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The secret life of J Edgar Hoover | Film | The Guardian


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Dec 31, 2011 - FBI director J Edgar Hoover aims machine gun ..... By an official count after his death, the Director held 883 files on senators and 722 on ...
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The JFK Historical Group would like to announce the addition of additional speakers to its upcoming conference in Alexandria, Virginia on September 26-28. Joining our speaker lineup is
Ed Haslam, the author of Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the unsolved murder of a doctor, a secret laboratory in New Orleans and caner-causing monkey viruses are linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assassination and emerging
global epidemics.

Gayle Nix Jackson, the author of
Orville Nix: The Missing JFK Film, will also be presenting at our conference.


Also the important new film by
Shane O'Sullivan, The Zapruder Film Mystery will be shown.


Complete information about our conference, including bios on all our presenters, is included below and in the attachments above.




The Warren Report 50 Years Later: A Critical Examination

What we know now, that we didn’t know then.

Presented By: The JFK Historical Group

David Denton, Ed Tatro, Walt Boyes, William Boyes, Ben Boyes, Casey Quinlan

September 26th-28th

Crowne Plaza Old Town Hotel, Alexandria, VA.

Many of the leading experts on the JFK Assassination and critics of the Warren Commission findings will be meeting in Washington D.C. on this weekend, to give presentations on the various
aspects of this topic.

Ed Tatro, Doug Horne, Phil Nelson, Russ Baker, Gary Powers Jr., Peter Janney, James Wagenvoord (former Life magazine editor and current whistle blower), Rick Russo, ( a key Nigel Turner
consultant), are among those who have agreed to give presentations and we are expecting others to be added as we proceed.

Dr. Cyril Wecht will be the keynote speaker at the proposed banquet.


Kennedy Assassination and Sharon Tate/LaBianca cases.



As an expert in forensic medicine, Dr. Wecht has frequently appeared on several nationally
syndicated programs discussing various medical-legal and forensic scientific issues, including medical malpractice, drug abuse, the assassinations of both President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the death of Elvis Presley, the O.J. Simpson
case, and the JonBenet Ramsey case. Dr. Wecht has been vocal in his criticism of the Warren Commission’s findings and the single-bullet theory.




Dr. Wecht is the author of more than 550 professional publications and is also an editorial
board member of more than 20 national and international medical-legal and forensic scientific publications; editor of the five-volume set,
Forensic Sciences (Matthew Bender); co-editor of the two- and three-volume sets,
Handling Soft Tissue Injury Cases and
Preparing and Winning, Medical Negligence Cases (both published by Michie).


His expertise has also been utilized in
high-profile cases involving Mary Jo Kopechne, Sunny von Bulow, Jean Harris, Dr. Jeffrey McDonald, the Waco Branch Davidian fire and Vincent Foster. A comprehensive study of these cases are discussed from the perspective of Dr. Wecht's own professional involvement
in his books, Cause of Death,
Grave Secrets and Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey? (All published by Dutton/Penguin).


Sara Peterson and
K.W. Zachry

Sara Peterson attended the University of La Verne in Calif., where she
earned a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in Political Science and in History.
After being told by her Political Science Department chair that she could
not do her senior thesis on the Kennedy assassination, she went ahead and pursued her senior thesis on the entities planning, carrying out and covering up the Kennedy assassination. Among those, the most powerful was Lyndon B. Johnson. She has continued her
research on the assassination and why the Warren Report’s “evidence” is inaccurate, incomplete and manufactured.

She is currently employed at a college in Texas as the coordinator of the
Developmental Education Language Lab and Writing Center.

K.W. Zachry earned a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in English and Political
Science from McMurry College and a Master’s of Arts Degree in English from the University of Texas at El Paso. Her interest in the Kennedy assassination began when her grandparents, who lived in Dallas on November 22, 1963, shared with her all of the local
newspapers from the event. She has been reading, researching and “digging for bits and pieces” from people with first-hand information about the events surrounding the president’s murder ever since. By combining their information and sources, she and Ms. Peterson
have discovered that there are still many, many people who possess details about the greatest mystery of the Twentieth Century.


Casey J. Quinlan

Casey J. Quinlan was born and raised in the greater Kansas City area and
has been a high school American history and government teacher for the past 37 years. He served in the U.S. Army with the 9th Infantry as a medical corpsman during the Vietnam War. He has a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Social Studies and a Master’s
Degree in American History from Emporia State University in Kansas. He is the director of Project JFK, a student-oriented educational experience designed for high school, college and adults exploring the murder of President Kennedy.

Mr. Quinlan has been the featured lecturer at many universities throughout
the Midwest, including; the Alf Landon Lecture Series at Kansas State University; The William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas; The Student Lecture Series at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kan., and Student Activities
at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kan. He has served as a historical lecturer, on a number of occasions, for the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka, Kan.

In 1991, Mr. Quinlan was a guest historian for the A & E Network and the
History Channel for Oliver Stone’s blockbuster movie,
JFK. He was named Outstanding Educator in 1994, 2008 and 2011 by JFK Lancer, a national research organization. From 1995 to 2010, he was an adjunct instructor at Friends University in Wichita, Kan.; Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kan.; Mid America Nazarene
University in Olathe, Kan., and Washburn University in Topeka, Kan.

In 2007, Mr. Quinlan presented
Beyond the Fence Line: The Ed Hoffman Story at the National JFK Lancer Conference in Dallas, Texas. His first publication,
Beyond the Fence Line: The Eyewitness Testimony of Ed Hoffman and the Murder of President Kennedy, continues to be a best seller.


He has been studying the assassination of President Kennedy for more than
48 years and has read more than 1,100 books. He has been a featured lecturer at the JFK Lancer National Conference since 2007. Mr. Quinlan received the JFK Lancer 2011 and 2012 “New Fronti ...er Award” for continued efforts to write and inform students of the
truth behind the murder of JFK. His latest lecture series,
The Eyes of Texas, (2011) unveils the people behind the murder of President Kennedy;
Lee Oswald and the Great Coca Cola Caper (2012) explains where Lee Oswald was during the murder of President Kennedy and the
Edge of Apocalypse (2013) explains who killed JFK and why.

Brian Edwards

Brian Edwards has been researching the JFK assassination since 1969 and
has accumulated and read more than 300 books relating to the case. He has personally interviewed more than 40 individuals who were connected to the events on November 22, including Dallas police officers, Secret Service and FBI agents, Dealey Plaza eyewitnesses
and medical personnel from both Parkland and Bethesda hospitals. In 1993, he interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald’s widow, Marina Oswald-Porter.

Mr. Edwards has given hundreds of presentations on the assassination throughout
the Midwest, most notably, The University of Kansas and Washburn University Law Schools and Kansas State University. Mr. Edwards has been a regular presenter at the JFK Lancer Conference in Dallas since 2001.

He has a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice from Washburn University in
Topeka, Kan. From 1994 to 2001, Mr. Edwards served as an adjunct instructor at Washburn University in the Criminal Justice Department, where he taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses. In addition, he has taught graduate-level courses on the JFK assassination
at several colleges throughout the state of Kansas.

From 1978 to 1997, he served as a police officer with the Lawrence, Kansas
Police Department. During his time on the department, he worked in the Special Investigations Unit as the department’s crime scene photographer. While assigned to the patrol division, he was a field training officer, accident investigator and self-defense
instructor in the department’s police academy. From 1988 to 2001, Mr. Edwards was assigned to the department’s crisis response team as a counter-sniper.

Mr. Edwards’ research on the Zapruder film has been cited in several assassination
books: Assassination Science (1998);
Murder in Dealey Plaza (2000); The Zapruder Film (2003) and
The Hoax of the Century (2004).

He is the co-author of
Beyond the Fence Line: The Eyewitness Account of Ed Hoffman and the Murder of President Kennedy
(2008). He served as an editor for Sherry Fiester’s book,
Enemy of the Truth (2012).

Francis Gary Powers Jr.

Born June 5, 1965, in Burbank, Calif., he is the son of Francis Gary and
Claudia E. “Sue” Powers. Mr. Powers holds a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in Philosophy from California State University, Los Angeles, and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration/Certification in Non-profit Management from George Mason University in Fairfax,
Va.

Mr. Powers is the founder and chairman emeritus of the Cold War Museum,
a 501 (c) (3) charity, which he founded in 1996 to honor Cold War veterans and preserve Cold War history. In this capacity, he created mobile exhibits on the Cold War and U-2 Incident which have been exhibited at museums worldwide, coordinated donation activities
totaling more than $3 million in financial, artifact and in-kind donations and negotiated building space at Vint Hill Farms, the former Cold War-era Army communication base, located 40 miles from Washington, D.C. He is currently chairman of the Presidential
Advisory Committee for the Cold War Theme Study and is working with the National Park Service and leading Cold War experts to identify historic Cold War sites for commemorating, interpreting and preservation.

As President for the Vienna Tysons Regional Chamber of Commerce between
2001 and 2005, Mr. Powers helped to strengthen the business and professional community and created educational and business partnerships in Tysons Corner and the surrounding area.

Because of his efforts to establish The Cold War Museum, the Junior Chamber
of Commerce selected him as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Americans for 2002. Mr. Powers lectures internationally and appears regularly on the History, Discover and A&E channels. He is married and has one son.



Richard Bartholomew

Richard Bartholomew is an editorial cartoonist. His talent, education,
training and professional experience have been primarily in the visual arts. His historiography and criminal investigations of the JFK assassination were initially motivated by a civic duty to report a suspicious automobile fitting the description of a getaway
car seen by several witnesses leaving Dealey Plaza in his hometown of Dallas. Mr. Bartholomew’s investigative work has been more in the tradition of a self-taught Sherlock Holmes than a professional Inspector Lestrade.

His research of the JFK assassination includes his discovery of a 1959
Rambler station wagon possibly used in the conspiracy; a study co-authored with Walter G. Graf involving a rifle clip that contamin ...

The conference will begin at 9 AM on Friday, September 26th, and will run through the evening (there will be a meet and greet with conference speakers that evening), and all
day Saturday. On Saturday evening, we will be having a banquet dinner and our keynote speaker will be giving his presentation. The conference will conclude with presentations on Sunday morning. A more complete schedule will be released as the event gets closer.
Registration and hotel accommodation details are included below:

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2. reads


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The IRS another tool in the FBI. Toolbox


David Burnham, author of A Law Unto Itself: The IRS and the Abuse of Power, tells the Senate of the historical use of the IRS as a political hit squad and the need for investigation and oversight. (background)

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PREPARED STATEMENT OF

DAVID BURNHAM

BEFORE THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE

OVERSIGHT HEARING ON THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1997

Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, thank you for requesting my testimony. I very much appreciate the opportunity to appear before this distinguished body.

The record clearly demonstrates that the lack of effective oversight of the Internal Revenue Service -- by Congress, the courts, reporters, tax practitioners, and other concerned individuals - has done grievous harm to the American people for many years. While it has become a cliche, it nevertheless remains a basic truth: the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Because we have routinely failed to hold the IRS accountable for its actions, the agency has too often operated in abusive, sloppy, unresponsive, improperly political and occasionally corrupt ways that are a threat to our society.

The IRS's continuing problems are costly to the nation in two ways. First, a badly managed agency does not collect as much as might be expected of the relatively small, but still significant, portion of the federal taxes owed by noncomplying taxpayers. The second cost is harder to measure, but probably more important. A badly managed agency is unfair: substantial numbers of individual citizens are erratically subject to wrongful actions. Such treatment contributes to the growth of a corrosive public cynicism that undermines public confidence in government in a fundamentally dangerous way.

My belief that strong oversight can have positive impact on government is not theoretical. It is based on direct experience. As a reporter who has investigated large powerful bureaucracies like the New York City Police Department, the National Security Agency, the FBI and the IRS for the last 30 years, I have seen clear and certain examples where public exposure of serious government problems has led to genuine improvements in government operations. We need the New York Police Department, we need the FBI, we need the IRS. But when such powerful organizations are allowed to operate without continuous constructive review, history tells us that almost certainly they will go wrong, sometimes in very serious ways.

The IRS, of course, is the subject of the committee's hearings. More than ten years ago, I began an investigation of that agency that led to the 1989 publication of A Law Unto Itself: The IRS and the Abuse of Power. This book was a unique and highly praised examination of the agency's historic and continuing failure to well serve the American people. To my astonishment, shortly after its publication, Fred Goldberg, the IRS commissioner at the time, told a national television audience that my critique of the agency had got it right.

Perhaps one reason the commissioner did not condemn my book is that it did not heap blame on the Bush Administration alone. My research, in fact, found that the IRS has suffered mishaps and misadventures under almost every president, Republican and Democrat, going back at least to Herbert Hoover. I found authoritative government documents clearing showing numerous multiple abuses:

* Herbert Hoover, irritated by political criticism of his budget- cutting policies by an organization of weapons manufacturers, ordered a secret FBI investigation of the group that was partly based on supposedly confidential tax information.

* Franklin Delano Roosevelt regularly used the IRS as a political hit squad. He ordered the agency to mobilize its enforcement powers against former Treasury Secretary Mellon, Senator Huey Long, the singer Paul Robeson, Republican Representative and neighbor Hamilton Fish, Father Charles Coughlin and many others.

* During President Truman's watch, a massive and long-festering IRS corruption scandal erupted during which hundreds of agency officials and agents were implicated, including one secretary of treasury, one commissioner and one assistant attorney general. A good number were convicted and sent to prison for taking bribes or forced to resign from government service.

* With the full knowledge of President Kennedy and his brother, the IRS Commissioner of that administration established a program to go after "extremist organizations." Although the memos describing the program said the extremists of concern were on both the right and the left, it appears that all of those who lost their tax exempt status in connection with this program were fundamentalist conservatives who had been criticizing the president.

* President Nixon, among other abuses, established within the IRS the SSS --the Special Service Staff--to use tax records to track "dissident groups and individuals." One of the impeachment counts approved by the House Judiciary Committee involved the president's misuse of the IRS.

* During the Reagan years, the IRS forgot the lesson of the Truman era, and cut back on agency efforts to discover and punish corruption. The result was what appears to have been a mini-surge in willingness of IRS officials and agents to use their governmental powers for private gain in cities like Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Although it may not at first be obvious to you, my point here is not that the IRS is inevitably a corrupt and badly-run organization. On the contrary, growing out of the exposure of the problems of both the Truman and Nixon Administrations came periods of serious public concern and genuine reform.

This truth -- that large and powerful organizations desperately need outside review by informed critics -- is one that Congress has often ignored. As the chairman and members of the Senate Finance Committee know, the historical record proves that oversight of the IRS has rarely been a major concern of this committee. It must be acknowledged -- and it should be celebrated -- that the breadth and depth of this hearing on the basic performance of the IRS is unusual, although perhaps not unprecedented. I contend that the record of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Joint Tax Committee and the General Accounting Office is not much better. For Congress, re-writing tax laws and imposing new sanctions to enhance the collection of tax dollars have almost always overwhelmed concerns about the fairness and effectiveness of the IRS.

In America, however, oversight is not a Congressional monopoly. Thanks to the First Amendment of the Constitution, news organizations are free to investigate and publicize the failures of government. But when it comes to the IRS, the media has rivaled Congress in its failure to audit America's largest and in some ways most powerful enforcement agency. More than twenty years ago, two very good reporters from the Philadelphia Inquirer undertook a ground breaking and prizewinning investigation of the IRS. Very recently, the New York Times has assigned David Cay Johnston to focus on the agency and its enforcement activities. Other than that -- and the flurry of IRS reporting after Watergate -- coverage of this agency that touches the lives of almost every American has for many years been largely ignored by both print and television reporters.

In some ways, the lack of effective oversight is not all that surprising. The IRS is a very large and very complicated agency that is not easy to understand. And there are many people -- especially within the beltway -- who truly do not understand that the nitty-gritty of how the government rubs up against individual citizens is more significant in many ways than the grandest and most publicized federal "initiative." A couple of years ago, the senior lobbyist for a major national organization in Washington made the astonishing statement to me that he was only interested in government "policy," not government "enforcement."

This curiously obtuse attitude was a central reason why Susan Long, a professor at Syracuse University, and I decided in 1989 to form the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). Our basic idea was that if Congressional committees, reporters, public interest groups, scholars and businesses were able to obtain comprehensive information about the day-to-day activities of federal enforcement agencies, they would undertake serious oversight studies. Since that time -- with the support of Syracuse University, the Knight Foundation, the Rockefeller Family Fund and The New York Times Company Foundation and other organizations -- TRAC has obtained internal administrative data tapes from the Justice Department and a number of federal enforcement agencies and provided it to the public in new and innovative ways.

In the spring of 1996, and again in 1997, for example, TRAC created a special site on the World Wide Web that gave viewers all over the nation many thousands of pages of maps, charts, graphs and tables about the civil and criminal enforcement activities of the IRS. The address is http://trac.syr.edu/tracirs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; For the first time ever, TRAC's site gives taxpayers, reporters, public interest groups, and scholars easy access to comprehensive and authoritative information about how, where and when the IRS is enforcing the law. With this information, it now is possible to examine and question the basic policies of the agency.

* DATA FACTS: From 1980 to 1995, IRS criminal enforcement underwent a dramatic shift in emphasis. In 1980, more than three quarters of all IRS prosecutions were aimed at individuals accused of traditional tax crimes like failure to file or the filing of a fraudulent return. By 1995, less than half of IRS prosecutions involved traditional tax violations, with crimes like money laundering, drugs and currency violations taking their place. From 1988 to 1995, civil audit rates for individual nonbusiness taxpayers with incomes over $100,000 declined by a factor of four.

* POLICY QUESTIONS: The sharp decline in IRS activities against wealthier individuals and traditional forms of tax violations is a striking change in national tax enforcement policy that has gone on under the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations. Why were these changes instituted? Was this important shift the product of conscious decisions by top policy makers or an accident? Is there any evidence that the change has resulted in the collection of more revenue? Or less?

* DATA FACTS: Government data show wide variations in the civil and criminal enforcement patterns of the IRS, some of which appear to make very little sense. The taxpayers in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Las Vegas, for example, all have something in common with taxpayers in northern Florida and the comparatively rural areas around the North Carolina cities of Greensboro and Ashville. In 1995, on a per capita basis, they all ranked among the ten most active districts when it came to the prosecution of IRS criminal cases. On the civil side, taxpayers in the IRS's San Francisco district, Mississippi, Idaho and New York City stood the highest chance of being audited. One curious fact about the taxpayers in these very different districts concerned their income. New York had the highest adjusted gross income and Mississippi had the lowest.

* POLICY QUESTIONS: Does the IRS have an effective national program to make sure that areas with the most problem taxpayers have most enforcement resources? Or is the effort in fact a random one involving the relative energy levels of different district managers? Has the combined impact of various forms of IRS enforcement actions -notices, audits, criminal indictments -- ever been studied? Given the high cost of moving IRS staff, has the agency developed a plan to continually use the natural forces of attrition to shift auditors and examiners to areas where they are most needed?

* DATA FACTS: In March 1996, TRAC mounted its first web site on the patterns and trends of IRS criminal enforcement. The information was based on data obtained from the Justice Department under the Freedom of Information Act. Although both the IRS and the Justice Department were given access to the site before it became publicly available, neither raised any questions. When news organizations began to publish articles based on the data, however, spokespersons for both agencies questioned the validity of the government's own information. The curious tactic of impeaching your own material prompted us to separately ask the agencies to meet with us to resolve whatever problems they had with our data analysis. Both refused. At this point, we undertook a new study in which we compared -- where it was possible -- the enforcement information from the Justice Department, the courts and the IRS. This study found that the portrait of criminal tax enforcement painted by the Department and court data were highly consistent. Surprisingly, however, the department and court data patterns were very different than reported by the IRS. In 1995, for example, the IRS claims it sent twice as many persons to prison as was recorded by the department and the courts. This discrepancy -- and several others -- led us to conclude that important information provided the public in the IRS's annual report about its criminal enforcement effort was "substantially misleading and inaccurate."

*POLICY QUESTIONS: Why is the IRS, of all agencies, unable to properly balance the books on what is in fact a low-volume part of its activities? Given the failure of the IRS to account for its criminal enforcement activities -- even with parallel information available from the Justice Department and the courts -- what faith can be placed in its accounting of civil audits? If the IRS enforcement information is in fact seriously flawed, how can Congress judge its basic competence? Has the General Accounting Office ever conducted a detailed audit of IRS enforcement counts published each year in the agency's annual report?

The hard numbers are there. The good questions are there. All that has been lacking are skeptical Congressional Committees, reporters, scholars and tax practitioners willing to invest the time and energy to understand the numbers and to ask questions.
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I contacted my Congresswoman today
and asked for her to vote against
this bill.
She said yes.

From Congresswoman Chellie Pingree

Mon, Sep 8, 2014 4:55 PM EDT








Thank you for contacting me about the Authorization for Use of Military
Force. I appreciate hearing from you about this critical issue.

As you may know, the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act expanded
the Authorization for Use of Military Force, which gives the President
the authority to use military force against anyone deemed by him to be
hostile toward the United States. I simply cannot support this
expansion of power. As you know, H.R. 198, the Repeal of the
Authorization for Use of Military Force, was introduced by
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) on January 4, 2013. As a proud
cosponsor of this bill, I look forward it coming to the House floor for
a vote so that we can repeal this authorization for use of military
force.

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research shows surprise global warming 'hiatus' could have been forecast


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Australian and US climate experts say with new ocean-based modelling tools, the early 2000s warming slowdown was foreseeable
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An iceberg melts in Kulusuk, Greenland. Scientists say recent climate modelling techniques focusing on oceans could have predicted the surprise global warming slowdown in the early 2000s. Photograph: John McConnico/AP

Melissa Davey

Monday 8 September 2014 23.40 EDT

Australian and US researchers have shown that the slowdown in the rate of global warming in the early 2000s, known as a so-called “global warming hiatus”, could have been predicted if today’s tools for decade-by-decade climate forecasting had been available in the 1990s.

Although global temperatures remain close to record highs, they have shown little warming trend over the past 15 years, a slowdown that earlier climate models had been largely unable to predict.

This has been used by climate change sceptics as evidence that climate change prediction models are flawed.

Gerald Meehl, a senior scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in the US, along with the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research in Melbourne, decided to challenge the assumption that no climate model could have foreseen the hiatus.

“We wanted to know: if we could be transported back to the 1990s with new decadal prediction capability, a set of current models and a modern-day supercomputer, could we simulate the hiatus?” Meehl said.

Studies have shown global warming had not stalled but was occurring in the deeper layers of the world’s oceans instead of the surface, he said, which were absorbing the heat and obscuring levels of warming. In other words the “pause” was actually a slight slowing of the rate of increase in surface temperatures, with 93% of the extra heat trapped in the oceans.

Decadal climate prediction uses the state of the world’s oceans and their influence on the atmosphere to predict how global climate will evolve over the next few years.

It is a relatively new area of climate science driven by supercomputing, increased sophistication of global models and the availability of higher-quality observations of the climate system, particularly the ocean.

When Meehl and his team applied these decadal climate prediction models to past-observed conditions in the climate system starting in the late 1990s, the three-to-seven-year forecasts consistently simulated the leveling of global temperature that was observed after the year 2000.

While Meehl said all the factors that might be driving the hiatus were still being studied, his research, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, suggested natural decade-to-decade climate variability was largely responsible.

“Because this is a brand new way of doing predictions we need to be careful as to how reliable these predictions are,” he said. “But there are indications from some of the most recent model simulations that the hiatus could end in the next few years.”

Professor Matthew England, the deputy director of the climate change research centre at the University of New South Wales, said the study was important because it revealed initialised climate models could have predicted the recent slowdown in surface atmospheric warming.
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Patriotism or politics? Facebook users praise, pan Michael Grimm for 9/11 campaign vid




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Thursday, September 11, 2014, 12:30 PM



Rep. Michael Grimm's 9/11 video is getting mixed reactions on Facebook. facebook Rep. Michael Grimm's 9/11 video is getting mixed reactions on Facebook.

This 9/11, Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm is either a hero or a villain, depending on who's making the call.

A campaign video Grimm posted on Facebook to mark 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks drew applause from some and disdain or even outrage from others.

"Instead of leading and outlining a clear plan to protect American security, President Obama hits the golf course. He lights up the fundraising circuit," Grimm scoffs in the clip, which went live Wednesday night -- and was paid for by his re-election campaign.

Speaking against a backdrop that includes a U.S. flag, Grimm issues a challenge to his Democratic rival, former Brooklyn Councilman Domenic Recchia: "I ask my opponent: 'Is this the Barack Obama dynasty he'll support if elected to the liberal minority?"

Grimm quotes former President Ronald Reagan's words on achieving peace through strength," adding, "As a Marine combat veteran, I know the failed policies of the liberal left have put us, and the world, at greater danger," he says.

Facebook users gave the post more than 500 likes, 100 shares -- and a stream of kudos and condemnations in the comments section.
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"You are disgusting," railed commenter Jennifer Clark.

"Using the fear and sadness we're all feeling on this horrible anniversary for shameless self-promotion through a sponsored Facebook video. A real hero and a real leader would use this time to honor those who we have lost and encourage us to come together as Americans to remember this tragedy."

On the flip side, people like Biruta Rodriguez hailed the GOP incumbent for his unvarnished words, posting: "Well said Congressman Grimm, you've got my vote."

Wrote Cathy Ferri: "Thank you for fighting the good fight."

Update: A Grimm spokesman sent this statement when asked about the online debate:

“The timing of the Congressman’s statement, which was posted on September 10th, was determined by the President’s decision to give a speech on the Middle East on the eve of 9/11. As we face the reality that ISIS poses a growing threat even greater than Al-Qaeda, the horrors of 9/11 remind us that we must do everything possible to ensure that such a tragedy never happens again.”

Grimm, a former FBI agent, is defending his seat against Recchia while fighting a 20-count federal indictment that charges him with evading taxes on a health-food restaurant he once o
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see link for full story

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Racism as Government Policy
A Short History of “Black Paranoia”

by ALEXANDER COCKBURN and JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

The fury among American blacks sparked by Gary Webb’s “Dark Alliance” series was powerful enough to cause serious concern to the U.S. government, urban mayors, and major newspapers, and even prompted CIA Director John Deutch to make an extraordinary appearance at a town meeting in South Central Los Angeles, where Rep. Maxine Waters was accused of fanning the flames of “black paranoia.” We will now briefly outline why this “paranoia” is amply justified and why Webb’s series very reasonably struck a chord in the black community.

In all discussions of “black paranoia” during the Webb affair, white commentators invariably conceded—as indeed they had to—that the one instance where such fears were entirely justified was the infamous Tuskegee experiments. Yet in the press coverage no more than a sentence or two was devoted to any account of what actually happened at Tuskegee.

The facts are terrible. In 1932, 600 poor black men from rural Macon County, Alabama, were recruited for a study by the United States Public Health Service and the Tuskegee Institute. The researchers found 400 out of the 600 infected with syphilis, and the 200 uninfected men were monitored as the control group. The other 400 men were told they were being treated for “bad blood” and were given a treatment the doctors called “pink medicine,” which was actually nothing more than aspirin and an iron supplement. No effective medical treatment was ever given to the Tuskegee victims because the researchers wanted to study the natural progress of venereal disease. When other physicians diagnosed syphilis in some of the men, the Public Health Service researchers intervened to prevent any treatment. When penicillin was developed as a cure for syphilis in 1943, it was not provided to the patients. Indeed, the development of a cure only seemed to spur on the Tuskegee researchers, who, in the words of historian James Jones, author of Bad Blood, saw Tuskegee as a “never-again-to-be-repeated opportunity.”

As an inducement to continue in the program over several decades the men were given hot meals, a certificate signed by the surgeon general, the promise of free medical care, and a $50 burial stipend. This stipend was far from altruistic because it allowed the Health Service researchers to perform their own autopsies on the men after they died. The experiments continued until 1972, and were canceled only after information about them had leaked to the press. Over the course of the experiments more than 100 of the men died of causes related to syphilis, but even after exposure, the lead researchers remained unapologetic. “For the most part, doctors and civil servants simply did their job,” said Dr. John Heller, who had headed the U.S. Public Health Services Division of Venereal Diseases. “Some merely followed orders, others worked for the glory of science.”

In 1996, President Clinton issued a public apology to the Tuskegee victims. Nor was this an entirely disinterested act of governmental contrition. Earlier in the year, Clinton had been approached by Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala regarding the scarcity of blacks willing to volunteer as research subjects. Shalala attributed this reluctance to “unnatural fears” arising from the Tuskegee experiments. George Annas, who runs the Law, Ethics and Medicine program at Boston University, notes that the apology was skewed and that Clinton and Shalala should have been finding ways of recruiting more blacks as medical students rather than research subjects. “If you were to look at the historical record, you will see that blacks’ distrust predated Tuskegee,” according to Dr. Vanessa Gamble, an associate professor of the history of medicine at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “There were experiments dating back to more than a hundred years that were more often done by whites on slaves and free blacks than on poor whites.”

Another oft-cited explanation for the readiness of blacks to believe the worst about the white man’s intentions is briskly referred to as “the FBI’s snooping on Martin Luther King Jr.,” as Tim Golden put it amid his reflections on black paranoia in the New York Times. The government’s interest in Dr. King went considerably beyond “snooping,” however, to constitute one of the most prolonged surveillances of any family in American history. In the early years of the 20th century, Ralph Van Deman created an Army Intelligence network targeting four prime foes: the Industrial Workers of the World, opponents of the draft, Socialists, and “Negro unrest.” Fear that the Germans would take advantage of black grievances was great, and Van Deman was much preoccupied with the role of black churches as possible centers of sedition.

By the end of 1917, the War Department’s Military Intelligence Division had opened a file on Martin Luther King Jr.’s maternal grandfather, the Rev. A. D. Williams, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church and first president of the Atlanta NAACP. King’s father, Martin Sr., Williams’ successor at Ebenezer Baptist, also entered the army files. Martin Jr. first shows up in these files (kept by the 111th Military Intelligence Group at Fort McPherson in Atlanta) in 1947, when he attended Dorothy Lilley’s Intercollegiate School; the army suspected Lilley of having ties to the Communist Party.

Army Intelligence officers became convinced of Martin Luther King Jr.’s own Communist ties when he spoke in 1950 at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the integrated Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. Ten years earlier, an Army Intelligence officer had reported to his superiors that the Highlander school was teaching a course of instruction to develop Negro organizers in the southern cotton states.

By 1963, as Tennessee journalist Stephen Tompkins reported in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, U-2 planes were photographing disturbances in Birmingham, Alabama, capping a multilayered spy system that by 1968 included 304 intelligence offices across the country, “subversive national security dossiers” on 80,731 Americans, plus 19 million personnel dossiers lodged at the Defense Department’s Central Index of Investigations.

A more sinister thread derives from the anger and fear with which the Army’s high command greeted King’s denunciation of the Vietnam War at Riverside Church in 1967. Army spies recorded Stokely Carmichael telling King, “The Man don’t care you call ghettos concentration camps, but when you tell him his war machine is nothing but hired killers you got trouble.”

After the 1967 Detroit riots, 496 black men under arrest were interviewed by agents of the Army’s Psychological Operations group, dressed as civilians. It turned out King was by far the most popular black leader. That same year Maj. Gen. William Yarborough, assistant chief of staff for intelligence, observing the great antiwar march on Washington from the roof of the Pentagon, concluded that the Empire was coming apart at the seams. There were, Yarborough reckoned, too few reliable troops to fight in Vietnam and hold the line at home.

In response, the army increased its surveillance of King. Green Berets and other Special Forces veterans from Vietnam began making street maps and identifying landing zones and potential sniper sites in major U.S. cities. The Ku Klux Klan was recruited by the 20th Special Forces Group, headquartered in Alabama as a subsidiary intelligence network. The Army began offering 30-06 sniper rifles to police departments, including that of Memphis.

In his fine investigation, Tompkins detailed the increasing hysteria of Army Intelligence chiefs over the threat they considered King to pose to national stability. The FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover was similarly obsessed with this threat, and King was dogged by spy units through early 1967. A Green Beret special unit was operating in Memphis on the day he was shot. He died from a bullet from a 30-06 rifle purchased in a Memphis store, a murder for which James Earl Ray was given a 99-year sentence in a Tennessee prison. A court-ordered test of James Earl Ray’s rifle raised questions as to whether it in fact had fired the bullet that killed King.

Notable black Americans, from the boxing champion Jack Johnson to Paul Robeson to W. E. B. Du Bois, were all the object of relentless harassment by the FBI. Johnson, the first black superstar, was framed by the FBI’s predecessor under the Mann Act. Johnson ultimately served a year for crossing state lines with his white girlfriend (who later became his wife). Du Bois, founder of the NAACP, was himself under surveillance for nearly seventy years and was arrested and shackled for urging peace talks with North Korea.

Still fresh in the minds of many blacks is the FBI’s COINTEL-PRO program, started in 1956 and conceived as a domestic counterinsurgency program. Though its ambit extended to the New Left, Puerto Rican revolutionaries and Native Americans, the most vigorous persecutions under COINTELPRO were those of black leaders. A memo from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover described the program as it stood in August 1967: the purpose of COINTELPRO was to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit or otherwise neutralize” black organizations the FBI didn’t care for. And if any black leader emerged, Hoover’s order was that the Bureau should “pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them before they exercised their potential for violence.”

“Neutralize” has long been a euphemism for assassination. At least six or seven Black Panther leaders were killed at the instigation of the FBI, the most infamous episode being the assassination of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in Chicago. These two Panther leaders were shot in their beds, while asleep, by Chicago police who had been given a detailed floor plan of the house by an FBI informant who had also drugged Hampton and Clark.

During the mid-1970s hearings chaired by Idaho Senator Frank Church, the FBI was found to have undertaken more than 200 so-called “black bag” jobs, in which FBI agents broke into offices, homes and apartments to destroy equipment, steal and copy files, take money, and plant drugs. The FBI was also linked to the arson fire that destroyed the Watts Writers’ Workshop in Los Angeles.

In all the stories about “black paranoia” trolled forth by Webb’s assailants, one topic was conspicuously ignored: the long history of the racist application of U.S. drug laws. The first racist application of drug laws in the United States was against Chinese laborers. After the U.S. Civil War, opium addiction was a major problem: wounded soldiers used it to dull pain and then became habituated. One study estimates that by 1880, one in every 400 adults in the United States had such an addiction to opium. Chinese laborers had been brought into the United States in the wake of the Civil War to build the transcontinental railroad and, in California, to haul rock in the gold mines in the Sierras. Thousands of Chinese were also brought into the South to replace slave labor on the cotton and rice plantations. The Chinese brought opium smoking with them, their addiction having actively fostered in the Opium Wars by the British, who had successfully beaten down efforts by the Chinese government to curb the habit.

Then came the recession of the 1870s. The Chinese were now viewed as competitors for the dwindling number of jobs available. In 1875, San Francisco became the first city to outlaw opium smoking with legislation clearly aimed at the Chinese, who smoked the narcotic, as opposed to the main group of users, white men and women, who took opium in liquid form. This was the era when the use of opium-based patent medicines was pervasive. Women used them in “tonics” to alleviate pain in childbirth, and also to “soothe” their nerves. Unlike the “yellow dope fiends,” however, the white users were politely termed “habitués.” In 1887, the U.S. Congress weighed in with the Chinese Exclusion Act, which among other things) allowed Chinese opium addicts to be arrested and deported.

Similarly, racist attitudes accompanied the rise of cocaine use. Cocaine had been mass marketed in the United States in the late 1880s by the Parke-Davis Company (which many decades later had contracts to provide the CIA with drugs in the MK-ULTRA program). The company also sold a precursor to crack, marketing cocaine-laden cigarettes in the 1890s. In that same decade the Sears & Roebuck catalogue, which was distributed to millions of homes, offered a syringe and a small amount of cocaine for $1.50. But by the turn of the century the attitude of the medical and legal establishment to cocaine was beginning to change. In 1900 the Journal of the American Medical Association printed an editorial alerting its readers to a new peril: “Negroes in the South are reported as being addicted to a new form of vice—that of ‘cocaine sniffing’ or the ‘coke habit.’ ”

President Theodore Roosevelt responded to the new scare by creating the nation’s first drug czar, Dr. Hamilton Wright. Wright was a fanatic racist, announcing that “it is been authoritatively stated that cocaine is often the direct incentive to the crime of rape by the Negroes of the South and other regions.” One of Wright’s favored authorities was Dr. Christopher Koch of the State Pharmacy Board of Pennsylvania. Koch testified before Congress in 1914 in support of the Harrison Bill, shortly to pass into law as the first criminalization of drug use. Said Koch: “Most of the attacks upon the white women of the South are the direct result of a cocaine-crazed Negro brain.”

At the same hearing, Wright alleged that drugs made blacks uncontrollable, gave them superhuman powers, and prompted them to rebel against white authority. These hysterical charges were trumpeted by the press, in particular the New York Times, which on February 8, 1914, ran an article by Edward Hunting Williams reporting how Southern sheriffs had upped the caliber of their weapons from.32 to.38 in order to bring down black men under the influence of cocaine. The Times’ headline for the article read: “Negro Cocaine ‘Fiends’ are New Southern Menace: Murder and Insanity Increasing Among Lower-Class Blacks.” Amid these salvoes, the Harrison Act passed into law.

In 1930, a new department of the federal government, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, was formed under the leadership of Harry Anslinger to carry on the war against drug users. Anslinger, another racist, was an adroit publicist and became the prime shaper of American attitudes to drug addiction, hammering home his view that this was not a treatable dependency but one that could only be suppressed by harsh criminal sanctions. Anslinger’s first major campaign was to criminalize the drug commonly known at the time as hemp. But Anslinger renamed it “marijuana” to associate it with Mexican laborers who, like the Chinese before them, were unwelcome competitors for scarce jobs in the Depression. Anslinger claimed that marijuana “can arouse in blacks and Hispanics a state of menacing fury or homicidal attack. During this period, addicts have perpetrated some of the most bizarre and fantastic offenses and sex crimes known to police annals.”

Anslinger linked marijuana with jazz and persecuted many black musicians, including Thelonius Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, and Duke Ellington. Louis Armstrong was also arrested on drug charges, and Anslinger made sure his name was smeared in the press. In Congress he testified that “[c]oloreds with big lips lure white women with jazz and marijuana.”

By the 1950s, amid the full blast of the Cold War, Anslinger was working with the CIA to charge that the newborn People’s Republic of China was attempting to undermine America by selling opium to U.S. crime syndicates. (This took a good deal of chutzpa on the part of the CIA, whose planes were then flying opium from Chiang Kai-shek’s bases in Burma to Thailand and the Philippines for processing and export to the U.S.A.) Anslinger convinced the U.S. Senate to approve a resolution stating that “subversion through drug addiction is an established aim of Communist China.”

In 1951, Anslinger worked with Democrat Hale Boggs to marshal through Congress the first minimum mandatory sentences for drug possession: two years for the first conviction of possession of a Schedule 1 drug (marijuana, cocaine), five to ten years for a second offense, and ten to twenty years for a third conviction. In 1956, Anslinger once again enlisted the help of Boggs to pass a law allowing the death penalty to be imposed on anyone selling heroin to a minor, the first linking of drugs with Death Row.

This was Anslinger’s last hurrah. Across John Kennedy’s New Frontier charged sociologists attacking Anslinger’s punitive philosophy. The tempo of the times changed, and federal money began to target treatment and prevention as much as enforcement and prison. But the interim did not last long. With the waning of the war in Southeast Asia, millions of addicted GIs came home to meet the fury of Nixon’s War on Drugs program. Nixon picked up Anslinger’s techniques of threat inflation, declaring in Los Angeles: “As I look over the problems of this country I see that one stands out particularly: the problem of narcotics.”

Nixon pledged to launch a war on drugs, to return to the punitive approach, and not let any quaint notions of civil liberties and constitutional rights stand in the way. After a Nixon briefing in 1969, his top aide, H. R. Haldeman, noted in his diary: “Nixon emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to.”

But for all his bluster, Nixon was a mere prelude to the full fury of the Reagan-Bush-Clinton years, when the War on Drugs became explicitly a war on blacks. The first move of the Reagan administration was to expand the forfeiture laws passed during the Carter administration. In 1981, Reagan’s drug policy advisers outlined a plan they thought would be little more than good PR, a public display of the required toughness. They proposed allowing the Justice Department to seize real
property and so-called “substitute property” (that is, legally acquired assets equal in value to illegal monetary gains). They also proposed that the federal government seize attorneys’ fees that they suspected might have been funded by drug proceeds. They even proposed to allow attorneys to be summoned by federal prosecutors before grand juries to testify about the source of their clients’ money. The Reagan plan was to permit forfeitures on the basis of a “probable cause showing” before a federal judge. This meant that seizures could be made against people neither charged nor convicted, but only suspected, of drug crimes.

Contrary to the administration’s expectations, this plan sailed through Congress, eagerly supported by two Democratic Party liberals, Senators Hubert H. Humphrey and Joe Biden, the latter being the artificer, in the Carter era, of a revision to the RICO act, a huge extension of the federal conspiracy laws. Over the next few years, the press would occasionally report on some exceptionally bizarre applications of the new forfeiture laws, such as the confiscation of a $2.5 million yacht in a drug bust that netted only a handful of marijuana stems and seeds. But typically the press ignored the essential pattern of humdrum seizures, which more often focused on such ordinary assets as houses and cars. In Orange County, California, fifty-seven cars were seized in drug-related cases in 1989: “Even if only a small amount of drugs is found inside,” an Orange County narcotics detective explained, “the law permits seized vehicles to be sold by law enforcement agencies to finance anti-drug law enforcement programs.”

In fact, the forfeiture program became a tremendous revenue stream for the police. From 1982 to 1991, the U.S. Department of Justice seized more than $2.5 billion in assets. The Justice Department confiscated $500 million in property in 1991 alone, and 80 per cent of these seizures were from people who were never charged with a crime.

On June 17, 1986, University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias died, reportedly from an overdose of cocaine. As Dan Baum put it in his excellent Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure, “In life, Len Bias was a terrific basketball player. In death, he became the Archduke Ferdinand of the Total War on Drugs.” It was falsely reported that Bias had smoked crack cocaine the night before his death. (He had in fact used powder cocaine and, according to the coroner, there was no clear link between this use and the failure of his heart.)

Bias had just signed with the Boston Celtics and amid Boston’s rage and grief, Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill, a representative from Massachusetts, rushed into action. In early July he convened a meeting of the Democratic Party leadership. “Write me some goddam legislation,” he ordered. “All anybody in Boston is talking about is Len Bias. They want blood. If we move fast enough we can get out in front of the White House.” The White House was itself moving fast. Among other things, the DEA had been instructed to allow ABC News to accompany it on raids against crack houses. “Crack is the hottest combat-reporting story to come along since the end of the Vietnam War,” the head of the New York office of the DEA exulted.

All this fed into congressional frenzy to write tougher laws. House Majority Leader Jim Wright called drug abuse “a menace draining away our economy of some $230 billion this year, slowly rotting away the fabric of our society and seducing and killing our young.” Not to be outdone, South Carolina Republican Thomas Arnett proclaimed that “drugs are a threat worse than nuclear warfare or any chemical warfare waged on any battlefield.” The 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act was duly passed. It contained twenty-nine new minimum mandatory sentences. Up until that time in the history of the Republic there had been only 56 mandatory minimum sentences in the whole penal code.

The new law had a death penalty provision for drug “kingpins” and prohibited parole for even minor possession offenses. But the chief target of the bill was crack cocaine. Congress established a 100-to-1 sentencing ratio between possession of crack and powder cocaine. Under this provision, possession of 5 grams of crack carries a minimum five-year federal prison sentence. The same mandatory minimum is not reached for any amount of powder cocaine less than 500 grams. This sentencing disproportion was based on faulty testimony that crack was fifty times as addictive as powder cocaine. Congress then doubled this ratio as a so-called “violence penalty.” There is no inherent difference in the drugs, as Clinton drug czar Barry McCaffery conceded. The federal Sentencing Commission, established by Congress to review sentencing guidelines, found that so-called “crack violence” is attributable to the drug trade and has more to do with the setting in which crack is sold: crack is sold on the street, while powder cocaine is vended by house calls. As Nixon and Haldeman would have approvingly noted about the new drug law, it was transparently aimed at blacks, reminiscent of the early targeting of Chinese smoking opium rather than white ladies sipping their laudanum-laced tonics.

In 1995, the U.S. Sentencing Commission reviewed eight years of application of this provision and found it to be undeniably racist in practice: 84 per cent of those arrested for crack possession were black, while only 10 per cent were white and 5 per cent Hispanic. The disparity for crack-trafficking prosecutions was even wider: 88 per cent blacks, 7 per cent Hispanics, 4 per cent whites. By comparison, defendants arrested for powder cocaine possession were 58 per cent white, 26 per cent black, and 15 per cent Hispanic.

In Los Angeles, all twenty-four federal defendants in crack cases in 1991 were black. The Sentencing Commission recommended to Congress and the Clinton administration that the ratio should be one-to-one between sentences for offenses involving crack and powder cocaine, arguing that federal law allows for other factors to be considered by judges in lengthening sentences (such as whether violence was associated with the offense). But for the first time in its history the Congress rejected the Sentencing Commission’s recommendation and retained the 100-to-1 ratio. Clinton likewise declined the advice of his drug czar and his attorney general, and signed the bill.

One need only look at the racial makeup of federal prisons to appreciate the consequences of the 1986 drug law. In 1983, the total number of prisoners in federal, state and local prisons and jails was 660,800. Of those, 57,975—8.8 per cent—were incarcerated for drug-related offenses. In 1993, the total prison population was 1,408,000, of whom 353,564—25.1 per cent—were inside for drug offenses. The Sentencing Project, a Washington, D.C.–based watchdog group, found that the increase was far from racially balanced. Between 1986 and 1991, the incarceration rate for white males convicted on drug crimes increased by 106 per cent. But the number of black males in prison for kindred offenses soared by a factor of 429 per cent, and the rate for black women went up by an incredible 828 per cent.

The queen of the drug war, Nancy Reagan, said amid one of her innumerable sermons on the issue: “If you’re a casual drug user, you’re an accomplice to murder.” In tune with this line of thinking, Congress moved in 1988 to expand the crimes for which the federal death penalty could be imposed. These included drug-related murders, and murders committed by drug gangs, which would allow any gang member to face the death penalty if one member of the gang was linked to a drug killing. The new penalties were inscribed in an update of the Continuing Criminal Enterprises Act. The figures arising from implementation of the act suggest that “black paranoia” has in fact a sound basis in reality.

Convictions under the act between 1989 and 1996 were 70 per cent white and 24 per cent black—but 90 per cent of the times the federal prosecutors sought the death penalty it was against non-whites: of these, 78 per cent were black and the rest Hispanic. From 1930 to 1972 (when the U.S. Supreme Court found the federal death penalty unconstitutional), 85 per cent of those given death sentences were white. When it was reapplied in 1984, with the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, the numbers for black death penalty convictions soared. Whether the offense is drug-related or not, a black is far more likely to end up on Death Row. Of those on Death Row, both federal and state, 50 per cent are black. Blacks constitute 16 per cent of the population. Since 1976, 40 per cent of the nation’s homicide victims have been black, but 90 per cent of death sentences handed down for homicide involved white victims.

In the drug war, Los Angeles was Ground Zero. On the streets of Los Angeles, gang-related killings were a constant presence to the residents of the mostly poor areas in which they occurred, as gangs fought out turf battles for distribution rights to the crack supplied by Ricky Ross and his associates in an operation connived at by the CIA. As long as it was confined to black areas of Los Angeles, little official attention was paid to this slaughter—an average of one murder per day from 1988 through 1990. However, in December 1987 a gang mistakenly killed 27-year-old Karen Toshima outside a cinema complex in Westwood, near the UCLA campus, prompting outrage from the city’s government: “The continued protection of gang activity under the guise of upholding our Constitution is causing a deadly blight on our city,” cried Los Angeles City Attorney Kenneth Hahn.

LAPD Chief Darryl Gates promptly rolled out his campaign to pacify inner-city Los Angeles, Operation Hammer. Even before this campaign, the LAPD was not known for its sensitivity to black people. In the 1970s, there had been more than 300 killings of non-whites by the LAPD, and Gate’s own racism was notorious. Responding to complaints about a string of choke-hold deaths, Gates blamed them on the physiology of blacks: “We may be finding that in some blacks, when [the choke-hold] is applied, the veins or arteries do not open as fast as they do on normal people.”

Operation Hammer was a counterinsurgency program that sometimes resembled the Phoenix program in Vietnam. There were hundreds of commando-style raids on “gang houses.” More than 50,000 suspected gang members were swept up for interrogation based on factors such as style of dress and whether the suspect was a young black male on the street past curfew. Of those caught up in such Hammer sweeps, 90 per cent were later released without charge, but their names were held in a computer database of gang members that was later shown to have included twice as many names as there were black youths in Los Angeles. Gates sealed off large areas of South Central as “narcotics enforcement zones.” There was a strict curfew, constant police presence, and on-the-spot strip searches for those caught outside after curfew.

In this war there were many innocent casualties. In 1989, the LAPD shotgunned to death an 81-year-old man they wrongly believed to be a crack dealer. Witnesses claimed that the old man had his hands up when he was blown away. In 1989, 75 per cent of all cases in the Los Angeles criminal courts were drug-related.

It would be difficult to find any documentary evidence that this War on Drugs had anything other than a deleterious effect. By 1990, black youth unemployment in the greater Los Angeles area was 45 per cent. Nearly half of all black males under the age of twenty-five had been in the criminal justice system. Life expectancy for blacks was falling for the first time in this century, and infant mortality in the city was rising. Some 40 per cent of black children were born into poverty.

Among those white people concerned by the awful conditions of life in the inner cities was government psychiatrist Fred Goodwin. In 1992, he was director of the umbrella agency ADAMHA, the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration. Goodwin was an eager crusader for a national biomedical program to control violence, the core notion being the search for a “violence” gene. In the quest for this supposed biological basis for social crisis in the poverty-stricken and crime-ridden ghettoes, Goodwin was replicating all the Malthusian obsessions of late nineteenth and early twentieth century white American intellectuals and politicians. Many of supposedly enlightened people like Woodrow Wilson believed that sterilization was the best way to maintain the cleanliness in the national gene pool. It was too late to stop the arrival of Africans, but these Malthusians inspired the race exclusion laws of 1923, designed to keep out genetically dubious Slavs, Jews, Italians and other rabble—legislation admired by the Nazis.

On February 11, 1992, Goodwin gave a speech to the National Mental Health Advisory Council on the future of federal mental health policy, calling for an approach that would focus on presumed genetic and biomedical factors. Among Goodwin’s observations in his address:

There are discussions of “biological correlates” and “biological markers.” The individuals have defective brains with detectable prefrontal changes that may well be predictive of later violence. T

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What constitutes "real" disabilities?

My son who has Down's Syndrome is certainly not more disabled than a psychopath, for example, who has no empathy, is a narcissist, is a liar, and imposes those things upon others - causing them harm or death. I'd say a LOT of people I know are grossly more disabled than those whose disabilities might be more physically obvious.

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Racism as Government Policy
A Short History of “Black Paranoia”

by ALEXANDER COCKBURN and JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

The fury among American blacks sparked by Gary Webb’s “Dark Alliance” series was powerful enough to cause serious concern to the U.S. government, urban mayors, and major newspapers, and even prompted CIA Director John Deutch to make an extraordinary appearance at a town meeting in South Central Los Angeles, where Rep. Maxine Waters was accused of fanning the flames of “black paranoia.” We will now briefly outline why this “paranoia” is amply justified and why Webb’s series very reasonably struck a chord in the black community.

In all discussions of “black paranoia” during the Webb affair, white commentators invariably conceded—as indeed they had to—that the one instance where such fears were entirely justified was the infamous Tuskegee experiments. Yet in the press coverage no more than a sentence or two was devoted to any account of what actually happened at Tuskegee.

The facts are terrible. In 1932, 600 poor black men from rural Macon County, Alabama, were recruited for a study by the United States Public Health Service and the Tuskegee Institute. The researchers found 400 out of the 600 infected with syphilis, and the 200 uninfected men were monitored as the control group. The other 400 men were told they were being treated for “bad blood” and were given a treatment the doctors called “pink medicine,” which was actually nothing more than aspirin and an iron supplement. No effective medical treatment was ever given to the Tuskegee victims because the researchers wanted to study the natural progress of venereal disease. When other physicians diagnosed syphilis in some of the men, the Public Health Service researchers intervened to prevent any treatment. When penicillin was developed as a cure for syphilis in 1943, it was not provided to the patients. Indeed, the development of a cure only seemed to spur on the Tuskegee researchers, who, in the words of historian James Jones, author of Bad Blood, saw Tuskegee as a “never-again-to-be-repeated opportunity.”

As an inducement to continue in the program over several decades the men were given hot meals, a certificate signed by the surgeon general, the promise of free medical care, and a $50 burial stipend. This stipend was far from altruistic because it allowed the Health Service researchers to perform their own autopsies on the men after they died. The experiments continued until 1972, and were canceled only after information about them had leaked to the press. Over the course of the experiments more than 100 of the men died of causes related to syphilis, but even after exposure, the lead researchers remained unapologetic. “For the most part, doctors and civil servants simply did their job,” said Dr. John Heller, who had headed the U.S. Public Health Services Division of Venereal Diseases. “Some merely followed orders, others worked for the glory of science.”

In 1996, President Clinton issued a public apology to the Tuskegee victims. Nor was this an entirely disinterested act of governmental contrition. Earlier in the year, Clinton had been approached by Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala regarding the scarcity of blacks willing to volunteer as research subjects. Shalala attributed this reluctance to “unnatural fears” arising from the Tuskegee experiments. George Annas, who runs the Law, Ethics and Medicine program at Boston University, notes that the apology was skewed and that Clinton and Shalala should have been finding ways of recruiting more blacks as medical students rather than research subjects. “If you were to look at the historical record, you will see that blacks’ distrust predated Tuskegee,” according to Dr. Vanessa Gamble, an associate professor of the history of medicine at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “There were experiments dating back to more than a hundred years that were more often done by whites on slaves and free blacks than on poor whites.”

Another oft-cited explanation for the readiness of blacks to believe the worst about the white man’s intentions is briskly referred to as “the FBI’s snooping on Martin Luther King Jr.,” as Tim Golden put it amid his reflections on black paranoia in the New York Times. The government’s interest in Dr. King went considerably beyond “snooping,” however, to constitute one of the most prolonged surveillances of any family in American history. In the early years of the 20th century, Ralph Van Deman created an Army Intelligence network targeting four prime foes: the Industrial Workers of the World, opponents of the draft, Socialists, and “Negro unrest.” Fear that the Germans would take advantage of black grievances was great, and Van Deman was much preoccupied with the role of black churches as possible centers of sedition.

By the end of 1917, the War Department’s Military Intelligence Division had opened a file on Martin Luther King Jr.’s maternal grandfather, the Rev. A. D. Williams, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church and first president of the Atlanta NAACP. King’s father, Martin Sr., Williams’ successor at Ebenezer Baptist, also entered the army files. Martin Jr. first shows up in these files (kept by the 111th Military Intelligence Group at Fort McPherson in Atlanta) in 1947, when he attended Dorothy Lilley’s Intercollegiate School; the army suspected Lilley of having ties to the Communist Party.

Army Intelligence officers became convinced of Martin Luther King Jr.’s own Communist ties when he spoke in 1950 at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the integrated Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. Ten years earlier, an Army Intelligence officer had reported to his superiors that the Highlander school was teaching a course of instruction to develop Negro organizers in the southern cotton states.

By 1963, as Tennessee journalist Stephen Tompkins reported in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, U-2 planes were photographing disturbances in Birmingham, Alabama, capping a multilayered spy system that by 1968 included 304 intelligence offices across the country, “subversive national security dossiers” on 80,731 Americans, plus 19 million personnel dossiers lodged at the Defense Department’s Central Index of Investigations.

A more sinister thread derives from the anger and fear with which the Army’s high command greeted King’s denunciation of the Vietnam War at Riverside Church in 1967. Army spies recorded Stokely Carmichael telling King, “The Man don’t care you call ghettos concentration camps, but when you tell him his war machine is nothing but hired killers you got trouble.”

After the 1967 Detroit riots, 496 black men under arrest were interviewed by agents of the Army’s Psychological Operations group, dressed as civilians. It turned out King was by far the most popular black leader. That same year Maj. Gen. William Yarborough, assistant chief of staff for intelligence, observing the great antiwar march on Washington from the roof of the Pentagon, concluded that the Empire was coming apart at the seams. There were, Yarborough reckoned, too few reliable troops to fight in Vietnam and hold the line at home.

In response, the army increased its surveillance of King. Green Berets and other Special Forces veterans from Vietnam began making street maps and identifying landing zones and potential sniper sites in major U.S. cities. The Ku Klux Klan was recruited by the 20th Special Forces Group, headquartered in Alabama as a subsidiary intelligence network. The Army began offering 30-06 sniper rifles to police departments, including that of Memphis.

In his fine investigation, Tompkins detailed the increasing hysteria of Army Intelligence chiefs over the threat they considered King to pose to national stability. The FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover was similarly obsessed with this threat, and King was dogged by spy units through early 1967. A Green Beret special unit was operating in Memphis on the day he was shot. He died from a bullet from a 30-06 rifle purchased in a Memphis store, a murder for which James Earl Ray was given a 99-year sentence in a Tennessee prison. A court-ordered test of James Earl Ray’s rifle raised questions as to whether it in fact had fired the bullet that killed King.

Notable black Americans, from the boxing champion Jack Johnson to Paul Robeson to W. E. B. Du Bois, were all the object of relentless harassment by the FBI. Johnson, the first black superstar, was framed by the FBI’s predecessor under the Mann Act. Johnson ultimately served a year for crossing state lines with his white girlfriend (who later became his wife). Du Bois, founder of the NAACP, was himself under surveillance for nearly seventy years and was arrested and shackled for urging peace talks with North Korea.

Still fresh in the minds of many blacks is the FBI’s COINTEL-PRO program, started in 1956 and conceived as a domestic counterinsurgency program. Though its ambit extended to the New Left, Puerto Rican revolutionaries and Native Americans, the most vigorous persecutions under COINTELPRO were those of black leaders. A memo from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover described the program as it stood in August 1967: the purpose of COINTELPRO was to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit or otherwise neutralize” black organizations the FBI didn’t care for. And if any black leader emerged, Hoover’s order was that the Bureau should “pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them before they exercised their potential for violence.”

“Neutralize” has long been a euphemism for assassination. At least six or seven Black Panther leaders were killed at the instigation of the FBI, the most infamous episode being the assassination of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in Chicago. These two Panther leaders were shot in their beds, while asleep, by Chicago police who had been given a detailed floor plan of the house by an FBI informant who had also drugged Hampton and Clark.

During the mid-1970s hearings chaired by Idaho Senator Frank Church, the FBI was found to have undertaken more than 200 so-called “black bag” jobs, in which FBI agents broke into offices, homes and apartments to destroy equipment, steal and copy files, take money, and plant drugs. The FBI was also linked to the arson fire that destroyed the Watts Writers’ Workshop in Los Angeles.

In all the stories about “black paranoia” trolled forth by Webb’s assailants, one topic was conspicuously ignored: the long history of the racist application of U.S. drug laws. The first racist application of drug laws in the United States was against Chinese laborers. After the U.S. Civil War, opium addiction was a major problem: wounded soldiers used it to dull pain and then became habituated. One study estimates that by 1880, one in every 400 adults in the United States had such an addiction to opium. Chinese laborers had been brought into the United States in the wake of the Civil War to build the transcontinental railroad and, in California, to haul rock in the gold mines in the Sierras. Thousands of Chinese were also brought into the South to replace slave labor on the cotton and rice plantations. The Chinese brought opium smoking with them, their addiction having actively fostered in the Opium Wars by the British, who had successfully beaten down efforts by the Chinese government to curb the habit.

Then came the recession of the 1870s. The Chinese were now viewed as competitors for the dwindling number of jobs available. In 1875, San Francisco became the first city to outlaw opium smoking with legislation clearly aimed at the Chinese, who smoked the narcotic, as opposed to the main group of users, white men and women, who took opium in liquid form. This was the era when the use of opium-based patent medicines was pervasive. Women used them in “tonics” to alleviate pain in childbirth, and also to “soothe” their nerves. Unlike the “yellow dope fiends,” however, the white users were politely termed “habitués.” In 1887, the U.S. Congress weighed in with the Chinese Exclusion Act, which among other things) allowed Chinese opium addicts to be arrested and deported.

Similarly, racist attitudes accompanied the rise of cocaine use. Cocaine had been mass marketed in the United States in the late 1880s by the Parke-Davis Company (which many decades later had contracts to provide the CIA with drugs in the MK-ULTRA program). The company also sold a precursor to crack, marketing cocaine-laden cigarettes in the 1890s. In that same decade the Sears & Roebuck catalogue, which was distributed to millions of homes, offered a syringe and a small amount of cocaine for $1.50. But by the turn of the century the attitude of the medical and legal establishment to cocaine was beginning to change. In 1900 the Journal of the American Medical Association printed an editorial alerting its readers to a new peril: “Negroes in the South are reported as being addicted to a new form of vice—that of ‘cocaine sniffing’ or the ‘coke habit.’ ”

President Theodore Roosevelt responded to the new scare by creating the nation’s first drug czar, Dr. Hamilton Wright. Wright was a fanatic racist, announcing that “it is been authoritatively stated that cocaine is often the direct incentive to the crime of rape by the Negroes of the South and other regions.” One of Wright’s favored authorities was Dr. Christopher Koch of the State Pharmacy Board of Pennsylvania. Koch testified before Congress in 1914 in support of the Harrison Bill, shortly to pass into law as the first criminalization of drug use. Said Koch: “Most of the attacks upon the white women of the South are the direct result of a cocaine-crazed Negro brain.”

At the same hearing, Wright alleged that drugs made blacks uncontrollable, gave them superhuman powers, and prompted them to rebel against white authority. These hysterical charges were trumpeted by the press, in particular the New York Times, which on February 8, 1914, ran an article by Edward Hunting Williams reporting how Southern sheriffs had upped the caliber of their weapons from.32 to.38 in order to bring down black men under the influence of cocaine. The Times’ headline for the article read: “Negro Cocaine ‘Fiends’ are New Southern Menace: Murder and Insanity Increasing Among Lower-Class Blacks.” Amid these salvoes, the Harrison Act passed into law.

In 1930, a new department of the federal government, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, was formed under the leadership of Harry Anslinger to carry on the war against drug users. Anslinger, another racist, was an adroit publicist and became the prime shaper of American attitudes to drug addiction, hammering home his view that this was not a treatable dependency but one that could only be suppressed by harsh criminal sanctions. Anslinger’s first major campaign was to criminalize the drug commonly known at the time as hemp. But Anslinger renamed it “marijuana” to associate it with Mexican laborers who, like the Chinese before them, were unwelcome competitors for scarce jobs in the Depression. Anslinger claimed that marijuana “can arouse in blacks and Hispanics a state of menacing fury or homicidal attack. During this period, addicts have perpetrated some of the most bizarre and fantastic offenses and sex crimes known to police annals.”

Anslinger linked marijuana with jazz and persecuted many black musicians, including Thelonius Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, and Duke Ellington. Louis Armstrong was also arrested on drug charges, and Anslinger made sure his name was smeared in the press. In Congress he testified that “[c]oloreds with big lips lure white women with jazz and marijuana.”

By the 1950s, amid the full blast of the Cold War, Anslinger was working with the CIA to charge that the newborn People’s Republic of China was attempting to undermine America by selling opium to U.S. crime syndicates. (This took a good deal of chutzpa on the part of the CIA, whose planes were then flying opium from Chiang Kai-shek’s bases in Burma to Thailand and the Philippines for processing and export to the U.S.A.) Anslinger convinced the U.S. Senate to approve a resolution stating that “subversion through drug addiction is an established aim of Communist China.”

In 1951, Anslinger worked with Democrat Hale Boggs to marshal through Congress the first minimum mandatory sentences for drug possession: two years for the first conviction of possession of a Schedule 1 drug (marijuana, cocaine), five to ten years for a second offense, and ten to twenty years for a third conviction. In 1956, Anslinger once again enlisted the help of Boggs to pass a law allowing the death penalty to be imposed on anyone selling heroin to a minor, the first linking of drugs with Death Row.

This was Anslinger’s last hurrah. Across John Kennedy’s New Frontier charged sociologists attacking Anslinger’s punitive philosophy. The tempo of the times changed, and federal money began to target treatment and prevention as much as enforcement and prison. But the interim did not last long. With the waning of the war in Southeast Asia, millions of addicted GIs came home to meet the fury of Nixon’s War on Drugs program. Nixon picked up Anslinger’s techniques of threat inflation, declaring in Los Angeles: “As I look over the problems of this country I see that one stands out particularly: the problem of narcotics.”

Nixon pledged to launch a war on drugs, to return to the punitive approach, and not let any quaint notions of civil liberties and constitutional rights stand in the way. After a Nixon briefing in 1969, his top aide, H. R. Haldeman, noted in his diary: “Nixon emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to.”

But for all his bluster, Nixon was a mere prelude to the full fury of the Reagan-Bush-Clinton years, when the War on Drugs became explicitly a war on blacks. The first move of the Reagan administration was to expand the forfeiture laws passed during the Carter administration. In 1981, Reagan’s drug policy advisers outlined a plan they thought would be little more than good PR, a public display of the required toughness. They proposed allowing the Justice Department to seize real
property and so-called “substitute property” (that is, legally acquired assets equal in value to illegal monetary gains). They also proposed that the federal government seize attorneys’ fees that they suspected might have been funded by drug proceeds. They even proposed to allow attorneys to be summoned by federal prosecutors before grand juries to testify about the source of their clients’ money. The Reagan plan was to permit forfeitures on the basis of a “probable cause showing” before a federal judge. This meant that seizures could be made against people neither charged nor convicted, but only suspected, of drug crimes.

Contrary to the administration’s expectations, this plan sailed through Congress, eagerly supported by two Democratic Party liberals, Senators Hubert H. Humphrey and Joe Biden, the latter being the artificer, in the Carter era, of a revision to the RICO act, a huge extension of the federal conspiracy laws. Over the next few years, the press would occasionally report on some exceptionally bizarre applications of the new forfeiture laws, such as the confiscation of a $2.5 million yacht in a drug bust that netted only a handful of marijuana stems and seeds. But typically the press ignored the essential pattern of humdrum seizures, which more often focused on such ordinary assets as houses and cars. In Orange County, California, fifty-seven cars were seized in drug-related cases in 1989: “Even if only a small amount of drugs is found inside,” an Orange County narcotics detective explained, “the law permits seized vehicles to be sold by law enforcement agencies to finance anti-drug law enforcement programs.”

In fact, the forfeiture program became a tremendous revenue stream for the police. From 1982 to 1991, the U.S. Department of Justice seized more than $2.5 billion in assets. The Justice Department confiscated $500 million in property in 1991 alone, and 80 per cent of these seizures were from people who were never charged with a crime.

On June 17, 1986, University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias died, reportedly from an overdose of cocaine. As Dan Baum put it in his excellent Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure, “In life, Len Bias was a terrific basketball player. In death, he became the Archduke Ferdinand of the Total War on Drugs.” It was falsely reported that Bias had smoked crack cocaine the night before his death. (He had in fact used powder cocaine and, according to the coroner, there was no clear link between this use and the failure of his heart.)

Bias had just signed with the Boston Celtics and amid Boston’s rage and grief, Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill, a representative from Massachusetts, rushed into action. In early July he convened a meeting of the Democratic Party leadership. “Write me some goddam legislation,” he ordered. “All anybody in Boston is talking about is Len Bias. They want blood. If we move fast enough we can get out in front of the White House.” The White House was itself moving fast. Among other things, the DEA had been instructed to allow ABC News to accompany it on raids against crack houses. “Crack is the hottest combat-reporting story to come along since the end of the Vietnam War,” the head of the New York office of the DEA exulted.

All this fed into congressional frenzy to write tougher laws. House Majority Leader Jim Wright called drug abuse “a menace draining away our economy of some $230 billion this year, slowly rotting away the fabric of our society and seducing and killing our young.” Not to be outdone, South Carolina Republican Thomas Arnett proclaimed that “drugs are a threat worse than nuclear warfare or any chemical warfare waged on any battlefield.” The 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act was duly passed. It contained twenty-nine new minimum mandatory sentences. Up until that time in the history of the Republic there had been only 56 mandatory minimum sentences in the whole penal code.

The new law had a death penalty provision for drug “kingpins” and prohibited parole for even minor possession offenses. But the chief target of the bill was crack cocaine. Congress established a 100-to-1 sentencing ratio between possession of crack and powder cocaine. Under this provision, possession of 5 grams of crack carries a minimum five-year federal prison sentence. The same mandatory minimum is not reached for any amount of powder cocaine less than 500 grams. This sentencing disproportion was based on faulty testimony that crack was fifty times as addictive as powder cocaine. Congress then doubled this ratio as a so-called “violence penalty.” There is no inherent difference in the drugs, as Clinton drug czar Barry McCaffery conceded. The federal Sentencing Commission, established by Congress to review sentencing guidelines, found that so-called “crack violence” is attributable to the drug trade and has more to do with the setting in which crack is sold: crack is sold on the street, while powder cocaine is vended by house calls. As Nixon and Haldeman would have approvingly noted about the new drug law, it was transparently aimed at blacks, reminiscent of the early targeting of Chinese smoking opium rather than white ladies sipping their laudanum-laced tonics.

In 1995, the U.S. Sentencing Commission reviewed eight years of application of this provision and found it to be undeniably racist in practice: 84 per cent of those arrested for crack possession were black, while only 10 per cent were white and 5 per cent Hispanic. The disparity for crack-trafficking prosecutions was even wider: 88 per cent blacks, 7 per cent Hispanics, 4 per cent whites. By comparison, defendants arrested for powder cocaine possession were 58 per cent white, 26 per cent black, and 15 per cent Hispanic.

In Los Angeles, all twenty-four federal defendants in crack cases in 1991 were black. The Sentencing Commission recommended to Congress and the Clinton administration that the ratio should be one-to-one between sentences for offenses involving crack and powder cocaine, arguing that federal law allows for other factors to be considered by judges in lengthening sentences (such as whether violence was associated with the offense). But for the first time in its history the Congress rejected the Sentencing Commission’s recommendation and retained the 100-to-1 ratio. Clinton likewise declined the advice of his drug czar and his attorney general, and signed the bill.

One need only look at the racial makeup of federal prisons to appreciate the consequences of the 1986 drug law. In 1983, the total number of prisoners in federal, state and local prisons and jails was 660,800. Of those, 57,975—8.8 per cent—were incarcerated for drug-related offenses. In 1993, the total prison population was 1,408,000, of whom 353,564—25.1 per cent—were inside for drug offenses. The Sentencing Project, a Washington, D.C.–based watchdog group, found that the increase was far from racially balanced. Between 1986 and 1991, the incarceration rate for white males convicted on drug crimes increased by 106 per cent. But the number of black males in prison for kindred offenses soared by a factor of 429 per cent, and the rate for black women went up by an incredible 828 per cent.

The queen of the drug war, Nancy Reagan, said amid one of her innumerable sermons on the issue: “If you’re a casual drug user, you’re an accomplice to murder.” In tune with this line of thinking, Congress moved in 1988 to expand the crimes for which the federal death penalty could be imposed. These included drug-related murders, and murders committed by drug gangs, which would allow any gang member to face the death penalty if one member of the gang was linked to a drug killing. The new penalties were inscribed in an update of the Continuing Criminal Enterprises Act. The figures arising from implementation of the act suggest that “black paranoia” has in fact a sound basis in reality.

Convictions under the act between 1989 and 1996 were 70 per cent white and 24 per cent black—but 90 per cent of the times the federal prosecutors sought the death penalty it was against non-whites: of these, 78 per cent were black and the rest Hispanic. From 1930 to 1972 (when the U.S. Supreme Court found the federal death penalty unconstitutional), 85 per cent of those given death sentences were white. When it was reapplied in 1984, with the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, the numbers for black death penalty convictions soared. Whether the offense is drug-related or not, a black is far more likely to end up on Death Row. Of those on Death Row, both federal and state, 50 per cent are black. Blacks constitute 16 per cent of the population. Since 1976, 40 per cent of the nation’s homicide victims have been black, but 90 per cent of death sentences handed down for homicide involved white victims.

In the drug war, Los Angeles was Ground Zero. On the streets of Los Angeles, gang-related killings were a constant presence to the residents of the mostly poor areas in which they occurred, as gangs fought out turf battles for distribution rights to the crack supplied by Ricky Ross and his associates in an operation connived at by the CIA. As long as it was confined to black areas of Los Angeles, little official attention was paid to this slaughter—an average of one murder per day from 1988 through 1990. However, in December 1987 a gang mistakenly killed 27-year-old Karen Toshima outside a cinema complex in Westwood, near the UCLA campus, prompting outrage from the city’s government: “The continued protection of gang activity under the guise of upholding our Constitution is causing a deadly blight on our city,” cried Los Angeles City Attorney Kenneth Hahn.

LAPD Chief Darryl Gates promptly rolled out his campaign to pacify inner-city Los Angeles, Operation Hammer. Even before this campaign, the LAPD was not known for its sensitivity to black people. In the 1970s, there had been more than 300 killings of non-whites by the LAPD, and Gate’s own racism was notorious. Responding to complaints about a string of choke-hold deaths, Gates blamed them on the physiology of blacks: “We may be finding that in some blacks, when [the choke-hold] is applied, the veins or arteries do not open as fast as they do on normal people.”

Operation Hammer was a counterinsurgency program that sometimes resembled the Phoenix program in Vietnam. There were hundreds of commando-style raids on “gang houses.” More than 50,000 suspected gang members were swept up for interrogation based on factors such as style of dress and whether the suspect was a young black male on the street past curfew. Of those caught up in such Hammer sweeps, 90 per cent were later released without charge, but their names were held in a computer database of gang members that was later shown to have included twice as many names as there were black youths in Los Angeles. Gates sealed off large areas of South Central as “narcotics enforcement zones.” There was a strict curfew, constant police presence, and on-the-spot strip searches for those caught outside after curfew.

In this war there were many innocent casualties. In 1989, the LAPD shotgunned to death an 81-year-old man they wrongly believed to be a crack dealer. Witnesses claimed that the old man had his hands up when he was blown away. In 1989, 75 per cent of all cases in the Los Angeles criminal courts were drug-related.

It would be difficult to find any documentary evidence that this War on Drugs had anything other than a deleterious effect. By 1990, black youth unemployment in the greater Los Angeles area was 45 per cent. Nearly half of all black males under the age of twenty-five had been in the criminal justice system. Life expectancy for blacks was falling for the first time in this century, and infant mortality in the city was rising. Some 40 per cent of black children were born into poverty.

Among those white people concerned by the awful conditions of life in the inner cities was government psychiatrist Fred Goodwin. In 1992, he was director of the umbrella agency ADAMHA, the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration. Goodwin was an eager crusader for a national biomedical program to control violence, the core notion being the search for a “violence” gene. In the quest for this supposed biological basis for social crisis in the poverty-stricken and crime-ridden ghettoes, Goodwin was replicating all the Malthusian obsessions of late nineteenth and early twentieth century white American intellectuals and politicians. Many of supposedly enlightened people like Woodrow Wilson believed that sterilization was the best way to maintain the cleanliness in the national gene pool. It was too late to stop the arrival of Africans, but these Malthusians inspired the race exclusion laws of 1923, designed to keep out genetically dubious Slavs, Jews, Italians and other rabble—legislation admired by the Nazis.

On February 11, 1992, Goodwin gave a speech to the National Mental Health Advisory Council on the future of federal mental health policy, calling for an approach that would focus on presumed genetic and biomedical factors. Among Goodwin’s observations in his address:

There are discussions of “biological correlates” and “biological markers.” The individuals have defective brains with detectable prefrontal changes that may well be predictive of later violence. T


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New Video: Charlie and Pauline Sullivan of C.U.R.E.
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CURE–Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants–is an international organization that was founded in Texas in 1972, and became a national organization in 1985. Now nearly 40 years old, CURE has remained loyal to its original ideals, even as the politics of punishment brought about a shift in ideology and resources away from rehabilitation and toward retribution.
Working out of a small office in the belfry of St. Aloysius, a few blocks from the Capitol, Charlie and Pauline Sullivan, the husband-and-wife team who are the co-founders and co-directors of International CURE, run an inclusive group devoted to prison reform and prisoner support. It has chapters all over the country and worldwide: In 2001, the first International Conference took place; last February, the fifth such global conference was held in Nigeria.
CURE’s goals are described in its mission statement:

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Limit reps to 5 terms and senators to 4, let them switch from rep to sen if they can pull it off.

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- U.S. Representative Michael Grimm of New York, who pleaded guilty last week to a federal felony tax charge, will resign his seat on Jan. 5 because he does not feel he can be completely effective in Congress, he said on Monday.

"After much thought and prayer, I have made the very difficult decision to step down from Congress effective January 5th, 2015," Grimm said in a statement provided by a spokesman.

"The events which led to this day did not break my spirit, nor the will of the voters. However, I do not believe that I can continue to be 100 (percent) effective in the next Congress."

Grimm, a Republican, pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court on Dec. 23 to aiding the preparation of a false tax return in connection with a health food restaurant, Healthalicious, that he co-owned before his political career.

Grimm had said earlier he would not resign from Congress: "As long as I'm able to serve, I'm going to."

As part of a plea deal, Grimm also signed a statement of facts, admitting to concealing over $900,000 in gross receipts from 2007 to 2010 and lying during a 2013 deposition.

House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner had not publicly called for Grimm's resignation, but House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi last week said the Republican leadership must "must insist that Congressman Grimm resign immediately."

The 44-year-old former Marine and FBI agent easily won a third term in office in November. His resignation will set up a 2015 battle for his House seat, which covers parts of Staten Island and Brooklyn, as Republicans take full control of Congress next year.

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to create Manchurian Candidates to create plausible denial
when they murder, assassinate or neutralize a President or his Brother.
It usually takes about 50 years before the dumb Criminal
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Could Robert F. Kennedy's Assassin Have Been 'Hypno-Programmed'?
Eli MacKinnon, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
Date: 13 December 2011 Time: 04:30 PM ET

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This past March, 42 years into his life prison sentence for assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, Sirhan Sirhan stood in front of a parole board and repeated the same thing he had been saying at parole hearings for decades: that he had no memory of the shooting or his subsequent trial and confession of guilt. For the 14th time, his application was denied. Two weeks ago, Sirhan's attorneys filed the latest in a series of appeals that aim to get Sirhan back in front of a judge to correct what they call "an egregious miscarriage of justice."
Sirhan, they argued, had been hypnotized to carry out the crime.
In addition to presenting expert audio analysis indicating that there were two guns fired from different directions and a claim that a bullet from Kennedy's neck was switched out to match Sirhan's gun, the filings bolster a long-repeated conspiracy theory asserting that Sirhan was a victim of hypnosis, an unwitting shill whose Arab name made him an easy scapegoat and drew attention from the true architects of the assassination. According to the new pleadings, "[Sirhan] was an involuntary participant in the crimes being committed because he was subjected to sophisticated hypno-programing and memory implantation techniques which rendered him unable to consciously control his thoughts and actions at the time the crimes were being committed." [Where Do Murderous Tendencies Come From?]

Anticipating the skeptical firewall that the phrase "hypno-programming" raises in many inquiring minds, the filings also maintain that, "The public has been shielded from the darker side of the practice. The average person is unaware that hypnosis can and is used to induct antisocial conduct in humans."
If nothing else, Sirhan's lawyers may be right about a general lack of public awareness on the true potential of hypnosis. According to Dr. Richard Kluft, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Temple University and the past-president of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, the scenario that Sirhan's legal team advances is "certainly within the realm of plausibility."
To put the seemingly far-fetched theory into context, Kluft notes that it is undisputed and freely available information that U.S. government security agencies have extensively researched the possibility of creating so-called "hypnotic assassins" and "hypnotic couriers." (A hypnotic courier would theoretically memorize a classified message while under hypnosis and then only be able to retrieve that information if provided with the proper post-hypnotic cue by the message's intended recipient, thus eliminating the possibility that the agent could divulge the information if captured and tortured.) Information on whether and how covert organizations have put the findings of their hypnosis research — such as that conducted in the CIA's allegedly discontinued human experimentation program MKULTRA — to use, however, is harder to obtain.
According to Kluft, it is not possible to hypnotize someone to do something that obviously violates their beliefs or desires. In hypnosis, though, context is everything. Say, for example, an unethical hypnotist wanted to hypnotize a suggestible vegetarian to eat a steak. If the hypnotist simply put the vegetarian into a state of hypnosis and then presented him or her with a steak, identified it as a steak, and told the person to eat it, the hypnotized vegetarian would almost certainly refuse.
But if the hypnotist put a vegetarian into a state of hypnosis and then made repeated misleading suggestions that in a short period of time a waiter would deliver a mouth-watering, mock-meat, soy-based protein slab that would be both delicious and meat-free, and then proceeded to order genuine filet mignon, the vegetarian would probably be more amenable to taking a bite.
The very uncomfortable and very serious question, then, is whether an exceptionally suggestible human brain, manipulated in just the right way, might be seduced by its delusions into committing an act far beyond the violation of a dietary code — namely, gunning down a gifted politician in the early stages of an auspicious bid for the American presidency. Could a hypno-programmed Sirhan Sirhan really have fired on Kennedy if he didn't actually want to?
There is not a simple answer. It is all but inconceivable that Sirhan could have been picked up off the street and then successfully hypnotized to kill against his will after one session with a master hypnotist, but if hypnosis is combined with brainwashing regimens and used to make persistent suggestions that a subject misperceive external circumstances and re-contextualize personal beliefs, its limits are not well defined, Kluft said.
"Post-hypnotic subjects can be induced to misunderstand their circumstances and, as a result of them misunderstanding their circumstances, do and say some things that are very likely to be potentially detrimental and injurious," said Kluft, careful to note that he cannot speculate on Sirhan's past or present mental state specifically, as he has not personally evaluated him. "In the most general sense, you can't make a person do something against their principles with hypnosis, but you can deceive them as to what's truly the case so that they may wind up doing something that they themselves regard as reprehensible but that they did under circumstances of not really getting the whole picture."
It would be very unlikely for an appeal be granted based solely on new evidence of hypnosis in a crime that occurred more than 40 years ago, said Stephen J. Morse, a professor of law and psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. But if Sirhan's attorneys do manage to win their client a re-trial based on any of their latest allegations, proof that he was in a state of hypnosis at the time of Kennedy's assassination would absolve him of responsibility. "All crimes require some prohibited act as one of the elements," Morse explained. "In most American jurisdictions, an act performed under hypnosis is not considered an '


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Sirhan Sirhan loses bid for freedom over RFK death

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Tue Jan 6, 2015 2:44pm EST


- Sirhan Sirhan, who is serving a life sentence in prison for the June 1968 assassination of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, failed to persuade a federal judge to set him free because he was innocent of the crime.

In a decision dated Monday, U.S. District Judge Beverly Reid O'Connell in Los Angeles said Sirhan "failed to meet the showing required for actual innocence" that might excuse his having failed to seek his freedom sooner in federal court.

Sirhan had filed his petition for habeas corpus, which could have resulted in his freedom, in May 2000.

William Pepper, a lawyer for Sirhan, did not immediately respond on Tuesday to requests for comment.

Sirhan, now 70, was wrestled to the ground with a gun in his hand after Kennedy was shot on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after Kennedy won the California Democratic presidential primary. Kennedy died the next day.

The defendant was sentenced to death in 1969, but his sentence was commuted to life in prison after California banned the death penalty. Sirhan was denied parole for a 13th time in 2011. He is now housed in a state prison in San Diego.

In seeking Sirhan's freedom, defense lawyers argued that he had not been physically in position to fire the fatal shot, and that a second shooter and gun may have been responsible.

The judge, however, said Sirhan's case was not strong enough.

"Though petitioner advances a number of theories regarding the events of June 5, 1968, petitioner does not dispute that he fired eight rounds of gunfire in the kitchen pantry of the Ambassador Hotel," O'Connell wrote. "Petitioner does not show that it is more likely than not that no juror, acting reasonably, would have found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt."

In rejecting Sirhan's bid for freedom, O'Connell accepted an August 2013 recommendation by U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Wistrich.

Kennedy was a U.S. senator from New York when he died at age 42. His older brother John F. Kennedy, the former U.S. president, was 46 when he was assassinated in November 19

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Arthur Bremer the go to Chinese take them out man for the
FBI when they tried to kill Presidential candidate George Wallace
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Nov 28, 2005 - George Wallace told the FBI that he believed Liddy was standing directly ... evidence to support a Bremer-as-Manchurian-Candidate scenario.
MK-ULTRA: THE SEARCH FOR THE "MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE"
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Jan 25, 2012 - The 2004 version of The Manchurian Candidate, starring Denzel Washington. ..... This trio of characters had their fair share of CIA and FBI connections. ..... about his appearance, and a fervent campaigner for George Wallace.
CIA killed Lennon
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Apr 30, 2011 - and John Marks' “The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: the CIA and .... Malcolm X, RFK, MLK, the attempts on George Wallace and Reagan, others ... there exists an FBI memo regarding the John Sinclair Freedom Rally ...
manchurian candidate - Internet Archive
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... (language:eng OR language:"English") AND subject:"manchurian candidate" ... planning equipment etc. was provided to the "perpetrator" via the FBI, CIA, etc.
Internet Archive Search: subject:"manchurian candidate"
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Sirhan Sirhan - Whale
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Sirhan Sirhan and His Account of Delta Programming Mind Control ... of Sirhan at the stables was Thomas Bremer, whose mind-controlled brother Arthur, shot ...

Bremer finally got the clear shot of ...
My notes: Twelve strange coincidences
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Arthur Bremer - Spartacus Educational
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Biography of Arthur Bremer. ... The arrest of Arthur Bremer (15th May, 1972) ..... surfaced showing he had a possibly sinister relationship with Sirhan Sirhan just ...

Spitfire List | FTR #648 Arthur Who?
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Arthur Bremer/ Sirhan Sirhan/ Dr. Bryan - Who posted in this topic ...
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The Education Forum; → Controversial Issues in History; → Political Conspiracies; → Arthur Bremer/ Sirhan Sirhan/ Dr. Bryan; → Who posted in this topic.

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Who Killed Robert Kennedy? by Philip Melanson
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Robert F. Kennedy was shot down just after midnight on June 5, 1968, ... With the FBI's assistance, they spent the next fourteen months investigating the murder. ... The files made it clear that the LAPD had engaged in a massive cover-up, both ...
The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination: New Revelations on the ...
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JFK Assassination And Coverup: New Evidence and Testimony ...
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Nov 19, 2013 - This same modus operandi applies to the coverup as well. ... that certain elements within the CIA, Secret Service, FBI and Dallas Police ... Chicago Mafia — JFK had a run in with Sam Giancana; RFK took on organized crime
Robert F Kennedy assassination witness says FBI covered up fact ...
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Apr 30, 2012 - 'There definitely was another shooter': RFK assassination witness says FBI ... FBI altered her account, and never called her to testify during trial ...
RFK assassination witness tells CNN: There was a second shooter ...
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Apr 30, 2012 - As Sirhan Sirhan challenges his conviction in Robert F. Kennedy assassination, a witness says she heard two guns firing and FBI altered her account. ... which confirms the existence of the cover-up efforts," he told CNN.
Robert F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories - Wikipedia ...
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Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Boris Yaro's photograph of Robert F. Kennedy lying wounded on the floor .... Kennedy's only security was provided by former FBI agent William Barry and two ...
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Escorted through a kitchen pantry in the Ambassador Hotel, RFK was ... Photographs taken by the FBI, LAPD, and AP show apparent bullet holes, which have ...
Probe V5N3: Sirhan and the RFK Assassination: The Grand Illusion
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Bill Barry, an ex-FBI man who was ostensibly serving as Kennedy's bodyguard had fallen ... have really been accessories after the fact to a deliberate cover-up?
JFK Assassination: Jacqueline Kennedy, RFK Did Not Believe Only ...
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Dec 20, 2013 - Jacqueline Kennedy and RFK wanted the Soviet leadership to know that ... into the hands of senior intelligence officials who directed the cover-up." ... "I told the FBI what I had heard [two shots from behind the grassy knoll ...

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FBI agents will blackmail people who downloaded child porn.

To avoid prosecution FBI agents will force these people to
commit crimes including murder.






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FBI's NIT Hit 8,000 Computers In 120 Countries... As Did The Child Porn It Was Redistributing
from the any-means-necessary dept
On the other hand, who needs to wait for the Rule 41 changes to kick in?
In January, Motherboard reported on the FBI's “unprecedented” hacking operation, in which the agency, using a single warrant, deployed malware to over one thousand alleged visitors of a dark web child pornography site. Now, it has emerged that the campaign was actually an order of magnitude larger.
In all, the FBI obtained over 8,000 IP addresses, and hacked computers in 120 different countries, according to a transcript from a recent evidentiary hearing in a related case.
No need to sit back and wait for the DOJ's proposed Rule 41 changes -- including the stripping of jurisdictional limitations for search warrants -- to default their way into adoption on December 1st. This worldwide search, performed under the authority of a single warrant issued by a single judge in Virginia, is just the FBI acting first and asking for forgiveness codification later. From the day two transcript [PDF]:
Every time Your Honor grants a discovery request and we get new information, it's like -- to use an appropriate metaphor, like peeling an onion. There's just another layer of fact there that we did not know about. I mean, we did not know this was a truly global warrant before. There are 120 countries and territories listed outside the United States that the FBI hacked into, and they also hacked into something called a "satellite provider." So now we are into outer space as well.
It's not just the hacking of computers around the world. It's also the FBI's brief stint as perhaps the world's largest distributor of child porn. From the day one transcript [PDF]:
Your Honor, starting with Michaud, and what we know now is there was no discussion of trying to limit the distribution. There were no protocols for these agents for handling or limiting the distribution of child pornography. And the scale of the distribution now went out to at least 120 countries, at least 1 million images. And it is absolutely mind boggling, we have not seen something like this.
And for all the area covered by the investigation -- the number of computers scattered all over the world the FBI sent its NIT to -- there, so far, seems to be very little to show for the agency's efforts. Defense lawyer Colin Fieman:
We have never, in our nation's history as far as I can tell, seen a warrant so utterly sweeping. 100,000 potential targets. Something like 8700 IP addresses captured. At least 1152 open investigations. And now oddly enough only, about 214 arrests.
[...]
What's even more disturbing, even if they disagree about the efficacy of some of those methods, we now know from Agent Alfin's recent testimony which we cited, there was absolutely no discussion at the Department of Justice or the FBI about protocols in terms of handling this stuff or whether these methods of limiting, at least limiting the most egregious distribution were viable. Nobody cared.
Fieman quotes an earlier case dealing with the FBI's physical distribution of child porn in hopes of netting some arrests. The FBI actually created a child porn "catalog," mailed it to sting targets, and sent the targets the child porn they requested. The court in that case was not happy with the FBI's actions.
The Court took it upon itself to make these statements, because they were so troubled by it. So first they start "we are aware of the necessity of such tactics" -- in terms of undercover operations and baiting with contraband -- "we are aware of the necessity of such tactics in so-called victimless crimes such as drug offenses, but the use of these methods when victims are actually harmed" -- and they are talking about the children depicted in these images -- "is inexplicable."
And "moreover" -- this is again Sherman, continuing with the quote from 549 -- "the government's dissemination of the pornographic materials could hardly be described as a 'controlled' delivery." Well, if it's n






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FBI Hacking Could Be Legalized December 1

by Lucian Armasu November 29, 2016 at 4:25 PM - Source: Fight For The Future



Earlier this year, the Judicial Conference (the national policy-making body for the federal courts) approved changes to “Rule 41” that would allow the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to hack anyone in any jurisdiction in the U.S., and even globally. Fight for the Future, along with the EFF and other civil liberties groups, are calling on everyone to ask their senators to pass a law to stop the rule change from going into effect on December 1.
The FBI has recently started employing mass hacking tactics against thousands of computers at once as a “modern investigative technique.” The new tactic came to light during the recent Playpen case, which revealed that the FBI hacked over 8,000 computers in 20 countries.
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According to Fight for the Future, anyone who uses encryption, a VPN, the Tor browser, disables location tracking, or is the victim of a botnet, could also become a target of FBI’s hacking efforts. That’s because the new rule 41 changes allow judges to issue warrants that would give law enforcement remote access and the ability to search, seize, and copy data when “the district where the media or information is located has been concealed through technological means.”
The EFF also argued that the real problem is the change allows any judge in the U.S. to issue warrants for any other jurisdiction in the country. Civil liberties groups believe that this would encourage law enforcement agencies to engage in “forum shopping,” which involves obtaining warrants from friendly judges, or from judges that may not fully understand the technical implications of the government’s requests.
The EFF has argued that the Rule 41 changes are not just the simple procedural changes that the Judicial Conference normally enacts, but changes that significantly expand FBI’s hacking powers. The EFF has argued that Congress, not the Supreme Court, should’ve decided this sort of hacking power expansion.
The new rule 41 changes go into effect on December 1 at midnight, which leaves little time for Congress to act and pass a law to stop the changes. However, the civil liberties groups recommend everyone could still contact their senators and ask them to vote yes on the “Stopping Mass Hacking Act.”




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Dallas-Based Journalist, ‘Anonymous Hacktivist’ Released From Federal Prison
November 29, 2016 3:17 PM


DALLAS– Dallas-born investigative journalist Barrett Brown was released from federal prison Tuesday morning after spending more than four years behind bars.

Barret The 35-year-old was sentenced to prison for threatening an FBI agent and helping share stolen data, marking the end of a criminal case criticized by free-speech advocates. He originally faced charges that carried more than 100 years in prison, but Brown pleaded guilty to greatly reduced charges: transmitting threats, aiding hackers and obstructing authorities from carrying out a search warrant. Supporters say Brown, was targeted by the federal government after sharing data hacked from the Austin-based defense contractor Stratfor.

Former National Security Agency subcontractor Edward Snowden tweeted his reaction to Brown’s new found freedom.


WikiLeaks also acknowledged Barrett’s release with a celebratory tweet and by publishing a searchable archive of more than 60,000 HBGary emails, which Barrett’s Project PM was investigating before he was arrested. Project PM is a crowdsourced investigation focused on research and analysis of leaked documents.


Brown was often quoted on the workings of Anonymous, a shadowy group of hackers that has staged several high-profile attacks on governments and businesses all over the world. He courted attention on the Internet with provocative tweets and YouTube videos – including a live chat he conducted while taking a bubble bath.

But some of those posts also landed him in trouble, including one in which he threatened an FBI agent that resulted in his arrest in September 2012. In the video [see below], Brown threatened the FBI agent by name, promising to “ruin his life and look into his (expletive) kids.” Three separate indictments followed, carrying a maximum sentence of more than century in prison.



Brown’s lawyers won the dismissal of most of a broad indictment related to his posting a link to the Stratfor data.

He eventually pleaded guilty to three counts: obstructing the execution of a search warrant, making Internet threats and being an accessory to an unauthorized access of a protected computer. The reduced charges carried a maximum sentence of more than eight years in prison.
According to plea agreement documents he signed, Brown admitted to sending online messages “threatening to shoot and injure” FBI agents.
Brown also acknowledged helping someone access the stolen data and obstructing the execution of a search warrant at his home. His mother pleaded guilty to helping Brown hide laptops during a March 2012 raid, and was given six months’ probation.

The case drew attention as the U.S. Justice Department sought in recent years to subpoena reporters’ phone records and force some to testify in criminal cases. Among Brown’s supporters is Gle







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Delaware man asks to sue FBI for false imprisonment

Lopez is today looking for jobs. He knows his reputation has been damaged by the affair, but maintains that he's right ..
A Delaware man, who told the FBI in late 2014 he was communicating with a high-ranking ISIS commander, said an omission in court filings by federal agents of their months-long correspondence led to his 13-month incarceration and a diagnosis of delusional disorder, according to a form filed last week that sets the stage for him to sue the federal law enforcement agency.

Lopez, a former used car salesman from Wyoming, was arrested in February 2015 on a single charge of communicating a threat to an FBI agent and spent more than a year being shuffled between psychiatric wards and solitary confinement around the country. The lack of information filed in the arrest document and the silence practiced by FBI agents during his detention were an abuse of process, malicious prosecution and denied his right to a fair trial, according to a document that Lopez's attorney sent to the FBI.
"Because of the FBI's actions and misleading affidavit, Lopez was incarcerated for thirteen months," according to the form obtained by The News Journal. "Further, all of Lopez's contacts in the FBI, including Agents [Nile] Donahue, [Jeffrey] Reising and [Scott Austin] Duffey, stood silent ... while the Government jailed Lopez, diagnosed him with a mental disorder and attempted to medicate him against his will; all while they had evidence which corroborated Lopez' story and established his innocence."
The FBI office in Baltimore did not respond to requests for comment. Other than to confirm they were asking to sue the FBI, neither Lopez nor his attorney, William J. Sheppard of Jacksonville, Florida, would comment on the filing that seeks $100 million in personal injury damages.


STORY: Dover man trying to free ISIS captives faced ordeal
STORY: Delaware man says new report of dead militant bolsters his story
Tom Reed, emeritus professor at Widener University Delaware Law School, explained that the Standard Form 95 is the first step in filing a civil suit against the federal government.
"If you don't do this step, you can't go any further," Reed said. "You can't just jump into court. The case will be dismissed for failure to exhaust your administrative remedy."
While not a court filing, the form is a serious claim for monetary relief and has to be treated with due respect.
"If it washes out during the development of the claim, that's the way it is," he said.
The FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware have not commented about whether Lopez did or did not





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Brooklyn prosecutor allegedly tapped phone of NYPD love interest



Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 12:31 PM


Tara Lenich, 41, was arrested for forging judges’ signatures on wiretaps. (FACEBOOK)
A prosecutor in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office arrested Monday for forging judges’ signatures on wiretaps was targeting an NYPD detective




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Artan and his family then moved to Columbus, where he enrolled in Columbus State Community College and was an honor student. He made the dean’s list for the Spring 2016 semester and graduated cum laude with an associated degree in the summer.

Allen Kraus, vice president of marketing and communications at Columbus State Community College, told VICE News in a statement that Artan “had no record of behavioral or disciplinary issues” while he was enrolled at the school.

He transferred to Ohio State, one of the largest universities in the country, as a logistics major in the business school. In August, he was profiled in the college paper, the Lantern, for a feature titled “Humans of Ohio State.” In the interview, Artan indicated that he struggled living as a Muslim.

He told the Lantern:

“I wanted to pray in the open, but I was scared with everything going on in the media. I’m a Muslim, it’s not what the media portrays me to be. If people look at me, a Muslim praying, I don’t know what they’re going to





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Senate to vote on Iran sanctions renewal this week
NOVEMBER 29, 2016 11:34 AM
 
 
 
 
 
 
WASHINGTON
The Senate will vote this week on a bill that would renew sanctions on Iran for 10 years, Senator Mitch McConnell, the chamber's Republican leader, said on Tuesday in remarks as he opened the daily session.
If the extension of the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) is passed as expected, it would be sent to the White House, where President Barack Obama is expected





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13 fatal police shootings this year could be most in Minnesota history
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel emphasized Tuesday that every fatal police shooting in Chicago is different — following news that a sergeant was being sued for his second deadly shooting in which a gun wasn’t recovered.
Sgt. John Poulos has been stripped of his badge and gun while investigators review the Nov. 23 death of Kajuan Raye

Poulos said he saw Raye, 19, point a gun at him twice during a foot chase, but investigators didn’t find a weapon, according to authorities. Raye was shot in the back.

He’s among five people who have been shot to death by Chicago Police officers in November. So far this year, police have fatally shot 11 people. There were nine such killings in all of 2015, 17 in 2014 and 13 in 2013.

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Las Vegas hypnotist Marc Savard shows you how FBI agents create Manchurian Candidates


2 stories


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Sirhan Sirhan - Whale
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the time that Kennedy died in Dallas, Jack Ruby had been in the company of two known hypnotists. One of ... A co-worker of Sirhan at the stables was Thomas Bremer, whose mind-controlled brother Arthur, shot ...
Did Wiliam Joseph Bryan, CIA hypnotist, know David Ferrie? - Google Groups
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I already mentioned the reported connection between William Joseph Bryan (the CIA hypnotist with suspected ties to Sirhan Sirhan, James Earl Ray, and Arthur Bremer) and David Ferrie, that they were both CIA and ...
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Just hours after [Robert Kennedy's] assassination, famed hypnotist Dr. William Joseph Bryan was on the Ray Briem show for KABC radio, and mentioned offhandedly that Sirhan was likely operating under some form of ...
Could Robert F. Kennedy's Assassin Have Been 'Hypno-Programmed'? - Live Science
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Dec 13, 2011 - Sirhan Sirhan's lawyers recently filed an appeal to his prison sentence, arguing that he was hypno-programmed to assassinate Robert F. Kennedy. But is hypnosis strong enough to convince ...

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KING: In the eyes of our justice system, a black life means less than a white statue



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Family: FBI Manipulated Schizophrenic Son to Inspire Bomb Plot in Oklahoma City



The family of a man accused of trying to detonate what he believed was a bomb outside of a bank in downtown Oklahoma City said the suspect is a paranoid schizophrenic and was manipulated by the FBI.

The mother and stepfather of 23-year-old Jerry Drake Varnell said undercover agents took advantage of their son’s mental condition and that he was incapable of carrying out an attack without additional help.

Varnell lived at home and was jobless because of his mental illness, Clifford and Melonie Varnell, of Oklahoma, said in a statement picked up by the Associated Press.

“The FBI came and picked him up from our home, they gave him a vehicle, gave him a fake bomb, and every means to make this happen,” the statement said, adding that authorities “should not have aided and abetted a paranoid schizophrenic to commit this act.”

The FBI declined to comment this week.


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City high schoolers spend weeks restoring 71 gravestones of 19th century African-Americans in Brooklyn
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NYT: Internet Users Should Be Alarmed by DOJ’s Pursuit of DreamHost Information

Do you use the internet? Are you interested in politics? Do you value your privacy? If you answered yes, you should be alarmed by the shockingly broad search warrant sought by the Justice Department, and approved by a judge in Washington, D.C., last month, targeting DreamHost, an internet hosting company based in Los Angeles.

As DreamHost explained in a blog post on Monday, it hosts disruptj20.org, a website that helped organize anti-Trump protests on Inauguration Day, and posted pictures of those protests in the days after. There were large-scale protests across Washington on Jan. 20, most of which involved peaceful marches or sit-ins. But some people turned to violence, breaking store windows, setting fires, throwing rocks at police officers and, in one case, assaulting Richard Spencer, the white nationalist, during a television interview. More than 200 people have been charged with felony rioting.

As part of its continuing investigation, the Justice Department demanded that DreamHost turn over “all records or other information” relating to the site, which received more than 1.3 million requests to view its pages in six days after the inauguration. Those records include personal information like I.P. addresses, which identify a specific computer; data about which of the site’s pages a user viewed, and when; and the type of operating software on that person’s computer. Federal prosecutors are also seeking all emails, photos and other content sent to and from the site.

“That information could be used to identify any individuals who used this site to exercise and express political speech protected under the Constitution’s First Amendment,” DreamHost wrote in its blog post.

It doesn’t matter whether the visitor is suspected of participating in a crime, or is even known to have attended the protests. If someone clicked anywhere on the site from anywhere in the world, the government wants to know.






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‘I hope Trump is assassinated,’ Missouri lawmaker writes — and quickly regrets



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Sacramento police release video of controversial encounter with black pregnant woman thrown
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Vermont Man Accused of Spraying Liquid Manure on Marked Border Patrol Car



A Vermont man accused of spraying liquid manure on a marked Border Patrol car pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of disorderly conduct and simple assault of a law enforcement officer with fluids.

Authorities said Mark Johnson, 53, covered the vehicle in manure after telling an agent that he should do more to arrest people in the country illegally, the Associated Press reports.




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Two correction officers allegedly punched, kicked black inmate in face and lied about it later
BY REUVEN BLAU
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, August 17, 2017, 6:51 PM



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Black Florida inmate who died from police dog bite infection was ridiculed, laughed at by corrections officer
BY DAVID BOROFF
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, August 18, 2017, 2:32 PM



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State Attorney General's office probed 11 police-related deaths, resulting in charges against 1 cop
BY JOHN ANNESE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Friday, August 18, 2017, 2:10 AM







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California woman at center of Bay Area police sex scandal sues Richmond officers


Saturday, August 19, 2017, 10:31 AM
Jasmine Abuslin, who also goes by Celeste Guap, has filed a lawsuit against several Richmond officers and their supervisers.

The 19-year-old sex worker at the heart of a scandal that’s rocked police departments across the Bay Area is suing several members of the Richmond police force.

In a lawsuit filed Thursday, Richmond resident Jasmine Abuslin — who also goes by the name Celeste Guap — alleged several officers had sex with her even though she was a minor, while others “turned a blind eye” to the abuse.

Her attorney, John Burris, named current Richmond Police Chief Allwyn Brown, former Chief Chris Magnus and Lt. Brian Dickerson as defendants for what he called a failure to supervise and stop the sexual misconduct of at least five Richmond police officers, Courthouse News reported.

Burris said the officers, most of them married, acted like “immoral frat boys” and should be fired. His client was identified as only Jane Doe in the federal complaint, but Burris confirmed her identity in speaking with the news outlet.

Abuslin, who started working as a prostitute at a young age, said officers knew she was “available to them for sexual favors and pleasure in exchange for paid monies, protection or other forms of consideration.”

She described her role there as an “exclusively department retained sex worker.”





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Leaked memo reveals this congressman’s ridiculous demands of chauffeur


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State Police announce new homeland security division

AUGUST 17, 2017
The Massachusetts State Police will now include a new division specifically dedicated to homeland security, Governor Charlie Baker announced Thursday.

The Division of Homeland Security and Preparedness will increase efficiency in the State Police by consolidating efforts to counter terror, efforts to combat the opioid crisis, and the collection and analysis of criminal intelligence, Baker’s office said in a statement.


Those operations were previously spread across various divisions.

“By bringing the different elements of our homeland security operations under one command, we will enhance the ability for the State Police to coordinate, respond and protect the Commonwealth for critical incidents and threats like drug trafficking,” Baker said.

State Police Colonel Richard McKeon said troopers in the homeland security division are currently working with the Boston Police Department to ensure public safety at the “free speech rally” planned for Saturday.

The division was created when Baker signed the fiscal year 2018 budget and has been forming for the past two months, State Police spokesman Dave Procopio said in an e-mail.

“In an increasingly chaotic world, the time has come for the Massachusetts State Police to build the organization and structure needed to meet the challenges that threaten our safety, security, and freedoms,” McKeon said at the conference.


Certain sections of the division, such as the such as the new 24-hour watch center located at State Police general headquarters in Framingham, are still being developed, Procopio said.

The watch center will “monitor all developing incidents, anywhere in the state, nation, or world, that impact public safety and security,” McKeon said, allowing State Police to more efficiently coordinate responses from law enforcement agencies statewide.

In addition to its counterterrorism and antiopioid abuse efforts, the division will also include a section responsible for

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Re: FBI favorite tools from the FBI Toolbox: Voter Fraud Manchurian Candidate or Blackmail

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https://www.intellihub.com/manchurian-c ... is-by-cia/


Manchurian Candidate? Florida shooter told FBI that he was forced to fight for ISIS by the CIA - Intellihub
https://www.intellihub.com › manchurian...
Jan 7, 2017 · Reports indicate that the shooter actually believed he was being forced by the CIA to watch ISIS propaganda videos as well as actually fight for ISIS.





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Fourth Fappening Hacker Caught by the FBI




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Journalism History
Coming on like Gang Busters: J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and the Battle to Control Radio Portrayals of the Bureau, 1936-1958
By Cecil, Matthew






http://www.wbko.com/content/news/FBI-ag ... 86873.html

FBI agent visits Bowling Green Rotary Club to educate members on ...
WBKO-Jan 10, 2018
"Having the interstate highway system going through Bowling Green does put us on the map for heavy transportation to and from the large cities," said Scott Ramsey, Bowling Green FBI Citizens' Academy Alumni Association. Human trafficking is the third largest grossing criminal enterprise in the world. "The human ...



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No New York Times Story About FBI Agents Targeting Its Reporter

| January 10, 2018 2:00 PM EST
Imagine if it was discovered that a couple of FBI officials had targeted a newspaper reporter to the extent that they not only searched out the reporter's home address and spouse's name but also, most creepily, the names of his children. Would that not be a major story in that reporter's newspaper since it involved an obvious attempt at government intimidation?

Well, it would normally be a blockbuster story in almost any newspaper with the very notable exception of the New York Times when such a report would prove incompatible with its political motivations. Such an example happened this week after a January 8 report in The Hill revealing that FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and his mistress, bureau lawyer Lisa Page, exchanged disparaging messages about the reporter they were targeting, Matt Apuzzo of the New York Times. The reaction from the Times? Nothing. No report. Zilch. Nada.

First let us look at The Hill report by John Solomon about New York Times reporter targeting which the New York Times has bizarrely avoided:

FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and bureau lawyer Lisa Page engaged in a series of texts shortly before Election Day 2016 suggesting they knew in advance about an article in The Wall Street Journal and would need to feign stumbling onto the story so it could be shared with colleagues.

...The Hill reviewed nearly three dozen texts in which the two agents discussed articles, tried to track down information about a specific New York Times reporter or opined about leaked information in stories that they fretted were “super specific.”

...The two agents also spent extensive time shortly before the 2016 election trying to track down information — including an address and a spouse’s job — about The New York Times reporter Matt Apuzzo, who has reported on numerous developments in the Russia case.

“We got a list of kids with their parents’ names. How many Matt Apuzzo’s (sic) could there be in DC,” Page texted. “Showed J a picture, he said he thinks he has seen a guy who kinda looks like that, but always really schlubby. I said that sounds like every reporter I have ever seen.”

A minute later, Page added another text: “Found what I think might be their address, too.”

Strzok writes back, “He’s TOTALLY schlubby. Don’t you remember?”

Page responded later by saying she found information on the reporter’s wife too. “Found address looking for her. Lawyer.”

Strzok cautions Page against using the work phone to track down information on the reporter. “I wouldn’t search on your work phone, ,,, no idea what that might trigger,” he texted.

“Oops. Too late,” she responded back.

Apuzzo declined comment when contacted on his cell phone.






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Off-duty cop charged with drunken driving a month after East Harlem crash
BY ESHA RAY THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Saturday, January 13, 2018, 12:37 PM



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Chelsea Manning files to run for U.S. Senate in Maryland
BY JESSICA SCHLADEBECK
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Saturday, January 13, 2018, 6:49 PM



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NYPD dumps Nokia phones for iPhones because FBI can’t hack them
BY GRAHAM RAYMAN THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Saturday, January 13, 2018, 6:17 PM




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Off-duty NYPD sergeant found dead inside Staten Island hotel in apparent suicide
BY THOMAS TRACY JOHN ANNESE GRAHAM RAYMAN ESHA RAY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Saturday, January 13, 2018, 9:30 PM





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Arapahoe County deputy guilty of DUI, weapon violation, while on duty
Deputy Jeffery Vincent remains on unpaid leave, will be sentenced Feb. 1
By KIERAN NICHOLSON | knicholson@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
January 12, 2018 at 6:09 pm



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Weapons stolen from FBI agent’s home in Castaic


Weapons from an FBI agent’s home in Castaic were stolen on Friday night, according to the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Department.



Investigators cannot yet confirm what kind, or how many, weapons were taken from the agent’s home.

“We’re still trying to ascertain what kind of weapons were there,” said Lt. Hahnlein of the SCV Sheriff’s Station. “Because he had several weapons, several different safes, so were trying to figure out what’s going on,” he said.



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APRIL 9, 2014 | STEVE WEINBERG
HOW THE MEDIA CONNED THE PUBLIC INTO LOVING THE FBI: BOOK REVIEW




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American Radical' follows an undercover Muslim FBI agent
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INSIDE THE FBI'S DECADES-LONG EFFORT TO COURT ALLIES IN THE MEDIA



As the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover faced a public-relations problem. Amid the centralization of government under FDR’s New Deal, some Americans worried that a federal law enforcement agency would develop into a secret police force. To head off such fears, the FBI under Hoover began what became a decades-long effort to court allies in the press. One of the more unusual aspects of this campaign was the creation of a five-agent ghostwriting division that cultivated journalists with ostensibly personal letters from Hoover. The correspondence unit, housed in the FBI’s crime records division, churned out thousands of these missives during Hoover’s 48-year tenure at the helm of the FBI and its predecessor, the Bureau of Investigation, writes Matthew Cecil, a journalism and communications scholar at South Dakota State University.

The correspondence unit took the lead in recruiting new “journalist-adjuncts” to the FBI’s side by engaging potentially friendly reporters in a wide-ranging correspondence. As letters were exchanged, Hoover might offer condolences at the loss of a family member or inquire about his correspondent’s wife—on occasion even maintain a separate correspondence with her—all through the pen of a ghost. Hoover met in person with some of his supposed pen pals, but more often than not letters and information leaks sufficed to give the quarry the impression that he was a member of Hoover’s inner circle. Grateful reporters offered up tips and glowing press mentions of the FBI. “Thank God that a man like J. Edgar Hoover is the head of the FBI,” read one ringing endorsement in The American Magazine in 1955. “He is the greatest bulwark against the insidious Communist menace that is casting a shadow over this great land of ours.”

The unit sometimes suggested particular articles for “special correspondents” to write. In 1950, after the publication of a book criticizing the FBI’s spying and other activities, Hoover’s letter writers convinced Morris Ernst, the general counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union, to publish a defense of the bureau in Readers’ Digest. “The article’s publication provided Hoover with cover from the Left that the bureau cited for decades thereafter as evidence of its restraint in civil liberties matters,” Cecil notes. Some journalists writing about the FBI even submitted their work to Hoover for his review prior to publication.

Those who believed themselves to be part of Hoover’s inner circle took their relationship with one of Washington’s most powerful men seriously. Writer Courtney Ryley Cooper collaborated with Hoover on articles, books, and film scripts over seven years, and was the frequent recipient of letters ghostwritten by the correspondence unit. But when an article he wrote under Hoover’s name about the surfeit of criminal activity in car-friendly campgrounds was loudly criticized by defenders of the tourism industry, the unit cut Cooper off. He committed suicide within a year, and his wife alleged that he did so because of the depression he ex





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Nuclear war became more likely this week – here's why
The Trump administration’s nuclear policy review loosens constraints on the use of nuclear weapons. We should all be worried



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Operation Mockingbird is a large-scale program of the United States Intelligence agencies (FBI)(CIA) that began in the early 1950s and attempted to manipulate news media for propaganda purposes. It funded student and cultural organizations and magazines as front organizations.
According to writer Deborah Davis, Mockingbird recruited leading American journalists into a propaganda network and oversaw the operations of front groups. CIA support of front groups was exposed after a 1967 Ramparts magazine article reported that the National Student Association received funding from the CIA. In the 1970s, Congressional investigations and reports also revealed Agency connections with journalists and civic groups. None of these reports, however, mentions an Operation Mockingbird controlling or supporting these activities.
A Project Mockingbird is mentioned in the CIA Family Jewels report, compiled in the mid-1970s. According to the declassified version of the report released in 2007, Project Mockingbird involved wire-tapping of two American journalists for several months in the early 1960s.



The claim that the CIA ran an "Operation Mockingbird" first[non-primary source needed] appeared in Katharine the Great, a 1979 biography of Katharine Graham, owner of The Washington Post, written by reporter Deborah Davis.[1] According to Davis, Operation Mockingbird was established by Frank Wisner, director of the Office of Policy Coordination, a covert operations unit created by the United States National Security Council. Davis writes that Mockingbird was a response to the creation of a Communist front organization, the International Organization of Journalists, which "received money from Moscow and controlled reporters on every major newspaper in Europe, disseminating stories that promoted the Communist cause."[2]
Wisner recruited Phil Graham from The Washington Post to run the project within the industry. According to Davis, "By the early 1950s, Wisner 'owned' respected members of The New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles."[3]
In 1951, Allen Dulles persuaded Cord Meyer to join the CIA. According to Deborah Davis, Meyer became Mockingbird's "principal operative."[4]
After 1953, the media network was overseen by CIA Director Allen Dulles, by which time Operation Mockingbird had major influence over 25 newspapers and wire agencies.[5] Its usual modus operandi was to place reports, developed from CIA-provided intelligence, with cooperating or unwitting reporters. Those reports would be repeated or cited by the recipient reporters and would then, in turn, be cited throughout the media wire services. These networks were run by people with well-known liberal, but pro-American-big-business and anti-Soviet views, such as William S. Paley (CBS), Henry Luce (Time and Life), Arthur Hays Sulzberger (The New York Times), Alfred Friendly (managing editor of The Washington Post), Jerry O'Leary (The Washington Star), Hal Hendrix (Miami News), Barry Bingham, Sr. (Louisville Courier-Journal), James S. Copley (Copley News Services) and Joseph Harrison (The Christian Science Monitor).[5]








http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/us/in ... tless.html


The F.B.I. Deemed Agents Faultless in 150 Shootings
By CHARLIE SAVAGE and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDTJUNE 18, 2013


Critics say the fact that for at least two decades no agent has been disciplined for any instance of deliberately shooting someone raises questions about the credibility of the bureau’s internal investigations. Samuel Walker, a professor of criminal justice at the University of NebraskaOmaha who studies internal law enforcement investigations, called the bureau’s conclusions about cases of improper shootings “suspiciously low.”







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Police: Kidnap victim shot after grabbing FBI agent's rifle
Tampabay.com-
HOUSTON (AP) — A kidnapping victim killed during a rescue attempt was shot after grabbing the rifle of an FBI agent when the agent tried to enter the home where the victim was being held, police said Tuesday, describing the incident as tragic. The FBI agent didn't know it was the victim who grabbed his rifle during last ...





https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... mo/551834/


The Republican Party Turns Against the FBI
Trump again provokes a sudden crisis that crystallizes a lengthy erosion of confidence.






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Judicial Watch: FBI's McCabe 'Used FBI Resources' For His Liberal ...
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(CNSNews.com) -- In a statement about the abrupt resignation on Monday of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Judicial Watch noted that it had "uncovered documents months ago that should have triggered Mr. McCabe's removal," that the FBI was still stonewalling on releasing McCabe's text messages, and that other ..








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FBI teletype reveals a brief counterintelligence investigation into ...
MuckRock-
A recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation file on the Church of Scientology shows that more than twenty years before Central Intelligence Agency accused WikiLeaks of being a “non-state hostile intelligence service,” the FBI received an official inquiry asking if the COS was one. Nearly half of the released ...







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Is a Court Case in Texas the First Prosecution of a 'Black Identity ...
Foreign Policy (blog
The FBI declined to comment on any aspect of Daniels's case, including whether he was tracked as a black identity extremist, but in interviews, civil rights advocates expressed concerns about the precedent of targeting African-Americans, like Daniels, for their political activism, and using broad categories anchored in race ...



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FBI agent and Jailbird Congressman Michael Grimm's #METOO: I Was Bad ...
Wonkette (blog)-4
This @#$!%&! guy again! Not even Haley Joel Osment can see his political career, and yet here he is trying to have a #METOO moment. No, he wasn't sexually harassed. Although there was that one time the former Congressman threatened to throw a reporter off the balcony of the the US Capitol Building, as one does.






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Before promotion to Gun Trace Task Force, Baltimore detective was ensnared in $11,000 theft case















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recording device in police car when Baltimore gun unit fled ...
Baltimore Sun-
The FBI had a microphone hidden inside a Baltimore Police vehicle when members of the Gun Trace Task Force fled the scene of a crash, then discussed falsifying timesheets to cover their tracks. Convicted former Det. Jemell Rayam broke down on the witness stand Tuesday when asked about the incident. He said the ...













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Disturbing Claim – FBI Interrogated Former Senator for Wanting “28 ...
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May 9, 2016 - Bob Graham, who in 2002 chaired the congressional Joint Inquiry into 9/11, maintains the FBI is covering up a Saudi support cell in Sarasota for the hijackers . He says the al-Hijjis' “urgent” pre-9/11 exit suggests “someone may have tipped them off” about the coming attacks. Graham has been working with ...







Former FBI agent involved in 911 coverup


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Florida congressman denied access to censored pages from ...
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Cached
Dec 29, 2014 - C. and Stephen Lynch, D-Ma. and others talk about the need to declassify the 28 censored pages from Congress's Joint Inquiry report on 9/11. ... “Congressman Mike Rogers made serious misrepresentations to other committee members when he brought this up,” Grayson in a telephone interview. “When the ...





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MIKE ROGERS: TARNISHING FBI AFFECTS AGENTS


Mike Rogers, former House intelligence chairman, says that having competing, partisan memos spell trouble for the credibility of an investigation.
Posted: Jan. 30, 2018 2:04 PM
Updated: Jan. 30, 2018 5:54 PM



http://thehill.com/homenews/house/37142 ... of-the-fbi

Ryan calls for a 'cleanse' of the FBI
The Hill-
Several conservative lawmakers have claimed the memo will illustrate political bias within the FBI. The House Intelligence Committee voted Monday night along party lines to release the memo, despite concerns from Justice Department officials that doing so could endanger intelligence sources. Ryan on Tuesday morning ...











https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... d83d4abdf6


Internal Justice Department probe eyes McCabe's role in final weeks ...
Washington Post-
The Justice Department's inspector general has been focused for months on why Andrew McCabe, as the No. 2 official at the FBI, appeared not to act for about three weeks on a request to examine a batch of Hillary Clinton-related emails found in the latter stages of the 2016 election campaign, according to people familiar ...







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South Florida cop arrested in Ponzi scheme
publish date 3:25 p.m Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018 Local News



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Did FBI use improper surveillance on a U.S. citizen?









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Report: FBI is using a second Trump-Russia dossier, which also has ...
TheBlaze.com-
Report: FBI is using a second Trump-Russia dossier, which also has Clinton Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the 2012 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Russia. The Guardian reported Tuesday that the FBI is currently using a second dossier on

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http://atlantablackstar.com/2018/02/16/ ... ub-gunman/



In the Last Two Years Alone the FBI Missed Warning Signs About Several Mass Shooters, Including the Orlando Nightclub


February 16, 2018




http://ticklethewire.com/2018/02/16/thi ... trump-win/


Thirteen Russians Charged with Interfering in Election to Help Trump Win




http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02 ... premacist/

Florida shooting: Nikolas Cruz, teenager charged with 17 murders, was trained by white supremacist group





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Cartoon of JB Pritzker stirs controversy
WLS-TV-22
In the corner an FBI agent appears to be listing in on the call. "That's the equivalent of putting gasoline on a fire, someone's doing that intentionally to stir up race," said Ald. Roderick Sawyer, Chairman of the Black Caucus. Ald. Sawyer said Thursday that he supports J.B. Pritzker. This issue is the first under new editor Mark ...






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Feds admit reason for computer wipe in Woods kickback case not credible
By Doug Thompson
Posted: February 16, 2018 at 1:30 a.m.








http://ticklethewire.com/2018/02/16/fbi ... sire-kill/

FBI Admits It Ignored Warning about School Shooter’s Desire to Kill




http://ticklethewire.com/2018/02/16/fbi ... l-shooter/



FBI Reviewing How It Handled Tip Months Ago about Florida School Shooter






https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15/politics ... index.html

Ex-wife's photos raise questions about McGahn's role in Porter scandal
FBI Obtained Photos of Alleged Abuse by Rob Porter More Than a Year Ago






http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/15/ve ... anure.html

Vermont man finally admits to spraying Border Patrol agent's car with manure















http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html
L.A. NOW
LOCAL
LA TIMES
Immigrant rights activists block Homeland Security van from accessing Metropolitan Detention Center












https://www.stjohns.edu/about/news/2018 ... d-security
University Announces New Doctor of Professional Studies in Homeland Security


Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Responding to the growing need for a new generation of leaders in the field of homeland security—and the professionals who will educate them—St. John’s University’s College of Professional Studies has launched a Doctor of Professional Studies in Homeland Security program, to begin in the Fall 2018 semester.













https://www.deseretnews.com/article/660 ... BI-op.html





Nichols says bombing was FBI op
Detailed confession filed in S.L. about Oklahoma City plot
Published: February 21, 2007 12:00 am
Updated: Feb. 22, 2007 1:02 p.m.

The only surviving convicted criminal in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is saying his co-conspirator, Timothy McVeigh, told him he was taking orders from a top FBI official in orchestrating the bombing.
A declaration from Terry Lynn Nichols, filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, has proven to be one of the most detailed confessions by Nichols to date about his involvement in the bombing as well as the involvement of others. However, one congressman who has investigated the bombings remains skeptical of Nichols' claims.
The declaration was filed as part of Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue's pending wrongful death suit against the government for the death of his brother in a federal corrections facility in Oklahoma City. Trentadue claims his brother was killed during an interrogation by FBI agents when agents mistook his brother for a suspect in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation.
The most shocking allegation in the 19-page signed declaration is Nichols' assertion that the whole bombing plot was an FBI operation and that McVeigh let slip during a bout of anger that he was taking instruction from former FBI official Larry Potts.
Potts was no stranger to anti-government confrontations, having been the lead FBI agent at Ruby Ridge in 1992, which led to the shooting death of Vicki Weaver, the wife of separatist Randy Weaver. Potts also was reportedly involved in the 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in 1993, which resulted in a fire that killed 81 Branch Davidian followers.
Potts retired from the FBI under intense pressure and criticism for the cover-up of an order to allow agents to shoot anyone seen leaving the Weaver cabin at Ruby Ridge.
When contacted, the FBI's main office in Washington, D.C., said it could not provide immediate comment on Nichols' claims Tuesday.










http://www.wnd.com/2007/02/40355/




'Multiple accomplices' ID'd by Terry Nichols - WND.com
www.wnd.com/2007/02/40355/
Feb 26, 2007 - Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue secured Nichols' signed and sealed declaration as part of his ongoing legal battle to wrangle the truth out of the FBI in regard to the Oklahoma City bombing ... As Nichols recounts his conversation with McVeigh, “Potts had something to do with the change in targets.









http://ticklethewire.com/2018/02/15/fbi ... olas-cruz/



FBI Alerted Months Ago about School Shooting Threat by YouTuber Named Nikolas Cruz
Ticklethewire.com
The FBI was alerted to an alarming comment on YouTube from a user named Nikolas Cruz, who posted months ago that he planned to become a “professional school shooter,” according to a Mississippi man.
Ben Bennight, a bail bondsman, said he flagged the comment on YouTube last fall and emailed a screenshot to the FBI, who paid him a visit and asked whether he knew the commenter.
“They came to my office the next morning and asked me if I knew anything about the person,” Bennight told BuzzFeed News. “I didn’t. They took a copy of the screenshot and that was the last I heard from them.”
Cruz opened fire with an AR-15 Wednesday at a Florida high school, killing at least 17











http://time.com/5159992/fbi-agent-cnn-w ... -shooting/

'I Can't Do It, Wolf.' Veteran FBI Agent Breaks Down on CNN Over Florida School Shooting


http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/fbi-florid ... -1.4538502

FBI director's resignation demanded after agency admits it got tip ...

Had agents been able to confirm Cruz was the same person as the YouTube poster, they would have found dozens of photos of rifles, ammunition, targets filled with bullet holes, which likely would have led to a face-to-face interview. The FBI did not notify police in Florida about the post before the mass shooting.



http://fox59.com/2018/02/16/deputies-we ... ords-show/



Deputies were called to home of Florida high school shooter 39 ...
Fox 59
A video blogger said he warned the FBI in September about a possible school shooting threat from a YouTube user with the same name as Cruz. An FBI agent confirmed that a field officer in Jackson, Mississippi, received the tip and interviewed the person who shared it. But no additional information was found to help ...

https://www.policemisconduct.net/the-wa ... ars-later/

The Waco Incident – 20 Years Later
April 19, 2013

Since this web site is all about police misconduct, we cannot let the twentieth anniversary of the Waco incident pass without comment.
April 19, 1993 marks the worst police action in modern American history. Here are the main things to know:
76 people, including 27 children, died that day. That loss of life is a sufficient explanation as to why this incident is important and worth remembering.
The federal police operation did not involve a handful of “rogue” agents. The incident is disturbing because it supposedly involved the best units of the ATF and the FBI. And much of the decision-making was done by the top people at headquarters facilities in Washington, DC.
Make no mistake, crimes were committed by federal agents at Waco. And those crimes were covered-up.
If the feds can successfully cover-up the worst police action in modern American history–an event that was highly publicized and that eventually brought extensive congressional hearings and the appointment of a special prosecutor– it is frightening to consider what police agencies would be able to get away in instances where there is no media scrutiny or legislative oversight.
For those interested in the details, read this paper that we published in 2001 (I also recommend the documentary film, Waco: The Rules of Engagement, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 1997). For today, let me just highlight some facts for all the people who do not have the time or inclination to study the details.
• When the Branch Davidian residence burned to the ground and it became apparent that the FBI tank assault on April 19 backfired–resulting in almost everyone losing their lives, Attorney General Janet Reno told the media that the reason she ordered the assault was because “babies were being beaten” — so the feds had no choice–they just had to move in. About a week later, Reno testified before Congress. Under oath, she admitted she had no evidence that babies were being beaten! What!?
• The FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team kept saying they were there to save lives and that they were especially concerned about the safety of the children in the residence. But their tanks drove into the side of buildings even as the agents admitted they did not know the whereabouts of the children.
• Some of the Branch Davidians survived the inferno of April 19. They were arrested and charged with “murdering ATF agents.” In a stinging rebuke to the federal prosectors, the jury acquitted the Davidians of those very serious charges.
• One of the primary reasons the cover-up was successful was that government officials kept deflecting attention away from their actions to the Branch Davidian leader, David Koresh. And, later, the feds would deflect attention by pointing out the crimes of the Oklahoma City bombers. The feds seemed to taunt everyone with the question, “Who are you going to side with? Koresh? McVeigh and Nicols?” That was always a false choice. One can, for example, condemn excessive force against a shoplifter without “siding with” shoplifting.
• There are, to be sure, some wild conspiracy theories out there about the feds and Waco. But the existence of a conspiracy theorist(s) does not make all government conduct lawful and ethical, at least in logic.
What’s the takeaway from all this? First, recognize that this awful incident really did happen. Crimes were committed and then the government tried to deceive everyone about what actually happened there. Second, when it comes to government power, especially police power and the use of deadly force, be impartial, ask questions, and follow the evidence. We must remember that, in a free society, police agents may not use the “color of their office” to commit crimes.


https://www.cato.org/publications/comme ... lames-waco

Fanning the Flames of Waco
By David B. Kopel and Paul H. Blackman
September 8, 1999
On April 19, 1993, 26 children were killed at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. Six years and one day later, 12 children were killed at Columbine High School. The Columbine murderers are dead, and the man who illegally supplied them a gun is facing a lengthy prison sentence. But those responsible for the deaths of the children at Waco remain at large.
If, as President Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno claim, the federal government bears no responsibility for the deaths of the children at Waco, why has the federal government worked so hard, and with so much success until recently, to falsify the facts about what happened there?
The lies about how the fire started commenced while the building was still in flames. A Justice Department spokesman in Washington claimed that an FBI sniper using a rifle scope had seen a male Branch Davidian, wearing black Ninja-style clothes and a black hood, pour liquid on the floor behind a piano and then ignite it. The day after the fire, Jeffrey Jamar, the FBI’s special agent in charge at Waco, asserted that the agent saw a person “get down with cupped hands and then there was a flash of fire.”
At the criminal trial of the Branch Davidians in 1994, that story fell apart. FBI Special Agent Jack Morrison said that he could see, through a hole created by a tank, somebody bent or kneeling by an overturned piano. The man appeared to be washing his hands, although the sniper admitted on cross-examination that he could not see the man’s hands. The fire did not erupt while the man was in the sniper’s sight, though the sniper did see a fire shortly thereafter. However, pictures of the progress of the fire show that the area near the overturned piano (the front door) was not a starting point for any fire. No fire appears there until several minutes after the sniper’s observation. Photographs show no fire in that area while much of the rest of the building was in flames.
Attorney General Reno earned a congratulatory phone call from President Clinton the day after the fire because of her highly publicized acceptance of responsibility. She put the FBI in charge of investigating its own conduct at Waco. The resulting report was a sham and a cover-up. Although seven independent reviewers were appointed to examine the FBI report, the FBI withheld evidence from them, such as Branch Davidian leader David Koresh’s April 14 offer to surrender as soon as he completed his written interpretation of the Seven Seals from the Book of Revelation.
Today, Reno claims to be angry that the FBI has been caught lying about Waco for the last six years. This brings to mind Claude Rains’s line from Casablanca, “I’m shocked … shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.”
The FBI lied to Janet Reno right from the start: they told her that CS chemical warfare agent is a mild irritant, even though much smaller doses than were used at Waco have killed children. On the day of the assault, the FBI flagrantly ignored her prior order to back off if there was any danger to the children. When she had initially rejected the FBI’s plan for a tank and chemical warfare assault on the Branch Davidians, the FBI told her that “Koresh was beating the babies.” In fact, FBI listening devices revealed no such thing.
Now Attorney General Reno’s response to new revelations about FBI lies is to order another FBI investigation of the FBI.
It is undisputed that while the FBI tanks were conducting the chemical warfare assault, the Branch Davidians spread kerosene in the building, intending to light it if the tanks entered the building. Starting a massive conflagration would have been consistent with Koresh’s apocalyptic interpretation of the Bible.
However, if federal agents bear no responsibility for the start of the fire and for the deaths of 76 people, why has the FBI covered up so much evidence for so long?
Recent revelations show that the FBI did fire pyrotechnic grenades — fully capable of starting a fire — during the attack on the Branch Davidian home. The FBI now claims that those grenades were launched six hours before the fire began. Yet if this “innocent” explanation is true, why did the FBI not tell the truth from the beginning?
Even if one takes the current FBI explanation at face value, it shows the federal government’s horrible disregard for the children. Although CS chemical warfare agent is banned from international warfare by a treaty that the United States has signed, the FBI used it against children and babies, knowing that those innocents would be unprotected by gas masks, since their faces were too small to fit them.
After the fire, the FBI bemoaned the failure of the Branch Davidians to take refuge in the underground tornado shelter, where the air remained cool and fresh. Yet the FBI now admits that the pyrotechnic grenades were launched at the very beginning of the assault as part of a systematic plan to keep anyone from fleeing to the shelter.
The federal Posse Comitatus Act forbids the use of the military for civilian law enforcement. Yet the Dallas Morning News reports that the U.S. Army’s Delta Force was “present, up front and close” on April 19, 1993. That revelation undermines earlier claims that only three Delta Force soldiers were at Waco in an “advisory” capacity.
The government claims that the FBI never fired a single shot at Waco, yet an FBI aerial film appears to show the distinctive pattern of machine gun fire coming from government posts at the rear of the Branch Davidian compound — on the one side of the building that television cameras could not see. Could it be that Delta Force, and not the FBI, was doing the shooting — making claims that the FBI did not fire a single shot literally true?
Congressional leaders are beginning new hearings on Waco. However, the 1995 Waco hearings were a disaster, with Republicans looking for administration appointees to blame and paying little attention to the malfeasance of career federal agents. Meanwhile, Democrats such as then-Rep. Charles Schumer succeeded in diverting attention away from crimes committed by government employees and toward the statutory rapes that David Koresh had perpetrated earlier. To his credit, Schumer, now a senator, was the first major Democrat to call for a new review of Waco.
If another round of hearings is to have any chance for success, it will be essential to have a small committee, to allow congressional staff to question witnesses, and not to impose time limits on how long a given witness may be questioned.
Even now, it is unclear who killed the children of Waco. More than ever, though, the recent unveiling of more FBI lies underscores the fact that the children died because of willful and knowing actions by our federal law enforcement professionals. Although the president shed crocodile tears over the 12 children at Columbine High School and now seeks partisan advantage by pushing for federal laws that could not possibly have prevented Columbine, he and his administration remain coldly indifferent to the 26 children at Waco. The day after the Waco fire, Clinton said, “I do not think the United States government is responsible for the fact that a bunch of religious fanatics decided to kill themselves.” But the children didn’t kill themselves. If the president and his attorney general really care about those 26 children, they will appoint outside investigators — not the FBI — to bring out the truth about what really happened on April 19, 1993.
David B. Kopel and Paul H. Blackman are the authors of No More Wacos: What’s Wrong with Federal Law Enforcement and How to Fix It.

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