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31 October 2003. Thanks to G.

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10/13/03

Federal judge seals records alleging FBI's involvement in international spy business

By Bill Conroy
San Antonio Business Journal

A judge in federal court in Sacramento has issued an order sealing previously public court documents in a sensational case that involves a former FBI agent who claims he worked as an international spy for the Bureau.

Former FBI agent Lok Thye Lau alleges he worked for the Bureau as a deep undercover agent overseas in the late 1980s. Lau contends the work was of such a stressful and horrific nature that it caused him permanent psychological damage, yet he says the FBI has refused to provide him with the necessary security clearances to pursue proper treatment.

The FBI paints a different picture of Lau. The Bureau claims Lau is a liar and a petty thief.

However, Lau contends the bureau doesn't want the real story to come out. He alleges the FBI went out of its way to set him up to fail, leading to him being fired in 2000 in the wake of an alleged shoplifting incident. Since then, Lau has been fighting to prove that he was hung out to dry by the FBI because he now knows too much.

The remarkable revelations made by Lau are supported by court records and reams of Freedom of Information Act documents. However, on Oct. 10, U.S. District Court Judge Garland E. Burrell in Sacramento issued an order to seal documents filed in Lau's case. Those papers detail Lau's FBI career and reveal that he conducted undercover work overseas "against hostile and aggressive foreign powers for years."

Specifically, Judge Burrell ordered that a previously public declaration filed in Lau's case be sealed. The judge also ordered the sealing of pleadings in a friend-of-the-court brief filed on Lau's behalf by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), one of the nation's oldest Hispanic civil-rights groups. [Declaration and Amicus copied below.]

Prior to the judge's ordering the court records sealed, the San Antonio Business Journal had already published a story based on the previously public documents.

The court and FOIA records in Lau's case indicate that the FBI got involved in the spy business at least a decade before 9/11. Although Lau can't discuss the specific nature of his past covert foreign assignment, there are plenty of indications in the public record that point to the likely target country's being China.

This story has major ramifications, both internationally and in the context of the current CIA-related spy scandal plaguing the Bush administration. The sealing of the court records also raises the specter of government censorship in this case.

Lau's case is filed in U.S. District Court in California - Eastern District (2:02-CV-390 USDC California Eastern).

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Brooklyn Prosecutor Could Be Nominated Attorney General In Coming Day
Loretta Lynch has handled or supervised a wide range of cases including New York police brutality against a Haitian immigrant, a $45 million cybertheft involving ATMs and the ongoing fraud prosecution of Republican Rep. Michael Grimm of New York.

Loretta Lynch has handled or supervised a wide range of cases including New York police brutality against a Haitian immigrant, a $45 million cybertheft involving ATMs and the ongoing fraud prosecution of Republican Rep. Michael Grimm of New York.
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November 6, 2014 — 5:10 PM

Two sources familiar with the process tell NPR that Loretta Lynch, the top prosecutor in Brooklyn, could be nominated by President Obama as attorney general in the coming days.

Lynch is the lead federal prosecutor in a district that serves 8 million people. But outside of law enforcement circles, this daughter of a preacher is not widely known. Friends say that's because Lynch prefers to let her cases speak for themselves.

And let's start with this one: a violent sexual assault against Haitian immigrant Abner Louima back in 1997. Prosecutors called that case one of the worst acts of police brutality in New York City history, and a central figure in the attack, Justin Volpe, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Lynch, a graduate of Harvard Law School, worked her way up the ladder in Brooklyn, a huge office that handles everything from old-school Mafia busts to new forms of cybercrime.

Here's Lynch talking last year about a $45 million ATM robbery. "This was a 21st century bank heist. But instead of guns and masks this cybercrime organization used laptops and malware," she said.

More recently, Lynch made a splash for indicting a Republican congressman from Staten Island on fraud charges. That lawmaker, Rep. Michael Grimm, once worked as an undercover FBI agent — an irony Lynch pointed out at a news conference.

"Michael Grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it," she said.

Grimm, who was re-elected Tuesday, has pleaded not guilty.

That's not the only politically sensitive case on her docket. Brooklyn prosecutors are also investigating money-laundering allegations against an ally of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the Wall Street Journal reported.

If she's selected by President Obama to lead the Justice Department, Lynch would become the first African-American woman to serve as attorney general. She was born in Greensboro, N.C., in 1959, a year before black students there sat down at a whites-only lunch counter and helped catalyze protests around the country.

Students like Ezell Blair Jr., who remembered that era with NPR.

"But I was prepared that if I was going to die, then I'm going to die here taking my stand for what I believe to be right and true," Blair told NPR's Tell Me More.

In a speech two years ago, Lynch said her father opened his church to students as they planned their boycotts. He carried her, a toddler, to those meetings "riding on his shoulders."

One of Lynch's brothers is a minister, carrying on a sort of family tradition. Another, she told the audience in New York in 2012, is a Navy SEAL "like no other."

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Steve McQueen to make film about Paul Robeson
The Oscar-winning director of 12 Years a Slave reveals that his next project will take as its subject the American civil rights activist, singer and actor


Tuesday 18 November 2014 17.52 EST


The artist and director Steve McQueen has revealed that his next film will be about the black American actor, singer and activist Paul Robeson.

McQueen, whose last film 12 Years a Slave won an Oscar for best picture, described the movie as his dream project.

“His life and legacy was the film I wanted to make the second after Hunger,” McQueen said, referring to his debut movie, about the IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. “But I didn’t have the power, I didn’t have the juice.”

McQueen was speaking on stage in New York at the Hidden Heroes awards, organised by the Andrew Goodman Foundation, named in honour of one of three young civil rights activists murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in 1964.

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The director told the audience that he first discovered Robeson at the age of 14. A neighbour called Mr Milton used to give McQueen books and articles he thought might be of interest, and one day put a cutting about Robeson through his parents’ letterbox.

“It was about this black guy who was in Wales and was singing with these miners,” remembered McQueen. “I was about 14 years old, and not knowing who Paul Robeson was, this black American in Wales, it seemed strange. So then, of course, I just found out that this man was an incredible human being.”

The son of an escaped slave, the young Robeson excelled at virtually everything he turned his hand to. Abandoning a legal career after experiencing severe racism at work, Robeson embarked on an acting and singing career that earned him worldwide fame.

At the same time, he campaigned against racism and social injustice, performing for loyalist soldiers in the Spanish civil war, at anti-Nazi demonstrations – and frequently in south Wales, after a delegation of unemployed miners walked to London to meet Robeson, who was appearing in Show Boat in the West End.

During the McCarthy era in the US, Robeson was denounced as a communist, blacklisted from film studios and concert venues, and refused a passport to travel abroad. Though it was reinstated in 1958, his career – along with his mental health – had been brutally curtailed.

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McQueen has made Robeson the subject of a previous artwork, End Credits. The camera scrolls through documents detailing the FBI’s persecution of the actor, while a voiceover reads out excerpts. The Guardian’s art critic Adrian Searle described it as “a chilling record of the exercise of power, and Robeson’s equally concerted effort to fight against it.”

Robeson’s friend and peer Harry Belafonte is involved in McQueen’s forthcoming film. The pair met at the New York Film Critics awards. “We get on like a house on fire,” McQueen told the Guardian. “I never thought I’d make a new friend, and a man who is 87 years old but I’m very happy, he’s a beautiful man.”

In New York on Monday night Belafonte awarded McQueen the Andrew Goodman Foundation’s Media Hero award, saying: “I am soon to be 88 years of age, and in the face of that raw and disturbing truth, I am so honoured and so rewarded that I should have lived long enough to see the emergence of a young man in the world of culture who delivered to us one of the quintessential works of art in film.”

12 Years a Slave, he said, “is absolutely without any equivocation the finest picture dealing with a deeper and more profound look at black life, black people, black struggle and black power.”

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Testimony of Dr. Frederic Whitehurst in the Timothy McVeigh Trial
law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mcveigh/whitehursttestimony.html
Q. Dr. Whitehurst, how are you employed? A. I'm a supervisory special agent of the FBI. Q. And you're appearing here today under subpoena from. Mr. McVeigh ...
CNN - FBI whistleblower takes stand in McVeigh trial - May 27, 1997
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Jump to Whitehurst: Contamination possibility serious - The possibility of contamination was serious, yet the FBI to his knowledge conducted no further ...
Report: FBI lab botched Oklahoma bombing evidence - CNN.com
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Mar 22, 1997 - According to the Times, the draft report shows that FBI examiners ... Whitehurst may appear as a witness for McVeigh during the upcoming trial.

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Rogue FBI agent 'gave secrets to IRA as it plotted to kill Thatcher ...
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One trusted source told the FBI that a 'female, secretary type' in the agency's New York bureau was giving the provisional IRA 'access to computers

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Here are some investigative tips for Dr Jones excuse me
Bro Jones to use when investigating the FBI agents
and other people involved in creating 911.

good hunting


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How To Mitigate Compliance Risk With Effective Investigations Of Whistleblower Hotline Reports
12/11/2014

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I recently started watching the first season of the television show True Detective. If you’ve seen the show, you’ll know that Matthew McConaughey’s character, “Rust” or “Rustin”, is known for his master interrogation skills. He just has a way of getting his “perps” to confess. The last time I watched it, I was reminded of a session I attended at SCCE CEI, led by Supervisory Special Agent of the FBI, Michele Yaroma, who spoke about investigations and the strategy behind conducting interviews. I found the topic extremely interesting, given that I work in ethics and compliance. It’s also obviously a key priority area for our customers, compliance officers, who must effectively investigate reports that come through their whistleblower hotlines, directly from employees to managers or through other means.

Effective internal investigation processes are critical to the success of your compliance program for two reasons. First, conducting investigations and interviews will help you identify and mitigate your risk, by giving you insight into process gaps or rogue employees that could leave you vulnerable to compliance breaches. Second, thoroughly investigating allegations has a positive impact on culture by showing employees that the company takes them seriously. Without seeing the company follow up, employees may be less likely to report internally the next time they witness or suspect misconduct. If you don’t have one already, you might want to invest in a robust incident management solution to help you manage investigations, store and share investigation information between collaborators and provide a comprehensive audit trail from allegation through resolution. Today’s post, however, will focus on the strategy behind conducting interviews and creating and implementing an effective investigation framework.

Step 1: Create a Strategy For Your Investigation

As you read through the outline of the investigation strategy proposed by Agent Yaroma, you might be thinking “duh”. I’ll be the first to admit that yes, a lot of this information is very basic, but I ask you to consider something entirely unrelated: line infections. Line infections in hospitals are fatal up to 28% of the time, and occur in 80,000 people a year in the US. There are only 5 steps that need to be taken to prevent them, yet when nurses observed doctors for a month, doctors skipped at least one step 30% of the time. Peter Pronovost, a critical-care specialist at Johns Hopkins, developed a checklist, and distributed it to nurses. They trained the nurses to intervene if the doctors skipped a step. The results were incredible: the ten-day line infection rate dropped from 11% to ZERO. The checklist had prevented 43 infections and 8 deaths, and saved 2 million dollars in costs. Those are some pretty outrageous results for a five step checklist. (This example is taken from Atul Gawande’s article in The New Yorker, and if you haven’t read his book The Checklist Manifesto, I highly recommend it. While Dr. Gawande’s background is in medicine, the book is full of examples from all industries, and includes a number of ways that checklists can become applicable in our personal lives as well.)

So rather than waving off the checklist below, I would challenge you to use it, and customize it to fit your entire interview and investigation process from start to finish. While the steps suggested by Agent Yaroma are by no means awe-inspiring, they are all important and, if forgotten, could leave your investigation incomplete. Follow these simple steps to stay on track during your investigation.

Developing A Strategy: Where To Start

Agent Yaroma suggests answering the following questions to help formulate your strategy:

Who made the allegation?
What is the allegation?
When did the allegation occur?
Where did the alleged incident occur?
How did the alleged incident occur?
Why did the alleged incident occur?
Taking A High-Level View Of Th

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brought to you from the same people that assassinated President Kennedy,
Martin Luther King and created the Oklahoma City bombing.

Foul-Mouthed Police Chief: I Was An FBI Informant

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Monday, Dec 22, 2014 • Updated at 5:22 PM EST
A former Pennsylvania police chief who posted online videos of himself ranting obscenely about liberals and the Second Amendment while shooting automatic weapons secretly fed information on people he considered militia members, anti-government extremists and so-called "sovereign citizens" to the FBI and state police, according to documents he showed to The Associated Press.
The extent of former Gilberton Chief Mark Kessler's relationship with state and federal law enforcement, whether they asked for the information, what they did with it, and how they viewed him all remain unclear.
Foul-Mouthed Police Chief Sues
FBI spokesman J.J. Klaver said the agency does not comment on people who claim to be informants. State police also declined to comment.
The ex-lawman attracted attention last year after posting incendiary videos of himself spraying machine-gun fire and cursing liberals and others. The videos got hundreds of thousands of views online.
Militia for Foul-Mouthed Ex-Chief's Reality Show?
Kessler said that individuals advocating insurrection and violence contacted him as a result of the videos, and he saw them as a threat and had a responsibility to report them to federal and state authorities.
He said he's going public now because he wants to reclaim his reputation. Kessler retired from the police department last February in a settlement with borough officials, who intended to fire him after the videos emerged.
Town Abolishing Foul-Mouthed Chief's Police Dept.
The ex-lawman had private Facebook communications that he shared via email with the state and the FBI, according to documents viewed by AP. The agents' names were redacted by Kessler.
In one message, an individual advocates shooting the president. In another, someone talks about targeting mosques.
"Any normal person who was contacted by these twisted individuals has a duty to report what they were planning," Kessler said.
Kessler's attorney, Joseph Nahas, said his client reached out to law enforcement about his contacts with radical groups.
Extremists "looked at Mark to be some sort of leader and further their cause of governmental destruction," Nahas said, and Kessler gathered intelligence about "who they were, what their plans were, what their targets were."
Nahas said a state trooper told him this fall that he had been receiving information from Kessler.
Kessler claims his first contact with individuals he termed extremists came nearly two years ago, after he pushed Gilberton's council to adopt a resolution nullifying certain gun laws.
Kessler says he met with an FBI agent and a state trooper and continued to pass on information, but received contact from fewer people as months wore on. That's when he said he ramped up his rhetoric by posting incendiary videos in the summer of 2013.
At the time, Kessler said the videos were designed to draw attention to an out-of-control federal government and the erosion of Second Amendment and other constitutional rights. He now asserts his public persona was an act meant to lure would-be domestic terrorists.
No law enforcement agency put him up to the videos; in fact, they were upset with him for posting them, he said.
"I wasn't portraying me. I was basically acting to attract these sickos and it worked," said Kessler.
Kessler first said he had reached out to law enforcement agencies on Alan Colmes' Fox News Radio show earlier this month, but included few details and did not reveal the names of the agencies to whom he was supplying information.
"I thought I was doing good for myself, my country, my fellow Americans, by trapping these radicals a

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Did FBI agents create the Sony Hack?


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December 22nd 2014

In 2008 Mumbai Attacks, Piles of Spy Data, but an Uncompleted Puzzle


by Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, and James Glanz and David E. Sanger, New York Times

In the fall of 2008, a 30-year-old computer expert named Zarrar Shah roamed from outposts in the northern mountains of Pakistan to safe houses near the Arabian Sea, plotting mayhem in Mumbai, India’s commercial gem.

Mr. Shah, the technology chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistani terror group, and fellow conspirators used Google Earth to show militants the routes to their targets in the city. He set up an Internet phone system to disguise his location by routing his calls through New Jersey. Shortly before an assault that would kill 166 people, including six Americans, Mr. Shah searched online for a Jewish hostel and two luxury hotels, all sites of the eventual carnage.

But he did not know that by September, the British were spying on many of his online activities, tracking his Internet searches and messages, according to former American and Indian officials and classified documents disclosed by Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor.

They were not the only spies watching. Mr. Shah drew similar scrutiny from an Indian intelligence agency, according to a former official who was briefed on the operation. The United States was unaware of the two agencies’ efforts, American officials say, but had picked up signs of a plot through other electronic and human sources, and warned Indian security officials several times in the months before the attack.

What happened next may rank among the most devastating near-misses in the history of spycraft. The intelligence agencies of the three nations did not pull together all the strands gathered by their high-tech surveillance and other tools, which might have allowed them to disrupt a terror strike so scarring that it is often called India’s 9/11.

Missed Signals Before the Attack

Intelligence agencies in three countries followed key figures with high-tech surveillance tools in advance of the Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people in 2008, but they did not put the pieces together that could have helped them disrupt the plot. It was not until the attacks started that the agencies shared the surveillance they had gathered and the picture came into focus.

By September 2008

U.S. Using their own intelligence sources, U.S. agencies picked up signs of a plot. In addition, the wife of one terrorist, David Coleman Headley, warned American officials three times in 2007 and 2008 that Mr. Headley was a terrorist conducting missions in Mumbai.

Britain By September, British intelligence was spying on many of the digital activities of Zarrar Shah, the technology and communications chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba, tracking his Web searches and messages.

India An Indian intelligence agency carried out similar monitoring of his communications.

Mid-September

Mr. Shah and his co-conspirators used Google Earth to show Pakistani terrorists the targets and attack routes in Mumbai.

September 24

U.S. In mid- to late September, the C.I.A. warned Indian counterparts about a Lashkar threat to Mumbai.

India On September 24, the Intelligence Bureau, the Indian equivalent of the F.B.I., issued a warning that Lashkar was showing interest in Mumbai. The next dai, state police issued a bulletin on a threat to Mumbair, listing siz targets, including the Taj Hotel, which briefly added security.

October 20

Mr. Shah contacted Callphonex, a New Jersey company selling voice-over-Internet service. Lashkar terrorists would use the service to mask their location during the attacks.

October 22

Mr. Shah searched for a number of potential targets, including “taj hotel” and “4 star hotel in delhi.” He also searched Google News for “indian american naval exercises,” presumably so the attackers would not blunder into an overwhelming force.

November 18

U.S. The C.I.A. reported the location of a Pakistani vessel linked to a Lashkar threat against Mumbai to Indian counter-terror agencies.

India A senior Indian counter-terror official said: “It turned out to be Pakistani waters, so we could not do much more,” Five days later, terrorists hijacked an Indian fishing vessel, killed the crew, and sailed to Mumbai.

Nov. 26, day of the attacks

Mr. Shah drafted a false claim of repsonsibility for the attack from a nonexistent Indian terrorist group in order to hide Lashkar’s role in the plot. He emailed the draft to an associate with instructions to create an email account and send it to news media after the attack.

Hours before the attacks started that evening, Mr. Shah searched for maps on two targets in the attack, the Taj Hotel and the Chabad House, a Jewish hostel. He began Googling news coverage of Mumbai just before the attacks began.

Source: Classified documents, interviews with Indian, British and American officals..

“No one put together the whole picture,” said Shivshankar Menon, who was India’s foreign minister at the time of the attacks and later became the national security adviser. “Not the Americans, not the Brits, not the Indians.”

Mr. Menon, now retired, recalled that “only once the shooting started did everyone share” what they had, largely in meetings between British and Indian officials, and then “the picture instantly came into focus.”

The British had access to a trove of data from Mr. Shah’s communications, but contend that the information was not specific enough to detect the threat. The Indians did not home in on the plot even with the alerts from the United States.

Clues slipped by the Americans as well. David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani-American who scouted targets in Mumbai, exchanged incriminating emails with plotters that went unnoticed until shortly before his arrest in Chicago in late 2009. United States counterterrorism agencies did not pursue reports from his unhappy wife, who told American officials long before the killings began that he was a Pakistani terrorist conducting mysterious missions in Mumbai.

That hidden history of the Mumbai attacks reveals the vulnerability as well as the strengths of computer surveillance and intercepts as a counterterrorism weapon, an investigation by The New York Times, ProPublica and the PBS series “Frontline” has found.

Although electronic eavesdropping often yields valuable data, even tantalizing clues can be missed if the technology is not closely monitored, the intelligence gleaned from it is not linked with other information, or analysis does not sift incriminating activity from the ocean of digital data.

This account has been pieced together from classified documents, court files and dozens of interviews with current and former Indian, British and American officials. While telephone intercepts of the assault team’s phone calls and other intelligence work during the three-day siege have been reported, the extensive espionage that took place before the attacks has not previously been disclosed. Some details of the operations were withheld at the request of the intelligence agencies, citing national security concerns.

“We didn’t see it coming,” a former senior United States intelligence official said. “We were focused on many other things — Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, the Iranians. It’s not that things were missed — they were never put together.”

After the assault began, the countries quickly disclosed their intelligence to one another. They monitored a Lashkar control room in Pakistan where the terror chiefs directed their men, hunkered down in the Taj and Oberoi hotels and the Jewish hostel, according to current and former American, British and Indian officials.

That cooperation among the spy agencies helped analysts retrospectively piece together “a complete operations plan for the attacks,” a top-secret N.S.A. document said.

The Indian government did not respond to several requests for official comment, but a former Indian intelligence official acknowledged that Indian spies had tracked Mr. Shah’s laptop communications. It is unclear what data the Indians gleaned from their monitoring.

Asked if Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, Britain’s eavesdropping agency, should have had strong suspicions of a looming attack, a government official responded in a statement: “We do not comment on intelligence matters. But if we had had critical information about an imminent act of terrorism in a situation like this we would have shared it with the Indian government. So the central allegation of this story is completely untrue.”

The attacks still resonate in India, and are a continuing source of tension with Pakistan. Last week, a Pakistani court granted bail to a militant commander, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, accused of being an orchestrator of the attacks. He has not been freed, pending an appeal. India protested his release, arguing it was part of a Pakistani effort to avoid prosecution of terror suspects.

The story of the Mumbai killings has urgent implications for the West’s duel with the Islamic State and other groups. Like Lashkar, the Islamic State’s stealthy communications and slick propaganda make it one of the world’s most technologically sophisticated terror organizations. Al Qaeda, which recently announced the creation of an affiliate in India, uses similar tools.

Although the United States computer arsenal plays a vital role against targets ranging from North Korea’s suspected assault on Sony to Russian cyberthieves and Chinese military hacking units, counterterrorism requires a complex mix of human and technical resources. Some former counterterrorism officials warn against promoting billion-dollar surveillance programs with the narrow argument that they stop attacks.

That monitoring collects valuable information, but large amounts of it are “never meaningfully reviewed or analyzed,” said Charles (Sam) Faddis, a retired C.I.A. counterterrorism chief. "I cannot remember a single instance in my career when we ever stopped a plot based purely on signals intelligence.”

The targeting of Mr. Shah’s communications also failed to detect Mr. Headley’s role in the Mumbai attacks, and National Security Agency officials did not see for months that he was pursuing a new attack in Denmark.

“There are small successes in all of this that don’t make up for all the deaths,” said Tricia Bacon, a former State Department intelligence analyst, referring to intelligence and broader efforts to counter Lashkar. “It’s a massive failure and some small successes.”

Lashkar’s Computer Chief

Zarrar Shah was a digitally savvy operative, a man with a bushy beard, a pronounced limp, strong ties to Pakistani intelligence and an intense hatred for India, according to Western and Indian officials and court files. The spy agencies of Britain, the United States and India considered him the technology and communications chief for Lashkar, a group dedicated to attacking India. His fascination with jihad established him as something of a pioneer for a generation of Islamic extremists who use the Internet as a weapon.

According to Indian court records and interviews with intelligence officials, Mr. Shah was in his late 20s when he became the “emir,” or chief, of the Lashkar media unit. Because of his role, Mr. Shah, together with another young Lashkar chief named Sajid Mir, became an intelligence target for the British, Indians and Americans.

Indian policemen prepare to take position at the site of attack in the Colaba area of Mumbai on November 27, 2008. (Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images)
Lashkar-e-Taiba, which translates as “the Army of the Pure,” grew rapidly in the 1990s thanks to a powerful patron: the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), the Pakistani spy agency that the C.I.A. has worked with uneasily for years. Lashkar conducted a proxy war for Pakistan in return for arms, funds, intelligence, and training in combat tactics and communications technology. Initially, Lashkar’s focus was India and Kashmir, the mountainous region claimed by both India and Pakistan.

But Lashkar became increasingly interested in the West. A Qaeda figure involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center was arrested in a Lashkar safe house in 2002. Investigators dismantled a Lashkar network as it plotted a bombing in Australia in 2003 while recruiting, buying equipment and raising funds in North America and Europe. In 2007, a French court convicted in absentia the ringleader, Mr. Mir. He remained at large in Pakistan under ISI protection, investigators say.

Lashkar’s alliance with the ISI came under strain as some of the militants pushed for a Qaeda-style war on the West. As a result, some ISI officers and terror chiefs decided that a spectacular strike was needed to restore Lashkar’s cohesion and burnish its image, according to interviews and court files. The plan called for a commando-style assault in India that could also hit Americans, Britons and Jews there.

The target was the centerpiece of Indian prosperity: Mumbai.

Hatching a Plot

Lashkar’s chiefs developed a plot that would dwarf previous operations.

The lead conspirators were alleged to be Mr. Mir and Mr. Lakhvi, according to interviews and Indian court files, with Mr. Shah acting as a technical wingman, running the communications and setting up the hardware.

In early 2008, Indian and Western counterterrorism agencies began to pick up chatter about a potential attack on Mumbai. Indian spy agencies and police forces gathered periodic leads from their own sources about a Lashkar threat to the city. Starting in the spring, C.I.A. warnings singled out the iconic Taj Mahal Palace Hotel and other sites frequented by Westerners, according to American and Indian officials. Those warnings came from electronic and human sources, not from tracking Mr. Shah, other officials said.

“The U.S. intelligence community — on multiple occasions between June and November 2008 — warned the Indian government about Lashkar threats in Mumbai,” said Brian Hale, a spokesman for the director of the Office of National Intelligence. “The information identified several potential targets in the city, but we did not have specific information about the timing or the method of attack.”

United States spy agencies also alerted their British counterparts, according to a senior American intelligence official. It is unclear if the warnings led to the targeting of Mr. Shah’s communications, but by the fall of 2008, the British had found a way to monitor Lashkar’s digital networks.

So had the Indians. But until the attacks, one Indian official said, there was no communication between the two countries on the matter.

Western spy agencies routinely share significant or “actionable” intelligence involving threats with allies, but sometimes do not pass on less important information. Even friendly agencies are typically reluctant to disclose their sources of intelligence. Britain and India, while cooperative, were not nearly as close as the United States and Britain. And India is not included in the tightest intelligence-sharing circles of international, eavesdropping agencies that the two countries anchor.

Intelligence officials say that terror plots are often discernible only in hindsight, when a pattern suddenly emerges from what had been just bits of information. Whatever the reason, no one fully grasped the developing Mumbai conspiracy. “They either weren’t looking or didn’t understand what it all meant,” said one former American official who had access to the intelligence and would speak only on the condition of anonymity. “There was a lot more noise than signal. There usually is.”

Flooded with Clues

Not long after the British gained access to his communications, Mr. Shah contacted a New Jersey company posing online as an Indian reseller of telephone services named Kharak Singh, purporting to be based in Mumbai. His Indian persona started haggling over the price of a voice-over-Internet phone service — also known as VoIP — that had been chosen because it would make calls between Pakistan and the terrorists in Mumbai appear as if they were originating in Austria and New Jersey.

"its not first time in my life i am perchasing in this VOIP business,” Mr. Shah wrote in shaky English, to an official with the New Jersey-based company when he thought the asking price was too high, the GCHQ documents show. “i am using these services from 2 years.”

Mr. Shah had begun researching the VoIP systems, online security, and ways to hide his communications as early as mid-September, according to the documents. As he made his plan, he searched on his laptop for weak communication security in Europe, spent time on a site designed to conceal browsing history, and searched Google News for “indian american naval exercises” — presumably so the seagoing attackers would not blunder into an overwhelming force.

Ajmal Kasab, the only terrorist who would survive the Mumbai attacks, watched Mr. Shah display some of his technical prowess. In mid-September, Mr. Shah and fellow plotters used Google Earth and other material to show Mr. Kasab and nine other young Pakistani terrorists their targets in Mumbai, according to court testimony.

Indian activists of the right-wing Hindu Shiv Sena organization burn an effigy of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) during a demonstration against the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai. (Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images)
The session, which took place in a huge “media room” in a remote camp on the border with Kashmir, was part of an effort to chart the terrorists’ route across the Arabian Sea, to a water landing on the edge of Mumbai, then through the chaotic streets. Videos, maps and reconnaissance reports had been supplied to Mr. Mir by Mr. Headley, the Pakistani-American who scouted targets.

“The gunmen were shown all this data from the reconnaissance,” said Deven Bharti, a top Mumbai police official who investigated the attacks, adding that the terrorists were trained to use Google Earth and global positioning equipment on their own. “Kasab was trained to locate everything in Mumbai before he went.”

If Mr. Shah made any attempt to hide his malevolent intentions, he did not have much success at it. Although his frenetic computer activity was often sprawling, he repeatedly displayed some key interests: small-scale warfare, secret communications, tourist and military locations in India, extremist ideology and Mumbai.

He searched for Sun Tzu’s “Art of War,” previous terror strikes in India and weather forecasts in the Arabian Sea, typed “4 star hotel in delhi” and “taj hotel,” and visited mapsofindia.com to pore over sites in and around Mumbai, the documents show.

Still, the sheer scale of his ambition might have served as a smokescreen for his focus on the city. For example, he also showed interest in Kashmir, the Indian Punjab, New Delhi, Afghanistan and the United States Army in Germany and Canada.

He constantly flipped back and forth among Internet porn and entertainment sites while he was carrying out his work. He appeared to be fascinated with the actor Robert De Niro, called up at least one article on the singer Taylor Swift, and looked at funny cat videos. He visited unexplainable.net, a conspiracy theory website, and conducted a search on “barak obama family + muslim.”

In late September and again in October, Lashkar botched attempts to send the attackers to Mumbai by sea. During that period, at least two of the C.I.A. warnings were delivered, according to American and Indian officials. An alert in mid-September mentioned the Taj hotel among a half-dozen potential targets, causing the facility to temporarily beef up security. Another on Nov. 18 reported the location of a Pakistani vessel linked to a Lashkar threat against the southern coastal area of Mumbai, where the attack would occur.

Eventually Mr. Shah did set up the VoIP service through the New Jersey company, ensuring that many of his calls to the terrorists would bear the area code 201, concealing their actual origin. But in November, the company’s owner wrote to the fictitious Indian reseller, Mr. Singh, complaining that no voice traffic was running on the digital telephone network. Mr. Shah’s reply was ominous, according to Indian law enforcement officials, who obtained evidence from the company’s communications records with F.B.I. assistance after the attack.

“Dear Sir,” Mr. Shah replied, “i will send trafic by the end of this month.”

By Nov. 24, Mr. Shah had moved to the Karachi suburbs, where he set up an electronic “control room” with the help of an Indian militant named Abu Jundal, according to his later confession to the Indian authorities. It was from this room that Mr. Mir, Mr. Shah and others would issue minute-by-minute instructions to the assault team once the attacks began. On Nov. 25, Abu Jundal tested the VoIP software on four laptops spread out on four small tables facing a pair of televisions as the plotters, including Mr. Mir, Mr. Shah and Mr. Lakhvi, waited for the killings to begin.

In a plan to pin the blame on Indians, Mr. Shah typed a statement of responsibility for the attack from the Hyderabad Deccan Mujahadeen — a fake Indian organization. Early on Nov. 26, Mr. Shah showed more of his hand: he emailed a draft of the phony claim to an underling with orders to send it to the news media later, according to American and Indian counterterrorism officials.

Before the attacks started that evening, the documents show, Mr. Shah pulled up Google images of the Oberoi Hotel and conducted Wikimapia searches for the Taj and the Chabad House, the Jewish hostel run by an American rabbi from Brooklyn who would die in the strike along with his pregnant wife. Mr. Shah opened the hostel’s website. He began Googling news coverage of Mumbai just before the attacks began.

An intercept shows what Mr. Shah was reading, on the news website NDTV, as the killings proceeded.

“Mumbai, the city which never sleeps, was brought to its knees on Wednesday night as it came under an unprecedented multiple terror attack,” the article said. “Even as heavily armed police stormed into Taj Hotel, just opposite the Gateway of India where suspected terrorists were still holed up, blood-soaked guests could be seen carried out into the waiting ambulances.”

A Trove of Data

In the United States, Nov. 26 was the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

A long presidential election fight was over, and many officials in Washington had already drifted away for their long weekend. Anish Goel, director for South Asia at the National Security Council in the White House, left around 6 a.m. for the eight-hour drive to his parents’ house in Ohio. By the time he arrived, his BlackBerry was filled with emails about the attacks.

The Pakistani terrorists had come ashore in an inflatable speedboat in a fishermen’s slum in south Mumbai about 9 p.m. local time. They fanned out in pairs and struck five targets with bombs and AK–47s: the Taj, the Oberoi Hotel, the Leopold Cafe, Chabad House, and the city’s largest train station.

The killing was indiscriminate, merciless, and seemingly unstoppable over three horrific days. In raw, contemporaneous notes by analysts, the eavesdroppers seem to be making a hasty effort to understand the clues from the days and weeks before.

“Analysis of Zarrar Shah’s viewing habits” and other data “yielded several locations in Mumbai well before the attacks occurred and showed operations planning for initial entry points into the Taj Hotel,” the N.S.A. document said.

That viewing history also revealed a longer list of what might have been future targets. M.K. Narayanan, India’s national security adviser at the time, appeared to be concerned about that data from Mr. Shah in discussions with American officials shortly after the attacks, according to the WikiLeaks archive of American diplomatic cables.

A top secret GCHQ document described the capture of information on targets that Mr. Shah had identified using Google Earth.

The analysts seemed impressed by the intelligence haul — “unprecedented real-time active access in place!” — one GCHQ document noted. Another agency document said the work to piece the data together was “briefed at highest levels nationally and internationally, including the US National Security Adviser.”

As early reports of many casualties came in, Mr. Goel said the focus in Washington shifted to a question already preoccupying the White House: “Is this going to lead to a war between Pakistan and India?” American officials who conducted periodic simulations of how a nuclear conflict could be triggered often began with a terror attack like this one.

An Indian security official stands alert as smoke and flames billow from a section of The Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai on November 29, 2008. (Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images)
On Nov. 30, Mr. Goel was back at his office, reading a stack of intelligence reports that had accumulated on his desk and reviewing classified electronic messages on a secure terminal.

Amid the crisis, Mr. Goel, now a senior South Asia Fellow at the New America Foundation, paid little attention to the sources of the intelligence and said that he still knew little about specific operations. But two things stood out, he said: The main conspirators in Pakistan had already been identified. And the quality and rapid pacing of the intelligence reports made it clear that electronic espionage was primarily responsible for the information.

“During the attacks, it was extraordinarily helpful,” Mr. Goel said of the surveillance.

But until then, the United States did not know of the British and Indian spying on Mr. Shah’s communications. “While I cannot comment on the authenticity of any alleged classified documents, N.S.A. had no knowledge of any access to a lead plotter’s computer before the attacks in Mumbai in November 2008,” said Mr. Hale, the spokesman for the Office of the director of National Intelligence.

As N.S.A. and GCHQ analysts worked around the clock after the attacks, the flow of intelligence enabled Washington, London and New Delhi to exert pressure on Pakistan to round up suspects and crack down on Lashkar, despite its alliance with the ISI, according to officials involved.

In the stacks of intelligence reports, one name did not appear, Mr. Goel clearly recalls: David Coleman Headley. None of the intelligence streams from the United States, Britain or India had yet identified him as a conspirator.

The Missing American

Mr. Headley’s many-sided life — three wives, drug-smuggling convictions and a past as an informant for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration — would eventually collapse. But for now, he was a free man, watching the slaughter on television in Lahore, Pakistan, according to his later court testimony. At the time, he was with Faiza Outalha, his Moroccan wife, having reconciled with her after moving his Pakistani wife and four children to Chicago.

Mr. Headley’s unguarded emails reflected euphoria about Lashkar’s success. An exchange with his wife in Chicago continued a long string of incriminating electronic communications by Mr. Headley written in a transparent code, according to investigators and case files.

“I watched the movie the whole day,” she wrote, congratulating him on his “graduation.”

About a week later, Mr. Headley hinted at his inside information in an email to fellow alumni of a Pakistani military school. Writing about the young terrorists who carried out the mayhem in Mumbai, he said: “Yes they were only 10 kids, guaranteed. I hear 2 were married with a daughter each under 3 years old.” His subsequent emails contained several dozen news media photos of the Mumbai siege.

Almost immediately, Mr. Headley began pursuing a new plot with Lashkar against a Danish newspaper that had published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. He went to Denmark in January and cased the newspaper, meeting and exchanging emails with its advertising staff, according to his later testimony and court records. He sent messages to his fellow conspirators and emailed himself a reconnaissance checklist of sorts, with terms like “Counter-Surveillance,” “Security (Armed?)” and “King’s Square” — the site of the newspaper.

Those emails capped a series of missed signals involving Mr. Headley. The F.B.I. conducted at least four inquiries into allegations about his extremist activity between 2001 and 2008. Ms. Outalha had visited the United States Embassy in Islamabad three times between December 2007 and April 2008, according to interviews and court documents, claiming that he was a terrorist carrying out missions in India.

Mr. Headley also exchanged highly suspicious emails with his Lashkar and ISI handlers before and after the Mumbai attacks, according to court records and American counterterrorism officials. The N.S.A. collected some of his emails, but did not realize he was involved in terrorist plotting until he became the target of an F.B.I. investigation, officials said.

That inquiry began in July 2009 when a British tip landed on the desk of a rookie F.B.I. counterterrorism agent in Chicago. Someone named “David” at a Chicago pay phone had called two suspects under surveillance in Britain, planning to visit.

A rabbi pauses inside a room at the Nariman Chabad House in Mumbai, which for years remained in the same state as it was after the November 2008 attacks. (Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images)
He had contacted the Britons for help with the plot, according to testimony. Customs and Border Protection used his flight itinerary to identify him while en route, and after further investigation, the F.B.I. arrested him at Chicago O’Hare Airport that October, as he was preparing to fly to Pakistan. For his role in the Mumbai attacks, he pleaded guilty to 12 counts and was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

After disclosures last year of widespread N.S.A. surveillance, American officials claimed that bulk collection of electronic communications led to Mr. Headley’s eventual arrest. But a government oversight panel rejected claims giving credit to the N.S.A.’s program to collect Americans’ domestic phone call records. Case files and interviews with law enforcement officials show that the N.S.A. played only a support role in the F.B.I. investigation that finally identified Mr. Headley as a terrorist and disrupted the Danish plot.

The sole surviving attacker of the Mumbai attack, Mr. Kasab, was executed in India after a trial. Although Pakistan denies any role in the attacks, it has failed to charge an ISI officer and Mr. Mir, who were indicted by American prosecutors. Though Mr. Shah and other Lashkar chiefs had been arrested, their trial remains stalled six years after the attack.

Mr. Menon, the former Indian foreign minister, said that a lesson that emerged from the tragedy in Mumbai was that “computer traffic only tells you so much. It’s only a thin slice.” The key is the analysis, he said, and “we didn’t have it.”

Sebastian Rotella, of ProPublica, reported from Chicago, India, New York and Washington; Jeff Larson of ProPublica, and Tom Jennings and Anna Belle Peevey of PBS’s “Frontline” contributed reporting from New York. New York Times journalists James Glanz reported from India, New York and Washington; David E. Sanger reported from Washington; Andrew W. Lehren contributed reporting from New York; and Declan Walsh from London.




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FBI may have made embarrassing mistake investigating Sony hack
By Business Insider January 1 2015
A confidential bulletin sent by the FBI to companies across the US warning of further cyberattacks by the Sony hackers may have been based on fake posts and messages created by a prankster.
Earlier today we reported that the FBI sent a bulletin on Dec. 24 that warned companies of further threats made by the Guardians of Peace hacker gang. That's the group that targeted Sony Pictures, but the FBI warned that it was threatening a media organization as well.
A cached PasteBin post revealed the threat the FBI was referring to was targeting CNN, and even included a reference to anchor Wolf Blitzer.
Here's the post that the FBI was referring to in its bulletin:
By GOP
The result of investigation by CNN is so excellent that you might have seen what we were doing with your own eyes.
We congratulate you success.
CNN is the BEST in the world.
You will find the gift for CNN at the following address.
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Enjoy!
P.S. You have 24 hours to give us the Wolf.
But hours after the story published, a journalist who writes about cybersecurity stepped forward and claimed that he wrote the threat to CNN as a prank, copying another message that he found online and simply swapping some of the words.
Mediaite reports that David Garrett Jr., a writer for Homeland Security Examiner, took to Twitter and posted screenshots which appear to show that he was the author of the threat to CNN.
Here's one of the posts that Garrett offered up as proof that he was behind the message:

It's important to note that there's no proof that the PasteBin post mentioning CNN was a prank. Neither Garrett nor the FBI has posted definitive evidence about the threat.
The FBI issued the following statement to Business Insider when asked about the Dec. 24 bulletin:
As part of our commitment to public safety, the FBI routinely shares information with the private sector and law enforcement community. We take all threats seriously and will continue to disseminate relevant information observed during the course of our investigations, in order to help protect the public against any potential threats.
But if Garrett is to be believed, then the FBI may have been fooled by a simple prank. If the FBI published a security bulletin based on anonymous and unauthenticated internet posts, that's going to make it more difficult for people to believe its other claims.
Along with the threat against CNN, the FBI also mentioned another PasteBin post that mocked the bureau's own investigation. If the prankster is to be believed, that second post could also be fake.
Some security experts have cast doubt on the FBI's claim that North Korea


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Colorado --(Ammoland.com)- The figure using the FBI data pretty much summarizes their claim: from 2000 to 2013, fatalities from public shootings in the US ...

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Colorado --(Ammoland.com)- The figure using the FBI data pretty much summarizes their claim: from 2000 to 2013, fatalities from public shootings in the US have grown by an average annual rate of 16.4%. [What??!]

While the FBI report provides graphs illustrating “active shooting incidents,” NOT mass shootings, given the way that the report was written, the media has understandably interpreted the report as implying that mass public shootings have massively increased over time.

To get a rough idea of the media coverage look at these headlines:

“Mass Shootings on the Rise, FBI says,”Wall Street Journal
“F.B.I. Confirms a Sharp Rise in Mass Shootings Since 2000,” New York Times
“FBI: Mass shooting incidents occurring more frequently,” CNN
“FBI study: Deaths in mass shootings increasing,” BBC
“Mass Shootings surge in U.S. over last seven years: FBI study,” New York Daily News
“FBI report shows increase in mass shootings since 2007,” Fox News
“Mass shootings in U.S. have tripled in recent years, FBI says,” Los Angeles Times
“Mass shooting incidents have doubled since 2000: FBI,” Washington Times
“FBI releases report examining mass shootings,” Washington Post
But instead of a 16 percent annual growth in fatalities, the actual growth rate is less than one percent and even that small growth rate is heavily dependent on just one year, 2012.

The Obama administration’s FBI report obtained its result by manipulating the data: including non-mass shootings, missing mass shooting cases, and selectively picking the period of time that they examined. Part of the abstract of the CRPC’s latest report describes what the Obama administration did:

But the FBI made a number of subtle and misleading decisions as well as outright errors. Once these biases and mistakes are fixed, the annual growth rate in homicides is cut in half. When a longer period



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According to the book "Slingshot to the Juggernaut," both anthrax and
nano-thermite used during 911 are made at a site known as Battelle Memorial Institute.
This is a US facility.

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couple of reads.

Terrorism benefits who?


Yes, the FBI, eh?

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[April 18th 2008] PROOF OF OKC APRIL 19TH 1995 WAS AN FBI / ATF BOMBING SPECIAL OPERATION --
Dr Bill Deagle MD
May 1st 2008 is a special day for Jesse C. Trentadue. This is the day he finds out if a Federal Judge permits an already mandated Video Deposition to take place of Terry Lynn Nichols.
In Feb 2007, Jesse C. Trentadue Attorney, spent one and one-half days with Terry Lynn Nichols, obtaining his deposition. In it, he stated that there were many other parties involved and that the operations were overseen by FBI. Jesse won a Federal injunction allowing a video deposition of Terry Lynn, but the US Dept of Prisons and FBI had filed motions to quash his video deposition of Terry. May 1st 2008 is May Day for the Old World Disorder, as this Video evidence will demand finally a Grand Jury, that will make complicit two and possibly three Presidencies, FBI, ATF, and US State's Attorney in Colorado, Arapahoe County Sherriff, and many more.
"On March 20, 2008, Plaintiff receive from the FBI's Philadelphia Office documents relate to information provided by informants to the FBI regarding: Tim McVeigh, Elohim City, the Aryan Republican Army or 'ARA', OKBOMB, BOMBROB, Richard Lee Guthrie and the Mid-West Bank Robbers, one of whom was Mark Thomas." ..." Donna Marazoff is or was the girlfriend of Mark Thomas and the mother of two of his children. The Court will recall that Thomas was a member of the Mid-West Bank Robbery Gang, a member of the Aryan Republican Army."
"With this background, the Marazoff 302 is very significant. In this 302, the FBI documents that Marazoff reported that prior to February of 1995, she and Thomas had been discussing the federal government's involvement in Waco and Ruby Ridge. According to Marazoff, Thomas became "very irritated" during that conversation and said: "We are going to get them. We are going to hit one of their buildings during the middle of the day. It's going to be a federal building. We will get sympathy if we bomb the building"[T]he people who will lose their loved ones, will realize how bad it feels." (Marazoff 302) (emphasis added).
"Interestingly, Thomas and the other Elohim City, ARA and Mid-West Bank Robbers crowd do not seem to have been subjects of interest to the FBI when it came to the bombing of the Murrah Building, and one has to wonder. Why? The answer to that question may likewise be the basis for the FBI Defendants' suspicious of Plaintiff's reason for advising the Court about this recent release of additional informant documents. This Saturday will be the 13th anniversary of the Bombing. That attack was the biggest act of domestic terrorism in the 20th Century and resulted in the deaths of 168 people, including 19 toddlers as well as hundreds of injured victims. Perhaps this approaching anniversary is why FBI Defendants' are so suspicious and wary of the motive behind Plaintiff's filing of the Notice of Release. But, if Plaintiff wante to present FBI Defendants in a bad light, he would have included the Marazoff 302 and similar FBI documents in his Notice of Release of additional informant documents. Dated this 17th day of April, 2008. -- Jesse C. Trentadue; Pro Se Plaintiff "
As Exit Medical Examiner at CCOM, St. Francis Hospital, I personally examined all five Special Ops Bomb Forensics Military Officers. One of the officers spent several hours provided extreme details of the scene, cause of the demolition and operational control of the site by Wakenhut Security. He wanted further testing from positive radiation exposure, and told me how the entire operation was run by FBI and ATF and how all their bags were weighed and scanned for radiation traces of removed debris particles and chunks. They were warned, "Don't remove any material from the site or we will track and kill you." When it became evident that he told me this information, he was court-martialed and I was summarily fired and threatened.
Your stomach wretches when you read the attached Marazoff 302 documents, the depos of Terry Lynn Nichols, death row Oklahoma cohabitant David Paul Hammer, Kevin Lagan, etc. and the news of additional bombs removed from the US Federal Murrah Building by local news. It is evident that a comprehensive criminal cover-up was and had been continued by FBI and the Dept of Prisons trying to block the video deposition of Terry Lynn Nichols. Terry's deposition is quite damning, and lined up with my affidavit attached and these other documents. We need a Grand Jury to obtain suppressed videotapes around the building and safe harbor for other whistleblowers to come forward for a new OKC Murrah Demolition investigation.
As we remember the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19th, 2008, Patriot's Day, remember it also memorialized the dates of OKC, Ruby Ridge and Waco in our souls. Only with a Grand Jury and indictments will we be free of future OKCs, 911s, and the nukes activated in multiple US Cities or release of pandemic death. OKC Murrah revelations are the 'can-opener' of 911 WTC Demolition. National crimes were committed with advanced explosives, micro-nukes, and thermate. A 'real 911 WTC Full Grand Jury Investigation' must follow swiftly and in parallel with the OKC revelations presented here on the 13th Anniversay of the OKC Murrah Demolition. It was the self-inflicted wound of OKC and 911 that propelled the USA into two and now a possible third unjustified and illegal war, blown the US Dollar and economy, and brought the world to the brink of WWIII.
Let us take a deep breath of hope, and invigorated with courage step forwarded into a tomorrow. A day when the 'terror state' is dismantled, national IDs and North American Union are bad memories and adventurous wars promulgated on self inflicted terror will never more happen in this great United States of America.
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CNN and Fox the official sponsors
of FBI Disinformation.

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ISIS Makes New Threat; NYPD On High Alert

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Enforcement officials across the country were alerted to a new threat from ISIS after the Islamic terror group released a video message Saturday calling for its followers to “rise up.”
ISIS spokesman, Abu Mohammed al Adnani, is seen in the video saying that followers should “rise up and kill intelligence officers, police officers, soldiers, and civilians,” specifically naming the United States, France, Australia and Canada as targets, according to a memo that CNN obtained.

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What follows are two chapters on Salem from the first book in my FBI investigative trilogy: 1000 YEARS FOR REVENGE. ... Salem told Agent Floyd that he didn't have all of the hotel records handy. ... Omar Ahmad Ali Abdel Rahman.” .... At that time in 1991, the Terrorism branch Anticev and Napoli worked for had no ...
Who Bombed The World Trade Center? Fbi Bomb Builders Exposed!!
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FBI informants created 1993 1st World Trade Center Bombing -Ahmed Salem FBI informant. FBI agents Anticev and Floyd were his handlers
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For Immediate Release

Contact: Kris Millegan TrineDay Publishers (trineday@icloud.com)

David Denton, professor, Olney Central College (dentond@iecc.edu)









Leading Experts on the JFK Assassination will gather in New Orleans for conference entitled “Oswald's Summer of Secrets: New Orleans and the JFK Assassination” Oct. 16-18





Produced by TrineDay, Conscious Community Events, and the JFK Historical Group





On October 16-18 2015 nationally known researchers and scholars will gather in New Orleans at the Crowne Plaza Hotel-Airport, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, Louisiana for
Oswald's Summer of Secrets: New Orleans and the JFK Assassination.





The conference will break new ground in unlocking the mysteries of Lee Harvey Oswald’s activities in New Orleans in the summer of 1963 and explore other topics such as David Ferrie, Dr. Mary Sherman, and the Garrison trial,
according to organizer Kris Millegan.





Seating is limited so early registration is encouraged. Contact Kris Millegan (trineday@icloud.com) or David Denton (dentond@iecc.edu) for more information and or go to http://oswaldconference.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.




Presenters include:





Ed Haslam, author, Dr. Mary’s Monkey;






Judyth Baker, former girlfriend of Oswald and author, Me and Lee and David Ferrie;






Ed Tatro, author and consultant to Oliver Stone’s film, JFK;
Attended Clay Shaw's trial for one week in 1969.





Robert Groden, author five best-selling books about the assassination, and the first person
to bring the Zapruder film to national TV in 1975;





Jim Marrs, author of four New York Times Best Selling books including Crossfire: The Plot
That Killed Kennedy; chief consultant to Oliver Stone on JFK for both the film’s screenplay and production;






Joan Mellen, biographer Jim Garrison, A Farewell to Justice;






Patrick Nolan, is a forensic historian and the author of CIA Rogues and the Killing of
the Kennedys: How and Why US Agents Conspired to Assassinate JFK and RFK;






Casey Quinlan, author, Beyond the Fence Line: The Eyewitness Testimony of Ed Hoffman and
the Murder of President Kennedy;





Roger Stone, New York Times bestselling author, The Man Who Killed Kennedy—the Case Against
LBJ;





Daniel Hopsicker, author Barry and “the boys,” The CIA, the Mob and America's Secret History,
which chronicles the exploit of famed Louisiana native Barry Seal, his ties to the drug trade and the Kennedy assassination;






St. John Hunt, son of infamous CIA agent E. Howard Hunt, who stated that he was a benchwarmer
during the JFK assassination; author, Bond of Secrecy.





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Juggalos Win Standing to Fight Gang Label



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- ­Insane Clown Posse has standing to challenge the FBI's classification of the hip-hop duo's fans, known as Juggalos, as a "hybrid gang," the Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday.
The Detroit-based group's members, Joseph Bruce aka Shaggy 2 Dope and Joseph Utsler aka Violent J, and four self-identified Juggalos sued the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI this past January in Detroit.
"State and local police routinely stop, detain, interrogate, photograph and document people like plaintiffs, who do not have any connections to gangs, because they have exercised their First Amendment rights to express their identity as Juggalos by displaying Juggalo symbols," the lawsuit said. "Other Juggalos, including plaintiff Scott Gandy, have been denied consideration for employment because of the gang designation. The designation has a chilling effect on Juggalos' ability to express themselves and to associate with one another."
The FBI's 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment described how a suspected Juggalo shot and wounded a King County, Wash. couple in January 2011. The report also says two suspected Juggalos were charged in January 2010 for allegedly beating and robbing

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Smith: A night with the Ku Klux Klan
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On a steamy Friday night in early August 50 years ago, I was taken prisoner by the Ku Klux Klan outside the small town of Oxford, N.C. I was lucky to survive, but because I got into this mess through my stupidity and the stubbornness of my fellow employees at the Congress of Racial Equality office in Durham, it’s a story I’ve avoided for many years.

Now, however, this recent flood of black/white issues has brought it all back — the continuing examples of racially charged police shootings; the disproportionate number of blacks in prison; a recent visit with my grandson to the Gettysburg and Antietam battlefields, those horrifying scenes of slaughter and sacrifice during the Civil War; studies showing that race relations have deteriorated despite the historic election of Barack Obama; the forgiveness expressed by members of the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., after the June 17 killings by Dylann Roof; the subsequent removal of the Confederate battle flag; the death of the charismatic Julian Bond; and, lastly, the comments of the respected writer, Charles M. Blow in the Aug. 10 New York Times: “Society itself is to blame. There is blood on everyone’s hands.”

Morgan Smith
My initial experience in the south was in 1961 when I was assigned to the 82d Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, N.C., and for the first time saw overt signs of segregation, such as “White” and “Colored” restrooms. After my second year of law school in Boulder in 1965, I went back as an intern for the Law Students Civil Rights Research Council, the first interracial organization of law students, and was assigned to work for Floyd McKissick, who was the national director of the Congress on Racial Equality and also had a small law firm in Durham. In mid -summer, I got married and then returned to North Carolina where Julie and I lived in a “Freedom House,” which also served as a stopping point for civil rights workers headed farther south, including to Mississippi, where Andrew Goodman, Mickey Schwerner and James Chaney had been murdered the summer before.

Floyd had us do everything from legal research to organizing marches and demonstrations in towns including New Bern. I even helped him represent the singer James Brown in a paternity suit in one of his private cases and functioned as a chauffeur, once transporting Durham’s four other black lawyers to New Bern for a hearing. En route, we heard a tremendous explosion and all ducked for safety. It was just a blowout, however. As I was changing the tire, the sweat pouring off me, I heard a sudden burst of laughter. The four lawyers, relaxing in the shade, were pointing at me, chuckling, as I struggled with the tire. The roles are reversed, I thought, laughing with them.

One Friday evening in late July, Julie and I spotted flyers tacked to telephone poles near Oxford advertising a KKK rally. We found the field where it was to take place and joined the crowd of observers, mostly families with picnic dinners. The featured speaker was Robert “Bob” Jones, the Grand Dragon and the man who had revitalized the Klan in North Carolina. He ranted on and on and then the crosses were set on fire as we sat there speechless.

The following Monday, I told Floyd and the others in the office what we had seen but no one shared my astonishment. In fact, one black student, David Reilly poo-pooed our experience, said that anyone — white or black — could go to a Klan rally and insisted we all go the following Friday.

All week long, we played chicken. David wouldn’t back out and I didn’t have the nerve to just cancel the trip.

So that Friday we headed north: David, Julie and I, and a law school graduate from California named Carol Ruth Silver, who would be LSCCRC’s first full-time intern in the South. She had also been a Freedom Rider in 1961 and had spent 40 days incarcerated, most of them in the Parchman Penitentiary in Mississippi. She later was elected to three terms as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, serving until 1989.

As we got closer to Oxford, I kept expecting David to yield, but he didn’t. Neither did I. When we reached the rally site, however, I had Julie and Carol wait on the highway by a line of North Carolina State Highway Patrol cars. David and I then drove down into the field. As I stopped our car, David jumped out, approached the man who was directing the parking and asked if he could attend. I can still visualize this man seemingly levitating into the air in shock. Several others quickly appeared, threw David to the ground and searched him. I made it to the roadway and asked the State Patrol for help, but they looked at me as if I were out of my mind. This was not their problem.

Then I heard my name over the loudspeaker. David had given them my name, and they were asking that I come down and explain what was happening.

Once again, the State Highway Patrol offered no help, so I walked to the area where the crosses had been erected and was immediately swept up by an angry mob of some 20 men. David was nowhere in sight. I later learned that he had almost immediately been taken to the local jail and was safely locked up in a cell.

I told my captors that my wife and I were recently married and visiting North Carolina because I had earlier served there in the Army. We had given David a ride because he seemed lost. I told them he had then mentioned the rally and said anyone could attend. After many tense minutes, this story seemed to be working and the mob began to calm down.

Then we heard hysterical screams as a man sprinted towards us. “There are four of them, there are four of them!” he kept repeating, having seen Julie and Carol by the State Patrol cars.

The questioning ensued roughly as follows.

Q: It’s your car, so you were driving?

A: Yes.

Q: And you’re newly married, so your wife was sitting in the front seat with you?

A: Yes.

Q: So the black guy [those aren’t the words they used] was in the back seat with the white woman?

A: Yes?

Q: So you and your wife were driving around with a black guy (having sex with) a white woman in the back seat of your car?

A: No. Of course not.

To me, the comment was preposterous. In the minds of this now-enraged mob, however, sex is the only thing that could be taking place if a black man and a white woman were together in the back seat of a car. Suddenly I heard a rattling sound in the bed of the pickup truck that I was pressed against. Behind me a man lifted a heavy chain. In front of me, another man opened a folding knife with a long narrow blade. They began arguing about who would get to kill me, an argument so intense that I thought they might end up attacking each other.

Finally a tall, calmer looking man spoke up. “I want to kill him too,” he said. “But too many people know that he is here. We’d never get away with it.”

(When the FBI interviewed me two days later, they said they had someone undercover in this group. I’m sure the man who spoke up was the one and wish there some way I could thank him.)

Then the Grand Dragon’s voice came over the microphones, denouncing me. Jones, as I learned much later, was a former awning salesman who had made the North Carolina KKK the most powerful Klan in the country and whose support had helped elect Dan Moore governor in 1964. Now the mob that had been about to kill me had to worry about the possibility of being overwhelmed by a much larger mob incited by Jones.

They took me to Jones’s Cadillac — nicknamed “The Horse” because he put so many miles on it during his recruiting trips — and we worked our way through an angry crowd that included Klanswomen spitting on the windshield, trying to tip over the car. At the local jail, however, the local prosecutor said he could find nothing to charge me with, so we retrieved our car, which had been tipped up on its side, and headed back to Durham.

The FBI then interviewed me and told us about their undercover man. Knowing that the KKK had our license number and probably knew where we were living — and would find out soon enough that I worked for CORE, an organization they detested — the agents suggested we consider moving on.

Back at Floyd’s office, David had disappeared, so I never had a chance to talk to him, Floyd had been laid up with a serious bee sting, and our project seemed to have run out of steam. So Julie and I packed up, said goodbye and headed for home. I never saw Floyd again and deeply regret that. He was a heroic man who has gotten far less credit than he deserved as a civil rights leader, partly due to his subsequent split from CORE and endorsement of Richard Nixon for president in 1968. He was a hero to me, and working with him had a great influence on me — leading me to the Adams’s County public defender’s office rather than a big Denver firm, to the Colorado House of Representatives with a focus on prison reform and mental health, to work on behalf of migrants in Denver, and now to making monthly trips to the Mexican border to assist a variety of humanitarian programs there.

It’s hard to deny how much had changed in those 50 years. The idea of separate restrooms seems preposterous today, as does the idea a state police agency would simply turn its back on someone being taken captive by an organization as venal as the Klan, or that we were told that whites had to sit on one side of the courtroom and blacks on the other when we went to David’s arraignment. (We ignored the order and no one said anything.) However, despite the dangers in those days and the then-monolithic structure of segregation, there was an optimism that I don’t see today. Floyd was an optimist, in part, I believe, because he went out and did things instead of just talking about them. And he did them despite the great personal risks. In addition, the young people who passed through our Freedom House on their way south — to places we assumed were much more dangerous than North Carolina — were also doers and not just talkers. To lump everyone together and say they all have “blood on their h

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A former University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate student was indicted Monday by a Hampshire grand jury in the death of fellow student and campus police informant Eric Sinacori.


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Stephen Lawrence
Stephen Lawrence: new criminal inquiry into claims police shielded killers

National Crime Agency sets up team to investigate claims of corruption within Met over teenager’s murder 22 years ago

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A new investigation has begun into allegations that corruption in the Metropolitan police shielded the murderers of Stephen Lawrence, the Guardian has learned.

The National Crime Agency, Britain’s equivalent of the FBI, has been appointed to lead the hunt and has established a team of investigators. It will focus on the first police investigation carried out in 1993 into the murder of the 18-year-old by a racist gang.

Lawrence’s parents have always claimed that corrupt officers engaged in a conspiracy that helped thwart the hunt for the killers, which the Met officially denies.

His mother, Doreen, told the Guardian on Friday that her suspicions about corruption had grown over time.

She said: “We still believe that corruption played a part in keeping Stephen’s killers free. We have had to fight to get this far, so we can finally have a criminal investigation into the former police officers we suspect.

“We ask those that have any information, be they former police officers or criminals, to examine their conscience. They should come forward, so justice can be done. Police corruption has denied us, and others, justice. It is a denial of the trust the police and state have placed in them by citizens. Those who betray the trust placed in them, should face justice, whenever it catches up with them.”

The new inquiry into the corruption

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