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Judge Unravels Illegal Activity by Prosecution That Ensured a Conviction of Renzi — But Will He Do Anything About it?
Rachel Alexander | Nov 02, 2015




Last Monday, Federal District Court Judge David Bury held an evidentiary hearing in Tucson to consider new evidence that prosecutorial wrongdoing took place during the criminal prosecution of imprisoned former Congressman Rick Renzi. Specifically, the judge considered whether the the FBI had offered money to — the one “victim” Renzi had allegedly extorted — to change his testimony and make it unfavorable toward Renzi in order to ensure a conviction. As the hearing was ending, the shocking bribery was exposed, Judge Bury told chief DOJ prosecuting attorney Gary Restaino he wrongly violated Renzi’s rights.

Who is Restaino and why was he so intent on convicting Renzi that he would violate the law? His wife, Leezie Kim, worked closely for former Arizona Democratic Governor Janet Napolitano, and Renzi had been rumored to be a potential contender against her for governor in 2006. In 2003, Kim took a sabbatical from Quarles Brady where she was an attorney to serve as the executive director of Napolitano’s Governor’s Citizens Finance Review Commission. She became the treasurer of Napolitano’s 2006 gubernatorial campaign and the treasurer of the Competitive Edge PAC in 2007, which was primarily started to support Napolitano.

Kim next became Napolitano’s general counsel in February 2008, and after Napolitano was confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security, joined her in Washington as a deputy general counsel. Kim left Washington in 2010 after news reports indicated that she was involved in efforts to limit responses to politically sensitive Freedom of Information Act requests. In addition to these active roles, Kim also donated $400 to the Arizona Democratic Party in 2005 and $928 to Democratic candidates in 2008.

Like his wife, Restaino is also a staunch Democrat who has donated to numerous Democrats in the past, including Barack

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FBI Agent Convicted of Assault Caught on Camera Knocking Teen ...


November 5 2015
An FBI agent has been found guilty of second-degree assault after jurors saw a cell phone video of him knocking a teenager to the ground .
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An FBI agent has been found guilty of second-degree assault after jurors saw a cell phone video of him knocking a teenager to the ground and threatening him with his service weapon.

The video, made public by the court late Tuesday, shows Gerald Rogero appearing to forcefully shove the teenager in the chest, sending him flying backwards and then landing on his back. Moments later, the video shows Rogero pulling out his gun and shouting at the 15-year-old, "If I have to shoot you I will. Don't make me shoot you."



The incident began as an argument over a child custody hand-over in Chevy Chase, Maryland, last December, authorities said. Rogero, his fiancée, and a woman he said is the child's mother, had been waiting for the child. The video shows Rogero aggressively berating Edward Moawad, the father of the little girl, for being late. Rogero was off-duty, in plain clothes, and did not identify himself on the video as an FBI agent to Moawad or the people with him -- Moawad's fiancée and her 15-year-old son.

The argument escalated as Moawad's fiancée repeatedly asked Rogero who he was, according to the video, which also shows Rogero responding, "Who are you?" When told the custody exchange was not his business, he is seen on the video saying, "I'm making this my business." When the group moved outside, the bickering turned belligerent, and the teenager stepped up to Rogero, angrily confronting him.

"Don't act stupid or you are going to get yourself locked up," Rogero told him.

But the arguing continued, and apparently expletives were exchanged -- the exact words are bleeped out of the video released by the court. Following the harsh language, Rogero shoved the boy to the ground, then scuffled with him after the teen got back on his feet. Finally, the boy followed Rogero's order to "get on the ground" face down, and was handcuffed. The boy was not arrested.

The jury convicted Rogero of second-degree assault on Friday, but acquitted him of the more serious charges of first-degree assault and a gun charge. Rogero was back in court Tuesday to set a sentencing date, and for a ruling on whether he could continue to carry his weapon. The judge decided Rogero would get to keep his service weapon -- at least until he is sentenced on Jan. 20.

Rogero's attorney, Marlon Wheat, told ABC News in a statement today that "Agent Rogero exercised his right to defen

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Fresh claim over role the FBI played in suicide of Ernest Hemingway


Friend reveals regret for dismissing writer's fear that he was being targeted by J Edgar Hoover
Ernest Hemingway AE Hotchner
AE Hotchner, left, after duck hunting with Ernest Hemingway in Ketchum, Idaho, in 1958.




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For five decades, literary journalists, psychologists and biographers have tried to unravel why Ernest Hemingway took his own life, shooting himself at his Idaho home while his wife Mary slept.

Some have blamed growing depression over the realisation that the best days of his writing career had come to an end. Others said he was suffering from a personality disorder.

Now, however, Hemingway's friend and collaborator over the last 13 years of his life has suggested another contributing factor, previously dismissed as a paranoid delusion of the Nobel prize-winning writer. It is that Hemingway was aware of his long surveillance by J Edgar Hoover's FBI, who were suspicious of his links with Cuba, and that this may have helped push him to the brink.


Writing in the New York Times on the 50th anniversary of Hemingway's death, AE Hotchner, author of Papa Hemingway and Hemingway and His World, said he believed that the FBI's surveillance "substantially contributed to his anguish and his suicide", adding that he had "regretfully misjudged" his friend's fear of the organisation.

The reassessment is significant as it was precisely because of Papa Hemingway that the writer's fear of being bugged and followed by the FBI first surfaced. Hotchner's belated change of heart casts a new light on the last few months of Hemingway's life and two incidents in particular.

In November 1960, Hotchner writes, he had gone to visit Hemingway and Mary in Ketchum, Idaho, for an annual pheasant shoot. Hemingway was behaving oddly, Hotchner recalls: "When Ernest and our friend Duke MacMullen met my train at Shoshone, Idaho, for the drive to Ketchum, we did not stop at the bar opposite the station as we usually did because Ernest was anxious to get on the road. I asked why the hurry. 'The Feds.'
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"'What?'

"'They tailed us all the way. Ask Duke.'

"'Well... there was a car back of us out of Hailey.'


"'Why are FBI agents pursuing you?' I asked.

"'It's the worst hell. The goddamnedest hell. They've bugged everything. That's why we're using Duke's car. Mine's bugged. Everything's bugged. Can't use the phone. Mail intercepted.'

"We rode for miles in silence. As we turned into Ketchum, Ernest said quietly: 'Duke, pull over. Cut your lights.' He peered across the street at a bank. Two men were working inside. 'What is it?' I asked. 'Auditors. The FBI's got them going over my account.'

"'But how do you know?'

"'Why would two auditors be working in the middle of the night? Of course it's my account'."

It would not be the only time during this visit that Hemingway would complain about being under FBI surveillance. On the last day of Hotchner's visit, at dinner with the writer and his wife, Hemingway pointed out two men at the bar who he identified as "FBI agents".

With the two incidents immediately preceding Hemingway's hospitilisation at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, where he received electric shock therapy, and several unsuccessful suicide attempts that followed his release, most have written off Hemingway's complaints about the FBI as largely delusional.
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In the 1980s, however, Hemingway's FBI file was released following a Freedom of Information request by Jeffrey Myers, an academic then at the University of Colorado. The file demonstrated a keen interest in Hemingway, including his wartime attempts to set up an anti-fascist spy network called the Crook Factory, and the interest persisted until he entered the Mayo Clinic in 1960.

Indeed, in January 1961, the special agent tasked with following him dutifully reported to Hoover in January of 1961 that Hemingway "was physically and mentally ill".

That file, running to more than 120 pages, 15 of them largely blacked out for national security reasons, also demonstrates quite how close an interest Hoover and his organisation took in Hemingway. It is reassessing the revelations contained in this file that prompted Hotchner to voice his regret that he had not taken Hemingway's

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Oregon Department Of Justice Investigated Tweets Of Black Lives Matter Supporters
"We are concerned that such unwarranted investigations are racially motivated."


Posted: 11/11/2015 08:17 PM EST |

An Oregon Department of Justice investigator conducted digital surveillance on supporters of Black Lives Matter, searching the movement's well-known hashtag as part of a threat assessment investigation, state Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum revealed in a letter Tuesday.

"When I initially heard about this incident I was appalled," Rosenblum said in her letter, which was in response to an earlier letter from the Portland chapter of the national civil rights organization the Urban League. The civil rights group sought an investigation into allegations that the state DOJ was digitally surveilling Oregonians for use of the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag on social media. Rosenblum confirmed an investigator in the Criminal Justice Division had conducted such an investigation.

Ironically, during the course of the DOJ social media investigation, Rosenblum said, a senior member of her own office was profiled by the action -- Erious Johnson, director of civil rights for the state justice department. Johnson is married to Urban League of Portland president Nkenge Harmon Johnson, who sent the original letter to Rosenblum's office.

Rosenblum explains in her letter that the DOJ investigator was using an "online search tool on a trial basis" to search selected Twitter hashtags in a specific geographical area, one of which was #BlackLivesMatter. The results of that search were provided to a member of Rosenblum's staff, who then alerted the AG.

Upon discovering the social media search, Rosenblum immediately ordered the Criminal Justice Division to stop using any such online search tool. She also shared the information with Johnson.

"It is improper, and potentially unlawful, for the Oregon Depart

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FBI Hid $500,000 Deal With Informant In Wild OC Home Invasion Robbery Case
Wed., Nov. 18 2015 at 2:07 PM

During 23 months of the ongoing Orange County snitch scandal that today won a national call for a U.S. Department of Justice probe, we've learned how certain courthouse prosecution teams cheat, how law-enforcement officials concoct clever explanations about how they accidentally rigged cases against dozens of defendants, and how judges--the people obligated to ensure honestly won convictions--are tolerating, if not outright encouraging, a pro-government warping of the criminal-justice system.

Our reporting has focused on a myriad of state court abuses that have captured national attention. But there's also cause for concern inside the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse in Santa Ana. One sensational, pending appellate case underscores how defendants can be robbed of key evidence while FBI agents, assistant United States attorneys and judges shrug their shoulders.

Vo Duong Tran of Louisiana and Yu Sung Park of Illinois are serving 30-year sentences for 2009 convictions stemming from a bizarre home-invasion robbery plot in Orange County. Bizarre not just because the conspiracy involved a machine gun, silencers, bulletproof vests, the threat of wiping out any early arriving cops, and the expected plundering of cash and cocaine from inside a Fountain Valley residence near Mile Square Park--but also because Tran and Park are former lawmen.

Through hundreds of hours of surreptitious recordings and various other surveillance tactics, prosecutors compiled evidence of guilt. And a jury has also spoken. But the case is notable because of a post-conviction discovery. Prosecutors hid from jurors the FBI's sweetheart--eyebrow-raising, really--deal with a Southern California underworld figure used to nab the duo. That omission wasn't inconsequential, according to the defense. The concealment struck at the heart of their claim that the agency conducted an unseemly vendetta against Tran.

Once an 11-year-old South Vietnam boat refugee fleeing communism with his family in 1978, Tran grew up in Connecticut. By 1992, he worked as an FBI special agent in Chicago. Nearly a decade later, his tenure fell into turmoil. Agency management revoked his top-secret security clearance and, believing he was a criminal, terminated him on April Fool's Day 2003. Tran believes the FBI acts constituted discrimination.

There is proof fellow agents loathed him. According to court records, they raided Tran's home without a warrant to search for compromising records; and then saw a budding criminal case against him collapse. In February 2006, federal Judge Linda T. Walker declared the raid illegal and, thus, banned the fruit of the search from court. Walker also blasted two FBI agents for telling "inconsistencies" about their pursuit of Tran, whom she found "more credible."

The fired agent moved to New Orleans and became the accomplished owner of multiple Verizon Wireless stores. Tran's earnings topped $800,000 in 2007, according to his
income-tax return. With his girlfriend, he became a family man with two young kids.

But the FBI remained determined to bring him down. For more than a year, they conducted wiretaps and monitored his activities without success. Then, with the help of the Fountain Valley Police Department, special agents in Orange County found an informant identified in court records as Trung "Alex" Dao. A financial adviser by day and Vietnamese gangster/con artist by night, Dao worked as an around-the-clock government snitch deeply tied to Asian gangs.

With the encouragement of the FBI, Dao attempted to involve Tran in criminal enterprises, including identity theft, extortion and narcotics sales. The scheming failed before agents found the scam that finally landed their suspect in handcuffs: the home-invasion robbery plan.
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Time for a Congressional Investigation? Shattering New Developments of Corruption in Rep. Renzi Trial
| Nov 23, 2015


The case of the corrupt prosecution against imprisoned former Congressman Rick Renzi continues to explode with new evidence of wrongdoing - literally every few weeks something else comes out. It is beginning to look like Fast and Furious as more information pours out implicating the government.

As I’ve explained previously, the crux of the case against Renzi was he had proposed a federal land exchange that allegedly would have benefited himself. Evidence came out during the trial and especially afterward revealing this wasn’t true. The FBI offered to give money to the government’s key witness/”victim,” Philip Aries, to change his story and say the land exchange was Renzi’s idea. The DOJ prosecutor, Gary Restaino, whose wife worked closely under Janet Napolitano, never disclosed this information to the defense.

As more evidence came out about this collusion in July, U.S. Federal District Court Judge David Bury granted a hearing to consider a new trial. I attended the hearing, where I met several of Renzi’s 12 children, who have developed into impressive young adults, sure of their dad’s innocence. I was shocked by what I heard as Aries and the main FBI agent repeatedly contradicted each other's testimony on the witness stand. How can you convict someone based on that?

The prosecution offered Renzi a deal right before the trial where he would have only done 10 months in prison if he would just lie and plead guilty to a small public corruption charge of failure to properly disclose his financial interest. If Renzi didn’t accept it, he was looking at possibly more than 35 felony charges and over 150 years in prison. Renzi prayed and fasted for seven days, drinking only water and asking God for wisdom. At the end of the fast, his son had to help assist him so he could eat. After eating, decided he could not accept the deal.

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couple of stories



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NSA, FBI ask judge to dismiss Utah Olympic spying lawsuit
Posted Dec 26th, 2015


The FBI and National Security Agency have asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a former Salt Lake City mayor who claims agencies conducted mass surveillance of emails, texts and phone calls during the city's 2002 Winter Olympics.

There's no evidence the security agencies intercepted all communications in the Salt Lake City area before and during the games, federal lawyers argued in court documents. They also said the plaintiffs cannot show they were harmed if the surveillance did happen.

The agencies filed court documents last week asking a federal judge in Utah to dismiss the case. A judge has not yet made a decision.

Attorney Rocky Anderson, who was Salt Lake City's mayor at the time of the games, said Thursday that warrantless surveillance is harmful and the federal government needs to be held accountable.

"If these incursions on our rights of privacy and federal felonies are allowed to continue to go unchallenged, then we are further paving the road toward a more totalitarian and closed government," he said.

Anderson said he learned about the program from a 2013 report in the Wall Street Journal and has since confirmed it with an unnamed source who worked for the NSA during the Olympics. The games in and around the Salt Lake City area took place less than six months after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

His lawsuit was filed in August and names six plaintiffs, including Republican Utah Sen. Howard Stephenson and Utah historian William Bagley.

Anderson said he has identified nearly 200 other people who could make similar claims that the agency violated their Constitutional rights as well as several laws.

In their response to the lawsuit, the NSA and FBI said the plaintiffs have not shown they have legal standing to seek damages or how they were harmed by "the claimed surveillance."

Agency lawyers also cited federal laws that make federal government immune from a lawsuit. Attorneys said an exception under the federal Privacy Act does not apply.

Anderson's lawsuit alleges the NSA and FBI collected the contents of text messages and emails and data on every phone call in the area without probable cause.

The lawsuit seeks damages of at least $10,000 per plaintiff. Anderson has said it could be expanded to hundreds of thousands of people_everyone who was in Salt Lake City during that time as well as anyone who communicated with someone there.

Anderson said Thursday that he plans to file a response to the government's claims and have at least one NSA source testify in the case.



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Where information goes to die

December 26 2015

If you're going to despise or distrust the federal government, at least do it for the right reasons.

Turn on the TV or fire up the trusty Internet and you can find as many reasons as voters to be upset by the folks in the federal government. To be fair, the government cannot win: We need more postal service, we need less. We need more military, we need to pull out of any number of countries. And on it goes.

For all the failings of the federal government, I would argue we have better reasons than what cable TV gives us to be angry.

Last week was a good reminder of something that is played out dozens of times a year right here in Montana. In the trial of a man accused of murder, jurors learned that the murder weapon was the service gun of a federal Bureau of Indian Affairs agent. That raises the question: How does that happen, and how often is the gun of a federal agent used in a murder? In Montana?
Stolen BIA guns

And yet one astute reader pointed out that it has happened before, even in the relatively recent past. It turns out that Big Horn County Sheriff Lawrence "Pete" Big Hair's gun was stolen and used as a murder weapon in 1994 when Big Hair worked for the (you guessed it) BIA.

But this isn't a free-for-all aimed at the BIA.

It was an astute reader who pointed out the coincidence. The BIA couldn't be bothered with our pesky questions last week. The only BIA spokesperson in nearby Washington D.C. was out of the office when we called to ask. Another nameless BIA employee told us there were no other people in the entire federal government who could answer media questions. For the record: We're still waiting for a call back.

This is representative of what passes for information, transparency and accountability at the federal level — a maddening pattern of silence.

The Gazette continues to ask questions of the BIA or the FBI, the agencies charged with investigation and law enforcement on the reservations. Rarely does information get released until court documents are filed, sometimes years later.

Here's a sample of cases we continue to follow, without any information:

Recently, human remains were found on the Crow Reservation. We continue to call about information.
Jeffrey Hewitt, 38, of Billings, was founded dead on the Crow Reservation. Few details have ever emerged on that investigation because the FBI has no comment.
A 2-year-old was found dead in Lame Deer. The coroner confirmed the BIA was investigating. All calls have been referred to Washington D.C.
The Gazette had to file a Freedom of Information Act request to get information about a shooting in Pryor. After the request, the federal agencies simply said there was no further information about it because the shooter was a minor.

Double standards

If Billings Police Chief Rich St. John or Yellowstone County Sheriff Mike Linder acted in the same way, citizens would be outraged, and those two fine law enforcement officers would be out of jobs.

That's the point: Law enforcement agencies shouldn't be above the law they're charged with upholding.

I don't buy the excuse that it's just what happens on "the rez." That's a common retort every time some loud-mouthed journalist like me starts poking at this issue. But, if we accept that it's just the way things go down on the reservations, then we devalue the lives of those harmed by the crimes. Crime is no less violent, no less important just because it falls to the federal government to investigate.

In this way, the federal government reinforces a dangerous notion: That somehow mostly Indian crimes in Indian country are second-class concerns; that they don't deserve as much attention, transparency or follow-up. And, it is more than apparent to those of us who have to cover the crimes on the reservation that Washington, D.C., simply doesn't care about what goes on in the hinterlands of some place in between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The federal government should be ashamed for its lackadaisical law enforcement attitude, but shame would require the outrage of voters, something there are just too few of in places like Montana. So, the FBI and BIA let cases linger into oblivion.
Rural outrage

Montana Sen. Jon Tester should be given plenty of credit for trying to get some answers. In October, he sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel — who oversees the BIA — sharing the same frustrations about transparency. Maybe it should make me feel better that Jewell's department doesn't really respond to a sitting U.S. senator either.

So there's outrage at law enforcement for how it treats minorities in big cities. I can only imagine the outrage and anger that would happen if a stolen gun from an urban police department gets used against someone in a big city. When it happens here, it's just a curious footnote on a murder.

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FBI specialist will speak in Dubuque about Internet safety

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Posted: Saturday, December 26, 2015 12:00 am

Online safety tips will be shared by a representative with the Federal Bureau of Investigation during a free public event in Dubuque.

Dubuque Community School District will host "Internet Safety for Parents and Community" at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 7, inside the George Washington Middle School auditorium.

FBI victim specialist Karen Gale will share information for parents, children and community members on how to stay safe online given risks as cyberbullying, exposure to inappropriate material and sexting.

Gale has been a victim specialist for more than 10 years. Her experience assisting victims and their families covers federal crimes like human trafficking, online sexual exploitation, kidnapping cases and mass-casualty events.

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May 15, 2012, 11:56 AM
Donald Sachtleben, former FBI agent, arrested on child pornography charges


Federal investigators say a former FBI bomb technician was arrested for possession and distribution of child pornography



INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - Federal investigators have arrested 54-year-old Donald Sachtleben, an Oklahoma State University visiting professor with an FBI career spanning 25 years, for child pornography charges.

Investigators said they were led to Sachtleben last fall when they found a computer of an Illinois man who was arrested for trading child porn. Data from that computer were traced back to Sachtleben, who allegedly had 30 images and video files of child pornography.

His attorney, Kathleen Sweeney, told The Associated Press that a not guilty plea was entered Monday. According to his LinkedIn profile, Sachtleben served as a bomb technician for the FBI between 1983 and 2008. Sweeney said he was involved in the Oklahoma City bombing and Unabomber investigations. He had a distinguished career with no suggestion of any inappropriate behavior.

Sachtleben is jailed and awaiting a hearing on Thursday. If


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Secretive data analytics startup, Palantir, increases total value by $5 billion


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Saturday 26th December, 2015
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PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Low-profile data analytics startup Palantir has reportedly raised $880 million in recent weeks, increasing its overall value from $15 billion to $20 billion.

The private Silicon Valley company, helmed by CEO Alex Karp, services government agencies, such as the CIA and FBI, and businesses through accessible data analysis and specialized solutions ranging from fraud issues to national defense.

Sources told The New York Times Palantir's latest round of funding, which commenced last summer, raised a total of around $2 billion. Known investors are reportedly Bridgewater Associates, Tiger Global Management and Morgan Stanley.

Any new investing firms have not yet been revealed.

Palantir is now the fourth highest-valued startup in the world after leading contenders Xiaomi, Uber and Airbnb. It was launched in 2004 by founders Alex Karp, Peter Thiel



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McAfee anti-virus creator to run for U.S. president as Libertarian
John McAfee, developer of McAfee Anti-virus software, has filed to run for president as a Libertarian candidate.



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Dec. 26, 2015 at 4:18 PM

McAfee Antivirus developer John McAfee has announced he will seek the Libertarian nomination for president. Photo by John McAfee/Twitter

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 2015-- John McAfee, better known in recent years for his brushes with the law in Belize and Guatemala than for his anti-virus software, filed to run for United States president as a Libertarian candidate.

McAfee told USA Today he plans to run on a platform of pardoning all marijuana users in prison and and to "stop the U.S. from being the world's policeman."

Doug Craig, a national board member of the Libertarian Party, said,"He fits right in with our political philosophy.:

Earlier this year, McAfee vowed to run as a member of the Cyber Party to "disrupt the political status quo" where his platform would focus on the "dangerously ignored issue of cybersecurity."

McAfee's campaign website says his qualifications for president are many:

"I have run a multi-billion dollar company, having to make decisions based on cash availability and the existence of real competitors while my government lived in a fantasy world and printed money when they had none to spend. I lived in a Third World Banana Republic, was tortured and had to watch my dog shot in front of my eyes by a soldier trained by the FBI at Quantico using an Ar-15 supplied by the US Government. I hid in the jungles of Central America for weeks while being chased by an army representing a government that I had refused to be extorted by."

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People interested in creating standards of performance for law enforcement
and a volunteer civilian review police board with subpoena powers
can post their ideas here.
If they want to talk with people who have taken a leadwership role
in these areas contact Andrea Pritchett at Berkeley Copwatch
Dan Handelman at Portland Copwatch and Mary Powers at Citizens Alert

The Huffington Post today was critical of the FBI lack of standards
in reporting police shootings/killing of civilians




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The Big Problem With The FBI's Tracking Of Fatal Shootings By Police
A Washington Post senior editor says the agency did "a very poor job."
12/29/2015 11:26 am ET



According to a comprehensive report from The Washington Post, nearly 1,000 Americans were shot and killed by police in 2015. That startling number aside, another surprising finding from the data is just how little the FBI truly understood the breadth of police shootings in pervious years.

Washington Post senior editor Marc Fisher discussed the report with HuffPost Live's Alyona Minkovski on Monday, explaining that because most American law enforcement is decentralized and locally-powered, national numbers about killings at the hands of police were lacking -- until now.

"The FBI does make at least a partial effort to get this information," Fisher said. "They ask police departments across the country to voluntarily report fatal shootings by their officers, but only a small number of those departments bother to do that, so the FBI's reports are extremely incomplete, which is what we found this year when our tally came up with three times as many fatal shootings as the FBI had in each of the preceding nine years."

That doesn't mean there was a huge increase in fatal shootings by police this year, Fisher said. Instead, the numbers show the FBI's deficiency in investigating the data.

"What's going on is the FBI was really doing a very poor job of collecting this information, which they'

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2 stories one about FBI agents killing trapped women and children



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FBI to deal with militia group at Malheur Refuge
Officials will work with local officials to try to bring an end to the situation
Colin Miner and KOIN 6 News Staff Published: January 3, 2016, 11:45 am Updated: January 3, 2016, 4:02 pm





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Ex-FBI agent, daughter charged with murdering woman's husband
Published January 05, 2016


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A North Carolina woman and her former FBI agent father have been charged in the August murder of the woman's husband.

Molly Martens Corbett, a 31-year-old former model, and her father, retired FBI agent Thomas Michael Martens, were charged with second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter in the death of Corbett's husband in August, according to grand jury indictments unsealed Monday.



“It was an extremely thorough investigation,” Davidson County Sheriff David Grice told The-Dispatch newspaper Monday. “We are pleased with the decision of the grand jury."

Authorities found 39-year-old Jason Paul Corbett, of County Limerick, Ireland, with fatal head injuries when they responded to a 911 call about an assault just after 3 a.m. on Aug. 2 at Corbett's Davidson County, N.C., home.

According to police reports obtained by The-Dispatch, the caller, believed to be 65-year-old Martens, told a Davidson County 911 operater he had been in an argument with his son-in-law and struck him with a baseball bat.

Corbett and Martens, of Knoxville, Tenn., were immediately identified as persons of interest in the case.

Jason Corbett had two young children from a prior marriage. His first wife, Margaret Fitzpatrick Corbett, died in November 2006 of a sudden asthma attack, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. Corbett married Martens in 2011.

Corbett's death caused a bitter custody battle between Molly Martens Corbett and her late husband's family in Ireland. The children’s aunt and uncle in Ireland ultimately gained custody, according to multiple media reports.

Mike Earnest,, Molly Martens Corbett's uncle, told UTV Ireland that the two are expected to claim self-defense, arguing their actions were necessary and justified.

Earnest released a statement to the media Monday, saying, “I have known Tom Martens for 44 years and Molly since she was born 32 years ago; there are no finer people

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The question the Volunteer Civilian Review Board would
ask:


Why didn't FBI agents go after Hitler
and bring him to trial?

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Hitler did fake his death and escaped to Tenerife, claims former war crimes investigator
Did the defeated dictator dodge justice and make his way to sun-soaked Canary Island
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Holidays in the sun ... do newly released files prove Hitler escaped Berlin

STARTLING evidence that Adolf Hitler faked his own death and fled to the Brit-favoured holiday island of Tenerife has been revealed by a former UN war crimes investigator.

Working from 700 pages of newly declassified FBI files, respected investigator John Cencich has concluded the Nazi leader did not commit suicide with new wife Eva Braun in the Führerbunker as previously believed.

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Carl Jung: OSS Spy #488, 1942-1945
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In Allen Dulles: Master of Spies (1999), James Scrodes mentions his professional and personal involvement with Swiss psychologist Carl Jung. Deidre Bair reported further on Jung's covert affairs as Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Agent #488 in Jung, a Biography (2003).

During WWII, Carl Jung was recruited by Allen Dulles, through OSS spy Mary Bancroft, to provide strategic psychological profiles on Hitler, Mussolini, and the German psyche for the Allies. She published her Autobiography of a Spy in 1983.

Dulles, who ran the proto-CIA, met on several occasions with Jung, who provided valuable insight into the workings of Hitler's mind. They shared other interests and knew personal secrets about one another. Jung may have sparked an interest in ESP, handwriting analysis and psychic drugs in Dulles, even UFOs.

Jung was an architect of a dynamic model of the psyche that helped him frame actors and potential outcomes. His psychological intuitions and nationalistic heuristics and unique ability to assess HUMINT (human intelligence sources and reports) were useful to the espionage establishment. Human nature is crucial to running assets.

Raw HUMINT has to be process for the intelligence community and battlefield. HUMINT is essential preparation for working in and on cultures as well as character studies and differentiation of subject types for selecting potential sources. Social sciences are critical to cultural intelligence.

Who knows how much crucial information Jung may have imparted to Dulles in their casual talks? Rapport, defenses, and projection are a few of Jung's subjects that may have helped structure modern tradecraft, agent operation and propaganda. Powerful information is created by knowing which archetypes are in play and the primal responses they generate in the targets.

HUMINT has shaped foreign policy decisions throughout history, so insight on how humans operate is useful in recruiting, interviewing, interrogating and debriefing, as well as assessing authenticity, intentions and motivations. General Eisenhower read Jung's report before the final invasion of Germany, when Hitler's machinations, delusional systems, and paranoia were driven by a cocktail of mindbending drugs. Jung successfully predicted that Hitler would kill himself. Jung's profiles of Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini are in C.G. Jung Speaking, Bollingen Press (1978).

We can use Jung's method to free associate about the meaning of Agent 488: Conspiracy-minded qabalists and symbologists might note the Jewish gematria of 488 includes "Truth," "The Mark of the Beast," and "The Great Dragon," "Serpent's Head," "Satan Speaks," "Lord is rising," "Time to break free," "Ancient Bloodlines." It also implies "to open, to throw open, to untie, to loosen or opening, entrance, doorway, gate, portal," etc. All that makes some symbolic sense in relation to Jung's advocacy of the nature of the Collective Unconscious. He certainly opened that portal to the vast Unknown conceptually and experientially, with all its gods, ghosts, spirits and devils.

Curiously, the #55 assigned to Dulles reads, "Everything Comes from The One" which it certainly did in OSS/CIA. It is also the number of the Elohim, the endtime Elijah, called Elias for those with a biblical view. Adding them yields 543, curiously the number for I AM THAT I AM. The less psychological could see the hand of God at work. Naturally, such ruminations might turn your brain to hyperdimensional jello.

Rather than gathering clandestine information, Jung was a profiler, debriefer, and analyst producing assessments of foreign leaders (motivations, capability, plans, and intentions) and political situations for policy makers, targeting opportunities for intelligence operations. Today that would be called Counterterrorism. Bair also reveals that one of Hitler's doctors entreated Jung to observe Hitler in Germany to declare him insane, so he could be ousted by opponents.

Framing Jung

If we "profile the profiler," we find visionaries and spies share some of the same traits that ultimately mold worldviews and events. Jung's introverted thinking and intuition somehow mirrored that of Dulles's powers of observation and analysis. Both mercurial personalities shared the Promethean temperament and were adept at prognostication, quick and accurate anecdotal evidence and network analysis with fast rational solutions to manipulate and define the perceived reality. Both worked sub rosa, beneath the veil of professional confidentiality and realized the occult, or at least belief in the occult, was one key to world events.

Both opportunistic tricksters enjoyed building systems and theoretical frameworks, including vulnerabilities and risk management. "Keying" a strip of activity facilitates its transformation into another pattern. "Fabrication" supports the intentional exploration of scenarios with specific outcomes to manage activity and induce false beliefs about what is going on. There are "benign" and "exploitative" frames in espionage and psychopathic manipulation. By its very nature, espionage creates real and fabricated frames. "Keyed frames" are subject to failure through perceptual errors, intervening natural events, and ambiguity. If the deceived discover the frame they may reorganize their covert activity. The expanded threat frame leads to countermeasure -- counterintelligence.

A frame describes the principles of organizations that govern events and our subjective involvement in them against the spatial and temporal field. Framing, an operational theory, is essential to analysis, as political framing is to espionage. One social framework can transform into others. You must to have a grasp of the threat landscape to frame the right questions. Framed strips of activity feed into tracks or channels of a main story at the center of the frame. Subordinate paths include concealed, overlaid and overlooked lines. Frame analysis can also be viewed as concentric layers, like an onion skin -- a metaphor Jung employed to describe the depths of the psyche.

According to Bair, when Allen Dulles entered Switzerland in November 1942 he was secretly working as an “advance man” for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Switzerland. (Dulles would later head the CIA.) “For some time, Jung became Dulles’s ‘sort of senior advisor on a weekly, if not almost daily, basis.’” The following year, “Jung became ‘Agent 488’ in Dulles’s reports to OSS offices in Washington and London, and 488’s dispatches were considered fact and figured prominently in the agency’s operational policies.” Dulles said Jung “[understood] the characteristics of the sinister leaders of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. His judgment on these leaders and on their likely reactions to passing events was of real help to me in gauging the political situation. His deep antipathy to what Nazism and Fascism stood for was clearly evidenced in these conversations.” In fact, Jung constructed the first in-depth psychological profiles of political enemies such as Hitler. “By 1945 […] Jung’s views on how best to get [German] civilians to accept defeat were being read by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Jung’s analysis of Nazi propaganda was that it tried ‘to hollow out a moral hole with the hope of eventual collapse.’” Ibid., pp. 492-494. http://www.tygersofwrath.com/00jung2001review.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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During World War II, Allen returned to the Bern embassy, putting his mistress's psychoanalyst, Carl Jung, to work for the Allied cause, recruiting a senior official of the German foreign office, tapping into the ill-fated conspiracy to kill Hitler, and playing a part in the surrender of the Nazi armies in Italy.

Mary Bancroft (October 29, 1903, Boston - January 10, 1997, New York City) was an American novelist and spy and a member of the Bancroft family, which at one time owned Dow Jones & Company. In 1942, while living in Switzerland, Bancroft was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services, and both worked and had a romantic relationship with Allen Dulles. Her most important work was with Hans Bernd Gisevius, a German military intelligence officer who supplied her with details of the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. After the war, Bancroft settled in New York and became a novelist. She moved to Zurich, Switzerland in 1934, where she learned excellent French and German, and became a close friend and student of Carl Jung, who cured her of chronic attacks of sneezing.

Bancroft, despite appearing to be exceptionally extroverted, suffered silently from asthma and violent sneezing fits. She suspected they were psychosomatic and brought on by emotional turmoil. She sought out the celebrated psychologist Carl Jung, who cured her through analysis and became a lifelong friend. Her relationship with Jung was summarized in her New York Times obituary: "To Jung … her appeal was textbook obvious. In his scheme of things she was an extroverted intuitive, one who had experienced such fierce inter-family battles for her affections as a child that power had become her natural element. She had such an instinctive knack for wielding it, [Jung] told her, that men seeking or holding power would cherish her advice, as indeed they did." The list of Bancroft's male consorts over time included film director Woody Allen, Time, Inc. CEO Henry R. Luce, and Allen Dulles, who laid the foundations of what would become known as the Central Intelligence Agency. Bancroft's interactions with Jung fostered a lifelong interest in psychology, and she often lectured on Jung and others in his field when she had the chance. She also became a trustee of the Jung Foundation in New York after his death, and a contributing editor and writer for Psychological Perspectives , a Jungian academic journal.
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"O.S.S. & the Frankfurt School: Recycling 'the damaged lives of cultural outsiders'
Unformatted Document Text: 6 Kluckhohn Murray Jung Bancroft Dulles Bruce Donovan Benedict Erikson Mellon Mellon Mellon Kris Murray Casey Langer Allport Dulles Hyde* Hyde Hyde Hyde * I interviewed O.S.S.er Henry Baldwin Hyde 1995-1997 weekly.
Schlesinger “I Don’t Want to Be Jung’s Footnote” Jung, Bancroft & Dulles
Socialite Mary Bancroft is the pivot in a Swiss intelligence menage a trois between her two father figure-lovers, Berne-O.S.S. station chief Allen Dulles, and her therapist, Carl Jung. Dulles once impatiently told Mary, “I don’t want to go down in history as a footnote to a case of Jung’s!” In 1944-45, Henry Hyde took four trips to see Allen Dulles in Switzerland to loan Dulles, a POW Czech radio operator named Wally, for Operation Sunrise. On one of these trips, Hyde traveled from Lyon to just inside the Swiss border where he was met by car by Mary Bancroft. Mary got out of the car; kissed Henri on both cheeks, and drove off in another car with a man. Hyde drove Mary’s car to the Geneva Airport, picked up Paul Mellon (O.S.S.-MO) who had just flown in from England. Hyde drove Mellon to a beautiful old hotel overlooking Lausanne where Jung was waiting for him upstairs in a hotel room. Mellon's mission was to hear Jung's psychoanalysis of Hitler's mind and the German collective unconscious. Hyde waited for Mellon in the hotel lobby, then drove Mellon back after his meeting with Jung. Paul and Mary Mellon had been patients of Jung’s since 1938. Mellon wanted to see Jung again during the war; family therapy revisited. Paul and Mary, husband-wife patients of Jung, had raved to their brother-in-law OSS Station Chief London, David Bruce, who had married Paul’s sister Aisle, about Jungian psychoanalysis."
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Judge approves tea party group’s lawsuit against IRS
First Posted: 7:35 pm - January 14th, 2016



CINCINNATI ) — A federal judge in Ohio has approved class-action status for a tea party group’s lawsuit stemming from IRS delays in approving nonprofit status for conservative groups seeking the tax-exemption classification.

The NorCal Tea Party Patriots sued the IRS, along with workers and officials in Cincinnati and Washington, after it was revealed in 2013 that the IRS delayed approving conservative groups for the nonprofit status. The FBI investigated, but no criminal charges were filed.

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports (http://cin.ci/1ZkDPAg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) a U.S. District Court judge in Cincinnati granted class-action status Tuesday. That means other affected groups across the country can join the case unless

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New Book Says FBI Was Mastermind Behind MLK Assassination and Its Cover-up
January 18, 2016 |


Martin Luther King's assassination




Aides on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. with the stricken Dr. King.

Aides on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. with the stricken Dr. King.*New Book Says FBI Was Mastermind Behind MLK Assassination and Its Cover-up

As the nation celebrates what would have been Martin Luther King’s 87th birthday on January 15, we must ask some questions: What role did the FBI play in King’s assassination? What did they know, and what role did the agency play in covering up the truth about his murder?

It is no surprise that J. Edgar Hoover, the founder and head of the FBI until his timely departure in 1972, waged a war against Black America, civil rights leadership and Black nationalist organizations with his COINTELPRO program. As a result of the program — its role to “prevent the rise of a Black messiah”— Black leadership ended up murdered and imprisoned, and its institutions compromised and decimated. At one point Hoover called Dr. King “the most notorious liar in the country,” as the FBI monitored the civil rights leader, bugged his hotel rooms, and even sent him a letter encouraging him to commit suicide. But two authors believe the agency did even more, having a direct role in his assassination through FBI informants.

In their book, Killing King: The Multi-Year Effort to Murder MLK, Stuart Wexler and co-author Larry Hancock delve into the notion of a cover-up into the King assassination. Specifically, they allege that the FBI under Clarence Kelly, Hoover’s successor, misled Congress by destroying files related to the murder of King. Wexler says the bureau disobeyed a direct order to preserve all materials, destroying files in two field offices on Tommy Tarrants, a high-ranking Ku Klux Klan member from Mississippi, in 1977. This came as a new Congressional committee was established to investigate the assassination of King and President Kennedy. The author claims there was something about Tarrants that made the FBI upgrade him from an obscure racist to a major player in the assassination.

“I have no doubt this was done deliberately. They are not destroying everybody’s files, they are selectively destroying files,” Wexler told the Daily Mail. “They wanted Tarrants to give evidence to the committee; they didn’t want him to be a suspect.”

Meanwhile, according to Wexler, a man named Laude Matthews was in line to take over the leadership of the Mississippi Klan. Wexler refers to Matthews as “a big time deep cover agent for the FBI.”

“’We can imagine a situation where the FBI does not want the Congressional investigation to lead back to Laude Matthews,” Wexler speculated, offering that the Mississippi Klan was among the most violent, anti-Black chapters of the organization. “They did not want to expose him to suspicion. Imagine what it would have looked like if an FBI informant had a connection to the King assassination?”

The author added that if true, it would prove to be one of the worst scandals in the history of the agency.

“If the FBI had covered its tracks over King’s assassination, it would fit into the pattern of duplicity and double dealing that marked the bureau’s handling of King,” he said.

Tarrants, Wexler noted, eventually steered away from his radical Christian racism and is now a preacher.

“Until then he had been in prison for a bombing and he’d made a full conversion. The FBI arranged for him to get out of prison, which was unheard of,” Wexler said.

In their previous book, The Awful Grace of God, Wexler and Hancock chronicled a multi-year effort by a national network of white supremacists to kill Dr. King, and their systematic attempts to do so. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray confessed to the murder but later recanted.

And now, as America finds itself in the midst of a new movement for the rights of Black folks, white domestic terrorism is on the rise. And as

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For the last year FBI agents have mounted a
massive campaign saying they now will track
people who abuse animals.


This was after FBI agent Lovett Ledger
was arrested and convicted after shooting and killing
dogs in his neighborehood.


FBI supervisors refused to fire FBI Ledger
after his conviction for this crime.

This got the FBI propaganda office cranking
out stories likw this.
After all it is all about how FBI agents
appear to the public.


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Capgras Syndrome: FBI Monitors Man With Mental Disorder That Makes Him Believe His Cat Was Evil

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Jan 25, 2016
Capgras Syndrome: FBI Monitors Man With Mental Disorder That Makes Him Believe His Cat Was Evil

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reportedly is monitoring a 73-year-old man that thinks his cat had been replaced by an identical



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Dog Killing FBI Agent Gets a “Slap on the Wrist” VIDEO
Sunday, July 12th, 2009 at 8:40 am

Lovett Leslie Ledger indicted for shooting dead of neighbor's dogThere are times when I’m not sure why I ever actually expect more from our justice system. Last February, a Waco, TX FBI agent, a sniper and member of the FBI SWAT team, Lovett Leslie Ledger, Jr. shot and killed a neighbor’s little 3-lb chihuahua named Sassy, with a pellet rifle and although indicted for felony animal cruelty the only ones who paid for this crime were the dog with its life and the family who lost their tiny little furry family member.

Cyndi Mitchell, who lives across the street from FBI agent, Lovett Leslie Ledger, told authorities that she witnessed Ledger shoot the dog in front of her house with a pellet rifle on Feb. 29.

Mitchell has said that her dogs were barking and she went to the door and saw Sassy walking on Estes Road in front of her house.

The dog lurched to one side upon being shot, then rolled into a yard where she died, she has said.

“I’ve never heard a noise like that from an animal,” Mitchell said, describing it as “a screaming sound.”

As neighbors gathered around the fallen dog, Ledger took the pellet gun, turned and walked inside his house with one of his children.

Initially when confronted by authorities about the crime, Ledger lied but changed his story when witnesses came forward.

He was later indicted by a grand jury for cruelty to animals, a state jail felony punishable by up to two years in a state jail and a $10,000 fine.

Pleading no contest, Judge Matt Johnson in 54th District Court sentenced Ledger to two years deferred probation and ordered to perform 300 hours of community service. Not only that, if he completes the term of probation, the conviction will be expunged from his record.

FBI spokesman Erik Vasys said Wednesday the agency will determine whether Ledger faces any sanctions, which could range from suspension to dismissal, after an internal inquiry is completed. Initially it was reported that if convicted of the felony, that would mostly likely be the end of his career, with Ledger getting deferred adjudication probation, the FBI will probably just let him get away with it too. After all, if

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Head of the FBI’s Anthrax Investigation Says the Whole Thing Was a Sham
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Agent In Charge of Amerithrax Investigation Blows the Whistle

The FBI head agent in charge of the anthrax investigation – Richard Lambert – has just filed a federal whistleblower lawsuit calling the entire FBI investigation bulls**t:

In the fall of 2001, following the 9/11 attacks, a series of anthrax mailings occurred which killed five Americans and sickened 17 others. Four anthrax-laden envelopes were recovered which were addressed to two news media outlets in New York City (the New York Post and Tom Brokaw at NBC) and two senators in Washington D.C. (Patrick Leahy and Tom Daschle). The anthrax letters addressed to New York were mailed on September 18, 2001, just seven days after the 9/11 attacks. The letters addressed to the senators were mailed 21 days later on October 9, 2001. A fifth mailing of anthrax is believed to have been directed to American Media, Inc. (AMI) in Boca Raton, Florida based upon the death of one AMI employee from anthrax poisoning and heavy spore contamination in the building.

Executive management at FBI Headquarters assigned responsibility for the anthrax investigation (code named “AMERITHRAX”) to the Washington Field Office (WFO), dubbing it the single most important case in the FBI at that time. In October 2002, in the wake of surging media criticism, White House impatience with a seeming lack of investigative progress by WFO, and a concerned Congress that was considering revoking the FBI’s charter to investigate terrorism cases, Defendant FBI Director Mueller reassigned Plaintiff from the FBI’s San Diego Field Office to the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters and placed Plaintiff in charge of the AMERITHRAX case as an “Inspector.” While leading the investigation for the next four years, Plaintiff’s efforts to advance the case met with intransigence from WFO’s executive management, apathy and error from the FBI Laboratory, politically motivated communication embargos from FBI Headquarters, and yet another preceding and equally erroneous legal opinion from Defendant Kelley – all of which greatly obstructed and impeded the investigation.

On July 6, 2006, Plaintiff provided a whistleblower report of mismanagement to the FBI’s Deputy Director pursuant to Title 5, United States Code, Section 2303. Reports of mismanagement conveyed in writing and orally included: (a) WFO’s persistent understaffing of the AMERITHRAX investigation; (b) the threat of WFO’s Agent in charge to retaliate if Plaintiff disclosed the understaffing to FBI Headquarters; (c) WFO’s insistence on staffing the AMERITHRAX investigation principally with new Agents recently graduated from the FBI Academy resulting in an average investigative tenure of 18 months with 12 of 20 Agents assigned to the case having no prior investigative experience at all; (d) WFO’s eviction of the AMERITHRAX Task Force from the WFO building in downtown Washington and its relegation to Tysons Corner, Virginia to free up space for Attorney General Ashcroft’s new pornography squads; (e) FBI Director’s Mueller’s mandate to Plaintiff to “compartmentalize” the AMERITHRAX investigation by stove piping the flow of case information and walling off task force members from those aspects of the case not specifically assigned to them – a move intended to stem the tide of anonymous media leaks by government officials regarding details of the investigation. [Lambert complained about compartmentalizing and stovepiping of the investigation in a 2006 declaration. See this, this and this]

This sequestration edict decimated morale and proved unnecessary in light of subsequent civil litigation which established that the media leaks were attributable to the United States Attorney for the District of the District of Columbia and to a Supervisory Special Agent in the FBI’s National Press Office, not to investigators on the AMERITHRAX Task Force; (f) WFO’s diversion and transfer of two Ph.D. Microbiologist Special Agents from their key roles in the investigation to fill billets for an 18 month Arabic language training program in Israel; (g) the FBI Laboratory’s deliberate concealment from the Task Force of its discovery of human DNA on the anthrax-laden envelope addressed to Senator Leahy and the Lab’s initial refusal to perform comparison testing; (h) the FBI Laboratory’s refusal to provide timely and adequate scientific analyses and forensic examinations in support of the investigation; (i) Defendant Kelley’s erroneous and subsequently quashed legal opinion that regulations of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) precluded the Task Force’s collection of evidence in overseas venues; (j) the FBI’s fingering of Bruce Ivins as the anthrax mailer; and, (k) the FBI’s subsequent efforts to railroad the prosecution of Ivins in the face of daunting exculpatory evidence.

Following the announcement of its circumstantial case against Ivins, Defendants DOJ and FBI crafted an elaborate perception management campaign to bolster their assertion of Ivins’ guilt. These efforts included press conferences and highly selective evidentiary presentations which were replete with material omissions. Plaintiff further objected to the FBI’s ordering of Plaintiff not to speak with the staff of the CBS television news magazine 60 Minutes or investigative journalist David Willman, after both requested authorization to interview Plaintiff.

In April 2008, some of Plaintiff’s foregoing whistleblower reports were profiled on the CBS television show 60 Minutes. This 60 Minutes segment was critical of FBI executive management’s handling of the AMERITHRAX investigation, resulting in the agency’s embarrassment and the introduction of legislative bills calling for the establishment of congressional inquiries and special commissions to examine these issues – a level of scrutiny the FBI’s Ivins attribution could not withstand.

After leaving the AMERITHRAX investigation in 2006, Plaintiff continued to publicly opine that the quantum of circumstantial evidence against Bruce Ivins was not adequate to satisfy the proof-beyond-a-reasonable doubt threshold required to secure a criminal conviction in federal court. Plaintiff continued to advocate that while Bruce Ivins may have been the anthrax mailer, there is a wealth of exculpatory evidence to the contrary which the FBI continues to conceal from Congress and the American people.

Exonerating Evidence for Ivins

Agent Lambert won’t publicly disclose the exculpatory evidence against Ivins. As the New York Times reports:

[Lambert] declined to be specific, saying that most of the information was protected by the Privacy Act and was unlikely to become public unless Congress carried out its own inquiry.

But there is already plenty of exculpatory evidence in the public record.

For example:

Handwriting analysis failed to link the anthrax letters to known writing samples from Ivins

No textile fibers were found in Ivins’ office, residence or

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Did the FBI Kill My Father?
02/09/2016 04:34 pm ET

Anthony Colombo
Author and the eldest son of Joseph Colombo

Forty-five years ago, my father, Joe Colombo, the alleged boss of the "Colombo" crime family, and founder of the Italian-American Civil Rights League, was gunned down among a crowd of thousands in one of the most highly publicized shootings in New York City's history.

To the media and the FBI my father was head of one of New York's infamous Five Families. To the Italian-American community he was an organizer and leader. To his family he was a great husband and father. As Joe Colombo's son, who was responsible for my father's death -- and that the efforts he made for the Italian-American community have gone unrecognized -- has weighed heavily on me for years. I finally decided I would write a book to address who my father really was, and to address who should be held responsible for his death. The book is based on my personal life beside my father, my in-depth knowledge surrounding his shooting, and what I've come to learn was a suspiciously flawed investigation into his death.

At the time of his shooting, my father had made enemies of the FBI, the NYPD, and various members involved in organized crime. In many ways, my father's shooting parallels the assassination of JFK. After all the shock and finger pointing, an official investigation embraced a "lone gunman" theory. And in both cases, the general public had serious doubts. Similar to JFK, there has never been any question as to who pulled the trigger, but the question has remained for over 45 years who pulled the strings behind the trigger man?

My father's life was a classic tale of rags to riches; he was a young boy from the streets of Brooklyn, who in 1971 was voted New York Magazine's top ten most powerful men in New York and was also featured on the cover of Time. Tragically, at the height of my father's influence, on June 28, 1971, he was shot while standing inside a press barricade at Columbus Circle a few hours before an Italian-American civil rights rally. The shooter, Jerome Johnson, was immediately subdued and handcuffed by police. Johnson had posed as a cameraman with official press credentials. Minutes after Johnson was subdued he was shot and murdered while still handcuffed and surrounded by a sea of NYPD blue.

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Jerome Johnson being carried to an ambulance after being shot by an unidentified shooter while in the custody of the NYPD.

Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department, Albert Seedman, led the investigation and within days made statements to the media alluding to the conspiracy involved in the shooting and it being solved. An excerpt from my book Colombo: The Unsolved Murder:

"On Friday July 2nd four days after the shooting, Seedman called for a special conference with the city's Chief Inspector Codd and Deputy Police Commissioner Robert Daley. Seedman had just returned from a meeting with a source in Brooklyn and reported excitedly, 'It was a Mob hit! According to my information the contract was let by Gambino himself. The price was $40,000. Furthermore, Colombo is supposed to be the first in a series of hits. Next on the list are Mrs. Colombo and the two oldest sons. It's to be a reign of terror, the object of which is to destroy both the League and the Colombo Mob completely.'"

After a year of investigation the NYPD closed my father's case saying Johnson was a lone gunman. This was a theory inconsistent with Chief Seedman's previous certain belief that Johnson had not acted alone. The case was closed even though evidence showed Johnson was not capable of planning and executing such an elaborate plot alone. Johnson's immediate murder after he shot my father also went unsolved. The truth is Chief Seedman still believed this was all a mob hit as he later printed in his book, Chief. Daniel P. Hollman, then the Chief of the Joint Strike Force to Combat Organized Crime, agreed Johnson had not acted alone, but disagreed with Chief Seedman about the shooting and stated to the press he believed Johnson was not a mob affiliate. He noted how organized crime members would never send a crazed gunman shooting into a crowd of women and children.

Like Chief Seedman and Agent Hollman, I have not been convinced Johnson was a lone gunman. I believe, just as they both did, there was a conspiracy in Columbus Circle the day of my father's shooting. The information in my book leans towards a more sophisticated plot arguing that certainly a conspiracy existed, but not one perpetrated by elements of organized crime. I know that not to be true. In the decades since the shooting not one mob informant, and there have been quite a few, has corroborated Chief Seedman's or the media's assertion it was a mob hit. An FBI plot to kill my Father? Possibly. Law enforcement's involvement? Most probably. Why the FBI? Why law enforcement?

My father was a number one target of the FBI at that time. He had organized the Italian-American community in a way never seen. Within one year my father, through the Italian-American Civil Rights League, forced the U.S. Justice Department to eliminate the use of the words "Mafia" and "La Cosa Nostra", he shut down production of the film The Godfather, and rallied over 200,000 people in pickets and protests of the FBI. Despite the FBI's belief my father was a mob boss, he had criminal cases against him dismissed, and even a conviction reversed by the Supreme Court of the United States with the help of a brilliant young lawyer, Barry Slotnick. My father was beating the FBI in the street, with public opinion, and in court.

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My father (left with megaphone) and me (far right) organizing a protest of the FBI.

The 1960s and 70s were a turbulent time in our nation's history. Evidence of FBI illegal activities leaked in 1971 when an FBI field office in Pennsylvania was broken into and the "Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI" obtained internal FBI memorandum, which outlined an aggressive program of domestic spying. The program known as COINTELPRO (short for Counter Intelligence Program) was exposed. Agents executing the COINTELPRO program had their direct orders from then FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover, and were required to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, neutralize, and otherwise eliminate" anyone viewed as subversive. There is no question my father was viewed as subversive. I personally experienced how the FBI treated him, myself, our family, and anyone close to us. I have lived with the question for over forty-five years of how far would Hoover and his agents go to "eliminate" a target such as my father?

FBI internal memorandum demonstrates the FBI's concerted effort with at least one major media outlet, the New York Daily News, to vilify my father and destroy his reputation by running, "an article concerning Colombo and his associates, which will show just what a 'bum' he is". The Daily News agreed to leave no "trail" leading back to the FBI. These efforts by the FBI failed. My father's influence and power continued to grow. Is it hard to believe that the FBI, under then Director Hoover, would escalate the scale and scope of its efforts and utilize a more permanent method to destroy my father?

I interviewed an ex-CIA case officer and asked him whether the FBI would eliminate someone of my father's position and he confirmed during those times agents infiltrated organizations, conducted dirty tricks, psychological warfare, and used the legal system, break-ins, stalking, assaults and beatings for harassment. They inflicted physical, emotional, and economic damage, and he believed they would not stop short of using assassinations to neutralize their adversaries.

Today we not only hear more and more about illegal activities of law enforcement but also are shown hard evidence. My book finally reveals the major inconsistencies and suspicious sandbagging of the murder investigation that certainly would lead a reasonable person to question whether, as I long have, that elements of the NYPD, or the FBI were either involved in the shooting, or at the very least didn't want it solved. For example, Chief Seedman told the media during a press interview that the German pistol used to shoot my father was untraceable. Matching serial numbers in the ballistics report from the shooting, which was buried for forty years and only recently authorized for release, are revealed in the book saying something much different. It is clear the gun was in fact traceable, and, strangely, was missing from an NYPD evidence locker. Also suspiciously strange, infamous FBI informant, Greg Scarpa handed FBI agents a photo of a woman who eyewitnesses had identified as Johnson's female accomplice. She was being sought out by the NYPD for questioning for assisting Johnson with my father's shooting. However, the FBI buried her photo and did not turn it over to the NYPD. A clear obstruction of justice and evidence that they did not want this case solved.

I am certain now more than ever that Johnson was not a lone gunman. My book offers the answers to the questions the media, the FBI, and the NYPD did not.

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Link du jour

two stories


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http://www.unz.org/Pub/InTheseTimes-1989sep06" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Hot on the Press
by Gregory Flannery
, p. 7 - PDF
Did Police Torch a Cincinnati Paper?

2.

https://www.unz.org/Pub/InTheseTimes-1989mar22" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Reach Out and TAP Someone
by Gregory Flannery
, pp. 12-13 - PDF




http://www.whistleblowers.org/index.php ... Itemid=247" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


http://robertscribbler.com/2016/03/21/w ... ords-away/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;




1.

Prosecutors detail evidence that former FBI agent and Bulger witness
lied about finding gun that killed MLK
Federal prosecutors said they want to present historical records
surrounding the assassination, including police scanner transcripts,
FBI reports and court records to prove that Robert Fitzpatrick is a
liar.



http://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2 ... killed-mlk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


March 21, 2016

Federal prosecutors want to present evidence that a former FBI agent
who testified on behalf of James “Whitey” Bulger repeatedly lied about
recovering the gun that killed Martin Luther King Jr. in the agent’s
upcoming perjury trial.

Robert Fitzpatrick, 76, was charged in April with several counts of
obstruction of justice and perjury. He was the first witness who
testified for the defense in Bulger’s 2013 racketeering trial, telling
jurors that Bulger wasn’t an informant.

“Bulger was looking for a witness to corroborate his absurd claim that
he was not an FBI informant,” prosecutors wrote in a motion filed
Monday. “The defendant was just the man for the job.”

Prosecutors say Fitzpatrick lied about several key points during his
testimony. Fitzpatrick said that Bulger said he wasn’t an informant.
He said he was given a special assignment in the Boston FBI office,
and that he left the FBI because of retaliation. He claimed to have
personally arrested a major Boston mob boss, in addition to being the
first to find the rifle that killed King.

At one point during his cross examination, prosecutor Brian Kelly
asked Fitzpatrick: “It’s fair to say that you’re a man who likes to
make up stories?”

His testimony also touched on other, stranger points, including his
attempt to see into Bulger’s soul.
Related Links

Former FBI Agent Pleads Not Guilty to Perjury, Obstruction in
Bulger Trial
The Weirdest Testimony Robert Fitzpatrick Gave During the Bulger
Trial

Fitzpatrick’s attorney did not respond to a message seeking comment.

Fitzpatrick told jurors of his involvement in the MLK assassination
this way: “I found the rifle when I was at the scene. I was the first
FBI agent at the scene, and I found a rifle coming down the stairs,
having just missed James Earl Ray, the shooter.”

Federal prosecutors said Fitzpatrick’s fibbing on the MLK case was
“designed to enhance his credibility with the Bulger jury … [and] his
credibility as a former FBI agent was central to Bulger’s core defense
strategy of proving FBI corruption and government misconduct.”


Prosecutors want to enter into trial historical records surrounding
the assassination, including police scanner transcripts, FBI reports,
court records and others. They also want





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How Invasive TSA Aggressively Handled Me at Airport

body images airportJames Bovard
USA Today

The Transportation Security Administration finally obeyed a 2011
federal court order March 3 and issued a 157 page Federal Register
notice justifying its controversial full-body scanners and other
checkpoint procedures. TSA’s notice ignored the fact that the “nudie”
scanners are utterly unreliable; TSAfailed to detect 95% of weapons
and mock bombs that Inspector General testers smuggled past them last
year while the agency continues to mislead the public about its
heavy-handed treatment of travelers.

The Federal Register notice is full of soothing pablum about how
travelers have no reason to fear the TSA, declaring that “passengers
can obtain information before they leave for the airport on what items
are prohibited.” But it neglects to mention that TSA can invoke
ludicrous pretexts to treat innocent travelers as suspicious terrorist
suspects.

Flying home from Portland, Ore., on Thanksgiving morning, I had a
too-close encounter with TSA agents that spurred me to file a Freedom
of Information Act request. On March 5, I finally received a bevy of
TSA documents and video footage with a grope-by-grope timeline.

As a silent assertion of my rights, I opted out that morning from
passing through the “nudie” full-body scanners. A TSA agent instead
did a vigorous pat-down and then, after running his glove through an
explosive trace detector (ETD), announced that I showed a positive
alert for explosives. He did not know what type of explosive was
detected and refused to disclose how often that machine spewed false
alarms. Regardless, I was told I would have to undergo a an additional
special pat-down to resolve the explosive alert. I was marched off by
three TSA agents to a closed room. TSA states that “a companion of his
or her choosing may accompany the passenger” but I was never notifie

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/che ... perations/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Special Operations airman/FBI agent killed his squadron commander in
apparent-murder suicide

By Dan Lamothe and Adam Goldman April 9 at 4:15 PM

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couple of reads

let god sort out the truth

these are the people running your
criminal justice system


1.


http://www.sltrib.com/news/3778734-155/ ... oking-of-a" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Investigation into alleged choking of a man by Beaver County sheriff remains mystery

April 14 2016

The Utah attorney general's office Thursday again argued that records surrounding allegations that Beaver County Sheriff Cameron Noel choked a potential witness following a May 2014 homicide should not be released to The Salt Lake Tribune.

Blaine Ferguson, assistant attorney general, told the Utah State Records Committee that documents relating to the immediate aftermath of the homicide of Reginald Searcy, 45, in Beaver were protected because an FBI investigation of Noel was ongoing. Releasing the information could interfere with the two-year-old case, Ferguson said.

"The attorney general's office has demonstrated the [protected] classification is justified," Ferguson said, citing a letter to the committee by FBI Agent Michelle W. Pickins that said releasing the records would "jeopardize the integrity" of the ongoing civil rights investigation of Noel.

Searcy was stabbed to death by his wife, Dorothy Louise Searcy, 44, at Beaver's Country Inn Motel. Her son, then-28-year-old Timothy Scott Wilson, was with his fiancée in a nearby room. When officers arrived, Wilson became agitated, according to documents. After Wilson was placed in handcuffs, according to witness accounts, Noel placed two hands around the man's neck and choked him



2.
Ex FBI agent child porn collector 'not a danger' to school
Seattle man gets $1,000 fine, isn't banned from home across from Ballard school

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/crime/ar ... 236986.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Friday, April 8, 2016

A Seattle child pornography collector with ties to the FBI won’t go to prison and may be able to return to his home across from a Ballard-area elementary school.

Cybersecurity consultant Brian Haller was spared prison Friday after he was caught with 600 photos and videos picturing the sexual exploitation of children as young as 9. Haller, 40, asked that he be allowed to return to his home across the street from West Woodland Elementary School in the Ballard area of Seattle

Haller was caught with child pornography showing children aged 9 to 14. A psychologist hired by Haller suggested children at the school -- where students range in age from 5 to 12 – could be protected so long as Haller covered his front windows and stayed inside during school hours



Prior to his arrest in July, Haller , a former FBI agent, led the Seattle chapter of an FBI-private sector group tasked with fighting computer crime and cyberterrorism. As a volunteer, Haller had access to a secure FBI online platform and email system, though he is not alleged to have used either to collect child porn.



Usually, Haller’s crimes would carry a four or five-year prison term. Instead, federal prosecutors asked that Haller be spared even jail.
.

Usually, a defendant like Haller would face four to five years in federal prison. Had he been prosecuted in Washington state court, the standard sentence for his crime was a year in prison



Haller moved to Seattle in 2001, going to work for a multi-billion-dollar government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. A Booz Allen spokeswoman said Haller resigned from the company in 2011.

On Playpen, Haller was a “newbie” known as “jbeldar.” In his first nine days on the site, he spent seven hours surfing it.



An FBI special agent noted in court papers that Haller’s collection included a 40-minute video showing the sexual exploitation of an 11-year-old girl.

As stomach-turning as his videos were, far worse were moving through Playpen. Investigators note Haller passed close to one such video showing a mother sexually assaulting her young daughter; other members of the site are accused of trading rape videos of drugged or bound children.




3.



The F.B.I. Deemed Agents Faultless in 150 Shootings - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/.../in-150-shoot ... ltless.htm.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Jun 18, 2013 - In most of the shootings, the F.B.I.'s internal investigation was the only official ... the records show, deemed the shooting to have been justified. .... the bureau's image goes down the toilet if it doesn't investigate itself properly.”.
The FBI's Nearly Unbelievable Record of "Justified" Shootings - Slate
http://www.slate.com/.../ibragim_todash ... _unjustifi.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Jun 19, 2013 - We're still waiting for the FBI to finish its internal investigation into exactly what ... The FBI's Nearly Unbelievable Record of "Justified" Shootings .... gay people, these scholars also found themselves on the defensive about their ...
The FBI's License to Kill: Agents Have Been Deemed "Justified" in Every Shooting Since 1993 | Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/21/t ... ill_agents" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Jun 21, 2013 - "The F.B.I. Deemed Agents Faultless in 150 Shootings. ... Information Act lawsuit to obtain the internal records of FBI shooting reviews—every ... happened; they defer to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate itself.

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see paper by Dirk Gibson

https://books.google.com/books?id=VnQdu ... bi&f=false" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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http://boingboing.net/2016/04/27/fbi-ad ... d-te.html/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


April 27 2016


FBI admits to giving flawed testimony for decades

An "elite FBI forensic unit" admitted that for two decades, nearly every examiner "gave flawed testimony" (aka lied) about hair sample evidence in criminal trials. And geepers, they sure feel bad about all those people who were executed in prison because of it.

Washington Post:

Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project, which are assisting the government with the country’s largest post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence.

The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed or died in prison, the groups said under an agreem

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Dan Berrigan dies at 94


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/nyreg ... .html?_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;




we took his brother Phil Berrigan
on tour of New England colleges
to celebrate the anniversary of
the Bill of Rights.
Also part of the tour was attorney
Linda Backiel and Joe Deom with Mohawk
Nation Elder Lorraine Johnson
see
Defense Lawyer Is Jailed Over Client Confidentiality –

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/15/us/de ... ality.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Feb 15, 1991 – “I can’t be turned into a witness for the prosecution,”
said Ms. Backiel, a criminal defense lawyer who has practiced in New
York, Philadelphia and, most recently, Puerto Rico. … But Ronald H.
Levine, the Assistant United States Attorney in Philadelphia who is
the prosecutor in the …

I later spent a week in DC with Phil
videotaping his pouring blood
on the Pentagon and Guatamalan
Embassy spending one night in
the DC homeless shelter, the largest
such facility in the United States.
Phil’s friends who joined him from
around the country also padlocked
the doors shut at the. World Bank
at 8 am during a work week.
see

http://www.jonahhouse.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Joe Deom was part of a armed
standoff with the Canadian Mounties
trying to stop a golf course from
being built on a Mohawk burial
ground.



Link du jour


http://www.amazon.com/Where-Reincarnati ... 0275951898" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



dceaglecam.org

!

Bonus interview

JANUARY 31, 2014
In Search of Ward Churchill
by JOSHUA FRANK


http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/31/ ... churchill/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It has been nearly nine years since Ward Churchill was the talk of Fox
News and the target of a concerted campaign to remove him from his
teaching post at the University of Colorado. Well, as many of you
know, they were successful. No longer living in Colorado, Ward is
still defending himself and his scholarship. I recently caught up with
Ward to see why we haven’t heard much from him in recent years and if
the right-wing (and liberal) assault on his character had finally
forced him into retreat. – JF





The FBI Octupus Watch
Showing the FBI Tentacles in real time

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/l ... a2751.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

EX-FBI agent to head New Mexico
 Law Enforcement Academy
Santa Fe New Mexican-Apr 29, 2016


FBI hosts 16th annual Citizens Academy
WATE 6 On Your Side-May 1 2016


http://wate.com/2016/04/30/fbi-hosts-16 ... s-academy/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

“What we really hope they gain is an understanding of the FBI and they
basically become our ambassadors out in the community,” Ed
Reinhold ...


FBI Bureau of Propaganda Watch


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/04 ... tives.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


An exclusive look inside FBI's leadership academy for law ...
Fox News-Apr 29, 2016
Famously known as the training grounds for incoming special agents,
the FBI's sprawling academy in Quantico, Virginia also plays host
to ...

1.

http://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-a ... ant-454278" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;




Supreme Court Allows FBI to Hack Any Computer Anywhere With a ...
Newsweek-May 1 2016
Thanks to a Supreme Court decision on Thursday, law enforcement
agencies including the FBI may end up with broad powers to hack
any ...



2.


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Rubber stamp?’ FBI and NSA requests never denied by secret court

Bruce Brown
Digital Trends
May 1, 2016

You likely don’t know much about the U.S. Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court. Though it keeps a low profile, this is the court
the Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Agency go to
when they want permission to put someone under surveillance. And they
don’t get turned down, <a rel="nofollow"
href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-c ... >according
to Reuters</a>, citing a Justice Department memo. In 2015 the court
received and approved 1,457 requests from the FBI and NSA. There were
a bit fewer requests in 2014, but all of those were approved as
well.</p> <p>The surveillance requests are for email or telephone
intercepts. If granted, which is apparently always, they generally are
carried out with the assistance of Internet telecommunications service
providers.</p> <p><strong>Related:</strong> <a rel="nofollow"
href='http://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/sno ... iler/'>The
NSA gets exposed in first trailer for Oliver Stone’s Snowden</a></p>
<p>The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was founded in 1978 to
hear requests by law enforcement and intelligence agencies to conduct
surveillance on foreign suspects present in the U.S. It stands to
reason that if you’re spying on spies, it’s better not to ask for
permission in open court and leave a public paper trail.</p> <p>The
secretive court was set up to scrutinize the requests in secret, in
order to ensure compliance with applicable civil rights requirements.
That all makes sense. That every single request is essentially
approved, however, seems at least curious if not a bit off. The
government response about its perfect record of approvals is that the
FBI and NSA are very careful when applying for surveillance and that
the court at times modifies the requests. In 2014, 19 requests were
modified, in 2015, 80 were altered.</p> <p>The Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court hears more than surveillance requests. The FBI can
also file National Security Letters (NSLs), asking Internet and
telecommunications providers for customer information on foreign
residents and U.S. citizens. Some NSLs ask for subscriber names,
addresses, and billing information only, while others also request
browsing history. The majority of information requests also come with
a gag order, prohibiting the companies from informing customers of the
requests. No information was provided showing the number of NSLs that
were approved or denied.</p>
More
You likely don’t know much about the U.S. Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court. Though it keeps a low profile, this is the court
the Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Agency go to
when they want permission to put someone under surveillance. And they
don’t get turned down, according to Reuters, citing a Justice
Department memo. In 2015 the court received and approved 1,457
requests from the FBI and NSA. There were a bit fewer r

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Bonus read

http://www.occurrencesforeigndomestic.c ... re-watson/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;






come here Watson
May 29, 2016 Uncategorized Austrian election, Bernie, cell phone brain cancer, corruption, genetically-modified human embryos, Hillary, war
come here Watson

“… Americans need to pay attention to the fact that “their” government is a collection of crazed stupid fools likely to bring vaporization to the United States and all of Europe….”












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Copwatch


http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/pim ... -1.2654142" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Madam'

, May 29, 2016, 7:39 PM


Kristin Davis, a former hooker, says ex-cop Michael Rizzi came to her for business advice.
(JOE KOHEN/WIREIMAGE)
The disgraced ex-cop who got caught running his own prostitution ring sought business advice from the “Manhattan Madam,” according to former hooker Kristin Davis.

The one-time madam who claims the “Luv Guv” Eliot Spitzer was among her clients said she met retired cop Michael Rizzi a few years ago — and he plied her with inappropriate questions.

“He sort of mentioned that he was trying to open some sort of business,’’ Davis said Sunday during an interview with told AM radio host Frank Morano on his “Morano in the Morning” show.


“Didn’t know him before that,” she said.

Ex-NYPD cop with mob ties busted for running prostitution ring
“So he alluded basically to maybe getting your help in running some sort of prostitution ring?” Morano prodded.

“Yes,” Davis answered.

“I said repeatedly, ‘I don’t want to talk about these things because that’s in my past and I don’t want to talk with some stranger about entering into an illegal venture that he kept trying to discuss,’ ” said Davis.

The publicity-loving ex-madam also whined that Rizzi got a far low

2.


http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/2652 ... oss-the-us" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;




Organized "Cop Watch" Groups Across the US
Thursday, 02 October 2014 10:13





When communities attempt to police the police, they often get, well... policed.

In several states, organized groups that use police scanners and knowledge of checkpoints to collectively monitor police activities by legally and peacefully filming cops on duty have said they've experienced retaliation, including unjustified detainment and arrests as well as police intimidation.

The groups operate under many decentralized organizations, most notably CopWatch and Cop Block, and have proliferated across the United States in the last decade - and especially in the aftermath of the events that continue to unfold in Ferguson, Missouri, after officer Darren Wilson fatally shot unarmed, black teenager Michael Brown.

Many such groups have begun proactively patrolling their communities with cameras at various times during the week, rather than reactively turning on their cameras when police enter into their neighborhoods or when they happen to be around police activity.

Across the nation, local police departments are responding to organized cop watching patrols by targeting perceived leaders, making arrests, threatening arrests, yanking cameras out of hands and even labeling particular groups "domestic extremist" organizations and part of the sovereign citizens movement - the activities of which the FBI classifies as domestic terrorism.

Courts across the nation at all levels have upheld the right to film police activity. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and photographer's assocications have taken many similar incidents to court, consistently winning cases over the years. The Supreme Court has ruled police can't search an individual's cellphone data without a warrant. Police also can't legally delete an individual's photos or video images under any circumstances.

"Yet, a continuing stream of these incidents (often driven by police who have been fed 'nonsense' about links between photography and terrorism) makes it clear that the problem is not going away," writes Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the ACLU's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project.

Sources who have participated in various organized cop watching groups in cities such as New York; Chicago; Cleveland; Las Vegas; Oakland; Arlington, Texas; Austin and lastly Ferguson, Missouri, told Truthout they have experienced a range of police intimidation tactics, some of which have been caught on film. Cop watchers told Truthout they have been arrested in several states, including Texas, New York, Ohio and California in retaliation for their filming activity.

More recently, in September, three cop watchers were arrested while monitoring police activity during a traffic stop in Arlington, Texas. A group of about 20 people, a few of them associated with the Tarrant County Peaceful Streets Project, gathered at the intersection of South Cooper Street and Lynda Lane during a Saturday night on September 6 to film police as they conducted a traffic stop. A video of what happened next was posted at YouTube.

Arlington police charged Janie Lucero, her husband, Kory Watkins, and Joseph Tye with interference of public duties. Lucero and Watkins were charged with obstructing a highway while Tye was arrested on charges of refusing to identify himself.

Arlington police have defended the arrests of the three cop watchers, but the watchers say they weren't interfering with police work, and were told to move 150 feet away from the officers - around the corner of a building where they couldn't film the officers.

"When we first started [cop watching, the police] seemed kind of bothered a little bit," Watkins told Truthout. "There was a change somewhere where [the police] started becoming a little bit more offended, and we started having more cop watchers so I guess they felt like they needed to start bringing more officers to traffic stops."

On the night of Watkin's arrest, his group had previously monitored two other traffic stops without any confrontation with Arlington police officers before the incident that led to the arrests.

Sometimes, though, retaliation against cop watching groups goes far beyond arresting cop watchers on patrol.

Cops Label Cop Watch Groups Domestic Terrorists

On New Year's Day in 2012, Antonio Buehler, a West Point graduate and former military officer, witnessed two Austin police officers assaulting a woman. He pulled out his phone.

As he began photographing the officers and asking questions about their activities, the cops assaulted and arrested him. He was charged with spitting in a cop's face - a felony crime.

However, two witness videos of the incident surfaced and neither of them showed that Buehler spit in Officer Patrick Oborski's face. A grand jury was finally convened in March 2013 and concluded there was not enough evidence to indict Buehler on any of the crimes he was charged with.

A few months after the New Year's Day incident, Buehler and other Austin-based activists started the Peaceful Streets Project (PSP), an all-volunteer organization dedicated to stopping police abuse. The group has held "Know Your Rights" trainings and a Police Accountability Summit. The group also regularly organizes cop watch patrols in Austin.

Since the PSP was launched, the movement has grown, with local chapters popping up in other cities and states across the United States, including Texas' Tarrant County chapter, which the three cop watchers arrested in Arlington were affiliated with.

But as the Peaceful Streets movement spread, police retaliation against the groups, and particularly Buehler himself, also escalated.

"[The Austin Police Department (APD)] sees us as a threat primarily because we shine a spotlight on their crimes," Buehler said.

The group recently obtained documents from the APD through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that reveal Austin police colluded to arrest Buehler and other cop watchers affiliated with the Peaceful Streets Project. Since the New Year's Day incident, Buehler has been arrested three more times by APD officers. At least four other members of PSP have been arrested on charges of interference or failing to identify themselves during their cop watching activities.

The emails indicate APD officers monitored Buehler's social media posts and attempted to justify arresting him for another felony crime of online impersonation over an obviously satirical post he made on Facebook, as well as reveal that some APD officers coordinated efforts to stop PSP members' legal and peaceful activities, even suggesting reaching out to the District Attorney's office to see if anything could be done to incarcerate members of the group.

Another internal email from APD senior officer Justin Berry identifies PSP as a "domestic extremist" organization. Berry writes that he believes police accountability groups including PSP, CopWatch and Cop Block are part of a "national domestic extremism trend." He believes he found "mirror warning signs" in "FBI intel." Berry makes a strange attempt to lump police accountability activists and the hacker-collective Anonymous in with sovereign citizens groups as a collective revolutionary movement.

"Sovereign citizens" groups generally believe federal, state and local governments are illegitimate and operate illegally. Some self-described sovereign citizens create fake license plates, identification and forms of currency to circumvent official government institutions. The FBI classifies the activities of sovereign citizens groups as domestic terrorism, considering the groups a growing "domestic threat" to law enforcement.

Buehler told Truthout the APD is working with a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fusion center to attempt to identify PSP as a sovereign citizens group to associate its members with domestic terrorism with state and federal authorities. DHS fusion centers are designed to gather, analyze and promote the sharing of intelligence information between federal and state agencies.

"They have spent a fair amount of resources tracking us, spying on us and infiltrating our group, and we are just peaceful activists who are demanding accountability for the police," Buehler told Truthout. "They have absolutely no evidence that we've engaged in any criminal activity or that we've tried to engage in criminal activity."

APD officials did not respond to a request for comment.

"They've pushed us; they've assaulted us for filming them; they've used their horses against us and tried to run us into walls; they've driven their cars up on us; they illegally detained us and searched us; they get in our face and they yell at us; they threaten to use violent force against us," Buehler said. "But we didn't realize until these emails just how deep this intimidation, how deep these efforts were to harm us for trying to hold them accountable."

Buehler also said the group has additional internal emails which have not been released yet that reveal the APD attempted to take another charge to the District Attorney against him for felony child endangerment over the activities of a teenaged member of PSP.

He said he and other members of PSP were interested in pursuing a joint civil action against the APD over their attempts to frame and arrest them for their First Amendment activities.

This is not the first time a municipal police department has labeled a local cop watching group as an extremist organization.

In 2002, internal files from the Denver Police Department's (DPD) Intelligence Unit were leaked to the ACLU, revealing the unit had been spying on several activist groups in the city, and keeping extensive records about members of the activist groups. Many of these groups were branded as "criminal extremist" organizations in what later became a full-scale controversy widely known as the Denver police's "spy files." Some of the groups falsely branded as "criminal extremist" groups included three police accountability organizations: Denver CopWatch, End the Politics of Cruelty and Justice for Mena.

Again, from October 2003 through the Republican National Convention (RNC) in August 2004, intelligence digests produced by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) on dozens of activist groups, including several police accountability organizations, were made public under a federal court order. The NYPD labeled participants of the "Operation CopWatch" effort as criminal extremists.

Those who participated in "Operation CopWatch" during the RNC hoped to identify undercover cops who might attempt to provoke violence during demonstrations and document police violence or misconduct against protesters.

Communities Benefiting From Cop Watch Patrols Resist Police Retaliation Against Watchers

In some major urban areas, rates of police harassment of individuals drop considerably after cop watchers take to the streets - and communities band together to defend cop watch patrols that experience police retaliation, say veteran cop watchers.

Veteran police accountability activist José Martín has trained and organized with several organizations that participate in cop watch activities. Martín has been detained and arrested several times while cop watching with organized patrols in New York and Chicago.

His arrests in New York are part of a widely documented problem in the city. In fact, retaliation in New York against cop watchers has been so widespread that the NYPD had to send out an official memo to remind officers that it is perfectly legal for civilians to film cops on duty.

Martín described an experience in Chicago in which he felt police unjustly retaliated against him after a local CopWatch group formed and began regularly patrolling Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. After the group became well-known by the Pilsen community, residents gathered around an officer who had detained Martín after a patrol one night in 2009, calling for his release. The officer let him go shortly after.

"When cop watchers are retaliated against, if the community is organized, if there is a strong relationship between cop watch patrols and the community, but most importantly, if the cop watchers are people of the community, that community has the power to push back against retaliation and prevent its escalation," Martín said. "Retaliation doesn't work if you stand together."

Another veteran cop watcher, Jacob Crawford, co-founder of Oakland's We Copwatch, is helping the community of Ferguson, Missouri, organize cop watch patrols and prepare the community for the potential of police retaliation. His group raised $6,000 to pass out 110 cameras to organizers and residents in Ferguson, and train them to monitor police activity in the aftermath of the upheavals that rocked the city after Wilson killed Brown.

"I do expect retaliation, I do expect that these things won't be easy, but these folks are in it," Crawford told Truthout. "This is something that makes more sense to them than not standing up for themswlves




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Link du jour

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Matt Damon speaks MIT commncement
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Water
At least 33 US cities used water testing 'cheats' over lead concerns
Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals testing regimes similar to that of Flint were in place in major cities including Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia


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Lawyers Accuse Federal Prosecutors of Routinely Spying on Defense Strategies
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Jun 3, 2016 5:36 pm ET
Federal prosecutors in Miami have found themselves on the defensive after lawyers representing a doctor accused of fraud alleged in court that the U.S. attorney’s office has for years been spying on the litigation strategies of defendants.

The allegations surfaced days ago on the eve of a scheduled trial, which is now delayed. In court papers filed May 26, lawyers alleged that prosecutors had secretly gained access to discovery document files assembled by the defense team.

The lawyers wrote that an assistant U.S. attorney informed them in April that an FBI agent had received CDs containing duplicates of discovery files the defense had assembled and scanned from the more than 200 boxes of seized government evidence made available to them.



The duplicates, they wrote, were provided by a government-contracted service that makes copies of government discovery documents that defense lawyers want to inspect.

The lawyers said the owner of the service told them in an email that he has routinely provided the FBI with duplicates of the set-aside files — and not just in their case.

“It appears that this practice of surreptitiously duplicating the discovery work-product of defense counsel in the Southern District of Florida has b





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Texas college cancels controversial law enforcement training event led by 'anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist'

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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) requested that the Cedar Valley College in Texas scrap the event, which was to feature FBI agent John Guandolo


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Chamber to hold second Women’s Business Awards
June 2nd, 2016   
The Clermont Chamber of Commerce’s second Women’s Business Awards will take place June 7.

The chamber got 21 nominations for the awards and a committee evaluated each nomination based on the criteria for each of the three categories: Business Woman of the Year, Women Owned Business of the Year and Young Professional of the Year. The committee then selected finalists.

The event will be held at Receptions Conference Center East beginning at 11:30 a.m. Sheila Gray, from Good Morning Cincinnati, is the emcee and Angela Byers, Special Agent in charge of the FBI’s Cincinnati Division, is the keynote speak

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Thursday, June 2, 2016, 7:57 PM
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A former Arizona police officer on a vengeful rampage allegedly killed his wife and a Good Samaritan who tried to save her.

It started Tuesday morning, when Christopher Glen Wright violently crashed his wife’s Range Rover he stole in a rage-filled attempt to kill her, according to police reports.

After the accused killer’s wife, Nasbah Laverne Wright, survived the mayhem, she ran out of the car


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Cop drives past stopped school bus


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NYPD corruption probe
Thursday, June 2, 2016, 8:47 PM


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Deputy Chief John Sprague, a high-ranking NYPD commander, was stripped of his shield and gun for refusing to testify before the grand jury
A rising-star NYPD commander is the latest high-ranking cop to be stripped of his shield and gun in the ongoing corruption probe rocking the police force.

Deputy Chief John Sprague was placed on modified duty Thursday after he refused to testify before a federal grand jury convened as part of the ballooning gifts-for-favors scandal, sources said.

Sprague, of the NYPD’s Force Investigation Division, got a subpoena Friday, sources familiar with the probe said and informed the U.S. Attorney’s office on Thursday that he would take the Fifth if called to testify, according to sources familiar with the probe.


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Thursday, June 2, 2016, 6:18 PM

Harlem Iman Talib Abdur-Rashid took the police department to court to get access to their files under the Freedom of Information law but the NYPD said merely confirming the existence of records could endanger them
Two Muslims who believe the NYPD monitored them as part of a broad campaign of spying


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Thursday, June 2, 2016
Former DEA Agent Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography

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HOUSTON — A 39-year-old former Drug Enforcement Administration agent who lived in McAllen pleaded guilty to a child pornography charge before a federal court judge.

James Patrick Burke, 39, entered a guilty plea to one count of access with intent to view child pornography and faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, according to a Thursday news release from the U.S. Attorney's office.

Burke, who is originally from Massachusetts but was residing in McAllen last year while working with the DEA, was found accessing files from a website known to contain child pornography, according to FBI investigators.

A search warrant was executed at Burke's residence on Aug. 14, 2015, where investigators seized a laptop computer and a desktop computer. Burke admitted to downloading and viewing child pornography from the internet and to using forensic wiping software to delete the images and movies, the release states. 

"An examination of what was collected from the server side of the website showed that Burke had accessed a total of 77 threads which contained 345 contact sheets with approximately eight images of child pornography per sheet. These images included children under the age of 12, bondage and acts of violence. Some of the images are of known victims as identified through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children," the releas












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Case of 3 Somali youth entrapped by FBI goes to all-white jury
Fight Back! Newspaper
Case of 3 Somali youth entrapped by FBI goes to all-white jury ... substantially less jail time if they helped get convictions of the young men entrapped by the FBI.



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FBI kept demanding
Email Records Despite DOJ Saying It Needed a Warrant
Jenna McLaughlin
June 2 2016, 5:22 p.m.

THE SECRET GOVERNMENT REQUESTS for customer information Yahoo made public Wednesday reveal that the FBI is still demanding email records from companies without a warrant, despite being told by Justice Department lawyers




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Federal judge allows release of Oregon standoff defendants Jake Ryan, Travis Cox

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A federal judge on Thursday, June 2, 2016, allowed for the release of Oregon standoff defendants Jake Ryan, left, and Travis Cox, right, pending trial. A federal trial has been set for Sept. 7. (Multnomah County Sheriff's Office)

June 02, 2016 at 8:10 PM
A federal judge Thursday allowed for the pretrial release of two more defendants facing federal conspiracy charges in the Maheux Wildlife Refuge


FBI Octopus
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Two Picked for Arapahoe County Court Judgeships
Posted on June 3, 2016.
LAW WEEK COLORADO
Attorneys Kelly LaFave and Michael Roche have become Arapahoe County’s newest county court judges, Gov. John Hickenlooper’s office announced today. Hickenlooper appointed LaFave and Roche to fill the vacancies created by Judges Dana Murray and Christine Chauce, who are retiring. The appointments are effective July 1, 2016.
LaFave currently serves as senior deputy district attorney in the 18th Judicial District, with her practice focusing on misdemeanor and felony prosecutions. She was also previously an assistant district attorney in Denton County, Texas, a consultant for Paige-Wheatcroft, Inc., a deputy county attorney in Pima County, Arizona, and a special agent with the FBI in Sacramento, California

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Bonus Read


FBI informant involved with accused assassin
of British MP


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Thomas Mair, Suspect in Murder of UK Lawmaker Jo Cox, Attended White Supremacy Meeting: Report


The man suspected of killing a British lawmaker once attended a meeting of American white supremacists in London, the Southern Poverty Law Center said in a report published Sunday.


A court artist sketch shows Thomas Mair appearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, Saturday. ELIZABETH COOK / Reuters
Jo Cox, 41, a respected Labour Party MP, died Thursday after Thomas Mair, 52, allegedly stabbed and shot her and referenced a far right anti-immigrant group opposed to Britain's membership in the European Union.

The SPLC, which tracks hate groups, said that Mair was one of between 15 and 20 people to appear at the gathering 16 years ago, which aimed to expand an American neo-Nazi's "white power" music business into Europe.

The report cites Todd Blodgett, a former GOP domestic policy analyst and consultant who became involved in the radical right in the 1990s and helped arrange the London meeting. In May 2000, when the group convened, Blodgett was working as a paid FBI informant, according to the report.





Book of the Month

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Inspiring New Xulon Autobiography: Former FBI Agent/Current Apostle Encourages The Body Of Christ And Informs Readers That Spiritual Warfare Is Real

June 20, 2016 4:11am  

Frank Burton Jr. takes readers on a journey through FBI cases, as well as some of his most intense spiritual warfare cases – proving that in the end, God wins!

June 20, 2016

Frank Burton Jr.'s new book, From FBI Agent To An Apostle - Saga Of A Spiritual Sniper, ($10.99, paperback, 9781498434157; $5.99, e-book, 9781498434164) is the autobiography of Retired FBI Special Agent Frank Burton Jr. Burton – also an Apostle and the Pastor and founder of Perfect Will Ministries in New Castle, Delaware. This outstanding book details Burton's life's experience and how one Apostolic encounter changed his entire life. The book is about Spiritual Warfare and how God used him to solve some of the biggest Cases in the FBI and powerfully minister to those in need, while on the job. Most of his successful cases had nothing to do with sophisticated FBI techniques. However, it was by the leading of the Holy Spirit he was able to become one of America's Finest in the FBI and be labeled an "expert," at the same time – one of the greatest Servants in the Ministry.

"I want the readers to realize that God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things to accomplish His will in the Earth Realm," states the author. "All you have to be is willing and obedient."

As a 22-1/2 year veteran with the FBI, Frank Burton Jr. was justifiably labeled as an "expert." He was a Hostage


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FBI agent Coleen Rowley


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2 stories

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terror dairy
June 19, 2016Uncategorized9/11, failed patsy, Feinberg, history, missile games, NDAA 2017, NSA, Orlando, Pentagon, Saudi Arabia, skin blemishes, Strauss, Syria, voting lawsuit pending
terror dairy

Top NSA Officials’ Reaction To 9/11: “9/11 Is a Gift To The NSA. We’re Going To Get All Of The Money We Need, And Then Some” … “We’ll Milk This Cow For 15 Years”

Posted on June 18, 2016 by WashingtonsBlog

What was the NSA’s reaction to 9/11 … the greatest intelligence failure in history?

After all, overwhelming evidence shows that 9/11 was foreseeable. Indeed, Al Qaeda crashing planes into the World Trade



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ORLANDO SHOOTING DAD A LONGTIME CIA ASSET
Posted on June 13, 2016 by Daniel Hopsicker
The father of the man who slaughtered 50 people in the Orlando nightclub shooting Saturday night is a longtime CIA asset, whose TV show receives funding from the Voice of America -Dari. Pictured below is Seddique Mateen with California Republican Congressman

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Ohio man accidentally shot to death during gun safety class drill
June 19, 2016, 12:13

64-year-old store owner James Baker was shot in the neck around 1



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Orlando gunman visited Saudi Arabia on NYU trip with 12 NYPD cops


Saturday, June 18, 2016, 1:56




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School district police alleged misconduct surfaces in recorded


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Did FBI agents lure Orlando suspect into
terror plot?


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FBI: Citizen's Academy coming back to Wyoming
Wyoming Tribune-1 hour ago
To obtain an application for the FBI Citizen's Academy taking place in Cheyenne, contact FBI public affairs specialist Deborah Sherman at 303-630-6060 or ...



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Palm Springs bar disputes report that Orlando shooter was a frequent customer
June 19, 2016 | Filed in: Criminal, Noor Salman, Omar Mateen, Orlando shooting.


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Sunanda case: SIT Chief to visit FBI labs
Times Now.tv-
The Delhi Police Special Investigating Team (SIT) Chief probing Sunanda Pushkar murder case to visit Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) labs to get further ...




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​Tor Is Teaming Up With Researchers To Protect Users From FBI ...
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The FBI has had a fair amount of success de-anonymizing Tor users over the past few years. Despite the encryption software's well-earned reputation as one of ...

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