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Prosecutor in white woman Justine Damond shooting delays decision on whether to charge black police officer
BY ELIZABETH ELIZALDE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, December 28, 2017, 7:13 PM






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Chicago police watchdog rules 2015 shooting of Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones was unjustified







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Signatures turned in on police deadly force initiative



OLYMPIA, Wash. Supporters of a measure that would lower the bar for prosecuting police who use deadly force turned in signatures to the secretary of state’s office in their effort to qualify the initiative to the Legislature.

The campaign for Initiative 940 says it turned in 360,000 signatures Thursday, The Seattle Times reports .




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Cleveland police officer acquitted in fatal shooting fired
CLEVELAND
A Cleveland police officer has been fired for violating his department’s use-of-force policy despite being acquitted of a misdemeanor charge in the 2015 fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager after a store break-in.







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Police ID man fatally shot by officer in E. Germantown; they say he fled, refused to show hands
Updated: DECEMBER 28, 2017 — 10:41 PM EST




http://www.gainesville.com/news/2017122 ... -interview

GPD’s ‘hot cop’ resigns ahead of internal affairs interview


Officer Michael Hamill resigned from GPD on Dec. 6. before he was to interview with the agency’s Internal Affairs department, which was investigating anti-Semitic social media posts and sexual relations.

The Gainesville Police Department officer accused of making anti-Semitic posts on Facebook in previous years resigned this month.

Officer Michael Hamill was under investigation by the agency’s Internal Affairs department in two separate cases. One involved anti-Semitic statements made on his personal Facebook. The agency was also investigating whether Hamill had sexual relations while on duty, GPD spokesman Ben Tobias said in a statement.

“Both allegations would have been sustained with a possible recommendation of up to termination,” Tobias said.







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Former Utah police officer files whistleblower lawsuit


EPHRAIM, Utah A police officer in a small Utah town who resigned in protest last summer after raising questions about the conduct of the former chief of the five-member department has filed a federal whistleblower complaint.

Darren Pead said in the lawsuit that he was targeted for retaliation after going public with allegations that former longtime Police Chief Ron Rassmussen failed to complete hundreds of police reports, leaving serious crimes “un-investigated”

The complaint was filed Tuesday against the city of Ephraim and City Manager Brant Hanson. He did not immediately return a message seeking comment on Thursday.


The lawsuit claims Pead discovered incomplete reports dating back to 2008 after the department switched to a new report-keeping system.

The reports documented calls about cases involving child abuse, missing persons and sexual assault, the Deseret News reported.

Pead also noticed a sergeant had “cleared” hundreds of Rasmussen’s blank reports and classified them as “miscellaneous” cases.

Pead, along with fellow officers Larry Golding and Jared Hansen, took his concerns to the Ephraim City Council. When nothing was done, they went to the Utah Attorney General.

When Hanson learned of their complaint, he “threatened to eliminate all personnel from the police department because the officers had ‘elevated’ the problem by contacting the (attorney general’s) office, and stated that the officers needed to let the city ‘take care of itself,’” the lawsuit states.






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Former Granger police Chief Perales fights to keep policing credentials in wake of conviction
By Phil Ferolito
Dec 28, 2017






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NYPD detective busted with drugs, needle in Manhattan
BY JOHN ANNESE
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Mexico's 'Temixco Massacre' left 4 women and 2 children dead, raising questions about police tactics

Shot dead during the botched assault were six family members — four women and two children, including a 3-month-old girl, the latest collateral damage in Mexico’s drug wars.





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Nunes blasts DOJ, FBI for 'failure' to produce records relating to anti-Trump dossier





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Recy Taylor, Alabama woman who fought for justice after 1944 rape by six white men, dead at 97
BY JESSICA SCHLADEBECK
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Mike Pence gets message from Aspen neighbors: “Make America Gay Again”
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Cops kill innocent man.

HEAR IT: Kansas ‘swatting’ prankster told cops he shot father ‘in the head,’ threatened to set house ‘on fire’
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Donald Trump has HIV in new Sacha Baron Cohen movie ‘The Brothers Grimsby’ and Sony studio executives are in a frenzy
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President Trump fires all remaining members on his HIV/AIDS council, draws outrage from LGBTQ activists
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Shooting of black NIU student by Chicago police in 2015 ruled unjustified
Civilian oversight agency concludes two-year investigation
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Providence seeks applicants for police oversight board


PROVIDENCE, R.I.

Providence’s City Council is seeking applicants for positions on a police oversight board that was given new powers as part of a sweeping police accountability measure passed earlier this year.

The Providence External Review Authority was established in 2002 but has been inactive for more than a decade. Starting next year, the board will have new powers, including the ability to investigate possible violations of the Providence Community-Police Relations Act, which was passed in June.

The board will have nine members — seven selected by a majority of the council, one chosen by the council president and one by the mayor.




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Months after decision not to charge David Clarke, email search warrant filed


Updated 5:14 p.m. CT Dec. 29, 2017

Long after federal prosecutors decided not to pursue criminal charges against then-Sheriff Dave A. Clarke Jr. over his treatment of a fellow airline passenger, an FBI agent's request to search Clarke's private gmail account was filed in federal court late Thursday.






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Did FBI agents cover up Georgia Lynching ?



GEORGIA GOVERNOR’S POSSIBLE LINK TO AN UNSOLVED LYNCHING

In a report sent to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the agent in charge of the investigation said Talmadge met with George Hester, the brother of the stabbed farmer. Citing an unconfirmed witness statement, the agent said Talmadge offered immunity to anyone “taking care of negro.”

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FBI Agent Accused of Touching Woman Inappropriately at Holiday Party: Police


An FBI agent has been charged with sexual battery in Virginia, police said.
Prince William County Police arrested 49-year-old Charles Allen Dick earlier this month after a woman he knows filed a complaint that Dick touched her inappropriately while they posed for a group photograph at a holiday party in Woodbridge, sources told News4.
The woman is the wife of another FBI official, sources said.
Dick was released on personal recognizance after his arrest.





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Kidnapping victim killed by FBI agent when he opens fire during raid in northeast Houston



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The hidden cop problem: Sex with teens and stalking

GOVERNMENT SECRECY AND AN INSULAR POLICE CULTURE PROTECTS SEXUAL PREDATORS.

Andrew Ford and
Kala Kachmar, Asbury Park Press





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January 25, 2018
The secret origin of J. Edgar Hoover’s nickname
FBI newsletter obtained by Russ Kick offers an official explanation for why senior staff could call Hoover “Speed”
Written by JPat Brown
Edited by Beryl Lipton
One of the lesser-known scandals associated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s most infamous Director, J. Edgar Hoover, is that for years, he answered to his childhod nickname, “Speed.”

While various sources have attributed the name to everything from Hoover’s habit of talking quickly (allegedly to mask a stutter) …



to his swiftness on the football field (a sport he never played) …



an official FBI newsletter released to Russ Kick offers the official origin story.



Yep, dude was just really good at groceries.

This is further confirmed by Hoover’s own account …



though, as with anything coming directly from Hoover, it’s best to adopt an attitude of “distrust, but verify.”

Read the full newsletter on Kick’s page, The Memory Hole 2. Kick does great work, so please consider donating here. Additionally, the first part of Hoover’s personal FBI file is embedded below.



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Protesters 'livid' that off-duty LAPD officer won't face prosecution in dispute with teens in Anaheim






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Bellevue PD says Dayton officer responsible for unattended assault rifle



Jan. 25, 2018 | Updated 6:19 p.m. ET Jan. 25, 2018

Police are promising an investigation after video surfaced Wednesday of a child walking by an unattended police rifle left leaning against a car in Dayton, Kentucky.

In a Facebook video posted on Jan. 24, what appears to be an AR-15-style rifle can be seen leaning up against a car across the street from where police are standing after responding to a domestic violence incident.

Dayton Police Chief David Halfhill said the rifle was accidentally set down when the officers interacted with the suspect.

In the video an officer walks away from the scene to his car, with his own rifle in hand. Other police officers walk in the other direction







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FBI Agent Testifies in Former Sen. Woods' Hearing
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More trooper trouble in academy porn, prank
Investigators are probing allegations a state trooper brought in files of porn, while others pulled a prank with a fake Taser at the Massachusetts State Police Academy in the latest scandal to hit the embattled police force.

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Carr: Scandal-ridden FBI must be abolished
‘Secret Society’ is one controversy too far to tolerate

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Guggenheim Museum offered Trump a golden toilet after he requested a Van Gogh for the White House
BY CHRIS SOMMERFELDT
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Thursday, January 25, 2018, 4:42 PM







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Former detective testifies that Baltimore Police gun unit was tipped off to investigations into its misconduct


Shawn Whiting had large stacks of cash spread throughout his bedroom when Baltimore police came crashing in one morning in January 2014: $8,000 from his job as a house painter — and nearly $16,000 he acknowledged was from selling cocaine.

But when Whiting received a letter after his arrest outlining how much had been seized, it showed just $7,650. Whiting immediately called the internal affairs unit to report the theft.

“If you steal candy from the store, you’re going to keep doing it,” Whiting, 52, testified Thursday in U.S. District Court.

Four years later, Detective Marcus Taylor is on trial for that robbery and four others, charged with Detective Daniel Hersl with being part of a racketeering conspiracy as members of the police department’s Gun Trace Task Force.

Earlier, Detective Maurice Ward — another task force member, who has pleaded guilty in the case — testified that Taylor found the money in Whiting’s closet, asked Ward to “look out for him” and they split $3,000.

Whiting’s contacts with internal affairs add to the list of instances in which people tried to report the corrupt officers for misconduct to no avail.

The second day of trial for Taylor and Hersl brought a raft of new disclosures, including that police recovered a replica gun from the glove box of Taylor’s vehicle after his arrest last year. The gun, shown to jurors, is nearly indistinguishable from Taylor’s service pistol.

Ward said the unit’s supervisor, Sgt. Wayne Jenkins, instructed the officers to carry replica guns to plant if they found themselves in a jam.

Prosecutors previously said that the officers were tipped off to an investigation into their unit. Ward said Thursday that Taylor had a “source” in internal affairs who informed them that their overtime was being investigated and their phones and vehicles were being tracked. He also said that Jenkins told them that a sergeant named Ryan Guinn had informed Jenkins that federal agents investigating two of their colleagues had visited him.

Guinn, a former member of the task force who has not been charged with a crime, has come up previously in connection with the federal investigation of the officers. In 2010, he took part in an arrest in which federal prosecutors say drugs were planted on a man who fled and got into a fatal crash. He was suspended after the allegations arose in November, but reinstated a couple of weeks later.

Former Commissioner Kevin Davis, in an interview earlier this year, said he had spoken with the FBI about Guinn, who is assigned to the training academy, and was “absolutely confident that there are no administrative sanctions to pursue against” him. But it was not clear whether he knew about the allegation that Guinn might have tipped off the officers.

The officers also are charged with theft of overtime for hours they did not work. Ward said that before joining the Gun Trace Task Force, he learned a lieutenant named Ian Dombroski would authorize eight hours of overtime pay that officers did not have to work, as a reward for officers who recovered guns.

Dombrowski continues to serve as the head of the Police Department’s internal affairs unit.

Asked about the claims Thursday, police department spokesman T.J. Smith said: “There are currently active internal investigations into anyone who may have enabled any members of the Gun Trace Task Force and their criminal actions.”

Smith did not elaborate on whether the department had taken any new actions against officers whose names have come up during the trial.

Ward is one of four officers charged in the federal case who have pleaded guilty and are expected to testify against their colleagues. Ward’s testimony Tuesday outlined astonishing misconduct: He said the officers stole thousands of dollars and drugs, used illegal GPS tracking devices to track targets, pretended to be federal agents, and profiled certain vehicles and people.

Ward testified about additional misconduct Thursday, saying he and Taylor once conducted a “trash run” on a home in preparation for obtaining a search warrant. They found marijuana residue in the target’s trash, but realized the trash can belonged to another resident. They proceeded anyway, submitting an affidavit for a search warrant falsely claiming the drugs had been found in the target’s trash can.

Though Ward had been charged only with robberies dating back to 2014, he has testified that he had been stealing money and lying on paperwork for far longer.

“For the better part of a decade, professionally, you’ve been lying?” asked Taylor’s defense attorney, Christopher Nieto.

“Yes, sir,” Ward responded.

Defense attorneys worked to poke holes in Ward’s account, and question his motives. Nieto expressed disbelief at Ward’s account of discarding $20,000 in stolen money along a wooded path behind his home. Ward testified that he was uncomfortable having such a large amount of stolen funds.

“You just took a bag of $20,000, dumped it out on a path, and walked away?” Nieto asked.

“Pretty much,” Ward said.

The defense attorneys also sought to paint a Baltimore Police Department in turmoil following the 2015 riots that followed the death of Freddie Gray, with overtime pay flowing unchecked to those who were willing to work hard to quell the violence.

“What really happened? A lot of officers said, ‘I don’t want to get involved.’ Is that fair to say?” Hersl’s attorney, William Purpura, asked Ward, referring to morale in the agency.

“Yes sir,” Ward said.



The robbery of Whiting left lingering questions. Ward said that a group of up to nine officers raided Whiting’s home. Whiting, who said he no longer deals drugs, testified that in addition to the stolen money, officers reported seizing three kilograms of cocaine when he was certain he had four-and-a-half kilograms. He also said officers stole items such as a Gucci belt, expensive cologne, and rare Air Jordan sneakers.

Ward, who is cooperating with the government in hopes of reducing his sentence and has admitted to a broad range of crimes, said he and Taylor did not take those items or any drugs.

Back at the Western District station, the money seized at Whiting’s residence was taken into a secure area of the district. Before helping himself to the $3,000, Ward said that he noticed the stack of cash “had gotten small.”

The other $14,000 is unaccounted for






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http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/4 ... e-election

How the Republicans Helped Trump Steal the Election
By Greg Palast, Truthout | Op-Ed



Intrepid reporter Greg Palast has pursued the Republican war on voters that the mainstream corporate media is afraid to touch. Now, Palast has just updated his DVD, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case of the Stolen Election with new footage revealing how Trump and cronies used voter suppression to win. Click here to make a contribution to Truthout and get the new, enhanced DVD.

Believe me, the last damn thing I wanted to do was make an update of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.

But you gave me no choice.

The original film, released in 2016, told you in cold terms: "Trump's going to win and he's going to win by stealing it."

But did you listen?

No, MSNBC reported that "Trump has no path to 270," and they bought their party dresses for Clinton's inaugural.

Well, the 2 million who saw the film got it -- and Truthout readers of my columns got it. But that left 120 million American voters who actually believe Trump won, and marched like sheep to the Trump Casino to be sheered.

So, here's the skinny: Trump lost not just the popular vote, but also the vote in key swing states -- that is, if you counted all the ballots cast and allowed the blocked and purged voters to vote.

How? Well, that's why I made a new edition to the film, to lay it out cold. And why I tramped through the snows of Michigan and Wisconsin and beyond to explain exactly what happened. The result was the updated film, just released, with a new sub-title: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case of the Stolen Election.

Take Michigan. Trump officially won the state by 10,700 voters. But dig this: 75,355 ballots were never counted.

Like, huh? Not counted? Yes. Michiganders vote on these ridiculous paper ballots that old machines have a hard time reading. And critically, 87 machines simply broke down and didn't count the votes at all.

And where were these uncounted ballots and broken machines? I found them in Detroit and Flint, Michigan -- two majority-Black cities. Do you think those 75,355 ballots in Detroit and Flint were Trump ballots?

So, why broken machines? As I explain in the update, Detroit and Flint went bankrupt -- and so the budgets of those cities were taken over by "managers" appointed by the violently Republican governor. Detroit's manager was told the machines would break in advance of the election. That the machines were old and couldn't read all the ballots if marked with red pens or if folks put an "X" instead of filling in a bubble.

But there's a marvelous machine that can read those uncounted ballots: the human eye. And that is why Jill Stein called for a "recount" -- which was actually a count of the ballots previously "spoiled" and uncounted. Trump's lawyers stopped the recount because he was losing.

And as I illustrate in the film, almost 3 million ballots were disqualified for cockamamie reasons, like not filling in the bubble.

Here's a frame from the film of a voter who lost her vote because they didn't fill in the bubble: my mother!



Whose votes get thrown in the ballot dumpster? According to the US Civil Rights Commission, the chance your vote will be disqualified is 900 percent higher if you're Black than if you're white.

Do the math. Trump would have lost Ohio, North Carolina, Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania ... the list goes on ... if not for the "spoilage" game and blocking legit voters from the polls.

The documentary has special extra reports from Michigan and Georgia -- where the trick that was key to Trump's vote heist also swiped the special election in Georgia's Sixth Congressional District for the GOP.

And that new trick? It's called, "Interstate Crosscheck" and it's run by Trump's vote-thief-in-chief Kris Kobach, secretary of state for Kansas. The mainstream media discovered Kobach and Crosscheck only after the election.

No reporter confronted Kobach with the evidence of his scheme -- except this reporter, working for Rolling Stone. (You will see that confrontation in the film.)

And yet, the mainstream media still don't get it. Crosscheck wiped out the registration of 1.1 million
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case of the Stolen Election, Trump Stole It (Updated DVD)
The GOP war to suppress voting.


And whose money is behind Kobach? Me and my chief investigator Leni Badpenny run the money trail back through half a dozen front groups to the Koch brothers.

The updated film also includes Trump's appointment of Kobach to his witch-hunting group called, "The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity" -- now disbanded and reformed within the Department of Homeland Security.

So, be afraid. Be very afraid of what Kobach is up to now. Unfortunately, it's not just a movie; this horror show is for real.

Plus, I had to tell you how those billionaires made out who bought the election for Trump. (No, Trump's not a billionaire; he just plays one on TV.) And they did fine, indeed.

So that's why I had no choice but to update The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and give it a new subtitle: The Case of the Stolen Election.

Some folks ask, How much of an update? Oh, say, 15 percent of the film -- and the extras are all new. No more was needed because, sadly, we figured out the trickery well before the election.




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January 25, 2018
According to a declassified CIA memo, Moscow has been trying to influence U.S. elections since 1964
The Soviets began using active measures to influence U.S. Presidential elections 52 years before Trump’s 2016 election
Written by Emma Best
Edited by JPat Brown
A declassified 1964 memo to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency reveals that the Moscow has been attempting to influence the U.S. Presidential elections since 1964, a full fifty-two years before the election of Donald Trump.

While MuckRock previously reported that the Agency first began systematically tracking Russian/Soviet attempts to influence the elections in 1982, with an eye towards the 1984 election, the 1964 memo discusses the Soviet Union’s first attempts to sway a U.S. election’s outcome through active measures, and how they used game theory to tailor their approach.



Where the 1982 memo discussed the Soviet Union using policy and other machinations to apply pressure that could influence the election, the 1964 memo documents some of the Soviet’s earliest attempts to increase the chance that the candidate who was less hostile to Moscow would win the election. According to the memo, the Soviets initially “seemed generally relaxed about the election” until Senator Barry Goldwater won the Republican nomination. As a result of this, the Soviets took up “a harsher propaganda line” that painted one candidate in a better light.



As the CIA memo notes, Soviet propaganda until that point had taken the position that there was “little basic difference between opposing candidates or policies.” The 1964 election was the first time they made “sharp distinctions between the contending parties and policies, and their preference for President.” The Agency noted that their preference seemed to be for Lyndon B. Johnson over Goldwater, apparently based on the Soviet assumption that Goldwater would take a harder line with the Soviet Union than Johnson.



While the Soviets didn’t endorse or defend Johnson, they abstained from criticizing him personally. Contrasting this with “Khrushchev’s open attack on Senator Goldwater,” the Agency concluded that the Soviets had a preference against Goldwater. According to the CIA, the it was Goldwater’s candidacy that the Soviets credited with “the emergence of tense situations, as in Vietnam and Cyprus,” as a result of the “election pressures.” According to the Soviets, the right wing was “fanning chauvinism in its most extreme form.”



The memo to the CIA Director concluded that the Soviet’s views were authentic and not merely machinations, while noting that the concerns were likely to be temporary. Both the Soviets and the Agency seemed to (correctly) expect Johnson to win the election. According to the Agency, if they were right, and Johnson did win, Khrushchev would hold it up “as a vindication of the USSR’s peaceful coexistence policy and as a rebuff of ‘fascist’ forces.” On the other hand, “if Senator Goldwater is elected, then the Soviet propaganda machine has laid the groundwork for a change of Soviet policy,” likely referring to Khrushchev’s open attacks on Goldwater.



However, the Agency was uncertain exactly what changes in policy the Soviet’s would pursue if Goldwater did win the election.



Regarding the Soviet’s approach to affairs after the election, the Agency seemed to suggest a “wait and see” approach be adopted, predicting gestures and probes from the Soviets to determine the U.S.’s post-election stance on issues. The memo notes that the Soviet’s tactics would depend a great deal on the U.S.’s reaction to their probes and attempts at outreach, though they expected Khrushchev “to stimulate hopes for a further reduction of international tensions” (the Cuban Missile Crisis having taken place just two years before, and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Soviet defector Lee Harvey Oswald having taken place just under 11 months prior).



The Agency backed up this conclusion by noting that the Soviet Union didn’t seem to be in a position, either strategically or economically, that allow an “abrupt shift to a rough line,” noting that “there are strong forces” that would seem to preclude this.



While the Soviet’s initial propaganda offensive regarding U.S. Presidential elections seems quite tame when compared to the events of 2016, they nevertheless began Moscow’s tradition of attempting to influence the outcome of American elections. Combined with the 1982 memo discussing the need to systematically study Soviet active measures as they applied to elections, and noting several suspected attempts to create conditions that would favor one candidate over another, the 1964 memo gives us another important point on the timeline tracking Soviet and Russian attempts to interfer in U.S. elections.

Significantly to anyone looking to understand how Russia chooses one candidate over another, their choice in the 1964 election seems to have been as much about who they didn’t want to win the Presidency as who they did - similar to the 2016 election.



A FOIA request has been filed to learn more about the 1964 election and Soviet attempts to influence it. Until that request is fulfilled, you can read the complete 1964 memo below.




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the FBI is more than capable of hiring the best computer hacker
at the annual DefCon conference in Las Vegas.”

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Last year, Defcon’s Voting Village made headlines for uncovering massive security issues in America’s electronic voting machines. Unsurprisingly, voting-machine makers are working to prevent a repeat performance at this year’s show.

According to Voting Village organizers, they’re having a tough time getting their hands on machines for white-hat hackers to test at the next Defcon event in Las Vegas (held in August). That’s because voting-machine makers are scrambling to get the machines off eBay and keep them out of the hands of the “good guy” hackers.

Village co-organizer Harri Hursti told attendees at the Shmoocon hacking conference this month they were having a hard time preparing for this year’s show, in part because voting machine manufacturers sent threatening letters to eBay resellers. The intimidating missives told auctioneers that selling the machines is illegal — which is false.

Electronic voting-machine manufacturers — and anyone with a stake in keeping their flaws secret — have oodles of reasons to prevent Defcon’s Voting Village from having a repeat performance of last year’s (perfectly legal) mass hacking of e-vote boxes.

Voting-machine hacking at Defcon isn’t new; the conference has been joyfully cracking voting machines since 2004. The problems with voting-machine security, and the industry’s unwillingness to acknowledge the problems discovered at Defcon, have ensured the voting machine hacking challenge has been coming back year after year.

In fact, the machines are so badly maintained, notoriously backdoored and easily hacked that even Defcon hackers massively stress out in forums and chat spaces about their own local and federal voting process.

As you’d expect, e-vote machine hacking was more popular than ever last year at Defcon.

Voting machines displayed at Defcon’s Voting Village in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 29, 2017.
But 2017’s e-vote hackfest was markedly different because it was officially the first time a large-scale hack of voting machines had occurred (openly, anyway) because the act of hacking them is considered illegal. Not at Defcon’s 2017’s mass e-vote hack-a-palooza: That was thanks to the hard work of law professor Andrea Matwyshyn. She cleared the way for scores of hackers to legally throw everything they had at voting machines for all to see.

Voting-machine makers with anything to hide couldn’t have been happy about that. If you remember the headlines after last year’s Defcon, the results that came out of the Voting Village were beyond problematic. Shocking, even.

Defcon’s hackers breached every single voting machine in the Village. Some in minutes; many in under an hour-and-a-half. E-vote machines were popped by hackers without insider knowledge and by hackers who didn’t even specialize in voting machines.

One attendee remarked on Twitter, “Horrifyingly, some were hacked wirelessly (ie no physical access). Many hadn’t had OS or basic software patches in over a decade.” They added, “Others had been sold off after use, but hadn’t been wiped; still had voter data on them. Didn’t hear of any with any credible audit trail.”


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Coal chiefs mock reporter as critical West Virginia media voice goes bust
Massey Energy attorney waves pink slip for local journalist as energy department adviser says ‘I’m an advocate for the coal industry’
Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally in Huntington, West Virginia, in August 2017.
In a room packed with coal industry leaders in Charleston, West Virginia, a speaker held up a fake “pink slip” for a local newspaper reporter who covers the business, and mockingly said he wished the journalist could be in attendance.


Energy agency rejects Trump plan to prop up coal and nuclear power plants
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The crowd erupted into laughter because the reporter, Ken Ward, who has covered the industry with an unforgiving eye for years, was not there. The pink slip is a nod to the fact that his publication, the Charleston Gazette, recently filed for bankruptcy. The stunt was first reported by Taylor Kuykendall, a fellow coal reporter for the S&P Global Market Intelligence, the news and financial data website.

The speaker, Robert McLusky, is lead attorney for Massey Energy, which owned the Upper Big Branch mine when it exploded in 2010, killing 29 workers. Ward, a 25-year reporting veteran led the Gazette’s aggressive and detailed coverage of the disaster, peppering the company with questions about the regulatory corner-cutting that led to the fatal explosion.

But it was McLusky and other industry top brass who indulged in the last laugh on Wednesday, because the loss of news reporting as a check on their power has not been their only good news of late. The industry has also seen the prospect of government accountability on labor and environmental issues dwindle in the warm embrace of the Trump administration






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We can battle climate change without Washington DC. Here's how
Bill McKibben
Global warming is an immediate battle with enormous consequences. We dare not wait for Washington to return to sanity – nor do we have to

Thu 1 Feb 2018 06.00 EST




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A son who saw a police officer hold a gun to his father’s head. A husband whose wife was pulled over driving a Bentley. These unsettling scenes are among the stories from some of the NFL’s marquee players, multimillionaires sharing tales of racial profiling by law enforcement. It is a troubling concern for people of color that has been at the center of the protests begun in August 2016 by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.



The protests have waned, but the ongoing issue for players and the black communities they come from has not. The Associated Press surveyed 56 of the 59 black players at last weekend’s Pro Bowl game as part of its look at how African American athletes have long used their sports platforms to effect social and political change. The AP asked the players whether they or someone they knew have ever experienced racial profiling. All said yes.

“You can probably ask any black man out here and the answer is yes,” said Jacksonville Jaguars d





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Stejskal: ‘I Stand By Everything I Wrote’ About Retired Agent and Discovery Channel Series on Unabomber

Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. He wrote two critiques (1 and 2) of the Discovery Channel series, “Manhunt Unabomber,” in which he criticized the way FBI agent Jim Fitzgerald was portrayed as having a much bigger role in the Unabomber case than he actually did. Fitzgerald, who is now retired responded that he had a bigger role than Stejskal acknowledged and that the show also took artistic license to make him look as if he did more than he actually did. This is Stejskal’s response to Fitzgerald’s column.






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January 31, 2018
Pentagon moves to restrict public knowledge of progress in Afghanistan
President claims “We no longer tell our enemies our plans” on day SIGAR reports that we’re no longer telling the American people either
Written by Beryl Lipton
Edited by JPat Brown
By the time President Donald J. Trump finds his name on the ballot slip once again, there will be voting adults who will have spent their entire lives as citizens of a country at war in Afghanistan. But, as he mentioned during last night’s State of the Union address, the battle against the insurgents carries on, presumably a renewed optimism now that, “Along with their heroic Afghan partners, our military is no longer undermined by artificial timelines and we no longer tell our enemies our plans.”

The statement came on the same day the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction released its Quarterly Report to Congress, in which the office highlighted an alarming development in public transparency on the years-long conflict against the Taliban.



According to the IG, the office was given instructions not to release one of the most straightforward - and last publicly-available - data points on the engagement: the number of districts held by the government vs. the number held by insurgents. It notes that this information has been available for over a year, and in that time, the ratio of government to insurgent-held territory has been falling in favor of the previously metioned-enemy.



The change is an alarming one for both SIGAR, which is one of the few agencies tasked with overseeing American operations in the Middle Eastern country, Congress, and the American public, which has been shouldering the billions and billions of dollars in associated costs, including a 13% increase in civilian deaths over last year’s tally.



The report also highlighted other classification efforts being undertaken by the U.S. Forces - Afghanistan…



the ongoing to difficulties of imposing law, even in the country’s highest offices…



and the areas that were deemed too dangerous to conduct random, in-person interviews on how optimistic the people are feeling.



The whole report is embedded below, and you can explore more of SIGAR’s oversight efforts on its





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NYPD detective 'Do-little' now being probed for his Nassau County side businesses
BY GRAHAM RAYMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, January 31, 2018, 9:01 PM





http://chicagopoliceconsentdecree.org/resources/


The following documents are related to the Chicago Police Department reform efforts and will be updated periodically.
CONSENT DECREE DOCUMENTS

On August 29, 2017, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed a lawsuit to obtain reform of the Chicago Police Department. The Illinois Attorney General’s Office and the City of Chicago agreed to stay the lawsuit and negotiate an enforceable consent decree based on the findings of the Justice Department’s investigation and the Task Force’s report that revealed a pattern of civil rights violations caused by systemic deficiencies within CPD.

State of Illinois vs. City of Chicago Complaint
Illinois Attorney General Consent Decree Press Release
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (DOJ) DOCUMENTS

In 1994, following the Rodney King incident in Los Angeles and subsequent focus on how the federal government could better address police misconduct, Congress passed a law giving the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) the authority to sue state and local governments to ban patterns or practices of unconstitutional policing, including the use of unnecessary or excessive force and discriminatory policing. Since then, DOJ has conducted more than two dozen investigations of law enforcement agencies throughout the country, including the Chicago Police Department.

DOJ Investigation of the Chicago Police Department Report
DOJ’s Fact Sheet on its Investigation of the Chicago Police Department
DOJ Investigation of the Chicago Police Department Press Release
DOJ’s Special Litigation, “Conduct of Law Enforcement” Website
CHICAGO POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY TASK FORCE (PATF) DOCUMENTS

Following the November 2015 release of the video showing the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald by a Chicago Police officer, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel appointed a Police Accountability Task Force (PATF) to review the system of accountability, oversight and training for Chicago’s police officers. In April 2016, the Task Force released a report with more than 100 recommendations for reform.

PATF Report
PATF Report Press Release
PATF Announcement Press Release
PATF Website



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Deborah Danner, Bronx woman killed by NYPD, was 'screaming and yelling' to be left alone before fatal shooting
BY CHELSIA ROSE MARCIUS LARRY MCSHANE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, February 1, 2018, 4:48 PM







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POLITICS GETS PERSONAL IN LOUISIANA'S 8th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT


NEW ROADS, La., Oct. 28— In the battered studio of radio station KCLF, a tiny AM channel in this little town on an old coil of the Mississippi River, Clyde Holloway, a conservative white nurseryman who is the Republican candidate for Louisiana's Eighth Congressional District, was taping an interview this afternoon to be broadcast to the 25,000 people who live within the reach of the station's signal. He was talking about sex, race, murder and patriotism or the lack of it.

He was talking about his opponent, Faye Williams, a Democrat, a woman and a lawyer who stands a strong chance of becoming the first black person to be elected to the House of Representatives from Louisiana since Reconstruction.

''I don't say Faye is a Communist,'' Mr. Holloway said, . ''I don't even say she has a radical following. We just don't know.''

A Shooting in Los Angeles

He had reached this point in the interview after discussing an event that occurred more than 15 years ago in Los Angeles, where Ms. Williams was then in graduate school. Her estranged husband, Stan Duke, a black television broadcaster from whom she had filed for divorce, had broken into her house, beaten her and shot to death the man she had been seeing, Averill Berman, a white college professor and prominent political activist.

''The part that worries me about her past is not the love affair,'' Mr. Holloway said. ''The part that concerns me is that the guy who was killed was a known Communist in the Los Angeles area. The old saying out in the street is that if you sleep with a dog, you get fleas.''

In Louisiana, politics gets personal. Two weeks ago The Alexandria Daily Town Talk - ''my hometown paper,'' Ms. Williams says drily - published an editorial that served up the facts of the shooting, along with the advice that a candidate's personal life ''relinquishes part of its shroud of privacy when one seeks public office.''

There had been no public mention of the incident in the long primary campaign, when Ms. Williams returned from law school and a job in Washington to face Mr. Holloway and four white men who are Democrats in an open primary election. Not until almost three weeks after Ms. Williams finished first in that primary did the newspaper





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After calling for surveillance reform, Democrats help kill it

Evan Halper
By EVAN HALPER
JAN 17, 2018 | 11:40 AM
| WASHINGTON





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Judge dismisses charges against Bath Iron Works protesters

Superior Court Justice Daniel Billings on Thursday dismissed all criminal trespass charges against nine anti-war activists following a protest outside Bath Iron Works last summer, just as their trial got underway at the Sagadahoc County Courthouse.

Billings granted the defendants’ motion for judgment of acquittal, “despite our efforts to bring this case to the jury and to let the jury decide,” Sagadahoc County District Attorney Jonathan Liberman confirmed Thursday night.





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Maine should leave the bottle bill alone






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CDC to cut global disease outbreak prevention by 80 percent

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NEWS TOP STORY
Here Is The List Of Attackers The FBI Was Warned About But Still Failed To Stop
By Becky Loggia
February 17, 2018 at 9:14am











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Protect Yourself from FBI Manipulation (w/attorney Harvey Silverglate)


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February 15, 2018
Over a decade later, FBI surveillance of Iraq War protests still resonates
Bureau’s photos of a 2004 antiwar demonstration show how little it takes to end up in a federal database
Written by JPat Brown
Edited by Beryl Lipton
Today is the 15th anniversary of 2003’s coordinated protest against the Iraq War. With attendance in the millions, at the time it was the “the largest protest event in human history.”

Though we don’t have any records from that particular protest, Federal Bureau of Investigation files show that later demonstrations were under heavy Bureau surveillance, such as these photos of a protest in Richmond, Virginia on July 3, 2004.

There is a chilling banality to some of these photos, taking note of details as minor as a car bearing a pro-peace bumper sticker.


We encourage you to browse the photos embedded below and reflect on how, despite all that’s changed in the past decade and a half, ever-present and nearly-unchecked government surveillance hasn’t gone anywhere.






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Anti-cop ex-professor calls spate of officers killed 'pig death stats'








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NYPD cop cuffed for allegedly throwing 1-year-old baby
BY THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Saturday, February 17, 2018, 11:05 AM


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Thailand’s former top cop grilled over brothel owner’s loan

BANGKOK — Thailand’s former national police chief, who currently heads the Thai Football Association, met with investigators Thursday to explain his financial links with a fugitive massage parlor owner accused of human trafficking.

Somyot Poompanmoung reported to the Department of Special Investigation — Thailand’s FBI — after admitting that while he was police chief he borrowed 300 million baht (almost $9.5 million) from Kampol Wirathepsuporn.



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February 16, 2018
EFF and MuckRock are filing a thousand public records requests about ALPR data sharing
How much data have law enforcement agencies collected using automated license plate readers, and who are they sharing it with?
Written by Dave Maass
Edited by Michael Morisy
EFF and MuckRock have a launched a new public records campaign to reveal how much data law enforcement agencies have collected using automated license plate readers and are sharing with each other.

Over the next few weeks, the two organizations are filing approximately 1,000 public records requests with agencies that have deals with Vigilant Solutions, one of the nation’s largest vendors of ALPR surveillance technology and software services. We’re seeking documentation showing who’s sharing ALPR data with whom. We are also requesting information on how many plates each agency scanned in 2016 and 2017 and how many of those plates were on predetermined “hot lists” of vehicles suspected of being connected to crimes.

You can see the full list of agencies and track the progress of each request through the Street-Level Surveillance: ALPR Campaign page on MuckRock.

“Joining the largest law enforcement LPR sharing network is as easy as adding a friend on your favorite social media platform.”

That’s a direct quote from Vigilant Solutions in its promotional materials for its ALPR technology. Through its LEARN system, Vigilant Solutions has made it possible for government agencies - particularly sheriff’s offices and police departments - to grant 24-7, unrestricted database access to hundreds of other agencies around the country.

ALPRs are camera systems that scan every license plate that passes in order to create enormous databases of where people drive and park their cars both historically and in real time. Collected en masse by ALPRs mounted on roadways and vehicles, this data can reveal sensitive information about people, such as where they work, socialize, worship, shop, sleep at night, and seek medical care or other services. ALPR allows your license plate to be used as a tracking beacon and a way to map your social networks.

Here’s the question: who is on your local police department’s and sheriff office’s ALPR friend lists?

Perhaps you live in a “sanctuary city.” There’s a very real chance local police are sharing ALPR data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Patrol, or one of their subdivisions.

Perhaps you live thousands of miles from the South. You’d be surprised to learn that scores of small towns in rural Georgia have round-the-clock access to your ALPR data. This includes towns like Meigs, which serves a population of 1,000 and did not even have full-time police officers until last fall.

In 2017, EFF and the Center for Human Rights and Privacy filed records requests with several dozen law enforcement agencies in California. We found that police departments were routinely sharing ALPR data with a wide variety of agencies that may be difficult to justify. Police often shared with the DEA, FBI, and U.S. Marshals - but they also shared with federal agencies with a less clear interest, such as the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, and the Air Force base at Fort Eustis. California agencies were also sharing with public universities on the East Coast, airports in Tennessee and Texas, and agencies that manage public assistance programs, like food stamps and indigent health care. In some cases, the records indicate the agencies were sharing with private actors.

Meanwhile, most agencies are connected to an additional network called the National Vehicle Locator System, which shares sensitive information with more than 500 government agencies, the identities of which have never been publicly disclosed.

Here are the data sharing documents we obtained in 2017, which we are seeking to update with our new series of requests.

Anaheim Police Department
Antioch Police Department
Bakersfield Police Department
Chino Police Department
Clovis Police Department
Elk Grove Police Department
Fontana Police Department
Fountain Valley Police Department
Glendora Police Department
Hawthorne Police Department
Irvine Police Department
Livermore Police Department
Lodi Police Department
Long Beach Police Department
Montebello Police Department
Orange Police Department
Palos Verdes Estates Police Department
Red Bluff Police Department
Sacramento Police Department
San Bernardino Police Department
San Diego Police Department
San Rafael Police Department
San Ramon Police Department
Simi Valley Police Department
Tulare Police Department
We hope to create a detailed snapshot of the ALPR mass surveillance network linking law enforcement and other government agencies nationwide. Currently, the only entity that has the definitive list is Vigilant Solutions, which, as a private company, is not subject to state or federal public record disclosure laws. So far, the company has not volunteered this information, despite reaping many millions in tax dollars.

Until they do, we’ll keep filing requests.

For more information on ALPRs, visit EFF’s Street-Level Surveillance hub.




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Suit: Atkinson police chief didn't hire female cop because he thought ...
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LINCOLN — A former police officer candidate has sued the police chief of Atkinson, Nebraska, alleging that he didn't hire her because the northern Nebraska ranching community “wasn't ready” for a female cop. Rhonda Olson, in a lawsuit filed recently in U.S. District Court, alleged she was rejected for hiring in 2008 by ...



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After cop's arrest, questions about what being at work means
CT Post
Paris said he has received a number of calls from other officers wondering why a 2017 case of another cop accused of getting paid while out of the country was handled internally, with no arrest. “We sent the information on that other case to State's Attorney John Smriga, and he determined t



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Cop vows to fight on after losing £900k compensation claim against ...
Scottish Daily Record-
Cop vows to fight on after losing £900k compensation claim against Police Scotland. Amanda Daly claimed she was targeted by senior officers after complaining about the controversial former Counter Corruption Unit. Share. By. Norman Silvester. 06:00, 18 FEB 2018. News. Amanda Daly says she was victimised after ...





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Chinese Cop On Trial For Reckless Driving Found Dead In Kluang
malaysiandigest.com-
KLUANG: A police officer from China, on trial here for causing death by reckless driving, was found dead in a house at Jalan Terubuk 3, Kahang, yesterday. District police chief Asst Commissioner Mohamad Laham said the victim was identified as Wang Weihang, 37. He said in the 2pm incident, Wang's 52-year-old friend ...



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Cop held for attempting to rape 6-year-old
Daily News & Analysis-
A 48-year-old constable, posted with the Gautam Budh Nagar police station, allegedly tried to molest and rape a six-year-old girl on Saturday morning. The police said that the inebriated constable tried to take the girl inside a Kulesara police post in the Ecotech 3 area in Greater Noida. Later, the officer was suspended and ..





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.Retired Cop Released Pending Trial In Toms River Shooting: Report
Patch.com-
Retired Cop Released Pending Trial In Toms River Shooting: Report. Richard Michael Gato, 70, is charged with attempted murder in the shooting in the Silverton area on Feb. 8. By Karen Wall, Patch Staff | Feb 17, 2018 4:49 pm ET ...


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'Shame on you': Furious Florida shooting survivors lead call against ...
fox5sandiego.com-
The FBI's admission prompted Florida Gov. Rick Scott to call on Wray to resign. Also, a video blogger said he warned the FBI in September about a possible school shooting threat from a YouTube user with the same name as Cruz. An FBI agent confirmed a field officer in Jackson, Mississippi, received the tip and ...

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SAY SOMETHING REAL PRESS LLC

Date: July 6, 2018
Press Release: PLEASE RELEASE IMMEDIATELY
Contact: Say Something Real Press LLC
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New Book Explores the Texas Connections to the JFK Assassination

Noted researcher and political cartoonist Richard Bartholomew’s new book, THE DEEP STATE IN THE HEART OF TEXAS, takes a fresh – and often-stunning – new look into the forces behind the most important murder in 20thcentury American history. Available in paperback and Kindle beginning July 4, 2018, this book delivers truth in a detailed yet engaging style. From the alleged murder weapon, to the Zapruder film, to a vehicle possibly used in the assassination being found in Austin, as well as essays covering political strategies for the present and future, THE DEEP STATE IN THE HEART OF TEXAS provides real history in all its gory detail, without a need for theorizing.

“While I have always insisted that the assassination resulted from a collaboration including the most powerful people in the country, I also believed full well that a Texas axis was instrumental in carrying out the plot and cover-up.,” writes researcher Ed Tatro, of THE MEN WHO KILLED KENNEDY, in his forward. “Richard Bartholomew’s research is an excellent place to continue searching for the truth.”

While the 45th American President continues to abuse the term “deep state,” it retains its original meaning as coined by Peter Dale Scott, in reference to the private corporate and public interests that intertwine with one another in the road to power. Bartholomew’s book goes beyond simple media biases into the actual machinations of how deep state events are planned and produced.

A co-founder and director of the Center for Deep Political Research, Richard Bartholomew’s research has appeared in many publications, including The Fourth Decade. He has also presented at various conferences over the years, including the the 2018 JFK Historical Group Conference in Sterling, VA, and his critique of Joan Mellen at the 2016 JFK Assassination Conference in Dallas, TX.

For more information, see: http://www.saysomethingrealpress.com/bartholomew.html

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Brett Kavanaugh coverup of Vince Foster murder

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Voting for the Lesser of Evils

Submitted by robert shetterly on 21 August 2018 - 12:00am
Since I’ve been old enough to vote -- 50 years now -- I’ve felt, except maybe once or twice, that I was voting for the lesser of evils.

That problem was acute in the run up to the 2016 election, and already I’m hearing people say about the 2018 midterm: no matter who it is, if it’s Democrat, you’ve got to vote for it. We’ve got to cancel congressional support for Trump.

That seems not an unworthy goal.

But let’s think about a democracy constantly providing choices which great numbers of people are uncomfortable with, disappointed in, insulted by, angry about.

Do I really have a vote if I can’t vote for the world I want, a world based in sanity rather than suicidal exploitation and U.S. empire? What does it mean if I can’t vote to grapple with the issues I think most urgent?

Someone might answer, well, write in the candidate then who fits your bill. Really? That’s throwing away your vote as sure as not voting.

It seems to me that when you vote for the lesser of evils knowing full well that one of the candidates is more reprehensible than the other but that neither will solve the serious problems, you have then voted against democracy. You’ve disenfranchised yourself. Haven’t you then turned the fundamental tool of democracy into a wrecking bar to tear it down rather than build it up? To protect yourself against a big blue monster, you’ve tied your fate to a smaller green monster. Or, to save yourself from cancer, you’ve chosen heart disease.

Someone will surely remind me that politics is about compromise. Voting for the lesser of evils is a compromise; that's what we do in politics. Politicians must often compromise. Sometimes that’s a courageous virtue -- the art of the possible. Sometimes it’s a betrayal. But is it the role of citizens to compromise their values and their intelligence? I think my obligation as a citizen may be not to compromise but to adhere to my values, to insist on what I consider moral and sane. If I compromise, I give my elected official permission to compromise even further. These sorts of compromises have brought us to the brink of disaster -- actually beyond the brink for so many people already besieged by climate change or the member of a species made extinct by habitat loss.

We all know now (and if you don’t, you’re living in propaganda land) that we live in an oligarchy. A plutocracy. A military/industrial corporatocracy which determines that we have two corporate parties, with two amenable-to-capitalism candidates, and no viable third party. Voting for the lesser of evils inside that system is a vote for the status quo.

If we show signs of opposing this system by refusing to vote, our friends are outraged: “But what if that blue monster wins?” I say the monster has already won. The monster is the system that is despoiling the earth with dollars and weapons and entitlement.

When I vote, I want to be able to vote not for the lesser of evils but the better of goods. I want candidates who recognize the urgency of the crises bearing down on us. And my choice then is: who has the best plan? I want to simply vote for sanity in defiance of this corrupt system. The essential evil in the system is that we can’t vote to fix it. I can’t vote to get the money out of the system. I can’t vote to indict a government of war criminals. I can’t vote to end an economy based on death.

When we are encouraged to vote for the lesser of evils, we are encouraged to vote our fear not our hope, vote for the status quo not for justice. Or to vote for a person more inclined to do the will of the Pentagon rather than Big Pharma or more inclined to sell out to Citigroup rather than kowtow to Exxon-Mobil.

Someone might say, yes, all that’s true, but we can’t look at that big picture. We’ve got to deal with this election right now. We’ll fix that big stuff later. No, not true. There is no later.

The choice of human survival and the survival of other species is upon us -- the survival of all the plants and animals on the planet who can’t vote. The big issues are the most present. They are the greater evil. Voting for the lesser evil is voting for the greater evil.

But, after all that, am I telling you you should not vote for Democrats, any Democrats, to break the chokehold of the Republicans on Congress? No, I’m not saying that. My own truth telling, and I am being as honest as I know how, runs head on into the nastiness of this moment and the reality of so many social, environmental, legal and political protections being stripped away by our current government. If we vote in Democratic majorities, will we be voting to end U.S. militarism and Empire? No. Will we be voting to make a radical shift in green energy production? No, nowhere near radical enough. Will we be voting to get the special interest money -- which makes the system anti-democratic -- out of the system? No. Will we be voting for national health care? Maybe a little closer.

What this means is that the election, no matter which way it goes, obligates us to citizen action and civil disobedience -- to demand action that will save life and create hope for the future on this ailing planet. Because we can’t vote for the better of goods, inevitably we must vote for greater responsibility for ourselves. The system won’t right this listing ship. Only we can.

We can’t vote for democracy, but we sure as hell can act for it. That’s the choice that isn’t the lesser of evils. It’s the better of goods. It's the vote we've always got no matter what the system gives us.





https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... nce-boston
Massachusetts police tweet lets slip scale of leftwing surveillance
An image of a police computer screen posted during Thursday’s gas emergency showed bookmarks for several activist groups


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny-metr ... story.html
Texas border agent suspected of killing four prostitutes in two-week orgy of violence

By RICH SCHAPIRO
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
SEP 15, 2018 | 10:20 PM

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https://nationalpost.com/news/world/fbi ... ugh-report


'I haven't heard back': FBI hasn't talked to multiple people who contacted agency about Kavanaugh
The probe's limited scope - which was dictated by the White House - is likely to exacerbate the partisan tensions surrounding Kavanaugh's nomination



https://www.theonion.com/fbi-agent-stil ... 1829496504

FBI Agent Still Tasked With Following Noam Chomsky Around Prepares For Another Day In Local Panera
Yesterday 12:08pm





TUCSON, AZ—Sighing as he settled into a corner table in the fast-casual eatery, FBI agent Thomas Vaughn, who is still tasked



https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/politics ... index.html
Christine Blasey Ford attorneys: Kavanaugh investigation a 'stain' on the FBI
By Eli Watkins, CNN

Updated 2:07 PM ET, Thu October 4, 2018



http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html

Settlement terms have been reached in a federal lawsuit filed against the Ventura County Sheriff's Office in May after deputies removed a Muslim woman’s head scarf while she was in custody.
Ventura County and the Sheriff’s Office reached a $75,000 settlement with Jennifer Hyatt, the Sheriff’s Office announced Monday. The settlement also includes a new policy in the written manual for the Sheriff’s Office that accommodates religious head coverings.



http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... story.html
 Off-duty cop hires Brooklyn hooker who steals his car and service weapon while he hits up ATM to pay her: sources

By NOAH GOLDBERG  and THOMAS TRACY

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 03, 2018 |




https://www.wral.com/the-latest-ernst-s ... /17887963/
The Latest: Ford letter to FBI questions agency's probe

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... act-vague/


Use DocumentCloud and MuckRock to report with your readers through a CLEF grant
by Michael Morisy
October 01, 2018
We’re excited to announce that DocumentCloud and MuckRock are part of the next round of the Community Listening and Engagement Fund (CLEF). Newsrooms around the country can apply for a subsidy to use our filing, tracking, and analysis tools while developing new ways to involve readers in the reporting process.
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CIA internal history blamed interagency conflicts on the National Security Act being “purposefully vague”
by Emma Best
October 01, 2018
As part of MuckRock’s ongoing project to declassify and collect internal Central Intelligence Agency histories, the Agency recently released a copy of the history on coordination between inbetween intelligence agencies in the aftermath of World War II. The history outlines various “turf wars,” some which predate the Agency itself, which were the result of disagreements about what the law said and who had what responsibilities. According to the history, many of these disagreements and differing interpretations stemmed directly or indirectly from the language of the National Security Act of 1947, which both established and empowered the CIA, as being “purposefully vague.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... 67d7c99830


How the FBI’s flawed investigation of Clarence Thomas became a model for Kavanaugh’s


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... story.html
Video shows Texas police officers using force on family members, tasing man despite plea that 'no one is fighting'


By DAVID BOROFF

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 02, 2018 | 9:10 AM 



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny-news ... story.html
Yale alum calls FBI with tip for Brett Kavanaugh probe, gets 'embarrassing' runaround, no response, he says

By NANCY DILLON

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/ ... story.html

State leaders call for transparency in closed-door criminal hearings
Officials were responding to a Globe Spotlight report that detailed how secret criminal hearings resulted in some suspects not facing charges for serious crimes — even though police had substantial evidence.  
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/ar ... 270544.php


California opens some police misconduct records to public view

Melody Gutierrez Sep. 30, 2018 Updated: Sep. 30, 2018 5:54 p.m.





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“Natural Causes Killed Victor: A Death in Solitary,” a folk opera by George Swanson (DVD, 55 minutes)
Loaded on JAN. 10, 2017 by Lance Tapley published in Prison Legal News January, 2017, page 16
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews, Immigration, Control Units, Tapes/Music. Location: Maine.
Written by George Swanson, a folksinger and Episcopal priest, this unusual folk opera tells how Victor Valdez, a sickly, working-class immigrant from the Dominican Republic, died in 2009 in solitary confinement at the Maine State Prison – and how the causes of his death were covered up.
The state prosecutor who investigated the case determined that Victor died of “natural causes.” True, he needed kidney dialysis and had other ailments, but a number of other prisoners said he had not been given proper medical care and had been physically abused. In fact, one prisoner had predicted to an advocate that the abuse would likely kill Victor.
I wrote the newspaper article, “A Prison Obituary: The Tragedy of Victor Valdez,” which was the basis for the opera. George Swanson has long worked with me and many others in a campaign to end or restrict the use of solitary in Maine and nationally. He successfully convinced the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) to take on the issue.
NRCAT’s founding director, the Rev. Richard Killmer, said the opera “shows the immorality of solitary confinement.” Bonnie Kerness, director of the American Friends Service Committee’s Prison Watch, called it an “amazing” ...
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/suprem ... ge-n915326


Yale classmate to tell FBI of Brett Kavanaugh's 'violent drunken' behavior
The FBI's contact with Charles Ludington, a classmate of Brett Kavanaugh at Yale, is a new development in its background investigation.
by Peter Alexander, Ken Dilanian and Adam Edelman / Oct.01.2018 / 8:10 AM EDT / Updated 12:49 




https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... crowdfund/


September 25, 2018
Help release the FBI’s files on notorious CIA-tied drug smuggler Barry Seal
The Bureau found 21,826 pages of records on Seal, whose life touched on some of the most significant narcotics cases - and one of the biggest political scandals - of the 20th century
Written by JPat Brown, Emma Best
Edited by JPat Brown
In response to a FOIA request filed by Emma Best back in June, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has located close to 22,000 pages of records on Adler Berriman “Barry” Seal, a notorious drug smuggler with ties to the Central Intelligence Agency, whose life was most recently fictionalized in the 2017 film American Made.

The Bureau is asking for $655 in duplication fees for the release of the files, and owing to their historical importance, Best has opened the request up for crowdfunding. 
As Best summarizes: 
Barry Seal, a pilot and major smuggler for the Medellin cartel, became a DEA informant before being assassinated on the orders of Pablo Escobar in 1986. In 1988, House Judiciary Committee testimony revealed that Seal took part in a sting operation in which CIA installed cameras on his plane, allowing him to photograph Escobar and other members of the Medellin Cartel load large amounts of cocaine for transportation with the help of the Sandinista Minister of the Interior. These photographs were used by President Reagan as part of his effort to raise support for the Contras.
The FBI’s found 21,826 pages of records on Seal, whose life touched on some of the most significant narcotics cases – and one of the biggest political scandals – of the 20th century.
Every dollar raised helps release dozens of pages, so even a small donation helps. Contribute below, or via the request page.




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: Freedom of Information Request: Barry Seal FBI
Email
To Whom It May Concern:
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I hereby request the following records:
Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal (July 16, 1939 – February 19, 1986) was an American drug smuggler, and aircraft pilot and dealer who flew flights for the Medellín Cartel to and from his airport facility in Mena, Arkansas. His death has been widely and extensively reported. http://www.nndb.com/people/140/000129750/ https://louisianavoice.com/2011/02/14/6 ... aying.html
I am specifically requesting previously all unprocessed files, including but not limited to any forensic, technical or laboratory reports about his death and information about his relationship with the U.S. government as an informant and/or operative. 
Please conduct a search of the Central Records System, including but not limited to the Electronic Surveillance (ELSUR) Indices, the Microphone Surveillance (MISUR) Indices, the Physical Surveillance (FISUR) Indices, and the Technical Surveillance (TESUR) Indices, for both main-file records and cross-reference records for all relevant names and companies. Please search both HQ files and files of various field offices. 
I am a member of the news media and request classification as such. I have previously written about the Bureau for AND Magazine, MuckRock and Glomar Disclosure. My articles have been widely read, with some reaching over 100,000 readers. As such, as I have a reasonable expectation of publication and my editorial and writing skills are well established.







https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/co ... da00d5a283




CRIME 10/01/2018 01:11 pm ET
FBI Launches Corruption Probe Into Ohio Police Unit Behind Stormy Daniels’ Arrest
The decision follows “a variety of allegations” and actions involving the vice section, Columbus’ police chief said.






https://www.wsbtv.com/news/christine-bl ... /844615680
Christine Blasey Ford has not been contacted by FBI yet in Brett Kavanaugh investigation: Source
By: Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News 
Updated: Oct 1, 2018 - 7:40 AM
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny-news ... story.html
Mailman pees on front porch of Tennessee home during delivery


By DANIELLE CINONE

OCT 01, 2018 | 10:55 AM 



http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny- ... story.html


NYPD sergeant says promotion to lieutenant was blocked due to his support of Colin Kaepernick

By GRAHAM RAYMAN

OCT 01, 2018 | 5:30 AM 






http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... story.html
Three cops fatally shoot man claiming to have gun in Florida hospital emergency room

By DAVID BOROFF

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 01, 2018 | 9:30 AM 




https://www.myajc.com/news/minnesota-wo ... FYVDoncUO/
Minnesota woman awarded $520,000 after attack by police dog

ATLANTA-NEWS By Bob D’Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk


https://m.dw.com/en/berlin-police-offic ... a-45684448

Berlin police officer faces brutality probe


http://www.fbicover-up.com/

Welcome to our website about the murder of Vince Foster, Deputy White House Counsel under President Clinton.  Brett Kavanaugh was in charge of the Foster death investigation and led the cover-up inside the Office of the Independent Counsel.  A federal court ordered Independent Counsel Ken Starr to include evidence, found in government records, of an FBI cover-up, to the final Report. 
Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP
https://www.kagstv.com/article/news/nat ... 2c77a23900


Brett Kavanaugh: A week offers plenty of time for FBI to investigate allegations, former officials say
Week expected to be ample time for Kavanaugh FBI probe

Author: Kevin Johnson and Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY
Published: 3:05 PM EDT September 28, 2018
Updated: 6:26 PM EDT September 28, 2018


https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/28/fbi-fit ... -says.html



FBI fitness app asks users to agree to 'all of their activities monitored and recorded'
Jaden Urbi  




http://thewellesleynews.com/2018/09/26/ ... ey-student

BY CIARA WARDLOW MISCELLANEA, THE ARTICHOKESEPTEMBER 26, 2018
FBI AGENT QUITS AFTER SURVEILLING WELLESLEY STUDENT






https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/ ... cae78acf5a

This pit bull was bred for dog fighting. Now he’s joining a police force.



https://www.wafb.com/2018/09/25/gun-rep ... ton-rouge/

Gun reportedly stolen from FBI agent in Baton Rouge




https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/edi ... More_Pos12


Release government files on Malcolm X assassination




http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-ame ... story.html

Mexican federal forces disarmed local police in Acapulco. Will it work?

By KATE LINTHICUM

SEP 26, 2018 | 4:20 PM 
| MEXICO CITY


https://www.broadcastingcable.com/blog/ ... nforcement


‘FBI’ Offers Unique Peek at Law Enforcement
CBS show details what federal agents do to keep America safe, and other series skip, says cast member Noel

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Dick Wolf’s FBI premieres on CBS September 25. It’s a procedural about the inner workings of the FBI’s New York office, “bringing to bear all the Bureau's skills, intellect and mind-blowing technology to keep New York and the country safe,” in CBS’ words.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... story.html
Woman punched by cop during New Jersey beach arrest indicted for aggravated assault of a police officer

By PETER SBLENDORIO

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
SEP 24, 2018 | 4:20 PM 




http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/n ... story.html
Wife of Florida deputy texted friend that husband had 'lost his mind' before murder-suicide

By DAVID BOROFF

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
SEP 24, 2018 | 2:10 PM 

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https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... hell-game/


The CIA and the State Department conspired to exploit a bureaucratic loophole to keep records hidden
by Emma Best
October 10, 2018
In 1955, the Central Intelligence Agency’s Psychological and Paramilitary Operations Staff made some inquiries through their point of contact at the State Department about the storage and accessibility of records concerning CIA operations. When they didn’t receive the answer they wanted, an informal suggestion led to a formal policy to circumvent those requirements by manipulating technicalities and appearances, and in some cases ignoring the records even existed.
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https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... -postcard/

The postcard that pitted the ACLU against the FBI
by JPat Brown, Carolyn Komatsoulis
October 11, 2018
The recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation file for former head of the American Civil Liberties Union Roger Baldwin document numerous times the groups came into conflict with each other. One notable incident, related to the Bureau’s wartime “Postal Censorship” program, led to a testy exchange between Baldwin and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover after the Bureau investigated the writer and pioneering Libertarian Rose Wilder Lane over her comments on a postcard.
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https://schedule.srccon.org/
SRCCON 2018 • June 28 & 29 in Minneapolis



https://theintercept.com/2018/10/09/bre ... istration/


OBAMA’S RESISTANCE TO INVESTIGATING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION ALLOWED BRETT KAVANAUGH TO SKATE ONTO THE SUPREME COURT
Eoin Higgins
October 9 2018
ONE OF BARACK Obama’s first decisions after being elected president continued to haunt the country over the weekend, as Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as the fifth hard-line conservative on the Supreme Court.In January 2009, George W. Bush left office with an abysmal 22 percent approval rating, the lowest ever recorded. Almost everyone with anything to do with his administration was considered politically



https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-plot- ... er/5544005

The Plot to Kill Martin Luther King: Survived Shooting, Was Murdered in Hospital
Global Research › ca


Apr 6, 2018 · Martin Luther King was murdered in a conspiracy that was instigated by then FBI director J. ... The hospital story was told to Pepper by a man named Johnton Shelby, whose mother, Lula Mae ...




https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog ... psychopath

7 Traits of the Modern Sociopath and Psychopath ( working in Law Enforcement )
7 signs of the ruthless and the heartless.
Posted Oct 07, 2018

— Robert Hare
Antisocial personality disorder, sometimes identified interchangeably as sociopathy or psychopathy, is defined by the Mayo Clinic as: “A mental condition in which a person consistently shows no regard for right and wrong and ignores the rights and feelings of others. People with antisocial personality disorder tend to antagonize, manipulate or treat others harshly or with callous indifference. They show no guilt or remorse for their behavior.”


https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog ... erous-jobs


Assessment of Police Officers & Others in Dangerous Jobs
Assessment of police officers can reduce risk of errors in judgement on the job.
Posted Jun 30, 2015



https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/10/10 ... ent-682472

FBI refuses to tell US Senate if Trump’s phones are tapped: ‘Is NSA or FBI listening in on our President?’
October 10, 2018 | Tom Tillison |  Print Article



https://www.fredericknewspost.com/publi ... f38ad.html

David Wise, author and CIA expert who exposed 'invisible government,' dies at 88




http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny- ... story.html

 Nassau cop charged with exposing himself to two women





https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/ ... mit-888667


KAVANAUGH CONFIRMATION
FBI's Wray confirms White House limited Kavanaugh probe

By JOSH GERSTEIN 10/10/2018 11:05 AM EDT Updated 10/10/2018 01:33 PM EDT



https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/ ... story.html

State Police tried to destroy payroll records during investigations 
The department sought to destroy boxes filled with potential evidence in the department’s ongoing internal audit, as well as federal and state criminal probes, into alleged overtime fraud. 10:46 am
* Special section: State Police turmoil



http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html

L.A. County watchdog investigating team of deputies that stopped thousands of innocent Latinos on 5 Freeway


https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xjv ... reme-court
We're Watching the Slow Poisoning of the Supreme Court

Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation was unusually contentious and bitter, but it wasn't an aberration.
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http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_ ... on_waltham

Judge gives Dzokhar Tsarnaev team time to study FBI interview on Waltham slays
Laurel J. Sweet Monday


https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa ... c-n2525649

DNC Lawyers Met With Top FBI Official Before Spy Warrant Targeting Trump Campaign Was Doled Out

Matt Vespa
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 @mvespa1
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Posted: Oct 08, 2018 1:45 


https://www.timesunion.com/news/article ... 290392.php
FBI informant in terror stings owned limo in deadly crash, state source confirms

By Brendan J. Lyons and Larry Rulison Updated 10:27 pm EDT, Monday, October 8, 2018
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... story.html
NYPD detective son of two retired high-ranking cops busted on drunken driving charges after Harlem crash




https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... 6c3ed7dfa7

Treasure hunters challenge FBI over dig for legendary gold

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5y0aaq-5noM

FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Testifies that FBI is in Possesion of Dennis Hastert Rape Videos



https://article25news.wordpress.com/201 ... -long-ago/ 

Privacy Died Long Ago
In Uncategorized on 06/03/2013 at 9:12 pm





https://whowhatwhy.org/2018/10/03/votin ... ncy-group/


OCTOBER 3, 2018 | JACK LOWENSTEIN
VOTING MACHINE VENDOR THREATENS ELECTION TRANSPARENCY GROUP


https://whowhatwhy.org/2018/09/27/resol ... te-hurdle/

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018 | WHOWHATWHY STAFF
RESOLUTION TO REVEAL ALL FROM 9/11 DOCUMENTS CLEARS SENATE HURDLE


https://whowhatwhy.org/2018/10/15/key-c ... pearances/

OCTOBER 15, 2018 | TIMOTHY PRATT
HACKING RISK PROMPTS POLICE ESCORT FOR ELECTRONIC VOTES



https://whowhatwhy.org/2018/10/20/under ... -v-holder/

Understanding the Devastating Impact of Shelby County v. Holder
In 2013 the US Supreme Court delivered a devastating decision that would lead to a host of state voter suppression law, with which Americans continue to struggle today as they head to the polls.



https://bros4america.com/greg-palast/



PODCAST
Greg Palast: ‘The GOP Doesn’t Need Russia To Help Them Steal Elections’
With less than a month remaining before the 2018 midterm elections, investigative reporter Greg Palast talks exclusively with the Bros for America podcast about the ongoing GOP effort to suppress the vote using voter purge and a racist voter cross check system. 

Published 4 days ago on October 17, 2018
By Alex Mohajer 




http://accuracy.org/release/911-whistle ... -cover-up/

9/11 Whistleblower Rowley on Mueller’s History of “Cover-up”
May 18, 2017



https://www.whistleblowersblog.org/2018 ... leblowers/


NWC Joins SCOTUS Amicus Brief with FBI Whistleblowers
By Aaron Jordan on March 9, 2018
POSTED IN GOVERNMENT WHISTLEBLOWERS, INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY WHISTLEBLOWERS
Earlier today, the National Whistleblower Center (NWC) joined a friend-of-the-court brieffiled with the Supreme Court in support of FBI whistleblower John Parkinson’s petition for certiorari, seeking review of the Federal Circuit’s decision denying veterans’ preference-eligible FBI employees the right to raise whistleblowing as an affirmative defense in an appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB).
The amicus brief, filed on behalf FBI whistleblowers Michael German, Robert Kobus, Jane Turner, and Frederic Whitehurst, as well as the NWC and the Project on Government Oversight, details why the Department of Justice’s procedures for FBI whistleblowers are not an adequate substitute for a veterans’ preference-eligible FBI employee raising a whistleblower claim in an MSPB case.

Lt. Col. Parkinson was dismissed from the FBI and sought to raise whistleblower reprisal as an affirmative defense at his MSPB hearing. He was denied the opportunity by the MSPB, won an appeal of that denial before a Federal Circuit panel, but then lost on rehearing en banc. The Federal Circuit overturned, in part, a panel decision and determined that FBI whistleblowers may not raise whistleblower reprisal as an affirmative defense before the MSPB.
The amicus brief chronicles the long-winded paths to justice of four former FBI whistleblowers, including former FBI crime lab expert Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, who bravely blew the whistle on flawed forensic science at the FBI lab; former FBI agent Michael German, who reported the FBI’s illegal recording of conversations in violation of Title III wiretap regulations during a counterterrorism investigation; former FBI agent Jane Turner, who reported to the DOJ Inspector General that colleagues had stolen items from Ground Zero after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks; and retired FBI employee Robert Kobus, who worked at the FBI’s New York Field Office for 35 years and made a protected disclosure regarding some of his colleagues’ abuses of the FBI’s leave policy. Both Whitehurst and Turner hold leadership positions at the NWC.
Unfortunately, this is not the first time the Federal Circuit has issued a decision denying whistleblowers the rights intended by Congress. The Supreme Court should agree to hear this important case in order to correct the Federal Circuit’s dubious decision and to ensure that veterans who work at our foremost law enforcement agencies are fully protected when they blow the whistle.




https://www.thedailybeast.com/frederic- ... -libraries

Frederic Whitehurst, More Whistleblowers Donate How-To Guide to Libraries
Some famous U.S. whistleblowers are donating their lawyer’s book on how to do it right. By John Solomon.

John Solomon
09.11.11 10:45 PM ET








https://www.whistleblowersblog.org/2017 ... b-scandal/


Dr. Whitehurst and the FBI Lab Scandal





https://www.wptv.com/news/region-c-palm ... ral-charge
Deputy, sentenced on federal charge

Merris Badcock
7:29 PM, Oct 19, 2018




https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obitu ... story.html



David Wise, author and CIA expert who exposed ‘invisible government,’ dies at 88





https://shadowproof.com/2018/10/18/fbi- ... onage-act/



WHISTLEBLOWER WHO CHALLENGED FBI’S PROFILING AND INFORMANT RECRUITMENT PRACTICES IS SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS IN PRISON




https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018 ... ut-borders

Published on 
Friday, October 19, 2018
byForeign Policy In Focus
The Americans, the Saudis, and the Israelis: Assassins Without Borders
Saudi Arabia's apparent assassination of Jamal Khashoggi might have taken inspiration from Russia and North Korea — or Israel and the United States.



https://www.denverpost.com/2018/10/18/d ... -of-force/

Denver police sergeant arrested on suspicion of assault in “use of force” incident
The defendant has been suspended from the department over the



http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... story.html
Security guard at NYPD tow pound used camera to spy on cops in women's bathroom: police

By JOHN ANNESE

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 19, 2018 | 12:15 AM 





http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html
O.C. sheriff's deputy caught on video repeatedly punching intoxicated man

By HANNAH FRY

OCT 18, 2018 | 6:20 PM 







http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny- ... story.html




EXCLUSIVE: 10 correction officers involved in massive brawl at Rikers Island transferred out of K-9 unit


By REUVEN BLAU

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 18, 2018 | 6:00 AM 




http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... story.html
Hartford police officer fired after he is caught on video telling group he felt 'trigger happy'

By MATTHEW ORMSETH  and JENNA CARLESSO

MORMSETH@COURANT.COM |
OCT 18, 2018 | 9:10 AM 



http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny- ... story.html

Fired NYPD cop who sent flirty texts and asked out woman he arrested sues to get his job back
Rory Santiago argues that other cops, including the son of an assistant chief, have kept their jobs after doing things far worse things than exchanging flirty and sexual messages with a person he arrested.



https://www.nbcsandiego.com/entertainme ... 45961.html

Baltimore Police Union Objects to 'SNL' 'Thirsty Cops' Sketch
"It is a difficult time in Baltimore and to portray our brave, hard-working members with such an inappropriate manner is very unfortunate"
By Andrea Swalec and  The Associated Press





http://saharareporters.com/2018/10/17/p ... -pretences

Police Dismiss Officer Who Obtained N1.5m From Abuja Lady Under False Pretences
Jolaosho was reported to PCRRU by a lady in Abuja. According to the lady, whose name was not disclosed, Jolaosho collected N1.5million from her in multiple tranches with the promise to help her secure a car via auction at the Abuja Magistrate court.


BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK
OCT 17, 2018




http://www.kfvs12.com/2018/10/17/bonne- ... -knuckles/


Bonne Terre, MO police officer charged, accused of hitting suspect in face with brass knuckles



https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local ... 313840.php



18-year-old shot and killed by San Antonio police was unarmed, chief says
By Caleb Downs and and Fares Sabawi, mySanAntonio.comUpdated 4:11 pm CDT, Wednesday, October 17, 2018
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-e ... encounter/


By ERIN DONAGHUE CBS NEWS October 17, 2018, 5:10 PM
Facebook executive demands answers after brother dies in police encounter




https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... propriety/

Grassley demands IG report on FBI official who improperly accepted sports tickets


https://wcbs880.radio.com/articles/news ... ces-office


Improper Influence In DA Vance's Office
OCTOBER 17, 2018 - 3:47 PM 








NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- The FBI Is looking at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and whether there was improper influence in charges being filed.
As WCBS 880’s Peter Haskell reported, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance declined to file charges against Harvey Weinstein in 2015, and he took campaign donations from Weinstein’s lawyer
Vance also chose not to bring a fraud case against Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump. A Trump lawyer then made contributions.


https://wcbs880.radio.com/articles/news ... tion-phone

Prosecutors: Police Detective Urged Weinstein Accuser To Delete Information From Phone
OCTOBER 17, 2018 - 3:42 PM 








NEW YORK (WCBS 880/AP) -- Prosecutors on Wednesday said a police detective under scrutiny in the Harvey Weinstein case urged an accuser to delete information from her phone before turning it over.



https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/doj-p ... ht-in-lie/



DOJ Prosecutes Trump Aides for Lying, Does Nothing When FBI Official Is Caught in Lie
BY MALACHI BAILEY 
OCTOBER 17, 2018 AT 12:39PM



https://www.imperialvalleynews.com/inde ... force.html

Attorney General Jeff Sessions Delivers Remarks Announcing the Creation of a Transnational Organized Crime Task Force



https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018 ... stigators/

Fusion GPS Founder Glenn Simpson Pleads the Fifth Before House Investigators



https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/top-10- ... d=11419480

Top 10 Censored Stories of the Year 
Inside the real fight against #FakeNews.
By Paul Rosenberg


*
FBI Racially Profiling "Black Identity Extremists"
At the same time that white supremacists were preparing for the "Unite the Right" demonstration in Charlottesville, which resulted in the murder of Heather Heyer in August 2017, the FBI's counterterrorism division produced an intelligence assessment warning of a very different—though actually non-existent threat: "Black Identity Extremists." The report appeared to be the first time the term had been used to identify a movement, according to Foreign Policy magazine, which broke the story.
"But former government officials and legal experts said no such movement exists, and some expressed concern that the term is part of a politically motivated effort to find an equivalent threat to white supremacists," Foreign Policy reported.
"The use of terms like 'black identity extremists' is part of a long-standing FBI attempt to define a movement where none exists," said former FBI agent Mike German, who now works for the Brennan Center for Justice. "Basically, it's black people who scare them."
"It's classic Hoover-style labeling with a little bit of maliciousness and euphemism wrapped up together," said William Maxwell, a Washington University professor working on a book about FBI monitoring of black writers. "The language—black identity extremist—strikes me as weird and really a continuation of the worst of Hoover's past."
"There is a long tradition of the FBI targeting black activists and this is not surprising," Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson told Foreign Policy.
A former homeland security official told them that carelessly connecting unrelated groups will make it harder for law enforcement to identify real threats. It's so convoluted that it's compromising officer safety, the former official said.
"The corporate media [has] covered the FBI report on 'black identity extremists' in narrow or misleading ways," Project Censored noted, citing examples from The New York Times, Fox News and NBC News. "Coverage like this both draws focus away from the active white supremacist movement and feeds the hate and fear on which such a movement thrives."



https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... ilot-diet/

October 16, 2018
Cooking with FOIA: The CIA’s TOP SECRET anti-poop diet
Declassified manuals in the Agency archives reveal the “high protein, low residue” diet U-2 pilots used to keep from soiling their suits
Written by JPat Brown
Edited by Beryl Lipton
Practically synonymous with high-altitude espionage, the Lockheed U-2 spy plane played an almost legendary role in the Central Intelligence Agency’s activities during the Cold War, so much so that a 1/6th scale model of the plane currently hangs in the Agency atrium in Langley, Virginia. The aircraft was notoriously difficult to pilot and physically demanding (flights of over ten hours at over 70,000 feet were not uncommon), and a formerly TOP SECRET manual uncovered in the Agency archives outlines a strict regimen to keep pilots fit and healthy. 




https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... aved-foia/

How FOIA exposed the CIA’s false claim that FOIA helped Soviet spies more than American journalists
by Emma Best
October 17, 2018
After the government claimed that FOIA was more useful to Soviet spies than American journalists or citizens, American journalists and citizens were able to use FOIA to expose the “apparently groundless” nature of these charges.
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https://www.pressherald.com/2018/10/17/ ... -says-usm/

NATION & WORLD  Posted 7:43 AM Updated at 12:25 PM
INCREASE FONT SIZE
Professor who offered students credit for protesting Sen. Collins barred from teaching, says USM
Dr. Susan Feiner had offered students a 'pop-up' course for college credit if they hopped a bus to Washington, D.C. to urge Sen. Collins to oppose Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation.



https://theintercept.com/2018/10/16/chi ... cky-hayes/
Surveillance video shows off-duty Chicago police officer shooting unarmed teen with autism
Jamie Kalven
October 16 2018, 1:57 p.m.x

Chicago Police release video of black teenager shot and killed by police




https://theintercept.com/2018/10/17/nor ... h-penalty/


“RELIC OF ANOTHER ERA”: MOST PEOPLE ON NORTH CAROLINA’S DEATH ROW WOULD NOT BE SENTENCED TO DIE TODAY
Liliana Segura
October 17 2018, 11:50 a.m.



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ath-police

San Francisco
'Privilege doesn't protect you': family seeks answers after father's Taser death





https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... paign=1490

Tiny statues of Trump with signs inviting dogs to 'pee on me' appear across Brooklyn
* Advertising executive Phil Gable created and placed the small statues
* They depict Donald Trump in the 1980s and have a sign reading 'Pee on me'
* Gable made them to express disdain for Trump 'as President and a human being'



http://gothamist.com/2018/10/15/proud_b ... n_nypd.php


NYPD Accused Of 'Incredibly Deferential Treatment' Of Proud Boys Following Beatings Caught On Video
BY JAKE OFFENHARTZ IN NEWS ON OCT 15, 2018 10:15 AM



https://truthout.org/articles/why-the-f ... kavanaugh/


POLITICS & ELECTIONS
Why the FBI Used Its Kid Gloves on Brett Kavanaugh



https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pu ... d5431d7f8a


Public Safety
Former Fairfax County sheriff’s deputy charged in sexual assault of inmate




https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... ec5087cd65


FBI official accepted free tickets to sporting event from reporter, inspector general says




https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pu ... 2e853a8bed

Prince George’s police officer faces rape charges in traffic stop, police say



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/nyre ... ollah.html

He Wanted to Be an Informant. The F.B.I. Arrested Him Instead.
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Double Standard of Discipline
A significant percentage of FBI employees that we surveyed believed that higher-level employees were treated more leniently in the FBI’s disciplinary system. In our survey, we asked FBI employees whether they agreed or disagreed with the following statement: “There is a double standard of discipline for higher-ranking versus lower-ranking FBI employees.” Of 717 respondents who answered this question,
33 percent agreed with the statement that a double standard of discipline exists in the FBI, 11 percent disagreed, and the rest either had a neutral opinion or responded that they did not know. When we compared the survey responses of non-SES employees with those of SES employees, we found non-SES employees were more likely to believe that there is a double standard than SES employees were.



https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa ... e-n2490805

IG Report: Disciplinary Action Recommended For Five FBI Agents--Oh, And Bureau Employees Got Free Stuff From Reporters

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https://oig.justice.gov/reports/fbi.htm
USDOJ/OIG | Federal Bureau of Investigation Reports - Inspector General - Department of Justice
Department of Justice (.gov) › oig › fbi

Jump to · 2013. October 28, 2013. A Review of the FBI's Progress in Responding to the Recommendations in the OIG Report on the FBI's Handling and Oversight of Katrina Leung (Unclassified Executive Summary) — Full ...
https://www.justice.gov/file/1071991/download

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/th ... 900-words/
FBI OIG Report  


https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation ... 47100.html

FBI agent took photos of woman changing in NJ dressing room, cops say | Miami Herald
Miami Herald › news › article215247100

Jul 20, 2018 · 22-year-old changing in dressing room catches FBI agent taking photos, NJ cops say. ... A 22-year-old woman was changing in a New Jersey clothing store’s dressing room on Thursday when she made a horrifying discovery, according to police. ... Danuel S. Brown, a 30-year-old special agent ...



https://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index ... to_re.html
FBI agent doesn't have to register as sex offender for peeping Tom incidents in Hershey, elsewhere, court says
Updated Jul 11, 2014; Posted Jul 11, 2014



https://www.cleveland.com/avon/index.ss ... s_lea.html

Avon Middle School parents learn internet dangers from FBI
Updated 10:08 PM; Posted 10:08 PM



http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny- ... story.html
NYPD inspector charged with bribery wants to know why colleague cleared of similar conduct

By STEPHEN REX BROWN

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 29, 2018 | 2:15 PM 





http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_ ... in_january

Boston’s FBI chief to retire in January
Associated Press Friday, October 19, 2018

https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/cri ... a565d.html
FBI agent pleads guilty to misdemeanor count of driving intoxicated
* Joyce Russell joyce.russell@nwi.com, 219-548-4352  Jul 11, 2018 




https://www.berkeleycopwatch.org/news


Watch Lt. Files Explain that the BPD has been Secretly Recording Citizens for Decades without any Policy

September 29, 2018


Video from the September 26 PRC meeting shows Berkeley Police admitting they have been SECRETLY RECORDING citizens for decades without any policy. WTF!!!! Check out 24 minutes in and see Lt. Files explain that "there are no General Orders because we don't need them!"
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BPD Chief explains how you don't need a policy to secretly record the public, and how doxxing is a safety measure

September 16, 2018


The video linked below is from the PRC meeting from 9-12-18. Go to 30:00



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Each state or issue chapter's web sites may contain additional resources more suitable to your location.

We believe that one of the best resources for non-partisan news covering the criminal justice system in America today is THE MARSHALL PROJECT (www.themarshallproject.org). “Our mission is to raise public awareness around issues of criminal justice and the possibility for reform. But while we are nonpartisan, we are not neutral. Our hope is that by bringing transparency to the systemic problems that plague our courts and prisons, we can help stimulate a national conversation about how best to reform our system of crime and 




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FOIA Researchers Are Targeting a Shadowy FBI Program Called 'Gravestone'

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If you’re the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), tasked with rapidly uncovering plots involving



9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
 
      
           Draft Agenda for 10/31/18 Teleconference        

8pm (ET)/5pm (PT)   Teleconference #  (641) 715-0632    Access code: 551571#
[Note: Some telephone service providers block access to this teleconference service, or require additional charges.  If you encounter any of these difficulties, please try calling this alternative number: (716) 293-9623.  You will then be required to key in the original phone number above before entering the access code.  Please inform of us of any technical difficulties you encounter in accessing the teleconference.]


Greetings all,

Our teleconference's originator, Jonathan Mark, has been doing yeoman's work for many years trying to bring the U.S. moon landing question to the fore of Truth movement consciousness.  Recently, he conducted a sterling interview with Mass
imo Mazzuco, who has recently lent his consummate videographic talent to this cause, releasing a monumental new film called "American Moon."  Those of us who have seen it are very impressed, to say the least.  Unfortunately, Massimo cannot join our regular teleconference to discuss his latest cinematic masterpiece because of the time lag between us and his Italy, so please mark your calendars for Sunday 11 November, when we plan a special teleconference at 1pm Eastern time to give Maestro Massimo our full attention, and engage him with our questions.  This film can be purchased for $19 from amazon.com ...clicking on the image at right should take you there.... Please note that it cannot be viewed or posted online, however, Max does explicitly permit purchasers to copy and distribute it!


Leading off this Wednesday's teleconference will be Richard  G. Ellefritz, assistant professor of sociology at the University of the Bahamas.  Richard's been tracking the 9/11 Truth movement for some time.  He'll share his take on the contretemps between truthers and debunkers, particularly in regard to WTC building 7, as well as his thoughts on the use by detractors of the term "conspiracy theorist" to dismiss those of us who call into question the official version of events like 9/11.  For relevant examples of Richard's scholarly work on these subjects see here and here.


Next the illustrious Bonnie Faulkner brings us up to speed on the scandalous cancellation of what is arguably the most Pacifica mission-driven program to ever hit the airwaves, Guns and Butter. KPFA listeners are still up in arms over this egregious decision by the station's management to peremptorily deny them this time-honored and extremely popular, impeccably produced offering, which week after week fearlessly explores ground  that even many alternative media sources fear to tread.

Then, with US mid-term elections looming on the horizon, we'll hear a report about election fraud from Robert Fitrakis, an American lawyer and professor of political science whose most recent book (written with Harvey Wasserman) is called The Strip & Flip Disaster of America's Stolen Elections: Updated "Trump" Edition of Strip & Flip Selection 2016.

Finally, we'll hear brief reports from those of us who participated in the various 9/11 anniversary events across the country, as we ran out of time for this item last month.

As always, we'll reserve time at the end of the call for your announcements.

Please join us Wednesday night for these latest currents in the Truth movement!  

Peace,
Ken Freeland
Cheryl Curtiss
Craig McKee


DRAFT AGENDA for Wednesday 31 October Teleconference

I Roll call, minutes approval (see copy below)l, agenda approval (5 min)

II 9/11 Truth vs. Its debunkers: Building 7 and the "conspiracy theorist" tag [Richard G. Ellefritz]  {Craig} (25 min + 10 min Q&A)
  
III KPFA Kabosh on Guns and Butter [Bonnie Faulkner] {Cheryl} (15 min + 10 min Q&A)
 
IV Election Fraud    [Richard Fitrakis]     (20 min + 10 min. Q&A)

V  Brief reports on 9/11 anniversary events [group discussion] (10 minutes)

VI Announcements

VII Ideas for future teleconferences (group discussion)

* X  Any available updates on issues of identified ongoing concern (if any remaining time, very doubtful): ◦ New articles, books, films, or recent news about 9/11 or other Deep State crimes
* 9/11 and the Deep State on the legal front, including current adjudicatory efforts by Lawyers for 9/11 Inquiry, JASTA, 28 pages, William Pepper’s efforts with AE911Truth against NIST and the Dept. of Commerce
* Censorship and cognitive infiltration: new examples of censorship or harassment of members of the Truth community;  MSM treatment of 9/11 Truth
* Google (et al.) censorship
* The 9/11 Consensus Panel
◦ 9/11 Truth political candidates     XI Adjournment (by 9:30 p Eastern)
 
This draft agenda sent to:
Richard Gage, John Heartson, Don DeBar, Scott Halfmann, Steven E. Jones, William Rodriguez, David Ray Griffin, William Douglas, Steve Alten , Tom Tvedten, Justin Martel, Les Jamieson, Michael Jackman, Michael Wolsey, Peggy Brewster, Barrie Zwicker, Erik Lawyer, Gabriel Day, Kevin Barrett, PhD, Carol Brouillet, Mia Hamel, Paul Craig Roberts, Jack Blood, Diana (for investigar11s.org), Cheryl Curtiss, Jodie Baltazar, Jarek Kupsc, Joseph Culp, Ken Jenkins, Ellen Mariani, Gerhard Bedding,  Jack Shimek, Paul Krik, Rock Creek Free Press, Damon Bean, Allan Giles, Kyle Hence, Michael Berger, Dylan Avery,  Jason Burmas, Mike Palecek, Donald Stahl, Ray McGovern, Cynthia McKinney, Ph,D, Don Plummer, Doug Wight, Global Outlook,  Paul Zarembka, Penny Little, Bob Cable, Suzanne Warson, Peter Thottam, Ralph Schoenman, Carol Wolman, Scholars for 911 Truth & Justice, Hummux, Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth, Frank Morales, Frank Tolopko, Alan Miller, James Hufferd, Ph.D., Erik Larson, Ted Walter , Suzanne Warson, Frederick Coward, Gordon Duff, Sherri Kane, Leonard Horowitz, William Woodward, Jerry Mazza, William Pepper, Wayne Madsen, David Kimball, Jeffrey Orling, Michael Marino, Lenny Mather (in memoriam), Ken Freeland, Tania Torres, Graeme MacQueen, Yumi Kikuchi, Stuart Hutchison, Roland Angle, Frank Agamemnon , Harold Hilton, Phil Restino, Rich McCampbell, John Zito, Manny Badillo, John Hankey, Oskar Mosquito, Edwin Jewett, Ms Anisa Fattah, Robert Barron, Shelton Lankford, Matthew Hayward, Anna Yeisley, Chris Pratt, Craig Ranke, Susan Lindauer, Barbara Honegger, Democritus Blantayre, Joseph Baltar, Jim Hogue, Sheila Casey, Steve Martin, Ben Collet, Elizabeth Woodward,  Runyan Wilde, Susan Wolfe, Adam Ruff, Conrad Gilber. Jonathan Mark, Tonya Sneed, Dan Sutton, Richard Krushnic, Mark Crispin Miller, Byron Belitsos, George Ripley, Laurie Manwell ,  Susan Serpa, Nicolas Guillermo, Dwain Deets, Craig McKee, Steve Fahrney; Fran Shure; David Petrano, Lawrence Fine, A.K. Dewdney, Steve De'ak, Allan Rees, Art Olivier, Ron Avery, Michael Booth, Jim Fetzer, Laura Katleman, Don Gibbs, Mark Basile, John-Michael Talboo, Julian Stroh, Christopher Gruener, Elias Davidsson, Martin McGee, Adnan Zuberi, Jan Ravensbergen, Rich Aucoin (in memoriam), David Hooper, Wayne Coste, P.E., Don Fox, Bill Wilt, William Jacoby, Ron Neils, John Campbell, Dan Hennen, Barton Bruce, Cheri Aspenleiter, Stephen Phillips, Dick Atlee, Lynn Ertrell, Nita Renfrew. Frank Tolopko, Mark McDonald, Christopher Bollyn, John Paul OMalley, Rodger Bories, Mark Snyder, Jane Clark, Richard Sacks, Tim Michel, Lynn Bradbury, Xander Arena, David Cole, Rick Tufts, Jerry Turner, Rick Shaddock, Rebecca Schmoyer, Mark Mckertich, Kip Beckford, Doug West, PF Soto, Dennis Cimino, Jane Clark, Charles Ewing Smith, Lucy Morgan Edwards, Pablo Novi, David Rolde, Gregory Flynn, Pat O'Connell, Jeff Long, Greg McCarron, Andy Steele, Thomas Robichaud, Doug Mackenzie, Peter Michael Ketcham, Gene Laratonda, Karl Golovin, Steve Jarrott, Neil Marquis, Matt Van Slyke, Tony Hall, Ph.D., Mike Springman, Ezra Smith, Samuel Smith, Janane Tripp, Daniel Fielding, Gerald Pechenuk, Ralph Lopez, Robert Griffin, Linda McPherson, Marie Spike, Kathy Allard, PhD, Trina Silvers, Julio Gomez, Ann Hendricks, Malcolm Arnold, Nooria Ghafoor


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Craig McKee, Secretary 9/11 Monthly Teleconference Call
 
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Draft minutes for the Wed., August 29, 2018 regular conference call
 
Present were:
 
Ken Freeland, Teleconference co-facilitator, Houston 9/11Truth
Cheryl Curtiss, Teleconference co-facilitator, Connecticut 9/11 Truth
Craig McKee, Teleconference secretary, Truth and Shadows
Wayne Coste, TAP
Marti Hopper, Colorado 9/11 Truth
Malcolm Arnold
Mick Harrison, Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry
Lawrence Fine
Richard Gage, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
P.F. Soto, 9/11 activist
Tom Tvedten
Charles Ewing Smith
Rodger Bories, 9/11 activist
Frank Tolopko, Berkshire 9/11 Truth
Tony Hall, University of Lethbridge
John O’Malley, DC911Truth
Barbara Honegger, Monterey 9/11 Truth
Marie Spike, TAP
David Cole, Nine Eleven Accountability Team
Tim Michel, TAP
Michael Cook, AE911Truth
 
The minutes of the July 25, 2018 conference call were APPROVED.

The draft agenda was APPROVED.
 
Reflections on the deep state
Mick Harrison of the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry gave a talk about his thoughts on the deep state. He also discussed developments with the committee’s Grand Jury petition.

Hall’s story
Professor Tony Hall brought the call up to date on what has happened with his efforts to fight his suspension by the University of Lethbridge. He announced that he has decided to retire from teaching in October.

Anniversary events
Barbara Honegger gave a summary of a variety of events being held in conjunction with the 17th anniversary of 9/11. She also discussed the memorandums that have been sent to President Trump as well as plans to create a newsletter for the Lawyers’ Committee.

Response to retraction demand
Wayne Coste told the teleconference that he apologized to Craig McKee for his claim that McKee had “frequently apologized” on the teleconference for “not having any evidence” to support his position that no 757 hit the Pentagon on 9/11. Coste sent out an email to this effect to the 43 people who originally got the email containing the false allegation. However, he also referred those people to a new website he created to attack McKee with the URL truthandshadows.net (McKee’s site is truthandshadows.com). McKee objected to this as well as the absence of a retraction of the false statement.

Coste made a proposal that discussion be closed and this was defeated. McKee wanted to respond to statements he felt were false from Coste but this was ruled out of order because it was not on the central point of the discussion. McKee challenged the ruling, and it was overturned, allowing him to respond to the points he felt were false.
A motion was made to suspend discussion of the subject, to be taken up again on the September call.

1. Announcements 1 Ken Freeland informed the group of the passing of Dan Barnum, who was a prominent truther from Texas and a member of the board of directors of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.
2. Craig McKee mentioned two websites that have been taken down by Wordpress: americaneveryman.com and kendoc911.wordpress.com.
3. Barbara Honegger announced that a man named Robert Alexander got in touch with Lawyers’ Committee to say that he saw alleged 9/11 hijacker Nawaf al-Hasmi and Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia walk into his place of business in San Diego in January 2000. He has produced a sworn affidavit to this effect.
4 Malcolm Arnold recommended three recent films: Fahrenheit 451, Death of a Nation, and Spike Lee’s Black Klansman (which features footage from the Charlottesville event). Call began at 8 p.m. EST and adjourned at 10:20 p.m. EST/5 p.m. to 7:20 p.m. PST

Audio of the August 29 call can be heard here: http://www.houston911truth.net/audio/082918.mp3. The next monthly teleconference will take place on Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 8 p.m. EST, 5 p.m. PST. Agenda items should be emailed to facilitator Cheryl Curtiss (chercurt@aol.com) no later than one week before the call (in this case, September 19). Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.” Please include a brief description of your item and any relevant links you’d like participants to be aware of, together with your estimate of the number of minutes your agenda item will require. If you would like to join the teleconference list serve, contact Ken Freeland (diogenesquest@gmail.com). And anyone who would like information such as links included in the minutes can email Craig McKee (craigmckee911@gmail.com).




https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... ndup-1024/





This week’s FOIA round-up: Amazon pitches facial recognition software to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and widespread sexual abuse of students by Chicago Public Schools employees
by Paxtyn Merten
October 26, 2018
In this week’s FOIA round-up, emails show correspondence between Amazon and Immigration and Customs Enforcement representatives regarding the tech giant’s facial recognition software, public and confidential data from Chicago revealed a decade of sexual abuse of students throughout public schools, and a significant amount of National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s historical artifacts have gone missing or been taken in the agency’s lifetime, highlighting flawed storage and tracking procedures.





https://www.muckrock.com/foi/cincinnati ... ent-57701/

CINCINNATI  POLICE VS SOCIAL MEDIA



https://www.muckrock.com/foi/quincy-257 ... ile-225459

QUINCY POLICE GO TO ISRAEL






https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/27/us/c ... etaps.html


FBI agents CAUGHT COMMITTING VOTER FRAUD IN CINCINNATI

Cincinnati Is Set on Edge by Report It Was Blanketed by Illegal Wiretaps
https://www.nytimes.com/.../cincinnati- ... ed-by-ille...
Jul 27, 1989 - For more than a decade, Robert Draise and Leonard Gates say, the police .... Paul Mallett, a top F.B.I. official in the Cincinnati office, said an .







http://www.altoonamirror.com/news/local ... aw-career/

FBI agent REFLECTS ON LAW CAREER

Walther, 42, a 1994 Hollidaysburg Area High School graduate, has spent his professional career in Washington, D.C.
Today he lives in Arlington, Va., and is a partner at Jones Day, a high profile law firm in the nation’s capital.
At Jones Day, he often handles sensitive U.S. and multijurisdiction matters that could significantly impact a company’s health and reputation. He is an accomplished investigator and trial lawyer with significant experience investigating and defending health care fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, securities fraud, False Claims Act and other financial fraud, antitrust, and corruption matters, according to the Jones Day website.
Walther often defends companies that are facing criminal prosecution and civil liability from numerous government agencies and civil litigants in multiple countries. In these matters, he works closely with clients to coordinate criminal defense and civil litigation strategies that will most effectively represent the clients’ various interests around the world. He has conducted fraud and corruption investigations in the U.S. and more than 25 other countries.





https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/re ... bc94852646

In the 1st District, Wallace faces Republican Brian Fitzpatrick, a former FBI agent who won a seat in Congress previously held by his brother in 2016. But Fitzpatrick doesn’t want voters to focus on his party affiliation. In a 90-minute debate Friday, he mentioned belonging to the “Problem Solvers Caucus,” an oft-mocked group of moderate members, 11 times, once referring to it as “the only thing that’s going to save this country.”
That message fits with Fitzpatrick’s overall strategy, which includes winning endorsements from liberal-leaning groups and emphasizing his vote against the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare. In fact, the word “Republican” never appears on his campaign’s website, but endorsements from gun control groups and unions do. (His campaign didn’t respond to an interview request.) 
Wallace dismisses Fitzpatrick’s moderation as a fig leaf, repeatedly noting the incumbent votes with President Trump more than 80 percent of the time and voted for House Speaker Paul Ryan on the floor.






https://tucson.com/laestrella/ciudad/fb ... 0ec88.html

Tucson Border Patrol agent paid smugglers $650,000 for cocaine while on duty
* By Curt Prendergast Arizona Daily Star Oct 28, 2018 Updated



9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
 
               Draft minutes for
Sept. 26, 2018             
October 27, 2018
Craig McKee, Secretary 9/11 Monthly Teleconference Call
 
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Draft minutes for the Wed., September 26, 2018 regular conference call
 
Present were:
 
Ken Freeland, Teleconference co-facilitator, Houston 9/11Truth
Cheryl Curtiss, Teleconference co-facilitator, Connecticut 9/11 Truth
Craig McKee, Teleconference secretary, Truth and Shadows
Wayne Coste, TAP
Marti Hopper, Colorado 9/11 Truth
Lawrence Fine, 9/11 Synthesis
Richard Gage, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Frank Tolopko, Berkshire 9/11 Truth
Barbara Honegger, Monterey 9/11 Truth
Marie Spike, TAP
David Cole, Nine Eleven Accountability Team



Tim Michel, TAP
Michael Cook, AE911Truth
Kelly David, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Andy Steele, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Dwain Deets, TAP
Barton Bruce, Boston 9/11 Truth
Adam Ruff, 9/11 activist
James Hufferd, 9/11 Grassroots
Xander Arena, Arizona 9/11 Studies and Outreach, Arizona State University
Bonnie Faulkner, Guns and Butter
Dick Atlee, Maine 9/11 Truth
David Hooper, Anatomy of a Great Deception
Gene Laratonda, TAP
Bill Wilt, Congressional candidate
Lynn Bradbury, Maine 9/11 Truth
Greg Longo, 9/11 activist
Cheri Aspen
Sue Serpa, Act Now Worchester
Sheila Casey, DC911Truth
Peter Michael Ketcham, formerly of NIST
 
The minutes of the August 29, 2018 conference call were APPROVED.

The draft agenda was APPROVED.
 
Las Vegas shooting
Xander Arena updated the teleconference on research he has done on the 2017Las Vegas shooting.

Pentagon synthesis
Lawrence Fine explained his hypothesis of what may have happened at the Pentagon on 9/11. This is covered on the website https://lorenzonine.wixsite.com/911synt ... rne-sortie.   

Motion to remove Coste
Cheryl Curtiss made a motion, seconded by Barbara Honegger, that Wayne Coste be removed from the teleconference and list serve “due to his flagrantly false and unsupported accusations on the call against Craig McKee, his blind CCing of an email to Craig repeating these false and inflammatory statements to dozens of 9/11 Truth Movement activists without Craig’s knowledge, his refusal to retract these false statements on the subsequent call, his intentional and inflammatory creation of a new website with a name mirroring Craig’s own Truth and Shadows site mocking Craig’s research, and his attempt on the call, all recorded, to extort Craig that he take actions demanded by Wayne in order for Wayne to remove the mocking website from the Internet.”

In his response, Coste made a motion, seconded by Dwain Deets, to postpone discussion of the main motion indefinitely. This was defeated. The motion to remove Coste was approved with 16 voting in favor and 7 against.
 
Anatomy of a Great Deception 2
David Hooper made a presentation about the upcoming release of the sequel to his film The Anatomy of a Great Deception.

Alexander affidavit
Barbara Honegger made a brief presentation about the sworn jurat affidavit signed by 9/11 witness Robert Alexander.

9/11 anniversary
A motion was made to postpone this item until next month.

Announcements 1 Cheri Aspen told the group that San Diegans for 9/11 Truth is looking for speakers. Call began at 8 p.m. EST and adjourned at 10:53 p.m. EST/5 p.m. to 7:53 p.m. PST

Audio of the September call can be heard here: http://www.houston911truth.net/audio/092618.mp3. The next monthly teleconference will take place on Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 8 p.m. EST, 5 p.m. PST. Agenda items should be emailed to facilitator Cheryl Curtiss (chercurt@aol.com) no later than one week before the call. Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.” Please include a brief description of your item and any relevant links you’d like participants to be aware of, together with your estimate of the number of minutes your agenda item will require. If you would like to join the teleconference list serve, contact Ken Freeland (diogenesquest@gmail.com). And anyone who would like information such as links included in the minutes can email Craig McKee (craigmckee911@gmail.com).

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https://www.propublica.org/article/elkh ... cuffed-man


Two Indiana Police Officers to be Charged After Video Shows Them Beating Handcuffed Man
“A little overboard,” is how the police chief had previously described the officers’ actions. The decision to charge them came only after ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network demanded to see the video.
by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica Nov. 2, 10 p.m. EDT



https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/po ... wo-n930456

Police can't find white woman charged after harassing two black women in viral video
"All of her neighbors are fortunately nosy neighbors and I’m sure will call us the second she shows back up," Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Lt. Brad Koch told NBC News.



https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politi ... ce-n923871

Washington considers lowering bar for prosecuting police over use of deadly force
An initiative on the ballot Tuesday seeks to remove the state's malice requirement, which makes it uniquely difficult for prosecutors to bring criminal charges.


CIA's communications suffered a catastrophic compromise. It started in Iran.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cias-communi ... 18710.html

n 2013, hundreds of CIA officers — many working nonstop for weeks — scrambled to contain a disaster of global proportions: a compromise of the agency’s internet-based covert communications system used to interact with its informants in dark corners around the world. Teams of CIA experts worked feverishly to take down and reconfigure the websites secretly used for these communications; others managed operations to quickly spirit assets to safety and oversaw other forms of triage.

“When this was going on, it was all that mattered,” said one former intelligence community official. The situation was “catastrophic,” said another former senior intelligence official.

From around 2009 to 2013, the U.S. intelligence community experienced crippling intelligence failures related to the secret internet-based communications system, a key means for remote messaging between CIA officers and their sources on the ground worldwide. The previously unreported global problem originated in Iran and spiderwebbed to other countries, and was left unrepaired — despite warnings about what was happening — until more than two dozen sources died in China in 2011 and 2012 as a result, according to 11 former intelligence and national security officials.

The disaster ensnared every corner of the national security bureaucracy — from multiple intelligence agencies, congressional intelligence committees and independent contractors to internal government watchdogs — forcing a slow-moving, complex government machine to grapple with the deadly dangers of emerging technologies.

In a world where dependence on advanced technology may be a necessary evil for modern espionage, particularly in hostile regions where American officials can’t operate freely, such technical failures are an ever present danger and will only become more acute with time.

“When these types of compromises happen, it’s so dark and bad,” said one former official. “They can burrow in. It never really ends.”

A former senior intelligence official with direct knowledge of the compromise said it had global implications for the CIA. “You start thinking twice about people, from China to Russia to Iran to North Korea,” said the former official. The CIA was worried about its network “totally unwinding worldwide.”

Yahoo News’ reporting on this global communications failure is based on conversations with eleven former U.S. intelligence and government officials directly familiar with the matter who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive operations. Multiple former intelligence officials said that the damage from the potential global compromise was serious — even catastrophic — and will persist for years.

More than just a question of a single failure, the fiasco illustrates a breakdown that was never properly addressed. The government’s inability to address the communication system’s insecurities until after sources were rolled up in China was disastrous. “We’re still dealing with the fallout,” said one former national security official. “Dozens of people around the world were killed because of this.”

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One of the largest intelligence failures of the past decade started in Iran in 2009, when the Obama administration announced the discovery of a secret Iranian underground enrichment facility — part of Iran’s headlong drive for nuclear weapons. Angered about the breach, the Iranians went on a mole hunt, looking for foreign spies, said one former senior intelligence official.

The mole hunt wasn’t hard, in large part, because the communications system the CIA was using to communicate with agents was flawed. Former U.S. officials said the internet-based platform, which was first used in war zones in the Middle East, was not built to withstand the sophisticated counterintelligence efforts of a state actor like China or Iran. “It was never meant to be used long term for people to talk to sources,” said one former official. “The issue was that it was working well for too long, with too many people. But it was an elementary system.”

“Everyone was using it far beyond its intention,” said another former official.

The risks posed by the system appeared to have been overlooked in part because of it was easy to use, said the former intelligence officials. There is no foolproof way to communicate — especially with expediency and urgency — with sources in hostile environments like Iran and China, noted the former officials. But a sense of confidence in the system kept it in operation far longer than was safe or advisable, said former officials. The CIA’s directorate of science and technology, which is responsible for the secure communications system, “says, ‘our s***’s impregnable,’ but it’s obviously not,” said one former official.

By 2010, however, it appears that Iran had begun to identify CIA agents. And by 2011, Iranian authorities dismantled a CIA spy network in that country, said seven former U.S. intelligence officials. (Indeed, in May 2011, Iranian intelligence officials announced publicly that they had broken up a ring of 30 CIA spies; U.S. officials later confirmed the breach to ABC News, which also reported on a potential compromise to the communications system.)

Iran executed some of the CIA informants and imprisoned others in an intelligence setback that one of the former officials described as “incredibly damaging.” The CIA successfully exfiltrated some of its Iranian sources, said former officials.

The Iranian compromise led to significantly fewer CIA agents being killed than in China, according to former officials. Still, the events there hampered the CIA’s capacity to collect intelligence in Iran at a critical time, just as Tehran was forging ahead with its nuclear program.

U.S. authorities believe Iran probably unwound the CIA’s asset network analytically — meaning they deduced what Washington knew about Tehran’s own operations, then identified Iranians who held that information, and eventually zeroed in on possible sources. This hunt for CIA sources eventually bore fruit — including the identification of the covert communications system.

A 2011 Iranian television broadcast that touted the government’s destruction of the CIA network said U.S. intelligence operatives had created websites for fake companies to recruit agents in Iran by promising them jobs, visas and education abroad. Iranians who initially thought they were responding to legitimate opportunities would end up meeting with CIA officers in places like Dubai or Istanbul for recruitme



Israel silent as Iran hit by another computer virus
Nov 02, 2018 12:59 am
Israel silent as Iran hit by computer virus more violent than Stuxnet – report
Mossad currently 'fighting a real shadow war' -- TV report
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran ... SKCN1N20CN


https://www.mpacorn.com/articles/former ... er-series/
Former FBI director, famed photog and ‘Hawkeye’ in speaker series

Big names coming to Thousand Oaks
| November 02, 2018





https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opi ... fecc22df77
‘If you don’t get at that rot, you just get more officers like Josh Hastings’

The Little Rock police shooting of 15-year-old Bobby Moore revealed a horror show of misconduct, cover-up and cascading institutional failure at the department.



http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html

LAPD surveillance caught assistant chief in sex act with subordinate officer just before his sudden retirement, sources say

By CINDY CHANG and RICHARD WINTON
NOV 02, 2018 | 9:45 PM




http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny- ... story.html



Off-duty NYPD cop busted for driving wrong way in Queens

By ESHA RAY
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 04, 2018 | 1:00 PM








https://theintercept.com/2018/11/02/dod ... cker-rule/


WALL STREET MOVES TO GUT POST-CRISIS FINANCIAL RULES
Susan Antilla
November 2 2018, 1:05 p.m.



https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=36911


Double Standard of Discipline
A significant percentage of FBI employees that we surveyed believed that higher-level employees were treated more leniently in the FBI’s disciplinary system. In our survey, we asked FBI employees whether they agreed or disagreed with the following statement: “There is a double standard of discipline for higher-ranking versus lower-ranking FBI employees.” Of 717 respondents who answered this question,
33 percent agreed with the statement that a double standard of discipline exists in the FBI, 11 percent disagreed, and the rest either had a neutral opinion or responded that they did not know. When we compared the survey responses of non-SES employees with those of SES employees, we found non-SES employees were more likely to believe that there is a double standard than SES employees were.



https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa ... e-n2490805

IG Report: Disciplinary Action Recommended For Five FBI Agents--Oh, And Bureau Employees Got Free Stuff From Reporters
Matt Vespa| @mvespa1|Posted: Jun 14, 2018 5:45 PM Share (400) Tweet



https://oig.justice.gov/reports/fbi.htm
USDOJ/OIG | Federal Bureau of Investigation Reports - Inspector General - Department of Justice
Department of Justice (.gov) › oig › fbi
Jump to · 2013. October 28, 2013. A Review of the FBI's Progress in Responding to the Recommendations in the OIG Report on the FBI's Handling and Oversight of Katrina Leung (Unclassified Executive Summary) — Full ...

https://www.justice.gov/file/1071991/download



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FBI OIG Report



https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation ... 47100.html

FBI agent took photos of woman changing in NJ dressing room, cops say | Miami Herald
Miami Herald › news › article215247100
Jul 20, 2018 · 22-year-old changing in dressing room catches FBI agent taking photos, NJ cops say. ... A 22-year-old woman was changing in a New Jersey clothing store’s dressing room on Thursday when she made a horrifying discovery, according to police. ... Danuel S. Brown, a 30-year-old special agent ...



https://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index ... to_re.html

FBI agent doesn't have to register as sex offender for peeping Tom incidents in Hershey, elsewhere, court says
Updated Jul 11, 2014; Posted Jul 11, 2014



https://www.cleveland.com/avon/index.ss ... s_lea.html

Avon Middle School parents learn internet dangers from FBI
Updated 10:08 PM; Posted 10:08 PM



http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny- ... story.html

NYPD inspector charged with bribery wants to know why colleague cleared of similar conduct

By STEPHEN REX BROWN
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 29, 2018 | 2:15 PM





http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_ ... in_january

Boston’s FBI chief to retire in January
Associated Press Friday, October 19, 2018
https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/cri ... a565d.html
FBI agent pleads guilty to misdemeanor count of driving intoxicated
Joyce Russell joyce.russell@nwi.com, 219-548-4352 Jul 11, 2018




https://www.berkeleycopwatch.org/news


Watch Lt. Files Explain that the BPD has been Secretly Recording Citizens for Decades without any Policy
September 29, 2018
Video from the September 26 PRC meeting shows Berkeley Police admitting they have been SECRETLY RECORDING citizens for decades without any policy. WTF!!!! Check out 24 minutes in and see Lt. Files explain that "there are no General Orders because we don't need them!"
ht...
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BPD Chief explains how you don't need a policy to secretly record the public, and how doxxing is a safety measure
September 16, 2018
The video linked below is from the PRC meeting from 9-12-18. Go to 30:00



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https://gizmodo.com/foia-researchers-ar ... 1821539109




FOIA Researchers Are Targeting a Shadowy FBI Program Called 'Gravestone'
Dell Cameron
12/22/17 4:45pm

If you’re the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), tasked with rapidly uncovering plots involving

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Investigation of deadly FBI shooting does not support agent's account, chief says
By Aaron Barker - Senior Web Editor
Posted: 9:44 AM, October 31, 2018Updated: 5:13 PM, October 31, 2018



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... sachusetts

Welcome to the white man's world': police officer accused of shocking attack on Latino teen
Massachusetts officer charged with civil rights violations for 2016 arrest during which he was allegedly spitting on and kicking teen




https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... nforcement

After third Taser death, California police officials reconsider 'less-lethal' weapon
Attorneys for the families of two of the men killed are calling for a moratorium on the use of Tasers in San Mateo county


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... rkhangelsk

Russian suicide bomb kills one and injures three in FSB (FBI) offices
Teenager reportedly detonates device after entering HQ in north-west city of Arkhangelsk




https://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20181 ... -his-death


Bulger juror from Eastham saddened to hear of his death




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In newsletter columns, Arlington police lieutenant writes, ‘Let’s meet violence with violence’
Richard Pedrini has defended his columns and called his writing "tongue-in-cheek political satire" meant solely for Massachusetts Police Association members.
By Christopher Gavin 7:06 PM
An Arlington police lieutenant was placed on paid administrative leave Tuesday after he penned columns in a law enforcement organization newsletter with strong rhetoric aimed at politicians, immigrants, criminal justice reform, and social justice campaigns, and that urged officers to “meet violence with violence.”








http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... story.html

Wife of 'NYPD pimp' brought to tears during bail hearing

By ESHA RAY and THOMAS TRACY
| NEW YORK




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October 29, 2018
Join the Great Hoover Hunt
Help us track down handwritten notes from J. Edgar Hoover’s 48 year reign as FBI Director
Written by JPat Brown
Edited by Beryl Lipton
As Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly half a century, notes in J. Edgar Hoover’s tight script are a familiar sight to anyone digging through the FBI’s files, offering an surprisingly candid insight into the man and his quite often strong opinions on a world he had no small role in shaping.





http://www.newstrib.com/free/marseilles ... 3fe66.html


Marseilles police chief accused of stealing building materials from his city
Marseilles council to appoint acting chief


http://www.startribune.com/wrongful-dea ... 498941531/

Wrongful-death lawsuit from police shooting can proceed after Supreme Court refuses city of Minneapolis appeal
Court won't hear appeal in Terrance Franklin case.
By Libor Jany Star Tribune OCTOBER 29, 2018 — 11:58PM





http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryla ... story.html


Philadelphia cop tied to corrupt Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force to stand trial



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Piqua officer suspected of OVI in on-duty crash named
Published: Monday, October 29, 2018 @ 12:12 PM
Updated: Monday, October 29, 2018 @ 1:01 PM
By: Breaking News Staff, Nancy Bowman - Contributing Writer






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3 St. Albans Police officers exit department after criminal investigation





https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-la ... 80aec6adda

True Crime
Fairfax police: Bijan Ghaisar had no weapon when he was killed by Park Police
Federal authorities have declined to discuss why officers shot man after a fender-bender in Northern Virginia.












https://www.theroot.com/it-s-time-to-li ... 1830074000


It’s Time to Listen to Black Women. We’ve Been Talking About Police Sexual Violence for a Long Time
Andrea J. Ritchie






http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny- ... story.html
NYPD inspector charged with bribery wants to know why colleague cleared of similar conduct

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http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/tsa-em ... phy-88394/

TSA Employee, Gary Linder Sentenced to 15 years for Child Pornography


https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/gay-io ... itch-hunt/

Gay Iowa lawmaker reveals details on how then-US Attorney Matt Whitaker sicced the FBI on him in a 2006 partisan ‘witch hunt’
TOM BOGGIONI



https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/form ... -237c6w7lk
Former FBI chief James Comey ‘misused private email’




http://ticklethewire.com/2018/11/09/kel ... itutional/


Kelly Conway’s Husband: Hiring Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker is Unconstitutional


https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/ ... l:trending

Police Union boss who defended troopers faces his own fraud investigation




http://sunshinestatenews.com/story/judi ... rs-records


Judicial Watch Still Pursuing Awan Brothers' Records in DWS-Related Scandal
By SUNSHINE STATE NEWS
November 12, 2018 - 6:00am



https://www.indystar.com/story/news/201 ... 693853002/

As evidence mounted, Police child abuse investigator defended USA Gymnastics
Marisa Kwiatkowski,Tim Evans and Tony Cook, Indianapolis StarPublished 6:00 a.m. ET Nov. 11, 2018 | Updated 1:29 p.m. ET Nov. 11, 2018





https://www.eurweb.com/2018/11/former-d ... ill-cosby/


FORMER DA BRUCE CASTOR DROPS BOMBSHELL AFFIDAVIT THAT COULD CLEAR BILL COSBY
NY MAGEENOVEMBER 11, 2018 AT 10:06 AM





https://www.yahoo.com/news/fbi-agent-ac ... 00333.html


FBI agent who accidentally shot man pleads not guilty

COLLEEN SLEVIN
Associated PressNovember 8, 2018



https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-fb ... lls-murder

Former FBI Agent: How the LAPD Derailed My Investigation Into Biggie Smalls’ Murder
Former FBI Agent Phil Carson, who led the investigation into the LAPD’s alleged role in the murder of rap legend Notorious B.I.G., speaks publicly for the first time.

Justin Rohrlich,
Don Sikorski
11.10.18 9:03 PM ET



http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... story.html

NYPD cops receive same penalty despite very different charges

By THOMAS TRACY
| NEW YORK DAILY




http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... story.html
EXCLUSIVE: NYPD captain retires after pulling over motorist in a drunken stupor — sources

By THOMAS TRACY , GRAHAM RAYMAN and ROCCO PARASCANDOLA

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https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/lo ... 11881.html



Philadelphia Police Officer Indicted in Alleged Sex Assault
NBC 10 Philadelphia-2 hours ago
A retired Philadelphia police officer has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of deprivation of rights after a woman alleged he sexually assaulted ...



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Miami-Dade police officer charged months after fatal crash
WPLG Local 10-2 hours ago
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. - A Miami-Dade police officer has been charged with vehicular homicide months after a crash left one man dead. The Miami-Dade ...



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Graham: I would ‘totally’ investigate FBI over Russia probe, Clinton emails as Judiciary chair
November 14, 2018 Brinkwire 0 Comments




https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/14/opinions ... index.html


FBI stats on hate crimes are scary. So is what's missing
By Maya Berry and Kai Wiggins

Updated 5:03 PM ET, Wed November 14, 2018



https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion ... law-center

November 14, 2018
Finally: A decent mainstream news article about the Southern Poverty Law Center





https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/14/kiri ... an-strzok/


CIA Whistleblower Says He Was Targeted By Brennan, Mueller, Strzok
The Daily Caller-4 hours ago
“Anything for the FBI,” Kiriakou told the FBI agent who contacted him. Months earlier, as a senior investigator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, ...





Jaime Guttenberg died in the Parkland school shooting. Now her parents are suing the FBI
BY NICHOLAS NEHAMAS AND SANYA MANSOOR

November 13, 2018 05:58 PM
Updated November 13, 2018 06:40 PM
Fred Guttenberg was picking out a casket for his slain 14-year-old daughter Jaime Guttenberg when an FBI agent called him to say the bureau could have prevented the school shooting that left her dead, according to a lawsuit filed in Miami federal court Tuesday.

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/ ... rylink=cpy

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https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.or ... nk-serpico

Frank Serpico 
Retired Police Detective, Author, Lecturer: b. 1936
"A policeman’s first obligation is to be responsible to the needs of the community he serves…The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which an honest police officer can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers. We create an atmosphere in which the honest officer fears the dishonest officer, and not the other way around."

* 1971: Became the first New York City policeman in history to testify about widespread corruption in the department. 
* 1972: Received the NYPD's higest award, The Medal of Honor.
* After being shot and testifying about corruption in the NYPD, Serpico lived in Europe for nearly a decade. 
* Al Pacino played Serpico in the 1973 movie about his life. 









http://www.bostonherald.com/news/column ... ull_extent


Howie Carr: FBI stonewalling means we never learn the full extent of Whitey’s stain
File under ‘excuses’
Howie Carr Wednesday, November 21, 2018



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Records: FBI Investigated Officer Over Drug Trafficking
A newly unsealed affidavit says a Baltimore police officer who resigned in June was being investigated by the FBI over drug trafficking allegations.
Nov. 21, 2018, at 9:56 a.m. 




https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/def ... bi-vehicle


Two FBI agents were eating lunch at El Rancho restaurant in Detroit and while they were inside Ramon Vegan broke into their car and stole items.
He took everything he could find, including FBI work badges, FBI raid jacket, keys to FBI headquarters, ammunition, a computer and tablets.




http://www.lowellsun.com/breakingnews/c ... ile-bulger


FBI delaying release of file on Whitey Bulger



Lawyer-author wary of return of Marcos-style spying on Filipinos in U.S.

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Former Platte County deputy faces charges of harassment, violating protection order
BY GLENN E. RICE

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https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/c ... 33715.html


After police beat man on live TV, KCPD won’t say if officers were disciplined or not

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https://www.whio.com/news/local/local-l ... OJjO04TJK/


Local law enforcement using mysterious new tool to unlock cellphones
Published: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 @ 5:30 PM
By: Jim Otte



https://www.wlbt.com/2018/11/21/mississ ... -director/

Mississippi Office of Homeland Security names FBI agent new Executive Director



https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/bre ... ty/483551/



One of last defendants in shuttered North Georgia police task force pleads guilty to computer porn
November 21st, 2018
by Tyler Jett
in Breaking News
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Members of an FBI Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force arrested Hardy after someone chatted with him undercover, pretending to set him up with a teenager whom he could have sex with. The operation involved officers posting ads on websites like Craigslist.
Soon after Hardy's arrest, however, Poston learned that the head of the task force, FBI Special Agent Ken Hillman, allowed a woman he was having an affair with to participate in the investigations. Hillman met the woman, Angela Russell, after her then-husband, Emerson Russell, let the task force use property he owned to run their operations.
Angela Russell is not a trained law enforcement officer. After her involvement became public, the FBI suspended Hillman, and the task force disbanded. Hillman pleaded guilty to a charge of disclosure of confidential information in U.S. District Court last year and received a sentence of six months probation. 



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Fort Collins Police Services fills 2 top agency positions

https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.or ... gap40-gala



AWTT Unveiling New Whistleblower Portraits at GAP40 Gala

Americans Who Tell the Truth is honored to join the Government Accountability Project in celebrating its 40 years of defending whistleblowers. GAP has helped AWTT identify many whistleblowers for portraits, and four new portraits will be unveiled at this event. Also, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the Flint, MI pediatrician, who blew the whistle on the city's lead-poisoned drinking water, will participate by video link, and  Kelsey Juliana will travel from Eugene, OR, to talk about the Juliana v U.S. Public

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/20 ... ice-system
FAHLBERG: Racism still pervades Charlottesville’s justice system
Law alumnus Jonathan Perkins’ experience with UPD misconduct reveals deeply embedded racism within our local justice system
By Audrey Fahlberg | 11/20/2018




https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/v ... esi.694715

Tuesday, November 20, 2018, 06:54 by Rodolfo Ragonesi
Was Lee Harvey Oswald framed?


https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/ne ... story.html
L.A. sheriff's deputy sentenced to more than 17 years in drug trafficking scheme


https://www.richmond.com/news/local/cit ... 15073.html
Top FBI official in Richmond leaving to head security for Dominion Energy | City of Richmond | richmond.com - Richmond Times-Dispatch
Richmond Times-Dispatch › news › local

2 hours ago · The special agent in charge of the FBI's Richmond division, who led the agency's public corruption investigation into former Gov. Bob McDonnell and was on the short list last year.


https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
NYPD reverses course and promotes sergeant outspoken against quotas and racial discrimination

By GRAHAM RAYMAN

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 20, 2018 | 11:20 AM 



https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Nashville police officer who accused fellow cop of rape files lawsuit against supervisor, department

By DAVID BOROFF

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 20, 2018 | 11:55 AM 



https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/ ... 918890002/

FBI revelations late in the campaign dimmed Andrew Gillum's chances
Jeff Burlew, Tallahassee DemocratPublished 8:05 a.m. ET Nov. 20, 2018 | Updated 8:09 a.m. ET Nov. 20, 2018

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/artic ... rc=hp_totn

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/us/p ... eport.html




Slow Police Response and Chaos Contributed to Parkland Massacre, Report Finds





https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... ils-leaked

Queensland police charge officer with hacking after domestic violence victim's details leaked
Exclusive: Senior Constable Neil Punchard, disciplined for sending woman’s address to her violent former husband, faces nine charges




https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mi ... er-n947281


Miami Beach officer caught on camera punching suspect in face, incident under investigation 
In the video, the suspect walks around and utters expletives before coming in close to the officer who then suddenly punches the man's face.


https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/n ... 302243002/
Edison Police Officer Nicholas Lunetta charged with witness tampering, evidence obstruction
Nick Muscavage, Bridgewater Courier NewsPublished 1:37 p.m. ET Dec. 13, 2018 | Updated 2:27 p.m. ET Dec. 13, 2018


https://cleantechnica.com/2018/12/13/bi ... temptible/

Bill McKibben Calls FBI Tracking Of Environmental Activists “Contemptible”


December 13th, 2018 by Steve Hanley 



https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-mi ... lower-raid

FBI misses deadline to provide docs to Judiciary Committee probing whistleblower raid


https://thefederalist.com/2018/12/13/fe ... bombshell/

The Federal Judge Overseeing Michael Flynn’s Sentencing Just Dropped A Major Bombshell


The sentencing memorandum reveals for the first time concrete evidence that the FBI created multiple summaries of Michael Flynn’s questioning, which may indicate they’re hiding the truth.


By Margot Cleveland
DECEMBER 13, 2018

On Tuesday, attorneys for Michael Flynn filed a sentencing memorandum and letters of support for the former Army lieutenant general in federal court. The sentencing memorandum reveals for the first time concrete evidence that the FBI created multiple 302 interview summaries of Flynn’s questioning by now-former FBI agent Peter Strzok and a second unnamed agent, reported to be FBI Special Agent Joe Pientka.
Further revelations may be forthcoming soon following an order entered late yesterday by presiding judge Emmet Sullivan, directing the special counsel’s office to file with the court any 302s or memorandum relevant to Flynn’s int



https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/20 ... agent.html

Police ID teen killed in crash with FBI agent





https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justic ... on-n947521

No evidence FBI tried to destroy text messages in Clinton email investigation
An inspector general report examined a gap in messages from the phones of former agent Peter Strzok and ex-agency lawyer Lisa Page.


https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavl ... e-n2537436


The DOJ Inspector General Found 19,000 'Lost' Strzok and Page Texts

Katie Pavlich
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 @KatiePavlich
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Posted: Dec 13, 2018 11:30 AM



https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ma ... story.html



Lawsuit accuses white police in Maryland suburb of D.C. of racist behavior

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

DEC 12, 2018 | 4:05 PM 
| COLLEGE PARK, MD.





https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/articles/9-11.htm
9/11's Trainer in Terrorism Was an FBI Informant
(Peter Dale Scott Talk in Palo Alto, October 27, 2006)

If I had an hour, I would talk to you about how the 9/11 Report failed to reconcile Dick Cheney's conflicting accounts, which cannot all be true, of what he did on the morning of 9/11 in the bunker beneath the White House. But that story takes two whole chapters of my forthcoming book, The Road to 9/11. So instead I will expand on what I spoke about a month ago in Berkeley, concerning Ali Mohamed, Washington's double agent inside al-Qaeda, and also a chief 9/11 plotter.(1) I want to add important new material tonight. Ali Mohamed, an Egyptian, was a close ally of Osama bin Laden. As he later confessed in court, he also aided the terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri, a co-founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and by then an aide to bin Laden, when he visited America to raise money.(2) It is now generally admitted that Ali Mohamed worked for the FBI, the CIA, and U.S. Special Forces. 
Patrick Fitzgerald, who testified to the 9/11 Commission about Ali Mohamed, knew him well. In 1994 he had named him as an unindicted co-conspirator in the New York landmarks case, yet allowed him to remain free. This was because, as Fitzgerald knew, Ali Mohamed was an FBI informant, from at least 1993 and maybe 1989.(3) Thus, from 1994 "until his arrest in 1998 [by which time the 9/11 plot was well under way], Mohamed shuttled between California, Afghanistan, Kenya, Somalia and at least a dozen other countries."(4)



https://www.denverpost.com/2018/12/13/r ... ce-search/

Nothing has changed”: Investigations into Denver police officers’ controversial search of Rise Up Community School find no wrongdoing
Police and school system have not implemented any concrete changes beyond discussions with Rise Up staff.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... -in-a-mall

Three bullets from behind: why did police kill a black man in a mall?
After the killing of EJ Bradford, questions remain: Had police simply killed a bystander? Was Bradford actually shepherding others to safety as gunfire erupted?


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... veillance-


Revealed: FBI kept files on peaceful climate change protesters
A protest at a BP plant in Indiana landed three sixtysomething campaigners in a federal surveillance report, documents released to the Guardian under the Freedom on Information Act show







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FBI informant takes stand in ’91 Worcester guard slaying



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Wrongful-death lawsuit reportedly settled in the brutal beating death of Irish businessman Jason Corbett in Davidson County by retired FBI agent
* By Michael Hewlett Winston-Salem Journal 5 hrs ago 



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Flynn Sentencing Memo Details Unusual FBI Questioning, Asks for Probation

BY PETR SVAB
December 12, 2018 Updated: December 12, 2018
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Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is re

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Senators press FBI, BIA for answers to Ashley HeavyRunning Loring's disappearance and the crisis of missing, murdered Native women
Kristen Inbody, Great Falls TribunePublished 5:10 p.m. MT Dec. 12, 2018 | Updated 6:53 p.m. MT Dec. 12, 2018


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'He got screwed': Gillum absent from indictment after DeSantis bashed him as corrupt

By MARC CAPUTO 12/12/2018 09:09 PM EST

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Accused cop-briber courted mistress at NYPD headquarters


By STEPHEN REX BROWN

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 12, 2018 | 4:52 PM

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loc ... story.html
DEA agent in Chicago charged with conspiring to traffic guns and drugs with international gang
Jason Meisner and John KeilmanContact Reporters
Chicago Tribune


https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
North Carolina deputy under investigation after video shows him slamming teenage girls to the ground

By GOLDENE BROWN

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 12, 2018 | 10:35 A



https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la- ... story.html


L.A. County sheriff’s deputy charged with voluntary manslaughter in first on-duty shooting prosecution in nearly 20 years




https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2018 ... -jail.html

Protest leader Carlos Chaverst Jr. arrested on 4 warrants during demonstration outside Hoover jail
Updated Dec 11, 11:04 PM; Posted Dec 11,



https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne ... rs-firing/

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the city of Seattle to produce broad information on the Police Department’s disciplinary procedures in the wake of an arbitrator’s decision to reinstate a Seattle police officer fired for punching a handcuffed woman.



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BAC investigates alleged 'serious misconduct' by police during Silk-Miller murder investigation 
Posted about 2 hours ago





https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoen ... es-article

Phoenix police chief Jeri Williams responds to New York Times article
Max Walker
6:52 PM, Dec 11, 2018
3 hours ago




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M. Quentin Williams To Speak At Stepinac 
A renowned public speaker, Williams is an author, attorney and former FBI agent, federal prosecutor and NFL and NBA executive.
By News Desk, News Partner | Dec 11, 2018 12:03 pm ET | Updated Dec 11, 2018 12:10 pm ET



https://www.postregister.com/news/state ... 7770c.html

Third ex-IDOC officer pleads guilty after massive FBI drug sting
* By IDAHO PRESS STAFF newsroom@idahopress.com Dec 11, 2018 Updated 9 hrs ago 






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Judge: Former Bordentown Twp. police chief must stand trial on hate crime charges

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NYPD declines to intervene as welfare client attacks city peace officer, shouting about Brooklyn incident where baby was snatched from mother




By GREG B. SMITH
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 19, 2018 | 11:30 AM




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FBI memos suggest Rosenstein expedited normal review process to fire McCabe before retirement




https://www.nj.com/passaic-county/2018/ ... probe.html



Paterson cop admitted pulling over motorists to rob them, FBI says
Updated 2:18 PM; Posted 11:18 AM

https://www.duq.edu/assets/Documents/fo ... 18/jfk.pdf

THE LEGACY OF THE SIXTIES: Military Industrial Complex killed Kennedy to prevent him from ending the Cold War

On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy gave a speech at American University calling for an end to the nuclear arms race. This speech got more coverage in the Soviet Union than in the USA.
On September 20, 1963, at the United Nations General Assembly, JFK offered to convert the “Moon race” into a cooperative effort with the Soviet Union.
JFK’s change of approach on the Moon race was part of an effort to end the Cold War, the reason the military industrial intelligence media financial complex removed him from office.
What would “The Sixties” have been if JFK’s order on October 11, 1963 to start the withdrawal from Vietnam had been implemented? What would the world be if the Cold War had ended in JFK’s second term, as planned, freeing up resources for peaceful purposes? What society would we live in today if we had chosen global cooperation instead of endless warfare? Would we have used our creative talents for something better? Would warnings about ecological destruction have been heeded? What positive lessons can we learn from this missed opportunity, as nations fight over finite resources?
We need a South Africa style Truth and Reconciliation Commission about the National Insecurity State, starting with their coup in Dallas. — Mark Robinowitz

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ed-release

Former Black Panther, in prison for 47 years, denied release for the ninth time


Jalil Muntaqim’s release had been opposed by the families of the two police officers he was convicted of murdering in 1971


https://buffalonews.com/2016/03/17/book ... fbi-probe/
Bookstore owner turns tables, questions why he was target of FBI probe
By Phil Fairbanks | Published March 17, 2016


https://www.latimes.com/politics/essent ... story.html


California police union seeks state Supreme Court review of new law disclosing internal investigation records


A police union is asking the California Supreme Court to block the release of internal officer investigations before a new state law takes effect next year.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Employees’ Benefit Assn. filed a petition Tuesday asking justices to rule that only investigations of incidents that occur after Jan. 1 would be available under the law — and not those the department has on file from years prior.

The litigation comes after this year’s passage of Senate Bill 1421, which opens to the public for the first time internal investigations of officer shootings and other major uses of force, along with confirmed cases of sexual assault and lying while on duty. The



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http://www.madcowprod.com/2018/12/10/je ... e-big-man/
Jerome Corsi: RussiaGate’s ‘Little Big Man’
BY DANIEL HOPSICKER · PUBLISHED DECEMBER 10, 2018 · UPDATED DECEMBER 10, 2018
Salome_with_the_Head_of_John_the_Baptist-Caravaggio_(1610)
Before there was Jesus, there was John the Baptist.
And before there was Donald Trump, there was Jerome Corsi.
Jerome Corsi briefly made news last week when he launched a salvo in a well-coordinated Trumpland counterattack, rejecting a plea deal with the the Special Counsel’s office, and calling Mueller’s team ‘thugs.’
Even without the overheated rhetoric, Corsi has become an increasingly-intriguing figure in RussiaGate. His career has made him an expert in ‘weaponized’ propaganda.
Disinformation and propag







Justice Department stole PROMIS software from
Hamilton Associates
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... s-81-memo/
Memo shows the CIA was offered PROMIS software in 1981
by Emma Best
December 18, 2018
A recently unearthed Central Intelligence Agency memo highlights the difficulties with investigating the sprawling “Inslaw affair” and the case of the stolen PROMIS software, showing that the Agency was offered a copy of PROMIS as early as 1981.

what happens when you protest Police Racism

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/ ... nthers-nfl

Carolina Panthers
'No way that's random': anthem protester Eric Reid on sixth drug test in 11 weeks
Safety was first player to kneel alongside Colin Kaepernick
Chances of six random tests in 11 weeks are 0.17%















































https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html

NYPD declines to intervene as welfare client attacks city peace officer, shouting about Brooklyn incident where baby was snatched from mother



By GREG B. SMITH



| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |

DEC 19, 2018 | 11:30 AM









https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-me ... retirement

FBI memos suggest Rosenstein expedited normal review process to fire McCabe before retirement











https://www.nj.com/passaic-county/2018/ ... probe.html


Paterson cop admitted pulling over motorists to rob them, FBI says

Updated 2:18 PM; Posted 11:18 AM





https://www.duq.edu/assets/Documents/fo ... 18/jfk.pdf







THE LEGACY OF THE SIXTIES: Military Industrial Complex killed Kennedy to prevent him from ending the Cold War



On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy gave a speech at American University calling for an end to the nuclear arms race. This speech got more coverage in the Soviet Union than in the USA.

On September 20, 1963, at the United Nations General Assembly, JFK offered to convert the “Moon race” into a cooperative effort with the Soviet Union.

JFK’s change of approach on the Moon race was part of an effort to end the Cold War, the reason the military industrial intelligence media financial complex removed him from office.

What would “The Sixties” have been if JFK’s order on October 11, 1963 to start the withdrawal from Vietnam had been implemented? What would the world be if the Cold War had ended in JFK’s second term, as planned, freeing up resources for peaceful purposes? What society would we live in today if we had chosen global cooperation instead of endless warfare? Would we have used our creative talents for something better? Would warnings about ecological destruction have been heeded? What positive lessons can we learn from this missed opportunity, as nations fight over finite resources?

We need a South Africa style Truth and Reconciliation Commission about the National Insecurity State, starting with their coup in Dallas. — Mark Robinowitz





https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ed-release



Former Black Panther, in prison for 47 years, denied release for the ninth time

Jalil Muntaqim’s release had been opposed by the families of the two police officers he was convicted of murdering in 1971





https://buffalonews.com/2016/03/17/book ... fbi-probe/

Bookstore owner turns tables, questions why he was target of FBI probe

By Phil Fairbanks | Published March 17, 2016







https://www.latimes.com/politics/essent ... story.html



California police union seeks state Supreme Court review of new law disclosing internal investigation records

A police union is asking the California Supreme Court to block the release of internal officer investigations before a new state law takes effect next year.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Employees’ Benefit Assn. filed a petition Tuesday asking justices to rule that only investigations of incidents that occur after Jan. 1 would be available under the law — and not those the department has on file from years prior.

The litigation comes after this year’s passage of Senate Bill 1421, which opens to the public for the first time internal investigations of officer shootings and other major uses of force, along with confirmed cases of sexual assault and lying while on duty. The



documents about thr FBI
“ Fruhmenschen “ program


http://www.topix.com/forum/detroit/T3NR ... en-program








http://www.madcowprod.com/2018/12/10/je ... e-big-man/

Jerome Corsi: RussiaGate’s ‘Little Big Man’
BY DANIEL HOPSICKER · PUBLISHED DECEMBER 10, 2018 · UPDATED DECEMBER 10, 2018

Salome_with_the_Head_of_John_the_Baptist-Caravaggio_(1610)
Before there was Jesus, there was John the Baptist.

And before there was Donald Trump, there was Jerome Corsi.

Jerome Corsi briefly made news last week when he launched a salvo in a well-coordinated Trumpland counterattack, rejecting a plea deal with the the Special Counsel’s office, and calling Mueller’s team ‘thugs.’

Even without the overheated rhetoric, Corsi has become an increasingly-intriguing figure in RussiaGate. His career has made him an expert in ‘weaponized’ propaganda.

Disinformation and propag








Justice Department stole PROMIS software from
Hamilton Associates

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... s-81-memo/

Memo shows the CIA was offered PROMIS software in 1981
by Emma Best
December 18, 2018
A recently unearthed Central Intelligence Agency memo highlights the difficulties with investigating the sprawling “Inslaw affair” and the case of the stolen PROMIS software, showing that the Agency was offered a copy of PROMIS as early as 1981.





what happens when you protest Police Racism





https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/ ... nthers-nfl



Carolina Panthers

'No way that's random': anthem protester Eric Reid on sixth drug test in 11 weeks

Safety was first player to kneel alongside Colin Kaepernick
Chances of six random tests in 11 weeks are 0.17%

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5 Inglewood officers who killed couple in parked car say they were fired because they are white, lawsuit alleges

By ALENE TCHEKMEDYIAN

DEC 26, 2018 | 10:40 PM 




https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html



Cincinnati police officer previously honored for 'exemplary conduct' suspended for using racial slur

By JESSICA SCHLADEBECK

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 27, 2018 | 9:15 AM



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LOCAL & STATE  Posted 12:09 PM Updated at 8:52 PM
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Former candidate avoids bisbarment but gets 3-year suspension of law license
Lawyers representing the Board of Overseers of the Bar had argued for Seth Carey to be disbarred for violations including sexual assault, witness tampering and failing to comply with a previous interim suspension order.



https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/ ... jured-wife



Boston police officer charged in shooting that injured his wife
Korey Franklin was released on personal recognizance after pleading not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday.

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html


Manipulated stats and illegal searches of inmate medical records — DOC honcho makes explosive allegations in discrimination suit

By STEPHEN REX BROWN

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 26, 2018 | 6:00 AM 



https://prestonbusinessreview.com/james ... ort/41531/



James Comey Contradicts Brennan‘s Testimony on ‘Pee‘ Dossier Influencing Intel Community Report
December 25, 2018
NEW YORK — In testimony, former FBI Director


https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/1 ... eview-2018




Investigative Scoops Worth Rereading: Year in Review 2018
BY DAVE MAASS
DECEMBER 25, 2018





https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/25/opin ... neral.html



Federal Prosecutors Need a Watchdog, Too
Lawyers at the Justice Department get little oversight from their own inspector general. That’s a problem.




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UTAH COLLEGE TRACK ATHLETE LAUREN MCCLUSKEY ASKED POLICE FOR HELP DAYS BEFORE BEING KILLED BY HARASSER
BY DANIEL MORITZ-RABSON ON 12/25/18 AT 3:27 PM



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What Inmates Are Saying About Trump Possibly Going to Prison



https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/23/aclu ... ower-raid/




ACLU DEFENDS CHELSEA MANNING BUT SILENT ABOUT FBI RAID AGAINST REPORTED CLINTON WHISTLEBLOWER





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Wash Post: FBI Rejects Holiday Deadline for Bias Probe Docs


By Eric Mack    |   Sunday, 23 December 2018 09:05 AM


Read Newsmax: Wash Post: FBI Rejects Holiday Deadline for Bias Probe Docs | Newsmax.com 



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The Amazon Alexa Eavesdropping Nightmare Came True

Jennings Brown
Thursday 11:24am




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Sacha Baron Cohen Says He Turned Over Disturbing “Who Is America?” 
pedophile Footage to the F.B.I.
According to Cohen, the bureau evidently decided not to pursue the matter, though the actor noted “This concierge had said that he’d worked for politicians and various billionaires.”


https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/rem ... gs.T3lrR6g


Remembering dad: Forced out of FBI for being gay and then lost to AIDS
A son’s emotional recollection of his gay dad’s dismissal from the FBI and later death from AIDS show how times have changed



https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2018/11/0 ... tapper.cnn

Former FBI Agent: Mueller may no longer be protected




https://www.foxnews.com/us/dancing-fbi- ... -jail-time
Dancing FBI agent who shot man at Denver bar after doing backflip pleads guilty, will avoid jail time





https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/ ... mmendation


'We’ve informed you': New York Times defends running Alice Walker's David Icke recommendation



https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html


Brooklyn businessman used crooked NYPD deputy inspector as a 'cop on call,' prosecutor says

By STEPHEN REX BROWN

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 20, 2018 | 5:10 PM




https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html



Louisiana cop charged with having sex with animals and filming the encounters

By STORM GIFFORD

DEC 21, 2018 | 5:55 PM 




https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html



Los Angeles Police Department rocked by shocking porn scandal

By STORM GIFFORD

DEC 21, 2018 | 8:45 PM 



https://www.rt.com/russia/447083-fsb-ty ... -officers/



Bad lieutenant: FSB officer gets 24 years for murdering seven people as part of dirty cop gang
Published time: 20 Dec, 2018 20:12 Edited time: 21 Dec, 2018 09:20 



https://www.pressherald.com/2018/12/21/ ... wyer-says/


NATION & WORLD  Posted 12:32 PM Updated at 3:55 PM
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Michigan State hampered probe of doctor’s sex-abuse scandal, lawyer says
Hundreds of women and girls, most of them gymnasts, accused Larry Nassar of molesting them under the guise that it was treatment.


https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html

Brooklyn businessman used crooked NYPD deputy inspector as a 'cop on call,' prosecutor says


By STEPHEN REX BROWN

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 20, 2018 | 5:10 PM
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la- ... story.html


LAPD commander charged with public intoxication should be fired, disciplinary board rules

By CINDY CHANG

DEC 19, 2018 | 2:10 PM 




https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html




Cop turned bank robber gets nabbed in San Francisco


By THERESA BRAINE

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 19, 2018 | 11:00 PM 


https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html



Iowa man's sexual assault charges dropped after prosecutor shows up to hearing drunk

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FBI to bring nearly 1,400 jobs to Army base in Alabama
Posted by PCN Staff Writer on January 6, 2019 at 10:15 pm



https://truthout.org/articles/fbi-cia-c ... mo-trials/

FBI-CIA Collaboration Reveals Blatant Illegitimacy of Guantánamo Trials



https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/03/politics ... index.html

Acting AG Whitaker reveals federal prosecutor still investigating GOP claims of FBI misconduct
By Laura Jarrett, CNN



https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... 02c2612564

The FBI must wake from its deep slumber on the death of Bijan Ghaisar




https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/joe-dig ... ed-the-fbi

Joe diGenova: 'Cardinal' James Comey -- The man who destroyed the FBI



James Comey politicized the FBI, America’s premier law enforcement agency. It started on July 6, 2016, when he usurped the authority of Attorney General Loretta Lynch in violation of the Constitution, the law and DOJ regulations.

He destroyed Hillary’s campaign when he unethically and unprofessionally described her conduct with pejorative words such as “criminal” and then illegally exonerated her of the crimes.




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Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Alleging FBI Role in 2015 Terror Attack in Texas
Injured security guard wanted to know FBI's actions in lead-up to the atta

BY: Todd Shepherd
January 5, 2019 5:00 am



Shortly after the "Muhammad Art Exhibit" event was announced in early 2015, the undercover agent who had been infiltrating the small cell of radicals texted Simpson, saying, "tear up Texas."

Additionally, the undercover agent was in a separate car directly behind Simpson and Soofi when they opened fire and had been taking pictures of the attackers' car just seconds before the shooting began.

When the first shots were fired, the undercover agent fled his own vehicle, but was apprehended by local police, at which point the agent told police he was undercover with the FBI.





https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/nyre ... aipov.html

F.B.I. Wiretap Recorded Suspect on Eve of Bike Path Terror Attack


The Uzbek man charged with using a truck to kill eight people on a Manhattan bike path last year was recorded on an F.B.I. wiretap the day before the attack and was heard on other calls going back three years, according to two court filings by defense lawyers.

The filings do not reveal the contents of the conversations or whether the man, Sayfullo Saipov, 30, was overheard making threats or talking about an impending attack. Still, the filings suggested that Mr. Saipov was in touch with other people under F.B.I. surveillance









https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
NYPD bribery scandal began with petty crime: parking placard abuse

By STEPHEN REX BROWN
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN




https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/05/us/f ... black.html

FBI AGENT ADMITS HARASSING BLACK FBI agent
The New York Times
donald rochon goog from www.nytimes.com
A Chicago-based agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has acknowledged that he and other white colleagues planned a campaign of ''retribution'' against a black agent, Donald Rochon, whos



https://www.salon.com/2019/01/06/many-h ... e_partner/

Many hate crimes never make it into the FBI’s database
Law enforcement officials aren't trained in recognizing hate crimes, leaving numbers on these attacks unreliable

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https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html
Two strippers accused of stealing police officer's gun say he paid them $2,500 for sex

By DAVID BOROFF

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 10, 2019 | 1:45 PM 



https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la- ... story.html


Police must release shooting records




https://cdn.muckrock.com/foia_files/201 ... 195761.pdf


FBI Drone Program



https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la- ... story.html
Authorities arrest Customs and Border Protection officer suspected of selling guns without license

By ALENE TCHEKMEDYIAN

FEB 06, 2019 | 10:15 PM 





https://www.denverpost.com/2019/02/05/d ... ournalist/


Denver officers disciplined for handcuffing journalist photographing arrest
Susan Greene was filming officers last July when they took her phone and put her in handcuffs



https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Lawyers for two former detectives accused of rape in Brooklyn say victim lied in deposition


By NOAH GOLDBERG  and GRAHAM RAYMAN

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 06, 2019


https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
NYPD demands Google stop revealing DWI checkpoint locations on its Waze app


By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA  and JOHN ANNESE

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 06, 
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Two Detroit police officers suspended after 'racially insensitive' comments during traffic stop

By KATE FELDMAN

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 06, 2019 | 5:50 PM 



https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la- ... story.html


As pepper-spray use surges, auditors advise a ban at L.A. County juvenile facilities


By MATT STILES

FEB 05, 2019 | 5:00 PM 



http://www.fox8live.com/2019/02/04/tria ... -mistrial/

Trial of former DEA agent Chad Scott ends in mistrial


https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
An early-morning raid, a question about tactics and another allegation against a much-sued cop

By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 05, 2019 | 


http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/ ... m.php?f=18


Assassinations and suspicious deaths



https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/02/0 ... dan-depew/

The Fatal Ensnaring of Dan DePew
Laura Kipnis



https://www.nme.com/news/music/new-inve ... ed-2443672


New investigation suggests James Brown might have been murdered

 


Feb 5, 2019 7:21 pm
*  

Read more at https://www.nme.com/news/music/new-inve ... bv0OyyX.99



https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states ... estigation


Ex-FBI Agent Is Out in Flint Water Investigation
The former head of the FBI in Detroit has been removed from the state's Flint water criminal investigation.

Feb. 5, 2019, at 4:43 p.m. 




More




https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/fbi-s ... -1-8796910

FBI spy’s emails ‘warned Omagh was target for bombers’ 

Read more at: https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/fbi-s ... -1-8796910


https://www.boston.com/news/national-ne ... oeb-aliens

Harvard’s top astronomer says an alien ship may be among us — and he doesn’t care what his colleagues think
"It changes your perception on reality, just knowing that we're not alone," Avi Loeb said.



https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la- ... story.html


Vallejo officer on leave after video shows him pulling a gun, detaining a man filming him



https://www.denverpost.com/2019/02/04/m ... t-lawsuit/

Bystander paralyzed in deadly Colorado Springs shootout sues law enforcement agencies, estate of slain Deputy Micah Flick
Thomas Villanueva’s lawsuit alleges poor training led to his injuries, 2 deaths in officer-involved shootout

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
NYPD cops forced to pump breast milk in bathrooms, cars, filthy locker rooms - lawsuit

By THOMAS TRACY

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 05, 2019 | 10:27 AM 






https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html


Cop justified in fatal shooting of Emantic Bradford Jr. at Alabama mall, state official says


By JESSICA SCHLADEBECK

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 05, 2019 | 1:20 PM 


https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Man's leg catches fire after being hit by police stun gun outside Philadelphia cheesesteak shop

By KATE FELDMAN

| NEW YORK


https://www.nydailynews.com/news/photos ... llery.html
A look back at the fatal shooting of Amadou Diallo


https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html
Two Colorado deputies charged with manslaughter after drunk man died following transport to addiction center

By KATE FELDMAN

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 04, 2019 | 6:25 PM 




https://theintercept.com/2019/01/31/arr ... f-justice/


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https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/jeffrey ... spiracies/

Epstein got a light sentence for his 2008 guilty plea to soliciting sex from a minor because he became an FBI informant



https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html

SEE IT: NYPD officer kneels on man’s head, waves gun at onlookers during Brooklyn arrest

By THOMAS TRACY  and ELIZABETH KEOGH

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 08, 2019 | 12:17 PM




https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html

Off-duty cop pleads guilty to assault after attacking men at Staten Island bar over beer pong game

By JOHN ANNESE

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 09, 2019 | 7:51 PM



https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html

NYPD detective arrested for perjury in April hit with two more charges of lying

By SHAYNA JACOBS , THOMAS TRACY  and CHELSIA ROSE MARCIUS

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 09, 2019 | 12:29 PM

https://theintercept.com/2019/07/08/da- ... 9904f3007f


PENNSYLVANIA LAWMAKERS MOVE TO STRIP REFORMIST PROSECUTOR LARRY KRASNER OF AUTHORITY






https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html

Police officer fired when money goes missing from a murder victim’s wallet

By BRIAN NIEMIETZ

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 10, 2019 | 5:17 PM



https://www.wmtw.com/article/young-main ... s/22762096

Young Maine hacker shows off skills
11-year-old Old Orchard Beach girl hacks replica election results page in under 11 minutes
101 Shares

Updated: 6:51 PM EDT Aug 17, 2018

Steve Bottari
Anchor




LAS VEGAS —
She's not yet old enough to vote, but Audrey Jones has already hacked her way into a replica of an election results page.







https://www.wmtw.com/article/young-main ... s/22762096




Aug 17, 2018

The 11-year-old from Old Orchard Beach did so with a group of other tech-savvy kids at DEFCON in Las Vegas, the world's largest conference for hackers.
It took Audrey Jones about 11 minutes.
Once in, she could change votes, name





Kids as young as 7 hack into election systems at DEFCON event
Hacking convention shows vulnerabilities still exist three months before Election Day
16 Shares
Aug 16,2018


in key battleground states from 2016; pages built, organizers say, using actual vulnerabilities previously reported.
Yonatan Lensky, an 11 year-old from Nashua, New Hampshire, who won the award for his age group for "social engineering," was asked if the hack was pretty easy.
"Yeah," he quickly responded, while peering over a laptop computer and wearing small Ray Ban glasses. To prove it, Lensky made it appear as if a journalist won the election -- with 87 billion votes.
Bianca Lewis, an 11 year-old from New Jersey, was asked for her message to the American people. Looking directly at the camera and using a raised v



Jake Braun, the CEO of Cambridge Global Advisors, helped organize the Vote Hacking Village at this year's DEFCON, the world's largest convention of hackers. Over the course of three days, hundreds of them scanned, manipulated and sabotaged nine different types of actual voting equipment.
"This is not make believe," he said during interview in Las Vegas. "This is stuff that's actually happened."
Brad Evans, a hacker who tried to exploit one of the pieces of voting equipment at DEFCON, said that he was doing so because, "I want to help secure these things."
Among the flaws hackers at DEFCON say they found:
* A voting scanner and tabulator -- still used in up to 24 states, according to the group Verified Voting -- with no password or software verification to prevent it from being overridden,
* A touchscreen voting machine that hackers reprogrammed to play music and animated clips.
* An electronic poll book machine that signs in voters on Election Day hacked in five seconds, potentially exposing "unencoded" personal information on voters.
Even though 100 local election officials came to DEFCON, the National Association of Secretaries of State, in a statement the day before the event began, criticized the hacking as a "pseudo environment" that "in no way replicates" accurate protect




https://theappeal.org/media-frame-a-war ... 9904f3007f

MEDIA FRAME: A ‘WAR ON COPS’ NARRATIVE WITHOUT EVIDENCE
ABC News claims anti-police violence is on the rise but offers no data.







https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/ ... ntentQuery

Visits to Mass. prisoners fall sharply under new rules

By Mark Arsenault Globe Staff,July 10, 2019, 7:18 p.m.






https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ret-ballot

‘A risk to democracy’: North Carolina law may be violating secrecy of the ballot




https://franklloydwright.org/flowers-ar ... ght-music/


Some Flowers for Architect Frank Lloyd Wright: Wright and Music
ARIS GEORGES | JAN 10, 2018




https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... d6a06b6fc9


A Florida cop planted meth on random drivers, police say. One lost custody of his daughter.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... 83c1275b6f

An American Communist who paid too high a price






https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank

Leo Frank





https://truepundit.com/fbi-brass-ran-up ... ury-probe/


FBI Brass Ran Up $65K World Series Tab of Freebies in Luxury Box of LA Dodgers Owners While Team Was Target of FBI Grand Jury Probe



https://www.cbs58.com/news/students-und ... university

Students undergo FBI training at Marquette University
By: CBS 58 Newsroom
Posted: Jul 10, 2019 8:24 PM CDT


https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2019 ... ic-oneill/

Taking down the FBI agent turned Russian spy



https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/20/us/f ... rison.html


Former F.B.I. Agent Is Sentenced to Prison
APMAY 20, 1996
Continue reading the main story

A former F.B.I. agent who pleaded guilty to taking kickbacks from a pepper-spray manufacturer was sentenced on Friday to two months in Federal prison.
The former agent, Thomas W. W. Ward, 49, the bureau's former chief of pepper-spray testing and research, was sentenced to two months in prison and three years' probation.
In pleading guilty to one count of accepting an unlawful gratuity, Mr. Ward admitted taking $57,500 in kickbacks from a pepper-spray manufacturer.



https://www.inquisitr.com/5524257/rober ... agreement/

Jeffrey Epstein’s Light Sentence Was Not Engineered By Robert Mueller






https://www.pressherald.com/2019/07/10/ ... ice-chief/

Judge rules for Biddeford and its police chief in sexual abuse lawsuit
U.S. District Judge Lance Walker says Matt Lauzon 'buried his head in the sand' by not coming forward with his claims sooner.


https://truthout.org/articles/kamala-ha ... 9904f3007f

Kamala Harris Has a Distinguished Career of Serving Injustice


https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny- ... story.html

A real cop-out: Police and the DA point fingers about a failure to require Jeffrey Epstein to check in with New York authorities

By DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL BOARD

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 12, 2019 | 4:00 AM



https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtow ... hake-tweet


Mayor Wheeler Defends Portland Police Bureau’s False “Cement Milkshake” Tweet

by Blair Stenvick • Jul 8, 2019 at 3:41 pm



https://www.madcowprod.com/2019/07/10/i ... mate-plug/


Is JPMorgan the ultimate plug?
By Daniel Hopsicker -
July 10, 2019
2
696
If you don’t know what a “plug” is, you probably don’t spend much time at Lipstick Alley.

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https://www.courthousenews.com/reported ... ions-drop/

Reported Hate Crimes on the Rise, But Federal Prosecutions Drop
August 13, 2019


https://www.courthousenews.com/black-li ... 35bae872e0

August 9, 2019
BRIEF


BATON ROUGE, La. – A district court improperly dismissed an officer’s negligence claim against the organizer of a 2016 Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge, the Fifth Circuit ruled. The officer alleges the organizer led demonstrators onto a highway and provoked an altercation between police and protestors, causing the officer’s injuries. 
The officer has sufficiently alleged that his injuries were the result of organizer DeRay Mckesson’s “own tortious conduct in organizing a foreseeably violent protest.”



https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states ... ity-bureau


Baltimore Police Hire FBI Agent to Lead Integrity Bureau
Baltimore's Police Commissioner has named a senior FBI agent as the head of the department's Public Integrity Bureau, which oversees officer misconduct investigations and has faced criticism




https://www.google.com/search?q=john+co ... GJtC-8qhxM:


John Conditt




http://archive.boston.com/news/nation/a ... sex_abuse/

Retired FBI agent guilty of sex abuse
Was bureau's chief of internal affairs
By Associated Press  |  February 18, 2004
WASHINGTON -- The former chief internal watchdog at the FBI has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and has admitted he had a history of molesting other children before he joined the bureau for what became a two-decade career.
John H. Conditt Jr., 53, who retired in 2001, was sentenced last week in Tarrant County Court in Fort Worth to 12 years in prison after he admitted he molested the daughter of two FBI agents after he retired. He acknowledged molesting at least two other girls before he began his law enforcement career, his lawyer said.
Conditt sought treatment for sex offenders after his arrest last year, said his attorney, Toby Goldsmith.
"The problem these people have is they don't really feel like it is their fault," Goldsmith said. "The treatment doesn't work unless you admit you are the one who instigated it, and he did that."
Conditt headed the internal affairs unit, which investigates agent wrongdoing, for the Office of Professional Responsibility at FBI headquarters in Washington from 1999 until June 2001, the FBI said.
FBI officials said yesterday they had no information suggesting Conditt had any problems during his career and he was never the subject of an investigation. Assistant District Attorney Mitch Poe of Tarrant County, who prosecuted





https://www.muckrock.com/foi/los-angele ... ant-76484/

Subject: California Public Records Act Request: Denial of CVE Grant
Email

To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the California Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
All documents, communications, reports, briefs, memorandums pertaining to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s decision to turn down federal funds for countering violent extremism, chronicled in the below article:
https://www.dailynews.com/2018/08/16/la ... s-process/
This includes all written communication, email and otherwise, between Mayor Garcetti’s Office and the Department of Homeland Security which discuss these “countering violent extremism” grant proposals.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 calendar days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Ava Sasani



https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... oundup-89/

August 9, 2019
This week’s FOIA round-up: Interior was interested in FBI’s “gold standard” FOIA policy, AP collects data on medical marijuana cards, and an Arkansas judge rules clerk broke public records law
Plus, see the results of the Oregon Public Records Advisory Council survey
Written by Shafaq Patel (@shafaqpatel)
Edited by JPat Brown
In this week’s FOIA round-up, the Department of the Interior staff emails show employees were interested in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s “500-page per month” policy, the Associated Press created a new dataset by collecting information from each state to see why people wanted a medical marijuana card, and an Arkansas judge rules that a clerk broke state public-records laws, but cites as extenuating circumstances the clerk was acting on advice that they had received from state judicial authorities.
See a great use of public records we missed? Send over your favorite FOIA stories via email, on Twitter, or on Facebook, and maybe we will include them in the next roundup. And if you’d like even more inspiration, read past roundups.
Department of the Interior staff emails show employees were interested in FBI’s “gold standard” policy
Internal emails show that Department of the Interior employees looked to the FBI’s FOIA policies as a potential solution to the increase in number of requests. Rachel Spector, an official with Interior’s Office of the Solicitor, wrote to an FBI official seeking information on their procedures in an email stating, “Sorry to be so persistent, but we are scrambling to get our arms around a significant surge in FOIA requests.” Spector also referred to the Bureau’s FOIA program as “the gold standard.”




https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html

Attorneys for alleged terrorist Sayfullo Saipov demand feds reveal wiretaps with ISIS supporters or drop death penalty for Hudson River bike path attack

By STEPHEN REX BROWN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 12, 2019 | 2:03 PM




https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... -says-aclu

Facial recognition software mistook 1 in 5 California lawmakers for criminals, says ACLU




http://ticklethewire.com/2019/08/13/bor ... ith-truck/

Border Patrol Agent Admits He ‘Intentionally Struck’ Migrant with Truck






https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-sta ... ion-78805/


Subject: Freedom of Information Act Request: Jeffrey Epstein files (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
Portal
Dear Federal Bureau of Investigation:
This letter is a formal Freedom of Information Act request for the following records.
This request concerns records related to Jeffery E. Epstein, who died recently while in Federal custody.
As proof of death, and subject identification, please see:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/statemen ... ey-epstein
https://www.google.com/search?q=Jeffrey ... ms&tbm=nws
This request includes both state and Federal records, including any such records that may be in each others' possession.
# Expedited processing
I request that part A of this request receive maximally expedited processing, as it concerns journalistic interest in multiple breaking news stories of international significance. For the same reason, I note that the journalistic waiver request below is particularly strong.
Please pay particular attention to the request below for rolling updates. Please prioritize your response in the order of records that can be produced the most quickly (including consideration of e.g. time to review), and keep me appraised of progress, ETAs, and records in pipeline (e.g. pending search or processing).
For the purposes of expedited interim rolling updates only, please ignore the format provisions of this request if (and only if) providing the records in another format would be faster, and only to that extent, i.e. provide the records in the fastest possible manner (and otherwise as requested). If you use this clause, then please say so clearly, and provide such records in the proper requested format pursuant to non-expedited processing.
# Exemptions moot due to death
Because dead people have no Privacy Act rights, this FOIA request includes all records that would otherwise be covered by the Privacy Act. No PA or similar waiver will be provided on anyone's behalf.
Please note that all criminal investigations into or prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein have automatically terminated by his death, and therefore you may not invoke 5 USC 552(b)(7)(A, B, C, or F), or (c)(1), as to Epstein. See e.g. Davis v. DOJ, 460 F.3d 92, 97-98 (D.C. Cir. 2007); Schrecker v. DOJ, 349 F.3d 657, 661 (D.C. Cir. 2003); and Vest v. Dep't of the Air Force, 793 F. Supp. 2d 103, 122 (D.D.C. 2011) (re (b)(7) of dead people).
You may not claim 552(b)(5) as to records more than 25 years old. Please note that some of the cases listed below predate that cut-off.
Furthermore, if you wish to claim 552(b)(6) exemption as to Epstein's personal privacy, you would need to surmount a very high burden of proof, especially given that what has already been disclosed about Epstein has made it nearly impossible for him to be defamed. Defamation requires that the new information harm his reputation. As a dead serial child sex abuser, he has no reputation left to be harmed. See e.g. Grandison v. DOJ, 600 F. Supp. 2d 103, 114 (D.D.C. 2009); Schoenman v. FBI, 763 F. Supp. 2d 173, 176 (D.D.C. 2011); and Summers v. DOJ, 517 F. Supp. 2d 231, 241 (D.D.C. 2007) (re (b)(6) of dead people). See also Rosenfeld v. DOJ, No. 07-3240, 2012 WL 710186, at *4 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 5, 2012) and Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Wash. v. DOJ, 846 F. Supp. 2d 63, 71 (D.D.C. 2012) (re public figure).
However, I do not facially challenge the ability to invoke:
* (b)(7)(D) (confidential sources)
* (b)(7)(E) (methods)
* (b)(7)(A) (as to enforcement proceedings against someone other than Epstein)
* (b)(7)(B) (as to a reasonably expected prosecution of someone other than Epstein)
* (b)(7)(C) (as to the personal privacy of someone other than Epstein)
* (b)(7)(F) (as to the safety of someone other than Epstein)
(and equivalent state law).
# Exemptions related to any judicial seal
I understand that several responsive records may currently be under seal in one or more courts.
For such records, I stipulate that you may invoke 552(b)(3) (or state law equivalents), and will not contest (b)(3) exemption claims while the seal is in place, provided that you furnish, for each such record:
a) a complete citation to both the sealed record (case name, case number, court, filing date, ECF #) and all order(s) sealing the record (same)
b) a statement detailing any exemptions you claim on that record, other than the mere fact of the order of seal
c) a statement of whether you would object to a press-intervenor motion to unseal the record, given Epstein's death
# Other Jeffrey Epsteins
Please exclude records relating to persons named Jeffrey Epstein who are not the one identified above (i.e. the billionaire repeat sex offender).
I have already made efforts to exclude, e.g. in the case listing below:
Jeffrey M. Epstein
Jeffrey A. Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein, a lawyer in federal practice
If any cases identified in fact are about a different Epstein, please say so, and exclude those records.
# Component delegation
This request covers every Federal Bureau of Investigation component, including component agencies, departments, offices, OIGs, etc. See "# Forwarding; multi-agency / multi-component records" below.
Please note that this request imposes an affirmative obligation to take immediate steps to preserve responsive records against spoliation, including both any automated or routine record deletion and any act by an employee to delete such records.
This is an explicit evidence preservation demand, and the documents sought relate to ongoing and/or currently contemplated litigation.
At your discretion, you may either apply only a single tracking number for the whole request tree (acting for all subcomponents), or each subcomponents may apply its own tracking numbers.
In either case, you are expected to strictly comply with 5 USC 552(a)(6) and (a)(7), and analogous state law.
In particular, you are expected to provide notice (by email) of all referrals made, and any other tracking numbers of which you are aware.
# Primary request
A. Jeffrey Epstein's file(s)
0. Omnibus covering request and specific pointers
For all portions of this request, you are requested to use the following as search terms and locations to search.
As an omnibus covering request, please provide all records about Jeffrey E. Epstein that are in the possession of; or held, maintained, or created by; each of the following:
a) Agencies, offices, & locations
* Federal
i) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
ii) FBI Field Office - Miami (FBI Miami)
iii) FBI Field Office - New York (FBI NY)
iv) FBI Headquarters (FBI HQ)
v) Department of Justice (DOJ)
vi) DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR)
vii) U.S. Attorney's Office (USAO) for the Southern District of New York (SDNY)
viii) USAO for the Southern District of Florida (SDFL)
ix) USAO for the District of New Jersey (DNJ)
x) USAO for the Middle District of Florida (MDFL)
xi) Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)
* New York
xii) New York Office of the Governor (NY Gov)
xiii) New York Office of the Attorney General (NY AG)
xiv) Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York (MCC)
xv) NY City (NYC) Police Department (NYPD)
xvi) NY State Police (NYSP)
xvii) NYC Dep't of Correction (DOC) (NYC DOC)
xviii) NY Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (NY DOC)
* Florida
xix) Florida Office of the Governor (FL Gov)
xx) Florida Office of the Attorney General (FL AG)
xxi) Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE)
xxii) Florida State Attorney's (FLSA) Office for the 15th Judicial Circuit (15th Cir.)
xxiii) Palm Beach County police / Palm Beach Sheriff's Office (PBSO)
xxiv) Town of Palm Beach Police Department (PBPD)
b) People
i) U.S. Attorney (USA) Geoffrey Berman
ii) USA R. Alexander Acosta
iii) USA Wifredo A. Ferrer
iv) Assistant USA (AUSA) A. Marie Villafaña
v) AUSA Dexter A. Lee
vi) AUSA Eduard I. Sanchez
vii) AUSA Andrew Laurie
viii) AUSA Bruce Reinhart
ix) FBI Special Agent (S/A) Timothy R. Slater
x) FBI S/A Nesbitt E. Kuyrkendall
xi) Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
xii) FLSA Barry Krischer
xiii) PBSO Sheriff Ric Bradshaw
xiv) PBSO Colonel Michael Gauger
xv) PBSO Captain David Sleeth
xvi) Chief Karen Atkinson (N. Div. 1)
c) Cases
Feinberg, et al v. Gonsalves, et al, No. 1:86-cv-749 (D.D.C.)
Stroll v. Epstein, No. 1:92-cv-1021, 818 F.Supp. 640 (S.D.N.Y. 1993)
USA v. Epstein, et al, No. 1:92-mj-2283 (S.D.N.Y.)
USA v. Epstein, et al, No. 1:93-cr-193 (E.D.N.Y.)
USA v. Epstein, No. 1:93-mj-73 (E.D.N.Y.)
Pierce Segerberg PC, et al v. Epstein, No. 1:95-cv-1109 (D. Colo.)
USA v. Epstein, et al, No. 1:96-cv-8307, 27 F.Supp.2d 404 (S.D.N.Y. 1998)
Mamberg f/k/a Epstein v. Epstein, 272 AD 2d 200, 707 N.Y.S.2d 439 (N.Y. App. Div., 1st Dept. 2000)
Epstein v. Epstein, 289 AD 2d 78, 734 N.Y.S.2d 144 (N.Y. App. Div., 1st Dept. 2001)
Financial Trust Company & Epstein v Citibank, No. 02-cv-108, (D.V.I.), 268 F.Supp.2d 561 (2003); 351 F.Supp.2d 329 (2004)
Citibank, N.A. v. Epstein, et al, No. 1:02-cv-5332 (S.D.N.Y.)
Shanks v. Wexner et al, No. 2:02-cv-7671 (E.D. Pa.)
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Glick et al, No. 1:04-cv-10801 (D. Mass.)
Coronel v. ADVO, Inc et al, No. 3:06-cv-1457 (D. Conn.)
Golden v. Harding et al, No. 3:06-cv-1470 (D. Conn.)
Kelleher v. ADVO, Inc et al, No. 3:06-cv-1422 (D. Conn.)
Field v. ADVO, Inc et al, No. 3:06-cv-1481 (D. Conn.)
In re Investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, No. 06-cf-945AXXXMB (Fla. 15th J. Cir.)
Williamson v. Culbro Corp. Pension Fund & Epstein, 41 A.D.3d 229, 838 N.Y.S.2d 524 (N.Y. App. Div., 1st Dept. 2007)
Highland Crusader Offshore Partners v. Terrestar Corp., No. 600320/08, 2008 NY Slip Op 32843 (N.Y. Cty. Oct. 14, 2008)
Cordero v. Epstein, 22 Misc. 3d 161, 869 N.Y.S.2d 725 (N.Y. Cty. 2008)
Ava a/k/a Cordero v. New York Post, No. 115597/07, 2008 NY Slip Op 51281 (N.Y. Cty. June 24, 2008)
Ava a/k/a Cordero v. New York Post, 64 A.D.3d 407, 885 N.Y.S.2d 247m 2009 NY Slip Op 5611 (N.Y. App. Div., 1st Dept. 2009)
Doe et al v. Epstein, No. 9:08-cv-80069 (S.D. Fla.)
Doe v. Epstein, No. 9:08-cv-80119 (S.D. Fla.)
Doe v. Epstein, No. 9:08-cv-80232 (S.D. Fla. Feb. 12, 2009)
Doe v. Epstein, No. 9:08-cv-80380 (S.D. Fla.)
Doe v. Epstein, No. 9:08-cv-80381, 611 F.Supp.2d 1339 (S.D. Fla. 2009)
Doe v. Epstein et al, No. 9:09-cv-80469 (S.D. Fla.)
Doe v. Epstein, No. 9:09-cv-80591 (S.D. Fla.)
Doe v. Epstein, No. 9:09-cv-80656 (S.D. Fla.)
Does v. USA, No. 08-cv-80736 (S.D. Fla.); 817 F.Supp.2d 1337 (2011); 950 F.Supp.2d 1262 (2013); 2015 WL 11254692 (Apr. 7, 2015); _ (July 6, 2015); 359 F.Supp.3d 1201 (2019)
* Non-prosecution agreement from In re Epstein filed at ECF No. 361-62, Feb. 10, 2016
* Appeals: Nos. 13-12923-C, 13-12926-C, 13-12928-C, & 19-10036-H (11th Cir.)
Doe v. Epstein, No. 9:09-cv-80802 (S.D. Fla. Nov. 18, 2009)
Doe v. Epstein et al, No. 9:08-cv-80804 (S.D. Fla. Oct. 3, 2008)
C.M.A. v. Epstein et al, No. 9:08-cv-80811 (S.D. Fla.)
Doe v. Epstein, No. 9:08-cv-80893 (S.D. Fla.)
Doe v. Epstein, No. 9:08-cv-80993 (S.D. Fla.)
Doe v. Epstein, No. 9:08-cv-80994 (S.D. Fla. Feb. 12, 2009)
Epstein v. State, No. 4D09-2554, 16 So. 3d 315 (Fla. D. App., 4th Dist. 2009)
Palm Beach Marine Construction, Inc. v. Epstein, No. 9:09-cv-80175 (S.D. Fla.)
L.M. v. Espstein, No. 9:09-cv-81092 (S.D. Fla.)
Molyneux et al v. Epstein, No. 3:10-cv-34 (D.V.I.)
Orseck v. Epstein, No. 1:10-cv-21586 (S.D. Fla.)
Doe v. Epstein, No. 9:10-cv-80309 (S.D. Fla.)
C.L. v. Epstein, No. 9:10-cv-80447 (S.D. Fla.)
J. v. Epstein et al, No. 9:10-cv-81107 (S.D. Fla.)
J. v. Epstein et al, No. 9:10-cv-81108 (S.D. Fla.)
J. v. Epstein et al, No. 9:10-cv-81109 (S.D. Fla.)
J. v. Epstein et al, No. 9:10-cv-81110 (S.D. Fla.)
J. v. Epstein et al, No. 9:10-cv-81111 (S.D. Fla.)
People v. Epstein, Indict. No. 30129/2010 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2010)
In re Edwards, No. 112345/10, 2011 NY Slip Op 31081 (N.Y. Cty. April 12, 2011)
People v. Epstein, No. 6081, 89 A.D. 3d 570, 933 N.Y.S.2d 239 (N.Y. App. Div., 1st Dept. 2011)
Irving H. Picard v. Kahn et al, No. 1:12-cv-2620 (S.D.N.Y.)
Edwards v. Epstein, No. 4D14-2282, 178 So. 3d 942 (Fla. D. App., 4th Dist. 2014)
Giuffre v. Edwards, No. 4D16-1847, 226 So. 3d 1034 (Fla. D. App., 4th Dist. 2017)
Doe v. Black, No. 13-usc-12923, 749 F.3d 999 (11th Cir. 2014)
Doe v. Epstein, No. 13-usc-12926 (11th Cir.)
Lederer v. N.Y. Daily News, No. 650400/15, 2016 NY Slip Op 31394 (N.Y. Cty. July 8, 2016)
Ransome v. Epstein and Maxwell, No. 15-cv-7433 (S.D.N.Y.), ECF No. 496 (Nov. 2, 2016); 221 F.Supp.3d 472 (Nov. 21, 2016); _ (April 27, 2017); ECF No. 892 (May 3, 2017); 325 F.Supp.3d 428 (2018); _ (Feb. 25, 2019)
Johnson v. Trump et al, No. 5:16-cv-797 (C.D. Cal.)
Hoffenberg v. Epstein et al, No. 1:16-cv-3989 (S.D.N.Y.)
Doe v. Trump et al, No. 1:16-cv-4642 (S.D.N.Y.)
Doe v. Trump et al, No. 1:16-cv-7673 (S.D.N.Y.)
Giuffre v. Epstein, No. 9:16-mc-81608 (S.D. Fla.)
Giuffre v. Maxwell, No. 16-cv-3945 (2d Cir.)
Doe (Ransome) v. Epstein et al, No. 1:17-cv-616 (S.D.N.Y.)
Brown v. Maxwell, Nos. 18-2868-cv, 16-3945-cv(L), 17-1625 (CON), 17-1722(CON) (2d Cir. July 3, 2019)
Giuffre v. Maxwell, No. 17-cv-1625 (2d Cir.)
Giuffre v. Maxwell, No. 17-cv-1722 (2d Cir.)
Giuffre v. Maxwell, No. 18-cv-2868 (2d Cir.)
Gerber et al v. The Financial Trust Company et al, No. 1:18-cv-7580 (S.D.N.Y.)
Epstein v. Brunel, No. 3D18-1997 (Fla. D. App., 3d Dist. April 24, 2019)
Edwards v. Epstein (Fla. Palm Beach County Court, 2018)
USA v. Epstein, No. 1:19-cr-490 (S.D.N.Y. July 18, 2019)
USA v. Epstein, No. 19-cr-2221 (2d Cir.)
Also:
Unknown sealed grand jury proceedings, indictments, or other criminal cases against Epstein, likely in SDNY, SDFL, MDFL, DNJ, and/or Fla. 15th Cir., or equivalent state jurisdictions
d) Press coverage & witness references
See e.g:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/statemen ... ey-epstein
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/08/06/us ... index.html
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/ ... 68342.html
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/07/25/us ... index.html
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-conte ... n-bail.pdf
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000169 ... fff4490000
https://www.scribd.com/document/4212428 ... f-s-office
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov ... .304.1.pdf
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov ... .291.0.pdf
# Specific records by respondent / originating agency
The following sub-parts give more specific directions by respondent / originating agency.
1. FBI, NYPD, NYSP, PBSO, PBPD, DOJ, USAO SDFL/MDFL/DNJ/SDNY, & FLSA 15th Cir.
Please provide all records you have about Epstein. These records are expected to be primarily related to surveillance, investigation, prosecution, transportation, incarceration, or carceral medical treatment of Epstein; any general dossier(s) about Epstein; and any of the cases listed above.
a) Please search
i) your automated indices
ii) the older general (manual) indices.
iii) the ELSUR electronic surveillance indices.
iv) all Field Offices, in particular those assigned to or located in MDFL, SDFL, SDNY, DNJ, & 15th Cir.
b) Please include any records related to Epstein's death, and his earlier injury, including photographs, medical records, autopsy, etc.
2. DOJ, NY AG, FL AG, NY Gov, FL Gov, DOJ OPR, & FDLE
Please provide all records you have about Epstein. These records are expected to be primarily related to determinations about pursuing criminal charges against Epstein, review of prosecutorial decisions; ethics / professional responsibility / etc investigations into prosecutors assigned to Epstein; and any of the cases listed above.
a) Please note that this explicitly includes both the recent prosecution of Epstein, and the earlier state prosecutions & investigations which were Federally paralleled by investigation, consideration, and negotiations (though not resulting in a separate Federal indictment).
b) This includes related OPR & FDLE investigations, such as those into Acosta and Kirscher.
3. BOP, NY DOC, NYC DOC, FL DOC, & MCC
Please provide all records you have about Epstein. These records are expected to be primarily related to transportation, incarceration, or carceral medical treatment of Epstein, and any general dossier about Epstein.
a) Please include both HQ / non-local records, and those local to every facility or office in which Epstein was held or transported (however briefly).
b) Please include any records related to Epstein's death, and his earlier injury, including photographs, medical records, autopsy, etc.
# General
For all of the above, you may exclude any records that are part of the public (unsealed) record in any of the cases listed above, and are requested to do so if it would limit (rather than expand) any burdens related to search or production of records.
For all of the above, please first apply and act on a reasonable interpretation of the most likely sources of non-public records of possible public interest, so as to expedite at least partial release of responsive records.
Then, please contact me (at the email below) with an explanation of what records you are likely to have, how difficult they might be to find or produce (e.g. where they might be located, what parts would be more burdensome than others and why, etc), and I will work with you to narrow the request to suit your record storage practices, exclude records that are of no public interest, and limit the burdens of search or production.
Please note that in order to effectively negotiate a narrowing, I would need you to first provide me with such details. I do not know your storage practices and cannot divine where you may or may not have relevant records, nor can I name a specific record without knowing what the options are. I will be most able to narrow the request if provided with options for what to potentially include or exclude.
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# FOIA template structure
All content after the version number line above, except for the contact details at the very end, is part of my standard FOIA request template and identical between all of my FOIA requests. The provisions below are generally applicable to all FOIA / Privacy Act requests that I make.
There is one exception: the contact details below my signature at the very bottom (provided by MuckRock) are different for each request. Please use the distinct contact details matching each request, to ensure that your responses are correctly tracked.
The template provisions specify e.g. additional requests relating to my FOIA/PA requests themselves, form and format, timing, redaction & review, rolling updates, § 508 compliance, identity, fee waiver, my identity, and the like. They apply to this request, but are not specific to it.
If anything in the request-specific section above explicitly overrides anything in this template section, the request-specific section controls. If there is any ambiguity about such an override, please ask me for clarification.
The version number above is provided to make it easier for you to process my requests. Since all content (except contact info) below identical version number lines is identical between my requests, you need track only the request-specific portions (at the top) and the latest version of my general provisions.
Please read each new version carefully, as updates generally contain substantive changes.
## Template version updates
If you receive any FOIA request from me with a newer template version number than any pending prior FOIA requests from me, please replace the template portion of all prior requests with the updated version, treat the update as a clarification of and/or extension to the prior request, and process each updated request accordingly. Do not close the original request or change its request date. If you are permitted by law to refuse to honor such an update, and you choose to exercise that refusal, please process any differences between the new version and the prior version as a new FOIA request in its own right.
# Additional FOIA requests
In addition to the records specified in the request-specific section above, I also request:
B. all records relating to the fulfillment of this request, such as FOIA logs, documentation of searches, referral emails, etc.
This part of the request is to be processed only after you have completed processing all of the above parts. This part does not request that you create any new record; rather, it requests the records that you will have created in processing the above parts, and will therefore exist before you conduct the search for this part. See McGehee v. CIA, 697 F. 2d 1095, 1100-05 (D.C. Cir. 1983) (agency must use time-of-search cut-off date, not time-of-request).
C. all records relating to any complaint(s), FOIA request(s)/appeal(s), and/or Privacy Act request(s)/appeal(s) made by me. This includes, but is not limited to:
1. all records relating to the processing my previous requests, complaints, etc;
2. all records containing the terms my name, email address(es), and other contact or identifying information, listed below my signature; and
3. all records containing any of my complaint, request or appeal identifiers.
Parts (B) and (C) must be processed only after you have processed the items above that line, i.e. such that at the time of the search, the records described will have already been created at the time you conduct the search. Part (C) must be processed after part (B) is completed.
Parts (B) and (C) may overlap with similar prior requests. However, the cut-off date is, at earliest, the date that you complete search on all of the above items. If you wish to administratively merge this request with a prior similar request, I consent on condition that you extend the cut-off date for the prior request, and provide rolling updates. Otherwise, you must treat this as a new request.
For all responsive records, I also request:
D.
1. all parts of the record (i.e. no portion of a record with some responsive portion may be considered "non-responsive");
2. all versions of the record, whether or not currently in use;
3. all record metadata, such as dates on which they were drafted, passed, went into effect, withdrawn, or similar events; person(s) / office(s) responsible; authors; IDs; revision numbers; etc.;
4. a detailed index of all claims of exemption/privilege, regardless of whether the record is claimed to be exempt in whole or in part;
access to inspect the record directly, in its native electronic format; and
5. if any classification applies, mandatory declassification review (MDR) under E.O. 13526, and the result of the MDR, including any declassified records.
"All parts of the record" means that the "record" should be considered to be the most comprehensive record with any responsive portion. For instance:
a) if any portion of an email is responsive, the entire contents of all email thread(s) to which that email belongs is also responsive (including attachments);
b) if a record is part of a larger record, such as a responsive table that is in a chapter of a report, then the entire larger record (e.g. the full report) is responsive, together with any appendices, amendments, etc.;
c) if a record is part of a book, the entire book is responsive;
d) if a record is part of a database, all related database records are responsive;
etc.
"Related database records" has the technical meaning used in relational database management systems (such as SQL). It recursively includes all directly and indirectly related records (starting with all responsive records, include as responsive the full row of each, and recursively include as responsive all rows for which any responsive record has a foreign key or is referenced by a foreign key), together with the schema for all responsive records.
Items in part (D) should be prioritized at the same level as the record they apply to.
# Timing
For all requests above, the "cut-off date" is, at the earliest, the date that you conduct the search.
The priority order listed above is only for items that may take extra time to respond to, and must not be taken as blocking response to an otherwise lower priority item that could be released more quickly than a higher priority item that is pending time-intensive search or review.
# FOIA IA notice
Please note that this request is made after the enactment of Public Law No. 114-185, S. 337 (114th), the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 (FOIA IA). The revised statute, as specified in the FOIA IA, applies to this request. FOIA IA § 6.
In particular, please note that:
1. you must provide electronic format documents, §§ 552(a)(2) (undesignated preceding text), 552(a)(2)(E) (undesignated following text), 552(a)(3)(B), and 552(a)(3)(C);
2. you may not specify an appeal duration less than 90 days, § 552(a)(6)(C)(A)(i)(III)(aa);
3. you may not withhold any record unless "the agency reasonably foresees that disclosure would harm an interest protected by an exemption described in subsection (b), or disclosure is prohibited by law", § 552(a)(8)(A)(i);
4. you must segregate and partially release records where possible, §§ 552(a)(8)(A)(ii) and 552(b) (undesignated matter following (b)(9)); and
5. you may not claim deliberative process exemption for records more than 25 years old, § 552(b)(5).
# "Record" defined
For the purposes of this request, except as otherwise specified, "record" means any agreement, appendix, application, assessment, attachment, checklist, circular, contract, correspondence (including but not limited to email), data management plan, documentation of search parameters, email, email attachment, form, guide, handbook, index of records, information consent agreement, information sharing agreement, instruction, interpretation, kit, management instruction, manual, memorandum, memorandum of understanding, notice, notification, opinion, order, plan, policy, policy statement, processing note, publication, recording, referral, report, request certification form, request detail report, response, rule, script, standard operating procedure, submission, talking point, training document, video, or related record described, regardless of publication status.
# Anti-duplication exclusion
This request specifically excludes providing me with new copies of any records which have been already provided to me or published online for free (e.g. on the agency's online "reading room"), in full or identically to the form that would be provided to me under this request (i.e. with exactly the same format, redactions, and claimed exemptions).
This is only an exclusion on providing records under this request that are identical to those already provided to me or available online, and only if I am or have already been provided a link to the online version (if "available online").
This exclusion is only intended to limit unnecessary duplication or provision, not to limit what records are responsive to this request, nor to permit failure to disclose the location of a responsive record available online. If this exclusion would in any way increase the cost or duration to respond to this request, it is to be ignored to the extent it does so.
This request is to be treated as separate from all others that I have filed.
# Forwarding; multi-agency / multi-component records
Please forward this request to the FOIA office of every agency component and subcomponent that may have responsive records for independent processing, with a copy to me.
This request includes any records held jointly by your agency in conjunction with any other agency and/or department, in interagency and/or interdepartmental systems of records, or by other agencies or third parties (including contractors) acting pursuant to any agreement with your agency.
# Minimal redaction
Please note that the FOIA requires you to service the maximum extent of my request that can be done via e.g. partial redaction of exempt material. If you believe some portions of a record to be exempt because it contains Sensitive Security Information (SSI, 49 CFR 15 & 1520) or classified information (18 USC 798), please provide a version of the record redacted to the minimum extent necessary to remove exempt information (e.g. per 49 CFR 1520.15), along with adequate information to describe the reason for each specific exemption.
## Redaction of repeatedly occurring content
When redacting any content that appears more than once in the full set of responsive records, please assign a replacement identifier for each, so that your redaction does not obfuscate the commonality.
For example, suppose that responsive records include the names Alice, Bob, Charlie, and Diego, and you determine that each of those names are redactable (e.g. under (b)(7)(C)). Rather than redacting each with only the text "(b)(7)(C)", replace each instance of "Alice" with "(b)(7)(C) - Person 1", each instance of "Bob" with "(b)(7)(C) - Person 2", etc. This e.g. withholds Alice's identity while not withholding the fact of commonality between occurrences.
Please use reasonably descriptive identifiers. For instance, if Elizabeth's name is not redacted but her personal cellphone number is, and that cellphone number appears e.g. both in her email signature and elsewhere by itself, it should in both cases be redacted with the same descriptive identifier, such as "[Alice's cell #]". For documents, this can be specified in the margins. If space or file format does not permit you to do so, then please use a short code (e.g. "[#52]", and provide a table matching codes to full identifiers in your response letter.
If you make any such redactions, please keep but do not provide a table matching codes/identifiers to the redacted content, for use in case your redaction is examined or overturned on appeal or in litigation.
This is a form and format request pertaining to your process of redaction. Because it only applies in situations when you have already exercised the voluntary decision to alter the records from the original form requested, you have necessarily waived any objection to this section "creating a new record", since your act of redaction itself already "makes a new record" in that limited sense. This is only about how you do a redaction you have already decided to make.
This provision limits the scope of your redaction to the minimum possible extent, so that even if you decide to withhold some particular piece of content, you do not also withhold the fact of its being the same as the same content appearing elsewhere. That fact is itself metadata that is explicitly requested as part of this request.
If you decide that the mere fact of two pieces of content being the same is itself withholdable, then please redact it using an identifier that encodes only the reason, and provide a table matching those reason-only identifiers to justifications in your response letter.
# Estimates and rolling updates
In order to help tailor my request, please provide an upfront estimate of the time and cost it will take to complete this request, broken down any significant factors that would affect cost to service, number of records in each category, and your estimate of how many records in the category are likely to be exempt.
Please provide me with incremental updates, with updated estimates for fulfillment of the remainder, rather than having the entirety of the request be blocked until fully completed.
# No new records; electronic & original format
This request does not ask you to create new records.
If you determine that a response would require creating a new record that you do not want to create, please first contact me by email with an explanation of what records you have that would most closely match the information requested and might be acceptable substitutes, so that we can reasonably tailor the request.
In particular, I specifically request that you do not create new documents in response to this request that are modifications of a digital record, such as page-view images, print views, scans, or the like. No such creation or substitution is authorized by FOIA or the Privacy Act.
However, if the same or similar records are held in both electronic and paper formats, this request includes both the paper and electronic versions. The paper version and the digital version are distinct records, and each may contain distinct information such as handwritten or other markings on the paper copy and embedded metadata in the electronic version.
I specifically request both the original, electronic format record, and (if it contains any additional markings) the paper record.
To the extent that the native electronic format is proprietary or otherwise not in format accessible by widely available, open source software, I also request
1. an export of the proprietary format into a standard, open format, as described below, and
2. all proprietary software necessary to use and understand the original, proprietary format records.

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FBI CIO joins tech lobbying group
▪ By Mark RockwellOct 14, 2019


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Would Brett Kavanaugh Be on the Supreme Court If the FBI Had Fully Probed Sexual Misconduct Claims?
Web ExclusiveOCTOBER 14, 2019



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The FISA Court’s 702 Opinions, Part I: A History of Non-Compliance Repeats Itself




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New Play Follows Women’s Post-Prison Lives
by THOMAS BREEN | Oct 14, 2019 12:00 pm
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KLEIN MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM.
“Her Time” poster.
An FBI community outreach worker and a local youth worker have teamed up to write, direct, and produce a play about the challenges women face after leaving prison.
That new play, Her Time, is the brainchild of Charles Grady, a specialist for the Connecticut FBI Community Outreach Program, and Steve Driffin, the youth and community programs manager for New Haven’s Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology (ConnCAT).



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Centralia holding first public safety meeting since officer's firing



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Former South Jersey police chief to be retried on hate crime and civil rights charges
BY Briana Vannozzi, Correspondent | October 14, 2019, 6PM EST



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Anatomy of a FBI whistleblower: ‘If I was to uphold my vow and my oath of office, I had to do it’
‘I have PTSD from my experience. It’s just brutal. I don’t know how any other way to put it. It’s brutal,. said FBI whistleblower Jane Turner
By Matthew Brown@mbrownreport Oct 14, 2019, 10:00pm MDT

“It affects me,” said Turner, a two-time FBI whistleblower. “I have PTSD from my experience. It’s just brutal. I don’t know any other way to put it. It’s brutal.”
She says the retaliation she experienced after reporting wrongdoing in the FBI is common among hundreds of government whistleblowers. She fears the same will happen to the individual whose complaint that Trump pressured a foreign government to investigate a political rival is now at the heart of a House impeachment inquiry.
Retaliation wasn’t on Turner’s mind in 1998 when she first reported wrongdoing to her supervisor. “I went down there with the idea that he would right a wrong,” she said.
In her work as the senior resident agent — the first woman in the FBI to hold that position — over a 25,000-square-mile region in North Dakota, Turner had learned of a violent rape on an Indian reservation that another agent had closed as a car accident. She reopened the case, which led to a conviction, and found in her investigation that the same agent had closed a number of child abuse cases, some ending in death, in similar fashion.
Turner traveled from Minot, North Dakota, to the Minneapolis field office and shared her findings with the special agent in charge. His response was not what she expected. “You have a kid of your own to worry about,” she recalls him saying. She took it as coded advice to ignore the situation, but his words troubled her on the r




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KATY TUR
Ex-FBI agent details life as a whistleblower
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A former FBI whistleblower is saying that laws designed to protect whistleblowers actually trap them. Michael German joins Katy Tur to discuss why having the whistleblower testify might be a bad idea.
Oct. 14, 2019



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Man who walked to Wisconsin for child-sex wasn't prosecuted in earlier incident
Tuesday, October 15, 2019 8:28 a.m. CDT




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Lawsuit says Cuyahoga County deleted video of jail officer attacking inmate suffering from involuntary muscle twitches
Updated 10:14 AM; Today 10:03 AM

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Maryland police officer sentenced to six months in jail for assaulting handcuffed suspect

By KATE FELDMAN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 28, 2019 | 11:47 AM

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Members of Central Park 5 advocating for law limiting deceptive interrogation tactics and other sweeping criminal justice reforms

By DENIS SLATTERY

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 28, 2019 | 4:00 AM




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Disturbing video shows California police officer fatally shooting suspect who had hands raised in the air

By DAVID BOROFF

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 28, 2019 | 2:06 PM



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Off-duty NYPD sergeant arrested, accused of punching wife in fight over iPad

By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 28, 2019 | 5:00 PM





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Pennsylvania Cop Rapes Intoxicated Woman in Patrol Car While He was on Duty


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Tennessee Deputies Taser Deaf Teen who Failed to Hear their Commands



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I needed surgery after cop punched me in face during bar arrest, woman says in suit
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Connecticut Cop Charged for Opening Fire on Citizens Complying with his Orders




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Cop in alleged murder-for-hire plot will get to call son on his birthday
By Lorena Mongelli and Natalie Musumeci
October 28, 2019 |



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Drunk cop who fled crash ordered to live with parents until court date, NC judge rules
BY HAYLEY FOWLER
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Former cop loses public defender, ordered to stop talking about child abuse allegations
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NYPD Cop whose Son was Killed by Fellow Cops Demands External Investigation




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Israel's Top Court Ordering Trial for Cop Who Killed Arab Shows Closing Case Was Unreasonable
Majority justices found several flaws in the attorney general's decision to reject the appeal to open the probe into the death Kheir Hamdan, stating a clear public interest in legal proceedings





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Off-Duty Cop Arrested for DWI Following Collision at Manhattan Bridge Entrance



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FBI's killing of Detroit Muslim leader 10 years ago haunts communities

Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press Published 6:30 a.m. ET Oct. 28, 2019 | Updated 8:53 p.m. ET Oct. 28, 2019


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Pittsburgh police officer sentenced for lying to FBI

PAUL GUGGENHEIMER | Monday, October 28, 2019 5:59





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New details about FBI task force shooting of unarmed man


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DOJ Court Filing Reveals FBI’s Justification for Withholding Brett Kavanaugh Background Check Info
by Colin Kalmbacher | 7:12 pm, October 28th, 2019

Now, that’s a mouthful of alphabet soup. So, here’s a bit a backstory.
In October 2018, BuzzFeed News reporter and FOIA expert Jason Leopold filed FOIA requests for the following FBI documents: (1) “A copy of the final report sent to the White House and the Senate Judiciary Committee on either October 3 or October 4, 2018 on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh”; and (2) “All interview notes; investigative notes; FD-302s relating or referring to the FBI investigation into allegations leveled against Mr. Kavanaugh.”
At first, it seemed as if the FBI was keen to wash their hands of the Kavanaugh imbroglio–the agency uncharacteristically acknowledged the request and assigned it for expedited processing on the same day the Kavanaugh document request was filed. Then came the stonewall.
A month passed and the FBI produced zero responsive documents.
According to the FOIA lawsuit filed by Leopold and BuzzFeed in November 2018: “In addition to granting expedited processing, that same day [the FBI] also informed [Leopold and Buzzfeed] unusual circumstances applied to the processing of the [Kavanaugh] Request.”
Nearly one year of legal wrangling followed. On Friday, the FBI moved to have the case dismissed by arguing that they’ve already released enough information and that what they haven’t yet released is covered by one of the several statutory exceptions to FOIA.
What’s been released isn’t exactly a documentary treasure trove.
The filing notes: “Here, the FBI reviewed a total of 2,579 responsive pages and released 23 pages in full and 2,029 pages in p



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'Father of modern law enforcement' or 'abomination'? New FBI digs inflame fight over Hoover and race


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FBI agent indicted in Greitens case faces March trial

FBI agent who helped to investigate former Gov. Eric Greitens is scheduled to go on trial next year on charges of perjury and evidence tampering.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that defense lawyers for 67-year-old William Don Tisaby, of Alabama, and special prosecutor Gerard "Jerry" Carmody agreed Friday to a March 30 trial date. The indictment alleges that Tisaby lied last year during depositions.
The grand jury last month indicted Tisaby in June, accusing him of lying during a deposition in the criminal case that was a factor in Greitens' decisio



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'Unquestionably Private': DOJ Contends FBI's Kavanaugh File Must Remain Confidential
The character of the information in the FBI supplemental background investigation "is highly personal and could subject Judge Kavanaugh and others to harassment or embarrassment in their private lives," Justice Department lawyers said in responding to a FOIA lawsuit.
By Mike Scarcella | October 28, 2019 at 11:26 AM





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BIDEN TO HOST HIGH-DOLLAR FUNDRAISER WITH PITTSBURGH-AREA REAL ESTATE MOGULS



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CENTRIST DEMOCRATS, LED BY REP. JOSH GOTTHEIMER, TO FUNDRAISE WITH CORPORATE LOBBY GROUP SEEKING TO DEFEAT DEMOCRATIC AGENDA
Lee Fang
October 28


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JOE BIDEN’S SUPER PAC IS BEING ORGANIZED BY CORPORATE LOBBYISTS FOR HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY, WEAPONS MAKERS, FINANCE
Lee Fang
October 25 2019, 10:47 a.m.




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FOR SOME REASON, WE CAN’T FIND A SINGLE LEFTIST MARK ZUCKERBERG INVITED TO HIS DINNERS WITH PUNDITS FROM “ACROSS THE SPECTRUM”
Jon Schwarz, Sam Biddle


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‘Disposal complete’: ISIS chief al-Baghdadi buried at sea, like bin Laden, but photo & video proof remains classified – Pentagon
29 Oct, 2019 02:47 / Updated 2 hours ago

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