parts of the FBI’s preferred narrative. According to Cambron, a paid informant and not science or FBI sleuthing, led agents to the hamburger shop that day. Until the “woman in brown” contacted the Bureau, agents had no idea where Bennie and Stella Mae Dickson might be. In the weeks before the shooting, the FBI issued thousands of news releases to newspapers from Maine to Los Angeles suggesting that the fugitives had been sighted nearby. Those papers responded with “Dicksons might be hiding here” stories and the resulting flood of public tips from all over the country were no help in locating the fugitives. In fact, Bennie and Stella Mae had fled to New Orleans and were living there for weeks before traveling to St. Louis to visit the sister of one of Dickson’s prison acquaintances, identified only as Naomi in FBI files. Naomi’s brother had urged her to contact Dickson to get money so their mother could get needed medical care. Dickson was in St. Louis to deliver aid to the family of a friend.

Naomi knew there was a reward for information leading to the capture of Bennie Dickson. She was later paid between $2,500 and $5,000 for the information that led to the killing of Bennie and capture of Stella Mae Dickson. A few days before the shooting, Naomi contacted Norris to tell him Dickson was on his way to town. She then phoned Norris 15 minutes before the meeting was to take place. Norris, who coincidentally lived near the Yankee System Hamburger Shop in midtown near Forest Park, hastily assembled a team of three agents and proceeded to the 7 S. Euclid Avenue, near the intersection with LaClede Street where his team gathered in a barber shop across the street. Norris attempted, unsuccessfully at first to identify Dickson by walking past the exterior of the shop. Unable to make a positive identification, Norris actually entered the shop to get a closer look at the man sitting at the counter with Naomi. Certain it was Dickson, Norris then gathered his agents in the alley next to the shop to wait for the fugitive bank robber to emerge. Within a few minutes, Dickson stepped onto the sidewalk and was shot to death. Agents quickly hustled Naomi from the scene.

Based on the FBI’s own accounts of the shooting, it seems very likely that the incident occurred exactly as described by Cambron, the only witness with nothing to lose by telling the truth about what she saw. There were other troubling clues in Norris’ report and subsequent FBI summaries filed in the days after the shooting. If Dickson had drawn a gun, why, then, did only one of the agents fire his weapon? Why did Norris, at the ensuing coroner’s inquest, refuse to say how many agents had fired? Why had ambulance attendants found Dickson’s weapon not in his hand, but in the belt of his pants under his coat? In the end, Cambron’s story seems to be the most credible.

Dickson, with his young wife, robbed banks in Elkton and Brookings, South Dakota in the fall of 1938. In both cases, they entered the bank early in the morning and waited for time-locked safes to open. As they waited, customers entered and were detained by the couple. In one case Dickson even returned cash to a farmer in a Robin Hood gesture reminiscent of Dillinger. The two escaped to a Lake Bennieton, Minnesota cabin after each robbery and tallied about $20,000 in stolen cash and securities. The Dickson case is not remembered as a major case and stands apart from the highly-publicized war on crime of the earlier 1930s that led to the creation of the Collier-Cooper narrative for FBI public relations. But the two bullets that killed Dickson transformed the Topeka native from the complicated and confused young man he actually was into a violent character in a dramatic story patterned after the shooting of Dillinger. The Dickson story was ultimately shoehorned into the responsibility, science, and Hoover narrative that characterized its public relations throughout the final three decades of Hoover’s tenure as director. As reconfigured by Crime Records Division writers, Dickson became just one more symbol of the efficiency of the FBI and his death was a morality tale of how crime does not pay.
Hoover and Walter Winchell dine in Miami Beach
J. Edgar Hoover (Center) dines with his top lieutenant Clyde Tolson (left) and famed syndicated columnist and broadcaster Walter Winchell at Arnold Reuben's restaurant during Hoover and Tolson's annual trip to Miami Beach in December 1940. It had been a difficult year for Hoover and the FBI as critics railed against the Bureau's tactics in a 1939 raid on alleged communists' homes in Detroit in which agents broke down doors and held the accused for nearly a day without allowing them to meet with attorneys. That same year, Congress caught Hoover in a lie about the Bureau's use of illegal wiretaps in its domestic security investigations. Through it all, of course, Winchell was a staunch defender and friend of the FBI.
J. Edgar Hoover (Center) dines with his top lieutenant Clyde Tolson (left) and famed syndicated columnist and broadcaster Walter Winchell at Arnold Reuben's restaurant during Hoover and Tolson's annual trip to Miami Beach in December 1940. It had been a difficult year for Hoover and the FBI as critics railed against the Bureau's tactics in a 1939 raid on alleged communists' homes in Detroit in which agents broke down doors and held the accused for nearly a day without allowing them to meet with attorneys. That same year, Congress caught Hoover in a lie about the Bureau's use of illegal wiretaps in its domestic security investigations. Through it all, of course, Winchell was a staunch defender and friend of the FBI.

Hoover pretends to know how to fire a machine gun
In this December 11, 1935 FBI publicity photo, Hoover (left) is joined at the Bureau shooting range by Sumner Blossom, Editor of The American Magazine, and journalist/author Courtney Ryley Cooper, a key ghost-writer for Hoover in the 1930s.
In this December 11, 1935 FBI publicity photo, Hoover (left) is joined at the Bureau shooting range by Sumner Blossom, Editor of The American Magazine, and journalist/author Courtney Ryley Cooper, a key ghost-writer for Hoover in the 1930s.

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Hoover at the Stork Club with Walter Winchell
In this 1951 photo, Hoover is joined by (left to right) journalist Walter Winchell, tire company heiress Ann Firestone, and Yankee Clipper Joe Dimaggio at the famed Stork Club in New York.
In this 1951 photo, Hoover is joined by (left to right) journalist Walter Winchell, tire company heiress Ann Firestone, and Yankee Clipper Joe Dimaggio at the famed Stork Club in New York.

Hoover with William F. Buckley, Jr.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover presents Christopher Buckley with a copy of his book "A Study of Communism" as Christopher's father, National Review Editor William F. Buckley looks on. Note that Hoover autographed the image. This National Archives Photo was taken on October 26, 1962.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover presents Christopher Buckley with a copy of his book "A Study of Communism" as Christopher's father, National Review Editor William F. Buckley looks on. Note that Hoover autographed the image. This National Archives Photo was taken on October 26, 1962.

Hoover's Pulitzer Prize-winning "friend", Don Whitehead
J. Edgar Hoover presents two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Don Whitehead with his FBI credentials mounted on a plaque. In 1956, Whitehead was given an office at the FBI and wrote an "objective" authorized history of the Bureau. He did so by reporting only on the information that Hoover made available to him. Whitehead did literally no outside reporting of any kind for The FBI Story: A Report to the People, which was touted to the public by book reviewers as a work of independent journalism. It was nothing of the sort. Whitehead effectively sold his journalistic reputation to Hoover in exchange for a best-seller.
J. Edgar Hoover presents two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Don Whitehead with his FBI credentials mounted on a plaque. In 1956, Whitehead was given an office at the FBI and wrote an "objective" authorized history of the Bureau. He did so by reporting only on the information that Hoover made available to him. Whitehead did literally no outside reporting of any kind for The FBI Story: A Report to the People, which was touted to the public by book reviewers as a work of independent journalism. It was nothing of the sort. Whitehead effectively sold his journalistic reputation to Hoover in exchange for a best-seller.

Fingerprinting Hoover
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover is "fingerprinted" by journalist and author Courtney Ryley Cooper in this FBI publicity photograph circa 1936. Hoover's FBI adopted fingerprint science as an identification technique in the early 1930s and was one of the first U.S. law enforcement agencies to do so. Cooper, whose background included a stint as a circus clown, was a key advisor to and collaborator with Hoover in the 1930s, authoring dozens of magazine stories, books, and radio scripts featuring Bureau exploits. Cooper's story template, emphasizing science, responsibility and Hoover's leadership, characterized most FBI publicity for the ensuing four decades. Cooper hanged himself in a New York hotel room closet in 1940, prompting speculation that the FBI was involved in his death, an unlikely scenario to say the least.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover is "fingerprinted" by journalist and author Courtney Ryley Cooper in this FBI publicity photograph circa 1936. Hoover's FBI adopted fingerprint science as an identification technique in the early 1930s and was one of the first U.S. law enforcement agencies to do so. Cooper, whose background included a stint as a circus clown, was a key advisor to and collaborator with Hoover in the 1930s, authoring dozens of magazine stories, books, and radio scripts featuring Bureau exploits. Cooper's story template, emphasizing science, responsibility and Hoover's leadership, characterized most FBI publicity for the ensuing four decades. Cooper hanged himself in a New York hotel room closet in 1940, prompting speculation that the FBI was involved in his death, an unlikely scenario to say the least.

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two stories

1st story

see link

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johncorcora ... fbi-agent/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

10/20/2014


How to Strengthen Your Mental Toughness Like An FBI Agent

LaRae Quy was a brand new FBI Special Agent, and it was the height of the Cold War, but she was given a huge job.

2nd read

see link
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FBI ex-boss admits assaulting 6-year-old girl
Posted on 2/18/2004, 6:04:13 PM

WASHINGTON -- The former chief internal watchdog at the FBI has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and has admitted he had a history of molesting other children before he joined the bureau for what became a two-decade career.
John H. Conditt Jr., 53, was sentenced last week to 12 years in prison in Fort Worth, Texas, after he admitted he molested the daughter of two FBI agents after he retired.
He acknowledged molesting at least two other girls before he began his law enforcement career, his lawyer said.
Conditt headed the internal affairs unit that investigates agent wrongdoing for the Office of Professional Responsibility at FBI headquarters in Washington from 1999 until his retirement in June 2001, the FBI said. He wrote articles in law enforcement journals on how police agencies could effectively investigate their own conduct.

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two stories
let God sort out the truth


1st
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/2277916" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Press Release
Two Former FBI Special Agents On Way to Palm Desert to Tell Unabomber Story
>PRWEB.COM Newswire
>PRWEB.COM NewswirePalisades, NY (PRWEB) October 23, 2014

Jim Freeman and Terry Turchie, two of the three FBI Special Agents who led the team that captured the terrorist Ted Kaczynski, will be at Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Palm Desert, California on October 25, to speak to the public about the internal struggle in the Bureau to change procedures necessary to capture the Unabomber. The authors will also discuss how the changes inadvertently established the groundwork for dealing with terrorism in the United States today.

The two Agent authors, along with the third co-author Max Noel, have appeared at 20 Barnes and Noble bookstores in California and appeared on Book-TV and C-Span in Washington, D.C. during their presentation at the Newseum on September 20.

"UNABOMBER, How the FBI Broke Its Own Rules To Capture the Terrorist Ted Kaczynski" is the story told by the former FBI agents of the internal struggle they experienced to change the outmoded procedures of the FBI. Newly assigned to the case after 16 years of futile search for the Unabomber, the struggle resulted in more expedient techniques including the use of reaching out to the public through the media for its assistance. Through the newly refined techniques, Mr. Kaczynski was captured in just two years.

"The public deserved to know the truth behind the capture of Ted Kaczynski," said Terry Turchie. "The behind- the -scenes story of the pursuit and capture of the Unabomber has never been t



2nd



NASA Patent in FBI CIA Unabomber Conspiracy Robert A. Frosch ...
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An expose of the FBI's Unabomber Cover-up. Evidence Planting, fabrications, lies, the inevitable patsy, and the witness objections to the frame-up.
Unabomber CIA NSA FBI Conspiracy funding Echelon
http://www.unabombers.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
An expose of the FBI's Unabomber Cover-up. Evidence Planting, fabrications, lies, the inevitable patsy, and the witness objections to the frame-up.
Part I: CIA, FBI, and the cover-up of the Unabomber | ELECTRIC ...
electriccaves.com/2014/07/27/cia-fbi-and-the-cover-up-of-the-unabomber/
Jul 27, 2014 - The Unabomber Theodore Kaczynsky (1978-1995) A considerable amount of credible evidence suggest that Theodore Kaczynsky participated ...
The FBI's Cover Up Of The Facts In The Unabomber Case -- 9-11
http://www.9-11themotherofallblackopera ... over-up-of.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Mar 27, 2008 - "Understanding Unabom provides in depth insight into the activities of the FBI and CIA before September 11th 2001. Activities that included the ...
Ted and the CIA, Part 1 - David Kaczynski - Blogs - Times Union
blog.timesunion.com/kaczynski/ted-and-the-cia-part-1/271/
Dec 19, 2010 - Was my brother, Ted Kaczynski (AKA “the Unabomber”), a sort of ..... Explores FBI coverup in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation. Kelly ...
Louis Freeh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Freeh
Freeh began his career as an agent of the FBI, and was later an assistant United ... 2.7 Montana Freemen; 2.8 Unabomber; 2.9 Robert Hanssen; 2.10 Wen Ho Lee ... allegations of a cover-up by the FBI, and tensions developed between Freeh ...
Illuminati backwards - Abodia.com
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Unabomber CIA NSA FBI Conspiracy Echelon Terrorism Ten Most Wanted. "An expose of the FBI's Unabomber Cover-up. Evidence Planting, fabrications, lies ...
Did CIA Experiment Create the Unabomber? - Science Channel
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A student at Harvard named Theodore Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, participated in an intense experiment ... Twisted But True: Deadly Radio Wave Cover Up.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2014
NEWS / MEDIA / TECH Seattle Times Furious With FBI Over Allegations That the Agency Impersonated the Newspaper

see link for full story

http://www.thestranger.com/slog/archive ... -newspaper" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Seven years ago, the FBI used a kind of spyware known as a CIPAV to track down and arrest a 15-year-old hacker who was sending bomb threats to a high school near Olympia. Old news for privacy watchdogs. But today, ACLU analyst Christopher Soghoian trawled through an arcane set of the bureau's records and came across something startling: in order to get the suspect's computer infected with the spyware, the documents suggest that the FBI sent a message to him that masqueraded as an e-mail from The Seattle Times.

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"Here is the email link in the style of the Seattle Times," wrote one FBI agent, whose name is redacted. "Below is the news article we would like to send containing the CIPAV," wrote another. The e-mail includes a message, headline, link, and subscription information all purporting to represent an Associated Press article carried online by The Seattle Times. According to WIRED editor Kevin Poulsen, the message acted as a phishing attack and was sent to the young man's MySpace account, "luring him to read an article about himself at a custom url."

The HTML behind the link would presumably redirect the viewer to an FBI server, which would infect the computer with spyware (CIPAV stands for Computer & Internet Protocol Address Verifier) allowing the government to track the computer's "IP address, MAC address, list of running programs, operating system, Internet browser used, language used, the registered computer name, the currently logged-in username, and more," according to Ars Technica.

"I remember reading about it at the time and wondering, 'How do they get people to click on their stupid links?'" says Soghoian, the ACLU's Principal Technologist.

The suspect, identified only as Josh in court records because he was a juvenile, was arrested following the apparently successful use of the CIPAV. But, Soghoian says, "The ends don't justify the means. I'm not saying that the FBI shouldn't be investigating people who threaten to bomb schools. But impersonating the media is a really dangerous line to cross."

The editor of The Seattle Times, Kathy Best, says they just learned about this and are seeking answers from the FBI and the US Attorney's Office. "We are outraged that the FBI misappropriated the name of The Seattle Times to secretly install spyware on the computer of a crime suspect," Best says in an e-mailed statement. "Not only does that cross the line, it erases it... We hope that this mistake in judgment by the FBI was a one-time aberration and not a symptom of a deeper lack of respect for the role of a free press in society."

Soghoian likened the FBI's apparent ploy to the CIA's 2011 fake vaccine campaign in Pakistan, which was in reality a front for intelligence gathering. The CIA pledged not to engage in any future deceptive public health campaigns last year.

Frank Montoya, Jr., the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Seattle office, said in a statement: “Every effort we made in this investigation had the goal of preventing a tragic event like what happened at Marysville and Seattle Pacific University. We identified a specific subject of an investigation and used a technique that we deemed would be effective in preventing a possible act of violence in a school setting. Use of that type of technique happens in very rare circumstances and only when there is sufficient reason to believe it could be successful in resolving a threat. We were fortunate that information provided by the public gave us the opportunity to step in to a potentially dangerous situation before it was too late.”

And agency spokesperson Ayn Dietrich-Williams declined, for now, to disclose further details about how the fake e-mail was designed, writing: "I’m sure you’ll understand that in order to safeguard the FBI’s ability to effectively detect, disrupt, and dismantle threats to the public, we must be judicious in how we discuss investigative techniques."

Here's the Times' full statement:

We, like you, just learned of this and are seeking answers ourselves from the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s office.
But we are outraged that the FBI misappropriated the name of The Seattle Times to secretly install spyware on the computer of a crime suspect. Not only does that cross the line, it erases it.
Our reputation—and our ability to do our job as a government watchdog—is based on trust. And nothi

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see link for full story


http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Letters To The Editor
Reporter’s privilege is not constitutional

November 2 at 6:40 PM
Like nearly every piece of advocacy I’ve read on “reporter’s privilege,” “Holder’s dark legacy ” by David A. Schulz [op-ed, Oct. 30] failed to mention the landmark 1972 Supreme Court case Branzburg v. Hayes. In that case, the court held that the Constitution does not recognize such a privilege. As a result, a reporter’s promise of confidentiality, while honored in many other contexts, particularly as a matter of state law, must yield to the demand of a prosecutor to place the evidence before the grand jury.

I served the FBI in the general counsel’s office from 1997 to 2010 and had occasion to discuss with media representatives the attorney general guidelines that regulate subpoenas issued to reporters; the media representatives consistently refused to recognize the legitimacy of Branzburg. It is one thing to disagree with the court and to work to change the law (which has been done in some federal circuits and in some states). It is quite another to be, as the media are, pretty much the only major institution in the country to refuse to recognize the law of the land as legitimate — as the rest of us must do.

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ENOUGH ROOM: Journalists as FBI Informants
enoughroom.blogspot.com/2010/01/journalists-as-fbi-informants.html
Jan 27, 2010 - Journalists as FBI Informants. Paul Harvey was an FBI informant for many years. How many journalists working today are informants?

[PDF]Paul Harvey Part 01 of 09 - The Vault - FBI vault.fbi.gov/paul-harvey/paul-harvey-part-01-of-09

[PDF]Paul Harvey Part 01 of 09 - The Vault - FBI
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Memo suggests FBI had mole inside ABC News in 1990s | Center ...
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Apr 5, 2011 - A once-classified FBI memo reveals that the bureau treated a senior ABC News journalist as a potential confidential informant in the 1990s, ...
FBI Informant Al Sharpton Greeted by Snitches Get Stitches in Missouri
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Aug 13, 2014 - FBI Informant Al Sharpton Greeted by 'Snitches Get Stitches' in Missouri ... I am the Creative Media Director at Western Center for Journalism ...
Mother Jones Wins International Data Journalism Award for FBI ...
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Mother Jones Wins International Data Journalism Award for FBI Terrorism Informant Database. Date: Thu May. 31, 2012. Contact: Elizabeth Gettelman.
"Terrorists for the FBI:" How the FBI Uses Informants to Surveil and ...
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Aug 25, 2011 - It suggests FBI informants are not only busting terrorist plots, they are ... of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit journalism ...
The Informants – The Fund for Investigative Journalism
fij.org/the-informants-2/
The Informants. For Mother Jones, Trevor Aaronson writes: “The FBI has built a massive network of spies to prevent another domestic attack. But are they busting ...
A Window Into Infiltration: The FBI Informant File of Sheila Louise O ...
truth-out.org/.../13897-a-window-into-infiltration-the-fbi-informant-file-of...
Jan 16, 2013 - In the parlance of FBI coding, she was WF5728-PSI (Potential Security Informant) , along with her husband, the British national/journalist/spy, ...
CBS Executive Denies He Was F.B.I. Informant - NYTimes.com
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Apr 5, 2011 - CBS Executive Denies Being F.B.I. Informant ... saying that an unnamed journalist had been treated as a “potential confidential informant” in the ...
Deep Throat (Watergate) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(Watergate)
Deep Throat is the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided ... American politics and journalism and the source of much public curiosity and speculation. ... L. Patrick Gray, former acting Director of the FBI and Felt's boss, disputes ...
ABC News Reporter Served As FBI Informant - TVNewser
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Apr 5, 2011 - The Center for Public Integrity reports that a senior journalist at ABC News served as a confidential informant to the FBI in the mid-1990′s.
The Dickinsonian : Journalist Exposes FBI Secrets
thedickinsonian.com/news/2014/10/09/journalist-exposes-fbi-secrets/
Oct 9, 2014 - An award winning journalist says the FBI is luring otherwise ... built a network of 15,000 informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim

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Do taxpayer funded FBI agents control the media?
A smart criminal justice consumer would know

Why would a newspaper print a PR story about a man
who worked for an organization that assassinated
President Kennedy and Martin Luther King
see. http://www.williampepper.com/books.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

a couple of reads about Mormon FBI agents
you don't like the news
go out and make some of your own, eh?


FBI alert Bonus read at bottom

1st read



Mormon FBI agent played part in largest espionage case in American history
By Hikari Loftus, For the Deseret News

Published: Wed, Nov. 5 5:00 a.m. MST


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James Ellsworth is shown here with his wife, Nell. James Ellsworth was an FBI handler for a double agent during World War II.



2nd read
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WHEN EVERYTHING IS A CONSPIRACY, LITTLE IS TRUE
April 6, 2012





Among Feral House’s and Process Media’s wide-ranging array of titles are some conspiratorial books looking into the Oklahoma City Bombing and many other questionable aspects of the establishment line. For The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, we were sued for libel by Oliver “Buck” Revell, the FBI’s Deputy Chief. We were prepared to raise money to fight this case to protect the integrity of Feral House. We met with the former head of the ACLU in his penthouse ocean view office in Santa Monica. He said he’d help us out by only charging a one hundred thousand dollar retainer fee which, of course, we couldn’t afford. PEN refused to take on the case.

Then the book’s author, David Hoffman, admitted that he no longer possessed a recording of Flight 103′s victims’ attorney asserting that Mr. Revell had told him that he plucked his son from the Pan Am flight just before its ill-fated bombing above Lockerbie, Scotland. This was our evidence. The attorney in question “didn’t want to get involved in this legal case” and author David “recorded over” the tape. Well, that took the piss and fight right out of us. To settle, we were forced to put this book out of print, and FBI men actually appeared at my distributor’s warehouse to watch them incinerate all remaining copies of the book. Mr. Revell claimed that his son changed his flight from Pan Am 103 at least a day or two, and not hours, before its tragic conclusion.

David Hoffman made my life difficult for a while, but his life became even worse. And now he’s dead.

A couple years ago we were sued about a chapter in Alex Constantine’s book, Psychic Dictatorship in the USA. The suit was a strange one: filed in a Utah small claims court by a man unfortunately named Robert Wadman, an ex police chief of Lincoln, Nebraska, where he was accused of various misdeeds that figured highly in the book, The Franklin Cover-Up by John DeCamp. DeCamp’s book was about the use of children from Boys Town as party favors for Republican Party VIPs. What a sordid tale. Author DeCamp, by the way, was a Republican State Senator in Nebraska. Wadman’s evidence against Constantine and Feral House was thin and misleading, and as a result we won that case even among Mormon brothers in the middle of the Mormon state.

We’ve been stalked and intimidated by other folk and organizations at other points throughout the decades. Strange and mystifying things have happened to us due to the subject matter of a coming title.

As a result, we certainly understand why people remain suspicious of commonly-held beliefs broadcast by government officials and the media at large. But it seems that many of the new conspiracy-lovers are handed information to believe by powermongers with ulterior motives.

For example, many doubters are troubled by media reports about George Zimmerman’s killing of Trayvon Martin. To this moment, Zimmerman has killed a black teenager with impunity. The doubters believe that media interest in this case is all to do with falsely accusing a white man. Or in Zimmerman’s case, non-black. It’s extremely important for these particular doubters that Trayvon Martin is seen to be a thug and Zimmerman a victim of “lamestream” media. I was told the other day by such an individual that Trayvon Martin didn’t even possess tea or Skittles from a local 7-11. This was yet another “liberal media invention.” Well, unfortunately for this doubter, the disappearance of the Skittles was an invention of a right-wing blogger.

This same morning I was told by another blog poster that media revelations about a fast-melting Antarctic shelf is yet another liberal media invention made to personally enrich Al Gore by overtaxing Americans. Does it matter that satellite images back up this story? Not at all, the USGS is all part of the conspiracy.

It seems to me that this country is going through mass hysteria… let’s not even get to the presidential election. Do you remember the reaction to Orson Welles’ The War of the Worlds?

Bonus Read
His good name
Former FBI honcho Oliver "Buck" Revell fights against conspiracy buffs who accuse him of mass murder
A Thursday, Jul 6 2000



Former FBI second-in-command Oliver "Buck" Revell of Dallas regularly makes the rounds of network and cable TV news shows to talk about everything from Internet security to international terrorism. A 30-year FBI veteran and international security consultant who authored the well-received autobiography A G-Man's Journal, he's a respected and knowledgeable quote for all things law enforcement.

But Revell, 61, has gained a less savory reputation among another group of people: conspiracy buffs who peg the former lawman to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which he helped investigate, as well as Waco, Iran-Contra, and Oklahoma City misdeeds. They allege that Revell, then the FBI's counter-terrorism chief, failed to share a prior warning of the bombing with the American public, but heeded it personally to get his son off the doomed flight, a charge Revell angrily denies.

Two Libyans indicted nine years ago are on trial for the bombing, which killed 270 people (259 in the downed jet; 11 on the ground). The trial, which began on May 3, was delayed for years because Libyan ruler Mu'ammar Gadhafi refused to extradite them to Scotland, but eventually agreed to release them for trial in the Netherlands, an ostensibly neutral nation.

Oliver "Buck" Revell is suing a conspiracy theorist and the Columbia School of Journalism.
Mark Graham
Oliver "Buck" Revell is suing a conspiracy theorist and the Columbia School of Journalism
One outspoken critic of Revell is Hart G. W. Lidov, a medical researcher on the faculty of the Harvard School of Medicine whose girlfriend was killed in the crash. He doesn't buy U.S. assertions that Libyan operatives, retaliating for the 1986 bombings of Tripoli ordered by President Reagan, were to blame. Instead, he fits Revell into a constellation of intrigue connected to the Iran-Contra scandal, accusing him of a treacherous betrayal of American citizens whom he took an oath to protect.

Revell, the theory goes, colluded with then-Vice President George Bush to squelch warning of the bombing, thus allowing Iran to obtain a "blood revenge" for the (reportedly accidental) downing of an Iranian civilian jet six months earlier by a U.S. warship in the Persian Gulf. Why? So American officials could "continue making deals with Iran," Lidov charges.

"I am suggesting that the highest priority for Reagan, Bush, and their obliging servant Revell was to smooth out relations with Iran," he argued in an essay posted on the Web site of the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), a magazine published by the prestigious Columbia University School of Journalism.

During his time at the FBI, Revell repeatedly came across such writings, where he was cast as a villain involved in subterfuge against American citizens. Disturbed by what he felt was slander, he asked his Justice Department superiors for permission to sue the authors, but they turned him down, saying that lawsuits would only bring attention to fringe critics of the government.

Now a private citizen, Revell is finally striking back against the charges, which he says emanate from a "nutty fringe" and lack "one scintilla of truth." In a $10 million defamation lawsuit filed last month in Dallas' federal district court against Lidov, the Columbia University board of trustees, and the Columbia School of Journalism, he vehemently repudiates Lidov's assertions and excoriates CJR for publishing it.

"To suggest that Mr. Revell, a man who devoted his whole life to honorable service of his country...stooped to involvement in murders, cover-ups, and criminally misdirected the FBI investigation into the Pan Am bombing to frame Libyan nationals instead of identifying the real culprits is nothing less than substituting fiction for journalism," the lawsuit says.

Revell says he is suing to protect his reputation and get Lidov and the magazine to withdraw the charges. He points out that the FBI agents investigated Iran for two years in connection with the bombing, later learning that German operatives foiled Iranian retaliation attempts.

"I'm very upset by it," says the ex-agent, a former Marine who participated in major FBI investigations ranging from the Kennedy assassination to Watergate and the Oklahoma City bombing. "It's beyond the pale as far as legitimate criticism of public officials. When they start calling you a criminal and mass murderer, that is beyond any acceptable range."

Revell takes CJR to task for supposedly printing Lidov's article. "Such conduct shatters whatever image Columbia University School of Journalism may have created in a public mind as a paragon of alleged journalistic competence and integrity," his lawsuit says. "One might expect such pseudo-journalistic diatribe as this article in some extreme fringe publication, but hardly in a journalism review of a supposedly leading



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One of the most enigmatic and exasperating people in American presidential politics, the late Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota confounded and infuriated his anti-Vietnam War supporters when he refused to show passion as a presidential candidate in the 1968 Democratic Primary.

The erudite and eminently quotable McCarthy left behind a traveling encyclopedia of gems from 1960s politics. This, for example, was how he reacted to Bobby Kennedy’s entrance into the presidential race: “He plays touch football; I play football. He plays softball; I play baseball. He skates in Rockefeller Center; I play hockey… If these are the bases on which you are going to make a decision… it’ll become abrasive, I suppose.”
When Kennedy entered the race after McCarthy’s stunning moral victory in the New Hampshire Primary, the senator from New York and younger brother of the slain JFK insisted that his efforts would not be directed at McCarthy.

The senator from Minnesota responded with the following: “An Irishman who announces the day before St. Patrick’s Day that he’s going to run against another Irishman shouldn’t say it’s going to be a peaceful relationship.”

All of it remains very entertaining political invective – but it doesn’t answer the enduring question of why.

Why did McCarthy stand up to President Lyndon Johnson in the teeth of the conflict in Southeast Asia, the only man to oppose the president, only to run a shockingly moribund campaign that broke the hearts of impassioned young followers seemingly more committed to the cause than the candidate, and ended with McCarthy’s anti-climatic fumbling of the nomination to Johnson’s Vice President, Vietnam apologist Hubert Humphrey?

Two great books for politics junkies, Norman Mailer’s Miami and the Siege of Chicago, and 1968 in America by Charles Kaiser, hint (in the case of Kaiser’s study) and outright state (according to Mailer) that McCarthy’s political objective in challenging Johnson might have included a desire to gain sufficient political leverage – not to become president – but to oust FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to win the job for himself.

Opposed to the war after initially supporting the Gulf of Tonkin resolution broadening the president’s war powers, McCarthy also detested Hoover and what he saw as his infringement on personal liberties and his “personalization of power” as the director of the FBI since 1924.

“Dad felt very strongly about the danger of having the head of the FBI so unaccountable, so permanent,” McCarthy’s daughter, Ellen McCarthy, told USA Today in 2007. “In the late ’60s and early ’70s, we had a wonderful family dog, Eric the Red. He who would go crazy at the mention of J. Edgar’s name — growling and carrying on. It was one of Eric’s tricks most appreciated by Dad.”

Although leaders of the anti-war movement tried to prevail on both men, neither Martin Luther King, Jr. nor Bobby Kennedy would run against the redoubtable Johnson in the lead-up to 1968. When McCarthy finally made his announcement, he did so in his own peculiar, dispassionate way, maddening those who wanted a real anti-war crusader. McCarthy refused to attack Johnson, refused to show emotion, and remained aloof heading into the snows of New Hampshire where his college-aged backers – up against the foreign policy challenge of their generation – saw an opportunity to make a statement against the Johnson Administration.

jpegAs Vietnam intensified with the Tet Offensive, the anti-Johnson movement became that much more urgent. When, days before the New Hampshire Primary, the New York Times first reported General William Westmoreland’s request for another 200,000-plus American troops in Vietnam, McCarthy’s forces had the momentum they needed and, despite their candidate’s persistent dispassion, vaulted their candidate to within 200 votes (when all votes were tallied) of icing Johnson in N.H.

The event prompted Kennedy – convinced that McCarthy was not a serious candidate – into the presidential race. And that decision forced Johnson – haunted by the specter of his predecessor – out.

While his supporters reacted like revolutionaries who had just toppled the dictator’s statue in the plaza, McCarthy – on learning the news of Johnson’s retreat from the Democratic Primary – said in his inimitable, detached way, “It’s a surprise to me. Things have gotten rather complicated.”

Rather complicated?

Of course it’s an unfortunate comparison for a variety of reasons, but imagine Chris Christie unhorsing, say, Jeb Bush from the presidential contest and suddenly announcing, “Things have gotten rather complicated.”

In their separate studies, Kaiser and Mailer both try to dissect McCarthy’s confounding reluctance to seize on an advantage.

They pinpoint a variety of reasons for the Minnesotan’s behavior: the candidate’s Benedictine mysticism and natural aversion to the City of Man; his preference of poetry to politics; his horror and final surrender to paranoia in the aftermath of Bobby Kennedy’s assassination; his intellectual hyperactivity; his innate laziness and years of mouldering in the U.S. Senate; his jealousy of the Kennedys; his essential conservatism as a stark – and finally irreconcilable – contrast to the radical pressures of the anti-war movement; his extraordinary originality and refusal to be an instrument for the masses.

Maybe it had had to do with the fact that the Hoover-led FBI kept a 500-page file on McCarthy, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act.

All of these in some measure are plausible for why McCarthy made such an aloof and unsatisfying effort.

But as a specific political target to be obtained by running directly at Johnson, conceived “far from the madding crowd” in the halls of D.C. power, the FBI job makes some political sense.

Kaiser teases the reader on the subject while Mailer outright gets McCarthy to admit as much in an impromptu dinner interview following the Democrats’ selection of Humphrey as the party’s nominee for president.

From Kaiser’s book: “In 1968 McCarthy promised to fire Hoover if he became president. To many of his supporters, that pledge was more radical than anything he ever said about the war.”

In a debate with Humphrey and George McGovern (who entered the contest after the killing of Kennedy) at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, McCarthy reinforced the argument against Hoover. “They say I was impersonal, I want you to know I am the only candidate who said he would get rid of J. Edgar Hoover and that is a person,” the candidate cracked.

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Mailer, in his book, describes an incredible encounter with the once and future presidential candidate in a restaurant.

From Miami and the Siege of Chicago: “‘You see, sir,’ he said. ‘The tragedy of the whole business is that you never should have had to run for President,’” Mailer writes of his meeting with McCarthy. ‘You would have been perfect for the Cabinet.’ A keen look back from McCarthy’s eye gave the sanction to continue. ‘Yessir,’ said the reporter, ‘you’d have made a perfect chief fo



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A JOURNAL SENTINEL WATCHDOG UPDATE
FBI crime-reporting audits are shallow, infrequent


Aug. 18, 2012

FBI crime-reporting audits are shallow, infrequent
FBI audit of Milwaukee crime data looked at 60 cases
Crime Drop?


A Journal Sentinel investigation found more than 500 serious assault cases that were misreported by Milwaukee police as lesser crimes that weren't counted in the city's violent crime rate.

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The FBI's crime reporting program is considered the final word on crime trends in the United States, but the agency rarely audits police agencies providing the information and when it does its reviews are too cursory to identify deep flaws.

In each of the past five years, FBI auditors have reviewed crime statistics at less than 1% of the roughly 17,000 departments that report data, a Journal Sentinel examination of FBI records has found. In all, they've audited as many as 652 police agencies during that time, or less than 4% of the total.

And a Journal Sentinel survey of police departments in the 30 largest U.S. cities found that nearly two-thirds have not been audited in the past five years.

Of those, six departments - including Oklahoma City, Philadelphia and Seattle - have never been reviewed by the FBI since the auditing program began 15 years ago.

That lack of scrutiny allows cases of undercounting of crimes, such as in Milwaukee where thousands of violent assaults were not included in the crime rate since 2006, to go unnoticed and gives the public a false sense of the true level of crime, criminal justice experts said.

"It would be more candid to not do any (audits)," said Eli Silverman, professor emeritus at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "This way, at least you're not offering any pretense of checking on the validity of the stats. If you are going to do that little, then why do it? You either do it systematically, or you don't do it at all."

He called the audit process a "useful fig leaf."

The FBI this year did its first-ever audit of the Milwaukee Police Department, even though it's the largest law enforcement agency in the state, generating about one-quarter of FBI index crimes in Wisconsin. That just-released audit, conducted at the request of Police Chief Edward Flynn, examined 60 incidents - a number experts say is too small to draw conclusions from.

"If they only pull a (small sample), the likelihood that they will find assaults that were downgraded is very low," said James Alan Fox, criminology professor at Northeastern University, of the FBI review. "Their ability to identify systematic misclassification is limited by the total volume of cases they check."

Indeed, the audit failed to detect the scope of problems already identified.

A Journal Sentinel investigation in May found more than 500 serious assaults - including stabbings and beatings - over a recent three-year period had been misreported as minor crimes. Another 800 assaults followed the same pattern. Those findings came from a partial review that compared Milwaukee police crime data with nearly 60,000 cases referred to prosecutors from 2009 to early 2012.

After the Journal Sentinel story, the Police Department launched its own targeted review of more than 34,000 cases, and in June released an initial audit report that showed police underreported more than 5,300 aggravated assaults since 2006.

FBI crime data is often cited by police chiefs and elected officials to give residents a measure of safety in their communities. In Milwaukee, Flynn and Mayor Tom Barrett have touted four straight years of declining crime.

But the information receives little outside scrutiny and is susceptible to manipulation by local police departments, Silverman said of the overall system.

"(Crime data) is a tool that politicians and police leaders use, yet the system is so incentivized to cast a favorable light and there is very little checks and balances to make sure it's accurate," he said.

Faulty crime data has far greater implications than just numbers on a spreadsheet, said John Eterno, director of the graduate criminal justice program at Molloy College in Long Island, N.Y. For example, police departments use the statistics to develop crime-fighting strategies and make hiring decisions.

"If you're saying your crime numbers are really low, but meanwhile they are really high and you aren't hiring cops, you are going to exacerbate the problem of criminality," Eterno said. "You need to have the correct numbers to do the right thing."

Eterno and Silverman have studied crime reporting practices at the New York City Police Department and other law enforcement agencies. Their research has identified widespread problems with performance management systems, most notably CompStat, which is a tool used by Milwaukee police and hundreds of other police departments across the country.

CompStat is used to hold police commanders accountable for crime trends in their districts - they must answer to the police chief and high-ranking officials at monthly meetings about performance metrics such as arrests, traffic stops and crime figures.

Eterno said performance management systems like this can unintentionally provide motivation for police supervisors to downgrade crime.

Flynn and other officials have stressed that reporting problems in Milwaukee are due to human and computer error and not the result of any manipulation of data.

In 1929 the FBI created the voluntary Uniform Crime Reporting Program to make sure reporting is consistent across the country.

It wasn't until nearly seven decades later, in 1997, that the FBI began conducting audits of local police agencies to be sure the numbers were accurate. Now, the FBI conducts an audit of police agencies in each state once every three years, usually between six and nine police departments.

FBI spokesman Stephen Fischer said the federal agency's audit is a voluntary review that carries no penalties and is conducted at the discretion of a state's crime reporting program. In Wisconsin, that is the Office of Justice Assistance. Fischer declined to provide numbers on staffing levels in the FBI crime audit unit or the average workload of auditors.

Meanwhile, there is scant oversight at the state level. Because of lack of staffing, the state Justice Assistance office conducts no audits of crime data, the agency spokeswoman said.

More than 400 law enforcement agencies in Wisconsin report data to the FBI. Before the FBI conducted a revie



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Problems With the UCR

While the UCR data certainly represents an improvement from previously used statistics, there are still several criticisms about the data's accuracy. The UCR only reports crimes known to police. Because a high percentage of crime victims do not report their experiences to law enforcement agencies participating in the UCR program, the data reported often underestimates both the number of crimes committed and the number of offenders. Aside from this the UCR is flawed due to the fact in only reports the most serious crime incidents. The information reported in the UCR is based on the hierarchy rule: For a single crime incident in which multiple offenses were committed only the most serious offense is reported. Finally the UCR reveals more about police behavior than it does about criminality. Some law enforcement agencies falsify the reports they submit to the FBI. [7] This video substantiates the corruption that goes along with falsifying reports to the FBI, along with demonstrating why the UCR is so essential to the criminal justice system.

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