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How soon will new FBI Director Mike Rogers create next terrorist event ?



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The 11 candidates Trump is considering for FBI director including FBI agent Mike Rogers
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DECEMBER 29, 2014 AT 6:04 AM
Florida congressman denied access to censored pages from Congress’ 9/11 report



The U.S. House Intelligence Committee has denied a Florida congressman’s request for access to 28 classified pages from the 2002 report of Congress’ Joint Inquiry into the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, told BrowardBulldog.org he made his request at the suggestion of House colleagues who have read them as they consider whether to support a proposed resolution urging President Obama to open those long-censored pages to the public.

“Why was I denied? I have been instrumental in publicizing the Snowden revelations regarding pervasive domestic spying by the government and this is a petty means for the spying industrial complex to lash back,” Grayson said last week, referring to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.

Redacted on orders from then-President George W. Bush, the report says the 28 pages concern “specific sources of foreign support” for the 9/11 hijackers while they were in the U.S. Specifically, that is “the role of Saudi Arabia in funding 9/11,” according to former Florida Senator Bob Graham, who co-chaired the Joint Inquiry and helped write the 28 pages.

Graham has long called for declassifying those pages in order to help 9/11 victims and their families find justice, and to better serve national security. In July, 9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean and Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton also came out in support of declassification.

“I’m embarrassed that they’re not declassified,” said Hamilton, a former Indiana congressman. “We emphasized transparency. I assumed incorrectly that our records would be public, all of them, everything.”

House Resolution 428, sponsored by Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr., R-NC, asks President Obama to release the 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry’s report, saying they are “necessary for a full public understanding of the events and circumstances” surrounding the 9/11 attacks.

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., is one of 21 co-sponsors including Florida Reps. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar, and Ted Yoho, R-Gainesville. Massie has challenged all members of Congress to read the report, which he said poses no threat to national security.

In 2003, 46 senators – including Joe Biden, Sam Brownback, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Kerry – wrote to President Bush asking him to declassify the pages.

U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando
U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando
In a party line vote, the House Intelligence Committee voted 8-4 on Dec. 1 to deny Democrat Grayson access to the 28 pages. The same day, the committee unanimously approved requests to access classified committee documents – not necessarily the 28 pages – by 11 other House members.

Grayson, an outspoken liberal and a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said his denial was engineered by outgoing Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich. Rogers is a former FBI agent who did not seek re-election in November.

“Congressman Rogers made serious misrepresentations to other committee members when he brought this up,” Grayson in a telephone interview. “When the Guardian reported on the fact that there was universal domestic surveillance regarding every single phone call, including this one, I went to the floor of the House and gave a lengthy speech decrying it.”

“Chairman Rogers told the committee that I had discussed classified information on the floor. He left out the most important part that I was discussing what was reported in the newspaper,” said Grayson. “He clearly misled the committee for an improper purpose: to deny a sitting member of Congress important classified information necessary for me to do my job.”

Rogers did not respond to a request for comment. An aide in his Lansing, Michigan office referred callers to a spokeswoman for the House Intelligence Committee who could not be reached for comment.



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“Braiding Sweetgrass has become an essential companion for my life. I was sold early on in the book when Kimmerer talked about the importance of integrating scientific ways of knowing, indigenous ways of knowing and storytelling ─ what an incredible trinity! My first exposure to the book was on my Kindle Fire, and thus I was treated to Robin’s melodious voice as she told her stories. In every chapter, I was gifted with new ways of looking at our world. I had never heard of mast fruiting (Council of Pecans) ─ if one tree fruits, they all fruit. All flourishing is mutual. Wow! What a lesson from our Mother Earth, and these teachings are multiplied in every chapter. We learn how trees communicate, we learn how we are all beneficiaries of reciprocity, we learn the value of the gift economy. We learn that strawberries belong to themselves and that we dwell in a world full of gifts scattered right at our feet! I will be forever grateful to Robin Wall Kimmerer for tilting the axis of my world just enough so that I am seeing with new eyes and understanding our world with new insights.” Anne Ferrara



“I have been mightily impacted by Robin Wall Kimmerer’s books, both Gathering Moss and Braiding Sweetgrass. I have been using her thoughts and words to create ritual for change in our Sanctuary community for years. Rereading Braiding Sweetgrass with our women’s circle has brought great delight to me. Here is a Kimmerer text from an Equinox ceremony I conducted with Susan Merrill and Leslie Goode: Ceremony is a vehicle for belonging. . . to a family, to a people, and to the land. Ceremonies large and/ small have the power to focus attention to a way of living AWAKE in the world.” Pat Wheeler



“Something I love about Kimmerer’s writing is that she weaves all the threads of her knowledge, experience, in short. . . life, in such a way that one aspect informs and enhances the other. She doesn’t separate her science background from her mothering, gardening, or native traditions. She sees that everything truly is connected and this becomes the base coherent structure of her writing.” Daksha Baumann



“Robin Kimmerer’s writing is so full of tough insight and vulnerable openness, precise scientific description and philosophical musing, humble gratitude and stern prescription. . . in short she teaches how to see our broken relationship with nature and history and how to make it whole again. This quote is one of many I’ve copied out from Braiding Sweetgrass:The fear for me is that the world has been turned inside out, the dark side made to seem light. Indulgent self-interest that our people once held to be monstrous is now celebrated as success. We are asked to admire what our people viewed as unforgiveable.” Rob Shetterly

“The thought that comes to mind is the primacy of greed or selfishness as a single commandment versus the 10 of Judaism and Christianity. With income equality escalating (and more so with our President’s proposed tax revision favoring the rich), the focus on an economic system which creates extravagant luxuries for a tiny portion of the populace, while a large percentage are without basic needs, appears particularly germane. I believe in the adage, There is nothing more powerful as an idea whose time has come. I’m hoping this next idea will be Medicare for all. Tony Ferrara







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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Better Living Through Chemistry


On Earth Day, April 22, a hundred thousand people marched all across the world for science. Tens of thousands demonstrated in Los Angeles and London, while 200 people marched 200 miles north of the Arctic circle in Norway. In 600 cities on every continent, citizens and scientists carried signs like “Fund science, not walls” and “Science trumps alternative facts”.

In Washington, DC, the biggest crowd protested Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts to scientific research in public health and climate.

Trump is carrying out normal Republican politics. None of the many Republican candidates for President in 2016 thought evolution should be taught in public schools. A majority of Republican voters believe in creationism.

The issue of climate change shows the influence of political ideology on attitudes toward science. A Pew poll found that only 15% of conservative Republicans believe “the earth is warming mostly due to human activity”, 34% of moderate Republicans, 63% of moderate Democrats, and 79% of liberal Democrats. A majority of conservative Republicans believes that climate scientists are influenced by desire to advance their careers and political ideology, not by scientific evidence or public interest. To put it simply, conservatives don’t believe in science or scientists, if it’s inconvenient.

Here’s how science denial works in real life. Lots of private websites offer their version of science, paid for by private money which they don’t disclose, using clever tactics to pretend to search for truth. An example is the Heartland Institute, which has been denying the existence of warming for decades.

On the other side is “Understanding Science”, a public project of the University of California at Berkeley, funded by the federal National Science Foundation. This step-by-easy-step primer offers a balanced and authentic understanding of “how science REALLY works”. But those who automatically accuse both government and the nation’s best universities of politicized scientific fraud would dismiss this site as propaganda. So they won’t learn from it how our scientific community does a far better job of policing high standards for honesty and frankness than either politicians or corporations.

And they won’t think about who pays for science: “Most scientific research is funded by government grants (e.g., from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, etc.), companies doing research and development, and non-profit foundations.” Public and private sources have different priorities for funding scientific research. My nephew works on the development of a drug to stop Alzheimer’s for a biotechnology company formed by scientists and venture capitalists. Their research is motivated both to find better medicines for our collective health and to make money. As I approach 70, the prospect of preventing brain degeneration before it hits me is exciting. Their profit might extend my useful life.

Some privately funded scientific research is not in the public interest at all, such as the tobacco companies’ effort to deny the link to cancer, funneled through sciency-sounding propaganda organizations like the Heartland Institute.

The Republicans in Congress are not waging a war on all science; they quote from Heartland’s fake science. They attack government-supported science because it might lead to government spending. For example, the discovery of lead in Flint’s water meant that old pipes must be replaced on 17,000 homes at an estimated cost of $7500 each, totaling $127,500,000. Government-paid scientific research documented how lead affects babies’ brains, supported the creation of regulations which forced industry to stop using lead, compared the levels of lead in Flint’s water to experimental evidence on poisoning, and thus demonstrated the need for federal intervention.

Republicans in the Senate voted overwhelmingly to deny funding to deal with Flint’s crisis, but that effort lost by one vote. Congress authorized $170 million for Flint.

In the words of “Understanding Science”, “Science affects your life everyday in all sorts of different ways.” Good public science saves lives and serves the public interest through government spending and government regulation. But those are Republican curse words. That is the deep secret behind the anti-science policies of Republicans in Congress and the White House. If they want to shrink government, they have to slow down or even stop science. They use tactics of obfuscation and delay. House Science Committee chair Lamar Smith attacked a 2015 NOAA study showing rising global temperatures. He used his old tactics, honed over decades in Congress: he demanded thousands of e-mails and other documents in search of malfeasance, misspent funds, or corruption. He has never found any of those things. But he slowed down science he doesn’t like.

This is not in our national interest. If we don’t prepare for the world’s new climate, if we don’t prevent health crises through regulation of pollutants, if we don’t spend now on inconvenient science, we will have to spend much more later in economic and social costs. Peter Muennig, professor of public health at Columbia University, estimates that the two fewer healthy years of the 8000 Flint children exposed to lead might cost American society $400 million.

The astrophysicist and TV explainer of science Neil deGrasse Tyson said, “The good thing about science is that it’s true, whether or not you believe it.”

The bad thing about Republican science politics is that our children and grandchildren will pay the price. Without science, it’s just fiction.

Steve Hochstadt
Jacksonville IL
Published in the Jacksonville Journal-Courier, Wednesday, May 3, 2017
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US-trained cartel terrorises Mexico
Founders of the Zetas drug gang learned special forces techniques at Ft. Bragg before waging a campaign of carnage.


Despite the deployment of 50,000 troops, Mexico seems to be losing the 'war on drugs' [AFP]
It was a brutal massacre even by the gruesome standards of Mexico’s drug war: 72 migrant workers gunned down by the "Zetas" - arguably the country's most violent cartel - and left rotting in a pile outside a ranch in Tamaulipas state near the US border in late August.

The Zetas have a fearsome reputation, but the real surprise comes not in their ruthless use of violence, but in the origins of where they learned the tricks of their bloody trade.

Some of the cartel's initial members were elite Mexican troops, trained in the early 1990s by America’s 7th Special Forces Group or "snake eaters" at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, a former US special operations commander has told Al Jazeera.

“They were given map reading courses, communications, standard special forces training, light to heavy weapons, machine guns and automatic weapons,” says Craig Deare, the former special forces commander who is now a professor at the US National Defence University.

"I had some visibility on what was happening, because this [issue] was related to things I was doing in the Pentagon in the 1990s," Deare, who also served as country director in the office of the US Secretary of Defence, says.

"Other cartels have accused the Zetas of not following the 'gentlemen's code' of drug trafficking"

Kristen Bricker, NACLA Research Associate

The Mexican personnel who received US training and later formed the Zetas came from the Airmobile Special Forces Group (GAFE), which is considered an elite division of the Mexican military.

Their US training was designed to prepare them for counter-insurgency and, ironically, counter-narcotics operations, although Deare says they were not taught the most advanced commando techniques available at Ft. Bragg.

Military forces from around the world train at Ft. Bragg, so there is nothing unique about Mexican operatives learning counter-insurgency tactics at the facility. However, critics say the specific skills learned by the Zetas primed them for careers as contract killers and drug dealers.

“The Zetas definitely have the reputation of being the most dangerous, the most vicious, the most renegade of the cartels,” says Kristen Bricker, a Mexico-based research associate with the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA).

About 29,000 people have died since Felipe Calderon, Mexico’s president, declared war on the drug cartels in 2006.

Extreme violence

The group has mounted the severed heads of its victims on pikes in urban areas, posted torture and execution videos on the internet, forced poor migrants into prostitution and massacred college students during house parties.

"Other cartels have accused them of not following the 'gentlemen's code' of drug trafficking and causing undue violence," Bricker told Al Jazeera.

"At one time, it was considered bad form to kill pregnant women, but not any more." For safety concerns, Bricker didn’t want to say where she lives in Mexico.

Deare estimates "probably more than 500" GAFE personnel received special forces training. He is unsure exactly how long the programme lasted. The Zetas came to the attention of Mexico’s Attorney General’s office in 1999.

After US training, GAFE operatives defected from the Mexican military to become hired guns, providing security to the Gulf cartel, a well established trafficking organisation, according to Laura Carlsen, director of the Americas program of the International Relations Center.

"They split from the Gulf cartel and formed as a cartel in their own right," Carlsen, based in Mexico City, told Al Jazeera.

The Zetas' alleged current leaders, Heriberto Lazcano, known as Z-3 and Miguel Trevino, or Z-40, were first recruited by Osiel Cardenas, the now-jailed leader of the Gulf cartel. The name "Zetas" originates from the radio code "Z" used by top military commanders in Mexico.

But unlike Zorro, the Mexican outlaw hero who also used the "Z" alias, Los Zetas steal from everyone, not just the rich. And they certainly don’t give much back to the poor, except the corpses of their relatives. "They are just known for being a different kind of human being," says Bricker.

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DeKalb County Sheriff Jeffrey Mann was arrested late Saturday after allegedly exposing himself in an Atlanta park. (DEKALB COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE)
One of Georgia’s top cops was busted after exposing himself at an Atlanta park on Saturday night, according to local reports Sunday.

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The settlement numbers were significantly higher than in previous years and involved cases that had been working their way through the court system for the last few years.

Among them were two wrongful convictions of men for separate murders. The men each spent more than 25 years behind bars, and the department settled their cases for about $24 million.

An additional $15 million went to a boy left paralyzed after an LAPD officer shot him. The city last fiscal year also agreed to settle a case that it fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court involving a man who was shot by officers while holding a cellphone they apparently mistook for a gun. The city paid $7 million.




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Friday, May 5, 2017
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Here is an example from today's Medscape. Just remember that YOU are paying for this nonsense, and it is one reason that healthcare has basically become unaffordable in the US:
"The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that by the end of May, it will notify all clinicians who are eligible for payment under the new Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). One of two payment tracks in CMS' Quality Payment Program, MIPS was launched January 1. Physicians who are subject to MIPS will have their performance on quality, electronic health record (EHR) use, and practice improvement measured this year to determine positive or negative payment adjustments in 2019.
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msfreeh
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European Scientific Journal Concludes 9/11 was a controlled demolition ( CIA FOIA Documents 9/11 )
May 8, 2017 - The authors of the report are Steven Jones (former Physics Professor at Brigham Young University), Robert Korol (Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at McMaster University in Ontario and a graduate of the ...


European Scientific Journal Concludes 9/11 was a Controlled Demolition In a deafening media silence, the Europhysics News magazine published a study confirming that the 3 rounds of the World Trade Center have been subjected to controlled demolition. The European Scientific Journal , a publication of the European Scientific Institute , published an article titled “ 15 Years Later: On the Physics of High-Rise Building Collapses ,” in which they analyze the collapse of all three World Trade Center buildings.
Europhysics News is not, however, a site that the media could call "complotist" and that is the problem. It is a renowned magazine of the European physics community held by the European Physical Society. The authors of the report are Steven Jones (former Physics Professor at Brigham Young University), Robert Korol (Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at McMaster University in Ontario and a graduate of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering and the Canadian Institute Engineers Mechanical design engineers with more than 25 years experience in structural design in aerospace design Anthony Szamboti (mechanical design engineer with more than 25 years of experience in structural design Aerospace and Communications) and Ted Walter (Director of Strategy and Development for Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, AE911Truth), a non-profit organization that today represents more than 2,500 architects And engineers.

From fires collapse steel skyscrapers? Never seen.

First of all, the authors recall that never before 9/11 a skyscraper with a steel structure did not just collapse following a fire. On the site of the author, we invite you to visit this site. The only reason for these collapses would be controlled demolition. The report for why a fire can not produce the fall of such a building:

Concerning eyewitness accounts, 156 witnesses, including 135 rescuers, claimed to have seen and / or heard explosions before and / or during the collapses. The fact that the Twin Towers were destroyed with the explosive seems to have been the dominant initial opinion for most rescuers. "I thought it was exploding, in fact," said John Coyle, a firefighter. "Everybody, I think at this point thought that these buildings had been blown up."

Conclusion

It should be reiterated that fires have never caused the total collapse of a steel skyscraper before or since September 11. Did we attend an unprecedented event three times on September 11, 2001? NIST reports, which attempt to support this unlikely conclusion, fail to convince an increasing number of architects, engineers, and scientists. Instead, the evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that the three buildings were destroyed by controlled demolition.
Read the study here : ttps://www.slideshare.net/Avicennesy/etude-eur ... ats-du-119
CIA has released to the public declassified versions of five internal documents related to the Agency’s performance in the lead-up to the attacks of September 11, 2001. The documents can be found at CIA’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) online reading room at http://www.foia.cia.gov/collection/decl ... 11-attacks .





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The FBI file on Majestic-12 may be the Bureau’s most X-Filesy file of all - full of hoaxes, planted documents, and allegations of aliens. The Bureau, however, was essentially disinterested in the case, did no actual investigating, and barely pursued the very real crime that had been committed by forging government documents, only adding fuel to the suspicion that the papers were government sponsored, or at least tolerated, disinformation.
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Yes it worked with Communism and now Islam

(Terrorists ) FBI agents Want People Afraid. Trump’s Alarmist Tweets Spark More Fear.
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Detailed confession filed in S.L. about Oklahoma City plot
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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



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FBI informant David Headley creates Mumbai attack.

Q. Why didn’t U.S. authorities stop Headley sooner?

A. ProPublica has explored in detail the repeated warnings about Headley to the FBI and the missed opportunities to stop him between 2001 and 2009.

Reacting to ProPublica’s reports, in late 2010 the Director of National Intelligence ordered a multiagency review of Headley’s contacts with the U.S. government. The conclusions were kept secret. In addition, Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., chairman of a House appropriations subcommittee, responded to ProPublica articles by submitting a long list of questions to the FBI and DEA about Headley’s work as an informant and six FBI inquiries into his extremist activity. Wolf has declined to disclose the responses.

The secrecy makes it hard to assess the government’s failure to detect the threat from Headley. But the FBI’s tepid approach contrasts with other cases, according to lawyer Charles Swift, who defended Headley’s accomplice in Chicago and specializes in terrorism cases.

“What has struck me is the FBI’s doggedness in tracking anyone who has potential information,” Swift said. “I have clients who the FBI has flown across the country to interview at airports. I have had clients stopped for four hours of questioning by the Joint Terrorism Task Force at airports. It’s unthinkable they didn’t do more regarding Headley.”

Federal agents opened six inquiries about Headley between 2001 and 2008, but only questioned him once. That interview took place in a DEA office three weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks because of a report that he praised the al-Qaida strike and wanted to fight jihad in Pakistan.

Headley’s defense was partly true: that he was a DEA informant and had been gathering intelligence on Islamic extremists. Yet strangely, his DEA handlers did not write a report about the FBI inquiry or look into a claim Headley made that he was related to a Pakistani spymaster. DEA officials insist that they did not know that Headley was already an active militant in Lashkar.

There also is no convincing explanation of why a federal court abruptly ended Headley’s probation for a drug conviction three years early, or why the DEA deactivated him soon after he signed a one-year informant contract in September 2001. The official silence and contradictions reinforce suspicions that he kept working as a U.S. informant in some capacity while he trained with terrorists in Pakistan.

Official explanations are incomplete about other inquiries into Headley. Why didn’t FBI agents interview Headley in 2005 after his wife had him arrested for domestic abuse and accused him of being a Lashkar militant? Interviews with her and a DEA handler indicated that he was at least a potentially valuable intelligence source. What explains Headley’s contact with the DEA soon after that inquiry? According to a DEA timeline prepared in response to a ProPublica request, in February of 2006 “the DEA received an impromptu phone call from Headley. The call lasted between five and 10 minutes and was social in nature. Operational and investigative matters were not discussed.”

According to the DEA, this was the agency’s last contact with Headley until his arrest for the Mumbai attacks. The timing of his social call to the DEA is perplexing. In early 2006, Headley was doing surveillance in Mumbai, changing his name to perfect his cover, and becoming a spy for the ISI.

The next warning was the closest U.S. agencies came to discovering the Mumbai plot. In meetings in late 2007 and 2008, another of Headley’s wives went to the U.S. embassy in Pakistan and accused him of being a spy and terrorist. Embassies get many “walk-ins” who make wild accusations. The wife later admitted to an investigator that she was emotional and mixed lies with the truth. Still, she told U.S. agents about Headley’s Lashkar activity, his suspicious travel to India and her belief he was involved in attacks.

She said she showed U.S. agents photos of her with Headley at the Taj Mahal Hotel, his main target. She phoned an agent several times with more information, according to her account. She said the agents had a file on Headley and knew about his Lashkar training. Yet officials say Headley was not interviewed or monitored. The key unanswered question: Did U.S. agents learn at this time of the three similar previous warnings that bolstered the wife’s credibility?

The final inquiry into Headley also remains murky.

Days after the Mumbai attacks, an associate of Headley’s mother alerted FBI agents in Philadelphia about her suspicions that Headley was involved with Pakistani militants. It is disconcerting that Headley’s cousin in Philadelphia succeeded in lying to FBI agents, claiming Headley was in Pakistan and then calling him at home in Chicago to warn him. It is surprising that the FBI did not locate Headley, who weeks later left the country and did extensive terrorist surveillance in Denmark and India, returning to the scene of the crime.

Lashkar was now an urgent threat. Agents learned about the previous FBI inquiries, which connected Headley to Lashkar and Mumbai. But U.S. authorities did not warn Indian law enforcement or issue a travel alert for him. It took another seven months and a tip from British intelligence to open the investigation that resulted in his capture.

“It is a puzzling question,” said Patrick Blegen, Swift’s co-counsel in the Chicago case. “It could be explained by ineptitude. Or it could be that the federal agencies had some comfort with him, they didn’t think he was a threat because he had been an informant in the past.”

Top Indian officials allege that Headley was a double agent for the U.S. government at the time of the Mumbai plot. After extensive reporting, ProPublica has found no proof for that allegation. As U.S. officials insist, Headley may have simply slipped through the cracks of the counterterror system. Until more is revealed, however, legitimate suspicions will persist.




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BOSTON BOMBING
JULY 10, 2017 | JAMES HENRY



THE FBI’S INCREASINGLY ODD SILENCE ON BOSTON BOMBING


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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.

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, FBI Suspects 1 and 2.
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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).




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Trump Suggests Fired FBI Director Broke the Law by Releasing memos

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As the pressure on Donald Trump intensifies over an evolving federal investigation of alleged collusion with Russia, the president is resorting to what he knows best: Attack his perceived enemy on an unrelated issue.

On Twitter Monday morning, Trump wrote, “James Comey leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media. That is so illegal!”

The president also tweeted a video Monday morning from Fox & Friends in which former U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, suggested fired FBI Director James Comey broke the law by disseminating memos about his and Trump’s meetings.

“You can’t do that,” Chaffetz said. “It’s against the law.”

On Sunday evening, Chaffetz also tweeted, “Comey’s private memos on Trump conversations contained classified material. If true, this is bombshell news.”






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7-1-17 Kansas:

Kansas City, KS - A Wyandotte County deputy faces felony charges for stealing money intended for the Sheriff's office, according to the county prosecutor.

Jay Pennington,38, was team leader for the WYCO sheriff's Offender Registration Unit (ORU) and responsible for taking cash fees from registered sex offenders.

Prosecutor Michael Dupree alleges Pennington was making fake receipts and pocketing the $20 cash fees. It's not clear yet how much money is missing.

He was fired Thursday, June 29, and arrested.

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A needless assault on two Minneapolis emotional-support pets is the latest demonstration of a persistent problem in law enforcement.


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Trailer released for '9/11' movie starring Charlie Sheen who said attack was 'controlled demolition'
BY NICKI GOSTIN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Friday, July 21, 2017, 9:19 AM



A Japanese trailer has been released from the upcoming drama "9/11" starring Charlie Sheen.

What's notable is that the "Two and a Half Men" star has previously raised questions about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

During a radio interview with Alex Jones in 2006, the 51-year-old actor claimed that the towers had collapsed because of a "controlled demolition," rather than two planes being flown into them.

"We're not the conspiracy theorists on this issue," he said. "It seems to me like 19 amateurs with box cutters taking over four commercial airlines and hitting 75% of the targets — that feels like a conspiracy theory."


He also spoke at the Neocon Agenda — a conference organized by neoconservatives, some of whom believe in 9/11 conspiracy theories — and called for people to "wake up and join us," speaking out to "unleash the juggernaut of truth."

It's also Sheen’s first






POLICE OFFICER CHARGED AFTER SHOOTING FRIENDLY DOG

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Brandon Carpenter and Arzy; policeman Brian Thierbach (not pictured) claimed the dog bit his foot, prompting the officer to shoot the 14-year-old mutt in the head.

In late April, traveling musician Brandon Carpenter of Portland, Maine, experienced the tragedy of a lifetime during a trip through Sulphur, Louisiana.

Carpenter, 28, was visiting the small Calcasieu Parish town with his dog Arzy, a Labrador Retriever–Newfoundland–Golden Retriever mix, and their friend, 21-year-old Logan Laliberte. Arzy, Carpenter, and Laliberte had been traveling around the country performing, hopping trains, and hitching rides, the Portland Press Herald reports, and were on their way to stay with a friend in Lake Charles.

The trio arrived in Sulphur during a rainstorm, so they took refuge in the back of an old box truck in the parking lot of a newspaper office to wait out the bad weather. Unfortunately, their choice of shelter prompted someone to call the police.

Officer Brian Thierbach of the Sulphur Police Department was the responding officer. Carpenter says he and his friend were sleeping when Officer Thierbach arrived and ordered them out of the truck. Thierbach put Carpenter and Laliberte in handcuffs, told them to lie on the ground, and then proceeded into the truck to retrieve their belongings.

“We were extremely compliant. We did everything he asked us to do,” Carpenter insists.

Meanwhile, Arzy was inside the truck, secured by a 4-foot leash. When Thierbach asked if Arzy was going to attack him, Carpenter said there was no way, that Arzy was harmless and sweet.

“I said no, it’s an incredibly friendly dog,” Carpenter remembers.

Newspaper employee Eric Midkiff looked on as Officer Thierbach approached Arzy, the police officer allegedly even petting the dog for a few seconds.

“His tongue was out. His tail was wagging. That’s my dog,” Carpenter said of Arzy. “Arzy maybe did a little sniff, like do you want to play?”

That’s when, without warning, Officer Thierbach drew his gun, shooting and killing Arzy.

Arzy was only 14 months old when he died.

“Then [the officer] jumped down from the back of the truck and shoots my dog in the head,” says Carpenter. “I watched him convulse his last breath and twitch the life out of him.”

Carpenter says he and Laliberte watched in horror as poor Arzy’s body was disposed of, thrown into a garbage bag. When Carpenter insisted that Officer Thierbach had needlessly shot Arzy, Thierbach claimed the dog had attacked him and bitten him in his foot.

But Eric Midkiff, the newspaper employee, witnessed the entire incident. Midkiff contends that Arzy never attacked Officer Thierbach, and said as much in his official report. Midkiff confirms that Arzy was indeed wagging his tail, happily greeting Officer Thierbach in a friendly manner. Theirbach shot Arzy when the lovable dog brushed up against him.

“All he had to do is take one giant step back,” Carpenter tells the Sulphur Daily News. “Why didn’t he ask me to move the dog or just take one big step back if he was uncomfortable?”

The loss of his dog has taken a toll on Carpenter, who maintains that Arzy was an innocent victim.

“That dog wouldn’t hurt a fly. Everybody loved Arzy,” Carpenter tells the Bangor Daily News (BGN). “Everybody said, ‘Oh, he’s so friendly. So gentle.’ He was an angel in dog form.”

Following Arzy’s death, the Sulphur Police Department launched an investigation into whether or not Officer Thierbach’s conduct was appropriate given the circumstances.

“I am a dog lover and I am deeply saddened by this incident,” Sulphur Police Chief Louis Coats told the BGN in early May. “I realize there is nothing I can say that would take away the hurt this incident has caused Mr. Carpenter. The actions of Officer Thierbach did not represent what I expect from the officers of the Sulphur Police Department.”

Officer Thierbach submitted his resignation May 7, but the department continued a criminal investigation.

“Those of us who serve as law enforcement officers do so with the responsibility of serving and protecting the community as professionals,” Chief Coats added. “The resignation of Officer Theirbach was accepted so that the officers and community can heal and move forward.”

Carpenter said Thierbach’s resignation was certainly a step in the right direction, but continued to push for justice. Supporters started a Facebook group, “Justice for Arzy,” hoping law enforcement would punish Thierbach.

Finally, on June 5, a grand jury served Brian Thierbach with an indictment for one count of aggravated animal cruelty. A warrant was issued for Thierbach’s arrest. Thierbach was taken into custody and his bail has been set at $20,000.

“They came to the right decision,” Carpenter tells the Southwest Daily News.

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China Cracks 100 Gigawatts of Solar Capacity as Musk Pitches More U.S. Gigafactories
When it comes to solar energy, China is on one hell of a roll.

In the first half of 2017, the massive country added a record 24.4 gigawatts of solar electrical generating capacity. This boosted its total solar capacity to 101.82 gigawatts. By comparison, China has about 900 gigawatts of coal generating capacity, but recent coal curtailments provide an opportunity for renewable energy to take up a larger portion of China’s energy market share. Such an event would provide a crucial opening for the world to begin a necessary early draw-down of global carbon emissions in the face of rising risks from climate change.


(The government of China proudly touts its clean energy advances. Trump Administration — not so much.)

This very rapid solar growth rate, if it continues, puts China on track to beat its 2016 record annual solar installation rate of 34 GW. And, already, it is 9 percent ahead of last year’s more than doubling of new annual solar capacity toward a likely 2017 build-out at around 40 GW. China is also adding new high voltage power cables and averaging about 25 GW of new wind energy capacity each year. A stunning combined wind and solar build rate that has led CNN to claim that China is crushing the U.S. when it comes to renewable energy production and adoption rates. With the Trump Administration still wallowing in climate change denial, withdrawing from the Paris Climate Summit, and courting dangerous deals with petro-states like Russia, it’s enough to make you wonder if American technology and climate leadership are a thing of the past.

Back in the states, more progressive American (it’s not tough to beat Trump in this regard) Elon Musk was trying to help prevent just such a slide into backward-looking regression. Addressing 30 state governors at the summer governor’s association meeting, Musk explained that only a 100 by 100 mile square region was needed to capture enough solar energy to power the U.S. and that the battery storage needed for such a system to provide energy 24/7 would only cover a region 1×1 mile in size.



(Elon Musk claims an area of solar panels the size of the blue square could power the U.S. The black square represents the size of the area needed for energy storage to provide 24/7 power. Image source: Tesla.)

This is less than the total rooftop and highway area of all buildings and roads in the U.S. Musk also soft-pitched the notion of new gigafactories to the 30 state governors in attendance. Hopefully, a few will take up what amounts to an amazing economic opportunity. With Nevada seeing major new growth surrounding Musk’s Gigafactory 1 site, you’d think that interest would be high.

Oddly enough, 20 governors were AWOL at the meeting. Primarily republicans, apparently they had “more important” work to attend to than helping America become energy independent while fighting to prevent the fat tail of global climate catastrophe from crashing down on their constituents like a 1960s Godzilla on a mad romp in Tokyo.

Steve Hanley of Clean Technica notes:

“Whether any of the governors will take Elon’s words to heart remains to be seen. Only 30 of them bothered to attend. Many Republicans stayed home so they could focus on challenging issues like how to discriminate against Muslims, slash Medicare rolls, promote more fracking on public lands, and prevent transgender people from using public bathrooms. When you are in government, it is important to keep your priorities straight.”

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NYPD worker robbed Manhattan bank by claiming to have homemade bomb:

Wednesday, July 19, 2017, 8:14 PM

The suspect is a custodial assistant for the NYPD and was arrested Tuesday on charges of robbing a bank.
Cops busted an NYPD employee who held up a Greenwich Village bank and threatened the teller with a homemade bomb, officials said Wednesday.

Calissa Alston, 27, a custodial assistant at the NYPD's Military and Extended Leave Desk, was arrested Tuesday afternoon.

Alston walked into a Chase bank branch on Sixth Ave. near W. 4th St. on July 12 and handed the bank teller a note demanding cash, police said.

The note read, "I have a homemade bomb, pass me your loose $50s and $100s. Hurry the f--- up."

Bank robbers, ages 71 and 60, busted after Manhattan heist
The frightened teller handed over the $1,100 and hit the silent alarm once Alston bolted, authorities said.

Detectives originally believed Alston, who spoke in a deep voice, was a man dressed in women’s clothing.

Alston was on a leave of absence from the NYPD when she was arrested Tuesday, although it is unclear why.

The Staten Islander was suspended from the department as a result of her arrest, cops said.

Alston is charged with robbery. She was also arrested in April for trying to cash a check of an NYPD colleague. She was charged with petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property



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Graphic body cam footage shows police officer shooting 2 dogs

MINNEAPOLIS -- Body camera video released Thursday shows how two dogs approached a Minneapolis police officer before they were shot and seriously wounded in their fenced-in backyard earlier this month, CBS Minnesota reports.

The officer was responding to a false security alarm on July 8 when he shot the dogs, according to the police report. One suffered a bullet wound to the jaw, and the other was hit multiple times in its body. Both dogs survived but will require extensive treatment.

In the body camera footage, the first dog can be seen approaching the officer, identified as Michael Mays, slowly with its tail wagging. After the officer shoots the animal in the face, the other dog dashes toward the officer and is hit by gunfire.

"I dispatched both of them," the officer reports immediately after the shooting. Video then shows Mays climb the backyard fence, walk around the house and speak to the teenage resident who tripped the alarm.

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Body camera footage showing a police officer shooting two dogs in Minneapolis. MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT / CBS MINNESOTA
He apologizes to the sobbing teenager for shooting the dogs, saying, "I don't like shooting dogs, I love dogs."

In a report filed the night of the shooting, Mays said that the dogs, which he described as pit bulls, charged at him.

The police union defended Mays, saying the first pit bull growled at him before approaching.

However, the body camera footage cannot verify this, as no sound was recorded until after shots were fired.

The body camera footage was released Thursday afternoon by Michael Padden, the attorney for the dogs' owner, Jennifer LeMay, who says the animals are service dogs for her children. At a news conference, Padden wanted to know why the audio on Mays' body camera wasn't turned on as the officer approached the house.

The day after the shooting happened, LeMay posted surveillance video taken by a backyard camera to Facebook, where it went viral, garnering hundreds of thousands of views. The video clearly shows Mays shooting both dogs and climbing over the fence.

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A Facebook image of one of Jennifer LeMay's dogs. CBS MINNESOTA / JENNIFER LEMAY / FACEBOOK
Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau described the surveillance video as "difficult to watch." She called for an Internal Affairs use of force review of the incident and said that officer training courses on dealing with dogs will be updated.

So far, the department has yet to comment on Mays' actions.

The wounded dogs required thousands of dollars in veterinary treatment. A GoFundMe page to raise money for medical expenses has received nearly $40,000.

Harteau also said that the police department will help pay for treatment expenses.

The dog shooting is the second Minneapolis police incident this month involving questions of police and body cameras.

Over the weekend, Justine Damond, an Australian yoga teacher reporting a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home, was fatally shot by a responding officer.

While both officers on the scene were wearing body cameras, neither was turned on when the fatal shot was fired. The shooting remains under investigation.

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How FBI Director Comey got Trump elected

1. Two days before election Comey says Hilary Clinton
under FBI investigation ( this is called FBI misdirection)

2. Trump gets enough votes to win by Electoral College
( this is called Voter Fraud)

3. We brought Leonard Gates to speak at Bates College
in 1995.
He was committing Voter Fraud for the FBI in the 1980’s.
FBI agents were hacking rhe electronic voting machines
in Cincinnati.

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5. FROM THE votefraud.org ARCHIVES
Election Wire-tap Alleged
Cincinnati Bell Denies Charges
The following paragraphs are excerpts from an article in the Cincinnati Post right before the November, 1987 Cincinnati Council Election. – Jim Condit Jr.

by Randy Ludlow
Post staff reporter
Cincinnati Bell security supervisors ordered wire taps installed on county computers before elections in the late 1970s and early 1980s that could have allowed vote totals to be altered, a former Bell employee says in a sworn court documents

Leonard Gates, a 23-year Cincinnati Bell employee until he was fired in 1986, claims in a deposition filed Thursday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court to have installed the wire taps.

Cincinnati Bell officials denied Gates’ allegations tha are part of a six-year-old civil suit that contends the elections computer is subject to manipulation and fraud.

Gates claims a security supervisor for the telephone company told him in 1979 that the firm had obtained a computer program through the FBI that gave it access to the county computer used to count votes.

The deposition does not say if vote totals ever were changed. Gates claimed to have installed wire taps on county computers befoore the elections in 1977 through 1981 and believes, but wasn’t certain, in 1982 and 1983.

Gates’ allegations also have taken on political overtones. He appeared in a television commercial that aired twice Thursday on WKRC-Channel 12 for Jim Condit Jr., a Cincinnatus Party candidate for Cincinnati City Council.

The commercial also features former Bell employee Robert Draise, who was convicted of tapping a Hamilton, Ohio woman’s home and fired for it and who claims he wire-tapped the homes of multi-millionaire and anti-pornography crusader Charles Keating and former Hamilton County Commissioner Allen Paul.

Gates’ deposition claims he told the FBI, the U.S. Attorney’s ofice in Cincinnati and U.S. Rep. William Gradison, R-Cincinnati, about the alleged wire taps.

Gradison confirmed he met with Gates about two years ago and helped him contact the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Post also learned the FBI’s internal investigation arm – the Office of Professional Responsibility – is considering granting Gates immunity from prosectuion in exchange for his testimony. Local FBI officials declined comment.

U.S. Attorney D. Michael Crites declined comment Thursday on whether Gates’ allegations are under investigation, but said if the claims are true, federal wire-tapping laws may have been violated.

Cincinnati Bell spokesman Chuck Shawver said: “We categorically deny any wrongdoing by Cincinnati Bell. This is a disgruntled ex-employee making allegations which have been checked and found to have no foundation.” He declined further comment. Bell also denies Draise’s allegations, he said.

Neither Paul nor Keating, whose homes were allegedly tapped, could be reached for comment.

Gates, 44, of Anderson Township, was fired by Cincinnati Bell on May 15, 1986. He sued in U.S. District Court to get his job back and recover $350,000. That result is pending.

Gates’ deposition is part of a lawsuit filed in 1981 by attorney James Condit Sr. on behalf of a Cincinnatus candidate for council who claimed election results could be manipulated. Condit’s son, James Jr., is running the TV commercials featuring Gates and Draise.

Assistant Hamilton County Prosecutor James Harper, representing the county, and Condit Sr. were at the deposition. Common Pleas Court Judge Richard Niehaus ordered the deposition for use as evidence if an appeals court overturns his dismissal 1981 lawsuit.

Harper, who represents the elections board, did not question Gates during the deposition and said he wanted to discuss the allegations with Prosecutor Arthur M. Ney Jr.

Condit Sr. said the political use of Gates’ allegations was peripheral. “Gates’ deposition had to be filed prior to Nov. 13, when the Ohio First District Court of Appeals may rule on the appeal of the lawsuit”, he said.

Cincinnatus candidate Condit Jr., whose party believes elections are subject to fraud due to the use of computers, said he used the commercial to allow Gates and Draise to express their grievances because they have been trying to make their stories known for two years. The commercials will only air three times.

In the deposition, Gates claims he first installed a wire tap on a telephone line to the county computers before the 1977 election at the instruction of James West, a Bell security supervisor.

Gates contends both West and Peter Gabor, security director, told him to install wire taps in subsequent elections. Both men declined comment Thursday.

In 1979 – the election which is the focus of the deposition – Gates said he received instructions in the mail from West about installing wire taps on county computers in the County Administration Building at Court and Main streets.

The wire taps were installed on the eve of the election at Cincinnati Bell’s switching control center at Seventh and Elm Streets and terminated in a conference room in the building, Gates alleges.

In the deposition, Gates described in great technical detail installation of the wire taps.

About 8:30 p.m. on election day – Nov. 6, 1979 – Gates said he was called by West and told something had gone wrong causing the elections computer to malfunction. At West’s instructions, Gates said he removed the taps.

The elections computer shut down for two hours on election evening due to what was believed to be a power failure, Condit Sr. has said.

Gates said West told him they “had the ability to actually alter what was being done with the votes.”

Gates said West told him the Board of Elections did not know about the taps and that the computer program for the eletions computer “was obtained out of California, and that the programming had been obtained through the FBI … ”

Shortly after the 1979 election, Gates said he met with the late Richad Dugan, former Cincinnati Bell president, to express his concerns that the wire taps were done without a court order.

“Mr. Dugan said it was a very gray area . . . This was just small compared to what was going on. He told me just, if I had a problem, to talk to him and everything would be okay, but everything was under control,” Gates
John Conditt was head of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility
when it allegedly investigated voter fraud in Cincinnati.

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FBI internal affairs chief pleads guilty
WASHINGTON (— The former chief internal watchdog at the FBI has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and has admitted he had a history of molesting other children before he joined the bureau for a two-decade career.
John H. Conditt Jr., 53, who retired in 2001, was sentenced last Friday to 12 years in prison in Tarrant County court in Fort Worth, after he admitted he molested the daughter of two FBI agents after he retired. He acknowledged molesting at least two other girls before his law enforcement career, his lawyer said.

Conditt sought treatment for sex offenders after his arrest last year, said his attorney, Toby Goldsmith.



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Months into Donald Trump's presidency, it is clear the administration has worked diligently to downplay the role of science in setting policy on energy.

Some moves to diminish scientists' roles have been more evident than others, but a new report details what has gone on behind the scenes.

In summary, scientists have been restricted, sidelined, and limited—and many now believe a "hostile environment" to factual analysis has become the norm.

DON'T MISS: Trump names proud climate-science denier to head EPA transition team

The report, produced by the Union of Concerned Scientists, was described by The Washington Post after Joel Clement, an outspoken scientist at the U.S. Department of Interior, was reassigned from the position he held before Trump took office.

Clement went from managing 25 employees as Director of Policy Analysis to a minor role in accounting.

The scientist—who clarified that "I am not an accountant"—believes the reassignment shows one way the current government works to sideline input on policy from the scientific community.



His reassignment came after he raised alarms over the dangers posed to Alaska Native communities by climate change. He is one of fully 50 scientists at senior levels who was reassigned.

The Union of Concerned Scientists report highlighted four points that it says have already helped to “diminish the role of science in our democracy.”

Federal advisory committees have been weakened, the use of terms such as "climate change" has been banned or restricted, “science-based safeguards” have been revoked, and a managerial culture of fear and intimidation has ensued.

READ THIS: U.S. to pull out of Paris climate-change agreement under Trump

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Rashan Charles family calls for calm as vigil is held at east London police station
Gathering in Stoke Newington follows night of violence sparked by deaths of Charles and Edson Da Costa after they were arrested by police



Saturday 29 July 2017 11.54 EDT First published on Saturday 29 July 2017 09.50 EDT

The parents of two black men who died after being apprehended by the police have vowed to pursue justice for their sons amid growing calls for the officers involved to be disciplined

More than 100 people gathered outside Stoke Newington police station in east London on Saturday afternoon to show their anger towards the Metropolitan police.

Rashan Charles, 20, died last weekend after being restrained by officers in nearby Dalston, while Edson Da Costa, 25, from East Ham, died after contact with the police five weeks earlier.

The fathers of the men, Esa Charles and Ginario Da Costa, addressed the vigil promising to “continue to fight for justice” not only for their two sons but for all those who have died in police custody.

Charles also made a fresh plea for “peace on the streets” following outbreaks of violent disorder in Hackney on Friday night.


Protesters block Dalston road over Rashan Charles death
Da Costa told the Charles family they “know what they are going through”, adding: “My son also suffered at the hands of the police and, like Rashan, is no longer with us today.”



The emergence of video footage of Charles being violently restrained on the floor of a shop in Dalston, and claims that Da Costa became unconscious while in police custody, have prompted many to ask why no officers have been arrested or suspended.





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Activists marking 100th anniversary of NAACP's silent parade see scary parallels
Organizer says unlike 1917 march against Woodrow Wilson’s civil rights failures, this had no demands but adds: ‘I don’t know that we’re in such a different space’





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International police condemn President Trump’s MS-13 speech pushing use of force on gang suspects


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D.C. police officer gets desk duty for wearing 'racist' shirt to court



Saturday, July 29, 2017, 2:55 PM


The allegedly racist T-shirt shows the Grim Reaper holding a rifle under a District of Columbia flag and the word "Powershift" with a cross embedded in the letter "o."
The allegedly racist T-shirt shows the Grim Reaper holding a rifle under a District of Columbia flag and the word "Powershift" with a cross embedded in the letter "o." (COURTESY LAW 4 BLACK LIVES DC)
WASHINGTON — A Washington police officer is under investigation for wearing a T-shirt to court that an advocacy group says has a racist symbol and offensive images.

Local media report the unidentified officer was assigned to desk duty Friday and ordered to have no contact with the public, pending an investigation. Police Chief Peter Newsham called the T-shirt "disgraceful."

The black shirt shows the Grim Reaper holding a rifle under a District of Columbia flag. Above the image is the word "Powershift" with a cross embedded in the letter "o."

That image is a "sun cross," which advocacy groups say white supremacist groups use in their logos and imagery.

The group Law 4 Black Lives DC has filed a complaint against the officer and posted an online petition demanding his firing.





http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/153556505? ... =167349422

Title
Hale Boggs on J. Edgar Hoover : Rhetorical Choice and Political Denunciation /​ Dirk Gibson.
Author
Gibson, Dirk.
Published
[Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1981.
Medium
[microform]
Physical Description
20 p.
Subjects
Discourse Analysis.
Persuasive Discourse.
Rhetoric.
Speech Communication.
Speeches.
Boggs (Hale) Hoover (J Edgar)
Federal Bureau of Investigation House of Representatives Senate
Summary
This paper examines United States Representative Hale Boggs's 1971 speech on the House floor, in which he denounced J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for wiretapping members of Congress and infiltrating campus student groups. Following an introduction to the objectives of the paper, the first section reviews Boggs's academic and political career, giving some insight into his personality. The second part discusses the nature of Boggs's 1971 speech and the accuracy of the charges he leveled against Hoover and the FBI. The third part of the paper examines Boggs's motives for denouncing Hoover, speculating as to whether he personally had become a victim of the FBI surveillance that he had denounced and elaborating on Boggs's feelings toward Hoover. In the fourth part, the paper describes the reactions of the House and Senate and of Mr. Hoover to Boggs's allegations. The paper concludes that the object of Boggs's speech was to stir Congress to investigate the FBI in protection of the Bill of Rights, and that the brief but intense rhetoric of his speech was successful. (HTH)
Notes
ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association (31st, Minneapolis, MN, May 21-25, 1981). Parts of report are marginally legible.
Microfiche. [Washington D.C.] : ERIC Clearinghouse. microfiches : positive.
Language
English
Libraries Australia ID
47304094
Contributed by
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SATURDAY, JULY 02, 2011

Dr. Nick Begich Talks About The FBI's Involvement In The Murders Of His Father Congressman Nick Begich & Congressman Hale Boggs


FBI Fabrication Of Telexes Used To Contradict Earlier Telexes Obtained By Role Call Magazine Which Prove The FBI Knew The Whereabouts Of Congressman Hale Boggs Downed Aircraft
Editor's Note:

The Website also contains a "new" statement from Cokie Roberts, the youngest daughter of Congressman Hale Boggs, claiming that Boggs was not unhappy with the Warren Commission Report, and that he did not believe that there was a conspiracy within the U.S. federal government in which to murder John F. Kennedy.

Cokie Roberts' statement is a blatant lie. The released White House tapes contain a recording between Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford describing how Boggs had openly criticized the FBI while speaking on the floor of the U.S. House of Re



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Australia to Build One of World’s Longest EV Highways



Published: July 30th, 2017
Queensland will have a 1,200 mile (2,000 km) network of electric vehicle charging stations that make up one of the world’s longest electric vehicle highways within six months.

The state government announced on Thursday it would build an 18-station network stretching along Queensland’s east coast from Cairns to Coolangatta and west to Toowoomba.

The stations, which recharge a vehicle in 30 minutes, will offer free power for at least a year in what the environment minister, Steven Miles, said was a bid to boost the number of electric cars on Queensland roads, currently about 700.

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New Study Finds that Present CO2 Levels are Capable of Melting Large Portions of East and West Antarctica
If you’re a regular reader of this blog and its comments section, you’re probably more than a little worried about two bits of climate science in particular:

Our understanding of past climates (paleoclimate) and 5-6 C long term climate sensitivity.

And if you’re a frequent returner, you’ve probably figured out by now that the two go hand in glove.

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Looking back to a period of time called the Pliocene climate epoch of 2.6 to 5.3 million years ago, we find that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were somewhat lower than they are at present — ranging from 390 to 400 parts per million. We also find that global temperatures were between 2 to 3 degrees Celsius warmer than 1880s ranges, that glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland were significantly reduced, and that sea levels were about 25 meters (82 feet) higher than they are today.



(The Totten Glacier is one of many Antarctic land ice systems that are under threat of melt due to human-forced warming. A new paleoclimate study has recently found that levels of atmospheric greenhouse gasses that are below those presently in our atmosphere caused substantial Antarctic melt 4.23 million years ago. Image source: antarctica.gov.)

Given that atmospheric CO2 levels during 2017 will average around 407 parts per million, given that these levels are above those when sea levels were considerably higher than today, and given that these levels of heat trapping gasses are rapidly rising due to continued fossil fuel burning, both the present level of greenhouse gasses in the Earth’s atmosphere and our understanding of past climates should give us substantial cause for concern.

This past week, even more fuel was thrown onto the fire as a paleoclimate-based model study led by Nick Golledge has found that under 400 parts per million CO2 heat forcing during the Pliocene, substantial portions of Antarctica melted over a rather brief period of decades and centuries.


Notably, the model found that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed in just 100-300 years under the steady 400 ppm CO2 forcing at 4.23 million years ago. In addition, the Wilkes Basin section of Antarctica collapsed within 1-2000 years under a similar heat forcing. In total, the study found that Antarctica contributed to 8.6 meters of sea level rise at the time due to the loss of these large formations of land ice.

From the study:

We conclude that the Antarctic ice sheet contributed 8.6 ± 2.8 m to global sea level at this time, under an atmospheric CO2concentration identical to present (400 ppm). Warmer-than-present ocean temperatures led to the collapse of West Antarctica over centuries, whereas higher air temperatures initiated surface melting in parts of East Antarctica that over one to two millennia led to lowering of the ice-sheet surface, flotation of grounded margins in some areas, and retreat of the ice sheet into the Wilkes Subglacial Basin. The results show that regional variations in climate, ice-sheet geometry, and topography produce long-term sea-level contributions that are non-linear with respect to the applied forcings, and which under certain conditions exhibit threshold behaviour associated with behavioural tipping points (emphasis added).

This study began the publication process in 2016 when year-end atmospheric CO2 averages hit around 405 parts per million. By end 2017, those averages will be in the range of 407 parts per million. Even more worrying is the fact that CO2 equivalent forcing from all the various greenhouse gasses that fossil fuel burning and related industrial activity has pumped into the atmosphere (methane, nitrogen oxides, CFCs and others) will, by end 2017 hit around 492 ppm.

As a result, though conditions in Antarctica are presently cooler than during 4.23 million years ago, the considerably higher atmospheric greenhouse gas loading implies that there’s quite a lot more warming in store for both Antarctica and the rest of the world. A warming that, even if atmospheric greenhouse gasses remain at present highly elevated levels and do not continue to rise, could bring about a substantially more significant and rapid melt than during the Pliocene.

Links:

Antarctic Climate and Ice Sheet Configuration During Early Pliocene Interglacial at 4.23 Ma

NOAA ESRL CO2 Trends

NOAA’s Greenhouse Gas Index

East Antarctic Ice Sheet More Vulnerable to Melting than We Thought

Pliocene Climate

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Liz MacKean, the former British investigative reporter who exposed Jimmy Savile and the culture of pedophile protection at the BBC, has been found dead. She was 52. MacKean worked at the BBC until she quit in 2013 after executives decided to ban her groundbreaking and brave investigation into predatory pedophile Jimmy Savile in order to protect him and other pedophiles. SOURCE: COUNTER CURRENT NEWS

Liz MacKean is the second high profile BBC journalist to die in suspicious circumstances after attempting to expose the truth about the pedophile ring operating in the upper reaches of the establishment. Jill Dando, former Crimewatch host, also tried to alert her bosses to the pedophile ring at the BBC, warning that “big name” stars were implicated.

Jill Dando, who was 37, was shot dead on April 26, 1999 on the doorstep of her West London home in a crime that still remains unsolved.

Before she died, Dando had passed a file to senior management in the mid-1990s, proving that big name BBC stars, including Savile, were involved in a pedophile ring, but senior management chose to cover up the child abuse rather than organize and investigation.

“No one wanted to know” when Dando raised concerns about the alleged ring and other sexual abuse claims at the BBC, according to a former colleague and friend.



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Fake evidence used in the Oklahoma Bombing Aug
21 2017



How official “science” is deployed to advance a political agenda

The public wants to buy every official scientific claim the mainstream press pounds into their brains—whether the issue is vaccine safety, global warming, the “overwhelming success” of medical drugs, the Big Bang theory of the universe’s origin…

The notion that a political agenda underlies such scientific pronouncements is unthinkable.

So as an example, a very specific example of fake science, let’s look back at the attack on Oklahoma City.

On April 19, 1995, one-third of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City blew up, killing 169 people and wounding 680 others.

Three men were arrested and convicted: Tim McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and Michael Fortier. McVeigh was put to death on June 11, 2001, Nichols is currently serving multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole, and Fortier was sentenced to 12 years (he served that term and was released).

The official narrative of the bombing stated: A Ryder truck parked at the curb outside the Murrah Building contained barrels of ammonium nitrate plus fuel oil (ANFO bombs), and their coordinated explosion occurred shortly after 9AM on the morning of April 19th.

In addition to the deaths and the woundings, the explosion impacted 324 buildings and 86 cars in the area.

(In my 1995, book, “The Oklahoma City Bombing, the Suppressed Truth,” I laid to rest the claim that ANFO bombs could have caused that much damage; and more importantly, I showed that an explosion coming out of a Ryder truck at the curb could not have caused the particular profile of damage sustained by the Murrah Building.)

The vaunted FBI lab decided that, indeed, all the damage and death HAD been caused by ANFO bombs in the Ryder truck.

But wait.

Buckle up.

Two years after the bombing, on March 22, 1997, we had this from CNN: “The Justice Department inspector general’s office has determined that the FBI crime laboratory working on the Oklahoma City bombing case made ‘scientifically unsound’ conclusions that were ‘biased in favor of the prosecution,’ The Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.”

“…[FBI] supervisors approved lab reports that they ‘cannot support’ and…FBI lab officials may have erred about the size of the blast, the amount of explosives involved and the type of explosives used in the bombing[!].”

“…harshest criticism was of David Williams, a supervisory agent in the [FBI] explosives unit, the paper [LA Times] said. Those flaws reportedly include the basis of his determination that the main charge of the explosion was ammonium nitrate. The inspector general called such a determination ‘inappropriate,’ the Times said.”

“…FBI officials found a receipt for ammonium nitrate at defendant [Terry] Nichols’ home and, because of that discovery, Williams slanted his conclusion to match the evidence.”

And with those revelations, the case, the investigation, the court trials, and press probes should have taken a whole new direction. But they didn’t.

The fake science was allowed to stand.

Therefore, other paths of investigation were abandoned. If bombs did, in fact, explode in the Ryder truck, but didn’t cause the major damage, then those bombs were a cover for other explosions of separate origin—for example, charges wired inside the columns of the Murrah Building, triggered at the exact moment the Ryder Truck explosion occurred.

Now we would be talking about a very sophisticated operation, far beyond the technical skills of McVeigh, Nichols, and Fortier.

Who knows where an honest in-depth investigation would have led? The whole idea of anti-government militia terrorism in the OKC attack—symbolized by McVeigh—was used by President Bill Clinton to bring the frightened public “back to the federal government” as their ultimate protector and savior.

Instead, the public might have been treated to a true story about a false flag operation, in which case President Clinton’s massaged message would never have been delivered.

But the fake crooked science pushed by the FBI lab was permitted to stand—despite exposure as fraud—and the story of militia terrorists trying to bring down the federal government was allowed to stand as well.

The year 1995 was rife with anti-government sentiment in America. This wasn’t merely a bunch of militias talking about insurrection. This was widespread dissatisfaction, on the part of many Americans, who were seeing federal power expand beyond any semblance of constitutionality.

As an object lesson, the Oklahoma Bombing was: “You see what happens when crazy people are allowed to own guns and oppose the government? Stop listening to anti-government rhetoric. It’s horribly dangerous. We, the government, are here to protect you. Come home to us. Have faith in us. We’ll punish the offenders. We’ll make America safe again. Let’s all come together and oppose these maniacs who want to destroy our way of life…”

The lesson worked.

Many scared Americans signed on to Clinton’s agenda.

And fake FBI science was used to bolster that agenda.

Even when exposed as fake by mainstream press outlets—however briefly, with no determined follow-up—the federal brainwashing held. The myth was stronger than reality.

If the federal government can egregiously lie about an event as huge as the Oklahoma Bombing, using fake science as a cover—what wouldn’t they lie about?

That’s a question which answers itself.






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Fracking Giant Sues PA Resident For $5M For Speaking To Media About Contamination
“Take a skunk and every household chemical, put it in a blender, puree it for five minutes and take a whiff. It burns the back of your throat, makes you gag, makes you want to puke. It’s all still bad. That’s why [the inspectors are] back up here.” — Dimock, Pa. resident Ray Kemble.





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South Miami’s Solar Mandate Sets Example for Other Coastal Cities Facing Existential Threat From Sea Level Rise
Back in July, South Miami decided to require that all new homes built within city limits place solar panels on their roofs. The decision was made in an attempt to help slake the warming related impacts of sea level rise on the city by working to reduce carbon emissions.

South Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard recently noted:

“We’re down in South Florida where climate change and sea level rise are existential threats, so we’re looking for every opportunity to promote renewable energy. It’s carbon reduction, plain and simple. We have a pledge for carbon neutrality. We support the Paris Climate Agreement.”

South Miami joins six California cities now also providing rooftop solar mandates. These include San Francisco, Culver City, Santa Monica, San Mateo, Lancaster, and Sebastapol.


(How quickly greenhouse gas emissions are reduced has a considerable impact on the level of harm caused by future sea level rise. South Miami gets it. But what about the rest of the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts?)

With threats from rising oceans to coastal cities worsening, Miami’s decision is one that resonates with the interests of thousands of communities around the world. Nuisance flooding and increased instances of tidal flooding are on the rise pretty much everywhere. Meanwhile, some cities and island nations are in the process of being wiped off the map entirely as the pace of sea level rise quickens globally.

Coastal cities now have a vested interest in reducing carbon emissions as swiftly as possible. And Miami, like a number of cities in California, recognize that smart policy moves by municipalities can help to speed an energy transition away from the fossil fuels that now account for the vast majority of global carbon emissions.

Links:

South Miami Just Made a Huge Solar Rooftop Decision

South Miami is Going Solar

The Present Threat to Coastal Cities From Antarctic and Greenland Melt

Alaska Towns at Risk From Rising Seas Sound Alarm as Trump Pulls Federal Help




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Missouri set to execute man despite claims DNA proves innocence
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, August 22, 2017, 2:10 PM



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What is Police Misconduct?
Police misconduct encompasses illegal or unethical actions or the violation of individuals’ constitutional rights by police officers in the conduct of their duties. Examples of police misconduct include police brutality, dishonesty, fraud, coercion, torture to force confessions, abuse of authority, and sexual assault, including the demand for sexual favors in exchange for leniency. Any of these actions can increase the likelihood of a wrongful conviction.
Police misconduct statistics gathered by the Cato Institute’s National Police Misconduct Reporting Project confirm that around 1% of all police officers commit misconduct in a given year and that the consequences of such misconduct are grim. Keith Findley from the Wisconsin Innocence Project conducted a study and found that police misconduct was a factor in as many as 50% of wrongful convictions involving DNA evidence.
At times, police misconduct is systematic. In one such case, Former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge was arrested on federal obstruction of justice and perjury charges for allegedly lying about whether he and other officers under his command participated in torture and physical abuse of suspects in police custody dating back to the 1980s. On more than one occasion, Burge participated in the torture and physical abuse of persons in police custody in order to obtain confessions and Burge was aware that detectives he supervised engaged in torture and physical abuse of people in police custody. On one specific occasion, in order to coerce a confession, the police officers placed a plastic bag over the suspect’s head until he lost consciousness. He was fired from the police department in 1993 and was later convicted in federal court for perjury connected to a civil lawsuit flied against the city.
Four of Burge’s victims of torture, who were on death row because of their coerced confessions, were granted innocence pardons by the governor after Burge’s police misconduct was brought to light. In all, there were 14 documented cases where death sentences were based on confessions involving allegations of torture.
In most misconduct cases, the misconduct is more subtle than torture. Often times police simply push the envelope in order to obtain a witness statement. In the case of Timothy Atkins, Atkins was convicted after a witness, Denise Powell, testified that Atkins had confessed to the crime. After Atkins was incarcerated for more than two decades, the California Innocence Project presented evidence that Powell was pressured by police to testify. When reversing Atkins’ conviction, the judge held that the officers who interviewed Powell threatened her with jail if she did not provide information about the case.
Like prosecutors, police officers are tasked with making our society safe. Sometimes their zeal leads them to cross the line and use the power of their badges to make a case that otherwise would not be triable. Especially when a brutal and senseless crime occurs, the zeal to see justice done can actually lead to great injustice. Other officers are often reluctant to report misconduct because of the loyalty they feel for their fellow officers. The proliferation of cell phone cameras have allowed citizens to record and report police misconduct. Although, in the past, most misconduct stories were assumed to be false, now, a quick search on Youtube.com results in hundreds of videos exposing incidents of police misconduct. One example of a compilation of news and amateur video about the problems inherent in this system is BrasscheckTV’s Youtube page.
Even now, however, actually making a report of police misconduct can be a challenge for the average citizen, largely because when reporting police misconduct a person has to make the report to the agency being complained about. In many cities, a citizen’s review board will review complaints against police officers. Reforms and close monitoring are required to ensure that police misconduct is discovered quickly and that innocent persons are not falsely accused.
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Magneto-Thermal Genetic Deep Brain Stimulation of Motor Behaviors in Awake, Freely Moving Mice

August 21st, 2017
Via: eLIFE:
Establishing how neurocircuit activation causes particular behaviors requires modulating the activity of specific neurons. Here, we demonstrate that magnetothermal genetic stimulation provides tetherless deep brain activation sufficient to evoke motor behavior in awake mice. The approach uses alternating magnetic fields to heat superparamagnetic nanoparticles on the neuronal membrane. Neurons heat-sensitized by expressing TRPV1 are activated with magnetic field application. Magnetothermal genetic stimulation in the motor cortex evoked ambulation, deep brain stimulation in the striatum caused rotation around the body-axis, and stimulation near the ridge between ventral and dorsal striatum caused freezing-of-gait. The duration of the behavior correlated tightly with field application. This approach provides genetically and spatially targetable, repeatable and temporarily precise activation of deep-brain circuits without need for surgical implantation of any device.


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Mother of Harlem man fatally shot by NYPD says federal prosecutors will not pursue case against cops
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Los Angeles investigators probing death of male escort at home of prominent Democratic donor
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Book review: Protectors of Privilege: Red Squads and Police Repression in Urban America. By Frank Donner.
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9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
        
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Greetings all,

This month's teleconference features offerings from three of our frequent participants:


To start us off. Wayne Coste shares his latest research on the C-ring "exit hole" in the Pentagon wall.  This will be our first experiment in "online meetings,"  which allow anyone who browses over to our teleconference url to view the slides in question as they are referenced by the presenter. This should simplify things for those with internet access during the call, assuming all goes well...To participate in the live presentation at the online meeting, browse to this url: https://join.freeconferencecall.com/9-1 ... .Otherwise, the pdf version is available here for advance download.

We'll briefly consider and make a decision on a teleconference guideline proposed by Ken Freeland and Craig McKee.

Then, Craig addresses the Google censorship flap.  He'll recount the recent changes to Google's algorithm that have significantly reduced traffic to his web site, Truth and Shadows, as well as to other alternative sites. These changes are supposedly based on an attempt to fight "fake news," but actually only serve to censor alternative voices. We'll explore alternatives to Google's eponymous search engine for those desiring to move away from the company whose slogan is, ironically, "do no evil."

Last, but never least, James Hufferd treats us to another of his always edifying book reviews.  The subject this time is The Myth of September 11, The Satanic Verses of Western Democracy, by Roberto Quaglia. With a title like this, we're assured of a scintillating report!


See you Wednesday night for these latest currents in the Truth movement!


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DRAFT AGENDA for Wednesday 30 August Teleconference

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II The Pentagon C-ring Exit Hole [Wayne Coste, PE] (20 min +Q&A)
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III Proposed Teleconference guideline:  "No individual participant may present on the same general subject more than twice in one calendar year without advance approval of the Teleconference." [Ken Freeland, Craig McKee] (10 minutes)

IV Google's Censorship [Craig McKee and/or Ken Freeland] (15 min + Q&A)

V Review of The Myth of September 11, The Satanic Verses of Western Democracy, by Roberto Quaglia [James Hufferd, PhD] (20-25 min, including Q&A/discusion)

VI  Announcements

VII 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
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Colorado law enforcement discuss police departments use of surplus military gear

An enormous, black armored truck set on waist-high wheels towers over a host of other vehicles in the back parking lot at the Greeley Police Department. Most of the time, it remains parked at the station, but sometimes — such as during SWAT standoffs — officers take the mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle to the city’s streets.

The Greeley Police Department acquired the vehicle — and a host of other equipment — through the federal government’s 1033 program. The program allows local law enforcement agencies to receive equipment the military is no longer using. On Monday, President Donald Trump lifted restrictions placed on the program in 2015, meaning local law enforcement will have more access to surplus military gear.

The vehicle, which the department acquired a few years ago and which was designed to shrug off IED explosions in the Iraq War, is a striking example of the program, but police departments, through a grant program that gives the equipment away for free, receive everything from guns to generators to night vision goggles from the military. Greeley Police Chief Jerry Garner said his department has even received a minesweeper, which Greeley officers use to find shell casings at crime scenes.




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THE UNLIKELY JIHADI
The FBI Pressured a Lonely Young Man Into a Bomb Plot. He Tried to Back Out. Now He’s Serving Life in
Trevor Aaronson
September 3 2017, 9:05 a.m.
Trial and TerrorTrial and Terror
Part 6
The U.S. government has prosecuted more than 800 people for terrorism since the 9/11 attacks. Most of them never committed an act of violence.

Trial and TerrorTrial and Terror
Part 6
The U.S. government has prosecuted more than 800 people for terrorism since the 9/11 attacks. Most of them never committed an act of violence.

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HARLEM SUAREZ WAS an unlikely jihadi.

When he was born in Cuba, Suarez had blue skin. His fragile brain had been deprived of oxygen, a tragedy his family points to in explaining his lifelong social and intellectual challenges. As a child, Suarez also suffered several significant head injuries, including being struck by a brick and falling off motorcycles without a helmet on. His parents brought him to Key West, Florida, in 2004, when he was 12 years old. He struggled in the public education system and dropped out of high school. He then took odd jobs in Key West — stocking store shelves, cleaning up restaurants, working in kitchens. Even after more than a decade in the United States, he spoke English without confidence.

In 2015, seeing reports about the Islamic State on cable news, Suarez became intrigued by the terrorist group, he explained to an FBI informant. He was 23 years old at the time and still living in Key West. He was slender and fit, with tattoos covering his chest, stomach, and arms. He wore his brown hair cropped close to his scalp, and a goatee covered the bottom of his chin.

Suarez began to identify as Muslim and gave himself an Arabic name: Almlak Alaswd, which translates to “dark angel.” He said he wanted to be part of ISIS, but he knew little about the group or its rival organizations. He thought Osama bin Laden had founded ISIS, and he admitted to an FBI informant that he didn’t know what Hamas was or how the group was different from ISIS.

harlem-1504121724 Harlem Suarez’s Facebook page. Screenshot: FacebookSuarez created a Facebook profile and began posting ISIS propaganda and videos. He seemed to be searching for ISIS members in his ignorant attempt to become one. Facebook had already taken down four of Suarez’s previous profiles for improper content; each time, Suarez just created a new one and continued to post ISIS material. His online activity attracted the FBI’s attention, and an agent in Miami asked a rookie informant named Mohammed Skaik to help determine if Suarez might be a threat.
A U.S. military officer in the inactive reserves, Skaik was born in the Middle East and moved to the U.S. at age 16. He was fluent in Arabic, his first language, and he spoke English with a flawless American accent. When the FBI recruited Skaik in late 2014, he was a research assistant at a Florida medical school, and he had ambitions to study to be a doctor. The FBI offered what was essentially a part-time gig posing online as a man sympathetic to and interested in ISIS.

Following FBI instructions, Skaik sent Suarez a Facebook friend request. “Hey, brother, can you add me, please?” Skaik wrote. “I have something extremely important to communicate to you.”

Suarez accepted the friend request. On his profile, Suarez said he lived in Miami. Skaik was just north in West Palm Beach, so not knowing that Suarez was actually in Key West, the informant assumed he and Suarez were practically neighbors.

“It’s good to see someone around here that lives nearby me,” Skaik wrote on Facebook. “A word of advice: I’ve been down your alley and got my accounts taken down numerous times. I would be very careful not to post things onto my account relating to my location. Just an advice from a brother to another. I hope to get to know you.”

Suarez replied by sending Skaik his cellphone number, and they began to exchange text messages. Suarez explained that he wasn’t in Miami but was instead “more down,” referring to the Florida Keys to the south.

“I have a car,” Skaik texted. “We can go to the mosque and train together.”

“I was trying to make timers bomb,” Suarez told him.

The message startled Skaik, he later told a jury. He didn’t anticipate that Suarez would so readily disclose his attempts to a build a bomb. Skaik sent a message to his FBI handler, and Suarez quickly became a priority. Within days, Skaik was making the four-hour drive to Key West. He and Suarez first met in the parking lot of Japanese steakhouse chain Benihana. Suarez drove up on a black and white Yamaha moped. He was wearing black sunglasses and a black, long-sleeve, button-down shirt. “How you doing?” Suarez said, greeting Skaik. Still seated on his moped, Suarez gave the informant a hug. “You really are driving a moped,” Skaik said with surprise.

He and Skaik walked to a wooded area near the Key West airport. Once they were in a secluded spot, Suarez opened his bag and showed off his equipment. He had two body armor vests. He had a handgun. “I show you one of these, brother,” he told Skaik, who secretly videotaped the encounter. “I’ve been getting ready, boy. This $#!% cost a lot of money.” He then pulled out an AR-15 assault rifle.

Suarez’s small arsenal seemed to confirm the FBI’s initial concerns. But there were also early indications that Suarez might have been more of an aimless big talker than a violent jihadi. He was not familiar with Dabiq, the ISIS magazine that had become essential reading for wannabe ISIS members, and he wasn’t watching ISIS propaganda videos on the dark web but instead on CNN. When the informant asked him how he communicated with people overseas, suggesting that encrypted methods would be most appropriate, Suarez was stumped and seemed to know nothing about encryption.

“Do you use, like, WhatsApp?” the FBI informant asked.

“Well, I use Facebook,” Suarez replied. “I was trying to use, um, how you call this thing — Tweeter?”

“Twitter,” Skaik corrected.

Suarez admitted that he didn’t have a plan of attack, and he also was under the impression that ISIS members had been flowing into the United States through the U.S.-Mexico border by the hundreds with the help of drug cartels. “We ain’t alone, you know?” he told Skaik with authority. “But it’s, it’s hard to find another of us, like — I don’t know why.”

Suarez’s research skills left a lot to be desired. He told the informant there wasn’t a mosque in Key West. (There was one, about 5 miles from his apartment.) And he seemed to know little about Islam. (“I heard that you cannot, you cannot, um, eat pork, right?” he asked Skaik.)

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DOCUMENT SURFACES SHOWING CIA’S PLANS TO INFILTRATE ACADEMIA & CHANGE UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE CURRICULUMS


SEPTEMBER 3, 2017



There’s no doubt about it: three letter agencies like the NSA, FBI and CIA and the ones we don’t yet know about are full of great people who want nothing but the best for their fellow human beings. People join these agencies because they have good hearts, and want to see the world thrive in a state of peace, equality, abundance and freedom. That being said, the “disastrous rise of misplaced power” to which President Eisenhower referred when referencing the military industrial complex, has taken a hold of these agencies, which now comprise what’s known as the Deep State. The Deep State is a covert network of powerful and influential people who continue to manipulate, lie, and deceive the public for their
Oh, by the way, it’s safe to assume that the Deep State also includes, as mentioned above, the agencies we don’t yet know about. We know this from looking at history: The National Security Agency (NSA) was founded in 1952, its existence was hidden until the mid 1960s; Another great example is the National Reconnaissance Office, which was founded in 1960 but remained completely secret for three decades.

Several presidents and politicians have also referenced this secret government, which doesn’t seem to be so secret anymore. That being said, it’s still important to reference given the fact that the average Joe still might consider the secret government to be a mere conspiracy theory. It’s a shame that anything associated with secrecy seems to garner an instant conspiracy response, especially when secrecy is rampant in our world, with “National Security” constantly being used to justify it.

But times are changing, thanks to efforts by a number of researchers, academics, journalists, whistleblowers and more, and information is rapidly spreading. So much so that internet censorship is on the rise, and platforms like Google and Facebook are now actually censoring information and deciding what is real and fake for the people, instead of letting people decide for themselves. For example, Google had to recently admit that their contractors suppress information, like the info provided by alternative media, not mainstream media.

“The problem of fake news isn’t solved by hoping for a referee, but rather because we as citizens, we as users of these services, help each other. We talk and we share and we point out what is fake. We point out what is true. The answer to bad speech is not censorship, the answer to bad speech is more speech. We have to exercise and spread the idea that critical thinking matters, now more than ever, given the fact that lies seem to be getting more popular.” –Edward Snowden (source)

But still, information is continuously pouring out for those who are sparked by curiosity, and now even more interesting information has emerged in the form of declassified documents, which can now be found in the national archives, or on the agencies own website, whichever agency it is.




Link du jour



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Colorado Springs police arrest DA’s investigator and former deputy, suspected of sexual assault on a child
September 2, 2017 at 8:59 pm
COLORADO SPRINGS — A district attorney’s investigator and former sheriff’s deputy in Colorado has been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a child.

The El Paso County District Attorney’s Office Said Friday 44-year-old Donald Leigh Fair of Colorado Springs faces charges of sexual assault on a child and sexual exploitation of a child.



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Two student suicides in two days, both following social media posts, leave Littleton community seeking answers
Three student suicides this week – two of them in the Littleton School District — have teenagers, parents and school officials searching for answers amid a spike in suicides in Colorado the past two years.






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White Court offices buy Cocaine Black Court Officers get fired?
Queens assemblywoman sues N.Y. for firing her husband, claims they stopped having sex since he lost his job
BY JAMES FANELLI
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, September 4, 2017, 5:00 AM



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Former Pitkin County sheriff’s official arrested for felony assault
By THE ASPEN TIMES
September 3, 2017 at 10:53 pm
The former director of operations at the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office was charged with felony assault last week in Blue Lake after a dispute over an unleashed dog, according to a police report.

Tom Grady, 67, allegedly broke the jaw of the man with the unleashed dog, knocked him unconscious and caused him to receive several stitches above his eye, according to an Eagle County Sheriff’s Office report. Grady said the man and his dog acted aggressively, though the alleged victim denied that and said Grady sucker-punched him when he leaned down to leash his dog.

“(Grady) made the comment multiple times that he was a retired Pitkin County deputy and he knew what aggressive was,” according to the police report, which notes that Grady is 6-feet-6-inches tall and weighs 240 pounds. “He wasn’t going to let a guy come at him first.”






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Closerikers activists approach Mayor de Blasio as he works out at Brooklyn gym. The group vowed to use similar tactics to confront Cuomo
ALBANY — A prison reform group that has hounded Mayor de Blasio to shut down Rikers Island is now setting its sights on Gov. Cuomo.

“We’ve given the governor a pass the last year and a half and allowed him to spend time poking the mayor publicly on the issue of Rikers and suggesting he supports closure,” said Glenn Martin, founder of the Closerikers campaign.

“We think it’s time to hold him to his words.”

Martin says fast-tracking the closure of the massive city jail complex will only happen if Cuomo and state lawmakers help reduce inmate population by passing bail, discovery and speedy trial reforms.

Activists ambush de Blasio at gym to blast Rikers shutdown plan
“While the mayor is the decision maker about closing Rikers, many of the policies that can help shrink the number of people there more quickly reside with the governor and the state Legislature,” Martin said.


To pressure Cuomo, Closerikers will use many of the same tactics it employed against the mayor, including showing up outside fund-raisers and at his house, following him out of state, social media outreach, ads, grass-roots organization, and the targeting of top donors.

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Iraqi doctoral student, relatives arrested while trying to deposit $151G check after selling home
BY MEGAN CERULLO
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, September 12, 2017, 12:26 PM






Link du jour


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http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/s ... go/ri20853

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/09/atti ... r-thompson

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https://www.corbettreport.com/911-a-conspiracy-theory/



Blink Tank

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DaaKQIpCtvo


FBI Octopus

http://www.uhm.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=8804

New Department of Public Safety chief for UH Mānoa
UHM News-
He held supervisory positions within the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for 14 years, overseeing hundreds of employees and managing multimillion-dollar ...

Andrew “Andy” Black has been named chief of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Public Safety. Black brings more than 30 years of public service experience, including four years as a state prosecutor and 27 years as a federal agent. He held supervisory positions within the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for 14 years, overseeing hundreds of employees and managing multimillion-dollar programs. Black also taught graduate level courses in criminal justice at Kaplan University for six years.

“It is a distinct honor to have the opportunity to serve as chief of the Department of Public Safety for the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa,” said Black. “I am proud to be joining the dedicated women and men who protect this outstanding university. I look forward to continuing their tradition of providing a safe educational and welcoming environment for all who come to our campus.”

He began his career as an assistant state’s attorney in Chicago, Illinois, and was recruited to join the Federal Bureau of Investigation after assisting with a special investigation. Upon relocating to San Francisco, Black served as a legal instructor, cyber investigator, training coordinator, spokesperson and press liaison for the FBI. In recognition of his leadership skills, he was promoted to several managerial positions, including supervisory special agent in Washington, D.C., chief of the border corruption/crimes task force in San Diego, and assistant special agent in charge in Tucson. Throughout his career with the FBI, Black has focused on protecting civil liberties and safeguarding public integrity, as well as facilitating the personal and professional development of his employees and colleagues.

Black holds a bachelor’s degree from DePaul University and a juris doctorate from Valparaiso University School of Law in Indiana. He is a licensed member of the Illinois State Bar Association. Throughout his career with the FBI, he has won numerous awards, including the FBI Outstanding Field Supervisor Award (2008) and the Director of the FBI’s High Impact Leadership Award (2015 and 2017).

Said Campus Services Director Deborah Huebler, “We enthusiastically welcome Andy Black to the UH Mānoa Department of Public Safety ’ohana. His impressive legal expertise, communication skills and dedication to public service make him an excellent fit for our unique campus environment. Andy’s outstanding leadership and team building abilities will allow him to guide DPS as it grows and changes in response to the needs of our university community.”



Southampton hires FBI agent to lead public safety department | Newsday
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Aug 16, 2017 - An FBI agent will lead Southampton Town's new public safety and emergency preparedness department as part of efforts to strengthen code enforcement, officials said Monday.Steven.



NM DPS Sec. Weaver Announces Appointment of Stephan Marshall as Director of NM LEA | New Mexico Department of Public Safety
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Apr 29, 2016 - Santa Fe, NM – Today, Department of Public Safety Secretary Scott Weaver announced the appointment of veteran FBI Agent Stephan Marshall as director of the New Mexico Law Enforcement ...




Steven McCraw - Texas State Directory Online
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Nov 20, 2016 - Steven C. McCraw became the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety in. August 2009 and also serves as the ... Patrol and a DPS Narcotics Agent. In 1983, he became an FBI Special Agent




Former FBI agent to head NC public safety agency :: WRAL.com
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Aug 21, 2013 - Gov. Pat McCrory removed the interim tag Wednesday from Frank Perry's title as secretary of the Department of Public Safety.





New Colo. Safety Chief Is Former FBI Agent - Denver7 TheDenverChannel.com
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Feb 18, 2011 - The new director of Colorado's Department of Public Safety is a former FBI agent who's been in leadership positions during national and international events, including being present for the first interview ...



Gregory K. Baker | Professional Profile - LinkedIn
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Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area - ‎President, PCS, LLC; Commissioner at NC Dept. of Public Safety; Special Agent FBI (Retired) - ‎Predictive Consulting Services, LLC
Gregory K. Baker. President, PCS, LLC; Commissioner at NC Dept. of Public Safety; Special Agent FBI (Retired ) ... Gregory K. Baker is the Commissioner of Operations for the North Carolina Department of Public ...



Retired FBI agent considered shoo-in to head Pittsburgh's Department of Public Safety | TribLIVE
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Feb 4, 2016 - Pittsburgh City Council members spent three hours Thursday questioning retired FBI Agent Wendell Hissrich and said later they will confirm him as the city's public safety director next week. Council ..




Gov. Hickenlooper announces resignation of Jim Davis | The Official Site of Governor Hickenlooper - Colorado.gov
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Before joining DPS, Davis was the Special Agent in Charge of the Denver division of the FBI and was responsible for all investigative, intelligence and administrative operations for the FBI in Colorado and Wyoming.



Former FBI agent, Texas Homeland Security director to head DPS - TheRecordLive
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Jul 20, 2009 - Former FBI agent, Texas Homeland Security director to head DPS. The Texas Public Safety Commission has named Steven C. McCraw director of the Department of Public Safety. His appointment will ...



Top FBI Agent Considered For Head of Public Safety | News OK
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Jul 25, 1995 - Gov. Frank Keating wants to name Oklahoma City's top FBI agent, Bob Ricks, to head the state Department of Public Safety in the midst of a criminal probe of its highway patrol operations, The ...




Stephen Bucar Takes Helm Of Revamped Pittsburgh Department of Public Safety | 90.5 WESA
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Jun 10, 2014 - Stephan Bucar was most recently a supervisory special agent section chief in the FBI's Counterterrorism Division, he will now head the city's Department of Public Safety. “We now have a public safety ...



FBI Presstitutes

Branding the FBI as the good guys



See Liam Neeson As Deep Throat, 'The Man Who Brought Down ...
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... House” portrays its subject, played by Liam Neeson, as a conflicted agent. ... known as Deep Throat, Felt couldn't have dreamed of exposing FBI secrets to the ...



David Bowie's 'Twin Peaks' Character Returned with His Permission

However, perhaps the most eyebrow-raising guest spot from the music world was put in by David Bowie who reprised his role as FBI agent Philip Jeffries despite ...




Branding the FBI as the good guys


http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/video/1043416131996

Check out Washington Redskins CB Josh Norman tackle the FBI's Quantico training in this NFL Week 1 feature.






FBI has their own Mocking Bird

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird


Operation Mockingbird
This article is about the alleged CIA program. For an overview of CIA influence on media, see CIA influence on public opinion.
Operation Mockingbird was an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early 1950s and attempted to manipulate news media for propaganda purposes. It funded student and cultural organizations and magazines as front organizations.

According to writer Deborah Davis, Mockingbird recruited leading American journalists into a propaganda network and oversaw the operations of front groups. CIA support of front groups was exposed after a 1967 Ramparts magazine article reported that the National Student Association received funding from the CIA. In the 1970s Congressional investigations and reports also revealed Agency connections with journalists and civic groups. None of these reports, however, mentions an Operation Mockingbird controlling or supporting these activities.

A Project Mockingbird is mentioned in the CIA Family Jewels report, compiled in the mid-70s. According to the declassified version of the report released in 2007, Project Mockingbird involved wire-tapping of two American journalists for several months in the early 1960s.



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RT America Contractor Ordered to Register as a Foreign Agent in USRT
US
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A contractor of the Russian RT broadcaster in the United States received a letter from the US authorities to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) over its work for the broadcaster, the RT press service told RIA Novosti on Monday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The letter was received by the company against the background of discussions on a bill submitted to the House of Representatives of the US Congress to amend requirements for registration of foreign agents under the FARA. The project involves the allocation of additional powers to the US Department of Justice, which includes the FBI, to identify and prosecute organizations that "illegally" try to influence the political processes in the United States.

"The company that supplies all services for RT America channel, including TV production and operations, in the US, has received a letter from the US Department of Justice, claiming that the company is obligated to register under FARA due to the work it does for RT," the press service said.

Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief



RT Editor-in-Chief 'Pleased' With 'Hard-Hitting Questions' to US State Department
"The war of the US establishment against our journalists is devoted to all those starry-eyed who still believe in the freedom of speech. It was killed by those who have invented it," RT and Sputnik Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan said commenting on the issue.
The news comes after the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) questioned former Sputnik employee Andrew Feinberg as part of the investigation of reports that the agency allegedly acted as a Russian propaganda agency in violation of the US Foreign Agents Act (FARA). Commenting on the news, Sputnik and RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said that "freedom of speech is turning in its grave."

The bill was





http://www.jstor.org/stable/1903141?seq ... b_contents

A New Deal for the FBI: The Roosevelt Administration, Crime Control, and National Security

Kenneth O'Reilly
The Journal of American History
Vol. 69, No. 3 (Dec., 1982), pp. 638-658




MSM says


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POLITICS 09/11/2017 12:31 pm

Sputnik, The Russian News Agency, Is Under Investigation By The FBI

Michael Isikoff and Hunter



The FBI recently questioned a former White House correspondent for Sputnik, the Russian-government-funded news agency, as part of an investigation into whether it is acting as an undeclared propaganda arm of the Kremlin in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

As part of the probe, Yahoo News has learned, the bureau has obtained a thumb drive containing thousands of internal Sputnik emails and documents — material that could potentially help prosecutors build a case that the news agency played a role in the Russian government “influence campaign” that was waged during last year’s presidential election and, in the view of U.S. intelligence officials, is still ongoing.

The emails were turned over by Andrew Feinberg, the news agency’s former White House correspondent, who had downloaded the material onto his laptop before he was fired in May. He confirmed to Yahoo News that he was questioned for more than two hours on Sept. 1 by an FBI agent and a Justice Department national security lawyer at the bureau’s Washington field office.

Feinberg said the interview was focused on Sputnik’s “internal structure, editorial processes and funding.”

“They wanted to know where did my orders come from and if I ever got any direction from Moscow,” Feinberg told Yahoo News. “They were interested in examples of how I was steered towards covering certain issues.”

It is not clear whether the agent and prosecutor who questioned Feinberg were acting as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s broader investigation into Russian efforts to disrupt the 2016 election and possible links to the Trump campaign. “We are not confirming whether specific matters are or are not part of our ongoing investigation,” a spokesman for Mueller emailed. A spokesman for the Justice Department declined to comment, and the FBI did not respond to questions.

But the inquiry comes at a time when members of Congress and others have pushed the Justice Department to strengthen its enforcement of the FARA, especially as it relates to the operations in Washington of two Russian news organizations, Sputnik and RT (formerly known as Russia Today).

“This is incredibly significant,” said Asha Rangappa, a former FBI counterintelligence agent and now an associate dean of Yale Law School, about the bureau’s questioning of the former Sputnik reporter. “The FBI has since the 1970s taken pains not to be perceived in any way as infringing on First Amendment activity. But this tells me they have good information and intelligence that these organizations have been acting on behalf of the Kremlin and that there’s a






FBI Director Comey says no more charges will be brought against police once I help Trump becomes President



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No federal charges against officers in black Freddie Gray death: report
BY CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Tuesday, September 12, 2017, 2:24 PM






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The Sociological Quarterly
Volume 34, 1993 -
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Original Articles
Electronic Media and State Control: The Case of Azscam

The significance of mass media formats for social control and public order is illustrated with materials from a “sting” operation conducted by the Phoenix Police Department and county control agents against elected state officials in Arizona in 1991. Videotaped materials of lawmakers accepting “bribes” to support a bill legalizing gambling were distributed to the various news media for public presentation before a single trial. The “programming” culminated in 7 (8 percent) members of the legislature resigning, and then being replaced by nonelected officials, without benefit of any court proceedings, with only one legislator






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FBI called complicit in Justice Department's exoneration of IRS Lois Lerner
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An FBI 302 document contains detailed narratives of FBI agent investigations. The Obama Justice Department and FBI investigations into the Obama IRS ...






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Cover: Natural Law and Justice
Natural Law and Justice
Lloyd Weinreb




About This BookAbout the AuthorsReviewsTable of Contents
“Human beings are a part of nature and apart from it.” The argument of Natural Law and Justice is that the philosophy of natural law and contemporary theories about the nature of justice are both efforts to make sense of the fundamental paradox of human experience: individual freedom and responsibility in a causally determined universe.

Lloyd Weinreb restores the original understanding of natural law as a philosophy about the place of humankind in nature. He traces the natural law tradition from its origins in Greek speculation through its classic Christian statement by Thomas Aquinas. He goes on to show how the social contract theorists adapted the idea of natural law to provide for political obligation in civil society and how the idea was transformed in Kant’s account of human freedom. He brings the historical narrative down to the present with a discussion of the contemporary debate between natural law and legal positivism, including particularly the natural law theories of Finnis, Richards, and Dworkin.

Weinreb then adopts the approach of modern political philosophy to develop the idea of justice as a union of the distinct ideas of desert and entitlement. He shows liberty and equality to be the political analogues of desert and entitlement and both pairs to be the normative equivalents of freedom and cause. In this part of the book, Weinreb considers the theories of justice of Rawls and Nozick as well as the communitarian theory of Maclntyre and Sandel.

The conclusion brings the debates about natural law and justice together, as parallel efforts to understand the human condition. This original contribution to legal philosophy will be especially appreciated by scholars, teachers, and students in the fields of political philosophy, legal philosophy, and the law generally.






http://www.deseretnews.com/article/8656 ... gents.html

SALT LAKE CITY — Former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff has filed misconduct complaints against federal and state agents who led the public corruption investigation that resulted in criminal charges against him in 2014.

Filed with the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility on Nov. 7, 2016, the complaint names FBI agents Michelle Pickens and Jon Isakson and Utah Department of Public Safety investigator Scott Nesbitt.

Shurtleff also filed a complaint against Nesbitt with the state public safety department's Office of Professional Standards.

Pickens headed the FBI's public corruption unit in Salt Lake City, which handled the investigation into Shurtleff and his successor, John Swallow. Isakson was the lead federal agent in the case, while Nesbitt, who was cross-deputized as a U.S. marshal, was the top state investigator.

The complaint is noted in a Dec. 1, 2016, cover letter Shurtleff's lawyer, Richard Van Wagoner, sent to the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General. The letter references two enclosures: a copy of the complaint to the justice department's Office of Professional Responsibility and the transcript of an interview Shurtleff did with the state public safety department.

However, the federal complaint apparently having gone through two Department of Justice offices now resides with the FBI. The FBI declined to comment.

Utah Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Marissa Villasenor Cote confirmed the agency received a complaint and has talked to Shurtleff, but she declined to talk about its status.

The Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office filed felony criminal charges against Shurtleff and Swallow as co-defendants in July 2014 after a joint federal-state investigation. The case was later separated, with Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings taking the Shurtleff prosecution.

Rawlings dropped the charges against Shurtleff last summer, partly because he said the federal government wouldn't provide what he believed to be crucial evidence. A 3rd District Court jury acquitted Swallow last week on eight felony and one misdemeanor counts, including racketeering, bribery and tampering with evidence.

After being released as a potential witness in the Swallow trial, Shurtleff let loose on the agents who investigated him and Swallow.

Nesbit and Isakson "perjured themselves in search warrant affidavits time and time again," Shurtleff told reporters outside the courtroom last month. "So the question is, how do you believe anything they say, any charges they brought, anything that was part of this case?"



https://www.corbettreport.com/911-a-conspiracy-theory/

The Corbett Report

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Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes.

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TRANSCRIPT: On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 men armed with boxcutters directed by a man on dialysis in a cave fortress halfway around the world using a satellite phone and a laptop directed the most sophisticated penetration of the most heavily-defended airspace in the world, overpowering the passengers and the military combat-trained pilots on 4 commercial aircraft before flying those planes wildly off course for over an hour without being molested by a single fighter interceptor.

These 19 hijackers, devout religious fundamentalists who liked to drink alcohol, snort cocaine, and live with pink-haired strippers, managed to knock down 3 buildings with 2 planes in New York, while in Washington a pilot who couldn’t handle a single engine Cessna was able to fly a 757 in an 8,000 foot descending 270 degree corskscrew turn to come exactly level with the ground, hitting the Pentagon in the budget analyst office where DoD staffers were working on the mystery of the 2.3 trillion dollars that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had announced “missing” from the Pentagon’s coffers in a press conference the day before, on September 10, 2001.

Luckily, the news anchors knew who did it within minutes, the pundits knew within hours, the Administration knew within the day, and the evidence literally fell into the FBI’s lap. But for some reason a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists demanded an investigation into the greatest attack on American soil in history.

The investigation was delayed, underfunded, set up to fail, a conflict of interest and a cover up from start to finish. It was based on testimony extracted through torture, the records of which were destroyed. It failed to mention the existence of WTC7, Able Danger, Ptech, Sibel Edmonds, OBL and the CIA, and the drills of hijacked aircraft being flown into buildings that were being simulated at the precise same time that those events were actually happening. It was lied to by the Pentagon, the CIA, the Bush Administration and as for Bush and Cheney…well, no one knows what they told it because they testified in secret, off the record, not under oath and behind closed doors. It didn’t bother to look at who funded the attacks because that question is of “little practical significance“. Still, the 9/11 Commission did brilliantly, answering all of the questions the public had (except most of the victims’ family members’ questions) and pinned blame on all the people responsible (although no one so much as lost their job), determining the attacks were “a failure of imagination” because “I don’t think anyone could envision flying airplanes into buildings ” except the Pentagon and FEMA and NORAD and the NRO.

The DIA destroyed 2.5 TB of data on Able Danger, but that’s OK because it probably wasn’t important.

The SEC destroyed their records on the investigation into the insider trading before the attacks, but that’s OK because destroying the records of the largest investigation in SEC history is just part of routine record keeping.

NIST has classified the data that they used for their model of WTC7’s collapse, but that’s OK because knowing how they made their model of that collapse would “jeopardize public safety“.

The FBI has argued that all material related to their investigation of 9/11 should be kept secret from the public, but that’s OK because the FBI probably has nothing to hide.

This man never existed, nor is anything he had to say worthy of your attention, and if you say otherwise you are a paranoid conspiracy theorist and deserve to be shunned by all of humanity. Likewise him, him, him, and her. (and her and her and him).

Osama Bin Laden lived in a cave fortress in the hills of Afghanistan, but somehow got away. Then he was hiding out in Tora Bora but somehow got away. Then he lived in Abottabad for years, taunting the most comprehensive intelligence dragnet employing the most sophisticated technology in the history of the world for 10 years, releasing video after video with complete impunity (and getting younger and younger as he did so), before finally being found in a daring SEAL team raid which wasn’t recorded on video, in which he didn’t resist or use his wife as a human shield, and in which these crack special forces operatives panicked and killed this unarmed man, supposedly the best source of intelligence about those dastardly terrorists on the planet. Then they dumped his body in the ocean before telling anyone about it. Then a couple dozen of that team’s members died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

This is the story of 9/11, brought to you by the media which told you the hard truths about JFK and incubator babies and mobile production facilities and the rescue of Jessica Lynch.

If you have any questions about this story…you are a batshit, paranoid, tinfoil, dog-abusing baby-hater and will be reviled by everyone. If you love your country and/or freedom, happiness, rainbows, rock and roll, puppy dogs, apple pie and your grandma, you will never ever express doubts about any part of this story to anyone. Ever.

This has been a public service announcement by: the Friends of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DIA, SEC, MSM, White House, NIST, and the 9/11 Commission. Because Ignorance is Strength.

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rpr0099 says:
01/31/2015 at 11:35 pm
the screen shot of the black man in a suit on ABC 7, that James said “this man does not exist”, who is that? Also the shot right before it, with a red arrow and a white arrow that is pointing toward a man in a white shirt, who is he, and what am I not noticing about the significance in this picture? Thanx!

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Corbett says:
02/01/2015 at 9:09 am
Thanks for the comment, rpr0099. If you look up on this page you’ll see a link for “This man never existed.” Click the link and all will be revealed. As for the picture of the FBI, the arrow is not important to this video, but the links in the transcript above will give more context to the FBI’s attempts to cover up evidence regarding the crime scene.

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rpr0099 says:
02/03/2015 at 2:15 pm
It crossed my mind that it may be Barry Jennings but it wouldn’t have been very PC to assume that based on the color of his skin and his weight haha

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We Deserve Better says:
03/10/2015 at 11:43 am
Just came across a brilliant documentary regarding 9/11 that, in my opinion, completely outclasses any documentary I have ever seen before it. There are simply no words to describe how superb the presentation is. By the time I was done watching it I was in tears. It is a three-part video which can be seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... lREHJTpXcE

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clank78 says:
07/13/2015 at 9:39 pm
I decided to do some double-checking of a couple of things. I wanted to make sure that it was really established fact that the budget analyst office in the Pentagon was hit; and if it was indeed that office which was, or at least would have been, tasked with investigating the missing $2.3 trillion. It certainly seems logical that the budget analyst office would be analysing budgets of course, but it was apparently under renovation so perhaps evidence was not destroyed as that wing of the building could have been more or less empty of filing cabinets, etc, as well as just personnel.
Anyway this video’s source for the budget analyst office claim links to another corbettreport video entitled “$700 billion is nothing” in which there is a short clip from what looks like a mainline 9/11 documentary, in which the man’s voice says that the budget analyst office was right below his, which was hit. Does anybody know which documentary this is from? ‘Cause I can’t find any actual evidence other than this that it was in fact the budget analyst office which was taken out, so it would be great to get it straight from the horse’s mouth, in its original context.

I think this whole ‘lost trillions’ side of September 11th is way more important than, for example, whether or not thermite was used to bring down the twin towers, or if WTC7 fell at freefall speed, the likes of which seem to be 90% of what people want to talk about on youtube comments. I daresay if we’re lucky we will one day see declassified documents giving us the inside scoop on the official alternative conspiracy theories the CIA and the like have in all probability been sponsoring, and how many of the youtube accounts arguing about these specifics are actually deep state bots.

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Algorithm of Consciousness says:
07/14/2015 at 11:20 am
It’s hard to find actual sources on this both because it was (1) not deeply covered and few, if any media outlets gave attention to ‘follow the money’, and (2) most sites that even made references are in the internet blackhole now. I had to go back to 2009 to recover this on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via the Way Back machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20081202131 ... 2wn018.htm

“One Army office in the Pentagon lost 34 of its 65 employees in the attack. Most of those killed in the office, called Resource Services Washington, were civilian accountants, bookkeepers and budget analysts. They were at their desks when American Airlines Flight 77 struck.”

Also, the ‘documentary’ you are referring to is actually a CBS news report. You can find their logo in the video on youtube. There’s also this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=122&v=OlnQTcLHaMM

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-war-on-waste/

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BuddhaForce says:
12/01/2016 at 12:52 pm
Uncovered by JW: Top Pentagon Leader Ordered Destruction of bin Laden Death Photos
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room ... th-photos/

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wall says:
07/21/2017 at 6:41 pm
Please check your links James. At least one is dead.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YzaGiSDNPVU

because: “”9/11 prior knowledge intel” The YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third party notifications of copy right infingement.”

Now I really want to see that vid! Where is it?

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PeaceFroggs says:
09/12/2017 at 3:34 am
This has got to be one of my favorite Corbett Vids of all time. Succinct, chalk full of facts, with a nice touch of sarcasm. 🙂

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Pablo de Boer says:
09/12/2017 at 6:16 am
A transcript of the 6/28/01 Bill Cooper broadcast that you can find all over YouTube. William Cooper predicted 9/11 , 3 months before it happened.

” Supposedly a CNN reporter found Osama bin Laden, took a television camera crew with him, went in to Osama bin laden’s hideout, interviewed him and his top leadership, and he came out and told everybody ‘within three weeks Osama bin laden is going to attack the United States and Israel.’ Now don’t you think that’s kind of strange folks? You see because the largest intelligence apparatus in the world with the biggest budget in the history of the world has been looking for osama bin laden for years and years and years and can’t find him. some doofus jerk off reporter with a camera crew waltzes right into his hideout and interviews him and i’m telling you be prepared for a major attack , but it won’t be osama bin laden, it will be those behind the new world order. I wonder what “osama bin laden’s” targets are supposed to be? And if this doesn’t materialize within the next 2-3 weeks it will eventually materialize because they haven’t succeeded in getting the guns out of the hand of the American people, nor have they succeeded in taking our freedoms away. And so I can tell you with a certainty they must do something terrible in order to stop this backlash and regain the sympathy of the mass herds of sheeple out there. ”

https://youtu.be/zSOuQ2MsJvA?t=58s

Rest In Peace Bill

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philhersh says:
09/12/2017 at 3:07 pm
That pretty much hits the high points. Plus maybe magical cell phones, nano thermite, booms in the basement and melted steel shipped off to China. Plus…?

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FBI Admits the Unthinkable: There Are Terror Suspects in Witness Protection Program
Independent Journal Review-



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.




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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 pr@asisonline.org 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).






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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).




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New Book Claims FBI Obstructed Justice in Boston Bombing -


2017/04/14


See here for an exclusive WhoWhatWhy conversation with author Michele McPhee.

***

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


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3uvzcY2Xug


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



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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.”



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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
      


8pm (ET)/5pm (PT)   Teleconference #  (641) 715-0632    Access code: 551571#
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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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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.




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Manhattan DA Vance returns $31G donation to Trump's lawyer that he received after dropping case against Ivanka, Donald Jr. in 2013
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, October 4, 2017, 12:56 PM



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Judiciary Committee Recommends FBI Investigation of Planned Parenthood
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‘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.



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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.






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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







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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




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Court commissioner disciplined for abusive behavior toward interpreter



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End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate
By Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair






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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.


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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.”



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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”
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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
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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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The FBI is using intermittent reenforcement in their scheduling of terrorist events

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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.

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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.







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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.

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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Police Officer allowed to retire and collect pension
White Massachusetts cop gets probation for kicking black prisoner



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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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Cop charged with criminal assaulting woman in Grand Island


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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Rhode Island cop gets probation for trafficking steroids


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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How a suicidal pizza man found himself ensnared in an FBIterror sting
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Award-winning journalist Trevor Aaronson digs deep into the FBI’s massive efforts to create fake terrorist plots.
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Cummings asks FBI director to make Suiter investigation a 'top priority'
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Elijah E. Cummings pressed the director of the FBI on Wednesday to make the investigation into slain Baltimore homicide detective Sean Suiter who was set to testify
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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
Waco Rules of Engagement

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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

8908 Captains Row
Alexandria, Virginia 22308

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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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 feroze.moses777@gmail.com

Kishore Jagtap is a Mumbai-based human rights and social activist
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Did J. Edgar Hoover Kill JFK?
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Sex misconduct shame of the Justice Department laid bare: Top U.S. Marshal slept with NINE women in his office and senior lawyer groped two – but the accused got promotions and bonuses
The Justice Department has covered up years of sexual misconduct, according to a blockbuster Inspector General report
Number-two official in the U.S. Marshals Service in Massachusetts engaged in sex with 'approximately' nine different women – in his office
A DOJ Civil Division lawyer groped the breasts and buttocks of two female trial attorneys
An FBI supervisor asked female employees if they 'wanted to see his balls' – his baseball collection – and told one that he admired her 'come-f***-me boots'
Most offenders were reassigned without suspensions or reduction in pay
The Washington Post got the bombshell DOJ inspector general report through the Freedom Of Information Act
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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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Albie Barden preserves native varieties of flint corn for future generations
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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ACTIVE MEASURES
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
MICHAEL WEISS
12.27.17 5:00 AM ET







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Cities sue Pentagon for failing to report criminals to FBI gun database
theday.com-
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
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]
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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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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”…








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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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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






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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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Re: When will FBI agents create their next Terrorist Event.

Post by msfreeh »

How much evidence do you need that FBI agents were behind the Garland Texas shootings?

Really?



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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.”



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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






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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





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Area police chief placed on leave



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Rising Great Lakes water levels keep Michigan companies busy





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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.”







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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.




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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




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District heating warms cities without fossil fuels

January 15, 2018, by Paul Brown



FBI Octopus

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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

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Re: When will FBI agents create their next Terrorist Event.

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The FBI put Trump in Office
End of Discussion


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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

http://freebeacon.com/issues/expert-sui ... long-odds/


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






http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/23/muell ... -cover-up/


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.”



http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... -1.3774882

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





https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... ia-panama/

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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Troy, Mo., police officer gets five years for statutory rape of teenage girl
By Joel Currier St. Louis Post-Dispatch









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When police officers rape
Kim Kelly by Kim Kelly
31 Oct 2017







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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.







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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







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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 ...
OregonLive.com-
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.





https://www.courthousenews.com/now-exti ... ered-list/

Now Extinct, Eastern Cougar Removed From Endangered List
January 22,2018



Russia to build its own space station without USA and Europe
See more at http://www.pravdareport.com/news/scienc ... station-0/





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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.

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 ‘pedodave69@yahoo.com’ 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




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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 $






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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





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Suspect alleges Chicago officer sexually assaulted him


CHICAGO
The Chicago Police Department is investigating allegations that





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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.

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http://en.brinkwire.com/144647/if-we-do ... th-russia/

‘If we don’t work together we should be fired’: Ex-CIA agent calls for closer ties with Russia
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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.




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https://theintercept.com/2018/02/13/can ... ign-money/




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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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Jesse Trentadue


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The Trump administration gave up on federal oversight of police agencies — just as it was starting to work







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Detroit police commander suspected of driving while intoxicated

Dejanay Booth, Detroit Free PressPublished 5:33 p.m. ET Jan. 26, 2019 | Updated 4:4









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The illegal CIA operation that brought us 9/11



written by Robert Scheer / Truthdig January 27, 2019



Was it conspiracy or idiocy that led to the failure of U.S. intelligence













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These 14 people were killed by New Jersey police in 2018

By Matt Gray | For NJ.com | Posted January 27, 2019 at 07:45 AM | Updated January 27, 2019 at 09:41 AM

















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Davis Senior High School: Home Page

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OPINION: ROGER STONE RAID RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT WRAY AMONG FBI RANK AND FILE

2:00 PM 01/27/2019 | OPINION

Kenneth Strange | Former FBI Special Agent



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NYPD cop who shot himself in the head has died



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California opens some police misconduct records to public view









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Editorial: California can’t afford to pass up police reform

Chronicle Editorial Board Aug. 14, 2018 Updated: Aug. 14, 2018 5:45 p.m.





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Contra Costa County police unions ask judge to block release of police misconduct records



Megan Cassidy Jan. 24, 2019







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NATION & WORLD Posted Yesterday at 10:08 PM Updated at 12:27 AM

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St. Louis officer killed in apparent Russian roulette shooting

Another officer is charged after apparently pointing a revolver loaded with a single round at 24-year-old Katlyn Alix's chest and pulling the trigger.







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

Detective in NYPD's Crime Stoppers unit pleads guilty to bank fraud



By STEPHEN REX BROWN



| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |

JAN 25, 2019 | 5:45 PM









https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... fa-protest



How a California police officer protected neo-Nazis and targeted their victims

Court hearings reveal investigator in stabbings of leftwing protesters pursued criminal cases against anti-fascists but advocated no charges for armed white supremacists



The testimony of a California police officer leading the inquiry into a series of stabbings at a neo-Nazi rally indicated that he targeted leftwing activists and victims rather than focusing his investigation on armed white supremacists.

The officer, Donovan Ayres, 12-year-veteran of the California highway patrol, admitted he pursued information on the political affiliations and online activity of leftwing activists and victims. He testified Tuesday as a key witness in the state’s ongoing case against three anti-fascist activists charged with assault and “rioting” during a bra





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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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Ernest Withers: Undercover Agent for FBI or Forced to be a Spy?



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Ernest Withers: Undercover Agent for FBI or Forced to be a Spy?







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Ex-NYPD detective and prosecutor will testify at trial challenging murder convictions







By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |

JAN 24,



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3 members of Wilmington Police Department on leave amid multiple investigations



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Ph.D. student tackled by cops for 'stealing' own car settles lawsuit for $1.25 million



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'Stop-and-frisk in a car:' Elite LAPD unit disproportionately stopped black drivers, data show







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JAN 24, 2019 | 11:05 AM





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O.C. sheriff’s deputy used excessive force when he shot man, stomped on his head, jury rules



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Disgraced NYPD lieutenant reveals what he says was special treatment for Trump and other VIPs looking to get gun permits







By STEPHEN REX BROWN and GRAHAM RAYMAN

| NEW YORK DAILY

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Brooklyn real estate agent allegedly brokered gun permits known as 'a de Blasio special' in corrupt NYPD License Division



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9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
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Draft agenda for September 25, 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! 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!

Cheryl Curtiss
Craig McKee

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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