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Comey's specialty is torture expanding the FBI Toolkit, eh?

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FBI Agent Accused of Misconduct in California Politics Probe

Thursday, 14 Aug 2014
One of the primary FBI agents investigating California state Sen. Leland Yee was removed from the probe and reprimanded for financial misconduct, according to a court filing from one of the other defendants in the case.

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Government concerned of rising anti-government violence



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August 16, 2014

A document was recently leaked from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis shows a growing concern that an increase in anti-government violence over the next year may be coming, Kerry Picket reported on Thursday.

The report, prepared by the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) and the Southern Nevada Counterterrorism Center with coordination with FBI, stems from recent acts by the federal government against citizens.

The most notable includes the Cliven Bundy’s Bunkerville standoff in Nevada with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that occurred earlier this year when the agency attempted to seize Bundy’s cattle but backed off when militia groups showed up.

The seven page report, titled, “Domestic Violent Extremists Pose Increased Threat to Government Law Enforcement” dated, July 22, 2014, said, “After years of only sporadic violence from violent domestic extremists motivated by anti-government ideologies, I&A has seen a spike within the past year in violence committed by militia extremists and lone offenders who hold violent anti-government beliefs. These groups and individuals recognize government authority but facilitate or engage in acts of violence due to their perception that the United States Government is tyrannical and oppressive, coupled to their belief that the government needs to be violently resisted or overthrown.”

Interestingly enough, although the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents occurred in the 1990’s, the report only outlines various incidents dating from 2010 to 2014, a year after President Obama was first elected, that include incidents of the Alaska militiamen case, the Waffle House plot in Georgia, the LAX shooting, as well as the Las Vegas shootings.

Meanwhile, federal government interference under the Obama administration has also risen since he was elected in 2008.

The numerous scandals plaguing the Obama administration, attacks against Christians and members of the Tea Party, land grabs, unconstitutional presidential executive orders, millions who have lost homes, their retirements, and employment, and 77 million Americans are in debt collections, may be fueling the rise in anger against the federal government.

The DHS report can be downloaded here.

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She's credited with cracking case of agent accused of working for mob
WABC Eyewitness News' N.J. Burkett

(New York -WABC, June 16, 2006) - Police are looking into an alleged attack on a witness in the case against Lindley Devecchio. The former FBI agent is accused of supplying information to a mobster, information that lead to several murders.

Our sources tell us that she was found unconscious in a supermarket parking lot early this morning. She is now at Lutheran Hospital in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. We're told she's conscious and in stable condition.

She is an informant credited with cracking the case against an FBI agent accused of working for the mob. The agent is Lindley Devecchio, one of the FBI's top mob-busters, now under indictment for murder.

Investigators say he tipped off the Colombo crime family, allowing them to rub out four rival gangsters in the 1990s. Today prosecutors and detectives rushed to Lutheran Hospital after learning their key informant in the case was in the emergency room.

Angela Clemente later told them she was nearly strangled by an unidentified man in a shopping center in Bensonhurst.

Investigators said that Devecchio's indictment back in March was a direct result of Ms. Clemente's successful efforts to get prosecutors to reopen the murder case. At the time his attorney's denied the allegations.

Angela Clemente has complained to authorities that she has been threatened and harassed in the past. This would appear to be the first incident of violence directed against her.

She is recovering in a hospital room under NYPD guard tonight. There is no word so far on a possible suspect in this case.

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couple of reads

bonus

FBI Crime Lab Supervisor Dr. Fred Whitehurst & OKC Bombing

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1st read



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Convicted killer Jeffrey MacDonald seeks new trial, again


Thursday, August 21, 2014
Former Fort Bragg doctor Jeffrey MacDonald filed a motion Thursday seeking a new trial in the murder of his wife and children more than 40 years ago.

In the filing, MacDonald claims there is new evidence to support a new trial.

"The defense learned of the existence of handwritten lab notes that revealed numerous blond synthetic hairs, up to 22 inches in length, had been found in a hairbrush in the kitchen of the MacDonald home following the murders," according to court documents.

"These hairs could not be matched to any known items in the MacDonald home," the documents went on to say. "The analyst who testified as a government witness at the trial never mentioned finding these long blond synthetic hairs. Synthetic hairs possibly coming from a wig would have been powerful corroborating evidence of intruders as Dr. MacDonald's consistent accounts of the evening included a female intruder who appeared to be wearing a wig with long blonde hair."

The court filing claims FBI agent Michael P. Malone submitted a false affidavit claiming the hairs were from a doll, not a wig.

MacDonald, who was convicted in 1979 in the murders of his pregnant wife and two daughters in 1970, has tried numerous times to get a new trial, each time being denied.



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FBI chief calls Islamic terror group 'savages'
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The question you now gotta ask is:
" do FBI agents now have weapons grade plutonium"?



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Ackland: Secrecy never went away at Rocky Flats


June 6, 1989: In a dramatic, unprecedented raid on a federal nuclear facility, more than 70 U.S. agents burst into the sprawling Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant near Denver seeking evidence of environmental crimes involving radioactive plutonium. Led by FBI special agent Jon Lipsky, the raid was kept secret from Colorado Gov. Roy Romer and the area’s congressman, David Skaggs. Afterward, Romer angrily said, “It jars me to the bone that judgments we have made in Colorado about Rocky Flats may have been made on bad information.”

June 7, 2014: I am among several people backstage at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities — not far from the now dismantled Rocky Flats plant — with Romer, Skaggs and Lipsky. The two former officeholders had just met the former FBI agent for the first time. All were about to participate in a public discussion marking the 25th anniversary of the raid.

The backstage conversation was fascinating and somewhat tense, and it was recorded secretly, most likely by one of the participants. The recording was then given to a journalist.

Skaggs said later that he was surprised to learn that the conversation had been covertly recorded. “It’s ironic,” he said, “that in the context of an event that was designed to introduce retrospectively some transparency into the events of 1989, there was this opaque aspect of a secret taping.”

This odd recording incident suggests how secrecy — in various forms — grips Rocky Flats even now, 25 years after the plant stopped making plutonium bombs used to detonate U.S. thermonuclear weapons.

Former plant workers, who had “Q” clearances for top-secret nuclear work, legitimately can’t talk about weapons details. Members of a federal grand jury from the early 1990s have been prevented by grand jury rules — upheld in court — from revealing testimony or their full 1992 report, though you can find the report on the Web. Some people worry that information still kept secret might affect public health and the environment.

In the meantime, after a $7.5 billion cleanup, most of the roughly 10-square-mile Rocky Flats site has been designated a national wildlife refuge. And though many studies of the effects of Rocky Flats on worker and public health and the environment have been conducted, experts agree that science can’t resolve all of the questions. People in nearby communities continue to wonder aloud whether radiation or toxic chemicals from the plant caused illnesses or deaths among friends or relatives.

The uncertainties about Rocky Flats sometimes get confused with deliberately withheld information. And evidence, uncertainty and risk are weighed differently by different individuals and groups. For example, activists often see danger in the unknowns while land developers usually dismiss any risks.

“Part of what is constantly being played out is the feeling that there are secrets,” says Dorothy Ciarlo, a Boulder psychologist and oral historian who has studied secrecy at the facility. People think that “if we just burrow enough we can find out — wh

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Was FBI Director Louis Fresh a principal architect in creating 911?
In creating OKC bombing? In creating TWA Flight 800
Missle attack? Waco?

Yep...
why do you think he needs bodyguards?

2. reads

1st read
material from recent 911 investigators conference call
1. Discussion with Niels Harrit


9/11 researcher Niels Harrit, answered questions from participants about the evidence that thermite and some type of explosive(s) were used to bring down the towers. Questions were raised about the nuclear theory, the burned cars around the towers, and whether testing has been done to detect different types of explosives (in addition to thermitic material) in the WTC dust.

Harrit mentioned a book about the WTC dust called Dust, the Insider Story of its Role and the September 11 Aftermath by Paul J. Lioy (forward by Thomas Kean, who co-chaired the 9/11 Commission) – pointing out that the book does not even mention the presence of iron microspheres in the WTC dust.

Dwain Deets also mentioned a video of the demolition of Building 7 from the south side, and Niels and others requested the link. The video can be downloaded here: http://houston911truth.us5.list-manage2 ... 91763ac879" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

2. Announcements


David Schlesinger offered a pdf file that looks at the laws of Isaac Newton and how they relate to 9/11: http://houston911truth.us5.list-manage1 ... 91763ac879" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The call began at 4 p.m. EST and adjourned at 5:20 p.m. EST/1 p.m. to 2:20 p.m. PST

You can hear an audio recording of this teleconference in its entirety here: http://houston911truth.us5.list-manage2 ... 91763ac879" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



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Ex-FBI chief's condition remains mystery after crash


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Former FBI Director Louis Freeh takes questions after holding a news conference at The Westin in Philadelphia in July 2012. Freeh was involved in a car accident in Vermont on Monday, Aug. 25, 2014.

BURLINGTON, Vt. — Former FBI Director Louis Freeh remained hospitalized Wednesday, two days after he crashed his SUV in southern Vermont.

Freeh, 64, of Wilmington, Del., was admitted under armed guard to the intensive care unit of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., after the 12:15 p.m. EDT crash Monday on Vermont 12 in Barnard.

The bureau put the armed protection in place because of Freeh's past work on terrorism while serving as FBI director from 1993 to 2001, the authorities said.

The special protection was established by the FBI in cooperation with New Hampshire State Police.

The Vermont State Police initially said Freeh was seriously injured in the crash. The agency said Wednesday there is no indication Freeh's car was tampered with. The cause of the crash remains under investigation, but the police did say Tuesday there was no evidence that drugs or alcohol were a factor in the wreck.



Police: Alcohol, drugs not factor in ex-FBI chief's crash

Because of the nature of the single-car crash, the state police accident reconstruction team was not called in, said Lt. William Jenkins, station commander at the Royalton barracks.

An unidentified FBI agent, believed to be off-duty, happened to be among the first people at the crash scene, police said.

Representatives of the FBI in Boston refused Wednesday to transfer phone calls to Special Agent Vincent Lisi, who supervises four New England states, or any of his five assistant special agents in charge.

The extent of Freeh's injuries and how long he will be hospitalized remains unknown.


Ex-FBI Director Louis Freeh seriously hurt in car crash

A spokesman for Dartmouth-Hitchcock said Wednesday the hospital was still not in a position even to confirm that Freeh was at the facility. As part of the hospital admission process, patients are asked whether they wish to keep their admission a secret or to authorize the minimum standard release of information.

Freeh founded Freeh Group International Solutions, a consulting group with offices in Washington; Wilmington, Del.; and New York. Nobody answered the phones at the three offices Wednesday.

Freeh was southbound on a rural stretch of Vermont 12 in Barnard in a 50-mph zone when he drove his 2010 GMC Yukon off the left side of the road, striking a mailbox and bushes before coming to rest against a tree, the police said. Barnard is about an 80-minute drive southeast of Burlington, Vt.

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Racism treaty committee calls on Obama administration to explain black prisoners


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August 30, 2014

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination issued its “Concluding Observations” on Aug. 29 over United States progress to end racism. The report, prepared for the United Nations, requests the American government to account for COINTELPRO prisoners who remain incarcerated.

In a nod to diplomacy, reference to the COINTELPRO counterintelligence program was dropped from the report to the United Nations, however, the problem of prisoners was addressed. “The Committee requests the State party to provide, in its next periodic report, detailed information on…the current status of political activists from the Civil Rights era who reportedly continue to be incarcerated."

The Jericho Movement, which filed a complaint with the Committee, has said that nineteen Black Panthers remain in prison following unfair trials. A shadow report to the Committee from the Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination contained a priority list of prisoners whose cases needed urgent attention which named among others the Omaha Two, Edward Poindexter and Mondo we Langa (formerly David Rice).

“Many of today's political prisoners were incarcerated as a direct result of COINTELPRO's activities, namely, they were targeted because of their political beliefs and/or actions,” said the shadow report. “Unlike those convicted and sentenced for similar crimes, political prisoners were given much harsher sentences and subsequently routinely denied parole.”

“Another victory, a more sturdy building block!” emphasized Efia Nwangaza who submitted the shadow report on a failure of the United States government to address COINTELPRO abuses. Nwangaza thanked New York Jericho Movement activist “Anne Lamb for her indispensable support, without which this landmark achievement would not have been possible.”

“Among other things, the USA must provide information regarding incarcerated COINTELPRO/Civil Rights era political activists, political prisoners, to the UN Human Rights Council,” said Nwangaza. Thus far Barack Obama has been silent on the plight of victims of COINTELPRO during his presidency.

The Omaha Two were Black Panther leaders targeted by Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover. After the Aug. 17, 1970 killing of a policeman by a bomb ambush, Hoover directed FBI agents to put the crime on Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa. Hoover ordered the withholding of a FBI Laboratory report on the identity of the anonymous caller who lured Patrolman Larry Minard, Sr. to his death to make a case against the two Panther leaders.

Although the Omaha Two and other COINTELPRO cases are state prosecutions, the Obama administration is now being asked to explain what it has done to correct the abuses under J. Edgar Hoover. The Jericho Movement has urged a presidential review of all cases involving those imprisoned as a result of COINTELPRO.

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WOW! pictures from the 50's. 60's. 70's
showing tanks and armored car vehicles
used against Amerikan Citizens.
Not to worry.
Only if you were black, eh?



click link to see pictures

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Foggy Memories Obscure Forebears of Ferguson Unrest
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By Bob Hennelly on Aug 30, 2014
Life magazine cover about the Newark Riots.

Life magazine cover about the Newark Riots.

Collective amnesia about past eruptions of racial conflict has left Americans with a false sense that what happened in Ferguson is somehow new. But the only thing new is the technology. The attitudes on display are sadly familiar.

Forty-seven years ago, the African-American population of New Jersey’s largest city took to the streets after a violent encounter between white police officers and an unarmed black man. While the body count in Newark—26 people dead and 1,500 injured—was far greater than in the recent disturbances in Ferguson, Missouri, the parallels between the two tragedies are too clear to be ignored.

After the terrible events of July 1967, New Jersey Governor Richard Hughes was faced with the same formidable challenge that Missouri Governor Jay Nixon faces now: How to avert future eruptions along the racial fault line that has undermined the American experiment in democracy since before the nation was founded.

“Newark and Ferguson are absolutely linked,” says Paul McLemore, a front-line witness to the five days of rage that shook not just Newark and New Jersey but the entire nation. McLemore, the first African-American to become a New Jersey State trooper, was the only black trooper in Newark during what the media of the day called “the riots.” He later became a civil rights attorney and recently retired as a municipal court judge. Looking back at Newark through the lens of Ferguson, he told WhoWhatWhy: “Very little has changed between the police and the community over all these years. We still have a very deep divide along racial lines.”

***

The parallels are numerous:

In both Newark and Ferguson, a mostly African-American population was policed by an overwhelmingly white police force that reported to a white political power structure.

In both communities African-American families were struggling economically. Neighborhood tensions were exacerbated by a sky-high youth unemployment rate.

In both places the powers-that-be made a last-minute effort to promote a black man from within the ranks of law enforcement in hopes of placating a distrustful black population.

And in both Newark and Ferguson an aggressive response by the authorities to an initial incident triggered the prolonged period of civil unrest.
Violence in Newark Riots

Violence in Newark Riots

Racial tensions had been percolating in Newark for months before the summer of 1967. As the national civil rights movement gained momentum, the city’s black community was becoming more assertive. Heavy-handed land use decisions by the white municipal power structure, such as the decision to locate a new medical school in the heart of the black community, displacing long-time residents, generated organized push-back. African-Americans felt they were being taken for granted by the white politicians they had supported for a generation and had little tangible to show for their loyalty.

***

On July 12, 1967, police pulled over John W. Smith, an African-American cab driver, for what started out as an alleged traffic violation. Police contend Smith cursed at them when they encountered him and that when the police went to take Smith into custody he assaulted them. According to the police, they got Smith into their squad car but when they got to the precinct they maintain Smith continued to resist. This time, passersby who witnessed the altercation heckled the police, demanding that they take the handcuffs off Smith.

Large crowds formed outside the precinct house where Smith was held. Community leaders demanded to see him and when they were granted access, they discovered he needed immediate medical attention. Smith was sent to the hospital for treatment for a skull injury and broken ribs. By 7 p.m. the next day, Smith was released to his lawyer but the damage was done. Word on the street was that Smith had been fatally beaten.

Over the next 24 hours, the Newark Police Department tried to keep a lid on a very dynamic situation. Cab drivers were mobilized to protest the treatment of their colleague, community members were protesting police brutality, and street conditions were deteriorating. Police were being pelted by debris and looting started to break out.
A victim of the Newark Riots

A victim of the Newark Riots

It wasn’t until 2:20 a.m. on the third day that Newark Mayor Hugh Addonizio called Governor Hughes to ask for the State Police and National Guard to be deployed to his city.

McLemore was ordered to report to the New Jersey State Police barracks at Hightstown in his riot gear. According to media accounts, fires were burning out of control in the central city. He joined a caravan of state police cars with hundreds of trooper heading up the New Jersey Turnpike, lights flashing. “The guys with me were just ecstatic, like they were going off to war,” McClemore says of the white troopers he rode with. “We got to where the Newark airport is. You could see Newark’s skyline and all you could see was smoke and flames. I thought `Lord, what is going to happen here?’”

“When we drove through the central district of Newark things had gotten so bad——Newark police community relations had deteriorated so much, people were out on their porches applauding us. `Hooray! The troops have arrived. Everything will be fine. They will restore order.’ Black folks were welcoming the troops in.”
This welcoming attitude did not last long. Within days, Governor Hughes ordered the National Guard and the New Jersey State Police out of Newark. “When we left there,” McLemore says, “we were like a dog with its tail between its legs. People threw piss at us.”

What accounted for the New Jersey State Police and the National Guard’s precipitous fall from community grace?

The Lilley Report

The tragic details are laid out in an official account compiled by “The Governor’s Select Commission on Civil Disorder.” This document, known as the Lilley Report after its chairman, then AT&T President Robert D. Lilley, has slipped into undeserved obscurity.

In fact, the Lilley Report can serve as a model for anyone hoping to understand the troubles in Ferguson and other racially divided communities.
Armored personnel carrier in Newark

Armored personnel carrier in Newark

In August of 1967, a month after Newark burned, Governor Hughes convened a blue-ribbon panel of religious, political, and legal leaders and charged them with generating “a realistic analysis of the disorders….and practical proposals” to help prevent a recurrence of the unrest.

“They were not a bunch of bleeding-heart liberals,” says McLemore. “They came out with a very strong indictment of how the State Police and National Guard actually made a bad situation worse.”

***

Over months of investigation, the panel took sworn testimony from more than 100 witnesses ranging from the Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police to Amiri Baraka, a poet and playwright whose activism had made him a frequent target for the local police. The Commission also heard from John W. Smith, whose arrest was the flashpoint for events that would haunt Newark for decades.

After speaking with scores of Newark store owners and residents, the Commission concluded that members of both the police and the National Guard, motivated by racial prejudice, had used “excessive and unjustified force” on Newark residents, and had specifically targeted African-American-owned businesses for destruction. “These raids resulted in personal suffering to innocent small businessmen and property owners who have a stake in law and order and who had not participated in any unlawful act. It embittered the Negro community as a whole when the disorders had begun to ebb,” concluded the Commission.

Perhaps the most volatile issue raised by the breakdown of order in Newark was that of sniper fire.

Phantom Snipers

During the days of unrest law enforcement and the National Guard claimed that they were fired on by snipers, whose shots led to the deaths of a Newark police detective and a Fire Captain responding to a fire call. While not outright rejecting this claim, the Lilley Report noted the doubts of Newark’s own Police Director at the time, Dominick Spina: “A lot of the reports of snipers was due to the, I hate to use the word, trigger-happy Guardsmen, who were firing at noises and firing indiscriminately, it appeared to me, and I was out in the field at all times.”

McLemore’s own experience shows how indiscriminate shooting by the police and National Guard resulted in dangerous “friendly fire” exchanges. He recalls walking in a patrol formation at dusk when a street light came on and a Newark cop on patrol with him reflexively shot it out, prompting another patrol to blindly return fire in his direction. “It was the Keystone Cops. You had a situation where the National Guard and police were shooting at each other.”

Out of the 26 fatalities during the five days of unrest, 23 (including a number of innocent bystanders) were from gunshot wounds. The Lilley report estimated that the National Guard and N.J. State police fired some 13,000 rounds in all. No total was available for the local police, who reported killing people, seven “justifiably” and three “by accident.”

***

What makes the Lilley Report required reading today is not just its detailed summary of what happened during the five days of civil unrest in Newark. Like the Kerner Commission, which then-President Lyndon Johnson created to look into the issue of urban unrest on a national scale, the Governor’s Select Commission took pains to place the 1967 disturbances in historical perspective.

The 200-page Lilley Report cast a critical eye on the City of Newark’s economic and political power structure. It identified a widening gap between the white-dominated municipal government and the overwhelmingly black electorate the city’s leaders were supposed to serve. It documented how African-American businesses and local contractors were systematically excluded from public contracts, and it characterized the pervasive corruption of Newark’s officialdom by quoting the words of one informant: “There is a price on everything in City Hall.”

Among the statistics the report laid out to describe Newark’s endemic poverty: the city had the highest maternal and infant mortality rate in the nation and the highest rate of tuberculosis infection, and it ranked ninth out of 302 American cities in severity of air pollution.

If further confirmation of the Lilley Report’s jaundiced view of Newark’s elected leadership were needed, not long after the report was released the city’s Mayor Hugh Addonizio was indicted and convicted on multiple corruption charges at a trial that linked him to organized crime.

Ignoring History

In contrast to the thoughtful, judicious Lilley Report, post-Ferguson analysis has so far failed to dig much deeper than perceived flaws in police tactics Legal scholar Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, a professor at John Jay College, says the current level of discourse around the issues raised by Ferguson is sadly diminished by the media’s short attention span. “You can’t get into a deeper conversation about race and the law with four people sharing a three-minute panel format.”

Rutgers Professor Clement Price, Newark’s official historian and one of the nation’s foremost authorities on black history, is more blunt. The analysis requires looking at St. Louis and white flight from an anthropological perspective, he said.

For Price, a common thread of enduring discrimination and resulting alienation from the political system links the Newark of 1967 and the Ferguson of 2014: “They’re predominately black towns but you would not know it from walking into City Hall, the Police Station or the Fire Department.”
State Police on patrol in Newark

State Police on patrol in Newark

Even today, in both Newark and Ferguson, African-American homeowners are in the midst of a foreclosure crisis that continues to undermine their neighborhoods. While economists proclaim the end of the Great Recession, 54 percent of mortgages in Newark are underwater, with the homeowner owing the bank more than the property is worth. In Ferguson, nearly half the households are underwater.

And yet the fate of the original Lilley Report, and of President Johnson’s Kerner Commission, shows that investigations by themselves can have no effect without the political will to act on their findings.

Two Societies

In 1968 the Kerner Commission warned the country that “our nation” was “moving toward two societies, one black, one white—-separate and unequal.” The Commission placed much of the blame for urban unrest on systemic white racism. It called for a massive Marshall Plan-like approach to improve economic conditions in African-American communities.

Dr. Martin Luther King hailed the Kerner report as a “physician’s warning of approaching death, with a prescription for life.” But the report failed to gain traction with President Johnson, who was wholly pre-occupied with the Vietnam War. In April of 1968, after King’s assassination, rioting broke out in over 100 American cities. Yet Johnson still rejected the Kerner Commission’s recommendations. And of course, the Lilley Report failed to get the attention it merited.
Newark Riots. Credit: Blackpast.org

Newark Riots. Credit: Blackpast.org

The bizarre images of Ferguson police confronting civil disobedience with Army surplus heavy weaponry may have no direct historical antecedents. But focusing on what is superficially unique, as all too many reporters do, creates a kind of a Narcissism of Now that cuts us off from the lessons of our own history.

Today, tanks and automatic rifles; yesterday, police dogs and fire hoses.

Yes, we have been here before, and with a much higher body count. And we will be here again unless we stop pretending that the racial divide in Obama’s America is a thing of the past.

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"The man who tortures "


Welcome to James Comey's Crime Family Hood boys and girls.

Today's word especially created for us by Jimmy "the waterboarder"

is "investigative publicity"

Can you say " investigative publicity" boys and girls?

With apologies for ripping off Mr Rogers
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FBI Turns to Propaganda in Faux News Report to Pump Up Triumphs
By Steve Neavling
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The FBI is promoting itself using a faux journalism report on the radio that is intended to sound like a real new agency, the Daily Signal reports.

One new cast begins, “In a move demonstrating the FBI’s valuable role of protecting national security, Director James Comey creates a separate Intelligence Branch…”

Instead of using a real news anchor, the FBI is using a public affairs specialist.

The program is called “FBI This Week” and is aired regularly on the radio.

“[T]he programs that we produce are ultimately designed to aid and assist the public in protecting itself against crime,” says Susan McKee, the FBI’s chief of investigative publicity and public affairs.

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Manipulated, Fabricated, and Disappearing Evidence

by John Armstrong


In 1996, thirty-three years after the assassination of President Kennedy, one of the FBl's top scientists, Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, disclosed that the FBI crime lab had fabricated evidence in the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombings. In April, 1997 an expose in The Wall Street Journal suggested that the F.B.I.'s bad habit of cooking evidence to help convict people with fraudulent scientific testimony may have been even more extensive than acknowledged in a report by the Justice Department's inspector general, Michael Bromwich. This is nothing new. Following the assassination of President Kennedy the FBI manipulated, altered, and fabricated evidence relating to HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald's backgrounds in order to identify him as the “lone gunman," and it is fairly easy to show why and how this was done.

One of the FBI's first objectives in the assassination of President Kennedy should have been to determine whether or not other members of government were targeted by friends and associates of Oswald or members of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. After Lincoln's assassination in 1865 government authorities focused their attention on possible co-conspirators who were soon identified, arrested, and brought to justice. After the events of 9/11 senior government officials were moved to safety in case a broader attack against the United States was in progress. According to Vice President Cheney, “I got on the telephone with the President, who was in Florida, and told him not to be at one location where we could both be taken out.” Mr. Cheney kept President Bush flying in the air on 9/11 while he and his wife Lynn left on a helicopter for a secure and still undisclosed location.

But after President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 the FBI did not launch an investigation to determine if other senior government officials were assassination targets. They did not launch an investigation to determine if Oswald had accomplices, but within 24 hours were preparing a written report to show that he acted alone. They did not launch an investigation to determine if Oswald visited Mexico City and attempted to secure visas to Cuba and the Soviet Union (they finally began investigating Mexico City in March, 1964). And they did not launch an investigation to determine the possibility of foreign involvement. How could FBI director Hoover, whose priority had always been to protect the reputation of the Bureau, risk criticism by not conducting these investigations? The answer was likely because Hoover knew, as early as 1960 when HARVEY Oswald was in Russia and LEE Oswald was in the USA, that both young men worked for the CIA. And on 11/22/63, when HARVEY Oswald was accused of assassinating President Kennedy, Hoover probably knew or strongly suspected involvement by the US government agency who created the two Oswald's.

In early 1960, while (HARVEY) Oswald was living in Russia, Hoover notified the State Department that someone was using Oswald's birth certificate. As the Bureau began receiving reports about a “LEE Oswald”, who was in the USA and connected with anti-Castro Cubans, there is good reason to believe that FBI Director Hoover learned about the CIA's “Oswald project”. After HARVEY Oswald returned to the USA with his Russian wife and child in 1962 the FBI began monitoring his activities. In the months preceding the assassination the FBI was actively investigating Oswald's alleged visit to Mexico City. A month before the assassination FBI agent Milton Kaack reviewed (LEE) Oswald's birth records in New Orleans, while Dallas based FBI agent James Hosty was leaving notes for Oswald by placing them under the door to his apartment. Shortly after the assassination it was obvious that Hoover knew a great deal about about Oswald. At 4 p.m., less than 3 hours after President Kennedy was assassinated, Hoover told Attorney General Robert Kennedy that (LEE) Oswald "went to Cuba on several occasions, but would not tell us what he went to Cuba for." This conversation occurred only an hour after (HARVEY) Oswald's arrest.

In 1963 virtually all of HARVEY and LEE's activities were controlled by their CIA handlers in the months leading up to the assassination. For example, LEE Oswald would not have approached Robert McKeown, a former gun-runner and close friend of Fidel Castro, and attempted to purchase rifles from him without orders (probably from the CIA's David Phillips). HARVEY Oswald, known to the Bureau since 1960, would not have become involved with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC), photographed by FBI informants while handing out brochures, arrested, and interviewed on the radio by FBI informant and CIA contact Bill Stuckey without orders. Who would have given orders for HARVEY Oswald to become involved with the FPCC, and why? The orders probably originated with his CIA handlers (David Phillips, Mexico City), and were given to someone with close connections to the FBI, perhaps Guy Bannister in New Orleans (former SAIC of the FBI's Chicago office who was in frequent contact with Hoover). HARVEY may have been told that he could help the FBI by starting a local FPCC chapter and recruiting new members, while working for the Bureau as an undercover confidential informant. Oswald used Bannister's office for this venture and even stamped “544 Camp St.” (Bannister's address) on some of the FPCC brochures. Bannister's investigator, George Higgenbotham, told Bannister that he saw Oswald and another young man handing out FPCC leaflets in front of the Trade Mart. Bannister replied, “Cool it. One of them is mine.” Bannister told his secretary, Delphine Roberts, “He's with us, he's associated with this office.” Mrs. Roberts said, “I presumed then, and am now certain, that the reason for Oswald being there was that he was required to act undercover.” Oswald's leaf-letting was filmed by an FBI agent with a 35 mm camera. WDSU-TV cameraman Orvie Aucoin, an active FBI informant, filmed Oswald as he passed out leaflets. CIA agent William Gaudet watched Oswald hand out literature from his office in the Trade Mart. If Oswald was working undercover for the FBI this could explain why, after arrested in New Orleans, he spoke with FBI agent John Lester Quigley for an hour and a half. FBI security clerk William Walter told the HSCA that he saw several of Oswald's files in the FBI office in New Orleans in the summer of 1963. The files were security and informant files designated with “105” or “134” classifications. Oswald may have thought his assignment as an undercover confidential informant was to identify and report Castro sympathizers to the FBI. But the real reason for the CIA to initiate (HARVEY) Oswald's undercover assignment was to have him working for the FBI on November 22, 1963. His employment with the Bureau virtually guaranteed that when Hoover learned that Oswald had been accused of assassinating President Kennedy, he would go into “cover-up mode” immediately. Hoover knew that HARVEY Oswald was working for the CIA when he “defected” to the Soviet Union. FBI agents had been monitoring Oswald since his return from the Soviet Union eighteen months earlier. And now, on the day President Kennedy was assassinated, HARVEY Oswald was not only a CIA asset but was also probably working undercover for the FBI. Hoover knew that Oswald did not shoot the President, and he knew there was no reason to believe Oswald had any co-conspirators. There was no reason to believe other US government officials were targets. There was no reason to believe there was any foreign involvement. But Hoover did know about HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald, and he knew that two “Oswald's” were unexplainable. Hoover's top priority was to locate and eliminate any and all records and documents relating to the second Oswald.

NOTE: We must remember that Oswald's brother, John Pic, was shown photos of HARVEY Oswald passing out FPCC literature in New Orleans. After looking at the photos John Pic told Warren Commission attorney Albert Jenner, “No, sir. I would be unable to recognize him.” Jenner responded, “As to whether he was your brother?” Pic replied, “That is correct.” Once again, John Pic refused to identify HARVEY Oswald as his brother.


John Pic told the Warren Commission he did not recognize this picture
of Harvey Oswald as his brother


Before HARVEY Oswald was even charged with the President's murder, Hoover began focusing attention on records and documentation related to “Lee Harvey Oswald's” employment as a teenager in New Orleans and his attendance at junior high schools in New York, New Orleans, and Ft. Worth. Acquisition, manipulation, and/or destruction of these records was paramount, and absolutely essential because they showed HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald in different locations at the same time. These records had to be confiscated and destroyed in order to hide the existence of two “Lee Harvey Oswald's”. This may be the only time in our nation's history when the FBI began investigating a murder by focusing on the teenage school and employment records of the accused assassin.

November 22. Jimmy Hudnell, a long time employee of Tuague & Co. in New Orleans remembered, “After listening to news about the assassination on the TV and radio (afternoon of 11/22/63) Mr. Tujague told us (employees), 'The FBI will probably be here soon, so you folks go home and I'll call you next week.'” LEE Oswald had worked at Tujague's from July, 1955 through July, 1956 (while HARVEY attended Warren Easton HS in 1955 and allegedly worked at JR Michaels and the Pfisterer Dental Lab in 1956). And in January, 1961 (while HARVEY was in Russia) LEE Oswald had approached Bolton Ford (New Orleans) and discussed purchasing trucks to send to Cuba. The purchaser was listed as “Friends of Democractic Cuba” and Gerard Tujague was the Vice-President. His friend Guy Bannister was one of the founding members and was on the Board of Directors. When FBI agents arrived at Tujague and Co. they confiscated all original employment records for LEE Oswald from July, 1955 through July, 1956.



That afternoon (11/22/63) the Dallas Police searched Oswald's rooming house (1026 N. Beckley) and Ruth Paine's garage (2515 W. 5th, Irving, TX), where the majority of evidence consisted of Oswald's personal possessions (225 items). Each and every item taken was initialed by the Dallas Police, listed on a handwritten inventory, and listed on a type-written inventory at DPD headquarters (WC-Stoval A, Stoval B, Turner 1). Around midnight all items were photographed on the floor of the Dallas Police station. The Dallas Police had jurisdiction to investigate the murder of JFK in Dallas, but their investigation had to be curtailed as soon as possible and turned over to the FBI.

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Taxpayer funded FBI agents installed Jackie Presser as head of the Teamsters Union and allowed him to plunder the Teamster union
funds to destroy the union and give unions a bad name.

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Ruling Favors FBI Agent in Presser Case
December 05, 1986

WASHINGTON — A federal judge Thursday threw out key evidence against a former FBI agent who was indicted on charges of lying to federal officials during their probe of Teamsters President Jackie Presser.

But the ruling had no immediate impact on prosecution of the Teamsters president, whose trial is expected to begin next spring.

Admission to Prosecutors

U.S. District Judge George H. Revercomb, climaxing a three-day hearing, ruled that government prosecutors improperly obtained self-incriminating statements from ex-agent Robert S. Friedrick.

Friedrick told the prosecutors earlier this year that he had lied when he said the FBI had authorized Presser to hire "ghost employees" at a Teamsters local as part of an effort to further Presser's role as an informant for the bureau.

As a result of Friedrick's admission, the Justice Department last May obtained an indictment of Friedrick for making false statements. The prosecutors also pressed charges against Presser and two union associates for allegedly misspending $700,000 in Teamsters Union dues to pay mob-related "employees" who performed no work for Presser's hometown union.

John R. Climaco, Presser's defense attorney, raised the "authorization" argument on Presser's behalf in 1985, when the Justice Department was first considering pressing charges against the Teamsters chief.

Justice Department investigators promptly questioned Friedrick about it, as well as two agents who had preceded Friedrick as Presser's handler in Cleveland. Friedrick and the others--Martin P. McCann Jr., now retired, and Patrick Foran, now assistant agent in charge of the FBI's Las Vegas office--supported Climaco's claim.

The statements of McCann and Foran are still being investigated by prosecutors.

In throwing out the self-incriminating statements of Friedrick, Revercomb said there was evidence that Friedrick believed he had been given limited immunity from prosecution by Justice Department lawyers, who months earlier had told him he would not be charged with any crime if he told them the truth.

"I do believe he was misled," the judge said.

Case May Be Dead

James I. Knapp, deputy associate attorney general, said, "We are strongly disappointed at the ruling and will consider an appeal."

Other department sources said the case against Friedrick is effectively dead--unless Revercomb's ruling is reversed.

However, prosecutors still are free to call Friedrick as a government witness against Presser if the Teamsters leader--as expected--claims at his trial next year that the FBI authorized his actions.

"I think we have won our case," William D. Beyer, Friedrick's lawyer, told reporters after the decision.

Friedrick, 43, was fired last August by FBI director William H. Webster, who said his dismissal was for administrative reasons and not because of the criminal charge

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Chicago Families Insulted by U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon Demand Justice for all Victims of Police Crimes and Torture

08 Sep 2014 05:28
—September 8, 2014. The Chicago Sun-Times announced, going into the weekend of September 5-7 that U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon and FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Holley have stated that there is no "sweeping investigation of shootings by Chicago Police Officers".
This statement by the Feds was released a week after an attorney, representing cops, wrote to the Fraternal Order of Police warning that an FBI probe of the CPD was in the making.

Not only has the U.S. Attorney and the FBI denied the existence of a "sweeping investigation", they basically rule out the need for any. Fardon and Holley issued this rather shocking statement: "As Acting Assistant Attorney General Molly Moran stated today, there is no open pattern-and-practice civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department."

The Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression presented (Wednesday, August 27, 2014) to U.S. Attorney Fardon a letter/complaint addressed to U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, signed by 65 victims of police crimes of murder and torture. This letter documents that there is in fact an "open pattern-and-practice of civil rights violations and crimes perpetrated by the Chicago Police Department".

Emmett Farmer, the father of Flint Farmer (who was murdered by a police officer while lying defenseless on the ground) was among the signers of the letter. Yet within the next 48 hours after it was presented we witness this shameless arrogance by representatives of the U.S. Department of Justice.

We live in a city, which is infamous for police torturing hundreds of innocent, young Black and Latino people, most of whom remain incarcerated, and where too many parents are still grief-stricken because their children were murdered by the police. Just two weeks ago, Roshad McIntosh, age 19, the son of Cynthia Lane, was gunned down by CPD on Chicago's West Side. Many eyewitnesses from the community have said Roshad was cooperating and surrendering to police before they executed him.
So why on earth in these circumstances would the U.S. Attorney and the FBI rush to a news conference to assure us that they are not investigating a pattern of civil rights violations and crimes committed by the Chicago Police Department?

This is unacceptable. This is an insult to the people of Chicago, to the victims and their families and to the numerous investigating reporters who have demonstrated an open pattern-and-practice of civil rights violations and police crimes.

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Surveillance Reform Theater
by William A. Blunden / October 19th, 2014

Recently 60 Minutes aired a segment where FBI Director James Comey described how he threatened to quit as acting Attorney General back in 2004 rather than reauthorize warrantless wiretapping programs. He also described an old Hoover-era memo that he keeps on his desk as a reminder of what not to do. The memo is a request by J. Edgar Hoover to conduct “technical surveillance” on Martin Luther King Jr. The basic impression that 60 Minutes viewers come away with is that James Comey is a man who is “deeply skeptical of government power.”

This 20-minute biopic was likely timed in such a way as to prepare the public for Comey’s speech this past week at the Brookings Institution. Comey explained that in order to safeguard the public against terrorism he wanted U.S. companies to modify their encryption technology to offer a special backdoor for law enforcement. Strictly speaking Comey referred to this backdoor as a “front door,” but either way what he’s describing is a mechanism for the authorities to bypass encryption.

The concept of a secret golden key for authorities is a zombie idea from the 1990s. I’m talking about what’s known in cryptographic circles as “key escrow.” Under key escrow vendors create a built-in decryption password (also known as a decryption key) that’s held in escrow. When law enforcement agents supply a court order they can acquire the corresponding decryption key.

Key escrow died long ago and with good reason. This is because it’s impossible to create a backdoor that only the police can access. Once the escrow key finds its way out into the wild it can be utilized by crooks, spies, and oppressive governments for their own purposes. Key escrow puts everyone at risk.

In short, Comey suggests undermining digital security and privacy across an industry while concurrently asserting that he’s “looking for security that enhances liberty.”

This begs a question: why would the Director of the FBI knowingly advocate a strategy which is patently flawed? Does he assume collective amnesia? That thousands of security professionals have somehow forgotten the lessons of the past?

Good Cop/Bad Cop

Hi-tech companies need to keep quarterly profits strong and in order to do that they’ve got to manufacture the impression that they’re standing up for our civil liberties. As James Comey acknowledges encryption is a “marketing pitch.” A way to attract customers by distinguishing certain products from the rest. Government officials, many of them who end up working in the private sector after they leave office, are keenly aware of this.

By proposing to revive key escrow the FBI is essentially lending credibility to hi-tech companies, which come across as resisting the big bad government. Comey’s gambit makes it appear as though Silicon Valley is siding with users against intrusive government surveillance. Even though, despite marketing campaigns that plug encryption, the sad reality is that most hi-tech service providers don’t care one jot about user privacy. If anything hi-tech companies want to be able to collect as much data as possible because they can turn around and sell it. Government spies and online service providers have a lot in common.

Another thing to keep in mind is that the whole discussion of key escrow keeps the focus on overt back doors, allowing the ensuing public debate to sidestep conversations about existing covert back doors. Rest assured that the FBI has plenty of tools in their arsenal to foil encryption. It’s been this way for well over a decade. For example, do some homework on the Bureau’s Magic Lantern program. Or read up on how they snagged a Federal Cybersecurity Director on child pornography charges. The NSA, for instance, has a whole catalogue of “implants” that can be wielded to thwart encryption.

The Whole Snowden Spectacle

In addition to the mystifying resurrection of key escrow there are other signs that something is amiss. Specifically, in an early interview with the Guardian Ed Snowden declared:

I don’t want to be a celebrity, I don’t want to go somewhere and have people pay attention to me, just as I don’t want to do that in the media. There are much more important issues in the world than me and what’s going on in my life and we should be focusing on those.

And yet here we see Ed Snowden in a forlorn embrace with an American flag compliments of the techno-libertarians at Wired magazine. Then the Intercept covers how Ed is shacking up with his own pole dancing Miss Moneypenny as he stars in feature film and generally does his best to look like Tom Cruise. Avoiding the spotlight are we, Ed? Ahem.

Did you know that Julian Assange is coming out with his own line of apparel? There’s a discernable commercial aroma that’s begun to accompany all this noble whistleblowing. In the case of the Ed Snowden affair I smell a billionaire. These days the plutocrats are following the mandates of the Powell memorandum and entrenching themselves in American policymaking apparatus, forming their own news outlets and political movements.

There are reasons why President Truman regretted turning the CIA “into peacetime cloak and dagger operations.” Clandestine programs of subversion are antithetical to democracy. By spotlighting the messenger, witness Ed Snowden’s descent to celebrity status, elements in the media create a parade that leads society away from the unsettling repercussions of mass surveillance (i.e. the specter of state capture).

Denouement – Selling Snake Oil

As NSA documents trickled into the public arena a cry arose that “something must be done.” And so both politicians and executives are engaged in obligatory gestures of sham opposition and faux public debate, a choreographed mind-numbing performance aimed to placate Main Street rabble without threatening the intelligence agencies or their corporate overlords in the defense sector. The DNI’s recent report on Presidential Policy Directive 28 illustrates this.

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OCTOBER 24, 2014 | BY NADIA KAYYALI
Two Reports About FBI's Use of National Security Letters Reissued
Even the reports that are supposed to provide transparency about the FBI's use of national security lettters (NSLs) are secret—or at least a couple dozen pages of them are. NSLs are nonjudicial orders that allow the FBI to obtain information from companies, without a warrant, about their customers’ use of services. They almost always contain a gag order, which prohibits recipients from even saying they've received the request.

Two Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reports reviewing the FBI's use of NSLs from 2007 and 2008 were reissued earlier this week after having portions declassified. You can see the newly released versions of the 2007 report here and the 2008 report here.

Charlie Savage at the New York Times has reviewed and listed the changes. Some of them make sense. For example, one portion of the 2007 report masked references to a "Virginia Jihad network," which might have been redacted because of an ongoing investigation. But some of the previously classified portions are less explicable, such as the classification of the percentage of requests done under particular statutes. It's unclear what purpose keeping that number secret serves. What is clear is that excessive classification and redaction continue to get in the way of much-needed transparency around NSLs.

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FBI agents committing voter fraud now
sufficiently trained to investigate voter fraud,eh?

Let god sort out the truth

you still don' t know what to do...

couple of reads

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US Attorney’s Office names district election officer for NMI
Published on Monday, November 03, 2014 00:00

(Press Release) — U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the NMI Alicia A.G. Limtiaco has announced that Assistant U.S. Attorney Garth Backe will lead the efforts of her office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day program for the upcoming Nov. 4, 2014 general elections.

Backe has been appointed to serve as the district election officer for the District of the Northern Mariana Islands, and in that capacity is responsible for overseeing the district’s handling of complaints of election fraud and voting rights abuses in consultation with Justice Department Headquarters in Washington
Limtiaco said, “Every citizen must be able to vote without interference or discrimination and to have that vote counted without it being stolen because of fraud. The Department of Justice will act promptly and aggressively to protect the integrity of the election process.”

The Department of Justice has an important role in deterring election fraud and discrimination at the polls, and combating these violations whenever and wherever they occur.

The department’s long- standing Election Day program furthers these goals, and also seeks to ensure public confidence in the integrity of the election process by providing local points of contact within the department for the public to report possible election fraud and voting rights violations while the polls are open on Election Day.

Federal law protects against such crimes as intimidating or bribing voters, buying and selling votes, impersonating voters, altering vote tallies, stuffing ballot boxes, and marking ballots for voters against their wishes or without their input. It also contains special protections for the rights of voters and provides that they can vote free from acts that intimidate or harass them. For example, actions of persons designed to interrupt or intimidate voters at polling places by questioning or challenging them, or by photographing or videotaping them, under the pretext that these are actions to uncover illegal voting may violate federal voting rights law. Further, federal law protects the right of voters to mark their own ballot or to be assisted by a person of their choice.

The franchise is the cornerstone of American democracy. We all must ensure that those who are entitled to the franchise exercise it if they choose, and that those who seek to corrupt it are brought to justice. In order to respond to complaints of election fraud or voting rights abuses on Nov. 4, 2014, and to ensure that such complaints are directed to the appropriate authorities, Backe will be on duty in this district while the polls are open.

Backe can be reached by the public at 236-2980.

In addition, the FBI will have special agents available in each field office and resident agency throughout the country to receive allegations of election fraud and other election abuses on Election Day. The FBI can be reached by calling Special Agent Haejun Park at 322-6934.

Complaints about possible violations of the fe


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Voting Fraud, Ann Coulter, and the FBI

For the past two months, we’ve seen in various reports how under acting Attorney General Karl Rove, the Department of Justice pressured U.S. attorneys across the country to commence frivolous prosecutions of voting fraud cases. The cases were generally aggregated in close proximity to elections, in violation of the Department’s published policies, with two objectives. The first was to suppress voter registration efforts focused on traditionally Democratic constituencies, such as inner-city Blacks and Hispanics, and the second, to create a false impression in the mind of the public that the Democrats were engaged in voter fraud. As the New York Times discovered in its study, most of the voting fraud cases failed because there was no basis to pursue them, and even the cases which succeeded generally showed bona fide mistakes or misunderstandings, not any sort of fraud.

So, what happens when a prominent Republican figure is caught red-handed engaging in voter fraud? Über-Republican Ann Coulter was discovered to have falsified a voter registration in Palm Beach County, Florida, and to have voted. This perfectly tracks the factual pattern of a series of criminal prosecutions brought by Steven Biskupic, one of the originally targeted U.S. attorneys – in Milwaukee – who subsequently redeemed himself through political skullduggery.

However, in the Coulter case, the U.S. attorney’s office showed no interest in the case. State law enforcement officials did, however. And today we learn that the criminal investigation was closed—as a result of a direct intervention by federal officials supporting Coulter. The Palm Beach Post reports:

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter has been cleared of allegations that she falsified her Palm Beach County voter’s registration and voted illegally — this, after a high-level FBI agent made unsolicited phone calls to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office to vouch for Coulter.

But wait, it gets still better:

County Supervisor of Elections Arthur Anderson, meanwhile, decried what he called “FBI intrusion.” He referred the Coulter case to PBSO after poll worker Jim Whited originally reported the incident. “This doesn’t bode well in terms of the public’s impression that celebrities receive preferential treatment,” Anderson said. “I’m curious about how anyone can justify the FBI’s intrusion.”

First-year Detective Kristine Villa in December was assigned the job of investigating whether Coulter committed a felony in February 2006, when she cast her ballot in the wrong precinct in a Palm Beach election after registering to an address that wasn’t hers.Villa’s report leaves the clear impression that Coulter’s attorney, Miami’s Marcos Jimenez, stonewalled Villa for five months—at times agreeing to make Coulter available, at others reneging, often not returning calls promptly or claiming not to be able to reach his client.



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November 5 2014


Coroner: Alcohol involved in boat crash that killed FBI workers


The barge involved in the fatal wreck sits in the middle of the Ohio River Downtown.
Alcohol played a factor in the Ohio River crash that killed two FBI employees in September, an official at the Campbell County Coroner's Office said.

Bryce Eastlick, 28, and John Stack II, 29 — both off-duty employees of the Cincinnati FBI office — were killed late Sept. 25 when their 19-foot pleasure boat slammed into a massive barge traveling down the Ohio River between Cincinnati and Newport, a Cincinnati fire official said.
"The toxicology report did confirm that it was alcohol related," an official at the coroner's office said Wednesday.
The coroner declined to release specifics, such as the men's blood alcohol content, and said the full autopsy report is not yet available.

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24/7 the FBI Media Machine rebrands itself.

I want to believe FBI agents did not create
911 and are the good guys.

Please get down on your knees and believe with me.
Are you ready to accept the spirit of JEdgar Hoover?

couple of reads,eh?

1.
A Gun In My Gucci:" Former FBI agent shares career of intrigue

Posted: Nov 10, 2014

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At age 36, Elaine Smith got a late start as an FBI agent - but she quickly made up for lost time.

The story of her trailblazing career is a story filled with violence, intrigue and the mob.

"His name was Ken Eto, 'Tokyo Joe'," Smith told Eyewitness News reporter Kevin Rader in her living room.

It was Chicago, February 1983. Eto was shot three times by the mob.

"The first survivor out of 1,100 mob murders in the history of Chicago to live and tell about it and he only knew one name in the FBI and it was my name," she continued.

Smith's new book, "A Gun in my Gucci," details how two outsiders would work together to take down the Chicago mob.

"To have a mobster ask for you on his deathbed is an amazing thing," she added.

But he didn't die and for the next 17 years


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FBI representatives give lecture on new threats to the homeland
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Nazification of Germany vs. Nazification of America
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Weimar Republic President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolph Hitler Chancellor ... the environment, and commands the FBI to stop investigations concerning the Bin ... A supplemental decree created the SA (Storm Troops) and SS (Special .... Just as in Hitler's Enabling Act, so Bush Jr. forced the Homeland Security bill ...
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5 Things Government Whistleblowers say you must know


Nov 24, 2014, 12:32 pm


LONDON, UK — No matter how much they dislike it, governments need calling out.

That’s what a group of whistleblowers who risked their careers, reputations and personal freedom to uphold said Friday. Now serving on the advisory board of ExposeFacts.org, a project of the Institute for Public Accuracy in Washington, they said the nature of government secrecy ensures that more people will have to take similar risks in the future — and that the consequences could be even greater.

“If whistleblowers are suppressed, which is the clear intention of the US and British governments, all that’s left is a flow of official information… which adds up to lies and war,” said ExposeFacts coordinator Norman Soloman.

The government doesn’t need to spy on people all the time to keep them in line. It just needs them to know that it can.

The U.S. National Security Agency and British equivalent, GCHQ, aren’t using all the information they’re gathering today, said J. Kirk Wiebe, a former NSA employee who went public after his 2001 retirement with information about the agency’s mass collection of individuals’ data. It’s being stored in a server to be used as evidence of crimes committed down the road.

Those who condone spying because they personally have nothing to hide should remember that it’s not clear what future governments will consider illegal, he said.

“The next time you hear someone saying ‘I’m not worried, I’m not doing anything wrong’ — rubbish,” Wiebe said. “You don’t get to choose what’s wrong.”

Surveillance doesn’t guarantee security.

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“We are told that governmental secrecy is protecting us, when the truth is the opposite,” said Coleen Rowley, a former FBI special agent who exposed the agency’s intelligence failures before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

A refusal to share intelligence within agencies, across agencies and with the public contributed to the attacks, the 9/11 Commission found.

Matthew Hoh, who resigned from the U.S. State Department in 2009 to protest American policy in Afghanistan, offered another example. In the wake of disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the Obama administration argued that the NSA’s surveillance tactics thwarted 54 terror attacks. After pressure from journalists and U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, the NSA confirmed just four cases, none of which were a direct result of the spying program.

“The government can scare and intimidate, but there has been no evidence that these tactics are helping,” Hoh said. “This is actually causing us to be much less secure.”

In the U.S., whistleblowers are worse than foreign spies.

The Obama administration has prosecuted more people under the Espionage Act than all other administrations combined, Solomon wrote in The Nation last month. It’s gone after journalists and government employees suspected of leaking information. It also created the National Insider Threat Policy, requiring government employees to report coworkers who may be passing on classified information.

“In effect, the people of the U.S. are to be viewed as the enemy from whom basic information about government actions should be withheld,” Solomon said.

“There’s nothing a government hates worse than embarrassment,” Wiebe added. “It’s almost worse than leaking a top secret.”

Woodward and Bernstein’s Watergate scoop probably couldn’t happen today.

Deep Throat, The Washington Post’s key anonymous source implicating President Richard Nixon’s administration, was FBI associate director Mark Felt.

Today, the first call reporter Bob Woodward placed to Felt would have been logged into NSA databases and easily traced by officials searching the leak’s source, Rowley said. Never mind all the security cameras that are surely covering the parking garage where they met.

History proves whistleblowers right. Eventually.

In 1963, the FBI called surveillance target Martin Luther King, Jr. the “most dangerous… Negro leader in the country.” Today, Rowley pointed out, he’s an American icon with his own federal holiday.

“It’s incredible what time can do,” she said. “And the reason is, facts come out.”

Similar reappraisals could be in store for whistleblowers such as Snowden and Chelsea Manning, who passed documents to Wikileaks, panelists said. Today, Manning is serving a 35-year prison sentence and Snowden is in exile in Russia.

"Both Chelsea and Edward are on the right side of history," Hoh said, "and they will be vindicated."



Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who leaked top secret documents revealing a vast surveillance program by the US government to the Guardian newspaper. The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald interviewed Snowden in a hotel room in Hong Kong and released the video on Sunday June 10, 2013.
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Big Brother IS watching you. Don’t be complacent about surveillance
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FBI Database Is Anything but a Gold Standard for Employment


Dec. 3, 2014, 3:22 p.m.
The National Association of Professional Background Screeners applauds Reps. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., for their commitment to protecting vulnerable populations from predators through stringent background screening (“Keeping Our Kids Safe From Predators: A Challenge With a Bipartisan Solution,” Roll Call, Nov. 17). We take issue, however, with their editorial in which they characterize the FBI’s fingerprint database as the “gold standard” for use in employment or volunteer screening. In reality, the FBI database is far from perfect and should never be regarded as the most reliable source for comprehensive and accurate background screening.
Because of TV shows such as “CSI” and “Criminal Minds,” most people think the FBI fingerprint database is flawless and complete. There persists a common misconception that a universal national database, containing complete criminal information for every suspect

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FBI Pulled Official to Prevent Testimony at Key Anti-Terror Hearing
FBI bailed on hearing focused on domestic threats from foreign fighters
December 5, 2014 9:00 am

The FBI refused to appear before Congress earlier this week to testify on the threats posed to American citizens by foreign fighters and other extremists who have traveled from Western countries to fight alongside the Islamic State (IS), according to multiple congressional sources familiar with the situation.

The FBI initially agreed to provide a witness for Tuesday’s House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing regarding the threats posed to the U.S. homeland by extremists affiliated with IS (also known as ISIL

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