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couple of backstories first about FBI Director
Louis Freeh
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1. Louis Freeh was principal architect behind the coverup
of the downing of TWA Flight 800 over
Long Island by a US Missile

2.Louis Freeh was principal architect behind
the coverup/murder of Bill and Hillary
Clinton friend Vince Foster

3. Louis Freeh has a summer home in Vermont


story
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10 Jan 2016




Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz has retained former President Bill Clinton’s FBI director to help show Clinton was not present at alleged sex orgies thrown by his former client, a convicted pedophile and close Clinton friend.

Clinton’s friendship with a convicted child sex predator, Jeffrey Epstein, again is coming under increased scrutiny, thanks in part to a recent civil lawsuit for defamation filed in Florida against Dershowitz by representatives for two of Epstein’s alleged victims. Dershowitz served as Epstein’s lawyer during Epstein’s criminal criminal.

Not only has Bill Clinton’s name come up in the court proceedings, but Dershowitz, one of the key figures in the case, says that he cannot conclusively deny that Clinton was present at lavish sex orgies thrown on a Caribbean island by Epstein. What’s more, one of the victims said that Bill Clinton in fact was present at an Epstein island orgy.

Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from a minor. Though he was represented at trial by Dershowitz, he still had to serve 13 months in prison on an 18-month sentence.

Flight logs also connect Clinton as they show he made multiple trips on Epstein’s private plane, including a September 2002 jaunt to Africa with actor buddies Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker. So does Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts, who claimed that she was used as a sex slave by Epstein and his friends, said that she met Bill Clinton on one of his trips with Epstein when she was only seventeen, but that she did not have sex with him.

Super-lawyer and Clinton and Epstein pal Dershowitz recently testified in circuit court in Broward County, Florida. Transcripts of his testimony reveal that Clinton administration FBI chief Louis Freeh has been called in to run interference. Freeh served as FBI director from 1993 to 2001, during almost the entirety of the Clinton presidency.

Freeh is representing Dershowitz , who recently has been at the center of civil claims involving allegations that he had sex with underage women on Epstein’s private plane and at parties on Epstein’s private island, including at times when Clinton also was on the island.

“Well, we have made a Freedom of Information request,” Dershowitz testified. “My — my attorney in New York, Louis Freeh, the former head of the FBI, has made a FOIA request for all information



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Hillary Clinton Vince Foster murder
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Hillary Clinton and the cover-up of the murder of her friend Vince Foster by Kenneth Starr.



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Former FBI director Freeh injured in VT wreck

Aug 26, 2014


Former FBI director Louis B. Freeh

BARNARD – Former FBI director Louis Freeh was seriously injured in a car crash Monday afternoon in Barnard, the Vermont State Police confirmed Monday night.

State police in Royalton received a 911 call at 12:16 p.m. regarding a one-vehicle crash near 2762 Vermont 12. Troopers responded, along with rescue and fire personnel from the Barnard area.

Freeh, 64, of Wilmington, Del., was airlifted from Barnard to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., for treatment, police said. He has a summer home in Barnard.

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FBI uses tax dime to train death squads in Central America.



American taxpayers fund assassinations

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Transnational Gangs
Part 2: Countering the Threat with Strong Partnerships

01/11/16

At the start of the FBI’s recent Central American Law Enforcement Exchange (CALEE) program, participants from U.S. police departments and their counterparts from Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and Panama were strangers, but they shared one thing in common: a commitment to make their communities safe from violent gangs such as MS-13 and 18th Street.

By the end of the three-week program, the men and women had overcome language barriers and become friends as well as partners—and they were armed with new resources to fight the transnational gang threat: a network of intelligence sharing, expanded contacts, and access to FBI-led task forces throughout Central America.

“There’s a synergy between the gangs that helps them grow and become stronger,” said Special Agent Jason Kaplan, the FBI’s legal attaché in El Salvador. “As law enforcement, we need to develop that same relationship with each other, because the gangs are doing it, and if we don’t we are going to fall behind.”

CALEE was developed in 2009 with that spirit of collaboration and partnership in mind. This year’s group of nearly 40 participants traveled to Los Angeles and Houston before spending a final week in El Salvador, where the MS-13 and 18th Street







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Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI - Third World Traveler

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excerpts from the book. Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI. the covert war against the Central America movement. by Ross Gelbspan. South End Press, 1991 ...




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Overview of FBI Documents on SOAW

Overview of FBI Documents on SOAW

Click here to view the released documents that we obtained from the FBI.

Read articles about the FBI spying on SOA Watch from Telesur English, the National Catholic Reporter, Alternet, KGNU Radio, LA Information, and blogger Nancy Wheeler, and watch a video interview with Hendrik Voss by the Real News Network.

Summary of obtained FBI documents

What was requested: At our request, Washington DC justice lawyer Mara Verheyden-Hilliard made written demand on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), for copies of all FBI records on the School of the Americas Watch organization (SOAW).

What was produced: Over 420 pages of documents were produced by the FBI covering the period from 2000 to 2010. Over 75 pages of documents were withheld by the FBI.

What did the FBI documents show? For years, the FBI reported and compiled annual files on the SOAW protest while at the same time repeatedly describing the event and the organization as peaceful. For many years, these reports were sent to the Counterterrorism division of the FBI. The FBI sought out and used undercover informants to seek information about the group and its actions. The FBI had undercover FBI agents in attendance for at least two years. The FBI reports demonstrate a close working relationship with Columbus Police Department, Muscogee County Sheriff’s Department and Georgia State Police. The reports also show the annual protest was designated by the FBI as a Special Events Readiness Level (SERL) event which involved coordination of law enforcement with the US Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security.

Next steps

SOAW is appealing the FBI’s withholding of responsive material from the public including additional documents as well as redactions and deletions in the materials provided. The FBI response indicated that U.S. Army Intelligence also participated in this surveillance operation and we are filing a relevant FOIA request for responsive material. These documents also indicate there are a large number of documents in the hands of local law enforcement as well and this will be followed up.

What is the importance of these documents? FBI agents, including Counterterrorism agents, have for years been surveilling, reporting and gathering intelligence on First Amendment protected political speech and actions of the SOAW movement. This is despite the fact that the FBI repeatedly describes our actions as peaceful. The FBI and its Counterterrorism Division have surveilled SOAW just as they have members of the Black Lives Matter movement, the Occupy Movement and various parts of the peace and justice movements for years. SOAW will not allow the government to intimidate or silence our movement for human rights. We call on Congress to review these actions, hold the FBI accountable, and take corrective action. We stand for justice and human rights with our sisters and brothers across the world and like them we will not be silenced.

Highlights of Documents produced by the FBI

2000 – July 10, 2001. The FBI opened a case file on the SOAW in July of 2000 after thousands of people entered onto Ft. Benning pursuant to a nonviolent protest in fall of 1999. The FBI report of the Atlanta office states: “It is hereby recommended a case be opened and maintained as part of an ongoing process at Ft. Benning. The protest has been building for the past ten years. At times the participants have caused damage to government properties. The leadership of this organization have promised a non-violent protest at any organized event.” A report on November 20, 2000 indicates an unnamed source advised the FBI that people associated with the World Trade Organization protests planned to attend the protest and “if attacks were to take place, the planning would be at a gathering a quarter of a mile from the main gate on Saturday November 18, 2000.”

From 2000 – 2010 FBI officers reported on each SOAW protest. Reports demonstrate close working relationship with Columbus Police Department, Muscogee County Sheriff’s Department and Georgia State Police. Reports included estimates of the numbers of people attending the protest and the names and numbers of those arrested.

2001 – Correspondence between various FBI offices about Oberlin College student arrested at protest.

November 13, 2001 FBI Pre-protest report that Columbus Police Department (CPD) and Muscogee County Sheriff Office (MCSO) “have collected uncorroborated, non-sourced intelligence that allegedly anarchist elements will travel to Columbus to cause problems.” Discussion of anthrax hoax preparedness. Request that “all agents contact appropriate sources regarding travel to this event by known criminals regarding any planned actions in conjunction with the protest.” A FBI note on November 15, 2001 states “This is being forwarded to the Atlanta Bomb Techs as the possibility of a hoax device or bomb threat also exists. Local and military assets are available to handle same…”

2003 – In 2003, the FBI started to report on the event to the COUNTERTERRORISM DIVISION. On October 14, 2003, in a memo designated PRIORITY, the FBI reported on the protest to Counterterrorism Division “The leaders of the SOA Watch have taken strides to impart upon the protest participants that the protest should be a peaceful event.” The FBI report also noted “The primary issue of the protest is the funding and training by the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of State of Latin American military officers at the Ft. Benning, GA military installation. This event draws protestors who object to human rights violation conducted in these countries, and more specifically, to the event in which a group of Catholic missionaries were murdered in Central America.” FBI Headquarters and Counterterrorism were requested to provide the Atlanta FBI office “with all intelligence relevant to the SOA, so that this information can be provided to local/military law enforcement agencies.”

October 23, 2003 in another memo to FBI Counterterrorism, the Atlanta FBI requested that the Miami Division of the Domestic Terrorism Intelligence Squad, provide any and all information on Anti-Free Trade area of The Americas Anarchist Movement protest. The FBI was “concerned that factions of a radical cell will travel to [the protest] and may implement or instigate violent and destructive behavior.” If contained in Miami, “this may encourage factions of the protestors to travel to Columbus/Ft Benning to assert themselves in what may be viewed as a softer target of opportunity.” The past has been mostly peaceful. Any advance warning to the CRA of a group or groups of more aggressive protest participants …is imperative.” Representatives of the Columbus Police Department and the Muscogee County Sheriff’s Office went to Miami to see how police there handled protest. The memo concludes by saying “The Columbus Police and military authorities have successfully controlled approximately ten thousand, mostly peaceful protestors in past years. Any advance warning …of a group or groups of more aggressive protest participants planning to continue their acts of civil disobedience in Columbus/Ft. Benning is imperative.” The FBI after protest report to Counterterrorism, dated December 29, 2003 noted “Other than the cited compliant trespassers, the even was peaceful. The arrestees did not resist being taken into custody. It has been and apparently continues to be the agenda of the SOA Watch to use the court system as the platform for furthering their cause. ..Overall the crowd was peaceful in their actions and the SOA Watch leadership appear to foster that type of environment.” They also noted the Columbus Police videotaped the entire event.

2004 – In September 2004 the FBI communicated with a confidential source in the Northeast US more than once about SOAW. The informant told the FBI that “SOA Watch has called out for more individuals and affinity groups to attend this year’s protest.” The source also shared a “compiled manual for affinity groups, with telephone number of Legal Advisor from Loyola University (Louisiana)” and provided the FBI with the names and email addresses of relevant contact persons associated with the SOA Watch group.

On October 8, 2004, the FBI asked Counterterrorism to prove “any and all intelligence particularly from any inside sources who are involved in the protest planning. This information will be provided to local authorities for their planning purposes.”

A FBI memo to Counterterrorism dated November 30, 2004 stated “This year’s protest was peaceful as it has been for the most part over the past fifteen years. The only change of note was the inability of the police to use hand wands to check for metal and weapons. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled this was a violation of the protestors’ constitutional rights.”

2005 – On September 8, 2005, there is a FBI report by Confidential Informant who said SOAW wanted mass crossing the line in nonviolent cd to overwhelm the base resources and tie up the judicial system. The CI identified one person: “Individual identified BLANK as an organizer intending to cross the line. BLANK was said to belong to a group called “Witness for Peace.” Individual said that BLANK is, or was a Maryknoll nun.” Informant also reported much of the organizing is originating from Twin Ports SOA Watch and gave the name and address of organizer who was schedule to speak at Oxford College on September 20, 2005.”

October 3, 2005, the FBI requested that the SOAW protest be designated a Special Events Readiness Level (SERL). SERL events involve coordination between local law and state law enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency with the US Secret Service designated as the lead agency.[1] The memo states the FBI and others will provide intelligence to local police and military personnel that may impact the security of the event. The FBI also requested intelligence regarding the SOA and promised to provide intelligence to the Columbus Resident Agency. “The peaceful intentions of the SOA Watch leaders has been demonstrated over the years. The concern has always been that a militant group would infiltrate the protestors and use of the cover of the crowd to create problems. At this time, there are no specific or known threats to this event.”

2006 – October 10, 2006 FBI report to Counterterrorism contained information on threat assessment from intelligence and open source reporting and BLANKED OUT. Report dated October 12, 2006 indicates the FBI talked with confidential informant who reported “there was a group organizing direct action and there were individuals committed to taking their cause to the close the SOA directly onto the base. International and national organizing in other places was also reported including Fort Huachuca and Colorado. Individuals from all over the US are planning to attend plus a large contingent from Canada.” In the FBI report on the 2006 protest, they noted that the Army blasting of music to interfere with the protest, led the police to complain that they could not hear each other.

2007 – October 3, 2007 FBI report to Counterterrorism noted the captioned event as a Special Events Readiness Level. Appears to follow the 2005 report promising to provide intelligence to local police and military, noting the peaceful intentions of the SOA Watch leaders and admitting there were no specific or known threats to this event.

2009 – On November 13, 2009 the FBI reported “There have never been any significant incidents of violence or widespread property damage in connection with this event.” They also noted that undercover FBI agents will be in attendance again. “As in 2008, a small contingent of FBI personnel, acting in an undercover capacity, will be present to monitor the activities of predicated subjects of FBI-Minneapolis, who are expected to attend. These subjects have never expressed or exhibited a propensity for violence at any time….Due to the nature of this investigation and the fact that undercover employees need to maintain their cover, local and state law enforcement will not be notified in advance of their presence at this open and public event.”

[1] US Department of Justice public document. Edward Connors, PLANNING AND MANAGING SECURITY FOR MAJOR SPECIAL EVENTS: Guidelines for Law Enforcement. (2007) online at: http://www.ilj.org/publications/docs/Ma ... Events.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;





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Exposed: FBI Surveillance of School of the Americas Watch
by Mara Verheyden-Hilliard of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund

FBI used counter-terrorism authority to track pacifist human rights group for 10 years

For a decade, the FBI flagrantly abused its counter-terrorism authority to conduct a widespread surveillance and monitoring operation of School of Americas Watch (SOAW), a nonviolent activist organization founded by pacifists with the aim of closing the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas (now renamed) and ending the U.S. role in the militarization of Latin America.

Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, on behalf of SOAW, once again reveal the FBI’s functioning as a political surveillance and intelligence operation and its use of its domestic terrorism authority against peaceful protest in the United States.

SOAW organizes annual protests in Fort Benning, Ga., the site where the U.S. Army has trained many of the military leaders and dictators in Latin America who were responsible for massacres of opposition forces and the creation of torture centers, among other

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January 13, 2016
Police Intimidation: From Dalton Trumbo to Deep Green Resistance


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2016-01-12

Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security agents have contacted more than a dozen members of Deep Green Resistance (DGR), a radical environmental group, including one of its leaders, Lierre Keith, who said she has been the subject of two visits from the FBI at her home.

The FBI’s most recent contact with a DGR member occurred Jan. 8 when two FBI agents visited Rachael “Renzy” Neffshade at her home in Pittsburgh, Pa. The FBI agents began the visit by asking her questions about a letter she had sent several months earlier to Marius Mason, an environmental activist who was sentenced in 2009 to almost 22 years in prison for arson and property damage.

Neffshade told CounterPunch she refused to answer any questions from the FBI agents. Based on the line of inquiry, Neffshade concluded the FBI agents were not necessarily looking into gathering further information about Mason. “It seemed like they were pursuing an investigation into me, but who knows? I didn’t answer any of their questions,” she said. “It’s important to remain silent to law enforcement as an activist. It is a vital part of security culture.”

DGR, formed about four years ago, requires its members to adhere to what the group calls a “safety culture” in order to reduce the amount of paranoia and fear that often comes with radical activism. On its website, DGR explains why it is important not to talk to police agents: “It doesn’t matter whether you are guilty or innocent. It doesn’t matter how smart you are. Never talk to police officers, FBI agents, Homeland Security, etc. It doesn’t matter if you believe you are telling police officers what they already know. It doesn’t matter if you just chit chat with police officers. Any talking to police officers, FBI agents, etc. will almost certainly harm you or others.”

Keith, along with Derrick Jensen and Aric McKay, co-authored a book published in 2011, Deep Green Resistance, on which the DGR group is largely based. DGR describes itself as an “aboveground organization that uses direct action in the fight to save our planet.” On its website, DGR states there is a need for a separate “underground that can target the strategic infrastructure of industrialization.”

In the “Deep Green Resistance” book, the authors ask, “What if there was a serious aboveground resistance movement combined with a small group of underground networks working in tandem?”

“[T]he undergrounders would engage in limited attacks on infrastructure (often in tandem with aboveground struggles), especially energy infrastructure, to try to reduce fossil fuel consumption and overall industrial activity,” the authors write in the book. “The overall thrust of this plan would be to use selective attacks to accelerate collapse in a deliberate way, like shoving a rickety building.”

In speeches and writings, Jensen, a co-leader of DGR, often ponders this question: “Every morning when I wake up I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam.” He also has argued about the necessity of using any means necessary “to stop this culture from killing the planet.” Jensen said he has not been questioned by the FBI about his involvement with DGR. He is also unaware of any DGR members who have been arrested for their work with the group.

In late 2014 and early 2015, the FBI contacted about a dozen DGR members either by telephone or through in-person visits. Max Wilbert, a professional photographer and one of the founding members of DGR, said the FBI contacted him on his cell phone during this period. “I immediately said that I wasn’t going to answer any questions and hung up the phone,” Wilbert told CounterPunch. “This is the best way to deal with this sort of government repression. As soon as they know that you will answer questions, they will keep coming after you.” If activists refuse to answer questions, the FBI or other police agencies are more likely to leave the person alone, he said.

In September 2015, Wilbert was among a group of DGR members detained at the U.S.-Canada border as they were on their way to attend a speech by author Chris Hedges in Vancouver, British Columbia. The group was eventually denied entry into Canada.

Wilbert said the Canadian border guards seemed to be searching for a reason to deny the DGR members entry. After focusing on some women’s self-defense gear in the car (some people in the vehicle were planning to offer a free class on self-defense in British Columbia), the border guards’ questions started turning to each person’s activism.

Making sure he was honest with the officers, Wilbert told the Canadian border guards that he had volunteered to take photographs of Hedges’ scheduled speech. “They said that they suspected I was entering the country to work illegally,” he said.

After getting turned back by the Canadian guards, the vehicle’s occupants faced additional scrutiny by U.S. border agents. At the U.S. border, the questions became much more political in nature. The U.S. guards asked Wilbert and his colleagues about the groups they belonged to and the ideas that these groups promoted. “Officers from the Canadian side even came over and spoke with the U.S. officers about us,” he said.

U.S. border guards confiscated Wilbert’s laptop computer. “Under U.S. law, they can legally copy your entire hard drive and keep the contents for something like 30 days,” he said. After a few hours, the border guards returned the computer. But Wilbert chose to get rid of the laptop after the search because he was concerned the government agents had tampered with it.

The Department of Homeland Security also has demonstrated an interest in the environmental group. DGR member Deanna Meyer, who lives in Colorado, was asked by a DHS agent during a visit to her home if she would be interested in “forming a liaison,” according to a Sept. 30, 2015, article in Earth Island Journal. The agent reportedly told Meyer he wanted to “head off any injuries or killing of people that could happen by people you know.” Meyer refused to cooperate with the DHS agent.

Wilbert views the federal police agencies’ ongoing actions against DGR members as harassment and intimidation. “It makes a mockery of free speech and democracy. We may advocate for radical and revolutionary ideas, but our work is legal. We are nonviolent. We are peaceful people,” he said.

The federal government’s treatment of DGR members is similar in some ways to how political activists were treated during the Red Scare era of the 1950s, contended Wilbert, who noted that Nicola Trumbo, a daughter of blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, is a member of DGR and a friend of Wilbert’s. Nicola Trumbo’s childhood was marked by government surveillance, blacklisting and intimidation, he said. Pointing to Dalton Trumbo and other victims of the McCarthyite period, Wilbert emphasized these tactics are not new.

“This government uses intimidation and violence because these tactics are brutally effective. For me and the people I work with, we expect pushback,” Wilbert said. “That doesn’t make it easy, but in a way, this sort of attention validates the fact that our strategy represents a real threat to the system of power in this country. They’re scared of us because we have a plan to hit them where it hurts.”

The police scrutiny of DGR members is continuing at the same time local and federal police agencies maintain a hands-off approach to the takeover of a federal government installation in eastern Oregon by an armed right-wing militia. Some of the militia members claim they would be willing to kill if police attempted to end their occupation of the federal wildlife refuge.

If environmental activists staged an armed occupation of a coal-fired power plant, coal export terminal, or hydroelectric facility in the Western United States, they would be subject to an intense and immediate response by police agencies, Wilbert said. “The federal government doesn’t really give a damn, by and large, about what happens in the open West, at least when it’s wealthy white people doing the occupying,” he said. “But any occupation that actually threatened their power would see swift retribution. That is one of the main jobs of the police: to protect the rich and business interests against the people.”

DGR has learned that the “Deep Green Resistance” book is part of the FBI’s library at the agency’s offices in Quantico, Va. “They’re definitely aware of us. We have filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out what kind of information the FBI is gathering,” Wilbert said. “But those requests were denied because they involve active investigations.”

When FBI agents visited her home in Pittsburgh, Neffshade said she felt fear during the questioning. She tried to remain calm. “I felt pressure to respond to their questions because, hey, I’ve been taught that it’s rude to just stand in silence when someone is speaking to you,” she explained. “I maintained silence long enough to gather my thoughts about which phrases are appropriate to say to law enforcement. After they left, I felt shaky and had to fight off feelings of paranoia.”

Before they left, the FBI agents handed Neffshade a business card and said, “If you change your mind, here is contact information.” Neffshades immediately contacted members of DGR to let them know the FBI had showed up on her doorstep.

While the FBI visit will make her more careful about what she writes in letters to prisoners, Neffshade said she has no plans to retreat from her involvement with DGR.

Mark Hand has reported on the energy industry for more than 25 years. He can be found on Twitter @MarkFHand.

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FBI Arrests Kauai Cop For Embezzlement

Karen Kapua was a lieutenant before she was fired for allegedly stealing $75,000 from the Kauai Police Department.


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A Kauai police lieutenant, who was once nominated for Hawaii officer of the year, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday for alleged embezzlement of government funds and money laundering.

Karen Kapua, 53, is accused of stealing an estimated $75,000 from the Kauai Police Department on three separate occasions between Dec. 23, 2013 and Dec. 5, 2014. She is also accused of trying to wire transfer more than $11,000 to pay off personal debts.
Karen Kapua, right, was arrested for allegedly stealing money from the Kauai Police Department.

Karen Kapua, right, was arrested for allegedly stealing money from the Kauai Police Department. She has since been fired.



Kauai Police Chief Darryl Perry issued a statement Thursday about Kapua’s arrest saying his department is cooperating with the FBI in its investigation. He said his department performed its own internal review of the matter and fired Kapua on Dec. 6.

“I am hopeful that the public will view this as an isolated incident and not a reflection of the department as a whole,” Perry said. “I stand by the men and women of the Kauai Police Department and their commitment to excellence

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Iran wants War


Look at how close they put their country
next to our Military bases



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FBI Agents Pose As Militia, Harass Locals

Jan 18, 2016

Chris Briels just quit his job in disgust.

Briels was the Fire Marshall for Harney County, Oregon last week but resigned after being told to “back off” after he blew the whistle on the activity of the FBI.

As the standoff in Oregon escalates, the FBI reportedly sent in undercover agents to pose as “militia” members.

The agents were seen lurking around the local armory and then caught harassing locals – still posing as out-of-town militia.

The former fire marshall held an impromptu press conference to announce his resignation and report the events that occurred since reporting the activity of the FBI to local judge, Steve Grasty:

“I’ve been told by Steve to distance myself from this committee of public safety. I’ve been told that we don’t know what we’re doing. I’ve been told that my life is in danger. I’ve been told all kinds of things. I will not be told what to do. I have my own mind, and I will use my own mind, not somebody else’s,”

It appears the FBI has used the tactic successfully as the mainstream media has reported that members of the standoff in Oregon have been harassing townspeople.

Here’s a video of Briels’ press conference:

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Teen testifies she was repeatedly raped by police officer

Former Michigan police officer raped his teenage relative while watching ‘Family Guy’ with her, she testifies



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Former police officer Troy Estree, 46, faces a potential life sentence if he's convicted. Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office
Former police officer Troy Estree, 46, faces a potential life sentence if he's convicted.

A Michigan police officer touched his teenage relative’s genitals and later raped her while watching “Family Guy,” she testified Wednesday.

The 17-year-old relative of former Emmett Township Public Safety Officer Troy Estree joined a 33-year-old relative who also testified in August that Estree sexually assaulted her in a hot tub while free on bond in the teen’s case, MLive reported. Estree gave the teen herpes when she performed oral sex on him, a pediatrician said in court Wednesday.

Prosecutors said the teen was 15 at the time Estree began sexually assaulting her — sometimes while on duty in the southern Michigan town near Kalamazoo, according to the Battle Creek Enquirer. The teen victim said she and Estree had been estranged for 13 years before the encounters and that she initially lied under oath because she worried they would lose contact again.

“I thought it was normal,” she said. “It was like a relationship thing. Now I know I had sex with [him], and it destroyed a whole family. It felt good. I had not had sex before and it felt good. I saw him more as a friend.”

The sexual encounters started in 2014, when she and Estree were watching the animated TV comedy “Family Guy,” the teen said. She didn’t try to resist because “if I said no he might walk out again,” she told the court.

“It started with him touching me up my leg and

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Quit delaying: Pay the money, test the rape kits


Published: Sunday, January 24, 2016 at 6:30 a.m. Friday, January 22, 2016 at 5:53 p.m.

Try to imagine an estimated 200,000 DNA rape kits piling up for years on end, sitting ignored and forgotten in law enforcement storage areas across this nation.

Now consider Florida’s particular embarrassment: Here, the number of unprocessed rape kits is officially more than 13,000. But, as bad as that sounds, the number probably is many thousands more than that. How do we know? Because when the Florida Department of Law Enforcement tried to catalog its rape kit backlog in a four-month survey, about 31 percent of Florida police departments did not respond.

Think about that for a moment.

Thirty-one percent of the police departments in the state either don’t know how many untested rape kits they have, can’t count that high, or don’t think they have to answer to FDLE.

Whichever it is, it only proves Gov. Rick Scott, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and Sen. Joe Negron, R-Stuart, are all on a public safety scandal of vast proportions. They’re pushing to do something about it.

I ask you: Besides rape, can you think of another crime where police have definitive evidence yet fail to process it?

Since the mid-1990s, law enforcement has had the ability to take forensic evidence from rape victims — body fluids, stray hairs, fingernail scrapings — and match





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CNN exclusive: FBI misconduct reveals sex, lies and videotape
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The Situation Room, CNN Special Investigations Unit
January 27, 2011 10:07 a.m. EST
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FBI misconduct revealed
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Internal documents obtained by CNN show misconduct by agents, supervisors
One document says one employee shared information with his news reporter girlfriend
More than 300 FBI employees out of 34,000 are disciplined each year, the bureau says
For more on this story, watch"The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer" tonight at 5 p.m. ET

Editor's note: Some content in this report may be offensive to readers. For more on this CNN exclusive story, watch Kyra Phillips' full report on "The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer" tonight starting at 6 p.m. ET.

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.

Read the FBI documents obtained by CNN

The reports, compiled by the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility, are e-mailed quarterly to FBI employees, but are not released to the public.

And despite the bureau's very strict screening procedure for all prospective employees, the FBI confirms that about 325 to 350 employees a year receive some kind of discipline, ranging from a reprimand to suspension.

About 30 employees each year are fired.

"We do have a no-tolerance policy," FBI Assistant Director Candice Will told CNN. "We don't tolerate our employees engaging in misconduct. We expect them to behave pursuant to the standards of conduct imposed on all FBI employees."

However, she said, "It doesn't mean that we fire everybody. You know, our employees are human, as we all are. We all make mistakes. So, our discipline is intended to reflect that.

"We understand that employees can make mistakes, will make mistakes. When appropriate, we will decide to remove an employee. When we believe that an employee can be rehabilitated and should be given a second chance, we do that."

Will, who oversees the bureau's Office of Professional Responsibility, said most of the FBI's 34,300 employees, which include 13,700 agents, follow the rules.

"The vast majority of our employees

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Saturday, January 30, 2016
NY Times' penetrating look at the heroin epidemic gets the cause and solution all wrong
On October 30, 2015 the NY Times published an in-depth article on the heroin epidemic, focused on New Hampshire, which saw the greatest increase in deaths from drug overdoses (74%) in the US between 2013 and 2014. New Hampshire is a bucolic place, where villages of tidy white capes and saltboxes lie sprinkled among the mountains and pine forests.

Manchester, New Hampshire's largest city, has a population of 110,000. In one 6 hour period on September 24, Manchester police responded to 6 separate heroin overdoses. Manchester saw over 500 overdoses and over 60 deaths between January 1 and September 24, 2015.

At presidential campaign stops throughout the state, candidates were forced to respond to the problem when New Hampshire citizens demanded answers. Hillary has a $10 billion dollar plan for prevention and treatment of abuse. Chris Christie prefers treatment to jail time for first offenders. Obama announced a $5 million initiative in August to combat heroin addiction and trafficking. NH has designated a drug czar. NH Senator Ayotte says "We've got to reduce the stigma." Narcan, an opiate antidote that has been made widely available, is admittedly a band-aid. It saves lives from acute overdoses, but does absolutely nothing to stem the tide of abuse.

The solutions being touted by politicians and the media include "working together:" police, citizens, and health-care facilities--though to what end is unclear; educating; reducing the stigma of heroin use (now that users are predominantly white and middle class we can relabel addiction a disease, not a crime); adding treatment facilities; and adding more police.

I call this salutary--but almost entirely missing the mark.

Overdose deaths and heroin users are at an all time high in the United States. Between 2 and 9 of every thousand Americans (0.2-0.9% of the population) is currently using heroin. In Maine, 8% of babies are born "drug-affected"--a stratospheric rise from 178 babies in 2006 to 995 babies in fiscal 2015. A NEJM study found that opiate-addicted babies in neonatal ICUs quadrupled between 2006 and 2013.

Despite what you have heard, the cause of our current heroin epidemic is not as simple as doctors overprescribing narcotics, or users switching to heroin when prescription drugs became more scarce and expensive.

While nationally, heroin overdose deaths jumped from 1.0 per 100,000 in 2010 to 3.4 per 100,000 in 2014, the number of prescribed narcotics held steady over the same period. A 2015 UN document noted that "A recent [US government] household survey in the United States indicated that there was a significant decline in the misuse of prescription opioids from 2012 to 2013" (page 46). A January 14 NEJM article (from the NIH) challenges the prevailing assumption that making prescription opioids harder to get was the major driver of increasing heroin use.

According to CDC itself, "CDC has programmatically characterized all opioid pain reliever deaths (natural and semisynthetic opioids, methadone, and other synthetic opioids) as 'prescription' opioid overdoses." That means illegally produced drugs in these categories are being designated as prescription drugs, when they are not. A further confounder is that heroin metabolizes to morphine, which is a prescription drug. So if fully metabolized at the time of autopsy, a death due to heroin may be labeled as due to a prescription narcotic. In these ways, estimates of use and deaths due to illegal drugs have been mischaracterized as due to legal drugs, prescribed by physicians.

The real cause of the current heroin epidemic is massive amounts of heroin flooding into the US, exceeding what can be sold in our large cities, and now finding its way into even the tiniest hamlets.

Here's the problem with the NY Times' and the politicians' solutions: neither fifty individual states nor thousands of towns and villages can treat, educate, exhort, investigate or imprison their way out of the heroin maelstrom, when the next fix is cheap and just around the corner. There are nowhere near enough social workers, foster parents, police, prisons, treatment facilities or sources of funding. Narcan and clean needles don't cut the mustard.

There is only one possible solution, and that is stemming the supply. The epidemic will continue to spiral out of control until this is understood, and acted on.


In my September 7 blog post, I showed that 96% of US heroin does not come from Mexico and Colombia, as claimed by multiple US government sources. Mexican and Colombian production is inadequate to supply even half the US market.

At least Canada knows where its heroin comes from: "According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police National Intelligence Coordination Center, between 2009 and 2012 at least 90 per cent of the heroin seized in Canada originated in Afghanistan." (page 46)

If one wants to get into the weeds on this issue, a 2014 RAND report titled What America’s Users Spend on Illegal Drugs: 2000-2010 is a good place to start. The report, performed under contract for DHHS and released by the White House, looks at multiple databases and identifies many problematic issues with estimates of heroin country-of-origin.

It shows that while Colombian opium was allegedly supplying 50% of a growing US heroin market between 2001 and 2010 (pages 82-83), Colombian production actually sank from 11 metric tons in 2001 to only 2 in 2009.

Furthermore, US government estimates for the 2000-2010 decade of Mexican production relied on a claimed 3 growing seasons per year, while in reality there were only 2. RAND admits Mexican production estimates by the US government were juiced:
"The US government now recognizes that the previous estimates were inflated. There are no back-cast revised estimates (marijuana and poppy/heroin) for the whole country of Mexico prior to 2011."
Mexico historically produced lower quality, "black tar" heroin, used west of the Mississippi, while the influx of heroin to the US, and particularly in the eastern US, has been of higher quality white powder. The DEA's 2015 National Heroin Threat Assessment notes, "Availability levels are highest in the Northeast and in areas of the Midwest, according to law enforcement reporting," which would make no sense if the heroin originated in Mexico. In fact, the same report revealed that the southwest US had the lowest number of respondents of any US region (only 4.3%) who felt heroin was the greatest drug threat (page 10).

Meanwhile, according to RAND, "in recent years, there have been no [heroin] seizures or purchases from Southeast Asia [Myanmar, Laos, Thailand] by DEA's Domestic Monitoring Program."

Back in 1992, DEA estimated that 32% of US heroin came from Southwest Asia (mainly Afghanistan). Since then, Afghan opium production has tripled. But in the years 1994 through 2010 only 1-6% of US heroin had a southwest Asian origin, according to DEA's Domestic Monitoring Program. Yet Afghan production accounts for 85-90% of the world heroin supply.

It would be great if we could point to improved US interdiction at the source, or to poppy field eradication to explain this anomaly. But neither is the case. Seizures of heroin in Afghanistan dropped from 27 metric tons in 2010 to 8 metric tons in 2013, according to the UN, figure 41. Only 1.2% of Afghan poppy fields were eradicated in 2014, also according to the UN.

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime 2013 Report is interesting:
"Continued inconsistency in the information available from the Americas on opiate production and flows makes an analysis of the situation difficult – while Mexico has the greater potential production of opium, it is Colombia that is reported as the main supplier of heroin to the United States. The Canadian market seems to be supplied by producers from Asia." page 30


"It is unclear how Colombia, given its much lower potential production, could supply larger amounts to the United States market than Mexico." page 37
It is undeniable: there has been profound, systematic deception by the US government to inflate estimates of the amount of heroin coming from Mexico and Colombia, presumably to conceal the actual origin of most US heroin, and possibly to protect its means of entry into the US.

We know where and how to look for heroin: Afghanistan and Myanmar are the world's #1 and #2 producers, accounting for over 95% of world production. Historically, heroin bound for the US leaves these countries by air. There are a manageable number of flights departing Afghanistan and Myanmar. We could put all the needed personnel in place, today, to fully inspect every flight and every airport.

The fact that we have looked the other way and pointed in the wrong direction is itself the smoking gun.
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EXCLUSIVE: Jury awards $15M to NYPD cop who sued police officers for falsely arresting and beating him

Wednesday, February 3, 2016, 7:30 PM

NYPD cop Larry Jackson (l.) with lawyer (r.) Eric Sanders after a Brooklyn Federal Court jury awarded him $15 million for being falsely arrested and beaten. John Marzulli/New York Daily News
NYPD cop Larry Jackson (l.) with lawyer (r.) Eric Sanders after a Brooklyn Federal Court jury awarded him $15 million for being falsely arrested and beaten.

An NYPD cop who sued a dozen fellow cops for falsely arresting and beating him at his Queens home was awarded $15 million in damages Wednesday by a federal jury.

"I feel vindicated," Larry Jackson, 45, told The Daily News after the stunning verdict. "Just like they say, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

Jackson told the jury he became the victim of a police riot after his wife called 911 on Aug. 22, 2010 to report an armed man had crashed their daughter's birthday party. Jackson was unarmed and tried to convince the gunman to leave the party.

L.I. WOMAN SUES COPS AFTER CLEARED OF STEALING DIAMOND RING FROM JEWELRY STORE

Jackson's wife and his cousin, who also called 911, told the operator that an off-duty police officer was at the scene, but that information was apparently lost on the 70 cops who ended up responding to the call.

Jackson insisted that he identified himself as a cop, which the defendants denied. He ended up getting beaten with punches, kicks, and blows from batons. He also suffered a fracture to his shooting hand.

None of the cops who testified at the trial admitted striking Jackson with a baton or handcuffing him. One officer, John Czulada, said he punched Jackson in the face because he felt threatened by the 6-foot-3, 300-pound plaintiff.

NYPD ACCUSED OF FIRING TASER AT WRONG MAN; VICTIM WILL FILE $5M LAWSUIT

"The jury has sent a message to the Police Department that what happened was unacceptable," said Jackson's lawyer Eric Sanders. "And that guy with the gun? No one ever bothered to look for him."

City lawyer Matthew Modafferi had told jurors that Jackson was out of control and resisting arrest, and should have counted himself "lucky" not to be charged with a crime ultimately.

"And we also know why he got lucky…he's a police officer right?" Modafferi told the jury.

L.I. WOMAN GETS $45,000 OVER QUEENS COP'S RACY PICTURE, VIDEO GRAB

But the jury rejected the argument, including the claim that Jackson was drunk. "That totally didn't happen," juror Lisa Gaeth of Queens told The News.

"I think sometimes the cops treat everybody like perpetrators," said juror Joni Marcinek of Staten

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How Corporations Killed Medicine

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Along the path toward the creation of a global capitalist system, some of the most significant steps were taken by the English enclosure movement.

Between the 15th to 19th centuries, the rich and the powerful fenced off commonly held land and transformed it into private property. Land switched from a source of subsistence to a source of profit, and small farmers were relegated to wage laborers. In Das Kapital, Marx described the process by coining the term land-grabbing. To British historian E.P. Thompson, it was “a plain enough case of class robbery.”

More recently, a similar enclosure movement has taken place. This time, the fenced-off commodity is life-saving medicine. Playing the role of modern-day lords of the manor are pharmaceutical corporations, which have taken a good that was once considered off-limits for private profiteering and turned it into an expensive commodity. Instead of displacing small landholders, this enclosure movement causes suffering and death: Billions of people across the globe go without essential medicines, and 10 million die each year as a result.

Many people curse the for-profit medicine industry. But few know that the enclosure erected around affordable medicines is both relatively new and artificially imposed. For nearly all of human history, attempting to corner the markets on affordable medicines has been considered both immoral and illegal.

It’s time now to reclaim this commons, and reestablish medicines as a public good.

Medicines as a Public Good

Most of us define public goods broadly. We use the term to refer to benefits like law enforcement, street lights, and mass transit, which are collectively provided and deliver shared value to all. Economists narrow down that definition somewhat, saying that public goods are non-rivalrous and non-excludable in their consumption.

Non-rivalrous means that any one person can benefit from a good without reducing others’ opportunity to benefit as well. My eating an apple prevents you from consuming it, so that’s a rivalrous good. But I can watch the same TV show as you without lessening your opportunity to enjoy it as well — that’s non-rivalrous.

Non-excludable means what it sounds like: A person cannot be prevented from consuming the good in question. Clean air is a good that can be enjoyed by all without the possibility of denying access to those who don’t register or pay a fee. But access to a private swimming pool is an excludable good. The classic example of a non-rivalrous, non-excludable public good is a lighthouse: One ship benefitting from its warning doesn’t subtract from any other ships’ chances of enjoying a similar benefit, and there’s no practical way of limiting the lighthouse’s warnings to a select few.

As the English enclosure movement proved, exclusivity can be artificially created by literally or figuratively walling off common access. Exclusivity can be undone as well: The modern open-source software movement takes a good that some have tried to make exclusive — software code — and freely shares it, leading to a plethora of creative developments.

In terms of medicines, an individual pill is rivalrous, but the details of the formula for creating that pill are not. Knowledge is a classic public good, in that it can be shared widely without penalty to the original owner. As Thomas Jefferson said, “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening me; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”

The public health implications of access to medicines generate another core quality of public goods: positive externalities.

One person’s consumption of an essential medicine provides clear benefits beyond the direct consumer. Vaccines, for example, prevent the recipient both from getting ill and from spreading the disease to others. If a society vaccinates widely enough, the chain of disease transmission is broken, leading to the quintessential public good of mass immunity. Global distribution of the smallpox vaccine, for example, has led to the eradication of a disease that once infected 50 million people a year.

Even less obviously social medicines allow their recipients to better contribute to the social fabric and economic productivity of their communities. These medicines save costs for the broader society, too. When a diabetic takes insulin or a person with a risk for heart disease takes cholesterol-reducing medicine, they not only function better: They also lower their prospects of needing more expensive medical treatment, which is a cost often shared across societies.

Conversely, a lack of access to medicine causes enormous social problems in terms of contagion and economy-depressing illnesses.

So it’s little wonder that, for nearly all of human history, societies have treated medicine as a commonly held benefit. Until well past the middle of the 20th century, few countries allowed individuals or companies to hold exclusive rights to produce medicines. And governments have long been involved early and often in the pharmaceutical industry, creating the very opposite of a laissez faire market. Most industrialized governments tightly regulate the production and distribution of medicine, while actively promoting vaccinations and encouraging safe use of other medicines. Governments are both leading funders of medicine research and top purchasers of the end products of that research.

When governments don’t take a sufficiently activist role in the field of medicines, public opinion pushes them further. In the 1990s and 2000s, advocates gave voice to passionate outrage over the devastating human cost of patent-priced HIV/AIDS medicines, which limited access to sufferers who could afford expensive treatments. U.S. activists threw the ashes of AIDS victims on the lawn of the White House, while African activists called treatment-resistant government ministers murderers. The protests led to the dismantling of patent price barriers — and then to massive public programs to distribute the medicine at low or no cost.

Among governments and the public alike, medicines continue to be treated as a good quite distinct from consumer items like cell phones or flat-screen TVs. A human right to access essential medicines has found its way into international treaties and national constitutions. A moral claim for universal access to essential medicines has been put forth not only by faith-based organizations and civil society actors, but also by many drug developers themselves. Jonas Salk, for example, declined to pursue a patent for the polio vaccine, saying the patent belonged to the people. The creator of the first synthetic malaria vaccine donated the patent to the World Health Organization.

As Salk said in 1952: “Would you patent the sun?”

The Enclosure of Essential Medicines

The origins of modern intellectual property law can be traced back to the occasional awards of exclusive rights to artists in ancient Persia and Greece.

“Letters patent,” meaning open letters, were issued in 14th century England to induce foreign craftsmen to relocate there. Attempts to coordinate global intellectual property rules led to the 1883 Paris Convention and the 1886 Berne Convention, and eventually to the creation of the United Nations’ World Intellectual Property Organization in 1967. But nations who signed on to those agreements retained the ability to determine the length of patents and what products would be covered. For many nations, that flexibility meant excluding medicines from patent protection. For example, Germany’s patent law of 1877 labeled medicines as “essential goods,” along with food and chemicals, and prohibited any attempts to patent them.

In the middle of the 20th century, several post-colonial nations adopted similar laws. India’s patent law extended only to the processes for creating medicines, not the drugs themselves. The law opened the door for Indian pharmaceutical manufacturers to reverse-engineer patented drugs and then devise different, cheaper production methods. India soon became known as “the pharmacy of the developing world.” Brazil, Mexico, and other Central and South American countries also adopted limits on the patentability of medicines.

European countries like Italy and Sweden didn’t grant pharmaceutical patents until the 1970s, and Spain refused to do so until 1992. Even when medicine patents were given, many nations granted liberal access to compulsory licenses for patented drugs, meaning that generic manufacturers were free to make the drugs and pay a royalty to the patent holders. During the period between 1962 and 1992, Canada granted 613 licenses to import or manufacture pharmaceutical products.

As commerce became increasingly global, this state of affairs deeply concerned pharmaceutical companies. Over time, an industry that once competed on the basis of manufacturing innovation and price had come to rely on the profits of patent monopolies. At one time in the mid-20th century, for example, Pfizer drew a full 33 percent of its global sales from just two patented drugs. So — as extensively chronicled in Peter Drahos’ and John Braithwaite’s 2002 book, Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy? — Pfizer took the lead in an ambitious campaign to create a global system of intellectual property protection: an enclosure of essential medicines.

The first step in that effort was countering the dominant international view that medicine compounds were not private property that could or should be owned by companies and individuals. Economists call this process the transformation of a public good into a “club good,” like taking a public park and turning it into a gated dues-required golf course. A July 1982 op-ed in the New York Times by the chair of Pfizer International, entitled “Stealing from the Mind,” started the process of creating that club good. The column charged that U.S. inventions were being “stolen” by governments that didn’t protect patent rights. When governments outside the U.S. refused to block generic manufacturing, the pharmaceutical industry argued, they were indulging acts of piracy.

But there was little in the way of binding international law to back up that position. So the industry pushed directly for the U.S. government to make intellectual property protection a priority in all trade negotiations. Of course, inserting monopoly patent rights into trade agreements runs counter to those agreements’ stated purpose of dismantling barriers to global competition. Yet the pharmaceutical industry, reliably at the top of the list in both lobbying expenditures and political campaign contributionsin the United States, quickly found willing partners on Capitol Hill and in the White House. The U.S. soon adopted intellectual property protection as a litmus test for its trade partners.

The approach was to offer carrots to patent-resistant countries — enhanced access to U.S. markets and some reductions in the subsidies of U.S. agricultural exports — while simultaneously brandishing some imposing sticks. In 1984, aggressive pharmaceutical sector lobbying helped amend the U.S. Trade Act to give the president the authority to impose duties on or withdraw trade benefits from any nation that did not provide “adequate and effective” protection for U.S. intellectual property.

A few years later, the law was amended again, this time to give the U.S. trade representative the power to put offending countries on what became known as a Special 301 watch list, a designation dreaded by countries whose economies relied on trade with the United States. The two countries that resisted pharmaceutical patents most vigorously, India and Brazil, were placed in the more serious “priority” watch list.

Against this ominous backdrop, the World Trade Organization in 1986 convened talks to create a global intellectual property agreement. At the time the talks began, more than 40 of the 90 counties involved refused to grant patents for pharmaceutical products, and others that did grant them adopted strict limits. But over the course of years of negotiations, U.S. trade pressure wore down the resistance. By April of 1994, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, aka TRIPS, was signed by 123 government ministers. The deal was one of the foundational documents of the World Trade Organization, and immediately became the most significant intellectual property agreement of modern times.

TRIPS transformed an uneven worldwide patchwork of intellectual property law into a blanket of standards mandating protection for holders of patents, copyrights, and trademarks. For patent holders, that protection features at least 20 years of government-granted monopolies on their products, including medicines. TRIPS also requires each nation to award intellectual property rights regardless of national origin, a boon for multinational pharmaceutical corporations and a death blow to their local manufacturing rivals.

The enclosure of essential medicines was complete.

The Fallacy of the Patent Incentive

When pushing for the TRIPS agreement and other mechanisms to extend medicine patent rights, pharmaceutical corporations justify enclosure by claiming that patents are necessary to spur innovation. If medicinal discoveries can be immediately copied and sold to others, the argument goes, no organization will devote the resources needed for research and development of new medicines.

In economic terms, this presents the classic “free rider” problem. Their solution was the temporary patent monopoly, which is lucrative enough to incentivize medical research.

Again, the echoes reverberate from the land enclosure movement, where the justification for massive property appropriation was the so-called “tragedy of the commons”: A good communally held doesn’t provide anyone with the incentive to invest in its development. (The second component of the tragedy of the commons — that freely available goods are subject to overuse — doesn’t apply to the medicine situation. Remember that a medicinal formula is non-rivalrous, so its use by a manufacturer in India doesn’t prevent a Connecticut company from using the same formula as m

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Like Rafael Cruz, Rubio’s parents left Cuba before Castro came to power. Mario and Oriales Rubio left Cuba in 1956 but were not naturalized as U.S. citizens until 1975, making Senator Rubio a classic anchor baby. However, Cruz, who was born in Calgary, does not even appear to have “anchor baby” citizenship rights.

The heart of the GOP’s caudillo aficionados is southern Florida and its Cuban expatriate community. This immigrant sector has propelled into office a virtual Cuban mafia from the Miami area, including Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, U.S. Representative Mario Diaz-Balart, and his brother, Lincoln Diaz-Balart. The father of the Diaz-Balart brothers was Rafael Diaz-Balart, the Majority Leader of the Cuban House of Representatives and a supporter of the Batista regime.

The Cuban expatriate community could have never achieved the power they now maintain in the Republican Party had it not been for the financial patronage extended to them by two well-known Cuban-American mobsters, Santo Trafficante, Jr., in Tampa and Jose Miguel Battle, Sr., of Union City, New Jersey, both of whom had links to the CIA and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Not just Republicans benefited from the Cuban mafia’s largesse. New Jersey’s indicted Democratic Senator Robert Menendez largely owes his political fortunes, which started in Union City, to Battle’s crime syndicate. Another Democrat, former Senator Robert Torricelli, who resigned in 2002 amid a Senate ethics probe, was linked to Battle’s North Jersey Cuban mafiosi.

Ted Cruz has much in common with George W. Bush’s failed nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, Miguel Estrada, who was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, long a backwater for CIA operations in Central America and the Caribbean. Estrada, a Harvard Law graduate, has a right-wing extremist track record that is emblematic of so many Republican Latino politicians and judges.

Ted Cruz’s desire to assassinate the Iranian leader is borne out of Cruz’s family’s culture of respecting the institution of the caudillo, the Latin American strongman who limits any threat to the ruling oligarchy or the corporate business interests by staging a coup d’état. Rubio’s celebration of the sudden resignation of Boehner at the same far-right Christian Values Voter Summit where Cruz spoke is also an indication of Rubio’s cultural affinity to caudillo politics. Although the age of the caudillo in Latin America is, thankfully, largely a thing of the past, the concept remains alive and well with the likes of Cruz, Rubio, and their supporters, Latino and non-Latino.

Politics and gender studies professor Meg Mott of Marlboro College in Vermont summed up nicely in a statement to The Christian Science Monitor the definition of a caudillo politician: “In the Spanish-speaking world, this type of leader is known as a Caudillo, the man on horseback who takes out the bad guys and leads his people to safety. He’s rough and he doesn’t care about fine things like legal rights, but that very roughness means he can get things done.” Although the statement was, ironically, in reference to Latinos possibly supporting the anti-immigrant Donald Trump, it could apply to any of the right-wing GOP Latinos running for office, including Cruz, Rubio, and Latino-wannabe Jeb Bush. Jeb Bush’s Latino son, George P. Bush, the Texas Land Commissioner and an aspiring national-level politician, combines the caudillo enthusiasm of the son of a right-wing Mexican immigrant with the oligarchic history of the Bush-Walker dynasty, a volatile mixture that should frighten every American citizen.

The Bush family has long surrounded itself with fascist Latino-Americans and resident aliens who have carried out patently undemocratic tasks for the CIA and the State Department. These have included the Cuban-Jewish immigrant from Havana Otto Reich, a key member of the Nicaraguan contra support network; Roger Noriega, the Mexican-American diplomat who helped arrange coups against Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti and Manuel Zelaya in Honduras; Orlando Bosch, the exiled Cuban CIA agent who carried out a number of terrorist attacks in the United States, Cuba, Venezuela, Barbados, Trinidad, Panama, and elsewhere; Luis Posada Carriles, another CIA contractor exiled in the United States who carried out terrorist attacks, many in league with Bosch, around the Caribbean region; Joe Fernandez, the Cuban-American and CIA agent who also used the alias Tomas Castillo and was part of Oliver North’s secret operation to smuggle drugs out of and weapons into Central and South America; Felix Rodriguez, the Cuban immigrant and CIA officer who was also a key part of the Iran-contra scandal; and Jose Rodriguez, the Puerto Rican former chief of the National Clandestine Service of the CIA who helped institute the CIA’s rendition and torture program and then presided over the destruction of congressionally-subpoenaed videotapes of illegal torture sessions.

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The 1989 massacre of 16-year-old Celina Ramos, her mother Elba Ramos, and six Jesuit priests in El Salvador, that galvanized opposition to the U.S. relationship with Central American death squads and that sparked the movement to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas, is making headlines again.

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We celebrate the arrests of the perpetrators in El Salvador, and the decision by Magistrate Judge Kimberly Swank in North Carolina, to grant the extradition of SOA graduate Inocente Orlando Montano to stand trial in Spain. *SOA Watch also maintains that the U.S. officials who conspired with the Salvadoran military, and who are responsible for the training and funding of the death squads must be held to account as well. Will you make a donation to SOA Watch today, to demand accountability for human rights abuses?


The journey of SOA Watch is closely tied to the lives of 16-year-old Celina Ramos, her mother Elba Ramos, and Jesuit priest dissidents Ignacio Ellacuría, Ignacio Martín-Baró, Segundo Montes, Juan Ramón Moreno, Joaquín López y López, Amando López. The first SOA Watch vigil took place in 1990 on the anniversary of the massacre. We have been accompanied by the many who became ancestors before their time, drawing from their courage and continuing their resistance. We have been uplifted, educated, inspired, and humbled by the movements of the Americas as we have fought together against, coups, trade agreements, environmental devastation, military training, and human rights violations.

Along the way our sacred story, the story of Celina, Elba and the Jesuits has deepened and broadened. It has become the story of the torture survivor, the displaced campesino, the threatened union worker, the refugee and the migrant. The stories of all those who suffer at the hands of the school has taught us that the School of the Americas is more than just a tool of war. The School of the Americas is a tool of domination that engulfs economies, electoral processes, resources, and communities. It fractures, breaks, steals and sends its victims on long journeys to the borders that scar the lands of North and South.

The martyrs teach us the power of solidarity. They remind us that the beloved community emerges from a struggle that has no guarantees and is nourished by a desire that dares to name its vision. Today, the people of the Americas are facing a crisis – a migrant crisis – whose root cause traces back to the SOA. A deepening of solidarity calls us to journey to the border and journey with the migrants.

As social movement organization with roots on both sides of the border, we ask you to join us, as we broaden the path we have journeyed, to include the School and the border. Come with us to the US/Mexico border from October 7-10, 2016.

Please make a donation to SOA Watch: https://org.salsalabs.com/o/727/p/salsa ... e_KEY=6045" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Let's build our collective imagination as an antidote to empire in our voices, our songs, our direct action, our legislation, our Vigil, our Puppetistas and our hearts.

in peace and solidarity,

Hendrik Voss
SOA Watch

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FBI agents who beat their wives/girlfriends and get
promoted.





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March 24 2016


EXCLUSIVE: NYPD cop shoots, kills Bronx family’s beloved dog in incident captured on video (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT)

Updated: Thursday, March 24, 2016, 9:08 PM

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One minute Yvonne Rosado was dancing with her pet pit bull inside their Bronx apartment — and the next, her dog was dead in the hallway, a city cop’s bullet in its head.

A gruesom video captured the officer, responding to a domestic violence call at a neighboring apartment, pumping a fatal gunshot into beloved 4-year-old Spike.

The pet’s devastated owner says the cop needlessly lost his cool when the typically pleasant pooch, its tail wagging happily, wandered outside before the Feb. 13 tragedy.

“The officer just reacted badly,” a teary Rosado told the Daily News on Thursday. “I was screaming, ‘He’s friendly! He’s friendly!’ But he still did that to my dog.”

DOG SURVIVES NYPD SHOOTING, COP IN HOSPITAL FOR RINGING EARS

Rosado, 42, said Spike posed a threat to no one, comparing her slain dog to a fluffy Sesame Street favorite.

“He was like a big Snuffleupagus — a gentle giant,” she told The News. “He w

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Thursday, March 24, 2016Last Update: 2:11 PM PT

Cops Call Cheating Rampant in NYPD Promotion Test


MANHATTAN - Aspiring lieutenants have gamed the New York City Police Department's civil-service exams through a cheat sheet posted on a popular online message board, nine sergeants claim in a federal lawsuit.
On April 18, 2015, more than 2,400 sergeants filed into high school classrooms spread throughout Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan to take an exam for a promotion.
Sgt. Jonathan Blatt and eight of his comrades say that only 164 - or 6.8 percent of all test-takers - passed, but those who flunked the first time saw their luck suddenly improve upon reexamination.
Roughly 48 percent of the 80 sergeants who took the makeup passed.
That's because, between the two test dates, many police reviewed the answers on the department's online message board "Rising Star," according to a 13-page complaint filed on Thursday.
The lawsuit filed by sergeant's lawyer Randolph McLaughlin, from Newman Ferrarra LLP, reads a report from a poorly supervised grade school.
"Prior to sitting for the exam, cellphones and other electronic devices were not removed from the test-takers," the complaint states. "In fact, on at least one occasion, a proctor instructed test-takers who had a telephone to turn it off."
"In a number of classrooms," it continues, proctors would either take their eyes off the police or leave the room entirely.
If test-takers had to use the bathroom during the nearly seven-hour exam, they did not have to sign out of or back into the room, the sergeants say.
"Test-takers in the restroom were observed to be whispering among themselves regarding the ongoing examination," the complaint states.
Beyond "lax supervision," the sergeants say in their lawsuit that the "less-than-ideal" test settings included classrooms with "their windows open and outside noises were noticeable throughout."
"Furthermore, activities were being conducted throughout and outside of the high schools where the exams were being administered," the complaint states.
On Feb. 17 this year, New York's Department of Citywide Administrative Services published a list of 204 candidates who got passing scores, including the alleged cheaters, the sergeants say.
"Allowing officers who cheated and/or who disseminated information regarding the Lieutenants Exam's questions or answers prior to the makeup exam (and have thus not shown to be qualified) to be promoted to lieutenant could endanger the lives of police officers working under them and the public at large," the complaint states.
With officers set to be promoted on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer set a hearing date on Monday afternoon for the sergeants to show cause for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction delaying that date.
Sgt. Blatt said in a statement that he was "pleased" with the development.
"We filed this suit to protect the integrity of the promotion process, and hope that the court agrees with us," he said.
When asked to confirm an investigation within the department, the NYPD replied that it was "aware of certain issues that have been raised concerning the 2015 lieutenant promotional make-up exam."

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Bonus Read

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Judge: FBI-tied child porn collector 'not a danger' to school
Seattle man gets $1,000 fine, isn't banned from home across from Ballard school

BY LEVI PULKKINEN, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF Updated 3:06 pm, Friday, April 8, 2016






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America’s heart of darkness
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Republican Climate Change Denial is Blinding Our Ability to Observe
the Arctic
Denial.

It’s all-too-often what happens to the powerful when they are
confronted with the consequences of their own bad actions. It can best
be said that denial is blindness — the willful inability to open one’s
eyes to the tough reality of the world. In literature, we can see
denial in the tragic sin of hubris and in the metaphor of Oedipus the
King gouging his own eyes out as a result of his failure to come to
terms with the warnings of prophecy.

In the psychological sense, denial involves the inability to cope with
reality such that a person will act in an irrational fashion to the
point of generating fantasies that the object of said denial does not
exist. Behaviorally, this results in an increasing degradation of a
person’s ability to confront or cope with the object of denial — to
the point of ardent, irrational, and possibly destructive outbursts
when faced with it.

Arctic sea ice loss.

Ever since 1979 an array of satellite sensors has allowed our
scientists to directly observe the sea ice in the Arctic. Since that
time, and as a human-forced warming of the world ramped up, the area
which that ice covers has dramatically shrunken. So much so that by
this year, 2016, there’s a risk that not only will a new all-time
record low be reached, but that by the end of this summer almost all
the ice in the Arctic Ocean will be melted out entirely. A risk that a
new climate change related event will start to take shape in the
Arctic. The blue ocean events.



(Arctic sea ice area as measured by observational satellites and most
recently by  F17. The bottom line of the graph measures days of the
year. The left side of the graph measures sea ice area. The
corresponding intersections determine sea ice area on any given day of
a year in the record. The up and downward swoop of eac


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CAPA
Ed <uncleed33@hotmail.com>
To Ed <uncleed33@hotmail.com>
Wednesday, April 27, 2016 1:05 PM
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________________________________
From: Bill Kelly <billkelly3@gmail.com>

Subject: CAPA

Will you kindly read this, consider joining and pass it on to anyone
you know who is interested in these issues. Also attached as word doc.
Thank you, Bill Kelly
CAPA
Citizens Against Political Assassinations
Washington, DC
Dear Friends and Associates:
As a researcher and/or student of the JFK assassination, you may be
aware that The JFK Act of 1992 requires the release of all government
records on the assassination of President Kennedy by October 2017. The
president of the United States at that time will be responsible for
its enforcement.
Our recently formed nonprofit organization, Citizens Against Political
Assassinations (CAPA), will continue the fight we started decades ago
to get the law passed and ensure this Act is enforced as well as
undertake similar national initiatives on other political
assassinations to see the truth is revealed and justice prevails. To
do this we need your help and support.
CAPA plans to pursue the release of the remaining JFK records, file
Freedom of Information Act requests for more records, take legal
actions to enforce the law and undertake public education efforts to
see that the forces that orchestrated such assassinations will no
longer be able to influence government policies. These initiatives
require funding to be effective.
Please help by joining us and providing whatever financial support you
can afford, volunteering your time as part of a CAPA Committee,
contacting your congressional representatives, and spreading the word
on social media about CAPA, our mission, programs and legal
initiatives. Time is running out to do something about these horrific
crimes and cover-ups.
There is power in numbers so join this worthy endeavor to bring truth
and justice to those who have been killed for their beliefs. Thank
you.
The CAPA Board of Directors: Dr. Cyril Wecht, Andrew Kreig, Larry
Schnapf, Esq., Jerry Policoff, Michael Nurko, Bill Kelly and Ben
Wecht.
CAPA Board of Advisors: Professor Peter Dale Scott, Dr. John Newman,
Marie Fonzi, David Talbot, Alan Dale, Bill Simpich, and Dr. Gary
Aguilar.
Add your name to ours, become a CAPA member and serve on a CAPA board
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Censored, Surveilled, Watch-Listed, & Jailed: The Absurd Citizenry Of
The American Police State - BlackListed News
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5 hours ago - Express yourself on social media: The FBI, CIA, NSA and
other government .... in the eyes of the FBI (and its network of
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FBI failed to follow its own rules when it impersonated The Associated
Press in a 2007 investigation

Hannah Bloch-Wehba | Freedom of Information | Commentary | April 28,
2016
The FBI failed to follow its own rules when agents impersonated an
Associated Press reporter in order to locate a criminal suspect in
2007, according to documents newly released in response to a FOIA
lawsuit



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LETTER DETAILS FBI PLAN FOR SECRETIVE ANTI-RADICALIZATION COMMITTEES
Cora Currier, Murtaza Hussain
Apr. 28 2016, 1:02 p.m.
Illustration: The Intercept
OF THE PLANS put forward by the federal government to identify and
stop budding terrorists, among the least understood are the FBI’s
“Shared Responsibility Committees.”

The idea of the committees is to enlist counselors, social workers,
religious figures, and other community members to intervene with
people the FBI thinks are in danger of radicalizing — the sort of
alternative to prosecution and jail time many experts have been
clamoring for. But civil liberties groups worry the committees could
become just a ruse to expand the FBI’s network of informants, and the
government has refused to provide details about the program.

The Intercept has obtained a letter addressed to potential committee
members from the FBI, outlining how the process would work. While the
letter claims that committees will not be used “as a means to gather
intelligence,” it also makes clear that information from the
committees may be shared widely by the FBI, including with spy
agencies and foreign governments, and that committee members can be
subpoenaed for documents or called to testify in cases against the
people they are trying to help. At the same time, committee members
are forbidden even from seeking advice from outside experts

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Page 1 ANALYSIS OF SUCCESSFUL COMMUNIST INFORMANT INTERVIEWS (Not for
Dissemination Outside the Bureau) FEDERAL ...
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time of the program for developing top-level security informants. ...
methods the Communist Party uses in its efforts to uncover FBI
informants, and how to ...

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NH ANGLE


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Rapist deputy asks Belknap County cases to be dismissed
LACONIA — Convicted rapist and former sheriff's deputy Ernest Justin Blanchette has asked that a Belknap County Superior Court judge dismiss the four cases he faces locally because he wasn't employed by the Department of Corrections  





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The FBI Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny Wiretapping Your Amazon Echo

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May11 2016

An Amazon Echo, which the FBI can neither confirm nor deny has ever been hacked during an investigation (Gizmodo)
Back in March, I filed a Freedom of Information request with the FBI asking if the agency had ever wiretapped


May 12, 2016 - 06:59 PM EDT
Overnight Cybersecurity: Mozilla presses FBI to disclose hacking trick

BY KATIE BO WILLIAMS

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Privacy
by Tim Cushing
Thu, May 12th 2016 3:33pm

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Filed Under:
biometric database, biometrics, fbi, fingerprints, ngis, privacy

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FBI Doesn't Want Privacy Laws To Apply To Its Biometric Database
from the and-doesn't-want-to-let-citizens-know-how-THEIR-privacy-is-affected dept
The FBI has been building a massive biometric database for the last eight years. The Next Generation Identification System (NGIS) starts with millions of photos of criminals (and non-criminals) and builds from there. Palm prints, fingerprints, iris scans, tattoos and biographies are all part of the mix.

Despite having promised to deliver a Privacy Impact Assessment of the database back in 2012, the FBI's system went live towards the end of 2014 without one. That's a big



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FBI joint training at UT Memphis prepares for bioterrorism threat

May 12, 2016 -- A representative of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presents a case study during the Memphis Joint Criminal-Epidemiological Investigations Workshop at the University of Tennessee Health Sciece Center.
By Kevin McKenzie of The Commercial Appeal

Updated: 5:10 p.m. 0
The law enforcement, public health, emergency responders and others who might play a role






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U.S. Senator Rand Paul to back bill blocking FBI hacking expansion
by Reuters
Thursday, 12 May 2016 21:42 GMT
By Dustin Volz

WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) - Kentucky Senator Rand Paul plans to become the first Republican co-sponsor of legislation to block a pending judicial rule change that would let U.S. judges issue search warrants for remote access

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FBI Octopus



These Miamians, including Chicken Kitchen's CEO, show up in the ...
Miami Herald- May 15 2016
“It's not the days of Scarface anymore,” said Scott Moritz, a former FBI agent who works for finance consultancy Protiviti. “But Miami is a very international city,



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US policing Opinion
Giving the 'Ferguson effect' a new name won't make it truer
Samuel Sinyangwe
FBI director James Comey attributed a crime spike to police being scared of a viral video this week. That’s a theory that’s already been widely debunked


‘Crowd-sourced efforts demonstrate, at minimum, that police have not been “less aggressive”. If anything, the police appear to have doubled-down on the type of aggression that generated public scrutiny in the first place.’ Photograph: Alamy
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This week, FBI director James Comey used his platform to reignite public debate over the nefarious “Ferguson effect” theory, claiming national scrutiny of police was driving a “significant jump in murder rates” in US cities. Armed with anecdotes rather than facts, he asserted that more black and Hispanic men were dying because “lots and lots of police officers” were being less aggressive in their work for fear of being the next “viral video”.

This theory, as many experts have noted, relies on assumptions that are not supported by the facts. Unfortunately, we don’t have comprehensive official statistics on police use of force because the FBI, which Comey heads, has failed to collect this data. But crowd-sourced efforts demonstrate, at minimum, that police have not been “less aggressive”. If anything, the police appear to have doubled-down on the type of aggression that generated public scrutiny in the first place.

According to the Mapping Police Violence database, police killed 696 people nationwide in 2014 before the Ferguson protests began on 9 August. Police killed 739 people over the same time period in 2015 according to that database – the Guardian’s The Counted project recorded 709. Either way, an increase.

This year is no different. Police have already killed more people to date this year than they had killed by this point of 2014.

And there hasn’t been a crime wave alongside these increased killings, contrary to Comey’s assertion. Analyses by the Marshall Project and the Department of Justice found no evidence that violent crime has significantly increased in the nation’s largest



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Omaha FBI office inspection reports are missing from COINTELPRO era
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Omaha COINTELPRO proposal against Charles Knox was censored by the FBI to hide dirty tricks
FBI
A spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation has admitted that six annual inspection reports of the Omaha field office cannot be located. “We were unable to locate records,” said David Hardy, Section Chief of the Records Management Division.

Hardy sought to find annual internal inspection reports for the Omaha FBI office during the years 1967-1973. Hardy said, “we conducted a search of the locations or entities where records...would reasonably be found.”

The missing FBI records span the tenures of Paul Young and Fletcher Thompson as Special Agents in Charge. Both Young and Thompson proposed counterintelligence actions against “Black Nationalists” in Omaha under the illegal counterintelligence operation code-named COINTELPRO. Young targeted the Omaha Two, Edward Poindexter and Wopashite Mondo Eyen we Langa (former David Rice) of the National Committee to Combat Fascism. Thompson targeted Charles Knox of the Black Revolutionary Party.

The missing inspection reports would have shed light on clandestine dirty tricks. J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI for nearly a half-century, kept tight control of the Bureau and the COINTELPRO program. To avoid documenting the more serious crimes committed by FBI agents, Hoover established a sophisticated “Do Not File” system for the most “sensitive” operations. Counterintelligence measures that needed to be kept secret were documented on temporary files captioned Do Not File. The Special Agent in Charge would keep the documentation in an office safe instead of the regular filing system. During the annual office reviews the contents of the safe would be examined, verified, and destroyed with the inspectors making summary statements in the inspection reports.

Mark Felt, the “Deep Throat” of Watergate infamy, was in charge of the Inspection Division and functioned as a quality control officer. Felt did not object when FBI agents broke the law with counterintelligence actions. Instead, Felt's task was to make sure the misdeeds were being done efficiently and effectively. A typical office review would consist of an inspection team drawn from FBI headquarters and other field offices and could take several weeks. Files would be studied, the safe examined, and interviews conducted during the inspections. The inspection reports were detailed and comprehensive.

The FBI has posted the annual inspection reports of the Domestic Intelligence Division which are hundreds of pages long and catalog counterintelligence actions all over the country. Two of the national inspection reports mentioned Omaha. One discussed the name change from the United Front to Combat Fascism to the National Committee to Combat Fascism. The other inspection report told of FBI collaboration with Omaha police against Charles Knox.

The Omaha Two targets were ultimately convicted of the 1970 murder of an Omaha policeman after the FBI Laboratory withheld a report on the identity of an anonymous 911 caller who lured the officer to a bombing. Both Poindexter and Mondo denied any role in the crime. Poindexter remains imprisoned at the maximum-security Nebraska State Penitentiary. Mondo died at the prison in March. FBI files on the two men were both redacted and withheld. The missing inspection reports may have exonerated the two Black Panther leaders but now the extent of FBI manipulation of the case will likely never be known.

After Paul Young obtained the conviction of the Omaha Two he was promoted to the Kansas City FBI office. Fletcher Thompson followed Young and sought Hoover's approval for a COINTELPRO action against Charles Knox who had moved from Des Moines, Iowa to Omaha. FBI records do not disclose if Hoover approved of the plot against Knox. The specifics of the propo



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SECURITY DATE OF PUBLICATION: 05.15.16.
05.15.16
TIME OF PUBLICATION: 7:00 AM.
7:00 AM
EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT HOW THE FBI HACKS PEOPLE



RECENT HEADLINES WARN that the government now has greater authority to hack your computers, in and outside the US. Changes to federal criminal court procedures known as Rule 41 are to blame; they vastly expand how and whom the FBI can legally hack. But just like the NSA’s hacking operations, FBI hacking isn’t new. In fact, the bureau has a long history of surreptitiously hacking us, going back two decades.

That history is almost impossible to document, however, because the hacking happens mostly in secret. Search warrants granting permission to hack get issued using vague, obtuse language that hides what’s really happening, and defense attorneys rarely challenge the hacking tools and techniques in court. There’s also no public accounting of how often the government hacks people. Although federal and state judges have to submit a report to Congress tracking the number and nature of wiretap requests they process each year, no similar requirement exists for hacking tools. As a result, little is known about the invasive tools the bureau, and other law enforcement agencies, use or how they use them. But occasionally, tidbits of information do leak out in court cases and news stories.

A look at a few of these cases offers a glimpse at how FBI computer intrusion techniques have developed over the years. Note that the government

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Heat is online

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Taking Five to Think Big on Global Warming
05/23/2016 02:53 pm ET | Updated 8 hours ago
Ross Gelbspan
A writer and former journalist for the Boston Globe and Washington Post who maintains the website heatisonline.org
Climate change is the biggest threat facing humanity. It requires all the countries of the world to work cooperatively to limit its progress and manage its increasingly disruptive impacts. It demands our very biggest commitment. But first, let’s take five to think big about it.

No nation can address the warming individually or manage its impacts single handedly, without putting itself at a competitive disadvantage. The consequences of climate


New evidenve linking FBI agents to 911 Anthrax attack

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FBI’s Computer Analysis Response Team (CART) agents set up a work area in 2004 in Bruce Ivins office to copy his electronic files created September 2001 and October 2001 but the FBI has refused to provide the documents obtained by FBI’s CART agents in response to Ken Dillon’s FOIA request
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Rectal Temp reaches new high with
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May 25, 2016 62°

LAUSD has paid out $300 million in 4 years to students sexually abused by teachers


Settlements related to the sexual misconduct of former teacher Robert Pimentel, center, have reached $58 million, which is part of a growing tab for L.A. Unified.
RICHARD WINTON,
Howard Blume
May 25, 2016, 7:00 a.m.
In a recent court hearing, one young man after another claimed that former Franklin High football coach Jaime Jim


In other FBI news.,...,.

FBI agent Brad Orsini tried to murder
JFK assassination researcher Dr Cyril Wecht MD



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Pine-Richland H.S. Teen To Attend FBI Leadership Conference
May 24, 2016 5:02 PM By Sarah Arbogast
Filed Under: FBI, FBI National Academy of Associates, Jessica Lott, Pine Richland School District, Pine-Richland High School, Sarah Arbogast


PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – A local student is getting the opportunity of a lifetime.

She’s heading to the FBI academy in Virginia for some special training.

Jessica Lott still has a couple more years before she graduates from Pine-Richland High School, but she is already thinking about her future.

“I want to go into the business field and marketing,” Lott said.

She wants to be a leader in those areas someday and an award she just won will help with that.

Lott was just presented with a Reward of Achievement from the FBI National Academy of Associates.

In June, she’ll travel to Quantico, Virginia and spend eight days at the FBI academy.

“I think it’s going to be really hard just because it’s going to be new, but I’m really looking forward to it because there’s going to be so many opportunities that will come from it,” she said.

“She’ll be exposed to classrooms, physical fitness, lectures, and learn about leadership within the FBI,” FBI Special Agent Brad Orsini said.

“I think she’s a great choice. I think she’s going to have a blast down there and I think just base

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Hawaii could be first to put gun owners in national FBI database
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CHIEF OF THE CIA’S ‘BIN-LADEN’ UNIT TELLS THE WORLD THAT AL-QAEDA NEVER EXISTED
ARJUN WALIAMAY 30, 2016
  
The number of ‘whistleblowers’ that have emerged over the years regarding the ongoing ‘war against terror’ is truly eye-opening. Unfortunately, many remain innocently ignorant given the fact that mainstream corporate media will not touch this stuff. They are, however, very quick to jump on the ‘terrorist’ bandwagon when an alleged attack is carried out, supposedly by ‘The Islamic State.’

As prominent author and Canadian economist Dr. Michel Chossudovsky said, a statement that’s been used in several articles here at Collective Evolution:


We are dealing with a criminal undertaking at a global level…The global war on terrorism…is fake, it’s based on fake premises. It tells us that somehow America and the Western world are going after a fictitious enemy, the Islamic state, when in fact the Islamic state is fully supported and financed by the Western military alliance and America’s allies in the Persian Gulf. They say Muslims are terrorists…they’re not the product of Muslim society, and that should be abundantly clear…The global war on terrorism is a fabrication, a big lie and a crime against humanity.

The statement above was spoken at the International Conference on the New World Order, which was organized and sponsored by the Perdana Global Peace Foundation. The idea is called ‘false flag terrorism,’—the idea that powerful people are involved in supporting, perpetuating, and fabricating terrorist attacks, like 9/11 and what recently happened in Brussels, in order to create a heightened national global security state to justify the infiltration of other countries for ulterior motives. This motive, many believe, is for the creation of a New World Order. Don’t get me wrong, these attacks do happen, and people do die, but the story behind them is, I believe, as do many others, a lie.

Again, this idea has been expressed numerous times. Another great example comes from former British foreign secretary, Robin Cook ,who told us that:

The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al-Qaeda, and any informed intelligence officer knows this. But, there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an intensified entity representing the ‘devil’ only in order to drive TV watchers to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism.

The list is long one. Below is a video of Michael Scheuer being interviewed by RT news. Scheuer is a former CIA intelligence officer of 20 years. He is also an author, foreign policy critic, and a political analyst. Currently, he works as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. One of his assignments during his long career was serving as the CIA’s Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station.

Washington’s enemy is an enemy that doesn’t exist. It didn’t exist when Bin Laden was alive, it doesn’t exist now.

Another alternative viewpoint you don’t hear from mainstream media. Someone with a background like






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MAY 29, 2016 BY DEAN JAMES
Sheriff Issues EPIC “Explanation” After Deputies Shoot Cop Killing Illegal Alien 68 Times…


Dean James III% AMERICA’S FREEDOM FIGHTERS –

You are going to love this. 

Ten years ago, an illegal alien named Angilo Freeland shot and killed a sheriff’s deputy and his dog in Lakeland, Florida, which led police on a manhunt that resulted in another officer being shot.

The cop killing illegal ended up dying in a hail of gunfire.He was hit 68 times by the SWAT team members’ shots! Hell yeah!


Looks like Florida has a sheriff like Arizona has, “You kill a policeman it means no arrest… no Miranda rights… no negotiations… nothing but as many bullets as we can shoot into you- period,” said Polk County Florida Sheriff, Grady Judd.



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Colorado
Former Colorado sheriff turns self in after extortion and kidnapping charges
Terry Maketa has faced barrage of accusations for allegedly discriminating against workers who would not sleep with him and pressuring a domestic abuse victim to reverse a statement – so that she was jailed while her abuser kept his job

Terry Maketa is accused of extortion and kidnapping, among other charges. Photograph: Police photo
Josiah Hesse
Monday 30 May 2016
Last week, a former Colorado sheriff turned himself in to police custody following a grand jury indictment that charged him with extortion, tampering with a witness or victim, second-degree kidnapping and three counts of official misconduct. An undersheriff and commander were also booked on various charges.

Terry Maketa was sheriff of El Paso County for 12 years, until 2014. El Paso County is home to the conservative Christian city of Colorado Springs, known for its Republican voters and evangelicals.





His indictment came after a three-year effort among colleagues to hold





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Monday, May 30, 2016





An unknown assailant broke into an FBI agent’s vehicle in San Francisco, stealing a gun along with the agent’s badge, city police officials said.
The FBI agent reported that his vehicle had been broken into around 12:30 p.m. Sunday at the corner of Hayes and Pierce streets in Alamo Square, just 1½ blocks away from the city’s famous Painted Ladies, said Officer Carlos Manfredi, a spokesman for the San Francisco Police Department.
A .40-caliber Glock 27 was taken from the agent’s vehicle, Manfredi said, adding that theagent also reported his badge and other credentials were stolen

A San Francisco sheriff deputy’s gun was stolen from his home near Visitacion Valley in March.
Three handguns were stolen from an FBI vehicle parked in a Benicia neighborhood in January.
A .40 caliber handgun belonging to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was also lost in February after he left it on top of his car.
Handguns stolen from federal agents were used in two homicides last year. Oakland muralist Anotonio Ramos was shot with an ICE agent’s stolen gun and the gun used in the infamous shooting of San Francisco resident Kathryn Stei






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BI Gets Warrantless E-mail Snooping Added to Two Senate Bills
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Iran forces messaging apps to move data to Iranian servers

Today’s news proves once again that encryption is a cornerstone of the freedom of speech. Every time the FBI asks for a backdoor, the FBI also endangers countless numbers of people around the world who just want to be able to criticize their government freely.








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Attorney General Loretta Lynch's Law Firm Tied to Hillary Clinton
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It's well known that if the FBI recommends prosecution in the Hillary Clinton email case, the decision will be put in the hands of Attorney General Loretta Lynch.





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India-US to sign 2 key pacts during Homeland Security Dialogue
Financial Express‎ - 10 hours ago
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Man linked to former Mission police officer pleads guilty to drug ...
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accused Chapa and former Mission police Officer Hector "JoJo" Mendez with scheming to steal 15 bundles of cocaine. On July 29, 2012, Mendez ...

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site where hackers post
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Memhis Jury says FBI agents
assassinated Martin Luther King

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Half of Indiana police don't report hate crimes data to FBI
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — More than half of Indiana's police agencies failed to file hate crime reports with the FBI between 2009 and 2014, a trend


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Lynch police chief arrested following FBI investigation

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Posted: Fri 12:05 PM, Jun 03, 2016  |  Updated: Fri 8:43 PM, Jun 03, 2016

HARLAN COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - Kentucky State Police have arrested Lynch Police Chief Jackie Stewart on Friday.

State Police say they also arrested Stewart's girlfriend Rettie Morris.

KSP said the arrest came after a multi-agency investigation into narcotics in Appalachia was taken over by the FBI.

A federal indictment naming Stewart and


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Officer fires gun at Pine Ridge hospital


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Operation Condor: A transnational criminal conspiracy, uncovered
LUZ PALMÁS ZALDUA 4 June 2016


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The EPA is still stonewalling Inspector
General’s office
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The troubles at the Environmental Protection Agency continue unabated this month, but this time we’re


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Bureau of Prisons breaks space-time continuum to deny FOIA
by JPat Brown
June 02, 2016
Five years ago, Jason Smathers filed a FOIA request with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. A week later, the BOP closed out the request due to lack of interest - three days before they even acknowledged receiving it.
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CVE Watch
Department of Education refuses to release its feedback of FBI’s Counter-Extremism website
by Waqas Mirza
June 01, 2016
The Department of Education has rejected a FOIA request for departmental feedback on the FBI’s Countering Violent Extremism website, which recruits teachers to spy on “troubled” Muslim teens.
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Parents refusal to get vaccine forced the Minnesota zoo to put down their meerkats
by JPat Brown
May 31, 2016
With debate raging over the Cincinnati Zoo’s decision to euthanize an endangered gorilla after a child fell into its enclosure, documents from a similar incident ten years prior raise the same questions about parental responsibility and stringent laws concerning animal safety.
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The NSA’s guide to the internet is the weirdest thing you’ll read today
by JPat Brown
May 27, 2016
The NSA has a well-earned reputation for being one of the tougher agencies to get records out of, making those rare FOIA wins all the sweeter. In the case of Untangling the Web, the agency’s 2007 guide to internet research, the fact that the records in question just so happen to be absolutely insane are just icing on the cake - or as the guide would put it, “the nectar on the ambrosia.”
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Heat is Online

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122 degrees: Palm Springs breaks record — and it could get hotter

Coping with the heat wave in Southern California

June 20, 2016, 6:46 p.m.
Every so often someone walks into the Palm Springs Visitors Center raring to burn through hiking trails like they're British adventurer and TV personality Bear Grylls.

For those people, Ceej Juarez, who provides information about hiking trails in the Agua Caliente Indian reservation, has to be a voice of reason.  And that is never as important a job as it was on Monday, when a torrid heat wave sent temperatures to 122 degrees in the resor


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WED JUN 22, 2016
Meet the FBI Informant Who Organized Neo-Nazi Gathering Attended by Jo Cox Murder Suspect in 2000



We turn now to look at Thomas Mair, the British man who killed British parliamentarian Jo Cox last week. Mair reportedly yelled out "Britain First" during the attack—a reference to the far-right, anti-immigrant political party of the same name which is pushing for Britain to leave the EU in tomorrow’s Brexit referendum. In court on Friday, Mair gave his name as "Death to traitors, freedom for Britain." Cox was a vocal advocate for Britain to remain in the European Union. More information is coming to light about Mair’s ties to neo-Nazi groups in the United States and Britain. Meanwhile, a former paid FBI informant named Todd Blodgett has revealed he met Thomas Mair at a neo-Nazi gathering that the informant set up in London in 2000. Joining us now is Todd Blodgett, who once worked with several leaders of the far right, including Willis Carto, who founded the Liberty Lobby, and William Pierce, leader of the neo-Nazi National Alliance.

AMY GOODMAN: We move on to our next segment now, the story of the assassination of a British Labour leader. Juan?

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, we turn now to Britain, which is continuing to mourn last week’s murder of parliamentarian Jo Cox. She was stabbed and shot last week in her district after meeting with constituents. Her murderer, Thomas Mair, reportedly yelled out "Britain First" during the attack—a reference to the far-right, anti-immigrant political party of the same name which is pushing for Britain to leave the EU in tomorrow’s Brexit referendum. Cox was a vocal advocate for Britain to remain in the European Union.

More information is coming to light about Mair’s ties to neo-Nazi groups in the United States and Britain. The Southern Poverty Law Center here in the U.S. has revealed Mair is a longtime supporter of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Documents released by the center show Mair has spent over $500 buying periodicals and other items from the group, including a manual that contained information on how to build a pistol. In addition, The Daily Telegraph is reporting Mair subscribed to S.A. Patriot, a South African magazine published by White Rhino Club, a pro-apartheid group.

AMY GOODMAN: Meanwhile, a former paid FBI informant named Todd Blodgett has revealed he met Thomas Mair at a neo-Nazi gathering that the informant set up in London in 2000. Beginning in the mid-'90s, Blodgett worked with several leaders of the far right, including Willis Carto, who founded the Liberty Lobby, and William Pierce, leader of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Blodgett was also a co-owner of Resistance Records, the world's largest neo-Nazi music label. Todd Blodgett is joining us now from his home in Iowa.

Todd Blodgett, welcome to Democracy Now! Tell us what you know about this man, Thomas Mair, who killed Jo Cox.

TODD BLODGETT: Yes, thank you. I met Tommy—he was known as Tommy when I met him in about May of 2000. I had just begun working as a paid FBI informant in March of that year. William Pierce, who was the main guy with Resistance Records, but also my co-owner, wanted to convene a meeting in London, because there was a Leeds chapter and another chapter of the National Alliance. And the purpose of the meeting was to promote Resistance Records, let people know that William Pierce was the—was the new owner of it—he bought it from Willis Carto—and also to gain readerdom, gain more customers and get distributors for Resistance Records. And Mair was one of the people invited to the meeting. There were about maybe 17 or 18 people at that meeting. And it took place just off of the Strand in London in the spring of 2000. And as I said, he attended the meeting along with Stevie Cartwright, Richard Barnbrook, Nick Griffin, who was sort of like the David Duke of England at that time, and several other people who were either members of the National Alliance or supporters of the NA.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Now, why were you at that meeting representing Mr. Pierce?

TODD BLODGETT: Well, of course, Pierce did not know that I had agreed to work for the bureau at that point. And he wanted to go over to England—

AMY GOODMAN: For the FBI.

TODD BLODGETT: For—yeah, for the FBI, that’s correct. He, himself, wanted to go, but he was precluded by law from being able to go there, due to the fact that he couldn’t get in. I mean, his views kept him out of—out of England, so he sent me in his stead, because he and I were the co-owners of Resistance Records at that time. And when I began with the FBI, I told them about what Pierce wanted to do. And right away, they said, "Well, we’re going to accompany you." So, the day before I arrived in London, two FBI agents, an IRS agent and a JTTF agent—that would be the Joint Terrorism Task Force—flew in ahead of me, and they had me meet with the two people, two guys, from the MI5. They gave me a cellphone to use when I was there and that kind of thing. So, that’s how it all worked out.

AMY GOODMAN: Why did you decide to work for the FBI? I mean, were you a neo-Nazi true believer?

TODD BLODGETT: I was never a true believer. I was never a Holocaust denier. I’m not a bigot or a racist or anything. I was basically—I guess the best way to say it is I was—I was greedy. I was an opportunistic profiteer. I didn’t look at the consequences to myself or to others of what I was doing. And I never wanted to be a Resistance Records shareholder, but Willis Carto of Liberty Lobby owed me money. And when he went bankrupt, he—when Liberty Lobby went bankrupt, they gave me stock in Resistance Records in lieu of that, and that’s how I became a co-owner.

What had happened with regard to Pierce was, is that after the deal was signed with Pierce and he gave me a consulting contract he insisted I take as part of my stock sale—he wouldn’t buy the shares without it—we went to a place called the University Club of D.C. The Washington Post got a hold of the article, and it caused a big uproar there, and I was expelled from the club. I was given the option to resign or be expelled. I was expelled. And basically, that’s when the FBI caught notice of this, and the agents came to my office in downtown D.C., and they said, "Look, we’re not after you, but we know you’ve worked with all these people—Willis Carto, Pierce, David Duke—all the head honchos among the racist right, as a profiteer. Will you help us?" And that’s when I agreed to—I agreed to go on as a paid informant.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Now, this meeting that occurred in 2000 in—I think it was in Leeds in England, these were some of the top neo-Nazi or white supremacist leaders in England. What kind of interaction did you have with Thomas Mair? And what impression did you take away from him at that meeting?

TODD BLODGETT: Well, first of all, the meeting was actually in downtown London, not Leeds, but there were several people from the Leeds chapter at this meeting. And I—as far as Thomas Mair, I would say that most people describe him—he was kind of like a working-class guy, but very well read. I mean, he was discussing a book or two that he had read by David Irving, the Holocaust-denying pseudohistorian, who I also monitored. He would probably—I guess the best way to describe him is just nondescript, well mannered. When you go to a meeting like this, any kind of gathering, the guys—they’re always all guys—there’s a lot of bravado, a lot of macho, a lot of braggadocio going on. People talk about who they beat up last week and how they took on six guys and kicked their butt. They brag about their womanizing. Mair was none of those. He didn’t do any of that. He got—he came by himself. He actually left by himself. As he got there, he was respected by the people that were there. He knew some. They knew him by name. He was not an outgoing guy. If you were to ask me at the end of that meeting, say, a wall of guys there, who would have been the least likely to even start a fistfight, I would have said Tommy Mair.

AMY GOODMAN: According to British media reports, Thomas Mair, or Tommy Mair, as you call him, was a subscriber to the pro-apartheid magazine, South African Patriot in Exile.

TODD BLODGETT: I read that.

AMY GOODMAN: This week, the Southern Poverty Law Center published two letters that Mair wrote to editors of the magazine. In 1999, Thomas Mair wrote, quote, "I was glad you strongly condemned 'collaborators' in the White South African population. In my opinion the greatest enemy of the old Apartheid system was not the African National Congress and the Black masses but White liberals and traitors." And then, in a 1991 letter to the publication, Mair wrote, quote, "The nationalist movement in the U.K. also continues to fight on against the odds. ... Despite everything I still have faith that the White Race will prevail, both in Britain and in South Africa, but I fear that it’s going to be a very long and very bloody struggle." Those the words of Thomas Mair. Todd Blodgett, what was your reaction when you heard who was the man who murdered the Labour MP, Jo Cox?

TODD BLODGETT: When I first saw his picture, and I recognized him right off, when I first heard his name, I remembered it, you know, my first reaction was, gosh, I mean, this is—aside from the fact it’s a horrible thing, I thought, you know, this wasn’t the kind of guy I would have picked out to do that. I would have thought someone like Stevie Cartwright or someone would be more likely to do that. They were the more—you know, the more brutal types. But then I realized a lot of people that I monitored, which included a guy named Wade Page, who did a similar thing—he went into a—I think it was a Hindu temple in Wisconsin, and killed a bunch of people about three years ago—sometimes it’s those very kind of guys that are the most lethal, which is why Tommy Mair and people like him represent such a huge challenge to MI5 and the FBI and other law enforcement, because they can be dormant for many years. They can be on the radar, then they go off the radar. They’re the kind that—you know, they’re not the kind that—Tommy Mair was not the kind of guy you’d pick out to start a fight in a bar. He was not like a tough kind of guy. He didn’t pose as a tough guy. He just basically was a nondescript kind of guy. And I thought, you know, obviously he is not—his hatred has not changed. He just found an outlet for it, and he finally decided to try to go out in a blaze of glory. And that’s—that was my reaction.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Todd Blodgett, you did this undercover work for the FBI, but yet you’ve also been public since then about your activities. Are there any concerns on your part of your own personal safety as a result of the work you did to uncover the activities of some of thes white supremacist groups?

TODD BLODGETT: There are—I do have some concerns. I live in Texas, as well as in Iowa. And I’ve had strangers walk up to me in bars in Texas and call me—I won’t say this name, these words, on the air, but, you know, they’ll use the N-word, they’ll use derogatory names for Jewish people, and they’ll say I’m a blankety-blank lover or a race traitor, that kind of thing. So there’s always that concern. But I will say this—I want to get this out: I have a concealed-carry permit that’s good in 37 states, and I can legally—I am legally armed. I’m armed right now. And so, if they want to try to make a fight with me, they might take me out, but I’m going to take them with me.

AMY GOODMAN: The presidential election right now, the support that Donald Trump has gotten from, for example, David Duke—right?—the former Klan leader—

TODD BLODGETT: Right.

AMY GOODMAN: —white supremacist, your thoughts on white supremacists in this country, Klan support of Donald Trump?

TODD BLODGETT: I think it’s very tragic. I mean, anyone has a right to support who they want to. But I worked for Reagan for many years, and when Reagan was endorsed by the KKK in the fall of 1980, his response was a great response. He said, "Look, just because they like my philosophy doesn’t mean I buy theirs." Trump kind of stumbled over that thing. I don’t think Donald Trump is a white supremacist, but I’m very disturbed by the fact that he’s got support from them, and I’m also disturbed by the comment he made about the judge. I can’t think of—Judge Curiel, I think his name is. But he made a—he made a stupid reference to the fact that he’s of Hispanic descent, which is totally irrelevant to the case. I worked with David Duke. I monitored him for the FBI. I’ve done—you know, I monitored all these people. They’re, without exception, a bunch of sociopaths. They’re just bad people. And most of their supporters tend to be bad people, too. So I don’t want to see that kind of thing being any part of the Republican Party. I’m still a Republican. I was for Jeb Bush for the nomination; before that, for Dr. Carson. But I don’t want to see that part—I want this flushed out of the party.

AMY GOODMAN: What is it about Donald Trump, you think, that attracts white supremacists, neo-Nazis?

TODD BLODGETT: I think it is because they recognize, in their world, to their way of thinking, demographics are destiny. That was one thing that William P




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Three high-ranking officers in the NYPD acted as “cops on call” for two deep-pocketed de Blasio donors — as long as their “elves” plied them with gifts and bankrolled a highflying lifestyle that included hookers, free hotels and expensive meals.

Deputy Chief Michael Harrington, Deputy Inspector James Grant an



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Chicago Cop Rightly Fired After Woman's Suicide



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A Chicago police officer was properly fired for spending time with a domestic-violence victim who later picked up his gun and killed herself, the Illinois Appellate Court ruled.
     Sgt. Steven Lesner responded to a domestic violence call from Catherine Weiland and her boyfriend at North Side restaurant in February 2009.
     Two other officers responded to the call and removed the boyfriend. Lesner then offered Weiland a ride home in his police car.
     On the way back to her apartment, Weiland asked Lesner to stop and buy her a bottle of wine. He agreed.
     Lesner stayed at Weiland's apartment for 40 minutes, talking to her brother and father, who lived in separate units in the same building.
     He agreed to drive them back to the restaurant to retrieve Weiland's car. Lesner also gave Weiland a card with his personal cell-phone number.
     She used it to call Lesner and invite him back to her apartment for a drink after his shift. Lesner put his duty firearm in his locker and strapped his auxiliary firearm to his ankle.
     Lesner bought beer for himself and more wine for Weiland before returning to her apartment. While they were watching television, Lesner had his feet on a table and took off the gun when he thought Weiland was not looking, because "it looks kind of stupid."
     When Lesner went to use the restroom, Weiland picked up his gun and shot herself in the head.
     An investigation revealed



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Federal prosecutors object to providing Oregon standoff defendants details on law enforcement response



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TWA 800: IF YOU SAW SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING
Exclusive: Jack Cashill seeks more testimony about downing of plane over Long Island

JACK CASHILL

This July marks the 20th anniversary of the shoot down of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island. As such, it may well represent the last opportunity for those with inside information to come forward.

In the last week or two, as I have started to promote my new book on this subject, “TWA 800: The Crash, the Cover-Up, and the Conspiracy,” I have heard from a number of people with stories to tell. If you know something or know someone who does, please email me at jcashill@aol.com.



Although most have given me permission to use their names, some have preferred that I not. To equalize things, I will refer to each of my correspondents only by a first name pseudonym.

Sam, the air safety chairman for the Airline Pilot’s Association, arrived at the crash scene on the first day. “From the get-go the FBI was all over us, no notebooks, no cameras, no nothing,” said Sam.

This was unprecedented. Sam worked through the National Transportation Safety Board. The NTSB was supposed to be in charge of the investigation. Under orders from the Clinton Justice Department, the FBI seized control on Day 1.

Sam soon identified a part of the plane that showed obvious damage from an external explosion. He had it tested it for explosive residue on site. It tested positive.

The next day he asked what happened to the p


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After complaints, Missouri sheriff removes disparaging photos of Obama, Clinton from office wall


When Scott Bringhurst went to the Gasconade County, Mo., sheriff's office last week



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Creating terrorists: The FBI's dark history of provoking violent attacks

The FBI's conduct with Orlando massacre shooter Omar Mateen is under fire, .... This was even stated by the FBI in 2010, when an agent told Ferdaus' father ...


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John Guandolo: Black Lives Matter Working 'In Conjunction' With 'Jihadis'
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File under you first have to get caught
to become a statistic

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officers arrested 1,100 times per year, or 3 per day, nationwide
By Tom Jackman June 22 2016




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NYPD detectives' union chief slams 'out of control' CCRB


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ARTICLE
Black Lives Matter crashes LGBT mural unveiling in Toronto



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: Saturday, June 25, 2016

Black Lives Matter protesters chanting “No pride in police” crashed a Toronto Police news conference Friday, where Chief Mark Saunders unveiled a mural honouring the local LGBTQ community. (JOHNNYOATLEY/VIA TWITTER)
A group of Black Lives Matter activists barged into a Toronto police department ceremony, where cops unveiled a mural honoring the LGBT community as a public apology for a decades-old anti-gay raid.

The protesters, chanting “No pride in police,” said the cop's gesture was nothing more than a publicity stunt “used to mask the reality of police relations amongst the queer and trans community, black people, indigenous people, sex workers et cetera,” local BLM co-founder Rodney Diverlus, 26, told the Toronto Star.

The mural was meant to celebrate the history of Toronto’s gay community and serve as a re




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The FBI Is Anonymously Calling LGBT Witnesses 'Not Credible'

A number of gay men are on the record, but the FBI is anonymously calling them "not credible."


JUNE 25 2016 1:10 PM
The FBI still has provided no explanation for what led Omar Mateen to kill 49 people and wound 53 others in an attack on a gay nightclub on Latin Night. But someone at the FBI is anonymously telling multiple media outlets that Omar Mateen didn’t have a secret gay life.

The witnesses who’ve come forward aren’t buying it, and some are striking back at the FBI for its failures leading up to the shooting. The FBI had interviewed Mateen a number of times before the shooting and removed him from a terrorist watchlist.

Kevin West had first told the Los Angeles Times he talked with Mateen on the gay dating app, Jack’d, for a year.

"It's almost certain that he covered his tracks," West told the Orlando Sentinel in response to the FBI’s anonymous quotes. "Lots of people are still secretive about it. They say they don't show their face online because, 'I'm not out to my family, or because of my career.'"

In other words, the FBI is naive if it really expected to find gay dating apps on Mateen’s phone, or anything in his Internet browsing history



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Nevada deputy accused of misconduct in drug probe
2:11 PM, Jun 25, 2016




- A former Washoe County sheriff's deputy faces a felony charge of misconduct after he allegedly sold sensitive information to a purported drug dealer.

The sheriff's office says Andrew Casacca of Sparks was booked into the Washo



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Police officer charged with sex crime resigns, Brunswick chief says
The officer is accused of sending explicit photos of himself to an undercover agent he believed was a minor.

BRUNSWICK — A Maine police officer charged with sending explicit pictures of himself to an undercover agent he thought was a 13-year-old girl has resigned from the Brunswick police department.



According to court paperwork, the Department of Homeland Security began investigating Brosnan after tracking him to a complaint from a parent in Arizona, who found his daughter having inappropriate conversations with someone online.

Court records show Brosnan then having conversations with a special agent posing as a 14-year-old girl, several of which became sexual and included pictures of him naked and asking for pictures in return.

On one occasion Brosnan asked for a picture of her without a bra on and stated that he would “like to make her pregnant.”

He also posted a series of videos of himself.

In one he appeared to say, “Come on baby, you have seen me, let’s go, let me see.”

Wednesday Brunswick’s Police Chief Richard Rizzo says he is disappointed and shocked
WCSH-TV reports that Brunswick Police Chief Richard Rizzo announced the resignation of 25-year-old Garrett Brosnan, of Bath, on Saturday.





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Alabama police officer arrested, accused of sexually assaulting man while on duty





on June 15, 2016 at 11:58 AM, updated June 15, 2016 at 12:27 PM





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A Montgomery police officer was arrested Tuesday and charged in the sexual assault of a man.

Deonte Lashawn Hamner, 27, is charged with first-degree sodomy, a Class A felony Montgomery police



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NYPD pull prank on rookie




Sunday, June 26, 2016, 8:37 PM

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The joke's on them.

A crew of NYPD nincompoops who pulled a locker-room prank on an ambitious rookie in Brooklyn may be facing departmental charges now that the precinct’s commander is treating the practical joke like a felony crime, the Daily News has learned.

On Friday, someone yanked out Police Officer Patrick Kurek’s locker inside the 72nd Precinct stationhouse in Sunset Park, turned it upside down, and put it back in its place, police source



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FBI Budget For Surveillance Tech To Reach Close To $1B: What Is ...
Tech Times-

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With the request for additional budget of over $100 million for next year, the budget of the FBI's Operational Technology Division inches closer ...



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JUNE 26, 2016 | PETER DALE SCOTT
CLASSIC WHOWHATWHY: WAS TAMERLAN TSARNAEV A DOUBLE AGENT RECRUITED BY THE FBI?



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