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FBI Admits the Unthinkable: There Are Terror Suspects in Witness Protection Program
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After nearly every terror attack in recent years, investigations have revealed one common thread: “the suspect(s) were known to authorities.”
And many ask in the aftermath, if they were known, why did no one prevent the attack from happening? While sometimes that may be because the suspects were simply “known” but had committed no crime, a September report from the United States Inspector General's office shed a terrifying new light on another possibility.
It began in 2013, when American citizens received the news that no one ever wants to hear: because of a breakdown in communications between agencies, two known or suspected terrorists (KSTs) who were in witness protection at the time had succeeded in boarding planes and leaving the U.S.
Immediately after that information was released, new protocols were drafted to ensure that it could not happen again. However, a new report from Inspector General Michael Horowitz is less than reassuring.
LawNewz reports:
In a video statement on Wednesday, Inspector General Michael Horowitz said that the DOJ didn't completely adopt all of the recommendations from the 2013 report.
“As a result, we remain concerned that the Justice Department has not appropriately shared information about known or suspected terrorists with all of the relevant national security stakeholders,” he said.
Officials in charge of monitoring people WITSEC people didn't always have all the information, and information sharing could be delayed for months. Some important identifying information of KSTs were still not shared with the Terrorist Screening Center. There's also the matter of when program participants are charged with serious crimes. Horowitz referenced one incident in which a man allegedly sexually assault five people, including three minors, but it took the DOJ nine months from the moment it learned about these claims to kick this person off witness protection.
“We found this delay very troubling,” Horowitz said.
The overall assessment is as terrifying as it is obvious: there are currently terror suspects in witness protection — and at any given time, the FBI and the DOJ may not know where they are.
You can watch the Inspector General's full statement below.
https://globenewswire.com/news-release/ ... 25-28.html
Global Security Expo to Draw 20,000 Security Pros to Dallas, Sept. 25-28
George W. Bush; Mark Cuban; Boston Marathon Bombing Investigative Leads Headline Event
September 21, 2017 16:24 ET | Source: Asis International
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- With nearly two million American workers reporting being victims of workplace violence and small- to medium-sized businesses experiencing a 231% increase in ransomware attacks, the ability to plan for and respond to security incidents is paramount. The 63rd ASIS International Annual Seminar and Exhibits (ASIS 2017), taking place Sept. 25-28 at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center, will bring together 20,000 security professionals from across the globe to address the most pressing issues for security management professionals, including sessions focused on active shooters, workplace violence, soft target protection, cybersecurity and terrorism and technology solutions leveraging machine learning, robotics and IoT.
WHO: ASIS International, the world’s largest association for security management professionals, representing 35,000 security professionals worldwide.
WHAT: 63rd ASIS International Annual Seminar and Exhibits (ASIS 2017)
WHEN: September 25-28
WHERE: Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center
RSVP: Media can secure a free press pass by contacting [email protected] or calling +1.703.518.1415.
A selection of sessions with specific interest to the Dallas community include:
KEYNOTE: Hon. George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States (Monday, 8:30-10:00 am). Closed to press.
KEYNOTE: Mark Cuban, Owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Chairman & Co-Founder, HD Net/AXS TV (Monday, 12:00-1:30pm). Cuban will take questions from the press immediately after his session.
KEYNOTE: Global Responses to Global Threats Panel, Boston Marathon bombing investigative leads, retired FBI Special Agent Richard DesLauriers and Former Boston Police Department Commissioner Ed Davis, will talk about the hunt for the Tsarnaev brothers. Plus, City of London Detective Chief Superintendent Paul Barnard and France’s Lieutenant-Colonel Christophe Roland Beuzit of the GIGN, France’s elite counterterrorism unit, will discuss recent terror attacks in Europe (Wednesday, 8:30-10:00am).
Lessons from the Storm: Lessons Learned from Past Hurricanes, Panelists will share lessons learned from previous storms and how these insights can help security professionals plan and prepare their organizations to be more resilient in the face of a natural disaster. (Monday 3:45- 5:00pm).
Security Cares Active Shooter Response Panel featuring Dallas Sheriff Lupe Valdez will cover the risks facing small/medium-sized businesses and community and cultural institutions and steps to take now to improve their resilience against acts of violence. (Wednesday, 8:30 am-10:15am).
City of Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo will be recognized at the Wednesday, Sept. 27 morning general session (8:00-10:00 am). He will be available to take questions from the media immediately after.
Other sessions of note out of the 180 offered include:
Innovative Practices to Combat Human Trafficking: Innovative entrepreneurs are having a positive and transformative effect on the global fight against human trafficking. They are launching dynamic organizations, solutions, and advancements to tackle this egregious human rights abuse. Learn how these entrepreneurs got started and what inspires them. Find out about their successes and challenges. Explore how technology has played a role in their ventures and what they see for the future of the anti-human trafficking movement (Monday, 10:30-11:45 am).
Lone Offenders, Radicalization, and Violence Prevention: In this session, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Investigator Terry Allen will review insights from both the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit and Control Risks that focus on identifying and responding to behaviors that may be indicative of insider radicalization. (Monday, 3:45-5:00pm).
There’s Been a Consumer Information Breach. What Do I Do? Combined, the Equifax, Anthem, eBay, and JPMorgan Chase breaches affect more than 450 million people, households, and businesses. These breaches undermine consumer confidence in the marketplace, hurting consumers and businesses alike. This session will explore how to address the crisis, as well as examine consumer advocacy. (Wednesday, 11:00 am-12:15pm).
https://whowhatwhy.org/2017/07/10/fbis- ... n-bombing/
JULY 10, 2017 | JAMES HENRY
THE FBI’S INCREASINGLY ODD SILENCE ON BOSTON BOMBING
As another mega-budget Hollywood movie about the Boston Marathon bombing nears release, the mainstream media are finally addressing the many unanswered questions concerning the mastermind of the bombing, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
And yet — four years after the bombing and two years after Tamerlan’s younger brother Dzhokhar was sentenced to death for his role — the feds still aren’t talking.
WhoWhatWhy readers will be familiar with most of these open questions:
• How was Tamerlan able to travel back and forth to the country from which he sought asylum in 2012, despite being on multiple terror watchlists?
• Why was he not questioned about the 2011 murder of three of his friends?
• Was Tamerlan working for or manipulated by the feds for some purpose?
• Was the FBI or some other federal agency using Tamerlan’s desire to become a US citizen as leverage?
• Did the Tsarnaevs have help constructing the bombs?
• Was anyone else involved in planning or inspiring the plot?
As we highlighted in April, ABC News investigative reporter Michele McPhee published a damning exposé which documents the suspicion in Boston’s local law enforcement that the FBI is covering up its interactions with Tamerlan Tsarnaev prior to the bombing. McPhee’s investigation led her to conclude that there is indeed an FBI cover-up afoot.
More recently, WBUR’s (Boston’s NPR station) Meghna Chakrabarti produced an hour-long special titled “Unanswered Questions about Tamerlan Tsarnaev.” Taking off from McPhee’s findings, the radio program explores some of the mysteries about which the government remains tight-lipped.
Chakrabarti concludes: “There is still a tight shroud of secrecy wrapped around much of this case.”
While she is more circumspect about the possibility of a cover-up, her long and detailed account points to a raft of strange coincidences and anomalies that scream for further explanation.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Unanswered Questions about Tamerlan Tsarnaev by Jamie Bologna and Meghna Chakrabarti (left). Maximum Harm by Michele McPhee. Photo credit: WBUR and ForeEdge
It’s not just the media that’s still being shut out.
As Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s automatic federal death penalty appeal gets underway, prosecutors are refusing to turn over “classified” documents to Tsarnaev’s appellate lawyers.
What’s in those “classified” documents? It’s impossible to say, but they would likely shed some light on the unresolved mysteries surrounding Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
The lead prosecutor in Tsarnaev’s trial, William Weinreb, told WBUR that he thinks “it is fair to say that there are still a number of questions unanswered about that case. Maybe the answers will emerge over time.”
Sounds like the lead prosecutor was also kept in the dark.
Epidemic of Secrecy
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The trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was, from the beginning, cloaked in unprecedented levels of secrecy.
Various media organizations raised issues with the inordinate number of sealed motions during the high-profile trial.
The attorney who defended Whitey Bulger — another notorious Boston killer the feds were eager to distance themselves from — characterized Tsarnaev’s trial as an “epidemic of secrecy.”
Bulger, the South Boston mobster, was employed by the FBI for years as an informant — all the while carrying on his murderous mob operations in and around Boston. Bulger’s attorney, Jay Carney, told the Boston Globe “transparency should be the presumption” instead of all the secrecy and sealed documents in the Tsarnaev trial.
That didn’t happen. The government invoked that old standby “national security,” allowing it to shroud important details of the back story in darkness.
Robert Ambrogi, executive director of the Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association, told Politico that the information lockdown “tells you that major parts of this case are being conducted out of the public view. If ever there was a case that cries out to be conducted in a public forum, this is it. It’s pretty shocking.”
The judge in the case, George A. O’Toole Jr., ignited a veritable firestorm among Boston media when, three months after the conclusion of the trial, he continued to refuse to release the names of jurors.
Experts quoted in media accounts at the time characterized the long delay as “unprecedented,” “an aberration,” and as having “no possible rationale.”
Even Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s defense team, who presumably have a right to unfettered access to evidence against their client, found themselves filing numerous motions complaining to the judge about a lack of cooperation from the FBI and prosecution during the discovery phase of the trial.
Compounding their difficulties, Tsarnaev was placed on draconian Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) that severely limited the defense team’s ability to interact freely with their client. It also continues to prevent Tsarnaev from communicating with anyone from the media — as WhoWhatWhy found out when we were given a Kafkaesque runaround after we requested an interview.
Congress Shut Out
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Because of FBI stonewalling, a delegation of congressmen felt compelled to travel to Russia, trying to get answers about Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Upon returning, Massachusetts Rep. Bill Keating (D-MA) said the FSB were more forthcoming than the FBI. (The FSB is Russia’s federal security service.)
Russia had warned the FBI back in 2011 that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was becoming radicalized, and might be making plans to travel to Russia to engage in terrorist activity. The FBI claims to have conducted an assessment of Tsarnaev but found no links to terrorism and closed the investigation.
The FBI’s pre-bombing interest in Tsarnaev thus came under intense, albeit short-lived, scrutiny.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee which oversees the FBI, wrote a scathing letter to then-Director James Comey complaining about a lack of transparency to his oversight committee.
When the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community published an unclassified summary of “intelligence failures” that led up to the bombing, it too noted a lack of cooperation from the FBI, writing that “access to certain information was significantly delayed.”
And when 47 inspectors general from various executive agencies sent a letter to Congress in 2014 complaining about a growing problem of stonewalling of investigations by numerous executive branch agencies, the FBI’s lack of cooperation on the Boston Marathon bombing investigation was cited front and center.
As a result of that letter, a bipartisan Congressional coalition introduced an amendment to the original 1978 Inspector General Act. Grassley, a cosponsor of the amendment, wrote at the time that a “federal agency’s failure to give its inspector general timely access to information as required by law raises red flags. It begs the question, ‘What are you trying to hide?’”
Related front page panorama photo credit: Adapted by WhoWhatWhy from Street Scene (Aaron “tango” Tang / Wikimedia – CC BY 2.0), Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (US Marshals Service) and Tamerlan Tsarnaev (Wikimedia).
https://whowhatwhy.org/2017/04/14/new-b ... n-bombing/
New Book Claims FBI Obstructed Justice in Boston Bombing -
2017/04/14
See here for an exclusive WhoWhatWhy conversation with author Michele McPhee.
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For almost four years, WhoWhatWhy has been a lone voice casting doubt on the FBI’s official narrative of the Boston marathon bombing. Now, investigative journalist and Boston-based ABC news producer Michele McPhee has raised many of the same questions we’ve been asking since two explosions and the subsequent manhunt traumatized New England’s largest metropolitan area.
In her new book, Maximum Harm: The Tsarnaev Brothers, the FBI, and the Road to the Marathon Bombing, McPhee adds weight to WhoWhatWhy’s skepticism that the feds have fully disclosed their dealings with the Tsarnaevs prior to the 2013 bombing.
The reason: Many in Boston’s local law enforcement don’t buy it either.
McPhee, with deep connections to the rank-and-file of Boston area law enforcement, documents an apparent widespread skepticism among many of the cops who were tasked with confronting the violence and bloodshed that week.
A seasoned crime reporter, McPhee is currently the Boston producer for ABC News In the Brian Ross investigative unit and was formerly the Police Bureau Chief for the New York Daily News where she has covered corruption cases, murders, mobsters and terrorism trials. In Maximum Harm, she uses that experience to lay bare the feds’ interactions with Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the years before the bombing. She comes to some disturbing conclusions.
Most shocking of all, McPhee claims that the government played a “direct role in creating the monster that Tamerlan Tsarnaev became.”
In the years since the bombing, WhoWhatWhy has documented a disturbing number of half-truths, reversals, and outright lies that led us to question whether the FBI is telling the truth about what it knew about the Tsarnaevs prior to the bombing.
But the Bureau, as well as most mainstream news outlets, has consistently discouraged any inquiry that goes beyond the question of whether the Tsarnaev brothers were innocent or guilty.
No one doubts that the Tsarnaev brothers were guilty — of something. However, like a judge who refuses to admit evidence into a trial that might unduly influence a jury to consider anything beyond simple guilt or innocence, the FBI seems to be taking great pains to stifle any information that would cause the public to question the role of the feds in the events leading up to the tragedy of April 15, 2013.
https://whowhatwhy.org/2016/06/26/class ... uited-fbi/
JUNE 26, 2016 | PETER DALE SCOTT
CLASSIC WHOWHATWHY: WAS TAMERLAN TSARNAEV A DOUBLE AGENT RECRUITED BY THE FBI?
http://www.newsindiatimes.com/law-enfor ... ate-crimes
Law enforcement, Indian-Americans, other community members, hold special event against hate crimes
By a Staff Writer - September 21, 20170
Blink tank
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2017/09/20/reali ... ax-reform/
SEPTEMBER 20, 2017 | MARTIN LOBEL
REALITY CHECK: DON’T BUY INTO THE MYTH OF ‘TAX REFORM’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/tru ... 4e0b567b98
Police use of 'StingRay' cellphone tracker requires search warrant ...
Washington Post-
Both D.C. and Baltimore police had signed an agreement with the FBI not to ... or discuss their StingRay device publicly, court records show, and an FBI agent ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... rs/540570/
The Paradox of an Explosive Week in the Mueller Investigation
What feels like information overload reveals how little the public actually knows about the probe's findings.
http://www.thestate.com/news/local/crim ... 61111.html
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017 10:37 AM
A federal grand jury in South Carolina is investigating possible criminal violations involving SCANA and its failed nuclear construction project in Fairfield County, multiple sources have told The State newspaper.
The company and partner Santee Cooper acknowledged Thursday they had received subpoenas from the U.S. Attorney’s Office seeking documents that, by some accounts, could explain why the utilities abandoned the project after hitting customers with about $2 billion in rate increases.
Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/news/local/crim ... rylink=cpy
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjxj ... r-for-isis
ISIS
The Odd Trial of the Man Accused of Plotting to Behead Pamela Geller for ISIS
Susan Zalkind
SUSAN ZALKIND
Sep 21 2017, 12:45pm
http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/i-team- ... /816182933
I-Team: Subjects of FBI investigation into police corruption will be deposed
By: George Knapp
Posted: Sep 21, 2017 08:02 PM PDT
Updated: Sep 21, 2017 08:02 PM PDT
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/w ... 97800.html
EPA pulls agents from criminal investigations to guard Pruitt
Gwinnettdailypost.com-
Scott Pruitt, the top federal official responsible for protecting the environment, is surrounded 24/7 by a cadre of agents because of the high number of threats ...
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/09/21/de ... ing-woman/
September 21, 2017 at
A Denver Police Department civilian employee was arrested Wednesday, accused of sending increasingly dangerous and nonsensical emails and text messages to a woman after taking a car accident report.
Jonathan Diaz, 41, is a civilian crash report technician who responded to a woman’s address to take an accident report July 27, despite the completion of an accident report the day before, according to his arrest warrant.
His emails began professional but grew to be personal, nonsensical and potentially dangerous, increasing in length and frequency, according to the affidavit. He began to email her with his personal email, talking about chronic neck pain, seeking physical therapy and a sleep deficit. He then asked her to coffee.
He also forwarded several pages of typed definitions of “Intellectual Overexcitability, Paradis, Underachievement” as well as bullet-point notes, saying he believed the woman didn’t respond to a previous email because she was frustrated and freaked out. He went on to explain why he was not dangerous, adding “I think we can probably agree I’m not a sociopath criminal mastermind.”
http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/articl ... hpfrreccos
Judge won't dismiss suit challenging police-as-prosecutors
Colleen Long, Associated Press Updated 9:32 pm, Thursday, September 21, 2017
https://www.courthousenews.com/aclu-cal ... s-tainted/
ACLU Calls Massachusetts Drug Cases Tainted
By PAMELA BAKER
On the heels of a sweeping order that dismissed 20,000 Massachusetts drug convictions tainted by evidence tampering, the state’s highest court now faces a call to do the same for thousands more cases handled by another disgraced chemist.
https://www.courthousenews.com/illinois ... onviction/
Illinois High Court Affirms Ex-Cop Drew Peterson’s Murder Conviction
September 21, 2017
Suspicion fell on Peterson given that his third wife, Kathleen Savio, was found dead in her bathtub three months after divorcing him.
Savio’s death was originally ruled an accident, and there is no physical evidence connecting Peterson to her murder, but her body was exhumed after Stacy’s disappearance, and her death declared a homicide.
Peterson, 63, was convicted of Savio’s murder in 2012 and sentenced to 38 years in prison. He was later convicted of attempting to hire a hit man to murder the prosecutor who filed charges against him, and sentenced to an additional 40 years.
It is still unclear what happened to Stacy, and she is considered a missing person.
On Thursday, the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed Peterson’s conviction, upholding the trial court’s admission of hearsay statements made by Kathleen and Stacy because there was evidence that Peterson killed Kathleen to prevent her from testifying in their divorce case.
The trial court allowed the admission of Kathleen’s handwritten statement to police detailing how Peterson entered her home without permission and pinned her to the staircase for over three hours at knifepoint while he reviewed their history. It also allowed statements Stacy made to others regarding Peterson’s behavior the night of Kathleen’s death.
“The state presented evidence that because Kathleen was silenced, the financial and custody issues pending at the time of her death in the divorce proceeding were ultimately resolved in defendant’s favor: defendant was awarded custody of his two sons, defendant was awarded the proceeds from the sale of the marital home, and defendant was awarded the business known as Blue Lightning Corporation,” Justice Mary Jane Theis wrote in a unanimous, 40-page opinion.
Therefore, Kathleen’s statements were admissible under the wrongdoing doctrine, the court found. Similarly, Stacy’s question to her attorney – asking if she could get more money in a divorce if she threatened to tell the police how “how [he] killed Kathy” – is admissible because it shows that she intended to testify against Peterson.
The Illinois Supreme Court also rejected Peterson’s ineffective-assistance claims based on his allegation his attorney was more interested in the millions he could make on a book deal than in preparing Peterson’s defense.
An attorney for Peterson said that he is likely to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, but it is highly unlikely that the case would be taken up.
Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow, who prosecuted Peterson, said at a press conference, “This is the ultimate vindication of what we did in our 10-year struggle to convince the public against all odds that we had the evidence necessary to convict him of killing Kathleen Savio.”
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/09/21 ... ant-women/
Police Reports Suggest Dem IT Scandal Ringleader Abused Several Muslim Immigrant Women
BY DEBRA HEINE SEPTEMBER 21, 2017
https://www.courthousenews.com/mass-hig ... marijuana/
Mass. High Court Says Field Sobriety Tests Don’t Work for Marijuana
By ZACK HUFFMAN
Massachusetts’ highest court ruled this week that field sobriety tests are not good enough to determine whether a driver is too high on marijuana to be behind the wheel.
http://www.kmvt.com/content/news/Upcomi ... 56203.html
Upcoming FBI data center in Pocatello to hire 350 employees
http://ticklethewire.com/2017/09/22/hom ... ne-number/
Homeland Security Leader Accidentally Gave Out Sex Hotline Number
A Homeland Security leader who was warming the public about dangers of sexual predators passed out business cards for his desk, but there was only one problem: The phone number directed people to a 24-hour sex talk line.
The Desert News reports that Steve Cagen, the new head of the investigative arm of Homeland Security’s Utah division, disseminated his business cards, which contained the wrong phone number.
When reporters called the number, they were greeted with a woman’s voice who said, “Hi, sexy” with sultry music in the background. The woman told callers that they had reached the “hottest fantasy line in North America” while offering “private erotic conversations.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... 1f175622d4
A ceremony at the FBI next week could make for some extremely awkward encounters
http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/22/john- ... bi-letter/
John McCain Is Not Happy With His Republican Colleague Over FBI Letter
8:33 AM 09/22/2017
Arizona Sen. John McCain is suggesting that his Republican colleague, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, is trying to distract from the investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election.
A spokeswoman for McCain issued a blistering statement on Thursday night in response to a letter that Grassley sent this week to FBI Director Christopher Wray regarding possible attempts by Russian operatives to infiltrate the Trump campaign.
Down in the whisper stream we call it the " annual FBI crap report"
http://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-jus ... veNational crime isn't the epidemic the FBI would have us believe
BY ARTHUR RIZER AND EASTON RANDALL, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS — 09/22/17 06:40 AM EDT 73 THE
http://www.canadianinquirer.net/2017/09 ... -sue-city/
Family of black man killed by Indianapolis police sue city
By Rick Callahan, The Associated Press on September 22, 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ves-matter
St Louis protests: three years since Ferguson, why hasn't anything changed?
Since the police shooting of Mike Brown, there’s been little progress – as was evident in St Louis as police mocked people protesting officer Jason Stockley’s acquittal
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... ire-buddy/
Putin Just Held a Meeting With Manafort’s Russian Billionaire Buddy
A Kremlin gathering hosts several business figured linked to the Russia investigation.
HANNAH LEVINTOVASEP. 22, 2017 6:00 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ea-manning
Shame on Harvard for welcoming Sean Spicer – but spurning Chelsea Manning
Francine Prose
Its time to withdraw support from the university after it invited Sean Spicer and Corey Lewandowski, but rescinded a fellowship for Chelsea Manning
https://www.courthousenews.com/immunity ... ta-breach/
Immunity Shields Government on Massive OPM Data Breach
September 21, 2017
The 21.5 million federal employees whose personal information was compromised by the Office of Personnel Management data hack have no legal recourse, a federal judge ruled, saying immunity forecloses their negligence and privacy claims.
Despite voicing sympathy for the position of the class members, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson found Tuesday that the unique circumstances of this case “implicate[] the constitutional limits on the court’s jurisdiction.”
“It may well be that the Supreme Court or the D.C. Circuit will someday announce that given the potential for harm inherent in any cyberattack, breach victims automatically have standing even if the harm has yet to materialize, and even if the purpose behind the breach and the nature of any future harm have yet to be discerned,” the 74-page opinion states. “But that has not happened yet, and the court is not empowered to expand the limits of its own authority, so it cannot find that plaintiffs have standing based on this record.”
The two cases Jackson dismissed were consolidated in Washington from lawsuits filed across the country after OPM disclosed that a data breach at the agency and at federal contractor KeyPoint Government Solutions had exposed the sensitive data of more than 21 million federal employees, retirees and job applicants.
In addition to names, addresses and Social Security numbers, the data also involved personal financial and legal information in many cases, fingerprints in others.
Noting the uncertainty of whether harm from the breach will ever come to pass for these individuals, Judge Jackson concluded Tuesday that standing is one of many bases to dismiss a case where the plaintiffs are seeking economic damages for speculative harm.
“The law is clear that the statute does not create a cause of action for those who have been merely aggrieved by, or are even actively worried about, the fact that their information has been taken,” she wrote. “Neither the Administrative Procedure Act nor the Little Tucker Act supplies a cause of action against the government to enforce its information security obligations, and no court has expressly recognized a right to data security arising under the Constitution.”
Immunity carries the day both for the government and its contractor, Jackson said.
“Plaintiffs do not identify any contract provisions that KeyPoint allegedly violated, and their claims that it violated federal law cannot stand,” the opinion states. “And importantly, the sovereign in this case, OPM, does not disavow the actions of KeyPoint. Indeed, the complaint indicates as much, alleging that ‘OPM did not terminate or suspend its contract with KeyPoint.’ Thus, plaintiffs fail to plead facts sufficient to allege that KeyPoint violated OPM’s explicit instructions or exceeded its authority under its contract with the agency.”
One of the unions behind the dismissed suit, the American Federation of Government Employees, is weighing the possibility of an appeal.
“The judge’s unfortunate decision to dismiss AFGE’s case reflects an unduly narrow view of the rights of data breach victims,” the union said in a statement Wednesday. “OPM failed to keep our most private and sensitive information from getting into the hands of Chinese hackers. We are deeply disappointed by the judge’s ruling in favor of OPM.
“AFGE is seriously evaluating all options to challenge this decision and will continue to fight on behalf of the millions of current, future, and retired federal employees and their family members whose lives were forever disrupted by this unprecedented data breach.”
The National Treasury Employees Union meanwhile didn’t waste any time.
“We immediately appealed the district court’s decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit,” NTEU president Tony Reardon said in a statement. “We will make our case there that NTEU members were harmed by the breaches and that OPM’s indifference to securing its databases in the years leading up to the breaches violated NTEU members’ constitutional right to informational privacy.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... in-decades
Trump is assembling the most male-dominated government in decades
A new analysis shared exclusively with the Guardian has found 80% of nominations for top jobs in the Trump administration have gone to men
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... -on-campus
Brigham Young ends 60-year ban on sale of caffeinated drinks on campus
The Mormon church-owned university has scrapped a rule established in the mid-1950s that no caffeinated beverages would be sold on campus
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9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
Draft Agenda for 9/27/17 Teleconference
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Greetings all,
The initial mailing of this draft agenda contained two bad links for Wayne Coste's presentation. They are corrected in this version:
As we might expect, the anniversary of the 9/11 events this month saw some major commemorative events. That fairy godmother of such events, Barbara Honegger, organized one and was present at or involved with several others, and will be on hand to give us the full rundown. She has helpfully supplied useful links to all of them, and because of the details involved, I think it best to quote her citations in full, even though it will make for a lengthier than usual narrative:
Video of 2017 NYC 9/11 Truth Film Event
From 9/11 Truth to 9/11 Justice
Foley Square/Thomas Paine Park, NYC
Sept. 8th 6:30 to 10:00 PM https://youtu.be/k95mF90HcOg [Note: This is a partial video of the Event by Cat Wattersof NYC who quickly got it up on YouTube. The fulland professional video of the Event with the below screened Films inserted where they came in the Program should be up on YouTube in a week or so and Barbara will send the link when it's posted. ]
A&E's Sept. 11th 1:00 P.M. Press Conference
at the National Press Club with Richard Gage,
Bob McIlvaine and NIST Whistleblower Peter Ketcham.
There were also Qs and As which are not included
in the YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woO1UIrkfuY
Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry Promo Video by Ed Asner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UinyVio76dY
9/11 Truth Action Project / TAP Promo Video: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1640 ... 1lQVTNRYUk
Prof. Hulsey Trailer re University of Alaska WTC 7 Study: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-VNjYXU-CE 2 min. 20 sec.
Sept. 11th 9/11 Event by D.C. 9/11 Truth
Roslyn, Va. 7:00 to 11:00 p.m.
Richard Gage, Christopher Bollyn, Barry Kissin
and Michael Springmann -- with Qs and As
Reactions to the 9/11 Museum Virtual Walking Tour by 9/11 Movement Leaders [9/11 Museum Virtual Walking Tour http://youtu.be/0fJmQUv-b2Q]
Cheryl Curtiss and Cat McGuire will round out this report with a brief summary of the event marking this occasion in their part of the woods.
But the month of September included more than commemorative events. Dr. J. Leroy Hulsey, professor of structural engineering at the University of Alaska, broke new ground with his preliminary report of his research demonstrating the theoretical impossibility of the NIST claim that WTC Building 7 collapsed due to fires. Uh oh! Wayne Coste will provide us with synopsis of this watershed report, and will do so via our Online Meeting visual broadcast as well for those with internet access. Those unable to follow the visual online may download the relevant pdf file here: http://hopeoutloud.org/pentagon/WTC7_Hu ... t_2017.pdf To participate in the live presentation copy and paste this address to your internet browser:https://join.freeconferencecall.com/9-1 ... tatecrimes
See you Wednesday night for these latest currents in the Truth movement!
Peace,
Ken Freeland
Cheryl Curtiss
Craig McKee
DRAFT AGENDA for Wednesday 27 September Teleconference
I Roll Call, minutes approval (see below), agenda approval (5 min)
II 9/11 Commemorative Events in NYC and elsewhere [Barbara Honegger/ Cheryl Curtiss & Cat McGuire]
III Summary of Dr. J Leroy Hulsey's findings as reported this month (Univ of Alaska study on Bulding 7 collapse) [Wayne Coste, PE] [link for online meeting for visual presentation-- copy and paste this address to your browser: https://join.freeconferencecall.com/9-11 andotherdeepstate crimes ]
IV Announcements
V Any available updates on issues of identified ongoing concern and/or open discussion!:
New articles, books, films, or recent news about 9/11 or other Deep State crimes
9/11 and the Deep State on the legal front, including current adjudicatory efforts by Lawyers for 9/11 Inquiry, JASTA, 28 pages, William Pepper’s efforts with AE911Truth against NIST and the Dept. of Commerce
Censorship and cognitive infiltration: new examples of censorship or harassment of members of the Truth community; MSM treatment of 9/11 Truth
Google censorship
The 9/11 Consensus Panel
9/11 Truth political candidates
VI Adjournment (by 9:30 p Eastern)
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Greetings all,
The initial mailing of this draft agenda contained two bad links for Wayne Coste's presentation. They are corrected in this version:
As we might expect, the anniversary of the 9/11 events this month saw some major commemorative events. That fairy godmother of such events, Barbara Honegger, organized one and was present at or involved with several others, and will be on hand to give us the full rundown. She has helpfully supplied useful links to all of them, and because of the details involved, I think it best to quote her citations in full, even though it will make for a lengthier than usual narrative:
Video of 2017 NYC 9/11 Truth Film Event
From 9/11 Truth to 9/11 Justice
Foley Square/Thomas Paine Park, NYC
Sept. 8th 6:30 to 10:00 PM https://youtu.be/k95mF90HcOg [Note: This is a partial video of the Event by Cat Wattersof NYC who quickly got it up on YouTube. The fulland professional video of the Event with the below screened Films inserted where they came in the Program should be up on YouTube in a week or so and Barbara will send the link when it's posted. ]
A&E's Sept. 11th 1:00 P.M. Press Conference
at the National Press Club with Richard Gage,
Bob McIlvaine and NIST Whistleblower Peter Ketcham.
There were also Qs and As which are not included
in the YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woO1UIrkfuY
Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry Promo Video by Ed Asner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UinyVio76dY
9/11 Truth Action Project / TAP Promo Video: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1640 ... 1lQVTNRYUk
Prof. Hulsey Trailer re University of Alaska WTC 7 Study: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-VNjYXU-CE 2 min. 20 sec.
Sept. 11th 9/11 Event by D.C. 9/11 Truth
Roslyn, Va. 7:00 to 11:00 p.m.
Richard Gage, Christopher Bollyn, Barry Kissin
and Michael Springmann -- with Qs and As
Reactions to the 9/11 Museum Virtual Walking Tour by 9/11 Movement Leaders [9/11 Museum Virtual Walking Tour http://youtu.be/0fJmQUv-b2Q]
Cheryl Curtiss and Cat McGuire will round out this report with a brief summary of the event marking this occasion in their part of the woods.
But the month of September included more than commemorative events. Dr. J. Leroy Hulsey, professor of structural engineering at the University of Alaska, broke new ground with his preliminary report of his research demonstrating the theoretical impossibility of the NIST claim that WTC Building 7 collapsed due to fires. Uh oh! Wayne Coste will provide us with synopsis of this watershed report, and will do so via our Online Meeting visual broadcast as well for those with internet access. Those unable to follow the visual online may download the relevant pdf file here: http://hopeoutloud.org/pentagon/WTC7_Hu ... t_2017.pdf To participate in the live presentation copy and paste this address to your internet browser:https://join.freeconferencecall.com/9-1 ... tatecrimes
See you Wednesday night for these latest currents in the Truth movement!
Peace,
Ken Freeland
Cheryl Curtiss
Craig McKee
DRAFT AGENDA for Wednesday 27 September Teleconference
I Roll Call, minutes approval (see below), agenda approval (5 min)
II 9/11 Commemorative Events in NYC and elsewhere [Barbara Honegger/ Cheryl Curtiss & Cat McGuire]
III Summary of Dr. J Leroy Hulsey's findings as reported this month (Univ of Alaska study on Bulding 7 collapse) [Wayne Coste, PE] [link for online meeting for visual presentation-- copy and paste this address to your browser: https://join.freeconferencecall.com/9-11 andotherdeepstate crimes ]
IV Announcements
V Any available updates on issues of identified ongoing concern and/or open discussion!:
New articles, books, films, or recent news about 9/11 or other Deep State crimes
9/11 and the Deep State on the legal front, including current adjudicatory efforts by Lawyers for 9/11 Inquiry, JASTA, 28 pages, William Pepper’s efforts with AE911Truth against NIST and the Dept. of Commerce
Censorship and cognitive infiltration: new examples of censorship or harassment of members of the Truth community; MSM treatment of 9/11 Truth
Google censorship
The 9/11 Consensus Panel
9/11 Truth political candidates
VI Adjournment (by 9:30 p Eastern)
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Re: When will FBI agents create their next Terrorist Event.
https://www.policeone.com/legal/article ... isconduct/
Lawmakers target 'gypsy' cops accused of misconductLawmakers voted Tuesday to prevent police misconduct from being kept secret when officers leave for a new job at
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan lawmakers voted Tuesday to prevent police misconduct from being kept secret when officers leave for a new job at another department.
Legislation approved 105-2 in the House would require law enforcement agencies to keep records about the circumstances surrounding any officer's employment separation. The officer would have to sign a waiver allowing a prospective employer to ask for the records, and the department could not hire the officer unless it receives the documents.
The bill sponsor, Republican Sen. Rick Jones of Grand Ledge, said it targets officers who find other work after questionable conduct such as using excessive force. The legislation won unanimous Senate approval in March and should soon reach Gov. Rick Snyder's desk for his expected signature.
Law enforcement agencies often decide it is easier to tell an officer to resign rather than fire him or her, Jones said, due to expensive legal bills and a lengthy hearing process. And when a prospective employer calls to inquire about hiring the officer, the department typically provides little information for fear of being sued by the officer, said Jones, a former sheriff.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... -1.3540956
Manhattan DA Vance returns $31G donation to Trump's lawyer that he received after dropping case against Ivanka, Donald Jr. in 2013
BY LARRY MCSHANE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, October 4, 2017, 12:56 PM
http://canadafreepress.com/article/judi ... parenthood
Judiciary Committee Recommends FBI Investigation of Planned Parenthood
Liberty Counsel image
By Liberty Counsel —— Bio and Archives October 4, 2017
https://theintercept.com/2017/10/03/wel ... th-warren/
‘MONOPOLY MAN’ SHOWS UP AT WELLS FARGO HEARING AS SENATE PUSHES TO LEGALIZE RIPOFF CLAUSE
Aída Chávez, David Dayen
October 3 2017, 4:38 p.m.
MEMBERS OF THE Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday interrogated Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan about his response to a fraudulent account scandal that engulfed the bank last year. Unconvinced that the bank has cleaned up its act in the last year, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., told Sloan he should lose his job.
Regulators fined Wells Fargo $185 million in September 2016 for opening 2 million bank and credit card accounts without customers’ knowledge between 2011 and 2015. The bank revealed earlier this year that an additional 1.4 million bank accounts were fraudulently created in a scandal that dates back to at least 2009. Sloan defended his company and his position there during his Senate testimony, saying that company executives and employees had been held accountable for their involvement.
In a familiarly testy exchange, Warren effectively accused Sloan of securities fraud. She produced years of transcripts of investor calls, in which Sloan, then chief financial officer, forcefully touted Wells Fargo’s sales growth, a good portion of which was created with fake accounts. “I can’t wait to get a credit card in every one of our creditworthy customers’ wallets,” Sloan said to investors in 2011.
At the time, Sloan also held 2 million shares of Wells Fargo stock, Warren noted, so he had a personal interest in highlighting sales growth to boost the stock price and his personal wealth.
Even after the Los Angeles Times detailed the high-pressure sales culture at Wells Fargo in 2013, Sloan “went back to pumping up the stock price by bragging about sales growth on the next investor call,” Warren said.
https://www.policeone.com/Crowd-Control ... y-traffic/
143 arrested after protest blocks St. Louis highway trafficDemonstrators have been protesting police violence since mid-September over the acquittal of former officer Jason Stockley in a fatal shooting case
More than 300 people have been arrested during demonstrations since the judge's verdict.
https://www.policeone.com/officer-misco ... e-academy/
Police: Ark. officer fired, threatens to 'blow up' police academy29-year-old Wisam "Troy" Algburi is under investigation for alleged threats to blow up the Black River Law Enforcement Training Academy
https://www.policeone.com/officer-misco ... -shooting/
Vegas police: Mistakes made before hospital ER shootingPolice say mistakes were made in leaving a suicidal man alone in the ER, where he grabbed a CO's ECD from an unattended bag before the OIS
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti ... 253514.php
Court commissioner disciplined for abusive behavior toward interpreter
Link du jour
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyl ... 116dc39c76
http://www.sfchronicle.com/books/articl ... 247740.php
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/r ... -1.3541777
https://books.google.com/books?id=VLdjW ... te&f=false
End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate
By Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair
https://books.google.com/books?id=KdpPB ... te&f=false
Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press
By Edward Alwood
https://www.thenation.com/article/weve- ... 1984-1921/
We’ve Been Living in ‘1984’ Since 1921
That was when the Bureau of Investigation—the forerunner of today’s FBI—first opened a file on the magazine.
By David ColeTwitter JUNE 25, 2014
FBI Octopus
http://www.ruidosonews.com/story/opinio ... 732993001/
Former FBI agent Burton is a professor of Criminal Justice at College of Southern Nevada. He also teaches classes over the Internet for students at Western New Mexico University.
OFFICER SHOT IN TEXAS ISIS ATTACK SUES FBI
Contends bureau allowed assault on 'Draw Muhammad' event
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/officer-shot ... 8E8KXlp.99
Claiming an FBI undercover agent bears responsibility for the ISIS-inspired terrorist attack at the “Draw Muhammad” free-speech event in Garland, Texas, in 2015, the security guard wounded in the incident is suing the bureau for damages.
Bruce Joiner charges the FBI is liable because one of its agents “solicited, encouraged, directed and aided members of ISIS in planning and carrying out the May 3 attack,” according to court documents filed Monday, reported the Washington Examiner.
image: http://www.wnd.com/files/2015/05/swat-garland.jpg
SWAT officers secure an arena where attendees of the Muhammad Art and Cartoon contest were sequestered in Garland, Texas, May 3, 2015. (WND photo).
SWAT officers secure an arena where attendees of the Muhammad Art and Cartoon contest were sequestered in Garland, Texas, May 3, 2015, after two Islamic terrorists were shot and killed in an attack. (WND photo).
As WND reported from the scene, two Muslims wearing body armor and armed with assault rifles who had traveled 1,000 miles to the Dallas suburb tried to penetrate the massive security set up by event organizers, estimated to have cost them up to $30,000. ISIS later claimed as their own the two men, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi of Phoenix, who were shot and killed by police after they jumped out of their vehicle at a parking-lot barrier and began firing.
One of the jihadists shot Joiner in the ankle.
The assailants, clearly planning a massive slaughter, were found to have had three rifles, three handguns, about 1,500 rounds of ammunition and a photocopied ISIS flag.
Joiner, claiming the FBI essentially allowed the attack to happen, seeks more than $8 million in damages.
“The FBI helped the terrorists obtain a weapon that was used in the attack by lifting a hold during a background check, incited the terrorist to attack the Garland event, and even sent an agent to accompany the terrorists as they carried out the attack,” the complaint states.
An FBI informant was revealed to have been at the scene of the attack through testimony in a separate court case and a “60 Minutes” report in March.
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The FBI agent was in a car directly behind Simpson and Soofi when they began firing. According to the court case, the agent had texted Simpson just weeks before with the message, “Tear up Texas.”
image: http://www.wnd.com/files/2017/10/bruce-joiner.jpg
Bruce Joiner
Bruce Joiner
A video from WFAA-TV in Dallas showed the agent being briefly detained by Garland Police after fleeing the scene.
Joiner’s lawsuit alleges that former FBI Director Jim Comey lied to the American people in a “post-attack cover-up.”
Comey, the complaint says, claimed Simpson was a “needle in a haystack” that was “invisible to us.”
“Even after it had come to light that an undercover FBI agent had been communicating extensively with the terrorists during the week prior to the event and had accompanied them as they carried out the attack, the FBI continued to assert that there ‘was no advance knowledge of a plot to attack the cartoon drawing contest,'” the complaint states.
The Examiner said the FBI did not respond to a request for comment.
‘They would have killed us’
Islam expert Robert Spencer, who helped organize the Garland event with blogger, author and activist Pamela Geller, wrote on his website Jihad Watch that he and Geller twice asked the FBI for an investigation into the role of the FBI agent but were ignored.
Spencer said that while the bureau apparently knew of the attack in advance, it didn’t have a team in place to stop the jihadis.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/officer-shot ... K8q7jGm.99
Lawmakers target 'gypsy' cops accused of misconductLawmakers voted Tuesday to prevent police misconduct from being kept secret when officers leave for a new job at
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan lawmakers voted Tuesday to prevent police misconduct from being kept secret when officers leave for a new job at another department.
Legislation approved 105-2 in the House would require law enforcement agencies to keep records about the circumstances surrounding any officer's employment separation. The officer would have to sign a waiver allowing a prospective employer to ask for the records, and the department could not hire the officer unless it receives the documents.
The bill sponsor, Republican Sen. Rick Jones of Grand Ledge, said it targets officers who find other work after questionable conduct such as using excessive force. The legislation won unanimous Senate approval in March and should soon reach Gov. Rick Snyder's desk for his expected signature.
Law enforcement agencies often decide it is easier to tell an officer to resign rather than fire him or her, Jones said, due to expensive legal bills and a lengthy hearing process. And when a prospective employer calls to inquire about hiring the officer, the department typically provides little information for fear of being sued by the officer, said Jones, a former sheriff.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... -1.3540956
Manhattan DA Vance returns $31G donation to Trump's lawyer that he received after dropping case against Ivanka, Donald Jr. in 2013
BY LARRY MCSHANE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, October 4, 2017, 12:56 PM
http://canadafreepress.com/article/judi ... parenthood
Judiciary Committee Recommends FBI Investigation of Planned Parenthood
Liberty Counsel image
By Liberty Counsel —— Bio and Archives October 4, 2017
https://theintercept.com/2017/10/03/wel ... th-warren/
‘MONOPOLY MAN’ SHOWS UP AT WELLS FARGO HEARING AS SENATE PUSHES TO LEGALIZE RIPOFF CLAUSE
Aída Chávez, David Dayen
October 3 2017, 4:38 p.m.
MEMBERS OF THE Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday interrogated Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan about his response to a fraudulent account scandal that engulfed the bank last year. Unconvinced that the bank has cleaned up its act in the last year, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., told Sloan he should lose his job.
Regulators fined Wells Fargo $185 million in September 2016 for opening 2 million bank and credit card accounts without customers’ knowledge between 2011 and 2015. The bank revealed earlier this year that an additional 1.4 million bank accounts were fraudulently created in a scandal that dates back to at least 2009. Sloan defended his company and his position there during his Senate testimony, saying that company executives and employees had been held accountable for their involvement.
In a familiarly testy exchange, Warren effectively accused Sloan of securities fraud. She produced years of transcripts of investor calls, in which Sloan, then chief financial officer, forcefully touted Wells Fargo’s sales growth, a good portion of which was created with fake accounts. “I can’t wait to get a credit card in every one of our creditworthy customers’ wallets,” Sloan said to investors in 2011.
At the time, Sloan also held 2 million shares of Wells Fargo stock, Warren noted, so he had a personal interest in highlighting sales growth to boost the stock price and his personal wealth.
Even after the Los Angeles Times detailed the high-pressure sales culture at Wells Fargo in 2013, Sloan “went back to pumping up the stock price by bragging about sales growth on the next investor call,” Warren said.
https://www.policeone.com/Crowd-Control ... y-traffic/
143 arrested after protest blocks St. Louis highway trafficDemonstrators have been protesting police violence since mid-September over the acquittal of former officer Jason Stockley in a fatal shooting case
More than 300 people have been arrested during demonstrations since the judge's verdict.
https://www.policeone.com/officer-misco ... e-academy/
Police: Ark. officer fired, threatens to 'blow up' police academy29-year-old Wisam "Troy" Algburi is under investigation for alleged threats to blow up the Black River Law Enforcement Training Academy
https://www.policeone.com/officer-misco ... -shooting/
Vegas police: Mistakes made before hospital ER shootingPolice say mistakes were made in leaving a suicidal man alone in the ER, where he grabbed a CO's ECD from an unattended bag before the OIS
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti ... 253514.php
Court commissioner disciplined for abusive behavior toward interpreter
Link du jour
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyl ... 116dc39c76
http://www.sfchronicle.com/books/articl ... 247740.php
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/r ... -1.3541777
https://books.google.com/books?id=VLdjW ... te&f=false
End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate
By Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair
https://books.google.com/books?id=KdpPB ... te&f=false
Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press
By Edward Alwood
https://www.thenation.com/article/weve- ... 1984-1921/
We’ve Been Living in ‘1984’ Since 1921
That was when the Bureau of Investigation—the forerunner of today’s FBI—first opened a file on the magazine.
By David ColeTwitter JUNE 25, 2014
FBI Octopus
http://www.ruidosonews.com/story/opinio ... 732993001/
Former FBI agent Burton is a professor of Criminal Justice at College of Southern Nevada. He also teaches classes over the Internet for students at Western New Mexico University.
OFFICER SHOT IN TEXAS ISIS ATTACK SUES FBI
Contends bureau allowed assault on 'Draw Muhammad' event
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/officer-shot ... 8E8KXlp.99
Claiming an FBI undercover agent bears responsibility for the ISIS-inspired terrorist attack at the “Draw Muhammad” free-speech event in Garland, Texas, in 2015, the security guard wounded in the incident is suing the bureau for damages.
Bruce Joiner charges the FBI is liable because one of its agents “solicited, encouraged, directed and aided members of ISIS in planning and carrying out the May 3 attack,” according to court documents filed Monday, reported the Washington Examiner.
image: http://www.wnd.com/files/2015/05/swat-garland.jpg
SWAT officers secure an arena where attendees of the Muhammad Art and Cartoon contest were sequestered in Garland, Texas, May 3, 2015. (WND photo).
SWAT officers secure an arena where attendees of the Muhammad Art and Cartoon contest were sequestered in Garland, Texas, May 3, 2015, after two Islamic terrorists were shot and killed in an attack. (WND photo).
As WND reported from the scene, two Muslims wearing body armor and armed with assault rifles who had traveled 1,000 miles to the Dallas suburb tried to penetrate the massive security set up by event organizers, estimated to have cost them up to $30,000. ISIS later claimed as their own the two men, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi of Phoenix, who were shot and killed by police after they jumped out of their vehicle at a parking-lot barrier and began firing.
One of the jihadists shot Joiner in the ankle.
The assailants, clearly planning a massive slaughter, were found to have had three rifles, three handguns, about 1,500 rounds of ammunition and a photocopied ISIS flag.
Joiner, claiming the FBI essentially allowed the attack to happen, seeks more than $8 million in damages.
“The FBI helped the terrorists obtain a weapon that was used in the attack by lifting a hold during a background check, incited the terrorist to attack the Garland event, and even sent an agent to accompany the terrorists as they carried out the attack,” the complaint states.
An FBI informant was revealed to have been at the scene of the attack through testimony in a separate court case and a “60 Minutes” report in March.
Like the reporting you see here? Sign up for free news alerts from WND.com, America’s independent news network.
The FBI agent was in a car directly behind Simpson and Soofi when they began firing. According to the court case, the agent had texted Simpson just weeks before with the message, “Tear up Texas.”
image: http://www.wnd.com/files/2017/10/bruce-joiner.jpg
Bruce Joiner
Bruce Joiner
A video from WFAA-TV in Dallas showed the agent being briefly detained by Garland Police after fleeing the scene.
Joiner’s lawsuit alleges that former FBI Director Jim Comey lied to the American people in a “post-attack cover-up.”
Comey, the complaint says, claimed Simpson was a “needle in a haystack” that was “invisible to us.”
“Even after it had come to light that an undercover FBI agent had been communicating extensively with the terrorists during the week prior to the event and had accompanied them as they carried out the attack, the FBI continued to assert that there ‘was no advance knowledge of a plot to attack the cartoon drawing contest,'” the complaint states.
The Examiner said the FBI did not respond to a request for comment.
‘They would have killed us’
Islam expert Robert Spencer, who helped organize the Garland event with blogger, author and activist Pamela Geller, wrote on his website Jihad Watch that he and Geller twice asked the FBI for an investigation into the role of the FBI agent but were ignored.
Spencer said that while the bureau apparently knew of the attack in advance, it didn’t have a team in place to stop the jihadis.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/officer-shot ... K8q7jGm.99
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Re: When will FBI agents create their next Terrorist Event.
We knew that before the smoke from the 1st bomb cleared
http://www.newsweek.com/boston-marathon ... oof-691058
BOSTON MARATHON BOMBER’S AUNT CLAIMS FBI SET UP DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV AND SHE HAS PROOF
BY MICHELE MCPHEE ON 10/23/17 AT 3:25 PM
The Russian aunt of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has filed a motion in his death penalty appeal case that reveals new details on the meetings her nephew’s attorneys had in Russia with his parents and makes a bizarre allegation that the FBI said the bomber had a “heavy-laden black backpack,” not the white one he can be seen carrying in video taken before the deadly blasts.
In the filing, Maret Tsarnaeva, a Chechen attorney and the sister of Tsarnaev family patriarch Anzor, asks to join her nephew’s death penalty appeal defense team, a request denied by a federal judge this year.
Tsarnaeva’s filing includes a still photograph of Dzhokhar taken from a 29-second clip recorded by a Whiskey’s Steak House surveillance camera on Boylston Street. Of it, she says that “the FBI and the indictment have together affirmed that the culprits who detonated these explosions were carrying large, unusually heavy black backpacks concealing pressure cooker bombs.” But her affidavit states, “Dzhokhar was carrying a small-sized white backpack,” which she calls exculpatory evidence.
“The very evidence used by the FBI to identify the ‘Boston bombers’ referenced in the indictment excludes Dzhokhar as plainly as white is distinguished from black,” Tsarnaeva’s filing states. “What can be more compelling than the difference between black and white?”
A still image from a surveillance video shows Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in this handout photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston on March 11, 2015.
Tsarnaeva’s filing also provides the first details into a trip to Russia taken by two members of Dzhokhar’s defense team, famed death penalty lawyer Judy Clarke and attorney William Fick, who speaks fluent Russian, in late June 2013, just a couple of months after the April 15, 2013, attack. Tsarnaeva says she attended the meeting at her brother’s home in Dagestan, where he has lived with his ex-wife, Zubeidat, since the couple left the United States in 2012.
During the meeting, Tsarnaeva says, Clarke and Fick convinced Dzhokhar’s mother to write him a letter urging him to “cooperate wholeheartedly” and said they planned to point to his brother, Tamerlan, as the “mastermind” of the murderous Patriots’ Day attack attack that killed three, left 17 people amputees and seriously wounded 260 others. They assured the parents that their client, the couple’s son, was “merely following his big brother,” a defense that was used during Tsarnaev’s trial.
Tamerlan was killed during a firefight with law enforcement in Watertown on April 18, 2013, four days after the bombing. He died late that night, after he and his brother executed MIT police officer Sean Collier, carjacked a young businessman and attacked police officers with bullets and bombs. Tamerlan was shot nine times during that gun battle and was then run over by his younger brother as he sped away in a stolen Mercedes SUV. His brief escape launched a 16-hour manhunt; he was eventually found hiding inside a dry-docked, shrink-wrapped boat in a backyard in Watertown.
Paramedics who tended to Tamerlan later testified that he was still alive at the scene and released a final growl before he was pronounced dead at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on April 19, 2013. His death certificate states he was “shot by police and then run over by a motor vehicle.”
http://www.newsweek.com/boston-marathon ... oof-691058
see link for full story
https://whowhatwhy.org/2017/10/24/class ... ssination/
OCTOBER 24, 2017 | RUSS BAKER
CLASSIC WHO: GHW BUSH AND THE JFK ASSASSINATION
What possible connection could there have been between George H.W. Bush and the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Or between the CIA and the assassination? Or between Bush in the 1960s and the CIA? For some people, apparently, making such connections was as dangerous as letting one live wire touch another. Here, in anticipation of the forthcoming final release of long-classified JFK assassination records, is an excerpt from WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker’s bestseller, Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years. The story is a real-life thriller.
Note: Although these excerpts do not contain footnotes, the book itself is heavily footnoted and exhaustively sourced. This article first appeared 9/16/2013.
Poppy’s Secret
.
When Joseph McBride came upon the document about George H. W. Bush’s double life, he was not looking for it. It was 1985, and McBride, a former Daily Variety writer, was in the library of California State University San Bernardino, researching a book about the movie director Frank Capra. Like many good reporters, McBride took off on a “slight,” if time-consuming, tangent — spending day after day poring over reels of microfilmed documents related to the FBI and the JFK assassination. McBride had been a volunteer on Kennedy’s campaign, and since 1963 had been intrigued by the unanswered questions surrounding that most singular of American tragedies.
A particular memo caught his eye, and he leaned in for a closer look. Practically jumping off the screen was a memorandum from FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, dated November 29, 1963. Under the subject heading “Assassination of President John F. Kennedy,” Hoover reported that, on the day after JFK’s murder, the bureau had provided two individuals with briefings. One was “Captain William Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency.” The other: “Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency.”
To:
Director
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Department of State
[We have been] advised that the Department of State feels some misguided anti-Castro group might capitalize on the present situation and undertake an unauthorized raid against Cuba, believing that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy might herald a change in U.S. policy… [Our] sources know of no [such] plans… The substance of the foregoing information was orally furnished to Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency and Captain William Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
McBride shook his head. George H. W. Bush? In the CIA in 1963? Dealing with Cubans and the JFK assassination? Could this be the same man who was now vice president of the United States? Even when Bush was named CIA director in 1976 amid much agency-bashing, his primary asset had been the fact that he was not a part of the agency during the coups, attempted coups, and murder plots in Iran, Cuba, Chile, and other hot spots about which embarrassing information was being disclosed every day in Senate hearings.
For CIA director Bush, there had been much damage to control. The decade from 1963 to 1973 had seen one confidence-shaking crisis after another. There was the Kennedy assassination and the dubious accounting of it by the Warren Commission. Then came the revelations of how the CIA had used private foundations to channel funds to organizations inside the United States, such as the National Student Association. Then came Watergate, with its penumbra of CIA operatives such as E. Howard Hunt and their shadowy misdoings. Americans were getting the sense of a kind of sanctioned underground organization, operating outside the law and yet protected by it. Then President Gerald Ford, who had ascended to that office when Richard Nixon resigned, fired William Colby, the director of the CIA, who was perceived by hard-liners as too accommodating to congressional investigators and would-be intelligence reformers.
Now Ford had named George H. W. Bush to take over the CIA. But Bush seemed wholly unqualified for such a position — especially at a time when the agency was under maximum scrutiny. He had been U.N. ambassador, Republican National Committee chairman, and the U.S. envoy to Beijing, where both Nixon and Henry Kissinger had regarded him as a lightweight and worked around him. What experience did he have in the world of intelligence and spying? How would he restore public confidence in a tarnished spy agency? No one seemed to know. Or did Gerald Ford realize something most others didn’t?
Bush served at the CIA for one year, from early 1976 to early 1977. He worked quietly to reverse the Watergate-era reforms of CIA practices, moving as many operations as possible offshore and beyond accountability. Although a short stint, it nevertheless created an image problem in 1980 when Bush ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination against former California governor Ronald Reagan. Some critics warned of the dangerous precedent in elevating someone who had led the CIA, with its legacy of dark secrets and covert plots, blackmail and murder, to preside over the United States government.
“Must be another George Bush”
.
In 1985, when McBride found the FBI memo apparently relating to Bush’s past, the reporter did not immediately follow up this curious lead. Bush was now a recently reelected vice president (a famously powerless position), and McBride himself was busy with other things. By 1988, however, the true identity of “Mr. George Bush of the CIA” took on new meaning, as George H. W. Bush prepared to assume his role as Reagan’s heir to the presidency. Joe McBride decided to make the leap from entertainment reportage to politics. He picked up the phone and called the White House.
“May I speak with the vice president?” he asked
McBride had to settle for Stephen Hart, a vice presidential spokesman. Hart denied that his boss had been the man mentioned in the memo, quoting Bush directly. “I was in Houston, Texas, at the time and involved in the independent oil drilling business. And I was running for the Senate in late ’63. I don’t have any idea of what he’s talking about.” Hart concluded with this suggestion: “Must be another George Bush.”
McBride found the response troubling — rather detailed for a ritual non-denial. It almost felt like a cover story that Bush was a bit too eager to trot out. He returned to Hart with more questions for Bush:
* Did you do any work with or for the CIA prior to the time you became its director?
* If so, what was the nature of your relationship with the agency, and how long did it last?
* Did you receive a briefing by a member of the FBI on anti-Castro Cuban activities in the aftermath [of] the assassination of President Kennedy?
Within half an hour, Hart called him back. The spokesman now declared that, though he had not spoken with Bush, he would nevertheless answer the questions himself. Hart said that the answer to the first question was no, and, therefore, the other two were moot.
Undeterred, McBride called the CIA. A spokesman for the agency, Bill Devine, responded: “This is the first time I’ve ever heard this . . . I’ll see what I can find out and call you back.”
The following day, the PR man was tersely formal and opaque: “I can neither confirm nor deny.” It was the standard response the agency gave when it dealt with its sources and methods. Could the agency reveal whether there had been another George Bush in the CIA? Devine replied: “Twenty-seven years ago? I doubt that very much. In any event, we have a standard policy of not confirming that anyone is involved in the CIA.”
“Apparently” George William Bush
.
But it appears this standard policy was made to be broken. McBride’s revelations appeared in the July 16, 1988, issue of the liberal magazine the Nation, under the headline “The Man Who Wasn’t There, ‘George Bush,’ C.I.A. Operative.” Shortly thereafter, CIA spokeswoman Sharron Basso told the Associated Press that the CIA believed that “the record should be clarified.” She said that the FBI document “apparently” referred to a George William Bush who had worked in 1963 on the night shift at the Langley, Virginia, headquarters, and that “would have been the appropriate place to have received such an FBI report.” George William Bush, she said, had left the CIA in 1964 to join the Defense Intelligence Agency
http://www.newsweek.com/boston-marathon ... oof-691058
BOSTON MARATHON BOMBER’S AUNT CLAIMS FBI SET UP DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV AND SHE HAS PROOF
BY MICHELE MCPHEE ON 10/23/17 AT 3:25 PM
The Russian aunt of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has filed a motion in his death penalty appeal case that reveals new details on the meetings her nephew’s attorneys had in Russia with his parents and makes a bizarre allegation that the FBI said the bomber had a “heavy-laden black backpack,” not the white one he can be seen carrying in video taken before the deadly blasts.
In the filing, Maret Tsarnaeva, a Chechen attorney and the sister of Tsarnaev family patriarch Anzor, asks to join her nephew’s death penalty appeal defense team, a request denied by a federal judge this year.
Tsarnaeva’s filing includes a still photograph of Dzhokhar taken from a 29-second clip recorded by a Whiskey’s Steak House surveillance camera on Boylston Street. Of it, she says that “the FBI and the indictment have together affirmed that the culprits who detonated these explosions were carrying large, unusually heavy black backpacks concealing pressure cooker bombs.” But her affidavit states, “Dzhokhar was carrying a small-sized white backpack,” which she calls exculpatory evidence.
“The very evidence used by the FBI to identify the ‘Boston bombers’ referenced in the indictment excludes Dzhokhar as plainly as white is distinguished from black,” Tsarnaeva’s filing states. “What can be more compelling than the difference between black and white?”
A still image from a surveillance video shows Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in this handout photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston on March 11, 2015.
Tsarnaeva’s filing also provides the first details into a trip to Russia taken by two members of Dzhokhar’s defense team, famed death penalty lawyer Judy Clarke and attorney William Fick, who speaks fluent Russian, in late June 2013, just a couple of months after the April 15, 2013, attack. Tsarnaeva says she attended the meeting at her brother’s home in Dagestan, where he has lived with his ex-wife, Zubeidat, since the couple left the United States in 2012.
During the meeting, Tsarnaeva says, Clarke and Fick convinced Dzhokhar’s mother to write him a letter urging him to “cooperate wholeheartedly” and said they planned to point to his brother, Tamerlan, as the “mastermind” of the murderous Patriots’ Day attack attack that killed three, left 17 people amputees and seriously wounded 260 others. They assured the parents that their client, the couple’s son, was “merely following his big brother,” a defense that was used during Tsarnaev’s trial.
Tamerlan was killed during a firefight with law enforcement in Watertown on April 18, 2013, four days after the bombing. He died late that night, after he and his brother executed MIT police officer Sean Collier, carjacked a young businessman and attacked police officers with bullets and bombs. Tamerlan was shot nine times during that gun battle and was then run over by his younger brother as he sped away in a stolen Mercedes SUV. His brief escape launched a 16-hour manhunt; he was eventually found hiding inside a dry-docked, shrink-wrapped boat in a backyard in Watertown.
Paramedics who tended to Tamerlan later testified that he was still alive at the scene and released a final growl before he was pronounced dead at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on April 19, 2013. His death certificate states he was “shot by police and then run over by a motor vehicle.”
http://www.newsweek.com/boston-marathon ... oof-691058
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OCTOBER 24, 2017 | RUSS BAKER
CLASSIC WHO: GHW BUSH AND THE JFK ASSASSINATION
What possible connection could there have been between George H.W. Bush and the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Or between the CIA and the assassination? Or between Bush in the 1960s and the CIA? For some people, apparently, making such connections was as dangerous as letting one live wire touch another. Here, in anticipation of the forthcoming final release of long-classified JFK assassination records, is an excerpt from WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker’s bestseller, Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years. The story is a real-life thriller.
Note: Although these excerpts do not contain footnotes, the book itself is heavily footnoted and exhaustively sourced. This article first appeared 9/16/2013.
Poppy’s Secret
.
When Joseph McBride came upon the document about George H. W. Bush’s double life, he was not looking for it. It was 1985, and McBride, a former Daily Variety writer, was in the library of California State University San Bernardino, researching a book about the movie director Frank Capra. Like many good reporters, McBride took off on a “slight,” if time-consuming, tangent — spending day after day poring over reels of microfilmed documents related to the FBI and the JFK assassination. McBride had been a volunteer on Kennedy’s campaign, and since 1963 had been intrigued by the unanswered questions surrounding that most singular of American tragedies.
A particular memo caught his eye, and he leaned in for a closer look. Practically jumping off the screen was a memorandum from FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, dated November 29, 1963. Under the subject heading “Assassination of President John F. Kennedy,” Hoover reported that, on the day after JFK’s murder, the bureau had provided two individuals with briefings. One was “Captain William Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency.” The other: “Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency.”
To:
Director
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Department of State
[We have been] advised that the Department of State feels some misguided anti-Castro group might capitalize on the present situation and undertake an unauthorized raid against Cuba, believing that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy might herald a change in U.S. policy… [Our] sources know of no [such] plans… The substance of the foregoing information was orally furnished to Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency and Captain William Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
McBride shook his head. George H. W. Bush? In the CIA in 1963? Dealing with Cubans and the JFK assassination? Could this be the same man who was now vice president of the United States? Even when Bush was named CIA director in 1976 amid much agency-bashing, his primary asset had been the fact that he was not a part of the agency during the coups, attempted coups, and murder plots in Iran, Cuba, Chile, and other hot spots about which embarrassing information was being disclosed every day in Senate hearings.
For CIA director Bush, there had been much damage to control. The decade from 1963 to 1973 had seen one confidence-shaking crisis after another. There was the Kennedy assassination and the dubious accounting of it by the Warren Commission. Then came the revelations of how the CIA had used private foundations to channel funds to organizations inside the United States, such as the National Student Association. Then came Watergate, with its penumbra of CIA operatives such as E. Howard Hunt and their shadowy misdoings. Americans were getting the sense of a kind of sanctioned underground organization, operating outside the law and yet protected by it. Then President Gerald Ford, who had ascended to that office when Richard Nixon resigned, fired William Colby, the director of the CIA, who was perceived by hard-liners as too accommodating to congressional investigators and would-be intelligence reformers.
Now Ford had named George H. W. Bush to take over the CIA. But Bush seemed wholly unqualified for such a position — especially at a time when the agency was under maximum scrutiny. He had been U.N. ambassador, Republican National Committee chairman, and the U.S. envoy to Beijing, where both Nixon and Henry Kissinger had regarded him as a lightweight and worked around him. What experience did he have in the world of intelligence and spying? How would he restore public confidence in a tarnished spy agency? No one seemed to know. Or did Gerald Ford realize something most others didn’t?
Bush served at the CIA for one year, from early 1976 to early 1977. He worked quietly to reverse the Watergate-era reforms of CIA practices, moving as many operations as possible offshore and beyond accountability. Although a short stint, it nevertheless created an image problem in 1980 when Bush ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination against former California governor Ronald Reagan. Some critics warned of the dangerous precedent in elevating someone who had led the CIA, with its legacy of dark secrets and covert plots, blackmail and murder, to preside over the United States government.
“Must be another George Bush”
.
In 1985, when McBride found the FBI memo apparently relating to Bush’s past, the reporter did not immediately follow up this curious lead. Bush was now a recently reelected vice president (a famously powerless position), and McBride himself was busy with other things. By 1988, however, the true identity of “Mr. George Bush of the CIA” took on new meaning, as George H. W. Bush prepared to assume his role as Reagan’s heir to the presidency. Joe McBride decided to make the leap from entertainment reportage to politics. He picked up the phone and called the White House.
“May I speak with the vice president?” he asked
McBride had to settle for Stephen Hart, a vice presidential spokesman. Hart denied that his boss had been the man mentioned in the memo, quoting Bush directly. “I was in Houston, Texas, at the time and involved in the independent oil drilling business. And I was running for the Senate in late ’63. I don’t have any idea of what he’s talking about.” Hart concluded with this suggestion: “Must be another George Bush.”
McBride found the response troubling — rather detailed for a ritual non-denial. It almost felt like a cover story that Bush was a bit too eager to trot out. He returned to Hart with more questions for Bush:
* Did you do any work with or for the CIA prior to the time you became its director?
* If so, what was the nature of your relationship with the agency, and how long did it last?
* Did you receive a briefing by a member of the FBI on anti-Castro Cuban activities in the aftermath [of] the assassination of President Kennedy?
Within half an hour, Hart called him back. The spokesman now declared that, though he had not spoken with Bush, he would nevertheless answer the questions himself. Hart said that the answer to the first question was no, and, therefore, the other two were moot.
Undeterred, McBride called the CIA. A spokesman for the agency, Bill Devine, responded: “This is the first time I’ve ever heard this . . . I’ll see what I can find out and call you back.”
The following day, the PR man was tersely formal and opaque: “I can neither confirm nor deny.” It was the standard response the agency gave when it dealt with its sources and methods. Could the agency reveal whether there had been another George Bush in the CIA? Devine replied: “Twenty-seven years ago? I doubt that very much. In any event, we have a standard policy of not confirming that anyone is involved in the CIA.”
“Apparently” George William Bush
.
But it appears this standard policy was made to be broken. McBride’s revelations appeared in the July 16, 1988, issue of the liberal magazine the Nation, under the headline “The Man Who Wasn’t There, ‘George Bush,’ C.I.A. Operative.” Shortly thereafter, CIA spokeswoman Sharron Basso told the Associated Press that the CIA believed that “the record should be clarified.” She said that the FBI document “apparently” referred to a George William Bush who had worked in 1963 on the night shift at the Langley, Virginia, headquarters, and that “would have been the appropriate place to have received such an FBI report.” George William Bush, she said, had left the CIA in 1964 to join the Defense Intelligence Agency
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Operant Conditioning
Basic Principles of Operant Conditioning: Thorndike’s Law of Effect
Thorndike’s law of effect states that behaviors are modified by their positive or negative consequences.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Relate Thorndike’s law of effect to the principles of operant conditioning
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Key Points
The law of effect states that responses that produce a satisfying effect in a particular situation become more likely to occur again, while responses that produce a discomforting effect are less likely to be repeated.
Edward L. Thorndike first studied the law of effect by placing hungry cats inside puzzle boxes and observing their actions. He quickly realized that cats could learn the efficacy of certain behaviors and would repeat those behaviors that allowed them to escape faster.
The law of effect is at work in every human behavior as well. From a young age, we learn which actions are beneficial and which are detrimental through a similar trial and error process.
While the law of effect explains behavior from an external, observable point of view, it does not account for internal, unobservable processes that also affect the behavior patterns of human beings.
Key Terms
Law of Effect: A law developed by Edward L. Thorndike that states, “responses that produce a satisfying effect in a particular situation become more likely to occur again in that situation, and responses that produce a discomforting effect become less likely to occur again in that situation.”
behavior modification: The act of altering actions and reactions to stimuli through positive and negative reinforcement or punishment.
trial and error: The process of finding a solution to a problem by trying many possible solutions and learning from mistakes until a way is found.
Operant conditioning is a theory of learning that focuses on changes in an individual’s observable behaviors. In operant conditioning, new or continued behaviors are impacted by new or continued consequences. Research regarding this principle of learning first began in the late 19th century with Edward L. Thorndike, who established the law of effect.
Thorndike’s Experiments
Thorndike’s most famous work involved cats trying to navigate through various puzzle boxes. In this experiment, he placed hungry cats into homemade boxes and recorded the time it took for them to perform the necessary actions to escape and receive their food reward. Thorndike discovered that with successive trials, cats would learn from previous behavior, limit ineffective actions, and escape from the box more quickly. He observed that the cats seemed to learn, from an intricate trial and error process, which actions should be continued and which actions should be abandoned; a well-practiced cat could quickly remember and reuse actions that were successful in escaping to the food reward.
Thorndike’s puzzle box: This image shows an example of Thorndike’s puzzle box alongside a graph demonstrating the learning of a cat within the box. As the number of trials increased, the cats were able to escape more quickly by learning.
The Law of Effect
Thorndike realized not only that stimuli and responses were associated, but also that behavior could be modified by consequences. He used these findings to publish his now famous “law of effect” theory. According to the law of effect, behaviors that are followed by consequences that are satisfying to the organism are more likely to be repeated, and behaviors that are followed by unpleasant consequences are less likely to be repeated. Essentially, if an organism does something that brings about a desired result, the organism is more likely to do it again. If an organism does something that does not bring about a desired result, the organism is less likely to do it again.
image
Law of effect: Initially, cats displayed a variety of behaviors inside the box. Over successive trials, actions that were helpful in escaping the box and receiving the food reward were replicated and repeated at a higher rate.
Thorndike’s law of effect now informs much of what we know about operant conditioning and behaviorism. According to this law, behaviors are modified by their consequences, and this basic stimulus-response relationship can be learned by the operant person or animal. Once the association between behavior and consequences is established, the response is reinforced, and the association holds the sole responsibility for the occurrence of that behavior. Thorndike posited that learning was merely a change in behavior as a result of a consequence, and that if an action brought a reward, it was stamped into the mind and available for recall later.
From a young age, we learn which actions are beneficial and which are detrimental through a trial and error process. For example, a young child is playing with her friend on the playground and playfully pushes her friend off the swingset. Her friend falls to the ground and begins to cry, and then refuses to play with her for the rest of the day. The child’s actions (pushing her friend) are informed by their consequences (her friend refusing to play with her), and she learns not to repeat that action if she wants to continue playing with her friend.
The law of effect has been expanded to various forms of behavior modification. Because the law of effect is a key component of behaviorism, it does not include any reference to unobservable or internal states; instead, it relies solely on what can be observed in human behavior. While this theory does not account for the entirety of human behavior, it has been applied to nearly every sector of human life, but particularly in education and psychology.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=131059&page=1
Former Prosecutor Says FBI Delayed Alabama Conviction
Thomas Blanton is finally going to prison — a life sentence he avoided for almost four decades.
Alabama's former attorney general says he could have put Blanton away 24 years ago if he'd only had access to secretly recorded tapes of Blanton talking to his wife about "the meeting to plan a bomb." The tapes were sitting in the FBI's files.
"If we had had those tapes we would have unequivocally been able to convict Blanton back then," former Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley said.
Baxley wanted to try the four suspected bombers in 1977. But he needed the FBI's evidence and he says he wasn't getting it. So he enlisted the help of a reporter.
"I had dinner with Bill Baxley over across the street from the Washington bureau of the L.A. Times and he pulled out of his wallet a crumbled piece of paper with the names of these four little girls on it," said Los Angeles Times reporter Jack Nelson. "Then he told me at that time 'I'm going to get the guys that did this,' and he said, 'but I need help.'"
"He went over the FBI's head to the Department of Justice and told the Attorney General that he was going to expose them for blocking a prosecution," Baxley said.
Baxley says the threat got him enough evidence to convict one of the bombers — the ring leader Robert Chambliss. But Baxley didn't know at the time that he didn't get everything in the FBI files, including the Blanton tapes.
"I believe the FBI office here in Birmingham, during the time of the investigation in 1977, did not know of the existence of those tapes," said Charlene Thornton, Birmingham's FBI director."We did not withhold information."
But the FBI acknowledges, at the height of the civil rights struggle in the 60s, the FBI had little faith in Southern law enforcement.
"I recognize that, in years past, they had valid reasons to not trust deep-South law enforcement," Baxley said. "So I spent a lot of time trying to convince them that that wasn't the case with us."
Have Things Changed in Deep South?
The federal prosecutor who finally convicted Blanton this year says things have changed.
"Today's FBI is far different than it was," said U.S. Attorney Doug Jones. "The guys deserve all the credit for helping to bring this case, knowing that they would probably take some criticism for what their agency did years ago."
Baxley says the bottom line is: justice was unnecessarily delayed.
"The FBI for all intents and purposes gave a 'get out of jail free card' to Tommy Blanton," Baxley said.
Of the other suspects, Herman Cash died in 1994. The fourth suspect, Bobby Frank Cherry, has been indicted but ruled mentally unfit to stand trial.
http://www.pressherald.com/2017/11/24/o ... legations/
Oxford County sheriff silent about sex allegations
Wayne Gallant, accused by a union official of soliciting sex from two employees and sending explicit photos of himself to a deputy's girlfriend, says his attorney will be available to field questions next week.
Resize Font.
A television news station in Portland reported Tuesday that it had obtained a photo showing Gallant, in uniform, in a sexually explicit pose. The sheriff admitted to WGME-TV that he had taken the photo himself and sent it to a woman he did not identify.
Although Gallant immediately stepped down as president of the Maine Sheriffs’ Association, there was no word on whether he would resign from the sheriff’s position.
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Rally planned for 15-year-old Connecticut boy killed by police officer
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Supporters of the family of a 15-year-old boy killed by a Connecticut officer last summer are calling for prosecutors to release video evidence in the case.
Community advocates from across the state plan to rally Monday near the state Capitol in Hartford to bring attention to the May death of Jayson Negron.
Bridgeport Police Chief Armando Perez has said rookie officer James Boulay opened fire May 9 when he was nearly run over by a stolen car driven by Negron. A passenger in the car also was shot, but survived.
Community advocates said Saturday in a news release they want State’s Attorney Maureen Platt to file charges against Boulay. They say Platt has not released a decision on the case.
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Officer charged with intimidating teen boy placed on leave
November 26 2017
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. A Massachusetts police officer charged in connection with a violent off-duty confrontation with a 15-year-old boy outside a mall has been placed on leave pending the outcome of the case.
The Republican reports a Springfield police spokesman says city Officer Daniel Cintron is on “restricted leave with pay.”
Cintron pleaded not guilty in September to unarmed robbery, assault and battery and witness intimidation.
Prosecutors say Cintron and another man confronted the teen at a mall in August over text messages he exchanged with the other man’s sister.
They say Cintron was off-duty but wore his badge and carried a department-issued gun to intimidate the teen. The other man allegedly punched the teen and stole his cellphone.
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Operant Conditioning
Basic Principles of Operant Conditioning: Thorndike’s Law of Effect
Thorndike’s law of effect states that behaviors are modified by their positive or negative consequences.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Relate Thorndike’s law of effect to the principles of operant conditioning
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Key Points
The law of effect states that responses that produce a satisfying effect in a particular situation become more likely to occur again, while responses that produce a discomforting effect are less likely to be repeated.
Edward L. Thorndike first studied the law of effect by placing hungry cats inside puzzle boxes and observing their actions. He quickly realized that cats could learn the efficacy of certain behaviors and would repeat those behaviors that allowed them to escape faster.
The law of effect is at work in every human behavior as well. From a young age, we learn which actions are beneficial and which are detrimental through a similar trial and error process.
While the law of effect explains behavior from an external, observable point of view, it does not account for internal, unobservable processes that also affect the behavior patterns of human beings.
Key Terms
Law of Effect: A law developed by Edward L. Thorndike that states, “responses that produce a satisfying effect in a particular situation become more likely to occur again in that situation, and responses that produce a discomforting effect become less likely to occur again in that situation.”
behavior modification: The act of altering actions and reactions to stimuli through positive and negative reinforcement or punishment.
trial and error: The process of finding a solution to a problem by trying many possible solutions and learning from mistakes until a way is found.
Operant conditioning is a theory of learning that focuses on changes in an individual’s observable behaviors. In operant conditioning, new or continued behaviors are impacted by new or continued consequences. Research regarding this principle of learning first began in the late 19th century with Edward L. Thorndike, who established the law of effect.
Thorndike’s Experiments
Thorndike’s most famous work involved cats trying to navigate through various puzzle boxes. In this experiment, he placed hungry cats into homemade boxes and recorded the time it took for them to perform the necessary actions to escape and receive their food reward. Thorndike discovered that with successive trials, cats would learn from previous behavior, limit ineffective actions, and escape from the box more quickly. He observed that the cats seemed to learn, from an intricate trial and error process, which actions should be continued and which actions should be abandoned; a well-practiced cat could quickly remember and reuse actions that were successful in escaping to the food reward.
Thorndike’s puzzle box: This image shows an example of Thorndike’s puzzle box alongside a graph demonstrating the learning of a cat within the box. As the number of trials increased, the cats were able to escape more quickly by learning.
The Law of Effect
Thorndike realized not only that stimuli and responses were associated, but also that behavior could be modified by consequences. He used these findings to publish his now famous “law of effect” theory. According to the law of effect, behaviors that are followed by consequences that are satisfying to the organism are more likely to be repeated, and behaviors that are followed by unpleasant consequences are less likely to be repeated. Essentially, if an organism does something that brings about a desired result, the organism is more likely to do it again. If an organism does something that does not bring about a desired result, the organism is less likely to do it again.
image
Law of effect: Initially, cats displayed a variety of behaviors inside the box. Over successive trials, actions that were helpful in escaping the box and receiving the food reward were replicated and repeated at a higher rate.
Thorndike’s law of effect now informs much of what we know about operant conditioning and behaviorism. According to this law, behaviors are modified by their consequences, and this basic stimulus-response relationship can be learned by the operant person or animal. Once the association between behavior and consequences is established, the response is reinforced, and the association holds the sole responsibility for the occurrence of that behavior. Thorndike posited that learning was merely a change in behavior as a result of a consequence, and that if an action brought a reward, it was stamped into the mind and available for recall later.
From a young age, we learn which actions are beneficial and which are detrimental through a trial and error process. For example, a young child is playing with her friend on the playground and playfully pushes her friend off the swingset. Her friend falls to the ground and begins to cry, and then refuses to play with her for the rest of the day. The child’s actions (pushing her friend) are informed by their consequences (her friend refusing to play with her), and she learns not to repeat that action if she wants to continue playing with her friend.
The law of effect has been expanded to various forms of behavior modification. Because the law of effect is a key component of behaviorism, it does not include any reference to unobservable or internal states; instead, it relies solely on what can be observed in human behavior. While this theory does not account for the entirety of human behavior, it has been applied to nearly every sector of human life, but particularly in education and psychology.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=131059&page=1
Former Prosecutor Says FBI Delayed Alabama Conviction
Thomas Blanton is finally going to prison — a life sentence he avoided for almost four decades.
Alabama's former attorney general says he could have put Blanton away 24 years ago if he'd only had access to secretly recorded tapes of Blanton talking to his wife about "the meeting to plan a bomb." The tapes were sitting in the FBI's files.
"If we had had those tapes we would have unequivocally been able to convict Blanton back then," former Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley said.
Baxley wanted to try the four suspected bombers in 1977. But he needed the FBI's evidence and he says he wasn't getting it. So he enlisted the help of a reporter.
"I had dinner with Bill Baxley over across the street from the Washington bureau of the L.A. Times and he pulled out of his wallet a crumbled piece of paper with the names of these four little girls on it," said Los Angeles Times reporter Jack Nelson. "Then he told me at that time 'I'm going to get the guys that did this,' and he said, 'but I need help.'"
"He went over the FBI's head to the Department of Justice and told the Attorney General that he was going to expose them for blocking a prosecution," Baxley said.
Baxley says the threat got him enough evidence to convict one of the bombers — the ring leader Robert Chambliss. But Baxley didn't know at the time that he didn't get everything in the FBI files, including the Blanton tapes.
"I believe the FBI office here in Birmingham, during the time of the investigation in 1977, did not know of the existence of those tapes," said Charlene Thornton, Birmingham's FBI director."We did not withhold information."
But the FBI acknowledges, at the height of the civil rights struggle in the 60s, the FBI had little faith in Southern law enforcement.
"I recognize that, in years past, they had valid reasons to not trust deep-South law enforcement," Baxley said. "So I spent a lot of time trying to convince them that that wasn't the case with us."
Have Things Changed in Deep South?
The federal prosecutor who finally convicted Blanton this year says things have changed.
"Today's FBI is far different than it was," said U.S. Attorney Doug Jones. "The guys deserve all the credit for helping to bring this case, knowing that they would probably take some criticism for what their agency did years ago."
Baxley says the bottom line is: justice was unnecessarily delayed.
"The FBI for all intents and purposes gave a 'get out of jail free card' to Tommy Blanton," Baxley said.
Of the other suspects, Herman Cash died in 1994. The fourth suspect, Bobby Frank Cherry, has been indicted but ruled mentally unfit to stand trial.
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Oxford County sheriff silent about sex allegations
Wayne Gallant, accused by a union official of soliciting sex from two employees and sending explicit photos of himself to a deputy's girlfriend, says his attorney will be available to field questions next week.
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A television news station in Portland reported Tuesday that it had obtained a photo showing Gallant, in uniform, in a sexually explicit pose. The sheriff admitted to WGME-TV that he had taken the photo himself and sent it to a woman he did not identify.
Although Gallant immediately stepped down as president of the Maine Sheriffs’ Association, there was no word on whether he would resign from the sheriff’s position.
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Rally planned for 15-year-old Connecticut boy killed by police officer
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Supporters of the family of a 15-year-old boy killed by a Connecticut officer last summer are calling for prosecutors to release video evidence in the case.
Community advocates from across the state plan to rally Monday near the state Capitol in Hartford to bring attention to the May death of Jayson Negron.
Bridgeport Police Chief Armando Perez has said rookie officer James Boulay opened fire May 9 when he was nearly run over by a stolen car driven by Negron. A passenger in the car also was shot, but survived.
Community advocates said Saturday in a news release they want State’s Attorney Maureen Platt to file charges against Boulay. They say Platt has not released a decision on the case.
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Officer charged with intimidating teen boy placed on leave
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. A Massachusetts police officer charged in connection with a violent off-duty confrontation with a 15-year-old boy outside a mall has been placed on leave pending the outcome of the case.
The Republican reports a Springfield police spokesman says city Officer Daniel Cintron is on “restricted leave with pay.”
Cintron pleaded not guilty in September to unarmed robbery, assault and battery and witness intimidation.
Prosecutors say Cintron and another man confronted the teen at a mall in August over text messages he exchanged with the other man’s sister.
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BUCKEYE, Ariz.A Phoenix-area suburb has hired an outside investigator to look into allegations that police leaders perpetrated acts of corruption and wrongdoing.
A five-page anonymous letter was sent to Buckeye city officials in September, outlining more than a dozen allegations against police personnel.
The allegations include altering crime statistics, misappropriating funds, engaging in sexual encounters at work, consuming alcohol before operating city vehicles and creating a hostile work environment.
The letter was signed by anonymous individuals who say they’re employees of the 93-officer department. The letter claims the allegations can be verified by witnesses and a paper trail.
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The Lawrence Police Department provided no other details Wednesday about the Sept. 28 death of 30-year-old Dominique White near an east Topeka park. The Lawrence police investigated the shooting for the Topeka police.
Kagay said he does not have a timetable for determining whether someone will be charged over the shooting.
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Lawmakers Confront F.B.I. Director Over Report on Black Extremists
November. 29, 2017
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The F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, in Washington last month. Some have said that the bureau’s report calls to mind the agency’s illegal spying on blacks during the civil rights movement.
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress confronted Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, on Wednesday over an F.B.I. intelligence report that said that black extremists were targeting law enforcement because of police abuses in minority communities.
Mr. Wray met with the Congressional Black Caucus for about 90 minutes on Capitol Hill to discuss its members’ concerns about the report, which grouped together blacks who have espoused violent ideologies, some of whom went on to attack the police, under the term the “Black Identity Extremist” movement.
Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York, said Mr. Wray struggled to defend the report’s analysis and could not identify a single black identity extremist group.
“He was asked to publicly clarify that there is no scintilla of evidence, as far as we can tell, to provide an example of the black identity extremist movement or any groups that fall in that category,” Mr. Jeffries said. “That clarification should be made publicly, it seems to many of us, and not privately behind closed doors.”
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Published on Jan 8, 2014This 1999 film opened Pandora's box with an excellent examination of the events.Once again the crime goes all the way to the top,with the true criminals never seeing the light of day.The policies employed by our government are not legal and continue to mock the Constitution, which is the Law of the Land. It is our Law, the peoples law to keep the government in check. Instead we have lost control of our country, which looks more like a criminal empire than a Republic. For a country founded on Dissent and Revolution, we have evolved into slaves to a corporate Empire. History is not teaching us anything if we don't remind ourselves of it once in a while.
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Here is one of the places FBI agents learn how to make explosive
devices later used in terrorist events like Oklahoma City bombing,
911 and 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
The FBI addressed their explosive growth on the arsenal including a new lab to analyze terrorist IEDs. Agents can reconstruct the bombs and try to trace them back to bad actors across the world to aid in investigations and try to stop attacks from happening.
An interim regional computer forensics lab is also up and running. It provides hacking capabilities and crews can take computers, tablets, cell phones, and if state and local agencies don't have access to that equipment, they can bring that evidence to the FBI lab.
“We get into it and help them exploit what is on that device,” said FBI Redstone senior executive Robert Hamilton. “It's fantastic to have that kind of capability. I believe we have about 16 of them across the country but this is the one that services the southeast now.”
The FBI also has a new interim training center with long range goals on the arsenal.
“We see a vision for the FBI of this becoming a subject matter expert type of training environment down here. We will continue and will most likely always have Quantico as our new agents and analysts training but as our agents, analysts and professional staff go on in their careers in the FBI, we see them coming down here and being part of a major training facility down the road,” Hamilton said.
He touched on the Hazardous Devises School that’s been on Redstone for more than 40 years. It’s where all state and local bomb techs are trained, as well as the FBI's special agent bomb techs.
Significant renovations have been done to their villages, which provide different scenarios for training like a church, or airplane.
The FBI’s Ballistics Research Facility and Defensive Systems Unit are relocating from Quantico to Redstone.
“They make major decisions like the FBI's service weapon. They also do major analysis on bullets and how bullets come out of weapons and the impact on different environments and mediums. They are a world renowned capability that will be here for the long haul and will be a major piece of what we provide,” Hamilton explained.
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Bomb Damage Analysis Of Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
July 30, 1995
by Benton K. Partin
Brigadier Gen. USAF (Ret.)
On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was bombed, causing extensive damage to the structure, the loss of 168 innocent lives, the victimization of the families of those who lost loved ones, hundreds of non-fatal injuries, and substantial property damage in the vicinity. The media and the Executive branch reported that the sole source of the devastation was a single truck bomb consisting of 4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate, transported to the location in a Ryder Truck and parked in front of the building. It is impossible that the destruction to the building could have resulted from such a bomb alone. To cause the damage pattern that occurred to the Murrah building, there would have to have been demolition charges at several supporting column bases, at locations not accessible from the street, to supplement the truck bomb damage. Indeed, a careful examination of photographs showing the collapsed column bases reveals a failure mode produced by demolition charges and not by a blast from the truck bomb. To understand what caused the damage to the Murrah Building, one needs to understand some basics about the use and nature of explosives. First, blast through air is a very inefficient energy coupling mechanism against heavily reinforced concrete beams and columns. Second, blast damage potential initially falls off more rapidly than an inverse function of the distance cubed. That is why in conventional weapons development, one seeks accuracy over yield for hard targets. That is also why in the World Trade Center bombing (where the only source of blast damage was a truck bomb) the column in the middle of the bombed-out cavity was relatively untouched, although reinforced concrete floors were completely stripped away for several floors above and below the point of the bomb's detonation (see Time Magazine, 3-8-93, p 35). By contrast, heavily reinforced concrete structures can be destroyed effectively through detonation of explosives in contact with the reinforced concrete beams and columns. For example, the entire building remains in Oklahoma City were collapsed with 100-plus relatively small charges inserted into drilled holes in the columns. The total weight of all charges was on the order of 200 pounds. The detonation wave pressure (1,000,000 to 1,500,000 pounds per square inch) from a high detonation velocity contact explosive sweeps into the column as a wave of compressive deformation. Since the pressure in the wave of deformation far exceeds the yield strength of the concrete (about 3,500 pounds per square inch) by a factor of approximately 300, the concrete is turned into granular sand and dust until the wave dissipates to below the yield strength of the concrete. This leaves a relatively smooth but granular surface, with protruding, bare reinforcement rods, a distinctive signature of damage by contact explosives. The effect of the contact explosive on the reinforcement rods themselves can only be seen under microscopic metallurgical examination. (The rods are inertially confined during the explosion and survive basically in tact because of their much higher yield strength and plasticity.) When a reinforced concrete structure is damaged through air shock coupling and the pressure is below the compressive yield strength of the concrete, the failure mode is generally compressive structural fracture on one side and tensile fracture on the other, both characterized by cracks and rough fracture surfaces. Such a surface texture is very different from the relatively smooth granular surface resulting from contact explosives.
Analysis of Graphic Evidence
Tab 2 is a cross section view of the building looking from the west. The very large header or cross beam is shown at the north edge of the third floor. A large but smaller header is seen at the recessed north edge of the second floor with a brace beam extending out to the large columns in Row A. The front of the whole building is glass. Tab 3 shows the architectural layout of the first floor of the Murrah Building and the location of the truck bomb with superimposed circles of roughly equal levels of damage potential. The explosive force drops rapidly (initially proportional to one over the distance cubed) as the shock front travels farther and farther away from the truck bomb. After the release wave, the shock front will propagate proportional to one over the distance squared. The maximum possible yield from 4800 pounds of ammonium nitrate would be obtained if it were in a compressed sphere and detonated from the center. That would produce a 4.4 foot diameter sphere of detonation products at about 500,000 pounds per square inch. By the time the blast wave hits the closest column, the pressure would have fallen off to about 375 pounds per square inch. That would be far below the 3500 pound compressive yield strength of the concrete. Any column or beam failure from the truck bomb would therefore have been from blast wave structural loading and not from any wave of deformation in the concrete. The basic building structure consists of three rows of columns (35 feet apart) with eleven columns in each row (20 feet apart). The four corner columns have an external clamshelllike structure for air ducts, etc. If we label the column rows A, B. and C from front to back, and number the columns 1 through 11 from left to right, then columns A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, and B3 collapsed, essentially vertically. Tab 2 shows a very large reinforced concrete header at the floor level of the third floor of column row A. Much larger columns extend from the header down for the odd-numbered columns, i.e., A3, A5, A7, and A9. The even- and odd-numbered columns extended from the top of the building down to the header. The foundation of the building is a heavy, reinforced concrete slab with no sub-levels. From the potential damage contours on Tab 3, and assuming the single truck bomb, the pressure and impulse for collapsed columns B4, B5 and A7 are all in the 25 to 35 pounds per square inch region. However, the much smaller and closer columns, B4 and B5, are still standing, while the much larger column A7 is down. Column B3 is down with 42 percent less pressure and impulse than columns B4. These facts are sufficient reason to know that columns B3 and A7 had demolition charges on them. Moreover, there is not sufficient blast impulse at that range to collapse any of the three. In fact, columns B2, B4 and Bs all have the sheet rock and furring strip finish still intact on the second and third floors except where damaged by falling debris. The large header across the front of the building at the third floor of Row A was not blown back into the building as one may expect from such a large bomb. The header came straight down but rolled backward 90 degrees because the columns above the header rested off center toward the back.
Analysis of Photographic Evidence
A careful examination of photos showing the "A" row columns and the large header from the third floor reveals absolutely no air blast shock wave fracture, which is consistent with the pressure falloff with distance from the truck bomb. The cleaned-up building structure (Tab 4) shows that the failure line across the roof goes all the way to the ground except around columns B4 and Bs at the second and third floor levels. Reinforcement rods stripped out of beams and floors extend straight down on all floors. Columns A3, A5, A7, and B3 collapsed straight down as the apparent result of demolition charges at the column juncture with the third floor for column B3 and with the third floor level header for columns A3, A5, and A7. The even numbered columns (A2, A4, A6, and A8) in Row A collapsed straight down because they were supported at the third floor by the header, which necessarily failed with the demolition of its conjunctions with columns A3, A5, and A7. When columns A2 through A8 collapsed straight down, the roof and floor fracture lines at all floors acted as an instant hinge line, which would have given all floors collapsing down a slight tug toward column row B. Because of the collapse of column B3, the floors were cropped closer to the north side of columns B4, B5, which resulted in damage by falling debris to sheet rock on columns B4 and B5 at the third floor level. The so-called "pit" area behind columns B4 and B5 was caused either by the blast from the truck bomb pushing out the ceilings of the first and second floors or from the demolition charge on column B3. From the third floor it would look like a "pit" into which much debris fell. The blast pressure in this area would have been sufficient to exceed the ultimate yield design strength of the floor. There were large areas at this pressure being held only by the floor-thick, reinforced concrete around the 20-inch reinforced concrete columns in the B row. The floor of the first floor could not be blown downward, because it was a heavy concrete slab on compacted earth. The ceilings of the first and second floors nearer the truck between the A and B column rows could also have been blown upward initially. Although the truck bomb had insufficient power to destroy columns, the bomb was clearly responsible for ripping out some floors at the second and third floor levels.
Photographic Evidence of Demolition Charges
Turning next to the demolition charges in the building, refer to the picture at Tab 5. Here you see column A9 with no spalling as one would expect with the blast pressures involved and the decorative indents are unmarred. Note also the grooves at the top of the column and across the header. When the demolition charge on column A7 went off, the charge instantly left a 40 foot cantilevered header supporting column A8. Cascading columns and beams from above probably snapped off the end with a clear structural fracture, including rugged cracks and rough surfaces. There is a large unseen beam extending from behind the column, between the decorative groves, back to the first floor header. This beam adds considerable rigidity to the lower oddnumbered columns in Row A. Turning next to Tab 6, the stub of column B3 has been cleared, showing the bare reinforcement rods at the third floor level. The large header from the third floor level has fallen almost straight down with what appears to be demolition charge damage clearly evident to the right of column A3. The exposed reinforcement rods are clearly seen at the header end to the right of column A3. It appears that the demolition charge pulverized the header and columns out to about two feet from the juncture. Column A3 is standing there with the clean reinforcement rods clearly extended. Also, the architectural decorative band is clearly evident without blemish (indicating no blast damage in excess of yield strength). In this picture, the failure of the header at column As is still covered with rubble, and is not visible. However, the discontinuity in the slope of the header on either side of the column As location clearly shows that it failed in the region of its juncture with column As. Tab 7 shows the localized damage to the header at the position of column As, the closest column to the truck bomb crater. The end of the beam on which the men are standing shows evidence of a demolition charge at its juncture with column As. Several feet of the beam juncture appear to have been pulverized away by a demolition charge and the ends jammed together in the collapse. The blast pressure from the truck bomb would have been in the 400 pounds per square inch region, a factor of 10 below the yield strength of concrete. Tab 8 shows the localized demolition damage at the juncture of column A7 and the header. The same telltale demolition charge evidence is clear. The straight edge of the decorative grove at the juncture can be seen on both the column and the header. In my discussions with the building architect, who was on the scene as an advisor throughout much of the cleanup, he told me that the residual building was structurally sound and that the Murrah Building could have been rebuilt. This is totally consistent with the collapse of columns with demolition charges because the inflicted structural damage is more localized. Discussions above have been limited to the reinforced concrete structure of the Murrah Building. Reinforced concrete columns are hard targets for highexplosive bombs. Structures that have large areas for blast loading and low mass can be destroyed at considerable range from a large blast. That is why glass, plaster, and light structures were destroyed at considerable distance from the Murrah Building, but not reinforced concrete columns. Five pounds of blast pressure will flatten most frame houses.
Seismograph Readings
Much has been said about seismograph readings. Was there more than one explosion? Most people I talked to in Oklahoma City heard two explosions relatively close together. Some close by said they didn't even hear an explosion. That is not unreasonable, when you consider that getting walloped by an intense shock wave is about like being hit across the ear by a 2" x 4". One would expect the demolition charges to have had an electrical or primacord interconnect. If so, it would be difficult to separate them on a seismograph. If delays were used, they would be discrete. If a sensitivity switch was used inside the building, the explosions would have been distinct. Bomb initiations could have been easily designed to go off either simultaneously or with separation.
Conclusions
The Murrah Federal Building was not destroyed by one sole truck bomb. The major factor in its destruction appears to have been detonation of explosives carefully placed at four critical junctures on supporting columns within the building. The only possible reinforced concrete structural failure solely attributable to the truck bomb was the stripping out of the ceilings of the first and second floors in the "pit" area behind columns B4 and By. Even this may have been caused by a demolition charge at column B3. It is truly unfortunate that a separate and independent bomb damage assessment was not made during the cleanup, before the building was demolished on May 23 and hundreds of truck loads of debris were hauled away, smashed down, and covered with dirt behind a security fence. When the picture at Tab 4 was made, all evidence of demolition charges had been removed from the building site (i.e., the stubs of columns B3, A3, A5, A7 and the demolished junctures at the header with columns A3, A5 and A7. All ambiguity with respect to the use of supplementing demolition charges and the type of truck used could be quickly resolved in the FBI were required to release the surveillance camera coverage of this terribly tragic event.
Appendix
Biographical Notes - Benton K. Partin
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Thirty one years active duty in the Air Force. Progressively responsible executive, scientific and technical assignments directing organizations engaged in research, development, testing, analysis, requirements generation and acquisition management of weapons systems. Assignments from laboratory to the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Personal contributions made in the fields of research and development management, weapon system concepts, guided weapons technology, target acquisition aids, focused energy weapons, operations research and joint service harmonization of requirements. Retired as a Brigadier General.
White House appointed Special Assistant to the Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration. Personally designated to prepare the White Paper on the Federal Aviation Administration for the 1989 Presidential Transition Team. This included development of policy initiatives on FAA/USAF joint use of the Global Positioning System (GPS), operational life for commercial aircraft, antiterrorism, airport and airway capacity, requirements in the FAA acquisition process and FAA leadership and management development.
Military Command Pilot and Command Missleman with 4000 hours (37 combat.)
Education:
B.S. Chemical Engineering
M.S. Aeronautical Engineering
Ph.D. Candidate, Operations Research & Statistics (Academics Completed.)
Publications/TV
Sino-Soviet Conflict. Competition and cooperation: Risks in Force Structure Planning,
A Reduced Upper Limit for Sequential Test Truncation Error.
Frequent TV Talk Shows on the Voice of Freedom.
Honors:
Distinguished Service Medal
Legion of Merit thrice
Distinguished Graduate - Air War College
Community Affairs:
Chairman, United States Defense Committee
Member of the Board, In Touch Missions International
Member of the Board, Front Line Fellowship
Founding Chairman of the School Board, Engleside Christian School
Washington Rep. for the Association of Christian Schools International (1981-1983)
Chairman Fairfax County Republican Party (1982-1986)
Lifelong Professional Challenge:
Continuing studies and analyses to anticipate and forecast the future course of world military/political/economic transforming processes.
Letter of support from Rodger A. Raubach Ph.D.
Rodger A. Raubach Ph.D.
P.O. Box 3042
Casper, WY. 82602-3042
18 July 1995
Brigadier Gen. Benton K. Partin
Alexandria , VA. 22308
Dear Gen. Partin; Earlier today I received a copy of your report on the bombing in Oklahoma City, entitled "Bomb Damage Analysis of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City". This report was dated July 13,1995. I read this report carefully and examined the exhibits appended to the text. Your observations and photographic analysis are meticulous in the extreme , and you are to be commended for your insights regarding the effects of blast vs. distance from the detonation. The major points of the report which I believe need to be emphasized are: (1) the fact that rebar reinforcing rods were broken but appear to be embedded in concrete;(2) very little concrete appears to have been crushed by the blast. These observations alone are at extreme variance with the hypothesis of a single large truck bomb containing ANFO. For the large (4800 lb.) ammonium nitrate bomb to have caused the damage, there would be huge amounts of sand generated from the crushed concrete around the columns wherein the rebar was fractured. I took the liberty of checking with the leading concrete supplier in my area in order to confirm the compressive yield figure that you used, that being 3500 psi. What I was told about concrete was very interesting. A 3500 psi figure is extremely low for structural concrete. A properly mixed and cured structure of the type dealt with in your report would probably have a yield strength of 5600 psi. In conclusion, General, I find myself in awe of the technical achievement that your report represents. I can find no scientific flaws in either your observations or your conclusions. I am, therefore, in full agreement with the conclusion of strategically placed small explosive charges being responsible for the destruction of the building. We can only hope and pray that a few good men and women in our Congress will heed your report and take action that results in the punishment of the real guilty parties responsible for this heinous crime against the American people, and that these same few good people are able to stem the abrogation of any more of our Constitutional rights. Please keep up the good work that you are doing for your countrymen. It is an honor to be able to correspond with you on this matter and perhaps to be of some small service to our country, the Constitutional Republic, to which many of us have sworn to defend to the best of our abilities. If I may be of any further assistance, please contact me at any time. Looking forward to your response, I remain Very Truly Yours, Rodger A. Raubach Ph.D.
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Community interest in St. Paul’s police review commission has not waned since city leaders voted a year ago to overhaul the board — a decision many people said would create a more just system and others called unfair to police.
The commission, which considers complaints about officers and makes disciplinary recommendations to the police chief, was given more responsibility and restructured. Two Police Federation representatives were removed. It took most of the year to make the changes, and the new all-civilian board just started reviewing cases in October.
Over the summer, police officials raised procedural concerns about the Police Civilian Internal Affairs Review Commission’s operations. But city staff and commissioners said Tuesday they’re gaining on their goal of increasing public confidence in how police misconduct is handled.
“This will be one step toward having a more transparent, better process,” Commissioner Kaohly Her said at an annual summit Tuesday night, where residents asked questions about the new system and suggested changes.
Former Commissioner Dianne Binns, who spoke at the event, said she has been attending the summits for years and Tuesday’s turnout of about 80 people was the largest she had ever seen.
The overhaul of the commission was one of the most debated issues at City Hall in 2016, and stemmed from a University of Minnesota audit that recommended changes.
The city’s Department of Human Rights and Equal Economic Opportunity now coordinates the commission, instead of the police department. Complainants can testify to the commission, recommendations from police internal affairs staff no longer influence decisions, and the commission is able to recommend policy changes.
The most high-profile change was the removal of police from the board. Formerly a seven-person commission with two federation members, the board is now made up of nine civilians.
When Binns was on the commission, she said she often ended up fighting with the two federation members.
“I kept saying they’ve got to go,” she said, and many community members pushed the city to remove them. “I believe that truly you have a civilian review process now that the community can have trust in, can have faith in.”
Federation President David Titus could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
The city received 56 reported allegations in 2016 and 18 were sustained, according to an annual report presented at the meeting.
Kristen Clark, one of the new commissioners, said more outreach is needed to let people know about the complaint process.
Another new commissioner, Daria Caldwell, sat at a table Tuesday with a group of girls, ages 12 to 14. Alicia Lucio, a youth worker at Neighborhood House, brought them to the event. The girls became interested in policing after St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez fatally shot Philando Castile, Lucio said, and policing “keeps coming back as a concern.”
Police Officer allowed to retire and collect pension
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Anonymous letter claiming police wrongdoing prompts probe
BUCKEYE, Ariz.A Phoenix-area suburb has hired an outside investigator to look into allegations that police leaders perpetrated acts of corruption and wrongdoing.
A five-page anonymous letter was sent to Buckeye city officials in September, outlining more than a dozen allegations against police personnel.
The allegations include altering crime statistics, misappropriating funds, engaging in sexual encounters at work, consuming alcohol before operating city vehicles and creating a hostile work environment.
The letter was signed by anonymous individuals who say they’re employees of the 93-officer department. The letter claims the allegations can be verified by witnesses and a paper trail.
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TOPEKA, Kan. Authorities say they’ve finished an investigation into the fatal shooting of a black Topeka man by two police officers and have forwarded the case to a local prosecutor.
The Lawrence Police Department provided no other details Wednesday about the Sept. 28 death of 30-year-old Dominique White near an east Topeka park. The Lawrence police investigated the shooting for the Topeka police.
Kagay said he does not have a timetable for determining whether someone will be charged over the shooting.
The officers involved have not been identified and police body camera footage has not been released despite a demand from White’s family that it be made public.
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A man has been charged with an assault that authorities say occurred while he was off duty but still on the Grand Island police force.
Court records say 31-year-old Michael Lyon was charged last week with misdemeanor assault. A public phone number for him couldn’t be found Wednesday. Online court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for him. Lyon’s next court hearing is scheduled for Dec. 13.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Rhode Island police officer has been sentenced to probation for trafficking steroids and money laundering.
Prosecutors say ledgers showed Speck received $536,000 from selling steroids and other drugs from approximately June 2015 until the date of the search.
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Lawmakers Confront F.B.I. Director Over Report on Black Extremists
November. 29, 2017
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The F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, in Washington last month. Some have said that the bureau’s report calls to mind the agency’s illegal spying on blacks during the civil rights movement.
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress confronted Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, on Wednesday over an F.B.I. intelligence report that said that black extremists were targeting law enforcement because of police abuses in minority communities.
Mr. Wray met with the Congressional Black Caucus for about 90 minutes on Capitol Hill to discuss its members’ concerns about the report, which grouped together blacks who have espoused violent ideologies, some of whom went on to attack the police, under the term the “Black Identity Extremist” movement.
Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York, said Mr. Wray struggled to defend the report’s analysis and could not identify a single black identity extremist group.
“He was asked to publicly clarify that there is no scintilla of evidence, as far as we can tell, to provide an example of the black identity extremist movement or any groups that fall in that category,” Mr. Jeffries said. “That clarification should be made publicly, it seems to many of us, and not privately behind closed doors.”
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WACO started as a ATF Public Relation stunt because their budget
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You can see ATF agents, in the documentary Waco Rules of Engagement ,meeting the day before their botched assault on the Waco compound, handing out
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Here is the real deal on what happened at Waco
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Waco A New Revelation
Published on Jan 8, 2014This 1999 film opened Pandora's box with an excellent examination of the events.Once again the crime goes all the way to the top,with the true criminals never seeing the light of day.The policies employed by our government are not legal and continue to mock the Constitution, which is the Law of the Land. It is our Law, the peoples law to keep the government in check. Instead we have lost control of our country, which looks more like a criminal empire than a Republic. For a country founded on Dissent and Revolution, we have evolved into slaves to a corporate Empire. History is not teaching us anything if we don't remind ourselves of it once in a while.
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Here is one of the places FBI agents learn how to make explosive
devices later used in terrorist events like Oklahoma City bombing,
911 and 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
The FBI addressed their explosive growth on the arsenal including a new lab to analyze terrorist IEDs. Agents can reconstruct the bombs and try to trace them back to bad actors across the world to aid in investigations and try to stop attacks from happening.
An interim regional computer forensics lab is also up and running. It provides hacking capabilities and crews can take computers, tablets, cell phones, and if state and local agencies don't have access to that equipment, they can bring that evidence to the FBI lab.
“We get into it and help them exploit what is on that device,” said FBI Redstone senior executive Robert Hamilton. “It's fantastic to have that kind of capability. I believe we have about 16 of them across the country but this is the one that services the southeast now.”
The FBI also has a new interim training center with long range goals on the arsenal.
“We see a vision for the FBI of this becoming a subject matter expert type of training environment down here. We will continue and will most likely always have Quantico as our new agents and analysts training but as our agents, analysts and professional staff go on in their careers in the FBI, we see them coming down here and being part of a major training facility down the road,” Hamilton said.
He touched on the Hazardous Devises School that’s been on Redstone for more than 40 years. It’s where all state and local bomb techs are trained, as well as the FBI's special agent bomb techs.
Significant renovations have been done to their villages, which provide different scenarios for training like a church, or airplane.
The FBI’s Ballistics Research Facility and Defensive Systems Unit are relocating from Quantico to Redstone.
“They make major decisions like the FBI's service weapon. They also do major analysis on bullets and how bullets come out of weapons and the impact on different environments and mediums. They are a world renowned capability that will be here for the long haul and will be a major piece of what we provide,” Hamilton explained.
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Bomb Damage Analysis Of Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
July 30, 1995
by Benton K. Partin
Brigadier Gen. USAF (Ret.)
On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was bombed, causing extensive damage to the structure, the loss of 168 innocent lives, the victimization of the families of those who lost loved ones, hundreds of non-fatal injuries, and substantial property damage in the vicinity. The media and the Executive branch reported that the sole source of the devastation was a single truck bomb consisting of 4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate, transported to the location in a Ryder Truck and parked in front of the building. It is impossible that the destruction to the building could have resulted from such a bomb alone. To cause the damage pattern that occurred to the Murrah building, there would have to have been demolition charges at several supporting column bases, at locations not accessible from the street, to supplement the truck bomb damage. Indeed, a careful examination of photographs showing the collapsed column bases reveals a failure mode produced by demolition charges and not by a blast from the truck bomb. To understand what caused the damage to the Murrah Building, one needs to understand some basics about the use and nature of explosives. First, blast through air is a very inefficient energy coupling mechanism against heavily reinforced concrete beams and columns. Second, blast damage potential initially falls off more rapidly than an inverse function of the distance cubed. That is why in conventional weapons development, one seeks accuracy over yield for hard targets. That is also why in the World Trade Center bombing (where the only source of blast damage was a truck bomb) the column in the middle of the bombed-out cavity was relatively untouched, although reinforced concrete floors were completely stripped away for several floors above and below the point of the bomb's detonation (see Time Magazine, 3-8-93, p 35). By contrast, heavily reinforced concrete structures can be destroyed effectively through detonation of explosives in contact with the reinforced concrete beams and columns. For example, the entire building remains in Oklahoma City were collapsed with 100-plus relatively small charges inserted into drilled holes in the columns. The total weight of all charges was on the order of 200 pounds. The detonation wave pressure (1,000,000 to 1,500,000 pounds per square inch) from a high detonation velocity contact explosive sweeps into the column as a wave of compressive deformation. Since the pressure in the wave of deformation far exceeds the yield strength of the concrete (about 3,500 pounds per square inch) by a factor of approximately 300, the concrete is turned into granular sand and dust until the wave dissipates to below the yield strength of the concrete. This leaves a relatively smooth but granular surface, with protruding, bare reinforcement rods, a distinctive signature of damage by contact explosives. The effect of the contact explosive on the reinforcement rods themselves can only be seen under microscopic metallurgical examination. (The rods are inertially confined during the explosion and survive basically in tact because of their much higher yield strength and plasticity.) When a reinforced concrete structure is damaged through air shock coupling and the pressure is below the compressive yield strength of the concrete, the failure mode is generally compressive structural fracture on one side and tensile fracture on the other, both characterized by cracks and rough fracture surfaces. Such a surface texture is very different from the relatively smooth granular surface resulting from contact explosives.
Analysis of Graphic Evidence
Tab 2 is a cross section view of the building looking from the west. The very large header or cross beam is shown at the north edge of the third floor. A large but smaller header is seen at the recessed north edge of the second floor with a brace beam extending out to the large columns in Row A. The front of the whole building is glass. Tab 3 shows the architectural layout of the first floor of the Murrah Building and the location of the truck bomb with superimposed circles of roughly equal levels of damage potential. The explosive force drops rapidly (initially proportional to one over the distance cubed) as the shock front travels farther and farther away from the truck bomb. After the release wave, the shock front will propagate proportional to one over the distance squared. The maximum possible yield from 4800 pounds of ammonium nitrate would be obtained if it were in a compressed sphere and detonated from the center. That would produce a 4.4 foot diameter sphere of detonation products at about 500,000 pounds per square inch. By the time the blast wave hits the closest column, the pressure would have fallen off to about 375 pounds per square inch. That would be far below the 3500 pound compressive yield strength of the concrete. Any column or beam failure from the truck bomb would therefore have been from blast wave structural loading and not from any wave of deformation in the concrete. The basic building structure consists of three rows of columns (35 feet apart) with eleven columns in each row (20 feet apart). The four corner columns have an external clamshelllike structure for air ducts, etc. If we label the column rows A, B. and C from front to back, and number the columns 1 through 11 from left to right, then columns A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, and B3 collapsed, essentially vertically. Tab 2 shows a very large reinforced concrete header at the floor level of the third floor of column row A. Much larger columns extend from the header down for the odd-numbered columns, i.e., A3, A5, A7, and A9. The even- and odd-numbered columns extended from the top of the building down to the header. The foundation of the building is a heavy, reinforced concrete slab with no sub-levels. From the potential damage contours on Tab 3, and assuming the single truck bomb, the pressure and impulse for collapsed columns B4, B5 and A7 are all in the 25 to 35 pounds per square inch region. However, the much smaller and closer columns, B4 and B5, are still standing, while the much larger column A7 is down. Column B3 is down with 42 percent less pressure and impulse than columns B4. These facts are sufficient reason to know that columns B3 and A7 had demolition charges on them. Moreover, there is not sufficient blast impulse at that range to collapse any of the three. In fact, columns B2, B4 and Bs all have the sheet rock and furring strip finish still intact on the second and third floors except where damaged by falling debris. The large header across the front of the building at the third floor of Row A was not blown back into the building as one may expect from such a large bomb. The header came straight down but rolled backward 90 degrees because the columns above the header rested off center toward the back.
Analysis of Photographic Evidence
A careful examination of photos showing the "A" row columns and the large header from the third floor reveals absolutely no air blast shock wave fracture, which is consistent with the pressure falloff with distance from the truck bomb. The cleaned-up building structure (Tab 4) shows that the failure line across the roof goes all the way to the ground except around columns B4 and Bs at the second and third floor levels. Reinforcement rods stripped out of beams and floors extend straight down on all floors. Columns A3, A5, A7, and B3 collapsed straight down as the apparent result of demolition charges at the column juncture with the third floor for column B3 and with the third floor level header for columns A3, A5, and A7. The even numbered columns (A2, A4, A6, and A8) in Row A collapsed straight down because they were supported at the third floor by the header, which necessarily failed with the demolition of its conjunctions with columns A3, A5, and A7. When columns A2 through A8 collapsed straight down, the roof and floor fracture lines at all floors acted as an instant hinge line, which would have given all floors collapsing down a slight tug toward column row B. Because of the collapse of column B3, the floors were cropped closer to the north side of columns B4, B5, which resulted in damage by falling debris to sheet rock on columns B4 and B5 at the third floor level. The so-called "pit" area behind columns B4 and B5 was caused either by the blast from the truck bomb pushing out the ceilings of the first and second floors or from the demolition charge on column B3. From the third floor it would look like a "pit" into which much debris fell. The blast pressure in this area would have been sufficient to exceed the ultimate yield design strength of the floor. There were large areas at this pressure being held only by the floor-thick, reinforced concrete around the 20-inch reinforced concrete columns in the B row. The floor of the first floor could not be blown downward, because it was a heavy concrete slab on compacted earth. The ceilings of the first and second floors nearer the truck between the A and B column rows could also have been blown upward initially. Although the truck bomb had insufficient power to destroy columns, the bomb was clearly responsible for ripping out some floors at the second and third floor levels.
Photographic Evidence of Demolition Charges
Turning next to the demolition charges in the building, refer to the picture at Tab 5. Here you see column A9 with no spalling as one would expect with the blast pressures involved and the decorative indents are unmarred. Note also the grooves at the top of the column and across the header. When the demolition charge on column A7 went off, the charge instantly left a 40 foot cantilevered header supporting column A8. Cascading columns and beams from above probably snapped off the end with a clear structural fracture, including rugged cracks and rough surfaces. There is a large unseen beam extending from behind the column, between the decorative groves, back to the first floor header. This beam adds considerable rigidity to the lower oddnumbered columns in Row A. Turning next to Tab 6, the stub of column B3 has been cleared, showing the bare reinforcement rods at the third floor level. The large header from the third floor level has fallen almost straight down with what appears to be demolition charge damage clearly evident to the right of column A3. The exposed reinforcement rods are clearly seen at the header end to the right of column A3. It appears that the demolition charge pulverized the header and columns out to about two feet from the juncture. Column A3 is standing there with the clean reinforcement rods clearly extended. Also, the architectural decorative band is clearly evident without blemish (indicating no blast damage in excess of yield strength). In this picture, the failure of the header at column As is still covered with rubble, and is not visible. However, the discontinuity in the slope of the header on either side of the column As location clearly shows that it failed in the region of its juncture with column As. Tab 7 shows the localized damage to the header at the position of column As, the closest column to the truck bomb crater. The end of the beam on which the men are standing shows evidence of a demolition charge at its juncture with column As. Several feet of the beam juncture appear to have been pulverized away by a demolition charge and the ends jammed together in the collapse. The blast pressure from the truck bomb would have been in the 400 pounds per square inch region, a factor of 10 below the yield strength of concrete. Tab 8 shows the localized demolition damage at the juncture of column A7 and the header. The same telltale demolition charge evidence is clear. The straight edge of the decorative grove at the juncture can be seen on both the column and the header. In my discussions with the building architect, who was on the scene as an advisor throughout much of the cleanup, he told me that the residual building was structurally sound and that the Murrah Building could have been rebuilt. This is totally consistent with the collapse of columns with demolition charges because the inflicted structural damage is more localized. Discussions above have been limited to the reinforced concrete structure of the Murrah Building. Reinforced concrete columns are hard targets for highexplosive bombs. Structures that have large areas for blast loading and low mass can be destroyed at considerable range from a large blast. That is why glass, plaster, and light structures were destroyed at considerable distance from the Murrah Building, but not reinforced concrete columns. Five pounds of blast pressure will flatten most frame houses.
Seismograph Readings
Much has been said about seismograph readings. Was there more than one explosion? Most people I talked to in Oklahoma City heard two explosions relatively close together. Some close by said they didn't even hear an explosion. That is not unreasonable, when you consider that getting walloped by an intense shock wave is about like being hit across the ear by a 2" x 4". One would expect the demolition charges to have had an electrical or primacord interconnect. If so, it would be difficult to separate them on a seismograph. If delays were used, they would be discrete. If a sensitivity switch was used inside the building, the explosions would have been distinct. Bomb initiations could have been easily designed to go off either simultaneously or with separation.
Conclusions
The Murrah Federal Building was not destroyed by one sole truck bomb. The major factor in its destruction appears to have been detonation of explosives carefully placed at four critical junctures on supporting columns within the building. The only possible reinforced concrete structural failure solely attributable to the truck bomb was the stripping out of the ceilings of the first and second floors in the "pit" area behind columns B4 and By. Even this may have been caused by a demolition charge at column B3. It is truly unfortunate that a separate and independent bomb damage assessment was not made during the cleanup, before the building was demolished on May 23 and hundreds of truck loads of debris were hauled away, smashed down, and covered with dirt behind a security fence. When the picture at Tab 4 was made, all evidence of demolition charges had been removed from the building site (i.e., the stubs of columns B3, A3, A5, A7 and the demolished junctures at the header with columns A3, A5 and A7. All ambiguity with respect to the use of supplementing demolition charges and the type of truck used could be quickly resolved in the FBI were required to release the surveillance camera coverage of this terribly tragic event.
Appendix
Biographical Notes - Benton K. Partin
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Thirty one years active duty in the Air Force. Progressively responsible executive, scientific and technical assignments directing organizations engaged in research, development, testing, analysis, requirements generation and acquisition management of weapons systems. Assignments from laboratory to the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Personal contributions made in the fields of research and development management, weapon system concepts, guided weapons technology, target acquisition aids, focused energy weapons, operations research and joint service harmonization of requirements. Retired as a Brigadier General.
White House appointed Special Assistant to the Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration. Personally designated to prepare the White Paper on the Federal Aviation Administration for the 1989 Presidential Transition Team. This included development of policy initiatives on FAA/USAF joint use of the Global Positioning System (GPS), operational life for commercial aircraft, antiterrorism, airport and airway capacity, requirements in the FAA acquisition process and FAA leadership and management development.
Military Command Pilot and Command Missleman with 4000 hours (37 combat.)
Education:
B.S. Chemical Engineering
M.S. Aeronautical Engineering
Ph.D. Candidate, Operations Research & Statistics (Academics Completed.)
Publications/TV
Sino-Soviet Conflict. Competition and cooperation: Risks in Force Structure Planning,
A Reduced Upper Limit for Sequential Test Truncation Error.
Frequent TV Talk Shows on the Voice of Freedom.
Honors:
Distinguished Service Medal
Legion of Merit thrice
Distinguished Graduate - Air War College
Community Affairs:
Chairman, United States Defense Committee
Member of the Board, In Touch Missions International
Member of the Board, Front Line Fellowship
Founding Chairman of the School Board, Engleside Christian School
Washington Rep. for the Association of Christian Schools International (1981-1983)
Chairman Fairfax County Republican Party (1982-1986)
Lifelong Professional Challenge:
Continuing studies and analyses to anticipate and forecast the future course of world military/political/economic transforming processes.
Letter of support from Rodger A. Raubach Ph.D.
Rodger A. Raubach Ph.D.
P.O. Box 3042
Casper, WY. 82602-3042
18 July 1995
Brigadier Gen. Benton K. Partin
Alexandria , VA. 22308
Dear Gen. Partin; Earlier today I received a copy of your report on the bombing in Oklahoma City, entitled "Bomb Damage Analysis of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City". This report was dated July 13,1995. I read this report carefully and examined the exhibits appended to the text. Your observations and photographic analysis are meticulous in the extreme , and you are to be commended for your insights regarding the effects of blast vs. distance from the detonation. The major points of the report which I believe need to be emphasized are: (1) the fact that rebar reinforcing rods were broken but appear to be embedded in concrete;(2) very little concrete appears to have been crushed by the blast. These observations alone are at extreme variance with the hypothesis of a single large truck bomb containing ANFO. For the large (4800 lb.) ammonium nitrate bomb to have caused the damage, there would be huge amounts of sand generated from the crushed concrete around the columns wherein the rebar was fractured. I took the liberty of checking with the leading concrete supplier in my area in order to confirm the compressive yield figure that you used, that being 3500 psi. What I was told about concrete was very interesting. A 3500 psi figure is extremely low for structural concrete. A properly mixed and cured structure of the type dealt with in your report would probably have a yield strength of 5600 psi. In conclusion, General, I find myself in awe of the technical achievement that your report represents. I can find no scientific flaws in either your observations or your conclusions. I am, therefore, in full agreement with the conclusion of strategically placed small explosive charges being responsible for the destruction of the building. We can only hope and pray that a few good men and women in our Congress will heed your report and take action that results in the punishment of the real guilty parties responsible for this heinous crime against the American people, and that these same few good people are able to stem the abrogation of any more of our Constitutional rights. Please keep up the good work that you are doing for your countrymen. It is an honor to be able to correspond with you on this matter and perhaps to be of some small service to our country, the Constitutional Republic, to which many of us have sworn to defend to the best of our abilities. If I may be of any further assistance, please contact me at any time. Looking forward to your response, I remain Very Truly Yours, Rodger A. Raubach Ph.D.
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Community interest in St. Paul’s police review commission has not waned since city leaders voted a year ago to overhaul the board — a decision many people said would create a more just system and others called unfair to police.
The commission, which considers complaints about officers and makes disciplinary recommendations to the police chief, was given more responsibility and restructured. Two Police Federation representatives were removed. It took most of the year to make the changes, and the new all-civilian board just started reviewing cases in October.
Over the summer, police officials raised procedural concerns about the Police Civilian Internal Affairs Review Commission’s operations. But city staff and commissioners said Tuesday they’re gaining on their goal of increasing public confidence in how police misconduct is handled.
“This will be one step toward having a more transparent, better process,” Commissioner Kaohly Her said at an annual summit Tuesday night, where residents asked questions about the new system and suggested changes.
Former Commissioner Dianne Binns, who spoke at the event, said she has been attending the summits for years and Tuesday’s turnout of about 80 people was the largest she had ever seen.
The overhaul of the commission was one of the most debated issues at City Hall in 2016, and stemmed from a University of Minnesota audit that recommended changes.
The city’s Department of Human Rights and Equal Economic Opportunity now coordinates the commission, instead of the police department. Complainants can testify to the commission, recommendations from police internal affairs staff no longer influence decisions, and the commission is able to recommend policy changes.
The most high-profile change was the removal of police from the board. Formerly a seven-person commission with two federation members, the board is now made up of nine civilians.
When Binns was on the commission, she said she often ended up fighting with the two federation members.
“I kept saying they’ve got to go,” she said, and many community members pushed the city to remove them. “I believe that truly you have a civilian review process now that the community can have trust in, can have faith in.”
Federation President David Titus could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
The city received 56 reported allegations in 2016 and 18 were sustained, according to an annual report presented at the meeting.
Kristen Clark, one of the new commissioners, said more outreach is needed to let people know about the complaint process.
Another new commissioner, Daria Caldwell, sat at a table Tuesday with a group of girls, ages 12 to 14. Alicia Lucio, a youth worker at Neighborhood House, brought them to the event. The girls became interested in policing after St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez fatally shot Philando Castile, Lucio said, and policing “keeps coming back as a concern.”
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15 February, 2016
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“The speculation gaining respectability in Delhi is that Washington knew in advance about the Mumbai attack & deliberately chose not to pass the details to Delhi .” That would he said, “Reveal the links between the CIA-ISI & LeT”. - MK Bhadrakumar (ex-Ambassador, GOI).
“Headley was a deep penetration agent of US Intelligence” -
Bahukutumbi Raman (Former Counter-Terrorism Chief (RAW).
The recent Headley “confessions”, with helpful scripted promptings by Public Prosecutor Ujval Nikam, are no more than a national tamasha at best, with all of this so called invaluable information having been stated by Headley earlier as well. The fact that he has chosen to once again target Ishrat Jahan and thus help the accused in her encounter killing is part of the quid pro quo with the Indian Ruling Elite and Intelligence establishment. The key agenda is to keep the tensions between India and Pakistan on the boil and sabotage all hopes of a dialogue and peace between the two neighbours.
We must certainly question the Headley narrative on many of the facts that have been brought to light since the Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks and his role.
The terror attack Mumbai 26/11, was directed at India, all of South Asia & this point must be understood by all those who are committed to the cause of South Asian peace and solidarity.
Therefore let’s consider the facts as below.
Fact I ~ The US ambassador Timothy Roemer maintains that they did warn ' India ' about the coming 26/11 attack. (http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=10875)
So the questions that arise are the following:
· The central & simple question is that, why did the CIA & FBI not warn their counterparts in Pakistan within the government, the Military or the ISI. As we can discern from above, they have a very deep operational & material relationship, stretching across 6 decades. It was always clear that an attack of the magnitude of 26/11 could even lead to a nuclear war in the region. Yet they refrained from informing & warning any of their counterparts in Pakistan . Why? And moreover, why isn't anyone asking this obvious question?
· Who did they inform in India ? We still do not have the specific name or names. It surely could not have been the Indian security guard standing outside the gates of the US fortress of an embassy in New Delhi . Did they inform MK Narayanan (the then NSA Chief) or the Mr. Shivraj Patil (ex-Home Minister) ? Who was complicit in the cover up? Why no names of the key people who were supposedly provided information by mid-September of the coming terror attack by Sea, where the Taj, Marriott & the Trident were mentioned as potential targets. ( http://www.countercurrents.org/mithiborwala140510.htm ).
Who will stand up & take the responsibility? None, only an eerie silence, a cover up . The 26/11 attack could have been averted if the necessary information would have been provided on time & precautions taken.
Fact 2 ~ Headley is being used to cover up False Flag Terror Attacks and Encounter Killings
· Headley is being used to protect & mislead the investigations into the Ishrat Jehan encounter killing to protect Modi & his ilk. Similarly the investigations into the Samjhauta Express as laid out by the charge-sheet filed by Hemant Karkare which clearly implicate Col. Purohit , are also being targeted by the NIA & the IB, to protect the Abhinav Bharat. The investigation into the ghastly Chittisinghpora massacre is again being misled under the guise of Headley's statements.
Fact 3 ~ It is a known fact that the US funds more than a third of the Pakistan military & ISI-Intelligence budget.
The Lashkar-i-Tayyaba is the sword arm of the ISI. The US has never attacked any Lashkar bases in Pakistan & the LeT does not attack US troops. The CIA has worked together with the LeT in Kosovo , Chechnya & Bosnia . Thus the US uses the ISI-LeT for furthering its strategic objectives in the region. The US has also declared Hafeez Saeed as a dreaded terrorist with a $10 Million bounty on his head & yet has never tried to either arrest or have him taken out. (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/ramp ... an-report/ )
Fact 4 ~ Cover up at the Pushkar Hotel
· In the news report that appeared in the Indian Express (pg 5, 10/12/09), the hotel owner is openly blaming the police for having 'misplaced' Headley's 'C-form' & has filed a complaint on the matter. The hotel owner in his complaint to the Ajmer Superintendent of Police, has stated that he had also submitted the C-forms of two other Israelis along with that of Headley.
Fact 5 ~ So why was Headley arrested by the FBI?
The answer to that is that Indian Intel was hard on the heels of Headley & were about to arrest him. It was then that the FBI whisked away Headley to protect him. Now that he has been subjected to the laws of the US judicial system, he is beyond our reach. Leave alone a trial for Headley's central role in the 26/11 attacks, we do not even have the right to interrogate him on Indian soil.
Fact 6 ~ The US did not pass on the 26/11 Intel to Pakistan – Why?
In fact it is suspected that, it was Headley who was the CIA mole in the LeT, who was passing out information on the coming 26/11 terror attack. This was partly shared by the CIA with the Indian authorities & had specifically mentioned the Taj & that the attack would come by sea.
There are two significant points to note:
· How much information did the CIA actually divulge to India - very meagre.
· More intriguingly with the Pakistani authorities & it's friends in the ISI & the Military with which the CIA/FBI have a very deep & intimate relationship, stretching over 6 decades - it supposedly shared none !
Fact 7 ~ Headley’s trail between 2006-08
Also do note that during the phase of the worst series of terror attacks between 2006-08, Headley was present in that period & was flying into India mainly from Pakistan. Yet our authorities did not once suspect or interrogate him? Unfortunately the Indian People are not that naive. This means that there possibly are certain forces within the country that are allied to the US & Israel & working in tandem to foment terror attacks.
Do especially note the period between August 2007 & September 2008 as this was during which we passed through the worst national crisis over the Indo-US Nuclear Deal. The attacks coincide with Headleys' presence in India (Josy Joseph, 17/11/09, DNA ). The terror attacks in Hyderabad II (25/8/07), Bangalore (25/7/08), Ahmedabad & Surat (26/7/08) & Delhi (13/9/08). All these blasts made it easier for the pro-US elements to take the country into the American-Israeli strategic orbit in the name of fighting the global war on terror.
Again even the blasts that Shri Hemant Karkare has traced to the Abhinav Bharat, find a relation to Headley's footprints. Thus he is present during Malegaon (8/9/06), Samjhauta Express (19/2/07), Mecca Masjid, Hyderabad I (18/5/07).
Headley was possibly co-ordinating his attacks with the Abhinav Bharat & Sanatan Sanstha as well as with the Indian Mujahedeen (which is probably a creation of Intel services comprising criminals & informers from within the Muslim community).
We thus can infer the following:
· David Headley's trail as he traveled across the country to identify the sites for terror attacks was & is being covered up by the police on the instructions of the pro-CIA/Mossad sections of the Intelligence Bureau.
· This was the similar case in the city of Mumbai, where Headley's membership form at the 'Moksh Gymnasium' (right opposite the US Embassy) had both his photograph & signature 'missing'. The flat which he rented on Bridge Candy, (again close to the US Embassy) has no agreement papers & so is the case with his office in Tardeo.
· The fact that the Pushkar hotel owner also submitted two forms of Israeli's on that day, also could mean that Headley was also being guided by Mossad agents to identify Jewish targets for a false flag terror attack, which they finally did & thus Nariman House.
· Headley’s Visa from the Indian Embassy in Chicago: Headley's very entry into the country has been managed with the connivance of the authorities at the highest levels. And thus even though Headley was a drug dealer having faced a jail sentence, Pakistani born, could still manage to get a clearance. Also do note that he was travelling directly via Pakistan into India. The clearance of his Visa from the Indian Consulate in Chicago actually requires criminal proceedings against the Indian Consul general, the Indian Ambassador & the Minister & the concerned officers in the Home Ministry in Delhi. That was the reason that the authorities panicked & said that Headley's papers at the Chicago Consulate had gone missing. They later found them. With changed signatures, we guess!
· It is possible that after working for the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Headley was later was recruited & trained by the CIA-FBI.
· The CIA-FBI then used Headley in their plan to execute the 26/11 attack in Mumbai. Headley's task was to travel across the country, identify the targets & provide information to his CIA-FBI-ISIS handlers. Headley's role was also to draw in his LeT contacts to plan the 26/11 terror attacks.
· The IB, that has been colluding with the CIA-FBI, instructed it's plants within the police force to cover Headley's trail, which they dutifully performed as is the case both in Mumbai & in Pushkar.
Fact 8 ~ Headley’s Wives & his confessions to the FBI
· It has been apparent ever since the time that the Headley story began to appear in the Indian & global media that David Coleman Headley was basically a CIA-FBI agent. The revelations that have been brought forth by Sebastian Rotella in the ProPublica, who brought out the crucial role of Headley’s wives in exposing and warning the FBI about Headley’s terror links, but to no avail.
· It was way back in 2005 when one of Headley's wives in New York , warned the FBI of Headley's links with terrorists. Due to a domestic squabble, Headley was even arrested by the police. The wife stated that Headley "was an active militant in the LeT terrorist group & had trained extensively in Pakistani camps, shopped for night-vision goggles & other equipment". She also said that “Headley used to brag about his working as a paid informant of the US , while he trained with terrorists in Pakistan ”.
· Significantly, after 9/11, Headley told his associates “that he planned to train with Lashkar as part of a secret mission for the US government”.
· He also stated that “the FBI & DEA have joined forces & I am going to work with them. I want to do something for my country”. The point is which country, the USA or Israel?
· In 2008 April , Headley went to Chicago & told his accomplice of an evolving plan for a seaborne terror attack by gunmen who would land in front of the Ta j Mahal Hotel which he had scouted extensively.
· These are the official statements as recorded by the FBI officials.
· Though Headley was jailed for domestic violence, he was not prosecuted & the matter of his terror links not investigated.
· Later again in 2007, only a year prior to the attack, his wife in Pakistan went to the US embassy in Islamabad & gave specific information of his terrorist links but she was driven away both the times & basically told to “Get Lost”, by the FBI-CIA officials.
· The wives gave information & a detailed account of training with the LeT, provided audio tapes of conversations & emails as well as records of calls from Pakistan. And yet the CIA & FBI claim that the information provided by the wives "was not specific".
Fact 9 ~ “Intel not specific” said the FBI – Really?
· Firstly Headley was already known to the DEA-FBI & CIA since 1998, due to his drug smuggling activities, for which he was prosecuted & jailed & he later became an agent of the DEA to infiltrate drug rings in the US & Pakistan. After 9/11 he was taken in by the CIA & FBI as an asset & became their agent.
· They should have taken the precautions after his wives gave specific information about his terror links & should have put him under surveillance. But then they did. All of Headley's & Rana's mobile conversations were being tapped & their whereabouts monitored. They had to further monitor his Bank transactions, credit cards & have him followed. These are all standard procedures & nothing beyond their scope of operations either in Pakistan or India, where we have an ever increasing presence of the US & Israeli Intel.
· They should have again immediately checked with their counterparts in the ISI & their handlers in the LeT. But the CIA-FBI undertook none of these basic precautions, simply because Headley was pursuing the mission of terror in exactly the way they had planned it.
· Though he was on probation till 2004, he was discharged in 2001 & was allowed to go to Pakistan . Within 2 months he was training with the LeT, with the full knowledge of the US authorities.
Thus the intentions were very clear. In our assessment, the CIA & FBI were clearly aware and complicit in the detailed plans for the attack on Mumbai.
Fact 10 ~ Headley’s family background, a strategic & an invaluable undercover asset
· Undoubtedly the CIA-FBI have gone to preposterous levels to protect Headley & have repeatedly refused his extradition to India . Thus his limited & controlled access by Indian Intel is clearly a farce & of no consequence whatsoever, apart from the fact that is now being used to cover-up the crimes of the Intelligence Bureau, as well as that of the ATS and the Police that indulge in encounter killings & the cover-up of the terror attack by the Hindutva terrorists, within the Abhinav Bharat & the Sanatan Sanstha.
· But then Headley is a unique asset. He is White, yet of a mixed Muslim-Jewish parentage. He knew English, Urdu, Farsi, Pashto & a smattering of Arabic.
· He had very deep connections with the drug-underworld & the narco-terror networks.
· Headley's father & his religion are often discussed, but when it comes to his mother, there is a studied silence & it is only fair that this angle be delved into as well. In fact the Wikipedia insists that he acquired a “Christian sounding name”, even though his mother was Jewish.
· David Coleman Headley was a child of a broken family & around the age of sixteen Serrill Headley (Jewish by faith), took him away to the US. It was after 9/11, when Headley began to work for the CIA, that he changed his name from Daoud Gilani, to David Coleman Headley, which the Wikipedia wrongly refers to a Christian name. Clearly the Wikipedia is trying to mislead for a purpose.
· The point is that clearly Gilani wanted a new identity after 9/11 & since he was now working for the CIA-FBI as an undercover agent, he could have taken on any identity, but yet he chose to take his mother's Jewish identity & the Coleman surname.
· All the reports state that Headley traveled with a Jewish prayer book with him. Was it because he had abandoned the faith of his father & had taken the faith of his mother which is normally the case of children of divorced families? I believe that was precisely the case.
· Again, Headley operated out of the key Zionist strongholds in the US, namely Chicago & New York & in India from Goa , Mumbai, Pushkar (Rajasthan) & Himachal Pradesh.
· In Goa he was in regular touch with an American agent who was living there for nine years but has disappeared after 26/11 & our police could not locate him. Though, when it comes to arresting innocent Muslim youth they have proved to be efficient & ruthless as well.
· In Pushkar, whilst Headley was staking out the targets, he stayed in a hotel where two other Israeli's were also present at that very time. So the role of Mossad agents in the 26/11 attack needs to be investigated. ( http://criminalstate.com/2009/08/how-is ... y-warfare/ )
· Nariman House and the Jewish extremist Chabad Lubavitch Sect. Also another question is as to whether Headley was a Chabad Lubavitcher by sect. The Chabad Lubavitch is one of the most powerful of the Jewish sects & has interests across the world ( http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.co ... world.html ) . The Chabad Houses are known to be used by Mossad operatives as safe houses to conduct their nefarious activities, ranging from drug & weapon smuggling, to espionage, fomenting terror & assassinations.
The Plea bargain deal provided by the US to Headley in the words of MK Bhadrakumar (ex-Ambassador, GOI) “was a deal that enables the US government to hold back from formally producing any evidence against Headley in a Court of Law that might have included details of his links with US intelligence ”, which will now remain classified. He also said that the Obama administration was “behaving very strangely” & had something “explosive to hide”.
The former counter-terrorism chief (RAW) & security analyst, Bahukutumbi Raman was of the opinion that, “the mishandling by the US is due to it's anxiety to prevent public admission of the links of the US Intelligence community with Headley & protect Pakistan from the legal consequences of its role in the 26/11 terror attack”. He further stated that “the FBI wants to avoid a formal trial & that “the feeling in India is that the US has not been transparent as it is almost certain that the CIA was aware of Headley & his movements across the sub-continent”.
The simple point is that all terrorists & suspects are listed on the main database of the US National Counter-Terrorism Centre , which is a facility used by the CIA & the myriad other agencies to track terror suspects as a matter of standard procedure.
When even the likes of our late President APJ Abdul Kalam, Sharukh Khan (Bollywood Star) to Praful Patel (Aviation minister) are not safe, surely David Headley's name would have cropped up at every computer monitor across every airport in the world – if he had been marked & red-flagged as a highly dangerous terror suspect. Evidently he never was.
Thus there are far too many questions & far too many facts that challenge the official version of the reality of the 26/11 terror attacks.
There is clearly an attempt even within our very own political elite, security agencies to collude & cover up the truth. We thus we demand that a National Commission of Inquiry be created to investigate the truth about the 26/11 Terror attack.
Feroze Mithiborwala is a peace activist in Mumbai. He led the Asia to Gaza peace flotilla. He can be reached at [email protected]
Kishore Jagtap is a Mumbai-based human rights and social activist
10 Facts Exposing David Coleman Headley And His Role In The Mumbai 26/11 Terror Attacks
By Feroze Mithiborwala & Kishor Jagtap
15 February, 2016
Countercurrents.org
“The speculation gaining respectability in Delhi is that Washington knew in advance about the Mumbai attack & deliberately chose not to pass the details to Delhi .” That would he said, “Reveal the links between the CIA-ISI & LeT”. - MK Bhadrakumar (ex-Ambassador, GOI).
“Headley was a deep penetration agent of US Intelligence” -
Bahukutumbi Raman (Former Counter-Terrorism Chief (RAW).
The recent Headley “confessions”, with helpful scripted promptings by Public Prosecutor Ujval Nikam, are no more than a national tamasha at best, with all of this so called invaluable information having been stated by Headley earlier as well. The fact that he has chosen to once again target Ishrat Jahan and thus help the accused in her encounter killing is part of the quid pro quo with the Indian Ruling Elite and Intelligence establishment. The key agenda is to keep the tensions between India and Pakistan on the boil and sabotage all hopes of a dialogue and peace between the two neighbours.
We must certainly question the Headley narrative on many of the facts that have been brought to light since the Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks and his role.
The terror attack Mumbai 26/11, was directed at India, all of South Asia & this point must be understood by all those who are committed to the cause of South Asian peace and solidarity.
Therefore let’s consider the facts as below.
Fact I ~ The US ambassador Timothy Roemer maintains that they did warn ' India ' about the coming 26/11 attack. (http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=10875)
So the questions that arise are the following:
· The central & simple question is that, why did the CIA & FBI not warn their counterparts in Pakistan within the government, the Military or the ISI. As we can discern from above, they have a very deep operational & material relationship, stretching across 6 decades. It was always clear that an attack of the magnitude of 26/11 could even lead to a nuclear war in the region. Yet they refrained from informing & warning any of their counterparts in Pakistan . Why? And moreover, why isn't anyone asking this obvious question?
· Who did they inform in India ? We still do not have the specific name or names. It surely could not have been the Indian security guard standing outside the gates of the US fortress of an embassy in New Delhi . Did they inform MK Narayanan (the then NSA Chief) or the Mr. Shivraj Patil (ex-Home Minister) ? Who was complicit in the cover up? Why no names of the key people who were supposedly provided information by mid-September of the coming terror attack by Sea, where the Taj, Marriott & the Trident were mentioned as potential targets. ( http://www.countercurrents.org/mithiborwala140510.htm ).
Who will stand up & take the responsibility? None, only an eerie silence, a cover up . The 26/11 attack could have been averted if the necessary information would have been provided on time & precautions taken.
Fact 2 ~ Headley is being used to cover up False Flag Terror Attacks and Encounter Killings
· Headley is being used to protect & mislead the investigations into the Ishrat Jehan encounter killing to protect Modi & his ilk. Similarly the investigations into the Samjhauta Express as laid out by the charge-sheet filed by Hemant Karkare which clearly implicate Col. Purohit , are also being targeted by the NIA & the IB, to protect the Abhinav Bharat. The investigation into the ghastly Chittisinghpora massacre is again being misled under the guise of Headley's statements.
Fact 3 ~ It is a known fact that the US funds more than a third of the Pakistan military & ISI-Intelligence budget.
The Lashkar-i-Tayyaba is the sword arm of the ISI. The US has never attacked any Lashkar bases in Pakistan & the LeT does not attack US troops. The CIA has worked together with the LeT in Kosovo , Chechnya & Bosnia . Thus the US uses the ISI-LeT for furthering its strategic objectives in the region. The US has also declared Hafeez Saeed as a dreaded terrorist with a $10 Million bounty on his head & yet has never tried to either arrest or have him taken out. (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/ramp ... an-report/ )
Fact 4 ~ Cover up at the Pushkar Hotel
· In the news report that appeared in the Indian Express (pg 5, 10/12/09), the hotel owner is openly blaming the police for having 'misplaced' Headley's 'C-form' & has filed a complaint on the matter. The hotel owner in his complaint to the Ajmer Superintendent of Police, has stated that he had also submitted the C-forms of two other Israelis along with that of Headley.
Fact 5 ~ So why was Headley arrested by the FBI?
The answer to that is that Indian Intel was hard on the heels of Headley & were about to arrest him. It was then that the FBI whisked away Headley to protect him. Now that he has been subjected to the laws of the US judicial system, he is beyond our reach. Leave alone a trial for Headley's central role in the 26/11 attacks, we do not even have the right to interrogate him on Indian soil.
Fact 6 ~ The US did not pass on the 26/11 Intel to Pakistan – Why?
In fact it is suspected that, it was Headley who was the CIA mole in the LeT, who was passing out information on the coming 26/11 terror attack. This was partly shared by the CIA with the Indian authorities & had specifically mentioned the Taj & that the attack would come by sea.
There are two significant points to note:
· How much information did the CIA actually divulge to India - very meagre.
· More intriguingly with the Pakistani authorities & it's friends in the ISI & the Military with which the CIA/FBI have a very deep & intimate relationship, stretching over 6 decades - it supposedly shared none !
Fact 7 ~ Headley’s trail between 2006-08
Also do note that during the phase of the worst series of terror attacks between 2006-08, Headley was present in that period & was flying into India mainly from Pakistan. Yet our authorities did not once suspect or interrogate him? Unfortunately the Indian People are not that naive. This means that there possibly are certain forces within the country that are allied to the US & Israel & working in tandem to foment terror attacks.
Do especially note the period between August 2007 & September 2008 as this was during which we passed through the worst national crisis over the Indo-US Nuclear Deal. The attacks coincide with Headleys' presence in India (Josy Joseph, 17/11/09, DNA ). The terror attacks in Hyderabad II (25/8/07), Bangalore (25/7/08), Ahmedabad & Surat (26/7/08) & Delhi (13/9/08). All these blasts made it easier for the pro-US elements to take the country into the American-Israeli strategic orbit in the name of fighting the global war on terror.
Again even the blasts that Shri Hemant Karkare has traced to the Abhinav Bharat, find a relation to Headley's footprints. Thus he is present during Malegaon (8/9/06), Samjhauta Express (19/2/07), Mecca Masjid, Hyderabad I (18/5/07).
Headley was possibly co-ordinating his attacks with the Abhinav Bharat & Sanatan Sanstha as well as with the Indian Mujahedeen (which is probably a creation of Intel services comprising criminals & informers from within the Muslim community).
We thus can infer the following:
· David Headley's trail as he traveled across the country to identify the sites for terror attacks was & is being covered up by the police on the instructions of the pro-CIA/Mossad sections of the Intelligence Bureau.
· This was the similar case in the city of Mumbai, where Headley's membership form at the 'Moksh Gymnasium' (right opposite the US Embassy) had both his photograph & signature 'missing'. The flat which he rented on Bridge Candy, (again close to the US Embassy) has no agreement papers & so is the case with his office in Tardeo.
· The fact that the Pushkar hotel owner also submitted two forms of Israeli's on that day, also could mean that Headley was also being guided by Mossad agents to identify Jewish targets for a false flag terror attack, which they finally did & thus Nariman House.
· Headley’s Visa from the Indian Embassy in Chicago: Headley's very entry into the country has been managed with the connivance of the authorities at the highest levels. And thus even though Headley was a drug dealer having faced a jail sentence, Pakistani born, could still manage to get a clearance. Also do note that he was travelling directly via Pakistan into India. The clearance of his Visa from the Indian Consulate in Chicago actually requires criminal proceedings against the Indian Consul general, the Indian Ambassador & the Minister & the concerned officers in the Home Ministry in Delhi. That was the reason that the authorities panicked & said that Headley's papers at the Chicago Consulate had gone missing. They later found them. With changed signatures, we guess!
· It is possible that after working for the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Headley was later was recruited & trained by the CIA-FBI.
· The CIA-FBI then used Headley in their plan to execute the 26/11 attack in Mumbai. Headley's task was to travel across the country, identify the targets & provide information to his CIA-FBI-ISIS handlers. Headley's role was also to draw in his LeT contacts to plan the 26/11 terror attacks.
· The IB, that has been colluding with the CIA-FBI, instructed it's plants within the police force to cover Headley's trail, which they dutifully performed as is the case both in Mumbai & in Pushkar.
Fact 8 ~ Headley’s Wives & his confessions to the FBI
· It has been apparent ever since the time that the Headley story began to appear in the Indian & global media that David Coleman Headley was basically a CIA-FBI agent. The revelations that have been brought forth by Sebastian Rotella in the ProPublica, who brought out the crucial role of Headley’s wives in exposing and warning the FBI about Headley’s terror links, but to no avail.
· It was way back in 2005 when one of Headley's wives in New York , warned the FBI of Headley's links with terrorists. Due to a domestic squabble, Headley was even arrested by the police. The wife stated that Headley "was an active militant in the LeT terrorist group & had trained extensively in Pakistani camps, shopped for night-vision goggles & other equipment". She also said that “Headley used to brag about his working as a paid informant of the US , while he trained with terrorists in Pakistan ”.
· Significantly, after 9/11, Headley told his associates “that he planned to train with Lashkar as part of a secret mission for the US government”.
· He also stated that “the FBI & DEA have joined forces & I am going to work with them. I want to do something for my country”. The point is which country, the USA or Israel?
· In 2008 April , Headley went to Chicago & told his accomplice of an evolving plan for a seaborne terror attack by gunmen who would land in front of the Ta j Mahal Hotel which he had scouted extensively.
· These are the official statements as recorded by the FBI officials.
· Though Headley was jailed for domestic violence, he was not prosecuted & the matter of his terror links not investigated.
· Later again in 2007, only a year prior to the attack, his wife in Pakistan went to the US embassy in Islamabad & gave specific information of his terrorist links but she was driven away both the times & basically told to “Get Lost”, by the FBI-CIA officials.
· The wives gave information & a detailed account of training with the LeT, provided audio tapes of conversations & emails as well as records of calls from Pakistan. And yet the CIA & FBI claim that the information provided by the wives "was not specific".
Fact 9 ~ “Intel not specific” said the FBI – Really?
· Firstly Headley was already known to the DEA-FBI & CIA since 1998, due to his drug smuggling activities, for which he was prosecuted & jailed & he later became an agent of the DEA to infiltrate drug rings in the US & Pakistan. After 9/11 he was taken in by the CIA & FBI as an asset & became their agent.
· They should have taken the precautions after his wives gave specific information about his terror links & should have put him under surveillance. But then they did. All of Headley's & Rana's mobile conversations were being tapped & their whereabouts monitored. They had to further monitor his Bank transactions, credit cards & have him followed. These are all standard procedures & nothing beyond their scope of operations either in Pakistan or India, where we have an ever increasing presence of the US & Israeli Intel.
· They should have again immediately checked with their counterparts in the ISI & their handlers in the LeT. But the CIA-FBI undertook none of these basic precautions, simply because Headley was pursuing the mission of terror in exactly the way they had planned it.
· Though he was on probation till 2004, he was discharged in 2001 & was allowed to go to Pakistan . Within 2 months he was training with the LeT, with the full knowledge of the US authorities.
Thus the intentions were very clear. In our assessment, the CIA & FBI were clearly aware and complicit in the detailed plans for the attack on Mumbai.
Fact 10 ~ Headley’s family background, a strategic & an invaluable undercover asset
· Undoubtedly the CIA-FBI have gone to preposterous levels to protect Headley & have repeatedly refused his extradition to India . Thus his limited & controlled access by Indian Intel is clearly a farce & of no consequence whatsoever, apart from the fact that is now being used to cover-up the crimes of the Intelligence Bureau, as well as that of the ATS and the Police that indulge in encounter killings & the cover-up of the terror attack by the Hindutva terrorists, within the Abhinav Bharat & the Sanatan Sanstha.
· But then Headley is a unique asset. He is White, yet of a mixed Muslim-Jewish parentage. He knew English, Urdu, Farsi, Pashto & a smattering of Arabic.
· He had very deep connections with the drug-underworld & the narco-terror networks.
· Headley's father & his religion are often discussed, but when it comes to his mother, there is a studied silence & it is only fair that this angle be delved into as well. In fact the Wikipedia insists that he acquired a “Christian sounding name”, even though his mother was Jewish.
· David Coleman Headley was a child of a broken family & around the age of sixteen Serrill Headley (Jewish by faith), took him away to the US. It was after 9/11, when Headley began to work for the CIA, that he changed his name from Daoud Gilani, to David Coleman Headley, which the Wikipedia wrongly refers to a Christian name. Clearly the Wikipedia is trying to mislead for a purpose.
· The point is that clearly Gilani wanted a new identity after 9/11 & since he was now working for the CIA-FBI as an undercover agent, he could have taken on any identity, but yet he chose to take his mother's Jewish identity & the Coleman surname.
· All the reports state that Headley traveled with a Jewish prayer book with him. Was it because he had abandoned the faith of his father & had taken the faith of his mother which is normally the case of children of divorced families? I believe that was precisely the case.
· Again, Headley operated out of the key Zionist strongholds in the US, namely Chicago & New York & in India from Goa , Mumbai, Pushkar (Rajasthan) & Himachal Pradesh.
· In Goa he was in regular touch with an American agent who was living there for nine years but has disappeared after 26/11 & our police could not locate him. Though, when it comes to arresting innocent Muslim youth they have proved to be efficient & ruthless as well.
· In Pushkar, whilst Headley was staking out the targets, he stayed in a hotel where two other Israeli's were also present at that very time. So the role of Mossad agents in the 26/11 attack needs to be investigated. ( http://criminalstate.com/2009/08/how-is ... y-warfare/ )
· Nariman House and the Jewish extremist Chabad Lubavitch Sect. Also another question is as to whether Headley was a Chabad Lubavitcher by sect. The Chabad Lubavitch is one of the most powerful of the Jewish sects & has interests across the world ( http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.co ... world.html ) . The Chabad Houses are known to be used by Mossad operatives as safe houses to conduct their nefarious activities, ranging from drug & weapon smuggling, to espionage, fomenting terror & assassinations.
The Plea bargain deal provided by the US to Headley in the words of MK Bhadrakumar (ex-Ambassador, GOI) “was a deal that enables the US government to hold back from formally producing any evidence against Headley in a Court of Law that might have included details of his links with US intelligence ”, which will now remain classified. He also said that the Obama administration was “behaving very strangely” & had something “explosive to hide”.
The former counter-terrorism chief (RAW) & security analyst, Bahukutumbi Raman was of the opinion that, “the mishandling by the US is due to it's anxiety to prevent public admission of the links of the US Intelligence community with Headley & protect Pakistan from the legal consequences of its role in the 26/11 terror attack”. He further stated that “the FBI wants to avoid a formal trial & that “the feeling in India is that the US has not been transparent as it is almost certain that the CIA was aware of Headley & his movements across the sub-continent”.
The simple point is that all terrorists & suspects are listed on the main database of the US National Counter-Terrorism Centre , which is a facility used by the CIA & the myriad other agencies to track terror suspects as a matter of standard procedure.
When even the likes of our late President APJ Abdul Kalam, Sharukh Khan (Bollywood Star) to Praful Patel (Aviation minister) are not safe, surely David Headley's name would have cropped up at every computer monitor across every airport in the world – if he had been marked & red-flagged as a highly dangerous terror suspect. Evidently he never was.
Thus there are far too many questions & far too many facts that challenge the official version of the reality of the 26/11 terror attacks.
There is clearly an attempt even within our very own political elite, security agencies to collude & cover up the truth. We thus we demand that a National Commission of Inquiry be created to investigate the truth about the 26/11 Terror attack.
Feroze Mithiborwala is a peace activist in Mumbai. He led the Asia to Gaza peace flotilla. He can be reached at [email protected]
Kishore Jagtap is a Mumbai-based human rights and social activist
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DECEMBER 26, 2017 | JAMES HENRY
ON BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING, RIGHT TO KNOW IS ZERO
It has been nearly five years since two bombs exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, and nearly three years since the conclusion of the trial of the sole surviving Tsarnaev brother, Dzhokhar. And yet, the government continues to maintain radio silence over many crucial questions related to the bombing.
Since the 2013 bombing, WhoWhatWhy has made dozens and dozens of records requests through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and other records request laws, from multiple government agencies, in an effort to fill in some of the many holes in the story that remain after a secretive federal investigation and trial. The results have been mixed, to say the least.
Most of the ongoing secrecy relates to the deceased mastermind and main bombing perpetrator: the older brother Tamerlan.
The lead prosecutor who secured the conviction against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, William Weinreb, even admitted that “it is fair to say that there are still a number of questions unanswered about that case.”
And a surprising number of Boston’s local law enforcement question whether the FBI is coming clean about what it knows about the now-deceased Tsarnaev brother.
As we wrote back in July, some of these enduring questions are:
* How was Tamerlan able to travel back and forth to the country from which he sought asylum in 2012, despite being on multiple terror watchlists?
* Why was he not questioned about the 2011 murder of three of his friends?
* Was Tamerlan working for the US government in some capacity?
* Was the FBI or some other federal agency using Tamerlan’s desire to become a US citizen as leverage?
* Did the Tsarnaevs have help constructing the bombs?
* Was anyone else involved in planning or inspiring the plot?
Besides the big questions, our ongoing efforts to track down and verify even mundane details about the bombing reveal a flawed and seemingly arbitrary system for making government documents public. Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s travel records, for instance.
In September, we wrote about our attempts through FOIA to ascertain details of the confinement conditions of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. We also detailed our multiple requests to the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to interview Tsarnaev. The process was nothing short of a Kafkaesque wilderness of mirrors.
Obtaining “public” records through FOIA has always been imperfect. And although improvements have been made, requesters are largely in the dark about what agencies might be holding back; most agencies’ search practices and criteria are like an impenetrable black box.
WhoWhatWhy’s efforts at obtaining Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s 2012 travel records are a case in point. First off, the elder Tsarnaev brother is deceased. His records are ostensibly public information — and the public has a right to know more about him.
Back in July, we sent Customs and Border Protection (CBP) a request for “arrival” and “departure” records produced when Tsarnaev traveled to Dagestan by way of Moscow in 2012. According to official accounts, Tsarnaev flew out of JFK International January 21, 2012, and returned to JFK July 19, 2012.
The apparent ease with which Tsarnaev flew in and out of the US to a known hotbed of terroristic activity (Dagestan), despite being on multiple watch lists, is one of the enduring mysteries about the elder brother.
Consider also that the Russians, who had flagged him as a dangerous radical well before US officials watch-listed him, also allowed him to fly in and out of their country unimpeded.
So it piqued our interest when it came to our attention that there were early news reports, supposedly based on documentary “travel records,” that Tsarnaev had actually flown out of JFK January 12 — not January 21 as was claimed officially. This was based on a story reported by NBC News affiliate New York 4, which makes reference to “documents” that they “obtained.”
The report even describes a photograph of Tsarnaev on one of the documents. The January 12 date was repeated by multiple media outlets and was even cited by then head of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano when she testified before Congress about the bombing investigation.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, JFK, airport
Photo credit: Adapted by WhoWhatWhy from Doug Letterman / Wikimedia.
WhoWhatWhy reached out multiple times to the reporters who wrote the article and asked if they would either confirm — or correct — what was written in the article or, at the very least, describe what type of documents they were referencing. They “respectfully declined.”
Spoiler alert: New York 4 screwed up the travel dates. But the fact that they were citing actual documents with contradictory dates was intriguing given that Tsarnaev’s travel to Russia was shady to begin with. So we tried to verify or disprove on our own.
A deep dive through Tsarnaev’s 256 pages of immigration records (or A-file), much of which is redacted, is no help because it only documents his arrival at JFK airport July 19, 2012. His departure, six months earlier, is either not included in the A-file, or it is blacked out under one of the file’s many redactions. (Tsarnaev’s A-file was released to the FBI’s “electronic reading room,” which is what happens when three or more requests are made for the same records. WhoWhatWhy was one of those requesters.)
So the only other option to clear up the mystery was FOIA.
CBP on FOIA: LOL
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In July of this year, we requested “all arrival/departure records for Tamerlan Tsarnaev” from CBP. By the end of August (which is a pretty quick turnaround as FOIA goes) CBP furnished us the results of its search. There was only one problem, they provided Tsarnaev’s “arrival” records only.
WhoWhatWhy called CBP’s FOIA liaison to ask how it was possible they couldn’t find a corresponding departure record. The liaison indicated that a search was conducted with the information that was provided in the request — that was the result.
So we appealed, pointing out that it was widely reported in the media, and government officials were on the record stating, that Tsarnaev had in fact traveled out of the country in January 2012 and that CBP must, therefore, have records of his departure. We also included — under the assumption that maybe the name search “Tamerlan Tsarnaev” was the problem — a long list of possible name variants we collected from Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s A-file and from an Intelligence Community Inspector General (IGIC) report.
The IGIC report probed some of the “intelligence failures,” like how Tsarnaev’s travels in and out of the country eluded any additional scrutiny despite the fact that he was on multiple watch lists, each of which characterized him as a dangerous individual. Part of IGIC’s determination was that some of the watch list information about Tsarnaev included incorrect transliterations and incorrect birth dates. So we included all of those too.
This time, we received five pages, including a “Person Encounter List,” a “Person Encounter Detail” (the sought-after departure records), and two Person Encounter Detail documenting his return to the US July 19, 2012.
The departure records indicated that he indeed left JFK January 21, not January 12 as New York 4 had erroneously reported. The name on the additional records: “Tamerlan Tsarnaev.”
It was unclear, then, why the search for documents in the initial request didn’t produce the same records — so we FOIA’d our FOIA request. We asked for “all records, including emails, search slips, index entries, and/or memos” produced as a result of our initial request and subsequent appeal. Surprisingly, CBP’s “final response” came the very next day.
The results: “we were unable to locate or identify any responsive records, based upon the information you provided in your request.”
We appealed, pointing out the absurdity of the proposition that CBP would not be able to find its own FOIA processing records. A month and a half later we finally received 42 pages of FOIA processing records.
Another spoiler alert: It’s not exactly clear in the records why the initial request only came up with Tsarnaev’s arrival records. But Tsarnaev’s Alien Identification Number (A-number) does appear in the subject line of one of the FOIA official’s emails — so maybe they had searched using that. It’s hard to tell. Presumably, CBP officials would know what is the most efficient way to search for records. Why not just search that way to begin with?
Instead, the tertiary initial search for records ends up exhausting one of only two opportunities available — short of suing — forcing requesters to appeal just to get the records they were entitled to in the first place. And if at that point the requester disputes the legitimacy of the redactions in the documents, or what was provided — too bad.
Yes, we ultimately did get the documents we were after. But only after getting the proverbial middle finger and an all-too-common runaround from CBP.
It’s tempting to chalk the terrible state of information requesting up to the usual incompetent government trope. But the responses from all of the federal agencies are so consistently bad, that one has to wonder whether it is terrible by design.
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It’s Maine shrimp season, but without the shrimp
PORT CLYDE, Maine — Sitting between Glen Libby’s desk at Port Clyde Fresh Catch and the armchair where his brother’s old dog, Red, likes to nap are two boxes full of “The Original Maine Shrimp Cookbook.” This slim spiral-bound volume includes contributions from various members of the brothers’ immediate family, whose shrimping history dates back nearly four decades in this coastal town about two hours northeast of Portland.
Libby loves the small, delicate Northern shrimp, known fondly here as Maine shrimp, and so do customers at his processing and distribution plant. He bought $700 worth of the books to sell.
“I have sold two,” Libby said.
He is unlikely to sell many more. Not long after the cookbook was published in 2009, its central ingredient began vanishing from Maine’s waters. In 2014, regulators closed the shrimp fishery (the term that encompasses both the fishing grounds and those who work there). The hope was that the struggling species would replenish itself if left undisturbed.
So far, according to scientists who survey the Gulf of Maine annually, it has not. Their most recent data show Northern shrimp numbers at a historic low for the 34 years in which they have been counting the crustacean, Pandalus borealis. Egg production is down. Survival rates for larvae are poor.
Last month, regulators voted to keep the fishery closed again through 2018, the fifth consecutive year without a shrimp harvest. That means no shrimping for the Libbys or the hundreds of other Maine fishermen who have long relied on it as a sweet paycheck (and meal) in the dark of winter.
What makes this an unusual closing is that fishermen are not being blamed for the immediate problem. Cod was overfished. Sea urchins were overfished, as Maine shrimp were in the late 1960s and 1970s. But the most widely accepted theory for the rapid decline of this species, which extends no farther south than the Gulf of Maine, is the same force being blamed for disruption of fisheries around the globe: climate change.
While summer swimmers may still gasp with shock on entering Maine’s chilly waters, the Gulf of Maine is warming, and becoming increasingly inhospitable to the shrimp. Average winter sea-surface temperatures have increased 4.5 degrees in Boothbay Harbor since 1906.
Plenty of shrimpers believe in climate change. Some do not. All feel stymied.
Patrick Keliher, Maine’s commissioner of marine resources, said he had never seen quite as many shrimpers turn out for a meeting as they did on Nov. 29, when a regulatory panel he sits on decided to keep the fishery closed. He raised their hopes, briefly, by arguing unsuccessfully for a “boutique” fishery that would have allowed shrimpers a small but not insignificant catch.
After all, many fishermen reason, if shrimp are going to continue to disappear because of an environmental force unlikely to be stopped, why not just reap what is left? Especially now that unmet demand has sent prices soaring.
Some shrimpers favor backing off on the shrimp to see if they can bounce back. And almost all question the scientific data. Surveys are often run with the help of fishermen, but instead of going where the shrimp typically cluster, the surveys by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration go to mostly random, computer-selected spots to trawl.
“I don’t know if it is as bad as they think,” said Libby, whose brother, Gary, is chairman of the advisory panel to the Northern Shrimp Technical Committee, the voting body of the Atlantic State Marine Fisheries Commission that decides the fate of the fishery each year.
But there is one thing most everyone here agrees on: It would be terrible to see the end of Maine shrimp, a touchstone of local tradition, identity and cuisine.
“Maine shrimp is the only shrimp I’ve ever eaten that has a taste to it,” said Arnie Gammage, a longtime shrimp trapper in South Bristol.
Maine’s relationship with its shrimp is more complex than just love of a flavor.
“We in northern New England love them and have a proprietary relationship with them,” said Sam Hayward, a James Beard Award-winning chef and an owner of the Portland restaurants Fore Street and Scales.
Hayward buys the
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Inspector general says mishandling of sexual harassment complaints at Justice Department is a “systemic” problem
By SARI HORWITZ | The Washington Post
December 26, 2017 at 10:15 pm
The cases examined by the IG’s office include a U.S. attorney who had a sexual relationship with a subordinate and sent harassing texts and emails when it ended; a Civil Division lawyer who groped the breasts and buttocks of two female trial attorneys; and a chief deputy U.S. marshal who had sex with “approximately” nine women on multiple occasions in his U.S. Marshals Service office, according to investigative reports obtained by The Washington Post under a Freedom of Information Act request.
While Horowitz’s office investigates the allegations, it is the department that decides on any discipline. In several cases, Horowitz said Justice Department attorneys who were accused of sexual misconduct were not disciplined appropriately and in some cases were later given awards or bonuses.
“We were troubled to learn that subjects of pending sexual misconduct investigations or individuals who had been recently disciplined for sexual misconduct still received performance awards,” Horowitz said.
Some of the most troubling allegations, Horowitz said, have been in the Justice Department’s Civil Division. His office examined the handling of those allegations after receiving a complaint that the Office of Immigration Litigation had not properly disciplined an attorney who had committed sexual misconduct.
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DECEMBER 26, 2017 | JAMES HENRY
ON BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING, RIGHT TO KNOW IS ZERO
It has been nearly five years since two bombs exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, and nearly three years since the conclusion of the trial of the sole surviving Tsarnaev brother, Dzhokhar. And yet, the government continues to maintain radio silence over many crucial questions related to the bombing.
Since the 2013 bombing, WhoWhatWhy has made dozens and dozens of records requests through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and other records request laws, from multiple government agencies, in an effort to fill in some of the many holes in the story that remain after a secretive federal investigation and trial. The results have been mixed, to say the least.
Most of the ongoing secrecy relates to the deceased mastermind and main bombing perpetrator: the older brother Tamerlan.
The lead prosecutor who secured the conviction against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, William Weinreb, even admitted that “it is fair to say that there are still a number of questions unanswered about that case.”
And a surprising number of Boston’s local law enforcement question whether the FBI is coming clean about what it knows about the now-deceased Tsarnaev brother.
As we wrote back in July, some of these enduring questions are:
* How was Tamerlan able to travel back and forth to the country from which he sought asylum in 2012, despite being on multiple terror watchlists?
* Why was he not questioned about the 2011 murder of three of his friends?
* Was Tamerlan working for the US government in some capacity?
* Was the FBI or some other federal agency using Tamerlan’s desire to become a US citizen as leverage?
* Did the Tsarnaevs have help constructing the bombs?
* Was anyone else involved in planning or inspiring the plot?
Besides the big questions, our ongoing efforts to track down and verify even mundane details about the bombing reveal a flawed and seemingly arbitrary system for making government documents public. Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s travel records, for instance.
In September, we wrote about our attempts through FOIA to ascertain details of the confinement conditions of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. We also detailed our multiple requests to the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to interview Tsarnaev. The process was nothing short of a Kafkaesque wilderness of mirrors.
Obtaining “public” records through FOIA has always been imperfect. And although improvements have been made, requesters are largely in the dark about what agencies might be holding back; most agencies’ search practices and criteria are like an impenetrable black box.
WhoWhatWhy’s efforts at obtaining Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s 2012 travel records are a case in point. First off, the elder Tsarnaev brother is deceased. His records are ostensibly public information — and the public has a right to know more about him.
Back in July, we sent Customs and Border Protection (CBP) a request for “arrival” and “departure” records produced when Tsarnaev traveled to Dagestan by way of Moscow in 2012. According to official accounts, Tsarnaev flew out of JFK International January 21, 2012, and returned to JFK July 19, 2012.
The apparent ease with which Tsarnaev flew in and out of the US to a known hotbed of terroristic activity (Dagestan), despite being on multiple watch lists, is one of the enduring mysteries about the elder brother.
Consider also that the Russians, who had flagged him as a dangerous radical well before US officials watch-listed him, also allowed him to fly in and out of their country unimpeded.
So it piqued our interest when it came to our attention that there were early news reports, supposedly based on documentary “travel records,” that Tsarnaev had actually flown out of JFK January 12 — not January 21 as was claimed officially. This was based on a story reported by NBC News affiliate New York 4, which makes reference to “documents” that they “obtained.”
The report even describes a photograph of Tsarnaev on one of the documents. The January 12 date was repeated by multiple media outlets and was even cited by then head of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano when she testified before Congress about the bombing investigation.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, JFK, airport
Photo credit: Adapted by WhoWhatWhy from Doug Letterman / Wikimedia.
WhoWhatWhy reached out multiple times to the reporters who wrote the article and asked if they would either confirm — or correct — what was written in the article or, at the very least, describe what type of documents they were referencing. They “respectfully declined.”
Spoiler alert: New York 4 screwed up the travel dates. But the fact that they were citing actual documents with contradictory dates was intriguing given that Tsarnaev’s travel to Russia was shady to begin with. So we tried to verify or disprove on our own.
A deep dive through Tsarnaev’s 256 pages of immigration records (or A-file), much of which is redacted, is no help because it only documents his arrival at JFK airport July 19, 2012. His departure, six months earlier, is either not included in the A-file, or it is blacked out under one of the file’s many redactions. (Tsarnaev’s A-file was released to the FBI’s “electronic reading room,” which is what happens when three or more requests are made for the same records. WhoWhatWhy was one of those requesters.)
So the only other option to clear up the mystery was FOIA.
CBP on FOIA: LOL
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In July of this year, we requested “all arrival/departure records for Tamerlan Tsarnaev” from CBP. By the end of August (which is a pretty quick turnaround as FOIA goes) CBP furnished us the results of its search. There was only one problem, they provided Tsarnaev’s “arrival” records only.
WhoWhatWhy called CBP’s FOIA liaison to ask how it was possible they couldn’t find a corresponding departure record. The liaison indicated that a search was conducted with the information that was provided in the request — that was the result.
So we appealed, pointing out that it was widely reported in the media, and government officials were on the record stating, that Tsarnaev had in fact traveled out of the country in January 2012 and that CBP must, therefore, have records of his departure. We also included — under the assumption that maybe the name search “Tamerlan Tsarnaev” was the problem — a long list of possible name variants we collected from Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s A-file and from an Intelligence Community Inspector General (IGIC) report.
The IGIC report probed some of the “intelligence failures,” like how Tsarnaev’s travels in and out of the country eluded any additional scrutiny despite the fact that he was on multiple watch lists, each of which characterized him as a dangerous individual. Part of IGIC’s determination was that some of the watch list information about Tsarnaev included incorrect transliterations and incorrect birth dates. So we included all of those too.
This time, we received five pages, including a “Person Encounter List,” a “Person Encounter Detail” (the sought-after departure records), and two Person Encounter Detail documenting his return to the US July 19, 2012.
The departure records indicated that he indeed left JFK January 21, not January 12 as New York 4 had erroneously reported. The name on the additional records: “Tamerlan Tsarnaev.”
It was unclear, then, why the search for documents in the initial request didn’t produce the same records — so we FOIA’d our FOIA request. We asked for “all records, including emails, search slips, index entries, and/or memos” produced as a result of our initial request and subsequent appeal. Surprisingly, CBP’s “final response” came the very next day.
The results: “we were unable to locate or identify any responsive records, based upon the information you provided in your request.”
We appealed, pointing out the absurdity of the proposition that CBP would not be able to find its own FOIA processing records. A month and a half later we finally received 42 pages of FOIA processing records.
Another spoiler alert: It’s not exactly clear in the records why the initial request only came up with Tsarnaev’s arrival records. But Tsarnaev’s Alien Identification Number (A-number) does appear in the subject line of one of the FOIA official’s emails — so maybe they had searched using that. It’s hard to tell. Presumably, CBP officials would know what is the most efficient way to search for records. Why not just search that way to begin with?
Instead, the tertiary initial search for records ends up exhausting one of only two opportunities available — short of suing — forcing requesters to appeal just to get the records they were entitled to in the first place. And if at that point the requester disputes the legitimacy of the redactions in the documents, or what was provided — too bad.
Yes, we ultimately did get the documents we were after. But only after getting the proverbial middle finger and an all-too-common runaround from CBP.
It’s tempting to chalk the terrible state of information requesting up to the usual incompetent government trope. But the responses from all of the federal agencies are so consistently bad, that one has to wonder whether it is terrible by design.
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His abiding interest in Native American foodways has given him insight into the spiritual significance of growing food.
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Israel passes law that critics say is meant to shield PM
JERUSALEM
Israel’s parliament has passed legislation ending a police practice of recommending indictments, a bill pushed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party as he faces corruption allegations.
The so-called “recommendations bill” passed early Thursday after days of filibuster. It stops police from recommending to prosecutors whether to indict suspects upon completing their investigations and also aims to stem media leaks.
Supporters say it’s needed to protect citizens who are investigated but never charged. Critics say it muzzles
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After outcry, relatives of man shot by Minneapolis police demand visitation
Marcus Fischer's family say they've been barred from follow-up visits.
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More Minnesota police departments going to 12-hour work schedules
Once departments see the benefits — more days off — most don't want to go back.
By Erin Adler Star Tribune DECEMBER 27, 2017 — 10:21PM
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Thousands of Puerto Rico police owed overtime call in sick
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It’s Maine shrimp season, but without the shrimp
PORT CLYDE, Maine — Sitting between Glen Libby’s desk at Port Clyde Fresh Catch and the armchair where his brother’s old dog, Red, likes to nap are two boxes full of “The Original Maine Shrimp Cookbook.” This slim spiral-bound volume includes contributions from various members of the brothers’ immediate family, whose shrimping history dates back nearly four decades in this coastal town about two hours northeast of Portland.
Libby loves the small, delicate Northern shrimp, known fondly here as Maine shrimp, and so do customers at his processing and distribution plant. He bought $700 worth of the books to sell.
“I have sold two,” Libby said.
He is unlikely to sell many more. Not long after the cookbook was published in 2009, its central ingredient began vanishing from Maine’s waters. In 2014, regulators closed the shrimp fishery (the term that encompasses both the fishing grounds and those who work there). The hope was that the struggling species would replenish itself if left undisturbed.
So far, according to scientists who survey the Gulf of Maine annually, it has not. Their most recent data show Northern shrimp numbers at a historic low for the 34 years in which they have been counting the crustacean, Pandalus borealis. Egg production is down. Survival rates for larvae are poor.
Last month, regulators voted to keep the fishery closed again through 2018, the fifth consecutive year without a shrimp harvest. That means no shrimping for the Libbys or the hundreds of other Maine fishermen who have long relied on it as a sweet paycheck (and meal) in the dark of winter.
What makes this an unusual closing is that fishermen are not being blamed for the immediate problem. Cod was overfished. Sea urchins were overfished, as Maine shrimp were in the late 1960s and 1970s. But the most widely accepted theory for the rapid decline of this species, which extends no farther south than the Gulf of Maine, is the same force being blamed for disruption of fisheries around the globe: climate change.
While summer swimmers may still gasp with shock on entering Maine’s chilly waters, the Gulf of Maine is warming, and becoming increasingly inhospitable to the shrimp. Average winter sea-surface temperatures have increased 4.5 degrees in Boothbay Harbor since 1906.
Plenty of shrimpers believe in climate change. Some do not. All feel stymied.
Patrick Keliher, Maine’s commissioner of marine resources, said he had never seen quite as many shrimpers turn out for a meeting as they did on Nov. 29, when a regulatory panel he sits on decided to keep the fishery closed. He raised their hopes, briefly, by arguing unsuccessfully for a “boutique” fishery that would have allowed shrimpers a small but not insignificant catch.
After all, many fishermen reason, if shrimp are going to continue to disappear because of an environmental force unlikely to be stopped, why not just reap what is left? Especially now that unmet demand has sent prices soaring.
Some shrimpers favor backing off on the shrimp to see if they can bounce back. And almost all question the scientific data. Surveys are often run with the help of fishermen, but instead of going where the shrimp typically cluster, the surveys by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration go to mostly random, computer-selected spots to trawl.
“I don’t know if it is as bad as they think,” said Libby, whose brother, Gary, is chairman of the advisory panel to the Northern Shrimp Technical Committee, the voting body of the Atlantic State Marine Fisheries Commission that decides the fate of the fishery each year.
But there is one thing most everyone here agrees on: It would be terrible to see the end of Maine shrimp, a touchstone of local tradition, identity and cuisine.
“Maine shrimp is the only shrimp I’ve ever eaten that has a taste to it,” said Arnie Gammage, a longtime shrimp trapper in South Bristol.
Maine’s relationship with its shrimp is more complex than just love of a flavor.
“We in northern New England love them and have a proprietary relationship with them,” said Sam Hayward, a James Beard Award-winning chef and an owner of the Portland restaurants Fore Street and Scales.
Hayward buys the
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Scarborough High wrestler with one leg finds home after years of hardship
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Inspector general says mishandling of sexual harassment complaints at Justice Department is a “systemic” problem
By SARI HORWITZ | The Washington Post
December 26, 2017 at 10:15 pm
The cases examined by the IG’s office include a U.S. attorney who had a sexual relationship with a subordinate and sent harassing texts and emails when it ended; a Civil Division lawyer who groped the breasts and buttocks of two female trial attorneys; and a chief deputy U.S. marshal who had sex with “approximately” nine women on multiple occasions in his U.S. Marshals Service office, according to investigative reports obtained by The Washington Post under a Freedom of Information Act request.
While Horowitz’s office investigates the allegations, it is the department that decides on any discipline. In several cases, Horowitz said Justice Department attorneys who were accused of sexual misconduct were not disciplined appropriately and in some cases were later given awards or bonuses.
“We were troubled to learn that subjects of pending sexual misconduct investigations or individuals who had been recently disciplined for sexual misconduct still received performance awards,” Horowitz said.
Some of the most troubling allegations, Horowitz said, have been in the Justice Department’s Civil Division. His office examined the handling of those allegations after receiving a complaint that the Office of Immigration Litigation had not properly disciplined an attorney who had committed sexual misconduct.
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FBI Agents Association Sees Increased Donations As Special Counsel Criticism Continues
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Bush ethics chief: FBI director needs to stand up to Trump or resign
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NJ State Police Have Paid at Least $850,000 for Secret Cell Phone Surveillance Equipment
The 'Stingray,' which can track nearby cell phone use, is used across the country by law enforcement agencies, who are relucant to discuss the device.
By Mitch Blacher and Brian X. McCrone
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GOP Rep Rooney Suggests a 'Purge' at 'Off the Rails' FBI, DOJ
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FBI refuses to investigate murder of black Baltimore police officer
By Ray Downs | Dec. 27, 2017 at 10:17 PM
The FBI refused a request from the Baltimore Police Department to investigate the murder of a detective who was killed one day before he was scheduled to speak to federal agents conducting a probe into allegedly corrupt police officers. In a letter obtained by The Baltimore Sun, FBI Assistant Director Stephen E.
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Lie detector tests, extortion and a rape accusation: How two NC cops landed in hot water
BY WILL DORAN
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JFK files: House Assassinations Committee was suspicious of defector's claims about KGB and Oswald
JFK files: House panel suspicious of KGB defector
Author: Ray Locker and Ed Brackett, USA TODAY
Published: 11:58 PM EST December 27, 2017
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Thomas Mitchell: What evidence is pertinent in Bundy trials?
Elko Daily Free Press
... evidence — including information about an FBI surveillance camera, documents citing the presence of snipers, certain maps, FBI logs, threat assessments that showed the Bundys weren't violent and internal affairs documents detailing possible misdeeds by the Bureau of Land Management agent in charge, who was
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Revealed: The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies
The document is from the Cold War. But the material it teaches is still being used today by Vladimir Putin’s clandestine cadres.
Michael Weiss
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Cities sue Pentagon for failing to report criminals to FBI gun database
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Devin Kelley, who was convicted of domestic violence while serving in the U.S. Air Force, was never reported by the military for inclusion on an FBI database of individuals blocked from purchasing firearms. Kelley went on to kill more than two dozen churchgoers in Sutherland Springs, Texas, last month in one of the worst ...
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PRINTS OF THIEVES Russian hackers may have stolen fingerprints of millions of Americans by hiding a secret code in software later bought by the FBI
The company whose code ended up in the software has connections to the Kremlin, say whistleblowers
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Blind man killed after confrontation with Yakima PD
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Massachusetts police chief travels to Israel for training
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Detroit Police official lied after taking deal, FBI says
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Oil giant ExxonMobil counters climate-change suits by SF, other governments
January 8, 2018
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ProPublica: DEA Operation Played Hidden Role in the Disappearance of Five Innocent Mexicans
The agency knew why the victims were kidnapped in 2010 by the Zetas drug cartel from a Holiday Inn in Mexico, but it did nothing to investigate or help. The victims’ friends and relatives now wonder why
By Ginger Thompson
ProPublica
At about 2 a.m. on April 21, 2010, a convoy of gunmen working for the Zetas drug cartel, one of the most violent drug trafficking organizations in the world, rolled into Monterrey, Mexico, a wealthy, bustling city considered that country’s commercial capital. With brazen efficiency, they set up roadblocks at all major thoroughfares, then sent a convoy of sport utility vehicles downtown, encircling a Holiday Inn.
The heavily armed men, some wearing ski masks, swarmed into the hotel’s lobby and rushed directly to the fifth floor, bursting into every room and rousting the guests from their beds. The gunmen questioned the guests, then separated four of them from the rest: a marketing executive at an eyewear company, a chemical engineer for a cosmetics manufacturer, a shoe salesman expecting his first child, and a college professor who was the mother of two.
Then the four were loaded, along with the hotel’s receptionist, into the gunmen’s vehicles and driven away. None of the hostages has been seen since. All are presumed dead.
For years, their relatives and friends begged for answers. Why were their loved ones — ordinary middle-class Mexicans with no known criminal ties—targeted in this spasm of drug violence? The marketing executive’s family futilely negotiated and paid a ransom before the Zetas cut off contact.
“We could never figure out why they were taken. What made them so important?” said David Anabitarte, the marketing executive’s supervisor and one of his best friends. “It was hard to accept what had happened because it never made any sense.”
Mexican authorities initially insinuated that the victims had brought on their own demise, adding insult to grief. The college professor, they alleged, may have been involved in a romantic relationship with one of the Zetas’ rivals. And they speculated that the marketing executive, who had managed to lift his family into the upper middle class, might have had some connection to the drug trade. Without any credible explanations for why the Zetas would move military-style through a major metropolitan city to kidnap random guests at a budget hotel, some of the people close to the victims began to believe that too.
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CINCINNATI — A Cincinnati police officer has pleaded guilty to a probation violation of drinking alcohol during firearms training at a gun range.
WXIX-TV reports the judge told 46-year-old Officer David Jenkins “you need to get a handle on it,” before sentencing him Monday to continue his probation, undergo an alcohol treatment program and wear an alcohol monitoring device.
Court records show Jenkins had a .053 blood alcohol level at the training Dec. 20. He was on probation at the time for a disorderly conduct conviction.
He pleaded guilty to the charge after his arrested in March for carrying an AR-15 rifle and acting as a police officer while off duty and drunk.
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SF police officer arrested on sex assault charges
Monday, January 8, 2018
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Oakland councilwoman hit with $550,000 in damages over restaurant fight with 74 year old black panther
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January 9, 2018
Requester’s Voice: The Trace’s Brian Freskos on using public records to explore gun theft
How the team at The Trace and local NBC affiliates opened up over a thousand different police departments
Written by Michael Morisy
Edited by JPat Brown
Over the course of over a year, Brian Freskos, the team at The Trace, and more than a dozen local NBC affiliates explored the link between stolen guns and violent crime. What they found was astonishing: Between 2010 and 2016, police recovered more than 23,000 stolen firearms, the vast majority of which were connected to crimes, including more than 1,500 carjackings and kidnappings, armed robberies, sexual assaults, and murders. Using public records, they were able to tell the story behind these stolen guns with a level of detail that had never been done. Ultimately, the team got data from over a thousand different agencies.
In some cases, like California and Florida, they were able to get that data from centralized state databases, but in most states they had to file hundreds of requests with individual police departments to begin to piece together the larger story. And even in California and Florida, they had to go back to get more data on the recovered guns which involved even more requests.
After all that painstaking work, they then shared all the raw and cleaned up data. They also put together a guide for others to follow up on their work.
In this Requester’s Voice, Freskos shares details about how they undertook the investigation and how others can follow up locally.
Gun theft has been an issue people have reported on before, but never at this scale. Why did you think there was a bigger story there then what had already been told?
When I was first brought on at The Trace in June of 2016, my editor approached me with a couple of ideas for a big story. One was diving deep into the stolen gun issue and looking at how stolen guns move from place to place and get used in crimes. No one had ever really looked at that before, and so I started doing some research. I found that at NBC in California, a reporter named Stephen Stock had looked at this issue, and he had done a big story where they had tracked some stolen guns to crimes. So I called him and actually talked to him about some of what they were doing and some of the ways that they were trying to do it, but they were just focusing on California. I thought, why don’t we do this nationally and start filing requests for this data all over the country?
So that’s how the national story got started and also how the NBC partnership got started. Stephen Stock was one of the reporters who we partnered with, and the NBC folks in California did a really great job of doing their own story that was focused on how guns flow into and out of California.
How did that collaboration work?
Yeah, well, it’s started very informally. It was just me and Stephen talking. Then my editor, Ben Hallman, went to a conference and met with Stephen and Lynn Walsh, who was a producer for NBC in San Diego. That’s when it got formal, and they were like, “Look, we have NBC stations all over the country.” We had already collected a lot of data from a number of cities at that point, but it was a huge, huge haul. Most of my day for those first six months or so was spent answering emails and phone calls from records officers and fighting with them when they were unwilling to give us the data that we needed.
We brought a bunch of reporters onboard, and we sent out a template request that we had been using. Then they started filing requests in their coverage areas. A lot of them, I think they filed it with every police department and sheriff’s office. If not everyone, nearly every one.
Then we had a drop box, and we shared absolutely everything. We shared the data. We shared interviews. Some interviews we conducted together. Once we got all the data into one place, we started cleaning it, making it all uniform, so that reporters could start working on the story even though the data wasn’t completely finished yet. Every Friday, we sent out a master sheet that had all of the data that we were able to clean and make uniform up until that point.
We sent out the master sheet, and then we also sent out a sheet that had what we called “matches.” Those were stolen guns that were later connected to some sort of crime. So reporters could look at the data and start to spot crimes involving stolen guns in their areas and start to then request police reports, court documents, and doing some more reporting. The data was really a launching pad to find victims of gun theft, victims of crimes involving stolen guns, perpetrators in crimes involving stolen guns, so that we could really build this end up story that looks like the issues.
You got really eye-opening NCIC data that showed the scope of this problem. What kind of details were you able to get from those local requests that made this story have more of an impact or helped you understand the issue?
The requests were in two parts. The first part was for the serial number, make, model and other identifying information about the gun that was reported stolen, as well as some information about the case, such as the case number, the date it was reported, the offense that was involved. Whether it was a home burglary or an auto burglary. And then the second part requested pretty much the same information, but for all guns that were recovered or seized or somehow taken in by the law enforcement agency. So what we did is we married those two data sets. We put them all together and we were able to look then at connections using the serial number and other identifying information for the gun. We were able to connect stolen guns to guns that had been recovered by a law enforcement agency.
And then the second part was taking that information and then filing requests for police reports and for court documents so that we could begin to look at some of the details both of how the gun was stolen and then of how it was used in a crime. Based off of those police reports and court documents then we could identify witnesses, victims, perpetrators, and other people who we could interview to really shape the entire story.
We were able to focus on the cases that hadn’t gotten a lot of news. And most of the cases that we covered, the fact that the gun was stolen had never been reported before in the news, in the media. So we were really able to kind of hone in on this facet of where the gun came from, and I think that really spoke to a lot of people.
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Why was it so important to have all of this information be so available? You share all the raw and cleaned up data in the story; what was the thinking behind that?
We wanted people to be able to see exactly where we got the information from. We felt that that really gave us the authority and credibility to talk about this issue. The second part of it was we wanted newsrooms around the country to be able to use this data to tell their own stories and to hopefully inspire others to collect data and collect police reports about these crimes. I do think that there are a lot of stories to tell in this space. You know, our data, a thousand law enforcement agencies, that only scratches the surface. There are a lot of cities and towns that we didn’t get. I think that is an opportunity for other reporters in their markets to leverage their relationships and their knowledge of their states’ public records laws to collect this data and these police reports, and to tell stories that have a huge impact in their own areas.
So to get to that point where you had that cleaned up data that you ended up sharing, can you talk a little bit about sort of like, what was that process? Was that kind of just going into Excel and kind of manually inputting stuff? What was that process like, of taking sort of the raw messy data and making it something that was more uniform and analyzable?
That was a huge, huge undertaking. When I was cleaning it I was focused mainly on the serial number portion and we had to go through that very carefully because serial numbers are the most important piece of identifying information on a firearm. And so I went through that cleaning out anything that wasn’t a serial number; like sometimes officers entered model numbers or patent numbers that appeared on the gun. They entered those as serial numbers. I also had to go through and clean out words; sometimes officers would put in “unknown,” or they would put in “missing,” or “defaced,” or “scratched off.” So I had to make sure all of that was removed.
Then when I handed it over to Daniel Nass, he went through and cleaned the entire “Make” column. That was very important because serial numbers can be duplicated across different makes. So for example, you can have a Glock with serial No. 12345 and a Smith & Wesson with serial No. 12345. So to be absolutely sure we had the same gun, we needed that “Make” column to be clean. And that was a huge undertaking for him because there are just a huge number of manufacturers. We know the big ones, like Smith & Wesson, Glock, Beretta. But there are a huge number of smaller manufacturers. So what we did is we used the FBI’s NCIC codebook; The FBI publishes a list. That’s for law enforcement so that they know how to input this data into their system and make it uniform so this data can be entered into NCIC. But we took that and we had to clean up all of their messes that they made, for lack of a better word, so we could be sure that we were looking at the same gun when we tried to match these records together.
I would say the data cleaning, you know we spent more than a year working on this. The data cleaning and the records request probably took up a majority of that.
In addition to the main piece, you put together an article on how to investigate this issue in local communities, emphasizing how to put gun violence in better context. What do you think newsrooms should be doing to tell better stories about the gun beat versus what many local newsrooms are doing today?
One thing that I often see missing from news stories about shootings is where the gun came from. I would like to see more stories that actually trace the gun back to its source. Like I said, a lot of the cases that we looked at, even if there had been news coverage about it, there is no mention that we can find of the gun being stolen. And I think that that’s an important piece of this, because it shows how these guns move from the legal to the illegal marketplace and then wind up being used in crimes.
The other thing that I think reporters should do is look at how laws may impact this. So there is some research out of Harvard and Northeastern Universities that showed that people who carried guns in public or stored them in their cars were many more times likely to have experienced a gun theft. And what we’ve seen in a number of states is lawmakers roll back laws around carrying guns in public and storing them in cars to actually to almost implicitly encourage that behavior, make it easier to do and that is contributing to the problem of stolen guns.
Have you seen much feedback from legislators from other people who can have an opportunity to change this?
We have received some feedback. I have been contacted by a Congress member and I have spoken to other lawmakers who are interested in introducing bills that may help prevent guns falling into the hands of thieves. I’m not at a position right now where I can name those individuals yet. But I think that there will be some action around this issue in the coming weeks and months.
Anything else you think people should take away from your piece
We hope that people use the data, and request more data in their areas. If we can be of any help, we’re here. I was contacted by a reporter in Kansas who has already started filing requests for some data in her communities and she was going to share that with us so that we can use the expertise that we garnered over the last year to help analyze it. So we’re always open to working on partnerships like that.
Read The Trace’s story on how gun theft is fueling violent crime, examine the raw data, and read their guide to following up locally. You can also see many of the requests that were used to report this story on Brian Freskos.
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FBI chief calls encryption a ‘major public safety issue’
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FBI–Apple encryption dispute
An iPhone 5C, the model used by one of the perpetrators of the 2015 San Bernardino attack
The FBI–Apple encryption dispute concerns whether and to what extent courts in the United States can compel manufacturers to assist in unlocking cell phones whose data are cryptographically protected.[1] There is much debate over public access to strong encryption.[2]
In 2015 and 2016, Apple Inc. has received and objected to or challenged at least 11 orders issued by United States district courts under the All Writs Act of 1789. Most of these seek to compel Apple "to use its existing capabilities to extract data like contacts, photos and calls from locked iPhones running on operating systems iOS 7 and older" in order to assist in criminal investigations and prosecutions. A few requests, however, involve phones with more extensive security protections, which Apple has no current ability to break. These orders would compel Apple to write new software that would let the government bypass these devices' security and unlock the phones.[3]
The most well-known instance of the latter category was a February 2016 court case in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The FBI wanted Apple to create and electronically sign new software that would enable the FBI to unlock a work-issued iPhone 5C it recovered from one of the shooters who, in a December 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, killed 14 people and injured 22. The two attackers later died in a shootout with police, having first destroyed their personal phones. The work phone was recovered intact but was locked with a four-digit password and was set to eliminate all its data after ten failed password attempts. Apple declined to create the software, and a hearing was scheduled for March 22. However, a day before the hearing was supposed to happen, the government obtained a delay, saying they had found a third party able to assist in unlocking the iPhone and, on March 28, it announced that the FBI had unlocked the iPhone and withdrew its request.
In another case in Brooklyn, a magistrate judge ruled that the All Writs Act could not be used to compel Apple to unlock an iPhone. The government appealed the ruling, but then dropped the case on April 22 after it was given the
Tim Cook, Chief Executive Officer of Apple Inc. Cook and former FBI Director Comey have both spoken publicly about the case.
In 1993, the National Security Agency (NSA) introduced the Clipper chip, an encryption device with an acknowledged backdoor for government access, that NSA proposed be used for phone encryption. The proposal touched off a public debate, known as the Crypto Wars, and the Clipper chip was never adopted.[4]
It was revealed as a part of the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures by Edward Snowden that the NSA and the British
Apple ordered to assist the FBI
The FBI recovered an Apple iPhone 5C - owned by the San Bernardino County, California government - that had been issued to its employee, Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the shooters involved in the December 2015 San Bernardino attack.[12] The attack killed 14 people and seriously injured 22. The two attackers died four hours after the attack in a shootout with police, having previously destroyed their personal phones. Although Farook's work phone was recovered intact[13], it had been locked with a four-digit password.[14]
On February 9, 2016, the FBI announced that it was unable to unlock the county-owned phone it recovered, due to its advanced security features, including encryption of user data.[15][16] The FBI first asked the National Security Agency to break into the phone, but they were unable to since they only had knowledge of breaking into other devices that are commonly used by criminals, and not iPhones.[17] As a result, the FBI asked Apple Inc. to create a new version of the phone's iOS operating system that could be installed and run in the phone's random access memory to disable certain security features that Apple refers to as "GovtOS". Apple declined due to its policy which required it to never undermine the security features of its products. The FBI responded by successfully applying to a United States magistrate judge, Sheri Pym, to issue a court order, mandating Apple to create and provide the requested software.[18] The order was not a subpoena, but rather was issued under the All Writs Act of 1789.[19][20] The court order, called In the Matter of the Search of an Apple iPhone Seized During the Execution of a Search Warrant on a Black Lexus IS300, California License Plate 35KGD203, was filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.[21][22][23]
The use of the All Writs Act to compel Apple to write new software was unprecedented and, according to legal experts, it was likely to prompt "an epic fight pitting privacy against national security."[24] It was also pointed out that the implications of the legal precedent that would be established by the success of this action against Apple would go far beyond issues of privacy.[25]
Technical details of the order Edit
The court order specified that Apple provide assistance to accomplish the following:
"it will bypass or disable the auto-erase function whether or not it has been enabled"[22] (this user-configurable feature of iOS 8 automatically deletes keys needed to read encrypted data after ten consecutive incorrect attempts[26])
"it will enable the FBI to submit passcodes to the SUBJECT DEVICE for testing electronically via the physical device port, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or other protocol available"[22]
"it will ensure that when the FBI submits passcodes to the SUBJECT DEVICE, software running on the device will not purposefully introduce any additional delay between passcode attempts beyond what is incurred by Apple hardware"[22]
The order also specifies that Apple's assistance may include providing software to the FBI that "will be coded by Apple with a unique identifier of the phone so that the [software] would only load and execute on the SUBJECT DEVICE"[22]
There has been much research and analysis of the technical issues presented in the case since the court order was made available to the public.[27]
Apple's opposition to the order Edit
The February 16, 2016 order issued by Magistrate Judge Pym gave Apple five days to apply for relief if Apple believed the order was "unreasonably burdensome". Apple announced its intent to oppose the order, citing the security risks that the creation of a backdoor would pose towards customers.[28] It also stated that no government had ever asked for similar access.[29] The company was given until February 26 to fully respond to the court order.[30][31]
On the same day the order was issued, chief executive officer Tim Cook released an online statement to Apple customers, explaining the company's motives for opposing the court order. He also stated that while they respect the FBI, the request they made threatens data security by establishing a precedent that the U.S. government could use to force any technology company to create software that could undermine the security of its products.[32] He said in part:
The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand. This moment calls for public discussion, and we want our customers and people around the country to understand what is at stake.[32]
In response to the opposition, on February 19, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a new application urging a federal judge to compel Apple to comply with the order.[33] The new application stated that the company could install the software on the phone in its own premises, and after the FBI had hacked the phone via remote connection, Apple could remove and destroy the software.[34] Apple hired attorneys Ted Olson and Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. to fight the order on appeal.[24]
The same day, Apple revealed that it had discussed with the FBI four methods to access data in the iPhone in early January, but, as was revealed by a footnote in the February 19 application to the court, one of the more promising methods was ruled out by a mistake during the investigation of the attack. After the shooter's phone had been recovered, the FBI asked San Bernardino County, the owner of the phone, to reset the password to the shooter's iCloud account in order to acquire data from the iCloud backup. However, this rendered the phone unable to back up recent data to iCloud unless its pass-code is entered.[35][36][37] This was confirmed by the U.S. Department of Justice, which then added that any backup would have been "insufficient" because they would not have been able to recover enough information from it.[38]
Legal arguments Edit
The government cites as precedent United States v. New York Telephone Co., in which the Supreme Court ruled in 1977 that the All Writs Act gave courts the power to demand reasonable technical assistance from the phone company in accessing phone calling records. Apple responded that New York Telephone was already collecting the data in question in the course of its business, something the Supreme Court took note of in its ruling. Apple also asserts that being compelled to write new software "amounts to compelled speech and viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment. ... What is to stop the government from demanding that Apple write code to turn on the microphone in aid of government surveillance, activate the video camera, surreptitiously record conversations, or turn on location services to track the phone's user?" Apple argued that the FBI had not made use of all of the government's tools, such as employing the resources of the NSA. A hearing on the case was scheduled for March 22, 2016.[39]
San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael Ramos filed a brief stating the iPhone may contain evidence of a "lying dormant cyber pathogen" that could have been introduced into the San Bernardino County computer network,[40][41][42] as well as identification of a possible third gunman who was alleged to have been seen at the scene of the attack by eyewitnesses.[43] The following day, Ramos told the Associated Press that he did not know whether the shooters had compromised the county's infrastructure, but the only way to know for sure was by gaining access to the iPhone.[44][45] This statement has been criticized by cyber-security professionals as being improbable.[45][46][47][48]
FBI withdrawal of request Edit
On March 21, the government requested and was granted a delay, saying a third party had demonstrated a possible way to unlock the iPhone in question and the FBI needed more time to determine if it will work.[49][50][51] On March 28, the FBI said it had unlocked the iPhone with the third party's help, and an anonymous official said that the hack's applications were limited; the Department of Justice withdrew the case.[52][53] The lawyer for the FBI has stated that they are using the extracted information to further investigate the case.[54]
On April 7, former FBI Director James Comey said that the tool used can only unlock an iPhone 5C like that used by the San Bernardino shooter, as well as older iPhone models lacking the Touch ID sensor. Comey also confirmed that the tool was purchased from a third party but would not reveal the source,[55] later indicating the tool cost more than $1.3 million and that they did not purchase the rights to technical details about how the tool functions.[56] Although the FBI was able to use other technological means to access the cellphone data from the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone 5C, without the aid of Apple, law enforcement still expresses concern over the encryption controversy.[57]
Some news outlets, citing anonymous sources, identified the third party as Israeli company Cellebrite. However, The Washington Post reported that, according to anonymous "people familiar with the matter", the FBI had instead paid "professional hackers" who used a zero-day vulnerability in the iPhone's software to bypass its ten-try limitation, and did not need Cellebrite's assistance.[58][59]
Other All Writs Act cases involving iPhones Edit
State-by-state usage of the All Writs Act by the federal government of the United States against Apple Inc. and Google.[60]
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Apple had previously challenged the U.S. Department of Justice's authority to compel it to unlock an iPhone 5S in a drug case in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn (In re Order Requiring Apple Inc. to Assist in the Execution of a Search Warrant Issued by the Court, case number 1:15-mc-01902[61]), after the magistrate judge in the case, James Orenstein, requested Apple's pos
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DECEMBER 19, 2015 | JAMES HENRY
SAN BERNARDINO: WHAT DID GOV KNOW ABOUT SHOOTERS?
Mass-Murdering Couple May Have Been Known to Law Enforcement Despite Denials
It’s starting to look like there are some eerie parallels between the San Bernardino shooting and the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
After the Boston bombing, authorities were quick to deny any previous knowledge of the men they identified as the bombers. Then, over time, the public learned that — oops — maybe law enforcement did know significantly more than they initially let on.
After the San Bernardino suspects died in a hail of bullets, federal and local law enforcement officials alike claimed to have had no previous interaction with or interest in Syed Farook or his wife, Tashfeen Malik, at any time before last week’s attack, which killed 14 and wounded 21 others.
Now that story may be changing.
James Comey, director of the FBI, faced questions from reporters soon after about possible “intelligence failures” concerning the Farooks.
“Folks have focused on reports,” Comey said at a media briefing in Washington, “that at least one of the killers was in contact with subjects of FBI investigations. I would urge you not to make too much of that. There were no contacts between either of the killers and subjects of our investigations that were of such significance that it raised them on to our radar screen.”
However, two different anonymous law enforcement officials told CNN that Farook was in the social circle of Sohiel Kabir, an individual who has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in recruiting others for a 2012 plot to attack US soldiers in Afghanistan.
Interestingly, that’s around the same time Farook was allegedly planning an earlier terrorist attack in California — an attack he decided not to go through with, according to his longtime friend, Enrique Marquez.
Law enforcement officials have identified Marquez as the man who purchased the two AR-15 assault rifles used in the San Bernardino shooting. Marquez claims to have had no prior knowledge of this latest attack.
Why the FBI didn’t look more closely at Farook, who was socializing with individuals under investigation for terrorist activity, is unclear.
Additionally, recorded radio conversations between responding police and the dispatcher immediately after the shooting suggest that Farook was known to law enforcement.
As reported in The Weekly Standard, upon hearing Farook’s name, at least some of the officers involved were under the impression that Farook had been investigated the week prior to the shooting.
According to information obtained by Inside Edition, police interest in Farook stemmed from the suspicion that he was casing a high-rise building in Los Angeles.
If local law enforcement did indeed suspect Farook of casing possible targets in downtown Los Angeles, it’s hard to believe information like that would not be passed on to the FBI.
We have seen this step-by-step walking back of institutional denials before. As noted above, the FBI initially denied knowing anything about the Boston Marathon bombers until Russian authorities revealed, soon after the bombing, that they had warned the FBI and the CIA about Tamerlan Tsarnaev two years earlier.
Then, in testimony to Congress, former director Robert Mueller revealed that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had in fact been known to the FBI from two different investigations conducted before Russia brought him to the Bureau’s attention.
So, is the FBI’s assertion that it knew nothing about Farook before the San Bernardino shooting just a case of reflexive institutional self-protection?
Or is this another attempt to keep from the public the likelihood that, in the tangled web of the FBI’s counterterrorism effort — the tens of thousands of paid informants, provocateurs, agents, and possibly even double agents — things sometimes go terribly, tragically wrong?
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NSA SURVEILLANCE BILL WOULD LEGALIZE LOOPHOLE THAT LETS FBI SPY ON AMERICANS WITHOUT A WARRANT
Alex Emmons
January 9 2018, 11:59 a.m.
WITH MAJOR NSA surveillance authorities set to expire later this month, House Republicans are rushing to pass a bill that would not only reauthorize existing powers, but also codify into law some practices that critics have called unconstitutional.
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San Bernardino: Evidence of Drill, Staging, Possible FBI Informant
DECEMBER 2, 2015
Another Daily Shooter event has taken place in San Bernardino, California. As we go to press, police marksmen appear to have shot-up a black SUV, with one suspect killed, one severely wounded [later pronounced dead] and another escaping on foot according to NBC News live coverage. It’s still unconfirmed whether the SUV passengers are actually the same men who were the original ‘active shooters’ at the original crime scene.
Earlier this afternoon at approximately 12pm PT, we’re that 14 people were reported to have been killed and another 17 have been hospitalized with various injuries, after the 3 shooters are said to have opened fire with ‘long guns’ inside a conference venue, in the Inland Regional Center, a government-run disabled services office complex, located in San Bernardino. Police gave chase to suspects and claim that 3 assailants were masked (therefore could not be ID’d at the scene), heavily armed and possibly wearing body armor.
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MADE FOR TV: The later shoot-out was perfectly positioned for a Television News chopper to capture the drama unimpeded for national audiences, putting all the latest police military gear on display. Many hours after the initial event, Paramilitary Police units in armored MRAPs apparently shoot-up a black SUV, but it’s not known whether or not this was driven by one the original suspects, raising the possibility about whether the police have ‘accidentally’ shot-up the wrong vehicle. Despite the incredible media vantage point here, still no actual footage exists of the alleged deadly shoot-out other than a few photos seen afterwards, nor is there any footage of police removing the suspects dead bodies from the black SUV onto medical gurnies (Image credit: NBC News)
‘Ready to Roll’: Another Drill Gone Live?
The speed at which so many paramilitary, police and EMS assets were mobilized today was unprecedented.
Police announced that they had an armed response on site in only 4 minutes from their first emergency call, and managed to triage and then transport the first victims to medical facilities in only 15 minutes. Incredible.
This was one of the most impressive mobilizations of multiple local, state, county and federal law enforcement agencies. Within 90 minutes of the alleged ‘active shooter’ situation at Inland Regional, at least 12 different agencies were mobilized, including over 500 armed agents, at least 300 vehicles, over 1000 personnel, 5 SWAT teams, 3 helicopters, 3 mobile command centers, 10 armored MRAP vehicles, bomb squads with “tactical robots” being dispatched.
Incredibly, we quickly learned that the same location where this ‘mass shooting’ has taken place, the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino – also stages “Active Shooter” Drills that feature armed response teams… every month. This little known fact surfaced in an LA Times report which interviewed Dorothy Vong, one of the nurses on duty:
“Drill started,” Dorothy Vong texted her husband, Mark. It was about 11 a.m. Wednesday.
“The Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, where Dorothy is a nurse, conducts active-shooter drills every month or so. Vong assumed that’s why she could see heavily armed law enforcement officers sprinting toward the building. She walked to a window and made a cellphone video of the scene. She sent it to her husband. On the video, a voice can be heard saying: “They’re all geared up! Rifles and everything!” In the background, there is laughter.”
“Then reality intruded. Vong texted her husband again: “Well, it’s real.” And a few minutes later: “We’re in a locked office.”
This is clear evidence that Wednesday’s event was in fact, another “drill gone live”.
Incredibly, yet ANOTHER ‘active shooter’ drill was taking place nearby at the same time as the alleged mass shooting. KTLA 5 confirms this incredible coincidence:
“A call of multiple shots fired first came in at 10:59 a.m. from the area of 1365 S. Waterman Ave. The Police Department’s SWAT team was training nearby and was suited, “ready to roll” and responded rapidly, Lt. Richard Lawhead said.”
In addition, here is even more evidence of another ‘Active Shooter’ drill taking place nearby at the Victor Valley College Library on Monday of this week, only 48 hrs before the San Bernardino event. Watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_kMqCJNEgo
What happened to the CCTV footage of the shooters as they traveled into the parking lot, got out, and moved towards and throughout the building site? If past ‘Active Shooter’ drills are anything to go by, then it’s unlikely the public will be allowed to see any of this footage, unless it’s been heavily edited and supplied to the mainstream media.
See some of images of the many hundreds of police and EMS personnel assembled at the scene on Wednesday here:
Hard to Believe
We’re also old that many hours after the mass shooting incident, police miraculously track-down suspects in a black SUV only 1.5 miles from the original crime scene? Hard to believe, isn’t it?
The entire police case including its ability to pursue the black SUV with the alleged shooting suspects rests completely on a ‘police tip’ from one witness, a man named Glenn Willwerth, who we’re told owns a printing business, J&S Paper Southern, listed at 435 E Parkcenter Circle, San Bernardino, CA 92408 (oddly, this business has no website, only a Facebook page created on Sept 17, 2015), situated across the street from the Inland Regional Center. Willwerth said he saw the alleged shooters fleeing the initial scene in black SUV, which police claim to have then followed back to the suspects’ residence before, incredibly, the suspects then headed back to the original scene of the crime many hours later.
Even as the suspects were being pursued, President Barack Obama took to CBS News in order to lay out his case for gun control in America. Normally the present wait until after the event has settled before inserting himself in the conversation, but today he broke that tradition – even though none of the facts were in at that time. It’s as if the President already knew what the final narrative would be.
As far as social fall-out and manipulation is concerned, this event successfully covers both sides of the American political paradigm. Thanks to this event and the media’s calculated coverage of it, left-wing social media users are calling for “Gun Control” (led by President Obama), while right-wing crowd is calling for, “More ‘boots on the ground’ in Syria, and Iraq”.
If you understand social engineering, then it shouldn’t be that difficult to see what trend has been set into motion here.
UPDATE:
There is also an unconfirmed report which originated from a not-so-credible source, the right-wing political website and sometimes disinformation outlet Breitbart.com, who claimed to have an “unconfirmed police scanner report” (it’s either a real one or a fake, the fact that Breitbart cannot tell us the difference indicates a possible decoy here). Here’s the claim:
An ‘unconfirmed’ report published by Brietbart may dispute this claim. According to Breitbart, a description captured on a San Bernardino police scanner says that the shooters responsible for the massacre that left upwards of 14 people dead may have been one or more middle eastern men:
1:20PM Unconfirmed police scanner reports indicate: “Man in military fatigues currently at Roberts Elementary school.” The scanner also reports a “Middle Eastern male” with “long beard, tactical shorts and a backpack.” Again, the reports are unconfirmed.
If true, this report would indicate that a DRILL was running simultaneously with the public-facing, media-managed ‘active shooter’ story.
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‘WHAT WE KNOW’: Not much. The media have been pushing to narrative of Syed Farook, but have been hiding the identity of his alleged ‘wife’ Tafsheen Mailk – who’s photo is always blacked out. Why?
UPDATE: MOTIVE IS ‘ISIS-INSPIRED’
This far, authorities have been intentionally hiding any photographic evidence that would identify the alleged female shooter, Tashfeen Malik. It’s likely that this is because Malik was not actually involved in the shooting as the authorities are currently claiming. Based on this pattern of evasion, it’s very possible that investigators will later turn around and claim that she wasn’t actually one of the shooters.
In order to establish a much-needed motive, authorities and the media claims now have ‘evidence’ that Wednesday’s attack was “ISIS-inspired”. In a rush to establish sure-up Wednesday’s staged event, the media are presenting a questionable piece of virtual ‘evidence’, which appears to be as bizarre as it is laughable:
“We have evidence that while the attack was underway, the female shooter (Tashfeen Malik) is believed to have posted her allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – but not on her own Facebook account, rather on another different named account believed to be linked to her Facebook account. Malik then deleted the post, but the FBI managed to recover it (but cannot tell the public how they did it).”
This ridiculously contrived social media story was followed by one of the worst staged media events we’ve seen yet. At approximately 11am PT, CNN’s reporter Victor Blackwell joined a large group of at least 150 persons, including 30-40 unidentified people filming on their cell phones which CNN claimed were “members of the victims’ families”, as well as at least 75-100 media personnel and cameramen, all of whom followed behind the property’s landlord, Doyel Miller, who appears to have given an unsupervised, guided tour to the media and unidentified members of the public.
White House-linked TV network, MSNBC, turned in one of the worst media reports in this debacle, as reporter Kerry Sanders show just how a “press gang” can ransack the family home of the suspects:
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See the full story of the media ransacking on the suspects’ home here.
Superwoman: Tafsheen Malik
Once again, based on the FBI’s continued hiding of her identity, we can almost conclude that their alleged female shooter suspect, Tafsheen Malik, was not actually involved in the staged shooting event at Inland Regional Center on Wednesday, and based on the police’s own reports that the alleged ‘husband and wife’ shooting team were masked while attacking the Inland Office complex, then none of the supposed 85 ‘survivors’ would be able to actually ID Malik as the one of the shooters on site. From a forensic perspective, this means that there is no case which can place the female suspect in the role of ‘shooter’ at the scene of the crime (or the husband either, for that matter). Add to this one other fundamental problem with the official narrative which narrators will have to repair in order to sell this story: the average height of a Pakistani woman is around 5’5″ and weighing roughly 125lbs and you another implausible FBI narrative which claims that this small petite Pakistani woman could manage to wear, carry and successfully deploy the following:
• A tactic vest
• Body armor (media have been flip-flopping on this point)
• Smith & Wesson M&P .223 Caliber Assault rifle
• Magazine re-loading clips
• Hand gun
• Spare pipe bomb, detonator
In short, the official story is fast approach the Vaudeville zone now and hence, they cannot release her photo without having to then lie about her height and weight, as well as make-up an additional back story that this ‘radicalized kitchen-bound Pakistani male-order bride was also lifting weights and was into top-level fitness and MMA training, and thus could handle a full combat package while running through the venue and hitting all of her targets (in short, a GI Jane Navy SEAL who could also cook a mean Vindaloo). This echoes the ridiculous official story of the alleged Sandy Hook gunman – the under weight, sleight-of-build teenager, Adam Lanza, who officials want us to believe had the skill and physical prowess of Chris Kyle. It’s beyond ridiculous.
Following this pattern of obfuscation by authorities, we can safely predict one of the two following scenarios next:
1. A single mugshot photo will eventually be produced. Authorities will make-up a colorful back story about Malik’s military and physical prowess, or claim she was on some wonder drug” which allowed her to overcome her earthly capabilities and carry out the Rambo-style raid on Wednesday.
2. An announcement will be coming soon which says that Malik was not one of the two shooters, and that authorities were somehow “mistaken”…
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Ex-Secret Service Officer Pens Book That Tells of President Clinton Sneaking Off to Be With Mistresses
This story may not come as much of a shocker.
A book by Gary J. Byrne, a former Secret Service officer in the uniform division, claims President Bill Clinton often snuck away from his wife at the White House to cozy up with “well-known and lesser-known mistresses,” and that a Secret Service officer in the motorcade was nearly killed in a crash during one secret escape, writes Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner.
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BY TERENCE CULLEN
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Police union files suit over release of body camera footage
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City officials say that between March 2015 and December 2015, Rogers argued with a superior officer, failed to appear at three preliminary hearings, fell asleep behind the wheel of his patrol car while on duty and inappropriately drew his weapon in the police station. According to court documents, the incident involving the weapon entailed Rogers drawing his sidearm while two other officers joked about him getting
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January 9, 2018
In Massachusetts, laws intended to protect domestic abuse victims’ privacy are being used to deny access to data about enforcement
Boston Police claim releasing response times to domestic violence cases would violate victim confidentiality
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FBI Had ‘Walk-In’ Whistleblower From Trump Campaign, Dossier Firm’s Founder Told Senate
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Tuesday, January 9, 2018
The Biggest Personality of the Year
On December 31, the first page of the Berlin newspaper “Tagesspiegel” (Daily Mirror) was covered with drawings of the political personalities of 2017. Most of them were German, but the biggest face in the middle of the page represented Donald Trump. Trump believes he ought to be the center of all attention. He was angry that he was not selected as TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year, and said so.
But he won’t be happy about his big picture: he had a duck bill, transformed into the cartoon buffoon Donald Duck, the only face that was so distorted. Inside, the review of the political year said that he twittered “nonsense” and has no scruples. In October, more than half of Germans surveyed said relations with the US were bad or very bad. The public thinks Trump is a bigger foreign policy problem than the dictators in North Korea and Russia.
No wonder, since Trump insulted the whole country, one of our closest allies in Europe. At a European Union summit in Brussels in May, he said, “The Germans are bad, very bad. Look at the millions of autos that they sell in the USA. Horrible. We’re gonna stop that.”
German auto makers don’t sell “millions” in the US, but they make hundreds of thousands of cars and employ thousands of workers here. The US can’t just “stop” importing German cars, it’s the whole European Union or nothing. German Chancellor Angela Merkel had already explained this to Trump 11 times during their meeting last March, but it had no effect.
Trump has rejected long-standing foreign policy agreements that are important to Germans, such as the Paris climate agreement and the nuclear deal with Iran. After meeting with Trump in May, Merkel felt the need to make the extraordinary statement that Europe must “really take our fate into our own hands. . . . The times in which we could rely fully on others, they are somewhat over. This is what I experienced in the last few days.” The German foreign minister said last month that “relations with the US will never be the same.”
Trump has also severely damaged the bond with our other most important ally, England. After he re-tweeted anti-Muslim videos from a far right British group, and then rebuked Prime Minister Theresa May, British leaders from all parties were outraged. Members of Parliament called him “stupid”, “racist” and “a fascist”. Parliament debated not allowing him to address them in a future visit, the second time that Parliament talked about whether to deny this American President a state visit. The Speaker of the House of Commons said that Trump would not be welcome to speak in Parliament. Half of Britons surveyed want Trump to be disinvited. The videos have nothing to do with immigration to Britain or the US.
Trump began damaging our relationship with Mexico at the start of his candidacy in 2015, by speaking in demeaning terms about all Mexicans in the US and demanding that Mexico pay for his gigantic Wall. Six days after Trump was inaugurated, Mexican President Peña Nieto canceled a trip to Washington, because of Trump’s insistence about the Wall. In a subsequent phone call, Trump threatened to impose tariffs on Mexican goods and demanded that Nieto stop saying that Mexico would not pay for the Wall: “if you are going to say that Mexico is not going to pay for the Wall, then I do not want to meet with you guys anymore, because I cannot live with that.”
Peña Nieto’s attempts to continue cordial relations with the US government sent his approval ratings down under 15%. A poll in July found that 88% of Mexicans viewed Trump unfavorably. With no evidence that Mexico will make any contribution toward the wall, Trump said again on Saturday that Mexico will pay for the Wall, but he asked Congress to appropriate $18 billion for it.
A new Mexican President will be elected in July, and Mexican officials have told Washington that Trump’s behavior might help whoever is the most anti-American candidate win. Duncan Wood, the director of the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute, part of the Smithsonian Institute, said, “Having worked in international relations for twenty years, I never thought we’d get to the point where one person could come along and blow everything up. But here we are.”
Trump is blowing up our relationships with all our most important foreign friends. He is not the biggest peacemaker, as we have long hoped our Presidents could be. He is not the biggest promoter of democracy, which we have long claimed is our national interest. He is not the best advertisement for America, not the face we wish to show the world. His work is a world-wide disaster.
He just gets the most attention, which he demands and will do anything to keep. Too bad he only succeeds at being the biggest personality, not the best President.
Steve Hochstadt
Jacksonville, IL
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ProPublica: DEA Operation Played Hidden Role in the Disappearance of Five Innocent Mexicans
The agency knew why the victims were kidnapped in 2010 by the Zetas drug cartel from a Holiday Inn in Mexico, but it did nothing to investigate or help. The victims’ friends and relatives now wonder why
By Ginger Thompson
ProPublica
At about 2 a.m. on April 21, 2010, a convoy of gunmen working for the Zetas drug cartel, one of the most violent drug trafficking organizations in the world, rolled into Monterrey, Mexico, a wealthy, bustling city considered that country’s commercial capital. With brazen efficiency, they set up roadblocks at all major thoroughfares, then sent a convoy of sport utility vehicles downtown, encircling a Holiday Inn.
The heavily armed men, some wearing ski masks, swarmed into the hotel’s lobby and rushed directly to the fifth floor, bursting into every room and rousting the guests from their beds. The gunmen questioned the guests, then separated four of them from the rest: a marketing executive at an eyewear company, a chemical engineer for a cosmetics manufacturer, a shoe salesman expecting his first child, and a college professor who was the mother of two.
Then the four were loaded, along with the hotel’s receptionist, into the gunmen’s vehicles and driven away. None of the hostages has been seen since. All are presumed dead.
For years, their relatives and friends begged for answers. Why were their loved ones — ordinary middle-class Mexicans with no known criminal ties—targeted in this spasm of drug violence? The marketing executive’s family futilely negotiated and paid a ransom before the Zetas cut off contact.
“We could never figure out why they were taken. What made them so important?” said David Anabitarte, the marketing executive’s supervisor and one of his best friends. “It was hard to accept what had happened because it never made any sense.”
Mexican authorities initially insinuated that the victims had brought on their own demise, adding insult to grief. The college professor, they alleged, may have been involved in a romantic relationship with one of the Zetas’ rivals. And they speculated that the marketing executive, who had managed to lift his family into the upper middle class, might have had some connection to the drug trade. Without any credible explanations for why the Zetas would move military-style through a major metropolitan city to kidnap random guests at a budget hotel, some of the people close to the victims began to believe that too.
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CINCINNATI — A Cincinnati police officer has pleaded guilty to a probation violation of drinking alcohol during firearms training at a gun range.
WXIX-TV reports the judge told 46-year-old Officer David Jenkins “you need to get a handle on it,” before sentencing him Monday to continue his probation, undergo an alcohol treatment program and wear an alcohol monitoring device.
Court records show Jenkins had a .053 blood alcohol level at the training Dec. 20. He was on probation at the time for a disorderly conduct conviction.
He pleaded guilty to the charge after his arrested in March for carrying an AR-15 rifle and acting as a police officer while off duty and drunk.
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SF police officer arrested on sex assault charges
Monday, January 8, 2018
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Oakland councilwoman hit with $550,000 in damages over restaurant fight with 74 year old black panther
By Bob Egelko Updated 7:09 pm, Monday, January 8, 2018
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January 9, 2018
Requester’s Voice: The Trace’s Brian Freskos on using public records to explore gun theft
How the team at The Trace and local NBC affiliates opened up over a thousand different police departments
Written by Michael Morisy
Edited by JPat Brown
Over the course of over a year, Brian Freskos, the team at The Trace, and more than a dozen local NBC affiliates explored the link between stolen guns and violent crime. What they found was astonishing: Between 2010 and 2016, police recovered more than 23,000 stolen firearms, the vast majority of which were connected to crimes, including more than 1,500 carjackings and kidnappings, armed robberies, sexual assaults, and murders. Using public records, they were able to tell the story behind these stolen guns with a level of detail that had never been done. Ultimately, the team got data from over a thousand different agencies.
In some cases, like California and Florida, they were able to get that data from centralized state databases, but in most states they had to file hundreds of requests with individual police departments to begin to piece together the larger story. And even in California and Florida, they had to go back to get more data on the recovered guns which involved even more requests.
After all that painstaking work, they then shared all the raw and cleaned up data. They also put together a guide for others to follow up on their work.
In this Requester’s Voice, Freskos shares details about how they undertook the investigation and how others can follow up locally.
Gun theft has been an issue people have reported on before, but never at this scale. Why did you think there was a bigger story there then what had already been told?
When I was first brought on at The Trace in June of 2016, my editor approached me with a couple of ideas for a big story. One was diving deep into the stolen gun issue and looking at how stolen guns move from place to place and get used in crimes. No one had ever really looked at that before, and so I started doing some research. I found that at NBC in California, a reporter named Stephen Stock had looked at this issue, and he had done a big story where they had tracked some stolen guns to crimes. So I called him and actually talked to him about some of what they were doing and some of the ways that they were trying to do it, but they were just focusing on California. I thought, why don’t we do this nationally and start filing requests for this data all over the country?
So that’s how the national story got started and also how the NBC partnership got started. Stephen Stock was one of the reporters who we partnered with, and the NBC folks in California did a really great job of doing their own story that was focused on how guns flow into and out of California.
How did that collaboration work?
Yeah, well, it’s started very informally. It was just me and Stephen talking. Then my editor, Ben Hallman, went to a conference and met with Stephen and Lynn Walsh, who was a producer for NBC in San Diego. That’s when it got formal, and they were like, “Look, we have NBC stations all over the country.” We had already collected a lot of data from a number of cities at that point, but it was a huge, huge haul. Most of my day for those first six months or so was spent answering emails and phone calls from records officers and fighting with them when they were unwilling to give us the data that we needed.
We brought a bunch of reporters onboard, and we sent out a template request that we had been using. Then they started filing requests in their coverage areas. A lot of them, I think they filed it with every police department and sheriff’s office. If not everyone, nearly every one.
Then we had a drop box, and we shared absolutely everything. We shared the data. We shared interviews. Some interviews we conducted together. Once we got all the data into one place, we started cleaning it, making it all uniform, so that reporters could start working on the story even though the data wasn’t completely finished yet. Every Friday, we sent out a master sheet that had all of the data that we were able to clean and make uniform up until that point.
We sent out the master sheet, and then we also sent out a sheet that had what we called “matches.” Those were stolen guns that were later connected to some sort of crime. So reporters could look at the data and start to spot crimes involving stolen guns in their areas and start to then request police reports, court documents, and doing some more reporting. The data was really a launching pad to find victims of gun theft, victims of crimes involving stolen guns, perpetrators in crimes involving stolen guns, so that we could really build this end up story that looks like the issues.
You got really eye-opening NCIC data that showed the scope of this problem. What kind of details were you able to get from those local requests that made this story have more of an impact or helped you understand the issue?
The requests were in two parts. The first part was for the serial number, make, model and other identifying information about the gun that was reported stolen, as well as some information about the case, such as the case number, the date it was reported, the offense that was involved. Whether it was a home burglary or an auto burglary. And then the second part requested pretty much the same information, but for all guns that were recovered or seized or somehow taken in by the law enforcement agency. So what we did is we married those two data sets. We put them all together and we were able to look then at connections using the serial number and other identifying information for the gun. We were able to connect stolen guns to guns that had been recovered by a law enforcement agency.
And then the second part was taking that information and then filing requests for police reports and for court documents so that we could begin to look at some of the details both of how the gun was stolen and then of how it was used in a crime. Based off of those police reports and court documents then we could identify witnesses, victims, perpetrators, and other people who we could interview to really shape the entire story.
We were able to focus on the cases that hadn’t gotten a lot of news. And most of the cases that we covered, the fact that the gun was stolen had never been reported before in the news, in the media. So we were really able to kind of hone in on this facet of where the gun came from, and I think that really spoke to a lot of people.
Image via The Trace
Why was it so important to have all of this information be so available? You share all the raw and cleaned up data in the story; what was the thinking behind that?
We wanted people to be able to see exactly where we got the information from. We felt that that really gave us the authority and credibility to talk about this issue. The second part of it was we wanted newsrooms around the country to be able to use this data to tell their own stories and to hopefully inspire others to collect data and collect police reports about these crimes. I do think that there are a lot of stories to tell in this space. You know, our data, a thousand law enforcement agencies, that only scratches the surface. There are a lot of cities and towns that we didn’t get. I think that is an opportunity for other reporters in their markets to leverage their relationships and their knowledge of their states’ public records laws to collect this data and these police reports, and to tell stories that have a huge impact in their own areas.
So to get to that point where you had that cleaned up data that you ended up sharing, can you talk a little bit about sort of like, what was that process? Was that kind of just going into Excel and kind of manually inputting stuff? What was that process like, of taking sort of the raw messy data and making it something that was more uniform and analyzable?
That was a huge, huge undertaking. When I was cleaning it I was focused mainly on the serial number portion and we had to go through that very carefully because serial numbers are the most important piece of identifying information on a firearm. And so I went through that cleaning out anything that wasn’t a serial number; like sometimes officers entered model numbers or patent numbers that appeared on the gun. They entered those as serial numbers. I also had to go through and clean out words; sometimes officers would put in “unknown,” or they would put in “missing,” or “defaced,” or “scratched off.” So I had to make sure all of that was removed.
Then when I handed it over to Daniel Nass, he went through and cleaned the entire “Make” column. That was very important because serial numbers can be duplicated across different makes. So for example, you can have a Glock with serial No. 12345 and a Smith & Wesson with serial No. 12345. So to be absolutely sure we had the same gun, we needed that “Make” column to be clean. And that was a huge undertaking for him because there are just a huge number of manufacturers. We know the big ones, like Smith & Wesson, Glock, Beretta. But there are a huge number of smaller manufacturers. So what we did is we used the FBI’s NCIC codebook; The FBI publishes a list. That’s for law enforcement so that they know how to input this data into their system and make it uniform so this data can be entered into NCIC. But we took that and we had to clean up all of their messes that they made, for lack of a better word, so we could be sure that we were looking at the same gun when we tried to match these records together.
I would say the data cleaning, you know we spent more than a year working on this. The data cleaning and the records request probably took up a majority of that.
In addition to the main piece, you put together an article on how to investigate this issue in local communities, emphasizing how to put gun violence in better context. What do you think newsrooms should be doing to tell better stories about the gun beat versus what many local newsrooms are doing today?
One thing that I often see missing from news stories about shootings is where the gun came from. I would like to see more stories that actually trace the gun back to its source. Like I said, a lot of the cases that we looked at, even if there had been news coverage about it, there is no mention that we can find of the gun being stolen. And I think that that’s an important piece of this, because it shows how these guns move from the legal to the illegal marketplace and then wind up being used in crimes.
The other thing that I think reporters should do is look at how laws may impact this. So there is some research out of Harvard and Northeastern Universities that showed that people who carried guns in public or stored them in their cars were many more times likely to have experienced a gun theft. And what we’ve seen in a number of states is lawmakers roll back laws around carrying guns in public and storing them in cars to actually to almost implicitly encourage that behavior, make it easier to do and that is contributing to the problem of stolen guns.
Have you seen much feedback from legislators from other people who can have an opportunity to change this?
We have received some feedback. I have been contacted by a Congress member and I have spoken to other lawmakers who are interested in introducing bills that may help prevent guns falling into the hands of thieves. I’m not at a position right now where I can name those individuals yet. But I think that there will be some action around this issue in the coming weeks and months.
Anything else you think people should take away from your piece
We hope that people use the data, and request more data in their areas. If we can be of any help, we’re here. I was contacted by a reporter in Kansas who has already started filing requests for some data in her communities and she was going to share that with us so that we can use the expertise that we garnered over the last year to help analyze it. So we’re always open to working on partnerships like that.
Read The Trace’s story on how gun theft is fueling violent crime, examine the raw data, and read their guide to following up locally. You can also see many of the requests that were used to report this story on Brian Freskos.
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FBI chief calls encryption a ‘major public safety issue’
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FBI–Apple encryption dispute
An iPhone 5C, the model used by one of the perpetrators of the 2015 San Bernardino attack
The FBI–Apple encryption dispute concerns whether and to what extent courts in the United States can compel manufacturers to assist in unlocking cell phones whose data are cryptographically protected.[1] There is much debate over public access to strong encryption.[2]
In 2015 and 2016, Apple Inc. has received and objected to or challenged at least 11 orders issued by United States district courts under the All Writs Act of 1789. Most of these seek to compel Apple "to use its existing capabilities to extract data like contacts, photos and calls from locked iPhones running on operating systems iOS 7 and older" in order to assist in criminal investigations and prosecutions. A few requests, however, involve phones with more extensive security protections, which Apple has no current ability to break. These orders would compel Apple to write new software that would let the government bypass these devices' security and unlock the phones.[3]
The most well-known instance of the latter category was a February 2016 court case in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The FBI wanted Apple to create and electronically sign new software that would enable the FBI to unlock a work-issued iPhone 5C it recovered from one of the shooters who, in a December 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, killed 14 people and injured 22. The two attackers later died in a shootout with police, having first destroyed their personal phones. The work phone was recovered intact but was locked with a four-digit password and was set to eliminate all its data after ten failed password attempts. Apple declined to create the software, and a hearing was scheduled for March 22. However, a day before the hearing was supposed to happen, the government obtained a delay, saying they had found a third party able to assist in unlocking the iPhone and, on March 28, it announced that the FBI had unlocked the iPhone and withdrew its request.
In another case in Brooklyn, a magistrate judge ruled that the All Writs Act could not be used to compel Apple to unlock an iPhone. The government appealed the ruling, but then dropped the case on April 22 after it was given the
Tim Cook, Chief Executive Officer of Apple Inc. Cook and former FBI Director Comey have both spoken publicly about the case.
In 1993, the National Security Agency (NSA) introduced the Clipper chip, an encryption device with an acknowledged backdoor for government access, that NSA proposed be used for phone encryption. The proposal touched off a public debate, known as the Crypto Wars, and the Clipper chip was never adopted.[4]
It was revealed as a part of the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures by Edward Snowden that the NSA and the British
Apple ordered to assist the FBI
The FBI recovered an Apple iPhone 5C - owned by the San Bernardino County, California government - that had been issued to its employee, Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the shooters involved in the December 2015 San Bernardino attack.[12] The attack killed 14 people and seriously injured 22. The two attackers died four hours after the attack in a shootout with police, having previously destroyed their personal phones. Although Farook's work phone was recovered intact[13], it had been locked with a four-digit password.[14]
On February 9, 2016, the FBI announced that it was unable to unlock the county-owned phone it recovered, due to its advanced security features, including encryption of user data.[15][16] The FBI first asked the National Security Agency to break into the phone, but they were unable to since they only had knowledge of breaking into other devices that are commonly used by criminals, and not iPhones.[17] As a result, the FBI asked Apple Inc. to create a new version of the phone's iOS operating system that could be installed and run in the phone's random access memory to disable certain security features that Apple refers to as "GovtOS". Apple declined due to its policy which required it to never undermine the security features of its products. The FBI responded by successfully applying to a United States magistrate judge, Sheri Pym, to issue a court order, mandating Apple to create and provide the requested software.[18] The order was not a subpoena, but rather was issued under the All Writs Act of 1789.[19][20] The court order, called In the Matter of the Search of an Apple iPhone Seized During the Execution of a Search Warrant on a Black Lexus IS300, California License Plate 35KGD203, was filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.[21][22][23]
The use of the All Writs Act to compel Apple to write new software was unprecedented and, according to legal experts, it was likely to prompt "an epic fight pitting privacy against national security."[24] It was also pointed out that the implications of the legal precedent that would be established by the success of this action against Apple would go far beyond issues of privacy.[25]
Technical details of the order Edit
The court order specified that Apple provide assistance to accomplish the following:
"it will bypass or disable the auto-erase function whether or not it has been enabled"[22] (this user-configurable feature of iOS 8 automatically deletes keys needed to read encrypted data after ten consecutive incorrect attempts[26])
"it will enable the FBI to submit passcodes to the SUBJECT DEVICE for testing electronically via the physical device port, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or other protocol available"[22]
"it will ensure that when the FBI submits passcodes to the SUBJECT DEVICE, software running on the device will not purposefully introduce any additional delay between passcode attempts beyond what is incurred by Apple hardware"[22]
The order also specifies that Apple's assistance may include providing software to the FBI that "will be coded by Apple with a unique identifier of the phone so that the [software] would only load and execute on the SUBJECT DEVICE"[22]
There has been much research and analysis of the technical issues presented in the case since the court order was made available to the public.[27]
Apple's opposition to the order Edit
The February 16, 2016 order issued by Magistrate Judge Pym gave Apple five days to apply for relief if Apple believed the order was "unreasonably burdensome". Apple announced its intent to oppose the order, citing the security risks that the creation of a backdoor would pose towards customers.[28] It also stated that no government had ever asked for similar access.[29] The company was given until February 26 to fully respond to the court order.[30][31]
On the same day the order was issued, chief executive officer Tim Cook released an online statement to Apple customers, explaining the company's motives for opposing the court order. He also stated that while they respect the FBI, the request they made threatens data security by establishing a precedent that the U.S. government could use to force any technology company to create software that could undermine the security of its products.[32] He said in part:
The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand. This moment calls for public discussion, and we want our customers and people around the country to understand what is at stake.[32]
In response to the opposition, on February 19, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a new application urging a federal judge to compel Apple to comply with the order.[33] The new application stated that the company could install the software on the phone in its own premises, and after the FBI had hacked the phone via remote connection, Apple could remove and destroy the software.[34] Apple hired attorneys Ted Olson and Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. to fight the order on appeal.[24]
The same day, Apple revealed that it had discussed with the FBI four methods to access data in the iPhone in early January, but, as was revealed by a footnote in the February 19 application to the court, one of the more promising methods was ruled out by a mistake during the investigation of the attack. After the shooter's phone had been recovered, the FBI asked San Bernardino County, the owner of the phone, to reset the password to the shooter's iCloud account in order to acquire data from the iCloud backup. However, this rendered the phone unable to back up recent data to iCloud unless its pass-code is entered.[35][36][37] This was confirmed by the U.S. Department of Justice, which then added that any backup would have been "insufficient" because they would not have been able to recover enough information from it.[38]
Legal arguments Edit
The government cites as precedent United States v. New York Telephone Co., in which the Supreme Court ruled in 1977 that the All Writs Act gave courts the power to demand reasonable technical assistance from the phone company in accessing phone calling records. Apple responded that New York Telephone was already collecting the data in question in the course of its business, something the Supreme Court took note of in its ruling. Apple also asserts that being compelled to write new software "amounts to compelled speech and viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment. ... What is to stop the government from demanding that Apple write code to turn on the microphone in aid of government surveillance, activate the video camera, surreptitiously record conversations, or turn on location services to track the phone's user?" Apple argued that the FBI had not made use of all of the government's tools, such as employing the resources of the NSA. A hearing on the case was scheduled for March 22, 2016.[39]
San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael Ramos filed a brief stating the iPhone may contain evidence of a "lying dormant cyber pathogen" that could have been introduced into the San Bernardino County computer network,[40][41][42] as well as identification of a possible third gunman who was alleged to have been seen at the scene of the attack by eyewitnesses.[43] The following day, Ramos told the Associated Press that he did not know whether the shooters had compromised the county's infrastructure, but the only way to know for sure was by gaining access to the iPhone.[44][45] This statement has been criticized by cyber-security professionals as being improbable.[45][46][47][48]
FBI withdrawal of request Edit
On March 21, the government requested and was granted a delay, saying a third party had demonstrated a possible way to unlock the iPhone in question and the FBI needed more time to determine if it will work.[49][50][51] On March 28, the FBI said it had unlocked the iPhone with the third party's help, and an anonymous official said that the hack's applications were limited; the Department of Justice withdrew the case.[52][53] The lawyer for the FBI has stated that they are using the extracted information to further investigate the case.[54]
On April 7, former FBI Director James Comey said that the tool used can only unlock an iPhone 5C like that used by the San Bernardino shooter, as well as older iPhone models lacking the Touch ID sensor. Comey also confirmed that the tool was purchased from a third party but would not reveal the source,[55] later indicating the tool cost more than $1.3 million and that they did not purchase the rights to technical details about how the tool functions.[56] Although the FBI was able to use other technological means to access the cellphone data from the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone 5C, without the aid of Apple, law enforcement still expresses concern over the encryption controversy.[57]
Some news outlets, citing anonymous sources, identified the third party as Israeli company Cellebrite. However, The Washington Post reported that, according to anonymous "people familiar with the matter", the FBI had instead paid "professional hackers" who used a zero-day vulnerability in the iPhone's software to bypass its ten-try limitation, and did not need Cellebrite's assistance.[58][59]
Other All Writs Act cases involving iPhones Edit
State-by-state usage of the All Writs Act by the federal government of the United States against Apple Inc. and Google.[60]
Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. and Google
Apple had previously challenged the U.S. Department of Justice's authority to compel it to unlock an iPhone 5S in a drug case in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn (In re Order Requiring Apple Inc. to Assist in the Execution of a Search Warrant Issued by the Court, case number 1:15-mc-01902[61]), after the magistrate judge in the case, James Orenstein, requested Apple's pos
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DEEP POLITICS
DECEMBER 19, 2015 | JAMES HENRY
SAN BERNARDINO: WHAT DID GOV KNOW ABOUT SHOOTERS?
Mass-Murdering Couple May Have Been Known to Law Enforcement Despite Denials
It’s starting to look like there are some eerie parallels between the San Bernardino shooting and the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
After the Boston bombing, authorities were quick to deny any previous knowledge of the men they identified as the bombers. Then, over time, the public learned that — oops — maybe law enforcement did know significantly more than they initially let on.
After the San Bernardino suspects died in a hail of bullets, federal and local law enforcement officials alike claimed to have had no previous interaction with or interest in Syed Farook or his wife, Tashfeen Malik, at any time before last week’s attack, which killed 14 and wounded 21 others.
Now that story may be changing.
James Comey, director of the FBI, faced questions from reporters soon after about possible “intelligence failures” concerning the Farooks.
“Folks have focused on reports,” Comey said at a media briefing in Washington, “that at least one of the killers was in contact with subjects of FBI investigations. I would urge you not to make too much of that. There were no contacts between either of the killers and subjects of our investigations that were of such significance that it raised them on to our radar screen.”
However, two different anonymous law enforcement officials told CNN that Farook was in the social circle of Sohiel Kabir, an individual who has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in recruiting others for a 2012 plot to attack US soldiers in Afghanistan.
Interestingly, that’s around the same time Farook was allegedly planning an earlier terrorist attack in California — an attack he decided not to go through with, according to his longtime friend, Enrique Marquez.
Law enforcement officials have identified Marquez as the man who purchased the two AR-15 assault rifles used in the San Bernardino shooting. Marquez claims to have had no prior knowledge of this latest attack.
Why the FBI didn’t look more closely at Farook, who was socializing with individuals under investigation for terrorist activity, is unclear.
Additionally, recorded radio conversations between responding police and the dispatcher immediately after the shooting suggest that Farook was known to law enforcement.
As reported in The Weekly Standard, upon hearing Farook’s name, at least some of the officers involved were under the impression that Farook had been investigated the week prior to the shooting.
According to information obtained by Inside Edition, police interest in Farook stemmed from the suspicion that he was casing a high-rise building in Los Angeles.
If local law enforcement did indeed suspect Farook of casing possible targets in downtown Los Angeles, it’s hard to believe information like that would not be passed on to the FBI.
We have seen this step-by-step walking back of institutional denials before. As noted above, the FBI initially denied knowing anything about the Boston Marathon bombers until Russian authorities revealed, soon after the bombing, that they had warned the FBI and the CIA about Tamerlan Tsarnaev two years earlier.
Then, in testimony to Congress, former director Robert Mueller revealed that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had in fact been known to the FBI from two different investigations conducted before Russia brought him to the Bureau’s attention.
So, is the FBI’s assertion that it knew nothing about Farook before the San Bernardino shooting just a case of reflexive institutional self-protection?
Or is this another attempt to keep from the public the likelihood that, in the tangled web of the FBI’s counterterrorism effort — the tens of thousands of paid informants, provocateurs, agents, and possibly even double agents — things sometimes go terribly, tragically wrong?
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NSA SURVEILLANCE BILL WOULD LEGALIZE LOOPHOLE THAT LETS FBI SPY ON AMERICANS WITHOUT A WARRANT
Alex Emmons
January 9 2018, 11:59 a.m.
WITH MAJOR NSA surveillance authorities set to expire later this month, House Republicans are rushing to pass a bill that would not only reauthorize existing powers, but also codify into law some practices that critics have called unconstitutional.
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San Bernardino: Evidence of Drill, Staging, Possible FBI Informant
DECEMBER 2, 2015
Another Daily Shooter event has taken place in San Bernardino, California. As we go to press, police marksmen appear to have shot-up a black SUV, with one suspect killed, one severely wounded [later pronounced dead] and another escaping on foot according to NBC News live coverage. It’s still unconfirmed whether the SUV passengers are actually the same men who were the original ‘active shooters’ at the original crime scene.
Earlier this afternoon at approximately 12pm PT, we’re that 14 people were reported to have been killed and another 17 have been hospitalized with various injuries, after the 3 shooters are said to have opened fire with ‘long guns’ inside a conference venue, in the Inland Regional Center, a government-run disabled services office complex, located in San Bernardino. Police gave chase to suspects and claim that 3 assailants were masked (therefore could not be ID’d at the scene), heavily armed and possibly wearing body armor.
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MADE FOR TV: The later shoot-out was perfectly positioned for a Television News chopper to capture the drama unimpeded for national audiences, putting all the latest police military gear on display. Many hours after the initial event, Paramilitary Police units in armored MRAPs apparently shoot-up a black SUV, but it’s not known whether or not this was driven by one the original suspects, raising the possibility about whether the police have ‘accidentally’ shot-up the wrong vehicle. Despite the incredible media vantage point here, still no actual footage exists of the alleged deadly shoot-out other than a few photos seen afterwards, nor is there any footage of police removing the suspects dead bodies from the black SUV onto medical gurnies (Image credit: NBC News)
‘Ready to Roll’: Another Drill Gone Live?
The speed at which so many paramilitary, police and EMS assets were mobilized today was unprecedented.
Police announced that they had an armed response on site in only 4 minutes from their first emergency call, and managed to triage and then transport the first victims to medical facilities in only 15 minutes. Incredible.
This was one of the most impressive mobilizations of multiple local, state, county and federal law enforcement agencies. Within 90 minutes of the alleged ‘active shooter’ situation at Inland Regional, at least 12 different agencies were mobilized, including over 500 armed agents, at least 300 vehicles, over 1000 personnel, 5 SWAT teams, 3 helicopters, 3 mobile command centers, 10 armored MRAP vehicles, bomb squads with “tactical robots” being dispatched.
Incredibly, we quickly learned that the same location where this ‘mass shooting’ has taken place, the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino – also stages “Active Shooter” Drills that feature armed response teams… every month. This little known fact surfaced in an LA Times report which interviewed Dorothy Vong, one of the nurses on duty:
“Drill started,” Dorothy Vong texted her husband, Mark. It was about 11 a.m. Wednesday.
“The Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, where Dorothy is a nurse, conducts active-shooter drills every month or so. Vong assumed that’s why she could see heavily armed law enforcement officers sprinting toward the building. She walked to a window and made a cellphone video of the scene. She sent it to her husband. On the video, a voice can be heard saying: “They’re all geared up! Rifles and everything!” In the background, there is laughter.”
“Then reality intruded. Vong texted her husband again: “Well, it’s real.” And a few minutes later: “We’re in a locked office.”
This is clear evidence that Wednesday’s event was in fact, another “drill gone live”.
Incredibly, yet ANOTHER ‘active shooter’ drill was taking place nearby at the same time as the alleged mass shooting. KTLA 5 confirms this incredible coincidence:
“A call of multiple shots fired first came in at 10:59 a.m. from the area of 1365 S. Waterman Ave. The Police Department’s SWAT team was training nearby and was suited, “ready to roll” and responded rapidly, Lt. Richard Lawhead said.”
In addition, here is even more evidence of another ‘Active Shooter’ drill taking place nearby at the Victor Valley College Library on Monday of this week, only 48 hrs before the San Bernardino event. Watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_kMqCJNEgo
What happened to the CCTV footage of the shooters as they traveled into the parking lot, got out, and moved towards and throughout the building site? If past ‘Active Shooter’ drills are anything to go by, then it’s unlikely the public will be allowed to see any of this footage, unless it’s been heavily edited and supplied to the mainstream media.
See some of images of the many hundreds of police and EMS personnel assembled at the scene on Wednesday here:
Hard to Believe
We’re also old that many hours after the mass shooting incident, police miraculously track-down suspects in a black SUV only 1.5 miles from the original crime scene? Hard to believe, isn’t it?
The entire police case including its ability to pursue the black SUV with the alleged shooting suspects rests completely on a ‘police tip’ from one witness, a man named Glenn Willwerth, who we’re told owns a printing business, J&S Paper Southern, listed at 435 E Parkcenter Circle, San Bernardino, CA 92408 (oddly, this business has no website, only a Facebook page created on Sept 17, 2015), situated across the street from the Inland Regional Center. Willwerth said he saw the alleged shooters fleeing the initial scene in black SUV, which police claim to have then followed back to the suspects’ residence before, incredibly, the suspects then headed back to the original scene of the crime many hours later.
Even as the suspects were being pursued, President Barack Obama took to CBS News in order to lay out his case for gun control in America. Normally the present wait until after the event has settled before inserting himself in the conversation, but today he broke that tradition – even though none of the facts were in at that time. It’s as if the President already knew what the final narrative would be.
As far as social fall-out and manipulation is concerned, this event successfully covers both sides of the American political paradigm. Thanks to this event and the media’s calculated coverage of it, left-wing social media users are calling for “Gun Control” (led by President Obama), while right-wing crowd is calling for, “More ‘boots on the ground’ in Syria, and Iraq”.
If you understand social engineering, then it shouldn’t be that difficult to see what trend has been set into motion here.
UPDATE:
There is also an unconfirmed report which originated from a not-so-credible source, the right-wing political website and sometimes disinformation outlet Breitbart.com, who claimed to have an “unconfirmed police scanner report” (it’s either a real one or a fake, the fact that Breitbart cannot tell us the difference indicates a possible decoy here). Here’s the claim:
An ‘unconfirmed’ report published by Brietbart may dispute this claim. According to Breitbart, a description captured on a San Bernardino police scanner says that the shooters responsible for the massacre that left upwards of 14 people dead may have been one or more middle eastern men:
1:20PM Unconfirmed police scanner reports indicate: “Man in military fatigues currently at Roberts Elementary school.” The scanner also reports a “Middle Eastern male” with “long beard, tactical shorts and a backpack.” Again, the reports are unconfirmed.
If true, this report would indicate that a DRILL was running simultaneously with the public-facing, media-managed ‘active shooter’ story.
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‘WHAT WE KNOW’: Not much. The media have been pushing to narrative of Syed Farook, but have been hiding the identity of his alleged ‘wife’ Tafsheen Mailk – who’s photo is always blacked out. Why?
UPDATE: MOTIVE IS ‘ISIS-INSPIRED’
This far, authorities have been intentionally hiding any photographic evidence that would identify the alleged female shooter, Tashfeen Malik. It’s likely that this is because Malik was not actually involved in the shooting as the authorities are currently claiming. Based on this pattern of evasion, it’s very possible that investigators will later turn around and claim that she wasn’t actually one of the shooters.
In order to establish a much-needed motive, authorities and the media claims now have ‘evidence’ that Wednesday’s attack was “ISIS-inspired”. In a rush to establish sure-up Wednesday’s staged event, the media are presenting a questionable piece of virtual ‘evidence’, which appears to be as bizarre as it is laughable:
“We have evidence that while the attack was underway, the female shooter (Tashfeen Malik) is believed to have posted her allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – but not on her own Facebook account, rather on another different named account believed to be linked to her Facebook account. Malik then deleted the post, but the FBI managed to recover it (but cannot tell the public how they did it).”
This ridiculously contrived social media story was followed by one of the worst staged media events we’ve seen yet. At approximately 11am PT, CNN’s reporter Victor Blackwell joined a large group of at least 150 persons, including 30-40 unidentified people filming on their cell phones which CNN claimed were “members of the victims’ families”, as well as at least 75-100 media personnel and cameramen, all of whom followed behind the property’s landlord, Doyel Miller, who appears to have given an unsupervised, guided tour to the media and unidentified members of the public.
White House-linked TV network, MSNBC, turned in one of the worst media reports in this debacle, as reporter Kerry Sanders show just how a “press gang” can ransack the family home of the suspects:
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See the full story of the media ransacking on the suspects’ home here.
Superwoman: Tafsheen Malik
Once again, based on the FBI’s continued hiding of her identity, we can almost conclude that their alleged female shooter suspect, Tafsheen Malik, was not actually involved in the staged shooting event at Inland Regional Center on Wednesday, and based on the police’s own reports that the alleged ‘husband and wife’ shooting team were masked while attacking the Inland Office complex, then none of the supposed 85 ‘survivors’ would be able to actually ID Malik as the one of the shooters on site. From a forensic perspective, this means that there is no case which can place the female suspect in the role of ‘shooter’ at the scene of the crime (or the husband either, for that matter). Add to this one other fundamental problem with the official narrative which narrators will have to repair in order to sell this story: the average height of a Pakistani woman is around 5’5″ and weighing roughly 125lbs and you another implausible FBI narrative which claims that this small petite Pakistani woman could manage to wear, carry and successfully deploy the following:
• A tactic vest
• Body armor (media have been flip-flopping on this point)
• Smith & Wesson M&P .223 Caliber Assault rifle
• Magazine re-loading clips
• Hand gun
• Spare pipe bomb, detonator
In short, the official story is fast approach the Vaudeville zone now and hence, they cannot release her photo without having to then lie about her height and weight, as well as make-up an additional back story that this ‘radicalized kitchen-bound Pakistani male-order bride was also lifting weights and was into top-level fitness and MMA training, and thus could handle a full combat package while running through the venue and hitting all of her targets (in short, a GI Jane Navy SEAL who could also cook a mean Vindaloo). This echoes the ridiculous official story of the alleged Sandy Hook gunman – the under weight, sleight-of-build teenager, Adam Lanza, who officials want us to believe had the skill and physical prowess of Chris Kyle. It’s beyond ridiculous.
Following this pattern of obfuscation by authorities, we can safely predict one of the two following scenarios next:
1. A single mugshot photo will eventually be produced. Authorities will make-up a colorful back story about Malik’s military and physical prowess, or claim she was on some wonder drug” which allowed her to overcome her earthly capabilities and carry out the Rambo-style raid on Wednesday.
2. An announcement will be coming soon which says that Malik was not one of the two shooters, and that authorities were somehow “mistaken”…
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/book- ... le/2645002
Ex-Secret Service Officer Pens Book That Tells of President Clinton Sneaking Off to Be With Mistresses
This story may not come as much of a shocker.
A book by Gary J. Byrne, a former Secret Service officer in the uniform division, claims President Bill Clinton often snuck away from his wife at the White House to cozy up with “well-known and lesser-known mistresses,” and that a Secret Service officer in the motorcade was nearly killed in a crash during one secret escape, writes Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.3746267
CIA arranged for B-movie actress to rendezvous with Jordan’s King Hussein during 1959 visit
BY TERENCE CULLEN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Tuesday, January 9, 2018, 10:49 AM
https://apnews.com/b097372f125d4ebd817e ... ra-footage
Police union files suit over release of body camera footage
http://citizensvoice.com/news/former-w- ... -1.2288341
City officials say that between March 2015 and December 2015, Rogers argued with a superior officer, failed to appear at three preliminary hearings, fell asleep behind the wheel of his patrol car while on duty and inappropriately drew his weapon in the police station. According to court documents, the incident involving the weapon entailed Rogers drawing his sidearm while two other officers joked about him getting
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... mass-data/
January 9, 2018
In Massachusetts, laws intended to protect domestic abuse victims’ privacy are being used to deny access to data about enforcement
Boston Police claim releasing response times to domestic violence cases would violate victim confidentiality
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fusion-gp ... ssia-trump
FBI Had ‘Walk-In’ Whistleblower From Trump Campaign, Dossier Firm’s Founder Told Senate
http://stevehochstadt.blogspot.com/2018 ... -year.html
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
The Biggest Personality of the Year
On December 31, the first page of the Berlin newspaper “Tagesspiegel” (Daily Mirror) was covered with drawings of the political personalities of 2017. Most of them were German, but the biggest face in the middle of the page represented Donald Trump. Trump believes he ought to be the center of all attention. He was angry that he was not selected as TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year, and said so.
But he won’t be happy about his big picture: he had a duck bill, transformed into the cartoon buffoon Donald Duck, the only face that was so distorted. Inside, the review of the political year said that he twittered “nonsense” and has no scruples. In October, more than half of Germans surveyed said relations with the US were bad or very bad. The public thinks Trump is a bigger foreign policy problem than the dictators in North Korea and Russia.
No wonder, since Trump insulted the whole country, one of our closest allies in Europe. At a European Union summit in Brussels in May, he said, “The Germans are bad, very bad. Look at the millions of autos that they sell in the USA. Horrible. We’re gonna stop that.”
German auto makers don’t sell “millions” in the US, but they make hundreds of thousands of cars and employ thousands of workers here. The US can’t just “stop” importing German cars, it’s the whole European Union or nothing. German Chancellor Angela Merkel had already explained this to Trump 11 times during their meeting last March, but it had no effect.
Trump has rejected long-standing foreign policy agreements that are important to Germans, such as the Paris climate agreement and the nuclear deal with Iran. After meeting with Trump in May, Merkel felt the need to make the extraordinary statement that Europe must “really take our fate into our own hands. . . . The times in which we could rely fully on others, they are somewhat over. This is what I experienced in the last few days.” The German foreign minister said last month that “relations with the US will never be the same.”
Trump has also severely damaged the bond with our other most important ally, England. After he re-tweeted anti-Muslim videos from a far right British group, and then rebuked Prime Minister Theresa May, British leaders from all parties were outraged. Members of Parliament called him “stupid”, “racist” and “a fascist”. Parliament debated not allowing him to address them in a future visit, the second time that Parliament talked about whether to deny this American President a state visit. The Speaker of the House of Commons said that Trump would not be welcome to speak in Parliament. Half of Britons surveyed want Trump to be disinvited. The videos have nothing to do with immigration to Britain or the US.
Trump began damaging our relationship with Mexico at the start of his candidacy in 2015, by speaking in demeaning terms about all Mexicans in the US and demanding that Mexico pay for his gigantic Wall. Six days after Trump was inaugurated, Mexican President Peña Nieto canceled a trip to Washington, because of Trump’s insistence about the Wall. In a subsequent phone call, Trump threatened to impose tariffs on Mexican goods and demanded that Nieto stop saying that Mexico would not pay for the Wall: “if you are going to say that Mexico is not going to pay for the Wall, then I do not want to meet with you guys anymore, because I cannot live with that.”
Peña Nieto’s attempts to continue cordial relations with the US government sent his approval ratings down under 15%. A poll in July found that 88% of Mexicans viewed Trump unfavorably. With no evidence that Mexico will make any contribution toward the wall, Trump said again on Saturday that Mexico will pay for the Wall, but he asked Congress to appropriate $18 billion for it.
A new Mexican President will be elected in July, and Mexican officials have told Washington that Trump’s behavior might help whoever is the most anti-American candidate win. Duncan Wood, the director of the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute, part of the Smithsonian Institute, said, “Having worked in international relations for twenty years, I never thought we’d get to the point where one person could come along and blow everything up. But here we are.”
Trump is blowing up our relationships with all our most important foreign friends. He is not the biggest peacemaker, as we have long hoped our Presidents could be. He is not the biggest promoter of democracy, which we have long claimed is our national interest. He is not the best advertisement for America, not the face we wish to show the world. His work is a world-wide disaster.
He just gets the most attention, which he demands and will do anything to keep. Too bad he only succeeds at being the biggest personality, not the best President.
Steve Hochstadt
Jacksonville, IL
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Re: When will FBI agents create their next Terrorist Event.
How much evidence do you need that FBI agents were behind the Garland Texas shootings?
Really?
https://luxoraleader.com/fbi-doj-argue- ... se/441052/
FBI, DOJ Argue for Dismissal of Garland, Texas Liability Case
January 15, 2018 Staff Writer
The FBI and the Department of Justice are arguing that a liability case against the agencies should be dismissed,
The liability case involves security guard Bruce Joiner, who was shot in the leg in a 2015 terrorist attack in Garland, Texas. In that attack, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi drove to Garland's Curtis Culwell Center in a car that was loaded with six guns and more than a thousand ammunition rounds, The Free Beacon reported.
The men opened fire at a perimeter checkpoint. Joiner was injured and Simpson and Soofi were killed. Joiner's suit said the FBI is partially responsible for his injuries, saying the FBI "solicited, encouraged, directed and aided" ISIS in the attack, the Free Beacon's report said.
Court filings in the case show that an undercover FBI agent "dressed in Middle Eastern attire" was in a car behind the shooters when they opened fire, The Free Beacon noted.
MLK Day
“the FBI agents spit on MLK’s body when he was brought to the
hospital after being shot.
He was still alive. But that didn’t matter.
The FBI agents proceeded to smother him to death with a hospital pillow.”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-plot- ... er/5544005
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Earning the Badge: FBI specialist teaches bomb basics
When several thousand pounds of fertilizers was stolen from the Southern States store in downtown Frederick in March 2009, FBI Special Agent Tim Petrousky was on the case.
“The third [fertilizer] was urea-based, and I was like, ‘Oh, well, they could make urea nitrate from that,’” Petrousky said as he taught the Frederick Police Department’s 59th academy class an explosives identification course on Monday at the Charles V. Main Training Facility in Frederick.
To demonstrate the destructive capability of fertilizer bombs, Petrousky showed the recruits a photo of the aftermath of the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, which was achieved using a similar mixture of fertilizer and nitromethane.
Nichols says bombing was FBI op
Detailed confession filed in S.L. about FBI complicity in OKC bombing
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/660 ... BI-op.html
The only surviving convicted criminal in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is saying his co-conspirator, Timothy McVeigh, told him he was taking orders from a top FBI official in orchestrating the bombing.
A declaration from Terry Lynn Nichols, filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, has proven to be one of the most detailed confessions by Nichols to date about his involvement in the bombing as well as the involvement of others. However, one congressman who has investigated the bombings remains skeptical of Nichols' claims.
The declaration was filed as part of Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue's pending wrongful death suit against the government for the death of his brother in a federal corrections facility in Oklahoma City. Trentadue claims his brother was killed during an interrogation by FBI agents when agents mistook his brother for a suspect in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation.
The most shocking allegation in the 19-page signed declaration is Nichols' assertion that the whole bombing plot was an FBI operation and that McVeigh let slip during a bout of anger that he was taking instruction from former FBI official Larry Potts.
Potts was no stranger to anti-government confront
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... -evidence/
Did the FBI Bury Oklahoma City Bombing Evidence?
One lawyer’s relentless quest for information reveals fresh hints of a coverup.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 75959.html
Does one man on death row hold the secret of Oklahoma City Bombing ?
One of the most notorious criminals in the US, David Hammer was imprisoned alongside Timothy McVeigh. As he faces execution, his memoirs will only fuel the whispers of conspiracy around the 1995 bombing. Andrew Gumbel reports
http://www.providencejournal.com/opinio ... -americans
Editorial: Too much spying on Americans
http://www.jdnews.com/news/20180112/are ... d-on-leave
Area police chief placed on leave
http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/ne ... -1.3757646
Rising Great Lakes water levels keep Michigan companies busy
https://apnews.com/e10a7e887c674c658fc6 ... -overdoses
K-9 officers change tactics to keep dogs from overdoses
OWENSBORO, Ky. Daviess County Sheriff’s Deputy Russ Day won’t put his K-9, Cyla, inside vehicles anymore to do drug searches. Because of powerful opioids like fentanyl and carfentanil, the practice has become too risky, Day said.
“The initial cost (of a police dog) is $18,000 to $20,000. You have some big bucks wrapped up in these dogs real quick,” Day said. “I don’t put my dog inside a car anymore because of that reason.”
https://apnews.com/4946268499a94f549ea4 ... Live-PD%27
Image problem? Some cities end their role in A&E’s ‘Live PD’
HARTFORD, Conn. For some of the law enforcement agencies that agreed to be on A&E Network’s real-time police show “Live PD,” the goal of being more transparent with their profession under increasing scrutiny clashed with concerns over public image.
Police departments in Bridgeport, Connecticut; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Streetsboro, Ohio, decided not to renew their contracts to be on the program since it premiered in October 2016 as some local government leaders concluded the national spotlight on criminal activity overshadowed the positive things happening in their hometowns.
Another department, the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office in South Carolina, ended its run on the show in August, saying deputies needed a break from the cameras.
The show, which airs Friday and Saturday nights, has live camera crews following officers in several police departments as they patrol. There is a delay of five to 20 minutes to prevent the airing of disturbing content or the release of information that could compromise investigations, the show’s producers say.
“As the debate over the policing of America continues to be a part of the daily conversation across the nation, Live PD viewers get unfettered and unfiltered live access inside a variety of the country’s busiest police forces, both urban and rural, and the communities they patrol on a typical night,” the show’s website says.
In Bridgeport, officials were pleased the program showed the hard work and bravery of city police officers, but complaints started rolling in from businesses, the University of Bridgeport and others interested in attracting people and investments to Connecticut’s largest city, said Av Harris, a spokesman for Mayor Joe Ganim.
“If that’s the only thing that’s being publicized nationally about our city, it can have a negative impact,” he said. “We don’t have the Travel Channel doing anything on how wonderful all our economic development projects are.”
Bridgeport, a city with pockets of deep poverty that saw homicides double to 23 last year, left the show in December 2016, less than two months after the series began.
During the city’s short run on the program, a police sergeant was arrested on a domestic violence charge, which was later dismissed, shortly after she appeared on an episode warning viewers about the dangers of domestic violence. Two people shown on the show later filed lawsuits accusing police of brutality.
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ss ... ootin.html
Fatal Cleveland police shooting bolsters arguments that moonlighting officers should wear body cams
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland police have not said whether a moonlighting sergeant who shot and killed a man during a scuffle in University Circle Saturday night was wearing a body camera.
One thing is clear, though: the shooting highlights exactly why body-camera proponents say officers should wear them on either on- or off-duty shifts, and why more police departments across the country are requiring moonlighting officers to wear the cameras.
The shooting happened at the Corner Alley bowling alley on Euclid Avenue and Ford Drive about 11 p.m. Saturday. A fight broke out inside the bar, and employees kicked out the participants, authorities said.
Sgt. Dean Graziolli, who was moonlighting at the business, escorted them outside, but a 21-year-old man returned and attacked the sergeant outside the bowling alley, just a few steps from the front door, police said. Graziolli fired shots, killing the man, whose identity officials have not released.
Cleveland police spokeswoman Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia did not return an email Monday inquiring whether Graziolli was wearing a body camera. However, departmental policies did not require he be wearing one.
The shooting will almost certainly be brought up by a team monitoring the city's progress under a consent decree with the Justice Department as evidence that officers should wear the cameras while moonlighting.
The monitoring team pushed for such a requirement within the past year, especially as the city has pointed to a decrease in citizen complaints against officers in the years since it required officers to wear them while on duty.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/st ... 4189665f61
01/14/2018 09:08 am ET
LAPD Launches Sexual Assault Investigation Against Steven Seagal
The 65-year-old actor has been accused by more than a dozen women of sexual misconduct.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tr ... nald-trump
POLITICS 01/13/2018 11:33 pm ET
Projector Lights Up Trump’s D.C. Hotel With ‘Shithole’ And Poop Emojis
The Trump International Hotel’s new makeover was inspired by Donald Trump’s recent immigration meeting.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/ ... fuels-2020
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Monday, January 15, 2018
byCommon Dreams
With Rapidly Falling Prices, Renewablesy Set to Outcompete Fossil Fuels by 2020
"These cost declines across technologies are unprecendented and representative of the degree to which renewable energy is disrupting the global energy system."
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018 ... le-country
Monday, January 15, 2018
You Don’t Need a Telescope to Find a ‘Shithole Country’
This shithole country, which saw the world in black and white, communist and capitalist, was determined to thwart the aspirations of the poor and the landless in El Salvador.
byChris Hedges
Link du jour
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... hdown.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... se-dispute
https://climatenewsnetwork.net/humidity ... -heatwave/
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/ ... er-surgery
https://climatenewsnetwork.net/district ... sil-fuels/
District heating warms cities without fossil fuels
January 15, 2018, by Paul Brown
FBI Octopus
http://wlrn.org/post/jewish-federation- ... rity-chief
Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Hires New Security Chief
By PETER HADEN •
Former FBI special agent and executive Rusty Willis is the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County’s first Director of Community Security. Dec. 18, 2017
Really?
https://luxoraleader.com/fbi-doj-argue- ... se/441052/
FBI, DOJ Argue for Dismissal of Garland, Texas Liability Case
January 15, 2018 Staff Writer
The FBI and the Department of Justice are arguing that a liability case against the agencies should be dismissed,
The liability case involves security guard Bruce Joiner, who was shot in the leg in a 2015 terrorist attack in Garland, Texas. In that attack, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi drove to Garland's Curtis Culwell Center in a car that was loaded with six guns and more than a thousand ammunition rounds, The Free Beacon reported.
The men opened fire at a perimeter checkpoint. Joiner was injured and Simpson and Soofi were killed. Joiner's suit said the FBI is partially responsible for his injuries, saying the FBI "solicited, encouraged, directed and aided" ISIS in the attack, the Free Beacon's report said.
Court filings in the case show that an undercover FBI agent "dressed in Middle Eastern attire" was in a car behind the shooters when they opened fire, The Free Beacon noted.
MLK Day
“the FBI agents spit on MLK’s body when he was brought to the
hospital after being shot.
He was still alive. But that didn’t matter.
The FBI agents proceeded to smother him to death with a hospital pillow.”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-plot- ... er/5544005
The Plot to Kill Martin Luther King: Survived Shooting, Was Murdered in Hospital | Global Research - Centre for Research on ...
Global Research › ca › the-plot-to-kill-m...
from www.globalresearch.ca
Dec 26, 2017 · Thanks to the nearly four-decade investigation by human rights lawyer William Pepper, it is now clear once and f
https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/ ... 183d4.html
Earning the Badge: FBI specialist teaches bomb basics
When several thousand pounds of fertilizers was stolen from the Southern States store in downtown Frederick in March 2009, FBI Special Agent Tim Petrousky was on the case.
“The third [fertilizer] was urea-based, and I was like, ‘Oh, well, they could make urea nitrate from that,’” Petrousky said as he taught the Frederick Police Department’s 59th academy class an explosives identification course on Monday at the Charles V. Main Training Facility in Frederick.
To demonstrate the destructive capability of fertilizer bombs, Petrousky showed the recruits a photo of the aftermath of the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, which was achieved using a similar mixture of fertilizer and nitromethane.
Nichols says bombing was FBI op
Detailed confession filed in S.L. about FBI complicity in OKC bombing
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/660 ... BI-op.html
The only surviving convicted criminal in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is saying his co-conspirator, Timothy McVeigh, told him he was taking orders from a top FBI official in orchestrating the bombing.
A declaration from Terry Lynn Nichols, filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, has proven to be one of the most detailed confessions by Nichols to date about his involvement in the bombing as well as the involvement of others. However, one congressman who has investigated the bombings remains skeptical of Nichols' claims.
The declaration was filed as part of Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue's pending wrongful death suit against the government for the death of his brother in a federal corrections facility in Oklahoma City. Trentadue claims his brother was killed during an interrogation by FBI agents when agents mistook his brother for a suspect in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation.
The most shocking allegation in the 19-page signed declaration is Nichols' assertion that the whole bombing plot was an FBI operation and that McVeigh let slip during a bout of anger that he was taking instruction from former FBI official Larry Potts.
Potts was no stranger to anti-government confront
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... -evidence/
Did the FBI Bury Oklahoma City Bombing Evidence?
One lawyer’s relentless quest for information reveals fresh hints of a coverup.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 75959.html
Does one man on death row hold the secret of Oklahoma City Bombing ?
One of the most notorious criminals in the US, David Hammer was imprisoned alongside Timothy McVeigh. As he faces execution, his memoirs will only fuel the whispers of conspiracy around the 1995 bombing. Andrew Gumbel reports
http://www.providencejournal.com/opinio ... -americans
Editorial: Too much spying on Americans
http://www.jdnews.com/news/20180112/are ... d-on-leave
Area police chief placed on leave
http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/ne ... -1.3757646
Rising Great Lakes water levels keep Michigan companies busy
https://apnews.com/e10a7e887c674c658fc6 ... -overdoses
K-9 officers change tactics to keep dogs from overdoses
OWENSBORO, Ky. Daviess County Sheriff’s Deputy Russ Day won’t put his K-9, Cyla, inside vehicles anymore to do drug searches. Because of powerful opioids like fentanyl and carfentanil, the practice has become too risky, Day said.
“The initial cost (of a police dog) is $18,000 to $20,000. You have some big bucks wrapped up in these dogs real quick,” Day said. “I don’t put my dog inside a car anymore because of that reason.”
https://apnews.com/4946268499a94f549ea4 ... Live-PD%27
Image problem? Some cities end their role in A&E’s ‘Live PD’
HARTFORD, Conn. For some of the law enforcement agencies that agreed to be on A&E Network’s real-time police show “Live PD,” the goal of being more transparent with their profession under increasing scrutiny clashed with concerns over public image.
Police departments in Bridgeport, Connecticut; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Streetsboro, Ohio, decided not to renew their contracts to be on the program since it premiered in October 2016 as some local government leaders concluded the national spotlight on criminal activity overshadowed the positive things happening in their hometowns.
Another department, the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office in South Carolina, ended its run on the show in August, saying deputies needed a break from the cameras.
The show, which airs Friday and Saturday nights, has live camera crews following officers in several police departments as they patrol. There is a delay of five to 20 minutes to prevent the airing of disturbing content or the release of information that could compromise investigations, the show’s producers say.
“As the debate over the policing of America continues to be a part of the daily conversation across the nation, Live PD viewers get unfettered and unfiltered live access inside a variety of the country’s busiest police forces, both urban and rural, and the communities they patrol on a typical night,” the show’s website says.
In Bridgeport, officials were pleased the program showed the hard work and bravery of city police officers, but complaints started rolling in from businesses, the University of Bridgeport and others interested in attracting people and investments to Connecticut’s largest city, said Av Harris, a spokesman for Mayor Joe Ganim.
“If that’s the only thing that’s being publicized nationally about our city, it can have a negative impact,” he said. “We don’t have the Travel Channel doing anything on how wonderful all our economic development projects are.”
Bridgeport, a city with pockets of deep poverty that saw homicides double to 23 last year, left the show in December 2016, less than two months after the series began.
During the city’s short run on the program, a police sergeant was arrested on a domestic violence charge, which was later dismissed, shortly after she appeared on an episode warning viewers about the dangers of domestic violence. Two people shown on the show later filed lawsuits accusing police of brutality.
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ss ... ootin.html
Fatal Cleveland police shooting bolsters arguments that moonlighting officers should wear body cams
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland police have not said whether a moonlighting sergeant who shot and killed a man during a scuffle in University Circle Saturday night was wearing a body camera.
One thing is clear, though: the shooting highlights exactly why body-camera proponents say officers should wear them on either on- or off-duty shifts, and why more police departments across the country are requiring moonlighting officers to wear the cameras.
The shooting happened at the Corner Alley bowling alley on Euclid Avenue and Ford Drive about 11 p.m. Saturday. A fight broke out inside the bar, and employees kicked out the participants, authorities said.
Sgt. Dean Graziolli, who was moonlighting at the business, escorted them outside, but a 21-year-old man returned and attacked the sergeant outside the bowling alley, just a few steps from the front door, police said. Graziolli fired shots, killing the man, whose identity officials have not released.
Cleveland police spokeswoman Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia did not return an email Monday inquiring whether Graziolli was wearing a body camera. However, departmental policies did not require he be wearing one.
The shooting will almost certainly be brought up by a team monitoring the city's progress under a consent decree with the Justice Department as evidence that officers should wear the cameras while moonlighting.
The monitoring team pushed for such a requirement within the past year, especially as the city has pointed to a decrease in citizen complaints against officers in the years since it required officers to wear them while on duty.
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LAPD Launches Sexual Assault Investigation Against Steven Seagal
The 65-year-old actor has been accused by more than a dozen women of sexual misconduct.
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Projector Lights Up Trump’s D.C. Hotel With ‘Shithole’ And Poop Emojis
The Trump International Hotel’s new makeover was inspired by Donald Trump’s recent immigration meeting.
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With Rapidly Falling Prices, Renewablesy Set to Outcompete Fossil Fuels by 2020
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You Don’t Need a Telescope to Find a ‘Shithole Country’
This shithole country, which saw the world in black and white, communist and capitalist, was determined to thwart the aspirations of the poor and the landless in El Salvador.
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FBI BOMBSHELL: Top Agent Admits ‘ODDS ARE NOTHING’ Trump Colluded with Russia
By Hannity Staff - January 23, 2018
Draw Muhammad was a FBI False Flag Op
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Suit Against FBI’s Undercover Activity in ISIS Attack Faces Long Odds
Security guard injured at a 'Draw Muhammad' event alleges FBI aided attack
January 23, 2018 3:45 pm
A leading expert on federal tort law said the security guard injured in a 2015 ISIS-inspired attack in Garland, Texas, is unlikely to win a civil lawsuit he filed against the FBI claiming that the bureau was liable for the injuries he sustained in the attack.
Bruce Joiner was working at the "Draw Muhammad" event at the Curtis Culwell Center when two radicalized Islamists, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, opened fire at a perimeter checkpoint. Joiner was shot in the leg, and the attackers were killed just yards away from where they opened fire.
As a result of a separate court case, it became known that an undercover FBI agent was in a separate car directly behind the pair when they began their attack. He was taking pictures moments before the first shots were fired, and then tried to flee the scene once the attack began.
Additionally, it was revealed that the undercover agent had messaged Simpson in the weeks prior, saying, "Tear up Texas," soon after the "Draw Muhammad" event had been announced.
Joiner's suit alleges the FBI "solicited, encouraged, directed and aided members of ISIS in planning and carrying out," the attack, and is asking for just over $8 million damages.
The government has responded by seeking a dismissal of the suit, claiming it is immune from liability under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA).
"I think the government has the upper hand by a bunch," said Paul Figley, currently a professor at American University's College of Law who previously served as a litigator for the Department of Justice for three decades.
Persons injured by the federal government have the right to sue for damages in many cases. However, there are important exceptions.
"The purpose of the Federal Tort Claims Act was to make the government liable for run of the mill torts because it's the right thing to do," Figley told the Washington Free Beacon. "So if there's an auto accident, or medical malpractice, then the government is like any other large entity doing business. It makes sense to Congress to say, ‘Okay, we'll have liability and people can bring a suit.' When you get involved in matters that involve government policy, however, if you allow lawsuits for people who are injured, then you're having policy decisions made—directly or indirectly—by litigation of those kinds of suits."
Joiner must pass the "test" of whether the FBI's undercover activity is a policy concern.
"I think this [policy test] is pretty easy, this is watching for terrorist activities," Figley added, noting especially that the government would have discretion to decide not to interrupt a smaller criminal event, because the smaller criminal event will possibly lead it to a much larger crime, resulting in more important arrests.
Figley pointed to President Carter's decisions to cancel wheat sales to the Soviet Union and to bar U.S. athletes from participating in the 1980 Olympics following the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan as an example of courts deferring to the government even though there was alleged harm to citizens.
"The wheat farmers sued," Figley explained. "People who had trained for years to get to the Olympics sued. And the court said, ‘These are things that involve pretty big policy [decisions], and should not be decided from the perspective of an individual claimant in a tort case, so we’re not making policy that way.'"
Joiner filed suit in October of last year, and has maintained that he is only suing in a
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Did Mueller Help Cover Up Connections Between Saudis And 9/11?
Special counsel Robert Mueller may have helped cover up connections between a Saudi family and the 9/11 terror attacks, according to Tuesday report from conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch.
Court documents obtained by Judicial Watch show that as FBI director, Mueller was “likely involved” in releasing deceptive agency statements to cover up a connection between a Saudi Arabian family living in Florida and the 9/11 hijackers. The statements were tailored to discredit a 2011 story exposing an FBI investigation into the family, who lived in Sarasota, Fla. The investigation was also withheld from Congress, according to Judicial Watch.
The FBI investigation into the Saudis came when news stories found that they had abruptly left the country two weeks before 9/11, reportedly leaving behind their cars, furniture, clothes, and other personal items. (RELATED: Judicial Watch Says Trump Should Fire Mueller)
“Though the recently filed court documents reveal Mueller received a briefing about the Sarasota Saudi investigation, the FBI continued to publicly deny it existed and it appears that the lies were approved by Mueller,” Judicial Watch wrote. “Not surprisingly, he didn’t respond to questions about this new discovery emailed to his office by the news organization that uncovered it.”
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Two NYPD cops accused of making up fake drug charges that left innocent man jailed for weeks
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January 23, 2018
The CIA assets that worked for Castro - and assassinated a Panamanian president
Thelma King and Ruben Miro were counted among the Agency and Castro’s “top agents” - and were tied to other assassinations, including JFK
Written by Emma Best
Edited by JPat Brown
Panama has a long history of coups and interventions involving the United States that go back to the establishment of the Panama Canal, some of which resulted in pro-U.S. governments, while other seemed to benefit Communist groups. Documents show that the confessed assassin of Panamanian President José Antonio Remón Cantera was a Central Intelligence Agency asset, and that at least one other CIA asset was on the scene and arrested at the time of the assassination in 1955. Both also share ties to the Cuban community, as well as vague connections to the JFK assassination - and one of them may have also been involved in a plot to kidnap and/or assassinate Vice President Spiro Agnew and CIA Director Richard Helms.
The full story, involving coups and revolutions, secret arms shipments, and double (or triple) agents, is too complex to cover in a single article. 113 pages of documents, embedded at the end of the article, hint at a web of intrigue and coincidence that stretches from 1955 Panama, to 1963 Dallas, and onto 1971 New York. The two main characters in this story are Thelma King, a Panamanian revolutionary politician and a friend/agent of Fidel Castro, and Ruben Oscar Miro, a Panamanian revolutionary lawyer with political aspirations and a friend/agent of Raul Castro. Both were also secretly assets for CIA.
When Miro described meeting his contact in a U.S. intelligence agency, he said that he had helped him and several other Americans in a trial in 1940 or 1941. It’s not yet known when King (Castro’s “top agent in Panama”) became associated with the Agency, but she was a CIA asset as early as 1963, and by 1971 was described by the Agency as an “agent” who had been a source of information for a long time. A year earlier she had been considered a threat to President Richard Nixon during his trip to Europe, but in 1971 she was in the U.S. and connected to a plot to kidnap and/or assassinate Vice President Agnew and Director Helms, a plot which is briefly described in the MHCHAOS documents that had been sent by the Agency in response to a FOIA request.
The description was vague, but there was enough information to find a more detailed mention in a copy of the Agency’s Family Jewels. Although redacted in one place, it identified the individual as “Miss King” in another.
This led to another mention in a previously TOP SECRET file, which identified her as “a female agent of the Latin American Division … the agent involved here was Thelma King.” Another memo, previously marked both SENSITIVE and SECRET, identifies her not as an agent but simply as “a Latin American revolutionary.” The name of the project, which received attention from the highest levels of the CIA and Federal Bureau of Investigation, was PARAGON.
Project PARAGON is described in another memo as focusing on “persons associated with [a] New Orleans urban guerrilla group.”
Included in the list of people associated that group was New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, who had previously attempted to prove a CIA connection to the Kennedy assassination in 1963. Coincidentally, the 1963 assassination was the previous major appearance of King (AKA HYSAGE/HYSAGE-1) in the currently available CIA files.
On November 22nd, 1963, King was meeting with her CIA handler, Jake Esterline (AKA PONCHAY). The two were speaking when they first received news about the death of President John F. Kennedy. An initial memo shows that she immediately became very upset and became convinced that the assassination was carried out by racial extremists. Esterline rejected this, along with her later assertion that there was a coverup of the assassination by right wing extremists amongst America’s police. The most significant things that she said about the assassination, however, were held very closely and never made it into the JFK assassination materials. K. Michelle Combs, the Associate Director for Research and Analysis of the Assassination Records Review Board, later found that it was not relevant to the JFK assassination. However, a single page hints at the true importance of King’s discussions with Esterline and her status as a double/triple agent among the Panamanians, Cubans, and Americans which had begun as early as 1962.
According to the note, Thelma King began crying as soon as they heard about Kennedy’s death, saying “something to the effect of they said they would not do it.” As she regained her composure she stopped talking about it, but Esterline was convinced that “they had been talking about Fidel, Che, Raul and PINIERO (head of Cuban intelligence).” Even more significantly, Esterline reported that Thelma had talked about meeting Lee Harvey Oswald, possibly in Cuba.
The fact that Combs found nothing else relevant to the investigation of the assassination of JFK boggles the mind - especially since she had been arrested for a Presidential assassination eight years before Kennedy died - and that she may have been the woman who left the “killzone” just prior to the assassination.
Despite some reports that she was no longer allied with former Panamanian President Arnulfo Arias (who had been pro-Nazi and was also arrested at the scene), she would remain tied to him and the Cuban government for years after. While it’s unclear if she was associated with the Agency at the time, the confessed assassin’s relationship with the Agency is documented as having begun six years before President Remon was shot down. Curiously, the assassin, Miro, would run for office with Arias. It’s not been established when their relationship began. However, while King and Miro were double or triple agents working for Panama, Cuba, and the United States, it’s significant to note that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said that “no Communist issue was involved” in the assassination.
Ruben (Reuben) Oscar Miro (Guardia) was arrested for and confessed to the assassination, though he later recanted and was acquitted. However, in his confession he implicated the new Panamanian President, Jose Ramon Guizado. As a result, President Guizado was removed from office and the Presidency was assumed by the next in line, Ricardo Arias (no relation to former President Arnulfo Arias). Guizado was eventually cleared of after Miro withdrew the confession, but not until after his political career had been ended.
Like King, Miro also shared an odd connection to the Kennedy assassination. He was friends with Watergate burglar and accused assassination participant Frank Sturgis, and the two spent time together in Miami. He also shared strong ties with the Castros, and had planned an invasion of Panama with Raul Castro before Fidel had put a stop to it. Miro continued to try to foment a revolution, offering preferential treatment to whoever would help him – whether it was the State Department, CIA, or simply an arms dealer or businessman.
Many things about King remain unclear in the worst way possible, including when she began her association with the Agency and a 1979 comment that she made about the Iranian hostage crisis. “I don’t support the seizure of the hostages, but we don’t owe any favors to the only country [the U.S.] in the world that has harmed us. We don’t have to resolve a problem just so Carter can get re-elected…” It’s hard to look at statements like this, from a double or triple agent used by both the U.S. and Cuba, and not think of the October Surprise allegations surrounding the timing of the release of the hostages.
As it stands, there is more left unknown about these two than there is known. FOIA requests have been filed with the CIA and FBI to learn more. In the meantime, you can read a collection of already declassified files on them below.
CIA CREST Database
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La Joya settles lawsuit stemming from police sexual assault claims
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McALLEN — The city of La Joya has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a 38-year-old woman, who claimed she was sexually assaulted while in police custody, for $220,000.
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French Settlement seeks Attorney General's opinion on use of police vehicles; Police Chief alleges board actions are a 'retaliation'
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Record Year For Renewables Brings 185 GW of Clean Power Generation and 1.1 Million Electrical Vehicles
Despite policy opposition from fossil fuel backers across the world, renewable energy adoption rates rapidly accelerated during 2017 as both renewable electricity generation and clean energy vehicles saw considerable growth. This rapid growth is providing an opportunity for an early peak in global carbon emissions so long as investment in and broader policy support for clean energy continues to advance.
Solar Leads Record Year for New Renewable Power Generation
At the grid level, the biggest gains came from solar which saw an estimated 98 GW added globally. This is a 31 percent jump YOY from 2016 when 76.2 GW of solar energy was installed. More than half of this new solar generating capacity (52.83 GW) was added by China — now the undisputed solar leader both in terms of manufacturing and installations. That said, large gains were also made by India, Europe and the U.S. even as the rest of the world saw broader adoption as panel prices continued to fall. Uncertainty in the U.S. over the 201c trade case brought by Sunivia and enabled by the Trump Administration hampered solar adoption there. However, it is estimated that about 12 GW were still installed. Australia also saw a solar renaissance with more than 1 GW installed during 2017 as fossil-fuel based power generation prices soared and panel prices continued to plummet.
(Solar energy’s versatility combined with falling prices generates major advantages. In the coming years, solar glass will make this clean power source even more accessible.)
Wind energy also saw major additions in the range of 56 GW during 2017. Though less than banner year 2015 at 60 GW, wind grew from an approximate 50 GW annual add in 2016. This clean power source is therefore still showing a healthy adoption rate despite competition from dirty sources like natural gas and cheap coal due to overcapacity. Other renewable energy additions such as large hydro power, small hydro, biofuels, and geothermal likely resulted in another 30 GW or more– with China alone adding 12.8 GW of new large hydro power capacity.
Overall, about 185 GW of new clean electricity appears to have been added to global generation during 2017 — outpacing both new nuclear and new fossil fuels. This compares to approximately 150 GW from similar sources added during 2016. The primary drivers of this very rapid addition were swiftly falling solar costs, continued drops in wind prices, a number of policy incentives for clean energy adoption, rising access to energy storage systems and increasing concerns over human-caused climate change.
(More bang for your buck. Despite a plateau in clean energy investment over recent years, annual capacity additions keep rising — primarily due to continuously falling wind and solar prices. Image source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance.)
Electrical Vehicles Boom
Even as clean power generation was making strides, clean transport was racing ahead. With new offerings like the Chevy Bolt, the Tesla Model 3, and the upgraded Nissan Leaf, the electrical vehicle appears to have come of age. Luxury EVs are now more and more common in places like Europe and the United States even as mid-priced EVs are becoming widely available. Concern over both clean air and climate change is driving large cities and even major countries like India and China to pursue fossil fuel vehicle bans. A growing number of EVs with range capabilities in excess of 200 miles are hitting markets. And charging infrastructure is both growing and improving. As a result of these multiple dynamics, EV sales grew by nearly 50 percent from about 740,000 sold in 2016 to 1.1 million sold in 2017.
Renewables + EVs Bring Potential For Early Peak in Carbon Emissions
Such rapid rates of renewable energy adoption are starting to have an impact on human carbon emissions. Annual rates of renewable power addition in the range of 150 to 250 GW are enough to begin to plateau and/or reduce global carbon emission so long as reasonable efficiencies are added to the energy system. Meanwhile, annual EV sales in the range of 3 to 5 million per year and growing around 20 percent annually is enough to start to tamp down global oil demand and related externalities.
(Very rapid EV sales growth during 2017 is likely to be repeated in 2018 as more capable and less expensive electrical vehicles like Tesla’s Model 3 hit markets in larger numbers. Image source: Macquarie Bank and Business Insider.)
We are beginning to enter the range of visible fossil fuel replacement by renewable power generation now and it appears that EVs will start to measurably impact oil demand by the early 2020s. To this point, direct replacement of coal with renewable and natural gas based energy sources during recent years has resulted in a considerable slowing in the rate of carbon emissions growth. If renewables continue to make substantial gains during 2018 and onward, this trend of replacement of fossil fuels and reduction of harmful greenhouse gasses hitting the atmosphere will become more and more apparent.
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Now Extinct, Eastern Cougar Removed From Endangered List
January 22,2018
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Change in FBI leadership follow criticism from Trump
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Military judge to lone USS Cole lawyer: ‘Engage in self-help’ to learn capital defense
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
January 23, 2018 06:51 PM
Monday, the judge pressed ahead with pretrial preparation as prosecutors called a series of FBI agents and technicians from the time of the Oct. 12, 2000 warship bombing to authenticate their signatures on evidence bags collected at the site. In one instance, FBI agent Jeffrey R. Miller testified that he had signed another agent’s name to some evidence because Agent Robert Holley was otherwise occupied — a sign of the crime-scene chaos even days after the al-Qaida attack on the warship off Aden, Yemen.
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FBI BOMBSHELL: Top Agent Admits ‘ODDS ARE NOTHING’ Trump Colluded with Russia
By Hannity Staff - January 23, 2018
Draw Muhammad was a FBI False Flag Op
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Suit Against FBI’s Undercover Activity in ISIS Attack Faces Long Odds
Security guard injured at a 'Draw Muhammad' event alleges FBI aided attack
January 23, 2018 3:45 pm
A leading expert on federal tort law said the security guard injured in a 2015 ISIS-inspired attack in Garland, Texas, is unlikely to win a civil lawsuit he filed against the FBI claiming that the bureau was liable for the injuries he sustained in the attack.
Bruce Joiner was working at the "Draw Muhammad" event at the Curtis Culwell Center when two radicalized Islamists, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, opened fire at a perimeter checkpoint. Joiner was shot in the leg, and the attackers were killed just yards away from where they opened fire.
As a result of a separate court case, it became known that an undercover FBI agent was in a separate car directly behind the pair when they began their attack. He was taking pictures moments before the first shots were fired, and then tried to flee the scene once the attack began.
Additionally, it was revealed that the undercover agent had messaged Simpson in the weeks prior, saying, "Tear up Texas," soon after the "Draw Muhammad" event had been announced.
Joiner's suit alleges the FBI "solicited, encouraged, directed and aided members of ISIS in planning and carrying out," the attack, and is asking for just over $8 million damages.
The government has responded by seeking a dismissal of the suit, claiming it is immune from liability under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA).
"I think the government has the upper hand by a bunch," said Paul Figley, currently a professor at American University's College of Law who previously served as a litigator for the Department of Justice for three decades.
Persons injured by the federal government have the right to sue for damages in many cases. However, there are important exceptions.
"The purpose of the Federal Tort Claims Act was to make the government liable for run of the mill torts because it's the right thing to do," Figley told the Washington Free Beacon. "So if there's an auto accident, or medical malpractice, then the government is like any other large entity doing business. It makes sense to Congress to say, ‘Okay, we'll have liability and people can bring a suit.' When you get involved in matters that involve government policy, however, if you allow lawsuits for people who are injured, then you're having policy decisions made—directly or indirectly—by litigation of those kinds of suits."
Joiner must pass the "test" of whether the FBI's undercover activity is a policy concern.
"I think this [policy test] is pretty easy, this is watching for terrorist activities," Figley added, noting especially that the government would have discretion to decide not to interrupt a smaller criminal event, because the smaller criminal event will possibly lead it to a much larger crime, resulting in more important arrests.
Figley pointed to President Carter's decisions to cancel wheat sales to the Soviet Union and to bar U.S. athletes from participating in the 1980 Olympics following the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan as an example of courts deferring to the government even though there was alleged harm to citizens.
"The wheat farmers sued," Figley explained. "People who had trained for years to get to the Olympics sued. And the court said, ‘These are things that involve pretty big policy [decisions], and should not be decided from the perspective of an individual claimant in a tort case, so we’re not making policy that way.'"
Joiner filed suit in October of last year, and has maintained that he is only suing in a
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Did Mueller Help Cover Up Connections Between Saudis And 9/11?
Special counsel Robert Mueller may have helped cover up connections between a Saudi family and the 9/11 terror attacks, according to Tuesday report from conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch.
Court documents obtained by Judicial Watch show that as FBI director, Mueller was “likely involved” in releasing deceptive agency statements to cover up a connection between a Saudi Arabian family living in Florida and the 9/11 hijackers. The statements were tailored to discredit a 2011 story exposing an FBI investigation into the family, who lived in Sarasota, Fla. The investigation was also withheld from Congress, according to Judicial Watch.
The FBI investigation into the Saudis came when news stories found that they had abruptly left the country two weeks before 9/11, reportedly leaving behind their cars, furniture, clothes, and other personal items. (RELATED: Judicial Watch Says Trump Should Fire Mueller)
“Though the recently filed court documents reveal Mueller received a briefing about the Sarasota Saudi investigation, the FBI continued to publicly deny it existed and it appears that the lies were approved by Mueller,” Judicial Watch wrote. “Not surprisingly, he didn’t respond to questions about this new discovery emailed to his office by the news organization that uncovered it.”
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Two NYPD cops accused of making up fake drug charges that left innocent man jailed for weeks
BY CHRISTINA CARREGA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 6:52 PM
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January 23, 2018
The CIA assets that worked for Castro - and assassinated a Panamanian president
Thelma King and Ruben Miro were counted among the Agency and Castro’s “top agents” - and were tied to other assassinations, including JFK
Written by Emma Best
Edited by JPat Brown
Panama has a long history of coups and interventions involving the United States that go back to the establishment of the Panama Canal, some of which resulted in pro-U.S. governments, while other seemed to benefit Communist groups. Documents show that the confessed assassin of Panamanian President José Antonio Remón Cantera was a Central Intelligence Agency asset, and that at least one other CIA asset was on the scene and arrested at the time of the assassination in 1955. Both also share ties to the Cuban community, as well as vague connections to the JFK assassination - and one of them may have also been involved in a plot to kidnap and/or assassinate Vice President Spiro Agnew and CIA Director Richard Helms.
The full story, involving coups and revolutions, secret arms shipments, and double (or triple) agents, is too complex to cover in a single article. 113 pages of documents, embedded at the end of the article, hint at a web of intrigue and coincidence that stretches from 1955 Panama, to 1963 Dallas, and onto 1971 New York. The two main characters in this story are Thelma King, a Panamanian revolutionary politician and a friend/agent of Fidel Castro, and Ruben Oscar Miro, a Panamanian revolutionary lawyer with political aspirations and a friend/agent of Raul Castro. Both were also secretly assets for CIA.
When Miro described meeting his contact in a U.S. intelligence agency, he said that he had helped him and several other Americans in a trial in 1940 or 1941. It’s not yet known when King (Castro’s “top agent in Panama”) became associated with the Agency, but she was a CIA asset as early as 1963, and by 1971 was described by the Agency as an “agent” who had been a source of information for a long time. A year earlier she had been considered a threat to President Richard Nixon during his trip to Europe, but in 1971 she was in the U.S. and connected to a plot to kidnap and/or assassinate Vice President Agnew and Director Helms, a plot which is briefly described in the MHCHAOS documents that had been sent by the Agency in response to a FOIA request.
The description was vague, but there was enough information to find a more detailed mention in a copy of the Agency’s Family Jewels. Although redacted in one place, it identified the individual as “Miss King” in another.
This led to another mention in a previously TOP SECRET file, which identified her as “a female agent of the Latin American Division … the agent involved here was Thelma King.” Another memo, previously marked both SENSITIVE and SECRET, identifies her not as an agent but simply as “a Latin American revolutionary.” The name of the project, which received attention from the highest levels of the CIA and Federal Bureau of Investigation, was PARAGON.
Project PARAGON is described in another memo as focusing on “persons associated with [a] New Orleans urban guerrilla group.”
Included in the list of people associated that group was New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, who had previously attempted to prove a CIA connection to the Kennedy assassination in 1963. Coincidentally, the 1963 assassination was the previous major appearance of King (AKA HYSAGE/HYSAGE-1) in the currently available CIA files.
On November 22nd, 1963, King was meeting with her CIA handler, Jake Esterline (AKA PONCHAY). The two were speaking when they first received news about the death of President John F. Kennedy. An initial memo shows that she immediately became very upset and became convinced that the assassination was carried out by racial extremists. Esterline rejected this, along with her later assertion that there was a coverup of the assassination by right wing extremists amongst America’s police. The most significant things that she said about the assassination, however, were held very closely and never made it into the JFK assassination materials. K. Michelle Combs, the Associate Director for Research and Analysis of the Assassination Records Review Board, later found that it was not relevant to the JFK assassination. However, a single page hints at the true importance of King’s discussions with Esterline and her status as a double/triple agent among the Panamanians, Cubans, and Americans which had begun as early as 1962.
According to the note, Thelma King began crying as soon as they heard about Kennedy’s death, saying “something to the effect of they said they would not do it.” As she regained her composure she stopped talking about it, but Esterline was convinced that “they had been talking about Fidel, Che, Raul and PINIERO (head of Cuban intelligence).” Even more significantly, Esterline reported that Thelma had talked about meeting Lee Harvey Oswald, possibly in Cuba.
The fact that Combs found nothing else relevant to the investigation of the assassination of JFK boggles the mind - especially since she had been arrested for a Presidential assassination eight years before Kennedy died - and that she may have been the woman who left the “killzone” just prior to the assassination.
Despite some reports that she was no longer allied with former Panamanian President Arnulfo Arias (who had been pro-Nazi and was also arrested at the scene), she would remain tied to him and the Cuban government for years after. While it’s unclear if she was associated with the Agency at the time, the confessed assassin’s relationship with the Agency is documented as having begun six years before President Remon was shot down. Curiously, the assassin, Miro, would run for office with Arias. It’s not been established when their relationship began. However, while King and Miro were double or triple agents working for Panama, Cuba, and the United States, it’s significant to note that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said that “no Communist issue was involved” in the assassination.
Ruben (Reuben) Oscar Miro (Guardia) was arrested for and confessed to the assassination, though he later recanted and was acquitted. However, in his confession he implicated the new Panamanian President, Jose Ramon Guizado. As a result, President Guizado was removed from office and the Presidency was assumed by the next in line, Ricardo Arias (no relation to former President Arnulfo Arias). Guizado was eventually cleared of after Miro withdrew the confession, but not until after his political career had been ended.
Like King, Miro also shared an odd connection to the Kennedy assassination. He was friends with Watergate burglar and accused assassination participant Frank Sturgis, and the two spent time together in Miami. He also shared strong ties with the Castros, and had planned an invasion of Panama with Raul Castro before Fidel had put a stop to it. Miro continued to try to foment a revolution, offering preferential treatment to whoever would help him – whether it was the State Department, CIA, or simply an arms dealer or businessman.
Many things about King remain unclear in the worst way possible, including when she began her association with the Agency and a 1979 comment that she made about the Iranian hostage crisis. “I don’t support the seizure of the hostages, but we don’t owe any favors to the only country [the U.S.] in the world that has harmed us. We don’t have to resolve a problem just so Carter can get re-elected…” It’s hard to look at statements like this, from a double or triple agent used by both the U.S. and Cuba, and not think of the October Surprise allegations surrounding the timing of the release of the hostages.
As it stands, there is more left unknown about these two than there is known. FOIA requests have been filed with the CIA and FBI to learn more. In the meantime, you can read a collection of already declassified files on them below.
CIA CREST Database
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crim ... 72b01.html
Troy, Mo., police officer gets five years for statutory rape of teenage girl
By Joel Currier St. Louis Post-Dispatch
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinio ... 33155.html
When police officers rape
Kim Kelly by Kim Kelly
31 Oct 2017
http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/ar ... 2cb47.html
La Joya settles lawsuit stemming from police sexual assault claims
BERENICE GARCIA | STAFF WRITER Jan 23, 2018 Updated
McALLEN — The city of La Joya has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a 38-year-old woman, who claimed she was sexually assaulted while in police custody, for $220,000.
http://www.iberianet.com/national/news/ ... e7ea2.html
French Settlement seeks Attorney General's opinion on use of police vehicles; Police Chief alleges board actions are a 'retaliation'
By John Dupont | Livingston Parish News Jan 23, 2018 Updated
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/2 ... -1.3773757
2 police officers on paid leave after killing a man they say was fleeing traffic stop
BY CAITLYN HITT
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 9:41 AM
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Feds won't retry refuge occupier Ryan Bundy on FBI camera theft ...
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Federal prosecutors won't retry Oregon refuge occupier Ryan Bundy for the alleged theft of FBI surveillance cameras after a 2016 trial ended in a hung jury on the charge. The jury acquitted Bundy, younger brother Ammon Bundy and five co-defendants of all other charges in the armed takeover of the Malheur National ...
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Record Year For Renewables Brings 185 GW of Clean Power Generation and 1.1 Million Electrical Vehicles
Despite policy opposition from fossil fuel backers across the world, renewable energy adoption rates rapidly accelerated during 2017 as both renewable electricity generation and clean energy vehicles saw considerable growth. This rapid growth is providing an opportunity for an early peak in global carbon emissions so long as investment in and broader policy support for clean energy continues to advance.
Solar Leads Record Year for New Renewable Power Generation
At the grid level, the biggest gains came from solar which saw an estimated 98 GW added globally. This is a 31 percent jump YOY from 2016 when 76.2 GW of solar energy was installed. More than half of this new solar generating capacity (52.83 GW) was added by China — now the undisputed solar leader both in terms of manufacturing and installations. That said, large gains were also made by India, Europe and the U.S. even as the rest of the world saw broader adoption as panel prices continued to fall. Uncertainty in the U.S. over the 201c trade case brought by Sunivia and enabled by the Trump Administration hampered solar adoption there. However, it is estimated that about 12 GW were still installed. Australia also saw a solar renaissance with more than 1 GW installed during 2017 as fossil-fuel based power generation prices soared and panel prices continued to plummet.
(Solar energy’s versatility combined with falling prices generates major advantages. In the coming years, solar glass will make this clean power source even more accessible.)
Wind energy also saw major additions in the range of 56 GW during 2017. Though less than banner year 2015 at 60 GW, wind grew from an approximate 50 GW annual add in 2016. This clean power source is therefore still showing a healthy adoption rate despite competition from dirty sources like natural gas and cheap coal due to overcapacity. Other renewable energy additions such as large hydro power, small hydro, biofuels, and geothermal likely resulted in another 30 GW or more– with China alone adding 12.8 GW of new large hydro power capacity.
Overall, about 185 GW of new clean electricity appears to have been added to global generation during 2017 — outpacing both new nuclear and new fossil fuels. This compares to approximately 150 GW from similar sources added during 2016. The primary drivers of this very rapid addition were swiftly falling solar costs, continued drops in wind prices, a number of policy incentives for clean energy adoption, rising access to energy storage systems and increasing concerns over human-caused climate change.
(More bang for your buck. Despite a plateau in clean energy investment over recent years, annual capacity additions keep rising — primarily due to continuously falling wind and solar prices. Image source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance.)
Electrical Vehicles Boom
Even as clean power generation was making strides, clean transport was racing ahead. With new offerings like the Chevy Bolt, the Tesla Model 3, and the upgraded Nissan Leaf, the electrical vehicle appears to have come of age. Luxury EVs are now more and more common in places like Europe and the United States even as mid-priced EVs are becoming widely available. Concern over both clean air and climate change is driving large cities and even major countries like India and China to pursue fossil fuel vehicle bans. A growing number of EVs with range capabilities in excess of 200 miles are hitting markets. And charging infrastructure is both growing and improving. As a result of these multiple dynamics, EV sales grew by nearly 50 percent from about 740,000 sold in 2016 to 1.1 million sold in 2017.
Renewables + EVs Bring Potential For Early Peak in Carbon Emissions
Such rapid rates of renewable energy adoption are starting to have an impact on human carbon emissions. Annual rates of renewable power addition in the range of 150 to 250 GW are enough to begin to plateau and/or reduce global carbon emission so long as reasonable efficiencies are added to the energy system. Meanwhile, annual EV sales in the range of 3 to 5 million per year and growing around 20 percent annually is enough to start to tamp down global oil demand and related externalities.
(Very rapid EV sales growth during 2017 is likely to be repeated in 2018 as more capable and less expensive electrical vehicles like Tesla’s Model 3 hit markets in larger numbers. Image source: Macquarie Bank and Business Insider.)
We are beginning to enter the range of visible fossil fuel replacement by renewable power generation now and it appears that EVs will start to measurably impact oil demand by the early 2020s. To this point, direct replacement of coal with renewable and natural gas based energy sources during recent years has resulted in a considerable slowing in the rate of carbon emissions growth. If renewables continue to make substantial gains during 2018 and onward, this trend of replacement of fossil fuels and reduction of harmful greenhouse gasses hitting the atmosphere will become more and more apparent.
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Now Extinct, Eastern Cougar Removed From Endangered List
January 22,2018
Russia to build its own space station without USA and Europe
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Change in FBI leadership follow criticism from Trump
http://thehill.com/policy/370211-gowdy- ... r-election
GOP lawmakers raise concerns over 'secret society' in FBI agents' texts
BY OLIVIA BEAVERS - 01/22/18 10:57 PM EST
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Military judge to lone USS Cole lawyer: ‘Engage in self-help’ to learn capital defense
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
January 23, 2018 06:51 PM
Monday, the judge pressed ahead with pretrial preparation as prosecutors called a series of FBI agents and technicians from the time of the Oct. 12, 2000 warship bombing to authenticate their signatures on evidence bags collected at the site. In one instance, FBI agent Jeffrey R. Miller testified that he had signed another agent’s name to some evidence because Agent Robert Holley was otherwise occupied — a sign of the crime-scene chaos even days after the al-Qaida attack on the warship off Aden, Yemen.
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A Congressional Probe Is Needed Given The FBI’s Destruction Or Loss Of Every Single Email That It Relied Upon In Pitching its Controversial “Ivins Theory” In Mueller’s Amerithrax Investigation
Posted by Lew Weinstein on January 23, 2018
Search for the word “e-mail” in the FBI’s Amerithrax Summary
https://www.justice.gov/archive/amerith ... ummary.pdf
Then compare the quoted emails to the ones that the FBI for the past 5 years have failed to produce.
And look at all the emails quoted in Dellefera Affidavit in support of the search of Ivins’ residence.
The loss or destruction — the proven failure to produce — these emails is a flagrant violation of FOIA and the rule of law.
It constitutes spoliation of evidence if they are not produced. The report to the federal judge on this issue is January 30, 2018.
Amerithrax was Robert Mueller’s biggest whodunnit. I was Mueller’s biggest fan. Still am.
But the FBI’s withholding of these emails is just beyond the pale.
And which would be worse — its failure to maintain them or lying and saying they can’t find them.
Either is unacceptable and requires imposition of attorneys fees and sanctions against the individuals who continue to fail to produce them.
If FBI agents wanted to acquire weapons grade plutonium
what kind of facility do you think they would infiltrate?
LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY
Originally founded and established as Project Y of the Manhattan Project, the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) occupies approximately 36 square miles of DOE land situated on the Pajarito plateau in the Jemez mountains of northern New Mexico. The closest population centers are the cities of Los Alamos and White Rock. The closest large metropolitan center is Santa Fe, 35 miles away. It includes 47 technical areas, 42 of which are actively in use, and over 2,100 individual facilities covering some eight to nine million square feet worth $5.9 billion.
Facilities within the technical areas include a reactor (which is shut down); criticality experiment areas; particle, neutron and ion accelerators; sealed source and x-ray radiography facilities; research laboratories; depleted uranium and explosive test facilities; a plutonium recovery, metal production, and metal fabrication; and radiological-contaminated environmental areas in various stages of remediation; and decontamination and decommissioning projects.
As a DOE national security research institute, the LANL’s primary responsibility is ensuring the safety, security, and reliability of the nuclear stockpile. This mission has expanded from the primary task of designing nuclear weapons to include non-nuclear defense programs and a broad array of non-defense programs. In addition to the Lab's core national security mission, its conducts work in bioscience, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental sciences, materials science, and physics disciplines. Past missions of LANL have included development of nuclear test devices and other research projects. LANL is now focusing on nuclear weapon stockpile stewardship and nonproliferation.
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Lab hires new counterintelligence director
Would-be Los Alamos National Laboratory hackers watch out — the lab has named experienced FBI cyber-counterintelligence agent Daniel Lee Cloyd to lead LANL's Office of Counterintelligence beginning in January.
Cloyd was the assistant director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division before taking his new position, according to information from LANL. Cloyd's 25-year FBI résumé has a lot of "counters" — counterespionage, counterterrorism, counterproliferation — and also includes intelligence and law enforcement. His work has taken him to Buffalo, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.; and Norfolk, Va.
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/kzp ... ntemptible
FBI agents’ texts call Congress “less than worthless” and “contemptible”
By Rex Santus Feb 7, 2018
https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/sp ... s_41998543
America's serial killers prey on women
According to never-before-released data, women accounted for 70 percent of the 1,398 known victims of serial killers since 1985. By comparison, women represented only 22 percent of total homicide victims.
SHNS is conducting an investigation into the nation's more than 185,000 unsolved homicides committed since 1980.
According to local police reported that about 33,000 homicides of women remain unsolved
http://fox6now.com/2018/02/07/engaging- ... e-program/
‘Engaging with the kids:’ black FBI agents mentor Trowbridge School students as part of nationwide program
POSTED 6:15 PM, FEBRUARY 7, 2018,
MILWAUKEE -- A lucky group of children from Milwaukee are getting a firsthand look at what it means to be part of the FBI. Trowbridge School is partnering with the FBI to encourage students to make good choices.
Leonard Peace, FBI Milwaukee public affairs officer
The FBI Milwaukee is taking the school under its wing as part of the FBI's nationwide Adopt-A-School program.
http://www.whsv.com/home/headlines/6018616.html
A FBI agent has been
sentenced to seven years in prison for having sex with a 9 year old girl
Under a plea agreement, he was sentenced to seven years in
prison with another 15 years suspended. He also was ordered to pay
ten-thousand dollars in restitution to cover the cost of the girl's
mental-health counseling.
Authorities say John Lesko engaged in a sex act with her nine times.
Lesko's attorney says he worked at
the FBI for 17 years .
According to the plea, Lesko said he was a victim in the case.
He said the girl initiated the contact.
http://fox59.com/2013/04/10/former-fbi- ... y-charges/
FBI agent allowed to retire and collect full pension
files petition to enter guilty plea for child pornography charges
according to court documents, Donald Sachtleben hid behind the email ‘[email protected]’ and openly traded child porn. In one email he attached nine images of child pornography and child erotica and wrote:
“Saw your profile… Hope you like these and can send me some of (y)ours. I have even better ones if you like.”
Sachtleben, a Northwestern University graduate, worked for the FBI from 1983 until his retirement in 2008.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... story.html
75 women have been strangled or smothered in Chicago since 2001. Most of their killers got away. - Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Jan 16, 2018 - In the last 17 years, 75 women have been strangled or smothered in Chicago, their bodies dumped in ... “The brutal nature of these crimes is very disturbing,” said Chief of Detectives Melissa Staples.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/27/siu.fb ... index.html
Washington (CNN) -- An FBI employee shared confidential information with his girlfriend, who was a news reporter, then later threatened to release a sex tape the two had made.
A supervisor watched pornographic videos in his office during work hours while "satisfying himself."
And an employee in a "leadership position" misused a government database to check on two friends who were exotic dancers and allowed them into an FBI office after hours.
These are among confidential summaries of FBI disciplinary reports obtained by CNN, which describe misconduct by agency supervisors, agents and other employees over the last three years.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/image ... ts.siu.pdf
http://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/02/0 ... a3933aab9d
The Honolulu Police Department last year fired or recommended for firing police officers in 22 cases ranging from sex assault to kidnapping and malicious use of physical force to use of illicit drugs, according to an annual report the agency submitted last week to the state Legislature.
The 22 cases represent a slight dip from the 24 cases reported the year before and 25 the year before that.
Of the 22 cases, eight officers were discharged, while the rest remain either in arbitration or have cases pending in some way.
In all, 76 officers were disciplined for misconduct in 2017, another dip from the year before when 81 officers were disciplined. In 2015, punishment was doled out to 76 officers.
Twenty-five of last year’s 76 discipline cases were earmarked for criminal investigation, the report said.
The department has been under fire in recent years for officer misconduct. A 2016 Honolulu Star-Advertiser investigation found that nearly 1 in 6 of HPD’s 2,099 officers had been taken to court one or more times since joining the force, and since 2010 one HPD officer has been arrested or prosecuted every 40 days.
This year’s misconduct stats do not include the arrest of former Chief Louis Kealoha, who quit last year under the specter of a criminal probe and faces federal conspiracy and corruption
https://apnews.com/77b248690b0c492699d9 ... fundraiser
Police officer under investigation for wife’s fundraiser
CLEVELAND
— A Cleveland police officer is under investigation for a fundraiser that alleged his wife was pregnant and suffered breast cancer.
Authorities say an internal investigation began after a blood drive was held at the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association’s union hall for the officer’s wife Jan. 14.
Patrolmen’s Association President Jeff Follmer says investigators believe the officer’s wife was never pregnant or diagnosed with cancer.
Another online fundraiser created by a friend of the officer’s wife said it was unlikely she would live through the birth of her daughter. The online page has since been removed, but not before it raised $
https://apnews.com/f75a4730b1c34cce8257 ... lice-force
Albania looks to clear out bad apples from police force
TIRANA, Albania
Albania’s government is looking to clear out the bad apples among its police force.
A draft law that the government approved Wednesday calls for the vetting of Albania’s 13,000 police officers. Deputy Interior Minister Julian Hodaj said that authorities want to look at the officers’ professional and personal backgrounds in order “to fire some individuals ... elements involved in crime, corruption or not being professional.”
Fighting organized crime and especially drug trafficking is a key challenge for Albania. The country has been a NATO member since 2009 and was granted European Union candidate status in 2014. It hopes to launch m
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas- ... -preparing
Dallas police officers who took a rigorous exam last year for a shot at being promoted to sergeant will have to try again later, officials said Tuesday.
The integrity of the test had been questioned after a police major who helped shape the exam also coached clients through a test-prep business.
Officers must pass a civil service exam before being promoted to senior corporal, sergeant and lieutenant. The promotional process for the ranks of sergeant or lieutenant is often described as taxing and stressful. It includes a written exam and a test through an outside assessment center that many spend months preparing for.
<p><span style="font-size: 1em; background-color: transparent;">Maj. LaToya Porter (center) has cooperated fully with internal affairs investigators, police said on Tuesday.</span></p>(Dallas Police)
Maj. LaToya Porter (center) has cooperated fully with internal affairs investigators, police said on Tuesday. (Dallas Police)
Results from the test, which was offered in November, had been in limbo for several months while police investigated the assessment center portion of the promotional process.
Police Maj. LaToya Porter, who runs a test-prep business to help officers prepare for the sergeant exam, has been under investigation.
She's accused of adverse conduct, creating a conflict of interest and interfering with the integrity of an administrative investigation and giving misleading and conflicting statements during an internal affairs investigation, Lt. Mike Igo told the Dallas Civil Service Board. Igo oversaw the investigation.
Dracut won't rush for outcome with hearings for police officers
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Closing arguments set in Baltimore police corruption trial
BALTIMORE — Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys are set to make their closing arguments in the trial of two Baltimore detectives fighting racketeering and robbery charges. The case involves one of the worst U.S. police corruption scandals in recent memory.
The jury trial has been fueled by testimony from disgraced ex-detectives. Four of six former Baltimore detectives who pleaded guilty have testified for the government, providing jaw-dropping revelations about their time on a disbanded police unit.
They have admitted to breaking into homes, stealing cash, and staging
https://apnews.com/23507add821b480c9168 ... aulted-him
Suspect alleges Chicago officer sexually assaulted him
CHICAGO
The Chicago Police Department is investigating allegations that
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.3804603
Black Lives Matter activist who snatched Confederate flag from protester on live TV is fatally shot in Louisiana
BY JESSICA CHIA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, February 7, 2018, 3:19 AM
Sheriff captured on bodycam saying 'I love this s--t' after ordering deputies to shoot unarmed man
BY JESSICA CHIA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, February 7, 2018, 5:43 AM
A Tennessee sheriff ordered his deputies to shoot an unarmed man during a slow-speed car chase so they wouldn’t damage their patrol cars by ramming him off the road, according to a lawsuit.
Sheriff Oddie Shoupe of White County is being sued for excessive force in the death of Michael Dial, who was fatally shot by police while driving with a suspended license on State Highway 70.
After Dial was killed, Shoupe arrived at the scene, where he was captured on a deputy's body camera saying, "I love this s--t...I thrive on it," according to the lawsuit filed by Dial's widow Robyn Spainhoward.
Dial, who was driving a pickup truck with a fully loaded trailer at maximum speeds of 50 miles per hour, led police on a chase when he refused to pull over on April 13, 2017.
Deputies tried to nudge him off the road, but Shoupe delivered orders over the radio dispatch to shoot instead, the lawsuit states.
Shoupe was later captured on another deputy's body camera recounting his orders to shoot.
“I said, 'Don’t ram him, shoot him.' F--k that s--t. Ain’t gonna tear my cars up. But I got two cars tore up again,” Shoupe said, according to the lawsuit.
He added, “Let me tell you something (Deputy) Gaw, if they don’t think I’ll give the order to kill that motherf--ker, they’re full of s--t.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... -1.3803906
Brooklyn NYPD precinct supervisor accused of smoking pot hit with modified duty
BY ROCCO PARASCANDOLA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, February 7, 2018, 4:01 AM
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/ ... l:trending
ATF agent’s case highlights treatment of women within the agency
Special agent SherryAnn Quindley said she laughed when her new ATF boss told her, “I’m going to break you.”
Quindey, who had tackled bombings, shootings, drug trafficking, and organized crime, thought it must be a joke. Her friends and coworkers at the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives knew her as a fighter, a survivor who beat breast cancer.
Yet, she felt powerless against this new supervisor, who, according to federal documents, sexually harassed or discriminated against her and other women at the agency
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SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING IN BOSTON: FREE SPEECH IN THE CROSSHAIRS
The ACLU of Massachusetts obtained documents through the Massachusetts Public Records Law revealing that the Boston Police Department’s (BPD’s) Boston Regional Intelligence Center used a social media surveillance system called Geofeedia to conduct online surveillance in 2014, 2015, and 2016. This system explicitly targeted users’ First Amendment protected speech and association. It collected thousands of social media posts about political and social activism, current events, religious issues, and personal matters irrelevant to law enforcement concerns. It treated ordinary citizens discussing ordinary affairs as justifiable targets of surveillance.
What it did not do, according to the documents, was deter or help solve serious crimes. There is no indication that the wide net BPD cast over social media using Geofeedia was ever instrumental in preempting terrorism or other violence, solving serious crimes, or providing the residents of Boston with any other public safety benefit. This is unsurprising, given that many of the search terms fed into — or, frequently, provided by — Geofeedia were terms associated with political activism, like “#blacklivesmatter” and “protest.” BPD also used the software to track Boston Public Schools students protesting budget cuts. Perhaps most disturbingly, BPD used Geofeedia to monitor the use of various basic Arabic words used in everyday conversations and the hashtag “#muslimlivesmatter,” suggesting that BPD considered Muslims as a group to be legitimate targets of surveillance. Even in cases where BPD searched for keywords actually related to terrorist groups, like “ISIS,” a review of the posts BPD collected pursuant to that search term revealed that the surveillance turned up nothing criminal or even suspicious. The posts mentioning ISIS were either jokes or references to current events.
The Geofeedia files provide further evidence that police social media surveillance systems, operated in the dark without any public scrutiny, are likely to treat people as inherently suspicious based on their race, religion, or ethnicity, or because they are politically active, without advancing public safety or criminal investigations. The records demonstrate the clear need for both transparency and procedural safeguards to ensure that this type of software is subject to public scrutiny and ongoing oversight before it is used again.
In response to these revelations about BPD’s social media monitoring, we recommend the following:
The Boston Police Department should change its privacy policy to forbid:
the collection or sharing of information about people who are not suspected of specific, articulable, criminal activity, with designated, enumerated exceptions for situations like missing persons investigations; and
surveillance based on race, religion, national origin, and protected political speech and association, except in cases lwhere the Department has reasonable grounds to believe that a person has committed a crime and their protected activity or status is directly relevant to the investigation.
The Boston City Council should pass a municipal law requiring a transparent, democratic process before BPD acquires new surveillance technologies to mandate community control over surveillance. Doing so would ensure that any future social media monitoring technology is only acquired after a public debate, and with City Council approval. The Mayor of Somerville recently established such a policy, and the City Council in Cambridge is currently working on an ordinance. The City of Seattle and Santa Clara County have both adopted ordinances based on ACLU models.
The Massachusetts state legislature should pass the Fundamental Freedoms Act, which would forbid public agencies including police departments from collecting information about people’s First Amendment protected activities, speech, beliefs, and associations, except in cases where law enforcement has reasonable grounds to believe that a person has committed a crime and their protected activity or status is directly relevant to the investigation.
Police officers are charged with protecting not only public safety but also individual rights. Social media monitoring that turns Muslims, politically active residents, and others into “persons of interest” without demonstrated utility in solving crimes accomplishes neither of these aims. We need transparency, accountability, and government and community oversight to ensure that this does not happen again.
A Congressional Probe Is Needed Given The FBI’s Destruction Or Loss Of Every Single Email That It Relied Upon In Pitching its Controversial “Ivins Theory” In Mueller’s Amerithrax Investigation
Posted by Lew Weinstein on January 23, 2018
Search for the word “e-mail” in the FBI’s Amerithrax Summary
https://www.justice.gov/archive/amerith ... ummary.pdf
Then compare the quoted emails to the ones that the FBI for the past 5 years have failed to produce.
And look at all the emails quoted in Dellefera Affidavit in support of the search of Ivins’ residence.
The loss or destruction — the proven failure to produce — these emails is a flagrant violation of FOIA and the rule of law.
It constitutes spoliation of evidence if they are not produced. The report to the federal judge on this issue is January 30, 2018.
Amerithrax was Robert Mueller’s biggest whodunnit. I was Mueller’s biggest fan. Still am.
But the FBI’s withholding of these emails is just beyond the pale.
And which would be worse — its failure to maintain them or lying and saying they can’t find them.
Either is unacceptable and requires imposition of attorneys fees and sanctions against the individuals who continue to fail to produce them.
If FBI agents wanted to acquire weapons grade plutonium
what kind of facility do you think they would infiltrate?
LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY
Originally founded and established as Project Y of the Manhattan Project, the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) occupies approximately 36 square miles of DOE land situated on the Pajarito plateau in the Jemez mountains of northern New Mexico. The closest population centers are the cities of Los Alamos and White Rock. The closest large metropolitan center is Santa Fe, 35 miles away. It includes 47 technical areas, 42 of which are actively in use, and over 2,100 individual facilities covering some eight to nine million square feet worth $5.9 billion.
Facilities within the technical areas include a reactor (which is shut down); criticality experiment areas; particle, neutron and ion accelerators; sealed source and x-ray radiography facilities; research laboratories; depleted uranium and explosive test facilities; a plutonium recovery, metal production, and metal fabrication; and radiological-contaminated environmental areas in various stages of remediation; and decontamination and decommissioning projects.
As a DOE national security research institute, the LANL’s primary responsibility is ensuring the safety, security, and reliability of the nuclear stockpile. This mission has expanded from the primary task of designing nuclear weapons to include non-nuclear defense programs and a broad array of non-defense programs. In addition to the Lab's core national security mission, its conducts work in bioscience, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental sciences, materials science, and physics disciplines. Past missions of LANL have included development of nuclear test devices and other research projects. LANL is now focusing on nuclear weapon stockpile stewardship and nonproliferation.
http://www.lamonitor.com/content/lanl-h ... ence-chief
Lab hires new counterintelligence director
Would-be Los Alamos National Laboratory hackers watch out — the lab has named experienced FBI cyber-counterintelligence agent Daniel Lee Cloyd to lead LANL's Office of Counterintelligence beginning in January.
Cloyd was the assistant director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division before taking his new position, according to information from LANL. Cloyd's 25-year FBI résumé has a lot of "counters" — counterespionage, counterterrorism, counterproliferation — and also includes intelligence and law enforcement. His work has taken him to Buffalo, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.; and Norfolk, Va.
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/kzp ... ntemptible
FBI agents’ texts call Congress “less than worthless” and “contemptible”
By Rex Santus Feb 7, 2018
https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/sp ... s_41998543
America's serial killers prey on women
According to never-before-released data, women accounted for 70 percent of the 1,398 known victims of serial killers since 1985. By comparison, women represented only 22 percent of total homicide victims.
SHNS is conducting an investigation into the nation's more than 185,000 unsolved homicides committed since 1980.
According to local police reported that about 33,000 homicides of women remain unsolved
http://fox6now.com/2018/02/07/engaging- ... e-program/
‘Engaging with the kids:’ black FBI agents mentor Trowbridge School students as part of nationwide program
POSTED 6:15 PM, FEBRUARY 7, 2018,
MILWAUKEE -- A lucky group of children from Milwaukee are getting a firsthand look at what it means to be part of the FBI. Trowbridge School is partnering with the FBI to encourage students to make good choices.
Leonard Peace, FBI Milwaukee public affairs officer
The FBI Milwaukee is taking the school under its wing as part of the FBI's nationwide Adopt-A-School program.
http://www.whsv.com/home/headlines/6018616.html
A FBI agent has been
sentenced to seven years in prison for having sex with a 9 year old girl
Under a plea agreement, he was sentenced to seven years in
prison with another 15 years suspended. He also was ordered to pay
ten-thousand dollars in restitution to cover the cost of the girl's
mental-health counseling.
Authorities say John Lesko engaged in a sex act with her nine times.
Lesko's attorney says he worked at
the FBI for 17 years .
According to the plea, Lesko said he was a victim in the case.
He said the girl initiated the contact.
http://fox59.com/2013/04/10/former-fbi- ... y-charges/
FBI agent allowed to retire and collect full pension
files petition to enter guilty plea for child pornography charges
according to court documents, Donald Sachtleben hid behind the email ‘[email protected]’ and openly traded child porn. In one email he attached nine images of child pornography and child erotica and wrote:
“Saw your profile… Hope you like these and can send me some of (y)ours. I have even better ones if you like.”
Sachtleben, a Northwestern University graduate, worked for the FBI from 1983 until his retirement in 2008.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... story.html
75 women have been strangled or smothered in Chicago since 2001. Most of their killers got away. - Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Jan 16, 2018 - In the last 17 years, 75 women have been strangled or smothered in Chicago, their bodies dumped in ... “The brutal nature of these crimes is very disturbing,” said Chief of Detectives Melissa Staples.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/27/siu.fb ... index.html
Washington (CNN) -- An FBI employee shared confidential information with his girlfriend, who was a news reporter, then later threatened to release a sex tape the two had made.
A supervisor watched pornographic videos in his office during work hours while "satisfying himself."
And an employee in a "leadership position" misused a government database to check on two friends who were exotic dancers and allowed them into an FBI office after hours.
These are among confidential summaries of FBI disciplinary reports obtained by CNN, which describe misconduct by agency supervisors, agents and other employees over the last three years.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/image ... ts.siu.pdf
http://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/02/0 ... a3933aab9d
The Honolulu Police Department last year fired or recommended for firing police officers in 22 cases ranging from sex assault to kidnapping and malicious use of physical force to use of illicit drugs, according to an annual report the agency submitted last week to the state Legislature.
The 22 cases represent a slight dip from the 24 cases reported the year before and 25 the year before that.
Of the 22 cases, eight officers were discharged, while the rest remain either in arbitration or have cases pending in some way.
In all, 76 officers were disciplined for misconduct in 2017, another dip from the year before when 81 officers were disciplined. In 2015, punishment was doled out to 76 officers.
Twenty-five of last year’s 76 discipline cases were earmarked for criminal investigation, the report said.
The department has been under fire in recent years for officer misconduct. A 2016 Honolulu Star-Advertiser investigation found that nearly 1 in 6 of HPD’s 2,099 officers had been taken to court one or more times since joining the force, and since 2010 one HPD officer has been arrested or prosecuted every 40 days.
This year’s misconduct stats do not include the arrest of former Chief Louis Kealoha, who quit last year under the specter of a criminal probe and faces federal conspiracy and corruption
https://apnews.com/77b248690b0c492699d9 ... fundraiser
Police officer under investigation for wife’s fundraiser
CLEVELAND
— A Cleveland police officer is under investigation for a fundraiser that alleged his wife was pregnant and suffered breast cancer.
Authorities say an internal investigation began after a blood drive was held at the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association’s union hall for the officer’s wife Jan. 14.
Patrolmen’s Association President Jeff Follmer says investigators believe the officer’s wife was never pregnant or diagnosed with cancer.
Another online fundraiser created by a friend of the officer’s wife said it was unlikely she would live through the birth of her daughter. The online page has since been removed, but not before it raised $
https://apnews.com/f75a4730b1c34cce8257 ... lice-force
Albania looks to clear out bad apples from police force
TIRANA, Albania
Albania’s government is looking to clear out the bad apples among its police force.
A draft law that the government approved Wednesday calls for the vetting of Albania’s 13,000 police officers. Deputy Interior Minister Julian Hodaj said that authorities want to look at the officers’ professional and personal backgrounds in order “to fire some individuals ... elements involved in crime, corruption or not being professional.”
Fighting organized crime and especially drug trafficking is a key challenge for Albania. The country has been a NATO member since 2009 and was granted European Union candidate status in 2014. It hopes to launch m
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas- ... -preparing
Dallas police officers who took a rigorous exam last year for a shot at being promoted to sergeant will have to try again later, officials said Tuesday.
The integrity of the test had been questioned after a police major who helped shape the exam also coached clients through a test-prep business.
Officers must pass a civil service exam before being promoted to senior corporal, sergeant and lieutenant. The promotional process for the ranks of sergeant or lieutenant is often described as taxing and stressful. It includes a written exam and a test through an outside assessment center that many spend months preparing for.
<p><span style="font-size: 1em; background-color: transparent;">Maj. LaToya Porter (center) has cooperated fully with internal affairs investigators, police said on Tuesday.</span></p>(Dallas Police)
Maj. LaToya Porter (center) has cooperated fully with internal affairs investigators, police said on Tuesday. (Dallas Police)
Results from the test, which was offered in November, had been in limbo for several months while police investigated the assessment center portion of the promotional process.
Police Maj. LaToya Porter, who runs a test-prep business to help officers prepare for the sergeant exam, has been under investigation.
She's accused of adverse conduct, creating a conflict of interest and interfering with the integrity of an administrative investigation and giving misleading and conflicting statements during an internal affairs investigation, Lt. Mike Igo told the Dallas Civil Service Board. Igo oversaw the investigation.
Dracut won't rush for outcome with hearings for police officers
Read more: http://www.lowellsun.com/news/ci_316492 ... z56Rz0GqiM
https://apnews.com/80b569bdc02243c4b145 ... tion-trial
Closing arguments set in Baltimore police corruption trial
BALTIMORE — Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys are set to make their closing arguments in the trial of two Baltimore detectives fighting racketeering and robbery charges. The case involves one of the worst U.S. police corruption scandals in recent memory.
The jury trial has been fueled by testimony from disgraced ex-detectives. Four of six former Baltimore detectives who pleaded guilty have testified for the government, providing jaw-dropping revelations about their time on a disbanded police unit.
They have admitted to breaking into homes, stealing cash, and staging
https://apnews.com/23507add821b480c9168 ... aulted-him
Suspect alleges Chicago officer sexually assaulted him
CHICAGO
The Chicago Police Department is investigating allegations that
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.3804603
Black Lives Matter activist who snatched Confederate flag from protester on live TV is fatally shot in Louisiana
BY JESSICA CHIA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, February 7, 2018, 3:19 AM
Sheriff captured on bodycam saying 'I love this s--t' after ordering deputies to shoot unarmed man
BY JESSICA CHIA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, February 7, 2018, 5:43 AM
A Tennessee sheriff ordered his deputies to shoot an unarmed man during a slow-speed car chase so they wouldn’t damage their patrol cars by ramming him off the road, according to a lawsuit.
Sheriff Oddie Shoupe of White County is being sued for excessive force in the death of Michael Dial, who was fatally shot by police while driving with a suspended license on State Highway 70.
After Dial was killed, Shoupe arrived at the scene, where he was captured on a deputy's body camera saying, "I love this s--t...I thrive on it," according to the lawsuit filed by Dial's widow Robyn Spainhoward.
Dial, who was driving a pickup truck with a fully loaded trailer at maximum speeds of 50 miles per hour, led police on a chase when he refused to pull over on April 13, 2017.
Deputies tried to nudge him off the road, but Shoupe delivered orders over the radio dispatch to shoot instead, the lawsuit states.
Shoupe was later captured on another deputy's body camera recounting his orders to shoot.
“I said, 'Don’t ram him, shoot him.' F--k that s--t. Ain’t gonna tear my cars up. But I got two cars tore up again,” Shoupe said, according to the lawsuit.
He added, “Let me tell you something (Deputy) Gaw, if they don’t think I’ll give the order to kill that motherf--ker, they’re full of s--t.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... -1.3803906
Brooklyn NYPD precinct supervisor accused of smoking pot hit with modified duty
BY ROCCO PARASCANDOLA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, February 7, 2018, 4:01 AM
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/ ... l:trending
ATF agent’s case highlights treatment of women within the agency
Special agent SherryAnn Quindley said she laughed when her new ATF boss told her, “I’m going to break you.”
Quindey, who had tackled bombings, shootings, drug trafficking, and organized crime, thought it must be a joke. Her friends and coworkers at the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives knew her as a fighter, a survivor who beat breast cancer.
Yet, she felt powerless against this new supervisor, who, according to federal documents, sexually harassed or discriminated against her and other women at the agency
Link du jour
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... ad99d7298e
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/image ... ts.siu.pdf
https://www.ganglandnews.com
http://bangordailynews.com/2018/02/07/b ... lmon-farm/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... first-time
http://www.newsweek.com/chemical-mcdona ... say-799439
http://bangordailynews.com/2018/02/07/h ... -advocate/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... is-reveals
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... ris-france
http://www.nypdconfidential.com
https://www.aclumaine.org/en/take-actio ... ur-privacy
https://privacysos.org/social-media-mon ... rosshairs/
SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING IN BOSTON: FREE SPEECH IN THE CROSSHAIRS
The ACLU of Massachusetts obtained documents through the Massachusetts Public Records Law revealing that the Boston Police Department’s (BPD’s) Boston Regional Intelligence Center used a social media surveillance system called Geofeedia to conduct online surveillance in 2014, 2015, and 2016. This system explicitly targeted users’ First Amendment protected speech and association. It collected thousands of social media posts about political and social activism, current events, religious issues, and personal matters irrelevant to law enforcement concerns. It treated ordinary citizens discussing ordinary affairs as justifiable targets of surveillance.
What it did not do, according to the documents, was deter or help solve serious crimes. There is no indication that the wide net BPD cast over social media using Geofeedia was ever instrumental in preempting terrorism or other violence, solving serious crimes, or providing the residents of Boston with any other public safety benefit. This is unsurprising, given that many of the search terms fed into — or, frequently, provided by — Geofeedia were terms associated with political activism, like “#blacklivesmatter” and “protest.” BPD also used the software to track Boston Public Schools students protesting budget cuts. Perhaps most disturbingly, BPD used Geofeedia to monitor the use of various basic Arabic words used in everyday conversations and the hashtag “#muslimlivesmatter,” suggesting that BPD considered Muslims as a group to be legitimate targets of surveillance. Even in cases where BPD searched for keywords actually related to terrorist groups, like “ISIS,” a review of the posts BPD collected pursuant to that search term revealed that the surveillance turned up nothing criminal or even suspicious. The posts mentioning ISIS were either jokes or references to current events.
The Geofeedia files provide further evidence that police social media surveillance systems, operated in the dark without any public scrutiny, are likely to treat people as inherently suspicious based on their race, religion, or ethnicity, or because they are politically active, without advancing public safety or criminal investigations. The records demonstrate the clear need for both transparency and procedural safeguards to ensure that this type of software is subject to public scrutiny and ongoing oversight before it is used again.
In response to these revelations about BPD’s social media monitoring, we recommend the following:
The Boston Police Department should change its privacy policy to forbid:
the collection or sharing of information about people who are not suspected of specific, articulable, criminal activity, with designated, enumerated exceptions for situations like missing persons investigations; and
surveillance based on race, religion, national origin, and protected political speech and association, except in cases lwhere the Department has reasonable grounds to believe that a person has committed a crime and their protected activity or status is directly relevant to the investigation.
The Boston City Council should pass a municipal law requiring a transparent, democratic process before BPD acquires new surveillance technologies to mandate community control over surveillance. Doing so would ensure that any future social media monitoring technology is only acquired after a public debate, and with City Council approval. The Mayor of Somerville recently established such a policy, and the City Council in Cambridge is currently working on an ordinance. The City of Seattle and Santa Clara County have both adopted ordinances based on ACLU models.
The Massachusetts state legislature should pass the Fundamental Freedoms Act, which would forbid public agencies including police departments from collecting information about people’s First Amendment protected activities, speech, beliefs, and associations, except in cases where law enforcement has reasonable grounds to believe that a person has committed a crime and their protected activity or status is directly relevant to the investigation.
Police officers are charged with protecting not only public safety but also individual rights. Social media monitoring that turns Muslims, politically active residents, and others into “persons of interest” without demonstrated utility in solving crimes accomplishes neither of these aims. We need transparency, accountability, and government and community oversight to ensure that this does not happen again.
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‘If we don’t work together we should be fired’: Ex-CIA agent calls for closer ties with Russia
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BY BRINKWIRE ON FEBRUARY 13, 2018
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/ ... 329697002/
Michigan State Police internal affairs chief reassigned from her post — then reinstated
Feb. 13, 2018 | Updated 11:43 a.m. ET Feb. 13, 2018
LANSING – The head of the Michigan State Police internal affairs section, who led an investigation that resulted in her director, Col. Kriste Kibbey Etue, having to work five days without pay over a controversial Facebook post, was reassigned last week, then reinstated after the Free Press raised questions about the move.
First Lt. Twana Powell was also in charge of a recently completed towing-related internal affairs investigation that officials said was sparked by the ongoing FBI bribery case involving metro Detroit towing titan Gasper Fiore.
MSP spokeswoman Shanon Banner confirmed the department announced internally last week that Powell had been transferred to recruitment and training, in what the MSP described as a lateral move, "to assist ... with background investigations for applicants" wishing to join the department.
The Free Press raised questions about the transfer Friday morning. On Friday afternoon, Banner said Powell's transfer had been "reconsidered and ... Powell is going to remain as the commander of the Professional Standards Section," also known as internal affairs.
Link du jour
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/13/geo ... c-primary/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.3818550
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... -1.3818600
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/13/can ... ign-money/
http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/ne ... -1.3818636
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/13/vir ... ergy-bill/
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... -1.3818603
NYPD detective allegedly scammed New Yorkers out of $1.5M by stealing their bank info to pay off debts
BY GRAHAM RAYMAN LEONARD GREENE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 4:08 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... -1.3818938
NYPD cop found guilty after forging deed, stealing blind man’s Brooklyn home
BY CHRISTINA CARREGA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 6:08
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... ardi-gras/
February 13, 2018
Read the FBI’s guide to Mardi Gras
Mostly redacted assessments warn of potential threat from religious fundamentalists, white supremacists, and Occupy Mardi Gras
Written by JPat Brown
Edited by Beryl Lipton
In response to a FOIA request, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has released several years’ worth of Special Event Threat Assessments regarding Mardi Gras …
which, as the Bureau repeatedly reminds us, “literally means ‘Fat Tuesday’.”
Like previous SETAs we’ve seen, the reports are heavily redacted, though what remains cites potential danger from religious fundamentalists …
white supremacists …
and, oddly enough, Occupy Mardi Gras.
The latter is only identified in a unredacted footnote that most likely refers to the section on “Potential Protests or Disruptions,” however an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force report from the year prior had listed Occupy Wall Street among domestic terrorist groups.
FBI investigated decades of
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... legations/ allegations against Scientology, both foreign and domestic
Charges included murder, money laundering, and even child slavery
Written by Emma Best
Edited by JPat Brown
Recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation files, obtained in the ongoing lawsuit against the Bureau brought by the author and represented pro bono by Dan Novack, describe several investigations into the Church of Scientology, both foreign and domestic.
The first investigation detailed in the new files appears to involve Interpol and several FBI field offices, touching on an Internal Revenue Service investigation into COS, an allegedly murdered informant and a shredding party designed to cover-up Scientology money laundering. The second investigation originated in the Netherlands and looked at criminal behavior that included queries on terrorist and anti-democratic activity from Scientology. In response, the Bureau produced a memo acknowledging that they had “received numerous allegations of criminal violations against COS, including kidnapping, extortion, violations of child labor laws, prostitution, drugs and theft.”
The first of the two investigations discussed in the new files appears to date back to September 7th, 1988 with a teletype from the FBI Director to the Bureau’s field offices in Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Tampa. Although unclassified, the teletype was marked for the immediate attention of personnel at the various field offices.
The teletype describes a letter rogatory, or letter of request, from a party whose identity remains redacted. According to the Director’s teletype, the unidentified party wished to travel to the U.S. as part of an investigation “involving the Church of Scientology.” The request was forwarded to Interpol by the DOJ’s Office of International Affairs.
The request was considered urgent, likely due to the time constraints. If possible, the party which had sent the letters rogatory wanted to interview specific subjects by the week of September 12th. The Bureau wanted to be have an update on the status of potential witnesses for the DOJ, and presumably Interpol, “by close of business, September 8, 1988.”
The Director’s teletype makes it clear that the Bureau wasn’t investigating Scientology, despite its desire to help the requesting party with their investigation, including identifying and locating witnesses. The Bureau was “only assisting” the unidentified party in their investigation.
The requests for assistance seem to have been rather specific, going so far as to include specific questions for potential witnesses.
One of the witnesses in Boston that the Bureau sought to contact had been of assistance with several past probes. In Los Angeles, the FBI wanted to contact the IRS’ Criminal Division about investigations into Scientology’s “possible financial transgressions.”
The IRS would later respond that they would be unable to be interviewed, due to a pending tax investigation against Scientology. In order to be interviewed, the IRS agents in question required a specific request from IRS Headquarters.
The tax investigation in question appears to have scared Scientology’s leadership, according to a report the FBI received from an informant about Scientology’s alleged plans to destroy financial documents, including memos reportedly written by L. Ron Hubbard himself. Hubbard had allegedly warned that the COS could never allow the material to fall into the hands of “any outside source.” [emphasis in original]
According to the source, the roughly 30,000 pages of materials set to be destroyed detailed Scientology’s money laundering efforts, detailing how Scientology “acquires, allocates, reports, and distributes their income and how they hide assets.”
The informant warned that as a result of the Bureau’s last raid, people within Scientology had been hurt - “some financially, others physically.” One of the memos reportedly set to be destroyed identified someone that Scientology’s leadership had been informing to the Bureau. The memo, apparently called an “internal policy letter,” allegedly stated that they should “under no circumstances” be allowed to leave the organization, with death being an acceptable measure to prevent their departure. According to the anonymous informant, the individual was killed. The Bureau notified the Assistant U.S. Attorney for Los Angeles as well as the Las Vegas Division, though the portion of the file released doesn’t show how they followed up on the lead.
The Bureau also wanted to contact specific witnesses in Los Angeles, including informants who had “been effective members of the Church of Scientology and have held important offices in the organization including the management of money.” Other witnesses in L.A. were believed to have information on “various documents concerning the policies of Ron Hubbard the content of which is particularly interesting” to the requesting party.
‘If we don’t work together we should be fired’: Ex-CIA agent calls for closer ties with Russia
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BY BRINKWIRE ON FEBRUARY 13, 2018
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/ ... 329697002/
Michigan State Police internal affairs chief reassigned from her post — then reinstated
Feb. 13, 2018 | Updated 11:43 a.m. ET Feb. 13, 2018
LANSING – The head of the Michigan State Police internal affairs section, who led an investigation that resulted in her director, Col. Kriste Kibbey Etue, having to work five days without pay over a controversial Facebook post, was reassigned last week, then reinstated after the Free Press raised questions about the move.
First Lt. Twana Powell was also in charge of a recently completed towing-related internal affairs investigation that officials said was sparked by the ongoing FBI bribery case involving metro Detroit towing titan Gasper Fiore.
MSP spokeswoman Shanon Banner confirmed the department announced internally last week that Powell had been transferred to recruitment and training, in what the MSP described as a lateral move, "to assist ... with background investigations for applicants" wishing to join the department.
The Free Press raised questions about the transfer Friday morning. On Friday afternoon, Banner said Powell's transfer had been "reconsidered and ... Powell is going to remain as the commander of the Professional Standards Section," also known as internal affairs.
Link du jour
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/13/geo ... c-primary/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.3818550
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... -1.3818600
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/13/can ... ign-money/
http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/ne ... -1.3818636
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/13/vir ... ergy-bill/
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... -1.3818603
NYPD detective allegedly scammed New Yorkers out of $1.5M by stealing their bank info to pay off debts
BY GRAHAM RAYMAN LEONARD GREENE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 4:08 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... -1.3818938
NYPD cop found guilty after forging deed, stealing blind man’s Brooklyn home
BY CHRISTINA CARREGA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 6:08
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... ardi-gras/
February 13, 2018
Read the FBI’s guide to Mardi Gras
Mostly redacted assessments warn of potential threat from religious fundamentalists, white supremacists, and Occupy Mardi Gras
Written by JPat Brown
Edited by Beryl Lipton
In response to a FOIA request, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has released several years’ worth of Special Event Threat Assessments regarding Mardi Gras …
which, as the Bureau repeatedly reminds us, “literally means ‘Fat Tuesday’.”
Like previous SETAs we’ve seen, the reports are heavily redacted, though what remains cites potential danger from religious fundamentalists …
white supremacists …
and, oddly enough, Occupy Mardi Gras.
The latter is only identified in a unredacted footnote that most likely refers to the section on “Potential Protests or Disruptions,” however an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force report from the year prior had listed Occupy Wall Street among domestic terrorist groups.
FBI investigated decades of
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... legations/ allegations against Scientology, both foreign and domestic
Charges included murder, money laundering, and even child slavery
Written by Emma Best
Edited by JPat Brown
Recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation files, obtained in the ongoing lawsuit against the Bureau brought by the author and represented pro bono by Dan Novack, describe several investigations into the Church of Scientology, both foreign and domestic.
The first investigation detailed in the new files appears to involve Interpol and several FBI field offices, touching on an Internal Revenue Service investigation into COS, an allegedly murdered informant and a shredding party designed to cover-up Scientology money laundering. The second investigation originated in the Netherlands and looked at criminal behavior that included queries on terrorist and anti-democratic activity from Scientology. In response, the Bureau produced a memo acknowledging that they had “received numerous allegations of criminal violations against COS, including kidnapping, extortion, violations of child labor laws, prostitution, drugs and theft.”
The first of the two investigations discussed in the new files appears to date back to September 7th, 1988 with a teletype from the FBI Director to the Bureau’s field offices in Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Tampa. Although unclassified, the teletype was marked for the immediate attention of personnel at the various field offices.
The teletype describes a letter rogatory, or letter of request, from a party whose identity remains redacted. According to the Director’s teletype, the unidentified party wished to travel to the U.S. as part of an investigation “involving the Church of Scientology.” The request was forwarded to Interpol by the DOJ’s Office of International Affairs.
The request was considered urgent, likely due to the time constraints. If possible, the party which had sent the letters rogatory wanted to interview specific subjects by the week of September 12th. The Bureau wanted to be have an update on the status of potential witnesses for the DOJ, and presumably Interpol, “by close of business, September 8, 1988.”
The Director’s teletype makes it clear that the Bureau wasn’t investigating Scientology, despite its desire to help the requesting party with their investigation, including identifying and locating witnesses. The Bureau was “only assisting” the unidentified party in their investigation.
The requests for assistance seem to have been rather specific, going so far as to include specific questions for potential witnesses.
One of the witnesses in Boston that the Bureau sought to contact had been of assistance with several past probes. In Los Angeles, the FBI wanted to contact the IRS’ Criminal Division about investigations into Scientology’s “possible financial transgressions.”
The IRS would later respond that they would be unable to be interviewed, due to a pending tax investigation against Scientology. In order to be interviewed, the IRS agents in question required a specific request from IRS Headquarters.
The tax investigation in question appears to have scared Scientology’s leadership, according to a report the FBI received from an informant about Scientology’s alleged plans to destroy financial documents, including memos reportedly written by L. Ron Hubbard himself. Hubbard had allegedly warned that the COS could never allow the material to fall into the hands of “any outside source.” [emphasis in original]
According to the source, the roughly 30,000 pages of materials set to be destroyed detailed Scientology’s money laundering efforts, detailing how Scientology “acquires, allocates, reports, and distributes their income and how they hide assets.”
The informant warned that as a result of the Bureau’s last raid, people within Scientology had been hurt - “some financially, others physically.” One of the memos reportedly set to be destroyed identified someone that Scientology’s leadership had been informing to the Bureau. The memo, apparently called an “internal policy letter,” allegedly stated that they should “under no circumstances” be allowed to leave the organization, with death being an acceptable measure to prevent their departure. According to the anonymous informant, the individual was killed. The Bureau notified the Assistant U.S. Attorney for Los Angeles as well as the Las Vegas Division, though the portion of the file released doesn’t show how they followed up on the lead.
The Bureau also wanted to contact specific witnesses in Los Angeles, including informants who had “been effective members of the Church of Scientology and have held important offices in the organization including the management of money.” Other witnesses in L.A. were believed to have information on “various documents concerning the policies of Ron Hubbard the content of which is particularly interesting” to the requesting party.
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From: Denton, David <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2019 4:52 PM
To: Ed Tatro
Subject: Updated JFK Conference Information - April 4th - 8th - Olney Central College
One of our many, excellent speakers that will be presenting at our conference entitled “Political Assassinations of the 1960s,” is Lisa Pease, who is an outstanding JFK and RFK assassination researcher. Lisa has just released an important, ground-breaking book on the RFK assassination, “A Lie too Big to Fail.” She will be one of our keynote speakers at our banquet Saturday night, and will be giving presentations on Friday and Saturday, as well.
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9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
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Draft agenda for September 25, 2019
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*Important note! Phil Giraldi will be joining us to talk about his 2018 article “Why confronting Israel is important,” but he will not be making a presentation. Instead, he will answer questions about the article, which means that it would be ideal if as many of us as possible were able to read it in advance of the call. You’ll see a link to the article in the text below and the entire article is copied below the agenda.
Greetings all,
To follow up on the announcement just above, Phil Giraldi will be our very special guest for Wednesday’s teleconference. He is a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer who served eighteen years overseas in Turkey, Italy, Germany, and Spain. He was Chief of Base in Barcelona from 1989 to 1992 designated as the Agency’s senior officer for Olympic Games support.
His columns on terrorism, intelligence, and security issues regularly appear in The American Conservative magazine, Huffington Post, and Antiwar.com. He has written op-ed pieces for the Hearst Newspaper chain, has appeared on Good Morning America, MSNBC, National Public Radio, and local affiliates of ABC television.
Phil will be answering questions on his article “Why confronting Israel is important.” You can read the article by following this link: https://councilforthenationalinterest.org/?p=4588 Or you can read it in its entirety below. We hope everyone will take the time to read the piece and come armed with their questions on Wednesday night!
Our second speaker, Joanne Trachera, was born and raised in Hawaii. She has earned Masters degrees in Vocational Rehabilitation and Educational Counseling, and speaks three languages besides English - Spanish, Portuguese, and Hawaiian Pidgin English. She became a researcher after Barack “Barry” Obama rose to national prominence. And on our call she will give us the benefit of her personal examination of the Obama “deception.”
And finally, we’ll hear from anyone with news about 9/11 anniversary events around the world. There was certainly a lot to be encouraged by this year on the heels of the release of the University of Alaska Fairbanks study on Building 7, the fire district resolution passed in Nassau County, New York, the continuing grand jury effort by the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, and the lawsuit against the FBI for its failure to investigate 9/11 evidence.
It should be a great call on Wednesday and we hope you join us!
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DRAFT AGENDA for Wednesday August 28 teleconference
I Roll call/ Minutes approval (copied below)/Agenda approval (5 min)
II Confronting Israel [Phil Giraldi] (30 min. Q&A, no presentation)
III The Obama deception [Joanne Trachera] (20 min. + 10 Q&A)
IV Anniversary events [open discussion] (20 min.)
V Announcements
VI Updates on 9/11 topics (as needed)
New articles, books, films, or recent news about 9/11 or other Deep State crimes
9/11 and the Deep State on the legal front, including current adjudicatory efforts by Lawyers for 9/11 Inquiry, JASTA, 28 pages, William Pepper’s efforts with AE911Truth against NIST and the Dept. of Commerce
Censorship and cognitive infiltration: new examples of censorship or harassment of members of the Truth community; MSM treatment of 9/11 Truth
Google (et al.) censorship
9/11 Truth political candidates
VIII Adjournment
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Why Confronting Israel Is Important
Aug 15 2018 / 12:21 pm
The Jewish state is no friend
By Philip Giraldi
I am often asked why I have this “thing” about Israel, with friends suggesting that I would be much more respected as a pundit if I were to instead concentrate on national security and political corruption. The problem with that formulation is that the so-called “special relationship” with Israel is itself the result of terrible national security and foreign policy choices that is sustained by pervasive political and media corruption, so any honest attempt to examine the one inevitably leads to the other. Most talking heads in the media avoid that dilemma by choosing to completely ignore the dark side of Israel.
Israel – not Russia – is the one foreign country that can interfere with impunity with the political processes in the United States yet it is immune from criticism. It is also the single most significant threat to genuine national security as it and its powerful domestic lobby have been major advocates for the continuation of America’s interventionist warfare state. The decision to go to war on false pretenses against Iraq, largely promoted by a cabal of prominent American Jews in the Pentagon and in the media, killed 4,424 Americans as well as hundreds of thousands Iraqis and will wind up costing the American taxpayer $7 trillion dollars when all the bills are paid. That same group of mostly Jewish neocons more-or-less is now agitating to go to war with Iran using a game plan for escalation prepared by Israel which will, if anything, prove even more catastrophic.
And I can go on from there. According to the FBI, Israel runs the most aggressive spying operations against the U.S. among ostensibly “friendly” nations, frequently stealing our military technology for resale by its own arms merchants. Its notable successes in espionage have included the most devastating spy in U.S. history Jonathan Pollard, while it has also penetrated American communications systems and illegally obtained both the fuel and the triggers for its own secret nuclear weapons arsenal.
Israel cares little for American sovereignty. It’s prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu have both boasted how they control the United States. In 2001, Israel was running a massive secret spying operation directed against Arabs in the U.S. Many in the intelligence and law enforcement communities suspect that it had considerable prior intelligence regarding the 9/11 plot but did not share it with Washington. There was the spectacle of the “dancing Shlomos,” Israeli “movers” from a company in New Jersey who apparently had advanced knowledge of the terrorist attack and danced and celebrated as they watched the Twin Towers go down.
Jewish power, both in terms of money and of access to people and mechanisms that really matter, is what allows Israel to act with impunity, making the United States both poorer and more insecure. A well-funded massive lobbying effort involving hundreds of groups and thousands of individuals in the U.S. has worked to the detriment of actual American interests, in part by creating a permanent annual gift of billions of dollars to Israel for no other reason but that it is Israel and can get anything it wants from a servile Congress and White House without any objection from a controlled media.
Israel has also obtained carte blanche political protection from the U.S. in fora like the United Nations, which is damaging to America’s reputation and its actual interests. This protection now extends to the basing of U.S. troops in Israel to serve as a tripwire, guaranteeing that Washington will become involved if Israel is ever attacked or even if Israel itself starts a war. The current U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley is little more than a shill for Israel while America’s Ambassador in Israel David Friedman is an open supporter of Israel’s illegal settlements, which the U.S. opposes, who spends much of his time defending Israeli war crimes.
And here on the home front Israel is doing damage that might be viewed as even more grave in Senator Ben Cardin’s attempt to destroy First Amendment rights by making any criticism of Israel illegal. The non-violent Israel Boycott movement (BDS) has already been sanctioned in many states, the result of intensive and successful lobbying by the Israeli government and its powerful friends.
So if there is a real enemy of the United States in terms of the actual damage being inflicted by a foreign power, it is Israel. In the recent Russiagate investigations it was revealed that it was Israel, not Russia, that sought favors from Michael Flynn and the incoming Trump Administration yet Special Counsel Robert Mueller has evidently not chosen to go down that road with his investigations, which should surprise no one.
Noam Chomsky, iconic progressive intellectual, has finally come around on the issue of Israel and what it means. He has always argued somewhat incoherently that Israeli misbehavior has been due to its role as a tool of American imperialism and capitalism. At age 89, he has finally figured out that it is actually all about what a parasitic Israel wants without any regard for its American host, observing on “Democracy Now” that
..take, say, the huge issue of interference in our pristine elections. Did the Russians interfere in our elections? An issue of overwhelming concern in the media. I mean, in most of the world, that’s almost a joke. First of all, if you’re interested in foreign interference in our elections, whatever the Russians may have done barely counts or weighs in the balance as compared with what another state does, openly, brazenly and with enormous support. Israeli intervention in U.S. elections vastly overwhelms anything the Russians may have done… I mean, even to the point where the prime minister of Israel, Netanyahu, goes directly to Congress, without even informing the president, and speaks to Congress, with overwhelming applause, to try to undermine the president’s policies – what happened with Obama and Netanyahu in 2015….
Politicians are terrified of crossing the Jewish lobby by saying anything negative about Israel, which means that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu always gets a pass from the American government, even when he starves civilians and bombs hospitals and schools. Netanyahu uses snipers to shoot dead scores of unarmed demonstrators and the snipers themselves joke about their kills without a peep from Washington, which styles itself the “leader of the free world.”
Just recently, Israel has declared itself a Jewish State with all that implies. To be sure, Israeli Christians and Muslims were already subject to a battery of laws and regulations that empowered Jews at their expense but now it is the guiding principle that Israel will be run for the benefit of Jews and Jews alone. And it still likes to call itself a “democracy.”
A recent television program illustrates just how far the subjugation of America’s elected leaders by Israel has gone. British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is featured on a new show called “Who is America?” in which he uses disguises and aliases to engage politicians and other luminaries in unscripted interviews that reveal just how ignorant or mendacious they actually are. Several recent episodes remind one of a February 2013 Saturday Night Live skit on the impending confirmation of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense. A Senator asks Hagel. “It is vital to Israel’s security for you to go on national television and perform oral sex on a donkey… Would you do THAT for Israel?” A “yes” answer was, of course, expected from Hagel. The skit was never aired after objections from the usual suspects.
Baron Cohen, who confronted several GOP notables in the guise of Colonel Erran Morad, an Israeli security specialist, provided a number of clues that his interview was a sham but none of the victims were smart enough to pick up on them. Cohen, wearing an Israeli military uniform and calling himself a colonel, clearly displayed sergeant’s stripes. Hinting that he might actually be a Mossad agent, Cohen also sported a T-shirt on which the Hebrew text was printed backwards and he claimed that the Israeli spy agency’s motto was “if you want to win, show some skin.”
Cohen set up Dick Cheney by complimenting him on being the “the king of terrorist killers” before commenting that “my neighbor in Tel Aviv is in jail for murder, or, as we call it, enhanced tickling.” Morad went on to tell Cheney that he once waterboarded his wife to check for infidelity and then convinced the former Vice President to sign a “waterboarding kit” that “already had” the signatures of Benjamin Netanyahu, Ariel Sharon and Demi Lovato.
Another more spectacular sketch included a Georgia state senator Jason Spencer who was convinced to shout out the n-word as part of an alleged video being made to fight terrorism. After Cohen told Spencer that it was necessary to incite fear in homophobic jihadists, Spencer dropped his pants and underwear, before backing up with his exposed rear end while shouting “USA!” and “America!” Spencer also spoke with a phony Asian accent while simulating using a selfie-stick to secretly insert a camera phone inside a Muslim woman’s burqa.
In another series of encounters, Cohen as Morad managed to convince current and ex-Republican members of Congress — to include former Senate majority leader Trent Lott — to endorse a fictional Israeli program to arm grade school children for self-defense.
Cohen’s footage included a former Illinois congressman and talk radio host named Joe Walsh saying: “The intensive three-week ‘Kinderguardian’ course introduces specially selected children from 12 to 4 years old to pistols, rifles, semiautomatics and a rudimentary knowledge of mortars. In less than a month — less than a month — a first-grader can become a first grenade-er.”
Both controversial Alabama judge Roy Moore and Walsh were fooled into meeting Cohen to attend a non-existent pro-Israel conference to accept an award for “significant contributions to the state of Israel.” Representative Dana Rohrabacher, meanwhile, also was interviewed and he commented that, “Maybe having young people trained and understand how to defend themselves and their school might actually make us safer here.” And Congressman Joe Wilson observed that “A 3-year-old cannot defend itself from an assault rifle by throwing a ‘Hello Kitty’ pencil case at it.”
Cohen’s performance is instructive. A man shows up in Israeli uniform, claims to be a terrorism expert or even a Mossad agent, and he gains access to powerful Americans who are willing to do anything he says. How Cohen did it says a lot about the reflexive and completely uncritical support for Israel that many American politicians — particularly Republicans — now embrace. This, in a nutshell, is the damage that Israel and its Lobby have done to the United States. Israel is always right for many policymakers and even palpably phony Jews like Colonel Morad are instantly perceived as smarter than the rest of us so we’d better do what they say. That kind of thinking has brought us Iraq, Libya, Syria and the possibility of something far worse with Iran.
Israel routinely interferes in American politics and corrupts our institutions without any cost to itself and that is why I write and speak frequently regarding the danger to our Republic that it poses. It is past time to change the essentially phony narrative. Israel is nothing but trouble. It has the right to defend itself and protect its interests but that should not involve the United States. One can only hope that eventually a majority of my fellow American citizens will also figure things out. It might take a while, but the ruthless way Israel openly operates with no concern for anyone but itself provides a measure of optimism that that day is surely coming.
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*Important note! Phil Giraldi will be joining us to talk about his 2018 article “Why confronting Israel is important,” but he will not be making a presentation. Instead, he will answer questions about the article, which means that it would be ideal if as many of us as possible were able to read it in advance of the call. You’ll see a link to the article in the text below and the entire article is copied below the agenda.
Greetings all,
To follow up on the announcement just above, Phil Giraldi will be our very special guest for Wednesday’s teleconference. He is a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer who served eighteen years overseas in Turkey, Italy, Germany, and Spain. He was Chief of Base in Barcelona from 1989 to 1992 designated as the Agency’s senior officer for Olympic Games support.
His columns on terrorism, intelligence, and security issues regularly appear in The American Conservative magazine, Huffington Post, and Antiwar.com. He has written op-ed pieces for the Hearst Newspaper chain, has appeared on Good Morning America, MSNBC, National Public Radio, and local affiliates of ABC television.
Phil will be answering questions on his article “Why confronting Israel is important.” You can read the article by following this link: https://councilforthenationalinterest.org/?p=4588 Or you can read it in its entirety below. We hope everyone will take the time to read the piece and come armed with their questions on Wednesday night!
Our second speaker, Joanne Trachera, was born and raised in Hawaii. She has earned Masters degrees in Vocational Rehabilitation and Educational Counseling, and speaks three languages besides English - Spanish, Portuguese, and Hawaiian Pidgin English. She became a researcher after Barack “Barry” Obama rose to national prominence. And on our call she will give us the benefit of her personal examination of the Obama “deception.”
And finally, we’ll hear from anyone with news about 9/11 anniversary events around the world. There was certainly a lot to be encouraged by this year on the heels of the release of the University of Alaska Fairbanks study on Building 7, the fire district resolution passed in Nassau County, New York, the continuing grand jury effort by the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, and the lawsuit against the FBI for its failure to investigate 9/11 evidence.
It should be a great call on Wednesday and we hope you join us!
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DRAFT AGENDA for Wednesday August 28 teleconference
I Roll call/ Minutes approval (copied below)/Agenda approval (5 min)
II Confronting Israel [Phil Giraldi] (30 min. Q&A, no presentation)
III The Obama deception [Joanne Trachera] (20 min. + 10 Q&A)
IV Anniversary events [open discussion] (20 min.)
V Announcements
VI Updates on 9/11 topics (as needed)
New articles, books, films, or recent news about 9/11 or other Deep State crimes
9/11 and the Deep State on the legal front, including current adjudicatory efforts by Lawyers for 9/11 Inquiry, JASTA, 28 pages, William Pepper’s efforts with AE911Truth against NIST and the Dept. of Commerce
Censorship and cognitive infiltration: new examples of censorship or harassment of members of the Truth community; MSM treatment of 9/11 Truth
Google (et al.) censorship
9/11 Truth political candidates
VIII Adjournment
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Why Confronting Israel Is Important
Aug 15 2018 / 12:21 pm
The Jewish state is no friend
By Philip Giraldi
I am often asked why I have this “thing” about Israel, with friends suggesting that I would be much more respected as a pundit if I were to instead concentrate on national security and political corruption. The problem with that formulation is that the so-called “special relationship” with Israel is itself the result of terrible national security and foreign policy choices that is sustained by pervasive political and media corruption, so any honest attempt to examine the one inevitably leads to the other. Most talking heads in the media avoid that dilemma by choosing to completely ignore the dark side of Israel.
Israel – not Russia – is the one foreign country that can interfere with impunity with the political processes in the United States yet it is immune from criticism. It is also the single most significant threat to genuine national security as it and its powerful domestic lobby have been major advocates for the continuation of America’s interventionist warfare state. The decision to go to war on false pretenses against Iraq, largely promoted by a cabal of prominent American Jews in the Pentagon and in the media, killed 4,424 Americans as well as hundreds of thousands Iraqis and will wind up costing the American taxpayer $7 trillion dollars when all the bills are paid. That same group of mostly Jewish neocons more-or-less is now agitating to go to war with Iran using a game plan for escalation prepared by Israel which will, if anything, prove even more catastrophic.
And I can go on from there. According to the FBI, Israel runs the most aggressive spying operations against the U.S. among ostensibly “friendly” nations, frequently stealing our military technology for resale by its own arms merchants. Its notable successes in espionage have included the most devastating spy in U.S. history Jonathan Pollard, while it has also penetrated American communications systems and illegally obtained both the fuel and the triggers for its own secret nuclear weapons arsenal.
Israel cares little for American sovereignty. It’s prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu have both boasted how they control the United States. In 2001, Israel was running a massive secret spying operation directed against Arabs in the U.S. Many in the intelligence and law enforcement communities suspect that it had considerable prior intelligence regarding the 9/11 plot but did not share it with Washington. There was the spectacle of the “dancing Shlomos,” Israeli “movers” from a company in New Jersey who apparently had advanced knowledge of the terrorist attack and danced and celebrated as they watched the Twin Towers go down.
Jewish power, both in terms of money and of access to people and mechanisms that really matter, is what allows Israel to act with impunity, making the United States both poorer and more insecure. A well-funded massive lobbying effort involving hundreds of groups and thousands of individuals in the U.S. has worked to the detriment of actual American interests, in part by creating a permanent annual gift of billions of dollars to Israel for no other reason but that it is Israel and can get anything it wants from a servile Congress and White House without any objection from a controlled media.
Israel has also obtained carte blanche political protection from the U.S. in fora like the United Nations, which is damaging to America’s reputation and its actual interests. This protection now extends to the basing of U.S. troops in Israel to serve as a tripwire, guaranteeing that Washington will become involved if Israel is ever attacked or even if Israel itself starts a war. The current U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley is little more than a shill for Israel while America’s Ambassador in Israel David Friedman is an open supporter of Israel’s illegal settlements, which the U.S. opposes, who spends much of his time defending Israeli war crimes.
And here on the home front Israel is doing damage that might be viewed as even more grave in Senator Ben Cardin’s attempt to destroy First Amendment rights by making any criticism of Israel illegal. The non-violent Israel Boycott movement (BDS) has already been sanctioned in many states, the result of intensive and successful lobbying by the Israeli government and its powerful friends.
So if there is a real enemy of the United States in terms of the actual damage being inflicted by a foreign power, it is Israel. In the recent Russiagate investigations it was revealed that it was Israel, not Russia, that sought favors from Michael Flynn and the incoming Trump Administration yet Special Counsel Robert Mueller has evidently not chosen to go down that road with his investigations, which should surprise no one.
Noam Chomsky, iconic progressive intellectual, has finally come around on the issue of Israel and what it means. He has always argued somewhat incoherently that Israeli misbehavior has been due to its role as a tool of American imperialism and capitalism. At age 89, he has finally figured out that it is actually all about what a parasitic Israel wants without any regard for its American host, observing on “Democracy Now” that
..take, say, the huge issue of interference in our pristine elections. Did the Russians interfere in our elections? An issue of overwhelming concern in the media. I mean, in most of the world, that’s almost a joke. First of all, if you’re interested in foreign interference in our elections, whatever the Russians may have done barely counts or weighs in the balance as compared with what another state does, openly, brazenly and with enormous support. Israeli intervention in U.S. elections vastly overwhelms anything the Russians may have done… I mean, even to the point where the prime minister of Israel, Netanyahu, goes directly to Congress, without even informing the president, and speaks to Congress, with overwhelming applause, to try to undermine the president’s policies – what happened with Obama and Netanyahu in 2015….
Politicians are terrified of crossing the Jewish lobby by saying anything negative about Israel, which means that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu always gets a pass from the American government, even when he starves civilians and bombs hospitals and schools. Netanyahu uses snipers to shoot dead scores of unarmed demonstrators and the snipers themselves joke about their kills without a peep from Washington, which styles itself the “leader of the free world.”
Just recently, Israel has declared itself a Jewish State with all that implies. To be sure, Israeli Christians and Muslims were already subject to a battery of laws and regulations that empowered Jews at their expense but now it is the guiding principle that Israel will be run for the benefit of Jews and Jews alone. And it still likes to call itself a “democracy.”
A recent television program illustrates just how far the subjugation of America’s elected leaders by Israel has gone. British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is featured on a new show called “Who is America?” in which he uses disguises and aliases to engage politicians and other luminaries in unscripted interviews that reveal just how ignorant or mendacious they actually are. Several recent episodes remind one of a February 2013 Saturday Night Live skit on the impending confirmation of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense. A Senator asks Hagel. “It is vital to Israel’s security for you to go on national television and perform oral sex on a donkey… Would you do THAT for Israel?” A “yes” answer was, of course, expected from Hagel. The skit was never aired after objections from the usual suspects.
Baron Cohen, who confronted several GOP notables in the guise of Colonel Erran Morad, an Israeli security specialist, provided a number of clues that his interview was a sham but none of the victims were smart enough to pick up on them. Cohen, wearing an Israeli military uniform and calling himself a colonel, clearly displayed sergeant’s stripes. Hinting that he might actually be a Mossad agent, Cohen also sported a T-shirt on which the Hebrew text was printed backwards and he claimed that the Israeli spy agency’s motto was “if you want to win, show some skin.”
Cohen set up Dick Cheney by complimenting him on being the “the king of terrorist killers” before commenting that “my neighbor in Tel Aviv is in jail for murder, or, as we call it, enhanced tickling.” Morad went on to tell Cheney that he once waterboarded his wife to check for infidelity and then convinced the former Vice President to sign a “waterboarding kit” that “already had” the signatures of Benjamin Netanyahu, Ariel Sharon and Demi Lovato.
Another more spectacular sketch included a Georgia state senator Jason Spencer who was convinced to shout out the n-word as part of an alleged video being made to fight terrorism. After Cohen told Spencer that it was necessary to incite fear in homophobic jihadists, Spencer dropped his pants and underwear, before backing up with his exposed rear end while shouting “USA!” and “America!” Spencer also spoke with a phony Asian accent while simulating using a selfie-stick to secretly insert a camera phone inside a Muslim woman’s burqa.
In another series of encounters, Cohen as Morad managed to convince current and ex-Republican members of Congress — to include former Senate majority leader Trent Lott — to endorse a fictional Israeli program to arm grade school children for self-defense.
Cohen’s footage included a former Illinois congressman and talk radio host named Joe Walsh saying: “The intensive three-week ‘Kinderguardian’ course introduces specially selected children from 12 to 4 years old to pistols, rifles, semiautomatics and a rudimentary knowledge of mortars. In less than a month — less than a month — a first-grader can become a first grenade-er.”
Both controversial Alabama judge Roy Moore and Walsh were fooled into meeting Cohen to attend a non-existent pro-Israel conference to accept an award for “significant contributions to the state of Israel.” Representative Dana Rohrabacher, meanwhile, also was interviewed and he commented that, “Maybe having young people trained and understand how to defend themselves and their school might actually make us safer here.” And Congressman Joe Wilson observed that “A 3-year-old cannot defend itself from an assault rifle by throwing a ‘Hello Kitty’ pencil case at it.”
Cohen’s performance is instructive. A man shows up in Israeli uniform, claims to be a terrorism expert or even a Mossad agent, and he gains access to powerful Americans who are willing to do anything he says. How Cohen did it says a lot about the reflexive and completely uncritical support for Israel that many American politicians — particularly Republicans — now embrace. This, in a nutshell, is the damage that Israel and its Lobby have done to the United States. Israel is always right for many policymakers and even palpably phony Jews like Colonel Morad are instantly perceived as smarter than the rest of us so we’d better do what they say. That kind of thinking has brought us Iraq, Libya, Syria and the possibility of something far worse with Iran.
Israel routinely interferes in American politics and corrupts our institutions without any cost to itself and that is why I write and speak frequently regarding the danger to our Republic that it poses. It is past time to change the essentially phony narrative. Israel is nothing but trouble. It has the right to defend itself and protect its interests but that should not involve the United States. One can only hope that eventually a majority of my fellow American citizens will also figure things out. It might take a while, but the ruthless way Israel openly operates with no concern for anyone but itself provides a measure of optimism that that day is surely coming.
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Exclusive Interview with FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds
By Khatchig Mouradian • on August 21, 2009 • Email This Post
On April 23, 2007, I sat down in Washington, D.C. with FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds for an extensive interview, which was published in the Armenian Weekly and on ZNet and widely circulated. On Aug. 18, 2009, I conducted a follow-up phone interview with Edmonds, who was visiting New Zealand. The interview is an overview of what has transpired in her case since 2007, with emphasis on her deposition in the Schmidt vs. Krikorian case in Ohio earlier this month.
Edmonds, an FBI language specialist, was fired from her job with the FBI’s Washington Field Office in March 2002. Her crime was reporting security breaches, cover-ups, blocking of intelligence, and the bribery of U.S. individuals including high-ranking officials. The “state secrets privilege” has often been invoked to block court proceedings on her case, and the U.S. Congress has even been gagged to prevent further discussion.Edmonds uncovered, for example, a covert relationship between Turkish groups and former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), who reportedly received tens of thousands of dollars in bribes in return for withdrawing the Armenian Genocide Resolution from the House floor in 2000.
Born in Iran in 1970, Edmonds received her BA in criminal justice and psychology from George Washington University, and her MA in public policy and international commerce from George Mason University. She is the founder and director of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC) and in 2006 received the PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award. She speaks Turkish, Farsi, and Azerbaijani.
Below is the full transcript of the follow-up interview.
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Khatchig Mouradian—I asked you in 2007 what had changed during the five years since 2002, when you first contacted the Senate
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“I don't know what reasons they had, why they just didn't do money. They needed -- I was trained as a language specialist by my agent for -- to find personal information, and one of the things that we was taught in the FBI -- everyone was taught in the counterintelligence -- that the target U.S. persons, whether they are in Congress or executive branch or whatever, first go by foreign entities to what they refer to as hooking period, and it was very common; it's a very common way of trying to find vulnerability, and that is sexual, financial, any other kinds of greeds, and it was -- it was done a lot, was being done a lot, and in some cases certain people from Pentagon would send a list of individuals with access to sensitive data, whether weapons technology or nuclear technology, and this information would include all their sexual preference, how much they owed on their homes, if they have gambling issues, and the State Department, high level State Department person would provide it to these foreign operatives, and those foreign operatives then would go and hook those Pentagon people, whether they were at RAND or some other Air Force base.
And then the hooking period would take some times. Sometimes it takes months, sometimes one year. They would ask for small favor, but eventually after they reviewed the targets that the U.S. person -- some small favor, then they would go blackmail and that person would give them everything, nuclear related information, weapons related information. It always worked for them. So it was not always money.
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So there were a lot of things that certain field office had provided me to go over, and some of that I didn't complete, but one example would be with regard to Mr. Hastert. For example, he used the townhouse that was not his residence for certain not very morally accepted activities.
Now, whether that was being used as blackmail I don't know, but the fact that foreign entities knew about this, in fact, they sometimes participated in some of those not maybe morally well activities in that particular townhouse that was supposed to be an office, not a house, residence at certain hours, certain days, evenings of the week.
So I can't say if that was used as blackmail or not, but certain activities they would share. They were known.”
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Howie Carr: Mobster Stephen ‘The Rifleman’ Flemmi admits bribing FBI agents, cops, state police
Flemmi has testified in the past about paying off Boston FBI agents, but during cross-examination, Weadick’s lawyer ran down the names again for the jury of 12 women and 6 men.
Flemmi said the agents he was paying off included John “Zip” Connolly, John “Vino” Morris, “Doc” Gianturco, Michael Buckley and John “Agent Orange” Newton.
FBI agent Newton at one point gave Bulger and Flemmi 40 pounds of C4 plastic explosives, Flemmi said.
State Trooper Richard Schneiderman was on the gang’s payroll for $1,000 a month, Flemmi testified.
Flemmi, whose nickname is “The Rifleman,” said the gang also gave presents to several FBI agents, including a gold ring to Dennis Condon, who later became Gov. Mike Dukakis’ secretary of public safety. In prior testimony, Flemmi has said the gang gave a diamond ring to Connolly and a $500 pipe to supervisory agent James Ring, whom the gang nicknamed “The Pipe.”
In all, Flemmi said, Connolly grabbed $235,000 in payoffs, “and maybe more.” In return, he gave the gang the names of informants who were then murdered.
“He gave us information and we acted on it,” Flemmi said. “I have been dealing with law enforcement my entire life and I have been paying them off my entire life.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... l/2464043/
Whitey Bulger had to be 'comfortable,'FBI agent says
Ex-FBI agent John Morris testified at Whitey Bulger's trial that he got information and bribes from him and entertained Bulger and his partner at his home.
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Exclusive Interview with FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds
By Khatchig Mouradian • on August 21, 2009 • Email This Post
On April 23, 2007, I sat down in Washington, D.C. with FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds for an extensive interview, which was published in the Armenian Weekly and on ZNet and widely circulated. On Aug. 18, 2009, I conducted a follow-up phone interview with Edmonds, who was visiting New Zealand. The interview is an overview of what has transpired in her case since 2007, with emphasis on her deposition in the Schmidt vs. Krikorian case in Ohio earlier this month.
Edmonds, an FBI language specialist, was fired from her job with the FBI’s Washington Field Office in March 2002. Her crime was reporting security breaches, cover-ups, blocking of intelligence, and the bribery of U.S. individuals including high-ranking officials. The “state secrets privilege” has often been invoked to block court proceedings on her case, and the U.S. Congress has even been gagged to prevent further discussion.Edmonds uncovered, for example, a covert relationship between Turkish groups and former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), who reportedly received tens of thousands of dollars in bribes in return for withdrawing the Armenian Genocide Resolution from the House floor in 2000.
Born in Iran in 1970, Edmonds received her BA in criminal justice and psychology from George Washington University, and her MA in public policy and international commerce from George Mason University. She is the founder and director of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC) and in 2006 received the PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award. She speaks Turkish, Farsi, and Azerbaijani.
Below is the full transcript of the follow-up interview.
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Khatchig Mouradian—I asked you in 2007 what had changed during the five years since 2002, when you first contacted the Senate
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“I don't know what reasons they had, why they just didn't do money. They needed -- I was trained as a language specialist by my agent for -- to find personal information, and one of the things that we was taught in the FBI -- everyone was taught in the counterintelligence -- that the target U.S. persons, whether they are in Congress or executive branch or whatever, first go by foreign entities to what they refer to as hooking period, and it was very common; it's a very common way of trying to find vulnerability, and that is sexual, financial, any other kinds of greeds, and it was -- it was done a lot, was being done a lot, and in some cases certain people from Pentagon would send a list of individuals with access to sensitive data, whether weapons technology or nuclear technology, and this information would include all their sexual preference, how much they owed on their homes, if they have gambling issues, and the State Department, high level State Department person would provide it to these foreign operatives, and those foreign operatives then would go and hook those Pentagon people, whether they were at RAND or some other Air Force base.
And then the hooking period would take some times. Sometimes it takes months, sometimes one year. They would ask for small favor, but eventually after they reviewed the targets that the U.S. person -- some small favor, then they would go blackmail and that person would give them everything, nuclear related information, weapons related information. It always worked for them. So it was not always money.
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So there were a lot of things that certain field office had provided me to go over, and some of that I didn't complete, but one example would be with regard to Mr. Hastert. For example, he used the townhouse that was not his residence for certain not very morally accepted activities.
Now, whether that was being used as blackmail I don't know, but the fact that foreign entities knew about this, in fact, they sometimes participated in some of those not maybe morally well activities in that particular townhouse that was supposed to be an office, not a house, residence at certain hours, certain days, evenings of the week.
So I can't say if that was used as blackmail or not, but certain activities they would share. They were known.”
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$1.75 million jury award for gay Staten Island man who said cops beat, slurred him
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 21, 2019 | 6:55 PM
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-in- ... mnlkwxOaw/
Las Vegas Cop Accused of Selling/Transporting Controlled Substance
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/cri ... story.html
Two Chicago cops on trial disgraced badges, trampled on citizens’ civil rights, prosecutors argue
By JASON MEISNER
CHICAGO TRIBUNE |
OCT 21, 2019 | 6:27 PM
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-in- ... zaD6kcw-A/
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Tennessee Jail Guard Incarcerated in Same Jail for Abusing Handcuffed Inmate
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Maryland Cops Leave Man Paralyzed after pulling him over and Smelling Marijuana
https://www.nhregister.com/metro/articl ... 550026.php
Hamden cop charged with felony in New Haven shooting
By Clare Dignan Updated 8:06 pm EDT, Monday, October 21, 2019
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article ... 550364.php
Feds see CBD oil use as issue for ex-Albany cop
https://coloradosun.com/2019/10/21/curt ... -colorado/
Colorado cop, whose 90-day jail sentence for unlawful sexual contact drew outrage, charged with federal civil rights violation
Curtis Lee Arganbright faces up to 10 years in federal prison if convicted in a rare federal intervention in a case involving a Colorado police officer
https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/n ... 054248002/
NJ female police officer's sexual harassment lawsuit 'frivolous' and 'groundless', township says
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Trial postponed for ex-East Point cop accused in multiple sexual assaults
https://www.wfaa.com/video/weather/seve ... a4c042df91
Officials investigating Dallas cop seen with what looks like alcohol after tornado
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/2019 ... wing-crash
Agreement will spare West Palm cop criminal conviction following crash
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/2019 ... -west-palm
PBSO deputy arrested for gun incident in West Palm
‘I’ve never seen a police officer so drunk,’ one of the people in the car told West Palm Beach police.
WEST PALM BEACH — An intoxicated off-duty Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office deputy who is said to have threatened three people with a gun Saturday in downtown West Palm Beach is facing multiple charges.
On Thursday, city police arrested Jerald Samuel Alderman, who has been with the sheriff’s office since 2006, on three counts of aggravated assault with a firearm and a charge of using a firearm while under the influence of alcohol.
Circuit Judge Ted Booras on Friday set Alderman’s bail at $40,000 b
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Trooper at center of discrimination case the State Police lost is still vetting recruits
By Victoria McGrane Globe Staff,October 21, 2019, 2:21 p.m.
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https://www.bradblog.com/?p=7359
Several Charges Dropped in 'False Statements' Case Following FBI Whistleblower's Testimony
Rep. Jean Schmidt drops four claims in Ohio election case, following deposition by formerly-gagged Turkish-American translator Sibel Edmonds, adds another
The news comes on the heels of last Saturday's deposition by the FBI's former Turkish-American translator Sibel Edmonds who had been subpoenaed last week to testify in the case. The whistleblower had been previous-gagged by two different assertions of the "state secrets" privilege during the Bush Administration. She was finally able to testify on Saturday, under oath, about alleged infiltration, bribery, and blackmail by Turkish agents, of current and former members of the U.S. Congress and other high ranking officials in the Departments of State and Defense. The BRAD BLOG covered the stunning deposition as it happened last Saturday.
Schmidt had challenged Krikorian's claim, during his 2008 independent campaign against her, that she accepted "blood money" from Turkish agents in exchange for helping to block a Congressional resolut
https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/22/gras ... ate-delay/
Grassley Suspects ‘Deep State’ Is Responsible For Delay In FISA Abuse Report
https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/five- ... 2019/10/22
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Five year Las Vegas FBI corruption probe ends with one count for pimp Mally Mall, no cops
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/cri ... 012247002/
Jury to decide if man accused of Masonic Center shooting plot was entrapped by FBI
https://securitynewsdesk.com/fbi-co-hos ... s-seminar/
FBI co-hosts ninth annual EU-US Explosives experts’ seminar
By Rebecca Morpeth | October 22, 2019
https://www.bostonherald.com/2018/06/12 ... ps-statie/
Howie Carr: Mobster Stephen ‘The Rifleman’ Flemmi admits bribing FBI agents, cops, state police
Flemmi has testified in the past about paying off Boston FBI agents, but during cross-examination, Weadick’s lawyer ran down the names again for the jury of 12 women and 6 men.
Flemmi said the agents he was paying off included John “Zip” Connolly, John “Vino” Morris, “Doc” Gianturco, Michael Buckley and John “Agent Orange” Newton.
FBI agent Newton at one point gave Bulger and Flemmi 40 pounds of C4 plastic explosives, Flemmi said.
State Trooper Richard Schneiderman was on the gang’s payroll for $1,000 a month, Flemmi testified.
Flemmi, whose nickname is “The Rifleman,” said the gang also gave presents to several FBI agents, including a gold ring to Dennis Condon, who later became Gov. Mike Dukakis’ secretary of public safety. In prior testimony, Flemmi has said the gang gave a diamond ring to Connolly and a $500 pipe to supervisory agent James Ring, whom the gang nicknamed “The Pipe.”
In all, Flemmi said, Connolly grabbed $235,000 in payoffs, “and maybe more.” In return, he gave the gang the names of informants who were then murdered.
“He gave us information and we acted on it,” Flemmi said. “I have been dealing with law enforcement my entire life and I have been paying them off my entire life.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... l/2464043/
Whitey Bulger had to be 'comfortable,'FBI agent says
Ex-FBI agent John Morris testified at Whitey Bulger's trial that he got information and bribes from him and entertained Bulger and his partner at his home.
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9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
Draft agenda for October 30, 2019
8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT) teleconference dial-in #
(605) 313-4118 Access code: 464958#
[Note: Some telephone service providers block access to this teleconference service, or require additional charges. If you encounter any of these difficulties, please try calling this alternative number: (425) 535-9195. You will then be required to key in the original phone number above before entering the access code. Please inform of us of any technical difficulties you encounter in accessing the teleconference.]
*Important note about Teleconference
dates in November and December!
Because of when Thanksgiving and Christmas fall this year, we’ll be moving the calls ahead a week for these two months. This means that our November call will be on the 20th and the December call will be on the 18th.
Greetings all,
Our October call will be a tale of two Christophers, and you won’t want to miss it!
First, widely known researcher and journalist Christopher Bollyn returns to the call to talk about some of his recent work. In particular, he’ll tell us about a piece he posted on his website in September about the Jeffrey Epstein connection to 9/11. If time allows, he may also address a piece from this month about the Turkish invasion of Syria and the U.S. plan to divide the country along ethnic lines. Of course, even if the discussion doesn’t end up covering both articles, that doesn’t stop anyone from asking about either in the Q&A.
https://www.bollyn.com/#article_16281
https://www.bollyn.com/#article_16267
Our second speaker is Christopher Gioia, one of the fire commissioners from the Franklin Square and Munson Fire District — near Queens, New York — which became the first legislative body in the United States to pass a resolution calling for a new investigation into 9/11. The ground-breaking resolution also stated that it is “beyond any doubt” that explosives were used to bring down the three World Trade Center towers.
Chris will tell us all about the resolution and his subsequent efforts to advance this effort by encouraging other fire departments to follow suit.
https://www.ae911truth.org/news/540-new ... estigation
https://www.ae911truth.org/news/541-see ... pher-gioia
https://commonground.ca/explosives-used ... issioners/
As always, we’ll conclude with announcements in addition to a brief discussion of potential speakers we could invite to future calls.
It should be a great call on Wednesday and we hope you join us!
Cheryl Curtiss
Craig McKee
DRAFT AGENDA for Wednesday, October 30 teleconference
I Roll call/ minutes approval (copied below)/Agenda approval (5 min)
II Epstein connection to 9/11/Syria [Christopher Bollyn] (45 min. including Q&A,)
III Firefighters resolution [Christopher Gioia] (20 min. + 10 Q&A)
IV Announcements
V Updates on 9/11 topics (as needed)
• New articles, books, films, or recent news about 9/11 or other Deep State crimes
• 9/11 and the Deep State on the legal front, including current adjudicatory efforts by Lawyers for 9/11 Inquiry, JASTA, 28 pages, William Pepper’s efforts with AE911Truth against NIST and the Dept. of Commerce
• Censorship and cognitive infiltration: new examples of censorship or harassment of members of the Truth community; MSM treatment of 9/11 Truth
• Google (et al.) censorship
• 9/11 Truth political candidates
VII Adjournment
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This draft agenda sent to:
Richard Gage, John Heartson, Don DeBar, Scott Halfmann, Steven E. Jones, William Rodriguez, David Ray Griffin, William Douglas, Steve Alten , Tom Tvedten, Justin Martel, Les Jamieson, Michael Jackman, Michael Wolsey, Peggy Brewster, Barrie Zwicker, Erik Lawyer, Gabriel Day, Kevin Barrett, PhD, Carol Brouillet, Mia Hamel, Paul Craig Roberts, Jack Blood, Diana (for investigar11s.org), Cheryl Curtiss, Jodie Baltazar, Jarek Kupsc, Joseph Culp, Ken Jenkins, Ellen Mariani, Gerhard Bedding, Jack Shimek, Paul Krik, Rock Creek Free Press, Damon Bean, Allan Giles, Kyle Hence, Michael Berger, Dylan Avery, Jason Burmas, Mike Palecek, Donald Stahl, Ray McGovern, Cynthia McKinney, Ph,D, Don Plummer, Doug Wight, Global Outlook, Paul Zarembka, Penny Little, Bob Cable, Suzanne Warson, Peter Thottam, Ralph Schoenman, Carol Wolman, Scholars for 911 Truth & Justice, Hummux, Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth, Frank Morales, Frank Tolopko, Alan Miller, James Hufferd, Ph.D., Erik Larson, Ted Walter , Suzanne Warson, Frederick Coward, Gordon Duff, Sherri Kane, Leonard Horowitz, William Woodward, Jerry Mazza, William Pepper, Wayne Madsen, David Kimball, Jeffrey Orling, Michael Marino, Lenny Mather (in memoriam), Ken Freeland, Tania Torres, Graeme MacQueen, Yumi Kikuchi, Stuart Hutchison, Roland Angle, Frank Agamemnon , Harold Hilton, Phil Restino, Rich McCampbell, John Zito, Manny Badillo, John Hankey, Oskar Mosquito, Edwin Jewett, Ms Anisa Fattah, Robert Barron, Shelton Lankford, Matthew Hayward, Anna Yeisley, Chris Pratt, Craig Ranke, Susan Lindauer, Barbara Honegger, Democritus Blantayre, Joseph Baltar, Jim Hogue, Sheila Casey, Steve Martin, Ben Collet, Elizabeth Woodward, Runyan Wilde, Susan Wolfe, Adam Ruff, Conrad Gilber. Jonathan Mark, Tonya Sneed, Dan Sutton, Richard Krushnic, Mark Crispin Miller, Byron Belitsos, George Ripley, Laurie Manwell , Susan Serpa, Nicolas Guillermo, Dwain Deets, Craig McKee, Steve Fahrney; Fran Shure; David Petrano, Lawrence Fine, A.K. Dewdney, Steve De'ak, Allan Rees, Art Olivier, Ron Avery, Michael Booth, Jim Fetzer, Laura Katleman, Don Gibbs, Mark Basile, John-Michael Talboo, Julian Stroh, Christopher Gruener, Elias Davidsson, Martin McGee, Adnan Zuberi, Jan Ravensbergen, Rich Aucoin (in memoriam), David Hooper, Don Fox, Bill Wilt, William Jacoby, Ron Neils, John Campbell, Dan Hennen, Barton Bruce, Cheri Aspenleiter, Stephen Phillips, Dick Atlee, Lynn Ertrell, Nita Renfrew. Frank Tolopko, Mark McDonald, Christopher Bollyn, John Paul OMalley, Rodger Bories, Mark Snyder, Jane Clark, Richard Sacks, Tim Michel, Lynn Bradbury, Xander Arena, David Cole, Rick Tufts, Jerry Turner, Rick Shaddock, Rebecca Schmoyer, Mark Mckertich, Kip Beckford, Doug West, PF Soto, Dennis Cimino, Jane Clark, Charles Ewing Smith, Lucy Morgan Edwards, Pablo Novi, David Rolde, Gregory Flynn, Pat O'Connell, Jeff Long, Greg McCarron, Andy Steele, Thomas Robichaud, Doug Mackenzie, Peter Michael Ketcham, Gene Laratonda, Karl Golovin, Steve Jarrott, Neil Marquis, Matt Van Slyke, Tony Hall, Ph.D., Mike Springmann, Ezra Smith, Samuel Smith, Janane Tripp, Daniel Fielding, Gerald Pechenuk, Ralph Lopez, Robert Griffin, Linda McPherson, Marie Spike, Kathy Allard, PhD, Trina Silvers, Julio Gomez, Ann Hendricks, Malcolm Arnold, Nooria Ghafoor, Bonnie Faulkner, Clay Smith, Andrew Kreig
Draft minutes for September 25, 2019
October 23, 2019
Ann Hendricks, Secretary 9/11 Monthly Teleconference Call
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Draft minutes for the September 25, 2019 regular conference call.
Present were:
Cheryl Curtiss, Teleconference co-facilitator, Connecticut 9/11 Truth
Craig McKee, Teleconference co-facilitator, Truth and Shadows
Ann Hendricks, Teleconference secretary
Marti Hopper, Colorado 9/11 Truth
David Rolde, Anti-imperialist activist
Peter Michael Ketcham, formerly of NIST
John O’Malley, DC911Truth
Cheri Aspen, San Diego 9/11 Truth
James Hufferd, 9/11 Grassroots
Cat McGuire, DeepTruth.info
Richard Gage, AE9/11Truth
Xander Arena, Arizona 9/11 Studies and Outreach
Fern Tishman
Barbara Honegger, Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry
Joanne Tachera
Malcolm Arnold
Lynn Bradbury, Maine 9/11Truth
Pat O’Connell, TX9/11Truth.us
Marie Spike, 9/11TAP
Kip Beckford, Sons of Liberty Boston
Steve McBrayer
Karl Golovin, anidealiveson.net
The minutes of the August 28, 2019 conference call were APPROVED.
September 11 anniversary events
Richard Gage said that AE is sending the Hulsey Report to the top engineering schools in the United States and in Europe. “We’re getting it out to the world and we’re asking you to do the same. Send it to every structural engineer, physicist, mathematician, media folks and elected officials you know.” Christopher Gioia, who joined the AE delegation visiting congressional offices on the anniversary, is starting a 9/11 Justice For Heroes campaign and is also seeking to get all the fire districts on board with the Franklin Square and Munson Fire District resolution calling for a new investigation of 9/11. In response to a question about how one can best provide information to our local fire departments, Richard suggested the best link to provide them is a 15-minute video with Ed Asner called Solving the Mystery of Building 7. https://www.ae911truth.org/evidence/vid ... building-7
Barack Obama
Joanne Tachera of Hawaii has been researching Barack Obama since he came to the national stage. Her family was familiar with his relatives in Honolulu and she recalled him in his youth. She discussed his father, his grandparents’ CIA connections, and the birth certificate issue. She said that some research addresses his appointments of thousands of Senior Executive Service personnel who are still in those jobs under the Trump administration and who possibly still hold allegiance to Obama. Joanne’s many sources include the books Barack Obama and the Enemies Within, Obama: The Postmodern Coup – Making of a Manchurian Candidate, and The Manchurian President: Barack Obama’s Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists.
David Icke’s book release
Cat McGuire reviewed David Icke’s The Trigger: The Lie That Changed the World, about 9/11 events and perpetrators. She said the 900-page blockbuster has an extensive bibliography and index but is neither footnoted nor sourced properly, and this lack might reduce its level of credibility with scholars and professionals. Cat noted that much of the information Icke presented was already available online. “I wish that somebody would go and interview some of these people (witnesses). There’s a lot of interviewing opportunities and he didn’t do that…but who did? There is a paucity of actual boots on the ground research in the 9/11 movement.” She recommended Icke’s interviews on London Real https://londonreal.tv/e/david-icke-9-11 ... nd-why/and on Know More News with Adam Green: https://youtu.be/IV8XA_TBu0s
Announcements and reports of 9/11 anniversary events
Barbara Honegger said that the Zurich event was a magnificent success with a great turnout. Videos of the presentations can be accessed at: https://www.11september.eu/911perspectives/
Xander Arena spoke about the great response to Dr. Hulsey’s report, his own outreach to Arizona elected officials, and his recent letter to Attorney General Barr asking him to open an investigation of 9/11 crimes.
Lynn Bradbury told of the positive reactions to her 9/11 stand at the Maine Common Ground Fair at which she has participated for six years. “My application stresses that the sustainability of democracy is dependent upon a free press so citizens can know what their government is up to.” Lynn was awarded a Blue Ribbon by fair organizers for “Most Educational Booth.”
The call began at 8 p.m. EST and adjourned at 10:38 p.m., PST/5 p.m. to 7:38 p.m. PST.
Audio of the September call can be heard here:
http://truthandshadows.com/wp-content/u ... 092519.mp3
The next monthly teleconference will take place on Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 8 p.m. EST, 5 p.m. PST. Agenda items should be emailed to facilitator Cheryl Curtiss ([email protected]) no later than one week before the call. Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.” Please include a brief description of your item and any relevant links you’d like participants to be aware of, together with your estimate of the number of minutes your agenda item will require. If you would like to join the teleconference list serve, contact Craig McKee ([email protected]), and anyone who would like information such as links included in the minutes should email Ann Hendricks ([email protected])
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Off-duty NYPD police officer busted for attacking his wife
By THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 26, 2019 | 3:11 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/ ... tein-lauer
'Complicit': Rachel Maddow attacks NBC over handling of misconduct allegations
MSNBC host told viewers NBC management – her bosses – allowed Ronan Farrow’s reporting on Harvey Weinstein to ‘get away’
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
‘Terror of the Tombs’ sued for screaming and cursing at colleagues — and encouraging NYC Correction officer to commit suicide
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/10/23/d ... an-doctor/
Dr. Justina Ford, Denver’s first female African-American doctor, and the house that nurtured her
Ford delivered more than 7,000 babies in a less-than-welcoming climate
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... use-of-ai/
October 22, 2019
In case after case, courts reshape the rules around AI
AI Now Institute recommends improvements and highlights key AI litigation
Written by Beryl Lipton
Edited by Michael Morisy
When undercover officers with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office bought crack cocaine from someone in 2015, they couldn’t actually identify the seller. Less than a year later, though, Willie Allen Lynch was sentenced to 8 years in prison, picked through a facial recognition system.
He’s still fighting in court over how the technology was used, and his case and others like it could ultimately shape the use of algorithms going forward, according to a new report.
His case was one of those discussed over the summer at New York University’s AI Now Institute 2019 “Litigating Algorithms” workshop. The organization focuses on researching algorithms and their effects on society and civil rights. Last month, it released a report, highlighting key algorithmic litigation and other recommendations for modernizing rules around legal discovery and protection of biometric information.
“One part of our research output is research to help build a greater understanding of these issues for legal and policy advocates who are working on the issues. We put out an algorithmic accountability toolkit, and ‘Litigating algorithms’ is a convening of people who have challenged government use of these systems,” said Rashida Richardson, AI Now’s Director of Policy Research. “We are trying to think through where there are vacancies or deficiencies that can help bolster existing work being done by legal and other advocates.”
Litigation involving algorithmic decision systems (ADS) will play an important role in shaping civil rights and privacy protections, the report says, but success should be measured by the structural changes that follow and supported by enough vigilance to keep shady vendors from simply peddling their wares to other communities.
https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/news/ ... es-367699/
Halifax cop hit with slew of shoplifting charges
Steve Bruce ([email protected])
Published: Oct 24 at 4:52 p.m.
https://skowhegan.tumblr.com
https://www.skowheganart.org/overview
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/ ... ntentQuery
Jail where ‘Whitey’ Bulger was killed has little accounting for deaths
By Shelley Murphy and Maria Cramer Globe Staff,October 26, 2019, 5:59 p.m.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-off-du ... n-intruder
Off-duty Texas cop shoots son after mistaking him for intruder, police say
https://www.mangalorean.com/kerala-cop- ... op-franco/
Kerala Cop Transferred After Serving Notice to Rape Accused Bishop Franco
By . . -
October 27, 2019
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/outrag ... g-20735999
Outrage over cop’s son dodging jail after killing two men while high on weed
https://nairobinews.nation.co.ke/news/c ... ce-attires
Cop arrested with police attires
By Hilary Kimuyu
October 26th, 2019 2 min read
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/eye-on-g ... nWOB7dsIg/
California Cop Loses Job after Shooting and Killing Unarmed Man with Arms Raised
https://nypost.com/2019/10/27/off-duty- ... with-wife/
METRO
Off-duty cop shot trainer after finding him in house with wife
By Tina Moore and Craig McCarthy
October 27, 2019 | 3:16pm |
https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/c ... story.html
Carroll’s mobile crisis team helping people get help, keeping cops on the beat: ‘We need another one’
By JON KELVEY
CARROLL COUNTY TIMES |
OCT 27, 2019 | 5:00 AM
If you ask Carroll County law enforcement officials whether they support the county’s relatively new mobile crisis team, they answer will likely be a resounding “yes.”
“I can’t say enough about how well the program has worked,” said Col. Lawrence Suther of the Carroll County
https://www.policeone.com/legal/article ... oYfk9cjIe/
St. Louis cop told to tone down 'gayness' wins $20 million lawsuit
The lawsuit alleged he was denied promotions after filing a harassment complaint
Today at 8:01 AM
Dr Frederick Whitehurst and OKC Bombing Grand Jury member Hoppy
Heidelberg to speak at Harvard Law School
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/ ... story.html
As his Alzheimer’s looms, Charles and Pam Ogletree take one last walk in love
By Jenna Russell Globe Staff,Updated October 27, 2019, 2:01 a..
9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
Draft agenda for October 30, 2019
8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT) teleconference dial-in #
(605) 313-4118 Access code: 464958#
[Note: Some telephone service providers block access to this teleconference service, or require additional charges. If you encounter any of these difficulties, please try calling this alternative number: (425) 535-9195. You will then be required to key in the original phone number above before entering the access code. Please inform of us of any technical difficulties you encounter in accessing the teleconference.]
*Important note about Teleconference
dates in November and December!
Because of when Thanksgiving and Christmas fall this year, we’ll be moving the calls ahead a week for these two months. This means that our November call will be on the 20th and the December call will be on the 18th.
Greetings all,
Our October call will be a tale of two Christophers, and you won’t want to miss it!
First, widely known researcher and journalist Christopher Bollyn returns to the call to talk about some of his recent work. In particular, he’ll tell us about a piece he posted on his website in September about the Jeffrey Epstein connection to 9/11. If time allows, he may also address a piece from this month about the Turkish invasion of Syria and the U.S. plan to divide the country along ethnic lines. Of course, even if the discussion doesn’t end up covering both articles, that doesn’t stop anyone from asking about either in the Q&A.
https://www.bollyn.com/#article_16281
https://www.bollyn.com/#article_16267
Our second speaker is Christopher Gioia, one of the fire commissioners from the Franklin Square and Munson Fire District — near Queens, New York — which became the first legislative body in the United States to pass a resolution calling for a new investigation into 9/11. The ground-breaking resolution also stated that it is “beyond any doubt” that explosives were used to bring down the three World Trade Center towers.
Chris will tell us all about the resolution and his subsequent efforts to advance this effort by encouraging other fire departments to follow suit.
https://www.ae911truth.org/news/540-new ... estigation
https://www.ae911truth.org/news/541-see ... pher-gioia
https://commonground.ca/explosives-used ... issioners/
As always, we’ll conclude with announcements in addition to a brief discussion of potential speakers we could invite to future calls.
It should be a great call on Wednesday and we hope you join us!
Cheryl Curtiss
Craig McKee
DRAFT AGENDA for Wednesday, October 30 teleconference
I Roll call/ minutes approval (copied below)/Agenda approval (5 min)
II Epstein connection to 9/11/Syria [Christopher Bollyn] (45 min. including Q&A,)
III Firefighters resolution [Christopher Gioia] (20 min. + 10 Q&A)
IV Announcements
V Updates on 9/11 topics (as needed)
• New articles, books, films, or recent news about 9/11 or other Deep State crimes
• 9/11 and the Deep State on the legal front, including current adjudicatory efforts by Lawyers for 9/11 Inquiry, JASTA, 28 pages, William Pepper’s efforts with AE911Truth against NIST and the Dept. of Commerce
• Censorship and cognitive infiltration: new examples of censorship or harassment of members of the Truth community; MSM treatment of 9/11 Truth
• Google (et al.) censorship
• 9/11 Truth political candidates
VII Adjournment
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This draft agenda sent to:
Richard Gage, John Heartson, Don DeBar, Scott Halfmann, Steven E. Jones, William Rodriguez, David Ray Griffin, William Douglas, Steve Alten , Tom Tvedten, Justin Martel, Les Jamieson, Michael Jackman, Michael Wolsey, Peggy Brewster, Barrie Zwicker, Erik Lawyer, Gabriel Day, Kevin Barrett, PhD, Carol Brouillet, Mia Hamel, Paul Craig Roberts, Jack Blood, Diana (for investigar11s.org), Cheryl Curtiss, Jodie Baltazar, Jarek Kupsc, Joseph Culp, Ken Jenkins, Ellen Mariani, Gerhard Bedding, Jack Shimek, Paul Krik, Rock Creek Free Press, Damon Bean, Allan Giles, Kyle Hence, Michael Berger, Dylan Avery, Jason Burmas, Mike Palecek, Donald Stahl, Ray McGovern, Cynthia McKinney, Ph,D, Don Plummer, Doug Wight, Global Outlook, Paul Zarembka, Penny Little, Bob Cable, Suzanne Warson, Peter Thottam, Ralph Schoenman, Carol Wolman, Scholars for 911 Truth & Justice, Hummux, Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth, Frank Morales, Frank Tolopko, Alan Miller, James Hufferd, Ph.D., Erik Larson, Ted Walter , Suzanne Warson, Frederick Coward, Gordon Duff, Sherri Kane, Leonard Horowitz, William Woodward, Jerry Mazza, William Pepper, Wayne Madsen, David Kimball, Jeffrey Orling, Michael Marino, Lenny Mather (in memoriam), Ken Freeland, Tania Torres, Graeme MacQueen, Yumi Kikuchi, Stuart Hutchison, Roland Angle, Frank Agamemnon , Harold Hilton, Phil Restino, Rich McCampbell, John Zito, Manny Badillo, John Hankey, Oskar Mosquito, Edwin Jewett, Ms Anisa Fattah, Robert Barron, Shelton Lankford, Matthew Hayward, Anna Yeisley, Chris Pratt, Craig Ranke, Susan Lindauer, Barbara Honegger, Democritus Blantayre, Joseph Baltar, Jim Hogue, Sheila Casey, Steve Martin, Ben Collet, Elizabeth Woodward, Runyan Wilde, Susan Wolfe, Adam Ruff, Conrad Gilber. Jonathan Mark, Tonya Sneed, Dan Sutton, Richard Krushnic, Mark Crispin Miller, Byron Belitsos, George Ripley, Laurie Manwell , Susan Serpa, Nicolas Guillermo, Dwain Deets, Craig McKee, Steve Fahrney; Fran Shure; David Petrano, Lawrence Fine, A.K. Dewdney, Steve De'ak, Allan Rees, Art Olivier, Ron Avery, Michael Booth, Jim Fetzer, Laura Katleman, Don Gibbs, Mark Basile, John-Michael Talboo, Julian Stroh, Christopher Gruener, Elias Davidsson, Martin McGee, Adnan Zuberi, Jan Ravensbergen, Rich Aucoin (in memoriam), David Hooper, Don Fox, Bill Wilt, William Jacoby, Ron Neils, John Campbell, Dan Hennen, Barton Bruce, Cheri Aspenleiter, Stephen Phillips, Dick Atlee, Lynn Ertrell, Nita Renfrew. Frank Tolopko, Mark McDonald, Christopher Bollyn, John Paul OMalley, Rodger Bories, Mark Snyder, Jane Clark, Richard Sacks, Tim Michel, Lynn Bradbury, Xander Arena, David Cole, Rick Tufts, Jerry Turner, Rick Shaddock, Rebecca Schmoyer, Mark Mckertich, Kip Beckford, Doug West, PF Soto, Dennis Cimino, Jane Clark, Charles Ewing Smith, Lucy Morgan Edwards, Pablo Novi, David Rolde, Gregory Flynn, Pat O'Connell, Jeff Long, Greg McCarron, Andy Steele, Thomas Robichaud, Doug Mackenzie, Peter Michael Ketcham, Gene Laratonda, Karl Golovin, Steve Jarrott, Neil Marquis, Matt Van Slyke, Tony Hall, Ph.D., Mike Springmann, Ezra Smith, Samuel Smith, Janane Tripp, Daniel Fielding, Gerald Pechenuk, Ralph Lopez, Robert Griffin, Linda McPherson, Marie Spike, Kathy Allard, PhD, Trina Silvers, Julio Gomez, Ann Hendricks, Malcolm Arnold, Nooria Ghafoor, Bonnie Faulkner, Clay Smith, Andrew Kreig
Draft minutes for September 25, 2019
October 23, 2019
Ann Hendricks, Secretary 9/11 Monthly Teleconference Call
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Draft minutes for the September 25, 2019 regular conference call.
Present were:
Cheryl Curtiss, Teleconference co-facilitator, Connecticut 9/11 Truth
Craig McKee, Teleconference co-facilitator, Truth and Shadows
Ann Hendricks, Teleconference secretary
Marti Hopper, Colorado 9/11 Truth
David Rolde, Anti-imperialist activist
Peter Michael Ketcham, formerly of NIST
John O’Malley, DC911Truth
Cheri Aspen, San Diego 9/11 Truth
James Hufferd, 9/11 Grassroots
Cat McGuire, DeepTruth.info
Richard Gage, AE9/11Truth
Xander Arena, Arizona 9/11 Studies and Outreach
Fern Tishman
Barbara Honegger, Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry
Joanne Tachera
Malcolm Arnold
Lynn Bradbury, Maine 9/11Truth
Pat O’Connell, TX9/11Truth.us
Marie Spike, 9/11TAP
Kip Beckford, Sons of Liberty Boston
Steve McBrayer
Karl Golovin, anidealiveson.net
The minutes of the August 28, 2019 conference call were APPROVED.
September 11 anniversary events
Richard Gage said that AE is sending the Hulsey Report to the top engineering schools in the United States and in Europe. “We’re getting it out to the world and we’re asking you to do the same. Send it to every structural engineer, physicist, mathematician, media folks and elected officials you know.” Christopher Gioia, who joined the AE delegation visiting congressional offices on the anniversary, is starting a 9/11 Justice For Heroes campaign and is also seeking to get all the fire districts on board with the Franklin Square and Munson Fire District resolution calling for a new investigation of 9/11. In response to a question about how one can best provide information to our local fire departments, Richard suggested the best link to provide them is a 15-minute video with Ed Asner called Solving the Mystery of Building 7. https://www.ae911truth.org/evidence/vid ... building-7
Barack Obama
Joanne Tachera of Hawaii has been researching Barack Obama since he came to the national stage. Her family was familiar with his relatives in Honolulu and she recalled him in his youth. She discussed his father, his grandparents’ CIA connections, and the birth certificate issue. She said that some research addresses his appointments of thousands of Senior Executive Service personnel who are still in those jobs under the Trump administration and who possibly still hold allegiance to Obama. Joanne’s many sources include the books Barack Obama and the Enemies Within, Obama: The Postmodern Coup – Making of a Manchurian Candidate, and The Manchurian President: Barack Obama’s Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists.
David Icke’s book release
Cat McGuire reviewed David Icke’s The Trigger: The Lie That Changed the World, about 9/11 events and perpetrators. She said the 900-page blockbuster has an extensive bibliography and index but is neither footnoted nor sourced properly, and this lack might reduce its level of credibility with scholars and professionals. Cat noted that much of the information Icke presented was already available online. “I wish that somebody would go and interview some of these people (witnesses). There’s a lot of interviewing opportunities and he didn’t do that…but who did? There is a paucity of actual boots on the ground research in the 9/11 movement.” She recommended Icke’s interviews on London Real https://londonreal.tv/e/david-icke-9-11 ... nd-why/and on Know More News with Adam Green: https://youtu.be/IV8XA_TBu0s
Announcements and reports of 9/11 anniversary events
Barbara Honegger said that the Zurich event was a magnificent success with a great turnout. Videos of the presentations can be accessed at: https://www.11september.eu/911perspectives/
Xander Arena spoke about the great response to Dr. Hulsey’s report, his own outreach to Arizona elected officials, and his recent letter to Attorney General Barr asking him to open an investigation of 9/11 crimes.
Lynn Bradbury told of the positive reactions to her 9/11 stand at the Maine Common Ground Fair at which she has participated for six years. “My application stresses that the sustainability of democracy is dependent upon a free press so citizens can know what their government is up to.” Lynn was awarded a Blue Ribbon by fair organizers for “Most Educational Booth.”
The call began at 8 p.m. EST and adjourned at 10:38 p.m., PST/5 p.m. to 7:38 p.m. PST.
Audio of the September call can be heard here:
http://truthandshadows.com/wp-content/u ... 092519.mp3
The next monthly teleconference will take place on Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 8 p.m. EST, 5 p.m. PST. Agenda items should be emailed to facilitator Cheryl Curtiss ([email protected]) no later than one week before the call. Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.” Please include a brief description of your item and any relevant links you’d like participants to be aware of, together with your estimate of the number of minutes your agenda item will require. If you would like to join the teleconference list serve, contact Craig McKee ([email protected]), and anyone who would like information such as links included in the minutes should email Ann Hendricks ([email protected])
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Off-duty NYPD police officer busted for attacking his wife
By THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 26, 2019 | 3:11 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/ ... tein-lauer
'Complicit': Rachel Maddow attacks NBC over handling of misconduct allegations
MSNBC host told viewers NBC management – her bosses – allowed Ronan Farrow’s reporting on Harvey Weinstein to ‘get away’
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
‘Terror of the Tombs’ sued for screaming and cursing at colleagues — and encouraging NYC Correction officer to commit suicide
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/10/23/d ... an-doctor/
Dr. Justina Ford, Denver’s first female African-American doctor, and the house that nurtured her
Ford delivered more than 7,000 babies in a less-than-welcoming climate
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... use-of-ai/
October 22, 2019
In case after case, courts reshape the rules around AI
AI Now Institute recommends improvements and highlights key AI litigation
Written by Beryl Lipton
Edited by Michael Morisy
When undercover officers with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office bought crack cocaine from someone in 2015, they couldn’t actually identify the seller. Less than a year later, though, Willie Allen Lynch was sentenced to 8 years in prison, picked through a facial recognition system.
He’s still fighting in court over how the technology was used, and his case and others like it could ultimately shape the use of algorithms going forward, according to a new report.
His case was one of those discussed over the summer at New York University’s AI Now Institute 2019 “Litigating Algorithms” workshop. The organization focuses on researching algorithms and their effects on society and civil rights. Last month, it released a report, highlighting key algorithmic litigation and other recommendations for modernizing rules around legal discovery and protection of biometric information.
“One part of our research output is research to help build a greater understanding of these issues for legal and policy advocates who are working on the issues. We put out an algorithmic accountability toolkit, and ‘Litigating algorithms’ is a convening of people who have challenged government use of these systems,” said Rashida Richardson, AI Now’s Director of Policy Research. “We are trying to think through where there are vacancies or deficiencies that can help bolster existing work being done by legal and other advocates.”
Litigation involving algorithmic decision systems (ADS) will play an important role in shaping civil rights and privacy protections, the report says, but success should be measured by the structural changes that follow and supported by enough vigilance to keep shady vendors from simply peddling their wares to other communities.
https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/news/ ... es-367699/
Halifax cop hit with slew of shoplifting charges
Steve Bruce ([email protected])
Published: Oct 24 at 4:52 p.m.
https://skowhegan.tumblr.com
https://www.skowheganart.org/overview
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/ ... ntentQuery
Jail where ‘Whitey’ Bulger was killed has little accounting for deaths
By Shelley Murphy and Maria Cramer Globe Staff,October 26, 2019, 5:59 p.m.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-off-du ... n-intruder
Off-duty Texas cop shoots son after mistaking him for intruder, police say
https://www.mangalorean.com/kerala-cop- ... op-franco/
Kerala Cop Transferred After Serving Notice to Rape Accused Bishop Franco
By . . -
October 27, 2019
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/outrag ... g-20735999
Outrage over cop’s son dodging jail after killing two men while high on weed
https://nairobinews.nation.co.ke/news/c ... ce-attires
Cop arrested with police attires
By Hilary Kimuyu
October 26th, 2019 2 min read
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/eye-on-g ... nWOB7dsIg/
California Cop Loses Job after Shooting and Killing Unarmed Man with Arms Raised
https://nypost.com/2019/10/27/off-duty- ... with-wife/
METRO
Off-duty cop shot trainer after finding him in house with wife
By Tina Moore and Craig McCarthy
October 27, 2019 | 3:16pm |
https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/c ... story.html
Carroll’s mobile crisis team helping people get help, keeping cops on the beat: ‘We need another one’
By JON KELVEY
CARROLL COUNTY TIMES |
OCT 27, 2019 | 5:00 AM
If you ask Carroll County law enforcement officials whether they support the county’s relatively new mobile crisis team, they answer will likely be a resounding “yes.”
“I can’t say enough about how well the program has worked,” said Col. Lawrence Suther of the Carroll County
https://www.policeone.com/legal/article ... oYfk9cjIe/
St. Louis cop told to tone down 'gayness' wins $20 million lawsuit
The lawsuit alleged he was denied promotions after filing a harassment complaint
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https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2 ... 855b9cd2e0
Opinion: The Supreme Court is thinking about giving police a new excuse to pull you over
http://ticklethewire.com/2019/11/11/atf ... ings-rise/
ATF Loses Agents And Resources As Gun Deaths, Mass Shootings Rise
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-in- ... 7qYGje3aA/
South Carolina Sheriff Arrested, Charged with Punching a Woman in the Face
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-in- ... wUqSbrr8g/
Oklahoma Cop Kills Police Chief during Public Safety Conference in Florida
https://nypost.com/2019/11/11/nypd-body ... rt-papers/
METRO
EXCLUSIVE
NYPD bodycam shows cop ogling a ‘total stripper’: court papers
https://www.kctv5.com/news/local_news/r ... a3999.html
Record: KCK officer tried to keep victims quiet after cop threat
* Associated Press
* Updated 5 hrs ago | Posted on Nov 11, 2019
http://www.startribune.com/sentence-pri ... 564754432/
Sentence: Prison, lifetime gun ban for ex-Warroad cop who sexually assaulted, stalked teen
The assaults were numerous and spanned from 2017 to early 2019, according to authorities.
By Paul Walsh Star Tribune
https://www.newser.com/story/282895/ex- ... or-7m.html
Go to Grid|Next Story
Central to Ex-Cop's $7M Lawsuit: the Term 'Hairbag'
Keith Dietrich says it's evidence of age discrimination
https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/ar ... s-with-law
Detroit cop accused of demanding women's phone numbers had previous brushes with law
Posted By Steve Neavling on Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 11:59 am
https://www.sacbee.com/news/investigati ... 90084.html
INVESTIGATIONS
‘Second Chance PD.’ One California town’s history of hiring cops with troubling pasts
BY LAURENCE DU SAULT AND KATEY RUSCH
NOVEMBER 11, 2019 06:00 AM,
Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/investigati ... ylink=cpyv
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/eye-on-g ... FzEMJ4l-Q/
Drunk Arkansas Cop who Stripped Naked on Dancefloor Allowed to Drive Home
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/10/ ... n-the-job/
California’s Criminal Cops: Who they are, what they did, why some are still working
A six-month investigation found more than 80 law enforcement officers with rap sheets still employed today
https://www.silive.com/news/2019/11/eve ... ravis.html
Event focused on cop mental health to be held Saturday in Travis
Updated 4:05 PM;Today 3:57 PM
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/10/ ... a-mistake/
California Criminal Cops: Ex-police chief who hired abusive brother-in-law: ‘Maybe I made a mistake’
https://www.coloradopolitics.com/denver ... fa367.html
Denver continues rethinking public safety to dispatch fewer cops, more mental health experts
* Alayna Alvarez, Colorado Politics Nov 11, 2019 U
https://futurism.com/cops-warrant-entire-dna-websites
Cops Can Now Get Warrants for Entire DNA Websites
One judge's decision could set off a privacy nightmare.
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/11/11/ ... n-seattle/
Two Maine artists win $1 million public art commission in Seattle
Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen are designing a large permanent installation for a new convention center.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/11 ... alia-1919/
Class War Violence: Centralia 1919
by AARON GOINGS, BRIAN BARNES, AND ROGER SNIDER
November 11, 2019, will mark the 100-year anniversary of the Armistice Day Tragedy in Centralia, Washington, a horrible event in Pacific Northwest history. On Armistice Day, 1919, a mob of American Legionaires raided the Centralia Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) hall and later lynched Wesley Everest, an IWW logger. More
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/30 ... able-news/
OCTOBER 30, 2019
Money Talks, @#!!$#!% Walks on Cable News
Is it any wonder that the nation’s “liberal” cable news stations CNN and MSNBC can barely contain their disdain for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign and even (to a lesser degree) for that of Elizabeth Warren while they promote the nauseating center-right candidacies of the bewildered racist and corporatist Joe Biden, the sinister neoliberal corporate-militarist Pete Butiggieg and even the marginal Wall Street “moderates” Amy Klobuchar and Kamala Harris? Next time you click on these stations, keep a pen and paper handy to write down the names of the corporations that pay for their broadcast content with big money commercial purchases.
I did that at various times of day on three separate occasions last week. Here are the companies I found buying ads at CNN and MSDNC:
American Advisors Group (AAG), the top lender the American reverse mortgage industry (with Tom Selleck telling seniors to trust him that reverse mortgages are not a rip off)
United Health Care, for-profit “managed health care company” with 300,000 employers and an annual revenue of $226 billion, ranked sixth on the 2019 Fortune 500.
Menards, the nation’s third largest home improvement chain, with revenue over $10 billion in 2017.
CHANITX, a drug to get off cigarettes (“slow Turkey”) sold by the pharmaceutical firm Pfizer, 65th on the Fortune 500.
Tom Steyer (billionaire for president)
Lincoln Financial, 187th on the Fortune 500, an American holding company that controls multiple insurance and investment management businesses.
Liberty Mutual, an insurance company with more than 50,000 employees in more than 900 locations and ranked 68th on the Fortune 500 two years ago.
Allstate Insurance: 79th on the Fortune 500, with more than 45,000 employees.
INFINITI Suburban Utility Vehicle (new price ranging from 37K to 60K), produced by Nissan, the sixth largest auto-making corporation in the world.
RCN (annual revenue of $636 million) WiFi for business
Jaguar Elite luxury autos.
Porsche luxury autos, selling new models priced at $115,000, $145,000, and $163,00, and $294,000.
Mercedes Benz luxury auto, including an SRL-Class model that starts at $498,000
Capital Group, one of the world’s oldest and biggest investment management firms, with $1.87 trillion in assets under its control.
Otezla, a plaque psoriasis drug, developed by the New Jersey drug company Celgene and owned by Amgene, a leading California-based biotechnology firm with total assets of $78 billion.
Trelegy, a CPD drug produced by the British company GSK, the world’s seventh leading pharmaceutical corporation, with the fourth largest capitalization of any company on the London Stock Exchange.
HunterDouglass – elite windows made by a Dutch multinational corporation with more than 23,000 employees and locations in more than 70 countries.
Humira – drug for Crohn’s disease and other ailments, manufactured by Abbvie, with 28,000 global employees and total assets of $59 billion.
Primateme Mist – for breathing, produced by Amphastar Pharmaceuticals.
Glucerna – drug for diabetes, produced by Abbot Laboratories, an American medical company with more than 100,00 employees and total assets of $67 billion.
Prevagen – a controversial drug for brain health produced by Quincy Bioscience
DISCOVER Credit Card, the third largest credit card br
https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2019/11 ... 1011231604
FBI Asked Houston Black Judge to Wear Wire to Investigate Other Jurists, Attorney Claims
A Texas jurist, 164th District Judge Alexandra Smoots-Thomas, pleaded not guilty to seven counts of wire fraud in a case that alleged she misused campaign contributions for personal expenses. Her attorney, Kent Schaffer, said the prosecution is political, and he thinks she will beat the charges.
By Angela Morris and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | November 08, 2019 at 02:33 PM
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/in-de ... 529996001/
Jean Seberg: Iowa actress robbed of Cinderella story by FBI harassment
Jean Seberg won an 'American Idol'-like contest to become a movie star, only to have her philanthropy make her the target of an FBI smear campaign. Seberg died by 'probable suicide' in 1979 at age 40.
Daniel P. Finney, Des Moines Register
https://www.propublica.org/article/mumb ... in-advance
FBI Was Warned Years in Advance of Mumbai Attacker's Terror Ties
Three years before the Mumbai attack, the U.S. was warned that a key figure in the plot had terror ties.
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/28/nyre ... blast.html
FBI Allowed bomb to be detonated in 1993 World Trade Center Bombing
Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast
Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after the blast.
The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad A. Salem, should be used, the informer said.
The account, which is given in the transcript of hundreds of hours of tape recordings Mr. Salem secretly made of his talks with law-enforcement agents, portrays the authorities as in a far better position than previously known to foil the Feb. 26 bombing of New York City's tallest towers. The explosion left six people dead, more than 1,000 injured and damages in excess of half a billion dollars. Four men are now on trial in Manhattan Federal Court in that attack.
Mr. Salem, a 43-year-old former Egyptian army officer, was used by the Government to penetrate a circle of Muslim ex
Opinion: The Supreme Court is thinking about giving police a new excuse to pull you over
http://ticklethewire.com/2019/11/11/atf ... ings-rise/
ATF Loses Agents And Resources As Gun Deaths, Mass Shootings Rise
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-in- ... 7qYGje3aA/
South Carolina Sheriff Arrested, Charged with Punching a Woman in the Face
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-in- ... wUqSbrr8g/
Oklahoma Cop Kills Police Chief during Public Safety Conference in Florida
https://nypost.com/2019/11/11/nypd-body ... rt-papers/
METRO
EXCLUSIVE
NYPD bodycam shows cop ogling a ‘total stripper’: court papers
https://www.kctv5.com/news/local_news/r ... a3999.html
Record: KCK officer tried to keep victims quiet after cop threat
* Associated Press
* Updated 5 hrs ago | Posted on Nov 11, 2019
http://www.startribune.com/sentence-pri ... 564754432/
Sentence: Prison, lifetime gun ban for ex-Warroad cop who sexually assaulted, stalked teen
The assaults were numerous and spanned from 2017 to early 2019, according to authorities.
By Paul Walsh Star Tribune
https://www.newser.com/story/282895/ex- ... or-7m.html
Go to Grid|Next Story
Central to Ex-Cop's $7M Lawsuit: the Term 'Hairbag'
Keith Dietrich says it's evidence of age discrimination
https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/ar ... s-with-law
Detroit cop accused of demanding women's phone numbers had previous brushes with law
Posted By Steve Neavling on Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 11:59 am
https://www.sacbee.com/news/investigati ... 90084.html
INVESTIGATIONS
‘Second Chance PD.’ One California town’s history of hiring cops with troubling pasts
BY LAURENCE DU SAULT AND KATEY RUSCH
NOVEMBER 11, 2019 06:00 AM,
Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/investigati ... ylink=cpyv
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/eye-on-g ... FzEMJ4l-Q/
Drunk Arkansas Cop who Stripped Naked on Dancefloor Allowed to Drive Home
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/10/ ... n-the-job/
California’s Criminal Cops: Who they are, what they did, why some are still working
A six-month investigation found more than 80 law enforcement officers with rap sheets still employed today
https://www.silive.com/news/2019/11/eve ... ravis.html
Event focused on cop mental health to be held Saturday in Travis
Updated 4:05 PM;Today 3:57 PM
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/10/ ... a-mistake/
California Criminal Cops: Ex-police chief who hired abusive brother-in-law: ‘Maybe I made a mistake’
https://www.coloradopolitics.com/denver ... fa367.html
Denver continues rethinking public safety to dispatch fewer cops, more mental health experts
* Alayna Alvarez, Colorado Politics Nov 11, 2019 U
https://futurism.com/cops-warrant-entire-dna-websites
Cops Can Now Get Warrants for Entire DNA Websites
One judge's decision could set off a privacy nightmare.
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/11/11/ ... n-seattle/
Two Maine artists win $1 million public art commission in Seattle
Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen are designing a large permanent installation for a new convention center.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/11 ... alia-1919/
Class War Violence: Centralia 1919
by AARON GOINGS, BRIAN BARNES, AND ROGER SNIDER
November 11, 2019, will mark the 100-year anniversary of the Armistice Day Tragedy in Centralia, Washington, a horrible event in Pacific Northwest history. On Armistice Day, 1919, a mob of American Legionaires raided the Centralia Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) hall and later lynched Wesley Everest, an IWW logger. More
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/30 ... able-news/
OCTOBER 30, 2019
Money Talks, @#!!$#!% Walks on Cable News
Is it any wonder that the nation’s “liberal” cable news stations CNN and MSNBC can barely contain their disdain for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign and even (to a lesser degree) for that of Elizabeth Warren while they promote the nauseating center-right candidacies of the bewildered racist and corporatist Joe Biden, the sinister neoliberal corporate-militarist Pete Butiggieg and even the marginal Wall Street “moderates” Amy Klobuchar and Kamala Harris? Next time you click on these stations, keep a pen and paper handy to write down the names of the corporations that pay for their broadcast content with big money commercial purchases.
I did that at various times of day on three separate occasions last week. Here are the companies I found buying ads at CNN and MSDNC:
American Advisors Group (AAG), the top lender the American reverse mortgage industry (with Tom Selleck telling seniors to trust him that reverse mortgages are not a rip off)
United Health Care, for-profit “managed health care company” with 300,000 employers and an annual revenue of $226 billion, ranked sixth on the 2019 Fortune 500.
Menards, the nation’s third largest home improvement chain, with revenue over $10 billion in 2017.
CHANITX, a drug to get off cigarettes (“slow Turkey”) sold by the pharmaceutical firm Pfizer, 65th on the Fortune 500.
Tom Steyer (billionaire for president)
Lincoln Financial, 187th on the Fortune 500, an American holding company that controls multiple insurance and investment management businesses.
Liberty Mutual, an insurance company with more than 50,000 employees in more than 900 locations and ranked 68th on the Fortune 500 two years ago.
Allstate Insurance: 79th on the Fortune 500, with more than 45,000 employees.
INFINITI Suburban Utility Vehicle (new price ranging from 37K to 60K), produced by Nissan, the sixth largest auto-making corporation in the world.
RCN (annual revenue of $636 million) WiFi for business
Jaguar Elite luxury autos.
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"DRIVING WHILE FEMALE”:
A NATIONAL PROBLEM IN POLICE MISCONDUCT
A Special Report by the
Police Professionalism Initiative
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Samuel Walker and Dawn Irlbeck Department of Criminal Justice University of Nebraska I. THE STORIES
On New Year's Day 2001, a Suffolk County (Long Island, N.Y.) police officer stopped a female driver for an alleged traffic violation and instead of issuing her a traffic ticket forced her to strip and walk home wearing only her underpants.
The report of this incident brought forth similar allegations of sexual abuse arising from traffic stops conducted by Long Island police by 13 women and one man. Several of the cases involved allegations that officers coerced sexual favors as the price of avoiding a traffic ticket.1 The publicity also brought forward a spate of nearly identical allegations against officers with the neighboring Nassau County police department.
The Suffolk and Nassau County cases highlighted a national problem of police abuse: “driving while female,” or DWF. Across the country, police officers sexually harass or abuse
2
Reports of “driving while female” abuses are found in every part of the country, and the level of abuse runs the gamut from harassment to sexual assault and even murder:
1 Michael Luo, "Officers May Face Federal Charges," Newsday (March 9, 2001). 2 "Betrayed by a Badge," Newsweek (June 18, 2001): 38-41.
female drivers, using the pretext of alleged (and often baseless) traffic violations.
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** In 2000, a Houston, Tex., police officer was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for the sexual assault of a female driver.
** Also in 2000, a San Francisco police officer pleaded no contest to charges of fondling teenage girls during traffic stops.
** In 1998, a Washington, DC, police officer was convicted of sexually assaulting a 14- year-old girl and an adult woman.
** A Milwaukee police officer was sentenced to eight years in prison in 1998 for sexually assaulting a female driver.
** In 1996, a Chicago police officer was sentenced to four years in prison for fondling women during traffic stops.
** A suburban Chicago police officer was convicted in 1996 for stalking several women between the years 1990 and 1994.
** And in perhaps the most grotesque case of all, Cara Knott was murdered in 1986 by a predatory California Highway Patrol officer who stopped her for a traffic violation.
These are not isolated incidents. A review of media reports reveals an average of nearly 20
3
media-covered cases per year in each of the last six years.
are clearly only the tip of the iceberg. Many victims do not come forward because of humiliation and fear of reprisal. Also, departments do not accept and investigate complaints from many victims who do come forward.
II. THE PATTERNS
Several patterns emerge from these stories:
First, there is a pattern of police officers using their traffic enforcement powers to abuse
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The problem of "driving while female" parallels the national problem of racial profiling
women.
or “driving while black” (DWB). Substantial evidence indicates that police officers stop African American drivers because of their race and not because of any evidence of illegal activity. In other
And, as this report explains, these cases
3 See appendix.
4 Sexual abuse of individuals by police officers is not confined to female drivers. There are also a number of stories of officers entering private homes on the pretext of a search and then assaulting women who live there. In addition, there are a number of stories of male officers harassing or assaulting male drivers whom they have stopped for an alleged traffic violation.
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parts of the country, police officers stop Hispanic/Latino drivers solely because of their ethnicity, a practice that has been labeled “driving while brown.” 5
On Interstate 95 in Maryland, for example, white and African American drivers were independently observed to violate traffic laws at the same rate. Yet, 73 percent of the drivers stopped by Maryland State Troopers were African American. Moreover, of those drivers who were stopped, 80 percent were either African American or Hispanic.
In the case of driving while black or brown, police officers engage in an illegal form of discrimination based on race or ethnicity. Racial and ethnic stereotypes about minority involvement in crime are part of anti-crime crackdowns, most notably in the war on drugs. In the case of driving while female, innocent drivers are similarly stopped based on an immutable characteristic: sex. Just as they abuse their law enforcement power to stop drivers of color, police officers abuse their power to stop and harass women drivers.
An important difference between the DWB and DWF problems, however, is that officers engaged in racial profiling are usually acting in accord with department crime-fighting policies, while officers targeting female drivers represent the classic "rogue" officers who are violating the law and department policy.
Second, a major part of the DWF problem is the failure of police departments to investigate allegations that come to their attention. In a number of cases, supervisors disregarded citizen complaints filed by female victims. In one of the Nassau County cases, the female victim filed a formal complaint with the department in a timely fashion, but the department did not investigate it
6
This aspect of the DWF problem is very similar to the DWB problem, where police departments do not take seriously and investigate allegations of discrimination on the basis of race or ethnicity and deny that their officers are doing anything wrong.
Similarly, “rogue” officers are able to continue their sexual predatory activity because the department looks the other way. An Indianapolis, Ind., officer who was finally caught in 1996 made 224 traffic stops in a four month period in 1995, with 199 of those stops (89 percent!) involving female drivers.7
Third, as in the case of DWB, DWF abuses continue because police departments tolerate them by failing to act on citizen complaints, failing to adopt necessary policies and training, and failing to supervise their officers in a professional manner.
5 ACLU, Driving While Black (New York: ACLU, 1999).
6 Oscar Corral, "Failure to Go by the Book," Newsday (February 1, 2001).
7 R. Joseph Gelarden, "Ex-Police Officer Faces New Misconduct Charges," The Indianapolis Star (August 22, 1996).
for almost nine months.
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DWF abuses are symptomatic of a pervasive sexist culture within a police department.8 This sexist culture manifests itself in several ways:
(1) employment discrimination against women, including the failure to promote women to supervisory positions;9
(2) tolerance of sexual harassment within the department;10
(3) a systematic failure to investigate domestic violence incidents where the alleged perpetrator is an officer in the department;11
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There are several remedies that can and should be taken immediately to curb DWF abuses. These are steps that law enforcement chief executives can take without requiring additional statutory authority.
Step One: Data Collection
Law enforcement agencies need to begin collecting data to determine whether there is a pattern of DWF abuses by their officers. At present we don’t know exactly how extensive the
8 This is again similar to racist environments in many police departments that have records of DWB abuses. [See reports of suit by officers of color against NJ State Police, alleging racism and forced use of DWB practices.]
9 National Center for Women & Policing, Equality Denied: The Status of Women in Policing (Los Angeles: NCWP, 1998).
10 Susan Martin, On the Move: The Status of Women in Policing (Washington, DC: The Police Foundation, 1990), pp. 139-164.
11See the pioneering effort by Katherine Mader, then-Inspector General of the Los Angles Police Department: Inspector General, Domestic Violence in the Los Angeles Police Department: How Well Does the Los Angeles Police Department Police its Own? (Los Angeles: Office of the Inspector General, 1997).
12 National Center for Women and Policing, Recruiting and Retaining Women: A Self-Assessment Guide for Law Enforcement (Los Angeles: NCWP, 2000), Ch. 9., "Implementing Family-Friendly Policies," pp, 111-115.
(4) inadequate policies regarding pregnancy and parental leave.
III. THE REMEDIES
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DWF problem is. The anecdotal evidence, particularly the many cases of officers who have been convicted of some form of sexual abuse, suggests that the problem is serious and widespread.
Fortunately, many police departments are already collecting traffic stop data to investigate
possible racial profiling. Virtually all of the data collection instruments record the gender of the
driver. Where the identity of the officer is also indicated, it is a very simple matter of analyzing the
data to determine if certain officers are stopping a suspiciously high number of female drivers. In
those departments where the identity of officers is not part of the data collection process it needs to
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Step Two: Official Policies and Training
Every law enforcement agency should immediately issue a formal policy prohibiting "driving while female" abuse.14 The policy should define DWF as the use of law enforcement powers for the purpose of stopping female drivers where there is no suspected criminal activity or traffic law violation. The policy should clearly state that any form of sexual harassment or assault of an individual, regardless of gender, is impermissible conduct that will result in termination proceedings.
Every law enforcement agency should immediately incorporate the new “driving while female” policy into both pre-service and in-service training programs. Pre-service training or police academy training is provided to all new recruits. In-service training is provided to officers who are already on the force. The in-service training is especially important because experienced officers who may have engaged in some form of DWF in the past need to be instructed that such activity violates department policy.
Step Three: Better Supervision
Law enforcement chief executives need to take immediate steps to ensure proper supervision of officers on the street. They need to ensure that supervisory officers are alert to the potential problem of DWF and take the necessary steps to curb it.
Supervisors need to be advised that all allegations and rumors of possible DWF abuses are taken seriously and promptly investigated. In cases where alleged abuse is suspected but cannot be proven, supervisors should counsel strongly the suspected officer that any such abuse will not be tolerated by the department.
13 Deborah Ramirez, Jack McDevitt, and Amy Farell CHECK, A Resource Guide on Racial Profiling Data Collection Systems: Promising Practices and Lessons Learned (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2000).
14 See the similar recommendations related to racial profiling in Police Executive Research Forum, Bias-Based Profiling (2001).
be added.
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How should departments respond to allegations? The chief of the Homewood, Ill., police department adopted a vigilant policy, announcing in 1996: “We'll take anonymous complaints, thirdhand complaints, we'll take anything.”15
The chief executive needs to make it clear that any attempt to cover up alleged abuse by a police officer is a serious violation of department rules.
Step Four: An Open and Accessible Citizen Complaint System
Law enforcement chief executives should take immediate steps to ensure that the department’s citizen complaint system is open and accessible to all members of the community. Where an independent citizen oversight agency does not exist, local communities need to create
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publication and dissemination of materials explaining the complaint system; (2) publication and dissemination of such materials in all languages appropriate to the local community; multiple and convenient locations for filing complaints, including locations separate from police facilities; (3) procedures to ensure the proper receipt, classification, and investigation of all complaints; and (4) annual publication of complaint data.
Special steps need to be taken to ensure that female citizens who allege abuse are guaranteed confidentiality. If a complainant expresses a desire to discuss the incident with a female officer, the department should promptly make a female investigator available.
Step Five: Hire More Female Officers
Studies have shown that male officers are much more likely to use excessive force and engage in misconduct than female officers. One solution to this problem is simply to hire more women.
The Feminist Majority Foundation and The National Center for Women & Policing conducted a study on the costs of police misconduct and abuse in the Los Angeles police
15 Pamela Cytrynbaum, "Police Sex Abuse Tears at Code of Silence," The Chicago Tribune (February 29, 1996).
16 U.S. Department of Justice, Principles for Promoting Police Integrity (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2001).
17Walker, Police Accountability: The Role of Citizen Oversight. 6
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one that is open and accessible.
The minimum conditions of an open and accessible citizen complaint system include: (1)
department as a result of civil liability lawsuits between 1990-1999.18 The study only analyzed cases involving excessive force allegations, police officers involved in sexual assaults, and police officers involved in domestic violence incidents that had judgments or out-of-court settlements exceeding $100,000. Between 1990-1999, there were 80 such lawsuits, which cost a total of $67.8 million. Of the 80 lawsuits, the gender of the officers could be determined in 78, which cost a total of $66.3 million.
The study found that female officers were involved in excessive force lawsuits at much lower rates than male officers. No cases of sexual assault or domestic violence listed a female officer as a defendant. Of the total $66.3 million in payouts, male officers were responsible for $63.4 million, or 95.8 percent. Female officers accounted for $2.8 million, or 4.2 percent. Sexual assault and domestic violence cases, involving only male officers, resulted in $10.4 million in judgments and settlements. The overall ratio of male to female officers and sergeants from 1990- 1999 was 4:1. Male officers were also involved in or at the scene of an incident compared to women by a ratio of 9:1. Of the 27 female officers at the scene of an excessive force incident, only 15 were alleged to be “directly involved in the use of excessive force.” The ratio of payouts for killings by male and female officers was 43:1, and the ratio of payouts for assault and battery was 32:1. “Moreover, not one female police officer was named in more than one lawsuit, while some male officers were defendants in more than one case, evidencing a pattern of use of excessive force among these male officers.”
The National Center for Women & Policing has recommended that departments hire more women not only to change from an aggressive style of policing to one that emphasizes communication, but also to stem the use of excessive force and misconduct.
IV. CONCLUSION
DWF is a real problem -- spread nationwide – not just isolated incidents here and there. Police departments need to address it as such. Without proper training, supervision, and punishment of offending officers, the problem will continue; and without a commitment to protecting victims of DWF, police departments will force them to remain silent. Departments must implement complaint systems that allow victims to come forward, and they must take these complaints seriously.
18 National Center for Women & Policing, Gender Differences in the Cost of Police Brutality and Misconduct: A Content Analysis of LAPD Civil Liability Cases 1990-1999 (September 5, 2000) available at www.feminist.org/police.
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"DRIVING WHILE FEMALE”:
A NATIONAL PROBLEM IN POLICE MISCONDUCT
A Special Report by the
Police Professionalism Initiative
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Samuel Walker and Dawn Irlbeck Department of Criminal Justice University of Nebraska I. THE STORIES
On New Year's Day 2001, a Suffolk County (Long Island, N.Y.) police officer stopped a female driver for an alleged traffic violation and instead of issuing her a traffic ticket forced her to strip and walk home wearing only her underpants.
The report of this incident brought forth similar allegations of sexual abuse arising from traffic stops conducted by Long Island police by 13 women and one man. Several of the cases involved allegations that officers coerced sexual favors as the price of avoiding a traffic ticket.1 The publicity also brought forward a spate of nearly identical allegations against officers with the neighboring Nassau County police department.
The Suffolk and Nassau County cases highlighted a national problem of police abuse: “driving while female,” or DWF. Across the country, police officers sexually harass or abuse
2
Reports of “driving while female” abuses are found in every part of the country, and the level of abuse runs the gamut from harassment to sexual assault and even murder:
1 Michael Luo, "Officers May Face Federal Charges," Newsday (March 9, 2001). 2 "Betrayed by a Badge," Newsweek (June 18, 2001): 38-41.
female drivers, using the pretext of alleged (and often baseless) traffic violations.
1
** In 2000, a Houston, Tex., police officer was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for the sexual assault of a female driver.
** Also in 2000, a San Francisco police officer pleaded no contest to charges of fondling teenage girls during traffic stops.
** In 1998, a Washington, DC, police officer was convicted of sexually assaulting a 14- year-old girl and an adult woman.
** A Milwaukee police officer was sentenced to eight years in prison in 1998 for sexually assaulting a female driver.
** In 1996, a Chicago police officer was sentenced to four years in prison for fondling women during traffic stops.
** A suburban Chicago police officer was convicted in 1996 for stalking several women between the years 1990 and 1994.
** And in perhaps the most grotesque case of all, Cara Knott was murdered in 1986 by a predatory California Highway Patrol officer who stopped her for a traffic violation.
These are not isolated incidents. A review of media reports reveals an average of nearly 20
3
media-covered cases per year in each of the last six years.
are clearly only the tip of the iceberg. Many victims do not come forward because of humiliation and fear of reprisal. Also, departments do not accept and investigate complaints from many victims who do come forward.
II. THE PATTERNS
Several patterns emerge from these stories:
First, there is a pattern of police officers using their traffic enforcement powers to abuse
4
The problem of "driving while female" parallels the national problem of racial profiling
women.
or “driving while black” (DWB). Substantial evidence indicates that police officers stop African American drivers because of their race and not because of any evidence of illegal activity. In other
And, as this report explains, these cases
3 See appendix.
4 Sexual abuse of individuals by police officers is not confined to female drivers. There are also a number of stories of officers entering private homes on the pretext of a search and then assaulting women who live there. In addition, there are a number of stories of male officers harassing or assaulting male drivers whom they have stopped for an alleged traffic violation.
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parts of the country, police officers stop Hispanic/Latino drivers solely because of their ethnicity, a practice that has been labeled “driving while brown.” 5
On Interstate 95 in Maryland, for example, white and African American drivers were independently observed to violate traffic laws at the same rate. Yet, 73 percent of the drivers stopped by Maryland State Troopers were African American. Moreover, of those drivers who were stopped, 80 percent were either African American or Hispanic.
In the case of driving while black or brown, police officers engage in an illegal form of discrimination based on race or ethnicity. Racial and ethnic stereotypes about minority involvement in crime are part of anti-crime crackdowns, most notably in the war on drugs. In the case of driving while female, innocent drivers are similarly stopped based on an immutable characteristic: sex. Just as they abuse their law enforcement power to stop drivers of color, police officers abuse their power to stop and harass women drivers.
An important difference between the DWB and DWF problems, however, is that officers engaged in racial profiling are usually acting in accord with department crime-fighting policies, while officers targeting female drivers represent the classic "rogue" officers who are violating the law and department policy.
Second, a major part of the DWF problem is the failure of police departments to investigate allegations that come to their attention. In a number of cases, supervisors disregarded citizen complaints filed by female victims. In one of the Nassau County cases, the female victim filed a formal complaint with the department in a timely fashion, but the department did not investigate it
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This aspect of the DWF problem is very similar to the DWB problem, where police departments do not take seriously and investigate allegations of discrimination on the basis of race or ethnicity and deny that their officers are doing anything wrong.
Similarly, “rogue” officers are able to continue their sexual predatory activity because the department looks the other way. An Indianapolis, Ind., officer who was finally caught in 1996 made 224 traffic stops in a four month period in 1995, with 199 of those stops (89 percent!) involving female drivers.7
Third, as in the case of DWB, DWF abuses continue because police departments tolerate them by failing to act on citizen complaints, failing to adopt necessary policies and training, and failing to supervise their officers in a professional manner.
5 ACLU, Driving While Black (New York: ACLU, 1999).
6 Oscar Corral, "Failure to Go by the Book," Newsday (February 1, 2001).
7 R. Joseph Gelarden, "Ex-Police Officer Faces New Misconduct Charges," The Indianapolis Star (August 22, 1996).
for almost nine months.
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DWF abuses are symptomatic of a pervasive sexist culture within a police department.8 This sexist culture manifests itself in several ways:
(1) employment discrimination against women, including the failure to promote women to supervisory positions;9
(2) tolerance of sexual harassment within the department;10
(3) a systematic failure to investigate domestic violence incidents where the alleged perpetrator is an officer in the department;11
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There are several remedies that can and should be taken immediately to curb DWF abuses. These are steps that law enforcement chief executives can take without requiring additional statutory authority.
Step One: Data Collection
Law enforcement agencies need to begin collecting data to determine whether there is a pattern of DWF abuses by their officers. At present we don’t know exactly how extensive the
8 This is again similar to racist environments in many police departments that have records of DWB abuses. [See reports of suit by officers of color against NJ State Police, alleging racism and forced use of DWB practices.]
9 National Center for Women & Policing, Equality Denied: The Status of Women in Policing (Los Angeles: NCWP, 1998).
10 Susan Martin, On the Move: The Status of Women in Policing (Washington, DC: The Police Foundation, 1990), pp. 139-164.
11See the pioneering effort by Katherine Mader, then-Inspector General of the Los Angles Police Department: Inspector General, Domestic Violence in the Los Angeles Police Department: How Well Does the Los Angeles Police Department Police its Own? (Los Angeles: Office of the Inspector General, 1997).
12 National Center for Women and Policing, Recruiting and Retaining Women: A Self-Assessment Guide for Law Enforcement (Los Angeles: NCWP, 2000), Ch. 9., "Implementing Family-Friendly Policies," pp, 111-115.
(4) inadequate policies regarding pregnancy and parental leave.
III. THE REMEDIES
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DWF problem is. The anecdotal evidence, particularly the many cases of officers who have been convicted of some form of sexual abuse, suggests that the problem is serious and widespread.
Fortunately, many police departments are already collecting traffic stop data to investigate
possible racial profiling. Virtually all of the data collection instruments record the gender of the
driver. Where the identity of the officer is also indicated, it is a very simple matter of analyzing the
data to determine if certain officers are stopping a suspiciously high number of female drivers. In
those departments where the identity of officers is not part of the data collection process it needs to
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Step Two: Official Policies and Training
Every law enforcement agency should immediately issue a formal policy prohibiting "driving while female" abuse.14 The policy should define DWF as the use of law enforcement powers for the purpose of stopping female drivers where there is no suspected criminal activity or traffic law violation. The policy should clearly state that any form of sexual harassment or assault of an individual, regardless of gender, is impermissible conduct that will result in termination proceedings.
Every law enforcement agency should immediately incorporate the new “driving while female” policy into both pre-service and in-service training programs. Pre-service training or police academy training is provided to all new recruits. In-service training is provided to officers who are already on the force. The in-service training is especially important because experienced officers who may have engaged in some form of DWF in the past need to be instructed that such activity violates department policy.
Step Three: Better Supervision
Law enforcement chief executives need to take immediate steps to ensure proper supervision of officers on the street. They need to ensure that supervisory officers are alert to the potential problem of DWF and take the necessary steps to curb it.
Supervisors need to be advised that all allegations and rumors of possible DWF abuses are taken seriously and promptly investigated. In cases where alleged abuse is suspected but cannot be proven, supervisors should counsel strongly the suspected officer that any such abuse will not be tolerated by the department.
13 Deborah Ramirez, Jack McDevitt, and Amy Farell CHECK, A Resource Guide on Racial Profiling Data Collection Systems: Promising Practices and Lessons Learned (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2000).
14 See the similar recommendations related to racial profiling in Police Executive Research Forum, Bias-Based Profiling (2001).
be added.
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How should departments respond to allegations? The chief of the Homewood, Ill., police department adopted a vigilant policy, announcing in 1996: “We'll take anonymous complaints, thirdhand complaints, we'll take anything.”15
The chief executive needs to make it clear that any attempt to cover up alleged abuse by a police officer is a serious violation of department rules.
Step Four: An Open and Accessible Citizen Complaint System
Law enforcement chief executives should take immediate steps to ensure that the department’s citizen complaint system is open and accessible to all members of the community. Where an independent citizen oversight agency does not exist, local communities need to create
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publication and dissemination of materials explaining the complaint system; (2) publication and dissemination of such materials in all languages appropriate to the local community; multiple and convenient locations for filing complaints, including locations separate from police facilities; (3) procedures to ensure the proper receipt, classification, and investigation of all complaints; and (4) annual publication of complaint data.
Special steps need to be taken to ensure that female citizens who allege abuse are guaranteed confidentiality. If a complainant expresses a desire to discuss the incident with a female officer, the department should promptly make a female investigator available.
Step Five: Hire More Female Officers
Studies have shown that male officers are much more likely to use excessive force and engage in misconduct than female officers. One solution to this problem is simply to hire more women.
The Feminist Majority Foundation and The National Center for Women & Policing conducted a study on the costs of police misconduct and abuse in the Los Angeles police
15 Pamela Cytrynbaum, "Police Sex Abuse Tears at Code of Silence," The Chicago Tribune (February 29, 1996).
16 U.S. Department of Justice, Principles for Promoting Police Integrity (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2001).
17Walker, Police Accountability: The Role of Citizen Oversight. 6
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one that is open and accessible.
The minimum conditions of an open and accessible citizen complaint system include: (1)
department as a result of civil liability lawsuits between 1990-1999.18 The study only analyzed cases involving excessive force allegations, police officers involved in sexual assaults, and police officers involved in domestic violence incidents that had judgments or out-of-court settlements exceeding $100,000. Between 1990-1999, there were 80 such lawsuits, which cost a total of $67.8 million. Of the 80 lawsuits, the gender of the officers could be determined in 78, which cost a total of $66.3 million.
The study found that female officers were involved in excessive force lawsuits at much lower rates than male officers. No cases of sexual assault or domestic violence listed a female officer as a defendant. Of the total $66.3 million in payouts, male officers were responsible for $63.4 million, or 95.8 percent. Female officers accounted for $2.8 million, or 4.2 percent. Sexual assault and domestic violence cases, involving only male officers, resulted in $10.4 million in judgments and settlements. The overall ratio of male to female officers and sergeants from 1990- 1999 was 4:1. Male officers were also involved in or at the scene of an incident compared to women by a ratio of 9:1. Of the 27 female officers at the scene of an excessive force incident, only 15 were alleged to be “directly involved in the use of excessive force.” The ratio of payouts for killings by male and female officers was 43:1, and the ratio of payouts for assault and battery was 32:1. “Moreover, not one female police officer was named in more than one lawsuit, while some male officers were defendants in more than one case, evidencing a pattern of use of excessive force among these male officers.”
The National Center for Women & Policing has recommended that departments hire more women not only to change from an aggressive style of policing to one that emphasizes communication, but also to stem the use of excessive force and misconduct.
IV. CONCLUSION
DWF is a real problem -- spread nationwide – not just isolated incidents here and there. Police departments need to address it as such. Without proper training, supervision, and punishment of offending officers, the problem will continue; and without a commitment to protecting victims of DWF, police departments will force them to remain silent. Departments must implement complaint systems that allow victims to come forward, and they must take these complaints seriously.
18 National Center for Women & Policing, Gender Differences in the Cost of Police Brutality and Misconduct: A Content Analysis of LAPD Civil Liability Cases 1990-1999 (September 5, 2000) available at www.feminist.org/police.
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Who Killed Martin Luther King? The Cover-Up of the Century
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“The United States government is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.”- Martin Luther King
On December 8, 1999, a jury in Memphis, Tennessee, reached the verdict that Martin Luther King Jr. was killed as a result of a conspiracy involving the FBI, CIA, U.S. Army, Memphis police and the Mafia.
After a five week trial which presented 70 witnesses, the jury (made up of six blacks and six whites) rejected the official position that the civil rights titan was shot by a lone assassin, James Earl Ray, who was jailed for 99 years for the crime and died in 1998. The verdict concluded a wrongful death civil lawsuit brought by the King family against Loyd Jowers, owner of Jim‚s Grill, a Memphis cafe located next to the scene of the shooting when it took place on April 4, 1968.
The jury found Jowers guilty as one part of a large conspiracy created by government agencies. Jowers admitted his role but insisted that he did not know the identity of the target.
Coretta Scott King, Martin’s widow, hailed the verdict as “a great victory for justice and truth.” She added: “there is abundant evidence of a major high level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband and the civil court’s unanimous
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Twenty years ago, the FBI began a program to help kids steer clear of drugs and gangs while learning core values that would make them good citizens. Since the Adopt-A-School Program was established in 1994, special agents and other FBI employees have volunteered thousands of hours to make a positive impact on young people around the nation.
The Adopt-A-School Program identifies schools in disadvantaged communities—where kids may face greater exposure to gangs, drugs, and criminal activity—and sends Bureau employees there to be tutors and mentors.
“This is a great program that can have a profound influence on young people,” said Special Agent Paul Geiger, chief of the Community Relations Unit at FBI Headquarters in Washington. “We teach students that despite any hardships they may be facing now, if they work hard and make the right decisions, they can accomplish anything they want with their lives.”
The Adopt-A-School Program contains different components aimed at specific age groups. The Junior Special Agent Program, for example, is directed at fifth- and sixth-graders. A mentorship program is aimed at second- and fourth-graders, and the Future Agents in Training Program is for high school students between the ages of 16 and 18. Depending on the component, Bureau employees may visit schools once a week for several months, or every other week for an entire school year.
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FAREWELL AMERICA
Originally published in 1968 in France under the title L'Amerique Brule (America Is Burning), Farewell America quickly became a best-seller in Europe in eleven languages. It was the inside story of the assassination of President John Kennedy. Although borrowing heavily from published critics of the Warren Commission Report, the book describes the roots of the Cold War, the linkage between large corporate and banking interests, the ever-growing American intelligence apparatus, and the international petroleum cartels that were lined up with a bevy of military brass and Mafia chieftains against JFK. combination of these powerful interests called "The Committee" coordinated all aspects of the murder, from setting the time and place of the shooting to the recruitment of the gunmen and the coverup of the conspiracy afterward. The bottom line was that enemies of JFK collaborated with the CIA to erase the perceived threat to their interests by John and Robert Kennedy. Heady stuff for 1968. So incendiary, in fact, that importation of the book through Canada was squelched, allegedly at the instigation of the FBI. Farewell America wasn't just another book about the assassination conspiracy; it bristled with restricted information about U.S. intelligence agencies, the White House, global business, and military and political affairs that had to have come from a knowlegdeable source, in this case, French intelligence. It also represented the surreptitious intrusion by those in French government circles into American politics, namely, the 1968 presidential elections.
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Mr. Moore contended he had been framed by the Manhattan District Attorney's office, the New York City Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He said they had withheld favorable evidence and had manipulated evidence against him that resulted in his conviction.
Most importantly, Mr. Moore said, the prosecution failed to disclose F.B.I. reports on several prosecution witnesses that showed they had provided contradictory stories about his role in the shooting.
At the time the Black Panthers were repeatedly clashing with the police across the country in what they said was a revolutionary movement opposing white discrimination against blacks.
Mr. Moore was convicted on April 26, 1973, of firing a machine gun at two police officers who were guarding the Riverside Drive home of the Manhattan District Attorney, Frank S. Hogan, on May 19, 1971. Two officers were wounded.
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Mr. Moore was arrested on June 5, largely on evidence provided by Pauline Joseph, who was the most critical prosecution witness at Mr. Moore's trial and who testified that he had admitted to her that he fired the shots.
However, in a series of appeals that began soon after he was imprisoned, Mr. Moore charged that Ms. Joseph had told the F.B.I. a different story: that he did not fire the machine gun. He said the prosecution had failed to disclose this evidence at his trial.
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As the media-deep state Russia Hoax unravels, two journalists deserve special attention: Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball. Isikoff, now chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, was the first to break the story that the FBI was investigating Carter Page. Hosenball, now a correspondent with Reuters, was first to break the story that candidate Donald Trump was being advised, as the Reuters headline tells us, “By Ex-U.S. Lieutenant General Michael Flynn–Who Favors Closer Russia Ties.” The “closer ties” that worry me, however, are those between America’s intelligence community (IC) and reporters like these two.
I first met Isikoff and Hosenball in Newsweek’s cramped Washington office in 2003. I was there promoting a book I had just coauthored with James Sanders on TWA Flight 800, the 747 that blew up off the south coast of Long Island in July 1996. I knew Isikoff largely through his reporting on the Lewinsky affair. Hosenball I knew for his role, witting or otherwise, as the CIA’s chief propagandist in the TWA 800 investigation.
In the way of background, in November 1997 the FBI showed a CIA-produced animation to discredit the hundreds of credible eyewitnesses to a missile strike on the aircraft. Hosenball fell hard for the CIA video. Under his byline, Newsweek ran a fully affirmative, nine-frame, full-color recreation captioned with the unlikely boast, “CIA Photos”
Hosenball assured his readers that what the witnesses really saw was not a missile but the fuselage of the burning, climbing plane rocketing upwards some three-thousand-plus feet after the fuel tank exploded. The CIA analysts convinced Hosenball that “infrared images captured by spy satellites” showed this preposterous scenario during the plane’s last 49 seconds.
This revelation may have come as news to the FBI. The bureau’s comprehensive summary issued just a week before Hosenball’s article did not once mention the word “satellite.” In a letter to then-congressman John Kasich two months after the press conference, the CIA quietly buried the subject: “No satellite
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It’s rare that I read something on the Washington Post that I don’t find highly biased, even repugnant. But with their recent article on the Afghanistan Papers, they truly knocked the ball out of the park.
The facts they shared should have every American protesting in the streets. Trillions of dollars have been spent on a war that the Pentagon knew was unwinnable all along. More than 2300 American soldiers died there and more than 20,000 have been injured. More than 150,000 Afghanis were killed, many of them civilians, including women and children.
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"He wants to know if it’s suicide or if it’s homicide, because if it’s homicide then his life may also be in danger," said Baden. "Homicide would be because his brother knew too much and whoever did it to his brother might then think that he knows too much even though his life was entirely different than his brother's."
Baden, a former New York City medical examiner, previously told "Fox & Friends" Jeffrey Epstein’s injuries were more consistent with murder than suicide, noting there were two bone fractures in his larynx, in the area of the Adam’s apple, and a third break on the bone above the Adam’s apple. -Fox News
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I have no way of assuring you that the bleak version of the future outlined by Michael Ruppert in Chris Smith's "Collapse" is accurate. I can only tell you I have a pretty good built-in B.S. detector, and its needle never bounced off zero while I watched this film. There is controversy over Ruppert, and he has many critics. But one simple fact at the center of his argument is obviously true, and it terrifies me.
That fact: We have passed the peak of global oil resources. There are only so many known oil reserves. We have used up more than half of them. Remaining reserves are growing smaller, and the demand is growing larger. It took about a century to use up the first half. That usage was much accelerated in the most recent 50 years. Now the oil demands of giant economies like India and China are exploding. They represent more than half the global population, and until recent decades had small energy
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After 17 Years, Panther Conviction Is Upset
By Ronald Sullivan
March 16, 1999
Mr. Moore contended he had been framed by the Manhattan District Attorney's office, the New York City Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He said they had withheld favorable evidence and had manipulated evidence against him that resulted in his conviction.
Most importantly, Mr. Moore said, the prosecution failed to disclose F.B.I. reports on several prosecution witnesses that showed they had provided contradictory stories about his role in the shooting.
At the time the Black Panthers were repeatedly clashing with the police across the country in what they said was a revolutionary movement opposing white discrimination against blacks.
Mr. Moore was convicted on April 26, 1973, of firing a machine gun at two police officers who were guarding the Riverside Drive home of the Manhattan District Attorney, Frank S. Hogan, on May 19, 1971. Two officers were wounded.
Suppression of Evidence
Mr. Moore was arrested on June 5, largely on evidence provided by Pauline Joseph, who was the most critical prosecution witness at Mr. Moore's trial and who testified that he had admitted to her that he fired the shots.
However, in a series of appeals that began soon after he was imprisoned, Mr. Moore charged that Ms. Joseph had told the F.B.I. a different story: that he did not fire the machine gun. He said the prosecution had failed to disclose this evidence at his trial.
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Bronx teen claims pervy cop groped her inside patrol car over cell phone spat, to seek $3 million in damages
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These Kinetic Sculptures Hypnotize You
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GEORGIA’S VOTING MACHINES AND ELECTION SECURITY
From the influence of voting-machine company lobbyists to concerns about election vulnerability, American Oversight is investigating Georgia’s overhaul of its voting system.
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The Lincoln Project takes on Trump — and possibly Maine’s Susan Collins
By Kay Lazar Globe Staff,December 24, 2019, 7:47 p.m.
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Isikoff, Hosenball and the Media-Deep State War on Truth
By Jack Cashill
American Thinker
December 25, 2019
As the media-deep state Russia Hoax unravels, two journalists deserve special attention: Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball. Isikoff, now chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, was the first to break the story that the FBI was investigating Carter Page. Hosenball, now a correspondent with Reuters, was first to break the story that candidate Donald Trump was being advised, as the Reuters headline tells us, “By Ex-U.S. Lieutenant General Michael Flynn–Who Favors Closer Russia Ties.” The “closer ties” that worry me, however, are those between America’s intelligence community (IC) and reporters like these two.
I first met Isikoff and Hosenball in Newsweek’s cramped Washington office in 2003. I was there promoting a book I had just coauthored with James Sanders on TWA Flight 800, the 747 that blew up off the south coast of Long Island in July 1996. I knew Isikoff largely through his reporting on the Lewinsky affair. Hosenball I knew for his role, witting or otherwise, as the CIA’s chief propagandist in the TWA 800 investigation.
In the way of background, in November 1997 the FBI showed a CIA-produced animation to discredit the hundreds of credible eyewitnesses to a missile strike on the aircraft. Hosenball fell hard for the CIA video. Under his byline, Newsweek ran a fully affirmative, nine-frame, full-color recreation captioned with the unlikely boast, “CIA Photos”
Hosenball assured his readers that what the witnesses really saw was not a missile but the fuselage of the burning, climbing plane rocketing upwards some three-thousand-plus feet after the fuel tank exploded. The CIA analysts convinced Hosenball that “infrared images captured by spy satellites” showed this preposterous scenario during the plane’s last 49 seconds.
This revelation may have come as news to the FBI. The bureau’s comprehensive summary issued just a week before Hosenball’s article did not once mention the word “satellite.” In a letter to then-congressman John Kasich two months after the press conference, the CIA quietly buried the subject: “No satellite
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Powered by Gates Foundation Cash, MIT Develops ‘Tattoo ID’ Tracking Who Has Had Vaccinations
Sputnik News
December 25, 2019
The invisible “tattoo” is a pattern made up of tiny semiconducting crystals that reflect light and thus glows under infra-red light. The pattern will be delivered alongside the vaccine into the skin via hi-tech dissolvable microneedles made of a mixture of polymers and sugar.
MIT researchers have struck on a novel, and for many surely unsettling, method of keeping track of who has and hasn’t had a particular vaccination – creating an ink that can be safely embedded in the skin alo
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Thiss Is America: 10 Examples That Show How Dramatically The U.S. Has Changed As We Approach 2020
By Michael Snyder
The Most Important News
December 25, 2019
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Their Own Documents Proved the Govt Blew $3 Trillion on Afghanistan and LIED. Congress Immediately Authorized Almost a TRILLION More for 2020
By Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
December 25, 2019
It’s rare that I read something on the Washington Post that I don’t find highly biased, even repugnant. But with their recent article on the Afghanistan Papers, they truly knocked the ball out of the park.
The facts they shared should have every American protesting in the streets. Trillions of dollars have been spent on a war that the Pentagon knew was unwinnable all along. More than 2300 American soldiers died there and more than 20,000 have been injured. More than 150,000 Afghanis were killed, many of them civilians, including women and children.
And they lied to us constantly.
Congress just proved that the truth doesn’t matter, though. A mere 22 hou
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Jeffrey Epstein's Brother Fears For His Life
"He wants to know if it’s suicide or if it’s homicide, because if it’s homicide then his life may also be in danger," said Baden. "Homicide would be because his brother knew too much and whoever did it to his brother might then think that he knows too much even though his life was entirely different than his brother's."
Baden, a former New York City medical examiner, previously told "Fox & Friends" Jeffrey Epstein’s injuries were more consistent with murder than suicide, noting there were two bone fractures in his larynx, in the area of the Adam’s apple, and a third break on the bone above the Adam’s apple. -Fox News
"Those three fractures are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation," Baden said. "I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case."
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We're looking for the wrong tape of the night Epstein hung himself.
Try and find the video of Nicholas Tartaglione, Epstein's cell mate, being transferred to another cell PRIOR TO Epstein's suicide, as was officially claimed.
It does not exist. It never happened.
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British Society for Immunology President, Dr. Arne Akbar, says his group is against compulsory vaccination and that other efforts should be used to boost vaccination rates/ The Guardian
Prof Arne Akbar, president of the British Society for Immunology, says compulsory vaccination is a blunt tool which could increase health inequities and alienate parents.
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The recent drop in childhood vaccination uptake is a cause of concern for all of us, as your article rightly points out (No MMR should mean no school place, say GPs, 9 September
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Here's actual pages from the FBIs COINTELPRO "Black Panther Coloring Book" that was mailed to hundreds of white family homes when the Black Panthers were helping poor white people in the late '60's
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SHOCKING PHOTOS: RACIST 1969 FBI COLORING BOOK FOR KIDS ADVOCATES KILLING ‘PIG COPS’
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Volume 7, Covert Action - Select Committee on Intelligence
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Sep 16, 2019 - "Covert Action in Chile, 1963-73," Staff Report of the Senate Select Com- ..... films , pamphlets, posters, direct mailings, and wall paintings. To give ...... domestic operations of this nature should be handled by the FBI. It.
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Volume 7, Covert Action - Select Committee on Intelligence
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Sep 16, 2019 - "Covert Action in Chile, 1963-73," Staff Report of the Senate Select Com- ..... films , pamphlets, posters, direct mailings, and wall paintings. To give ...... domestic operations of this nature should be handled by the FBI. It.
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Black Women's Forgotten Crusade for Survival in the Free ...
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very act of feeding a hungry black child was described as an act of “racism. ..... 37 For more on covert repression enacted by the FBI against the Black ... drawing of a young black boy brandishing a gun against a pig dressed as a ...... journalist Roz Payne shows two black women preparing trays of toast and plates of eggs in ...
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The Black Panther Party Library
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AGAINST THE ODDS: Conversation With Darryl Cherney, producer of "Who Bombed Judi Bari?"
by Margot Pepper
Saturday Mar 31st, 2012 2:31 PM
The documentary, "Who Bombed Judi Bari?" raises important questions about the FBI's involvement in the bombing and framing of the late Earth First Activist, Judi Bari, (directed by Mary Liz Thomson; produced by Earth First! activist Darryl Cherney.) It will be screened as part of the Oakland International Film Festival Sunday, April 8 from 12 pm to 2:00 pm at the Oakland Museum of California (1000 Oak Street.) The following interview with Cherney offers his thoughts as to the bomber’s identity, as well as insights about perseverance against impossible odds, lessons for today’s Occupy movement.
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Now it appears there is a blustery effort on the part of the Clinton administration to convince the skeptics it is finally getting serious. First, there was the unveiling of the WANTED poster, featuring a photograph of the two Libyans on the inside lid of a suitcase laden with $4 million cash bounty... Those who financed and planned the deadliest ever terrorist attack on American citizens continue to remain unindicted. The remarkable silence invites suspicion that the US government is engaged in little more than another calculated effort to ignore the larger issues: Iran's motivations for revenge, and the US government's responsibility. -- US NAVY Captain Dave Carlson, April 9 1995
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In recent times, allegations have resurfaced regarding payments offered to key witnesses of the Lockerbie trial. Specifically, there have been rumors that Majid Giaka, Paul and Tony Gaud were each paid about US$4 million for their help in the conviction of Megrahi for the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988.
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I have no way of assuring you that the bleak version of the future outlined by Michael Ruppert in Chris Smith's "Collapse" is accurate. I can only tell you I have a pretty good built-in B.S. detector, and its needle never bounced off zero while I watched this film. There is controversy over Ruppert, and he has many critics. But one simple fact at the center of his argument is obviously true, and it terrifies me.
That fact: We have passed the peak of global oil resources. There are only so many known oil reserves. We have used up more than half of them. Remaining reserves are growing smaller, and the demand is growing larger. It took about a century to use up the first half. That usage was much accelerated in the most recent 50 years. Now the oil demands of giant economies like India and China are exploding. They represent more than half the global population, and until recent decades had small energy
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From: Denton, David <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 2:15 PM
Subject: Update on JFK Conference in April 2020
UPDATE:
Dr. Cyril Wecht, one of the nation's preeminent forensic pathologists, will be one of our keynote speakers in our upcoming conference on April 16-19 in Kansas City. He has been a consultant in numerous high-profile cases, but is perhaps best known as a long-time critic of the Warren Commission's findings concerning the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Dr. Wecht is an outstanding and inspiring speaker that you will not want to miss. Please consider joining us in Kansas City!
You can find all the details of the conference, including hotel and registration information, below.
David D.
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Project JFK/CSI Dallas, with the support of the JFK Historical Group, is sponsoring Political Assassinations of the 1960s — The Westport Connection, a national symposium on the murders of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
The event will be held Thursday, April 16 through Sunday, April 19, 2020 at the Four Points Hotel by Sheraton in Kansas City, Mo.
Featured Speakers Include:
• Expert Researchers and Authors: Casey Quinlan, Brian Edwards, David Knight, Barbara Honegger, Gary Shaw, Victoria Sulzer, Ed Tatro, Larry Rivera, Jeff Worcester, Rick Russo, Phil Nelson, Richard Bartholomew, Randy Benson, Dr. Gary Aguilar, Joe Green
• History Professors: Mal Hyman and David Denton
• Ryan Jones, Museum Historian for the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn.
Announcements of additional speakers will follow. For updated information about the conference, please visit Project JFK/CSI Dallas or the JFK Historical Group.
Early bird registration continues through January 31, 2020. The cost is $100 per guest. A Dinner Banquet with a guest speaker will be held on Saturday, April 18. There is a separate cost of $40 to attend this event. The conference pass, banquet tickets and memberships to the JFK Historical Group may be purchased here.
A Speakers Farewell Luncheon, featuring a talk by Ed Tatro, will be held on Sunday, April 19. Information regarding tickets will be forthcoming.
Authors who purchase a membership to the JFK Historical Group, will receive a full-page ad in the conference program and a complimentary ticket to the Speakers Farewell Luncheon.
We are inviting and expecting high school and college groups to attend as well and are offering a discounted rate to them. More details will follow soon.
Hotel reservations can be made by contacting Four Points Hotel by Sheraton, Kansas City International Airport, 816-521-9672. Please mention you are with the JFK Historical Group to receive the special conference rate of $94.
For conference updates and additional information, please visit the Project JFK/CSI Dallas or JFK Historical Group.
We look forward to seeing you,
David Denton, History Professor, Olney Central College, Olney, Ill.
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Florida Appeals Court Asks State's Top Court To Decide Whether Compelled Password Production Violates The Fifth Amendment
Legal Issues
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Tue, Jan 7th 2020 3:34pm — Tim Cushing
The Florida state Supreme Court is being asked to settle the open question as to whether compelled password production violates the Fifth Amendment. (via FourthAmendment.com)
Last October, a state Appeals Court decided that it did. In a case involving an accident caused by a drunk driver, law enforcement sought to compel the suspect to unlock his phone so they could search it for evidence. It's unclear what evidence of drunk driving the police hoped to find on the phone, but that's the case that first made its way to one of the state's appellate courts.
It all worked out, though. The court ruled that compelling a password is a Fifth Amendment issue because it could force the suspect to hand over evidence to be used against him by prosecutors. Another state appellate court came to the same conclusion earlier this year, ruling that compelling password production to unlock a robbery suspect's encrypted device violated the Constitution.
In both cases, prosecutors didn't really care about the password. That's not what they were after. They wanted what was on the phones, which could
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Gov. Mills grants full pardon to late tribal attorney Donald Gellers
Maine's first known posthumous pardon brings closure to a 1968 case that was one of the most sordid in the state's legal history.
Gellers was framed in 1968 for the “constructive possession” of six marijuana cigarettes as part of an elaborate undercover operation organized by the Attorney General’s Office and the Maine State Police. The raid on his home occurred while Gellers was driving back from Boston, where he had just filed a lawsuit asserting the treaty rights of the Passamaquoddy tribe, including the possession of a majority of the state. His work paved the way for the 1980 tribal land claims settlement acts, which were spearheaded by his former intern, Tom Tureen.
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Former inmate now advocates for prisoners in Nevada
John Witherow said that after his first prison sentence in 1967, it didn’t take long for him to become a mean, dangerous man. Over the next 40 years, only three were spent on the outside.
By the time he was sentenced in Nevada, there was no hope for Witherow — he was in for life. It took a state Supreme Court ruling, his self-taught skills as a jailhouse lawyer and a sizable settlement from the Nevada Department of Corrections for Witherow to get out of prison and change his life.
“I just learned to fight in a different manner,” he said during an interview in November.
Now 70, Witherow has been on the outside for more than nine years. A self-admitted former “problem child,” who said his most serious conviction was attempted murder for shooting at an officer, now runs Nevada’s chapter of the nonprofit Citizen’s United for Rehabilitation of Errants, also called CURE.
“Prisoners in Nevada never had a group on the outside that communicated with them on a regular basis about what’s going on or who they can call for assistance: We provide that service,” he said.
Witherow took over the Nevada chapter of the prisoner advocacy organization within a year of being released on parole in Nevada. The former prisoner — who spent time incarcerated in Michigan, California and Nevada — now answers dozens of inmate letters a week, works with attorneys to file class-action lawsuits and meets with the highest-up in Nevada’s Department of Corrections.
James Dzurenda, former director of the department, who resigned in August, said Witherow helped him address problems in the prison system.
“John was a great tool for that because the inmate population trusts him, and if John said to trust me, they would do it,” Dzurenda said during a phone call in December. “It was such a big deal to have him working together with us.”
Dzurenda said Witherow was an important person to him during his time as director because he knew what was happening in the facilities.
“John’s like the filter for that. He never came to me with any
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Nichols says bombing was FBI op
Detailed confession filed in S.L. about Oklahoma City plot
By Geoffrey Fattah Feb 22, 2007, 1:02pm MST
The only surviving convicted criminal in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is saying his co-conspirator, Timothy McVeigh, told him he was taking orders from a top FBI official in orchestrating the bombing.
A declaration from Terry Lynn Nichols, filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, has proven to be one of the most detailed confessions by Nichols to date about his involvement in the bombing as well as the involvement of others. However
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LOCKERBIE BOMBER DID NOT DIE ON 20 MAY 2012.
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COINTELPRO: The Untold American Story
By Paul Wolf with contributions from Robert Boyle, Bob Brown, Tom Burghardt, Noam Chomsky, Ward Churchill, Kathleen Cleaver, Bruce Ellison, Cynthia McKinney, Nkechi Taifa, Laura Whitehorn, Nicholas Wilson, and Howard Zinn.
Presented to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson at the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa by the members of the Congressional Black Caucus attending the conference: Donna Christianson, John Conyers, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Barbara Lee, Sheila Jackson Lee, Cynthia McKinney, and Diane Watson, September 1, 2001.
Overview
We're here to talk about the FBI and U.S. democracy because here we have this peculiar situation that we live in a democratic country - everybody knows that, everybody says it, it's repeated, it's dinned into our ears a thousand times, you grow up, you pledge allegiance, you salute the flag, you hail democracy, you look at the totalitarian states, you read the history of tyrannies, and here is the beacon light of democracy. And, of course, there's some truth to that. There are things you can do in the United States that you can't do many other places without being put in jail.
But the United States is a very complex system. It's very hard to describe because, yes, there are elements of democracy; there are things that you're grateful for, that you're not in front of the death squads in El Salvador. On the other hand, it's not quite a democracy. And one of the things that makes it not quite a democracy is the existence of outfits like the FBI and the CIA. Democracy is based on openness, and the existence of a secret policy, secret lists of dissident citizens, violates the spirit of democracy.
Despite its carefully contrived image as the nation's premier crime fighting agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has always functioned primarily as America's political police. This role includes not only the collection of intelligence on the activities of political dissidents and groups, but often times, counterintelligence operations to thwart those activities. The techniques employed are easily recognized by anyone familiar with military psychological operations. The FBI, through the use of the criminal justice system, the postal system, the telephone system and the Internal Revenue Service, enjoys an operational capability surpassing even that of the CIA, which conducts covert actions in foreign countries without having access to those institutions.
Although covert operations have been employed throughout FBI history, the formal COunter INTELligence PROgrams (COINTELPRO's) of the period 1956-1971 were the first to be both broadly targeted and centrally directed. According to FBI researcher Brian Glick, "FBI headquarters set policy, assessed progress, charted new directions, demanded
increased production, and carefully monitored and controlled day-to-day operations. This arrangement required that national COINTELPRO supervisors and local FBI field offices communicate back and forth, at great length, concerning every operation. They did so quite freely, with little fear of public exposure. This generated a prolific trail of bureaucratic paper. The moment that paper trail began to surface, the FBI discontinued all of its formal domestic counterintelligence programs. It did not, however, cease its covert political activity against U.S. dissidents." 1
Of roughly 20,000 people investigated by the FBI solely on the basis of their political views between 1956-1971, about 10 to 15% were the targets of active counterintelligence measures per se. Taking counterintelligence in its broadest sense, to include spreading false information, it's estimated that about two-thirds were COINTELPRO targets. Most targets were never suspected of committing any crime.
The nineteen sixties were a period of social change and unrest. Color television brought home images of jungle combat in Vietnam and protesters and priests burning draft cards and American flags. In the spring and summer months of 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1968, massive black rebellions swept across almost every major US city in the Northeast, Midwest and California. 2 Presidents Johnson and Nixon, and many others feared violent revolution and denounced the protesters. President Kennedy had felt the opposite: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
The counterculture of the sixties, and the FBI's reaction to it, were in many ways a product of the 1950s, the so-called "Age of McCarthyism." John Edgar Hoover, longtime Director of the FBI, was a prominent spokesman of the anti- communist paranoia of the era:
The forces which are most anxious to weaken our internal security are not always easy to identify. Communists have been trained in deceit and secretly work toward the day when they hope to replace our American way of life with a Communist dictatorship. They utilize cleverly camouflaged movements, such as peace groups and civil rights groups to achieve their sinister purposes. While they as
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COINTELPRO Original Documents
The original FBI/CIA COINTELPRO crimes of the 1950s-60s are powerful evidence which show that when "mind control" victims complain they are being harassed by conventional means (break-ins, thefts, sabotage and massive character assassination) there is unimpeachable evidence that the U.S. government has performed such crimes in the RECENT past. With the exposure of the COINTELPRO crimes in Congressional hearings in the 1970s, no longer can skeptics argue that "government wouldn't do that".
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SUPPLEMENTARY DETAILED STAFF REPORTS
ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES AND THE
RIGHTS OF AMERICANS
_______
BOOK III
_______
FINAL REPORT
OF THE
SELECT COMMITTEE
TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
WITH RESPECT TO
INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
UNITED STATES SENATE
APRIL 23 (under authority of the order of April 14), 1976
WARRANTLESS SURREPTITIOUS ENTRIES: FBI "BLACK BAG" BREAK-INS AND MICROPHONE INSTALLATIONS
I. INTRODUCTION
Since 1948 the FBI has conducted hundreds of warrantless surreptitious entries to gather domestic and foreign intelligence, despite the questionable legality of the technique and its deep intrusion into the privacy of targeted individuals. Before 1966, the FBI conducted over two hundred "black bag jobs." 1 These warrantless surreptitious entries were carried out for intelligence purposes other than microphone installation, such as physical search and photographing or seizing documents. Since 1960, more than five hundred warrantless surreptitious microphone installations against intelligence and internal security targets have been conducted by the FBI, a technique which the Justice Department still permits. Almost as many surreptitious entries were conducted in the same period against targets of criminal investigations. 1a
Although several Attorneys General were aware of the FBI practice of break-ins to install electronic listening devices, there is no indication
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Ring Fired Employees for Watching Customer Videos
"We are aware of incidents discussed below where employees violated our policies," a letter from Ring obtained by Motherboard reads.
Chelsea Clinton has made $9 million from one board seat. Let’s see how this go-getting multi-millionaire worked for her fortune
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How the oil industry has spent billions to control the climate change conversation
From: Denton, David <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 2:15 PM
Subject: Update on JFK Conference in April 2020
UPDATE:
Dr. Cyril Wecht, one of the nation's preeminent forensic pathologists, will be one of our keynote speakers in our upcoming conference on April 16-19 in Kansas City. He has been a consultant in numerous high-profile cases, but is perhaps best known as a long-time critic of the Warren Commission's findings concerning the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Dr. Wecht is an outstanding and inspiring speaker that you will not want to miss. Please consider joining us in Kansas City!
You can find all the details of the conference, including hotel and registration information, below.
David D.
____________________________________________________________________________________
Project JFK/CSI Dallas, with the support of the JFK Historical Group, is sponsoring Political Assassinations of the 1960s — The Westport Connection, a national symposium on the murders of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
The event will be held Thursday, April 16 through Sunday, April 19, 2020 at the Four Points Hotel by Sheraton in Kansas City, Mo.
Featured Speakers Include:
• Expert Researchers and Authors: Casey Quinlan, Brian Edwards, David Knight, Barbara Honegger, Gary Shaw, Victoria Sulzer, Ed Tatro, Larry Rivera, Jeff Worcester, Rick Russo, Phil Nelson, Richard Bartholomew, Randy Benson, Dr. Gary Aguilar, Joe Green
• History Professors: Mal Hyman and David Denton
• Ryan Jones, Museum Historian for the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn.
Announcements of additional speakers will follow. For updated information about the conference, please visit Project JFK/CSI Dallas or the JFK Historical Group.
Early bird registration continues through January 31, 2020. The cost is $100 per guest. A Dinner Banquet with a guest speaker will be held on Saturday, April 18. There is a separate cost of $40 to attend this event. The conference pass, banquet tickets and memberships to the JFK Historical Group may be purchased here.
A Speakers Farewell Luncheon, featuring a talk by Ed Tatro, will be held on Sunday, April 19. Information regarding tickets will be forthcoming.
Authors who purchase a membership to the JFK Historical Group, will receive a full-page ad in the conference program and a complimentary ticket to the Speakers Farewell Luncheon.
We are inviting and expecting high school and college groups to attend as well and are offering a discounted rate to them. More details will follow soon.
Hotel reservations can be made by contacting Four Points Hotel by Sheraton, Kansas City International Airport, 816-521-9672. Please mention you are with the JFK Historical Group to receive the special conference rate of $94.
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Florida Appeals Court Asks State's Top Court To Decide Whether Compelled Password Production Violates The Fifth Amendment
Legal Issues
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Tue, Jan 7th 2020 3:34pm — Tim Cushing
The Florida state Supreme Court is being asked to settle the open question as to whether compelled password production violates the Fifth Amendment. (via FourthAmendment.com)
Last October, a state Appeals Court decided that it did. In a case involving an accident caused by a drunk driver, law enforcement sought to compel the suspect to unlock his phone so they could search it for evidence. It's unclear what evidence of drunk driving the police hoped to find on the phone, but that's the case that first made its way to one of the state's appellate courts.
It all worked out, though. The court ruled that compelling a password is a Fifth Amendment issue because it could force the suspect to hand over evidence to be used against him by prosecutors. Another state appellate court came to the same conclusion earlier this year, ruling that compelling password production to unlock a robbery suspect's encrypted device violated the Constitution.
In both cases, prosecutors didn't really care about the password. That's not what they were after. They wanted what was on the phones, which could
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Gov. Mills grants full pardon to late tribal attorney Donald Gellers
Maine's first known posthumous pardon brings closure to a 1968 case that was one of the most sordid in the state's legal history.
Gellers was framed in 1968 for the “constructive possession” of six marijuana cigarettes as part of an elaborate undercover operation organized by the Attorney General’s Office and the Maine State Police. The raid on his home occurred while Gellers was driving back from Boston, where he had just filed a lawsuit asserting the treaty rights of the Passamaquoddy tribe, including the possession of a majority of the state. His work paved the way for the 1980 tribal land claims settlement acts, which were spearheaded by his former intern, Tom Tureen.
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Red Sox attendant accused of sexual assault at NH youth prison
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Former inmate now advocates for prisoners in Nevada
John Witherow said that after his first prison sentence in 1967, it didn’t take long for him to become a mean, dangerous man. Over the next 40 years, only three were spent on the outside.
By the time he was sentenced in Nevada, there was no hope for Witherow — he was in for life. It took a state Supreme Court ruling, his self-taught skills as a jailhouse lawyer and a sizable settlement from the Nevada Department of Corrections for Witherow to get out of prison and change his life.
“I just learned to fight in a different manner,” he said during an interview in November.
Now 70, Witherow has been on the outside for more than nine years. A self-admitted former “problem child,” who said his most serious conviction was attempted murder for shooting at an officer, now runs Nevada’s chapter of the nonprofit Citizen’s United for Rehabilitation of Errants, also called CURE.
“Prisoners in Nevada never had a group on the outside that communicated with them on a regular basis about what’s going on or who they can call for assistance: We provide that service,” he said.
Witherow took over the Nevada chapter of the prisoner advocacy organization within a year of being released on parole in Nevada. The former prisoner — who spent time incarcerated in Michigan, California and Nevada — now answers dozens of inmate letters a week, works with attorneys to file class-action lawsuits and meets with the highest-up in Nevada’s Department of Corrections.
James Dzurenda, former director of the department, who resigned in August, said Witherow helped him address problems in the prison system.
“John was a great tool for that because the inmate population trusts him, and if John said to trust me, they would do it,” Dzurenda said during a phone call in December. “It was such a big deal to have him working together with us.”
Dzurenda said Witherow was an important person to him during his time as director because he knew what was happening in the facilities.
“John’s like the filter for that. He never came to me with any
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Nichols says bombing was FBI op
Detailed confession filed in S.L. about Oklahoma City plot
By Geoffrey Fattah Feb 22, 2007, 1:02pm MST
The only surviving convicted criminal in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is saying his co-conspirator, Timothy McVeigh, told him he was taking orders from a top FBI official in orchestrating the bombing.
A declaration from Terry Lynn Nichols, filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, has proven to be one of the most detailed confessions by Nichols to date about his involvement in the bombing as well as the involvement of others. However
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LOCKERBIE BOMBER DID NOT DIE ON 20 MAY 2012.
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COINTELPRO: The Untold American Story
By Paul Wolf with contributions from Robert Boyle, Bob Brown, Tom Burghardt, Noam Chomsky, Ward Churchill, Kathleen Cleaver, Bruce Ellison, Cynthia McKinney, Nkechi Taifa, Laura Whitehorn, Nicholas Wilson, and Howard Zinn.
Presented to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson at the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa by the members of the Congressional Black Caucus attending the conference: Donna Christianson, John Conyers, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Barbara Lee, Sheila Jackson Lee, Cynthia McKinney, and Diane Watson, September 1, 2001.
Overview
We're here to talk about the FBI and U.S. democracy because here we have this peculiar situation that we live in a democratic country - everybody knows that, everybody says it, it's repeated, it's dinned into our ears a thousand times, you grow up, you pledge allegiance, you salute the flag, you hail democracy, you look at the totalitarian states, you read the history of tyrannies, and here is the beacon light of democracy. And, of course, there's some truth to that. There are things you can do in the United States that you can't do many other places without being put in jail.
But the United States is a very complex system. It's very hard to describe because, yes, there are elements of democracy; there are things that you're grateful for, that you're not in front of the death squads in El Salvador. On the other hand, it's not quite a democracy. And one of the things that makes it not quite a democracy is the existence of outfits like the FBI and the CIA. Democracy is based on openness, and the existence of a secret policy, secret lists of dissident citizens, violates the spirit of democracy.
Despite its carefully contrived image as the nation's premier crime fighting agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has always functioned primarily as America's political police. This role includes not only the collection of intelligence on the activities of political dissidents and groups, but often times, counterintelligence operations to thwart those activities. The techniques employed are easily recognized by anyone familiar with military psychological operations. The FBI, through the use of the criminal justice system, the postal system, the telephone system and the Internal Revenue Service, enjoys an operational capability surpassing even that of the CIA, which conducts covert actions in foreign countries without having access to those institutions.
Although covert operations have been employed throughout FBI history, the formal COunter INTELligence PROgrams (COINTELPRO's) of the period 1956-1971 were the first to be both broadly targeted and centrally directed. According to FBI researcher Brian Glick, "FBI headquarters set policy, assessed progress, charted new directions, demanded
increased production, and carefully monitored and controlled day-to-day operations. This arrangement required that national COINTELPRO supervisors and local FBI field offices communicate back and forth, at great length, concerning every operation. They did so quite freely, with little fear of public exposure. This generated a prolific trail of bureaucratic paper. The moment that paper trail began to surface, the FBI discontinued all of its formal domestic counterintelligence programs. It did not, however, cease its covert political activity against U.S. dissidents." 1
Of roughly 20,000 people investigated by the FBI solely on the basis of their political views between 1956-1971, about 10 to 15% were the targets of active counterintelligence measures per se. Taking counterintelligence in its broadest sense, to include spreading false information, it's estimated that about two-thirds were COINTELPRO targets. Most targets were never suspected of committing any crime.
The nineteen sixties were a period of social change and unrest. Color television brought home images of jungle combat in Vietnam and protesters and priests burning draft cards and American flags. In the spring and summer months of 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1968, massive black rebellions swept across almost every major US city in the Northeast, Midwest and California. 2 Presidents Johnson and Nixon, and many others feared violent revolution and denounced the protesters. President Kennedy had felt the opposite: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
The counterculture of the sixties, and the FBI's reaction to it, were in many ways a product of the 1950s, the so-called "Age of McCarthyism." John Edgar Hoover, longtime Director of the FBI, was a prominent spokesman of the anti- communist paranoia of the era:
The forces which are most anxious to weaken our internal security are not always easy to identify. Communists have been trained in deceit and secretly work toward the day when they hope to replace our American way of life with a Communist dictatorship. They utilize cleverly camouflaged movements, such as peace groups and civil rights groups to achieve their sinister purposes. While they as
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COINTELPRO Original Documents
The original FBI/CIA COINTELPRO crimes of the 1950s-60s are powerful evidence which show that when "mind control" victims complain they are being harassed by conventional means (break-ins, thefts, sabotage and massive character assassination) there is unimpeachable evidence that the U.S. government has performed such crimes in the RECENT past. With the exposure of the COINTELPRO crimes in Congressional hearings in the 1970s, no longer can skeptics argue that "government wouldn't do that".
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SUPPLEMENTARY DETAILED STAFF REPORTS
ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES AND THE
RIGHTS OF AMERICANS
_______
BOOK III
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FINAL REPORT
OF THE
SELECT COMMITTEE
TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
WITH RESPECT TO
INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
UNITED STATES SENATE
APRIL 23 (under authority of the order of April 14), 1976
WARRANTLESS SURREPTITIOUS ENTRIES: FBI "BLACK BAG" BREAK-INS AND MICROPHONE INSTALLATIONS
I. INTRODUCTION
Since 1948 the FBI has conducted hundreds of warrantless surreptitious entries to gather domestic and foreign intelligence, despite the questionable legality of the technique and its deep intrusion into the privacy of targeted individuals. Before 1966, the FBI conducted over two hundred "black bag jobs." 1 These warrantless surreptitious entries were carried out for intelligence purposes other than microphone installation, such as physical search and photographing or seizing documents. Since 1960, more than five hundred warrantless surreptitious microphone installations against intelligence and internal security targets have been conducted by the FBI, a technique which the Justice Department still permits. Almost as many surreptitious entries were conducted in the same period against targets of criminal investigations. 1a
Although several Attorneys General were aware of the FBI practice of break-ins to install electronic listening devices, there is no indication
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Ring Fired Employees for Watching Customer Videos
"We are aware of incidents discussed below where employees violated our policies," a letter from Ring obtained by Motherboard reads.
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TRUMP TO LEV: “IT WASN’T ME”
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January 17, 2020
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“Why America Needs War”? Why Are US Military Expenditures “Going Through the Roof”?
US Defense Contractors Sell "Scrap Metal" to the US Government at a Premium Price Tag
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DEA agent busted in sting for trying to arrange sex with 14-year-old: officials
By MICHAEL ELSEN-ROONEY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 17, 2020 | 8:11 PM
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Deaf Brooklyn man sues Pornhub over lack of subtitles
By NOAH GOLDBERG
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 17, 2020 | 1:10 PM
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Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘first victim’ was introduced to Donald Trump when she was 14: suit
By STEPHEN REX BROWN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 17, 2020 | 8:20 PM
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Man kills wife, court rules he’s insane, then gives him her life insurance money
By BRIAN NIEMIETZ
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 17, 2020 | 4:54 PM
Kenneth Starr covered up the Vince Foster murder
2 stories
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Monica Lewinsky floored after Ken Starr joins Trump’s impeachment legal team
By CHRIS SOMMERFELDT
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 17, 2020 | 12:01 PM
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Welcome to our website about the murder of Vince Foster, Deputy White House Counsel under President Clinton. Brett Kavanaugh was in charge of the Foster death investigation and led the cover-up inside the Office of the Independent Counsel. A federal court ordered Independent Counsel Ken Starr to include evidence, found in government records, of an FBI cover-up, to the final Report.
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Judicial Watch: Docs Reveal FBI Cover Up of ‘Chart’ of Potential Violations of Law by Hillary Clinton
Updated 2/22/2019
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The Comey Coverup Unravels
The FBI, the CIA and the press all have much to be embarrassed about.
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Kavanaugh FBI probe was a cover-up
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Seattle cop fired for Instagram posts suggesting violence against Clinton, Obama
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No jail time for N.J. cop who admitted to assaulting 2 women
Superior Court Judge Robert Malestein in Cumberland County sentenced Dixon on Friday to two years of probation, and suspended a 364-day jail sentence.
The state attorney general’s office looked into Dixon an NJ Advance Media investigation flagged hundreds of officers across the state for using force at troubling rates.
Dixon reported using his hands and fists, restraints and other types of force 58 times during his first three-plus years, more than once a month. No other cop used force more. The more than 17,000 other officers in the state who reported using force over a similar period averaged less than one incident a year.
Dixon admitted to excessive force during two incidents in 2018. In February of that year, he slammed a woman named Audra Capps into the asphalt after she was stopped for suspicion of driving under the influence, according to dashcam video. Seven of her ribs were broken and one was removed, according to medical records and state officials.
She said in court that two surgeries haven’t stopped the constant pain.
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Five years. 72,677 documents. Every local police department in N.J. We built the most comprehensive statewide database of police use of force in the U.S.
The Force Report, a 16-month investigation by NJ Advance Media, found New Jersey's system for tracking police force is broken, with no statewide collection or analysis of data, little oversight by state officials and no standard practices among local departments. Two decades ago, officials envisioned a centralized database that would flag potentially dangerous cops for scrutiny. But that database was never created. So we built it.
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Chicago TribuneEx-cop was friend of suspected serial killer Bruce LindahlDuring the time authorities believe Bruce Lindahl was raping and killing
people in the late 1970s and early '80s, one of Lindahl's close friends ...1 hour ago
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San Mateo cop gets 81 years prison
Up to life sentence for Noah Winchester
Winchester sexually assaulted three women in San Mateo during 2015 and two women in Sacramento when he worked in 2013 as a police officer for the Los Rios Community College District, prosecutors said.
Winchester was convicted Oct. 9 in San Mateo County Superior Court after a 20-day jury trial that resulted in guilty verdicts on all 14 charges — including kidnapping to commit sexual assault, forcible rape and oral copulation under color of authority.
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Philly Cop Admits to Driving Stepdaughter to Prom in Confiscated Porsche
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WATCH: Cop goes viral after calmly shutting down Trump-loving ‘Gun Girl’ with some simple logic
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City hasn't followed order to give Little Rock cop his job back, attorney says
by Scott Carroll & Mandy HrachFriday, January 17th 2020
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Florida Cops Mum on who Shot and Killed Boy in Home of Tampa Cop using Cop's Gun
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Cop Suspended For 'Liking' Social Media Comments People Made Supporting His Wife
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Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs, and Operations in the 9/11 World
William M. Arkin
Steerforth Press, 608 pp., $27.95
Keeping secrets is a &!@$#. Making secrets, on the other hand, is as easy as opening an ink pad and whipping out a government-issue CLASSIFIED stamp. Earlier this month, the National Archives' Information Security Oversight Office reported that the government made 16 million classification decisions in 2004 (that's up from a mere 9 million in 2001).
A government that generates this many secrets needs a sturdy supply of code names. And a democracy encumbered by a Byzantine secrecy system needs a public-interest decoder. Happily, one has emerged: William M. Arkin, a former Army intelligence analyst who has published some of the most detailed and penetrating national security studies of the past 25 years.
Arkin's new book, Code Names, is a true nuts-and-bolts expose on the finer points of defense and intelligence secrecy, and perhaps the largest single release of official secrets since Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971. (Though former CIA officer Philip Agee's 1975 book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary--which blew the cover off of scores of covert operations--might run a close second.)
Arkin divides the book into four sections. One defines the vast "cast of characters" that play a part in the sprawling national security apparatus, from the various components of the intelligence community to the maze of military commands. Another provides an in-depth summary of U.S. military activities in scores of countries. The book ends with a glossary of hundreds of military and intelligence acronyms.
But the bulk of the book is devoted to an alphabetical list of more than 3,000 code names, complete with short definitions of what each one refers to. Most of them are revealed for the first time in this book.
"I started to seriously collect code names in the mid-1990s when it appeared to me that despite the end of the Cold War, government secrecy wa
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FBI Head Louis Freeh Hired by NMC Health to Probe Short-Seller Allegations
By Phil Serafino
January 17, 2020, 2:54 AM EST Updated on January 17, 20
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Penn State Investigator Louis Freeh Accused Of Heading A Massive Cover-Up As Director Of FBI
The FBI director from 1993 to 2001, Louis Freeh, launched that task force with then-Attorney General Janet Reno.
After nine years of working in secret, the unit neither published its reviews of specific cases nor informed potentially innocent defendants or their attorneys, according to the Post.
Freeh has been praised lately for his independent investigation of the Penn State sexual abuse scandal and the alleged cover-up by top officials.
But ex-FBI agent and whistleblower C. Fred Whitehurst told William Fisher of Prism magazine that Freeh's action were similar to those of PSU officials because Freeh "did everything in his power" to cover up mistakes made by FBI forensic analysts:
“While I was reporting issues at the FBI crime lab, FBI Director Louis Freeh was doing every thing he could to shut me down including coming at me with proposed criminal charges, referrals for fitness for duty (psych evals), destroying my career, moving me around the lab like a rag doll, ruining my wife’s career. This man has no conscience and he is accusing Penn State managers of not taking any steps. He ought to be ashamed. Before the lab scandal is over you will find that Freeh was right in the middle of it. He did EXACTLY what the Penn State folks did.”
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Why Louis Freeh Should Be Investigated For 9/11
In the summer of 2001, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent Robert Wright, a counterterrorism expert from the Chicago office, made some startling claims about the Bureau in a written statement outlining the difficulties he had doing his job. Three months before 9/11, he wrote: “The FBI has proven for the past decade it cannot identify and prevent acts of terrorism against the United States and its citizens at home and abroad. Even worse, there is virtually no effort on the part of the FBI’s International Terrorism Unit to neutralize known and suspected terrorists residing within the United States.”[1]
Revelations since 9/11 have confirmed Wright’s claims. FBI management did little or nothing to stop terrorism in the decade before 9/11 and, in some cases, appeared to have supported terrorists. This is more disturbing considering that the power of the FBI over terrorism investigations was supreme. In 1998, the FBI’s strategic plan stated that terrorist activities fell “almost exclusively within the jurisdiction of the FBI” and that “the FBI has no higher priority than to combat terrorism.”[2]
A number of people are suspect in these failures, including the leaders of the FBI’s counterterrorism programs. But at the time of Wright’s written complaint, which was not shared with the public until May 2002, the man most responsible was Louis Freeh, Director of the FBI from 1993 to 2001.
Agent Wright was not FBI leadership’s only detractor, and not the only one to criticize Freeh. The public advocacy law firm Judicial Watch, which prosecutes government abuse and corruption, rejoiced at the news of Freeh’s May 2001 resignation.[3] Judicial Watch pointed to a “legacy of corruption” at the FBI under Freeh, listing the espionage scandal at Los Alamos National Laboratories, as well as “Filegate, Waco, the Ruby Ridge cover-up, the Olympic bombing frame-up of Richard Jewell, [and] falsification of evidence concerning the Oklahoma City bombing.”[4]
Judicial Watch said that Director Freeh believed he was above the law. The group went on to say that Freeh was “a man so corrupt he destroyed the office he led, and a man so cowardly he refuses to face the music for the illegalities he has allegedly committed.”[5] To this was added a claim that the FBI under Freeh was being directed by sinister yet unknown forces. “In case after case throughout the 1990′s, the FBI seems to have tailored its investigative efforts to fit somebody’s pre-arranged script. The question is, who wrote that script — and why?”
Freeh became FBI Director on July 19, 1993, just five months after the first WTC bombing, three months after the Waco siege, and one day before the alleged suicide of Hillary Clinton’s former Rose Law Firm associate, deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster. Freeh’s predecessor was William Sessions.
Prior to his appointment by President Clinton, Freeh was a federal judge. He had been selected for that position by President George H.W. Bush in 1991. Before that, Freeh had been an Assistant District Attorney for the Southern District of New York and an FBI field agent.
Freeh was involved with U.S. counter-terrorism efforts for many years prior to his appointment as FBI Director in 1993. As an FBI agent he worked for the New York Field Office, which led the FBI’s counterterrorism effort. It was later the lead field office for Bin Laden investigations and was the first to establish a Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) of state and federal law enforcement and intelligence personnel. Freeh worked there for seven years until he was promoted to Assistant U.S. Attorney in 1981. Throughout the 1980s, Freeh worked with or for U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani, who was mayor of New York City on 9/11.
Although Clinton was a Democrat, after his appointment as FBI Director Freeh immediately began forming alliances with Republicans in Congress. This apparently caused difficulty between the FBI and Clinton’s White House. Freeh also developed a secret relationship with his former supporter, former President George H. W. Bush. He used that relationship to communicate with the Saudi royal family without Clinton’s knowledge.[6]
Ignoring or facilitating domestic terrorism
Just five months before Freeh’s appointment as FBI Director, the World Trade Center (WTC) was bombed in an attack that killed six
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Former FBI Director Robert Mueller’s History of Cover-Ups
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller has been in the news lately due to his inquiry into Russian alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.
After a 12-year stint leading the Bureau, the longest ever since J. Edgar Hoover, Mueller is now seen by many as an honest man serving the interest of the American public. However, that perception cannot be defended once one knows about Mueller’s past.
What some people don’t know about Mueller is that he has a long history of leading government investigations that were diversions or cover-ups. These include the investigation into the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, the investigation into the terrorist financing Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), and the FBI investigations into the crimes of September 11th, 2001. Today the public is beginning to realize that Mueller’s investigation into Russian alleged collusion with the Trump campaign is a similar diversion.
Mueller’s talents were noticed early in his career at the Justice Department. As a U.S. Attorney in Boston during the mid-80s, he helped falsely convict four men for murders they didn’t commit in order to protect a powerful FBI informant—mobster James “Whitey” Bulger.” According to the Boston Globe,
“Mueller was also in that position while Whitey Bulger was helping the FBI cart off his criminal competitors even as he buried bodies in shallow graves along the Neponset.”
Mueller was then appointed as chief investigator of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 in Scotland. The account Mueller produced was a flimsy story that accused a Libyan named Megrahi of coordinating placement of a suitcase bomb that allegedly traveled unaccompanied through several airports to find its way to the doomed flight. Despite Mueller’s persistent defense of this unbelievable tale, Megrahi was released from prison in 2009 and died three years later in Libya.
With the Pan Am 103 case, Mueller was covering up facts related to some of the of victims of the bombing—a group of U.S. intelligence specialists led by Major Charles McKee of the Defense Intelligence Agency. McKee had gone to Beirut to find and rescue hostages and, while there, learned about CIA involvement in a drug smuggling operation run through an agency project called COREA. As TIME magazine reported, the likely explanation for the bombing, supported by independent intelligence experts, was that U.S. operatives “targeted Flight 103 in order to kill the hostage-rescue team.” This would prevent disclosure of what McKee’s team had learned. That theory was also supported by the fact that the CIA showed up immediately at the scene of the crash, took McKee’s briefcase, and returned it empty.
Mueller’s diversions led to his leadership of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, putting him in charge of investigations regarding BCCI. When Mueller started in that role, members of Congress and the media were already critical of the government’s approach to the BCCI affair. Mueller came into the picture telling the Washington Post that there was an “appearance of, one, foot-dragging; two, perhaps a cover-up.” Later he denied the cover-up claim and the suggestion that the CIA may have collaborated with BCCI operatives.
13 Shocking Facts About Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller
But again, Mueller was simply brought in to accomplish the cover-up. The facts were that BCCI was used by the CIA to operate outside of the rule of law through funding of terrorists and other criminal operatives. The bank network was at the root of some of the greatest crimes against the public in the last 50 years, including the Savings & Loan scandal, the Iran-Contra affair, and the creation of the al-Qaeda terrorist network.
Mueller was instrumental in obstructing the BCCI investigation led by Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. During this time, Justice Department prosecutors were instructed not to cooperate with Morgenthau. Describing Mueller’s obstruction of Morgenthau, the Wall Street Journal reported that,
“documents were withheld, and attempts were made to block other federal agencies from cooperating.”
Describing Mueller’s role in the BCCI cover-up more clearly, reporter Chris Floyd wrote:
“When a few prosecutors finally began targeting BCCI’s operations in the late Eighties, President George Herbert Walker Bush boldly moved in with a federal probe directed by Justice Department investigator Robert Mueller. The U.S. Senate later found that the probe had been unaccountably ‘botched’–witnesses went missing, CIA records got ‘lost,’… Lower-ranking prosecutors told of heavy pressure from o
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13 Shocking Facts About Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller
TRUMP TO LEV: “IT WASN’T ME”
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January 17, 2020
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“Why America Needs War”? Why Are US Military Expenditures “Going Through the Roof”?
US Defense Contractors Sell "Scrap Metal" to the US Government at a Premium Price Tag
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ed ... story.html
DEA agent busted in sting for trying to arrange sex with 14-year-old: officials
By MICHAEL ELSEN-ROONEY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 17, 2020 | 8:11 PM
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Deaf Brooklyn man sues Pornhub over lack of subtitles
By NOAH GOLDBERG
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 17, 2020 | 1:10 PM
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Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘first victim’ was introduced to Donald Trump when she was 14: suit
By STEPHEN REX BROWN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 17, 2020 | 8:20 PM
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Man kills wife, court rules he’s insane, then gives him her life insurance money
By BRIAN NIEMIETZ
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 17, 2020 | 4:54 PM
Kenneth Starr covered up the Vince Foster murder
2 stories
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Monica Lewinsky floored after Ken Starr joins Trump’s impeachment legal team
By CHRIS SOMMERFELDT
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 17, 2020 | 12:01 PM
http://www.fbicover-up.com
Welcome to our website about the murder of Vince Foster, Deputy White House Counsel under President Clinton. Brett Kavanaugh was in charge of the Foster death investigation and led the cover-up inside the Office of the Independent Counsel. A federal court ordered Independent Counsel Ken Starr to include evidence, found in government records, of an FBI cover-up, to the final Report.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-rel ... y-clinton/
Judicial Watch: Docs Reveal FBI Cover Up of ‘Chart’ of Potential Violations of Law by Hillary Clinton
Updated 2/22/2019
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The Comey Coverup Unravels
The FBI, the CIA and the press all have much to be embarrassed about.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/05/opinions ... index.html
Kavanaugh FBI probe was a cover-up
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Seattle cop fired for Instagram posts suggesting violence against Clinton, Obama
https://www.nj.com/news/2020/01/no-jail ... women.html
No jail time for N.J. cop who admitted to assaulting 2 women
Superior Court Judge Robert Malestein in Cumberland County sentenced Dixon on Friday to two years of probation, and suspended a 364-day jail sentence.
The state attorney general’s office looked into Dixon an NJ Advance Media investigation flagged hundreds of officers across the state for using force at troubling rates.
Dixon reported using his hands and fists, restraints and other types of force 58 times during his first three-plus years, more than once a month. No other cop used force more. The more than 17,000 other officers in the state who reported using force over a similar period averaged less than one incident a year.
Dixon admitted to excessive force during two incidents in 2018. In February of that year, he slammed a woman named Audra Capps into the asphalt after she was stopped for suspicion of driving under the influence, according to dashcam video. Seven of her ribs were broken and one was removed, according to medical records and state officials.
She said in court that two surgeries haven’t stopped the constant pain.
http://force.nj.com
Five years. 72,677 documents. Every local police department in N.J. We built the most comprehensive statewide database of police use of force in the U.S.
The Force Report, a 16-month investigation by NJ Advance Media, found New Jersey's system for tracking police force is broken, with no statewide collection or analysis of data, little oversight by state officials and no standard practices among local departments. Two decades ago, officials envisioned a centralized database that would flag potentially dangerous cops for scrutiny. But that database was never created. So we built it.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/ ... story.html
Chicago TribuneEx-cop was friend of suspected serial killer Bruce LindahlDuring the time authorities believe Bruce Lindahl was raping and killing
people in the late 1970s and early '80s, one of Lindahl's close friends ...1 hour ago
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San Mateo cop gets 81 years prison
Up to life sentence for Noah Winchester
Winchester sexually assaulted three women in San Mateo during 2015 and two women in Sacramento when he worked in 2013 as a police officer for the Los Rios Community College District, prosecutors said.
Winchester was convicted Oct. 9 in San Mateo County Superior Court after a 20-day jury trial that resulted in guilty verdicts on all 14 charges — including kidnapping to commit sexual assault, forcible rape and oral copulation under color of authority.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-philad ... otics-unit
Philly Cop Admits to Driving Stepdaughter to Prom in Confiscated Porsche
https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/watch- ... ple-logic/
WATCH: Cop goes viral after calmly shutting down Trump-loving ‘Gun Girl’ with some simple logic
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City hasn't followed order to give Little Rock cop his job back, attorney says
by Scott Carroll & Mandy HrachFriday, January 17th 2020
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/eye-on-g ... LGKtzHHVvg
Florida Cops Mum on who Shot and Killed Boy in Home of Tampa Cop using Cop's Gun
https://defensemaven.io/bluelivesmatter ... Mv4IIJ86qg
Cop Suspended For 'Liking' Social Media Comments People Made Supporting His Wife
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Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs, and Operations in the 9/11 World
William M. Arkin
Steerforth Press, 608 pp., $27.95
Keeping secrets is a &!@$#. Making secrets, on the other hand, is as easy as opening an ink pad and whipping out a government-issue CLASSIFIED stamp. Earlier this month, the National Archives' Information Security Oversight Office reported that the government made 16 million classification decisions in 2004 (that's up from a mere 9 million in 2001).
A government that generates this many secrets needs a sturdy supply of code names. And a democracy encumbered by a Byzantine secrecy system needs a public-interest decoder. Happily, one has emerged: William M. Arkin, a former Army intelligence analyst who has published some of the most detailed and penetrating national security studies of the past 25 years.
Arkin's new book, Code Names, is a true nuts-and-bolts expose on the finer points of defense and intelligence secrecy, and perhaps the largest single release of official secrets since Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971. (Though former CIA officer Philip Agee's 1975 book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary--which blew the cover off of scores of covert operations--might run a close second.)
Arkin divides the book into four sections. One defines the vast "cast of characters" that play a part in the sprawling national security apparatus, from the various components of the intelligence community to the maze of military commands. Another provides an in-depth summary of U.S. military activities in scores of countries. The book ends with a glossary of hundreds of military and intelligence acronyms.
But the bulk of the book is devoted to an alphabetical list of more than 3,000 code names, complete with short definitions of what each one refers to. Most of them are revealed for the first time in this book.
"I started to seriously collect code names in the mid-1990s when it appeared to me that despite the end of the Cold War, government secrecy wa
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... llegations
FBI Head Louis Freeh Hired by NMC Health to Probe Short-Seller Allegations
By Phil Serafino
January 17, 2020, 2:54 AM EST Updated on January 17, 20
https://www.businessinsider.com/penn-st ... fbi-2012-7
Penn State Investigator Louis Freeh Accused Of Heading A Massive Cover-Up As Director Of FBI
The FBI director from 1993 to 2001, Louis Freeh, launched that task force with then-Attorney General Janet Reno.
After nine years of working in secret, the unit neither published its reviews of specific cases nor informed potentially innocent defendants or their attorneys, according to the Post.
Freeh has been praised lately for his independent investigation of the Penn State sexual abuse scandal and the alleged cover-up by top officials.
But ex-FBI agent and whistleblower C. Fred Whitehurst told William Fisher of Prism magazine that Freeh's action were similar to those of PSU officials because Freeh "did everything in his power" to cover up mistakes made by FBI forensic analysts:
“While I was reporting issues at the FBI crime lab, FBI Director Louis Freeh was doing every thing he could to shut me down including coming at me with proposed criminal charges, referrals for fitness for duty (psych evals), destroying my career, moving me around the lab like a rag doll, ruining my wife’s career. This man has no conscience and he is accusing Penn State managers of not taking any steps. He ought to be ashamed. Before the lab scandal is over you will find that Freeh was right in the middle of it. He did EXACTLY what the Penn State folks did.”
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/20 ... d-for-911/
Why Louis Freeh Should Be Investigated For 9/11
In the summer of 2001, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent Robert Wright, a counterterrorism expert from the Chicago office, made some startling claims about the Bureau in a written statement outlining the difficulties he had doing his job. Three months before 9/11, he wrote: “The FBI has proven for the past decade it cannot identify and prevent acts of terrorism against the United States and its citizens at home and abroad. Even worse, there is virtually no effort on the part of the FBI’s International Terrorism Unit to neutralize known and suspected terrorists residing within the United States.”[1]
Revelations since 9/11 have confirmed Wright’s claims. FBI management did little or nothing to stop terrorism in the decade before 9/11 and, in some cases, appeared to have supported terrorists. This is more disturbing considering that the power of the FBI over terrorism investigations was supreme. In 1998, the FBI’s strategic plan stated that terrorist activities fell “almost exclusively within the jurisdiction of the FBI” and that “the FBI has no higher priority than to combat terrorism.”[2]
A number of people are suspect in these failures, including the leaders of the FBI’s counterterrorism programs. But at the time of Wright’s written complaint, which was not shared with the public until May 2002, the man most responsible was Louis Freeh, Director of the FBI from 1993 to 2001.
Agent Wright was not FBI leadership’s only detractor, and not the only one to criticize Freeh. The public advocacy law firm Judicial Watch, which prosecutes government abuse and corruption, rejoiced at the news of Freeh’s May 2001 resignation.[3] Judicial Watch pointed to a “legacy of corruption” at the FBI under Freeh, listing the espionage scandal at Los Alamos National Laboratories, as well as “Filegate, Waco, the Ruby Ridge cover-up, the Olympic bombing frame-up of Richard Jewell, [and] falsification of evidence concerning the Oklahoma City bombing.”[4]
Judicial Watch said that Director Freeh believed he was above the law. The group went on to say that Freeh was “a man so corrupt he destroyed the office he led, and a man so cowardly he refuses to face the music for the illegalities he has allegedly committed.”[5] To this was added a claim that the FBI under Freeh was being directed by sinister yet unknown forces. “In case after case throughout the 1990′s, the FBI seems to have tailored its investigative efforts to fit somebody’s pre-arranged script. The question is, who wrote that script — and why?”
Freeh became FBI Director on July 19, 1993, just five months after the first WTC bombing, three months after the Waco siege, and one day before the alleged suicide of Hillary Clinton’s former Rose Law Firm associate, deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster. Freeh’s predecessor was William Sessions.
Prior to his appointment by President Clinton, Freeh was a federal judge. He had been selected for that position by President George H.W. Bush in 1991. Before that, Freeh had been an Assistant District Attorney for the Southern District of New York and an FBI field agent.
Freeh was involved with U.S. counter-terrorism efforts for many years prior to his appointment as FBI Director in 1993. As an FBI agent he worked for the New York Field Office, which led the FBI’s counterterrorism effort. It was later the lead field office for Bin Laden investigations and was the first to establish a Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) of state and federal law enforcement and intelligence personnel. Freeh worked there for seven years until he was promoted to Assistant U.S. Attorney in 1981. Throughout the 1980s, Freeh worked with or for U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani, who was mayor of New York City on 9/11.
Although Clinton was a Democrat, after his appointment as FBI Director Freeh immediately began forming alliances with Republicans in Congress. This apparently caused difficulty between the FBI and Clinton’s White House. Freeh also developed a secret relationship with his former supporter, former President George H. W. Bush. He used that relationship to communicate with the Saudi royal family without Clinton’s knowledge.[6]
Ignoring or facilitating domestic terrorism
Just five months before Freeh’s appointment as FBI Director, the World Trade Center (WTC) was bombed in an attack that killed six
https://www.globalresearch.ca/former-fb ... ps/5635272
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller’s History of Cover-Ups
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller has been in the news lately due to his inquiry into Russian alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.
After a 12-year stint leading the Bureau, the longest ever since J. Edgar Hoover, Mueller is now seen by many as an honest man serving the interest of the American public. However, that perception cannot be defended once one knows about Mueller’s past.
What some people don’t know about Mueller is that he has a long history of leading government investigations that were diversions or cover-ups. These include the investigation into the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, the investigation into the terrorist financing Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), and the FBI investigations into the crimes of September 11th, 2001. Today the public is beginning to realize that Mueller’s investigation into Russian alleged collusion with the Trump campaign is a similar diversion.
Mueller’s talents were noticed early in his career at the Justice Department. As a U.S. Attorney in Boston during the mid-80s, he helped falsely convict four men for murders they didn’t commit in order to protect a powerful FBI informant—mobster James “Whitey” Bulger.” According to the Boston Globe,
“Mueller was also in that position while Whitey Bulger was helping the FBI cart off his criminal competitors even as he buried bodies in shallow graves along the Neponset.”
Mueller was then appointed as chief investigator of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 in Scotland. The account Mueller produced was a flimsy story that accused a Libyan named Megrahi of coordinating placement of a suitcase bomb that allegedly traveled unaccompanied through several airports to find its way to the doomed flight. Despite Mueller’s persistent defense of this unbelievable tale, Megrahi was released from prison in 2009 and died three years later in Libya.
With the Pan Am 103 case, Mueller was covering up facts related to some of the of victims of the bombing—a group of U.S. intelligence specialists led by Major Charles McKee of the Defense Intelligence Agency. McKee had gone to Beirut to find and rescue hostages and, while there, learned about CIA involvement in a drug smuggling operation run through an agency project called COREA. As TIME magazine reported, the likely explanation for the bombing, supported by independent intelligence experts, was that U.S. operatives “targeted Flight 103 in order to kill the hostage-rescue team.” This would prevent disclosure of what McKee’s team had learned. That theory was also supported by the fact that the CIA showed up immediately at the scene of the crash, took McKee’s briefcase, and returned it empty.
Mueller’s diversions led to his leadership of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, putting him in charge of investigations regarding BCCI. When Mueller started in that role, members of Congress and the media were already critical of the government’s approach to the BCCI affair. Mueller came into the picture telling the Washington Post that there was an “appearance of, one, foot-dragging; two, perhaps a cover-up.” Later he denied the cover-up claim and the suggestion that the CIA may have collaborated with BCCI operatives.
13 Shocking Facts About Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller
But again, Mueller was simply brought in to accomplish the cover-up. The facts were that BCCI was used by the CIA to operate outside of the rule of law through funding of terrorists and other criminal operatives. The bank network was at the root of some of the greatest crimes against the public in the last 50 years, including the Savings & Loan scandal, the Iran-Contra affair, and the creation of the al-Qaeda terrorist network.
Mueller was instrumental in obstructing the BCCI investigation led by Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. During this time, Justice Department prosecutors were instructed not to cooperate with Morgenthau. Describing Mueller’s obstruction of Morgenthau, the Wall Street Journal reported that,
“documents were withheld, and attempts were made to block other federal agencies from cooperating.”
Describing Mueller’s role in the BCCI cover-up more clearly, reporter Chris Floyd wrote:
“When a few prosecutors finally began targeting BCCI’s operations in the late Eighties, President George Herbert Walker Bush boldly moved in with a federal probe directed by Justice Department investigator Robert Mueller. The U.S. Senate later found that the probe had been unaccountably ‘botched’–witnesses went missing, CIA records got ‘lost,’… Lower-ranking prosecutors told of heavy pressure from o
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13 Shocking Facts About Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller
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9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
wtc7 pentagon
Draft agenda for January 29, 2020
8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT) teleconference dial-in #
(605) 313-4118 Access code: 464958#
[Note: Some telephone service providers block access to this teleconference service, or require additional charges. If you encounter any of these difficulties, please try calling this alternative number: (425) 535-9195. You will then be required to key in the original phone number above before entering the access code. Please inform of us of any technical difficulties you encounter in accessing the teleconference.]
*Welcome to the first teleconference of 2020! After our break at Christmas, we’re back on a regular schedule of calls on the last Wednesday of every month.
Greetings all,
After some wonderful teleconferences over the past few months, we’re very excited to start again in 2020! And our first call, this Wednesday at 8 p.m. EST, will feature more fascinating guests.
Our first speaker will be Philip Farruggio, who will talk to us about the military industrial empire and obscene military spending. Philip is a contributing editor to The Greanville Post and has contributed to Global Research, Nation of Change, World News Trust and Off Guardian sites. He is also the host of the radio show It’s the Empire…Stupid.
We’re also very excited to have Dylan Avery, one of the creators of the Loose Change series, to tell us about the new documentary film he is making about Building 7 and the Hulsey Report for Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. The film is still in production with shooting having taken place in Alaska and San Francisco so far. Since his Loose Change days, Dylan has continued to hone his filmmaking skills, producing quality documentaries on important topics, including his most recent film, Black and Blue, about police brutality. This film won best documentary at the Catalina Film Festival
.
Following the talks by these two guests, we’ll have our regular time for announcements and suggestions for future speakers.
We think this will be a terrific all, and we hope you can all join us!
Cheryl Curtiss
Craig McKee
DRAFT AGENDA for Wednesday January 29, 2020 teleconference
I Roll call/minutes approval (copied below)/agenda approval (5 min)
II The military industrial empire [Philip Farruggio] (20 min. + 15 min. Q&A,)
III New doc on Hulsey Report [Dylan Avery] (20 min. + 15 min. Q&A)
IV Announcements
VI Updates on 9/11 topics (as needed)
New articles, books, films, or recent news about 9/11 or other Deep State crimes
9/11 and the Deep State on the legal front, including current adjudicatory efforts by Lawyers for 9/11 Inquiry, JASTA, 28 pages, William Pepper’s efforts with AE911Truth against NIST and the Dept. of Commerce
Censorship and cognitive infiltration: new examples of censorship or harassment of members of the Truth community; MSM treatment of 9/11 Truth
Google (et al.) censorship
9/11 Truth political candidates
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9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
wtc7 pentagon
Draft agenda for January 29, 2020
8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT) teleconference dial-in #
(605) 313-4118 Access code: 464958#
[Note: Some telephone service providers block access to this teleconference service, or require additional charges. If you encounter any of these difficulties, please try calling this alternative number: (425) 535-9195. You will then be required to key in the original phone number above before entering the access code. Please inform of us of any technical difficulties you encounter in accessing the teleconference.]
*Welcome to the first teleconference of 2020! After our break at Christmas, we’re back on a regular schedule of calls on the last Wednesday of every month.
Greetings all,
After some wonderful teleconferences over the past few months, we’re very excited to start again in 2020! And our first call, this Wednesday at 8 p.m. EST, will feature more fascinating guests.
Our first speaker will be Philip Farruggio, who will talk to us about the military industrial empire and obscene military spending. Philip is a contributing editor to The Greanville Post and has contributed to Global Research, Nation of Change, World News Trust and Off Guardian sites. He is also the host of the radio show It’s the Empire…Stupid.
We’re also very excited to have Dylan Avery, one of the creators of the Loose Change series, to tell us about the new documentary film he is making about Building 7 and the Hulsey Report for Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. The film is still in production with shooting having taken place in Alaska and San Francisco so far. Since his Loose Change days, Dylan has continued to hone his filmmaking skills, producing quality documentaries on important topics, including his most recent film, Black and Blue, about police brutality. This film won best documentary at the Catalina Film Festival
.
Following the talks by these two guests, we’ll have our regular time for announcements and suggestions for future speakers.
We think this will be a terrific all, and we hope you can all join us!
Cheryl Curtiss
Craig McKee
DRAFT AGENDA for Wednesday January 29, 2020 teleconference
I Roll call/minutes approval (copied below)/agenda approval (5 min)
II The military industrial empire [Philip Farruggio] (20 min. + 15 min. Q&A,)
III New doc on Hulsey Report [Dylan Avery] (20 min. + 15 min. Q&A)
IV Announcements
VI Updates on 9/11 topics (as needed)
New articles, books, films, or recent news about 9/11 or other Deep State crimes
9/11 and the Deep State on the legal front, including current adjudicatory efforts by Lawyers for 9/11 Inquiry, JASTA, 28 pages, William Pepper’s efforts with AE911Truth against NIST and the Dept. of Commerce
Censorship and cognitive infiltration: new examples of censorship or harassment of members of the Truth community; MSM treatment of 9/11 Truth
Google (et al.) censorship
9/11 Truth political candidates
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Prosecutors wanted to put Julian Baca in prison, but then learned from news reports that Officer Josh Shavies was previously fired for dishonesty
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Chicago TribuneChicago cop should be fired after video shows he lied about fatal shooting
of 19-year-old, investigators sayOfficer Saharat Sampim said he saw Roshad McIntosh pointing a gun at a cop
before that officer shot him behind a house in Lawndale. But the ...19 hours ago
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Corrupt Detroit cop sentenced to prison for drug scheme
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9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
wtc7 pentagon
Draft agenda for February 26, 2020
8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT) teleconference dial-in #
(605) 313-4118 Access code: 464958#
[Note: Some telephone service providers block access to this teleconference service, or require additional charges. If you encounter any of these difficulties, please try calling this alternative number: (425) 535-9195. You will then be required to key in the original phone number above before entering the access code. Please inform of us of any technical difficulties you encounter in accessing the teleconference.]
Greetings all,
This month’s teleconference, our second of 2020, should have more than its share of excitement. Our first speaker is Jonathan Mark, the creator of this teleconference and of FlyBy News. Jonathan is back to talk to us about the importance for the Truth Movement of making plans for the 20th anniversary of 9/11 in 2021 and about an initiative from FlyBy News for the occasion. He will also address related topics, including why the truth and peace movements should come together. You can read about Jonathan’s 20th anniversary initiative here.
Jonathan will be followed by Barbara Honegger and maybe one or two other members of the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry. We’ll receive an update on the latest developments in the legal cases the committee is involved in: the effort to get a grand jury convened in New York and the lawsuit against the FBI for its failure to investigate 9/11 evidence. To prepare your questions for Barbara and company, you can listen to the most recent instalment of 9/11 Free Fall with Andy Steele here. The show features an interview with Mick Harrison and John O’Kelly of the Lawyers’ Committee and reveals that the legal efforts are entering “a new phase.”
Our third item is tentative and depends on the availability on Wednesday of long time teleconference participant Frank Tolopko, who would like to talk to us about the new documentary film Who Killed Malcolm X? Frank hopes that he will be able to join us to address this topic, although this is not certain at this point. If he is not able to be with us, we’ll have him back on a future call.
When we only had one speaker lined up, Craig McKee volunteered to talk about the importance of the Shanksville case to 9/11 truth and the significance of the reaction of some in the movement to this topic. If the agenda items listed above come through as planned, we’ll save this topic for another month.
As always, we’ll finish with announcements and suggestions for future guest speakers.
It should be a great call. Please join us!
Cheryl Curtiss
Craig McKee
DRAFT AGENDA for Wednesday February 26, 2020 teleconference
I Roll call/minutes approval (copied below)/agenda approval (5 min)
II The 20th 9/11 anniversary [Jonathan Mark] (20 min. + 15 min. Q&A)
III Lawyers’ Committee update [Barbara Honegger and company] (15 min. + 15 min. Q&A)
IV Who Killed Malcom X? [Frank Tolopko] (5 min. + Q&A) – tentative
IV Announcements
VI Updates on 9/11 topics (as needed)
New articles, books, films, or recent news about 9/11 or other Deep State crimes
9/11 and the Deep State on the legal front, including current adjudicatory efforts by Lawyers for 9/11 Inquiry, JASTA, 28 pages, William Pepper’s efforts with AE911Truth against NIST and the Dept. of Commerce
Censorship and cognitive infiltration: new examples of censorship or harassment of members of the Truth community; MSM treatment of 9/11 Truth
Google (et al.) censorship
9/11 Truth political candidates
VII Adjournment
--------------------
This draft agenda sent to:
Richard Gage, John Heartson, Don DeBar, Scott Halfmann, Steven E. Jones, William Rodriguez, David Ray Griffin, William Douglas, Steve Alten , Tom Tvedten, Justin Martel, Les Jamieson, Michael Jackman, Michael Wolsey, Peggy Brewster, Barrie Zwicker, Erik Lawyer, Gabriel Day, Kevin Barrett, PhD, Carol Brouillet, Mia Hamel, Paul Craig Roberts, Jack Blood, Diana (for investigar11s.org), Cheryl Curtiss, Jodie Baltazar, Jarek Kupsc, Joseph Culp, Ken Jenkins, Ellen Mariani, Gerhard Bedding, Jack Shimek, Paul Krik, Rock Creek Free Press, Damon Bean, Allan Giles, Kyle Hence, Michael Berger, Dylan Avery, Jason Burmas, Mike Palecek, Donald Stahl, Ray McGovern, Cynthia McKinney, Ph,D, Don Plummer, Doug Wight, Global Outlook, Paul Zarembka, Penny Little, Bob Cable, Suzanne Warson, Peter Thottam, Ralph Schoenman, Carol Wolman, Scholars for 911 Truth & Justice, Hummux, Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth, Frank Morales, Frank Tolopko, Alan Miller, James Hufferd, Ph.D., Erik Larson, Ted Walter , Suzanne Warson, Frederick Coward, Gordon Duff, Sherri Kane, Leonard Horowitz, William Woodward, Jerry Mazza, William Pepper, Wayne Madsen, David Kimball, Jeffrey Orling, Michael Marino, Lenny Mather (in memoriam), Ken Freeland, Tania Torres, Graeme MacQueen, Yumi Kikuchi, Stuart Hutchison, Roland Angle, Frank Agamemnon , Harold Hilton, Phil Restino, Rich McCampbell, John Zito, Manny Badillo, John Hankey, Oskar Mosquito, Edwin Jewett, Ms Anisa Fattah, Robert Barron, Shelton Lankford, Matthew Hayward, Anna Yeisley, Chris Pratt, Craig Ranke, Susan Lindauer, Barbara Honegger, Democritus Blantayre, Joseph Baltar, Jim Hogue, Sheila Casey, Steve Martin, Ben Collet, Elizabeth Woodward, Runyan Wilde, Susan Wolfe, Adam Ruff, Conrad Gilber. Jonathan Mark, Tonya Sneed, Dan Sutton, Richard Krushnic, Mark Crispin Miller, Byron Belitsos, George Ripley, Laurie Manwell , Susan Serpa, Nicolas Guillermo, Dwain Deets, Craig McKee, Steve Fahrney; Fran Shure; David Petrano, Lawrence Fine, A.K. Dewdney, Steve De'ak, Allan Rees, Art Olivier, Ron Avery, Michael Booth, Jim Fetzer, Laura Katleman, Don Gibbs, Mark Basile, John-Michael Talboo, Julian Stroh, Christopher Gruener, Elias Davidsson, Martin McGee, Adnan Zuberi, Jan Ravensbergen, Rich Aucoin (in memoriam), David Hooper, Don Fox, Bill Wilt, William Jacoby, Ron Neils, John Campbell, Dan Hennen, Barton Bruce, Cheri Aspenleiter, Stephen Phillips, Dick Atlee, Lynn Ertell, Nita Renfrew. Frank Tolopko, Mark McDonald, Christopher Bollyn, John Paul OMalley, Rodger Bories, Mark Snyder, Jane Clark, Richard Sacks, Tim Michel, Lynn Bradbury, Xander Arena, David Cole, Rick Tufts, Jerry Turner, Rick Shaddock, Rebecca Schmoyer, Mark Mckertich, Kip Beckford, Doug West, PF Soto, Dennis Cimino, Jane Clark, Charles Ewing Smith, Lucy Morgan Edwards, Pablo Novi, David Rolde, Gregory Flynn, Pat O'Connell, Jeff Long, Greg McCarron, Andy Steele, Thomas Robichaud, Doug Mackenzie, Peter Michael Ketcham, Gene Laratonda, Karl Golovin, Steve Jarrott, Neil Marquis, Matt Van Slyke, Tony Hall, Ph.D., Mike Springmann, Ezra Smith, Samuel Smith, Janane Tripp, Daniel Fielding, Gerald Pechenuk, Ralph Lopez, Robert Griffin, Linda McPherson, Marie Spike, Kathy Allard, PhD, Trina Silvers, Julio Gomez, Ann Hendricks, Malcolm Arnold, Nooria Ghafoor, Bonnie Faulkner, Clay Smith, Andrew Kreig, Beverly Trout, Joanne Tachera
**********************
Draft minutes for the January 29, 2020 regular conference call
Present were:
Craig McKee, Teleconference co-facilitator, Truth and Shadows
Ann Hendricks, Teleconference secretary
John O’Malley, DC911Truth
James Hufferd, 9/11 Grassroots
Fern Tishman
Michael Cook, AE911Truth
Nita Renfrew, New York 911Truth
Charles Ewing Smith, The Demolition of Truth
Marie Spike, 9/11 TAP
Greg Flynn
Pat O’Connell, TX9/11Truth.us
Philip Farruggio,
Dylan Avery, Loose Change
Kelly David, AE911Truth
Cheri Aspen, San Diego 9/11 Truth
Zander Arena, Arizona 9/11 Studies and Outreach
Barrie Zwicker, Towers of Deception
Steve Stodola
The minutes of the December 4, 2019 conference call and the draft agenda were APPROVED.
The Military Industrial Empire
Philip Farruggio elaborated on U.S. military spending and proposed actions to reduce it such as demonstrating at one’s Congressional Member’s office. “They have their own thermometers; if the climate changes, they’ll read the weather.” He also spoke about the option of the government using Imminent Domain to take over every armaments company and make them non-profit. Regarding 9/11, Philip said, “The only way the truth is going to come out is if the people who were inside the beast at that time come out and speak and point fingers.” To listen to Philip’s regular podcast, go to: https://www.spreaker.com/show/its-the-empire-stupid
Hulsey Report documentary
Dylan Avery said his documentary about Professor Leroy Hulsey and his research is now in post-production. “I am excited to have this material, which will provide a fresh new take on the subject, and we hope it is an opportunity to educate many who still have not heard about Building 7.” The filming and interviews took place in Berkeley and in Fairbanks. Kelly David of AE9/11Truth, also on the project, commented, “Everything went great and we had a fantastic production team.” Dylan added that it will be the best looking and best sounding approach to the material, in part thanks to Ryan O’Hara, the director of photography. An interview about this project can be heard here: https://www.ae911truth.org/news/626-dyl ... ocumentary
Announcements
Craig McKee said the next teleconference will be February 26, 2020.
The call began at 8 p.m. EST and adjourned at 9:50 p.m., PST/5 p.m. to 6:50 p.m.
Audio of the January call can be heard here: http://truthandshadows.com/wp-content/u ... 012920.mp3
The next monthly teleconference will take place on February 26, 2020 at 8 p.m. EST, 5 p.m. PST. Agenda items should be emailed to facilitator Cheryl Curtiss ([email protected]) no later than one week before the call. Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.” Please include a brief description of your item and any relevant links you’d like participants to be aware of, together with your estimate of the number of minutes your agenda item will require. If you would like to join the teleconference list serve, contact Craig McKee ([email protected]), and anyone who would like information such as links included in the minutes should email Ann Hendricks ([email protected]).
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9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
wtc7 pentagon
Draft agenda for February 26, 2020
8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT) teleconference dial-in #
(605) 313-4118 Access code: 464958#
[Note: Some telephone service providers block access to this teleconference service, or require additional charges. If you encounter any of these difficulties, please try calling this alternative number: (425) 535-9195. You will then be required to key in the original phone number above before entering the access code. Please inform of us of any technical difficulties you encounter in accessing the teleconference.]
Greetings all,
This month’s teleconference, our second of 2020, should have more than its share of excitement. Our first speaker is Jonathan Mark, the creator of this teleconference and of FlyBy News. Jonathan is back to talk to us about the importance for the Truth Movement of making plans for the 20th anniversary of 9/11 in 2021 and about an initiative from FlyBy News for the occasion. He will also address related topics, including why the truth and peace movements should come together. You can read about Jonathan’s 20th anniversary initiative here.
Jonathan will be followed by Barbara Honegger and maybe one or two other members of the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry. We’ll receive an update on the latest developments in the legal cases the committee is involved in: the effort to get a grand jury convened in New York and the lawsuit against the FBI for its failure to investigate 9/11 evidence. To prepare your questions for Barbara and company, you can listen to the most recent instalment of 9/11 Free Fall with Andy Steele here. The show features an interview with Mick Harrison and John O’Kelly of the Lawyers’ Committee and reveals that the legal efforts are entering “a new phase.”
Our third item is tentative and depends on the availability on Wednesday of long time teleconference participant Frank Tolopko, who would like to talk to us about the new documentary film Who Killed Malcolm X? Frank hopes that he will be able to join us to address this topic, although this is not certain at this point. If he is not able to be with us, we’ll have him back on a future call.
When we only had one speaker lined up, Craig McKee volunteered to talk about the importance of the Shanksville case to 9/11 truth and the significance of the reaction of some in the movement to this topic. If the agenda items listed above come through as planned, we’ll save this topic for another month.
As always, we’ll finish with announcements and suggestions for future guest speakers.
It should be a great call. Please join us!
Cheryl Curtiss
Craig McKee
DRAFT AGENDA for Wednesday February 26, 2020 teleconference
I Roll call/minutes approval (copied below)/agenda approval (5 min)
II The 20th 9/11 anniversary [Jonathan Mark] (20 min. + 15 min. Q&A)
III Lawyers’ Committee update [Barbara Honegger and company] (15 min. + 15 min. Q&A)
IV Who Killed Malcom X? [Frank Tolopko] (5 min. + Q&A) – tentative
IV Announcements
VI Updates on 9/11 topics (as needed)
New articles, books, films, or recent news about 9/11 or other Deep State crimes
9/11 and the Deep State on the legal front, including current adjudicatory efforts by Lawyers for 9/11 Inquiry, JASTA, 28 pages, William Pepper’s efforts with AE911Truth against NIST and the Dept. of Commerce
Censorship and cognitive infiltration: new examples of censorship or harassment of members of the Truth community; MSM treatment of 9/11 Truth
Google (et al.) censorship
9/11 Truth political candidates
VII Adjournment
--------------------
This draft agenda sent to:
Richard Gage, John Heartson, Don DeBar, Scott Halfmann, Steven E. Jones, William Rodriguez, David Ray Griffin, William Douglas, Steve Alten , Tom Tvedten, Justin Martel, Les Jamieson, Michael Jackman, Michael Wolsey, Peggy Brewster, Barrie Zwicker, Erik Lawyer, Gabriel Day, Kevin Barrett, PhD, Carol Brouillet, Mia Hamel, Paul Craig Roberts, Jack Blood, Diana (for investigar11s.org), Cheryl Curtiss, Jodie Baltazar, Jarek Kupsc, Joseph Culp, Ken Jenkins, Ellen Mariani, Gerhard Bedding, Jack Shimek, Paul Krik, Rock Creek Free Press, Damon Bean, Allan Giles, Kyle Hence, Michael Berger, Dylan Avery, Jason Burmas, Mike Palecek, Donald Stahl, Ray McGovern, Cynthia McKinney, Ph,D, Don Plummer, Doug Wight, Global Outlook, Paul Zarembka, Penny Little, Bob Cable, Suzanne Warson, Peter Thottam, Ralph Schoenman, Carol Wolman, Scholars for 911 Truth & Justice, Hummux, Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth, Frank Morales, Frank Tolopko, Alan Miller, James Hufferd, Ph.D., Erik Larson, Ted Walter , Suzanne Warson, Frederick Coward, Gordon Duff, Sherri Kane, Leonard Horowitz, William Woodward, Jerry Mazza, William Pepper, Wayne Madsen, David Kimball, Jeffrey Orling, Michael Marino, Lenny Mather (in memoriam), Ken Freeland, Tania Torres, Graeme MacQueen, Yumi Kikuchi, Stuart Hutchison, Roland Angle, Frank Agamemnon , Harold Hilton, Phil Restino, Rich McCampbell, John Zito, Manny Badillo, John Hankey, Oskar Mosquito, Edwin Jewett, Ms Anisa Fattah, Robert Barron, Shelton Lankford, Matthew Hayward, Anna Yeisley, Chris Pratt, Craig Ranke, Susan Lindauer, Barbara Honegger, Democritus Blantayre, Joseph Baltar, Jim Hogue, Sheila Casey, Steve Martin, Ben Collet, Elizabeth Woodward, Runyan Wilde, Susan Wolfe, Adam Ruff, Conrad Gilber. Jonathan Mark, Tonya Sneed, Dan Sutton, Richard Krushnic, Mark Crispin Miller, Byron Belitsos, George Ripley, Laurie Manwell , Susan Serpa, Nicolas Guillermo, Dwain Deets, Craig McKee, Steve Fahrney; Fran Shure; David Petrano, Lawrence Fine, A.K. Dewdney, Steve De'ak, Allan Rees, Art Olivier, Ron Avery, Michael Booth, Jim Fetzer, Laura Katleman, Don Gibbs, Mark Basile, John-Michael Talboo, Julian Stroh, Christopher Gruener, Elias Davidsson, Martin McGee, Adnan Zuberi, Jan Ravensbergen, Rich Aucoin (in memoriam), David Hooper, Don Fox, Bill Wilt, William Jacoby, Ron Neils, John Campbell, Dan Hennen, Barton Bruce, Cheri Aspenleiter, Stephen Phillips, Dick Atlee, Lynn Ertell, Nita Renfrew. Frank Tolopko, Mark McDonald, Christopher Bollyn, John Paul OMalley, Rodger Bories, Mark Snyder, Jane Clark, Richard Sacks, Tim Michel, Lynn Bradbury, Xander Arena, David Cole, Rick Tufts, Jerry Turner, Rick Shaddock, Rebecca Schmoyer, Mark Mckertich, Kip Beckford, Doug West, PF Soto, Dennis Cimino, Jane Clark, Charles Ewing Smith, Lucy Morgan Edwards, Pablo Novi, David Rolde, Gregory Flynn, Pat O'Connell, Jeff Long, Greg McCarron, Andy Steele, Thomas Robichaud, Doug Mackenzie, Peter Michael Ketcham, Gene Laratonda, Karl Golovin, Steve Jarrott, Neil Marquis, Matt Van Slyke, Tony Hall, Ph.D., Mike Springmann, Ezra Smith, Samuel Smith, Janane Tripp, Daniel Fielding, Gerald Pechenuk, Ralph Lopez, Robert Griffin, Linda McPherson, Marie Spike, Kathy Allard, PhD, Trina Silvers, Julio Gomez, Ann Hendricks, Malcolm Arnold, Nooria Ghafoor, Bonnie Faulkner, Clay Smith, Andrew Kreig, Beverly Trout, Joanne Tachera
**********************
Draft minutes for the January 29, 2020 regular conference call
Present were:
Craig McKee, Teleconference co-facilitator, Truth and Shadows
Ann Hendricks, Teleconference secretary
John O’Malley, DC911Truth
James Hufferd, 9/11 Grassroots
Fern Tishman
Michael Cook, AE911Truth
Nita Renfrew, New York 911Truth
Charles Ewing Smith, The Demolition of Truth
Marie Spike, 9/11 TAP
Greg Flynn
Pat O’Connell, TX9/11Truth.us
Philip Farruggio,
Dylan Avery, Loose Change
Kelly David, AE911Truth
Cheri Aspen, San Diego 9/11 Truth
Zander Arena, Arizona 9/11 Studies and Outreach
Barrie Zwicker, Towers of Deception
Steve Stodola
The minutes of the December 4, 2019 conference call and the draft agenda were APPROVED.
The Military Industrial Empire
Philip Farruggio elaborated on U.S. military spending and proposed actions to reduce it such as demonstrating at one’s Congressional Member’s office. “They have their own thermometers; if the climate changes, they’ll read the weather.” He also spoke about the option of the government using Imminent Domain to take over every armaments company and make them non-profit. Regarding 9/11, Philip said, “The only way the truth is going to come out is if the people who were inside the beast at that time come out and speak and point fingers.” To listen to Philip’s regular podcast, go to: https://www.spreaker.com/show/its-the-empire-stupid
Hulsey Report documentary
Dylan Avery said his documentary about Professor Leroy Hulsey and his research is now in post-production. “I am excited to have this material, which will provide a fresh new take on the subject, and we hope it is an opportunity to educate many who still have not heard about Building 7.” The filming and interviews took place in Berkeley and in Fairbanks. Kelly David of AE9/11Truth, also on the project, commented, “Everything went great and we had a fantastic production team.” Dylan added that it will be the best looking and best sounding approach to the material, in part thanks to Ryan O’Hara, the director of photography. An interview about this project can be heard here: https://www.ae911truth.org/news/626-dyl ... ocumentary
Announcements
Craig McKee said the next teleconference will be February 26, 2020.
The call began at 8 p.m. EST and adjourned at 9:50 p.m., PST/5 p.m. to 6:50 p.m.
Audio of the January call can be heard here: http://truthandshadows.com/wp-content/u ... 012920.mp3
The next monthly teleconference will take place on February 26, 2020 at 8 p.m. EST, 5 p.m. PST. Agenda items should be emailed to facilitator Cheryl Curtiss ([email protected]) no later than one week before the call. Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.” Please include a brief description of your item and any relevant links you’d like participants to be aware of, together with your estimate of the number of minutes your agenda item will require. If you would like to join the teleconference list serve, contact Craig McKee ([email protected]), and anyone who would like information such as links included in the minutes should email Ann Hendricks ([email protected]).
