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Did FBI Director Hoover Know Of Pearl Harbor?
By Thomas O'Toole December 2, 1982
In the war of words over who was to blame for the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 41 years ago, fresh evidence is emerging that the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had a hand in the intelligence bungles that led the United States to heed none of the warnings that the invasion was imminent.

The new evidence is supplied by Michigan State University historians John F. Bratzel and Leslie B. Rout Jr., who write in the current issue of The American Historical Review that Hoover received a double warning more than three months before the attack that the Japanese were thinking of making a surprise aircraft attack on the American fleet in Pearl Harbor.

Based on information in 40-year-old FBI documents and documents from the FDR library near Hyde Park, N. Y., the two historians also claim that the double warning to Hoover is the "missing evidence" that Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Toland said he and other Pearl Harbor writers have sought for years. Toland claimed in his last book, "Infamy," that the "disappearance" of this evidence was part of a "cover up" to purge intelligence records damaging to high officials in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration.

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Bratzel and Rout write that the story of the "missing evidence" begins in 1939 in Yugoslavia, where German military intelligence recruited a Mediterranean playboy named Dusko Popov to spy in England for them. Popov (code name Ivan) agreed but turned double agent (code name Tricycle) as soon as he arrived in England. The German Abwehr (intelligence) soon trusted Popov so much that they told him to go to the United States to set up a spy ring, an instruction that Popov immediately communicated to British intelligence.


Upon his arrival in New York, Popov was met by agents of the FBI who grilled him for days. In his memoirs, Popov said that one of his first statements to FBI bureau chief John Foxworth was: "You can expect an attack on Pearl Harbor before the end of the year . . . "

The Michigan State historians say Popov had two pieces of evidence to back up his warning. One was a verbal communique' from the German air attache' in Tokyo, who had escorted Japanese naval officers to the Gulf of Taranto below the Italian boot, where British warplanes from the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious had devastated the Italian fleet in November of 1940.

"The Japanese wanted to know all about the attack in infinite detail," the historians write. Popov's German sources "had concluded that the Asian member of the Tripartite Alliance was planning to duplicate the British feat."

Of far more importance, the historians write, was the telegram in Popov's possession when he arrived in New York. Hidden on the face of the telegram was a microdot message to Popov asking for defense information about the U.S. and Canadian air forces and listing a series of questions the Japanese had asked their German allies to answer. One third of the questions pertained to the defense installations that ringed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor.


"The Germans wanted sketches showing the exact locations of Hickam, Wheeler and Kaneohe airfields," the historians write. "They likewise wanted sketches of the installations at Pearl Harbor and detailed information concerning dredging, depth of water, torpedo nets, anchorages and the like."








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Memphis jury finds that a conspiracy led to Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination
By Helen Halyard
17 December 1999
On December 8 a jury in Memphis, Tennessee returned a verdict that civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was the victim of an assassination conspiracy and did not die at the hands of a lone gunman.
The verdict followed a three-week trial of a wrongful death lawsuit which the King family filed last year against former Memphis cafe owner Loyd Jowers. According to the suit, Jowers was part of a plot to murder the civil rights leader. King was shot and killed at the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968.
In a 1993 television interview with ABC News, Jowers, now 73, reported that mobsters offered him $100,000 to have King killed. Since the interview Jowers has changed his story several times. He was unable to testify at the trial due to illness. His attorney, Lewis Garrison, told the jurors they could reasonably conclude King was the victim of a conspiracy in which his client was involved, but that his role was minor.
At the end of the trial a number of jurors commented that they were convinced by the evidence that there was a conspiracy. Summing up the sentiment of the jurors, one remarked, “We all thought it was a kind of cut and dried case and that there were a lot of people involved.”
The major news media paid scant attention to the trial and portrayed the verdict as having little significance. Reports on the outcome of the trial appearing in the New York Times, for example, have been dismissive of theories of a broad conspiracy involving government agencies.
A column by Nathan Lewin in the December 11 issue of the Times, entitled “Putting History On Trial,” denounced civil trials as a means of judging history. Lewin, now a Washington attorney, was deputy assistant attorney general in the civil rights division of the Justice Department at the time of King's assassination.
While Lewin and others in the political establishment flatly reject conspiracy theories in the King assassination, a majority of the American population are inclined to believe that more than one gunman was involved, and many give credence to allegations of complicity on the part of government agencies.
Attorney William Pepper, former lawyer of James Earl Ray, who was sentenced to prison as the lone gunman in the King murder, has investigated the circumstances behind the assassination for the past 20 years. In 1995 he published the book Orders to Kill, which alleges involvement by the Mafia, the FBI, the CIA and the military in the assassination.
Whether or not one accepts Pepper's theories, to rule out a priori some form of conspiracy, including one involving elements within the state apparatus, is, at the very least, no more objective than the various conspiracy theories that have been advanced. An investigation into the killing by the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978 concluded that while Ray was the gunmen, there was a 95 percent probability that others were involved.
The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. took place in the midst of mass social protests and urban upheavals involving working people, youth and students who opposed racial discrimination, poverty and America's involvement in the Vietnam war. Shortly before King was killed he publicly denounced the war and began to address social issues, such as poverty, that went beyond the pervasive discrimination that confronted African Americans. He was in Memphis in 1968 to lead a march of 1,300 sanitation workers on strike for better working conditions, wages and benefits.
James Earl Ray was picked up in London several months after King's assassination and returned to the United States. He confessed to the crime in March 1969 and received a 99-year sentence. He recanted his confession three days after he made it, and for the next 29 years fought to rescind his guilty plea. State and federal courts upheld the plea on eight separate occasions. Ray met with Martin Luther King, Jr.'s son Dexter in a prison hospital shortly before he died of liver disease in 1998 and told the son of the civil rights leader that he was not responsible for his father's death.
After Ray's death William Pepper joined forces with the King family to file the wrongful death suit. Since Jowers had stated that he hired a man to do the killing, the liability charges were filed against him.
In the course of the trial 70 witnesses were presented by the defense. Among them were members of King's family; the brother of James Earl Ray; Walter Fauntroy, formerly a member of the House Select Committee on Assassinations; and New York-based attorney and media expert William Schapp.
Much of the testimony focused on the extent of operations carried out by the FBI against King and those involved in civil rights struggles. On August 25, 1967, FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover approved a major counterintelligence program, Cointelpro, to disrupt and discredit left-wing organizations, civil rights demonstrators and anti-war protesters. Hoover directed operations against King in an effort to discredit his leadership and break up the movement.
Convinced that King was a communist, Hoover described him as “the most dangerous man in America, and a moral degenerate,” and was obsessed with following King's activities. Dozens of internal FBI memoranda document the surveillance and harassment of King. In one incident King's alleged “sexual escapades” were used in an attempt to blackmail him. Shortly before the assassination Hoover distributed an internal memo to the FBI calling for King's “removal from the national scene.”
At the trial Fauntroy testified that while he believed Ray was the shooter, he felt that Ray did not act alone. Fauntroy expressed dissatisfaction with the investigation carried out by the House Select Committee, noting that it was denied access to FBI files on the King murder and was unaware that US Army operatives had King under surveillance at the time of his death.
Following the issuance of the House Select Committee's final report in 1979, Committee Chairman Louis Stokes and Chief Counsel G. Robert Blakey ordered that all of the backup records, documents, unpublished transcripts and investigative data be locked up for the next 50 years.
Jurors saw the videotaped deposition of Jack Terrel, formerly of the US military, who testified that he had a conversation with a military operations specialist who told him that he was assigned to a triangular shoot team that had a special mission in Memphis around the time of King's death. Terrel stated that the specialist was never told about the specifics of the mission, and that the team was pulled out of Memphis at the last minute.
Attorney William Schaap explained how the media has been used historically by the government to disseminate information, or, more precisely, misinformation. According to Schapp, the FBI under Hoover's direction infiltrated newspapers around the world and persuaded them in the 1960s to run stories that discredited King. Schaap commented on the lack of media attention to the wrongful death suit, saying, “It's amazing how much psychological power the dissemination of false information has after 30 years.”
Following the verdict the King family told a press conference that they were satisfied with its results. The youngest son, Dexter King, remarked, “This is what we have always wanted. This is history.”
Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder told the press that the Memphis verdict would have no impact on an ongoing Justice Department review of the King assassination. The Justice Department, which initiated a review of the case last year at the request of King's widow Coretta Scott King, is expected to issue its report shortly. According to Holder it is very unlikely that criminal charges will be brought or that the government will alter its position James Earl Ray was the lone gunman and that there was no governmental conspiracy involved in the King assassination.





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CULTUREBOOKS & THE ARTSSEPTEMBER 10, 2012 ISSUE


Behind the Bureau: On the FBI
Tim Weiner’s Enemies is not so much a history of the FBI as a compendium of interesting historical material.
By Beverly GageAUGUST 22, 2012

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FBI leadership claimed Bureau was “almost powerless” against KKK, despite making up one-fifth of its membership
Deputy Director James Adams testified that the Bureau had three times as many “ghetto informants” as they did those targeting white supremacists
Written by Emma Best
Edited by JPat Brown
In testimony before the Church Committee, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Deputy Director acknowledged that the Bureau at one point made up as much as one-fifth of the Klu Klux Klan’s total membership - but were still powerless to curtail the KKK’s violence. His testimony also acknowledged police participation in said violence, and that the Bureau had three times as many “ghetto informants” as they did those targeting white supremacist domestic terrorists.



In response to a FOIA request filed several months ago for the SENSTUDY 75 file, pertaining to the Church Committee, the FBI recently released a preprocessed file (apparently unable to provide even preprocessed documents within the time period required by the law) that includes excerpts of testimony from Deputy Associate Director James Adams addressing the Bureau’s involvement with, and failure to curtail, the KKK. Before finishing his first sentence in the excerpted testimony, Adams had offered somewhat misleading information in stating that the COINTELPRO efforts had been discontinued in 1971.



In actuality, all that was discontinued in 1971 was the centralized program. According to the memo commonly cited as discontinuing the program “for security reasons,” COINTELPRO efforts would “be considered on a highly selective individual basis with tight procedures to insure absolute security.”



The Church Committee would note that the efforts had continued in several known instances, and that the effect of ending the centralized program was simply that it was impossible to understand the full scope of those efforts without manually searching over 500,000 case files.



After providing this technically-true-but-entirely-misleading statement, Adams admitted to the Committee that the law had been “ineffective” against the Klan. He also argued that local law enforcement should be the primary tool used against groups like the Klan.



This argument fell somewhat flat in light of the following paragraph in Adams’ testimony, where he admitted that local law enforcement officers had been “participating in Klan violence.” Stating that “the FBI and the Federal Government were almost powerless to act,” he nonetheless defended the Bureau’s actions against the testimony of one of their informants, Gary Thomas Rowe, by pointing out that they had provided his information to local police departments.



This defense also fell somewhat flat immediately following his admission that some of those police departments had members “participating in Klan violence.” In light of that testimony, it’s hardly surprising that Adams’ also admitted that the information “was not being acted upon.”



Adams then re-emphasized this by restating it, seeming to validate some of the things Rowe had said shortly after impugning the depth of Rowe’s knowledge and ability to speak on the subject.



Adams’ testimony bemoaned the legal obstacles preventing the Bureau from acting as they wished they could, an ironic complaint given the illegal behaviors that COINTELPRO (the program under discussion) is infamous for. Adams also noted that the groups being monitored had greater numbers than ever before, which made it difficult for the Bureau to fully monitor them and counter their efforts, as well as increased the danger of these groups. This latter point might have been more impactful if Adams hadn’t also admitted that approximately 2,000 members of the KKK were working for the FBI.



The testimony then noted that the Bureau was almost singlehandedly responsible for the impressive growth in the KKK’s membership which Adams had just lamented. According to the Bureau’s numbers, not only were 20% of the KKK’s members working for the FBI, the FBI was responsible for 70% of the recent growth in the KKK’s membership and that rather than having the effect of reverting violence, it resulted in “the tail wagging the dog.”



Adams disputed the number of FBI employed KKK members by stating that the 2,000 informants included all “racial matters,” and that the FBI only accounted for “around 6%” of the KKK’s membership.



Adams proceeded to contradict his earlier statement that the FBI had been powerless against the KKK by claiming credit for a decrease in violence from the group by inducing paranoia in them. In virtually the same breath, he reaffirmed that “the Sheriff and other law enforcement officers” had been “in on” the violence and murders of civil rights workers, while also repeating the 20% figure he had just disputed.



It was then brought up with Adams that there was “considerable evidence” that “no attempt was made to prevent crime when [the FBI] had information that it was going to occur.”



Adams defended the Bureau by saying that they had passed the information on to the local police department. In response, it was pointed out that the FBI knew the department “was an accomplice to the crime.” Adams, having previously admitted that this was the case, simply responded they did “not necessarily knew [sic]” despite having been told this by their informants. As a result, the questioner noted, they “weren’t doing a whole lot to prevent that incident by telling the people who were already a part of it.”



Adams’ denied that the Bureau had encouraged informants like Rowe to participate in violence, only to have his statement contradicted by both Rowe and the Agent in Charge.



The testimony excerpted in the file ends with Adams’ denying that the Bureau became involved in anyone’s sex life and that such a thing would not be “of any value whatsoever.”



Adams’ blanket denial is contradicted by the FBI’s own memos on COINTELPRO, such as one discussing the possibility of informing the public that an actress was pregnant to “cause her embarrassment and tarnish her image.” The memo notes that this wasn’t part of the COINTELPRO effort against white supremacist groups such as the KKK, but against a white woman for supporting an enemy of the KKK - the Black Panther Party.



While Adams attempted to deny many of the accusations made against the Bureau and citations of the Bureau’s failure, he was just as often forced to admit them either just prior to or just after those denials. Regardless of whether the Bureau had made up 6% or 20% of the KKK’s members, the Special Agent in Charge instructed their informants to allow the acts to happen. When the Bureau did take action, it was to pass the information onto the local police departments - who in at least some instances were known to the Bureau to be among the perpetrators. The Bureau justified its behavior by citing legal restrictions and the sudden growth of the KKK, which the Bureau itself had been responsible for approximately 70% of. Adams’ testimony also misleadingly claimed that the Bureau had discontinued COINTELPRO efforts, a fact which the Church Committee was able to contradict.

However, what has been recently discontinued is funding to counter white supremacist groups like the KKK with the Trump administration “turning a blind eye” to white supremacists groups in what they have welcomed as “a signal of favor” to them. If the FBI was, in their own words, powerless against the KKK even while making up a large percentage of its membership through informants and agent provocateurs, it’s hard to imagine how effective the Bureau’s ongoing individual investigations against white supremacists will prove any more effective.

Despite relatively recent reports that the FBI has 1,000 ongoing investigations against white supremacists, this number actually includes all types of “domestic terrorists” - a label that the FBI has applied to anyone from protesters who vandalize cows made of butter to people who had pro-peace bumper stickers or were labeled suspected terrorists simply because of the people they knew.

You can read the initial release below, or on the request page. The second half of the file consists of the Department of Justice’s report on their decision not to prosecute anyone for the illegal mail opening programs. That report i

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FBI Loses Appeal in Reporter-Impersonation Case
December 18, 2017
WASHINGTON
The FBI failed to perform an adequate search in response to Freedom of Information Act requests for documents related to its policy of having undercover agents pose as journalists to catch criminals, the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday.

The ruling reverses a federal judge’s finding that the agency had fulfilled its FOIA obligations.

Two media groups brought the underlying challenge based on reports about how the FBI apprehended an individual who in 2007 made a series anonymous bomb threats to a Seattle high school, causing near-daily evacuations of students, teachers and administrators.

Believing the threats were the handiwork of a narcissist, the FBI agents investigating the matter devised a plan: They would flatter the culprit into clicking a link that appeared to be press coverage suggesting he’d outsmarted the authorities.

When he did, a specialized malware would be secretly delivered to his computer and it would reveal his location. The plan worked and the individual calling in the bomb threats was arrested.

A technologist for the American Civil Liberties Union spotted the FBI’s ruse several years later while reviewing documents from an earlier records request. News of the media-impersonation tactics quickly made national headlines. The New York Times even printed a letter in justification of the ruse from FBI Director James Comey Jr.

In the wake of the controversy, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and Associated Press filed three FOIA requests for documents on the FBI’s impersonation of journalists and creation of “fake news” in the course of investigations.

Friday’s ruling says they “were concerned that ‘the utilization of news media as a cover for delivery of electronic surveillance software’ both ‘endangers the media’s credibility and creates the appearance that it is not independent of the government’ and ‘undermines media organizations’ ability to independently report on law enforcement.'”

Although the FBI responded to one request by stating it had no responsive records, it later released several records related to the bomb-threat investigation but identified no other instances of media impersonation.

The organizations sued and appealed to the D.C. Circuit when a federal judge in Washington sided with the FBI and the Department of Justice.

On Friday, a three-judge panel unanimously reversed. “The bureau has failed to demonstrate that it ‘conduct[ed] a search for the requested records, using methods which can be reasonably expected to produce the information requested,’” U.S. Circuit Judge David Tatel wrote for the court.

The Reporters Committee argued that the FBI failed to conduct an adequate search for records using “search terms and the type of search performed” under the circuit’s standards.




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President Trump lifts ban on making viruses more contagious

The National Institutes of Health announced Tuesday that it would allow the federal government to resume funding controversial research that makes viruses more contagious and deadly—despite scientists’ concern that the risks of such experiments outweigh potential advantages.

The federal government will lift a three-year pause, instituted in October, 2014, on funding the research projects.




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December 18, 2017
CIA releases full Contras manual on “Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare”
Unexpurgated edition contains passages on “neutralizing” law enforcement, recruiting criminals for unspecific “jobs,” and deliberately creating martyrs for the cause
Written by JPat Brown
Edited by Michael Morisy
In response to a FOIA appeal by Emma Best, the Central Intelligence Agency has released in full a copy of “Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare,” a manual on “Armed Propaganda” techniques written for the Nicaraguan Contras during the civil war of the mid-’80s.





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CIA wishes you a safe and happy █████ season
Declassified archives contains Agency’s teletype holiday greetings in redacted and unredacted versions
Written by Beryl Lipton
Edited by JPat Brown
Thanks to the plenty of duplicates that can end up in the Central Intelligence Agency’s CREST archive, a cryptic version of the Agency’s December 20th, 1985 holiday greetings to its worldwide employees is actually available in nearly-full format and available for reuse in your holiday-themed office-wide newsletter.

The Deputy Director of Science and Technology’s year-end send-off, following what would be dubbed “The Year of the Spy” for the number of foreign operatives that would be revealed functioning within the CIA and other law enforcement agencies, appears multiple times in the archive. A redacted version offers space to fill in your own employees’ description.



The note covers the challenges of the preceding year, including the common office topics of too few resources, long hours …



modernization and terrorism.



You can check out both versions below




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Trump nominee to head Export-Import Bank rejected by Senate panel
BY DENIS SLATTERY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, December 19, 2017, 3:59 PM





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December 14, 2017
Dissecting the CIA’s lies regarding MKULTRA
Agency report that recommended ending covert mind control experiments also recommended moving them to an operational setting overseas
Written by Emma Best
Edited by JPat Brown
One of the many interesting documents in Central Intelligence Agency’s declassified archives was guidance for public statements regarding their MKULTRA mind-control projects. The guidance, produced in 1983 and modified the following year, was intended for CIA’s Deputy Directors, the Executive Director, the Director of Public Affairs and “all Agency employees on the speaking circuit.” Just over a page long, the text is riddled with lies, errors, and half-truths, starting with the very first sentence.

The dates provided are misleading at best. MKULTRA officially began in 1953, but one of it’s partner programs, MKDELTA, had begun in 1952. Its predecessor programs had begun as early as 1949, judging by CIA’s index of “MKULTRA and behavioral research” documents. It’s impossible to know much about what happened before that in MKULTRA’s predecessor projects BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE, as an Agency memo notes that “almost no information [is] available for the period prior to 1952.”
The same memo noted that the records described “only a small part” of the program. MKULTRA also didn’t end in 1964 so much as it changed its name to MKSEARCH. Other MKULTRA subprojects weren’t transferred to MKSEARCH, but rather simply incorporated into the Agency’s general research and funding programs. According to John Marks’ book on the subject, “Gottlieb acknowledged that security did not require transferring all the surviving MKULTRA subprojects over to MKSEARCH. He moved 18 subprojects back into regular Agency funding channels.”

When the guidance was updated the following year, it was modified in a way that appears to indirectly acknowledge the origins of the program in the ’40s - without actually conceding that programs began in the ’40s.

When the destruction of MKULTRA documents was ordered in 1973, it apparently didn’t include the MKSEARCH records. A CIA letter indicates that those documents still existed and were in circulation in 1977. This may be because the Inspector General report recommended that future testing be conducted in an operational setting (discussed below and in the attached report at the beneath the article).
The project also went well beyond the use of drugs. According to a report from CIA’s IG which had been produced 20 years earlier, the MKULTRA charter authorized investigation into behavior modification using methods including radiation, electroshock, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and anthropology, handwriting analysis, nonlethal harassment substances such as tear gas and other paramilitary materials.

The guidance on statements regarding MKULTRA continues:

The above excerpt is mostly true, especially in the instances where the Agency used research foundations to provide “sterile grants” to institutions which would remain unaware of the Agency’s interest. However, “key individuals must qualify for top secret clearance and are made witting of Agency sponsorship. The system in effect ‘ buys a piece’ of the specialist in order to enlist his aid in pursuing the intelligence implications of his research.”
The next two statements in the Agency’s guidance about statements on MKULTRA are outright lies about some of the most important issues raised by the MKULTRA experiments and similar programs.

The first lie is that the Agency thought this was questionable. The IG report states that these “testing programs [were] conducted under accepted scientific procedures” [emphasis added]. Far from being applied to unwitting friends in a friendly environment, these procedures were carried out by “physicians, toxicologists, and other specialists in mental, narcotics, and general hospitals and in prisons who are provided the products and findings of the basic research projects and proceed with intensive testing on human subjects. Where health permits, test subjects are voluntary participants in the program.” In at least one instance, such testing resulted in the odious death of one of those involved.

When the guidance was updated the following year, it was changed to declare that there were “only three instances” where the “ethical/moral propriety” was questionable.

The Agency’s talking points go on to assert that:

As mentioned above, the program didn’t end - it was renamed and reorganized in response to the IG report. However, the IG report also contradicts the official statement that the program was discontinued because of concerns that were raised. The concerns focused on blowback of exposure, not on the efficacy or ethicality of the work itself. The 1963 IG report even specifies that ending the program wouldn’t truly end the program.

The IG report makes it clear that the concerns the Agency was worried about involved exposure, not the nature of the work itself. The Agency’s worry about exposure also focused not on the rank and file or those performing the experiments, but on “the senior command of CIA.” The introduction to the report even notes that many people within the Agency already found the work to be “distasteful and unethical.”

According to the press guidance, questions in the Agency about the propriety of the unwitting testing of subjects wasn’t raised until 1963 - a full ten years after they resulted in the death of Frank Olson (whose death some maintain was not an accident, but murder).

The talking points end on a note designed to mislead people into thinking that the program was proactively disclosed by the government in 1975 and 1976, instead of being exposed by the New York Times in 1974, and that new guidelines require that informed consent be provided.

The claim that the projects were discontinued in 1963 as a result of the IG report is undermined by the report’s suggestion that they begin using “deep cover agents overseas” to perform the testing for them.

Every line of the press guidance was carefully calculated to be just true enough to get away with saying it, while maintaining plausible deniability and misdirecting those who take the statements as anything other than gross distortions of the truth. Those statements, often deliberately vague, would then be repeated by the press in a game of telephone, with predictable results.
You can read the statement guidance on MKULTRA below, or read the IG report here.


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‘Right to Know’ will handcuff our cops
BY JOE BORELLI CHAIM DEUTSCH PAUL VALLONE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Sunday, December 17, 2017, 5:00 AM




Another provision requires officers to identify themselves to individuals (which is already part of the NYPD’s procedures) and encourages them to call 311 to submit “comments” about the interaction, which suggests that any contact between police officers and the public may represent wrongdoing on the police officer’s part.






The most critical concern comes from the provision requiring officers to inform members of the public of their right to refuse certain searches, and to obtain documentation of that consent before conducting the search.







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Record Renewables Growth in 2017 as New Global Solar + Wind Installations are Projected to Hit Near 175 GW
Last year, global growth in new solar energy installations hit a new record of 56 gigawatts (GW) in a single year. This year, growth could nearly double to 108 GW installed according to recent reports from IHS. Meanwhile wind appears on track to add another 68 GW of clean power generation. In other words, the age of the renewable energy revolution is in the process of overtaking us. None too soon considering the fact that we are now facing serious ramping harms due to fossil fuel burning and related human-forced climate change.

Rocketing Global Growth For Solar Despite Trump/Republican Efforts to Throw a Wet Blanket on a Key Industry

Such amazing growth comes on the back of rapidly ramping solar markets in China, India and around the world. A ramp that’s happening despite anti-solar policy by the Trump Administration feeding a trade case that has injected uncertainty and distortion into the U.S. market. And even as the same Administration is waging an Orwellian-styled war on the employees of the Environmental Protection Agency who are still doing their best, despite rising odds, to protect the health of U.S. citizens from polluting industries.

The upshot is that the U.S. will lag behind these two emerging solar energy leaders as republicans in power put energy policy in retrograde following years of rapid advancement and clean energy leadership under Obama and the democrats.



(U.S. sees shrinking pie of new solar additions under Trump. Image source: PV Magazine/IHS.)

But despite harmful policy stances by republicans and related nonsensical litigation, the U.S. market is still expected to see 10-12 GW of new solar added in 2017 — or the second highest levels of solar installation on record.

Solar’s resilience in both the U.S. and around the world is primarily due to low photovoltaic panel prices combined with broad popular support by states, cities, businesses, and individuals. These low prices are evidenced by numerous solar tenders and purchase agreements that now range below the 5.5 cent per kilowatt hour level, that can often hit below the 4 cent threshold and sometimes dip as low as 3 cents or less. A recent solar purchase agreement in Arizona, for example, sold for less than 3 cents per kilowatt hour or lower than half the price of nuclear for that region. As mentioned above, trade case uncertainty has since driven solar prices in the U.S. marginally higher. Despite this counter to the global trend, U.S. solar sales are still beating out every prior year except 2016.



(Policies like the Sun Shot Initiative under President Obama and major investments by countries like China helped to rapidly reduce the cost of photovoltaic solar panels globally. Recently, major cost reductions have also been realized in concentrated solar power (CSP). Image source: PlanetSave.)

Concentrated solar power (CSP), which has the inherent advantage of offering both clean, renewable energy and storage in a single application, is also seeing falling prices. For ACWA Power is building a 700 MW CSP facility in Dubai that will provide clean solar energy for just 7.3 cents per kwh. This compares to natural gas prices which range as high as 24 cents per kwh for the Gulf region. If such low prices can be widely duplicated globally, CSP, which employs reflectors to gather solar heat into an oil based medium that is used to boil water to spin a turbine, then this additional form of solar is also likely to see broader use.

Wind Continues Steady Gains

Even as solar energy rockets to record gains, wind energy is also expected to see considerable increases. Forecast International now predicts that 68 GW of new wind capacity will be added globally in 2017. Wind installations at this point are quite widely distributed around the world. However, increased growth in Asia is a major factor in the continued steadily rising rate of adoption.



(Globally, wind energy is projected to continue its steady growth trend of recent years. Image source: Forecast International.)

Prices for wind energy range from 3.1 to around 5.5 cents per kwh, according to Lazard. Unlike solar, the price for wind has been on a slower decline curve during recent years. This means that at this time prices for both wind and solar are presently comparable for most regions. It also means that in places like Alberta, where a recent 600 MW wind project is expected to cost an average of 3.7 cents per kwh, prices for wind are less than half that of nuclear and less than most existing coal or even many new gas projects.

Major Growth in Renewable Energy as Coal Stagnates

If IHS and Forecast International projections for new solar and wind growth bear out, then we’ll see about 176 GW of these forms of renewable energy installed in 2017. That’s a tremendous rate of add that will considerably outpace new coal and gas installations even as it helps to reduce overall demand for power from these polluting sources and major contributors to climate change, related sea level rise, and similarly related worsening extreme weather. We are already seeing these effects as the world’s largest coal terminal is seeking to diversify on lowering demand forecast and as GE — a major provider of turbines for the gas industry — is cutting its fossil fuel based equipment sector.


One major aspect of the larger global shift can be seen in China. During past years, China rapidly added new coal and gas capacity. But non fossil fuel power generation additions were the major story for China in the first half of 2017. For by July China had added 24.4 GW of new solar capacity, 7.3 GW of new wind capacity, 6.69 GW of new hydro capacity, and 1.09 GW of new nuclear capacity. The total new add was 39.48 GW of non fossil fuel based electrical power generation vs 18.84 GW of new thermal capacity primarily coming from coal and gas. In other words, renewables outpaced fossil fuel generation in China by more than 2 to 1.

This comes as China is seeking to reduce coal use in an effort to clean up its air quality and fight climate change, as the price of coal burning rises to the point of producing losses in regions like Europe, and as predictions abound that the near term coal market is stagnating and long term future coal prospects, without the addition of costly carbon capture and storage, look bleak.










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Virginia police chief retires after criticism over rally






How FBI agents got Ronald Reagan elected President




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Reagan’s Personal Spying Machine
Sept. 1, 2012

IN 1961, when Ronald Reagan was defining himself politically, he warned that if left unchecked, government would become “a Big Brother to us all.” But previously undisclosed F.B.I. records, released to me after a long and costly legal fight under the Freedom of Information Act, present a different side of the man who has come to symbolize the conservative philosophy of less government and greater self-reliance.



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Iran-Contra, October Surprise and Reagan's Wrongs
A look into the wrongdoings of the Reagan administration and campaign, including the October Surprise, Debategate, MCA Records, the Inslaw and Wedtech scandals and the Iran-Contra scandal, which has been called Reagan's unchecked abuse of Presidential power.
The Iran-Contra scandal saw Congress’ restrictions on foreign arms sales circumvented by high level politicians, military and intelligence officers who were aided by smugglers and traffickers. Many of the details have never been released. By signing onto a FOIA saying that these documents are in the public interest, you can help change that.

This project will collect new materials with FOIA and examine them to understand who really did what, who knew what and what their motives were. It will also explore other scandals and allegations involving the Reagan campaign and administration, including the October Surprise, Debategate, Inslaw and Wedtech sandals and the dropped investigation into MCA Records. The goal is to explore history through primary documents, not to demonize or vilify those involved.

Those involved and investigated include:

Elliott Abrams - former American diplomat and lawyer who served in the Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush administrations
Richard Armitage - 13th United States Deputy Secretary of State at the State Department. He has acknowledged that he publicly released the classified information that Valerie Plame Wilson was a secret agent for the CIA
George Bush - Vice President, Director of Central Intelligence and President of the United States
William Casey - Director of Central Intelligence
Carl Channell - Conservative fund raiser
Duane Clarridge - Senior operations officer for CIA, head of Latin American division
Thomas Clines - Senior CIA officer
Edwin Corr - U.S. Ambassador to several Latin-American nations
Robert Earl - Marine lieutenant colonel and a deputy to Oliver North at the National Security Agency during the early 1980s.
Joseph Fernandez - CIA station chief in Costa Rica (operating under the pseudonym Tomás Castillo) and a figure in the Iran-Contra Affair.
Alan Fiers, Jr. - President Reagan’s Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Central American Task Force from October 1984 until his retirement in 1988.
Robert Gates - Served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and was Director of Central Intelligence under President George H. W. Bush.
Clair George - CIA officer in the clandestine service who oversaw all global espionage activities for the agency in the mid-1980s.
Donald Gregg - worked for the Central Intelligence Agency for 31 years. He was a National Security Council advisor (1979–1982) and National Security Advisor to U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush (1982–1989).
Albert Hakim - Iranian-American businessman and a figure in the Iran-Contra affair who participated in an aerial reconnaissance program run by CIA and Imperial Iranian Air Force from bases inside Iran against the Soviet Union.
M. Charles Hill - Senior adviser to George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, and President Reagan, as well as Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Edwin Meese III - Served within the Reagan Presidential Transition Team and the Reagan White House, eventually rising to hold the position of Attorney General, from which he resigned while under investigation from a special prosecutor.
Robert McFarlane - National Security Advisor to President Reagan
Richard Miller - Communications consultant who helped raise money for the Nicaraguan rebels and plead guilty to a conspiracy to defraud the U.S.
Oliver North - National Security Council staff member alleged by John Kerry to have created a privatized Contra network that attracted drug traffickers looking for cover for their operations, then turned a blind eye to repeated reports of drug smuggling related to the Contras, and actively worked with known drug smugglers such as Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to assist the Contras.
Nicholas Platt - American diplomat to Pakistan, Philippines, Zambia, and as a high level diplomat in Canada, China, Hong Kong, and Japan.
John Poindexter - Deputy National Security Advisor and National Security Advisor for President Reagan, convinced of multiple felonies as a result of Iran-Contra.
Ronald Reagan - President of the United States
Donald Regan - President Reagan’s Secretary of the Treasury and White House Chief of Staff
Richard Secord - Took part in CIA’s secret war in Laos, involved in Iran-Contra and one of its precursors, Operation Tipped Kettle.
George Shultz - President Reagan’s Secretary of State, known for opposition to the Iran-Contra scandal.
Paul Thompson - Navy commander who was detailed to the National Security Council staff, military assistant to National Security Adviser Robert C. McFarlane.
Caspar Weinberger - President Reagan’s Secretary of Defense, claimed to be opposed to the sale but participated in the transfer of United States Hawk and TOW missiles to Iran during the Iran–Contra affair. He was pardoned by President George H. W. Bush, who was Reagan’s vice president during the scandal.












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January 2, 2018
When it came to the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover was both a source and ‘fact checker’ for the media
Hoover made sure the Bureau, not the Army, was credited with finding a spy
Written by Emma Best
Edited by JPat Brown
In a recent response to a FOIA request on Rudolf Abel and the Hollow Nickel case, the Federal Bureau of Investigation included a 13 page section describing the FBI’s assistance to an author writing a series of articles about the Bureau. At least some of the articles appear to have been based on the film The FBI Story, which FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reportedly had a strong hand in the production of, including prompting reshoots.



According to the file, Patrick D. (possibly short for Denis) O’Donnell, had written the FBI requesting assistance with an article. O’Donnell was provided with FBI write ups to use as a source, and it was requested that the Bureau be allowed to review his articles to keep them “within the bounds of authenticity and accuracy.” The request was sent to Hoover by the Legat office in London. While the draft article indicates that Hoover did indeed review the article, the Bureau’s “fact check” of that particular statement is ambiguous.



Apparently this was to be the first in what would be a series of articles about Colonel Abel, of Bridge of Spies fame, and the now-lesser known Hollow Nickel case. The FBI reviewer checked off statements that were true and made notes of corrections in several other places.



For instance, the Bureau confirmed that while they don’t always get their man, they affirmed that they never give up - sometimes resulting in a high profile success.



The FBI also confirmed that number ten of Hoover’s “Ten Commandments of the G-man” was loyalty and devotion.



While some of the corrections concerned minor details, others seemed more focused on optimizing the language to improve public perception of the Bureau.



Other corrections simply make things more vague for reasons that aren’t immediately clear.



In one instance, the FBI was happy to credit themselves, and not the Army, with responsibility for locating and the subsequent successful court martial of Sergeant Roy Rhodes.



As for whether the corrections not only went through his office, but were personally made by Hoover, the FBI reviewer would neither confirm nor deny. They did, however, strikethrough the section stating that one of Hoover’s Special Agents had flown from London with the files. The entire section was ambiguously highlighted, with a question mark written at the end.



You can read the exchange of memos below along with the entire set of confirmations and corrections, or the rest on the release page





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Mosque pays fine for man who vandalized its building
BY MEGAN CERULLO
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, January 1, 2018, 8:55






http://www.climatecentral.org/news/the- ... 2017-21785

Published: December 27th, 2017
Following a year of weather extremes, disasters and policy clashes, we asked our readers to help us pick out the most important climate stories from the U.S. in 2017. Here's what you said.

HURRICANES

This was a brutal year for hurricanes in the U.S. A trifecta of storms (Harvey, Irma and Maria) battered Florida, the Gulf Coast and Puerto Rico, causing deaths and widespread destruction, driving many from their homes. Climate change is fueling hurricanes by increasing their rainfall, wind speeds, and storm surges. Our World Weather Attribution team was among the groups of scientists that found climate change increased the amount of flooding rainfall from Harvey.

SEA-LEVEL RISE SCIENCE

Sea-level rise projections got worse for U.S. coastal communities. New research factoring in the projected effects of warming on Antarctic ice outlined new scenarios for Gulf Coast and East Coast cities, where more than 10 feet of sea-level rise is possible in places this century. Sea-level rise could be kept to less than two feet if we aggressively curb our greenhouse gas emissions, reducing risks and impacts.



U.S. GOVERNMENT

The Trump administration worked to reverse climate protections this year, seeking to replace the Clean Power Plan and eventually withdraw from the Paris Agreement. The administration has been removing the phrase “climate change” from government websites and it greenlighted construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. All the while, hundreds of thousands of people marched for science and the climate, and states and cities and nations abroad vowed to fight harder to slow global warming.

TESLA

2017 was the year of Tesla co-founder Elon Musk. From a battery factory in Nevada, to South Australia where his batteries are helping a wind farm provide reliable power, to a new energy grid in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, Tesla has taken the lead in producing batteries for energy storage and to power electric cars. And it has developed new all-electric semi trucks and solar shingles!

WILDFIRES

California is battling its largest wildfire on record right now, but this wildfire season wasn’t just bad for the Golden State. Wildfires burned more than 9.5 million acres across the U.S., destroying neighborhoods and releasing dangerous smoke pollution. The Western wildfire season is 105 days longer than it was 45 years ago as climate change fuels more and bigger blazes.



THIRD HOTTEST YEAR ON RECORD

2017 is likely to be the third-hottest year on record for the U.S., behind 2016 and 2012. This record heat is particularly astounding considering the absence of an El Niño, which usually boosts global temperatures. If the final data matches expectations, five of the 10 hottest years on record will have come since 2006.

SOCIAL INJUSTICE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

The homes of Americans were destroyed or threatened by extreme weather and rising seas, with the poor hit the hardest. Hundreds of thousands of people had to flee Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria devastated the island, relocating to Florida and other areas. Thousands more in New Jersey and Louisiana are hoping for federal help as they grapple with the ongoing effects of flooding linked to rising seas and climate change-fueled storms.

SOLAR ENERGY SHINES

Production of clean energy climbed as prices continued to come down. In March, 10 percent of all electricity generated in the U.S. came from wind and solar, with help from Texas (America’s number 1 wind provider) and California (the largest solar producer). Bloomberg New Energy Finance concluded in the summer that solar energy can now be as cheap as power from new coal plants in the U.S.

TRANSPORTATION POLLUTION

Your car is contributing to the biggest source of U.S. emissions. Transportation recently overtook electricity generation as the biggest source of greenhouse gases from the U.S., as coal power plants were retired and replaced with renewables and natural gas facilities.

HEAT WAVES

It may be winter right now, but don’t forget about extreme heat, which is the number one weather-related killer. Climate change made a February heat wave across much of the eastern U.S. three times more likely. In June, another heat wave in the Southwest prevented planes in Arizona from taking off. Danger days are surging from Power, Montana to New York City, and a dramatic rise in dangerous heat and humidity will continue in the summertime.





https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... al-warming

On its hundredth birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming
Somebody cut the cake – new documents reveal that American oil writ large was warned of global warming at its 100th birthday party.



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Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association subject to openness laws, AG says
Nolan Clay by Nolan Clay Published: January 2, 2018 5:00 AM CDT Updated: January 2, 2018 5:00 AM CDT


The opinion was released last week. It comes at a time the association is facing criticism for its involvement in a program that charges criminals 30 percent more if their overdue fines are turned over to a collection agency.

The association is among those being sued over the program in federal court in Tulsa. The civil rights lawsuit alleges the program is an extortion scheme that preys on impoverished offenders who already find it hard to keep up with payments while on probation.

The association has made more than $4 million off its administrative role in that program since 2010 even though it has never collected a dollar itself, The Oklahoman reported in November.

Asking for the opinion was a critic of the association, state Rep. Bobby Cleveland, R-Slaughterville. The legislator said he acted after hearing concerns about the association from journalists.

The association must comply with the Open Meeting Act when a majority of its members meet to conduct association business, the attorney general determined. It also must make open its records involving "the transaction of public business, the expenditure of public funds or the administering of public property."

The openness laws apply even though the association is a private nonprofit entity and it does not receive any state appropriations, according to the opinion.

The attorney general based his opinion on the association's paid administrative role in the Oklahoma Temporary Motorist Liability Plan.

That plan allows police to seize a driver's license plate if the driver doesn't have proof of insurance. A driver must pay a $125 fee to get the license plate back. The association gets a $10 cut from each fee for administering the plan.




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SEE IT: Erykah Badu was stopped in Dallas so police could ‘say hi’
BY KATE FELDMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Monday, January 1, 2018, 11:42 PM



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Victim’s family loses appeal over deadly police shooting


FERNDALE, Mich.

A federal court says a Detroit-area police officer has immunity in a lawsuit over a fatal shooting, even if he clearly violated the constitutional rights of the victim.

Laszlo Latits was shot three times by a Ferndale officer after fleeing a traffic stop in 2010. Despite the deadly force, the appeals court said Latits wasn’t a threat to officers or the public at the time of the shooting.






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Prosecutor to release grand jury report on trooper shootings


EASTON, Pa.


A grand jury report on how Pennsylvania State Police investigates shootings by its own troopers is set for public release.

Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli plans to release the grand jury’s report Tuesday afternoon.

The prosecutor sought the grand jury after state police, citing longtime policy, refused to allow his detectives to take the lead on a probe of a fatal shooting by troopers near Easton. Criminal justice experts say police shooting investigations should be independent to ensure objectivity. State police have defended the policy, saying it has guidelines to ensure thorough investigations of shootings by its own troopers.

State police went to court in an unsuccessful effort to quash the grand jury.





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Detroit deputy police chief pleads guilty


DETROIT

A former Detroit deputy police chief has pleaded guilty to accenting money from a city contractor but denies that he got any favors in return.

Celia Washington appeared in federal court Tuesday. She told a judge that she knew Gasper Fiore was trying to influence her with $3,000. She said she needed a loan.

Washington served as the police department’s legal adviser, responsible for overseeing towing companies that remove cars seized by police. Fiore had towing contracts.








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... -interview

In gay-friendly Palm Springs, America's first all-LGBT government is no surprise
Under Trump, LGBT rights are under fire – but in this progressive desert haven, a historic moment was met with a shrug: ‘It’s not an issue here’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... ontroversy




Dubai Frame: UAE's latest surreal landmark frames a controversy
Architect’s ‘stolen building’ accusation overshadows opening of 50-storey portal almost a decade after it was first designed




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US study finds 1 in 10 youth experience some form of homelessness
Survey polled more than 26,000 young people over two years
Total includes those who have couch-surfed or been kicked out of home




https://www.denverpost.com/2018/01/01/o ... diagnosis/



This secret experiment tricked psychiatrists into diagnosing sane people as having schizophrenia


January 1, 2018 at 6:25 pm


It was a secret experiment. There was a graduate student, a housewife, a painter, a pediatrician, a psychiatrist and three psychologists. Using fake names, they went out to 12 hospitals across the country and claimed to hear voices. Their mission was to see what would happen.

What they found rocked psychiatry.

David Rosenhan, a psychologist at Stanford University, published the results of the experiment in a 1973 issue of the journal Science. “On Being Sane in Insane Places” would become one of the most influential studies in the history of psychiatry.

According to Rosenhan, each of what he called the “pseudopatients” told hospital staff about hearing voices that used the words “empty,” “hollow” and “thud.” The pseudopatients claimed the voices were difficult to understand but sounded as if they came from the same sex as that of the fake patients. Other than making claims about voices and giving themselves phony names and false occupations, the pseudopatients – Rosenhan among them – made up nothing else. None of them had any significant history of mental illness.

All of them were admitted to psychiatric units, at which point they stopped reporting any psychiatric symptoms. Still, nearly every person in the experiment was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Their hospitalizations ranged from seven to 52 days. Doctors prescribed them more than 2,000 pills, including antipsychotics and antidepressants, which the pseudopatients largely discarded.

In the hospitals, staff often misinterpreted the pseudopatients’ behaviors to fit within the context of psychiatric treatment. For example, the pseudopatients took copious notes while studying the environment of the psychiatric ward. One nurse reportedly wrote in the chart, “Patient engages in writing behavior.”

Although none of the pseudopatients were unmasked by hospital staff, other patients on the psychiatric units became suspicious of them. Across several of these hospitalizations, 35 patients expressed doubts that the pseudopatients were actually mentally ill, according to the study.

Still, Rosenhan’s conclusions were stark: People feigning mental illness all gained admission to psychiatric units and, after they stopped faking symptoms, remained there for lengthy periods. He famously wrote, “It is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals.”







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Bangor, Portland set records for cold

Maine’s bitter cold set records on the first day of 2018, but forecasters predicted Monday that a letup will arrive by midweek.

The National Weather Service recorded a temperature of -16 degrees Fahrenheit at Portland International Jetport on Monday, breaking Portland’s previous low temperature for Jan. 1, -12 degrees, set in 1957 and 1964.

Bangor, meanwhile, smashed its record for low air temperature on New Year’s Eve, recording a temperature of 24 degrees below zero at 4:03 a.m. Sunday at Bangor International Airport. That shaved 8 degrees off the previous Bangor record for Dec. 31 of -16 degrees in 2013.









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Grab the popcorn — this legislative session is going to be a doozy
January 1, 2018Column, CommentaryDemocrats, Gov. Paul LePage, Legislature, Medicaid expansion, Ranked-choice voting, Republicans


LePage’s last dance with the Legislature will be crazy enough, but there’s also a host of controversial issues the Legislature is slated to deal with, including ranked-choice voting and Medicaid expansion.

Ranked-choice voting (RCV) became law in Maine by referendum in 2016, but the Legislature effectively squashed it last session by delaying its implementation until 2021 and requiring a constitutional amendment to address the state Supreme Court’s concerns with its constitutionality. But proponents of RCV are gathering signatures to put a People’s Veto of the repeal law on the ballot. Assuming the proponents turn in their signatures, this will freeze the repeal law and solidify RCV as the law of the land, at least for this spring’s primary elections.


This means the Legislature has a stark choice: either accept RCV as the law for the next primary, or replace RCV completely with a different solution that can garner the two-thirds bipartisan majority necessary to implement it before June.

One option is a traditional runoff system, like Georgia uses, and like Lewiston uses for their mayoral races. A runoff would satisfy the voter intent evinced by the RCV referendum by ensuring that Maine’s elected officials are supported by a clear majority of voters. (RCV is often referred to as “instant runoff voting.”) RCV’s complicated execution, the need for significant financial resources to implement it, and the questionable legality of the law make it unlikely to survive intact, and it may behoove RCV supporters to get behind a compromise that leaves primary elections alone and simply creates a runoff election if a candidate fails to garner majority support in the general election.


Medicaid expansion also passed by referendum, but LePage has vowed to block its implementation unless the Legislature finds funding for Maine’s share within existing resources. Democrats are staking out a firm position that expansion is the law and will be implemented regardless of what LePage says. So a standoff is in the making.






Deep State Elects Trump

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Trump Accuses Justice Dep’t of Being ‘Deep State’
January 2, 2018

President Donald Trump waves as he arrives to board Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Monday, Jan. 1, 2018, in West Palm Beach, Fla., to return to Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump accused the Justice Department on Tuesday of being part of the “deep state” and suggesting it “must finally act” against a top aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former FBI director James Comey.

The “deep state” refers to an alleged shadowy network of powerful entrenched interests that some Republicans argue are trying to undermine Trump.

Trump tweeted Tuesday morning: “Crooked Hillary Clinton’s top aid, Huma Abedin, has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols. She put Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents. Remember sailors pictures on submarine? Jail! Deep State Justice Dept must finally act? Also on Comey & others.”

Trump appeared to be referring to a report in the conservative Daily Caller that Abedin sent government passwords to her Yahoo email before





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NAACP blasts handcuffing, detaining of 11-year-old girl

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The NAACP is calling for change in law enforcement across Kent County after body camera video was released last week showing an 11-year-old girl handcuffed and detained during an investigation.

Honestie Hodges, 11, was handcuffed and detained by Grand Rapids Police Department officers while they were searching for a stabbing suspect, who was a 41-year-old white woman.

“I have a question for the Grand Rapids Police: if this happened to a white child, if her mother was screaming she’s 11, would you have handcuffed her and put her in the back of a police car?” said Honestie Hodges to FOX 17 Tuesday.

Hodges asked her poignant question after the NAACP of Greater Grand Rapids’ press conference Tuesday, just weeks after GRPD officers handcuffed and detained her during their search for a stabbing suspect.

“As a mother, I was supposed to protect her and they didn’t let me protect my baby,” Whitney Hodges, Honestie’s mother, told FOX 17.

“You heard the scream, my baby was terrified and I couldn’t be there for her,” she said referring to released video.

The NAACP is asking the city to pay for culturally competent counseling for the Hodges family, and calls on GRPD to release the full uninterrupted body camera footage from this incident within 24 hours, as well as take appropriate disciplinary actions against the involved officers and review its officer discretion policy on detaining youth.

“We cannot and will not stand by to watch our children be aggressively and strategically targeted and terrorized by the police sworn to protect them,” said Cle Jackson, NAACP of Greater Grand Rapids president.

GRPD Chief David Rahinsky was speaking with city council members during the press conference, according to department officials, and says he will continue to speak with the NAACP, Grand Rapids Area Pastors and the Hodges family. Previously, Rahinksy told FOX 17 that police protocol needs to change.

“If an officer can point to policy or can point to training or point to hiring, and say this is what I was told, this is how I was taught, this is consistent with practice, then we’ve got a problem,” said GRPD Chief David Rahinksy. “And what I just said is accurate, we do have a problem.”

Rahinsky faces backlash from the police union, the Grand Rapids Police Officers Association, whose leaders say he should have been more supportive of the officers. GRPOA President Andy Bingle says while Honestie does not look like the suspect description at the time, officers have to take precautions to secure a scene.

“When I think of success, I think nobody got hurt in that incident,” said Bingle. “So many things can go wrong and nobody got hurt. Honestie yes, she was in handcuffs, it was for about two minutes and maybe she should’ve been out sooner, maybe not, I wasn’t there, but I think two minutes or less is enough time to make that call.”

While the NAACP thanked Rahinsky for his empathy, they also call on he and the GRPOA to take steps together to unify the community, including addressing the protocols that led to this incident.

“You should not have to fear walking down your street, or coming out of your home,” said Jackson. “You should not be terrified of being wrongfully detained like 11-year-old Honestie Hodges, or the five young boys ordered to the ground, held at gunpoint, and handcuffed on their way home earlier this year in March.”



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Trump plan to shrink ocean monuments threatens vital ecosystems, experts warn
Ryan Zinke has recommended three major marine monuments be reduced to allow greater commercial fishing, prompting anguish from environmental groups




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Another ‘bomb cyclone’ could bring blizzard to eastern Maine



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Epstein: We may not get hit head-on by Thursday’s intense storm
Expect more wind and more cold. i

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Republicans have four convicted criminals running for congress in 2018
Grimm, a former FBI agent, pleaded guilty to of felony tax evasion in 2014. And last year, Gianforte also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault for body-slamming a reporter days before winning a 2017 special election. So far, the national Republican party has said it supports Donovan over Grimm, but it is also backing ...






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Missouri governor admits affair, accused of blackmailing woman with photo
BY CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Thursday, January 11, 2018, 2:48 AM



Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has admitted to an extramarital affair and been accused of blackmailing his lover.

The 43-year-old Republican, elected in 2016, met the woman when she cut his hair, according to a recording received by KMOV the woman’s ex-husband.

The husband, also not identified in the local report, said that the recording was made after one of the first sexual encounters in 2015.

It featured the woman telling how Greitens did not want to meet her for coffee, but invited her to his house and at one point blindfolded her and taped her hands to an exercise apparatus after offering to teach her “how to do a perfect pull up.”

Undercover cop, airman busted in St. Louis protests deny role
“He stepped back, I saw a flash through the blindfold and he said: "you're never going to mention my name, otherwise there will be pictures of me everywhere,” she said.

Greitens allegedly later said that he deleted the picture, though the ex-husband, who said he had been contacted by law enforcement, told KMOV that the future governor, who declared his candidacy at the end of the year, was still in her life as their marriage disintegrated.

The governor, who billed himself as a values-based family man, said in a statement that being unfaithful in his marriage was a “deeply personal mistake.”





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Danica Roem becomes the first transgender person sworn into the Virginia House of Delegates








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This article has been removed from the internet since I posted the article in 2006.
The link was also removed after I posted it along with story.

The 2 Faces Of J. Edgar Hoover

Sydney Morning Herald

Sunday April 25, 1993

SHELLEY DEMPSEY

IF ONLY Charles Chaplin had lived to see a TV documentary tell the scandal of how the former FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover liked to party with his male friends, wearing a black frilly dress, lace stockings, curly wig and false eyelashes.

For Chaplin, one of Hoover's many victims, the irony would undoubtedly have been most sweet. Punished by Hoover with forcible exile from America, Chaplin was publicly branded a communist who liked young girls. But Hoover himself got clean away with his own private weaknesses for young men, racetrack betting and cross-dressing.

And whereas Chaplin's movie career died, Hoover's own career in political blackmail shone for 48 years, from 1924, under eight presidents. Although, according to a new documentary screening on the ABC on Sunday, The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover, he didn't get away with it completely.

The Mafia knew his secrets and used them as blackmail to compromise him greatly in his public fight against crime. Or at least, this is the allegation in the American documentary.

Based on the book recently released by the British author Anthony Summers, Official and Confidential; The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, the program briefly interviews Summers (who is currently visiting Australia) and claims to have new evidence beyond his book.

In the well-researched and quite sober TV profile, Hoover is painted as a lifelong bachelor whose best friend was his handsome assistant in the FBI, Clyde Tolson.

We are told that Hoover would often pick up Tolson in the morning in one of his three official FBI limousines, lunch with him later in the day and use it to chauffeur them both to fashionable nightclubs.

But publicly, Hoover denounced homosexuals as "sex deviants" and homosexuals were officially banned from service in the FBI.

What the documentary does is make a fairly convincing case, with eyewitness evidence, that Hoover's homosexuality spilt over into cross-dressing at all-male orgies, an indiscreet weakness not lost on the Mafia.

Susan Rosenstiel, the widow of the bisexual bootlegger turned liquor magnate, Lewis Solon Rosenstiel, said her husband had an affair, early in the marriage, with Roy Cohn, the assistant counsel to the infamous communist-hunter Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Cohn invited them to a room at the Plaza Hotel in New York. "We went in and there was this gentleman dressed as a woman and Roy introduced him. He said'I'd like you to meet Mary'.

"Well, I knew the name wasn't Mary because he looked just like J. Edgar Hoover. In fact, he was very solid looking, he had like a little growth (as in three-day growth), he was dressed in a black chiffon dress, very short, with ruffles, and black lace stockings and high-heeled shoes and a black curly wig and black false eyelashes.

"It was clear to me (it was) J. Edgar Hoover," she told the camera.

Then Hoover, then Cohn and Rosenstiel went into the bedroom and had sex with two blond, teenage boys.

"I heard Rosenstiel say that if Hoover ever brings pressure against Lansky(gangster boss Meyer Lansky) or any of us, we'll use this as blackmail, we'll expose him," Susan Rosenstiel said.

According to the documentary on Hoover (who has been nicknamed Gay Edgar Hoover and J. Edna Hoover), the FBI boss mysteriously adopted a "hands-off"policy towards the rich and powerful Mafia after three raids he and Tolson carried out in 1937, because the Mafia learnt his shadowy sexual secrets and threatened to expose him if he touched the Mob.

It's sad that Hoover's sexuality had to be so repressed in those days. But it's sadder still to see how he misused the sexual and non-sexual secrets of others with whom he politically disagreed to manipulate and destroy them.

Left-wingers such as Chaplin, who had an FBI file 1,900 pages long, the former US President John F. Kennedy and the black leader Martin Luther King were all persecuted and hounded by the conservative and Calvinist Hoover during the Cold War years.

Since Hoover's death in 1972, it has become clear that he amassed secret FBI files on the private lives of the highest figures in the land, files he used to control the presidents who were supposed to control him.

But now the documentary made by William Cran and Stephanie Tepper for Frontline, a consortium of US public TV stations, alleges that Hoover in turn was blackmailed by the Mafia because of his homosexuality and his addiction to racetrack betting.

In fact, Hoover denied the existence of the Mafia for more than 20 years, to the amazement of politicians and his own staff.

Producer William Cran: "There's overwhelming evidence that the Mob knew it had nothing to fear from Hoover's FBI. It's also clear that Hoover's homosexuality was well known among top Mafiosi."

About a dozen former FBI agents, former Justice Department agents and police are interviewed on the program, as well as former US Vice-President Walter Mondale, John F. Kennedy's former lover, Judith Campbell, and JFK's devoted secretary, Evelyn Lincoln.

On the trivial side, a Federal Justice Department inquiry launched four years after Hoover's death revealed the following gems about how Hoover squandered FBI resources to dress up his home.

Once he found animal droppings on his doorstep and had the offending brown material rushed to the FBI Headquarters crime laboratory, which diverted its resources to investigate what animal had done the dirty deed. The guilty party was identified as a racoon.




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Decades later, CIA's damage assessment for the "Pentagon Papers" leak is still redacted
January 9, 2018
Decades later, CIA’s damage assessment for the “Pentagon Papers” leak is still redacted
What little remains shows Agency’s concerns that the leaks would provide “propaganda” for the North Vietnamese - and pose a threat to their careers
Written by JPat Brown
Edited by Beryl Lipton
A formerly SECRET memo uncovered in the Central Intelligence Agency’s declassified archives shows that a month after the New York Times began publishing what would become known as “The Pentagon Papers,” the Agency set about assessing the damages.

The memo begins by providing some background on what the “Pentagon Papers” actually were and how they came to be …

before launching into what was called a “Parochial Damage Assessment,” specifically focusing on information that could hurt the Agency.

Despite the Agency’s admission that much of the information in Daniel Ellsberg’s leaks was - even by the early ’70s - decades old, the report remains almost entirely redacted.

Two areas of concern were spared classification, however. One was that regardless of the “legal status” of the Vietnam War, it was an armed conflict that American lives were being lost in, and the leak gave “propaganda and political action ammunition” to the North Vietnamese.

And the other, in jarring contrast, was the larger issue of the “private business” of government employees, which the CIA framed as the right of officials to “engage in frank debates or discussion” without having those views subject to “out-of-context criticism at some later date” in a way that might “adversely affect such officials public or private careers.”

Jobs. They were worried about their jobs.
The memo ended with concerns that this might be the “opening salvo” of a larger series of leaks regarding Vietnam …

and an index of the “Pentagon Papers” themselves …

which, you guessed it, is withheld in its entirety coming up on 50 years later.

In an interesting historical coincidence, CIA archives show that on the same day the damage assessment was released, CIA Director William Colby received a call from Senator Milton Young, congratulating the Agency for surviving the publication of the “Pentagon Papers” unscathed.

Young must not have gotten the memo. Read the full assessment embedded below.


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(WBKO) -- An FBI agent visited the Bowling Green Rotary Club to educate its members and guests on human trafficking. The agent explained what it consists of, being both sex trafficking and forced labor. However, sex trafficking is growing more rapidly. "Most girls don't choose to do that. They either



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It’s so hot in Australia that bats’ brains are frying
By AMANDA ERICKSON | The Washington Post
January 10, 2018 at 8:25 pm

Over in Australia, meanwhile, it has been hot. Sweltering, really.

In Sydney, temperatures swelled to 117 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday, the hottest it has been since 1939.

That oppressive heat, a side effect of climate change, has made life hard for the country’s humans. Heat waves result in 10 percent more calls for ambulances and 10 percent more deaths, local experts said.

For some animals, it has been nearly unbearable. “Anytime we have any type of heat event, we know we’re going to have a lot of animals in need,” animal specialist Kristie Harris told the BBC. It was so hot that possums burned their paws on roofs and roads. Koalas around the region were being sprayed down to keep them cool.

And at least 500 flying fox bats died because of the heat.

Animal rescuers in Sydney described “heartbreaking” scenes of dozens of dead baby bats piled on the ground. “It was unbelievable. I saw a lot of dead bats on the ground and others were close to the ground and dying,” volunteer Cate Ryan told the Guardian. “I have never seen anything like it before.”








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Some birds are so stressed by noise pollution it looks like they have PTSD





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Escape artist: the life of a painter living on death row
William A Noguera committed a brutal murder and has spent almost 30 years waiting for execution but in a new book, the artist explains how painting changed his life





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January 10, 2018
SIGAR finds millions wasted in Afghanistan economic development efforts
Yet again, poor planning prevented successes in Middle East stability support
Written by Beryl Lipton
Edited by JPat Brown
In the latest release from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, the agency found that recent U.S.-funded economic development projects in the Middle Eastern country have been largely unsuccessful and with little to show for the $823 million appropriated to the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations, a temporary organization tasked from 2010 through 2014 with executing economic development projects in Afghanistan.

In all, according to the internal watchdog, over 80% of the funds provided to TFBSO were in turn awarded in contracts; a little less than half of this ($316.3 million) went to contracts actually directly-related to projects in Afghanistan, and of this, only $70 million worth successfully provided the deliverables they were obligated to by contract, roughly 8.5% of the total appropriated amount to the agency. As SIGAR notes, even this can’t be taken at face value, since being able to check off that the project was completed is quite different from being able to call it success.



Though TFBSO, in particular, no longer exists, part of the usefulness of reports from SIGAR and other IGs is in its ability to inform future, similar endeavors. According to the report, this effort, for one, should not be emulated for many reasons, not least of which is that, from the beginning, the TFBSO was slow to develop a strategy for how it would actually support economic growth in the difficult, conflict-ridden area.



Without a plan for how it would get the job done, a conflict-causing attitude, and a failure to coordinate with other U.S. agencies in the area, TFBSO, according to SIGAR, failed to complete many of its project goals and provided no opportunity for others to do so. Even the IG’s ability to assess the damage was severely limited because the agency’s records were also poorly-handled.



As a helpful reference, SIGAR also provides a breakdown of the contractors that were not able to achieve their obligations under contract …

as well as a list of those involved in contracting with TFBSO.

The report is embedded below, and other SIGAR assessments of U.S. efforts to support and rebuild Afghanistan, can be found on SIGAR’s website. https://www.sigar.mil



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J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Wired the Nation by Dempsey J. Travis (2000-01-03) Hardcover – 1750
by Dempsey J. Travis (Author)


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FBI Octopus
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Norris also gave an update on his nomination for a U.S. district judge in western Tennessee. He will remain a state senator until the U.S. Senate votes to confirm him, a vote that hasn't been scheduled yet.

"I don't know what's going to become of it, but I'm not going to resign the seat for which my constituents elected me or this leadership post for which you elected me," Norris told his Senate Republican peers.

He said he hasn't given campaign contributions to his colleagues and did not attend an AT&T legislative reception Tuesday because of ethical considerations with his judicial nomination.

Trump nominated Norris in July and the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to send his nomination to the full Senate in December. Because the Senate didn't take a vote by the end of the year, Trump had to re-nominate him and others, Norris said.

Tommy Parker in western Tennessee and Chip Campbell in middle Tennessee were confirmed as district judges unanimously this week.

Norris' confirmation vote in committee was 11-9 along party lines, he said. Norris and Eli Richardson in middle Tennessee, a lawyer who has experience as an assistant federal prosecutor and FBI agent, still await confirmation, and both have a record of public service, Norris noted.

"Both of us, we're the sort of sacrificial guys in Tennessee being politicized," Norris said.




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FBI to host diversity recruitment event in Fort Lauderdale long after assassinating
Martin Luther King



FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - The FBI’s Miami Field Office will host an event in Fort Lauderdale as part of the organization’s efforts to diversify recruits.

The Diversity Agent Recruitment Program will take place Feb. 5, and the bureau said the initiative is aimed at “reaching applicants with a variety of backgrounds in order to diversify the FBI.”




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JANUARY 9, 2018
Miami Police officer arrested, charged for cocaine possession

MIAMI (WSVN) - A Miami Police officer has been arrested and charged with cocaine possession, months after he was allegedly caught consuming the substance at a popular Downtown Miami nightclub.

According to court documents, 25-year-old Adrian Santos, a two-and-a-half year member of the department, was partying at E11even in the early hours of Nov. 18. The release stated witnesses saw him with a plastic baggie containing a white powdery substance.

A nightclub employee alleged Santos, who was off-duty and not in uniform, inhaled the substance. Investigators said a security camera appeared to confirm the witness’ account.

The club’s security director spoke with Santos, took the plastic baggie and escorted him out of the premises and into the hands of off-duty Miami Police officers working a security detail outside.







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Is the Opioid Epidemic Fueling Wrongful Convictions?


Is the Opioid Epidemic Fueling Wrongful Convictions?
Crime labs are overwhelmed and under-regulated – leading to the compromise of countless drug cases nationwide

Thousands of drug samples at facilities across the country have been compromised – which could mean an untold number of wrongful convictions. Ty Wright/The New York Times/Redux
By Ivan Solotaroff
14 hours ago
In separate incidents, just five months apart, two Massachusetts crime-lab chemists were arrested for tampering with evidence seized in drug arrests. At Boston's Hinton State Laboratory, the state's largest lab, Annie Dookhan falsified results by "dry-labbing"– submitting positive results for substances never tested – though she also added drugs to samples to increase the weight, enabling DAs to prosecute charges for distribution rather than just possession. At a smaller forensic lab in Amherst, Sonja Farak's ravenous drug use compromised not only the samples she tested and her testimony delivered in court while high, but the entire lab's ability to perform scientific testing: She ingested – and then diluted to cover her tracks – the samples that drug labs keep in stock to test against seized parcels.

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Combined, Dookhan and Farak potentially helped wrongfully convict more than 32,000 drug defendants between 2003 and 2012. Though these may be two of the more extreme examples of crime-lab malfeasance, these incidents are common across America. Looking at the standards and practices of crime labs – and the science performed there – it's not hard to tell why. The frequency of such scandals also reveals the sea change the opioid epidemic has wrought upon these labs in the 21st-century prosecution of the War on Drugs.

Since 2000, America's 400-plus publicly funded forensic labs have seen a 74 percent increase in requests for drug-crime-related analyses. Drug-testing backlogs, owing largely to the opioid problem, have created variations on the crime-lab-technician-gone-rogue scenarios with sickening regularity in the past decade; addicted workers and the demand for quick turnaround have compromised lab work to a degree that may be immeasurable. For example, Kamal Shah was found to have potentially tainted as many as 14,800 cases in his 10 years at New Jersey's State Police North Regional Laboratory before he was dismissed for dry-labbing in 2015. According to a since-deleted LinkedIn profile, he'd previously worked for 16 years at another lab.

"Some attribute the recurring scandals to underfunded labs and often undertrained technicians," says Sarah Chu, senior forensic-policy advocate at Innocence Project, a nonprofit legal organization that has helped exonerate the wrongfully convicted for a quarter-century. "But what that overwhelming focus on drugs demonstrates is the priority of our criminal-justice system, which pursues the volume of these cases without ensuring that resources are in place to operate laboratories with the proper scientific and quality-management safeguards."


Indeed, the pattern of rogue chemists emerging from the opioid epidemic suggests yet another epic civic failure resulting from the War on Drugs. For decades, draconian sentencing guidelines have destroyed American lives, in the name of what many experts realize would be much better fought as a war on addiction. What has gotten less attention is the extent to which the drug crusade may have compromised the legal system's ability to provide due process, as crime labs across the country are proving to be incapable custodians of evidence in drug cases. And in an era increasingly riddled with synthetic, lab-grown drugs, lab technicians are offered an immense power.

So who are these workers, and what exactly are they doing?

Shah, Farak and many other forensic professionals are well-educated, but a large number of crime-lab technicians have no science education or experience at all. Protocols vary from state to state, but in many, techs are hired without comprehensive background checks or drug testing, and operate with minimal supervision in labs that are overwhelmed with work and are poorly equipped and cash-strapped.

A 2013 inspection of Cincinnati's Hamilton County crime lab found the building antiquated, unsafe and underpowered: Its technicians had to use the boiler-room floor to dry marijuana for testing. A tech at the drug-chemistry section of the Nassau County crime lab on Long Island fell through a faulty floorboard, years after a promised new lab remained unbuilt and the lab had been put on probation by an outside accreditation agency. Yet nothing changed until the state's inspector general investigated, and that only happened because of an executive order from Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The inspector's 184-page report cited





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Mom found dead in Brooklyn apartment building after cops ignored her 911 call was strangled
BY JOHN ANNESE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, January 10, 2018, 11:00 PM

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Woman who was allegedly raped by two NYPD cops faces former officers in court for first time
BY GRAHAM RAYMAN CHRISTINA CARREGA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, January 18, 2018, 1:10 PM





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Report: FBI Agent Shared Russia Probe Information With ...
The Daily Caller
An FBI agent shared the name of former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos with Trump dossier author Christopher Steele during a meeting in early October 2016. That new bit of information was revealed in a column published Wednesday by Washington




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NYPD reassigns 29 captains amid shake-up in department’s top ranks
BY GRAHAM RAYMAN THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Wednesday, January 17, 2018, 4:00 PM





Link du jour

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Blink Tank
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Vegas officer-turned-inmate arrested in 1997 sex-murder


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LAS VEGAS — Authorities say a former Las Vegas police officer who once served prison time in a sex misconduct case has been arrested in Reno after a cold case investigation of the 1997 shooting death of a woman in southern Nevada.





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Family of woman killed by Albuquerque police settles lawsuit


ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The family of a 19-year-old woman who was fatally shot by Albuquerque police in 2014 has settled its wrongful death lawsuit against the city and a former officer involved.




police officer gets probation for lying to carry gun on flights he
might be working at the SLPD next month

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BOSTON — A former Boston police detective has been sentenced to probation for lying to federal officials so he could fly armed on personal trips and allow a friend to avoid going through airport security







It only took two days to alter crime scene and concoct alibi


http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ss ... catio.html

Why it took 2 days to ID man killed by Cleveland police, and how his mom learned of his death from reporters





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HARTFORD, Conn. — A Connecticut task force on police body cameras that was created in July amid calls for more accountability in law enforcement has yet to meet because lawmakers have appointed only five of the 26 members, an Associated Press review has found.

Police body camera panel hasn’t met yet; NAACP upset




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Pittsburgh to pay $5.5 million in suit over police shooting


The officers said Ford was shot five times because he tried to drive away during a struggle inside his vehicle. Their attorney said Ford was shot during a frantic seven-second interval when his car drove forward as one officer stood outside and the other, kneeling on the front passenger seat, fired multiple times from inside the car.

But Ford said the car was inadvertently knocked into gear and that the officers acted aggressively because they thought he was a gang member with a similar name, age and appearance.

Ford’s attorneys said the shooting left him a paraplegic without any sexual function.





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Lawsuit over agent’s firing exposes Iowa police agency mess




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Detroit man who served 25 years awarded $1 million for wrongful conviction

DETROIT — A Detroit man who spent 25 years in prison for murder before proving he was the victim of police misconduct was awarded $1 million on Wednesday under a state program that compensates the wrongly convicted.

Desmond Ricks was released from prison last May when new tests showed that bullets recovered from the body didn’t match the gun that was presented as the weapon in the slaying. He and the Innocence Clinic at University of Michigan law school made a remarkable claim, accusing Detroit police of switching bullets.


The Michigan attorney general’s office agreed that Ricks qualified for compensation. Judge Michael Talbot signed off on the payment, although Ricks believes he’s entitled to an additional $216,000 and plans to appeal.



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An American pit bull was shot and killed by Toledo Police Tuesday as they were responding to a stove fire at a home on the 1800 block of Mulberry around 1:30 p.m.

Police said one officer went to make sure the occupants of the north Toledo home were out when he was attacked by the dog.

Police say the dog first attacked the officer in the leg and the officer was able to shake the dog off. Police say the dog then bit down on the officer's left arm. That's when the officer shot and killed Duke.

The dog's owners are frustrated and sad now. Demetruis Holmes said his emotional support pit bull Duke has never bitten anyone, but he did act as a guard dog for the family.

"Ya'll could have done more to not make it a situation, you didn't have to kill my dog,” said Demetruis Holmes, Duke’s owner. “Ya'll could have tased him. You tase humans and humans are stronger than animals."




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Queens judge's suit claiming he was karate chopped by cop gets tossed



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Cop fatally shoots 16-year-old boy in Ohio courtroom during fight with teen, family members



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ND pipeline protester accused of shooting at officers set to change plea


Jan 17, 2018 at 8:51 p.m.

Red Fawn Fallis
FARGO — An organization providing legal support for Dakota Access Pipeline protesters has reported that attorneys for Red Fawn Fallis, charged with shooting a handgun at officers during the protests, have reached a plea agreement with prosecutors that would result in her receiving less than the maximum penalty.





http://www.vicksburgpost.com/2018/01/17 ... ng-system/

FBI gets rid of it’s old crime reporting system called
the UCR Uniform Crap Report System

Law enforcement learns of FBI’s new crime reporting system








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S. Idaho woman dies after officer-involved shooting








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Family of man killed by police sues city, officers


CLEVELAND — The family of an unarmed man fatally shot by a police officer in front of his girlfriend and their three children at the end of a high-speed chase sued the officer, his supervisors and the northeast Ohio city that employs them in federal court on Thursday.




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Black Texas man sues cop who mistook him for thief, shot him


DALLAS A black man shot by a police officer who mistook him for a thief as he tried to unlock his own truck has filed a civil





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Police officer found guilty of extortion for threatening to release nude photos of ex-girlfriend
BY CAITLYN HITT
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, January 18, 2018, 2:32 PM




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2017 was the second-hottest year ever recorded
BY ARIEL SCOTTI
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, January 18, 2018, 1:11 PM




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-Milwaukee officer reaches plea deal in sex assault cases


MILWAUKEE A former Milwaukee police officer acquitted of fatally shooting a black man, sparking two nights of riots, pleaded guilty Thursday to lesser charges in sexual assault cases that had gotten him fired.

Under the deal with Dominique Heaggan-Brown, prosecutors dropped the most serious charges of second-degree sexual assault. He pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution and obtaining someone’s image without their consent, and he pleaded no contest to one count of false imprisonment. He faces up to 15 years in prison when he is sentenced Feb. 20. He had faced decades in prison if convicted of sexual assault.




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Head of Phoenix DEA in trouble for inappropriate relationship



Posted: Jan 16, 2018 8:21 PM EST
Updated: Jan 16, 2018 8:52 PM EST






The head of the Phoenix Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration faces discipline for what is being described as an “unprofessional personal relationship” with a subordinate.

Phoenix DEA Special Agent in Charge Douglas Coleman was the subject of an investigation by the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General.

The OIG launched the investigation after receiving information that, among other things, Coleman engaged in misconduct by having an inappropriate romantic relationship with his administrative assistant and division spokeswoman, Erica Curry.

Arizona’s Family received a copy of a heavily redacted synopsis of the OIG’s investigation.

The report states that “While there was circumstantial evidence of a romantic relationship between them, the OIG did not find actual evidence of an intimate relationship.”

The OIG did find that the close relationship between Coleman and Curry, was unprofessional, given she was his subordinate. The report indicates both admitted to being “best friends.”

The OIG also found that the relationship created the appearance of favoritism as it related to bonuses Curry received, promotional opportunities she was given and other accommodations for Curry, such as teleworking.

Coleman’s conduct, according to the report, violated DEA policy including misuse of office and failing to maintain high standards of personal conduct as an example to employees.

In addition, the OIG believes travel expenses incurred by Coleman and Curry for a travel assignment, were wasteful because, according to the report, their participation at the alleged work event did not appear “necessary, or consistent with the field division’s practice.”

The OIG’s report was provided to the DEA for appropriat







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ATF: Gun Store Thefts Surge for Fifth Straight Year, Setting Records in 2017

Thieves stole an alarming number of firearms from gun stores and other licensed dealers in 2017, setting a new record for the fifth consecutive year, according to annual statistics compiled by the ATF.

Burglaries and robberies resulted in the theft of 8,129 stolen guns from licensed firearms dealers across the country in 2017, a 3.3% increase over 2016.

Since 2013, the number of stolen guns has surged more than 135%.

Also on the rise for the fifth consecutive year was the number of gun stores that were robbed or burglarized. In 2017, 610 stores were targeted by thieves, compared to 347 in 2013.

Alarmed by the five-year upward trend, the ATF is urging gun dealers to create stronger security measures. Stolen





http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/sugar ... 507787.php

Citizens invited to attend Rosenberg Citizen Police Academy
Staff Report Published 12:15 pm, Thursday, January 18 2018



The Rosenberg Police would like to invite all citizens of Fort Bend County to attend the 27th class of the annual Rosenberg Citizen's Police Academy.
The purpose of the academy is to provide Rosenberg citizens with a better understanding of the daily operation of the police department through educational sessions about different aspects of law enforcement.




https://www.policeone.com/chiefs-sherif ... s-a-brand/

Why your police department needs a brandTo create greater community engagement, increase retention and improve recruitment, every police agency should develop and capitalize on their own brand

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https://www.truthdig.com/articles/thoug ... t-century/

JAN 21, 2018
Thought Police for the 21st Century





https://www.app.com/story/news/investig ... 035130001/

1.4 million people at risk in towns that don't drug test cops

TOWN TRUCK DRIVERS ARE ROUTINELY DRUG TESTED. POLICE OFFICERS AREN'T.





https://www.app.com/story/news/investig ... 035162001/

Three arrests — and still on the police force

NJ DOESN'T LICENSE COPS. ONE OFFICER REMAINS ON DUTY AFTER THREE CHARGES AND A LAWSUIT ALLEGING POLICE BRUTALITY.


The charges ranged from disorderly conduct to robbery to aggravated assault.

PROTECTING THE SHIELD: Read our investigative series

It wasn't the rap sheet of a hardened criminal.

It was an active-duty Weehawken cop listing the charges for which he was arrested. The first two charges were dropped, according to Weehawken's attorney. For the third, veteran Police Officer Robert J. Jacobson entered into a pre-trial intervention, which is a probation-like diversion program that clears a defendant's record if completed successfully.

Jacobson described his history of charges when he was questioned during a lawsuit connected to a fourth incident in which he was accused of striking and choking Maria Tullo, a 64-year-old woman who spoke little English. 

In other states, the arrest of an officer might prompt a review for decertification, a process in which an officer's license to be a cop is revoked. But Jacobson did not need to fear decertification – New Jersey has no such process.

The town settled Tullo's lawsuit on Aug. 31 for $75,000, including $5,000 paid by Jacobson personally and the rest covered by the township's taxpayer-funded insurance, the settlement shows.

Tullo and her attorney, Nancy Lucianna, are barred from talking. It's a troubling protocol for handling troubled cops Lucianna has seen many times.

"It does not foster a sense of accountability when you have confidential settlements and you have confidential discovery and depositions," she said. "It's wrong."

"It's the same thing over and over again," said John Paff, a New Jersey open records advocate who runs a blog on the topic and occasionally sues towns to open up their files. "Six figures get paid out






https://www.app.com/story/news/investig ... 039312001/

Police opposed law aimed to fix Edison department with criminal cops

THE EDISON POLICE DEPARTMENT HAD AN ARSONIST AND BANK ROBBER IN ITS RANKS.

This is a part of “Protecting The Shield” – a two-year Asbury Park Press investigation that probes gaps in police accountability, which can harm citizens and cost New Jersey taxpayers millions of dollars.

EDISON — One robbed a bank. Another raped an intoxicated woman. A third firebombed a police captain's home while he, his family and his 92-year-old mother slept inside.

PROTECTING THE SHIELD: Read our investigative series

The thugs weren't part of a notorious outlaw gang. They were officers in the Edison Police Department, which may have the worst criminal cop record in the state's recent history.

The crimes were committed over a 30-year span, culminating in the 2013 firebombing.









http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/ne ... -1.3769932

Same-sex active-duty couple marries at West Point



January 21, 2018, 3:50 PM


WEST POINT, N.Y. — Two Army captains who met at West Point returned there to be married, in what is believed to be the first same-sex marriage of active-duty personnel at the storied New York military academy.

The New York Times reported Captains Daniel Hall, 30, and Vincent Franchino, 26, both Apache helicopter pilots stationed at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, were married at West Point's Cadet Chapel on Jan. 13.







http://www.journal-advocate.com/sterlin ... ter-debate

Bill to keep scanners relevant dies after debate
Committee votes 6-3 against barring law enforcement from encrypting all radio traffic



POSTED: 01/21/2018 08:51:31 PM MST

A bill seeking to stop Colorado law enforcement from encrypting, and therefore hiding, all of their emergency radio communications met its demise Thursday but sparked a debate about the public's right to know — pitting journalists against police agencies as it went down.






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http://ktla.com/2018/01/21/video-showin ... -backlash/

Video Showing Police Officer’s Violent Arrest of San Diego County High School Student Draws Backlash
POSTED 8:04 PM, JANUARY 21, 2018, BY LOS ANGELES TIMES




http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/reg ... ent/story/

Police, Coast Guard, Marines, and divers become ‘scubasurero’ for the environment
Published January 22, 2018 9:39am





https://tribune.com.pk/story/1614617/1- ... e-shakeup/

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE > PAKISTAN > PUNJAB
Inside the capital’s police shakeup

By Arsalan AltafPublished: January 22, 2018







https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... f-secrets/


January 18, 2018
National Treasure: the CIA hid historical artifacts in the walls of their headquarters - twice
On two separate occasions, the Agency invited the White House to place a box of “secrets” within Langley’s foundations
Written by Emma Best
Edited by JPat Brown
One of the more fascinating revelations in the Central Intelligence Agency’s archives is the fact that, on two separate occasions, the Agency has had the White House bury time capsules of CIA materials in the walls of their buildings. The first box was jokingly referred to by Director Allen Dulles as containing “secrets,” and that came amazingly close to being true. The second, placed by one of Dulles’ successors, was nearly a plot device in a spy thriller, thanks to a suggestion that they place the true names of every Agency employee within the box.

According to the CIA’s history of the original “Cornerstone Box,” it was placed in the walls of the building twice. The first time was a public ceremony, where President Dwight Eisenhower placed the box at the beginning of November 1959.



This, however, was merely a ceremony. Until the box could be permanently placed and considered secure in the walls, the Agency removed the box after the ceremony. Keeping it secure, they added several materials produced at the ceremony itself, including copies of newspapers covering the event, photographs of the event, and even a tape recording.



The tape recording was quickly brought up again in the CIA’s history of the Cornerstone Box. The document notes that the tape recording captured “the Director’s joking remark to the President that the contents of the box were ‘secret.’” The rest of the lengthy paragraph is spent explaining that this was a joke, and that while the Agency had considered including a number of classified documents, the Director had decided against doing so.



Another memo describes some of the debate, vetoing a number of documents which the Agency asserts are classified even to this day.



While the materials that were ultimately included were all unclassified, those redacting the Agency’s documents seem a little confused on this point. According to the Agency’s history of the Cornerstone Box, the box included a speech by Dulles titled “William J. Donovan and the National Security.”



The speech was unclassified, and given to the Erie County Bar Association. Yet in at least one place, the Agency redacts the speech as a classified “source or method” that requires protection. A document listing suggested contents for the Cornerstone Box shows that the speech is number 20 on the list.



Another copy of the document claims that item 20 on the list was classified and exempt from declassification under 25X1 - protecting sources and methods. Perhaps most egregiously, the two documents were reviewed on the same day.



Regardless of the Agency’s inability to consistently and properly apply exemptions to declassification programs, it appears that the decision to not include any classified materials in the box was spur made in the spur of the moment, and as a purely practical matter. Dulles decided “on the spot that no classified material would go in the box,” seemingly to help expedite the matter. By this time, it had been about nine months since the Cornerstone Box laying ceremony with Eisenhower.



According to CIA’s history of the Cornerstone Box, it would take just under a year to finalize the placement of the box. The public ceremony with the President had taken place on November 3rd, 1959. The box reached its final resting place on November 2nd, 1960. This occasion was attended only by senior CIA leadership and their staff, “as well as representatives of the architects and contractors.” Many of them “threw lucky pennies into the nitch with the Box,” according to CIA’s Curator for the Historical Intelligence Collection, who had been in attendance.



The box itself had been custom built to ensure it would protect its contents.



The ceremony itself seemed to provide the Agency with some excuse for internal drama, and even some shade being thrown in one of the CIA’s official histories. According to the Planning and Construction of CIA HQ (January 1946-July 1963), the ceremony’s invocation and benediction was given by Reverend Frederick Brown Harris, the Senate Chaplain. According to the history, “the length of the Invocation far exceeded any staff study CIA had ever prepared and threatened to keep us there until darkness fell.” The invocation was one and a half pages long in its double spaced format, noticeably shorter than the remarks given by Dulles.



What the invocation lacked in length, however, it made up for in rhetoric. In what mirrored the sentiment, if not the language, of the Book of Revelations, Harris called for the CIA building to “be a cathedral of truth, an arsenal of freedom, an armory for battalions marshaled against deceit and falsehood, a fortress of patience and persistence where patriotism pure and undefiled [was] as harmless as a dove but as wise as a serpent.”

The CIA’s enemy? “Principalities of darkness [that] seek … to enslave all mankind with fetters of the body and mind.”



Twenty-five years later, when the Agency got a new Headquarters, they did it again. This time, the box was placed by former CIA Director, then-Vice President and future President George H.W. Bush.



This time, the suggested contents included a lot more classified materials. Employees also suggested versions of documents MuckRock has previously discussed, like the Agency’s style guide.



Of course, within just a few weeks the CIA would change their mind about some of those classifications. Apparently confirmation that the Agency uses “electronic intelligence gathering devices” wasn’t a “source or method” that required protection, after all.



The suggestions also include a few interesting revelations, like the fact that CIA apparently used to give out buttons that said “U Done Good” and had a to put a “no sleeping” sign in their library. Another suggestion involved including a list of the names associated with the stars on the [Agency’s Memorial Wall](https://www.cia.gov/news-information/fe ... wall.html0.



The most alarming suggestion, from a security and counterintelligence standpoint, was the inclusion of a “list of the true names of all of the Agency’s employees.” The emphasis on “all” implies that this would include not only the nameless rank and file of the Agency, but their covert employees and those under non-official cover. This list would have been a prize to any foreign intelligence service, and placing it in a time capsule in the walls of CIA’s Headquarters would have been the premise of a rather pulpy spy thriller or heist story.



In the end, the box didn’t include such compromising information. The Agency’s listing of the contents of the box show basic speeches and documents, with a handful of redacted items. Interestingly, the list of items in the box include notes on where the suggestion was originally listed, with the suggestions including the identity of the person who suggested. Two separate people suggested the CIA Credo, which the CIA Director had recently been making a big push on. Both of the suggestions to include the CIA Credo are noted in the margins of the listing.



Another document reveals just what items had been redacted: one of CIA’s miniaturized cameras, a “crypto chip,” and the remarks of Deputy Director John McMahon at the memorial service for the Beirut Embassy victims.



FOIA requests have been filed about both Cornerstone boxes to help us learn more about this interesting piece of historical trivia (and perhaps to help write the script for the next National Treasure). In the meantime, you can read Agency’s history of the Cornerstone Box below or browse through more documents on CREST.

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These Five FBI Scandal Figures May Never Get Out of the FISA Woods
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... in which the FBI had presented inaccurate information to the FISA court. Prior to Woods Procedures, 'ncorrect information was repeated in subsequent and related FISA packages,' the FBI told Congress in August 2003. 'By signing and swearing to the declaration, the headquarters agent is attesting to knowledge of what ...





https://theintercept.com/2018/02/05/ahm ... ogram-fbi/




“I REFUSED TO SECRETLY SPY” — AN IRANIAN-AMERICAN TURNED DOWN THE FBI AND WOUND UP WITH A PRISON SENTENCE
February 5 2018


TO ALL APPEARANCES, Ahmad Sheikhzadeh led the life of a typical New York academic. A 62-year-old Columbia University Ph.D., he lived alone in a small West Village rental, practiced yoga, attended lectures with friends, and conducted research at New York University’s labyrinthine Bobst Library. On Fridays, he’d travel uptown to a building at the corner of 40th Street and Third Avenue to work at Iran’s Mission to the United Nations, stepping directly into one of the most dangerous flashpoints in global politics.

As Sheikhzadeh left his weekly briefing one day in March 2016, an FBI agent approached him. The agent did not immediately detain Sheikhzadeh, according to court filings; instead the investigator brought him to a hotel for questioning. Over the course of the night, the agent revealed that Sheikhzadeh was the subject of a sealed indictment in the Eastern District of New York.

Eventually, the agent made his pitch. The FBI asked Sheikhzadeh “to cooperate with the government and to spy on his employer even though the charges against him did not include anyone else employed at the Mission,” according to court documents.

When Sheikhzadeh refused, he was charged with falsifying his tax returns, followed by other, more serious accusations, including money laundering and conspiracy to violate U.S. sanctions against Iran.

The case raised the question of whether Ahmad Sheikhzadeh’s real crime was not picking a side.
Sheikhzadeh’s prosecution — and the accusations traded between the government and his defense counsel — open a window on intelligence efforts unfolding in the wake of the Iran nuclear agreement and the role of federal law enforcement in the political rivalry between Washington and Tehran. At a moment when the White House and congressional Republicans are criticizing the FBI for politicizing the investigative process, Sheikhzadeh’s case puts a human face on the inherently political nature of prosecutions involving foreign powers.

On Friday, a federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced Sheikhzadeh to three months for tax fraud and sanctions violations. The sentence was an unusually public rebuke of an unsuccessful covert operation.

The case culminated with a rare scene in federal court: a defendant being called as a witness at his own sentencing. The 3 1/2-hour hearing provided a strange footnote to the nearly 40-year conflict between the U.S. and Iran, which has included the bombing of a U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut; the downing of an Iranian civilian airliner by the U.S. Navy; Iran’s use of proxy militias in Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria; the detention and disappearance of U.S. citizens in Iran; nuclear sabotage; cyber warfare; and, increasingly, the use of federal criminal prosecutions. Most notably, it raised the question of whether Sheikhzadeh’s real crime was not picking a side.







https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/scie ... ottom-well

Sedate a Plant, and It Seems to Lose Consciousness. Is It Conscious?

By JOANNA KLEIN FEB. 2, 2018




https://apnews.com/052b343c7ba748319fe5 ... m-disputed

Indonesia police kill Papua woman, clash claim disputed



JAKARTA, Indonesia
Indonesian paramilitary police fatally shot a woman in what they said was a clash with stone-throwing villagers in the troubled Papua region, but a relative of the victim disputed their account of events.

Police said in a statement Monday that the 61-year-old woman was among villagers who intervened to help an 18-year-old man who jumped out of a boat to escape custody after being detained on suspicion of theft.

The statement said police fired warning shots during the clash with villagers on Saturday. The woman died from a gunshot to the head, police said. A cousin of the dead woman said that there was no clash and that she was shot as an innocent bystander when police fired on the escaping suspect.






http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/f ... s-ugliest/

: ‘Live PD’ paints Spokane at its ugliest
Sun., Feb. 4, 2018



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http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/footb ... -1.3800669

Philadelphia's tepid police response to rioting Eagles fans once again shows racial double standard
Evan Grossman
EVAN GROSSMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, February 5, 2018, 1:24 PM





https://apnews.com/48076bbfa84e4edeb1a0 ... rveillance

NY court considers Cold War secrecy over Muslim surveillance


ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s highest court will consider on Tuesday whether the New York Police Department can use a Cold War-era legal tactic to conceal information about whether it put Muslims under surveillance.

The Court of Appeals will hear arguments in the cases of two Muslims who say the NYPD overstepped its reach by responding to a 2012 public records request related to the surveillance by saying it could “neither confirm nor deny” the records even existed.





https://www.lawfareblog.com/i-hope-inst ... ames-comey


Boston FBI chief urged agents to stay focused after Comey firing

The head of the Boston FBI office asked his agents to “stay focused” during these “surprising and tumultuous times” after learning that President Trump had fired FBI director James Comey last year, according to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act to the Lawfare website. Harold H. Shaw, special agent ...



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FBI licensed Christopher Steele funds for file info
Luxora Leader
The officially authorized payments to , who wrote the infamous – dossier, but then fired the former British spy for lying to agents about his covert leaks to the news media. The sequence of events is outlined in the declassified memo released Friday by Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican and chairman of the House ...






https://apnews.com/e3ab6cac2adc4711b49a ... r-Fed-Cuts


California To Aid Police Reform After Fed Cuts


California’s Attorney General announced the state will take over evaluating ongoing police reform efforts, including eliminating racial bias, after the U.S. Department of Justice stopped its guidance.





https://apnews.com/0fa7af3b7d3d48709bc5 ... ood-school

Nobody hurt when officer’s gun fires at Maplewood school


MAPLEWOOD, Minn. — The Maplewood Police Department says nobody was hurt when a school liaison officer’s gun went off at the Harmony Learning Center.

Police Chief Scott Nadeau says in a statement that the officer was sitting on a bench, talking with some third- and fourth-graders around 1:45 p.m. Monday, when a third-grader sitting next to him stuck his finger in the officer’s holster and pressed the trigger. The bullet hit the floor,






https://apnews.com/0def454be68146d696a7 ... fe-assault

police chief pleads no contest in wife assault



http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/ar ... f6d92.html

New charges for current and former police officers
Docs: Officer lied to feds in cocaine seizure investigation
LORENZO ZAZUETA-CASTRO | STAFF WRITER Feb 3, 2018 Updated Feb 3




https://www.nrtoday.com/news/crime/poli ... fded6.html

Police, sheriff accepting applications for 2018 Citizens Police Academy


Douglas County residents wanting a behind-the-scenes peek into law enforcement officers’ day-to-day life will once again have an opportunity to peel back the curtain.

The Douglas County Sheriff's Office and the Roseburg Police Department, in cooperation with Umpqua Community College, are hosting this year’s Citizen Police Academy.

The 11-week class will show how local law enforcement agencies are organized and the challenges they face protecting the community.

The goal of the workshop is to address common misconceptions and increase cooperation between the community and law enforcement.




https://apnews.com/deb3116443b645439ebb ... sco-police

The Latest: State to track changes by San Francisco Police
SAN FRANCISCO — The Latest on California’s attorney general overseeing reforms at the San Francisco Police Department (all times local):

12:35 p.m.

The San Francisco police chief says his department will be the first in the nation to get voluntary state oversight after the federal government ended a police reform program from the Obama era.

San Francisco was among at least 15 departments nationwide that sought help from the U.S. Department of Justice after deadly police shootings or other problems.

However, the agency opted last year to no longer provide resources or guidance for the Community Oriented Policing Services program.






http://www.heraldextra.com/news/opinion ... a71be.html


Herald editorial: Why is Utah County afraid to talk about sexual assault?

The scandal surrounding former Provo Police Chief John King is now approaching one year old.

And yet, it seems the community is just now seeing the tip of the iceberg of his misconduct.

In the last week, it was reported that multiple victims alleged claims on Jan. 18 against King and Provo city for misconduct that supposedly took place during King’s time employed by the city as police chief. To be clear, King has not yet been determined guilty of misconduct by any local court.

In the last year, we have had access to documents from various investigations and agencies that show repeated, inappropriate behavior exhibited by someone who should have upheld the highest morals, integrity and character in our community.

King has been accused of actions including sexual harassment, rape, battery and assault that demand se






http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/pasad ... 551868.php

Pasadena church to host sheriff's Citizens' Police Academy
By news and staff reports Published 8:57 am, Monday, February 5, 2018


http://www.richmond.com/news/local/crim ... 1903a.html

Richmond police officer to spend life in prison for sex acts with child



Feb 2, 2018

A Richmond police officer was sentenced Friday to life in prison for sexually assaulting a child.

Charles Church, 41, of the 1400 block of West Marshall Street, was convicted in July of two sex crimes — object sexual penetration of a child under 13 years and indecent exposure — that occurred in November 2015 when Church was off duty. He was acquitted of sodomy and a second count of object sexual penetration.

A conviction of object sexual penetration carries a mandatory life sentence in Virginia, which the jury recommended in July and Richmond Circuit Court Judge Walter W. Stout III confirmed Friday. Stout also suspended a one-year term for the indecent exposure.





http://www.king5.com/article/news/local ... ce=twitter


Seattle pays company $150K to remove unused surveillance cameras
The City of Seattle has budgeted $150,000 to remove surveillance cameras placed around the city. The company hired to remove the cameras have removed more than half the cameras.

Published: 8:19 PM PST February 2, 2018
More than two dozen surveillance cameras positioned around Seattle are retiring without a single day of work experience.

The Seattle Police Department installed the cameras back in 2013 but were never put into operation after a community outcry.

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HEAR IT: Bronx man cries ‘I can’t breathe’ as upstate cops ignore him before his death
BY CHRISTINA CARREGA LARRY MCSHANE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 12:55 PM


http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/ ... 57324.html


Sheriff’s deputy accused of not turning in evidence from narcotics case



February 14, 2018 11:28 AM

A former deputy with the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office was charged Tuesday with official misconduct for allegedly tampering with evidence while still employed by the department, Sheriff Jeff Easter said.

Justin Price — a four-year veteran with the department — is accused of not turning over evidence during a narcotics investigation, East







https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Vet ... 610344.php

BRIDGEPORT — A 34-year veteran of the Police Department has been charged with stealing overtime money from the department.
Lt. Stephen Shuck, who joined the department in July 1983, was charged Tuesday with first-
degree larceny. He was released on a promise to appear in court.
City records show Shuck earned $128,972 — including $23,737 in overtime — in 2017.



http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index ... deadl.html
Police recruit charged in deadly Birmingham shooting over woman

Updated Feb 12 2018



https://apnews.com/bb3b2506279e42cc902d ... -on-heroes
Police told to carry BB guns to plant on people they shoot
Baltimore officers guilty in corruption saga short on heroes

BALTIMORE Baltimore’s latest police corruption saga could be tough to sell as a TV crime drama, short on heroes and too extreme to attract loyal viewers.

Detectives in an elite unit praised for taking guns off the streets secretly dedicated themselves to shaking down citizens and hunting for “monsters” -- bigtime drug dealers with loot to rob. Their leader, a sergeant with a golden-boy reputation and a sledgehammer approach to policing, kept actual sledgehammers -- along with grappling hooks, black masks, even a machete -- in duffel bags in his police-issued car.


Crossing the line from law enforcers to law breakers, members of the Gun Trace Task Force had become thugs with badges, stealing cash, reselling seized narcotics, sticking illegal GPS trackers on the cars of their robbery targets and lying under oath to cover their tracks.

Task force members who pleaded guilty months ago hoping to shave time off their sentences revealed these and other jaw-dropping details as two of their colleagues insisted on going to trial. The result: A jury convicted Detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor of robbery, racketeering, and conspiracy on Monday evening, and they face up to 20 years on each count.

Even in a city all too familiar with abuses by law enforcers, the fallout from these stories of police criminality has been bad so far and the scandal promises to get a whole lot worse for Baltimore’s already fragile criminal justice system.

Revealing police criminality stretching back to 2008, the four ex-detectives told jurors about everything from armed home invasions to staging fictitious crime scenes and routinely defrauding their department.

They testified that their supervisor, Sgt. Wayne Jenkins, a former amateur mixed-martial-arts fighter, told them to carry BB guns in case they needed to plant weapons, conspired with a crooked bail bondsman, and occasionally posed as a federal agent when shaking people down.

Two of the detectives, Momodu Gondo and Jemell Rayam, admitted to leading double lives as police officers and armed drug dealers, even running interference for a heroin-trafficking ring run by Gondo’s childhood buddy.

Public defenders are calling into question each and every case touched by the disbanded unit’s office









http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c ... 99439.html

Man, 84, killed by police was veteran fighting eviction

Cop shoots, kills, 84-year-old man who was threatening suicide
February 12, 2018 03:08 PM
Updated February 13, 2018 07:29 AM
A despondent military veteran – slated for eviction because of his service dogs named Roxie





https://delawarestatenews.net/news/md-p ... d-assault/



Maryland town police hire ex-officer acquitted of assault






http://www.timesreporter.com/news/20180 ... ing-report

Policeman Bryan J. Eubanks sentenced to 90 days in jail for false shooting report after he shot himself

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... sco-cantu/
The Best Book on Immigration You Will Read This Year Comes From a Former Border Patrol Agent
Francisco Cantú’s “The Line Becomes a River” is honest, gripping, and wonderfully written.
IAN GORDONFEB. 3, 2018






http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryla ... story.html

Baltimore Police disciplinary records remain shielded despite revelations of misconduct



https://apnews.com/cdeaf8715659477898e0 ... ering-case


Another detective allowed to retire and collect pension
before being arrested.She waives hearing in false reports, tampering case

PITTSBURGH



A recently retired Pittsburgh homicide detective has waived her right to a preliminary hearing on charges of filing false police reports and tampering with evidence.

Fifty-one-year-old Margaret Sherwood waived all charges including false swearing, obstruction, hindering apprehension and other offenses before a hearing scheduled last week.

Her attorney told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that “We’re going to be ready for trial.” He said earlier that his client didn’t do anything wrong.

An indictment unsealed last month by the state attorney general’s office accuses her of giving false information to prosecutors in two 2014 slayings and trying to scuttle a domestic violence prosecution of a jailhouse informant,





http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2018 ... r_war.html

'Serpico-like situation' inside Jersey City police department, ex-cop ...
NJ.com-
JERSEY CITY — As Jersey City's police department reels from the guilty pleas of 11 cops who have admitted taking corrupt payments related to off-duty jobs, a former cop says in a new lawsuit that he was ostracized and eventually fired after reporting an illegal off-duty detail 10 years ago. Juan Luis ...
Juan Luis Ramos, 44, alleges in the seven-count lawsuit, filed in December in Hudson County Superior Court, that because he was "accused of being a rat," he was reprimanded and ostracized over the course a decade, targeted with at least two internal affairs probes and eventually fired in 2016.

Ramos' lawyer, Lou Zayas, called the atmosphere inside the police department a "Serpico-like situation," referring to Frank Serpico, the New York cop who exposed widespread corruption inside the NYPD starting in the 1960s.

"The allegations make clear that there's a culture of silence within the police department that discourages police officers from reporting misconduct by other police officers," Zayas told The Jersey Journal.




http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2018/02/1 ... orruption/

Cop Found Guilty In Scandal Was Called Out By Local Rapper ...
CBS Baltimore / WJZ-
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Former Baltimore Police detective Daniel Hersl is awaiting sentencing for robbery and other crimes that a jury found him guilty of as part of his role in the Gun Trace Task Force corruption scandal. RELATED: More stories on the Gun Trace Task Force/Baltimore Police corruption ...



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Williamsburg PD to host 'Coffee with a Cop'
Williamsburg Yorktown Daily-
The Williamsburg Police Department will hold a meet and greet called “Coffee with a Cop” at Mama Steve's House of Pancakes on Tuesday, according to a Williamsburg Police Department news release. Residents can stop by between 8 and 10 a.m. for coffee and conversation with local law enforcement.


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Report: Overweight cops making NYPD 'the fattest police department'
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"We really are the world's largest police department," one veteran copcomplained to the publication. "We're the fattest police department in the country ... because we have no requirement to stay in shape." Former copJose Vega told the Post that he filed a lawsuit for a job-related disability pension, ...


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Cop is arrested by his own colleagues as he's suspected of trying to ...
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Cop is arrested by his own colleagues as he's suspected of trying to blackmail a man who was sleeping with a prostitute. This is the moment a police officer, based in Luton, is arrested by his own colleagues on suspicion of blackmail. Share; Comments. By. Jane Lavender. 12:18, 19 FEB 2018. News ...





http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/c ... story.html

A Schaumburg cop was accused of helping run a drug ring. Why the case fell apart the day of his trial remains a mystery
Publicly, the state’s attorney’s office has remained tight-lipped about why the case against ex-cop John Cichy fell apart last week on the day he was to go to trial, despite evidence that they’d said included surveillance footage of him stealing $20,000 of planted cash from a storage locker.

Now attorneys for two other ex-officers who pleaded guilty in the scheme — and are serving long prison sentences — want answers. State’s Attorney Robert Berlin’s office said it will respond “in a prompt and appropriate manner” but did not specify what evidence might be shared, or when. Berlin said in a statement last week that his office had “insufficient admissible evidence” to convict Cichy, citing “recent developments.”



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Getting to know your neighborhood cop: Master Police Officer Jamie ...
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Compassionate Cop? Taking a Hard Look at Lupe Valdez’s Record as Dallas Sheriff

At best, Lupe Valdez embraced reforms that years of scandal had forced upon the Dallas County jail. At worst, she downplayed problems and withheld information on jail deaths in the post-Sandra Bland era.



by Michael Barajas
@michaelsbarajas
February 19, 2018
https://blogs.mprnews.org/capitol-view/ ... that-idea/

A cop per school? Minn. Senate leader raises that idea
Minnesota Public Radio News (blog)-
Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, left, and House Speaker Kurt Daudt speak at a January 2017 Capitol news conference. Tim Pugmire|MPR News. The Minnesota Senate's top Republican said Monday that the state should consider paying for a police presence in every public school. Appearing on an ...



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Law Enforcement Arrested for Trading in Child Rape
The following summary of 103 law enforcement officers (LEOs) arrested for trading in child rape updates earlier research. In November 2014, I profiled seventy local and state police officers arrested on child pornography related charges — Police Trading in Child Rape & Torture. My research was out of date almost as soon as I hit publish. A year later I posted When Law Enforcement is the Perpetrator reviewing one month, November 2015, when more than two LEOs per week were in the news for trafficking in child sex abuse. This research is not comprehensive but rather a small sample of LEOs arrested and does not include federal law enforcement. Without institutional support, conducting a complete study of all local, state and federal law enforcement has not been possible.
As for the weak argument someone always seems to make, “there is a certain number of pedophiles in the population and the number within law enforcement is perfectly normal” — let me respond. No pedophile should ever wear a badge, carry a gun and swear an oath to serve and protect. Not one person trading in child rape should ever be employed in law enforcement. Ever. Period. If we cannot keep pedophiles out of law enforcement, what kind of country have we become? If law enforcement cannot keep child rapists out of their ranks — what kind of “protection” are we paying for with our tax money?
Imagine, as you read these arrests, you are a parent reporting to police your child has been raped, or is missing or trafficked. How do you think the police here might have handled your complaint? How well do you think your children are being protected? These are real children being raped and tortured in the videos and images. American children. Every time an image/video is shared that child is trafficked again. Far too many police are involved in the trafficking.
For further information, please see the National Police Misconduct Reporting Project (NPMRP) at Cato Institute and the Associated Press (AP) year long investigation, 2015, into police misconduct.




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Fire the FBI Chief
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February 18, 2018 4:00 AM





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Political Economy of Fascism Mini-Course
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This mini-course is designed for popular education and to operate as either a series or as individual stand-alone workshops. The course begins with a review of my zine “You Can’t Punch Every Nazi” as a participatory workshop. The following four classes elaborate on the four layers of fascist doctrine I introduce in the first class. The last class takes account of fascist ideology to build a holistic antifascist theory highlighting existing antifascist praxis. I had originally designed this course for open library courses such as those the NYPL holds regularly.





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Crunch time for ex-NYPD cop
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Ten Philadelphia police recruits resign after trying to cheat on open-book exam

By ELLA TORRES

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUN 24, 2019 | 7:53 P


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At 80, Peace Activist Robin Lloyd Still Crosses the Line 
By KEN PICARD






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FBI Got a Call About Courthouse Shooter in 2016. Here’s Why They Didn’t Act on It.
STEPHEN YOUNG | JUNE 21, 2019 | 4:00AM


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Settlement in suit involving NYPD cop known as ‘Bullethead’ after DA declined to prosecute

By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUN 27, 2019 | 4:12 AM





https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/ ... story.html

Lowell police officer arraigned in rape of homeless teenager

By Emily Sweeney Globe Staff,June 27, 2019, 2 hours ago
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Police fired more than 55 rounds at Willie McCoy in less than 4 seconds, report shows

By COLLEEN SHALBY

JUN 27, 2019 | 12:55 PM




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Arizona sleuth says FBI misidentified jump zone of DB Cooper: report





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DOJ Examines Whether FBI Officials Acted Inappropriately by Attending Dodgers Game
FBI assists with security planning at major sporting events that are at risk of being targeted by terrorism or other violence



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As HPD, other local police embrace body cams, foolish for FBI, DEA to ban them in joint operations[Editorial]
By The Editorial Board June 27, 2019 Updated: June 27, 2019 3:54 p.m.




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Former Head Cop of Pedophile Unit Arrested for not Registering as a Sex Offender
He was once the top cop of New Orleans pedophile unit. Now he's been arrested for not registering as a sex offender.
Stanley Carl Burkhardt, 68, the convicted pedophile who oversaw the New Orleans Police Department child sex abuse investigations unit between the 1970s until 1987, before he was revealed to be a pedophile himself, was arrested last week for not registering as a sex-offender.
And that's just the tip of


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Lawyers Press Case That 9/11 Confessions Given to F.B.I. Are Tainted
July 29, 2019 | The New York Times
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05/09/2019
Subject: Freedom of Information Act Request: FBI files on Art Kunkin
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To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
- Any records regarding Arthur Glick Kunkin (March 28, 1928 - April 30, 2019), the Los Angeles-based publisher of the Free Press. Please search for cross-referenced records relevant to my inquiry, as well as ELSUR records. Proof of death is not required, as his death has been reported: https://www.latimes.com/local/obituarie ... story.html
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Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.
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Cop yells ‘back up!’ before fatally shooting dog, bodycam footage shows
Updated Jul 29, 5:58 PM; Posted Jul 29, 5:19 PM




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Man Shot Four Times by Cop thru Front Door says Call the Cops: "I am the Cops"



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Bridgeport cop arrested again, charged with violating terms of earlier discharge
By Daniel Tepfer Updated 4:41 pm EDT, Monday, July 29, 2019
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Man charged with felony over cop-mocking Facebook page allowed to sue cops
Published time: 30 Jul, 2019 02:14
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Someone Is Breaking Into Miami Cop Cars and Stealing Guns
JERRY IANNELLI | JULY 29, 2019
In what has become a recurring theme over the past few years, the Miami Police Department is, once again, struggling with theft and missing property. According



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COP ARRESTED AFTER SWAT STANDOFF IN BETHLEHEM
By: Shaddi Abusaid, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published: July 29, 2019 3:06 AM EDT



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Valley Cop To Appeal Drug Corruption Conviction




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Amazon’s Ring reportedly partners with more than 200 US police departments
Law enforcement across the country works with Ring
By Colin Lecher@colinlecher Jul 29, 2019, 6:22pm EDT
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... other-says

Police enabled 'predator' Ed Buck by ignoring black gay men, victim's mother says
Gemmel Moore died in 2017 in the home of LA activist accused of forcibly injecting men with deadly doses of drugs


https://whowhatwhy.org/2019/08/14/key-u ... d-cameras/

KEY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT EPSTEIN DEATH AND CAMERAS




https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/book ... erman.html


A Former Agent Investigates the F.B.I. and Finds It Lacking



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Updated September 25
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Habitat for Humanity offers discounted home repair service
The service is available to low-income homeowners in Cumberland County





http://ticklethewire.com/2019/09/26/por ... -training/

Portland Police Stop ICE Agents from Using Bureau Center for Training






https://www.wnewsj.com/news/117307/form ... sentencing

POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 26, 2019 BY WILMINGTON NEWS JOURNAL
Former Ohio sheriff who admitted taking bribes faces sentencing




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UCLA prof who mapped the costs of incarceration in L.A. wins a MacArthur



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FBI Database

David Burnham—an award-winning former New York Times reporter and a pioneering data journalist—is the co-founder and co-director of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a joint project between the Newhouse School and the Whitman School based here at Newhouse. 
TRAC specializes in using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain federal government administrative records. It performs sophisticated statistical analyses on the records it collects to make sense of and verify these complex relational files with millions of individual, case-by-case records. TRAC then builds data mining tools that enable it—along with journalists, policy makers, citizens and other researchers—to analyze and assess federal policies and practices. TRAC's information is utterly unique in the marketplace of ideas, and its findings are frequently cited in major news reports and research journals.
Concrete government information, much of it obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, has been central to his work as both a reporter and a researcher. Burnham started as a reporter in 1958, working for UPI, Newsweek, CBS and other organizations. From 1968 to 1986, he was an investigative reporter with The New York Times in New York and Washington, with much of his coverage concentrating on enforcement, regulatory and surveillance issues. He has written three books and numerous magazine articles. His most recent book, “Above the Law: Secret Deals, Political Fixes, and Other Misadventures of the U.S. Department of Justice,” was published by Scribner in 1996.  His investigative book on the Internal Revenue Service, “A Law Unto Itself: Power, Politics and the IRS,” was published in 1990 by Random House. A third book, “The Rise of the Computer State,” was published in 1984.
Over the years, Burnham has received a number of professional honors including the George Polk Award for Community Service, Long Island University, 1968; the Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, 1987; the Best Investigative Book of 1990, Investigative Reporters and Editors, 1990; and the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Bellagio, Italy, 1992. In 2003, Burnham was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in Humane Letters from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In 2006, he was inducted into the National Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame.
Burnham works out of Washington, D.C.


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Former state attorney general from Mexico sentenced to 20 years for helping cartel smuggle drugs to U.S. cities

By MOLLY CRANE-NEWMAN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
SEP 26, 2019 | 7:41 PM




https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/brow ... story.html

Suspended Margate cop arrested in undercover drug buy, police say

By TONYA ALANEZ

SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL |
SEP 26, 2019 |


https://www.star-telegram.com/news/stat ... 18312.html

99 years for kicking a cop? That’s the sentence a Texas man just got, authorities say

Read more here: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/stat ... rylink=cpy


https://www.nj.com/middlesex/2019/09/su ... llege.html

Suspended Edison cop tried to cover up collision, then unlawfully get info on the other driver, authorities allege
Updated 5:45 PM; Today 3:31 PM




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La Paz Cop Pulls Black Man Over for Air Freshener
MEG O'CONNOR | SEPTEMBER 26, 2019 | 10:




https://www.qchron.com/editions/queensw ... 321f3.html

Coke was it for an allegedly dirty cop
DA’s Office says he helped




https://www.fightbacknews.org/2019/9/25 ... murder-cop

Suicide by cop” is murder by cop
By staff | September 25, 2019




Hudson Valley Cop Killed 4 Men, 1 Killed With Zip Tie

Bobby Welber
September 26, 2019


Read More: Feds: Hudson Valley Cop Killed 4 Men, 1 Killed With Zip Tie | https://hudsonvalleypost.com/feds-hudso ... m=referral


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Deeply disturbing': Prince George's Co. cop accused of attacking girlfriend is suspended

by Associated Press Thursday, September 26th 2019




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Judge urges settlement to ‘quiet the chatter’ in NYPD corruption scandal



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14,565 viewsSep 26, 2019, 11:04am
Federal Judge Rules FBI Agents Conducted Illegal Search Of Business


https://www.pilotonline.com/news/crime/ ... story.html

The FBI swears they’re not scary. Please call them.





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‘Absolutely zero accountability:’ Ex-FBI agent explains how Trump could legally skirt additional DOJ scrutiny on Ukraine

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Democrats, Please Don’t Mess This Up. Impeach Trump for All His Crimes, Not Just for Ukraine.
Mehdi Hasan
September 26 2019, 1:35 p.m.




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JFK Records Suit Tests CIA Secrecy on Assassination




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9/11 Truth: World Trade Center Building Seven Was A ‘Controlled Implosion’. CNBC Anchor Ron Insana





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Robert McClelland, Surgeon Who Tried to Save JFK, Dies at 89 – Obituary

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https://www.denverpost.com/2019/10/10/d ... op-record/

Denver records largest October temperature drop on record
That 64-degree swing in 18 hours made it Denver's largest two-day October temperature switch on record, and one of the greatest temperature changes in the city's recorded history.


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UMaine unveils the largest object in the world made by a 3D printer — a boat



https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html

Memphis cop arrested for assaulting woman over hot dog


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NYPD cop who shot romantic rival in the face sentenced to probation



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Officer Accused in Fellow Cop’s Russian Roulette Shooting Allegedly Forced Other Women to Play Game


https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... nsas-city/

A cop is charged with shooting a fleeing e-scooter rider. Her explanation sounded too familiar to prosecutors.




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'I'm A Cop. I'm Not A Human:' New Lawsuit Shows How A Routine Noise Complaint Spiraled Into Violence
BY JAKE OFFENHARTZ
OCT. 11, 2019 5:16 P.M. • 26 CO



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Muralist paints 8-story baby cop in SF protest: ‘It’s about to get very real’

Ryan Kost Oct. 11, 2019 Updated: Oct. 11, 2019 8 p.m.




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Cop Charged After 2nd Shooting With Similar Details
Sheriff's deputy Lauren Michael charged with assault after scooter incident in Kansas City




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San Mateo cop convicted of sexually assaulting several women while on duty
A jury found Noah White Winchester guilty of 14 felony charges




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St. Clair cop facing prison for three felonies





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Portland State adds armed cops in response to years of anti-cop protests





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METRO

Video played in court shows ex-NYPD cop pummeling handcuffed man
By Rebecca Rosenberg
October 11, 2019 | 6:



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NYPD cop who shot rival over phone charger in the face gets probation


https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2019/10/ ... 944242002/

Reno cop moves homeless out of Pickett Park before planned 'citizen arrest' demonstration





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Pennsylvania Cops Arrest Family Twice in 2 Days for Loitering in own Front Yard





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Family of Unarmed Man Killed for Holding Cellphone Settles for $2.4 Million





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Chicago Police Settle $4.9 Million Lawsuit After Cop Killed Innocent Woman




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Tennessee Cops Beat and Arrest 64-year-old Man in apparent Botched Raid


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Kentucky Cop Agrees to Secret Plea Deal Reducing 5 Rapes to 5 Misdemeanors

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https://theintercept.com/2019/10/22/ter ... l-dissent/

THE FBI HAS A LONG HISTORY OF TREATING POLITICAL DISSENT AS TERRORISM
Alice Speri
October 22 2019,


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Durham's probe into possible FBI misconduct expanded based on new evidence, sources say


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

Porn star gets special tour of NYPD headquarters, including normally restricted areas

By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 22, 2019 | 4:00 PM


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

NYPD cop busted for swiping cellphone from girlfriend during spat


https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/c ... 36713.html

Cop at Johnson County bar flashed badge, threatened to use gun while pursuing woman
BY KATIE BERNARD

Read more here: https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/c ... rylink=cpy


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Hamden Cop Arrested In Officer-Involved Shooting:


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Cum Dumpster' Cop Beau Jones Fired, Criminal Investigation Continues
MEG O'CONNOR | OCTOBER 22, 2019 | 11:50AM


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Federal jury convicts 2 Chicago cops of stealing cash and drugs with bogus search warrants


https://www.clickorlando.com/news/repor ... confession

Longwood cop pressured teen into false confession
Officer says he wanted to make traffic stop a teachable moment
By Adrienne Cutway - Web Editor
Posted: 5:43 PM, October 22, 2019


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Disgraced ex-cop's @#!!$#!% libel case has nearly destroyed the newspaper that outed him for sexual predation of teen girls


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North County cop sued for 1st Amendment violation
ACLU, WUSTL First Amendment Clinic partner on case about videotaping arrest
* By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American Oct 22, 2019 Updated 4
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Farmington cop resigns following use of force on 11 year old
Female in middle school




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Cops Order Man to Crawl and Lay Down before Beating him for Running Stop Sign


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Phoenix police announce firings of two officers
BY MARTY JOHNSON - 10/22/19 08:30 PM EDT



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Los Angeles wants to pave its streets with recycled plastic

BYRON HURD OCTOBER 21, 2019

Many, many peoples' trash ma


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Climate havoc wipes out coastal kelp as S.F. Bay’s native fish species die off

Peter Fimrite Oct. 22, 2019





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Global impacts of thawing Arctic permafrost may be imminent
By Paul VoosenOct. 21, 2019 , 11:00 AM


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Sheriff rehires corruption investigator accused of posing as deputy in bizarre jail incident


https://www.newser.com/story/282115/pho ... fired.html

5 Months After Viral Arrest Video, Cop Fired
Christopher Meyer was caught on tape pointing a gun at couple who had their kids with them


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California Cops Shoot Unarmed 16-year-old Boy in Back of Head



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A Cop Pointed a Gun at a Pregnant Woman and Her Family. It Took 5 Months for Him to Get Fired.
In a viral video, you can hear the Phoenix officer yelling, “You’re going to @#$!%&! get shot” and “I’m going to put a @#$!%&! cap in your @#$!%&! head”


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Cop resigns after video shows him slamming 11-year-old girl onto ground
By Lee Brown
October 23, 2019 | 10:05

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/ ... 070223002/

White Detroit cop claims racial, age bias after demotion over viral video

George Hunter, The Detroit News




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Chicago police union board votes “no confidence” in top cop
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Progreso ex-cop to face federal bond hearing Thursday for rape




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New Mexico Cop Won’t Face Criminal Charges After Giving 11-Year-Old Student A Concussion
The incident was captured on video.


https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws ... story.html

Former Monroe County cop charged with raping woman stopped for DUI, court records say

By ANDREW SCOTT

THE MORNING CALL |
OCT 23, 2019 | 7:37 PM



https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/oc ... -fbi-agent


SFO asks for secret tribunal over lawyer 'who swore at FBI agent'
Anti-corruption agency being sued for unfair dismissal by former prosecutor




https://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-se ... 15802.html


Man Killed in Police Shooting Was Son of NYPD Cop
The man killed in a violent encounter with police early Wednesday morning was the son of an NYPD police officer, a law enforcement source tells News 4.The incident also resulted in a... See M



https://www.nj.com/union/2019/10/nj-cop ... ldren.html

N.J. cop and youth coach charged with 7 more sex crimes against children
Updated 5:33 PM; Today 3:47 PM


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Cop Charged For Shooting Passenger After Stopping Alleged Armed Robbery Suspects


https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/ ... 072539002/

Officer arrested for DWI resigns from Palisades Park police department

Kristie Cattafi, North Jersey Record Published 2:39 p.m. ET Oct. 23, 2019 | Upda




http://rockrivertimes.com/2019/10/23/ro ... l-assault/

Rockford cop charged with sexual assault
On Oct 23, 2019






https://www.towleroad.com/2019/10/veteran-cop/



Trial Begins for Veteran Cop Told to ‘Tone Down His Gayness’ if He Ever Wanted a Promotion in the St. Louis PD
OCTOBER 23, 2019 BY ANDY TOWLE 7

https://www.bet.com/news/national/2019/ ... olice.html

What Happens After You Record The Police And Challenge The Law? BET’s ‘Copwatch’ Addresses This Issue
Kimberly Ortiz and Yonasda

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Cops Kick Out Innocent Man's Tooth In Mistaken Arrest: $12M Suit
Quayshaun Smith says Brooklyn cops tased him, kicked him in the face, then said sorry when they realized they'd arrested the wrong man.



https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html



Hundreds of inmates walking out of prison in largest single-day mass commutation in U.S. history

By NELSON OLIVEIRA

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 04, 2019 | 3:54 PM


https://www.nj.com/monmouth/2019/11/ex- ... issed.html


Ex-cop accused of stealing tires will likely get charges dismissed
Updated 4:41 PM;Today 2:33 PM



https://www.nj.com/hudson/2019/11/musli ... -says.html



Muslim cop harassed over beard that was ‘too manicured,' lawsuit says
Today 5:46 PM



https://www.bet.com/news/national/2019/ ... r-dur.html

North Carolina Cop Reportedly Dragged Black Woman Out Of Car During A Traffic Sto


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https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/news/art ... 808308.php



Wilton cop was fired for lying about underage drinking party
By Patricia Gay Published 2:30 pm EST, Monday, November 4, 2019



https://www.nj.com/monmouth/2019/11/sui ... rules.html

Suit filed by children of Neptune cop who killed his ex-wife can move forward, judge rules
Updated 6:50 PM;Today 1:53 PM





https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politi ... story.html


NYC Council members decry new top cop pick as missed opportunity for greater NYPD diversity

By SHANT SHAHRIGIAN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 04, 2019 | 8:36 PM




https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... 6bb2d.html

Ex-St. Louis cop on trial for 'rough ride' charges
By Joel Currier St. Louis Post-Dispatch 3 hrs ago 0



https://www.mymoinfo.com/2019/11/04/for ... f-suspect/

Former Bonne Terre Cop Pleads Guilty & Sentenced to Felony Assault of Suspect
November 4, 2019 luketurnbough Local News





https://www.nj.com/cumberland/2019/11/c ... -suit.html

Chief wanted to trade a promotion for sex with my wife and daughter, cop claims in suit


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California fraud investigator, 32, kills his cop friend and critically wounds his own father before shooting himself dead after the 'heroic' pair tried to stop him arguing with his girlfriend at a birthday party




https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/brow ... story.html

911 supervisor playing Netflix movie didn’t flag call as a shooting n



https://www.foxnews.com/politics/flynn- ... lated-docs




RUSSIA INVESTIGATIONPublished 4 hours ago
Flynn attorney demands FBI search 'Sentinel' database for missing, 'manipulated' witness reports


https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house ... hael-flynn

FBI hand-slapping outweighs any lies by Michael Flynn


https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/04/sc ... te-smears/

SCOOP: CIA, FBI Informant Was Washington Post Source For Russiagate Smears
These close connections between the Washington Post’s David Ignatius and people connected to U.S. and U.K. intelligence raise grave concerns about the deep state using media to push propaganda


https://www.kmbc.com/article/inside-the ... y/29688094

Inside the FBI Citizens Academy


https://whowhatwhy.org/2013/11/04/monda ... w-nothing/

Monday Morning Skeptic: In Boston Bombing, FBI Fights for Public’s Right to Know… Nothing
Reading Time: 7 minutes
The feds are keeping us in the dark about the labyrinthine investigation on the Boston Marathon bombing. Documents mysteriously appear in the hands of pet journalists, then quickly disappear. This is convenient for the government, which wants to know everything about us while giving up little about its own agenda.


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Schorman on Cecil, 'Branding Hoover's FBI: How the Boss's PR Men Sold the Bureau to America'
Author: 
Matthew Cecil
Reviewer: 
Rob Schorman
Matthew Cecil. Branding Hoover's FBI: How the Boss's PR Men Sold the Bureau to America. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016. 344 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2305-1.
Reviewed by Rob Schorman (Miami University of Ohio Regionals) Published on H-FedHist (October, 2017) Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann
Matthew Cecil, in Branding Hoover's FBI: How the Boss's PR Men Sold the Bureau to America, lays out a case that the prestige and public trust enjoyed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) during most of J. Edgar Hoover’s




https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10. ... 7.12059161


Jackals, Vultures, Scavengers, and Scoundrels
FBI Public Relations and J. Edgar Hoover's Handwritten “Blue Gems”
Matthew Cecil, Jessica Freeman & Jennifer Tiernan
Pages 2-11 | Published online: 19 Mar 2019





https://theintercept.com/2019/11/03/per ... osecutors/

IN PERU’S OPERATION CAR WASH, PROSECUTORS AND WITNESS DOCTORED TESTIMONY TO AVOID CONTRADICTIONS
Rafael Neves, Ernesto Cabral, Rafael Moro Martins


https://theintercept.com/2019/11/04/phi ... democrats/

TWO SURGING CANDIDATES COULD MAKE PHILADELPHIA FAR MORE PROGRESSIVE. DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO WAR TO STOP THEM.
Akela Lacy
November 4 2019, 11:51 a.m.


https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/archae ... ic-images/

Archaeologists find tunnel with pre-Hispanic images in Ecatepec
The tunnel is part of a 17th-century dike system called the Albarradón de Ecatepec


https://news.usni.org/2019/11/04/usni-n ... nov-4-2019

USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Nov. 4, 2019

November 4, 2019 11:10 AM




https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/01 ... neighbors/


NOVEMBER 1, 2019
Don’t Call the Police, Call Your Neighbors!




by GLORIA OLADIPO

Here is a hard truth: Police do not keep communities safe.
This year alone has produced numerous stories of officers causing distress, damage, or death in communities they’re sworn to protect. As this epidemic worsens, communities need to find new ways to handle crisis situations without police intervention.
Modern U.S. police forces evolved from watch systems developed in the early colonies, which were gradually professionalized after the emergence of cities — and the rise of slavery. In the South, these forces were used as “slave patrols,” tasked with catching runaway slaves and squashing uprisings.
The role of police has greatly expanded since then, with officers intervening in everything from mental health crises to routine schoolyard incidents. With police now receiving military-grade weapons and often legally insulated from accountability, citizens are at the mercy of choices officers make — decisions that may be made under extreme distress or tainted with bias.
Black Americans are most at risk. Compared to other demographics, we face a significantly higher risk of being killed by police. Just this year Black Americans have






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Remembering the Greensboro Massacre of 1979, When KKK & Nazis Killed 5 People in Broad Daylight

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‘Meant to intimidate’: Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin slams bogus police raid as crackdown on peace activism
15 Nov, 2019 03:48 / Updated 13 hours ago





https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny- ... story.html

Spare Rodney Reed: An imminent Texas execution appears to be a profound miscarriage of justice

By DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL BOARD

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 15, 2019 | 4:10 AM

Call Texas Governor Abbot at


(512) 463-2000





https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... on-lawsuit

Gay employee says salary was halved to be even with 'females in the office'



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... risis-plan

Venice council flooded moments after rejecting climate crisis plan
Rightwing parties reject proposals as lagoon city faces worst flooding in 53 years





Undercover cop arrests fellow officer who offered her $40 for sex

By BRIAN NIEMIETZ

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 15, 2019 | 6:03 PM





https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... -1.1965238

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Florida man wears 'f--- the police' shirt to court — and wins the case

By DAVID BOROFF

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 06, 2014 | 4:34 PM.



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Legalization of same-sex unions led to significant decline in suicide rates in Sweden and Denmark: study

By MURI ASSUNÇÃO

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 15, 2019 | 5:36 PM





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Here’s How Knightscope’s Security Robots Surveil the Public
OneZero obtained a presentation that reveals how Knightscope uses facial recognition and license plate readers to track individuals


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The Senator, the Billionaire Pedophile, & the Fugitive Oligarch
By Daniel Hopsicker -
August 30, 2019
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The Senator is ‘George Mitchell.’ The billionaire pedophile is ‘Jeffrey Epstein.’ The fugitive oligarch is “Viktor Kozeny.”  But first, a word about an Able Seaman…


Nothing’s changed since “Casablanca”

It was a round-up of the usual suspects.
In the aftermath of the release of 2000 pages of previously sealed documents in the lawsuit brought against Jeffrey Epstein by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, news accounts picked only low-hanging fruit for scrutiny.
Bill Clinton. Donald Trump. Woody Allen. Uber-nebbish Alan Dershowitz. He’s now become one of the usual suspects because, despite his vociferous denials, he’s exactly the blend of smarmy and slimy that signals victimizer.
But the goal is to make sense of what Epstein was up to, which remains opaque.
Puzzling out Epstein’s connection to one of those named who’s more of a sexual outlier than a sometime Lothario might be a better bet.
Someone like former Senator George Mitchell, for example.
 
Savoir-Fair-Less

George Mitchell doesn’t exactly exude savoir faire.
He’s a temperate-looking man. Gray hair, short and orderly. Mild, hazel-brown eyes behind horn-rimmed glasses. He might have entered the U.S. Senate under Dwight David Eisenhower.
The kind of guy that looked old even in high school.
“George lives his life the way he plays tennis: thoughtful, conservative, doesn’t throw away any shots,” a friend said about him. “Nothing brilliant, or colorful; doesn’t have to make the grand slam.”
Epstein had a documented friendship with Mitchell dating back to the early 2000’s. In a 2003 New York Magazine profile, Epstein was paraphrased as saying Mitchell was “the world’s greatest negotiator,” and Mitchell called Epstein “a friend and a supporter.”
George and Jeff made an odd couple. Why did Epstein gift Mitchell the loan for an evening of one of his stable of not-yet-legal sex workers?
I think I know.
 
A whiff of sexual blackmail…in the 90’s

While investigating the personal pilot of one of George Mitchell’s close associates, I learned a secret about the former Majority Leader.
Mitchell looks like a boy scout, but he’s not.
After he resigned from the Senate in 1994, one of George Mitchell’s closest associates became Viktor Kozeny, known as “The Pirate of Prague.”
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Kozeny was t





https://www.live5news.com/2019/11/15/do ... ing-court/

Documents: Former Goose Creek cop faces loss of certification for lying in court



https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/ ... 79714.html

‘We don’t cover up’: Hialeah chief defends handling of cop accused of sex abuse
BY CHRISTINA MORALES, NICHOLAS NEHAMAS, AND JAY WEAVER
NOVEMBER 15, 2019 01:08 PM

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Cop is caught molesting girl in bathroom and threatens her mother, Oklahoma police say
BY TYLER J. CARTER
NOVEMBER 15, 2019 03:19 PM
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NYPD cop seen ogling ‘total stripper’ on bodycam was sued before





https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/crime ... story.html

Former Miami-Dade cop who was indicted in the ’90s found dead after being shot several times

By WAYNE K. ROUSTAN

SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL |
NOV 15, 2019 | 2:




https://www.nwitimes.com/news/cop-accus ... b0e2a.html

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Cop accused of putting gun in a woman's mouth, among counts of violence
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https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation ... 24214.html

Spying on 69 men in cop bathroom gets clerk 6 years in jail, California prosecutor says
BY JARED GILMOUR
NOVEMBER 15, 2019 09:31 PM
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Former Philly cop accused of drugging, raping women is put on house arrest








https://www.meadvilletribune.com/charge ... 05b78.html

Charges against a former Sharon police officer stemming from a missing department-issued weapon have been held over to Mercer County Court of Common Pleas. 
Kailie Marie Marshall, 26, of 864 Highland Road, Sharon, is charged with unlawful duplication of a police report, computer trespass, unsworn falsification to authorities and simple assault.
Another former Sharon police officer, Matthew Paul Lehman, 32, of 479 Victory Church Road, Franklin, is charged with obstructing the administration of law and unsw



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Journalists Publish List Of Convicted Cops The State's Attorney General Said Was Illegal For Them To Have
Journalism
from the bluff-called dept
Fri, Nov 15th 2019 12:02pm — Tim Cushing
The list of convicted cops the California Attorney General tried to keep secret has just been made searchable by the Sacramento Bee. It contains hundreds of current and former police officers who've been convicted of criminal acts over the last ten years.
This collaboration of multiple newsrooms and journalism advocates began with an unforced error by a state agency. Taking advantage of a new state law allowing the public to access police misconduct records, journalists asked the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training for relevant documents. The agency handed over a list of 12,000 former and current officers -- a list that apparently was never supposed to be made public.
The state's Attorney General claimed the journalists had broken the law simply by possessing a document the Commission never should have given them. This couldn't be further from the truth, but AG Xavier Becerra continued to make this claim, as though it were possible to codify something just by saying it out loud often enough.
I can see why AG Becerra wants this list buried. There's nothing on it that makes cops or their oversight (which includes Becerra) look good. While the 12,000 officers in the database are a small percentage of the total number of California law enforcement officers employed over the past ten years, this small portion includes a number of cops who were never fired from their agencies despite committing criminal acts that would have put regular people out of a job.
Reporters found at least a dozen deputies with prior convictions are still on the roster at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. And the five officers with convictions working for the Riverside police include the acting chief — Larry Gonzalez was a lieutenant in 2013 when he pleaded guilty to DUI after reportedly crashing a city-owned SUV with a blood-alcohol level nearly twice the legal limit.
There’s a Kern County Sheriff’s deputy still working despite a conviction for manslaughter after running over two people while recklessly speeding to a call. And a Santa Clara County Sheriff’s deputy is back on the force after dozing off at the wheel and killing a pair of elite cyclists on a training ride.
Sheriff's departments are especially fond of hiring and retaining the worst people. They're the agencies most willing to overlook long histories of misconduct and the most hesitant to hand down significant punishments when laws are broken by law enforcers on their payroll. The L.A. Sheriff's Department is filled with suspicious individuals who hang out in a high crime area every time they show up at the office.
The list has been trimmed considerably since its surprising release to journalists. Due to the lack of cooperation from law enforcement agencies and the general sloppiness of large-scale bureaucracies, the names in the database are only those that have been verified by journalists. The original list had 12,000 names but the database only contains 630 current and former officers.
Even so, there's plenty to be concerned about. Some officers have multiple convictions but were never fired. Officers have driven drunk, left their children in cars with their loaded guns, and engaged in fraud. There's also lots of domestic abuse -- most of which has gone unaddressed by officers' employers.
Richard Sotelo was an Imperial County Sheriff’s Department correctional officer in February 2013 when he was charged with domestic violence for assaulting his estranged wife. He was allowed to keep working despite the pending charges. But months later he was accused of a crime again, this time sexual battery against a male co-worker. He was charged for that as well. Sotelo ultimately took plea deals and was convicted in both cases and left the force.
[...]
In one incident investigated by the Bell Police Department months before his reckless driving, [LAPD Officer David] Guerrero allegedly “threatened, assaulted and battered” a woman who was in a dispute with his girlfriend, according to court records.
“That’s how you do it, LAPD style,” Guerrero allegedly said as he drove away.
The DA’s office didn’t file charges. It also didn’t prosecute Guerrero in 2013 when he allegedly threatened to kill the mother of his child, court records show.
The recycling of California cops isn't going to stop unless the state legislature steps up and makes it possible for officers to lose their certification following a conviction. California is one of only five states with no decertification process, so officers can avoid accountability simply by drifting from agency to agency in the (apparently unlikely) event they've been fired.


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GOP eager for report on alleged FBI surveillance abuse





11/15/2019
The NSA has stopped collecting location data from US cellphones without a warrant
Colin Lecher, The Verge
A US federal court finds suspicionless searches of phones at the border is illegal
Zack Whittaker, Tech Crunch
Bound by Statute: In Mississippi, Jim Crow era laws result in a high rate of black kids charged as adults
Ko Bragg and Melissa Lewis, Reveal
County Clerks Revolt Over N.Y. Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants
Christina Goldbaum, The New York Times
U.S. Park Police officers will not face federal charges in shooting of Bijan Ghaisar
Tom Jackman, Washington Post
Go See The Report, Then Let’s Put Torture to Bed For Good
Sondra Crosby, Brig. Gen, (Ret.) David R. Irvine, Christian Meissner and Scott Roehm, Just Security
11/14/2019

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https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html

North Carolina deputy fired after shocking video shows him slamming sixth-grader to the ground

By PETER SBLENDORIO

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 16, 2019 | 1:00 PM






https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html


Military academies looking into possible ‘white power’ hand gestures flashed at Army-Navy game

By DAVID BOROFF

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 16, 2019 | 11:33 AM





https://www.thedailybeast.com/seattle-p ... ref=author


Seattle Probing Viral Videos of Bike Cops at Protest

CYCLE OF VIOLENCE?
The footage appears to show cops tripping over their bikes and using the incidents to arrest demonstrators.
Published Dec. 16, 2019 4:03PM ET


https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice ... uilty.html

Cleveland cop accused of urinating on girl at bus stop pleads guilty
Updated 3:09 PM;Today 11:56 AM



https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/ ... 665088001/


Mount Vernon cop out of a job after body slamming handcuffed prisoner

Jonathan Bandler, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Published 1:45 p.m. ET Dec. 16, 2019 | Updated 1:52 p.m. ET Dec. 16, 2019





https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/ ... 596167001/


Telegraph Road's 'Gardner White cop' and 'speed trap' earn infamy

George Hunter, The Detroit News Published 12:01 a.m. ET Dec. 16, 2019 | Update


http://www.startribune.com/former-argen ... 566250382/

Argentine cop extraditedg from France for killing
Associated Press DECEMBER 16, 2019 — 1:50PM



https://www.silive.com/news/2019/12/ex- ... ncome.html

cop from Staten Island must pay $180K to IRS for tax fraud; cheated on rental income



https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Po ... 910511.php


Police Commission to move forward with Bridgeport cop hearings
By Tara O'Neill Updated 3:16 pm EST, Monday, December 16, 2019
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BRIDGEPORT — The city’s Police Commission intends to move forward with scheduling hearings for officers involved in a contentious incident on Colorado Avenue in 2017 after the hearings were put on hold for more than seven months.
The hearings, which began in May, stemmed from a Office of Internal Affairs investigation that found 19 officers in violation of several department policies and procedures in their actions breaking up a house party on Oct. 21, 2017.




https://newsone.com/3896759/racist-nypd ... -break-in/



‘F–king N–gers’: Racist NYPD Cop Jailed For Breaking Into Black Woman’s Home
Michael J. Reynolds was reportedly suspended but not fired from the NYPD.




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DECEMBER 15, 2019

Bodycam video shows Miami Beach Police cop hitting spring breaker during arrest



https://www.statesman.com/news/20191216 ... -to-murder

Austin cop VonTrey Clark pleads guilty to murder



https://www.bkreader.com/2019/12/16/off ... -flatbush/

Cop Arrested on DWI Charges After Fatal Crash in East Flatbush

by Brooklyn Reader December 16, 2019



https://atlantablackstar.com/2019/12/16 ... probation/

NYPD Cop Who Burst Into Black Nashville Family’s Home in a Drunken Rage, Threatening Them, Gets Two-Week Sentence


https://colombiareports.com/cop-who-adm ... -evidence/

Cop who admittedly murdered Bogota protester contradicts evidence in charm offensive
by Adriaan Alsema December 16, 2019



https://www.newsweek.com/jesus-menocal- ... ce-1477303

MIAMI-AREA COP CHARGED WITH SEXUAL ABUSE, KIDNAPPING, INVOLVING MINOR VICTIM
BY ASHER STOCKLER ON 12/14/19 AT 5:42 PM EST


https://www.timesofisrael.com/state-wan ... arassment/

State wants jail time for top cop convicted of sexual harassment
Former Jerusalem police chief Nissan ‘Niso’ Shaham was found guilty of sexual assault, fraud and breach of trust for coercing multiple women under his command to have sex with him



https://nypost.com/2019/12/14/panty-mun ... ainst-him/

‘Panty-munching’ cop Victor Falcon says NYPD has vendetta against him



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POSTED ON DECEMBER 15, 2019 BY SCOTT JOHNSON IN FBI, JAMES COMEY, RUSSIA INVESTIGATION
A DIRTY COP SPEAKS



https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-ne ... lt-charges


Ottawa rookie cop now facing three sex assault charges
He was first charged in May with sexual assault and forcible confinement involving an 18-year-old woman he met on Rideau Street.
GARY DIMMOCK Updated: December 16, 201


https://www.660citynews.com/2019/12/16/ ... ex-crimes/

New allegations in case of former cop/coach charged with sex crimes
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
Posted Dec 16, 2019 8:44 am MST


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Police Chief Opposing Cop Gun Use Resigns Amid Tweeting Scandal



https://patch.com/illinois/aurora/19-se ... cross-cops



19 Sex Offenders Given 1 Month To Leave Wayside Cross: Cops
The 19 men must find somewhere else to live because the park is too close to a playground.



https://patch.com/connecticut/woodbury- ... ontractors


Two Middlebury Cops Inflated Overtime, Coerced Contractors
The town has outlined serious allegations against two Middlebury police officers who were fired over the summer.
By Chris Rhatigan , Patch Staff
Dec 16, 2019 9:29 am ET






https://www.heraldnet.com/news/fired-de ... -who-lied/


Fired deputies land on growing list, alongside cops who lied
Under a new policy, the county prosecutor alerted defendants about two deputies accused of lying.
* By Caleb Hutton
* Sunday, December 15, 2019 7:17am






https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/16 ... p-torture/

DECEMBER 16, 2019
Where Trump and the Deep State are in Lockstep: Torture
by JEFFERSON MORLEY

Photograph Source: Jim Kuhn – CC BY 2.0
It’s a paradox of impeachment politics.
As President Trump faces charges of high crimes and misdemeanors in Congress, he denounces the alleged “deep state” cabal out to get him. His campaign is running a powerful online ad about the supposed conspiracy. It features footage of former CIA director John Brennan and former acting director John McLaughlin at a recent event in Washington. I had a memorable encounter with Brennan at the event, so I know what he’s talking about. No one has demonized the CIA leadership more effectively than Trump.
Yet on the CIA’s most controversial policy—torture—the president backed the agency’s leadership (including Brennan and McLaughlin) to the hilt. In October 2017, Trump caved to CIA demands on a more symbolic question—JFK assassination files. Trump approved continuing JFK secrecy. On two issues where the CIA was vulnerable, Trump actually protected the deep state agency that he supposedly scorns. Trump and CIA Director Gina Haspel share at least one belief: torture is a policy option that a


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Under GOP Pressure, Congress Shortchanges Election Security
After long negotiations, Democrats agree on a figure that experts say is well over a billion dollars short.

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Congress will give states an additional $425 million in election security funding as part of the budget deal reached last week, adding a much needed, but still insufficient, boost to ballot security across the country.
The funds will be disbursed through the Election Assistance Commission, the federal agency tasked with coordinating state and federal election administration. 
The $425 million is less than the $600 million House Democrats approved in June, but nearly $200 million more than the Senate Republicans’ offer, following the lead of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). McConnell, the senate majority leader, has steadfastly resisted expanding federal election security funding to aid cash-strapped states and local jurisdictions—even in his home state. After months of being accused of doing very little to stop foreign interference in elections, he relented in September, agreeing to a $250 millio






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It Is Still Illegal for Blacks and Whites to Marry in Virginia (Reader Steve)
From the Mercury News: “The laws are still on the books in Virginia: Blacks and whites must sit in separate rail cars. They cannot use the same playgrounds, schools or mental hospitals. They can’t marry each other either. The measures have not been enforced for decades, but they remain in the state’s official legal record.”

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09/20/2018
Subject: Freedom of Information Act Request: FOIA - FBI - Jon Burge
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To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

All documents mentioning Jon Burge (1947–2018), former Chicago Police Department detective, whose death was widely reported in the media.

Please see the following news article for context:

"CHICAGO (FOX 32 NEWS) - Former Chicago Police Department commander Jon Burge has died, sources tell FOX 32. He was 70.

Former Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President Dean Angelo said he learned of Burge's death on Wednesday.

Burge was convicted in 2010 for lying about torturing suspects. He was accused of leading the abuse and torture of hundreds of African-American suspects, some by use of a cattle prodder or suffocation by plastic, forcing confessions from dozens." [source: http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/local/ ... -70-source ]

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

J Ader
From: Federal Bureau of Investigation
10/01/2018
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10/26/2018
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information Act Request: FOIA - FBI - Jon Burge
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Thanks for the reply. I do not wish to narrow my request.

Please let me know if you need anything else from my end.
- J. Ader
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10/11/2018
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10/26/2018
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information Act Request #1417740-000
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Ton whom it may concern,

Can someone please provide me with a relatively realistic estimation of how much time it will take to deliver these responsive documents to me once I have decided to pay the fee? Specifically, I am considering paying for the CD option in order to receive these 5,000+ pages.

Thanks in advance,
- J. Ader
From: Michael Morisy
11/05/2018
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information Act Request #1417740-000
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To Whom It May Concern:

Please find enclosed a check for $160.00 to satisfy the fee associated with the attached public records request.

Thank you.

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From: J Ader
12/08/2018
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information Act Request #1417740-000
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To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, narrowed down and re-submitted on Sept. 20, 2018. Please let me know when I can expect to receive these records, or if further clarification is needed.

Thanks for your help,
- J Ader
From: Federal Bureau of Investigation
12/11/2018
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information Act Request #1417740-000
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Please check the status of your FOIPA Request at http://vault.fbi.gov by clicking on “Check Status of Your FOI/PA Request” on the right side of the page, and follow the instructions below.

Check the Status of Your FOIPA Request
If your FOIPA Number is [1234567-0] please enter [1234567-000] into the system. If your FOIPA Number is [1234567-1] please enter [1234567-001] into the system. If you have any questions about the status of your FOIPA request, please e-mail foipaquestions@ic.fbi.gov.

FIND STATUS OF FOIPA- Request statuses are updated weekly

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FOIPA:
Results will show the Request Number, Case Type and Process Description shown below:
FOIPA:
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The FBI’s FOIPA Program is searching the FBI’s indices for potentially responsive documents.
You may be contacted via formal letter for all fees and/or negotiation issues that may apply.

NOTE: Recent requests are entered into the FOIPA database in the order that they are received. Before you can check the status, you must have received correspondence assigning a FOIPA request number and the information transferred to the online database. Status information is updated weekly. If a request has been closed within the last six months the online database will display the following: The FOIPA number entered has been closed, and appropriate correspondence has been sent to the address on file.

Estimated Dates of Completion
Requests are processed in the order in which they are received through our multi-track processing system. Requests are divided into two primary tracks--simple (under 50 pages of potentially responsive documents) and complex (over 50 pages of potentially responsive documents). Complex requests are further divided into medium, large, and extra-large sub-tracks based upon request size. Simple track requests typically require the least amount of time to process. Currently, simple track cases average approximately 134 days from the date of receipt for processing. Our complex requests in the medium processing track are currently averaging 523 days, large processing track are currently averaging approximately 1,335 days, and extra-large processing track are currently averaging 1,875 days for processing.

Respectfully,

Public Information Officer
Record/Information Dissemination Section (RIDS) FBI-Information Management Division
170 Marcel Drive, Winchester, VA 22602-4843
Direct: (540) 868-4593
Fax: (540) 868-4391
Questions E-mail: foipaquestions@fbi.gov<mailto:foipaquestions@fbi.gov>

Do you have further questions about the FOI/PA process? Visit us at http://www.fbi.gov/foia

Please check the status of your request online at https://vault.fbi.gov/fdps-1/@@search-fdps Status updates are performed on a weekly basis.

Note: This is a non-emergency email address. If this is an emergency, please call 911 directly. If you need to report a tip for immediate action, please contact FBI Tips at http://tips.fbi.gov/ or reach out to your local field office.
From: J Ader
01/28/2019
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information Act Request #1417740-000
Email
To whom it may concern,

I wanted to follow up on the status of my request - FOIPA Request No. 1417740-000. Is there any status update on the processing of responsive documents for this request?

Thanks,
- J. Ader
From: Federal Bureau of Investigation
01/30/2019
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information Act Request #1417740-000
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Please check the status of your FOIPA Request at http://vault.fbi.gov by clicking on “Check Status of Your FOI/PA Request” on the right side of the page, and follow the instructions below.

Check the Status of Your FOIPA Request
If your FOIPA Number is [1234567-0] please enter [1234567-000] into the system. If your FOIPA Number is [1234567-1] please enter [1234567-001] into the system. If you have any questions about the status of your FOIPA request, please e-mail foipaquestions@ic.fbi.gov.

FIND STATUS OF FOIPA- Request statuses are updated weekly

Please enter the whole FOIPA number-Example: [1234567-000]

FOIPA:
Results will show the Request Number, Case Type and Process Description shown below:
FOIPA:
1234567-000

Case Type:
FOIPA

Process Description (Will display the current progress of the request)
The FBI’s FOIPA Program is searching the FBI’s indices for potentially responsive documents.
You may be contacted via formal letter for all fees and/or negotiation issues that may apply.

NOTE: Recent requests are entered into the FOIPA database in the order that they are received. Before you can check the status, you must have received correspondence assigning a FOIPA request number and the information transferred to the online database. Status information is updated weekly. If a request has been closed within the last six months the online database will display the following: The FOIPA number entered has been closed, and appropriate correspondence has been sent to the address on file.

Estimated Dates of Completion
Requests are processed in the order in which they are received through our multi-track processing system. Requests are divided into two primary tracks--simple (under 50 pages of potentially responsive documents) and complex (over 50 pages of potentially responsive documents). Complex requests are further divided into medium, large, and extra-large sub-tracks based upon request size. Simple track requests typically require the least amount of time to process. Currently, simple track cases average approximately 134 days from the date of receipt for processing. Our complex requests in the medium processing track are currently averaging 523 days, large processing track are currently averaging approximately 1,335 days, and extra-large processing track are currently averaging 1,875 days for processing.

Respectfully,

Public Information Officer
Record/Information Dissemination Section (RIDS) FBI-Information Management Division
170 Marcel Drive, Winchester, VA 22602-4843
Direct: (540) 868-4593
Fax: (540) 868-4391
Questions E-mail: foipaquestions@fbi.gov<mailto:foipaquestions@fbi.gov>

Do you have further questions about the FOI/PA process? Visit us at http://www.fbi.gov/foia

Please check the status of your request online at https://vault.fbi.gov/fdps-1/@@search-fdps Status updates are performed on a weekly basis.

Note: This is a non-emergency email address. If this is an emergency, please call 911 directly. If you need to report a tip for immediate action, please contact FBI Tips at http://tips.fbi.gov/ or reach out to your local field office.

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04/29/2019
From: Federal Bureau of Investigation
04/30/2019
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information Act Request #1417740-000
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Thank you for contacting foipaquestions@fbi.gov. Please check the status of your FOIPA Request at http://vault.fbi.gov by clicking on “Check Status of Your FOI/PA Request” on the right side of the page, and follow the instructions below.

Check the Status of Your FOIPA Request
If your FOIPA Number is [1234567-0] please enter [1234567-000] into the system. If your FOIPA Number is [1234567-1] please enter [1234567-001] into the system. If you have any questions about the status of your FOIPA request, please e-mail foipaquestions@ic.fbi.gov.

FIND STATUS OF FOIPA- Request statuses are updated weekly

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Process Description (Will display the current progress of the request)
The FBI’s FOIPA Program is searching the FBI’s indices for potentially responsive documents.
You may be contacted via formal letter for all fees and/or negotiation issues that may apply.

NOTE: Recent requests are entered into the FOIPA database in the order that they are received. Before you can check the status, you must have received correspondence assigning a FOIPA request number and the information transferred to the online database. Status information is updated weekly. If a request has been closed within the last six months the online database will display the following: The FOIPA number entered has been closed, and appropriate correspondence has been sent to the address on file.

Estimated Dates of Completion
Requests are processed in the order in which they are received through our multi-track processing system. Requests are divided into two primary tracks--simple (under 50 pages of potentially responsive documents) and complex (over 50 pages of potentially responsive documents). Complex requests are further divided into medium, large, and extra-large sub-tracks based upon request size. Simple track requests typically require the least amount of time to process. Currently, simple track cases average approximately 138 days from the date of receipt for processing. Our complex requests in the medium processing track are currently averaging 571 days, large processing track are currently averaging approximately 1,289 days, and extra-large processing track are currently averaging 1,649 days for processing.

Respectfully,

Public Information Officer
Record/Information Dissemination Section (RIDS) FBI-Information Management Division
170 Marcel Drive, Winchester, VA 22602-4843
Direct: (540) 868-4593
Fax: (540) 868-4391
Questions E-mail: foipaquestions@fbi.gov<mailto:foipaquestions@fbi.gov>

Do you have further questions about the FOI/PA process? Visit us at http://www.fbi.gov/foia

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Note: This is a non-emergency email address. If this is an emergency, please call 911 directly. If you need to report a tip for immediate action, please contact FBI Tips at http://tips.fbi.gov/ or reach out to your local field office.

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JANUARY 3, 2020
The Dangers of Privatized Intelligence
by JOYCE NELSON
In a scathing piece about Russiagate, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern recently recalled a statement made in 1981 by then-CIA Director William Casey during the first meeting of President Ronald Reagan’s Cabinet. Casey told this gathering, “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” [1]
It’s a shocking statement that might be useful to keep in mind as events further unfold over the next few months. Casey, of course, would have had no way of knowing in 1981 just how far his “disinformation program” would extend.
The Rise of Russiagate
Ray McGovern once again effectively demolishes (as he has several times over the past three years) the flimsy props holding up Russiagate, especially the “Intelligence Community Assessment” (ICA) prepared in January 2017 by “handpicked analysts” from the FBI, CIA and NSA (not 17 intelligence agencies, as first claimed by National Intelligence Director James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan).
McGovern writes: “As for the ‘Intelligence Community Assessment,’ the banner headline atop The New York Times on Jan. 7, 2017 set the tone for the next couple of years: ‘Putin Led Scheme to Aid Trump, Report Says.’ During my career as a CIA analyst, as deputy national intelligence officer chairing National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs), and working on the Intelligence Production Review Board, I had not seen so shabby a piece of faux analysis as the ICA. The writers themselves seemed to be holding their noses. They saw fit to embed in the ICA itself this derriere-covering note: ‘High confidence in a judgment does not imply that the assessment is a fact or a certainty; such judgments might be wrong’.” [2]
But that “derriere-covering note” didn’t stop the mainstream media from inflating Russiagate over the next three years into a self-sustaining industry that survived the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller (which found no Trump-Russia collusion), and will likely survive the recent release of Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowtiz’s report on the FBI 2016 spying.
The Horowitz Report
As Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone puts it (Dec. 10, 2019), the Horowtiz report shows “years of breathless headlines were wrong” about Russiagate, with the report unveiling “a story about bad journalism piled on bad journalism, balanced on a third layer of wrong reporting….Holy God, what a clown show the Trump-Russia investigation was.” [3]
Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept (December 12. 2019) is even more thorough in his analysis of the IG Report, which shows “the FBI’s gross abuse of its power,” its “serial deceit” by which it “manipulated documents, concealed crucial exonerating evidence, and touted what it knew were unreliable if not outright false claims.” As a



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Trump tweets predicting Obama would start a war with Iran to get reelected are coming back to haunt him






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Top Experts’ Backgrounder: Military Action Against Iran and US Domestic Law

by Brian Egan and Tess Bridgeman
January 3, 2020
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on June 21, 2019. Designed as a expert analysis of the very kinds of questions raised by the U.S. military operation killing Iran’s Qassem Soleimani, we are republishing it today.)
What follows is a basic Q&A on the circumstances under which U.S. military operations against Iran would be lawful under U.S. law. The objective is to provide journalists, lawmakers, and other members of the public a legal framework for this important issue. Our analysis is not specific to any particular scenario — such as Iranian forces’ or so-called Iranian proxies’ attacks on commercial ships, U.S. drones, U.S. military vessels, or U.S. personnel — but rather addresses broader questions about the circumstances under which the president has the authority to initiate U.S. military operations against Iran, whether Congress has already authorized the use of force against Iran, how the War Powers Resolution fits into the picture, and what Congress can do if it disagrees with the president’s course of action.
1. Does the president need authorization from Congress to use U.S. military force against Iran?
The president derives authority to use military force overseas from two sources: the Constitution and congressional authorization. At this point, we do not believe that there is any existing congressional authorization to use force against Iran (see Q2 below). In the absence of congressional authorization, the president could only use force against Iran by relying on his authority over foreign relations and as commander-in-chief under Article II of the Constitution.
There is considerable debate on the scope of the president’s authority to use military force in the absence of congressional authorization. The executive branch, through consistent historical practice in Republican and Democratic administrations, and as reflected in a series of opinions by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), has taken a relatively broad view of the president’s Article II authority to initiate the use of force, arguing that it has the ability to do so when: (1) there is an important “national interest” in doing so (Curtis Bradley and Jack Goldsmith have explained that this has become a very expansive concept in modern practice; Marty Lederman has suggested the concept should be understood as limited to significant national interests that have historically supported such unilateral actions in the past); and (2) the use of force does not constitute “war” in the constitutional sense.
The latter limitation is because Article I of the Constitution delegates the power to “declare war” to Congress. The executive branch has argued, in essence, that if the expected “nature, scope, and duration” of the military engagement falls below the threshold of “war,” the president may use force without congressional authorization. In the OLC’s view, “military operations will likely rise to the level of a war only when characterized by ‘prolonged and substantial military engagements, typically involving exposure of U.S. military personnel to significant risk over a substantial period.’” The OLC opined most recently that the limited strikes against Syria by the United States in response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons did not cross this threshold. Prior OLC opinions reached a similar conclusion with respect to U.S. military strikes in Libya in 2011, and U.S. military activities in Haiti in the 1990s, among others.
In the War Powers Resolution of 1973 (WPR), Congress imposed important limitations on the president’s ability to conduct military operations in the absence of explicit congressional authorization. Indeed, Congress does not necessarily view its own authority so narrowly or the president’s so expansively as described in the OLC opinions noted above. The WPR explicitly states the view of Congress that the president’s constitutional authority to introduce U.S. Armed Forces into hostilities, or situations where involvement in hostilities is imminent, may be exercised “only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by an attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.” Moreover, as explained below, the WPR requires the relevant military operations (“hostilities”) to be terminated after a defined period of time unless they have been authorized by Congress.
The framers of the Constitution gave the authority to declare war to Congress, as well as the authority to raise and support armies, provide and maintain a Navy, provide for the common defense, regulate detention and seizure of vessels in war, and a host of other powers related to war and foreign affairs, in part to prevent the United States from being drawn into conflict for unpopular purposes or without debate and consideration by the representatives of the people. The Constitution’s design anticipates that Congress would be less inclined to go to war than the executive branch — this is a feature, not a bug. (Of note, it has long been understood that even though Congress has the lion’s share of authority in war-making, the president does have at least some concurrent if not exclusive authority in regard to the conduct of hostilities and to use force to repel a sudden attack on the United States.)
What’s more, even in the OLC’s view, the threshold for “war” in the constitutional sense is more easily met when the use of force at issue is against against another nation state (rather than in its territory but with its consent) where there is a high likelihood of escalation. Although Iran is not a nuclear power, which would necessarily affect that calculus, its capacity as a nation-state with a strong military, including its cyber and ballistic missile capabilities, are relevant factors in this analysis, as is the extent of U.S. exposure given its significant footprint in the region where Iranian military forces (and their proxies) are present and active. The scope of U.S. objectives for the use of force will also affect the analysis, especially if those objectives are likely to require sustained operations or engender use of force in response by Iran. Those factors may distinguish this case from the U.S. strikes against Syria, for example.
Finally, another important limitation is that the president’s use of force — whether based on congressional authorization or not — must comply with international law. The president is charged in Article II of the Constitution to “take care” that the laws are faithfully executed. This includes our international legal obligations, including the U.N. Charter, which prohibits the threat or use of force except in certain limited circumstances, such as self-defense. Also, under international law, even if the United States acts in self-defense, the U.S. response must be necessary and proportionate.
2. Does the president have authorization from Congress to strike Iran? Specifically, would the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) authorize a strike against Iran?
There is no existing congressional authorization for the use of force against Iran. While some in the Trump administration, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, have made arguments attempting to link Iran and al-Qaeda — in what may be an effort to lay the groundwork for invoking the 2001 AUMF, which was passed in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, as authorization to use force against Iran — that argument is thoroughly unconvincing.
The 2001 AUMF authorizes the president to use:
“necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.”
This has long been understood to refer to al-Qaeda and the Taliban, who harbored al-Qaeda in Afghanistan at the time of the 9/11 attacks, and also has been interpreted by all three branches of government to apply to “associated forces” of those two armed groups based on the principle of co-belligerency in armed conflict.
As we have previously written: “The 2001 AUMF does not authorize the use of force against Iran. Iran was not implicated in the 9/11 attacks, Iranian forces are not al Qaeda or the Taliban, or their associated forces, nor are they a ‘successor’ to any of those forces.”
Many have suggested that Pompeo and other officials may be laying the groundwork for an argument that the 2001 AUMF authorizes military operations against Iran because Iran is “harboring” some members of al-Qaeda. As a factual matter, we are not aware of any credible information that Iran is “harboring” al-Qaeda as a group, or allowing al-Qaeda to plot attacks from Iran. As a legal matter, the AUMF has never been construed to authorize military attacks against a foreign nation based on the fact that some al Qaeda members may be located in or transit that country, even if that is the case with Iran. In addition, the AUMF’s use of the past tense — “harbored” — suggests that it was intended to refer to those who were responsible for providing safe haven for, and otherwise assisting, those who attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. In the 20 years since the 9/11 attacks, there has not been any suggestion that the 2001 AUMF could be interpreted to authorize force against a present-day “harborer.” (Again, there is no known evidence to suggest that is what Iran is doing with al-Qaeda.)
The 2001 AUMF authorizes force only if it is consistent with international law, as the Supreme Court explained in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld. Even if the 2001 AUMF were somehow thought to apply to Iran — which it does not — the executive branch would be able to use force against Iran only if necessary and proportionate to the specific threat from al-Qaeda.
In a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on June 19, Rep. Deutch (D-Fl.) asked State Department Special Representative for Iran, Brian Hook, whether he believes “the administration could launch an attack against Iran under the 2001 AUMF?” His response, “this is something which the office of the Legal Adviser can give you an opinion on, if you’d like to submit it,” provides an appropriate next step for Congress to engage with the administration on this issue.
Finally, it bears noting that there is no viable argument that another AUMF still on the books — the “Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002” (2002 AUMF) — authorizes force against Iran. It allows the president to use force that is “necessary and appropriate” to “defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq;” and “enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions against Iraq.” Those are plainly not relevant to the situation with Iran today.
3. What steps can Congress take if it disagrees with the president’s decision to use military force? More specifically, what steps can Congress take in advance to prevent actions by the president? And, what steps would Congress be able to take after the president uses force against Iran if lawmakers are opposed?
Congress has a number of tools at its disposal to constrain the president’s ability to use force unilaterally. Even in the OLC’s view, the president’s ability to use force without congressional authority can be checked if Congress decides to impose restrictions. While past attorneys general and the OLC have determined the president has the power to use military force abroad to protect important national interests and below the threshold of “war” in the constitutional sense, as discussed above, “[t]his independent authority of the President … exists at least insofar as Congress h



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Exclusive: Unredacted Ukraine Documents Reveal Extent of Pentagon’s Legal Concerns


“Clear direction from POTUS to continue to hold.”
This is what Michael Duffey, associate director of national security programs at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), told Elaine McCusker, the acting Pentagon comptroller, in an Aug. 30 email, which has only been made available in redacted form until now. It is one of many documents the Trump administration is trying to keep from the public, despite congressional oversight efforts and court orders in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation. 
Earlier in the day on Aug. 30, President Donald Trump met with Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to discuss the president’s hold on $391 million in military assistance for Ukraine. Inside the Trump administration, panic was reaching




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Black drivers face more police stops in California, state analysis shows





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Australian prime minister is jeered in wildfire-ravaged zone




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FOX NEWS JUDGE PREDICTS TRUMP WILL 'START A WAR WITH IRAN' AND MEET WITH PUTIN AT MAR-A-LAGO IN 2020
BY JASON LEMON ON 1/2/20 AT 1:20 PM EST



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Republican Congressman Calls for Secret Service Probe of Christmas Card Depicting an Assassinated Trump

Hustler Christmas card.
By Steve Neavling

ticklethewire.com
A Republican lawmaker wants the Secret Service to investigate Christmas cards sent to members of Congress depicting a cartoon of an assassinated President Trump.
The card shows smiling people, including Santa, surrounding Trump’s dead, bleeding body. On the back of the card, the shooter says in a thought bubble, “I just shot Donald Trump on Fifth Avenue. And no one arrested me.”
The quote is a reference to Trump bragging during the 2016 presidential campaign that “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?”




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Published on
Thursday, January 02, 2020
byCommon Dreams
'An Explicit Act of War': US Kills Senior Iranian Military Official Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad Drone Strike
"It's like Iran killing the head of the CIA or the Mossad on foreign soil."
byEoin Higgins, staff writer



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This Waldo County nonprofit helped keep 130 homes warm with wood last year



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What Maine can learn from Vermont’s program that pays people to move there





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Yale punishes police officer after another cop shoots him





https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... story.html

The death penalty is unworthy of America
By Editorial Board 
Jan. 1, 2020 at 5:14 p.m. EST
The death penalty in the United States is in decline. It is less used, less popular and just as unnecessary as ever, according to a year-end report from the Death Penalty Information Center, which tracks death penalty numbers. This should represent a way station toward the punishment’s eventual elimination — not a temporary low in its application.
For the fifth year in a row, fewer than 30 people were executed and fewer than 50 people were sentenced to death. Half of states representing half the population no longer execute people. With the New Hampshire legislature’s abolition of capital punishment last year, the punishment has been banned across New England and in all Northeastern states save Pennsylvania, where the governor has imposed a moratorium.
Seven states executed 22 inmates last year, and Texas was responsible for nearly half. The state is also responsible for a large share of new death sentences. No one was executed west of Texas. Juries in California, the state with the largest death-row population, handed down three new death sentences in 2019. But California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) declared a moratorium and ordered San Quentin State Prison’s execution chamber dismantled. Otherwise, new death sentences mostly came in the South, particularly in Florida.
Death sentences are down some 90 percent from their mid-1990s peak. Executions are down some 77 percent from the late 1990s.
Even so, the death penalty survives, as does the horrifying possibility that the government might kill an innocent person. Two more death-row inmates were exonerated in 2019. That makes 166 exonerees since 1973.
As always, those executed are not necessarily the worst of the worst but the least capable of defending themselves. The center found that “at least 19 of the 22 prisoners who were executed this year had one or more of the following impairments: significant evidence of mental illness; evidence of brain injury, developmental brain damage, or an IQ in the intellectually disabled range; or chronic serious childhood trauma, neglect, and/or abuse.”
It is little wonder — and heartening — that public opinion is evolving. Sixty percent of Americans said in a 2019 Gallup poll that life without the possibility of parole is a better penalty for murder than death. That was the first time Gallup reported a majority holding that position. The Trump Justice Department, however, failed to get the memo, pushing suddenly and unexpectedly last year to execute federal inmates for the first time in 16 years.
The death penalty is expensive, unfairly implemented and unworthy of a justice system that strives for equal application of the law. Yet even if it could be applied fairly, state-sponsored killing would be unworthy of a nation founded on the principle of individual dignity.

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https://www.pressherald.com/2020/01/12/ ... -to-maine/

‘Putin’s favorite congressman’ moves to Maine
Dana Rohrabacher, who once arm-wrestled the now-Russian president and represented Orange County, Calif., for 30 years in the U.S. House, now lives in York.



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Vulnerable Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Trolled by Sasha Baron Cohen





The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.  
 
• National Popular Vote web site has 14 explanatory videos
• Written explanation of National Popular Vote
• Answers to 131 myths 
• Cooper Union debate with Neal Peirce, author of The People's President; Dr. John Koza, Chair of National Popular Vote; Tara Ross, author of 3 books defending the current Electoral College system; and Trent England, Executive Vice-President of the Oklahoma Council on Public Affairs.
• C-SPAN interview with Dr. John Koza
• Former Michigan Republican Party Chair Saul Anuzis speaks in favor of National Popular Vote on NBC
• Debate with former national ALEC chair Ray Haynes, Colorado attorney Ted Trimpa, former Colorado Senator Kevin Lundberg and Bob Gardner
• NPR debate on ‪1A‬ ‪show between Dr. John Koza and Tara Ross‬
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2 Australia wildfires merge into 1 massive blaze that could burn for weeks

By NICK PERRY

ASSOCIATED PRESS |
JAN 11, 2020 | 12:39 PM


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Climate change group threatens to sue British counterterrorism police after group mistakenly called an extremist organization

By JAMI GANZ

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 11, 2020 | 6:32 PM





One of Maine’s finest and my hero
He lives up the road from me as the crow flies
50 miles or so


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Who Should Get the Artwork of Purvis Young?
Lawyers, collectors, ‘voodoo stuff with a cut chicken head’: The extraordinary tale of a beloved painter — and the people who wanted his art.




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Philippine Institute of Volcanology & Seismology raises Taal Volcano alert level to ‘hazardous eruption imminent’


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Another Form of Slavery



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Rates of Unsolved Murder by State



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Oklahoma Officer Charged with Selling His Department Issued Guns to Pawn Shop


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Mississippi Prison Riots Started by Corrections Officers in Gangs, Inmates Claim


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Decades-Old Case Against Ex-Cop Heading to Court
A long-delayed case of a former New York police detective accused of sexually assaulting a girl at his vacation home in Vermont is heading to court.





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A police officer fatally shot a service dog over a bite the department now admits never happened




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Judge blocks release of district attorneys’ ‘bad cops’ list
By Craig McCarthy
January 12, 2020


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FISA court selects former Obama admin lawyer, left-wing blogger and best buddy of the FBI to oversee FBI's surveillance reforms



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SIGNIFICANT INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS

REPORTS OF INVESTIGATION OF SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC INTEREST
2018
* Report of Investigation into the Conduct of Former U.S. States Attorney R. Booth Goodwin II and Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Ruby, United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia - May 30, 2018 ( PDF - 97 pages )
2013
* Investigation of Allegations of Professional Misconduct Against Former Assistant United States Attorneys Salvador Perricone and Jan Mann, United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana - December 20, 2013 ( PDF - 157 pages )
2008
* An Investigation into the Removal of Nine U.S. Attorneys in 2006 - September, 2008  (PDF - 392 pages)
* An Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring and Other Improper Personnel Actions in the Civil Rights Division - July 2, 2008 (PDF - 70 pages)
* An Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring by Monica Goodling and Other Staff in the Office of the Attorney General - July 28, 2008 (PDF - 146 pages)
* An Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring in the Department of Justice Honors Program and Summer Law Intern Program - June 24, 2008 (PDF - 115 Pages)




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El Paso FBI Agent Sentenced for Federal Firearms Violations

U.S. Attorney’s Office
August 24, 2010 Western District of Texas (210) 384-7100
United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that in El Paso this morning, former Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent John Shipley was sentenced to two years in federal prison for violating federal firearms laws.
Senior United States District Judge David Briones also ordered that Shipley be placed under supervised release for a period of three years and complete 250 hours of community service after completing his prison term. Judge Briones also ordered that Shipley forfeit 17 firearms including two .50 caliber Barrett rifles; ammunition in various calibers including over 2,800 rounds of .50 caliber ammunition; one silencer; and, $7,340 in cash seized during the execution of a federal search warrant at Shipley’s residence on May 6, 2008.
“Federal agents are not exempt from the laws which they swore to uphold,” stated United States Attorney John E. Murphy. “Mr. Shipley is being held accountable for his own criminal actions. They are in no way a reflection of the outstanding work being accomplished by dedicated federal, state and local law enforcement across this District and this country.”
This investigation—conducted by agents from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General together with agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—commenced with a firearms trace of a .50 caliber sniper rifle sold by Shipley. That rifle was recovered by Mexican authorities following a gunbattle between suspected narcotraffickers and the Mexican military near Chihuahua, Mexico, on March 8, 2008.
“By illegally dealing in firearms, Shipley violated the trust that the public placed in him as a law enforcement official,” said Wayne D. Beaman, Special Agent in Charge, Dallas Field Office, Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General. “The Office of the Inspector General is committed to vigorously investigating and referring for prosecution any Department of Justice law enforcement official who engages in this type of illegal conduct.”
“This investigation shows ATF's commitment into stopping the illegal trafficking of firearms that are fueling the cartel violence south of the border. Along with our associates on both sides of the border, ATF will leave no stone unturned in achieving this goal,” stated ATF Special Agent in Charge Robert Champion, Dallas Field Division.
On April 14, 2010, a federal jury convicted Shipley of one count of dealing firearms without a license, four counts of causing a firearms dealer to maintain false records and one count of making a false statement to federal authorities. Jurors found that Shipley engaged in the business of dealing in firearms from January 2005 until May 2008, while not being licensed as a federal firearms dealer. Evidence presented during trial revealed that Shipley posted firearms for sale using an Internet website more than 200 times, including multiple postings for many firearms. During that three-and-a-half-year time period, Shipley also purchased at least 54 firearms, then sold at least 51 of those firearms for more than $118,000.
Jurors also found that on four occasions between July 2007 and May 2008, Shipley provided false information on ATF forms 4473 when purchasing firearms at local gun shops stating that he was the actual buyer, when in fact, he was not.
Finally, jurors found that on March 21, 2008, Shipley provided to federal authorities a document—a Dealers’ Firearms Record Book—which Shipley claimed was his only complete and accurate listing of the firearms he bought and sold, knowing that he had another Dealers’ Firearms Record Book which contained a more extensive descriptive and accurate list of firearms he bought and sold.
Assistant United States Attorney Greg McDonald and Juanita Fielden prosecuted this case on behalf of the government.


https://www.keranews.org/post/dallas-fb ... ly-roundup

Dallas, TX – A Dallas FBI agent has been fired after his arrest. Federal investigators say 49 year old FBI agent Carlos Ortiz Jr. was arrested at work in the Dallas office yesterday. He's charged with "threatening to assault or murder a federal law enforcement officer on account of the performance of official duty."

Ortiz was fired after an internal personnel review.
Investigators say they cannot comment further about the charge because it's a pending criminal matter.





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Blood stain with hammer imprint shown in ex-FBI agent’s murder trial
Jury to decide whether retired FBI special agent was defending himself in the death of son’s girlfriend



https://www.salon.com/2010/11/28/fbi_8/



The FBI successfully thwarts its own Terrorist plot
The latest government success story is met with virtually no skepticism -- despite plenty of reason for it



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Feds won’t release details of settlement with FBI agent




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DC Police. Major Case/Unsolved Homicides - 2019

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Sixteen women allege discrimination at FBI training academy in lawsuit
The lawsuit alleges that over 100 female trainees encountered discrimination at Quantico, and that the FBI “allowed the Good Old Boy Network to flourish.”


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Politics
Maine’s Susan Collins has highest disapproval rating of any senator in national survey


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Trump’s ties to an informant and FBI agent reveal his mode of operation


https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation ... 47100.html

22-year-old changing in dressing room catches FBI agent taking photos, NJ cops say

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation ... rylink=cpy



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JANUARY 17, 2020
Hijacking the Struggles of Others, Elizabeth Warren Style
by KATHLEEN WALLACE

Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair
To say Elizabeth Warren is a political opportunist is not giving her enough credit. She has taken the struggles, as well as the identities of others (women, school teachers, Native Americans, public school supporters, people who are able to tweet with humor, actual humans) and has weaponized these categories until the meaning




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ANOTHER FBI AGENT BLOWS THE WHISTLE




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FBI agent being investigated for alleged rape


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Waterville
Waterville fire chief condemns apparent ‘white power’ hand gesture in official department photo


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FBI Agent HUTTON SEX ASSAULT AGAINST MINOR CHARGED



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Former sheriff’s deputy who lied about being shot by a sniper is arrested




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Militia Probe Included Undercover FBI Agent



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Disgraced FBI supervisor, John Morris, says he feared being prosecuted for his own crimes




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The cocaine convictions arise from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") which commenced in October, 1988. At that time, the FBI received a tip that FBI Special Agent Kimmons was involved in cocaine sales. Linda Sudlow provided this information.


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Body cams contradict LAPD’s gang designations. It’s another milestone in their use


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Does the F.B.I. Have an Informant Problem?



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‘We’re forced to turn to the police:’ SF advocates, police commissioners want fewer officers responding to homeless

Trisha Thadani Jan. 16, 2020 Updated: Jan. 16, 2020 2:13 p.m.






https://www.earthisland.org/journal/ind ... mb_school/


Uncovering the FBI Bomb School
Was Judi Bari the Victim of a Police-FBI Conspiracy?




https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html

TSA agent grabbed Native American woman’s braids, said ‘giddyup!’ in security line. TSA has apologized

By JOSEPH WILKINSON

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 17, 2020 | 9:07 AM



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FBI Agent Took Gifts and Cash, Ex-Mobster Informant Alleges





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JANUARY 17, 2020
Claims that the ‘NAFTA 2’ Agreement is Better are a Macabre Joke
by PETE DOLACK

Photograph Source: U.S. Department of State – Public Domain
Democratic Party House representatives have voted by a wide margin to approve version 2 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Even Rose DeLauro of Connecticut, in the past a strong leader within Congress in the fight against so-called “free trade” agreements, is on board with this one.
Representative DeLauro and other congressional Democrats claim they forced the Trump administration to strength



https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/cri ... a565d.html



FBI agent pleads guilty to misdemeanor count of driving intoxicated


https://www.indystar.com/story/news/cri ... /32330135/

FBI agent arrested on suspicion of DUI after Hamilton County crash


https://fox17online.com/2017/03/31/body ... -arrested/

Body camera footage, documents show FBI agent drunk and armed when partner arrested






https://www.ocala.com/article/LK/200301 ... 4229248/OS

FBI agent gets prison for DUI


FORT LAUDERDALE - In a racially divisive case, a former FBI agent was sentenced Wednesday to three months in jail for driving drunk and recklessly in a head-on collision that killed two brothers late at night on Interstate 95.
The misdemeanor conviction Nov. 25 sparked two traffic slowdowns organized by a black minister to protest David Farrall’s acquittal on the more serious felony charges of vehicular homicide and manslaughter.
The victims, half brothers Maurice Williams, 23, and Craig Chambers, 19, were black. Farrall is white, and his jury was white.



https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/us/p ... lotte.html

After Night of Drinking, F.B.I. Supervisor Wakes to Find a Woman Stole His Gun





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJURkMMqESU



FBI agent arrested on DUI charge in Carmel





https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os ... story.html



EX-FBI AGENT SETTLES DUI LAWSUIT



http://www.fedcops.org/2012/11/24/jury- ... -accident/



Jury convicts FBI agent Adrian Norbell Johnson in fatal DUI accident



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Prosecutor: Not enough evidence to charge FBI agent



https://cbs4indy.com/2015/08/25/fbi-age ... on-county/

FBI agent on administrative leave after drunk driving arrest in Hamilton County



https://www.pjstar.com/article/20150213/NEWS/150219571

FBI agent Jerry Nau arrested on domestic battery charges





https://www.cnn.com/2013/02/21/us/fbi-m ... index.html



FBI battling 'rash of sexting' among its employees
By Scott Zamost and Drew Griffin, CNN Special Investigations Unit



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Years Of FBI Agent Crimes Detailed


FEBRUARY 19, 2004 / 10:03 AM / CBS/AP
An internal FBI report kept under wraps for three years details dozens of cases of agents fired for egregious misconduct and crimes, including drug trafficking, attempted murder, theft, misuse of informants


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Court To Cop: We Don't Need On-Point Precedent To Deny You Immunity For Killing A Dog That Couldn't Hurt You
Legal Issues
from the Officer-Cure-of-Millhaven dept
Mon, Feb 3rd 2020 7:37pm — Tim Cushing
Cops kill dogs. And they do it at a rate even the Justice Department is concerned about it. This comes from pro-cop site PoliceOne, so if there's any bias in this article, it's for cops rather than timcushinghatescops.com.
No one keeps records on how many privately owned dogs are shot and killed each year by American law enforcement officers so there are no hard figures. But a perusal of the Web and social media will tell you it's a lot.
Laurel Matthews, a supervisory program specialist with the Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (DOJ COPS) office, says it's an awful lot. She calls fatal police vs. dogs encounters an "epidemic" and estimates that 25 to 30 pet dogs are killed each day by law enforcement officers.
If that estimate is even close to accurate, that's nearly 10,000 dogs killed by cops per year. While it's true a number of these dogs may be strays, there's no ignoring the fact that dogs make cops act like bunnies with handguns whenever they're anywhere nearby. If a dog acts like a dog around a cop (i.e., barking at someone it doesn't recognize, etc.), it has a good chance of ending up dead.
Six of eleven circuits have declared the unjustifie





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Rape Charges Dismissed against Former Cop
POSTED 2:16 PM, FEBRUARY 3, 2020, BY WNEP WEB STAFF, UPDATED AT 04:22PM, FEBRUARY 3, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Pa. -- A former police officer in Lycoming County, initially charged with raping a woman with a mental disability, pleaded guilty last month to a disorderly conduct charge.



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

NYPD cop with a history of trouble busted in Bronx for shoplifting

By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 03, 2020 | 1:32




https://www.thenation.com/article/archi ... ce-reform/


Prosecutors Are Banding Together to Prevent
Criminal Justice Reform



Lindsey Graham Is Quietly Preparing a Mess of a Bill Trying to Destroy End-to-End Encryption
Dell Cameron, Tom McKay, Gizmodo 
Trump Expands Racist, Anti-Muslim Travel Ban
Staff, Democracy Now!
Meet The Cops: Inside Donald Trump’s New Commission On Policing
Brian Sonenstein, Shadowproof
Billings legislator insists Constitution says it’s OK to shoot socialists
Holly Michels, Billings Gazette


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MEET THE COPS: INSIDE DONALD TRUMP’S NEW COMMISSION ON POLICING






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Mom whose newborn died in South Carolina prison toilet receives $1.15 million settlement

By NANCY DILLON

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 03, 2020 | 6:05 PM




https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny- ... story.html

No, he didn’t: Hypocrite Kenneth Starr invokes Martin Luther King Jr. in defense of President Trump

By LEONARD GREENE

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 03, 2020 | 3:37 PM




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Texas cop convicted of rape gets 10 years’ probation
By Joshua Rhett Miller
February 3, 2020





https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/h ... 024931.php


Judge declares Houston man innocent after prosecutors argue that his drug case was based on lies by former officer Goines

St. John Barned-Smith Feb. 3, 2020 Updated: Feb. 3, 202






https://nypost.com/2020/02/03/off-duty- ... ome-depot/

METRO

Off-duty cop busted for shoplifting at Bronx Home Depot
By Tina Moore and Daniel Cassady
February 3, 2020 |





https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html

Rush Limbaugh denied health risks of smoking years before lung cancer diagnosis: ‘I would like a medal for smoking cigars’

By DAVID MATTHEWS

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 03, 2020 | 3:57 PM





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‘Anyone can cop watch’: Grassroots organization uses knowledge as power against police violence



https://denver.cbslocal.com/video/44321 ... ces-judge/

Fired Cop, Johnny Leon-Alvarez Faces Judge



https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/cri ... 3bbe4.html

Former cop may soon face jury fours years after allegedly battering infant son

Bob Kasarda Feb 3, 2020 U



https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2020/02 ... cious.html

East Cleveland cop featured in Serial podcast found guilty of knocking wife unconscious
Updated Feb 03, 2020; Posted Feb 03, 2020




https://wsvn.com/news/local/miami-dade/ ... -students/

Video appears to show Miami-Dade Schools cop threatening to shoot North Miami students



https://atlantablackstar.com/2020/02/03 ... ms-family/




Alabama Cop Sentenced to 14 Years For Death of Unarmed Black Man, Offers Apology to Victim’s Family
By Ashleigh Atwell -
February 3, 2020


https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10880980/ ... -with-hat/

Cop fooling around with hat on live TV while manning Streatham attack cordon is slammed by viewers
* Hana Carter
* 3 Feb 2020, 13:34Updated: 3 Feb 2020, 18:06



https://www.nj.com/news/2020/02/nj-lawm ... ology.html

N.J. lawmakers look at limiting cops’ use of controversial facial-recognition technology
Updated Feb 03, 2020; Posted Feb 03, 2020






https://bigjolly.com/a-very-good-reason ... all-of-us/


Justice
A Very Good Reason Why Cops Should Damn The NFL … And That Should Go For All Of Us Too
Starting with the Super Bowl, the NFL is sponsoring a series of public service announcements that feature black men killed by the police
by Howie Katz February 3, 2020


We, not only cops, should all find some way to make the NFL regret what it has become – a cesspool of unpatriotic players and cop hatred.






https://www.bluemountaineagle.com/capit ... 8a44d.html

Three cops 'irresponsible' in face of colleague's life-threatening injuries at police academy
A fourth officer was hospitalized for a week for what doctors said were injuries from being body slammed

msfreeh
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Posts: 7691

Re: What does the smart criminal justice consumer do?

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https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/02 ... s-contest/


Two Local Schools Tie For First Place In FBI Drug Awareness Contest




The film Collapse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFmy7_l14U8



Film Critic Roger Ebert


https://www.collapsenet.org

I have no way of assuring you that the bleak version of the future outlined by Michael Ruppert in Chris Smith's "Collapse" is accurate. I can only tell you I have a pretty good built-in B.S. detector, and its needle never bounced off zero while I watched this film. There is controversy over Ruppert, and he has many critics. But one simple fact at the center of his argument is obviously true, and it terrifies me.


https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/collapse-2009



I don't know when I've seen a thriller more frightening. I couldn't tear my eyes from the screen. "Collapse" is even entertaining, in a macabre sense. I think you owe it to yourself to see it.





February 22, 2020
Ann Hendricks, Secretary, ‪9/11‬ and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
**********************
Draft minutes for the January 29, 2020 regular conference call.

Present were:
Craig McKee, Teleconference co-facilitator, Truth and Shadows
Ann Hendricks, Teleconference secretary
John O’Malley, DC911Truth
James Hufferd, ‪9/11‬ Grassroots
Fern Tishman
Michael Cook, AE911Truth
Nita Renfrew, New York 911Truth
Charles Ewing Smith, The Demolition of Truth
Marie Spike, ‪9/11‬ TAP
Greg Flynn
Pat O’Connell, TX9/‪11Truth.us‬
Philip Farruggio,
Dylan Avery, Loose Change
Kelly David, AE911Truth
Cheri Aspen, San Diego ‪9/11 Truth‬
‪Zander Arena, Arizona‬ ‪9/11‬ Studies and Outreach
Barrie Zwicker, Towers of Deception
Steve Stodola
 
The minutes of the December 4, 2019 conference call and the draft agenda were APPROVED.
 
The Military Industrial Empire
Phillip Farruggio elaborated on U.S. military spending and proposed actions to reduce it such as demonstrating at one’s Congressional Member’s office. “They have their own thermometers; if the climate changes, they’ll read the weather.” He also spoke about the option of the government using Imminent Domain to take over every armaments company and make them non-profit. Regarding ‪9/11‬, Phillip said, “The only way the truth is going to come out is if the people who were inside the beast at that time come out and speak and point fingers.” To listen to Phillip’s regular podcast, go to:             https://www.spreaker.com/show/its-the-empire-stupid

Hulsey Report documentary
Dylan Avery said his documentary about Professor Leroy Hulsey and his research is now in post-production. “I am excited to have this material, which will provide a fresh new take on the subject, and we hope it is an opportunity to educate many who still have not heard about Building 7.” The filming and interviews took place in Berkeley and in Fairbanks. Kelly David of AE9/11Truth, also on the project, commented, “Everything went great and we had a fantastic production team.” Dylan added that it will be the best looking and best sounding approach to the material, in part thanks to Ryan O’Hara, the director of photography. An interview about this project can be heard here: https://www.ae911truth.org/news/626-dyl ... ocumentary

Announcements
Craig McKee said the next teleconference will be ‪February 26, 2020‬.

The call began ‪at 8 p.m. EST‬ and adjourned ‪at 9:50 p.m., PST‬/‪5 p.m. to 6:50 p.m.‬

Audio of the January call can be heard here: http://truthandshadows.com/wp-content/u ... 012920.mp3
The next monthly teleconference will take place ‪on February 26, 2020 at 8 p.m. EST‬, ‪5 p.m. PST‬. Agenda items should be emailed to facilitator Cheryl Curtiss (chercurt@aol.com) no later than one week before the call. Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.” Please include a brief description of your item and any relevant links you’d like participants to be aware of, together with your estimate of the number of minutes your agenda item will require. If you would like to join the teleconference list serve, contact Craig McKee (craigmckee911@gmail.com), and anyone who would like information such as links included in the minutes should email Ann Hendricks (hendricks_ann@yahoo.com)





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rwDx9_rsx4

An IQ of 1200, Spoke 100 Different Languages and Was Definetely NOT From This Planet!


https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html

2 teens with Trump flags on bikes driven off road by Indiana couple: police

By JOSEPH WILKINSON

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 22, 2020 | 8:46 PM




https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/2/20/ ... ounty-jail


Voting Machines in Jails

Pretrial detainees to vote at first polling place in Cook County Jail
42 voting machines will be brought in during the first two weekends in March — marking the first time in the country a polling place will be available for pretrial detainees.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=534vuASDP4A


EVERY COP OWNED! AUDITORS REVENGE! 1ST AMENDMENT AUDIT FAIL!



https://www.gcihs.org/wp-content/upload ... onicle.pdf

Cranberry Chronicle
News of Cranberry House and Great Cranberry Island Historical Society




https://nypost.com/2020/02/23/former-ro ... ffre-rape/

Former royal cop challenges Prince Andrew’s alibi in Virginia Roberts Giuffre sex scandal
By Lee Brown
February 23, 2020



https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2 ... 842122002/

UC cop charged with OVI investigated for previous incidents involving drinking

Jennifer Edwards Baker, Fox19 Published 8:26 a.m. ET Feb. 23, 2020 | Updated 8:27 a.m. ET Feb. 23, 2020





https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-new ... -1.8562777

Israeli Soldier Kills Palestinian Cop at His Own Station. No Explanation Is Offered
An IDF soldier shot a Palestinian police officer standing 100 meters away, at the entrance to his station, talking to other members of the force. Sgt. Tarek Badwan, a father of two with a family of police officers, was killed
Gideon Levy and Alex Levac Feb 22, 2020 5:30 PM





https://www.nj.com/camden/2020/02/man-w ... -suit.html


Man who was punched in the head 12 times by Camden cop files federal civil suit





https://www.ctpost.com/policereports/ar ... 075148.php


Greenwich cop provided guns to felon



https://www.columbian.com/news/2020/feb ... e-justice/


Study: TV cop shows reinforce misperceptions on race, justice



https://www.huffpost.com/entry/disney-p ... 695f5aca9c

Disney Faceplants With First Animated LGBTQ Character: A Horned Cyclops Lesbian Cop
Everyone else looks kind of ... normal.





https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/st ... 835462002/

Montgomery cop convicted of enticing a child sentenced to 3 years, plans to appeal





https://www.nj.com/cumberland/2020/02/m ... ncing.html

Movie-making ex-cop gets probation for bashing man’s face, assails the victim at sentencing
Updated Feb 21, 6:18 PM; Posted Feb 21, 5:08 PM







https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/ ... ick-ouste/

Former Spokane Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick ousted as Oakland’s top cop
UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 21, 2020




https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... d9dd9.html


Clayton cop's hidden camera caught neighbors in the nude, police say
* Robert Patrick Feb 21, 2020 2


https://gothamist.com/news/westchester- ... ops-crimes

Westchester Prosecutors Name 13 Cops Who Have Been Convicted Of Crimes But Remain On The Force





https://www.nj.com/union/2020/02/colleg ... -cops.html


College police director resigns amid legal disputes with campus cops
Updated Feb 23, 2020; Posted Feb 22, 2020






https://www.rrstar.com/news/20200222/tr ... wrongdoing

Trial set for next week against Rockford city and cops accused of wrongdoing

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HOW THE MEDIA CONNED THE PUBLIC INTO LOVING THE FBI: BOOK REVIEW

A review of “Hoover’s FBI and the Fourth Estate: The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau’s Image” by Matthew Cecil, University Press of Kansas, 355 pages, $34.95
Matthew Cecil, a communications professor at Wichita State University, has resolved a conundrum that’s bedeviled me since 1970, when I was a fledgling investigative reporter.
I had just completed my first interaction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the supposedly crackerjack national law enforcement agency. But the crackerjack part escaped me. My initial experience suggested an agency that produced inaccurate information inefficiently, failed to respect the constitutional liberties of U.S. citizens, and often resorted to intimidation and lies to get their way. Yet many of my journalistic “betters” told me I was misguided.
Smart people who think they are well informed about a subject—say, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s



https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/0 ... 6d7a98d2d2

CONGRESS
House leaders near deal to renew federal surveillance powers
Republican lawmakers were optimistic about a bipartisan solution on FISA, though they cautioned they were still negotiating.




https://whowhatwhy.org/2017/06/08/comey ... l-leaders/

COMEY HINTS AT J EDGAR HOOVER’S BLACKMAILING OF POLITICAL LEADERS
Fired FBI Chief Dropped FBI Myth That Founder was Honest Law and Order Man

Comparing himself to murdered 12th Century Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket notwithstanding, fired FBI chief James Comey has been mostly circumspect in responding to  Senate Committee inquiries about President Donald Trump and Russia.
But he did make one assertion Thursday that jolted some historically-minded viewers to the edge of their seats. It was a comment that represents a major break with the Bureau’s longstanding policy of whitewashing the troubling legacy of its founder and director for 48 years until his death in 1972, J. Edgar Hoover.
The startling answer came after Susan Collins (R-ME) queried Comey about three conversations he and Trump had in which the director purportedly assured the president he was not under FBI investigation. Comey replied in part, “I was briefing him about salacious and unverified material” — referring to independent British spook Christopher Steele’s questionable intelligence dossier.       
Going on to tell Collins that he wanted to assure the president that he found the material untrustworthy, he said, “It was very important because it was, first, true [that he did not believe the document], and second, I was worried very much about being in kind of a J. Edgar Hoover-type situation. I didn’t want him thinking I was briefing him on this to sort of hang it over him in some way.”
That J. Edgar Hoover routinely blackmailed (or tried to) politicians and civic leaders has long been proven. The director’s reams of compromising information struck fear across Washington, even while his own dark secrets were protected by a pliant media; a closeted homosexual in a long-time, open relationship with his second in command, Clyde Tolson, Hoover was also indebted to the mob for the numerous financial favors they showered him with.
Despite his well-documented malfeasance, the mainstream media makes periodic attempts to rehabilitate Hoover’s reputation.
But, at least as far as how the Bureau presents Hoover to the public, it has not deviated from purveying the well-scrubbed PR-driven



https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ544189

Peer reviewed
ERIC Number: EJ544189
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1997
Pages: N/A
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0363-8111
A Quantitative Description of FBI Public Relations.
Gibson, Dirk C.
Public Relations Review, v23 n1 p11-30 Spr 1997
States that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had the most successful media relations program of all government agencies from the 1930s to the 1980s. Uses quantitative analysis to show why those media efforts were successful. Identifies themes that typified the verbal component of FBI publicity and the broad spectrum of mass communication channels that were tapped. (PA)




http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserv ... ethod=Full

Major news networks devoted less than 4 hours to climate change in 2019. Total.
When it comes to climate change, television news is covering little more than the tip of the iceberg.
Grist.org, Feb, 27, 2020




https://www.pressherald.com/2020/03/09/ ... -by-trash/

Ecomaine’s waste hauling trucks will soon be powered by trash
The company responsible for converting Maine's trash to electricity is replacing its diesel-powered waste hauling trucks with electric vehicles.



http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserv ... ethod=Full

Climate disinformation bloated by automated bots
Revealed: quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by bots
Draft of Brown study says findings suggest ‘substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages’
The Guardian (U.K.), Feb. 21, 2020




https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/store/


 

 Welcome to Prison Legal News!




http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2020 ... -nass.html


Anthrax Vaccine -- posts by Meryl Nass, M.D.
This blog began in 2007, focusing on anthrax vaccine, and later expanded to other public health and political issues. The blog links to media reports, medical literature, official documents and other materials.

Monday, March 9, 2020
Protecting yourself from Covid-19/ Nass' recommendations




The new coronavirus spreads readily, like flu or cold viruses, but is much more likely to affect family members of someone already infected than others.  We Americans are not very good at protecting ourselves from cold and flu viruses.  Maybe we can learn some strategies that will help us avoid Covid-19, as well as helping to protect us from future respiratory viruses.

How does Covid spread?

1.  From coughing/sneezing and, less likely, even from someone breathing.  Large droplets from a cough travel up to 3 feet, while smaller droplets can travel up to 6 feet.  Staying more than 6 feet away from others offers pretty good protection.  Keeping the door closed when someone has the virus adds protection for others.  [CDC says stay 6' away and WHO says 3', fyi]

2.  Those droplets then land on all objects within range.  The virus can live more than a week on certain surfaces if left undisturbed.  When you touch those objects, which in medical jargon are called fomites, you have picked up the virus on your hand.

3.  Covid has also been found in urine and stool.  When you use a urinal or flush a toilet you may aerosolize some live virus.  Perhaps those who have Covid should put toilet seats down when they flush, and males should consider urinating while seated.  Keep bathroom surfaces very clean; use gloves when you wash them if possible.  Then wash your hands with soap and water after removing gloves.

We talked about where you can find Covid.  But how do you actually get it?

You touch your eyes, nose, mouth (possibly other mucus membranes) with an infected hand, or you inhale the virus.  Inhaling is thought to be the #1 source of infection. Handwashing as much as possible, and always when you first arrive home, is the best protection.  I worry about cuts on hands, especially from so much handwashing.  Feel free to use moisturizers to prevent cracking.

Where might Covid be lurking?

It may be on anything anyone touches.  Whenever you open a door, pick up an item in the grocery, use a phone or keyboard that you share, you could pick up Covid or another virus. 

So what is the solution?

You need to be in the habit of being in control of your hands.  Start practicing this technique right now, and don't stop till this outbreak is over.  DO NOT touch your face with your hands, unless you have just washed them.  Do less touching of your face, in general.  Maybe you can use a tissue, not a finger.

Barriers

Viruses and bacteria cannot pass through plastic.  They can pass through paper, but it is not easy for them.  Use barrier materials to open door knobs, pick up items in the grocery, etc.  This will reduce your exposure.  Wash hands once you return home.

What cleaning agents are effective at decontaminating Covid?

What CDC and EPA have done is to allow manufacturers to certify their own products as being effective for Covid-19.  No federal agencies, nor WHO or the British National Health Service discuss the results of environmental testing of Covid-19 on the infection control sections of their websites. Thus we do not know how long Covid-19 survives on various surfaces.  Nor do we know from any official testing which chemical decontaminants are effective. This is a big problem I will describe further, below. For the moment, all we have is a list of self-certified cleaning products, about which the EPA states, "Inclusion on this list does not constitute an endorsement by EPA." Here is the current list of manufacturer-certified products:

https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/fi ... 3-2020.pdf

For most uses, 70% alcohol rub and diluted bleach (1/3 cup in a gallon of water, or 1000 ppm chlorine) are CDC-recommended.  The longer disinfectants stay wet on a surface, the better job they do.  So allow them to dry in place.

Cleaning agents related to benzalkonium chloride (quaternary ammonium compounds), or lower concentrations of alcohol and bleach, are thought to be ineffective.  Surfaces must be cleaned of visible dirt before disinfectants are used, because dirt, food, blood, etc. can inactivate the disinfectant and allow virus to persist, if not cleaned up first.

What did we learn from the 2003 SARS outbreak?

One group of French researchers studied SARS coronavirus viability on surfaces, and methods of decontamination.  They found that it took 5 weeks for the SARS virus, when dried on a clean glass petri dish, to lose viability.  They wrote: 

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10 ... 0701200206)

"In our hands, the human SARS-Coronavirus is the most resistant enveloped virus ever described. It takes 35 to 42 days to inactivate the virus by drying, and formaldehyde fumigation has no effect on the dried virus. This means that existing decontamination strategies cannot be extrapolated to emerging viruses and that the conditions for decontamination should be determined specifically for each new virus."

Are our public health agencies afraid to frighten us once again, and thus their silence on this issue of importance?  Or are they too incompetent to perform the necessary testing?  


Also, be aware that the French authors used a higher concentration of sodium hypochlorite, 6400ppm, or about 6 times as concentrated a solution of bleach as what CDC recommends. They did not test other concentrations.

Masks

Masks should be placed on ill persons so they don’t expel droplets of virus any further than the mask.  Their masks are contaminated but protect others.  Healthcare workers wear N95 HEPA masks with a tight fit to screen out 95% of virus they might breath in while caring for affected patients.

Will a surgical/dust mask help you?  Probably a little, but it will get contaminated and could be more of a hazard than help at that point.  Who has boxes of masks?

The Chinese often use clear visors that cover their faces—what a good idea!  An easy to clean, reusable surface to cover your eyes, nose and mouth.  And you don't feel like you are suffocating when you wear one.  Consider this method of protection.

Remember, when we run out of gloves, plastic sheeting material can still be used as barrier protections where needed.  Duct tape and a plastic bag gives you a mitten that can protect you when you go shopping, if things get hairy. 

Sheltering inside

Buy dry goods and canned goods and have enough food for a month, just in case.  Make sure you have adequate cleaning supplies, paper goods and plastic products to get you through this. Buy very gentle bars of soap and moisturizer, download some movies, buy a scrabble set, and be prepared for cabin fever.

Laundering--you should use warm to hot water and a hot dryer to kill virus.

Good WHO guidelines are here: 

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source ... vid-19.pdf

Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 6:19 PM 0 comments





https://www.rt.com/usa/482719-war-coron ... ers-money/

Money for wars but not vaccines? Bernie panel ladles harsh truths as Americans face paying out-of-pocket for coronavirus treatment
10 Mar, 2020 10:06


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Assange trial rehearsal? Hung jury results in mistrial for former CIA tech accused of handing ‘Vault 7’ docs to WikiLeaks
10 Mar, 2020 00:15 / Updated 13 ho


https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/03/10/water ... st-nation/

MARCH 10, 2020 | LANA COHEN
WATER WOES IN THE WORLD’S WEALTHIEST NATION






https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ha ... 6d7a98d2d2


Another Immigrant Has Died In ICE Custody. She’s The Eighth Since October.






https://mondoweiss.net/2020/03/maga-con ... 6d7a98d2d2

MAGA congressman wants Trump administration to kill ‘anti-American and pro-BDS’ Arizona Mideast studies program
News Michael Arria on March 9, 2020




https://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/ ... 6d7a98d2d2

MONDAY, MAR 9, 2020, 4:50 PM
The Coronavirus Outbreak Shows the Disgrace of Not Guaranteeing Paid Sick Leave
BY ELISE GOULD




https://reason.com/2020/03/10/a-wrongfu ... ramed-him/



A Wrongfully Convicted Kansas Man Can Now Sue the Corrupt Cop Who Framed Him
Lamonte McIntyre served 23 years in prison for murders that he did not commit.
ZURI DAVIS | 3.10.2020 11:05 AM




https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/0 ... -duty.html


West Linn cop got only verbal reprimand for dismissing allegations about chief driving drunk off-duty
Updated Mar 10, 11:00 AM; Posted Mar 09, 6:06 PM



https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighva ... 460e9.html

Jury selection begins for former cop charged in fatal shooting near Dorney Park
* 69 News, Jamie Stover Mar 10, 2020 U





https://www.pottsmerc.com/news/ex-consh ... 3774a.html



The MercuryEx-Conshohocken cop, New Hanover supervisor candidate ...NORRISTOWN — Saying a former Conshohocken cop is “not above the law,” a
judge sent him to prison for engaging in a pattern of ...13 hours ago





https://torontosun.com/news/provincial/ ... -incidents


Troubled cop admits to pepper spray, threats, drunk driving incident



https://www.citizensvoice.com/news/pros ... -1.2605523



Prosecutors file motion ahead of cop’s sex assault trial



https://madamenoire.com/1138317/scotus- ... ack-women/

SCOTUS Declines To Hear Appeal Of Daniel Holtzclaw, Former Oklahoma Cop Convicted Of Raping Multiple Black Women




https://www.newhavenindependent.org/ind ... interview/


Judge: Unseal Transcript Of Cop Interview
by STAFF | Mar 10, 2020 10:01 pm





https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus ... story.html

100-year-old man recovers from coronavirus in China, oldest patient yet to do so

By THERESA BRAINE



https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/dougla ... ic-tickets

Douglasville cops offered BBQ if they wrote enough traffic tickets



https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/eye-on-g ... ZyoBhsPu-A

WATCH: Cops Shoot Man in Head after Confronting him for Drinking Beer in Public



https://nypost.com/2020/03/10/mother-of ... -for-cops/

Mother of man in viral arrest video demands punishment for cops



https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/l ... rn-to-work

After 10 years, fired Denver cops plan to return to work







https://gothamist.com/news/ny-police-ny ... cops-crime

How New York's Law Shielding Cops From Scrutiny Became One Of The Toughest In The Country

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