We brought Ed Tatro to speak on two different occasions at Bates College presenting evidence on how FBI agents assassinated President Kennedy.
He will be speaking this fall.
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Expert Spotlight: Edgar F. Tatro
Today we are very proud to present another member of our outstanding 2013 panel. Edgar F. Tatro, one of today's preeminent experts on the Kennedy Assassination, has pursued the truth as relentlessly as anyone over the past 50 years. Tatro holds a B.A. Degree in English from Boston University, a Master’s Degree in Urban Education from Boston State College and Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Educational Administration from Boston State College.
He taught high school English for 38 years, specializing in science-fiction, mystery and horror, satire and comedy, creative writing, media and propaganda, and the origin, history and poetry of rock music. He also taught college and adult education courses for 30 years, specializing in the JFK assassination, subliminal messages in advertizing, the influence of rock music on drug abuse, backward messages in music, and plagiarism in music.
Mr. Tatro is the author of more than 30 mystery and horror short stories, literary essays and poems published in many magazines across the country. He also is the author of many research articles pertaining to the JFK assassination conspiracy, published in Jerry Rose’s The Third Decade, Penn Jones’ , and Ireland’s The JFK Assassination Forum.
His work has been acknowledged or footnoted in many JFK assassination books, including Reasonable Doubt by Henry Hurt, Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summers, Destiny Betrayed by Jim DiEugenio, (Probe Magazine) by Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease, The Kennedys: Dynasty and Disaster by John H. Davis, Killing Kennedy by Harrison Livingstone, JFK; The Book of the Film by Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar, Doug Weldon’s essay in Murder in Dealey Plaza and JFK and the Unspeakable by Jim Douglass. Mr. Tatro is the original editor of Texas in the Morning, the memoirs of LBJ’s mistress, Madeleine Duncan Brown, and editor of the Bugliosi chapter in Biting the Elephant by Dr. Rodger Remington. He contributed research to Senator Sam Ervin’s Watergate investigative committee, the House Select Committee on Assassinations and the National Academy of Sciences (JFK acoustical analysis project). He attended Clay Shaw’s trial for one week in New Orleans, in February 1969, and was given ac- cess to the court exhibits by Judge Edward Haggerty. Mr. Tatro served as a minor consultant to Oliver Stone’s film, “JFK.” He testified before the Assassination Records Review Board in March 1995, in Boston, Mass. He was responsible, via the ARRB, for the release of the unidentified print found on a box in the alleged sniper’s nest in the Texas School Book De- pository, and, via the LBJ Library, for the release of the rough drafts of the rough draft of NSAM #273, which he shared with L. Fletcher Prouty, who shared them with Oliver Stone for "JFK."
Mr. Tatro was a consultant to Nigel Turner’s “The Truth Shall Set You Free,” and “The Smoking Guns,” parts six and seven of The Men Who Killed Kennedy series. He was a primary recruiter and participant in Turner’s “The Guilty Men,” part nine of the same series.
Be sure to check our full, downloadable conference brochure for a complete list of speakers, schedules, and accommodations.
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Dear friends,
For the month of August, you can watch Doug Horne's historic interview with Dino Brugioni about the Zapruder Film for free online in the 85-minute feature The Zapruder Film Mystery: vimeo.com/e2films/zapruder
While serving as chief analyst of military records at the Assassination Records Review Board in 1997, Horne discovered that the Zapruder Film had been examined by the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center on the Sunday evening after the assassination. In this interview, legendary NPIC photo interpreter Dino Brugioni speaks for the first time about his examination of the film at NPIC on Saturday evening. Brugioni was never told about a second examination by a completely different team on Sunday evening and believes the Zapruder Film in the archives today is not the film he saw on the day after the assassination.
Drawing on Volume 4 of his book "Inside the ARRB", Doug Horne sets the scene for the interview with Brugioni and presents his conclusions. Whatever you feel about Zapruder Film alteration, Brugioni's testimony about two NPIC events that weekend - presented here in HD video for the first time, thanks to Doug Horne and Peter Janney - is fascinating.
The film was made as an extra feature to Killing Oswald and is also now available on the DVD: http://www.killingoswald.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
For the month of August, you can watch Doug Horne's historic interview with Dino Brugioni about the Zapruder Film for free online in the 85-minute feature The Zapruder Film Mystery: vimeo.com/e2films/zapruder
While serving as chief analyst of military records at the Assassination Records Review Board in 1997, Horne discovered that the Zapruder Film had been examined by the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center on the Sunday evening after the assassination. In this interview, legendary NPIC photo interpreter Dino Brugioni speaks for the first time about his examination of the film at NPIC on Saturday evening. Brugioni was never told about a second examination by a completely different team on Sunday evening and believes the Zapruder Film in the archives today is not the film he saw on the day after the assassination.
Drawing on Volume 4 of his book "Inside the ARRB", Doug Horne sets the scene for the interview with Brugioni and presents his conclusions. Whatever you feel about Zapruder Film alteration, Brugioni's testimony about two NPIC events that weekend - presented here in HD video for the first time, thanks to Doug Horne and Peter Janney - is fascinating.
The film was made as an extra feature to Killing Oswald and is also now available on the DVD: http://www.killingoswald.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Hackers Can Now Tap Into USB Devices To Evade All Known Security Protections
Hackers Can Now Tap Into USB Devices To Evade All Known Security Protections
USB devices such as mice, keyboards and thumb-drives can be used to hack into personal computers in a potential new class of attacks that evade all known security protections, a top computer researcher revealed on Thursday.
Karsten Nohl, chief scientist with Berlin's SR Labs, noted that hackers could load malicious software onto tiny, low-cost computer chips that control functions of USB devices but which have no built-in shields against tampering with their code.
"You cannot tell where the virus came from. It is almost like a magic trick," said Nohl, whose research firm is known for uncovering major flaws in mobile phone technology.
The finding shows that bugs in software used to run tiny electronics components that are invisible to the average computer user can be extremely dangerous when hackers figure out how to exploit them. Security researchers have increasingly turned their attention to uncovering such flaws.
Nohl said his firm has performed attacks by writing malicious code onto USB control chips used in thumb drives and smartphones. Once the USB device is attached to a computer, the malicious software can log keystrokes, spy on communications and destroy data, he said…
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Hackers Can Now Tap Into USB Devices To Evade All Known Security Protections
Hackers Can Now Tap Into USB Devices To Evade All Known Security Protections
USB devices such as mice, keyboards and thumb-drives can be used to hack into personal computers in a potential new class of attacks that evade all known security protections, a top computer researcher revealed on Thursday.
Karsten Nohl, chief scientist with Berlin's SR Labs, noted that hackers could load malicious software onto tiny, low-cost computer chips that control functions of USB devices but which have no built-in shields against tampering with their code.
"You cannot tell where the virus came from. It is almost like a magic trick," said Nohl, whose research firm is known for uncovering major flaws in mobile phone technology.
The finding shows that bugs in software used to run tiny electronics components that are invisible to the average computer user can be extremely dangerous when hackers figure out how to exploit them. Security researchers have increasingly turned their attention to uncovering such flaws.
Nohl said his firm has performed attacks by writing malicious code onto USB control chips used in thumb drives and smartphones. Once the USB device is attached to a computer, the malicious software can log keystrokes, spy on communications and destroy data, he said…
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Deaths connected to the Obama White House
Mama Lois" Anderson: 79, and her 52 year old daughter Zelda White: Two US women aid workers were shot dead in Nairobi in Kenya (2008) were the retired Presbyterian Church missionaries of Pennsylvania (USA), known to thousands of Africans. The suspected killers of the US women, who were travelling in a car with diplomatic license plates, allegedly shot dead by police later. They were well known for their work. There is speculation that they possibly had knowledge of the birth and care for Barack Obama in Kenya and were later murdered to cover the trail. When murdered, the Husband had his full wallet which the thieves/car jacker didn't take, and there was never a connection made to the said attackers the police later shot dead, but blamed for the double homicide/car jacking. Their church was burned in 2008, possibly to destroy any possible birth records there. Then police chief Mohammed Hussein Ali was later removed from office by Obama supported Kenyan strongman Odinga. All possible witnesses ended up dead, all possible records of the care of infant Obama burned in the church fire, and the public official responsible out of office.
Lt. Col. Christopher Raible and Sgt. Bradley Atwell: Died in the Camp Bastion attack 3 days after the Benghazi attack
Jeff Joe Black: Found dead on a hiking trail from "blunt force trauma to the head": Chicago activist who claimed that Emmanuel was put into place in Chicago to oversee a coming false flag event.
Larry Bland and Nate Spencer: Two other black members of Trinity Church Murdered at the same time - Report: Mother Of Obama's Murdered Gay Lover Speaks Up -- With Video
Andrew Breitbart - Died of a massive heart attack, walking outside late at night, alone, in the dark approximately one week before he was to produce tapes of Obama's extremist activities in college. More speculation: Breitbart: "Wait 'Til They See What Happens March 1st", Breitbart's Footage Shows Obama 'Palling Around' With Terrorists..... Sheriff Joe Arpaio: I Spoke with Andrew Breitbart Shortly Before he Died ......An Eyewitness Speaks Out About Andrew Breitbart's Death Scene... Breitbart's skin color described as bright red. ... Was Andrew Breitbart assassinated?...More murder speculation: Was Andrew Breitbart Murdered?..........Coroner: Breitbart Died of Heart Failure...* Christopher Lasseter, Dissapears.....witness to Breitbart's death vanishes -Follows suspicious demise of member of coroner's team (possibly in hiding to avoid reporters), .... Breitbart witness: He dropped like sack of bricks Describes 'thick white band' around forehead at death ; Ex-CIA Agent Claims Obama Killed Breitbart and Clancy (story also linked here ) ; Ex-CIA Agent Claims Obama Had Breitbart and Clancy Killed ; Brandon Walker interviews Doctor Jim Garrow, philanthropist and worker for one of the largest non-profit organizations on the planet to save female children from slaughter in China.. states he knows that President Obama ordered the murders of Tom Clancy and Andrew Breitbart (Audio)
Steve Bridges Dies At 48 - Impersonator Who Offended 0bama ...Steve Bridges as President Obama - August 2011 ....It appeared that he died of natural causes...: On the Steve Bridges website, they are now calling his death 'an accident"...that the probable cause of death was due to "upper airway anaphylaxis", caused by a severe allergic reaction.. --- CSI Show: Murder by anaphalaxis?... A real life example of possible murder by anaphalaxis
Tom Clancy Dies at 66; actual list of cause of death on his autopsy, cause of death unknown.; Ex-CIA Agent Claims Obama Killed Breitbart and Clancy- Dr. Garrow states President Obama had Tom Clancy killed as well and noted that it takes 5 days for plant toxins and most poisons to break down and leave no traces in the human body. Amazingly enough, or coincidentally, the doctors did not perform an autopsy on Tom Clancy’s body for 5 days. (story also linked here ) ; Did Tom Clancy, who died in October... predict Russia's move on Ukraine in his book "Command Authority?
Robin Copeland, 46, 11/4/2011: former Energy Department official who took part in several significant disarmament programs, died suddenly
Michael Cormier - respected forensic technician for the Los Angeles County Coroner died under suspicious circumstances at his North Hollywood home April 20, the same day Andrew Breitbart’s cause of death was finally made public. Medical examiners in Los Angeles are investigating the possible poisoning death......Conspiracy theorists cry foul after Andrew Breitbart's 'coroner' dies of arsenic poisoning- ....Police Debunk Theories Linking Breitbart, L.A. Coroner Tech Deaths ; No Answers in Death of Technician Linked to Andrew Breitbart: Killed by high amounts of arsinic in his system ; Breitbart's Coroner Murdered. News From LA
Madelyn Payne Dunham: Obama's grandmother, died 2 days before the general election. Flew up to see her for one hour - alone. No records. Cremated immediately, ashes dispersed.
BEVERLY ECKERT, Continental Flight Victim, Was 9/11 Widow (VIDEO, SLIDESHOW), was at the White House with Barack Obama, part of a meeting the president had with relatives of those killed in the 2001 attacks
Extortion 17: On 6 August 2011, a U.S. Boeing CH-47 Chinook military helicopter, call sign Extortion 17, was shot down while transporting a quick reaction force attempting to reinforce an engaged unit of Army Rangers in Wardak province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan The resulting crash killed all 38 people on board—25 American special operations personnel, five United States Army National Guard and Army Reserve crewmen, seven Afghan commandos, and one Afghan interpreter—as well as a U.S. military working dog. It is considered the worst loss of U.S Military life in the Afghanistan campaign, surpassing Operation Red Wings in 2005. There were 15 Navy SEAL's killed. ; Afghanistan's Benghazi: The Shoot-Down of Extortion 17 ; TrentoVision 5.9.13 - Navy SEAL Extortion 17 EXPOSED - Obama Failures ; Obama increased special op's missions from an average of 56 a month to 334 per month (statement begins at 26 minute mark of video) ; Afghan Benghazi: Extortion 17, Betraying Seal Team 6 ; ; Navy SEAL's father: Obama sent my son to his death Tells Michael Savage 'they knew something was up' ; Extortion 17! Mother of slain SEAL on Biden: "He should be in prison for high crimes and treason." ; Families suspect SEAL Team 6 crash was inside job on worst day in Afghanistan ; Navy warrior's quick cremation deepens mystery of Chinook disaster in Afghanistan ; The Shocking True Story of Extortion 17 as Told by a Navy SEAL's Father ; Extortion 17, The Deadliest Day in the War on Terror ; SEAL's Parents: Obama's Rules Of Engagement Killing Our Troops ; Congressional Hearing Scheduled for 30 fallen Heroes Killed in Shoot Down of Extortion 17 ; Defense Official Denies SEAL Team Six Operation Was Compromised Families left without answers on operation that left 30 American troops dead
Loretta Fuddy: -Hawaii Health Director Loretta Fuddy dies in small plane crash ; 'Fuddy was at the center of controversy in the birth certificate controversy as she was the person who reportedly granted "an exception" to Barack Obama, allegedly witnessing the copying of Obama’s birth certificate and attested to its authenticity' ; Health director who approved Obama birth certificate dies in plane crash ; Fuddy only one to die in plane crash ; Video.. Hawaii DOH Director Who "Certified" Obamas BC As Legit Dies In Plane Crash!! ; Engine Failure Blamed In Molokai Crash ; Kalaupapa Aircraft Wreckage to be Recovered, Under Investigation ; NTSB: Officials still trying to determine Fuddy's cause of death ; Obama's land in Hawaii as the NTSB investigates the cause of death; NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersmanis Obama appointee that only reports to Obama. NTSB Chair Hersman has been been accused of conflict of interest., compromsing her independence at the NTSB.---> Speculations: 1. NTSB allowed the evidence in both this Cessna engine failure and the one on Oct 21 very close to Molokai to be contaminated 2. The NTSB had found Cessna 208 engine failure in 2 cases in the previous 34 years, within 50 days and 25 miles there were another 2, and those 2 were not properly treated by Obama's NTSB as a crime scene as mandated. 3. Engine failure itself actually occurred 9 miles north of where the plane landed in the Oct 21 incident, which puts it probably 10-15 miles away from Molokai. 4. Pilot Clyde Kawasaki has never been listed as a pilot of Makani Kai Air on their staff webpage, even though he has supposedly flown for them for the past 1-2 years (depending on the article). There are 2 staff web pages, and both have been updated within the last half a year - one in June, the other earlier this month. 5. Rchard Schuman, Makani Kai Air owner/CEO says the plane (which was photographed sinking while nearly fully-intact) fell apart in a week’s time 60-70 feet underwater because of the movement of the water banging the plane against the rocks but waves would have to have been much greater to affect the engine at that depth. If the engine had come apart from the plane during the salvage operations Schuman would certainly have said that. The fact that he tried to blame the engine's removal on water says that the witnesses on the salvage team knew it hadn't come apart during the lifting of the plane. ; Globe Magazine: Fuddy murdered for knowing where Obama was born ; NTSB: Hawaii plane floated 25 mins, then sank.; Was Fuddy involved with the SUBUD Cult? Obama a secret Subud sect member ; Founder of Subud cult: Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo; Alice Dewey, the great Indonesianist, as she liked to call herself, who spent something like 15 years on and off in Java as an anthropologist, researching javanese arts and crafts, and peasant marketing...Alice, the mentor of Stanley Ann Dunham who wrote her thesis (?) on the subject of Javanese blacksmithing...now lives permanently in Indonesia. ; Revealed: Inilah Wanita di Balik Bintang Mahaputera untuk Ibu Obama ; Subud, Obama and Laurel Canyon rock hits - a connection? ; Mohammed Subud: Founder Indonesian Muslim cult -resemblence to Obama? Picture ; As posted at little bit later in that thread, an earlier article at http://www.kitv.com/news/hawaii/makani- ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - with an original posting time of 8:25PM CST, which is 4:25pm HST - was titled "Breaking: Small Aircraft Crashed off Kalaupapa" with Twitterfeed as the source. That article says that the plane went down at about 3:45....within 40 minutes of the plane going down it was reported on the news, and within 55 minutes it was reported that there was one casualty. According to the timeline the NTSB is giving now (see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3107346/posts" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ), help crews didn't even ARRIVE to check out the condition of the victims until 80 minutes after the crash - or 5:05pm.... 40 minutes after the crash was reported in the news and 25 minutes after it was reported in the news that there was one casualty. If the NTSB timeline is believed the rescue workers still had to pass Fuddy by, check out others, go back to Fuddy and determine her to be dead, and report it to the news reporter. If that whole process took 30 minutes, then the NTSB timeline would have the news reporting one dead almost an hour before anybody would have determined and reported that. If the NTSB timeline is believed, a death from that plane crash was reported in the news before ANYBODY know that it had happened. IOW, if the NTSB timeline is believed there was SUPPOSED to be one person dead from that plane crash, and that outcome was reported before anybody was sure that had really happened.; New Footage Shows Plane Crash That Killed Woman Who Released Obama's Birth Certificate ; What are the chances? The mysterious death of Lorett
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Deaths connected to the Obama White House
Mama Lois" Anderson: 79, and her 52 year old daughter Zelda White: Two US women aid workers were shot dead in Nairobi in Kenya (2008) were the retired Presbyterian Church missionaries of Pennsylvania (USA), known to thousands of Africans. The suspected killers of the US women, who were travelling in a car with diplomatic license plates, allegedly shot dead by police later. They were well known for their work. There is speculation that they possibly had knowledge of the birth and care for Barack Obama in Kenya and were later murdered to cover the trail. When murdered, the Husband had his full wallet which the thieves/car jacker didn't take, and there was never a connection made to the said attackers the police later shot dead, but blamed for the double homicide/car jacking. Their church was burned in 2008, possibly to destroy any possible birth records there. Then police chief Mohammed Hussein Ali was later removed from office by Obama supported Kenyan strongman Odinga. All possible witnesses ended up dead, all possible records of the care of infant Obama burned in the church fire, and the public official responsible out of office.
Lt. Col. Christopher Raible and Sgt. Bradley Atwell: Died in the Camp Bastion attack 3 days after the Benghazi attack
Jeff Joe Black: Found dead on a hiking trail from "blunt force trauma to the head": Chicago activist who claimed that Emmanuel was put into place in Chicago to oversee a coming false flag event.
Larry Bland and Nate Spencer: Two other black members of Trinity Church Murdered at the same time - Report: Mother Of Obama's Murdered Gay Lover Speaks Up -- With Video
Andrew Breitbart - Died of a massive heart attack, walking outside late at night, alone, in the dark approximately one week before he was to produce tapes of Obama's extremist activities in college. More speculation: Breitbart: "Wait 'Til They See What Happens March 1st", Breitbart's Footage Shows Obama 'Palling Around' With Terrorists..... Sheriff Joe Arpaio: I Spoke with Andrew Breitbart Shortly Before he Died ......An Eyewitness Speaks Out About Andrew Breitbart's Death Scene... Breitbart's skin color described as bright red. ... Was Andrew Breitbart assassinated?...More murder speculation: Was Andrew Breitbart Murdered?..........Coroner: Breitbart Died of Heart Failure...* Christopher Lasseter, Dissapears.....witness to Breitbart's death vanishes -Follows suspicious demise of member of coroner's team (possibly in hiding to avoid reporters), .... Breitbart witness: He dropped like sack of bricks Describes 'thick white band' around forehead at death ; Ex-CIA Agent Claims Obama Killed Breitbart and Clancy (story also linked here ) ; Ex-CIA Agent Claims Obama Had Breitbart and Clancy Killed ; Brandon Walker interviews Doctor Jim Garrow, philanthropist and worker for one of the largest non-profit organizations on the planet to save female children from slaughter in China.. states he knows that President Obama ordered the murders of Tom Clancy and Andrew Breitbart (Audio)
Steve Bridges Dies At 48 - Impersonator Who Offended 0bama ...Steve Bridges as President Obama - August 2011 ....It appeared that he died of natural causes...: On the Steve Bridges website, they are now calling his death 'an accident"...that the probable cause of death was due to "upper airway anaphylaxis", caused by a severe allergic reaction.. --- CSI Show: Murder by anaphalaxis?... A real life example of possible murder by anaphalaxis
Tom Clancy Dies at 66; actual list of cause of death on his autopsy, cause of death unknown.; Ex-CIA Agent Claims Obama Killed Breitbart and Clancy- Dr. Garrow states President Obama had Tom Clancy killed as well and noted that it takes 5 days for plant toxins and most poisons to break down and leave no traces in the human body. Amazingly enough, or coincidentally, the doctors did not perform an autopsy on Tom Clancy’s body for 5 days. (story also linked here ) ; Did Tom Clancy, who died in October... predict Russia's move on Ukraine in his book "Command Authority?
Robin Copeland, 46, 11/4/2011: former Energy Department official who took part in several significant disarmament programs, died suddenly
Michael Cormier - respected forensic technician for the Los Angeles County Coroner died under suspicious circumstances at his North Hollywood home April 20, the same day Andrew Breitbart’s cause of death was finally made public. Medical examiners in Los Angeles are investigating the possible poisoning death......Conspiracy theorists cry foul after Andrew Breitbart's 'coroner' dies of arsenic poisoning- ....Police Debunk Theories Linking Breitbart, L.A. Coroner Tech Deaths ; No Answers in Death of Technician Linked to Andrew Breitbart: Killed by high amounts of arsinic in his system ; Breitbart's Coroner Murdered. News From LA
Madelyn Payne Dunham: Obama's grandmother, died 2 days before the general election. Flew up to see her for one hour - alone. No records. Cremated immediately, ashes dispersed.
BEVERLY ECKERT, Continental Flight Victim, Was 9/11 Widow (VIDEO, SLIDESHOW), was at the White House with Barack Obama, part of a meeting the president had with relatives of those killed in the 2001 attacks
Extortion 17: On 6 August 2011, a U.S. Boeing CH-47 Chinook military helicopter, call sign Extortion 17, was shot down while transporting a quick reaction force attempting to reinforce an engaged unit of Army Rangers in Wardak province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan The resulting crash killed all 38 people on board—25 American special operations personnel, five United States Army National Guard and Army Reserve crewmen, seven Afghan commandos, and one Afghan interpreter—as well as a U.S. military working dog. It is considered the worst loss of U.S Military life in the Afghanistan campaign, surpassing Operation Red Wings in 2005. There were 15 Navy SEAL's killed. ; Afghanistan's Benghazi: The Shoot-Down of Extortion 17 ; TrentoVision 5.9.13 - Navy SEAL Extortion 17 EXPOSED - Obama Failures ; Obama increased special op's missions from an average of 56 a month to 334 per month (statement begins at 26 minute mark of video) ; Afghan Benghazi: Extortion 17, Betraying Seal Team 6 ; ; Navy SEAL's father: Obama sent my son to his death Tells Michael Savage 'they knew something was up' ; Extortion 17! Mother of slain SEAL on Biden: "He should be in prison for high crimes and treason." ; Families suspect SEAL Team 6 crash was inside job on worst day in Afghanistan ; Navy warrior's quick cremation deepens mystery of Chinook disaster in Afghanistan ; The Shocking True Story of Extortion 17 as Told by a Navy SEAL's Father ; Extortion 17, The Deadliest Day in the War on Terror ; SEAL's Parents: Obama's Rules Of Engagement Killing Our Troops ; Congressional Hearing Scheduled for 30 fallen Heroes Killed in Shoot Down of Extortion 17 ; Defense Official Denies SEAL Team Six Operation Was Compromised Families left without answers on operation that left 30 American troops dead
Loretta Fuddy: -Hawaii Health Director Loretta Fuddy dies in small plane crash ; 'Fuddy was at the center of controversy in the birth certificate controversy as she was the person who reportedly granted "an exception" to Barack Obama, allegedly witnessing the copying of Obama’s birth certificate and attested to its authenticity' ; Health director who approved Obama birth certificate dies in plane crash ; Fuddy only one to die in plane crash ; Video.. Hawaii DOH Director Who "Certified" Obamas BC As Legit Dies In Plane Crash!! ; Engine Failure Blamed In Molokai Crash ; Kalaupapa Aircraft Wreckage to be Recovered, Under Investigation ; NTSB: Officials still trying to determine Fuddy's cause of death ; Obama's land in Hawaii as the NTSB investigates the cause of death; NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersmanis Obama appointee that only reports to Obama. NTSB Chair Hersman has been been accused of conflict of interest., compromsing her independence at the NTSB.---> Speculations: 1. NTSB allowed the evidence in both this Cessna engine failure and the one on Oct 21 very close to Molokai to be contaminated 2. The NTSB had found Cessna 208 engine failure in 2 cases in the previous 34 years, within 50 days and 25 miles there were another 2, and those 2 were not properly treated by Obama's NTSB as a crime scene as mandated. 3. Engine failure itself actually occurred 9 miles north of where the plane landed in the Oct 21 incident, which puts it probably 10-15 miles away from Molokai. 4. Pilot Clyde Kawasaki has never been listed as a pilot of Makani Kai Air on their staff webpage, even though he has supposedly flown for them for the past 1-2 years (depending on the article). There are 2 staff web pages, and both have been updated within the last half a year - one in June, the other earlier this month. 5. Rchard Schuman, Makani Kai Air owner/CEO says the plane (which was photographed sinking while nearly fully-intact) fell apart in a week’s time 60-70 feet underwater because of the movement of the water banging the plane against the rocks but waves would have to have been much greater to affect the engine at that depth. If the engine had come apart from the plane during the salvage operations Schuman would certainly have said that. The fact that he tried to blame the engine's removal on water says that the witnesses on the salvage team knew it hadn't come apart during the lifting of the plane. ; Globe Magazine: Fuddy murdered for knowing where Obama was born ; NTSB: Hawaii plane floated 25 mins, then sank.; Was Fuddy involved with the SUBUD Cult? Obama a secret Subud sect member ; Founder of Subud cult: Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo; Alice Dewey, the great Indonesianist, as she liked to call herself, who spent something like 15 years on and off in Java as an anthropologist, researching javanese arts and crafts, and peasant marketing...Alice, the mentor of Stanley Ann Dunham who wrote her thesis (?) on the subject of Javanese blacksmithing...now lives permanently in Indonesia. ; Revealed: Inilah Wanita di Balik Bintang Mahaputera untuk Ibu Obama ; Subud, Obama and Laurel Canyon rock hits - a connection? ; Mohammed Subud: Founder Indonesian Muslim cult -resemblence to Obama? Picture ; As posted at little bit later in that thread, an earlier article at http://www.kitv.com/news/hawaii/makani- ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - with an original posting time of 8:25PM CST, which is 4:25pm HST - was titled "Breaking: Small Aircraft Crashed off Kalaupapa" with Twitterfeed as the source. That article says that the plane went down at about 3:45....within 40 minutes of the plane going down it was reported on the news, and within 55 minutes it was reported that there was one casualty. According to the timeline the NTSB is giving now (see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3107346/posts" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ), help crews didn't even ARRIVE to check out the condition of the victims until 80 minutes after the crash - or 5:05pm.... 40 minutes after the crash was reported in the news and 25 minutes after it was reported in the news that there was one casualty. If the NTSB timeline is believed the rescue workers still had to pass Fuddy by, check out others, go back to Fuddy and determine her to be dead, and report it to the news reporter. If that whole process took 30 minutes, then the NTSB timeline would have the news reporting one dead almost an hour before anybody would have determined and reported that. If the NTSB timeline is believed, a death from that plane crash was reported in the news before ANYBODY know that it had happened. IOW, if the NTSB timeline is believed there was SUPPOSED to be one person dead from that plane crash, and that outcome was reported before anybody was sure that had really happened.; New Footage Shows Plane Crash That Killed Woman Who Released Obama's Birth Certificate ; What are the chances? The mysterious death of Lorett
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Leland Yee Corruption Case: Questions Raised Over FBI Undercover Agent Removed from Case
A new revelation in the corruption case involving suspended state Sen. Leland Yee: One of the FBI's undercover agents was removed from the case for alleged financial misconduct.
Thursday, Aug 7, 2014
A new revelation in the corruption case involving suspended state Sen. Leland Yee: One of the FBI’s undercover agents was removed from the case for alleged financial misconduct.
All 29 defendants were in court for Thursday morning’s status conference. These pre-trial conferences can be dry, housekeeping procedures – or they can reveal pieces of a case that have been hidden. Thursday, we got the latter. The defense raised questions about an undercover agent used early on in the corruption investigation of state Sen. Yee.
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Yee left the courthouse without talking without talking to reporters, but inside U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer’s courtroom, defense attorneys wanted the government to reveal information about undercover “Agent 4773, an agent who posed as a businessman from Atlanta interested in buying political favors from Yee.
Court documents claim his first payment of $500 came in September 2011; a month later $5,000; another $5,000 in April 2012; and then after an October phone call, a $10,000 cash payment to support Yee, but delivered by another undercover agent.
Sen. Leland Yee Pleads Not Guilty to RICO Charge
After that Agent 4773 disappears from the indictment.
In fact, the indictment states final payment of $10,000 in cash was delivered to Defendant Keith Jackson at a San Francisco restaurant by another undercover agent posing as a mobster and business associate of Agent 4773.
In court Thursday, the defense attorney’s claim he was pulled from the investigation by the FBI for alleged financial misconduct and they want the details.
Case Against Leland Yee, “Shrimp Boy” Will be Divided
Judge Breyer asked prosecutors to work with the defense to provide information on the identity of the agents and informants in the case.
Yee’s attorney said he doesn’t know the why the agent was removed, and Curtis Briggs, the attorney for accused gangster Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, said he can’t talk about it.
“There’s been a gag order issued against my team,” Briggs said, “and I cannot discuss that, and I can’t acknowledge that that’s true.”
Sen. Yee Gets More Than 200,000 Votes For Secretary of State
Judge Breyer is pushing the government to provide the information on the undercover agents and informants as well as wiretap transcripts and any other evidence prosecutors plan to present.
The next date before Judge Breyer will be a motions hearing set for Nov. 12, when we might find out what caused the FBI to pull one of its undercover agents from the investigation, what constituted financial misconduct – and did it have anything to do with the bribery investigation of Leland Yee?
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Leland Yee Corruption Case: Questions Raised Over FBI Undercover Agent Removed from Case
A new revelation in the corruption case involving suspended state Sen. Leland Yee: One of the FBI's undercover agents was removed from the case for alleged financial misconduct.
Thursday, Aug 7, 2014
A new revelation in the corruption case involving suspended state Sen. Leland Yee: One of the FBI’s undercover agents was removed from the case for alleged financial misconduct.
All 29 defendants were in court for Thursday morning’s status conference. These pre-trial conferences can be dry, housekeeping procedures – or they can reveal pieces of a case that have been hidden. Thursday, we got the latter. The defense raised questions about an undercover agent used early on in the corruption investigation of state Sen. Yee.
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Yee left the courthouse without talking without talking to reporters, but inside U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer’s courtroom, defense attorneys wanted the government to reveal information about undercover “Agent 4773, an agent who posed as a businessman from Atlanta interested in buying political favors from Yee.
Court documents claim his first payment of $500 came in September 2011; a month later $5,000; another $5,000 in April 2012; and then after an October phone call, a $10,000 cash payment to support Yee, but delivered by another undercover agent.
Sen. Leland Yee Pleads Not Guilty to RICO Charge
After that Agent 4773 disappears from the indictment.
In fact, the indictment states final payment of $10,000 in cash was delivered to Defendant Keith Jackson at a San Francisco restaurant by another undercover agent posing as a mobster and business associate of Agent 4773.
In court Thursday, the defense attorney’s claim he was pulled from the investigation by the FBI for alleged financial misconduct and they want the details.
Case Against Leland Yee, “Shrimp Boy” Will be Divided
Judge Breyer asked prosecutors to work with the defense to provide information on the identity of the agents and informants in the case.
Yee’s attorney said he doesn’t know the why the agent was removed, and Curtis Briggs, the attorney for accused gangster Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, said he can’t talk about it.
“There’s been a gag order issued against my team,” Briggs said, “and I cannot discuss that, and I can’t acknowledge that that’s true.”
Sen. Yee Gets More Than 200,000 Votes For Secretary of State
Judge Breyer is pushing the government to provide the information on the undercover agents and informants as well as wiretap transcripts and any other evidence prosecutors plan to present.
The next date before Judge Breyer will be a motions hearing set for Nov. 12, when we might find out what caused the FBI to pull one of its undercover agents from the investigation, what constituted financial misconduct – and did it have anything to do with the bribery investigation of Leland Yee?
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DEF CON attendees get tips on how to detect, escape surveillance
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Attendees of DEF CON, the annual hacker gathering in Las Vegas, got advice on how to know when they're being surveilled by hidden cameras. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
By Robert Faturechi contact the reporter
Since Edward Snowden helped reveal wide-scale government snooping programs, the conspiracy-oriented elements of the cyber-security community have become a little more emboldened.
Many describe the series of news articles that resulted from Snowden’s leaks as a seminal moment, when their more far-fetched concerns about privacy could no longer be so easily dismissed as tin-foil-hat paranoia.
This week in Las Vegas, where thousands gathered for the annual DEF CON hacker conference, that paranoia was embraced as hundreds filled a large theater to hear Phil Polstra talk.
The associate professor of digital forensics at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania told a attendees how to know if they’re being spied on and how to protect against it, all on a tight budget.
“Our government’s assault on the Constitution is pretty well known,” Polstra warned.
Here are some of Polstra’s tips:
Use your phone
Many of the small, hidden cameras on the market these days have infrared lights around their lenses, Polstra said. That light, invisible to the human eye, allows the cameras to keep up the surveillance even in the dark, without getting noticed.
But the light can be detected by smartphone cameras. To see if you’re being watched, Polstra said, get your phone, turn on the camera and scan it around the room. In Polstra’s demonstration, when his phone’s lens passed an infrared light, a bright purple hue showed up on his phone display.
Cover your webcam when not using it. Both Microsoft and Apple have given the FBI, NSA, and CIA a backdoor into the camera system on Windows and OSX that allows them to remotely turn it on and send them images and sound without illuminating the little tally light that indicates it's...
One way to tail people while maintaining a distance, Polstra said, is to buy a bumper beeper, a long, thin tracking device that can be slapped onto a car with magnets. If you’re worried there’s one on you car, turn on a radio, and switch to the AM dial.
If you hear a consistent and loud tone, Polstra said, there’s a likelihood you’ve been tagged.
Know when you’re being followed
If you think you’re being tailed in a car, Polstra warned, the car probably won’t be very
DEF CON attendees get tips on how to detect, escape surveillance
camera
Attendees of DEF CON, the annual hacker gathering in Las Vegas, got advice on how to know when they're being surveilled by hidden cameras. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
By Robert Faturechi contact the reporter
Since Edward Snowden helped reveal wide-scale government snooping programs, the conspiracy-oriented elements of the cyber-security community have become a little more emboldened.
Many describe the series of news articles that resulted from Snowden’s leaks as a seminal moment, when their more far-fetched concerns about privacy could no longer be so easily dismissed as tin-foil-hat paranoia.
This week in Las Vegas, where thousands gathered for the annual DEF CON hacker conference, that paranoia was embraced as hundreds filled a large theater to hear Phil Polstra talk.
The associate professor of digital forensics at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania told a attendees how to know if they’re being spied on and how to protect against it, all on a tight budget.
“Our government’s assault on the Constitution is pretty well known,” Polstra warned.
Here are some of Polstra’s tips:
Use your phone
Many of the small, hidden cameras on the market these days have infrared lights around their lenses, Polstra said. That light, invisible to the human eye, allows the cameras to keep up the surveillance even in the dark, without getting noticed.
But the light can be detected by smartphone cameras. To see if you’re being watched, Polstra said, get your phone, turn on the camera and scan it around the room. In Polstra’s demonstration, when his phone’s lens passed an infrared light, a bright purple hue showed up on his phone display.
Cover your webcam when not using it. Both Microsoft and Apple have given the FBI, NSA, and CIA a backdoor into the camera system on Windows and OSX that allows them to remotely turn it on and send them images and sound without illuminating the little tally light that indicates it's...
One way to tail people while maintaining a distance, Polstra said, is to buy a bumper beeper, a long, thin tracking device that can be slapped onto a car with magnets. If you’re worried there’s one on you car, turn on a radio, and switch to the AM dial.
If you hear a consistent and loud tone, Polstra said, there’s a likelihood you’ve been tagged.
Know when you’re being followed
If you think you’re being tailed in a car, Polstra warned, the car probably won’t be very
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Woman, 98, wants spying case record cleared
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Posted: 08/12/14, 3:46 PM EDT |
A 98-year-old New Jersey woman convicted of conspiracy in the run-up to the atomic spy trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg asked a court Tuesday to clear her name, saying documents released in the last decade show the government withheld evidence that would have exonerated her.
Miriam Moskowitz brought the legal action in Manhattan federal court seeking to vacate her 1950 conviction on charges she conspired with two men to lie to a grand jury investigating allegations of atomic espionage. She was sentenced to two years in prison.
In court papers, Moskowitz said she was working on a book about her case in 2010 when she spotted conflicts between the trial testimony of a former colleague who testified against her and statements he made to the FBI that were read to the grand jury. She said she learned in March that she could ask the court to vacate her conviction.
“The effects of my conviction have had, and continue to have, profound effects on my life,” the of Washington Township, New Jersey woman said. “For decades after my incarceration, I felt I had to avoid attention and keep a low social profile with new friends, and experienced shame in certain interactions within the community.”
Moskowitz noted, for example, that the rabbi at her synagogue once gave a damning sermon about atomic espionage on the eve of Yom Kippur, and shunned her when she approached him after the service.
“The entire course of my life has been affected by my felony conviction,” she said. “I never married or had children, in part because, for decades after my conviction, I found it painful to reveal my past. After my release from prison, FBI agents repeatedly harassed me at my workplace, making it impossible for me to keep a job.”
In court papers, Moskowitz’s lawyers say they learned that the government withheld critical evidence for nearly 60 years when a federal judge in 2008 ordered the release of key secret grand jury testimony in the Rosenberg spy trial. The lawyers say FBI and grand jury statements made by Harry Gold — the key government witness against her — were withheld from the defense.
The Rosenbergs were convicted of passing nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union and were executed in 1953. Since then, decoded Soviet cables have appeared to confirm that Julius Rosenberg was a spy, but doubts have remained about Ethel Rosenberg’s involvement.
In 1947, Abraham Brothman and his associate, Gold, were questioned by the FBI about allegations they were involved in atomic espionage, the court papers said. Moskowitz then worked as Brothman’s secretary and was having an affair with him, the papers said.
Moskowitz’s lawyers say Gold repeatedly told the FBI that Moskowitz was unaware of Gold and Brothman’s plan to lie before the grand jury until the government threatened him with the death penalty. They say he then cooperated and testified against Moskowitz at trial, saying she was there when they discussed their perjury plans.
The papers also say the jury would have been undeniably affected by Cold War anti-Communist biases.
Woman, 98, wants spying case record cleared
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Posted: 08/12/14, 3:46 PM EDT |
A 98-year-old New Jersey woman convicted of conspiracy in the run-up to the atomic spy trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg asked a court Tuesday to clear her name, saying documents released in the last decade show the government withheld evidence that would have exonerated her.
Miriam Moskowitz brought the legal action in Manhattan federal court seeking to vacate her 1950 conviction on charges she conspired with two men to lie to a grand jury investigating allegations of atomic espionage. She was sentenced to two years in prison.
In court papers, Moskowitz said she was working on a book about her case in 2010 when she spotted conflicts between the trial testimony of a former colleague who testified against her and statements he made to the FBI that were read to the grand jury. She said she learned in March that she could ask the court to vacate her conviction.
“The effects of my conviction have had, and continue to have, profound effects on my life,” the of Washington Township, New Jersey woman said. “For decades after my incarceration, I felt I had to avoid attention and keep a low social profile with new friends, and experienced shame in certain interactions within the community.”
Moskowitz noted, for example, that the rabbi at her synagogue once gave a damning sermon about atomic espionage on the eve of Yom Kippur, and shunned her when she approached him after the service.
“The entire course of my life has been affected by my felony conviction,” she said. “I never married or had children, in part because, for decades after my conviction, I found it painful to reveal my past. After my release from prison, FBI agents repeatedly harassed me at my workplace, making it impossible for me to keep a job.”
In court papers, Moskowitz’s lawyers say they learned that the government withheld critical evidence for nearly 60 years when a federal judge in 2008 ordered the release of key secret grand jury testimony in the Rosenberg spy trial. The lawyers say FBI and grand jury statements made by Harry Gold — the key government witness against her — were withheld from the defense.
The Rosenbergs were convicted of passing nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union and were executed in 1953. Since then, decoded Soviet cables have appeared to confirm that Julius Rosenberg was a spy, but doubts have remained about Ethel Rosenberg’s involvement.
In 1947, Abraham Brothman and his associate, Gold, were questioned by the FBI about allegations they were involved in atomic espionage, the court papers said. Moskowitz then worked as Brothman’s secretary and was having an affair with him, the papers said.
Moskowitz’s lawyers say Gold repeatedly told the FBI that Moskowitz was unaware of Gold and Brothman’s plan to lie before the grand jury until the government threatened him with the death penalty. They say he then cooperated and testified against Moskowitz at trial, saying she was there when they discussed their perjury plans.
The papers also say the jury would have been undeniably affected by Cold War anti-Communist biases.
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FBI Informant Al Sharpton Greeted by ‘Snitches Get Stitches’ in Missouri
"Since you are a Federal snitch, sir..."
Avatar of Tom Hinchey Tom Hinchey — August 13, 2014
The riots in Ferguson, Missouri have brought MSNBC’s race-baiting Al Sharpton to the scene, ready to inform on the police officer accused of fatally shooting a black unarmed 18-year-old man. Sharpton is pressing the police department to release the name of the officer who fatally shot Michael Brown during a scuffle after the officer asked Brown and another teen to get out of the street.
A crowd gathered around “Reverend” Sharpton as he made his way to Ferguson City Hall. Progressives Today reporter Adam Sharp hurled questions at Sharpton regarding his previously reported mob ties that led him to become an informant for the FBI.
Sharp: Reverend Sharpton, the term “Snitches Get Stitches” was spray painted on the burned out QuikTrip. Since you are a Federal snitch, sir, do you fear for your life?
Sharpton: I’m not a snitch. But today I want to tell the Feds about a cop that needs to go to jail.
Sharp: Are you in fear for you life being a Federal informant?
Sharpton: I want to inform on this policeman today.
Sharpton was known to FBI agents as “CI-7″, short for criminal informant #7, in secret court filings. He aided the FBI in the successful targeting of powerful Mafia figures during the 1980′s. Sharpton denies working as a CI, instead claiming that he was voluntarily cooperating with the FBI to prompt investigations of drug dealing in minority communities. Yet, knowledgeable law enforcement agents say that Sharpton became an informant to avoid facing his own criminal charges.
Sharpton had been secretly recorded in meetings with an undercover FBI agent who was seeking to promote boxing matches. The undercover agent offered Sharpton a 10% finders fee to arrange the purchase of several kilos of pure cocaine
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FBI Informant Al Sharpton Greeted by ‘Snitches Get Stitches’ in Missouri
"Since you are a Federal snitch, sir..."
Avatar of Tom Hinchey Tom Hinchey — August 13, 2014
The riots in Ferguson, Missouri have brought MSNBC’s race-baiting Al Sharpton to the scene, ready to inform on the police officer accused of fatally shooting a black unarmed 18-year-old man. Sharpton is pressing the police department to release the name of the officer who fatally shot Michael Brown during a scuffle after the officer asked Brown and another teen to get out of the street.
A crowd gathered around “Reverend” Sharpton as he made his way to Ferguson City Hall. Progressives Today reporter Adam Sharp hurled questions at Sharpton regarding his previously reported mob ties that led him to become an informant for the FBI.
Sharp: Reverend Sharpton, the term “Snitches Get Stitches” was spray painted on the burned out QuikTrip. Since you are a Federal snitch, sir, do you fear for your life?
Sharpton: I’m not a snitch. But today I want to tell the Feds about a cop that needs to go to jail.
Sharp: Are you in fear for you life being a Federal informant?
Sharpton: I want to inform on this policeman today.
Sharpton was known to FBI agents as “CI-7″, short for criminal informant #7, in secret court filings. He aided the FBI in the successful targeting of powerful Mafia figures during the 1980′s. Sharpton denies working as a CI, instead claiming that he was voluntarily cooperating with the FBI to prompt investigations of drug dealing in minority communities. Yet, knowledgeable law enforcement agents say that Sharpton became an informant to avoid facing his own criminal charges.
Sharpton had been secretly recorded in meetings with an undercover FBI agent who was seeking to promote boxing matches. The undercover agent offered Sharpton a 10% finders fee to arrange the purchase of several kilos of pure cocaine
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Today' s word in FBI Director James " I love to waterboard " Comey
Neighborhood is Plausible Denial and the word typo
Can you say "typo" boys and girls?
You should because your tax dime funds it, eh?
So when you discover FBI agents were spying on you
they can apologize and say it was a typo.
That is called plausible denial.
The FBI spied on the wrong people because of TYPOS: Government watchdog report finds the agency collected data on people because of errors
The Justice Department's inspector general found the the FBI has spied on the wrong person because of 'typographical errors'
In a report, the inspector general says that the FBI has improved on handling national security letters but could do better
'...typographical errors cause the FBI to request and... receive the information of someone other than the intended target' reads the report
Published: 12:45 EST, 15 August 2014
see link for full typo
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rrors.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The FBI spied on citizens who were not the subject of investigation because of typographical errors, according to a government watchdog.
The Justice Department's inspector general has found that while the FBI has improved handling of national security letters, the agency could do better.
The watchdog identified several areas that the FBI needs to improve upon, including the 'tendency to collect data on the wrong person because of routine mistakes.'
Typos: A report has found that the FBI spied on people in error due to typographical mistakes
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Typos: A report has found that the FBI spied on people in error due to typographical mistakes
'We found that the FBI's corrective measures have not completely eliminated potential intelligence violations resulting from typographical errors in the identification of a telephone number, email address, or social security number in an NSL,' the report reads.
'These typographical errors cause the FBI to request and, in some instances receive, the information of someone other than the intended target of the NSL.'
National security letters allow investigators to collect private information, including from telephone companies and Internet service providers, without a judge's approval.
Earlier reports from the department's inspector general identified widespread violations in the program, including information obtained in non-emergencies.
Spying: Investigators can use national security letters to collect private information about citizens, including from telephone companies and Internet service providers, without a judge's approval
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Spying: Investigators can use national security letters to collect private information about citizens, including from telephone companies and Internet service providers, without a judge's approval
The report released Thursday examines the program from 2007 to 2009 and how well the FBI has implemented recommendations from the earlier reports.
The inspector general says the FBI has fully implemented 31 of 41 recommendations from prior reports on the topic, but must improve in other areas, including reducing errors.
It also made 10 new recommendations.
The FBI says in response that it's continued making improvements in recent years.
According to the National Journal, the inspector general added a footnote to the public version of the report, saying that the FBI had demanded too many redactions on the 232-page report.
'We disagree with these markings, which have the effect of redacting info
Neighborhood is Plausible Denial and the word typo
Can you say "typo" boys and girls?
You should because your tax dime funds it, eh?
So when you discover FBI agents were spying on you
they can apologize and say it was a typo.
That is called plausible denial.
The FBI spied on the wrong people because of TYPOS: Government watchdog report finds the agency collected data on people because of errors
The Justice Department's inspector general found the the FBI has spied on the wrong person because of 'typographical errors'
In a report, the inspector general says that the FBI has improved on handling national security letters but could do better
'...typographical errors cause the FBI to request and... receive the information of someone other than the intended target' reads the report
Published: 12:45 EST, 15 August 2014
see link for full typo
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rrors.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The FBI spied on citizens who were not the subject of investigation because of typographical errors, according to a government watchdog.
The Justice Department's inspector general has found that while the FBI has improved handling of national security letters, the agency could do better.
The watchdog identified several areas that the FBI needs to improve upon, including the 'tendency to collect data on the wrong person because of routine mistakes.'
Typos: A report has found that the FBI spied on people in error due to typographical mistakes
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Typos: A report has found that the FBI spied on people in error due to typographical mistakes
'We found that the FBI's corrective measures have not completely eliminated potential intelligence violations resulting from typographical errors in the identification of a telephone number, email address, or social security number in an NSL,' the report reads.
'These typographical errors cause the FBI to request and, in some instances receive, the information of someone other than the intended target of the NSL.'
National security letters allow investigators to collect private information, including from telephone companies and Internet service providers, without a judge's approval.
Earlier reports from the department's inspector general identified widespread violations in the program, including information obtained in non-emergencies.
Spying: Investigators can use national security letters to collect private information about citizens, including from telephone companies and Internet service providers, without a judge's approval
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Spying: Investigators can use national security letters to collect private information about citizens, including from telephone companies and Internet service providers, without a judge's approval
The report released Thursday examines the program from 2007 to 2009 and how well the FBI has implemented recommendations from the earlier reports.
The inspector general says the FBI has fully implemented 31 of 41 recommendations from prior reports on the topic, but must improve in other areas, including reducing errors.
It also made 10 new recommendations.
The FBI says in response that it's continued making improvements in recent years.
According to the National Journal, the inspector general added a footnote to the public version of the report, saying that the FBI had demanded too many redactions on the 232-page report.
'We disagree with these markings, which have the effect of redacting info
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Who watches the FBI?
The Office of the Inspector General
Another branch of the FBI Crime Familia , eh?
August 14, 2014
A Review of the FBI's Use of National Security Letters: Assessment of Progress in Implementing Recommendations and Examination of Use in 2007 through 2009 — Summary of Findings | Full Report
http://www.justice.gov/oig/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Office of the Inspector General
Another branch of the FBI Crime Familia , eh?
August 14, 2014
A Review of the FBI's Use of National Security Letters: Assessment of Progress in Implementing Recommendations and Examination of Use in 2007 through 2009 — Summary of Findings | Full Report
http://www.justice.gov/oig/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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The Price of Dissent: Testimonies to Political Repression in America
books.google.com/books?isbn=0520224019
Ruth Schultz - 2001 - Political Science
The FBI received tax returns for most of the African Americans it had labeled "Key ... intense while he served as the first African American mayor of Birmingham.
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books.google.com/books?isbn=0520224019
Ruth Schultz - 2001 - Political Science
The FBI received tax returns for most of the African Americans it had labeled "Key ... intense while he served as the first African American mayor of Birmingham.
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Last Hope Shattered: FBI Labs Make Annie Dookham Look Good
August 22, 2014 •
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J Edgar HooverAnnie Dookham worked in a crime lab. She performed such shoddy work that the evidence in upwards of 40,000 narcotic cases has been put in doubt. When her malfeasance was first discovered in 2012, investigations and grand juries inquiries began. By 2014 a comprehensive investigative report issued and the Massachusetts court system took extraordinary steps to address the problems she created. Fortunately, no one was put on death row or executed because of her actions. Annie was sent to prison for 3 to 5 years in November 2013.
Few in Massachusetts have not heard of Annie. I had done a few blog posts on her which ended up with a couple of interviews by some of the media concerning her. Her wrongful actions filled the airwaves for days on end.
There is another laboratory scandal. One much worse than that of Annie. It is of national import while Annie’s only affected part of the state. Yet it receives little if any news coverage.
It is the FBI laboratory scandal wherein faulty evidence sent people to death row. While Massachusetts issued report after report and acted expeditiously to clear up its problem; the FBI has hunkered down hoping that the problem will go away.
One thing we know is that unlike in Massachusetts where some of the supervisors lost their jobs, no one in the FBI in a command position has even been reprimanded. As far as anyone going to prison for the enormous damage that has been caused, even suggesting it makes me smile. The FBI rolls along like the Mississippi River as if it is above the law. Unlike in Massachusetts where the drug laboratory was investigated by outside agencies, the FBI investigates itself.
It’s not surprising then to read that “from 1993 to early 2011, F.B.I. agents fatally shot about 70 “subjects” and wounded about 80 others — and every one of those episodes was deemed justified, . . .” The article went on to note that: “The last two years have followed the same pattern: an F.B.I. spokesman said that since 2011, there had been no findings of improper intentional shootings.”
Investigating oneself means covering up ones evils. Recall the first commandment of the FBI, “Don’t Embarrass The Family.” When that is its ultimate goal, all its investigations are undertaken to protect its reputation and not to find out the truth.
The underreported problems with the FBI laboratory go back to the early 1990s. Actually, who knows how far back they really go. We learned about the problems when Frederic Whitehurst who was employed in the FBI labs uncovered and reported scientific misconduct. For doing that his fellow agents turned on him and he was suspended from his job.
You know of Annie Dookham but not Fred Whitehurst. Whitehurst’s efforts led “to a scathing 500-page study of the laboratory by the Justice Department’s inspector general . . . .” And, the FBI had to pay 1.1 million dollars to settle a suit brought by Whitehurst.
But the FBI didn’t change its way of doing business. As I noted the other day, and as others in the news media are beginning to realize, there are a lot of people in prison who were sent there because of the FBI’s slothful and indifferent work.
Amy screwed up drug tests; the FBI got involved in putting out “flawed forensic evidence involving microscopic hair matches” that have been tracked to 2,600 cases including 45 death row cases. The FBI reviewed 160 of these cases then stopped its review. The results were quite embarrassing. Rather than seeking to undo any wrong, the FBI decided it was best to hide it, apparently deciding it was better for innocent people to be executed or imprisoned for life rather than fessing up to an error.
What actually happened is explained here. It noted “of ten percent of the cases reviewed so far, the “vast majority” contain errors”. The FBI’s errors could be more widespread since it taught the people working in state labs what to do. How many of those labs erred?
Further as the writer explained: “Yet hair analysis is just one of many forensic disciplines that hinge on using a microscope to visually compare two samples and declare a match. Ballistics, fibre analysis, tyre and shoeprint comparison and tool and bite-mark analysis all take a similar approach.” These methods were all criticized in a landmark report about forensic evidence in 2009.
I never believed the that the 100% record of justifiable shootings was correct especially after seeing how the FBI agent in the Todashev killing panicked and put more than six bullets in him. My one last hope about the FBI was that the labs were on the level. Now that is shattered.
August 22, 2014 •
http://thetrialofwhiteybulger.com/last- ... ent-138332" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
J Edgar HooverAnnie Dookham worked in a crime lab. She performed such shoddy work that the evidence in upwards of 40,000 narcotic cases has been put in doubt. When her malfeasance was first discovered in 2012, investigations and grand juries inquiries began. By 2014 a comprehensive investigative report issued and the Massachusetts court system took extraordinary steps to address the problems she created. Fortunately, no one was put on death row or executed because of her actions. Annie was sent to prison for 3 to 5 years in November 2013.
Few in Massachusetts have not heard of Annie. I had done a few blog posts on her which ended up with a couple of interviews by some of the media concerning her. Her wrongful actions filled the airwaves for days on end.
There is another laboratory scandal. One much worse than that of Annie. It is of national import while Annie’s only affected part of the state. Yet it receives little if any news coverage.
It is the FBI laboratory scandal wherein faulty evidence sent people to death row. While Massachusetts issued report after report and acted expeditiously to clear up its problem; the FBI has hunkered down hoping that the problem will go away.
One thing we know is that unlike in Massachusetts where some of the supervisors lost their jobs, no one in the FBI in a command position has even been reprimanded. As far as anyone going to prison for the enormous damage that has been caused, even suggesting it makes me smile. The FBI rolls along like the Mississippi River as if it is above the law. Unlike in Massachusetts where the drug laboratory was investigated by outside agencies, the FBI investigates itself.
It’s not surprising then to read that “from 1993 to early 2011, F.B.I. agents fatally shot about 70 “subjects” and wounded about 80 others — and every one of those episodes was deemed justified, . . .” The article went on to note that: “The last two years have followed the same pattern: an F.B.I. spokesman said that since 2011, there had been no findings of improper intentional shootings.”
Investigating oneself means covering up ones evils. Recall the first commandment of the FBI, “Don’t Embarrass The Family.” When that is its ultimate goal, all its investigations are undertaken to protect its reputation and not to find out the truth.
The underreported problems with the FBI laboratory go back to the early 1990s. Actually, who knows how far back they really go. We learned about the problems when Frederic Whitehurst who was employed in the FBI labs uncovered and reported scientific misconduct. For doing that his fellow agents turned on him and he was suspended from his job.
You know of Annie Dookham but not Fred Whitehurst. Whitehurst’s efforts led “to a scathing 500-page study of the laboratory by the Justice Department’s inspector general . . . .” And, the FBI had to pay 1.1 million dollars to settle a suit brought by Whitehurst.
But the FBI didn’t change its way of doing business. As I noted the other day, and as others in the news media are beginning to realize, there are a lot of people in prison who were sent there because of the FBI’s slothful and indifferent work.
Amy screwed up drug tests; the FBI got involved in putting out “flawed forensic evidence involving microscopic hair matches” that have been tracked to 2,600 cases including 45 death row cases. The FBI reviewed 160 of these cases then stopped its review. The results were quite embarrassing. Rather than seeking to undo any wrong, the FBI decided it was best to hide it, apparently deciding it was better for innocent people to be executed or imprisoned for life rather than fessing up to an error.
What actually happened is explained here. It noted “of ten percent of the cases reviewed so far, the “vast majority” contain errors”. The FBI’s errors could be more widespread since it taught the people working in state labs what to do. How many of those labs erred?
Further as the writer explained: “Yet hair analysis is just one of many forensic disciplines that hinge on using a microscope to visually compare two samples and declare a match. Ballistics, fibre analysis, tyre and shoeprint comparison and tool and bite-mark analysis all take a similar approach.” These methods were all criticized in a landmark report about forensic evidence in 2009.
I never believed the that the 100% record of justifiable shootings was correct especially after seeing how the FBI agent in the Todashev killing panicked and put more than six bullets in him. My one last hope about the FBI was that the labs were on the level. Now that is shattered.
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FBI Informant Wins Retrial for Aiding Arson
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An FBI informant was improperly convicted for driving Staten Island mobsters to set a house on fire because the trial court improperly excluded a recording of an agent assuring him he’d done nothing wrong, the 2nd Circuit ruled.
In January 2006, Volkan Mergen, a paid FBI informant operating inside mob families since, warned the agency that a crew on Staten Island was planning an arson.
Special Agent Anthony Zampogna, Mergen’s then-supervisor, told him that he could not participate in the arson and that the FBI would do whatever was necessary to prevent it, even ending his role as an informant.
The FBI further instructed Mergen to call Special Agent Lauren Regucci, posing as his girlfriend, and say the code phrase “I’m running late” shortly before the arson was to occur.
But conversations Mergen recorded leading up to the arson show that he passed up opportunities to warn the FBI, according to the agency.
Indeed, after Mergen drove to the target, crewmember Joseph Young ran out of the car, firebombed the house, and together they drove away in the wee hours of Jan. 27, 2006.
Minutes later, Young left Mergen’s car, and the informant called and alerted Agent Zampogna that “[t]hey” had committed the arson.
By the time firefighters put out the fire, the homeowner had suffered cardiac arrest.
Zampogna later testified that he and Agent Regucci were unaware the arson would occur.
On June 5, 2006, Mergen signed a cooperation agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in June in which he pleaded guilty to a Travel Act offense for buying gas for the arson in New Jersey.
The government, in return, handed Mergen a “substantial assistance” sentencing letter, and tolled the statute of limitations for several other prosecutions based on, among other things, his statements to the feds, his testimony, or leads he provided.
But when Mergen breached that contract months later by falsely denying knowledge about a $75 theft of three watches, the feds decided to without the sentencing letter and said he must also plead to a false statement charge.
When Mergen refused, the government charged him with the Travel Act offense, drug distribution, attempted robbery, firearm possession, and related conspiracies.
At trial, the feds used Mergen’s own recordings and testimony from witnesses Mergen had ensnared, while Mergen, the sole defense witness, testified that prior to the arson, the FBI said that everything was “under control,” and he feared being caught and killed by the mob.
After six days of trial, a jury convicted Mergen on all counts, and he was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
But the 2nd Circuit reversed the convictions and remanded the case for retrial Thursday, despite finding that Mergen failed to show that he was implicitly authorized to partake in the arson.
“[T]he district court erred by excluding, on hearsay and authentication grounds, a recording in which an FBI agent assured Mergen that he had done nothing wrong in connection with the underlying arson,” U.S. Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs wrote for a three-judge panel.
Jacobs added: “The jury heard only Agent Wright’s testimony (originally solicited by the prosecution) that Agent Wright was of the consistent view that Mergen was criminally culpable; impeachment evidence that would have subverted that view was withheld from the factfinder. ‘In a case … that depends on whether the jury believes the word of the defendant versus the word of an FBI agent, exclusion of such impeachment evidence is not harmless error.’” (Parentheses in original).
The court also reversed Mergen’s remaining convictions, holding that “the wording of Mergen’s cooperation agreement did not toll the (expired) statute of limitations for those offenses.” (Parentheses in original).
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FBI Informant Wins Retrial for Aiding Arson
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An FBI informant was improperly convicted for driving Staten Island mobsters to set a house on fire because the trial court improperly excluded a recording of an agent assuring him he’d done nothing wrong, the 2nd Circuit ruled.
In January 2006, Volkan Mergen, a paid FBI informant operating inside mob families since, warned the agency that a crew on Staten Island was planning an arson.
Special Agent Anthony Zampogna, Mergen’s then-supervisor, told him that he could not participate in the arson and that the FBI would do whatever was necessary to prevent it, even ending his role as an informant.
The FBI further instructed Mergen to call Special Agent Lauren Regucci, posing as his girlfriend, and say the code phrase “I’m running late” shortly before the arson was to occur.
But conversations Mergen recorded leading up to the arson show that he passed up opportunities to warn the FBI, according to the agency.
Indeed, after Mergen drove to the target, crewmember Joseph Young ran out of the car, firebombed the house, and together they drove away in the wee hours of Jan. 27, 2006.
Minutes later, Young left Mergen’s car, and the informant called and alerted Agent Zampogna that “[t]hey” had committed the arson.
By the time firefighters put out the fire, the homeowner had suffered cardiac arrest.
Zampogna later testified that he and Agent Regucci were unaware the arson would occur.
On June 5, 2006, Mergen signed a cooperation agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in June in which he pleaded guilty to a Travel Act offense for buying gas for the arson in New Jersey.
The government, in return, handed Mergen a “substantial assistance” sentencing letter, and tolled the statute of limitations for several other prosecutions based on, among other things, his statements to the feds, his testimony, or leads he provided.
But when Mergen breached that contract months later by falsely denying knowledge about a $75 theft of three watches, the feds decided to without the sentencing letter and said he must also plead to a false statement charge.
When Mergen refused, the government charged him with the Travel Act offense, drug distribution, attempted robbery, firearm possession, and related conspiracies.
At trial, the feds used Mergen’s own recordings and testimony from witnesses Mergen had ensnared, while Mergen, the sole defense witness, testified that prior to the arson, the FBI said that everything was “under control,” and he feared being caught and killed by the mob.
After six days of trial, a jury convicted Mergen on all counts, and he was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
But the 2nd Circuit reversed the convictions and remanded the case for retrial Thursday, despite finding that Mergen failed to show that he was implicitly authorized to partake in the arson.
“[T]he district court erred by excluding, on hearsay and authentication grounds, a recording in which an FBI agent assured Mergen that he had done nothing wrong in connection with the underlying arson,” U.S. Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs wrote for a three-judge panel.
Jacobs added: “The jury heard only Agent Wright’s testimony (originally solicited by the prosecution) that Agent Wright was of the consistent view that Mergen was criminally culpable; impeachment evidence that would have subverted that view was withheld from the factfinder. ‘In a case … that depends on whether the jury believes the word of the defendant versus the word of an FBI agent, exclusion of such impeachment evidence is not harmless error.’” (Parentheses in original).
The court also reversed Mergen’s remaining convictions, holding that “the wording of Mergen’s cooperation agreement did not toll the (expired) statute of limitations for those offenses.” (Parentheses in original).
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FBI and Vermont State Police prevent photographers from
taking pictures of front of former FBI Director Louis Freeh's SUV
after his near fatal accident.
Vermont State Police refuses to do a accident reconstruction report.
Vermont State Police did not administer a breathalyzer or do blood testing to see if a DUI was involved.
I called Scott Mills of the Barnard Vermont Volunteer
Fire Dept at his Hardware Store in Bethel.
Scott was a first responder and had to cut off the roof of the car to extricate Louis Fresh. Scott says he did a walk around of the car
and the entire front left side of the car was pushed up into the
drivers compartment including the wheel.
look at photos
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Former FBI Director Louis Freeh Injured In Barnard Accident
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Update: Preliminary investigation shows drugs and alcohol were not factors in the crash, according to a press release from the Vermont State Police. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
By Eric Francis, Standard Correspondent
BARNARD — Louis Freeh, the former director of the FBI, was seriously injured in a single-vehicle crash early Monday afternoon on Route 12 in Barnard when his SUV went off the east side of the road, struck a mailbox and a large tree.
Freeh was cut out of the wreckage of his grey 2010 GMC Yukon by members of the Barnard Volunteer Fire Department, treated at the scene for several minutes by a White River Valley Ambulance crew, and then rolled on a stretcher a short distance down the pavement to a waiting DHART medical helicopter that had landed on Route 12 across from the Doton Farm.
Citing their patient privacy policies, the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire has so far refused to release any information about Freeh’s condition but several national news sources have been quoting senior law enforcement officials in Washington D.C. who say they had been in contact with Freeh’s family and are reporting that he underwent surgery overnight for at least one broken leg.
Police said that Freeh, who served as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly eight years from September 1993 to June 2001 under presidents Clinton and George W. Bush, was the lone occupant of the SUV and that he was wearing his seatbelt when the accident occurred shortly after noon on Monday.
The stretch of rural highway just to the north of the Lakota Road intersection involved as “a straightaway” — flat, level. It appeared Freeh was heading south and struck a mailbox on the other side of the road. There didn’t appear to be any skid marks.
On Tuesday morning the Burlington Free Press reported that Freeh, whose driver’s license lists him as a resident of Wilmington, Delaware, has a summer home in Barnard.
During his career with the FBI Freeh was frequently in the public eye nationally as his agency dealt with several major investigations including the Unabomber case, the crash of TWA 800 into Long Island Sound, and t
taking pictures of front of former FBI Director Louis Freeh's SUV
after his near fatal accident.
Vermont State Police refuses to do a accident reconstruction report.
Vermont State Police did not administer a breathalyzer or do blood testing to see if a DUI was involved.
I called Scott Mills of the Barnard Vermont Volunteer
Fire Dept at his Hardware Store in Bethel.
Scott was a first responder and had to cut off the roof of the car to extricate Louis Fresh. Scott says he did a walk around of the car
and the entire front left side of the car was pushed up into the
drivers compartment including the wheel.
look at photos
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Former FBI Director Louis Freeh Injured In Barnard Accident
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Update: Preliminary investigation shows drugs and alcohol were not factors in the crash, according to a press release from the Vermont State Police. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
By Eric Francis, Standard Correspondent
BARNARD — Louis Freeh, the former director of the FBI, was seriously injured in a single-vehicle crash early Monday afternoon on Route 12 in Barnard when his SUV went off the east side of the road, struck a mailbox and a large tree.
Freeh was cut out of the wreckage of his grey 2010 GMC Yukon by members of the Barnard Volunteer Fire Department, treated at the scene for several minutes by a White River Valley Ambulance crew, and then rolled on a stretcher a short distance down the pavement to a waiting DHART medical helicopter that had landed on Route 12 across from the Doton Farm.
Citing their patient privacy policies, the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire has so far refused to release any information about Freeh’s condition but several national news sources have been quoting senior law enforcement officials in Washington D.C. who say they had been in contact with Freeh’s family and are reporting that he underwent surgery overnight for at least one broken leg.
Police said that Freeh, who served as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly eight years from September 1993 to June 2001 under presidents Clinton and George W. Bush, was the lone occupant of the SUV and that he was wearing his seatbelt when the accident occurred shortly after noon on Monday.
The stretch of rural highway just to the north of the Lakota Road intersection involved as “a straightaway” — flat, level. It appeared Freeh was heading south and struck a mailbox on the other side of the road. There didn’t appear to be any skid marks.
On Tuesday morning the Burlington Free Press reported that Freeh, whose driver’s license lists him as a resident of Wilmington, Delaware, has a summer home in Barnard.
During his career with the FBI Freeh was frequently in the public eye nationally as his agency dealt with several major investigations including the Unabomber case, the crash of TWA 800 into Long Island Sound, and t
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Men wrongly jailed were FBI's 'collateral damage,' lawyer says
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BOSTON— A lawyer for the families of four men who spent decades in prison for a murder they didn't commit said the FBI considered their lives "acceptable collateral damage" in the fight against organized crime.
Peter Limone, Joseph Salvati and the families of two other men who died in prison after being convicted in the 1965 killing of Edward "Teddy" Deegan are suing the Department of Justice in U.S. District Court. They are seeking $100 million.
In closing arguments Tuesday, attorney Michael Avery said Boston FBI agents knew that FBI informant Joseph "The Animal" Barboza lied when he named the four men as Deegan's killers.
Avery said the FBI knew Barboza, a Mafia hitman, accused the men to protect fellow FBI informant Vincent "Jimmy" Flemmi.
The government has argued federal authorities had no duty to share information with state officials who prosecuted Limone, Salvati, Henry Tameleo and Louis Greco. They say the FBI cannot be held liable for the results of a separate state investigation.
Avery dismissed those claims, arguing that Boston FBI agents not only told state prosecutors about Barboza - a key witness in the state's trial - they also told prosecutors that they could vouch for Barboza's integrity.
"The notion that the FBI is not responsible for the initiation of this prosecution... is frivolous," Avery said.
He said the men were "acceptable collateral damage" in the Mob crackdown.
Salvati and Limone were exonerated in 2001 after FBI memos dating back to the Deegan case surfaced, showing the men were framed by Barboza.
The memos were made public after they were discovered by a Justice Department task force probing the FBI's relationship with gangsters and FBI informants James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi.
Government lawyers were expected to start their closing arguments later Tuesday.
Men wrongly jailed were FBI's 'collateral damage,' lawyer says
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BOSTON— A lawyer for the families of four men who spent decades in prison for a murder they didn't commit said the FBI considered their lives "acceptable collateral damage" in the fight against organized crime.
Peter Limone, Joseph Salvati and the families of two other men who died in prison after being convicted in the 1965 killing of Edward "Teddy" Deegan are suing the Department of Justice in U.S. District Court. They are seeking $100 million.
In closing arguments Tuesday, attorney Michael Avery said Boston FBI agents knew that FBI informant Joseph "The Animal" Barboza lied when he named the four men as Deegan's killers.
Avery said the FBI knew Barboza, a Mafia hitman, accused the men to protect fellow FBI informant Vincent "Jimmy" Flemmi.
The government has argued federal authorities had no duty to share information with state officials who prosecuted Limone, Salvati, Henry Tameleo and Louis Greco. They say the FBI cannot be held liable for the results of a separate state investigation.
Avery dismissed those claims, arguing that Boston FBI agents not only told state prosecutors about Barboza - a key witness in the state's trial - they also told prosecutors that they could vouch for Barboza's integrity.
"The notion that the FBI is not responsible for the initiation of this prosecution... is frivolous," Avery said.
He said the men were "acceptable collateral damage" in the Mob crackdown.
Salvati and Limone were exonerated in 2001 after FBI memos dating back to the Deegan case surfaced, showing the men were framed by Barboza.
The memos were made public after they were discovered by a Justice Department task force probing the FBI's relationship with gangsters and FBI informants James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi.
Government lawyers were expected to start their closing arguments later Tuesday.
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taxpayer funded criminal justice crime family FEAR R US that created
Oklahoma City bombing refuses to extend it's hand to Vet
who lost his hand thinking he was protecting us from terrorists.
ugh!
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Inspector general censures senior FBI official for remarks about disabled veteran
August 27 2014
The Justice Department’s inspector general has concluded that a senior FBI official created the impression of witness-tampering during a discrimination lawsuit brought against the bureau by a disabled Army veteran.
Teresa Carlson, who is currently an FBI acting deputy assistant director, showed “extremely poor judgment” in her statements to Special Agent Mark Crider, a subordinate who was being deposed in the case, the inspector general found.
Crider was called to testify last year in a lawsuit brought by the veteran who had been disqualified from agent training in 2011 because of concerns about his prosthetic left hand.
The veteran, Justin Slaby of Stafford County, Va., won the case last August and resumed training at Quantico in June. When he graduates in October, he will be the first FBI agent with a prosthetic hand.
According to a redacted report by the office of the inspector general, Crider said Carlson told him in April 2013 that “it would be in my best interest to come down on the side of the FBI.”
Crider, in a one-page memorandum that was reproduced in the report, said he took her remarks “as a threat to make sure that I took the position that Slaby should not be an agent.”
Carlson, who was then special agent in charge of the Milwaukee field office, where Slaby, a Wisconsin native, had applied to join the FBI, disputed that she made such remarks, the report said. But government attorneys in the civil discrimination case stipulated she made the statements alleged by Crider, the report noted.
The inspector general’s office (OIG) referred its findings to the FBI to determine whether disciplinary action is warranted. The bureau does not comment on personnel matters, a spokesman said.
An attorney for the 32-year-old Slaby welcomed the report. “I’m hoping this will be a beacon of light for men and women serving as special agents to know that they can tell the truth without being intimidated by their superiors for doing so,” said John W. Griffin Jr., a lawyer in Victoria, Tex.
Slaby’s left hand was blown off by a defective “flash-bang” grenade in a training accident in Georgia in 2004 between overseas deployments. He served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. He left the Army in 2005, earned a college degree and in 2009 applied to the FBI and was offered a job.
In 2011, he went to Quantico, where the FBI has its training academy. After a couple of months, he was removed from training because instructors felt he could not fire a gun safely with his prosthetic hand. He went to work for the FBI’s hostage rescue team.
In 2012, he filed a discrimination suit. Slaby’s attorneys questioned Crider, who had witnessed the prospective recruit’s completion of physical fitness tests at the Milwaukee field office.
Crider told the OIG that when he informed Carlson that he was scheduled to be deposed, she told him, among other things, that “Slaby should never be an agent because he is disabled,” according to the report.
Oklahoma City bombing refuses to extend it's hand to Vet
who lost his hand thinking he was protecting us from terrorists.
ugh!
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Inspector general censures senior FBI official for remarks about disabled veteran
August 27 2014
The Justice Department’s inspector general has concluded that a senior FBI official created the impression of witness-tampering during a discrimination lawsuit brought against the bureau by a disabled Army veteran.
Teresa Carlson, who is currently an FBI acting deputy assistant director, showed “extremely poor judgment” in her statements to Special Agent Mark Crider, a subordinate who was being deposed in the case, the inspector general found.
Crider was called to testify last year in a lawsuit brought by the veteran who had been disqualified from agent training in 2011 because of concerns about his prosthetic left hand.
The veteran, Justin Slaby of Stafford County, Va., won the case last August and resumed training at Quantico in June. When he graduates in October, he will be the first FBI agent with a prosthetic hand.
According to a redacted report by the office of the inspector general, Crider said Carlson told him in April 2013 that “it would be in my best interest to come down on the side of the FBI.”
Crider, in a one-page memorandum that was reproduced in the report, said he took her remarks “as a threat to make sure that I took the position that Slaby should not be an agent.”
Carlson, who was then special agent in charge of the Milwaukee field office, where Slaby, a Wisconsin native, had applied to join the FBI, disputed that she made such remarks, the report said. But government attorneys in the civil discrimination case stipulated she made the statements alleged by Crider, the report noted.
The inspector general’s office (OIG) referred its findings to the FBI to determine whether disciplinary action is warranted. The bureau does not comment on personnel matters, a spokesman said.
An attorney for the 32-year-old Slaby welcomed the report. “I’m hoping this will be a beacon of light for men and women serving as special agents to know that they can tell the truth without being intimidated by their superiors for doing so,” said John W. Griffin Jr., a lawyer in Victoria, Tex.
Slaby’s left hand was blown off by a defective “flash-bang” grenade in a training accident in Georgia in 2004 between overseas deployments. He served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. He left the Army in 2005, earned a college degree and in 2009 applied to the FBI and was offered a job.
In 2011, he went to Quantico, where the FBI has its training academy. After a couple of months, he was removed from training because instructors felt he could not fire a gun safely with his prosthetic hand. He went to work for the FBI’s hostage rescue team.
In 2012, he filed a discrimination suit. Slaby’s attorneys questioned Crider, who had witnessed the prospective recruit’s completion of physical fitness tests at the Milwaukee field office.
Crider told the OIG that when he informed Carlson that he was scheduled to be deposed, she told him, among other things, that “Slaby should never be an agent because he is disabled,” according to the report.
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Dispatches from Freedom Summer
In His Professional Twilight, a Son of Mississippi Considers His Legacy on Race
Former federal judge Charles W. Pickering wants his life of accomplishment and controversy to have been a contribution to his state’s racial healing.
by Joe Sexton September 3, 2014
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“Clan of the Fiery Cross”Edit
The series delivered a powerful blow against the Ku Klux Klan's prospects in the northern USA. The human rights activist Stetson Kennedy infiltrated the KKK and other racist/terrorist groups. Concerned that the organization had links to the government and police forces, Kennedy decided to use his findings to strike at the Klan in a different way. He contacted the Superman producers and proposed a story where the superhero battles the Klan. Looking for new villains, the producers eagerly agreed. To that end, he provided information—including secret codewords and details of Klan rituals—to the writers. The result was a series of episodes, “Clan of the Fiery Cross,” in which Superman took on the Klan. Kennedy intended to strip away the Klan's mystique. The trivialization of the Klan's rituals and codewords was perceived to have had a negative impact on Klan recruiting and membership.[4]
Reportedly, Klan leaders denounced the show and called for a boycott of Kellogg's products. However, the story arc earned spectacular ratings, and the food company stood by its support of the show.
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Stetson Kennedy October 5th, 1916 - August 27th, 2011
Stetson Kennedy at Desk circa 1945 - 1955Stetson Kennedy was an author, folklorist, environmentalist, labor activist, and human rights advocate. He was also known for his infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1940s. Kennedy authored eight books, including Palmetto Country, Southern Exposure, and The Klan Unmasked.
In Kennedy's early years, he became one of the country's pioneering folklorists. As a teenager, he began gathering white and African American folklore material while he was collecting "a dollar down and dollar a week" accounts for his father, a furniture merchant. He left the University of Florida in 1937 to join the WPA Florida Writers' Project, and at the age of 21, was put in charge of folklore, oral history, and ethnic studies. While he was with the WPA, he oversaw the work of African American writer Zora Neal Hurston.
After World War II, Kennedy and another informant infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan and related white supremacist groups, exposing their secrets, helping Georgia authorities revoke the Klan's corporate charter, and testifying against a fascist Klan offshoot known as the Columbians. Kennedy made public such information as secret code words and details of Klan rituals, including a stint where he supplied Klan secrets to the writers of the Superman radio program, culminating in a series of four episodes in which Superman battled the KKK.
A founding member and past president of the Florida Folklore Society, Kennedy was a recipient of the Florida Folk Heritage Award and the Florida Governor's Heartland Award, and was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. In addition to his passion for folklore, Kennedy has become friends with many literary giants, including Erskine Caldwell, who became so interested in his work during an essay competition, that he went on to edit Kennedy's book on Floridian folklore, Palmetto Country. While he was living in Paris in the mid 1950's, Jean Paul Sartre published his The Jim Crow Guide. Kennedy also maintained a close friendship with musician Woody Guthrie, who wrote numerous songs while staying at Beluthahatchee, Kennedy's home in Fruit Cove, FL.
Stetson Kennedy has been discovered and re-discovered by authors, young scholars, academics, film makers, and journalists alike. Until the very last days of his life, Kennedy continued to champion the causes that drove his decades of activism. His advice to young people was always to "pick a cause and stick to it." Kennedy's legacy lives on through his writings, Beluthahatchee Park, and the remarkable impact he made on all those who knew him.
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Willie Green perfroms for his departed friend Stetson Kennedy on October 1st 2011 .... JOHN EDGAR HOOVER, director, FBI: Please be advised that the letter ...
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Dispatches from Freedom Summer
In His Professional Twilight, a Son of Mississippi Considers His Legacy on Race
Former federal judge Charles W. Pickering wants his life of accomplishment and controversy to have been a contribution to his state’s racial healing.
by Joe Sexton September 3, 2014
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“Clan of the Fiery Cross”Edit
The series delivered a powerful blow against the Ku Klux Klan's prospects in the northern USA. The human rights activist Stetson Kennedy infiltrated the KKK and other racist/terrorist groups. Concerned that the organization had links to the government and police forces, Kennedy decided to use his findings to strike at the Klan in a different way. He contacted the Superman producers and proposed a story where the superhero battles the Klan. Looking for new villains, the producers eagerly agreed. To that end, he provided information—including secret codewords and details of Klan rituals—to the writers. The result was a series of episodes, “Clan of the Fiery Cross,” in which Superman took on the Klan. Kennedy intended to strip away the Klan's mystique. The trivialization of the Klan's rituals and codewords was perceived to have had a negative impact on Klan recruiting and membership.[4]
Reportedly, Klan leaders denounced the show and called for a boycott of Kellogg's products. However, the story arc earned spectacular ratings, and the food company stood by its support of the show.
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Stetson Kennedy October 5th, 1916 - August 27th, 2011
Stetson Kennedy at Desk circa 1945 - 1955Stetson Kennedy was an author, folklorist, environmentalist, labor activist, and human rights advocate. He was also known for his infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1940s. Kennedy authored eight books, including Palmetto Country, Southern Exposure, and The Klan Unmasked.
In Kennedy's early years, he became one of the country's pioneering folklorists. As a teenager, he began gathering white and African American folklore material while he was collecting "a dollar down and dollar a week" accounts for his father, a furniture merchant. He left the University of Florida in 1937 to join the WPA Florida Writers' Project, and at the age of 21, was put in charge of folklore, oral history, and ethnic studies. While he was with the WPA, he oversaw the work of African American writer Zora Neal Hurston.
After World War II, Kennedy and another informant infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan and related white supremacist groups, exposing their secrets, helping Georgia authorities revoke the Klan's corporate charter, and testifying against a fascist Klan offshoot known as the Columbians. Kennedy made public such information as secret code words and details of Klan rituals, including a stint where he supplied Klan secrets to the writers of the Superman radio program, culminating in a series of four episodes in which Superman battled the KKK.
A founding member and past president of the Florida Folklore Society, Kennedy was a recipient of the Florida Folk Heritage Award and the Florida Governor's Heartland Award, and was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. In addition to his passion for folklore, Kennedy has become friends with many literary giants, including Erskine Caldwell, who became so interested in his work during an essay competition, that he went on to edit Kennedy's book on Floridian folklore, Palmetto Country. While he was living in Paris in the mid 1950's, Jean Paul Sartre published his The Jim Crow Guide. Kennedy also maintained a close friendship with musician Woody Guthrie, who wrote numerous songs while staying at Beluthahatchee, Kennedy's home in Fruit Cove, FL.
Stetson Kennedy has been discovered and re-discovered by authors, young scholars, academics, film makers, and journalists alike. Until the very last days of his life, Kennedy continued to champion the causes that drove his decades of activism. His advice to young people was always to "pick a cause and stick to it." Kennedy's legacy lives on through his writings, Beluthahatchee Park, and the remarkable impact he made on all those who knew him.
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Willie Green perfroms for his departed friend Stetson Kennedy on October 1st 2011 .... JOHN EDGAR HOOVER, director, FBI: Please be advised that the letter ...
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A JOURNAL SENTINEL WATCHDOG UPDATE
FBI mum on why former Milwaukee chief still holds top job
Teresa L. Carlson, formerly the special agent in charge of the FBI office in Milwaukee, remains in a high-ranking position despite the belief that she encouraged perjury and then lied to investigators.
Mike De Sisti
Teresa L. Carlson, formerly the special agent in charge of the FBI office in Milwaukee, remains in a high-ranking position despite the belief that she encouraged perjury and then lied to investigators.
By John Diedrich of the Journal Sentinel
September 4. 2014
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The former chief of the FBI Milwaukee office — believed to have encouraged perjury and then lied to investigators — is worthless as a witness and dishonors an agency that places a premium on integrity, according to bureau veterans and law enforcement experts.
But Teresa Carlson remains a high-ranking FBI official in Washington, D.C., and the agency won't say whether she has been demoted, suspended or disciplined in any way.
A Justice Department report issued last week concluded that Carlson, then special agent in charge of the Milwaukee office, instructed a subordinate to commit perjury in the case of a wounded veteran who wanted to become an agent. Carlson then likely lied to investigators from the Inspector General's Office and the FBI as well as federal prosecutors, the report says.
An investigation into her conduct has dragged on for months, underscoring the perception among some agents that top officials are given special treatment.
Five years ago, the inspector general found that allegations of wrongdoing by top FBI leaders often were not pursued. A third of FBI employees surveyed for that report believed there was a double standard for top officials in the bureau.
"That is the basis of everything the FBI does — trust, integrity, honesty. Everything you do involves that," said retired FBI agent Jack Blair. "When you go to trial, the case is based on the testimony, many times, of the agent. If they are lying, you got a serious problem with the whole agency. That is one thing we get fired for."
Inspector General Michael Horowitz's office found Carlson "conducted herself unprofessionally and exhibited extremely poor judgment" when she coached Special Agent Mark Crider on how to testify in the case of Justin Slaby, a wounded war veteran trying to become an FBI agent.
According to Crider, Carlson told him to "come down" on the FBI's side in the case. Carlson denied she told Crider how to testify, but the inspector general staff concluded her version of events was not credible.
Carlson invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination last year after she was subpoenaed to explain the conversation. Likewise, she refused to speak to inspector general staff until she was forced to do so. She has not returned calls for comment.
FBI Deputy Director Sean Joyce quietly moved Carlson out of Milwaukee last summer. More than a year later, Carlson remains in a high-level job as acting deputy assistant director of the Facilities and Logistics Division at headquarters in Washington — which manages FBI facilities and an $800 million budget.
The FBI will not say how much Carlson makes — but government pay scales show it is between $120,000 and $180,000 year. The agency also will not say if any disciplinary action has been taken against her.
A JOURNAL SENTINEL WATCHDOG UPDATE
FBI mum on why former Milwaukee chief still holds top job
Teresa L. Carlson, formerly the special agent in charge of the FBI office in Milwaukee, remains in a high-ranking position despite the belief that she encouraged perjury and then lied to investigators.
Mike De Sisti
Teresa L. Carlson, formerly the special agent in charge of the FBI office in Milwaukee, remains in a high-ranking position despite the belief that she encouraged perjury and then lied to investigators.
By John Diedrich of the Journal Sentinel
September 4. 2014
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchd ... 49651.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The former chief of the FBI Milwaukee office — believed to have encouraged perjury and then lied to investigators — is worthless as a witness and dishonors an agency that places a premium on integrity, according to bureau veterans and law enforcement experts.
But Teresa Carlson remains a high-ranking FBI official in Washington, D.C., and the agency won't say whether she has been demoted, suspended or disciplined in any way.
A Justice Department report issued last week concluded that Carlson, then special agent in charge of the Milwaukee office, instructed a subordinate to commit perjury in the case of a wounded veteran who wanted to become an agent. Carlson then likely lied to investigators from the Inspector General's Office and the FBI as well as federal prosecutors, the report says.
An investigation into her conduct has dragged on for months, underscoring the perception among some agents that top officials are given special treatment.
Five years ago, the inspector general found that allegations of wrongdoing by top FBI leaders often were not pursued. A third of FBI employees surveyed for that report believed there was a double standard for top officials in the bureau.
"That is the basis of everything the FBI does — trust, integrity, honesty. Everything you do involves that," said retired FBI agent Jack Blair. "When you go to trial, the case is based on the testimony, many times, of the agent. If they are lying, you got a serious problem with the whole agency. That is one thing we get fired for."
Inspector General Michael Horowitz's office found Carlson "conducted herself unprofessionally and exhibited extremely poor judgment" when she coached Special Agent Mark Crider on how to testify in the case of Justin Slaby, a wounded war veteran trying to become an FBI agent.
According to Crider, Carlson told him to "come down" on the FBI's side in the case. Carlson denied she told Crider how to testify, but the inspector general staff concluded her version of events was not credible.
Carlson invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination last year after she was subpoenaed to explain the conversation. Likewise, she refused to speak to inspector general staff until she was forced to do so. She has not returned calls for comment.
FBI Deputy Director Sean Joyce quietly moved Carlson out of Milwaukee last summer. More than a year later, Carlson remains in a high-level job as acting deputy assistant director of the Facilities and Logistics Division at headquarters in Washington — which manages FBI facilities and an $800 million budget.
The FBI will not say how much Carlson makes — but government pay scales show it is between $120,000 and $180,000 year. The agency also will not say if any disciplinary action has been taken against her.
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Mystery Over FBI Agent's Firing
Government shrouds details of why top child porn prober got canned
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Mystery Over FBI Agent's Firing
AUGUST 20--The lead FBI investigator on several of the government's highest profile child porn prosecutions has recently been fired in connection with her work on those cases, though details of why the agent was terminated have been sealed by a federal judge.
The canning of Monique Winkis, 40, was just disclosed by federal prosecutors to a Tennessee defense lawyer who represents Timothy Richards, who was convicted in a case in which Winkis was the lead FBI agent. In an August 8 U.S. District Court filing, defense lawyer Kimberly Hodde stated that prosecutors had informed her that Winkis was canned due to her 'conduct in the investigation of cases related to Defendant Richards' prosecution.'
Specific details of Winkis's firing are contained in a court filing made by Department of Justice officials, a submission that was ordered sealed last week by Judge Aleta Trauger. In her court filing, Hodde argues that Richards, pictured at left, is entitled to details about the Winkis firing since the ex-prober was the FBI case agent assigned to his prosecution.
The Winkis firing was apparently first disclosed by government lawyers during a late-June status conference, at which Trauger set dates for court pleadings 're: FBI Wincus,' according to a court filing. Winkis did not respond to a detailed message left with her mother, and the federal prosecutor handling the Richards case did not return a message left at her office. An FBI spokesperson declined comment, noting that the agency is prohibited from discussing personnel matters.
According to court records, Winkis worked for the FBI for about 13 years, most recently from the bureau's Washington, D.C. headquarters where she was a supervisor in the Innocent Images Unit. In that capacity, Winkis developed cases based on information provided by Justin Berry, who began operating an X-rated Webcam business while still a teenager. Berry's cooperation was, in large part, arranged in late-2005 by Kurt Eichenwald, then a New York Times reporter investigating online child porn businesses.
According to a December 2005 Eichenwald story, the Times 'persuaded Justin to abandon his business and, to protect other children at risk, assisted him in contacting the Justice Department.' That Times report also quoted Winkis commenting on the breadth of potential targets identified as a result of Berry's cooperation and how 'hundreds of other kids that we are not aware of yet' could be saved from sexual abuse and exploitation.
EX-FBI AGENT JOHN LANDS IN JAIL - AGAIN
By Ryan McBride - The Sun Staff
WAKEFIELD - A former FBI agent from Westerly has returned to prison
after a series of recent arrests for violating a court order to stay
away from his ex-wife.
John served 15 months at the ACI for a criminal conviction of violating a
restraining order in March 2002. His suspended sentence and probation
from the conviction end in 2012.
According to court records, state police arrested John in February 2002
on a disorderly conduct charge for exposing himself in public.
Mystery Over FBI Agent's Firing
Government shrouds details of why top child porn prober got canned
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Mystery Over FBI Agent's Firing
AUGUST 20--The lead FBI investigator on several of the government's highest profile child porn prosecutions has recently been fired in connection with her work on those cases, though details of why the agent was terminated have been sealed by a federal judge.
The canning of Monique Winkis, 40, was just disclosed by federal prosecutors to a Tennessee defense lawyer who represents Timothy Richards, who was convicted in a case in which Winkis was the lead FBI agent. In an August 8 U.S. District Court filing, defense lawyer Kimberly Hodde stated that prosecutors had informed her that Winkis was canned due to her 'conduct in the investigation of cases related to Defendant Richards' prosecution.'
Specific details of Winkis's firing are contained in a court filing made by Department of Justice officials, a submission that was ordered sealed last week by Judge Aleta Trauger. In her court filing, Hodde argues that Richards, pictured at left, is entitled to details about the Winkis firing since the ex-prober was the FBI case agent assigned to his prosecution.
The Winkis firing was apparently first disclosed by government lawyers during a late-June status conference, at which Trauger set dates for court pleadings 're: FBI Wincus,' according to a court filing. Winkis did not respond to a detailed message left with her mother, and the federal prosecutor handling the Richards case did not return a message left at her office. An FBI spokesperson declined comment, noting that the agency is prohibited from discussing personnel matters.
According to court records, Winkis worked for the FBI for about 13 years, most recently from the bureau's Washington, D.C. headquarters where she was a supervisor in the Innocent Images Unit. In that capacity, Winkis developed cases based on information provided by Justin Berry, who began operating an X-rated Webcam business while still a teenager. Berry's cooperation was, in large part, arranged in late-2005 by Kurt Eichenwald, then a New York Times reporter investigating online child porn businesses.
According to a December 2005 Eichenwald story, the Times 'persuaded Justin to abandon his business and, to protect other children at risk, assisted him in contacting the Justice Department.' That Times report also quoted Winkis commenting on the breadth of potential targets identified as a result of Berry's cooperation and how 'hundreds of other kids that we are not aware of yet' could be saved from sexual abuse and exploitation.
EX-FBI AGENT JOHN LANDS IN JAIL - AGAIN
By Ryan McBride - The Sun Staff
WAKEFIELD - A former FBI agent from Westerly has returned to prison
after a series of recent arrests for violating a court order to stay
away from his ex-wife.
John served 15 months at the ACI for a criminal conviction of violating a
restraining order in March 2002. His suspended sentence and probation
from the conviction end in 2012.
According to court records, state police arrested John in February 2002
on a disorderly conduct charge for exposing himself in public.
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Retrial of FBI agent delayed
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Much to the dismay of the presiding judge, the retrial of an FBI special agent accused of murdering his estranged wife won’t begin Monday after all.
Arthur Gonzales, 43, is charged with second-degree murder and using a firearm in the commission of a felony in connection with the April 19, 2013, slaying of 42-year-old Julie Serna Gonzales.
Gonzales’ first trial in March ended after eight days with a hung jury. Sources said the jurors voted 10–2 to acquit Gonzales, and the two in opposition only supported a lesser manslaughter conviction.
At that time, Commonwealth’s Attorney Eric Olsen immediately announced his intention to try Gonzales again and his second trial was set to start next week.
But defense attorney Mark Gardner said he needed more time after being informed by prosecutors Wednesday of two new expert witnesses they intended to present.
Marcella Fierro, the retired chief medical examiner for the state, has examined the evidence and made conclusions that differ somewhat from those of the forensic scientist who performed the autopsy.
Specially, according to statements made during a hearing Friday in Stafford Circuit Court, Fierro has concluded that one of the shots that struck Julie Gonzales was fired while her back was against a hard surface, presumably the floor.
The medical examiner who testified at the first trial said the victim’s back being against a hard surface was not the only reasonable interpretation of the evidence.
Gardner said that if Fierro and a use-of-force expert he also just found out about were going to be allowed to testify, he would need more time to examine their conclusions.
Retrial of FBI agent delayed
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Much to the dismay of the presiding judge, the retrial of an FBI special agent accused of murdering his estranged wife won’t begin Monday after all.
Arthur Gonzales, 43, is charged with second-degree murder and using a firearm in the commission of a felony in connection with the April 19, 2013, slaying of 42-year-old Julie Serna Gonzales.
Gonzales’ first trial in March ended after eight days with a hung jury. Sources said the jurors voted 10–2 to acquit Gonzales, and the two in opposition only supported a lesser manslaughter conviction.
At that time, Commonwealth’s Attorney Eric Olsen immediately announced his intention to try Gonzales again and his second trial was set to start next week.
But defense attorney Mark Gardner said he needed more time after being informed by prosecutors Wednesday of two new expert witnesses they intended to present.
Marcella Fierro, the retired chief medical examiner for the state, has examined the evidence and made conclusions that differ somewhat from those of the forensic scientist who performed the autopsy.
Specially, according to statements made during a hearing Friday in Stafford Circuit Court, Fierro has concluded that one of the shots that struck Julie Gonzales was fired while her back was against a hard surface, presumably the floor.
The medical examiner who testified at the first trial said the victim’s back being against a hard surface was not the only reasonable interpretation of the evidence.
Gardner said that if Fierro and a use-of-force expert he also just found out about were going to be allowed to testify, he would need more time to examine their conclusions.
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4 FBI Agents Face Probe in Dispute With Congressman
June 24, 1988|
Three veteran Los Angeles FBI agents reportedly are under internal investigation for lobbying U.S. Rep. Elton Gallegly to support a proposed law, and a fourth agent says he is under review for sending an irate note to Gallegly.
The four men face possible disciplinary action for engaging in improper political activity, according to several FBI agents.
Gallegly (R-Simi Valley) complains, meanwhile, that he was "the target of a bitter, and politically motivated, attack by a handful of FBI agents and their families" before the June 7 primary. But he denies filing a complaint against any of the four agents.
The FBI considers the situation an internal matter and will not discuss it, spokesman Jim Neilson said Thursday.
Several agents say the controversy has sparked outrage within FBI ranks.
"I have a right to express my views to my elected representative without putting my job on the line," said special agent Greg Mercier, one of the agents who says he is under investigation.
Mercier said he was upset with Gallegly because three colleagues were placed under internal investigation after a Sept. 4 meeting with the congressman. The three had sought the lawmaker's support for a bill that would increase the rate of overtime pay for 20,000 to 25,000 federal employees, including most FBI agents.
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4 FBI Agents Face Probe in Dispute With Congressman
June 24, 1988|
Three veteran Los Angeles FBI agents reportedly are under internal investigation for lobbying U.S. Rep. Elton Gallegly to support a proposed law, and a fourth agent says he is under review for sending an irate note to Gallegly.
The four men face possible disciplinary action for engaging in improper political activity, according to several FBI agents.
Gallegly (R-Simi Valley) complains, meanwhile, that he was "the target of a bitter, and politically motivated, attack by a handful of FBI agents and their families" before the June 7 primary. But he denies filing a complaint against any of the four agents.
The FBI considers the situation an internal matter and will not discuss it, spokesman Jim Neilson said Thursday.
Several agents say the controversy has sparked outrage within FBI ranks.
"I have a right to express my views to my elected representative without putting my job on the line," said special agent Greg Mercier, one of the agents who says he is under investigation.
Mercier said he was upset with Gallegly because three colleagues were placed under internal investigation after a Sept. 4 meeting with the congressman. The three had sought the lawmaker's support for a bill that would increase the rate of overtime pay for 20,000 to 25,000 federal employees, including most FBI agents.
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FBI agent, cold case analyst
Robert B. Fram, 58, an FBI special agent who in retirement became a cold case analyst for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Alexandria, Va., died Aug. 24 at a medical center in Bethesda, Md. The cause was melanoma, said his wife, Joan Fram.
Mr. Fram, a resident of Burke, Va., was born in the Bronx. He joined the FBI in 1981 and became a special agent in 1985. In 1989, he became a hair and fiber examiner at FBI headquarters. He became chief of the trace evidence unit in 2001 and was section chief of the scientific analysis section of the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Va., from 2006 to 2009. In retirement, he was an adjunct professor at Northern Virginia Community College in Springfield and Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Md.
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Quasi-governmental missing kids center enjoys key exemptions from federal rules
Friday, January 22, 2010 6:53pm
In many ways, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is a quasi-government agency.
Mandated by Congress, the center has access to the FBI's missing, wanted and unidentified persons files. It operates tip lines for the Justice Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It gets more than half of its money from U.S. taxpayers.
Yet the Virginia-based center, with regional offices in Florida and three other states, is a private nonprofit organization exempt from federal salary caps. And that has enabled the center's president, Ernie Allen, to command a salary among the highest in the nonprofit world.
In 2008, the latest year for which records are available, Allen made $511,069 as head of the center and its international affiliate. He also received $787,126 in deferred compensation and underfunded retirement benefits, as well as $46,382 in nontaxable benefits — a total of $1,344,567.
Allen's base salary was higher than that of the top executives of two other nonprofits — the American Red Cross and the Smithsonian Institution — that also get substantial funding from the U.S. government. Both have budgets many times greater than that of the missing children's center.
Allen's compensation "does appear quite high,'' says Daniel Borochoff, president of the American Institute of Philanthropy.
Of the more than 500 nonprofits the institute rates, Allen's total compensation ranked third-highest — exceeded only by that at the Boy Scouts of America ($3.97 million) and Memorial Sloan-Kettering ($3.67 million), one of the world's top cancer centers.
Borochoff says there is "no easy formula" for determining executive compensation in nonprofits.
"You really have to look at the facts and circumstances and what kinds of skills are needed," he said. "If he (Allen) was running the Red Cross, where he was in charge of half the blood supply and major disaster relief, you could make a bigger argument (for his compensation)."
Charity Navigator, a watchdog group that evaluates 5,400 nonprofits, ranks Allen's salary as 47th-highest and almost twice the average for chief executive officers of similar-size organizations. Most of the CEOs who are paid more than Allen head major universities or research centers.
"I think it doesn't pass the smell test with donors," Sandra Miniutti, Charity Navigator's vice president, says of Allen's compensation. "It's very hard for people to wrap their arms around huge salaries, especially right now when we're in a recession.''
Although Allen's salary is high by nonprofit standards, Charity Navigator and the philanthropy institute list the center as "top-rated'' because most of its revenues go for programs, not fundraising costs.
Allen, a lawyer, said the board of directors set his compensation based on a study to ensure it was "comparable, appropriate and reasonable.'' He said he won't receive some of the money for years, although Internal Revenue Service rules required it to be reported on the center's annual IRS return.
"I am one of the nation's leading experts on the issue of missing and exploited children,'' Allen said in an e-mail to the St. Petersburg Times. "I am always on call and have little time off, including nights, weekends and holidays. I receive no bonuses or perks that many other nonprofit executives receive."
Allen said none of his compensation comes from U.S. taxpayers — $25.4 million in 2008 — but is paid out of "private funds" like donations. Total revenues in 2008 were $42 million.
The center's 350 employees include 11 who are paid more than $125,000. And in 2006 and 2007, the center paid medical claims totaling $76,572 for co-founder John Walsh, whose son Adam was murdered in South Florida in 1981. Although Walsh is no longer an employee, his wife is an unpaid board member and their family is covered by the center's health plan.
Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted, still acts as a spokesman for the center and is a "key person … whose knowledge, work, and overall contribution is uniquely valuable," Allen said.
President Ronald Reagan announced the creation of the center in 1984 and Congress designated it as the national clearinghouse for information on missing and sexually exploited children.
Missing kids are located by way of a 24-hour toll-free phone line, a photo distribution system and a team of forensic artists, who create age-progressed photos showing what a child abducted at, say, 2 might look like at 13.
The center says it has helped recover more than 135,000 missing children, though it acknowledges that many reported kidnapping victims are actually taken by parents in custody disputes.
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Federal review stalled after finding forensic errors by FBI lab unit ...
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Jul 29, 2014 - After two years, inquiry into FBI forensic testimony targets 45 capital ... mostly involving the same FBI hair and fiber analysis unit now under scrutiny. “I don't ... counter earlier FBI claims that a single rogue examiner was at fault.
U.S. reviewing 27 death penalty convictions for FBI forensic ...
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Jul 17, 2013 - David Christian “Chris” Hassell, director of the FBI Laboratory, said the ... DNA analysis, there is no accepted research on how often hair from ...
Hair Analysis: The Root of the Evidence Problem: Texas takes on ...
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Jan 13, 2014 - That review is being conducted via an agreement between the FBI and ... it trained many microscopic hair analysts in state and local crime laboratories, ... Indeed, faulty hair analysis has been implicated in the case of at least ...
The Innocence Project - Innocence Project and NACDL Announce ...
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Jul 18, 2013 - The review will focus on specific cases in which FBI Laboratory reports and ... of faulty FBI microscopic hair comparison laboratory reports and/or testimony. ... “Unfortunately hair analysis is only one of many flawed forensic ...
[PDF]report - Department of Justice
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Jul 9, 2014 - faulty FBI Lab analysis and examiner testimony. Chapter Six contains .... based in part on FBI hair analyses and testimony that DNA analysis.
DOJ Waives Procedural Bars in FBI Review of Hair Analysis ...
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Jul 24, 2013 - “Microscopic hair analysis often involved faulty conclusions,” he said. ... “There is no reason to believe the FBI laboratory employed 'flawed' ...
Faulty FBI forensic hair analysis: Thousands of possible wrongful ...
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Jun 1, 2014 - The undertaking is the largest post-conviction review ever done by the FBI. It will include cases conducted by all FBI Laboratory hair and fiber ...
US reviews 27 death penalty convictions due to FBI errors — RT USA
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Jul 18, 2013 - More than 21,700 FBI Laboratory files are being examined, and at least 120 ... In cases where solely a hair analysis led to a suspect's conviction, US ... result of faulty hair tests, but the FBI says it will announce partial results of ...
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FBI agent, cold case analyst
Robert B. Fram, 58, an FBI special agent who in retirement became a cold case analyst for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Alexandria, Va., died Aug. 24 at a medical center in Bethesda, Md. The cause was melanoma, said his wife, Joan Fram.
Mr. Fram, a resident of Burke, Va., was born in the Bronx. He joined the FBI in 1981 and became a special agent in 1985. In 1989, he became a hair and fiber examiner at FBI headquarters. He became chief of the trace evidence unit in 2001 and was section chief of the scientific analysis section of the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Va., from 2006 to 2009. In retirement, he was an adjunct professor at Northern Virginia Community College in Springfield and Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Md.
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Quasi-governmental missing kids center enjoys key exemptions from federal rules
Friday, January 22, 2010 6:53pm
In many ways, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is a quasi-government agency.
Mandated by Congress, the center has access to the FBI's missing, wanted and unidentified persons files. It operates tip lines for the Justice Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It gets more than half of its money from U.S. taxpayers.
Yet the Virginia-based center, with regional offices in Florida and three other states, is a private nonprofit organization exempt from federal salary caps. And that has enabled the center's president, Ernie Allen, to command a salary among the highest in the nonprofit world.
In 2008, the latest year for which records are available, Allen made $511,069 as head of the center and its international affiliate. He also received $787,126 in deferred compensation and underfunded retirement benefits, as well as $46,382 in nontaxable benefits — a total of $1,344,567.
Allen's base salary was higher than that of the top executives of two other nonprofits — the American Red Cross and the Smithsonian Institution — that also get substantial funding from the U.S. government. Both have budgets many times greater than that of the missing children's center.
Allen's compensation "does appear quite high,'' says Daniel Borochoff, president of the American Institute of Philanthropy.
Of the more than 500 nonprofits the institute rates, Allen's total compensation ranked third-highest — exceeded only by that at the Boy Scouts of America ($3.97 million) and Memorial Sloan-Kettering ($3.67 million), one of the world's top cancer centers.
Borochoff says there is "no easy formula" for determining executive compensation in nonprofits.
"You really have to look at the facts and circumstances and what kinds of skills are needed," he said. "If he (Allen) was running the Red Cross, where he was in charge of half the blood supply and major disaster relief, you could make a bigger argument (for his compensation)."
Charity Navigator, a watchdog group that evaluates 5,400 nonprofits, ranks Allen's salary as 47th-highest and almost twice the average for chief executive officers of similar-size organizations. Most of the CEOs who are paid more than Allen head major universities or research centers.
"I think it doesn't pass the smell test with donors," Sandra Miniutti, Charity Navigator's vice president, says of Allen's compensation. "It's very hard for people to wrap their arms around huge salaries, especially right now when we're in a recession.''
Although Allen's salary is high by nonprofit standards, Charity Navigator and the philanthropy institute list the center as "top-rated'' because most of its revenues go for programs, not fundraising costs.
Allen, a lawyer, said the board of directors set his compensation based on a study to ensure it was "comparable, appropriate and reasonable.'' He said he won't receive some of the money for years, although Internal Revenue Service rules required it to be reported on the center's annual IRS return.
"I am one of the nation's leading experts on the issue of missing and exploited children,'' Allen said in an e-mail to the St. Petersburg Times. "I am always on call and have little time off, including nights, weekends and holidays. I receive no bonuses or perks that many other nonprofit executives receive."
Allen said none of his compensation comes from U.S. taxpayers — $25.4 million in 2008 — but is paid out of "private funds" like donations. Total revenues in 2008 were $42 million.
The center's 350 employees include 11 who are paid more than $125,000. And in 2006 and 2007, the center paid medical claims totaling $76,572 for co-founder John Walsh, whose son Adam was murdered in South Florida in 1981. Although Walsh is no longer an employee, his wife is an unpaid board member and their family is covered by the center's health plan.
Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted, still acts as a spokesman for the center and is a "key person … whose knowledge, work, and overall contribution is uniquely valuable," Allen said.
President Ronald Reagan announced the creation of the center in 1984 and Congress designated it as the national clearinghouse for information on missing and sexually exploited children.
Missing kids are located by way of a 24-hour toll-free phone line, a photo distribution system and a team of forensic artists, who create age-progressed photos showing what a child abducted at, say, 2 might look like at 13.
The center says it has helped recover more than 135,000 missing children, though it acknowledges that many reported kidnapping victims are actually taken by parents in custody disputes.
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Misconduct at Justice Department isn’t always prosecuted
Published: Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2014 - 1:49 pm
Last Modified: Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2014 - 2:29 pm
WASHINGTON -- Dozens of Justice Department officials, ranging from FBI special agents and prison wardens to high-level federal prosecutors, have escaped prosecution
or firing in recent years despite findings of misconduct by the department’s own internal watchdog.
Most of the names of the investigated officials, even the highest-ranking, remain under wraps. But documents McClatchy obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal for the first time a startling array of alleged transgressions uncovered by the department’s inspector general.
These include:
– Investigators concluded an assistant U.S. attorney “lacked candor” when interviewed by FBI agents investigating her husband’s “embezzlement activity.” The prosecutor also “made misleading and contradictory” statements to other investigators who were asking about her husband’s criminal activities. She was “verbally admonished” this year, but the Justice Department opted not to prosecute.
– A U.S. attorney violated federal laws and regulations by accepting a partially paid trip to a foreign country by a nonprofit organization, according to investigators. The unnamed presidential appointee was given a written admonishment and he was ordered to reimburse the organization. Prosecution was declined.
– Two FBI supervisory special agents accepted free tickets to the NBA All-Star Game and gave them to family members. One agent “lied under oath” about his actions, and was found to have misused government resources to “engage in extramarital affairs with three women.” That agent resigned after the bureau proposed his dismissal and the other was suspended for three days. Neither was prosecuted.
– An FBI assistant special agent in charge sexually harassed female subordinates, retaliated against a female special agent who refused to have a relationship with him and used his FBI-issued BlackBerry to pursue romantic relationships with 17 FBI employees, nine of whom were direct subordinates, as well as 29 other women. In January, the FBI told the inspector general it had issued an undisclosed disciplinary action. No charges were brought. In a statement to McClatchy, the FBI said it couldn’t comment on an “ongoing personnel matter.”
The records, which cover the period from January 2010 to March 2014, detail some 80 cases, only a few of which appear to have been previously made public. The accused officials work for agencies that include the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
In at least 27 cases, the inspector general identified evidence of possible criminal wrongdoing but no one was prosecuted.
These previously undisclosed cases, and dozens of others like them reviewed by McClatchy, reveal more than an underside to federal law enforcement. The cases underscore how much discretion federal prosecutors have in deciding whether to press charges, and they raise questions about when and why this discretion is applied.
“I think it’s fair to ask why some of these cases weren’t prosecuted,” Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz said in an interview. “That’s clearly a concern we have: To make sure there are not two standards of justice at the Department of Justice.”
However, he said it’s understandable in many cases that criminal charges aren’t filed. His office presents a case for prosecution in every instance where there’s “credible evidence that could support elements of a crime, even when it’s weak.”
The reports come, however, amid an overall decline in public corruption prosecutions during the Obama administration. So far this year, records obtained by the nonpartisan Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University show that 34 percent of investigators’ referrals of public corruption allegations were accepted for prosecution.
During the George W. Bush presidency, records show, 41.6 percent of the official corruption referrals resulted in prosecution.
Gauging the reasons behind an individual prosecutor’s decision-making is nearly impossible, because the Justice Department and inspector general’s office won’t release most of the names or discuss the details of the cases.
Justice Department records show that federal prosecutors nationwide declined a total of 25,629 criminal matters during fiscal year 2013. The reasons most commonly reported included weak or insufficient evidence and lack of criminal intent.
Peter Carr, a Justice Department spokesman, said prosecutors followed federal rules when deciding whether to initiate or decline charges in a case.
Carr pointed to the U.S Attorney’s Manual, which says, “Federal law enforcement resources and federal judicial resources are not sufficient to permit prosecution of every alleged offense over which federal jurisdiction exists.”
“Public corruption cases are very fact-specific, and statistics fluctuate routinely year by year,” Carr said Tuesday. “The decision to bring a case involves a number of factors, all covered by the Principles of Federal Prosecution, which may include the seriousness of the allegation, the admissible evidence and whether there is a substantial federal interest in pursuing charges.”
The inspector general’s summary of unprosecuted cases was provided to Republican Sens. Charles Grassley of Iowa and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, and independently obtained by McClatchy through a FOIA request.
Grassley said he agreed that not all cases warranted prosecution. However, he called for more transparency in the decisions “because of the obvious appearance of a conflict of interest.”
“The public needs to be reassured that the department doesn’t have one standard for its own employees and another standard for everybody else,” he said.
Other cases federal prosecutors declined that were cited in the documents obtained by McClatchy include:
– Allegations against an unnamed prosecutor who was recused from involvement with a criminal investigation because of a personal relationship with a criminal target. The inspector general, however, concluded the prosecutor had disclosed information about the investigation and the wiretap to her spouse, “who subsequently disclosed it to the target.” The prosecutor initially denied revealing the information to her spouse, but subsequently acknowledged that she might have “said something” about the investigation. The prosecutor retired last November.
The husband of former Assistant U.S. Attorney Paula Burnett in New Mexico was convicted last September of leaking details of an investigation to Mexican drug cartel members. Burnett retired late last year, according to news accounts. The inspector general and the U.S. attorney’s office in New Mexico wouldn’t confirm whether it was the same case. Burnett declined to comment.
– The inspector general’s review found $211,000 in questionable purchases at a district U.S. marshals’ office, including “ceremonial and promotional” items previously banned by headquarters, personal or other wasteful items. The investigators concluded that the marshal and the chief deputy marshal had misspent funds, knowingly misused the government purchase card program and violated public service laws. Disciplinary action was still pending this year.
– Investigators concluded that an immigration judge had solicited attorneys to purchase jewelry from her, borrowed money from a lawyer and interpreter, and failed to recuse herself from cases that involved lawyers representing her relatives in criminal matters. The Executive Office for Immigration Review, which oversees immigration judges, “proposed disciplinary action” in January. Spokeswoman Kathryn Mattingly said her office “does not comment on personnel matters.”
Several cases also involve prosecutors misusing their positions, including one who’d sent emails on behalf of her boyfriend, disclosed sensitive information to him without authorization, used government databases to conduct legal research for him, gave him access to government computer accounts and sent a gift to an attorney to get her boyfriend legal assistance. In December 2011, she received a letter of suspension for 14 days.
In the interview, Horowitz wouldn’t comment on specific cases but he added that he’s personally appealed to U.S. attorneys to consider prosecution in some instances.
“I pick up the phone and call them,” said Horowitz, a former longtime federal prosecutor who handled corruption cases in New York.
Horowitz’s role is not to make the prosecution decisions, but to ensure that prosecutors get the information they need .
“There are some where I might have pulled the trigger. But I’m not a prosecutor anymore so I respect the discretion not to. I can’t think of any case where a decision was made not to prosecute that I thought was unreasonable,” he said.
Some of the misconduct cases may not be pursued because they involve “low-dollar” waste or abuse, Horowitz said. Or cases may be seen as too tough to prosecute, sometimes for the wrong reasons, he added, such as the sexual abuse of prisoners. Prosecutors can view prisoners as unsympathetic witnesses.
Before Horowitz took over in 2012, the inspector general’s office disagreed with a federal prosecutor who didn’t want to file charges. In that case, a correctional officer had accepted $1,300 from an undercover agent in exchange for agreeing to smuggle tobacco into a correctional facility. After prosecutors from the federal district based in Houston declined to pursue criminal charges, a local district attorney took the case. The officer later pleaded guilty to bribery, was sentenced to probation and was fined $2,000.
Earl Devaney, a former inspector general for the Department of Interior, said a decision not to pursue criminal charges didn’t necessarily mean investigators or prosecutors were pulling their punches.
“There are always a lot of good reasons to not prosecute,” he said. “Also, you can have a thousand little crappy cases that just make you look good and just one case that has enormous impact.”
Devaney nonetheless added that he’d found the Justice Department’s public integrity unit, which is set up to prosecute cases of high-level corruption, to be “risk adverse” in the past. He worked with it as part of a federal task force that investigated superlobbyist Jack Abramoff and his influence peddling.
Sometimes, alleged misconduct by prosecutors and investigators might be handled less aggressively because of concern that it would taint criminal cases, Devaney said. At trial, defense attorneys are permitted to learn of serious misconduct of the agents and prosecutors involved in their cases.
According to the most recent report by the office, the Justice Department’s inspector general received nearly 5,900 allegations of misconduct, opened 195 investigations and was involved in 32 arrests and 38 convictions from October through March.
This year, for instance, a former federal correctional officer in Missouri was sentenced for trying to hire an inmate to murder his wife’s ex-husband.
However, the Justice Department’s inspector general doesn’t break down details on prosecutions. As a result, McClatchy couldn’t determine the prosecution rate for the office’s cases.
At least one other inspector general does report such statistics. The Interior Department Inspector General’s Office opened 742 cases in the year that ended March 31. During the same period, the office reported referring 44 cases for possible prosecution. Nineteen cases were declined.
During the same year, the Department of Homeland Security opened 551 investigations, referred 322 for prosecution and had 196 declined.
Horowitz is one of some 72 federal inspectors general, spanning myriad federal agencies. They are auditors, in part, scrutinizing government agencies in hopes of rooting out waste and inefficiencies. In fiscal 2013, for instance, the inspectors general identified $44.9 billion in funds that could be “put to better use.”
Inspectors general also investigate criminal allegations. In fiscal 2013, their work led to 6,705 successful criminal prosecutions.
The agencies make the calls on disciplinary action.
In the Justice Department cases, Devaney said he was struck by instances of weak punishment.
“An oral admonishment is not a deterrent,” Devaney said.
One case was triggered by a complaint by Grassley about FBI Assistant Director Stephen Kelly. Kelly, who managed the bureau’s Office of Congressional Affairs, told Grassley’s staff that the FBI knew that the senator planned to attend the wedding of a “subject” of an FBI investigation, according to the inspector general’s report.
“He assured Senator Grassley that he was not a focus of the FBI investigation,” the documents say.
“The OIG concluded that Kelly did not have the authority to disclose nonpublic information about an ongoing criminal investigation to Senator Grassley or his staff, and in doing so exhibited poor judgment,” the report states.
Grassley’s office said the senator never planned to attend the wedding and was invited by the son of the target of the investigation. The target was Russell Wasendorf Sr., founder of Peregrine Financial Group Inc., who pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $100 million from customers.
“Senator Grassley and the staff member who spoke with Mr. Kelly both thought the disclosure was inappropriate, and could have been intimidating to somebody who hasn’t dealt with the FBI like Senator Grassley and his staff have,” said Grassley spokeswoman Beth Levine.
This year, the FBI concluded that the allegation Kelly had violated internal policy was “unsubstantiated” and gave him “nondisciplinary counseling.”
“FBI concluded that Kelly’s disclosure of nonpublic information derived from an ongoing investigation was improper, for which he received nondisciplinary counseling,” the bureau said in a statement. “The FBI’s Office of Congressional Affairs must be afforded some measure of latitude and flexibility in dealing with members of Congress. As this instance did not result in harm to the ongoing investigation, and was done with good intentions, the matter did not constitute official misconduct.”
Tish Wells contributed to this story.
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Misconduct at Justice Department isn’t always prosecuted
Published: Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2014 - 1:49 pm
Last Modified: Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2014 - 2:29 pm
WASHINGTON -- Dozens of Justice Department officials, ranging from FBI special agents and prison wardens to high-level federal prosecutors, have escaped prosecution
or firing in recent years despite findings of misconduct by the department’s own internal watchdog.
Most of the names of the investigated officials, even the highest-ranking, remain under wraps. But documents McClatchy obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal for the first time a startling array of alleged transgressions uncovered by the department’s inspector general.
These include:
– Investigators concluded an assistant U.S. attorney “lacked candor” when interviewed by FBI agents investigating her husband’s “embezzlement activity.” The prosecutor also “made misleading and contradictory” statements to other investigators who were asking about her husband’s criminal activities. She was “verbally admonished” this year, but the Justice Department opted not to prosecute.
– A U.S. attorney violated federal laws and regulations by accepting a partially paid trip to a foreign country by a nonprofit organization, according to investigators. The unnamed presidential appointee was given a written admonishment and he was ordered to reimburse the organization. Prosecution was declined.
– Two FBI supervisory special agents accepted free tickets to the NBA All-Star Game and gave them to family members. One agent “lied under oath” about his actions, and was found to have misused government resources to “engage in extramarital affairs with three women.” That agent resigned after the bureau proposed his dismissal and the other was suspended for three days. Neither was prosecuted.
– An FBI assistant special agent in charge sexually harassed female subordinates, retaliated against a female special agent who refused to have a relationship with him and used his FBI-issued BlackBerry to pursue romantic relationships with 17 FBI employees, nine of whom were direct subordinates, as well as 29 other women. In January, the FBI told the inspector general it had issued an undisclosed disciplinary action. No charges were brought. In a statement to McClatchy, the FBI said it couldn’t comment on an “ongoing personnel matter.”
The records, which cover the period from January 2010 to March 2014, detail some 80 cases, only a few of which appear to have been previously made public. The accused officials work for agencies that include the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
In at least 27 cases, the inspector general identified evidence of possible criminal wrongdoing but no one was prosecuted.
These previously undisclosed cases, and dozens of others like them reviewed by McClatchy, reveal more than an underside to federal law enforcement. The cases underscore how much discretion federal prosecutors have in deciding whether to press charges, and they raise questions about when and why this discretion is applied.
“I think it’s fair to ask why some of these cases weren’t prosecuted,” Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz said in an interview. “That’s clearly a concern we have: To make sure there are not two standards of justice at the Department of Justice.”
However, he said it’s understandable in many cases that criminal charges aren’t filed. His office presents a case for prosecution in every instance where there’s “credible evidence that could support elements of a crime, even when it’s weak.”
The reports come, however, amid an overall decline in public corruption prosecutions during the Obama administration. So far this year, records obtained by the nonpartisan Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University show that 34 percent of investigators’ referrals of public corruption allegations were accepted for prosecution.
During the George W. Bush presidency, records show, 41.6 percent of the official corruption referrals resulted in prosecution.
Gauging the reasons behind an individual prosecutor’s decision-making is nearly impossible, because the Justice Department and inspector general’s office won’t release most of the names or discuss the details of the cases.
Justice Department records show that federal prosecutors nationwide declined a total of 25,629 criminal matters during fiscal year 2013. The reasons most commonly reported included weak or insufficient evidence and lack of criminal intent.
Peter Carr, a Justice Department spokesman, said prosecutors followed federal rules when deciding whether to initiate or decline charges in a case.
Carr pointed to the U.S Attorney’s Manual, which says, “Federal law enforcement resources and federal judicial resources are not sufficient to permit prosecution of every alleged offense over which federal jurisdiction exists.”
“Public corruption cases are very fact-specific, and statistics fluctuate routinely year by year,” Carr said Tuesday. “The decision to bring a case involves a number of factors, all covered by the Principles of Federal Prosecution, which may include the seriousness of the allegation, the admissible evidence and whether there is a substantial federal interest in pursuing charges.”
The inspector general’s summary of unprosecuted cases was provided to Republican Sens. Charles Grassley of Iowa and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, and independently obtained by McClatchy through a FOIA request.
Grassley said he agreed that not all cases warranted prosecution. However, he called for more transparency in the decisions “because of the obvious appearance of a conflict of interest.”
“The public needs to be reassured that the department doesn’t have one standard for its own employees and another standard for everybody else,” he said.
Other cases federal prosecutors declined that were cited in the documents obtained by McClatchy include:
– Allegations against an unnamed prosecutor who was recused from involvement with a criminal investigation because of a personal relationship with a criminal target. The inspector general, however, concluded the prosecutor had disclosed information about the investigation and the wiretap to her spouse, “who subsequently disclosed it to the target.” The prosecutor initially denied revealing the information to her spouse, but subsequently acknowledged that she might have “said something” about the investigation. The prosecutor retired last November.
The husband of former Assistant U.S. Attorney Paula Burnett in New Mexico was convicted last September of leaking details of an investigation to Mexican drug cartel members. Burnett retired late last year, according to news accounts. The inspector general and the U.S. attorney’s office in New Mexico wouldn’t confirm whether it was the same case. Burnett declined to comment.
– The inspector general’s review found $211,000 in questionable purchases at a district U.S. marshals’ office, including “ceremonial and promotional” items previously banned by headquarters, personal or other wasteful items. The investigators concluded that the marshal and the chief deputy marshal had misspent funds, knowingly misused the government purchase card program and violated public service laws. Disciplinary action was still pending this year.
– Investigators concluded that an immigration judge had solicited attorneys to purchase jewelry from her, borrowed money from a lawyer and interpreter, and failed to recuse herself from cases that involved lawyers representing her relatives in criminal matters. The Executive Office for Immigration Review, which oversees immigration judges, “proposed disciplinary action” in January. Spokeswoman Kathryn Mattingly said her office “does not comment on personnel matters.”
Several cases also involve prosecutors misusing their positions, including one who’d sent emails on behalf of her boyfriend, disclosed sensitive information to him without authorization, used government databases to conduct legal research for him, gave him access to government computer accounts and sent a gift to an attorney to get her boyfriend legal assistance. In December 2011, she received a letter of suspension for 14 days.
In the interview, Horowitz wouldn’t comment on specific cases but he added that he’s personally appealed to U.S. attorneys to consider prosecution in some instances.
“I pick up the phone and call them,” said Horowitz, a former longtime federal prosecutor who handled corruption cases in New York.
Horowitz’s role is not to make the prosecution decisions, but to ensure that prosecutors get the information they need .
“There are some where I might have pulled the trigger. But I’m not a prosecutor anymore so I respect the discretion not to. I can’t think of any case where a decision was made not to prosecute that I thought was unreasonable,” he said.
Some of the misconduct cases may not be pursued because they involve “low-dollar” waste or abuse, Horowitz said. Or cases may be seen as too tough to prosecute, sometimes for the wrong reasons, he added, such as the sexual abuse of prisoners. Prosecutors can view prisoners as unsympathetic witnesses.
Before Horowitz took over in 2012, the inspector general’s office disagreed with a federal prosecutor who didn’t want to file charges. In that case, a correctional officer had accepted $1,300 from an undercover agent in exchange for agreeing to smuggle tobacco into a correctional facility. After prosecutors from the federal district based in Houston declined to pursue criminal charges, a local district attorney took the case. The officer later pleaded guilty to bribery, was sentenced to probation and was fined $2,000.
Earl Devaney, a former inspector general for the Department of Interior, said a decision not to pursue criminal charges didn’t necessarily mean investigators or prosecutors were pulling their punches.
“There are always a lot of good reasons to not prosecute,” he said. “Also, you can have a thousand little crappy cases that just make you look good and just one case that has enormous impact.”
Devaney nonetheless added that he’d found the Justice Department’s public integrity unit, which is set up to prosecute cases of high-level corruption, to be “risk adverse” in the past. He worked with it as part of a federal task force that investigated superlobbyist Jack Abramoff and his influence peddling.
Sometimes, alleged misconduct by prosecutors and investigators might be handled less aggressively because of concern that it would taint criminal cases, Devaney said. At trial, defense attorneys are permitted to learn of serious misconduct of the agents and prosecutors involved in their cases.
According to the most recent report by the office, the Justice Department’s inspector general received nearly 5,900 allegations of misconduct, opened 195 investigations and was involved in 32 arrests and 38 convictions from October through March.
This year, for instance, a former federal correctional officer in Missouri was sentenced for trying to hire an inmate to murder his wife’s ex-husband.
However, the Justice Department’s inspector general doesn’t break down details on prosecutions. As a result, McClatchy couldn’t determine the prosecution rate for the office’s cases.
At least one other inspector general does report such statistics. The Interior Department Inspector General’s Office opened 742 cases in the year that ended March 31. During the same period, the office reported referring 44 cases for possible prosecution. Nineteen cases were declined.
During the same year, the Department of Homeland Security opened 551 investigations, referred 322 for prosecution and had 196 declined.
Horowitz is one of some 72 federal inspectors general, spanning myriad federal agencies. They are auditors, in part, scrutinizing government agencies in hopes of rooting out waste and inefficiencies. In fiscal 2013, for instance, the inspectors general identified $44.9 billion in funds that could be “put to better use.”
Inspectors general also investigate criminal allegations. In fiscal 2013, their work led to 6,705 successful criminal prosecutions.
The agencies make the calls on disciplinary action.
In the Justice Department cases, Devaney said he was struck by instances of weak punishment.
“An oral admonishment is not a deterrent,” Devaney said.
One case was triggered by a complaint by Grassley about FBI Assistant Director Stephen Kelly. Kelly, who managed the bureau’s Office of Congressional Affairs, told Grassley’s staff that the FBI knew that the senator planned to attend the wedding of a “subject” of an FBI investigation, according to the inspector general’s report.
“He assured Senator Grassley that he was not a focus of the FBI investigation,” the documents say.
“The OIG concluded that Kelly did not have the authority to disclose nonpublic information about an ongoing criminal investigation to Senator Grassley or his staff, and in doing so exhibited poor judgment,” the report states.
Grassley’s office said the senator never planned to attend the wedding and was invited by the son of the target of the investigation. The target was Russell Wasendorf Sr., founder of Peregrine Financial Group Inc., who pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $100 million from customers.
“Senator Grassley and the staff member who spoke with Mr. Kelly both thought the disclosure was inappropriate, and could have been intimidating to somebody who hasn’t dealt with the FBI like Senator Grassley and his staff have,” said Grassley spokeswoman Beth Levine.
This year, the FBI concluded that the allegation Kelly had violated internal policy was “unsubstantiated” and gave him “nondisciplinary counseling.”
“FBI concluded that Kelly’s disclosure of nonpublic information derived from an ongoing investigation was improper, for which he received nondisciplinary counseling,” the bureau said in a statement. “The FBI’s Office of Congressional Affairs must be afforded some measure of latitude and flexibility in dealing with members of Congress. As this instance did not result in harm to the ongoing investigation, and was done with good intentions, the matter did not constitute official misconduct.”
Tish Wells contributed to this story.
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Former FBI Agent Can't Wage Privacy Act Claim
A federal judge dismissed Privacy Act claims filed by an FBI special agent who said the "be on the lookout" report the agency issued on him made him unemployable and gave his wife ammunition in the couple's divorce proceedings.
Michael Dick sued Attorney General Eric Holder and U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey in 2013 after the nationwide "BOLO" report was issued by the agency in response to frustrated comments he made to members of the agency's Health Services Unit.
According to U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras' ruling, Dick injured his hand during his quarterly firearms qualification test, but medical help was hard to come by.
Dick couldn't be seen by a FBI doctor because his hand injury kept him from filling out a required questionnaire, and a private healthcare provider turned him away because the injury was too serious. An urgent care facility cleaned the wound, but a doctor wouldn't see him until the Health Services Unit authorized treatment.
According to the ruling, Dick finally received treatment, but after driving 72 miles to his house, the Health Services Unit refused to authorize his pharmacy to give him medication and pain killers.
"Still in pain and increasingly agitated by the lack of response from the Health Services Unit, Agent Dick told a Health Services Unit employee over the telephone that 'he would personally come to the [FBI] to straighten out the approval process,'" the judge writes in his ruling. "Agent Dick also 'expressed displeasure at [Assistant Director of Human Resources] Bennett personally because the Health Unit employee claimed that Mr. Bennett had limited their ability to communicate approval authority and had revoked issuance of cell phones to facilitate address requests.'"
Those statements led to the FBI's "be on the lookout" alert, describing Dick as a subject of interest to every level of law enforcement nationwide.
Dick claimed that the alert violated the Privacy Act by releasing personal information about him; specifically, that he had made threats to FBI personnel and that he was on administrative leave pending an investigation.
"In addition, the BOLO contained personal information about Agent Dick, including a 'grim faced picture' of him, his social security number, and his address," the judge notes.
Dick argued that the BOLO cost him his security clearance and outside employment opportunities, as well as got him shunned by his neighbors and peers. He also claimed that his wife used the alert in their divorce proceedings.
But Judge Contreras dismissed Dick's claims, stating that he had failed to exhaust the administrative remedies available through the Bureau, and therefore the court lacked jurisdiction.
The judge also ruled that the agency did not violate the Privacy Act by releasing Dick's personal information, or at least Dick failed to prove that it did, and further that he failed to link the alert with the his suspension and other consequences.
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Former FBI Agent Can't Wage Privacy Act Claim
A federal judge dismissed Privacy Act claims filed by an FBI special agent who said the "be on the lookout" report the agency issued on him made him unemployable and gave his wife ammunition in the couple's divorce proceedings.
Michael Dick sued Attorney General Eric Holder and U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey in 2013 after the nationwide "BOLO" report was issued by the agency in response to frustrated comments he made to members of the agency's Health Services Unit.
According to U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras' ruling, Dick injured his hand during his quarterly firearms qualification test, but medical help was hard to come by.
Dick couldn't be seen by a FBI doctor because his hand injury kept him from filling out a required questionnaire, and a private healthcare provider turned him away because the injury was too serious. An urgent care facility cleaned the wound, but a doctor wouldn't see him until the Health Services Unit authorized treatment.
According to the ruling, Dick finally received treatment, but after driving 72 miles to his house, the Health Services Unit refused to authorize his pharmacy to give him medication and pain killers.
"Still in pain and increasingly agitated by the lack of response from the Health Services Unit, Agent Dick told a Health Services Unit employee over the telephone that 'he would personally come to the [FBI] to straighten out the approval process,'" the judge writes in his ruling. "Agent Dick also 'expressed displeasure at [Assistant Director of Human Resources] Bennett personally because the Health Unit employee claimed that Mr. Bennett had limited their ability to communicate approval authority and had revoked issuance of cell phones to facilitate address requests.'"
Those statements led to the FBI's "be on the lookout" alert, describing Dick as a subject of interest to every level of law enforcement nationwide.
Dick claimed that the alert violated the Privacy Act by releasing personal information about him; specifically, that he had made threats to FBI personnel and that he was on administrative leave pending an investigation.
"In addition, the BOLO contained personal information about Agent Dick, including a 'grim faced picture' of him, his social security number, and his address," the judge notes.
Dick argued that the BOLO cost him his security clearance and outside employment opportunities, as well as got him shunned by his neighbors and peers. He also claimed that his wife used the alert in their divorce proceedings.
But Judge Contreras dismissed Dick's claims, stating that he had failed to exhaust the administrative remedies available through the Bureau, and therefore the court lacked jurisdiction.
The judge also ruled that the agency did not violate the Privacy Act by releasing Dick's personal information, or at least Dick failed to prove that it did, and further that he failed to link the alert with the his suspension and other consequences.
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Celebrating Frank Wilkinson
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Sue Udry , October 1, 2014, In : Features & Interviews
Frank Wilkinson was the Johnny Appleseed of the First Amendment, sowing the seeds of liberty in every city of the county. He was a founder and the driving force behind DDF for half a century. We’re celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth with a new website full of stories, videos and music to celebrate his life. We hope those of you who knew Frank will drop by and add your memories of him to those of Katrina Vander Heuval, Ed Asner, and others. Those of you who never got to meet him should take a look too. His was an incredible life.
Frank got his start as a housing activist in Los Angeles, fighting to save Chavez Ravine, a poor neigborhood lacking basic sanitation and services. His dream was to build integrated public housing on the site, but real estate developers had other ideas. The “Battle of Chavez Ravine” was lost when the FBI fed information to the opponents about Frank’s radical politics. It was 1952, the hunt for Commies was on. Frank was fired, and the Chavez Ravine neighborhood fell to the wrecking ball, cleared to build Dodger Stadium.
But the witch hunt didn’t stop. Frank and his wife (a school teacher) were blacklisted. So they decided to fight back. When Frank was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) he was ready to try a new strategy. He refused to answer any questions, on the basis of the First Amendent. He was cited for contempt of Congress, found guilty and sentenced to a year in jail. The case went to the Supreme Court, which upheld the conviction on a 5-4 decision.
Frank spent 9 months in jail, and emerged ready to fight some more.
First it was organizing to abolish HUAC with a new organization: The National Committee to Abolish HUAC (NCAHUAC, the forerunner to the Defending Dissent Foundation). Frank tirelessly traveled the country educating, agitating and working the halls of Congress to abolish the committee. As the influence of HUAC waned (until it eventually was abolished in 1975), other forces of repression were gaining ground.
NCAHUAC changed it’s name to the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation (NCARL) and went to work to stop S.1, an omnibus crime bill introduced in 1975 that would have had devastating impacts on the fundamental rights of freedom of expression, press, assembly and due process. Among S.1’s most egregious proposals were an official state secrets act, reinstitution of the federal death penalty, criminalization of of certain acts of political assembly and organizing, as well as some union strike activities, an increase in prosecutorial power and an expansion of federal laws on obscenity. The bill had broad bi-partisan support but Frank, NCARL and a broad coalition built by NCARL succeeded in stopping it.
As revelations of FBI spying on domestic political activists were exposed in the 1970’s Frank was at the forefront of calls for reform. He also availed himself of the Freedom of Information Act to find out whether the FBI had been tracking his activity. With the help of the Southern California ACLU, Frank sued for his FBI files and was shocked to find that the FBI had been spying on him for decades, building a dossier of 132,000 pages. At times he was followed around the clock by a team of agents.
Our work is Frank’s legacy, and we invite you to make it yours with a contribution today.
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Sue Udry , October 1, 2014, In : Features & Interviews
Frank Wilkinson was the Johnny Appleseed of the First Amendment, sowing the seeds of liberty in every city of the county. He was a founder and the driving force behind DDF for half a century. We’re celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth with a new website full of stories, videos and music to celebrate his life. We hope those of you who knew Frank will drop by and add your memories of him to those of Katrina Vander Heuval, Ed Asner, and others. Those of you who never got to meet him should take a look too. His was an incredible life.
Frank got his start as a housing activist in Los Angeles, fighting to save Chavez Ravine, a poor neigborhood lacking basic sanitation and services. His dream was to build integrated public housing on the site, but real estate developers had other ideas. The “Battle of Chavez Ravine” was lost when the FBI fed information to the opponents about Frank’s radical politics. It was 1952, the hunt for Commies was on. Frank was fired, and the Chavez Ravine neighborhood fell to the wrecking ball, cleared to build Dodger Stadium.
But the witch hunt didn’t stop. Frank and his wife (a school teacher) were blacklisted. So they decided to fight back. When Frank was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) he was ready to try a new strategy. He refused to answer any questions, on the basis of the First Amendent. He was cited for contempt of Congress, found guilty and sentenced to a year in jail. The case went to the Supreme Court, which upheld the conviction on a 5-4 decision.
Frank spent 9 months in jail, and emerged ready to fight some more.
First it was organizing to abolish HUAC with a new organization: The National Committee to Abolish HUAC (NCAHUAC, the forerunner to the Defending Dissent Foundation). Frank tirelessly traveled the country educating, agitating and working the halls of Congress to abolish the committee. As the influence of HUAC waned (until it eventually was abolished in 1975), other forces of repression were gaining ground.
NCAHUAC changed it’s name to the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation (NCARL) and went to work to stop S.1, an omnibus crime bill introduced in 1975 that would have had devastating impacts on the fundamental rights of freedom of expression, press, assembly and due process. Among S.1’s most egregious proposals were an official state secrets act, reinstitution of the federal death penalty, criminalization of of certain acts of political assembly and organizing, as well as some union strike activities, an increase in prosecutorial power and an expansion of federal laws on obscenity. The bill had broad bi-partisan support but Frank, NCARL and a broad coalition built by NCARL succeeded in stopping it.
As revelations of FBI spying on domestic political activists were exposed in the 1970’s Frank was at the forefront of calls for reform. He also availed himself of the Freedom of Information Act to find out whether the FBI had been tracking his activity. With the help of the Southern California ACLU, Frank sued for his FBI files and was shocked to find that the FBI had been spying on him for decades, building a dossier of 132,000 pages. At times he was followed around the clock by a team of agents.
Our work is Frank’s legacy, and we invite you to make it yours with a contribution today.
