Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood boys and girls

Discuss political news items / current events.
Post Reply
msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood boys and girls

Post by msfreeh »

see link for full story
http://www.twincities.com/wisconsin/ci_ ... -atf-sting" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
ATF Uses Brain-Damaged Man with Low IQ to Run Drugs, Guns as Part of Federal Probe

The ATF used a brain-damaged man with a low IQ to help to handle drug and gun deals as part of an investigation into a Milwaukee storefront, the AP reports.

The man, Chauncey Wright, was paid in cigarettes, merchandise and money, but was charged with federal drug and gun counts once the operation was done, according to the AP.
Last edited by msfreeh on November 24th, 2015, 9:32 am, edited 1 time in total.

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

see link for full story
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/0 ... nce-court/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Surveillance Court’s Opinions Must Remain Secret, Feds Say

“The President Barack Obama administration is informing a federal judge that if it’s forced to disclose a secret court opinion about the government illegally spying on Americans, the likely result could be “exceptionally grave and serious damage to the national security.”

The statement came in response to a lawsuit demanding the administration disclose a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinion issued as early as last year. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) was briefed on the opinion as a member of the Intelligence Committee and was authorized last year to reveal that the surveillance had “circumvented the spirit of the law” and was “unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment.”

The Electronic Frontier Foundation of San Francisco sought the ruling as part of a Freedom of Information Act request. The government rejected the request. The digital rights group sued in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.”

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

see link for full story
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/2 ... ck-Johnson" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Obama should pardon the great Jack Johnson

Apr. 09 2013



C’mon Mr. President, pardon Jack Johnson.

Both houses of Congress have approved a resolution urging you to use your pardon power to right the awful wrong that was done to Johnson, this country’s first black heavyweight boxing champion.

In a rare show of bipartisanship, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, your biggest political nemesis, and Nevada Democrat Harry Reid, your party’s majority leader in the U.S. Senate, agree that Johnson deserves a presidential pardon.

Even Rock Newman, the legendary boxing promoter and impresario, has weighed in to urge you to right the wrong the U.S. Department of Justice heaped upon Johnson 100 years ago, when it charged him with transporting a woman (his white girlfriend) across state lines for immoral purposes.

President Obama “should do it because the prosecution of Johnson was so profoundly unfair and rooted in raw racism,” Newman told me.

Johnson’s real crime was that he was a black man who openly dated white women in the age of Jim Crow. In 1913, the year Johnson was accused of violating the Mann Act, the administration of President Woodrow Wilson segregated all federal agencies in Washington, D.C., including the lunchrooms and bathrooms inside government buildings.

It was against this backdrop that the nascent FBI scoured the country for a white woman who would say she traveled from one state to another for the purpose of having sex with Johnson, who won the heavyweight crown in 1908.

During the seven years that Johnson held the title, the fight game tried mightily to find a “great white hope” to defeat him. But before Jess Willard knocked out Johnson in the 26th round of their 1915 title fight in Havana, the black champion was badly battered by the federal government’s unrelenting, racist pursuit of him.

Now it’s time to right that wrong.

But Obama hasn’t answered calls for him to pardon Johnson, who died in a 1946 car crash. Obama’s reluctance to act, while disheartening, is not surprising. Since taking office in 2009, he has issued just 39 pardons, far fewer than any of his recent White House predecessors, according to ProPublica, the first online investigative news service to win a Pulitzer Prize.

Obama has pardoned only one of every 50 people who asked him for this constitutional grant of mercy. At this point in their presidencies, Ronald Reagan pardoned 1 of every 3 applicants, Bill Clinton pardoned 1 of 8, and George W. Bush forgave 1 of 33 people who sought a pardon from him.

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

see link for full story
http://californiawatch.org/public-safet ... ings-18852" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ex-officers often investigate police-involved shootings

April 10, 2013 | Shoshana Walter

Noah Berger/The Bay Citizen Oakland officers stopped Alan Blueford and two other teens on suspicion that they were hiding a gun. Eight witnesses said they heard Blueford say, “I didn’t do anything!” before police gunfire killed him.


After Oakland police Officer Miguel Masso shot and killed 18-year-old Alan Blueford last May, prosecutors quickly released their investigator’s findings about the incident, amid a public outcry and a protest that shut down a City Council meeting.

The shooting was justified, according to the evidence collected by Michael Foster – a former Oakland police officer.

In a city seething with distrust of law enforcement, legal experts and residents are now questioning District Attorney Nancy O’Malley’s wisdom in assigning former Oakland police officers to the task.
Related
Find out who investigates police-involved shootings in your area
Map: Where have Oakland police officer-involved shootings occurred?
Donate Now
Like our content?
Help us do more.

“I would hope that they would look for somebody not for one side or the other – some impartial person that’s not the police and not a community activist,” said Blueford’s father, Adam Blueford. “The prosecutor just kind of rubber stamps what the police said.”

Foster’s assignment was described as routine. It turns out that the practice of using former police officers to conduct investigations into shootings at their previous departments is widespread, according to a review of police prosecution records by the Center for Investigative Reporting, parent organization of California Watch.

The issue is all the more important now in Oakland, where the beleaguered police department is under court supervision. Last month, a federal judge appointed former Baltimore Police Commissioner Thomas Frazier to oversee the completion of an almost decadelong civil rights reform effort.

The city has seen two officer-involved shootings so far this month. After a witness mistakenly identified a 16-year-old boy as a robbery suspect, police said they perceived the boy as a threat and shot him in the jaw. Two days later, Oakland officers shot and wounded a burglary suspect who they said was brandishing a fake gun.

Prosecutors said they use former police officers for the investigations because they are best suited for the job, coming with years of training and experience. Other prosecutors and investigators said prior police employment wouldn't necessarily bias the investigation or outcome of a case.

O’Malley, Alameda County’s district attorney, said her office provides a separate but thorough investigation of each fatal officer-involved shooting and dispatches a team that includes an experienced attorney and investigator. The attorney, not the investigator, writes the final report, she said.

As for the Blueford investigation, O’Malley said her office reviewed all available evidence and statements from more than 40 witnesses and determined that the case “did not exist to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officer involved committed a criminal offense.” Foster declined to comment.

But legal ethicists say the use of former police officers creates an appearance of a conflict of interest that can erode public trust. And those ethicists say many ex-officers still have ties to their former departments, including a sense of allegiance to the “thin blue line” that can influence the subjective process of an investigation.

“Even though he might not want to be a policeman again, he still has an allegiance to the brotherhood,” said Cornell University law professor Charles Wolfram. “If they’re from the same department, that could create obvious problems.”

Ten district attorney’s offices in California contacted by the Center for Investigative Reporting said they use former officers for their police shooting inquiries. W. Scott Thorpe, chief executive officer of the California District Attorneys Association, called the practice “very common.”

Some prosecutors, however, keep the identities of the investigators who work on police officer shootings secret – the public may never know about potential conflicts of interest in police shooting investigations, the CIR review found.

For Oakland residents, prosecutors’ reports are one of the few sources of information about officer-involved shootings. Federal court-appointed monitors, in connection with the civil rights reform effort, have criticized the department’s own investigations as biased and unquestioning. The department seldom releases copies of investigations and police reports on officer-involved shootings, even to the families of the individuals killed.

In Oakland, some officers have faced more shooting investigations than others. According to police records, in the past 12 years, more than half of the department’s officer-involved shootings involved the same 20 officers.

In many cases, the investigations of some of the most shooting-prone officers showed potential conflicts of interest.

Frank Moschetti, a former Oakland police officer for 23 years, investigated a shooting case involving William Pappas, a SWAT team member responsible for three shootings, according to police records. In July 2010, he was among a group of officers who fatally shot a man wielding kitchen knives.

Also in 2010, Moschetti investigated Officers Omar Daza-Quiroz and Eriberto Perez-Angeles. The two officers, who were involved in the shooting death of a man in 2008, were responsible for the fatal shooting of Derrick Jones, an unarmed domestic violence suspect whose death spurred protests and an FBI investigation. He had led the two officers on a foot chase before ditching a marijuana scale that police mistook for a gun. His case is under review by the Department of Justice.

On April 1, both officers involved in the case were cleared of any wrongdoing in a federal civil trial filed by Jones' widow. The city already had paid a $225,000 settlement in a separate civil suit filed by his parents and daughter.

In 2011, three officers shot and killed a man wielding a fake firearm. After Foster completed his investigation, prosecutor John Creighton cleared the officers in Matthew Cicelski’s death. Less than a year earlier, Creighton had received an endorsement from the Oakland Police Officers’ Association during his unsuccessful run for superior court judge.

Deputy District Attorney Teresa Drenick called Foster and the other investigators professional and unbiased. If there is bias, Drenick said, the prosecutors who work alongside the investigators would intervene.

“The district attorney is there throughout the entire thing, everything,” Drenick said. “They go as a pair to all of the interviews. And then the ultimate report that is done is written by the deputy district attorney.”

Foster also investigated the shooting deaths of two alleged gang members in May 2011, relying in part on investigative materials collected by the Oakland Police Department. The officers involved were Capt. Ersie Joyner, who has five officer-involved shootings on his record (the most of any member of the department), and Officer Cesar Garcia, who has two.

To complete his investigation, Foster relied on evidence collected by Oakland police Sgt. Jim Rullamas, according to the prosecutor’s report. Not mentioned was the fact that Joyner once oversaw Rullamas as head of the homicide division, praising the detective as hard working, according to one news report.

After the prosecutor’s office cleared the officers of wrongdoing, some of the cases resulted in hefty civil settlements. Robert Roche, a longtime member of the department’s SWAT team, has been involved in three shootings, including one that resulted in a $500,000 civil suit settlement.

Alameda County prosecutors provided the Center for Investigative Reporting with records on Oakland police officer shootings since 2000 that were proved justified and closed. Out of 23 fatal shooting cases, 10 were investigated by former Oakland police officers, the records show.
‘It’s a specialized skill’

Unlike Alameda County, not every prosecutor’s office in California releases records of shooting investigations involving police officers, which are protected by law from public disclosure. Many prosecutors’ offices declined to provide the names and employment histories of those they assign to investigate the shootings.

But some prosecutors acknowledged that their investigators are most often retired police officers. District attorneys in San Francisco, Santa Clara, Napa and San Mateo counties all said they employ former police officers and sheriff’s deputies to investigate officer-involved shootings.

“It’s pretty common,” said Glenn McGovern, a senior investigator at the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office who leads the training committee for the California District Attorney Investigators’ Association. “In Santa Clara, we have a lot of San Jose police. It’s a specialized skill. You have to go through advanced training for it.”

Some counties in other states have decided against using ex-officers to investigate their former departments. In Miami-Dade County in Florida, for example, only prosecutors with special training investigate officer-involved shootings. The agency does not use former police officers.

In California, legal ethicists expressed concern that most prosecutors make no attempt to avoid the controversial assignments.

“It undermines the legitimacy of the investigation,” said Stanford Law School professor Deborah Rhode. “At the very least, they should try to find investigators hired by somebody else.”

Most counties in California follow the same procedure. When a police officer shoots and kills someone, the police department conducts two separate investigations. One determines whether the officer violated department policy; the other looks for evidence of criminal conduct. Then the county prosecutor’s office either monitors the department’s criminal investigation or conducts its own and decides whether to file charges. In Alameda County, investigators are assigned to officer-involved shootings on a rotating, on-call basis.

Prior to 1985, most states legally allowed police officers to use their firearms to arrest anybody suspected of committing a felony, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report on police use of force. Some states even allowed police to shoot a fleeing suspect, including one suspected of a property crime such as forgery.

Then the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that changed the landscape of police shooting investigations: An officer may not use deadly force unless he or she “has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others” – in other words, self-defense.

Despite the ruling, it is still extremely rare for a police officer to be charged. While police need only probable cause to make an arrest, prosecutors must prove “beyond a reasonable doubt” that an officer acted criminally. Most fatal officer-involved shootings are deemed justifiable homicides.

In 2011, according to the FBI, law enforcement officers nationwide committed 393 justifiable homicides. A review of news articles about on-duty officer-involved shootings in California shows that since 2005, only three officers have been prosecuted in a fatal or near-fatal shooting.

The most prominent was the case of former BART Officer Johannes Mehserle. In 2010, a jury acquitted Mehserle of second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter after he was captured on video shooting an unarmed man, Oscar Grant, in the back on a train platform in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 2009. The jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter, and he was sentenced to two years.

In 2007, a jury swiftly acquitted former San Bernardino County sheriff’s Deputy Ivory Webb of attempted voluntary manslaughter and assault with a firearm. A cellphone video had shown Webb opening fire on Iraq War veteran Elio Carrion, a passenger in a car that had led Webb on a high-speed chase.

And in 2005, a San Jose jury acquitted state Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement agent Mike Walker of voluntary manslaughter charges. He’d shot and killed Rudy Cardenas, a father of five whom he’d mistaken for a wanted parole violator, after Cardenas led him on a car and foot chase.

It’s unclear if former police officers investigated the three cases that led to a prosecution – those records are kept secret.
Policies vary across counties

Prosecutors are not legally required to conduct investigations into police shootings.

After budget cuts in 2010, Fresno County District Attorney Elizabeth Egan halted her office’s investigations of officer-involved shootings, a practice that had been in place since 1984. After widespread complaints – including from the Fresno police chief – a Fresno County grand jury recommended Egan reverse her decision. She declined.

Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully made a similar decision in 2011. A slew of shootings has since prompted furor over Scully’s decision, including urgent requests from Sacramento County law enforcement to resume the investigations.

“We would like to do them, if we were given the resources,” said Assistant District Attorney Albert Locher, who once supervised the unit.

The Kern County district attorney’s office investigates shootings at the county’s small police agencies but has never investigated officer-involved shootings at the county’s two largest agencies, the Bakersfield Police Department and Kern County Sheriff’s Office.

After a high-profile police shooting several years ago, District Attorney Lisa Green said she saw no need to investigate because “the public might view the district attorney’s office as a rubber stamp.”

“Although I would never approach it that way, the community may view it otherwise,” she said.

But in many cities, officials said, the investigations serve as assurance to the public that the death is being treated seriously. Police officials say the investigations can restore confidence in a department. Without them, only the police are left to investigate their own.

“It allows the public to sleep better at night,” said former police officer Mike Donovan, chief investigator at the Napa County district attorney’s office and treasurer of the California District Attorney Investigators’ Association. “Knowing that if there is an officer-involved shooting, there’s some other level than just the agency itself that gets to make the decision.”

In Los Angeles, law enforcement agencies and the areas they cover are so large that the 256 former police officers at the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office are unlikely to know anyone they are assigned to investigate, spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said.

Still, some prosecutors have decided to avoid the appearance of a conflict by assigning others to the task.

San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis assigned a single investigator to work on officer-involved shootings. Although a former police officer, the investigator has never worked for a San Diego County law enforcement agency, spokesman Steve Walker said.
Oakland shooting sparks protest

Noah Berger/The Bay Citizen Adam and Jeralynn Blueford’s son Alan, an 18-year-old Hayward resident, was shot to death by an Oakland police officer last May. “If you have nothing else, you want to fight for your kid,” Adam Blueford said.

In Oakland, several police shootings have galvanized the community. But instead of instilling confidence in the system, the report from the Alameda County district attorney’s office has provoked suspicion.

After Officer Miguel Masso fatally shot Alan Blueford in May, activists and residents shut down a City Council meeting in protest, and Blueford’s family filed a civil suit.

In District Attorney Nancy O’Malley’s office, several investigators, mainly former law enforcement officers from the Oakland Police Department and a few other county agencies, are assigned to a rotating on-call team.

When an officer-involved shooting occurs, an on-call inspector and prosecutor report to the scene, sit in on witness and officer interviews, and review evidence collected by each police department and coroner’s office. In Blueford’s case, Foster and Senior District Attorney Ken Mifsud were on call.

After O’Malley released a report on Foster’s investigation, Blueford’s supporters released their own, in which they said the prosecutor’s report lacked “professionalism and objectivity, and appears to be directed at swaying public opinion.”

The report writer, Darrell Whitman, a regional investigator for the U.S. Department of Labor, analyzed the heavily redacted police and coroner’s reports released to the public. He said the evidence made it seem more likely that Blueford was unarmed on the ground when Masso shot him.

Masso and his partner had stopped Blueford and two other teens just before midnight on suspicion that they were hiding a gun. Moments later, Blueford broke away. There was a brief foot chase before Masso said Blueford pointed a gun at him, and the officer reacted with gunfire, according to police reports.

At first, Masso said Blueford had shot him. Police later determined that Masso had accidentally shot himself in the foot. The gun Masso said Blueford possessed was found 20 feet from Blueford’s body, and investigators determined it had not been fired. Investigators found one of Blueford’s fingerprints on the gun.

In his report, Whitman pointed to discrepancies in the evidence that he said Foster and Mifsud should have examined. Instead, he said, they unquestioningly accepted Masso’s account. Mifsud declined to comment.
Become a Source
Questions we're asking
Sign up
Report an error: See something wrong in this story?
E-mail our editors.

For example, according to the redacted police reports, of the 16 people who witnessed the shooting, only three said they saw Blueford with a gun. Another witness said he had not seen a gun but had seen Blueford grabbing his waistband. A fifth witness said he had overheard another woman saying Blueford was armed.

Masso told investigators that his first shot caused Blueford to fall into a gate and onto the ground, but according to the redacted reports, most witnesses said Blueford already was on the ground when he was shot.

Eight witnesses said they heard Blueford say, “I didn’t do anything!” right before the gunfire. Mifsud and Foster’s report detailed Masso’s accidental shooting of his own foot but otherwise repeated Masso’s account of the shooting and did not mention Blueford’s alleged statement.

Whitman also said Foster and Mifsud didn’t appear to question some of the police department’s actions. Although investigators found one of Blueford’s fingerprints on the gun, Whitman noted that at least two officers handled the gun before it was secured.

By the time it was photographed, the magazine already had been removed, “possibly contaminating DNA and biological evidence,” he wrote. In addition, per department policy, Masso had never turned on his lapel camera. Whitman said the camera footage might have captured the entire incident.

“If you have nothing else, you want to fight for your kid,” said Blueford’s father, Adam Blueford. “My son was on the ground screaming, pleading for his life.”

O’Malley declined to comment on the report.



“From a public point of view, (using former officers) might not be the best course of action,” said Tony Monheim, a retired Miami-Dade police officer who now leads training on officer-involved shooting investigations.

“The public has its own perception of what is going on,” Monheim said. “Maybe it’s a better thing to try to ease the tension a little bit and not have someone investigate themselves.”

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

http://humanrights.uchicago.edu/chicago ... tims.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

see link for full story
http://douglasdispatch.com/articles/201 ... 690166.txt" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



FBI nabs county detention officer in pot bust
April 3, 2013
Local agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation have arrested an employee of the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office Detention Division after 300 pounds of marijuana was found inside his home in Douglas.

Mark Melgoza, 31, was arrested on a charge of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance on Thursday evening, said FBI Special Agent Manuel Johnson.

The sheriff’s office obtained a tip earlier that day that a detention division employee “may be involved with illegal drugs,” according to a statement released by the sheriff’s office on Friday.

As a result of the information, Sheriff Mark Dannels and administrative staff began the process to confirm or refute the information, to include contacting FBI agents in Sierra Vista.

Sheriff’s Office Spokeswoman Carol Capas said that Melgoza’s house in Douglas was searched Thursday night.

In addition to the marijuana that was found, authorities also found a “small amount” of cocaine.

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

see link for full story

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/Gen ... ities.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

FBI Wants $41 Million Boost To Cyber Monitoring Capabilities
(Sunday, April 14th, 2013)

The FBI has requested more than $41 million to improve the bureau’s ability to collect and analyze cyber information and address “critical gaps” in its capability to monitor web activities.

As part of an overall $86 million budget request for a “Next Generation Cyber Initiative,” the FBI wants to hire 36 employees, including 10 agents, to improve its cyber collection and analysis capabilities. The justification for that $41 million request, which includes over $33 million in nonpersonnel spending, was submitted in a classified report to Congress as part of the bureau’s 2014 budget request.

The FBI said it would use the new initiative to “help promote a whole of government approach to cybersecurity, as well as address critical gaps in the FBI’s current ability to investigate computer intrusions and identify, mitigate, and disrupt cyber threat actors.”

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

see link for full story
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/15/ ... he-public/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


April 15, 2013

"Drop Dead"
San Onofre to Boxer, Markey & the Public…
by HARVEY WASSERMAN

The bitter battle over two stricken southern California reactors has taken a shocking seismic hit.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ignored critical questions from two powerful members of Congress just as the Government Accountability Office has seriously questioned emergency planning at the San Onofre nuclear plant.

At a cost of some $770 million, Southern California Edison and its partners installed faulty steam generators at San Onofre Units 2 and 3 that have failed and leaked.

Those reactors have been been shut since January, 2012 (similar defects doomed Unit 1 in 1992).

They’ve generated zero electricity, but SCE and its partners have billed ratepayers over a billion dollars for them.

SCE wants San Onofre reopened by June 1. The idea is to experiment with Unit 2 at 70% of full power for five months, despite widespread concerns that the defective generators will fail again.

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

I guess this makes you a co-enabler
They tortured while being funded by you tax dime
shame on you


2 reads


see link for full story
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/world ... share&_r=1&" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

U.S. Engaged in Torture After 9/11, Review Concludes
April 16, 2013

The sweeping, 577-page report says that while brutality has occurred in every American war, there never before had been “the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occurred after 9/11 directly involving a president and his top advisers on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inflicting pain and torment on some detainees in our custody.” The study, by an 11-member panel convened by the Constitution Project, a legal research and advocacy group, is to be released on Tuesday morning.

Debate over the coercive interrogation methods used by the administration of President George W. Bush has often broken down on largely partisan lines. The Constitution Project’s task force on detainee treatment, led by two former members of Congress with experience in the executive branch — a Republican, Asa Hutchinson, and a Democrat, James R. Jones — seeks to produce a stronger national consensus on the torture question.

While the task force did not have access to classified records, it is the most ambitious independent attempt to date to assess the detention and interrogation programs. A separate 6,000-page report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s record by the Senate Intelligence Committee, based exclusively on agency records, rather than interviews, remains classified.

“As long as the debate continues, so too does the possibility that the United States could again engage in torture,” the report says.

The use of torture, the report concludes, has “no justification” and “damaged the standing of our nation, reduced our capacity to convey moral censure when necessary and potentially increased the danger to U.S. military personnel taken captive.” The task force found “no firm or persuasive evidence” that these interrogation methods produced valuable information that could not have been obtained by other means. While “a person subjected to torture might well divulge useful information,” much of the information obtained by force was not reliable, the report says.

Interrogation and abuse at the C.I.A.’s so-called black sites, the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba and war-zone detention centers, have been described in considerable detail by the news media and in declassified documents, though the Constitution Project report adds many new details.



2nd read
as always funded by your tax dime


see link for full story
http://northsidecopwatch.wordpress.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

More Action to Support Police Torture victims in Chicago
March 10, 2009


6 years is too long to wait!
Rally, Press Conference, & Peoples Delegation:
Tell Lisa Madigan that Burge torture victims deserve new trials!

April 6, noon
Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph (at Clark)

In April 2003, Attorney General Lisa Madigan was appointed to oversee the cases of dozens of police torture victims under former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge, who goes on trial in May.

For nearly six years, the prisoners and their families, activists, and attorneys having been asking the Attorney General to initiate evidentiary hearings for men who faced electro-shock, suffocation, beatings and mock executions in Area 2 and Area 3 police interrogation rooms.

While President Obama has ordered the closing of Guantanamo Prison due to international outcry over torture, Lisa Madigan has allowed dozens of Chicago police torture victims, all of whom are African-American, to languish in prison in Obama’s backyard.

In 2007, the Cook County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution calling on Madigan to initiate new hearings for all police torture victims. It is now March of 2009 and she has still refused to take substantial action. Even more disturbing, on April 7 2009, rather than grant relief to torture victims, she is hoping that a judge will allow her to pass five of the torture cases to new States Attorney Anita Alvarez.

With Lisa Madigan gearing up for a run for Governor, it’s time for her to take responsibility for the Burge torture cases. No public official who condones torture is fit to be in the State’s highest office. Join exonerated torture victims, activists, attorneys, and family members for a rally, press conference, and a people’s delegation to Lisa Madigan’s office to tell her:

* Six years is to long to wait! Police torture victims deserve new trials immediately.

For more information or to co-sponsor this event, call 773.955.4841 or email julien@nodeathpenalty.org 312.623.1602 or email joshua.brollier@gmail.com
Event is co-sponsored by
Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Northside Action for Justice- Copwatch
Voices for Creative Non-Violence

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

see link for full story
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la ... 0787.story" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ricin suspect hired by senator as Elvis impersonator

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

Wednesday, 17 April 2013 14:58
Gold Slam Explained by Chris Martenson and James Kunstler


This Gold Slam Was By and For the Bullion Banks

A while back I noted to Adam that the gold slams that were first detected back in January were among the weakest I'd ever seen. Back then I was seeing the usual pattern of late night, thin-market futures dumping which I had seen before in 2008 and 2011, two other periods when precious metals were slammed hard.

The process is simple enough to understand; if you want to move the price down for any asset, your best results will happen in a thin market when there's not a lot of participation so whatever volume you supply has a chance of wiping out whatever bids are sitting on the books. It is in those dark hours that the market makers just dump, preferably as fast as possible.

This is exactly what I saw repeatedly leading up to Friday's epic dump-fest. The mainstream media (MSM), for its part, fully supports these practices by failing to even note them, and the CFTC has never once commented on the practice, and we all know that central banks support a well contained precious metals (PM) price because they are actively trying to build confidence in their fiat money, and rising PM prices serve to reduce confidence.”



Smack Down Time
By James Howard Kunstler
on April 15, 2013 7:46 AM

What a humdinger last week was in a money world that is chugging toward maximum velocity and turbulence. Readers know (and may be sick of hearing) that I'm allergic to conspiracy theories, but my allergy is not absolute or total and there are excellent reasons to believe that the smack down of gold and silver was an orchestrated event. By whom? So far, in the opaque realm of paper gold sales, we don't know, except that it was a 500-ton dump that set off the larger skid, and it is even quite possible, as one anonymous wag put it on James Sinclair's website, that the buyer and seller were virtually the same entity -- meaning that the probable naked short transaction only amounted to a mere bookkeeping jot when all was said and done.

Anyway, the 500-ton all-at-once dump could only be calculated to drive the price down. Any rational strategic sale of so much gold would be parceled out in smaller amounts over time so as not to drastically impair the sales revenue, as this sale did. And, by the way, who even has the roughly $25 billion holdings in paper gold besides a major government, a major central bank, or one of the Fed's Too Big To Fail handmaidens (Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley)? Or who could afford to eat the $billion-plus loss on the smacked-down sales value? In other words, the usual suspects.

I hate the term The Powers That Be, with its odors of recycled paranoia and lumpen extremism, but signs of collusion abounded last week. First, on Wednesday, Goldman Sachs issued an advisory to short gold as the price flirted with $1600/oz. Then on Thursday, The New York Times planted a front-page story headlined: "Gold, Long a Secure Investment, Loses Its Luster." The story featured a quote by supreme market manipulator and world-class schmikler George Soros: "Gold was destroyed as a safe haven, proved to be unsafe," Mr. Soros said in an interview last week with The South China Morning Post of Hong Kong. "Because of the disappointment, most people are reducing their holdings of gold."

Well, there you have it. Soros sez: Gold = $#!%. If you get some on your shoe, scrape it off. All that set the stage for the Friday smack down. Notice how falling gold and silver prices make the US dollar look good -- it takes fewer dollars to buy more precious metal. The dollar must therefore be sound! And this is in the interest of whom? Say, perhaps, a Federal Reserve busy systematically melting away the value of dollars through so-called quantitative easing (money "printing" or promiscuous credit creation) plus financial repression (interest rate chicanery), and also a US government so deep underwater on its debt obligations that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew shares office space with the giant squid of the Aleutian Trench.

To complicate matters, the day of the gold smash, rumors flew of a plan by the Cyprus government to sell off its relatively small gold holdings to pay off its EU debt -- didn't happen -- but the rumor had the effect of further queering the gold price some more by implying that the EU would soon come calling on all the PIIGS nations to settle up their vigs with yellow metal.

Thursday, interesting things happened in another ring of the circus. The novelty investment called Bitcoin, having developed a hockey-stick chart profile, shooting up from about $60 a month ago to $260, got smacked smartly back down to $60. It had been attracting a lot of attention as a shelter from international monetary shenanigans -- and hypothetically as an eventual rival to funny-money central bank currencies. Bitcoin is a web-based species of virtual "money" invented by a shady character (or cohort of characters) called Satoshi Nakamoto whose true persona remains mysterious. Bitcoin's supposed virtue is that it can't be confiscated by governments -- though experienced programmers know any website can be hacked -- or otherwise meddled with, making it a more reliable store of value than the traditional "safe harbor" investments such as sovereign bonds and precious metals. Well, okay, but it raises a couple of questions: 1) Does the world need an even more abstract form of "money" than fiat currencies, CDOs, Fannie Mae promissory notes, and JC Penny stock? I don't think so. If anything, the world needs more tangible instruments to represent a store of value, a medium of exchange, and an index of price. Bitcoin is little more than a bundle of algorithms. Granted, math helps with the management of money, but is math "money?" 2) what happens if you can't get online to access your Bitcoin "wallet?" Is Bitcoin, after all, just another example of the techno-narcissism infecting contemporary culture?

That idea is just off the radar screens of Bitcoin pimps such as Jon Matonis of Forbes Magazine who said last week that "civilization won't regress to the state of having no electricity." Really? You think so? Just watch. Electric grids all over the world are aging and decrepit -- the USA's in particular -- and the capital is not there to renovate them. And perhaps you haven't noticed the gathering scarcity problem with fossil fuels. You bet society could regress to, first, spotty electrical service and then possibly no electricity at all in many places. But that is an extreme case because in the meantime all it would take is a "denial of service" incident to render Bitcoin useless -- and the mysterious Mr or Ms Nakamoto him/her/itself induced a half-day time-out in Bitcoin last week, taking its Mt.Gox trading platform off-line.

The week ahead in world money matters looks bloody and gruesome. Japan is committing financial hara-kiri by central bank desperation. In artificially suppressing the gold price, the American Powers That Be (yccchhh....) give China, Russia and other rivals the opportunity to buy gold cheaply, and to do so by dumping some of their US Treasury holdings, weakening the dollar's international exchange value -- which the gold smack down was supposed to enhance! China and Russia have both been steadily accumulating their gold holdings in plain sight, with the possible motive of backing currencies with more appeal in international trade settlements than the dodgy US dollar.

The weeks ahead could be a bloodbath for the four horsemen of monetary apocalypse: the dollar, the Japanese yen, the Euro, and Great Britain's pound -- that is, the core of the so-called advanced economies of the world. What a prankster history is!

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

Friday, 19 April 2013
WAKE UP BOSTON! - Those Who Would Sacrifice Liberty For Safety Deserve Neither

http://www.collapsenet.com/free-resourc ... ve-neither" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Obama's And Boston's Lesson: Jihad Works

"The stupid, it burns.

The wrong answer to terrorism is what we're doing right now.

What our government is teaching prospective terrorists is that all they have to do is manage to get two jackasses who are willing to die to commit mass-murder, even if they kind of suck at it (let's face it, when they blew up those bombs in Boston they did commit their intended deed but an hour earlier and 10x as many people would be dead or missing legs.)

Then they pop a cop trying to rip off a convenience store and toss (non-working; they didn't explode) bombs out the window while trying to elude the cops.

The payoff for doing this is that an entire city shuts down to literal empty sidewalks and train service is halted along a hundred-mile+ stretch.

Even worse now the authorities are allegedly preventing residents who were away from their homes from returning there! You are now being forcibly dispossessed of your residence! Yeah, it's temporary, but so what -- that's my damned house, not yours! Get the hell out of my way!

Need I remind people that the entire point of terrorism is to terrorize? To create economic havoc in a given area through violence, and by doing so advance some social or political goal?

What sort of lesson is the @#!!$#!% in the Oval Office along with those crap-for-brains idiots in Massachusetts sending to our enemies around the world?

Two *******s shut down a city of 7 million people who then cower in fear in their homes.

Screw that and screw them."

-

Agreed. Read the rest at Denninger's site. I don't agree with everybody walking around strapped, but he is right on the rest.

THIS IS HOW TERRORISTS WIN! Whether this is the real deal or a false flag, the reaction by government and the people in their sheepish compliance is completely wrong-headed and stupid.

We're talking about one guy on the run, and the entire Northern Seaboard is supposed to shut down? @#!!$#!%!

Here is another exchange I had with the same long-time reader about these developments:

"Notice the police response.

No video... No fly zone... Entire city on lockdown... Naitional Guard/Military rolled out... (this is unprecedented)

This is going to be SOP for any civil disturbance. Lockdown is the new stop drop and roll.

BTW:
Why shoot a cop in his car? Go into a 7 eleven? Allegedly rob it.
Why let the carjacking guy go? Why go to atms? Leaving an orgy of evidence.

They were so "good/secretive" about the bombing and so sloppy afterwards"


My reply: "I'm not stepping out there yet, but the perspective is welcome. I think it's more likely than not the real deal and the feds/cops are freaking out because they don't have control. But I'm still wide open to the possibility of what you're saying, too.

They need to take #2 alive to settle it. Think that will happen? @#$%! no, because even if this is the real deal, they will use it to the same effect for elite power purposes. Or at least try"

-

That is where we are at now, the Power Elite using this as a full-scale fascism exercise, shutting down an entire region. To the People who are complying - WAKE UP!

Are you going to let police search through your homes in search of this @#$!%&! psycho? Restrict your movements? Imprison you where you happen to be? And for how long?

As an attorney, I am telling you there is no legal or constitutional basis for enforcement of those police or federal government lock-down requests. YOU, in Boston, have every right to do whatever the hell you want to (legally) do just as you would any other day. If you cower in fear, of either the punk on the run or the authorities, SHAME ON YOU.

This is starting to smell more by the minute. Question EVERYTHING.

To the State and Federal authorities attempting to trample on the rights and livelihoods of millions of citizens, I say @#$%! YOU!

I REFUSE to tolerate living in a police State.

Grow a pair, citizens of Boston, and stand your ground against ALL who would take away your freedoms.

Many lessons are being learned this week...pay attention, folks. - Wes

****

More abject cowardice on display: Red Sox, Bruins postpone games during manhunt

So is the "terrorist" manhunt our new sport? Blood and circuses, same as it ever was.

You know, the biggest news item that all this distracts from is coverage of the new bi-partisan torture report. It says Bush and Cheney tortured and need to be held accountable, and that Obama covered it up and needs to be held accountable. And that the media was complicit. It's a mainstream first that should be shaking up the entire Justice Department, Congress, Gitmo, the White House, CIA and the military, and the entire corporate media structure. But it is getting buried by Boston coverage, the entire country looking for one guy in a city that is shut down in government-inflicted fear...

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

Published on Sep 6, 2012

This is the 1-hour version of our 1 ½ hour groundbreaking documentary 9/11: Explosive Evidence -- Experts Speak Out which is available for purchase as a DVD in our online store at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddz2mw2v ... e=youtu.be" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/u ... -advocates" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Electronic Frontier Foundation

April 18, 2013 | By Dave Maass and Mark M. Jaycox
U.S. House of Representatives Shamefully Passes CISPA; Internet Freedom Advocates Prepare for a Battle in the Senate

Today, Internet freedom advocates everywhere turned their eyes to the U.S. House of Representatives as that legislative body considered the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.

For the second year in a row, the House voted to approve CISPA, a bill that would allow companies to bypass all existing privacy law to spy on communications and pass sensitive user data to the government. EFF condemns the vote in the House and vows to continue the fight in the Senate.

"CISPA is a poorly drafted bill that would provide a gaping exception to bedrock privacy law,” EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl said. “While we all agree that our nation needs to address pressing Internet security issues, this bill sacrifices online privacy while failing to take common-sense steps to improve security."

The legislation passed 288-127, despite a veto threat from Pres. Barack Obama, who expressed serious concerns about the danger CISPA poses to civil liberties.

"This bill undermines the privacy of millions of Internet users,” said Rainey Reitman, EFF Activism Director. “Hundreds of thousands of Internet users opposed this bill, joining the White House and Internet security experts in voicing concerns about the civil liberties ramifications of CISPA. We’re committed to taking this fight to the Senate and fighting to ensure no law which would be so detrimental to online privacy is passed on our watch.”

EFF extends its deep gratitude to the many organization that have worked with us on this campaign and the tens of thousand of EFF members who helped us by contacting Congress to oppose CISPA. We look forward to continuing to fight by your side in defense of civil liberties as CISPA moves to the Senate.

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

Time for a volunteer civilian review police board with subpoena powers.
As a taxpayer "You own" the criminal justice system .
Don't you think it is about time you set standards and enforce those standards for
how you want the CJ system to operate?


see link for full story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/thi ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Thirteen correctional officers indicted in Maryland
- The Baltimore City Detention Center is the site where officials allege scores of crimes were committed by a prison gang and correctional officers.


By Ann E. Marimow and John Wagner, Tuesday, April 23, 3:30 PM

More than a dozen Maryland state correctional officers were accused Tuesday of helping a powerful prison gang run a drug-trafficking and money-laundering operation from behind bars.

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

Subject: NYPD teams with US lab to study airborne weapons 24 Apr 2013
To: CLG News <clg_news@legitgov.org>

Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
24 Apr 2013
http://www.legitgov.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
All links are here:
http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Heads up! Let's hope the dirt-bags don't 'go live:' NYPD teams with US
lab to study airborne weapons --Tests will be conducted in July in all
five boroughs 24 Apr 2013 The New York Police Department is teaming up
with a national laboratory to study how chemical weapons could be
dispersed through the air into the subway system. Researchers will
track the movement of harmless tracer gases. They'll place air
sampling devices in specific areas on the street and within the subway
system. The gases mimic how a chemical or biological weapon may react
if released. The project with the U.S. Department of Energy's
Brookhaven National Laboratory was announced Wednesday. It will be
funded through a *3.4 million federal grant. [Yeah, let's cut Social
Security, Medicare, and Medicaid so these sociopaths can do biowarfare
drills that will inevitably 'go live,' so that more and more drills
will be 'needed.' --LRP]

Bloomberg: Interpretation of Constitution will 'have to change' after
Boston bombing 22 Apr 2013 In the wake of the Boston Marathon
bombings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday the country's
interpretation of the Constitution will "have to change" to allow for
greater security to stave off future attacks. "The people who are
worried about privacy have a legitimate worry," Mr. Bloomberg said
during a press conference in Midtown. "But we live in a complex world
where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than
you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our
interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change." Mr.
Bloomberg, who has come under fire for the N.Y.P.D.'s monitoring of
Muslim communities and other aggressive tactics, said the rest of the
country needs to learn from the attacks.

U.S. gives big, secret push to Internet surveillance --Justice [sic]
Department agreed to issue '2511 letters' immunizing AT&T and other
companies participating in a cybersecurity program from criminal
prosecution under the Wiretap Act - documents 24 Apr 2013 Senior Obama
administration officials have secretly authorized the interception of
communications carried on portions of networks operated by AT&T and
other Internet service providers, a practice that might otherwise be
illegal under federal wiretapping laws. The secret legal authorization
from the Justice Department originally applied to a cybersecurity
pilot project in which the military monitored defense contractors'
Internet links. Since then, however, the program has been expanded by
President Obama to cover all critical infrastructure sectors including
energy, healthcare, and finance starting June 12. "The Justice
Department is helping private companies evade federal wiretap laws,"
said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy
Information Center, which obtained over 1,000 pages of internal
government documents and provided them to CNET this week. "Alarm bells
should be going off."

Was Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's backpack Photoshopped out? 23 Apr 2013 A
YouTube video, posted 22 April 2013, suggests Photoshopping was
involved with an image of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Did the FBI phone Boston suspect before fatal shootout? The father of
the Boston bombing suspects claims to Channel 4 News that the FBI
telephoned his elder son after the attack, and prior to a fatal
shootout that claimed the life of a police officer. 21 Apr 2013 Did
the FBI phone Boston suspect before fatal shootout? The father of the
Boston bombing suspects claims to Channel 4 News that the FBI
telephoned his elder son after the attack, and prior to a fatal
shootout that claimed the life of a police officer. The father of
Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Anzor, told Channel 4 News that the
elder brother had telephoned their mother a few days after the
bombings.

Boston bombing suspect put on terrorist watch list at CIA request
--Officials said Tsarnaev's name was added to the database but it's
unclear which agency added it. 24 Apr 2013 The CIA asked the main U.S.
counterterrorism agency to add the name of one of the suspected Boston
Marathon bombers to a watch list more than a year before the attack,
according to U.S. officials. The agency took the step after Russian
authorities contacted officials there in the fall of 2011 and raised
concerns that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was seen as an increasingly radical
Islamist and could be planning to travel overseas. The CIA requested
that his name be put on a database maintained by the National
Counterterrorism Center. That database, the Terrorist Identities
Datamart Environment, or TIDE, is a data storehouse that feeds a
series of government watch lists, including the FBI's main Terrorist
Screening Database and the Transportation Security Administration's
"no-fly" list.

Officials: Boston suspect had no firearm when barrage of bullets hit
hiding place 24 Apr 2013 Although police feared he was heavily armed,
the suspect [patsy] in the Boston Marathon bombings had no firearms
when he came under a barrage of police gunfire that struck the boat
where he was hiding, according to multiple federal law enforcement
officials. The FBI declined to discuss what triggered the gunfire...
The FBI declined to discuss the exact sequence of events that led
officers to open fire on Tsarnaev's hiding place and whether the
dozens of bullets that struck the boat caused any of his gunshot
wounds.

Boston bombing suspect cites U.S. wars as motivation, officials say 23
Apr 2013 The 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has
told interrogators that the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
motivated him and his brother to carry out the attack, according to
U.S. officials familiar with the interviews. From his hospital bed,
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has acknowledged his role in planting the explosives
near the marathon finish line on April 15, the officials said.
Officials said the 'evidence' so far suggests they were"
self-radicalized" through Internet sites and U.S. actions in the
Muslim world.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev charged with using 'weapon of mass destruction' 22
Apr 2013 Federal prosecutors announced terrorism charges against the
surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing with terrorism on
Monday, outlining a chilling plot in which the man and his brother
allegedly used low-grade but deadly explosives timed to detonate a
block apart. As he lay seriously injured in a Boston area hospital,
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was charged with using a weapon of mass
destruction and malicious destruction of property, counts that could
bring him the death penalty. He made his first court appearance in an
unusual, non-public proceeding in which a federal judge and several
lawyers went to his hospital bed.

Williams-Sonoma Pulls Pressure Cookers Off Shelves in Massachusetts
--Following the Boston Marathon bombing last Monday in which pressure
cookers were used for the explosion, the cookware giant has decided to
temporarily stop selling the items in their Massachusetts stores. 22
Apr 2013 Williams-Sonoma, the specialty retailer of home furnishings
and gourmet cookware with over 250 stores in the United States, has
pulled pressure cookers from their shelves following the Boston
Marathon bombing. "It's a temporary thing out of respect," said Kent,
who is the Store Manager of the Williams-Sonoma at the Natick Mall.
Pressure cookers will still be available on the Williams-Sonoma
website.

Possible motive for the recent Waterford martial law drill: New bird
flu strain called 'one of most lethal' viruses baffles scientists
--Mike Shaw, who works at the CDC's flu lab, said they found certain
mutations of the virus, which had they mutated further, would have
been rendered ineffective against antivirals. 24 Apr 2013 A new bird
flu strain that has sickened more than 100 and killed 22 in China is
"one of the most lethal" of its kind, and has now spread to another
country, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). A
53-year-old Taiwan businessman contracted the H7N9 strain of bird flu
while travelling in China, Taiwan's Health Department said Wednesday.
This is the first reported case outside China's mainland. Dr. Joseph
Bresee, a flu expert at the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention,
said it is possible the flu is being transmitted from person to
person, but it's not yet been 100 percent confirmed.

Taiwan confirms first H7N9 bird flu case outside China 24 Apr 2013
Taiwan on Wednesday reported the first case of the H7N9 bird flu
outside of mainland China. The man, who had been working in the
eastern Chinese city of Suzhou, showed symptoms three days after
returning to Taiwan via Shanghai, the Centers for Disease Control
said, adding that he had been hospitalised since April 16 and was in a
critical condition.

England prepares mass-vaccination push as measles cases rise 25 Apr
2013 England aims to inject a million youngsters with measles vaccine
following a surge in cases of the potentially fatal disease, public
health authorities said Thursday. The rise in cases appears to be due
to a period in the late 1990s and early 2000s when fears over a
discredited link between the MMR vaccine and autism were at their
height, Public Health England (PHE) said. The MMR vaccine 'immunises
against' measles, mumps and rubella.

FBI investigate weekend shooting at Tenn. nuclear plant 22 Apr 2013 An
East Tennessee nuclear power plant has added security patrols after a
weekend incident in which an officer exchanged gunfire with a man who
then fled on a boat. The FBI and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission are
investigating the shooting early Sunday at Tennessee Valley
Authority's Watts Bar nuclear power plant near Spring City, Tenn.,
about 60 miles southwest of Knoxville.

Shootout at TVA Watts Bar Nuclear Plant --At least one bullet struck
patrol vehicle --Incident happened on the Tennessee River side of
plant property 21 Apr 2013 A TVA spokesperson confirmed that a
security officer patrolling TVA Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Spring City
was involved in a shootout with a suspect Sunday at about 2:00 a.m.
TVA spokesperson Jim Hopson said the subject traveled up to the plant
on a boat and walked onto the property. When the officer questioned
the suspect, the individual fired multiple shots at the officer. The
officer shot back, and when he called for backup, the suspect sped
away on his boat

Suspects in Canadian terror plot under surveillance for 'more than a
year' --DHS, FBI involved [LOL, of course they were. They're the usual
handlers.] --RCMP: Investigation called 'Project SMOOTH' 22 Apr 2013
Highly placed sources tell CBC News the alleged plotters have been
under surveillance for more than a year in Quebec and southern
Ontario... The investigation was part of a cross-border operation
involving Canadian law enforcement agencies, the FBI and the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security. (CBC News, Wires)

Two arrested in Canada over alleged passenger train terrorist plot 22
Apr 2013 Two men were arrested on Monday night and charged with
plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train with
support from al-Qaida [al-CIAduh] "elements" in Iran, Canadian police
said. Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, and Raed Jaser, 35, who live in Montreal
and Toronto, were planning to derail a Via Rail passenger train in
Toronto but posed no immediate threat, according to the Royal Canadian
Mounted police. "This is the first known al-Qaida-planned attack that
we've experienced in Canada," said Superintendent Doug Best.

Alleged terror plot targeting Via train thwarted --Police say 2
accused were getting 'direction and guidance' from al-Qaeda
[al-CIAduh] elements in Iran [Yeah, right!] 22 Apr 2013 Canadian
police say they have arrested two men and thwarted a plot to carry out
a major terrorist attack on a Via passenger train in the Greater
Toronto Area. In a press conference that followed an exclusive report
by CBC, police named the two accused as Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of
Montreal, and Raed Jaser, 35, from Toronto. They have been charged
with conspiracy to carry out a terrorist attack and "conspiring to
murder persons unknown for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in
association with a terrorist group." The RCMP accused the two men of
conspiring to commit an "al-Qaeda-supported" attack.

Boston bombings: CNN video of first suspect being detained --Caption:
'Two individuals arrested in Watertown' --Suspect told to 'strip
naked' 22 Apr 2013 Here is a CNN video (published 19 April 2013) of
the first suspect in the Boston Bombings being detained by police.

Sacramento Mosque Heightens Security Following Boston Marathon
Bombings 21 Apr 2013 Although the suspects of the Boston Marathon
bombings no longer seem to be a threat, some fear the local Muslim
community could be a target. That anger, according to local Muslim
leaders, is justified but shouldn't be shown toward Muslim Americans.
While the center is on heightened alert, they haven't necessarily done
anything outwardly to make security tighter, said Dr. Metwalli Amer,
Salam Center co-founder.
Charges dropped against suspect in ricin letters sent to Obama, Wicker
23 Apr 2013 A U.S. attorney in Mississippi dropped charges Tuesday
afternoon against Paul Kevin Curtis, who'd been accused of sending
poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker,
R-Miss. Curtis, 45, was arrested last Wednesday, a day after the
letters were intercepted on their way to the White House and the U.S.
Senate. The charges were dismissed without prejudice, which means
Curtis could be charged again. The order for dismissal notes only that
"the ongoing investigation has revealed new information."

FBI: No ricin found in home of Mississippi suspect 22 Apr 2013
Investigators haven't found any ricin in the house of a Mississippi
man accused of mailing poisoned letters to President Barack Obama, a
U.S. senator and a local judge, according to testimony Monday from an
FBI agent. Agent Brandon Grant said that a search of Paul Kevin
Curtis's vehicle and house in Corinth, Miss., on Friday did not turn
up ricin, ingredients for the poison, or devices used to make it. A
search of Curtis's computers has found no evidence so far that he
researched making ricin. Defense lawyers for Curtis say investigators'
failure to find any ricin means the government should release their
client.

Syrian Electronic Army says it hacked AP Twitter account 23 Apr 2013
Twitter has suspended the Associated Press's account after hackers
sent a tweet from it Tuesday that said, "Breaking: Two Explosions in
the White House and Barack Obama is injured." White House spokesman
Jay Carney confirms the president is fine, and AP confirms its account
was hacked. The AP says that the cyber attack "came after hackers made
repeated attempts to steal the passwords of AP journalists." The
Syrian Electronic Army has taken responsibility for the hacking.

In Virginia's Fairfax County, Robbing Banks for the CIA --'Operation
Downstrike' 18 Apr 2013 In a white-walled interrogation room in a
small Virginia police station last June, two detectives were trying to
get Herson Torres to crack. Surveillance video tied him to two
attempted bank robberies in the area during the past week. The
21-year-old didn't have a criminal record and seemed nervous, but he
wasn't talking... "If I tell you, you're not going to believe me,"
Torres said. He was crying as he told them an incredible story about
being recruited by the Defense Intelligence Agency to participate in a
secret operation testing the security of Washington-area banks. He
said he'd been assigned to rob a half-dozen banks over four days.

TSA delays change allowing knives on planes --Opponents of the policy
change attributed its reversal to 'a huge backlash' from flight
attendants, airline executives and lawmakers. 23 Apr 2013 The
Transportation Security Administration has delayed a policy change
that would have allowed passengers to carry small folding knives onto
planes. In a letter Monday to employees, TSA chief John Pistole said
he decided to maintain, at least temporarily, a post-9/11 ban on
knives after meeting with an aviation security panel. The policy
change allowing knives had been scheduled to take effect Thursday.

Senate hearing blasts Obama's refusal to share details of drone
program 23 Apr 2013 Democratic and Republican senators joined a former
deputy chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Tuesday in urging the
Obama administration to make public more information about its
top-secret targeted killing program amid questions about the legality
and effectiveness of hundreds of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan and
elsewhere. The White House refused to send a witness to the Senate's
first open hearing on the issue despite President Barack Obama's vow
to be more forthcoming about a counterterrorism weapon that has become
a despised symbol of U.S. foreign policy in many parts of the world.

After U.S. Troops Leave, Armed Drones Will Patrol Afghanistan's Skies
23 Apr 2013 One of the major elements of Afghanistan's air war will
remain after most U.S. troops have headed home, the U.S. military
command confirmed today. Armed drones, operated by the U.S., will
remain over Afghanistan after 2014. The drones will not be the only
air support available to the Afghan army after 2014, when most U.S.
forces are slated to leave Afghanistan. But only "some fixed wing"
manned fighters and bombers will remain on the battlefield, Polumbo
said. Navy jets flown off of nearby aircraft carriers and Air Force
planes flown from Gulf airbases will supplement them when the Afghans'
small supply of Mi-17 and Mi-35 attack helicopters, and their
forthcoming Super Tucano planes, are overwhelmed. [WHY are US
taxpayers FORCED to fund a drone program to protect the CIA's opium
and gas routes?]

Jordan opens skies for Israel drone attacks on Syria: Report 22 Apr
2013 A new report says Jordan has given the go-ahead to Tel Aviv to
use its airspace for spying on Syria and attacking its industrial
facilities. French newspaper Le Figaro reported on Monday that Jordan
has opened two corridors in its airspace to Israeli Air Force drones
seeking to monitor the ongoing conflict in Syria. Quoting western
military officials in the Middle East, the report added that the
Israeli drones "can hit a target anywhere in Syria."

Over half of Guantanamo Bay prisoners on hunger strike as number
increases to 84 21 Apr 2013 Over half of all detainees at the US-run
Guantanamo Bay military prison are now taking part in a hunger strike,
with many being force-fed, a US military spokesman confirmed today.
The number of prisoners on hunger strike has risen to 84, an increase
of 32 since last Wednesday, with 16 now receiving "enteral feedings,"
a process involving being force-fed via tubes. Inmates at the
facility, which houses 166 detainees, have been refusing food since 6
February, when they claim prison officials searched their Korans for
contraband, an act they considered to be religious desecration. Some
prisoners, including Shaker Aamer, the last British inmate being held
there, have since said they are continuing the strike in protest
against their incarceration at Guantanamo for 11 years without charge
or trial.

Issawi to end hunger strike, lawyer says 23 Apr 2013 Long term hunger
striker Samer Issawi has agreed to end his hunger strike after
finalizing a deal with Israel which will see him return to his home in
Jerusalem, his lawyer Jawad Boulos said Tuesday. Israeli authorities
agreed to the wording of an agreement proposed by Issawi overnight
Monday, which would see him serve 8 months in Israeli detention in
return for ending his strike action, Boulos told Ma'an. Issawi will
then be released to his hometown of Issawiyeh in Jerusalem.

The *real* US threat: Psycho Rick Perry and his merry band of
deregulated corpora-terrorists: West Fertilizer stored 1,350 times
amount of ammonium nitrate that would trigger oversight by DHS 20 Apr
2013 The fertilizer plant that exploded on Wednesday, obliterating
part of a small Texas town and killing at least 14 people, had last
year been storing 1,350 times the amount of ammonium nitrate that
would normally trigger safety oversight by the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security (DHS). Yet a person familiar with DHS operations
said the company that owns the plant, West Fertilizer, did not tell
the agency about the potentially explosive fertilizer as it is
required to do, leaving one of the principal regulators of ammonium
nitrate - which can also be used in bomb making - unaware of any
danger there. A U.S. congressman and several safety experts called
into question on Friday whether incomplete disclosure or
[GOP-engendered] regulatory gridlock may have contributed to the
disaster corpora-terrorist attack.
Bush 'lie bury' event brings 5 presidents to Dallas --Unelected
dictator to open big storage area for 'The Pet Goat,' the only book
the sociopath's likely ever read --Bush library event brings 5
presidents to Dallas 24 Apr 2013 The nation's five surviving
presidents will gather Thursday for the dedication of the George W.
Bush Presidential [sic and sick] Center, a much-anticipated event
expected to draw around 10,000 people to Southern Methodist University
amid tight security from local and federal law enforcement. The
invitation-only ceremony was expected to include speeches by Bush,
President Barack Obama and former Presidents Bill Clinton, Jimmy
Carter and George H.W. Bush, Bush's father.

Rand Paul adviser signs on with Karl Rove's American Crossroads 24 Apr
2013 A top adviser to Ron Paul and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has signed
on with the American Crossroads super PAC -- a move designed to
increase input from conservative grass-roots supporters who have grown
suspicious of the super PAC's activities. Trygve Olson, who advised
Rand Paul in his 2010 Senate campaign and then moved over to the elder
Paul's 2012 presidential campaign, will serve as an adviser to
American Crossroads on House and Senate races, Post Politics has
learned. He will report to Crossroads political director Carl Forti.

Baucus retires, a grateful nation cheers 24 Apr 2013 With one glorious
stroke Max Baucus has made it possible for two of America's more
interesting politicians to play bigger roles on the national stage...
Never has a politician done so much to lift the prospects of the
republic simply by saying goodbye. Is there a soul outside Montana who
is mourning Baucus's decision not to run for a seventh term? Baucus
helped George W. Bush pass his big tax cuts in 2001, making him an
accomplice in the biggest fiscal mistake of this generation,
squandering the hard-won surpluses that Bill Clinton (with Newt
Gingrich's help) had bequeathed... The Montana senator was the
delayer-in-chief on President Obama's health reform, persuading the
White House to let crucial time pass in 2009 while he tried and failed
to secure Republican Chuck Grassley's support. Baucus's pussyfooting
gave the GOP an opening to demagogue Obamacare and move public
sentiment against it

Good riddance, Senator Baucus 23 Apr 2013 Unfortunately, in the last
decade Montana Sen. Max Baucus ('D') has used that power in terribly
destructive ways. For instance, he has used it to sculpt what became
President [sic] George W. Bush's deficit-ballooning tax cuts; riddle
the tax code with corporate tax giveaways; eliminate a public option
from healthcare legislation; and champion job-destroying "free" trade
deals. Just as destructive as what he has done as chairman is what he
has prevented: On behalf of his biggest campaign donors he has, for
instance, watered down drug reimportation legislation; "limit(ed) the
drug industry's 10-year financial exposure under healthcare reform,"
according to the Hill newspaper; blocked a serious consideration of
legislation to close corporate tax loopholes, and, as the Missoula
Independent notes, "refused to allow any discussion of universal or
single-payer health care, instead kowtowing to his donors." These are
just some of the big things. Baucus has also been the reliable
engineer of smaller but equally destructive rip-offs -- most recently,
a half-billion-d*llar pay-to-play giveaway to a pharmaceutical company
in exchange for campaign contributions.

Tax Lobby Builds Ties to Max Baucus, Chairman of Finance Panel 07 Apr
2013 At least 28 aides who have worked for Senator Baucus, DemocRAT of
Montana, since he became the committee chairman in 2001 have lobbied
on tax issues during the Obama administration -- more than any other
current member of Congress, according to the analysis of lobbying
filings performed for The New York Times. "K Street is literally
littered with former Baucus staffers," said Jade West, an executive at
a wholesalers' trade association that relies on a former finance panel
aide, Mary Burke Baker. Like Ms. Baker, many of those lobbyists have
already saved their clients millions -- in some cases, billions -- of
d*llars after Mr. Baucus backed their requests to extend certain
corporate tax perks, provisions that were adopted as part of the
so-called fiscal cliff legislation in January. Baucus aides who later
became lobbyists helped financial firms save *11.2 billion in tax
deferments and helped secure a *222 million tax benefit that is shared
with the liquor industry.

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

https://www.google.com/search?num=40&q= ... jiG104Ig54" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Ex-DEA Head Admits CIA Imported Cocaine by Top YouTube on ...
socialcam.com/v/Edh3dpw9
Popular video from YouTube. ... Ex-DEA Head Admits CIA Imported Cocaine. Top Youtube. 0. Like. Click to load comments ...
Ex-DEA Head Admits CIA Imported Cocaine - YouTube
► 0:46► 0:46
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG1Id2qpSOE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Oct 20, 2008 - Uploaded by CTC411com
A short clip from Kevin Booth's American Drug War. http://www.americandrugwar.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://www.sacredcow.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
CIA are drug smugglers - Federal Judge Bonner, head of DEA ...
► 2:17► 2:17
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Do1e-eCOk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
May 28, 2012 - Uploaded by Antinwonews
CIA are drug smugglers - Federal Judge Bonner, head of DEA. ... THEY ARE NOT CALLED THE COCAINE ...
Ex-DEA Head Admits CIA Imported Cocaine - YouTube
► 0:46► 0:46
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3kZosCw5hY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Jun 10, 2008 - Uploaded by pissedoffpatriot84
Ex-DEA Head Admits CIA Imported Cocaine. pissedoffpatriot84·22 videos. SubscribeSubscribedUnsubscribe ...
Ex-DEA Head Admits CIA Imported Cocaine - YouTube
► 0:46► 0:46
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbw9Atfoypg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Oct 31, 2011 - Uploaded by Youth4Rights
LEARN THE REAL TRUTH http://www.youth4rights.com/who-is-raymond-knaeble/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; the CIA Killers Our Civil ...
"CIA are drug smugglers." - Federal Judge Bonner, head ... - YouTube
► 2:17► 2:17
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_UbAmRGSYw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Feb 19, 2011 - Uploaded by michaellevine53
Also: DEA busts CIA smuggling ton of cocaine. Head of DEA Judge Robert Bonner Accuses CIA directly of ...
# Ex DEA head admits CIA BRINGS COCAINE IN THE ... - YouTube
► 0:46► 0:46
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p33tl-hFinM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Jan 6, 2009 - Uploaded by chrisfromtexass99
PLEASE RATE, COMMENT, AND SUBSCRIBE! Download this and any other youtube or google video quickly ...
The CIA Drug Smugglers: Federal Judge Bonner head of DEA Tells ...
► 2:17► 2:17
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95o55PMIOAI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
May 29, 2012 - Uploaded by World2Awakens4
The CIA Drug Smugglers: Federal Judge Bonner head of DEA Tells it like it is. ... http://www.youtube.com/user" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ...
Head of DEA Says He Intercepted CIA Cocaine Shipments - Infowars
►►
http://www.infowars.com/head-of-dea-says-he-intercepted.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Aug 1, 2012
Head of DEA Says He Intercepted CIA Cocaine Shipments ... Infowars to Boston Bombings See the rest on the ...
DEA BOSS SAYS CIA IMPORTING NARCOTICS - YouTube
► 3:53► 3:53
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiC6Z_n_28E" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Sep 25, 2007 - Uploaded by Daniel Stamper
A ton of pure cocaine, worth 100's of millions is smuggled into the USA by the CIA according to what the ...
'CIA are drug smugglers' - Federal Judge Bonner, head of DEA ...
► 2:17► 2:17
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFySU7FUzhk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Feb 22, 2012 - Uploaded by Alexander Light
Also: DEA busts CIA smuggling ton of cocaine. Head of DEA Judge Robert Bonner Accuses CIA directly of ...
LiveLeak.com - "Cocaine One" and "Cocaine Two" – ongoing CIA ...
►►
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=011_1335503999" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Apr 27, 2012
[1] 00-00-01 96-08-18 CIA Drug Trafficking of Crack Cocaine to Los Angeles County, ... http://www.youtube.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ...
C.I.A. Cocaine Smuggling (4/4) - YouTube
► 14:59► 14:59
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR6JCrUhJoc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Aug 29, 2011 - Uploaded by PSILWIL
This episode begins with a video clip of former DEA head, Robert Bonner admitting that the CIA was involved in ...
More videos for DEA Head Cocaine CIA YouTube' »
Breaking: Ex-DEA Head Admits CIA Imports Cocaine for Money ...
http://www.disclose.tv/.../breaking-ex- ... ocaine-for.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Apr 7, 2010 - 10 posts - 5 authors
Breaking: Ex-DEA Head Admits CIA Imports Cocaine for Money .... This has already been removed by you-tube, I thinks its disgusting that this ...
Robert Bonner, Ex-DEA Head Admits CIA Imports Cocaine for Money
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum ... 518794/pg1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Mar 12, 2008 - 31 posts - 5 authors
Robert Bonner, Ex-DEA Head Admits CIA Imports Cocaine for Money. This was originally aired on '60 Minutes' in 1993 Robert Bonner admits ...
Head Of DEA Says He Intercepted CIA Cocaine Shipments | Natural ...
naturalsolutionsradio.com › Blogs › Heart Of The Dove's blog
Aug 6, 2012 – Federal Judge Bonner and Former head of the DEA reveals he intercepted CIA cocaine shipments This news reports reveals how Federal ...
The Progressive Thinktank - Ex-DEA Head Admits CIA Imported ...
blackblogger.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action...47
Author, Topic: Ex-DEA Head Admits CIA Imported Cocaine (Read 35 times) ... http://youtube.com/watch?v=JR8s-mIj9BM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Ex-DEA agents, ex-CIA agents, pilots, ...
60 MINUTES- Head of DEA Robert Bonner Says CIA Smuggled Drugs
http://www.scribd.com/.../60-MINUTES-He ... ner-Says-C.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Mar 19, 2013 – 60 MINUTES- Head of DEA Robert Bonner Says CIA Smuggled Drugs ... THE CIA'S COCAINE Interview with DEA administrator Robert Bonner: (When ... Levine (DEA retired) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_UbAmRGSYw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Ex-DEA Head Admits CIA Imported Cocaine - David Icke
https://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?p=300607" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Nov 3, 2008 - 4 posts - 4 authors
Ex-DEA Head Admits CIA Imported Cocaine General. ... Posts: 4,610. Default. Gr8 find! New Jack City - Big Business - YouTube · New Jack City ...
"CIA are drug smugglers." - Federal Judge Bonner, head ... - ALIPAC
http://www.alipac.us" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; › Forum › General › Other Topics News and Issues
May 27, 2012 – Federal Judge Bonner, head of DEA- You don't get better proof than this CIA Drug ... Also: DEA busts CIA smuggling ton of cocaine. ... Our Full Length Documentary Playlist HERE: Full Length Vital Documentaries - YouTube ...
Head of DEA: "CIA are drug smugglers"! Afghan drugs bring $50 ...
projectavalon.net › Forum › Project Avalon › General Discussion
Feb 24, 2012 - 3 posts - 3 authors
Also: DEA busts CIA smuggling ton of cocaine. Head of DEA, Judge Robert Bonner accuses CIA directly of being drug smugglers: ...
shelby.tv | CIA are drug smugglers - Federal Judge Bonner, head of ...
shelby.tv/.../youtube/.../cia-are-drug-smugglers-federal-judge-bonner-he...
... 8): CIA are drug smugglers - Federal Judge Bonner, head of DEA - YouTube ... CIA (Cocaine Import Agency). hahaaa >> CIA are drug smugglers - Federal ...
[2-minute video] Head Of DEA, Federal Judge Bonner Says He ...
tobefree.wordpress.com/.../2-minute-video-head-of-dea-federal-judge-b...
Aug 3, 2012 – Head Of DEA Says He Intercepted CIA Cocaine. Federal Judge .... kabarety ani mru mru… on [video] YouTube Threatens To T… how to make ...
Your Tax Dollars at Work...Head of DEA Says He Intercepted CIA ...
rc.runryder.com/helicopter/t705370p1/
Aug 1, 2012 - 1 post - 1 author
Federal Judge Bonner and Former head of the DEA reveals he intercepted CIA cocaine shipments. This news reports ... Watch at YouTube ...
Ex - DEA Head Admits CIA Imported Cocaine - YouTube Repeater
http://www.youtuberepeater.com/watch?v. ... ...Cocaine" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Ex - DEA Head Admits CIA Imported Cocaine. YouTube. You need Flash Player and JavaScript to view this video. 4.94. 142 ratings. Repeating from start to end ...
Allegations of CIA drug trafficking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking
Main articles: CIA and Contras cocaine trafficking in the US and Iran–Contra affair .... In November 1993, the former head of the DEA, Robert C. Bonner appeared on 60 Minutes and criticized ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t3pl5Wxgyg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Head of DEA Judge Robert Bonner: 'CIA Are Drug Smugglers' (Video)
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/.../head ... -cia-are-d.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
May 28, 2012 – Also: DEA busts CIA smuggling ton of cocaine. Head of DEA Judge Robert Bonner Accuses CIA directly of being drug smugglers. You don't ...
Humans Are Free: Head of DEA: "CIA are drug smugglers"! Afghan ...
humansarefree.com/.../head-of-dea-cia-are-drug-smugglers.html
by Alexander Light - in 459 Google+ circles
Feb 22, 2012 – Also: DEA busts CIA smuggling ton of cocaine. Head of DEA, Judge Robert Bonner accuses CIA directly of being drug smugglers: ...
Head of DEA Says He Intercepted CIA Cocaine Shipments | Global ...
http://www.scoop.it/.../head-of-dea-say ... -shipments" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Feb 12, 2012 – Head of DEA Says He Intercepted CIA Cocaine Shipments ..... From http://www.youtube.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - February 5, 8:45 AM. BV 11-11 The Dark Side of ...
Former DEA Head Says CIA Smuggled Drugs Into the USA | Pot TV
http://www.pot.tv/video/.../Former-DEA- ... d-Drugs-US.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Jun 7, 2012 – Former DEA Head Says CIA Smuggled Drugs Into the USA ... Bonner Accuses CIA directly of smuggling cocaine into the United States in this video. ... the US government's complicity in drug dealing on this YouTube account.
free copy of POWDERBURNS by Retired DEA agent Celerino Castillo ...
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/los-ang ... 2LAEA4GRAV" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Oct 4, 2012 - 6 posts - 5 authors
Head of DEA Judge Robert Bonner Accuses CIA directly of being drug smugglers. ... DEA Mexico Sting Caught on Camera--15 ton cocaine deal with Mexican Military ... The full 2hr film is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Haiti's Nightmare: The Cocaine Coup and the CIA Connection ...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/haitis-nig ... ../5324698" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Mar 1, 2013 – Massachusetts senator John Kerry heads a subcommittee ... Regala, and his DEA liaison officer, protected and supervised cocaine shipments.
Rant - C.I.A. Cocaine In America? - The U.S. War For Drugs
http://www.rantrave.com/.../CIA-Cocaine ... ar-For-Dru.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
"CIA are drug smugglers." - Federal Judge Bonner, head of DEA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_UbAmRGS.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. CIA funnels drugs to poor Americans ...
US Customs plane helps stop 3,300 lbs of cocaine - Worldnews.com
article.wn.com/.../US_Customs_plane_helps_stop_3300_lbs_of_cocaine...
4 days ago – The U.S. Navy recovered 89 bales of cocaine, worth $362.4 million credit to: .... Gaming channel: http://www.youtube.com/AntonWS888" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; .... Head of DEA Judge Robert Bonner Accuses CIA directly of being drug smugglers.
Crashed Jet Carrying Cocaine Linked to CIA | Jeremy R. Hammond
http://www.jeremyrhammond.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; › Articles
by Jeremy Hammond
Sep 7, 2008 – In 1993, CBS 60 Minutes ran a show headlined “The CIA's Cocaine“. The former head of the DEA, Judge Robert Bonner, told Mike Wallace, the ...
free copy POWDERBURNS by Retired DEA agent Celerino Castillo III ...
http://www.topix.com/forum/sacramento/T9AQ99F2S3L9H22EU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Oct 3, 2012 - 5 posts
describes Bolivia's cocaine coup and state sponsored drug dealing in Latin ... The full 2hr film is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. ... Head of DEA Judge Robert Bonner Accuses CIA directly of being drug smugglers.
free copy of POWDERBURNS by Retired DEA agent Celerino Castillo ...
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/washing ... AOLJ2SA8LP" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Oct 4, 2012 - 5 posts - 4 authors
describes Bolivia's cocaine coup and state sponsored drug dealing in Latin ... The full 2hr film is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. ... Head of DEA Judge Robert Bonner Accuses CIA directly of being drug smugglers.
CIA - Cocaine Import Agency - Project Nsearch
http://www.project.nsearch.com/video/ci ... t-agency-1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
by Glenn Canady - in 21 Google+ circles
Feb 2, 2012 – by: http://www.youtube.com/user/jayroll42?feature=watch" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. THE CIA FUNDED ... Ex-DEA Head Admits CIA Imported Cocaine · Thumbnail ...
CIA - Cocaine Import Agency - Project Nsearch
http://www.project.nsearch.com/xn/detai ... :481510?xg.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
by Glenn Canady - in 21 Google+ circles
Feb 2, 2012 – CIA - Cocaine Import Agency ... by: http://www.youtube.com/user/jayroll42?feature=watch" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... Ex-DEA Head Admits CIA Imported Cocaine ...
CIA Hit List - Barry Seal - (Cocaine Trafficker For The ... - LiveLeak.com
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=14b_1325020843" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Dec 27, 2011 – [10] This cocaine was seized by the DEA, and was never received by the ... He then emptied a magazine into his body, neck and head, killing Seal instantly, which brought the DEA's most ... Sources Wikipedia and Youtube ...

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

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

What's the Matter with Fusion Centers?

The hubs of the post 9/11 domestic intelligence system are the nation’s 72 “fusion centers.”

Since 2003, with the assistance of Department of Homeland Security funding, these new data collection centers have been developed for the express purpose of “fusing” and analyzing information and surveillance from law enforcement, government entities, and private organizations. The 50 state-based and 22 urban fusion centers have been designated as the primary entities for analyzing Suspicious Activities Reports and sharing state and local terrorism-related information across the country and with federal agencies through the DHS’ Information Sharing Environment.

Originally intended as terrorism-fighting tools, fusion centers soon adopted an “all crimes” and “all hazards” mission, and have become repositories of traditional criminal information. The Congressional Research Service reported in 2007 that this was necessary because local law enforcement agencies “often didn’t feel threatened by terrorism, nor did they think that their community would produce would-be terrorists.” Spurred by the availability of federal grants, a concept of policing (“predictive policing”) has emerged that is no longer primarily reactive and focused on solving crimes but on collecting evidence of crimes that may be about to be committed.

Above: a screenshot from the Illinois Homeland Security Information Network, listing at the bottom a "World Can't Wait" protest alongside terror threats (click to englarge)

A 2008 DHS Privacy Office review of fusion centers concluded that they presented risks to privacy because of ambiguous lines of authority, rules and oversight; the participation of the military and private sector; data mining; excessive secrecy; inaccurate or incomplete information; the dangers of mission creep.

The following year, Bruce Fein, a conservative constitutional lawyer and former Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Reagan administration, told Congress that fusion centers and Suspicious Activity Reports were worthy of the Soviet Union’s KGB and East Germany’s Stasi, and should be abandoned:

To an intelligence agent, informant, or law enforcement officer, everything unconventional or unorthodox looks like at least a pre-embryonic terrorist danger.

Examples now abound of legitimate First Amendment activity being regarded by fusion centers as potential “terrorist danger.” For example, late in 2010, the Tennessee Fusion Center included on an Internet map detailing “terrorism events and other suspicious activity” the fact that the ACLU of Tennessee wrote a letter to school superintendents asking them to encourage schools to be supportive of all religious beliefs during the holiday season. A few months later, this Tennessee fusion center received the "Fusion Center of the Year" award from Janet Napolitano, head of DHS.

Early in 2011, plans for a Virginia-based mega fusion center run by the US Joint Special Operations Command came to light. This military targeting center would further blur lines of authority and merge data from the wide reaches of the “global war on terror” in a domestic-foreign cloud-computing network tied into “all elements of U.S. national security from the eavesdropping capabilities of the National Security Agency to Homeland Security’s border-monitoring databases. The computer is designed to sift through masses of information to track militant suspects across the globe” (Associated Press, January 9, 2011). The data would help the military target missile strikes and commando raids oversees, and would also “be used at times to advise domestic law enforcement in dealing with suspected terrorists inside the U.S.”

Check out our Resources page for more on fusion centers, including a detailed white paper and report.

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

see link for full story

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/28/g ... -websites/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Graham says FBI should confront people who view ‘Islamist’ websites

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), appearing Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” said that he believes Americans would be made safer if Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agents would physically confront non-criminals over their web surfing activities, especially if that person is on a watch list and has been looking at “Islamist” sites online.

Explaining that there were warning signs known to various U.S. law enforcement agencies that one of the accused Boston bombers may have been a threat, Graham said the attack was pulled off because of “a failure to share information and missing warning signs — we’re going back to the pre-9/11 stovepiping.”

He added that if someone federal agencies had received tips about “goes on the Internet for the whole world to see, to interact with radical Islamic websites, how do we miss that?”

“So, we’re going to have to up our game,” Graham continued. “When one of these guys goes into the system and then leaves the country, we need to make sure we know where they’re going and interview them. And when somebody in a database like this begins to openly interact with radical Islamist websites, an FBI agent should knock on his door and say, ‘You told us before you wanted to be an Olympic boxer, that you love this country. What the hell is going on here? We’re watching.’”

Graham’s comments illustrate not just the astonishing level of monitoring foreign nationals within the U.S. can be subjected to, but also the type of policing preferred by one of the Senate’s foremost advocates of drone bombing and the system of military justice set up by the Bush administration for terror war prisoners.

In the wake of the Boston Marathon attack, Graham has been adamantly calling for a more militarized response to domestic terrorism incidents, joining with fellow Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) to urge fellow lawmakers to expand the definition of terrorism so that anyone with a connection to “radical Islam” would automatically be classified as an “enemy combatant” with practically no legal rights.

Similarly, Graham has emerged as one of the Senate’s loudest voices on the Boston bombing, calling for the Obama administration to send the surviving suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to a military prison despite any evidence that he or his brother were linked to a terrorist organization.

Former CIA Deputy Director Phillip Mudd, appearing on Fox News last week, took a position contrary to Graham’s, saying that Tsarnaev should be charged as a murderer instead of a terrorist. “This looks more to me like Columbine than it does al Qaeda,” he said. “Two kids who radicalized between themselves in a closed circle go out and commit murder. I would charge these guys as murders, not terrorists.”

Considering the militarized response to the Boston bombings, which involved massive surveillance, aerial drones with heat detection sensors and door-to-door searches that virtually shut the city down, it’s hard to imagine what Graham’s vision for a more overwhelming response would actually look like on the ground.

Still, it should be noted that authorities later credited the media for Tsarnaev’s capture, saying the turning point came when photos of the suspects were widely publicized on the Internet. The Obama administration has said that Tsarnaev will not be charged as an enemy combatant.

This video is from “Face the Nation,” aired Sunday, April 28, 2013.

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

see link for full story
http://www.ldsfreedomforum.com/posting. ... 20&t=28393" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

M.L. King Murder A Government Plot






The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.



Caruthersville, Missouri

Caruthersvil

"M.L. King Murder A Government Plot,"
Says Former CIA Participant. "I was part of it."
"Raoul" Identified as FBI Agent

by Pat Shannan - shannapat@worldnet.att.net

New evidence has surfaced in the 1968 Martin Luther King murder case. It is
supplied by an "insider" who claims to have been part of a "hit team" that
had come out of the "Missouri Mafia" headquartered in the town of
Caruthersville, a small town in the bootheel section of that state. In a
yet-to-be-published book, former County Deputy Jim Green reveals his assigned
role in the conspiracy, the name of the actual trigger man, and the
long-suspected involvement of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. Green also
believes that he possesses the actual murder weapon, which he personally
secreted away only hours after the murder.

"Jim Green is telling the truth," says Lyndon Barsten, an astute researcher
of the case over the past decade. "I have no doubt whatsoever. The pieces he
has supplied fit perfectly and could not have come from someone who was not
there." Indeed they do fit, and it is all backed up by FBI documentation
derived by Barsten through numerous FOIA requests.

On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King was gunned down on the second floor
balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee by a single shot from a
high powered rifle. Several witnesses said the shot came from the bushes on a
slope from across the street. The FBI concluded that it came from the rear
bathroom window of a cheap hotel, also across the street and higher up the
hill.

Two weeks later the name of James Earl Ray, a fugitive escapee from the
Missouri State Penitentiary, was announced to the world as the man who had
killed King, escaped to Canada, and was currently in hiding somewhere across
the border. After Ray was identified as the killer and long before he was
captured, the FBI spent little or no time pursuing any other leads. Two
months later the fugitive was caught changing planes at Heathrow Airport in
London, after having left Canada and spending ten days with persons unknown
in Portugal. He was attempting to board a plane to Brussels.

On March 10, 1969, James Earl Ray, with his attorney Percy Foreman, pled
guilty to the murder before the court of Judge Preston Battle. He was
sentenced to 99 years in prison. He recanted almost immediately and filed a
motion for a trial only three days later. But before the month was out, Judge
Battle was found dead in his chambers, slumped over his desk. Beneath his
head were the papers of the handwritten motion from James Earl Ray. The case
was closed, and Ray began his sentence in the Tennessee State Penitentiary.

The "Official" Story

The scenario released by Memphis police and the FBI and later used by the
House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was that in late March of
1968, James Earl Ray had purchased a Remington 30.06 rifle from the
Aeromarine Supply Store in Birmingham and had traveled with it to Memphis in
a white Mustang. Here he checked into Bessie Brewer's boarding house in the
400 block of South Main Street on the afternoon of April 4th. Directly behind
it was the Lorraine Motel on Mulberry Street.

At 6:00 p.m. Martin L. King stepped out of room 306 and was joined by a group
of followers with whom he had been in a meeting all afternoon. He was gunned
down only a minute later by a single shot from the rear bathroom window
across the street.

Not one witness saw the actual firing of the shot or claimed it had come from
the window. Most believed it had come from the bushes on the slope, fifty
feet closer.

Still according to the official story, Ray allegedly ran out of the bathroom
and down the hall to his room. Here he stuffed the rifle back into its box
and included it with a bundle containing his clothes, binoculars, ammunition,
a beer can with his fingerprints; and perhaps the most incriminating of all,
a portable radio with his inmate number from the Missouri State Penitentiary
engraved in the back side.

He ran down the stairs and out onto the street where he then dumped the
bundle in the doorway of Canipe's Amusement Company next door to the rooming
house. He then zoomed away in the soon-to-be-infamous white Mustang. He
stayed a few days in Atlanta before moving on to Canada.

James Earl's Version

In 1987, after being imprisoned for 19 years, Ray told his side of the story
in Tennessee Waltz, a book that went out of print and was later published
under the title of Who Killed Martin Luther King? (The biggest loss here was
original publisher Tupper Saussy's brilliant epilogue, "The Politics of
Witchcraft," which exposed certain secrets that the establishment publishers
preferred not to discuss. Under the new title the epilogue was eliminated.)
However, he appeared be avoiding "the whole truth and nothing but the truth"
in certain areas, apparently out of fear of self-incrimination - not
necessarily for the murder but for some lesser crimes. It also appears that
James became aware too late that he had indeed been unwittingly involved in
the conspiracy to assassinate Martin Luther King.

Ray tells of his prison escape via a bread truck in April of 1967. After
laying low in East St. Louis for a couple of months, he made it to Chicago
where he looked up some old contacts that enabled him to purchase an old
Chrysler for $100. From there he went to Detroit and crossed the border into
Canada. In July, he met a man he knew only as "Raoul," who quickly began to
give James money in exchange for his help with importing some kind of
contraband. James said he never knew if this was guns, drugs, or what, as he
never actually participated in anything more than trial runs. Raoul always
seemed to remain in the "planning" stages of a smuggling operation.

Ray had a contact phone number in the Area Code of "504," where he had phoned
his contact, "Raoul," many times over the months prior to the murder.
However, when he tried to dial this New Orleans number on the day after the
assassination, it was already disconnected.

Through Raoul, James was kept supplied with money to go to Mexico to wait for
instructions and to Los Angeles to see a plastic surgeon for a "nose job,"
effectuating a change in his appearance. He never worked at a job in any of
this time frame prior to the assassination and was obviously under the
financial control of Raoul. James was traveling in a 1966 pale yellow Mustang
(not white as were the others), purchased with $2,000 supplied by Raoul.

James always claimed he had acquired the names of his aliases at random from
a Toronto phone book. He bought the gun in Birmingham under the name of
"Harvey Lowmeyer," checked into the Memphis flophouse as "John Willard,"
acquired an Alabama driver's license as "Eric S. Galt," and traveled to
Europe on a passport as Ramon George Sneyd. However, all four, for which he
[or someone] had created I.D., looked very much like Ray. The odds of these
being a random choice were just short of impossible. It also is likely that
the Los Angeles plastic surgery rounding out his previously pointed nose was
designed to make him look more like these men, none of whom knew they were
being impersonated.

In February of 1968, Raoul sent travel funds to James in Los Angeles and
ordered him back to New Orleans. >From there the two drove together to
Atlanta. In late March, James says that Raoul was making plans for them to
drive to Miami but these plans abruptly changed around March 29th. They were
now going to Memphis.

It was on or about this date that MLK had cancelled a planned speaking
engagement in Miami in order to fly to Memphis and tend to the problems with
the garbage strike. It now seems that Raoul had this information before
anyone else.

En route they spent the first night in Birmingham. After checking into a
motel, Raoul gave James a wad of money and sent him to the Aeromarine Supply
Store to purchase a "deer rifle for your brother-in-law." Having little
knowledge of weaponry, James bought what he thought was appropriate and
returned with a .243 caliber Winchester. Raoul immediately decided he didn't
like it and sent James back to the store the next morning to exchange it for
another with a "larger bore."

The salesman told James, "Tell your brother-in-law that this gun will bring
down any deer in Alabama!" But he did agree to exchange it for the higher
priced Remington 30.06. After his incarceration, James was always certain
that real purpose of this instructed return to the gun store was simply
another part of the "set-up" to make sure that the salesman would not forget
him.

In Memphis on April 4th, the afternoon of the murder, Raoul had suggested
that James go to a movie, but James declined. After several tries at getting
rid of James for awhile, Raoul finally sent him on an errand only minutes
before King was shot. James said that he was going to get the worn tires
changed on the Mustang but that the man at the tire store was too busy and
could not get to it that day. When James returned to the flophouse/Lorraine
Motel location, it was surrounded by police cars with flashing lights, and he
decided it would be prudent to leave the area, as it certainly was not a
place for an escaped con to hanging around.

Ray was very vague about this time frame, and it may be assumed, again, that
he did not want to admit to having backed out of a planned armed robbery,
which appears below. To do so might have led to too many questions about his
foreknowledge of the murder about to take place and exposed his (assumed)
role - that of getaway driver. We must remember that while in prison, Ray was
extremely vulnerable.

It was while he was driving south on U.S. Highway 61 into Mississippi that
James heard the news on the radio that Martin Luther King had been shot. He
then turned east and headed back to Atlanta. James was always vague about the
details of his return trip to Canada and the contacts he made there prior to
his flight to Europe - often appearing to be protecting others.

In Tennessee Waltz, Ray told a chilling story of harassment and torture,
describing his treatment in the Shelby County Jail, which sounded as if he
were relating experiences from the Soviet Union rather than America. He was
kept under floodlights 24 hours a day for eight solid months prior to his
guilty plea, never knowing if it was day or night outside. His cell was
"bugged," and two deputies were monitoring and recording every conversation -
even those purported sacrosanct exchanges between client and attorney. Tired
and weakened by the strain, Ray was finally coerced into a guilty plea by his
attorney, to whom he referred for the rest of his life as "Percy
Foreflusher."

New Pieces To The Puzzle

Over the years Jim Green's Federal Intelligence connections have become
legendary in his hometown of Caruthersville, Missouri. "He's untouchable," or
"He can't be arrested, the feds just walk him out of jail, everybody knows
that." But now one must assume that the Untouchable is fast becoming anathema
to his former handlers. Jim has had an attack of conscience and is talking!

"I hope to change a lie in history to the truth about that day in Memphis,"
says Green, 54, a reformed "bad boy" who spent the first half of his life as
a teenage runaway, moonshine runner, and car thief. The last half was spent
in law enforcement, raising children, teaching school, and coaching football
- along with occasional undercover work. His only source of income today is a
social security disability check. Since coming forward with his story, he has
refused all offers of any work involving government covert action, for fear
of being "set up" and/or killed.

On December 3, 1998, he spent six hours with MLK's son Dexter King, Rev.
James Lawson, and William Pepper (Ray's attorney and author of Orders to
Kill, a semi-accurate compilation of facts and conjecture describing the
government's involvement in the King assassination).

"At this meeting, I cleared my soul telling Dexter of my involvement on the
day of his father's death," says Green. "I knew there would be many more
questions to come, and that's when I decided to put my story in writing."

He calls his book, Blood and Dishonor on a Badge of Honor, and when he put it
up on the internet two years ago, it caught the attention of Lyndon Barsten
on Minneapolis. Barsten decided to check Green's story against the known
facts as well as the suppressed information uncovered by him and others over
the years. He was astounded. Everything fit. Green knew details that could
only have been known by someone who was there, and the FBI documentation
acquired by Barsten substantiated his story. Some of these papers show that
the FBI had been constantly tracking James Earl Ray and had knowledge of his
whereabouts during most of the year he was an escaped convict. Both Green and
Barston believe that the FBI was instrumental in Ray's "escape" from the
Missouri State Penitentiary in April of 1967 for the sole purpose of setting
him up as a "patsy" when the time came.

"Why else would these reports be in the record?" says Green, "And why would
they have any files on an escaped con from a state prison?" Indeed. And
something even more suspicious, why did the FBI not contact the Missouri
authorities and have Ray picked up? He was under their thumb for some ten
months. Later investigation showed that the fingerprints sent out by JeffCity
for "escaped prisoner James Earl Ray" were not really his, ensuring his
release if he happened to be captured as an escaped felon.

CIA/Peace Corps

Jim Green was student at Caruthersville High when he decided that the Peace
Corps would be an exciting way to see the world. At the tender age of 16, he
had no way of knowing that this was a major feeding ground of the Central
Intelligence Agency (he assumes that his school counselor who helped him fill
out the forms did not either), but this was where the initial contact was
made.

He was contacted by FBI personnel and given a thorough background check. Then
a series of interesting and mysterious events began after he was accepted and
was under the government's control. In a short time this led to the Missouri
State Pen where he knew James Earl Ray in 1966.

"I have a good memory, but there are two weeks from this time at Jeff City
that I can only remember a few hours of," Jim reflects.

Lyndon Barsten says, "The contacts and methods utilized in the murder of Dr.
King bear the signature of the CIA, including the probable use of MK-Ultra
mind control techniques. Parallel psychiatric irregularities at the Missouri
prison system are described by James Earl Ray and Jim Green, including the
shocking drugging of inmates which could render the indication of hypnosis
easier or otherwise enhance its usefulness. It seems highly likely that Jim
was subjected to psychological assessment and manipulation, the results of
which directed back to Federal Intelligence Agencies."

A further series of events led to Jim's early release (effectuated by "Paul,"
the FBI Agent who became his handler) and a reunion back in Caruthersville
with Butch Collier, his former partner from the moonshine running days. For
the next year and a half, Jim and Butch and others ran moonshine and
delivered hot cars from St. Louis to New Orleans. Both operations were under
the direction of Paul, who would later show his credentials to Jim and
identify himself as a FBI Agent. At first Green was concerned about this ("I
had never known the feds to be crooked!"), but he was assured by others whom
he trusted that Paul had the power to isolate them from any investigation.
"Paul's boss is at the top," he was told. Jim took this implication to mean
none other than J. Edgar Hoover.

This complicated, sometimes hard-to-follow sequence of activities in Green's
life is made plainer (especially to those unfamiliar with the facts of the
MLK murder case) by the frequent interjection of Lyndon Barsten's
clarification of facts. But at this point, Green and his older (by six years)
friend, Butch Collier, resumed their lives of crime. Not only would they hot
wire and snatch individual autos from parking lots and drive them to Memphis,
but they were also paid $5,000 on occasion to drive an 18-wheeler load of
several cars from St. Louis to New Orleans for delivery to the Carlos
Marcello mob. Green says that this was done with full knowledge and
protection of the FBI.

("At this time of my life, the only thing that made me nervous was Paul. His
being an agent of the FBI didn't fit into my little world at the time. Also,
I didn't like it because it seemed like Paul was running the show and he was
an outsider! I guess, at that young age, I just did what I was told. This
must be why eighteen-year-olds are chosen to fight wars. Most men with
experience will ask `Why are we here,' and most teenagers will just follow
orders.")

April 4, 1968

Jim Green's story fills in more blanks with logical answers to the previously
unanswered questions. His assignment, for which he was to be paid $10,000,
was to kill James Earl Ray. "On the night of April 3rd," Green says, "Paul
met us in our room. He had a small package which he laid on the bed, he told
us "there's $5,000 in that package for you and five more when the job is
done, once James Earl Ray is killed on the fourth."

Indicative of the compartmentalization of each participant in this textbook
CIA assassination, Green says that he was not even aware of the total
operation of which he had been a part until he was back home in
Caruthersville watching the Ten O'clock News with his father. He would only
be following orders and believes that he was chosen for this segment because
he had spent time at JeffCity with Ray and knew what he looked like.

Jim and his partner, Butch Collier, stalked Ray in the early afternoon after
they found him at Jim's Cafe - exactly where they had been told they would
find him. Later Jim climbed to his assigned rooftop position of a dilapidated
three story office building in the next block south of Bessie Brewer's
rooming house on Main Street at around 3:30 p.m., armed with a .357 caliber
rifle. His instructions were to shoot James Earl Ray "after five o'clock" and
only in the event that John Talley, a Memphis Police Detective, failed.

The planners did not want to face another Oswald/Tippet-type snafu as in
Dallas.

James Earl Ray was in the rooming house, and Green observed him come and go
three or four times during the next two hours. On one of these occasions, Ray
came outside and stood by the Mustang for several minutes before going back
upstairs.

This coincides with Ray's story that Raoul kept attempting to get James away
from the area. It also telegraphs again that Ray was purposefully not telling
the whole story, apparently being careful not to jeopardize his position of
"innocent and framed" by admitting planned criminal activity. Green's next
segment shows us the real plan already in motion to set up Ray. The man that
Green knew as Paul, the FBI Special Agent, was the same person Ray knew as
Raoul, who had kept him on a leash for eight months - from Montreal to
Memphis.

When Ray left the flophouse the final time, at a few minutes before six (King
would be shot at 6:01), Green knew the instructions from Paul/Raoul had been
for Ray to first rob Jim's Grill at gunpoint and hurry south on Main Street
to the Arcade Restaurant. The phony ploy was that they were getting ready to
travel and would need some quick cash. However, James must have become
suspicious. When he came out on the street, he did not commit the armed
robbery nor continue walking down the sidewalk as instructed but climbed into
the Mustang (James' car was not white, as reported by police and the news
media, but a pale yellow) and calmly drove north away from the scene. He
never returned. By this time Butch Collier was stationed in the bushes in
back of the boarding house and directly across the street from the Lorraine
Motel.

It was a fortuitous intuition on the part of Ray. Lingering in the next block
was Memphis Police Detective John Talley, whose assignment was to kill Ray.
He was carrying the standard police issue .357 Magnum revolver. Jim Green was
on the roof of the building across the street and armed with the.357 rifle in
the event Talley missed or was killed by Ray. Green was the backup in case
anything went wrong. The caliber would match.

Remember Dallas in 1963 Re.Oswald and Officer Tippett. Again this is straight
from the textbook of "Assassinations 101." After the patsy is dead, anything
can be leaked to the press to demonize him, as it was in both these cases,
even while each was still alive.

But when Ray was "spooked" and drove away in the pale yellow Mustang, it
threw a monkey wrench into the conspirator's plans.

However, there was a second Mustang that still remained parked on Main
Street. This one was white and belonged to Joe R. Tipton but was brought to
Memphis by Jim Green and Butch Collier. They had also brought several rifles,
which were still in the trunk. Green's instructions were to stay on the
rooftop until Collier arrived in the parking area at the rear to pick him up.
At 6:01 p.m., he heard the shot, and only moments later saw Paul and Butch
emerge one behind the other from the stairway of the flophouse onto the
street. He saw Paul dump the bundle of evidence into the doorway of Canipe's
Amusement Company, while Butch was jumping into the driver's seat of the
white Mustang, and watched as they sped north on Main Street. Paul/Raoul and
the Memphis Police utilized a third Mustang, also white, as a diversion.

Suddenly the FBI's folly of the utter stupidity of the alleged assassin (Ray)
dumping his own incriminating evidence on the street begins to take shape.
Paul intended to drop it in the back seat of the pale yellow Mustang - Ray's
- thinking that James Earl had followed instructions and was down the street
getting killed. Then the FBI would have had its open and shut case. (Ray is
dead and here is the "murder" weapon found in his car.) But when Paul/Raoul
is suddenly confronted with the current situation of no Ray car available, he
frustratingly drops the bundle in the first handy place, and he and Butch
hightail it up the street in the white Mustang. Jim Green watched all this
unfold from his secluded rooftop position.

Butch Collier had just killed Martin Luther King with one shot from the
bushes on the slope across the street from the Lorraine Motel. He then ran up
the rear stairs to the second floor and back down the front stairs to Main
Street. By this time, Paul had run down the hall from the upstairs bathroom
(where he had watched the shooting) carrying the "plant" rifle purchased in
Birmingham by Ray in hand. (Paul was seen by other tenants who later said
this person was not Ray.) He then stuffed it in the bag with the other
"evidence" and was down the front stairwell only seconds behind Collier.
Jim Green watched as Butch drove two blocks up the street before pausing to
drop off Paul at a parked Memphis Police Department squad car. A couple of
minutes later, Butch was tooting the horn of the Mustang in the parking lot
behind Jim's three-story perch. Jim came down to join his confederate,
stashed his rifle in the trunk with the others, and the two men headed for
the Mississippi River Bridge toward Arkansas. Jim tells of hauling several
guns to Memphis in the trunk of the Mustang on April 2nd, following the
instructions of Paul. Butch had removed the one of his choice for the King
murder earlier the next day, but the other weapons were still in the trunk.


In Collier's haste to escape the murder scene, he had not bothered to open
the trunk but had quickly thrown the murder weapon onto the floor behind the
front seat as he and Paul jumped into the Mustang. When Collier and Green
crossed the river into Arkansas, they took an immediate turn onto the
frontage road and headed back down to the riverside. They hurriedly opened
the trunk and dumped the cache of weapons into the water. Headed up U. S. 61
and halfway home an hour later, Jim peered into the back seat and noticed the
rifle on the floor. When he called his partner's attention to it, Butch
realized that they had failed to dump the most important evidence of all.
"Well !@#$," said Collier, we can't drop it here on the side of the highway.
What do we do with it?' Jim pondered a moment and said, "Never mind. I know a
friend who will take care of it with no questions asked." Green delivered the
rifle the next morning to his trusted but unnamed friend in Caruthersville,
who kept it for 29 years. When he decided to write his book, Green retrieved
it and has had it stashed in a safe place in another state ever since. The
rifle has now been tested for ballistics and the results are pending. While
James Earl Ray was running from the FBI in April, May, and June, he had no
way of knowing that he was also being pursued by Jim Green and Butch Collier
as well - although he may have suspected it. On April 6th, the shooters were
called together for a meeting at the Climax Bar in Caruthersville with Paul
some others. Jim Green describes the situation: We were told we had "some
serious problems" to deal with. "First you have to find Ray and kill him, in
order that nothing can lead back to the government or us," Paul said. "We're
all in this together, and if one of us goes down, we all go down." He told us
that his orders came from the top. "Roachie will kill us before he or his
boss will get involved." Paul seemed more serious than ever. Later, I figured
out who Roachie was: Cartha Deloach, the number three man [in the FBI] behind
Hoover and Tolson. . . Butch and I told them what we did with the rifles but
forgot to mention the 30.06 that I have to this day. . . Everybody in that
room that day is dead except for Paul and me. (In those days Green and
Collier always used as their "life insurance policy" the bluff that they had
the rifle and various tapes and records that would go public if anything
happened to them. It wasn't true, but it worked. Collier died about ten years
ago of cancer.) For the next few weeks Green and Collier went to several
places, toting unregistered Rossi .38 pistols made in Brazil, in their quest
to kill Ray. Paul always seemed to have a line on Ray's whereabouts, and the
two hunters came closest to their prey in Toronto. Paul had sent them to a
hotel where they learned that James Earl had checked out only two hours
earlier. They searched several other places for two other aliases under which
Paul knew Ray to be traveling and hiding, but they could not locate him.
Green says that it was obvious to Butch and him at the time that Paul had
ongoing intelligence being fed to him by either the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police or the Toronto City Police. "Ramon George Sneyd" soon acquired his
passport and made his way to Europe, never knowing how close he came to being
murdered on the run - ironically by the same faction that had murdered Martin
Luther King and pinned the crime on Ray. Green subsequently served a short
time in jail for some previous infractions but had his very early release
aided by Paul. Two years later, Green met with Missouri Attorney General John
Danforth and about a half dozen others, including Paul, at a Sikeston,
Missouri motel. It was a secret investigation in an attempt to oust the
county sheriff and expose his corruption - which eventually succeeded. But
Green's performance, with the correct double-talk, exposed nothing, and for
this he was later rewarded with a deputy's job in the new administration. He
later moved on to federal undercover work in Memphis. During one seven-month
period in the mid-70s, the Memphis group got 265 convictions and failed only
once when a mistrial was declared. Green says, "I know first-hand that the
police will testify in whatever way they have to in order to get a conviction
or further their careers." For now exposing the corruption of the courts and
the FBI, Jim Green is certain that he will be called a liar. "But the same
people," he is quick to point out, "who will attempt to discredit me today
will have to be the same ones who in the 1970s said that I was the most
honest, reliable, and trustworthy witness. If I am a liar, then all the cases
I testified at should be appealed and thrown out and the records set
straight." Conclusion As mentioned, Jim Green's revelations fit too many
pieces (confirmed with the FBI's own documents) to have been contrived from
his imagination. He had told it to one official long before James Earl Ray
told his story in Tennessee Waltz, which Green did not read until 1998, after
he had begun his own book. Jim Green had attempted to "clear his soul" as far
back as 1973, when he told journalist Kay Black of the Memphis Press Scimiter
the same story printed here with only slightly fewer details. It was never
published but frightened Ms. Black enough for her to report it to law
enforcement authorities. This led to Green's appearance in front of the HSCA
in 1976. There his testimony was obliterated from the record and never made
public. So much for government inquiries. One of James Earl Ray's brothers
has now come forward with information corroborating the FBI's cooperation in
James' escape as well as the Chicago mob's participation in the
assassination, under the direction of Sam Giancano. John Ray admits that it
was he who picked up his brother after his 1967 "escape" in the bread truck
and drove him to a safe house in East St. Louis. Lyndon Barston's detailed
research shows powerful evidence implicating the FBI with complicity in a CIA
plot. 1] In late 1964, the FBI had tried to get Dr. King to commit suicide
prior to his departing to Europe to claim his Nobel Peace Prize. This was
accomplished by sending an alleged surveillance tape of Dr. King in an
extra-marital sexual relation to the SCLC with a letter warning that all
would become public if Dr. King didn't kill himself prior to his collecting
his Nobel Prize. 2] Lab work relating to the murder of Dr. King at FBI
Headquarters was dreadfully inadequate. The Remington 30.06 rifle purchased
by Ray in Birmingham and deposited at the scene of the crime was not even
swabbed to see if it had been fired! Today it still remains as the "official"
murder weapon of the MURKIN case. Yet, for some reason, this test was run on
even the rifle James Earl Ray had returned to Aeromarine Supply in Birmingham
in exchange for the Remington prior to the murder! 3] Atlanta FBI informant,
J. C. Hardin, is documented in the MURKIN file as contacting James Earl Ray
in Los Angeles just prior to Ray's packing up and heading east to Atlanta and
Memphis. 4] On the 29th of March, the FBI, through its "friendly" press
contacts, placed Dr. King in the open and insecure Lorraine Motel by
criticizing him in the press for patronizing "white owned Hotels." 5]
Journalist Louis Lomax who later died in a mysterious car crash, was
investigating Dr. King's death when visited by two FBI men who instructed him
to abruptly end the series of fruitful articles he was producing for the N.
A. N. A. Louis Lomax, described as being "no good" in an FBI memo (HQ
44-38861-3196); was a highly respected journalist. It was Lomax who uncovered
the deception of the false fingerprints sent out by JeffCity for escaped
prisoner James Earl Ray. This strongly suggests the duplicity of both state
and federal agencies in the ploy. The Intelligence Community's relationship
with the mob and union racketeers, as described by Jim Green, is highly
documented in the post-World War II era. Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana often
described the CIA and his organization as "two sides of the same coin." Blood
and Dishonor on a Badge of Honor will be published later this year. Limited
copies of Tennessee Waltz by James Earl Ray are still available from Pastoral
Business, POB 3252, Santa Monica, Calif. 90408.

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2013/4 ... _terr.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
May 3, 2013 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
see link for full story




FBI PROVOCATIONS:
Does the FBI Stop Terrorism, or
Create It? A Brief History
by Edward Spannaus
[PDF version of this article]
April 28—While the American people are being bombarded every day with news reports about the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings—most of which reports are based on deliberate FBI and law-enforcement leaks spoon-fed to the news media—important lessons can be drawn from FBI terrorism cases going back 20 years, at least as far as 1993.
Furthermore, the FBI's long history of infiltration, incitement to violence, and entrapment, is little known to Americans today. But what the Bureau has done against labor, radicals, and other perceived adversaries for over nine decades, it is doing still today, particularly against Muslim communities and organizations.
1993: A Cautionary Tale
After the first World Trade Center bombing, on Feb. 26, 1993, the news media breathlessly reported detail after detail of the FBI's painstaking investigation. Sifting through bomb debris, investigators found an axle with a VIN (vehicle identification number). That led them to a truck rental outlet in New Jersey. When one of the alleged bombers, Mohammed Salameh, returned to the rental store to report that the van he had rented had been stolen, and to get his deposit back(!), he was arrested. Good police work led to other conspirators, and eventually the case was cracked through methodical detective work.
The reality was quite different. Three months after the bombing, in May 1993, it was revealed that an FBI informant had taught Salameh how to drive the van, two days before the bombing. In June, it was disclosed that a former Egyptian military officer, Emad Salem, had penetrated the alleged bomb conspiracy for the FBI, and had helped test explosives, and had rented the apartment where explosives were mixed. Even as more reports came out over the Summer, the FBI maintained that its informant Salem did not know in advance about the plans to bomb the World Trade Center.
Eight months after the bombing, on Oct. 28, 1993, the New York Times published a blockbuster story revealing the existence of tapes that Salem had made while talking with FBI agents, which showed that some agents and supervisors had known all along about the bomb-making plans. The Times reported:

"Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after the blast.
"The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an FBI supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad A. Salem, should be used, the informer said.
"The account, which is given in the transcript of hundreds of hours of tape recordings Mr. Salem secretly made of his talks with law-enforcement agents, portrays the authorities as in a far better position than previously known to foil the Feb. 26 bombing of New York City's tallest towers...."

The Bureau's role in the 1993 bombing was raised on April 16, 2013, the day after the Boston Marathon bombings, by Fox TV's Ben Swann, on a "Reality Check" segment. Swann asked directly, whether the Boston bombings were the product of an FBI entrapment operation gone awry. He described the 1993 New York bombing, and then said: "So the question tonight must be asked, did the FBI have any knowledge of this plot before it happened?" and, "Is the practice of the FBI creating terror plots only to break them up before they can actually happen, really making us safer? What happened here?"
As we shall see, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was not the last time that FBI informants played a crucial role in planning terrorist attacks. Indeed, the Bureau has a long history, going back almost 100 years, of using informants and agent provocateurs to incite violence.
But first, let us look at its more recent history.
After 9/11: an American MI5
The day after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, then-President George W. Bush famously told his Attorney General, John Ashcroft: "Don't let this happen again." The "shackles" that had allegedly hindered the FBI from discovering the 9/11 plot came off. The Patriot Act gave the FBI new powers of surveillance and information-gathering, the alleged "wall" between law enforcement and intelligence gathering (always a fiction anyway) was dismantled, and there was a huge escalation in the use of informants and sting operations.
(Never mind that the 9/11 hijackers were "hiding in plain sight," with an extensive Saudi support network in place which was covered up during the official 9/11 investigations. To this day, the 28 pages of the Joint Congressional Inquiry which discuss the Saudi role in the 9/11 attacks, are still being suppressed at the insistence of the Bush and now, the Obama administrations.)
The "unleashing" of the FBI in the post-9/11 period meant that the Bureau's mission was now defined as prevention of terrorist attacks, not investigating them after the fact. The Bureau's top priorities were now gathering intelligence and preempting terror.
The FBI's new model was Britain's domestic intelligence service, MI5. New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau says that within the 9/11 Commission, there was "close to consensus" among the Commission members and senior staffers, that they should consider the creation of a new domestic intelligence agency modeled after MI5, which would take over anti-terror operations within the United States. The head of MI5 was brought to the U.S. to brief the 9/11 Commission on how to create the new agency. When FBI Director Robert Mueller met with the Commission in 2004, he pleaded the case for keeping counterterrorism within the FBI, and promised that he would reform the Bureau along the lines indicated.[1]
The Commission's final report in 2004 thus pulled back from recommending the creation of a new MI5-type agency, but it warned that the FBI's shift to counterterrorism intelligence collection required "an all-out effort to institutionalize change," and that it had to be done in a manner so that it would survive beyond Mueller's tenure (which was supposed to end on Sept. 4, 2011, at which point Obama extended it for two additional years).
An Army of Informants
The result is that over the past decade, the FBI's force of registered informants is now estimated at over 15,000, according to Trevor Aaronson, author of the new book The Terror Factory. That number itself is ten times the number of informants that the FBI ran in the 1960s during the infamous COINTELPRO (Counter-Intelligence Program) days. If unofficial informants and other confidential sources are added in, the number is three to four times that, Aaronson says, citing a former top FBI official. These informants are heavily targetted on the Muslim community, and they run the gamut from convicted criminals, to imams and professionals within the Islamic community itself.
(Intelligence community sources tell EIR that the Bureau has informants in virtually every mosque in the country. The idea that somehow Tamerlan Tsarnaev could repeatedly disrupt events in the Boston mosque he attended before being thrown out, and yet not come to the FBI's attention, defies belief.)
Under the FBI's new mission of "prevention, pre-emption, and disruption," the Bureau has carried out numerous entrapment operations, to the extent that most of the major terrorist prosecutions in the U.S. over past ten years actually involved plots created by the FBI. According to a report issued last Summer by the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, "there have been 138 terrorism or national security prosecutions involving informants since 2001," and these informants have usually crossed the line "from merely observing potential criminal behavior to encouraging and assisting people to participate in plots that are largely scripted by the FBI itself."
Aaronson reported in 2011, that under the Obama Administration, sting-related prosecutions are being conducted "at an even faster clip than under the Bush Administration."[2]
'Investigate Crime, Don't Invent It'
Former FBI Special Agent Michael German recently reviewed Aaronson's book for Reason magazine.[3] German writes that many of the terrorist conspiracies reported as being broken up by the Bureau,

"were almost entirely concocted and engineered by the FBI itself, using corrupt agents provocateurs who often posed a far more serious criminal threat than the dimwitted saps the investigations ultimately netted."

The FBI recruits informants with extensive criminal records, pays them tens of thousands of dollars "to ensare dupes in terrorist plots," German points out. Most of these targets posed little if any threat; they rarely had weapons of their own, or the financial resources to carry out violent acts. "Yet the government provided them with military hardware worth thousands of dollars that would be extremely difficult for even sophisticated criminal organizations to obtain, only to bust them in a staged finale."
German says that when he worked undercover investigations for the FBI, prior to 9/11, "if an agent had suggested opening a terrorism case against someone who was not a member of a terrorist group, who had not attempted to acquire weapons, and who didn't have the means to obtain them, he would have been gently encouraged to look for a more serious threat." Moreover, German observes: An agent who suggested giving such a person a stinger missile or a car full of military-grade plastic explosives would have been sent to counseling. Yet in Aaronson's telling, such techniques are now becoming commonplace.
German's conclusion:

"The FBI should be investigating crime, not inventing it."

Incitement and Entrapment
Here are some examples of recent FBI sting operations compiled by EIR; many more can be found in Aaronson's book and in other sources. It should be noted, that every element of the recent Boston case—including incitement to "jihad," and the testing and planting of live explosives which killed people—can be found in these earlier cases, including the 1993 World Trade Center case.

One of the most egregious of these cases is the so-called "Newburgh Four" in New York State, in which an informant in 2008-09 offered the defendants $250,000, as well as weapons, to carry out a terrorist plot. The New York University Center for Human Rights and Justice reviewed this case and two others, and concluded: "The government's informants introduced and aggressively pushed ideas about violent jihad and, moreover, actually encouraged the defendants to believe it was their duty to take action against the United States."

The Federal judge presiding over the Newburgh case, Colleen McMahon, declared that it was "beyond question that the government created the crime here," and criticized the Bureau for sending informants "trolling among the citizens of a troubled community, offering very poor people money if they will play some role—any role—in criminal activity."
In Portland, Ore., it was disclosed during the trial of the "Christmas Tree bomber" earlier this year, that the FBI had actually produced its own terrorist training video, which was shown to the defendant, depicting men with covered faces shooting guns and setting off bombs using a cell phone as a detonator. The FBI operative also traveled with the target to a remote location where they detonated an actual bomb concealed in a backpack as a trial run for the planned attack.
In Brooklyn, N.Y., in 2012, an FBI agent posing as an al-Qaeda operative supplied a target with fake explosives for a 1,000-pound bomb, which the FBI's victim then attempted to detonate outside the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan.
In Irvine, Calif., in 2007, an FBI informant was so blatant in attempting to entrap members of the local Islamic Center into violent jihadi actions, that the mosque went to court and got a restraining order against the informant.
In Pittsburgh, Khalifa Ali al-Akili became so suspicious of two "jihadi" FBI informants who were trying to recruit him to buy a gun and to go to Pakistan for training, that he contacted both the London Guardian and the Washington-based National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms, and told them that he feared the FBI was trying to entrap him. The National Coalition scheduled a press conference for March 16, 2012, at which al-Akili was to speak and identify the informants, but the day before the scheduled press conference, the FBI arrested al-Aliki, charging him not with terrorism, but with illegal possession of a firearm.

The chief informant trying to entrap al-Aliki turned out to be Shaden Hussain, a longtime FBI informant who had set up two earlier terrorism cases: the above-cited Newburgh, N.Y., case for which he was paid $100,000, and another in Albany, N.Y., for which his payments are not known.

This practice continues to the present day.
On April 19, 2013, the FBI arrested a 19-year old from Aurora, Ill., Abdella Ahmad Tounisi, as he attempted to board a flight from Chicago's O'Hare Airport to Turkey, where he hoped to join the Syrian al-Qaeda-linked opposition group Jabhat al-Nusrah.

How was young Tounisi recruited? By a site that exhorted its viewers: "A Call for Jihad in Syria: Come and join your lion brothers ... fighting under the true banner of Islam." In fact, the website was constructed and entirely controlled by the FBI! When Tounisi sent an e-mail to the website, he was answered by an undercover FBI agent posing as "Brother Abdullah," a recruiter for al-Nusra, who even provided Tounisi with a bus ticket that would take him from Istanbul to the Syrian border.

"They could entrap anybody, they could send anybody anything, and when you're young and impressionable, you're gonna believe it," Tounisi's father said on April 21, according to AP and the Chicago Sun-Times.

Boston FBI, Too
The Boston FBI office has its own history in this kind of activity. In the 2011 case of Rezwan Ferdaus, an American citizen and Northeastern University graduate, accused of planning to send miniature planes carrying explosives crashing into the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon, the Bureau went even further. According to various accounts, the FBI, using a drug-addicted informant posing as an al-Qaeda operative, provided money to Ferdaus to travel to Washington and to buy an F-86 Sabre minature plane for the attack. "The prosecution case also reveals how Ferdaus ordered the plane and rented a storage facility in which to keep it, and then took delivery from the FBI of 25 pounds of C-4 explosives, three grenades, and six AK-47 rifles," the London Guardian reported on Sept. 29, 2011 (emphasis added). The FBI press release, issued on Sept. 29, 2011, acknowledged that the FBI provided Ferdaus with "approximately 1.25 pounds of actual C-4 explosives."[4]
At the time, this operation—which included providing live explosives—was publicly defended by both Richard DesLauriers, the head of the Boston FBI office, and Carmen Ortiz, the United States Attorney, both of whom are still in place, currently overseeing the Marathon bombing case.
Not to be overlooked, is that the Boston FBI office was running this entrapment operation against Ferdaus, at the same time that it supposedly investigated Tamerlan Tsarnaev and determined that it could not make any further inquiry, because he did not pose a threat. That bespeaks either absolute incompetence, or that the FBI is lying and covering up what they actually did with Tsarnaev.
A Long History of Provocations
The irony was, that the numbskulls who demanded after 9/11 that the FBI must make intelligence-gathering and prevention its priority, were in fact reviving a corrupt tradition in the FBI, which Congress had tried to shut down after the scandals that emerged during Congressional investigations in the 1970s. The generic name for the FBI's unconstitutional use of its intelligence and investigative powers was COINTELPRO.
The FBI certainly had done intelligence and counter-intelligence before, and these programs were shut down not just once, but twice, for their wholesale violations of the constitutional rights of Americans.
Hoover and the Palmer Raids
The first incarnation of the strategy of "prevention, preemption, and disruption" was the Justice Department's General Intelligence Division (GID)—created at the height of the post-World War I "Red scare," and involving extensive use of undercover agents, informants, and provocateurs.
The GID was created by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer—whose name has gone down in history for the "Palmer Raids"—in 1919, in preparation for series of brutal raids targetting aliens (immigrants), anarchists, and "Bolsheviks," first launched in a dozen cities on Nov. 7, 1919. The then-young and enthusiastic J. Edgar Hoover was put in charge of the GID.
A second series of raids was carried out against what were then the two Communist parties in the U.S., in 33 cities on Jan. 2, 1920. Already at this time, the GID had enough high-level undercover agents in the Communist Party and the Communist Labor Party, that they were able to schedule party meetings at the same time across the country, so that raids could be executed simultaneously. There were no constitutional rights for the more than 10,000 persons arrested and detained in these raids.
Hoover and the GID were moved into the (Federal) Bureau of Investigation in 1921—which had been created by that Anglophile President, Teddy Roosevelt, in 1907. In 1924, the GID was shut down by Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone, but Hoover and his massive card files remained in place in the FBI.
Division Five
The FBI's counter-intelligence functions were revived in the 1930s, to keep track of the growing fascist and communist movements. With the outbreak of World War II, the FBI was reorganized with the creation of Division Five, responsible for internal security and counter-intelligence.
Collaborating with British Intelligence agents operating in the United States during World War II, the Bureau mastered the arts of warrantless wiretaps, opening of personal mail, and "black bag jobs" (surreptitious entries or burglaries)—which methods were carried seamlessly into peacetime surveillance and disruption of domestic radicals and "subversives" in the 1950s and '60s.
During the investigations known as the Church Committee (Senate) and Pike Commission (House) in the 1970s, the public learned how the FBI had used infilatrators and provocateurs to foment violence within and between targetted organizations, to the point of encouraging suicide (e.g., Martin Luther King), and murders and assassinations (e.g., Black Panther Party, Martin Luther King, and Lyndon LaRouche; see below).
One favored FBI technique was to falsely label someone as a police or FBI informant, putting that person at risk of injury or death, while protecting its informants. Another method was blackmail—widely used by Hoover against his actual or potential opponents (but also, according to some accounts, used by British Intelligence against Hoover himself).[5]
Related to this were the "Abscam" and "Brilab" operations of the late 1970s and early 1980s, targetting elected officials and labor leaders, respectively. FBI provocateurs, many of whom were hardened criminals, such as Mel Weinberg (used to frame up Sen. Harrison Williams of New Jersey), would put words in a politician's mouth to give the appearance of bribe-taking, even when there was no such intention or conduct. The conduct of the Bureau's undercover agents in these cases, is eerily similar to its use of provocateurs in the "terrorism" entrapments described in the first section of this article. Similar tactics were used against African-American elected officials in the operations known as "Fruhmenschen" and "Lost Trust."
Provocations Against LaRouche
The political movement organized by Lyndon LaRouche has been repeatedly targetted by the FBI and Justice Department, going back to the late 1960s, when LaRouche first gathered around him a circle of students who had come out of the "New Left." In May 1969, the FBI anonymously mailed a leaflet to student activists at Columbia University, trying to mobilize Mark Rudd's anarchists and proto-terrorists (later the "Weatherman" terrorists) against advocates of LaRouche's pro-labor policies.
In 1973, the Bureau used its well-entrenched assets in the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) to launch violent attacks on the LaRouche-organized association, the National Caucus of Labor Committees. FBI documents show that it used the CP and other left-wing groups to label the NCLC as "right-wing terrorists," and "a front either for the local police or the CIA."
Most egregious, was the documented attempt by the FBI to incite the CPUSA to carry out the "elimination" of LaRouche. A Nov. 23, 1973 FBI memo stated:

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI
FROM: SAC, NEW YORK
SUBJECT: LYNDON HERMYLE LAROUCHE, JR.
In reviewing New York case file it is noted that information has been received that the CPUSA is conducting an extensive background investigation on the subject for the purpose of ultimately eliminating him and the threat of the NCLC, on CP operations....
ources have advised that the subject is the controlling force behind the NCLC and all of its activities. A discussion with the New York NCLC case agent indicates that it is felt if the subject was no longer in control of NCLC operations that the NCLC would fall apart with internal strife and conflict.
New York proposes submitting a blind memorandum to the 'Daily World' CP newspaper, in New York City, which has been mailed from outside this area to help facilitate CP investigations of the subject. It is felt that this would be appropriate under the Bureau's counter intelligence program.
Otherwise, unable to find any pretext under which LaRouche and his associates could be prosecuted in Federal courts, the FBI orchestrated hundreds of harassing arrests of LaRouche movement organizers by state and local police. An FBI agent in New Haven, Conn. wrote a memorandum on a June 13, 1975 call from a supervisor "from Division 5 at the Bureau," who asked about cooking up some bogus Federal charges. "He further stated that some [FBI] offices have had considerable success in having local authorities proceed under local statutes against NCLC members...."

Around 1983, at the instigation of British agent Henry Kissinger, and corrupt circles in the Soviet Union, the Justice Departent and FBI launched a new COINTELPRO-type operation against LaRouche. Kissinger had written to FBI Director William Webster in August 1982, complaining about LaRouche; in January 1983, Kissinger's lawyer Edward Bennett Williams got the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) to ask the FBI to investigate the sources of LaRouche's funding. This led to an all-out public/private operation against LaRouche, designed to culminate with armed raids on the LaRouche movement offices; an intended, but averted, Waco-style raid on LaRouche's residence planned to kill him. (FBI documents show that the planning of the 1986 raid involved the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command—little known then, but better known today, for its activities including killer drone strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan.)
Six months later after the raid, the Justice Department carried out an unprecedented involuntary bankruptcy proceeding against publishing companies operated by LaRouche's associates, which was later determined by a Federal court to have constituted "a constructive fraud on the court." Under conditions of the bankruptcy, the Justice Department then railroaded LaRouche and a number of associates into prison. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark characterized the LaRouche case as having "represented a broader range of deliberate cunning and systematic misconduct over a longer period of time utilizing the power of the federal government than any other prosecution by the U.S. government in my time, or to my knowledge."
Clean-Up Is Long Overdue
Now, in light of this sordid history, look again at the FBI's handling of the Boston Marathon bombings. Is it just incompetence, that the Bureau somehow overlooked the Tsarnaev brothers? Or were there other operations going on—provocations, entrapment, etc., by the FBI or other agencies—which the government is now scrambling to cover up? As EIR pointed out in its editorial in the last issue, it has been decades since the FBI has been subject to any serious scrutiny—but look what came pouring out during the Church Committee and other investigations of the early and mid-1970s.
And now, with the world on the verge of World War III, and the British-Saudi wielding of terror as a detonator for war and dictatorship, it is essential that we find out exactly who is responsible for such terrorism today—in a manner which was never done around the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Such a thorough investigation and housecleaning are long overdue.
[1] Eric Lichtblau, Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice (New York: Pantheon Books, 2008), pp. 100-102.
[2] Trevor Aaronson, "The Informants," Mother Jones, July 29, 2011.
[3] Michael German, "Manufacturing Terrorists: How FBI sting operations make jihadists out of hapless malcontents," Reason Magazine, April 2013, reviewing Trevor Aarsonson, The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Ig Publishing, 2013).
[4] FBI Boston press release, "Ferdaus Indicted for Allegedly Plotting Attack on Pentagon and U.S. Capitol and Attempting to Provide Material Support to Foreign Terrorist Organization," Sept. 29, 2011.
[5] Curt Gentry, "J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets" (New York: Penguin Books, 1991), pp. 296-297.

Organization that assassinated Martin Luther King now puts black women on their most wanted list.

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

whosarat.websitetoolbox.com
Last edited by msfreeh on May 3rd, 2013, 10:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

msfreeh wrote:see link for full story
http://www.ldsfreedomforum.com/posting. ... 20&t=28393" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

M.L. King Murder A Government Plot






The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.



Caruthersville, Missouri

Caruthersvil

"M.L. King Murder A Government Plot,"
Says Former CIA Participant. "I was part of it."
"Raoul" Identified as FBI Agent

by Pat Shannan - shannapat@worldnet.att.net

New evidence has surfaced in the 1968 Martin Luther King murder case. It is
supplied by an "insider" who claims to have been part of a "hit team" that
had come out of the "Missouri Mafia" headquartered in the town of
Caruthersville, a small town in the bootheel section of that state. In a
yet-to-be-published book, former County Deputy Jim Green reveals his assigned
role in the conspiracy, the name of the actual trigger man, and the
long-suspected involvement of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. Green also
believes that he possesses the actual murder weapon, which he personally
secreted away only hours after the murder.

"Jim Green is telling the truth," says Lyndon Barsten, an astute researcher
of the case over the past decade. "I have no doubt whatsoever. The pieces he
has supplied fit perfectly and could not have come from someone who was not
there." Indeed they do fit, and it is all backed up by FBI documentation
derived by Barsten through numerous FOIA requests.

On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King was gunned down on the second floor
balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee by a single shot from a
high powered rifle. Several witnesses said the shot came from the bushes on a
slope from across the street. The FBI concluded that it came from the rear
bathroom window of a cheap hotel, also across the street and higher up the
hill.

Two weeks later the name of James Earl Ray, a fugitive escapee from the
Missouri State Penitentiary, was announced to the world as the man who had
killed King, escaped to Canada, and was currently in hiding somewhere across
the border. After Ray was identified as the killer and long before he was
captured, the FBI spent little or no time pursuing any other leads. Two
months later the fugitive was caught changing planes at Heathrow Airport in
London, after having left Canada and spending ten days with persons unknown
in Portugal. He was attempting to board a plane to Brussels.

On March 10, 1969, James Earl Ray, with his attorney Percy Foreman, pled
guilty to the murder before the court of Judge Preston Battle. He was
sentenced to 99 years in prison. He recanted almost immediately and filed a
motion for a trial only three days later. But before the month was out, Judge
Battle was found dead in his chambers, slumped over his desk. Beneath his
head were the papers of the handwritten motion from James Earl Ray. The case
was closed, and Ray began his sentence in the Tennessee State Penitentiary.

The "Official" Story

The scenario released by Memphis police and the FBI and later used by the
House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was that in late March of
1968, James Earl Ray had purchased a Remington 30.06 rifle from the
Aeromarine Supply Store in Birmingham and had traveled with it to Memphis in
a white Mustang. Here he checked into Bessie Brewer's boarding house in the
400 block of South Main Street on the afternoon of April 4th. Directly behind
it was the Lorraine Motel on Mulberry Street.

At 6:00 p.m. Martin L. King stepped out of room 306 and was joined by a group
of followers with whom he had been in a meeting all afternoon. He was gunned
down only a minute later by a single shot from the rear bathroom window
across the street.

Not one witness saw the actual firing of the shot or claimed it had come from
the window. Most believed it had come from the bushes on the slope, fifty
feet closer.

Still according to the official story, Ray allegedly ran out of the bathroom
and down the hall to his room. Here he stuffed the rifle back into its box
and included it with a bundle containing his clothes, binoculars, ammunition,
a beer can with his fingerprints; and perhaps the most incriminating of all,
a portable radio with his inmate number from the Missouri State Penitentiary
engraved in the back side.

He ran down the stairs and out onto the street where he then dumped the
bundle in the doorway of Canipe's Amusement Company next door to the rooming
house. He then zoomed away in the soon-to-be-infamous white Mustang. He
stayed a few days in Atlanta before moving on to Canada.

James Earl's Version

In 1987, after being imprisoned for 19 years, Ray told his side of the story
in Tennessee Waltz, a book that went out of print and was later published
under the title of Who Killed Martin Luther King? (The biggest loss here was
original publisher Tupper Saussy's brilliant epilogue, "The Politics of
Witchcraft," which exposed certain secrets that the establishment publishers
preferred not to discuss. Under the new title the epilogue was eliminated.)
However, he appeared be avoiding "the whole truth and nothing but the truth"
in certain areas, apparently out of fear of self-incrimination - not
necessarily for the murder but for some lesser crimes. It also appears that
James became aware too late that he had indeed been unwittingly involved in
the conspiracy to assassinate Martin Luther King.

Ray tells of his prison escape via a bread truck in April of 1967. After
laying low in East St. Louis for a couple of months, he made it to Chicago
where he looked up some old contacts that enabled him to purchase an old
Chrysler for $100. From there he went to Detroit and crossed the border into
Canada. In July, he met a man he knew only as "Raoul," who quickly began to
give James money in exchange for his help with importing some kind of
contraband. James said he never knew if this was guns, drugs, or what, as he
never actually participated in anything more than trial runs. Raoul always
seemed to remain in the "planning" stages of a smuggling operation.

Ray had a contact phone number in the Area Code of "504," where he had phoned
his contact, "Raoul," many times over the months prior to the murder.
However, when he tried to dial this New Orleans number on the day after the
assassination, it was already disconnected.

Through Raoul, James was kept supplied with money to go to Mexico to wait for
instructions and to Los Angeles to see a plastic surgeon for a "nose job,"
effectuating a change in his appearance. He never worked at a job in any of
this time frame prior to the assassination and was obviously under the
financial control of Raoul. James was traveling in a 1966 pale yellow Mustang
(not white as were the others), purchased with $2,000 supplied by Raoul.

James always claimed he had acquired the names of his aliases at random from
a Toronto phone book. He bought the gun in Birmingham under the name of
"Harvey Lowmeyer," checked into the Memphis flophouse as "John Willard,"
acquired an Alabama driver's license as "Eric S. Galt," and traveled to
Europe on a passport as Ramon George Sneyd. However, all four, for which he
[or someone] had created I.D., looked very much like Ray. The odds of these
being a random choice were just short of impossible. It also is likely that
the Los Angeles plastic surgery rounding out his previously pointed nose was
designed to make him look more like these men, none of whom knew they were
being impersonated.

In February of 1968, Raoul sent travel funds to James in Los Angeles and
ordered him back to New Orleans. >From there the two drove together to
Atlanta. In late March, James says that Raoul was making plans for them to
drive to Miami but these plans abruptly changed around March 29th. They were
now going to Memphis.

It was on or about this date that MLK had cancelled a planned speaking
engagement in Miami in order to fly to Memphis and tend to the problems with
the garbage strike. It now seems that Raoul had this information before
anyone else.

En route they spent the first night in Birmingham. After checking into a
motel, Raoul gave James a wad of money and sent him to the Aeromarine Supply
Store to purchase a "deer rifle for your brother-in-law." Having little
knowledge of weaponry, James bought what he thought was appropriate and
returned with a .243 caliber Winchester. Raoul immediately decided he didn't
like it and sent James back to the store the next morning to exchange it for
another with a "larger bore."

The salesman told James, "Tell your brother-in-law that this gun will bring
down any deer in Alabama!" But he did agree to exchange it for the higher
priced Remington 30.06. After his incarceration, James was always certain
that real purpose of this instructed return to the gun store was simply
another part of the "set-up" to make sure that the salesman would not forget
him.

In Memphis on April 4th, the afternoon of the murder, Raoul had suggested
that James go to a movie, but James declined. After several tries at getting
rid of James for awhile, Raoul finally sent him on an errand only minutes
before King was shot. James said that he was going to get the worn tires
changed on the Mustang but that the man at the tire store was too busy and
could not get to it that day. When James returned to the flophouse/Lorraine
Motel location, it was surrounded by police cars with flashing lights, and he
decided it would be prudent to leave the area, as it certainly was not a
place for an escaped con to hanging around.

Ray was very vague about this time frame, and it may be assumed, again, that
he did not want to admit to having backed out of a planned armed robbery,
which appears below. To do so might have led to too many questions about his
foreknowledge of the murder about to take place and exposed his (assumed)
role - that of getaway driver. We must remember that while in prison, Ray was
extremely vulnerable.

It was while he was driving south on U.S. Highway 61 into Mississippi that
James heard the news on the radio that Martin Luther King had been shot. He
then turned east and headed back to Atlanta. James was always vague about the
details of his return trip to Canada and the contacts he made there prior to
his flight to Europe - often appearing to be protecting others.

In Tennessee Waltz, Ray told a chilling story of harassment and torture,
describing his treatment in the Shelby County Jail, which sounded as if he
were relating experiences from the Soviet Union rather than America. He was
kept under floodlights 24 hours a day for eight solid months prior to his
guilty plea, never knowing if it was day or night outside. His cell was
"bugged," and two deputies were monitoring and recording every conversation -
even those purported sacrosanct exchanges between client and attorney. Tired
and weakened by the strain, Ray was finally coerced into a guilty plea by his
attorney, to whom he referred for the rest of his life as "Percy
Foreflusher."

New Pieces To The Puzzle

Over the years Jim Green's Federal Intelligence connections have become
legendary in his hometown of Caruthersville, Missouri. "He's untouchable," or
"He can't be arrested, the feds just walk him out of jail, everybody knows
that." But now one must assume that the Untouchable is fast becoming anathema
to his former handlers. Jim has had an attack of conscience and is talking!

"I hope to change a lie in history to the truth about that day in Memphis,"
says Green, 54, a reformed "bad boy" who spent the first half of his life as
a teenage runaway, moonshine runner, and car thief. The last half was spent
in law enforcement, raising children, teaching school, and coaching football
- along with occasional undercover work. His only source of income today is a
social security disability check. Since coming forward with his story, he has
refused all offers of any work involving government covert action, for fear
of being "set up" and/or killed.

On December 3, 1998, he spent six hours with MLK's son Dexter King, Rev.
James Lawson, and William Pepper (Ray's attorney and author of Orders to
Kill, a semi-accurate compilation of facts and conjecture describing the
government's involvement in the King assassination).

"At this meeting, I cleared my soul telling Dexter of my involvement on the
day of his father's death," says Green. "I knew there would be many more
questions to come, and that's when I decided to put my story in writing."

He calls his book, Blood and Dishonor on a Badge of Honor, and when he put it
up on the internet two years ago, it caught the attention of Lyndon Barsten
on Minneapolis. Barsten decided to check Green's story against the known
facts as well as the suppressed information uncovered by him and others over
the years. He was astounded. Everything fit. Green knew details that could
only have been known by someone who was there, and the FBI documentation
acquired by Barsten substantiated his story. Some of these papers show that
the FBI had been constantly tracking James Earl Ray and had knowledge of his
whereabouts during most of the year he was an escaped convict. Both Green and
Barston believe that the FBI was instrumental in Ray's "escape" from the
Missouri State Penitentiary in April of 1967 for the sole purpose of setting
him up as a "patsy" when the time came.

"Why else would these reports be in the record?" says Green, "And why would
they have any files on an escaped con from a state prison?" Indeed. And
something even more suspicious, why did the FBI not contact the Missouri
authorities and have Ray picked up? He was under their thumb for some ten
months. Later investigation showed that the fingerprints sent out by JeffCity
for "escaped prisoner James Earl Ray" were not really his, ensuring his
release if he happened to be captured as an escaped felon.

CIA/Peace Corps

Jim Green was student at Caruthersville High when he decided that the Peace
Corps would be an exciting way to see the world. At the tender age of 16, he
had no way of knowing that this was a major feeding ground of the Central
Intelligence Agency (he assumes that his school counselor who helped him fill
out the forms did not either), but this was where the initial contact was
made.

He was contacted by FBI personnel and given a thorough background check. Then
a series of interesting and mysterious events began after he was accepted and
was under the government's control. In a short time this led to the Missouri
State Pen where he knew James Earl Ray in 1966.

"I have a good memory, but there are two weeks from this time at Jeff City
that I can only remember a few hours of," Jim reflects.

Lyndon Barsten says, "The contacts and methods utilized in the murder of Dr.
King bear the signature of the CIA, including the probable use of MK-Ultra
mind control techniques. Parallel psychiatric irregularities at the Missouri
prison system are described by James Earl Ray and Jim Green, including the
shocking drugging of inmates which could render the indication of hypnosis
easier or otherwise enhance its usefulness. It seems highly likely that Jim
was subjected to psychological assessment and manipulation, the results of
which directed back to Federal Intelligence Agencies."

A further series of events led to Jim's early release (effectuated by "Paul,"
the FBI Agent who became his handler) and a reunion back in Caruthersville
with Butch Collier, his former partner from the moonshine running days. For
the next year and a half, Jim and Butch and others ran moonshine and
delivered hot cars from St. Louis to New Orleans. Both operations were under
the direction of Paul, who would later show his credentials to Jim and
identify himself as a FBI Agent. At first Green was concerned about this ("I
had never known the feds to be crooked!"), but he was assured by others whom
he trusted that Paul had the power to isolate them from any investigation.
"Paul's boss is at the top," he was told. Jim took this implication to mean
none other than J. Edgar Hoover.

This complicated, sometimes hard-to-follow sequence of activities in Green's
life is made plainer (especially to those unfamiliar with the facts of the
MLK murder case) by the frequent interjection of Lyndon Barsten's
clarification of facts. But at this point, Green and his older (by six years)
friend, Butch Collier, resumed their lives of crime. Not only would they hot
wire and snatch individual autos from parking lots and drive them to Memphis,
but they were also paid $5,000 on occasion to drive an 18-wheeler load of
several cars from St. Louis to New Orleans for delivery to the Carlos
Marcello mob. Green says that this was done with full knowledge and
protection of the FBI.

("At this time of my life, the only thing that made me nervous was Paul. His
being an agent of the FBI didn't fit into my little world at the time. Also,
I didn't like it because it seemed like Paul was running the show and he was
an outsider! I guess, at that young age, I just did what I was told. This
must be why eighteen-year-olds are chosen to fight wars. Most men with
experience will ask `Why are we here,' and most teenagers will just follow
orders.")

April 4, 1968

Jim Green's story fills in more blanks with logical answers to the previously
unanswered questions. His assignment, for which he was to be paid $10,000,
was to kill James Earl Ray. "On the night of April 3rd," Green says, "Paul
met us in our room. He had a small package which he laid on the bed, he told
us "there's $5,000 in that package for you and five more when the job is
done, once James Earl Ray is killed on the fourth."

Indicative of the compartmentalization of each participant in this textbook
CIA assassination, Green says that he was not even aware of the total
operation of which he had been a part until he was back home in
Caruthersville watching the Ten O'clock News with his father. He would only
be following orders and believes that he was chosen for this segment because
he had spent time at JeffCity with Ray and knew what he looked like.

Jim and his partner, Butch Collier, stalked Ray in the early afternoon after
they found him at Jim's Cafe - exactly where they had been told they would
find him. Later Jim climbed to his assigned rooftop position of a dilapidated
three story office building in the next block south of Bessie Brewer's
rooming house on Main Street at around 3:30 p.m., armed with a .357 caliber
rifle. His instructions were to shoot James Earl Ray "after five o'clock" and
only in the event that John Talley, a Memphis Police Detective, failed.

The planners did not want to face another Oswald/Tippet-type snafu as in
Dallas.

James Earl Ray was in the rooming house, and Green observed him come and go
three or four times during the next two hours. On one of these occasions, Ray
came outside and stood by the Mustang for several minutes before going back
upstairs.

This coincides with Ray's story that Raoul kept attempting to get James away
from the area. It also telegraphs again that Ray was purposefully not telling
the whole story, apparently being careful not to jeopardize his position of
"innocent and framed" by admitting planned criminal activity. Green's next
segment shows us the real plan already in motion to set up Ray. The man that
Green knew as Paul, the FBI Special Agent, was the same person Ray knew as
Raoul, who had kept him on a leash for eight months - from Montreal to
Memphis.

When Ray left the flophouse the final time, at a few minutes before six (King
would be shot at 6:01), Green knew the instructions from Paul/Raoul had been
for Ray to first rob Jim's Grill at gunpoint and hurry south on Main Street
to the Arcade Restaurant. The phony ploy was that they were getting ready to
travel and would need some quick cash. However, James must have become
suspicious. When he came out on the street, he did not commit the armed
robbery nor continue walking down the sidewalk as instructed but climbed into
the Mustang (James' car was not white, as reported by police and the news
media, but a pale yellow) and calmly drove north away from the scene. He
never returned. By this time Butch Collier was stationed in the bushes in
back of the boarding house and directly across the street from the Lorraine
Motel.

It was a fortuitous intuition on the part of Ray. Lingering in the next block
was Memphis Police Detective John Talley, whose assignment was to kill Ray.
He was carrying the standard police issue .357 Magnum revolver. Jim Green was
on the roof of the building across the street and armed with the.357 rifle in
the event Talley missed or was killed by Ray. Green was the backup in case
anything went wrong. The caliber would match.

Remember Dallas in 1963 Re.Oswald and Officer Tippett. Again this is straight
from the textbook of "Assassinations 101." After the patsy is dead, anything
can be leaked to the press to demonize him, as it was in both these cases,
even while each was still alive.

But when Ray was "spooked" and drove away in the pale yellow Mustang, it
threw a monkey wrench into the conspirator's plans.

However, there was a second Mustang that still remained parked on Main
Street. This one was white and belonged to Joe R. Tipton but was brought to
Memphis by Jim Green and Butch Collier. They had also brought several rifles,
which were still in the trunk. Green's instructions were to stay on the
rooftop until Collier arrived in the parking area at the rear to pick him up.
At 6:01 p.m., he heard the shot, and only moments later saw Paul and Butch
emerge one behind the other from the stairway of the flophouse onto the
street. He saw Paul dump the bundle of evidence into the doorway of Canipe's
Amusement Company, while Butch was jumping into the driver's seat of the
white Mustang, and watched as they sped north on Main Street. Paul/Raoul and
the Memphis Police utilized a third Mustang, also white, as a diversion.

Suddenly the FBI's folly of the utter stupidity of the alleged assassin (Ray)
dumping his own incriminating evidence on the street begins to take shape.
Paul intended to drop it in the back seat of the pale yellow Mustang - Ray's
- thinking that James Earl had followed instructions and was down the street
getting killed. Then the FBI would have had its open and shut case. (Ray is
dead and here is the "murder" weapon found in his car.) But when Paul/Raoul
is suddenly confronted with the current situation of no Ray car available, he
frustratingly drops the bundle in the first handy place, and he and Butch
hightail it up the street in the white Mustang. Jim Green watched all this
unfold from his secluded rooftop position.

Butch Collier had just killed Martin Luther King with one shot from the
bushes on the slope across the street from the Lorraine Motel. He then ran up
the rear stairs to the second floor and back down the front stairs to Main
Street. By this time, Paul had run down the hall from the upstairs bathroom
(where he had watched the shooting) carrying the "plant" rifle purchased in
Birmingham by Ray in hand. (Paul was seen by other tenants who later said
this person was not Ray.) He then stuffed it in the bag with the other
"evidence" and was down the front stairwell only seconds behind Collier.
Jim Green watched as Butch drove two blocks up the street before pausing to
drop off Paul at a parked Memphis Police Department squad car. A couple of
minutes later, Butch was tooting the horn of the Mustang in the parking lot
behind Jim's three-story perch. Jim came down to join his confederate,
stashed his rifle in the trunk with the others, and the two men headed for
the Mississippi River Bridge toward Arkansas. Jim tells of hauling several
guns to Memphis in the trunk of the Mustang on April 2nd, following the
instructions of Paul. Butch had removed the one of his choice for the King
murder earlier the next day, but the other weapons were still in the trunk.


In Collier's haste to escape the murder scene, he had not bothered to open
the trunk but had quickly thrown the murder weapon onto the floor behind the
front seat as he and Paul jumped into the Mustang. When Collier and Green
crossed the river into Arkansas, they took an immediate turn onto the
frontage road and headed back down to the riverside. They hurriedly opened
the trunk and dumped the cache of weapons into the water. Headed up U. S. 61
and halfway home an hour later, Jim peered into the back seat and noticed the
rifle on the floor. When he called his partner's attention to it, Butch
realized that they had failed to dump the most important evidence of all.
"Well !@#$," said Collier, we can't drop it here on the side of the highway.
What do we do with it?' Jim pondered a moment and said, "Never mind. I know a
friend who will take care of it with no questions asked." Green delivered the
rifle the next morning to his trusted but unnamed friend in Caruthersville,
who kept it for 29 years. When he decided to write his book, Green retrieved
it and has had it stashed in a safe place in another state ever since. The
rifle has now been tested for ballistics and the results are pending. While
James Earl Ray was running from the FBI in April, May, and June, he had no
way of knowing that he was also being pursued by Jim Green and Butch Collier
as well - although he may have suspected it. On April 6th, the shooters were
called together for a meeting at the Climax Bar in Caruthersville with Paul
some others. Jim Green describes the situation: We were told we had "some
serious problems" to deal with. "First you have to find Ray and kill him, in
order that nothing can lead back to the government or us," Paul said. "We're
all in this together, and if one of us goes down, we all go down." He told us
that his orders came from the top. "Roachie will kill us before he or his
boss will get involved." Paul seemed more serious than ever. Later, I figured
out who Roachie was: Cartha Deloach, the number three man [in the FBI] behind
Hoover and Tolson. . . Butch and I told them what we did with the rifles but
forgot to mention the 30.06 that I have to this day. . . Everybody in that
room that day is dead except for Paul and me. (In those days Green and
Collier always used as their "life insurance policy" the bluff that they had
the rifle and various tapes and records that would go public if anything
happened to them. It wasn't true, but it worked. Collier died about ten years
ago of cancer.) For the next few weeks Green and Collier went to several
places, toting unregistered Rossi .38 pistols made in Brazil, in their quest
to kill Ray. Paul always seemed to have a line on Ray's whereabouts, and the
two hunters came closest to their prey in Toronto. Paul had sent them to a
hotel where they learned that James Earl had checked out only two hours
earlier. They searched several other places for two other aliases under which
Paul knew Ray to be traveling and hiding, but they could not locate him.
Green says that it was obvious to Butch and him at the time that Paul had
ongoing intelligence being fed to him by either the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police or the Toronto City Police. "Ramon George Sneyd" soon acquired his
passport and made his way to Europe, never knowing how close he came to being
murdered on the run - ironically by the same faction that had murdered Martin
Luther King and pinned the crime on Ray. Green subsequently served a short
time in jail for some previous infractions but had his very early release
aided by Paul. Two years later, Green met with Missouri Attorney General John
Danforth and about a half dozen others, including Paul, at a Sikeston,
Missouri motel. It was a secret investigation in an attempt to oust the
county sheriff and expose his corruption - which eventually succeeded. But
Green's performance, with the correct double-talk, exposed nothing, and for
this he was later rewarded with a deputy's job in the new administration. He
later moved on to federal undercover work in Memphis. During one seven-month
period in the mid-70s, the Memphis group got 265 convictions and failed only
once when a mistrial was declared. Green says, "I know first-hand that the
police will testify in whatever way they have to in order to get a conviction
or further their careers." For now exposing the corruption of the courts and
the FBI, Jim Green is certain that he will be called a liar. "But the same
people," he is quick to point out, "who will attempt to discredit me today
will have to be the same ones who in the 1970s said that I was the most
honest, reliable, and trustworthy witness. If I am a liar, then all the cases
I testified at should be appealed and thrown out and the records set
straight." Conclusion As mentioned, Jim Green's revelations fit too many
pieces (confirmed with the FBI's own documents) to have been contrived from
his imagination. He had told it to one official long before James Earl Ray
told his story in Tennessee Waltz, which Green did not read until 1998, after
he had begun his own book. Jim Green had attempted to "clear his soul" as far
back as 1973, when he told journalist Kay Black of the Memphis Press Scimiter
the same story printed here with only slightly fewer details. It was never
published but frightened Ms. Black enough for her to report it to law
enforcement authorities. This led to Green's appearance in front of the HSCA
in 1976. There his testimony was obliterated from the record and never made
public. So much for government inquiries. One of James Earl Ray's brothers
has now come forward with information corroborating the FBI's cooperation in
James' escape as well as the Chicago mob's participation in the
assassination, under the direction of Sam Giancano. John Ray admits that it
was he who picked up his brother after his 1967 "escape" in the bread truck
and drove him to a safe house in East St. Louis. Lyndon Barston's detailed
research shows powerful evidence implicating the FBI with complicity in a CIA
plot. 1] In late 1964, the FBI had tried to get Dr. King to commit suicide
prior to his departing to Europe to claim his Nobel Peace Prize. This was
accomplished by sending an alleged surveillance tape of Dr. King in an
extra-marital sexual relation to the SCLC with a letter warning that all
would become public if Dr. King didn't kill himself prior to his collecting
his Nobel Prize. 2] Lab work relating to the murder of Dr. King at FBI
Headquarters was dreadfully inadequate. The Remington 30.06 rifle purchased
by Ray in Birmingham and deposited at the scene of the crime was not even
swabbed to see if it had been fired! Today it still remains as the "official"
murder weapon of the MURKIN case. Yet, for some reason, this test was run on
even the rifle James Earl Ray had returned to Aeromarine Supply in Birmingham
in exchange for the Remington prior to the murder! 3] Atlanta FBI informant,
J. C. Hardin, is documented in the MURKIN file as contacting James Earl Ray
in Los Angeles just prior to Ray's packing up and heading east to Atlanta and
Memphis. 4] On the 29th of March, the FBI, through its "friendly" press
contacts, placed Dr. King in the open and insecure Lorraine Motel by
criticizing him in the press for patronizing "white owned Hotels." 5]
Journalist Louis Lomax who later died in a mysterious car crash, was
investigating Dr. King's death when visited by two FBI men who instructed him
to abruptly end the series of fruitful articles he was producing for the N.
A. N. A. Louis Lomax, described as being "no good" in an FBI memo (HQ
44-38861-3196); was a highly respected journalist. It was Lomax who uncovered
the deception of the false fingerprints sent out by JeffCity for escaped
prisoner James Earl Ray. This strongly suggests the duplicity of both state
and federal agencies in the ploy. The Intelligence Community's relationship
with the mob and union racketeers, as described by Jim Green, is highly
documented in the post-World War II era. Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana often
described the CIA and his organization as "two sides of the same coin." Blood
and Dishonor on a Badge of Honor will be published later this year. Limited
copies of Tennessee Waltz by James Earl Ray are still available from Pastoral
Business, POB 3252, Santa Monica, Calif. 90408.

An unauthorized person went in and changed the link to this story
Here is the correct link.
I tested it.
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/king.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

see link for full story
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/05/03/57282.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Friday, May 03, 2013

Samaritan Says Bad Cop Got Him Beaten


A police officer squealed on a man who called 911 on a marijuana grower, and the pot farmer beat him up, the good Samaritan claims in court.

Christopher Spahn sued the Town of Irondequoit, its Police Department and Officer Chad Rahn, in Federal Court.
Spahn claims Rahn violated his civil rights by revealing his identity to the marijuana grower, who had been arrested on his tip.
Irondequoit is a suburb of Rochester.
Spahn claims Irondequoit and its Police Department negligently hired, trained and supervised the cop, who used a department computer to track him down after he made the 911 call.
Spahn claims he called 911 in April 2010 to report that Frank Arena was growing marijuana in his home. Spahn says he made the call anonymously, and "specifically informed the 911 operator that he did not want to provide his name, address or telephone number."
Arena, whose home Spahn had visited with a mutual friend, was arrested, the complaint states. Arena is not a party to the complaint.
After Arena was released, Spahn claims, he asked Rahn to help him track down the snitch.
Rahn got Spahn's name and address from the Monroe County I-Leads system and gave the information to Arena, the complaint states.
The next time Spahn went to Arena's home, Arena and his roommate Matthew Montrois assaulted him, Spahn says. They robbed him and "forced [him] to go to his home, where he was robbed of additional personal items and threatened with a knife," according to the complaint.
Spahn claims he suffered lacerations to his back and bruising and swelling to his face.
Arena and Montrois were convicted of burglary, robbery and assault and were sent to prison, Spahn says in the complaint. He claims that he "continues to live in fear that a retaliatory action will be taken on his life."
He claims the town and its police department breached their duty to train and supervise Rahn, "especially when an initial background check for employment raised numerous material issues concerning his fitness as an officer."
As an officer, Rahn "was investigated multiple times for domestic violence and other violations of the law," according to the complaint. At one point, he was given a multi-year suspension, but "displays a pattern of violating the suspension by working with another police department while suspended," Spahn says in the complaint.
"Defendants have tolerated and permitted a pattern of negligent hiring, training, supervising and failure to terminate of police officers, proximately resulting in employees violating the civil rights of persons such as plaintiff," the complaint states.
"The custom or policy of defendants, and their deliberate indifference to the rights of those who come into contact with these employees, caused plaintiff to be subjected to denial of his constitutional rights."

msfreeh
Level 34 Illuminated
Posts: 7683

Re: Let's see what the taxpayer funded in our neighborhood

Post by msfreeh »

see link for full story
http://bitterqueen.typepad.com/friends_ ... stion.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The allegations were fleshed out -- so to speak -- in Official and Confidential: the Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summer. A review of the book ("Partners For Life") by Sidney Urquhart for Time magazine summarizes one alleged incident as follows:

Perhaps Summers' most bizarre revelation is an account provided by Susan Rosenstiel, the wife of a liquor distiller and gambling crony. Rosenstiel recalls attending what she thought would be an elegant private party at New York City's Plaza Hotel in the company of lawyer Roy Cohn, Hoover and others. Instead, Cohn introduced Rosenstiel to a woman named "Mary," dressed in a fluffy black dress, lace stockings and high heels. It was obvious Mary was no woman. "You could see where he shaved. It was Hoover," said Rosenstiel. Joined by Cohn, Hoover stripped down to a tiny garter belt and proceeded to have sex with two young boys. Cohn later joked about the evening. "That was really something, wasn't it, with Mary Hoover?"

The "two young boys" with whom Hoover allegedly had sex perhaps were provided by Ed "the Skull" Murphy who was a long-time Genovese associate involved in the crime family's gay bar and boy prostitution rackets in New York City. In Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked The Gay Revolution, David Carter writes:

John Paul Ranieri, a former prostitute interviewed for this history, provided critical testimony for corroborating and better understanding the larger implications of Murphy's criminal enterprises for gay history. Ranieri said that as a youth from Westchester County he had been forced by blackmail and Mafia-supplied drugs into a prostitution ring in which he remained active for three years before he escaped the mob's control. He claimed that a number of youths in the ring had disappeared after they got careless with talk, for while most of the customers were more or less average homosexual men with money, the regular clientele, according to Ranieri, also included famous men such as Malcolm Forbes, Cardinal Spellman, Liberace, U.S. Senators, a vice president of the United States, one of the most famous rock musicians, and J. Edgar Hoover. The mob's order, according to Ranieri, was strictly "Keep your zipper open and your mouth shut."

Ranieri said that he met J. Edgar Hoover at private parties at the Plaza Hotel and that Hoover's name was never mentioned. Hoover was always in drag, and Ranieri said he could tell that the FBI director was sure that no one recognized him. Ranieri said that he had ensured his own survival by having in his possession a photograph of himself with Hoover, given to him by the photographer.

How does the preceding information link Ed Murphy with J. Edgar Hoover? The connection is made evident in a news story written shortly after Hoover's homosexuality and transvestism became public. When [Anthony] Summer's book [Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover], was published [in 1993], a newspaper story about the 1960s national homosexual blackmail ring suddenly appeared after a quarter of a century of silence on the subject. Without mentioning Murphy's name, it quoted law enforcement sources who had worked on the case as saying that their investigation into the nationwide blackmail ring had turned up a photograph of Hoover "posing amiably" with the racket's ringleader and had uncovered information that Clyde Tolson, Hoover's lover, had himself "fallen victim to the extortion ring." After federal agents joined the investigation, both the photograph of Hoover and the documents about Tolson disappeared. * * * Very suggestive in this context is that Murphy would publicly say in 1978—before it became public information, as it did in the 1990s, that the Mafia had photographs of Hoover involved in sex acts—that he knew that J. Edgar Hoover "was one of my sisters."

Murphy's boys did have a habit of disappearing. For example, one Puerto Rican youth known as Tano with whom Murphy was sexually involved was kidnapped right off the streets never to be seen again according to one eyewitness to the incident as recounted by Carter in Stonewall.

Curiously, Murphy also was a long-standing FBI informant according to a May 8, 1978 article ("Skull Murphy: The Gay Double Agent") by Arthur Bell for The Village Voice. Indeed, this article contained the interview in which Murphy expressly speaks of J. Edgar Hoover as one of his "sisters": "He was the biggest fuckin' extortionist in this country. He had presidents by the balls. He had a record on everybody and his brother."

The allegations that Meyer Lansky had incriminating evidence against the FBI Director are particularly credible in light of the relationships among all the parties with political fixer Roy Cohn -- a fellow closet case who died of AIDS in 1986 -- at the center of it all.

Cohn was a personal friend of Hoover during the 1950s and 1960s, and the two shared extensive correspondence directed to each other on a first-name basis including a September 1957 exchange on an article published by the Director entitled "Let's Wipe Out the Schoolyard Sex Racket." Ironically, only months earlier an apparent obscenity indictment against Cohn had been dismissed according to an FBI memo dated June 28, 1957 from Assistant Director Louis B. Nichols to Clyde Tolson:

Post Reply