FBI WATCH DO NOT FLY LIST

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Want to guess how many tentacles Exxon "global warming" Mobil
has at the FBI?


During his 20 year FBI career, Mr. Letcher has received: the Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award ( 2006 ), the FBI's Meritorious Service Award ( 2001 ), two U.S. Department of Justice Certificates of Merit, and a Letter of Commendation from former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno.

Mr. Letcher holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the Wharton School of Business. Prior to joining the FBI, he was employed by Exxon Company USA for six years in the Marketing Department.

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another FBI tentacle that leads to a crooked politician

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FBI agent says FBI was warned on Bulger
Questions raised about reliability

| June 15, 2006

A retired FBI official testified yesterday that he urged his superiors to drop gangster James ``Whitey" Bulger as an informant in the early 1980s, amid allegations that Bulger may have been involved in drug dealing and murder.


After being dispatched to assess Bulger's credibility in a brief meeting at the gangster's Quincy apartment in 1981, the official, Robert Fitzpatrick, testified yesterday that he left believing that Bulger was an egotistical ``big bag of wind."

But Fitzpatrick said that while he was unsuccessfully lobbying to cut Bulger loose, Bulger's handler, FBI agent John J. Connolly Jr. , was inviting top agents in the FBI's Boston office to the State House to meet Bulger's younger brother, William, then president of the Massachusetts Senate.

Recounting how Connolly escorted him to a meeting with William Bulger at his Senate office in 1982, Fitzpatrick said, ``He was a little like his brother, to be honest with you. He did most of the talking. I just listened."

Fitzpatrick was not asked on the stand whether they discussed James Bulger with his politician brother during the meeting.

However, Fitzpatrick told the Globe after the proceedings yesterday that they did not.

Fitzpatrick, who served as an assistant special agent in charge of the Boston office between 1981 and 1986, said it wasn't unusual for top agents in an FBI field office to meet with prominent local officials.

However, he said he was concerned about Connolly's relationship with a powerful politician who was also his informant's brother, and asked him: ``What are you doing with this guy?"

He said Connolly responded that William Bulger ``is the guy who's going to get you the job when you leave [the FBI]. He's going to take care of you."

Yesterday was Fitzpatrick's third day on the stand in US District Court in Boston, where he was testifying in a $50 million wrongful death suit brought against the government by the family of John McIntyre , a Quincy fisherman. The family says that the government had negligently caused McIntyre's death by mishandling longtime FBI informants Bulger and Stephen ``The Rifleman" Flemmi .

Flemmi, who is serving a life sentence for killing McIntyre and nine other people, testified last week that he and Bulger killed McIntyre on Nov. 30, 1984 because Connolly warned them McIntyre was cooperating against them.

McIntyre was involved in an unsuccessful effort to ship weapons to the Irish Republican Army aboard the Valhalla, a Gloucester trawler, and had told government agents that Bulger and Flemmi were involved in the plot.

Bulger, who is listed as one of the FBI's 10 most wanted, is charged with 19 murders and has been a fugitive since he fled Boston just before his 1995 federal racketeering indictment.

Connolly was convicted in 2002 of warning him to flee, and is serving a 10-year prison sentence.

William Bulger resigned as president of the University of Massachusetts three years ago after he was grilled by a congressional committee that was investigating the FBI's handling of his brother.

William Bulger testified before the committee that Connolly was a friend who grew up in the same South Boston housing development, and had worked for him on political campaigns. But he said he had never asked Connolly to protect his brother and had not known his brother was an informant until it was publicly disclosed.

Yesterday, Fitzpatrick testified that he was sent to meet James Bulger in 1981 in an effort to evaluate his ``suitability" as an informant.

Bulger wore dark sunglasses that made it impossible to see his eyes. ``He talked about how tough he was," Fitzpatrick said.

Fitzpatrick recounted how Bulger went into a monologue, showing off his Alcatraz belt buckle and talking about the time he spent at the prison while serving a nine-year sentence for bank robbery in the 1950s and '60s.

Fitzpatrick said he recommended that Bulger be dropped as an informant because he was a gang leader, he allegedly was involved in crimes, and he seemed to be withholding information.

But Fitzpatrick said he was advised by superiors, including Sean McWeeney, chief of the FBI's organized crime section in Washington, ``how valuable" Bulger was in investigations.

Tensions flared in the FBI's Boston office in 1982, according to Fitzpatrick, when other agents began working with another informant, Brian Halloran, who implicated Bulger and Flemmi in the 1981 murder of Tulsa businessman Roger Wheeler.

Connolly was accused of rifling through FBI files on the Wheeler investigation, which led them to be moved to a safe, according to Fitzpatrick. Halloran was killed in May 1982 and another potential witness in the Wheeler case, John Callahan, was murdered two months later in Florida.

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John Mehr names John Lewoczko as chief deputy


At the swearing-in of new Madison County Sheriff John Mehr today, it was announced that John Lewoczko is Mehr's chief deputy.

Lewoczko applied to be interim sheriff in March after former sheriff David Woolfork retired. The County Commission didn't choose Lewoczko as interim sheriff, but Mehr has now hired him as chief deputy of the Sheriff's Office.

Lewoczko is a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Tennessee Office of Homeland Security.

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another FBI tentacle in Connecticut who earned two purple hearts bringing Democracy to Vietnam for Exxon Mobil
who wants the oil in the South China Sea
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America gets upset when they see local police with militaristic-type gear and weapons," said Brookfield Police Chief Robin Montgomery, a former special agent with the FBI who earned two Purple Hearts as a Marine in Vietnam. "If the threat does not rise to the militaristic level, you need to be as low-key as possible."

Being low-key becomes difficult when military equipment is deployed on Main Street, said David McGuire, staff attorney for the ACLU in Hartford.

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$80,000 dollar FBI. tentacle spotted in Denver


Denver to pay $80K to former FBI agent helping with sheriff reform
The Denver Post-
Sept. 3 2014
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Denver will pay $80,000 for the services of a former FBI agent who will guide the Denver Sheriff Department through reform. James H. Davis ...



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Ex-fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Grimm pleads guilty to campaign violations
GlobalPost-Sept 3 2014
Grimm, a former U.S. Marine and FBI agent who represents parts of New York City's boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island, was elected in 2010. In April ...

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see link for another tentacle

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the PRC in 1999, and control of Hong Kong reverted from British ... worth more than $200 billion, over four times Macau's 2012 official ... ited number of foreign casino operators.10 The introduction of new ...... 95 In addition, the casino also hired three former. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents to strengthen anti-.




Sands gets 200 new tables, hires ex-FBI agents to investigate money laundering
29/01/2013 10:03:00 Sum Choi




Sands China will have 200 new gaming tables and some of them will start operating by early next month, according to the casino-resort’s CEO Edward Tracy, who also said they hired three former FBI agents

2nd

From Courthouse News Service:

The FBI must release more records about one of its informants in the Mafia, Gregory Scarpa Sr., a federal judge ruled.

In the 1980s, Scarpa, known as "The Grim Reaper" or "The Mad Hatter," was a Colombo family capo, short for caporegime, which translates roughly to captain.

Though Scarpa's information helped the FBI take down several members of La Cosa Nostra, a New York federal judge found that Scarpa also benefitted from information leaked to him by his FBI handler, Lindley DeVecchio.

Prosecutors said DeVecchio's leaks led to four murders, but they dropped the charges midtrial when new evidence discredited the main witness.

Hoping to learn more about the case, self-described Scarpa expert Angela Clemente asked the FBI in 2008 to release the informant's unredacted file, and waive the copying and processing fees.

The FBI denied Clemente's fee-waiver application, but released 500 pages of redacted records that year, along with another 653 in March 2009, withholding some information under various exemptions.



A federal judge in 2010 ruled that Clemente was entitled to the fee waiver, but found that the FBI had conducted an adequate search for the requested documents and was not required to search any further.

Though Clemente could have argued that the FBI should have searched for files in its New York field office, Clemente had only submitted her request for records at the D.C. headquarters, so the agency could limit its search to that location.

After Clemente requested the redacted information, the court ruled that the FBI could withhold some information based on law-enforcement and agency-regulation exemptions, but was not allowed to withhold records of "only historical significance", such as the number of mob informants operative in the 1960s.

In complying with the court's decision, the FBI reprocessed a sample of pages submitted by Clemente and released some information it had previously withheld, but maintained some redactions.

Clemente renewed her motion for summary judgment, arguing that the FBI had improperly withheld nonexempt information that was not "inextricably intertwined with exempt portions," and that the agency's search for documents responsive to her FOIA request was inadequate. She claimed the FBI had to reprocess the entire set of responsive documents.

Clemente also asked the court to reconsider the previous ruling that the FBI did not have to search for records in its New York office.

U.S. District Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein sided with the FBI earlier this month on the adequacy-of-search issue, confirming that the FBI's New York office did not have to respond to Clemente's request unless she submitted it to that location.

But the FBI does need to release more information from some of the redacted documents, Rothstein added. If the agency released information that had previously been withheld from the sample records submitted by Clemente, it is likely that other responsive documents contain information that was withheld without justification, according to the ruling.

Rothstein ordered the FBI to reprocess the documents and release all nonexempt information to Clemente.

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
FBI plans to appoint representative in Dhaka
Star Online Report

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States has planned to appoint a permanent representative in Dhaka, who would assist Bangladeshi authorities in joint investigative endeavours.

The plan for appointing a permanent representative was discussed with Bangladesh government officials, including Home Minister MK Alamgir and Inspector General of Police Hassan Mahmood Khandaker, during the visit of Michael S Welch, FBI Assistant Director for International Operations.

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NAB may seek FBI help for officers’ training
February 8, 2013






ISLAMABAD, Feb 5: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is likely to seek assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the US for training of its 50 old and 350 new investigators.

However, the process of appointment of over 350 investigators has been delayed because of what a NAB official called ‘litigation’ by some aggrieved candidates.

“It has already been decided by NAB chairman Admiral (retd) Fasih Bokhari that NAB investigators would be trained by some foreign agency, probably the FBI,” said NAB’s media wing deputy director Muhammad Irfan.

The main idea behind the decision, he said, was to keep NAB investigators conversant with new investigation skills and methods to investigate white-collar crimes in an effective way.

However, the decision by the NAB chairman appears to be difficult to implement because nobody is sure about the fate of NAB which, according to the government’s plan, could be replaced soon by a new institution called ‘National Accountability Commission’.

Another NAB official said that initially a batch of 50 investigation officers would be sent to the US for training.



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Tainting Evidence
Inside the Scandals at the FBI Crime Lab
By JOHN F. KELLY and PHILLIP K. WEARNE
The Free Press





Prologue: Examining the Examiners

The tall, graying legislator strode past the American flag onto the platform of Committee Room 226. With a quick adjustment of his black-and-white spotted tie, he seated himself at the center of a semicircular dais under the carved eagle on the hardwood-paneled wall. As the lights of six television cameras were switched on and photographers and cameramen began to jostle for position, Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa began to read slowly from three sheets of paper. It was his opening statement as chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight into the Courts at hearings entitled, "A Review of the FBI Laboratory: Beyond the Inspector General's Report."

His purpose, he explained, was to help restore public confidence in federal law enforcement in general and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in particular. But the facts the senator went on to outline hardly seemed likely to do that. The hearings had had to be postponed twice, he stated, because of the FBI's refusal to cooperate by supplying requested documentation and by making FBI employees available to testify without the bureau's lawyers present. This, Senator Grassley said, was despite FBI director Louis Freeh's appeal for more oversight to another congressional subcommittee just four months earlier, when he had stated that the FBI could be the most dangerous agency in the country if "not scrutinized carefully."

Senator Grassley said the FBI was being hypocritical. "It is not the message that rings true. It's the actions. The Bureau's actions contradict the director's assertion that it is inviting oversight. And until the actions match the words, the ghosts of FBI past are still very much in the present." He went on to say that he expected the requested documentation to arrive the moment the hearings finished. In fact, within an hour, Senator Grassley had to apologize to the packed committee room for being "so cynical." The documents had arrived but were so heavily redacted as to be virtually useless, he said, holding up page after page of blacked-out FBI memos.

Senator Grassley's hearings took place in the wake of the release five months earlier of a damning 517-page report by the Inspector General's Office of the Department of Justice, the result of an eighteen-month investigation into the FBI laboratory. The investigators had included a panel of five internationally renowned forensic scientists, the first time in its sixty-five-year history that the FBI lab, considered by many -- not least, by itself -- the best in the world, had been subject to any form of external scientific scrutiny. The findings were alarming. FBI examiners had given scientifically flawed, inaccurate, and overstated testimony under oath in court; had altered the lab reports of examiners to give them a pro-prosecutorial slant, and had failed to document tests and examinations from which they drew incriminating conclusions, thus ensuring that their work could never be properly checked.

FBI lab management, meanwhile, had failed to check examinations and lab reports; had overseen a woefully inadequate record retention system; and had not only failed to investigate serious and credible allegations of incompetence but had covered them up. Management had also resisted any form of external scrutiny of the lab and had failed to establish and enforce its own validated scientific procedures and protocols -- the same ones that had been issued by managers themselves in an effort to combat the lab's known shortcomings in the first place.

But the IG's report, shocking as its conclusions were, was severely limited. It had looked at just three of seven units in the FBI lab's Scientific Analysis Section, a fraction of the lab's total of twenty-seven units.* The IG had been mandated to look into the specific allegations of just one man, Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, a Ph.D. chemist and FBI supervisory special agent who for eight years, until 1994, had worked solely on explosives-residue analysis -- trace detection, and identification of the residue left behind by explosions in the lab's Materials Analysis Unit.

For nearly ten years, until he was suspended and put on "administrative leave" just weeks before the IG's report was published in April 1997, Whitehurst had reported his own observations and what others had told him. Underpinning his complaints and their persistence were three things: the unscientific nature of so much of what was being passed off as science in the FBI lab; the culture of pro-prosecution bias rather than scientific truth that pervaded the lab, including the possibly illegal withholding of exculpatory information; and the complete inability of the FBI lab or its management to investigate itself and correct these problems.

Not only had the IG report confined itself to Whitehurst's admittedly limited sphere of knowledge within the FBI lab, it had no mandate to look into the evidentiary matters raised, to ask how particular cases might have been affected, or to look at the possibility of charges against FBI lab employees heavily criticized by the report. Given the plentiful evidence of pro prosecution bias, false testimony, and inadequate forensic work, it was only logical to assume that cases had been affected. How many people might be in jail unjustly? How many might be on Death Row by mistake? If innocent people were in jail for crimes they did not commit, how many guilty ones were walking the streets?

Senator Grassley and others in Congress quickly realized that the inspector general's report had to be the beginning, not the end. The issues Whitehurst had raised, the inspector general had investigated, and now the hearings were examining further, went to the heart of the credibility of justice and the courts in the United States. In the end, the IG's report had raised more questions than it had answered, not least perhaps the most important of all: How had this happened in the first place and how might it be avoided in the future?

The task of assessing what exculpatory evidence had been withheld, how many cases had been affected, and who in the FBI lab, if anyone, should face charges for what had been uncovered had now fallen to a task force in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department. The task force had to identify the prosecutors in each case, then release forensic documentation to them in order to allow them to decide if anything crucial had been withheld. The floodgates, in other words, were controlled by the nation's prosecutors, whose records had been built on legal victories they were now supposed to question. "Is it cynical to question whether these prosecutors are virtually the worst officials to objectively evaluate tainted evidence in their own cases? Clearly the fox is guarding the henhouse," noted Congressman Robert Wexler at the hearings.

The Justice Department refuses to provide updates as to the progress of the task force or even to name its members. However, the scale of the potential fallout is clear: just one of the numerous examiners heavily criticized by the IG's report handled more than six hundred cases in a decade of work at the FBI lab. Defense lawyers believe that thousands of cases will be affected. "The IG's report was a starting, not a finishing point," says one attorney. "I think we will be living with the ramifications of this for years, and not just in terms of the number of appeals you can expect. No defense lawyer in the country is going to take what the FBI lab says at face value any more. For years they were trusted on the basis of glossy advertising. Now the real product turns out to be a dud."

As Fred Whitehurst, a mustached Vietnam veteran sat, arms crossed, at the back of the room, Senator Grassley went on to recount that it was "the FBI's say-one-thing-do-another habit" that made him hesitant to simply accept assurances that everything was now in order at the FBI lab. "The subcommittee's investigation has revealed that systemic problems remain at the lab....The problems exist and flourish because of a cultural disease within the FBI," Grassley continued. "The question is, how will these changes ensure the integrity of the scientific process within the lab, which seeks to discover the truth, when a culture exists within the FBI to apparently cut corners and slant lab reports in favor of the prosecution, which seeks to convict. The IG report did not reconcile this dilemma. The FBI will not admit the problem exists. That is why we are here today."

During the hearings, senators would hear Congressman Robert Wexler call for legislation to ensure the FBI's "future integrity" and express outrage that Whitehurst, "the courageous whistle-blower, was out...while dozens of FBI agents who suppressed evidence, altered evidence, or testified falsely were still there." Clearly angered by what he had heard at the previous hearings four months earlier, Wexler would now accuse the IG of failing to draw logical conclusions from its own findings. How could obvious lying on the witness stand not be considered perjury? How could the systematic alteration of lab reports to make them more incriminating not be considered intentional?

The committee would hear four past and current FBI lab employees all express support for Whitehurst and the general charges he had made. They would hear Dr. Drew Campbell Richardson, an adviser to the FBI lab's deputy assistant director and a highly qualified scientist, say that the FBI lab ignored scientific evidence that did not suit its purposes. They would hear how Bill Tobin, the FBI's metallurgist, and Jim Corby, Whitehurst's former boss, had made repeated complaints about the same examiners Whitehurst had accused, only to have them ignored. And they would hear how one of those heavily criticized in the report had been promoted to head the FBI lab's Explosives Unit, despite being under investigation at the time, passing over Ed Kelso, a widely respected firearms instructor and bomb expert with twenty-five years experience.

This book seeks to explore how all this happened. It seeks to go beyond the inspector general's informative but restricted investigation of the FBI lab and tell the story that the report did not. It seeks to go beyond Fred Whitehurst's serious but limited allegations and show how what he charged applies to other parts of the FBI lab that were never investigated. We have done this with the help of hundreds of hours of interviews of current and former FBI lab staff and thousands of pages of documents, memos, lab reports, interviews, and audits, many of them only released under the Freedom of Information Act after months of stonewalling by the FBI and the IG's office. Some of these documents were the raw material of the IG's report, a number of them indicating problems with lab units and cases never investigated by the investigators.

There was, of course, no cooperation from the FBI in the writing of this book, although we were allowed to talk to Fred Whitehurst on the same terms as the rest of the media -- essentially, without reference to specific cases. In August 1997, the authors submitted a request to interview twenty past and present lab staff; in September we were told our request had been lost; in October it was still pending. In November the authors received a letter thanking us for our interest in the FBI but turning down our request. One of the themes of this book is the FBI's obsession with how it appears rather than what it actually is. This book and its subject did not fit the Bureau's agenda.

In the Introduction and Chapter 1 we look at the state of forensic science in this country and the FBI lab in particular. We show that while claiming to have investigated Whitehurst's allegations and found no problems, management was fully aware that there were massive problems with the FBI lab, its science, its supervision, and its safety. We show that management knew that if it ever agreed to real external scrutiny, if it was ever forced to publish the research data on which its forensic tests were based, if it ever had to make public the results of its internal proficiency tests, the image of the FBI lab as the best forensic laboratory in the world would rapidly dissolve. For this, as Senator Grassley remarked at the Senate hearings, is a culture that rewards "public image-building over discovering the truth."

The extent of the lab's dysfunction becomes clear in Chapters 2 through 8, where we look at major cases the FBI lab has handled. In particular, we detail the failings of four key FBI staff members -- Terry Rudolph, Tom Thurman, Roger Martz, and David Williams -- whose practices in several high-profile cases demonstrate the dangers of the lab's modus operandi. Some of these are cases the IG looked at -- the World Trade Center bombing, the Unabomber investigation, the VANPAC case, the 0.J. Simpson trial. Others are cases the IG did not investigate or examined only partially -- the lab's role in the Ruby Ridge investigation, the Jeffrey MacDonald case, the Oklahoma City bombing.

All of these are celebrated cases involving massive forensic and other investigative resources. The FBI lab's role in all of them raises a huge and still unanswered question: If this is what happens in these high-profile, well-scrutinized cases, what is happening in thousands of less publicized ones?

In talking to dozens of forensic scientists and FBI lab personnel, one thing has become clear to us. Few were surprised at the revelations of the IG report. Many people, inside and out, have known for many years that there were serious problems at the FBI lab. Very few, however, inside or out, have chosen to speak out. With a few honorable exceptions, forensic scientists outside the FBI lab have been reluctant to take on the Bureau, which now wields enormous power throughout the profession, through training programs, research grants, and consultancy work. Many of those working inside the FBI lab seem to have been intimidated by the climate of fear that is a constant theme of Fred Whitehurst's 237 written complaints. In failing to come forward, or in some cases even to support Fred Whitehurst when he did, they have only themselves to blame for the broad-brush condemnation with which all at the FBI lab, good or bad, have now been tainted. They are in essence living testimony to what Senator Grassley describes as the FBI's "cultural problem."

*Even a recent history of the FBI lab, as this book is, presents one accounting dilemma. The number of units and actions, and even their names, have changed continuously over the years. A case in point is the Hairs and Fibers Unit, later called the Microscopic Analysis Unit, now named the Trace Evidence Unit. Ultimately, the problems described here remain, regardless of the name.

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FBI Agent to Head New Ethics Commission
December 12, 2001 | From Times Wire Reports
A retired FBI agent with 30 years of experience investigating organized crime is the new cop on the City Hall ethics beat. Charles B. Walker has been appointed executive director of the new San Diego Ethics Commission, which was created this year after a city councilwoman pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor campaign violations and was forced to resign. Walker, who earns $90,000 at his new post, reports to a seven-member commission.

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TVA Appoints FBI Agent as First Inspector General
January 7, 1986 |



An FBI agent was named Monday as the Tennessee Valley Authority's first inspector general, officials said. Norman A. Zigrossi, 50, who was in charge of the FBI's field office in Washington D.C., will investigate waste, fraud and mismanagement in the federal utility.

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Dems, GOP tap nominees for Union County sheriff

on September 05, 2014 at 6:26 PM


: The lines are drawn for the candidates from the two major parties in the race for the next Union County sheriff to succeed the late long-time Sheriff Ralph Froehlich.

The county Republican committee selected Michael Ince of Garwood, a retired FBI agent, and Democrats gave the nod to acting Sheriff Joseph Cryan, as expected.

Ince, 58, formerly a Westfield resident, was a Clark police officer before becoming joining the FBI in 1988. He retired in

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the Brazilian Tentacle


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Let me get this right.

The Dallas Police teamed up with
FBI Director Hoover and the
US Military(is there really a difference)
to assassinate President Kennedy
remember Jack Ruby walking by the Dallas police
and killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the only suspect in
the murder of a US President.?
Then we got Memphis Police officer Earl Clark firing the
rifle that blew Dr Martin Luther Kings skull apart.
Yep his boss at the Memphis police was a former FBI agent.
Who do you think gave the FBI agents in Oklahoma
City the Satchel Charges to collapse the columns
of the Murragh Building? Just google benton k partin
okc bombing for the answer.
Who supplied the FBI with Nano Thermetic explosives
and weapons grade anthrax for the 911 attack?

As Dr J was heard to say" when you are the law enforcement
agency investigating the crime they just committed
they can always get away with the crime."

Sorry to say this folks but over 90% of the mercenaries you
hired to enforce your laws are former vets from Iraq, Afghanistan
and Vietnam. They are serials killers who invaded these
countries for Exxon Mobil. and BP..
You are only as high as the politicians the FBI elects for you,eh?
google Leonard gates FBI voter fraud



another FBI tentacle in every police department in the US Empire


see link for full story

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Ex-FBI deputy: Holder villifies police, has already convicted Ferguson cops
BY: Paul Bedard | September 4, 2014 | 2:04 pm
Topics: Washington Secrets FBI Eric Holder Justice Department Ferguson

A former FBI Criminal Investigative Division deputy director, celebrated for his work in Afghanistan and at two winter Olympics, charged Thursday that Attorney General Eric Holder’s expected civil rights probe of the Ferguson, Mo., police department is a political sham.

Ron Hosko, former assistant director CID, said in a statement to Secrets that Holder’s real goal is to “influence the grand jurors” who will be investigating the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, by a white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9.

“This announcement and the activities that follow suggest a more political agenda — that the department has already reached conclusions and is unconcerned about Officer Wilson's legal fate. Such a conclusion can only have a chilling effect on the thousands of law enforcement professionals who put their lives on the line everyday to protect our communities,” said Hosko in the statement.

Hosko was just named president of the Alexandria, Va.-based Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, which provides legal help to police.

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Let me get this right.

The Dallas Police teamed up with
FBI Director Hoover and the
US Military(is there really a difference)
to assassinate President Kennedy
remember Jack Ruby walking by the Dallas police
and killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the only suspect in
the murder of a US President.?
Then we got Memphis Police officer Earl Clark firing the
rifle that blew Dr Martin Luther Kings skull apart.
Yep his boss at the Memphis police was a former FBI agent.
Who do you think gave the FBI agents in Oklahoma
City the Satchel Charges to collapse the columns
of the Murragh Building? Just google benton k partin
okc bombing for the answer.
Who supplied the FBI with Nano Thermetic explosives
and weapons grade anthrax for the 911 attack?

As Dr J was heard to say" when you are the law enforcement
agency investigating the crime they just committed
they can always get away with the crime."

Sorry to say this folks but over 90% of the mercenaries you
hired to enforce your laws are former vets from Iraq, Afghanistan
and Vietnam. They are serials killers who invaded these
countries for Exxon Mobil. and BP..
You are only as high as the politicians the FBI elects for you,eh?
google Leonard gates FBI voter fraud



another FBI tentacle in every police department in the US Empire


see link for full story

http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/ex-fbi- ... le/2552839" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Ex-FBI deputy: Holder villifies police, has already convicted Ferguson cops
BY: Paul Bedard | September 4, 2014 | 2:04 pm
Topics: Washington Secrets FBI Eric Holder Justice Department Ferguson

A former FBI Criminal Investigative Division deputy director, celebrated for his work in Afghanistan and at two winter Olympics, charged Thursday that Attorney General Eric Holder’s expected civil rights probe of the Ferguson, Mo., police department is a political sham.

Ron Hosko, former assistant director CID, said in a statement to Secrets that Holder’s real goal is to “influence the grand jurors” who will be investigating the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, by a white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9.

“This announcement and the activities that follow suggest a more political agenda — that the department has already reached conclusions and is unconcerned about Officer Wilson's legal fate. Such a conclusion can only have a chilling effect on the thousands of law enforcement professionals who put their lives on the line everyday to protect our communities,” said Hosko in the statement.

Hosko was just named president of the Alexandria, Va.-based Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, which provides legal help to police.

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watch these FBI NFL tentacles go out for a FBI coverup pass
after all FBI agents know a thing or two about assaulting women


couple of couples


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NFL hired ex-Secret Service and FBI agents for Ray Rice investigation

Sept 8. 2014

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The details get uglier by the minute. A tape came out Monday morning of Ray Rice hitting his former-fiance, now-wife. The tape shows what some might qualify for an aggravated assault indictment, which is three to five years in prison. But the NFL claimed they never saw that tape. Jeff Schultz reports that the NFL and Roger Goodell had ex-Secret Service and FBI agents employed for the “countless investigations.” So while the Peyton Mannings of investigation couldn’t uncover the tape, TMZ did.


And currently, Ray Rice is suspended from the NFL for two games. Just a reminder, Wes Welker is suspended for four games after using amphetamines — rumored to be the recreational drug MDMA or Molly.

The NFL’s punishment policy has been exposed as archaic and, in this case, immoral.

With so many capable hands on deck to clean up the Ray Rice hurricane, it’s questionable that the former Secret Service and FBI members failed to uncover this tape. If they genuinely did not, then that was some kind of waste of money and time for the NFL. They might as well have not done an investigation at all, because it’s seeming more like they didn’t.


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Dec 22, 2010 - A retired FBI agent was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter on Tuesday for using a hammer to beat his son's girlfriend to death, the Las ...
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The man police arrested, 61-year-old Edward Preciado-Nuno, is a retired FBI agent from San Diego. He is charged with the murder of his son's ...

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Another FBI Media Tentacle at All Jazeera

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During Al Jazeera America’s Sunday night segment The Week Ahead, Thomas Drayton discussed the strength and status of Al-Qaeda in the world today with Clint Watts, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and with Manuel Gomez, a former FBI special agent and New York Police Department sergeant who now heads his own security company.

“Al-Qaeda is the second-most-important global jihadist group right now,” said Watts. “The Islamic State has taken the lead.” He added that personnel and money are the two biggest indicators of what makes such groups strong.

Gomez said that the Islamic State group is a big concern globally and that although Al-Qaeda “has been minimized since 9/11 in terms of resources, funding and the number of people that have been neutralized, arrested and killed in action, it is still the No. 1 domestic threat that U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are concerned with.”

Gomez added that splinter groups of Al-Qaeda and U.S. citizens who travel abroad to join such groups are also of concern.

When it comes to Al-Qaeda’s strength, Watts said, it may be losing ground in Pakistan. Many of its fighters are joining the Islamic State, and that could be another reason for Zawahiri’s statement.

Gomez said that since 2001, Al-Qaeda’s ideology has not changed but its mechanisms have. Watts said that Al-Qaeda’s recruiting tactics are still very much the same, using the Internet and the group’s affiliates, but that it is trying now to bring more Westerners into its ranks.

But access to these groups seems to be waning. “Across the world now we see fewer resources and sources of information on the jihadist groups,” said Watts. “That includes everything from journalists to actual intelligence assets, so everything is spread very thin.”

“They are getting stronger in the sense of who they’re recruiting — the quality of the recruitments, as opposed to the quantity,” said Gomez. “Islamic State has the quantity, by far. Al-Qaeda is recruiting more of the-next-big-hit type of individuals, as opposed to trying to gain more territory.”

Watts said that the United States has changed its approach. “We’re attacking networks now. We had looked at this 10 years ago in terms of regime change, building countries that will have democracies and that will thwart terrorism. That approach has been abandoned, large scale. What we see now is a more nimble approach using different sorts of methods in terms of special operations forces, drones and partner nations.”

Gomez said that the U.S. may not be able to eradicate these jihadist groups but has tried to keep them contained and away from U.S. soil and interests.

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another FBI made member of their crime family Mike Rogers
showing off his FBI tentacle in Congress


Attorney: Benghazi Whistleblowers Harassed by House Intel Cmte

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Victoria Toensing, an attorney representing Benghazi whistleblower Greg Hicks, claimed that the House Intelligence Committee harassed witnesses during its investigation into Benghazi on Tuesday’s “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel.

“They were told, they were accused that they were not telling the truth. They were threatened with ‘the committee is not going to pay your travel expenses,’ which committees always do for witnesses who come in from out of town, ‘because you're writing a book and you're going to make money, and by the way, you shouldn't be writing a book.’ Now you say why would that happen with the Republican dominated House Intelligence Committee? Well, that chief of staff, the head of that staff that harassed these three brave men, a few months later went to work for Beacon Global Strategies. That is a Hillary organization ... it's like a Benghazi alumni association” she declared.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) denied these claims later on the same show, saying, “No, they were not threatened with perjury. What we did, it's interesting. The lawyers asked that none of their testimony be released until after their book was out and being sold. So this is so horribly unfortunate. I think you have lawyers who have a financial interest in this, certainly making allegations that are far from true. We have professional investigators. I'm a former FBI agent. Our goal was to get the facts and put them on the record so that we could have a record, and the sad part about this is the State Department made some horrific decisions that I believe contributed to the death of those four individuals. That is all going to get lost in these folks, as I said, I hope everybody buys their book because these are very brave souls who served their country proudly who ended up driving into unknown circumstances and save them. That's all really good. And so the only way if people buy the book is with some inflammatory comments. These are attorneys who have a financial stake in this. It’s unfortunate we’ve asked these transcripts be released and I think that’ll tell the truth and Americans can look at them find out the real truth.”

Toensing added that “I'd like to say something about Bob [the CIA Station Chief], who is really just a minor character in all of this. The whole reason that this occurred, he was put in that untenable situation was because the security was unacceptable and who made that decision? Hillary Rodham Clinton did. The ambassador asked for more security. When he went to Tripoli in May of 2012, there were 38 security personnel. When he went to Benghazi in September, how many, Steve? Do you know? Nine. They had shrunk his

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Who did FBI agents call when they needed nano
themwetic explosives to create 911?

couple of FBI tentacles



Posted 02/09/13
FBI agent takes over NY National Guard
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February 9, 2013, 3:01 p.m. ET

NY Army Guard unit getting new commander Sunday



UTICA, N.Y. — A veteran of the war in Afghanistan is taking command this weekend of a Utica-based infantry battalion in the New York Army National Guard.

Military officials say a change-of-command ceremony will be held Sunday afternoon at the State Armory in Utica. Lt. Col. Christopher Cronin of Rochester is taking command of the 2nd Battalion, 108th Infantry, part of the Syracuse-based 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.

Cronin previously served with the New York State Police and is a special agent with the FBI in civilian life. He entered the military after graduating from Syracuse University in 1993. In Afghanistan, he helped train Afghan army combat troops.


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The Fascinating Story of "White Boy Rick": Feds Built Him into Drug Kingpin at Age 14, Then Threw Him in Prison for Life
So why did the authorities turn on him? It started when he helped the feds investigate drug corruption in the Detroit Police Department.
By Seth Ferranti, The Fix - Wednesday, February 13 2013


Meet Richard Wershe. To other convicts in the Michigan penal system and the handful of DEA and FBI agents who once employed him as an informant, Wershe is known by the more memorable moniker, White Boy Rick.

Wershe was a baby-faced, blond-haired teenager who grew up in the the middle class fringes of Metro Detroit in the 1980s. Around the time he hit puberty, he transformed into White Boy Rick, a prolific drug dealer and teenage prodigy in the cutthroat and vicious streets of the Motor City. He ranked as high in the public imagination as such colorful Detroit drug heavyweights as the Chambers Brothers, Maserati Rick, the notorious Best Friends. By the time he was 16, he was dating the beautiful black niece of the Mayor of Detriot. White Boy Rick had arrived.

He had also been recruited as one of the DEA's prized confidential informants two years earlier, when he was 14. According to Wershe, a federal narcotics task force consisting of officers from the Detroit Police Department, the FBI and the DEA pushed him into the role of drug lord and played up his image. "They turned me into an urban legend," Rick says from a payphone at the Oaks Correctional Facility, near the eastern shore of Lake Michigan.

"I was just a kid when the agents pulled me out of high school in the ninth grade and had me out to three in the morning every night. They gave me a fake ID when I was 15 that said I was 21 so I could travel to Vegas and to Miami to do drug deals." Rick ended his relationship with authorities after serving two years as an informant. Less than a year later, he was arrested for possession with intent to deliver 650 grams of cocaine. He wasn't even 18.

Wershe was pinched on the same Detroit street where he grew up, carrying the drugs, $25,000 in cash, and driving a shiny new Ford Thunderbird that was registered in his girlfriend's name. She was five years older than him, married to Eastside drug kingpin Johnny Curry, and, as luck would have it, the niece of Mayor Coleman Young. Authorities later found eight kilos of cocaine that they linked to Wershe. On January 15, 1988, he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison under Michigan's draconian 650 lifer law, which has since been abolished.

- Read the entire article at AlterNet.




If you are an activist being tracked by the FBI and someone tries to kill you
and you make a call on your cell phone to get help and alert someone
the FBI has the ability to misdirect your phone call
File under George Orwell just tweeted Charles Darwin and said "LOL"

see link for how the FBI crime family spends your tax dime
Oh, just a reminder . The FBI is just three letters of the alphabet.
Three letters of the alphabet are not doing this. People with names are. Do you
know who they are? Do you know where they live? Nah.......


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FBI Files Unlock History Behind Clandestine Cellphone Tracking Tool

Friday, Feb. 15, 2013

FBI documents show how easy it is for them to monitor your movements using cellphones



It was described recently by one rights group as a “secretive new surveillance tool.” But documents just released by the FBI suggest that a clandestine cellphone tracking device known as the “Stingray” has been deployed across the United States for almost two decades—despite questions over its legality.

Stingrays, as I’ve reported here before, are portable surveillance gadgets that can trick phones within a specific area into hopping onto a fake network. The feds call them “cell-site simulators” or “digital analyzers,” and they are sometimes also described as “IMSI catchers.” The FBI says it uses them to target criminals and help track the movements of suspects in real time, not to intercept communications. But because Stingrays by design collaterally gather data from innocent bystanders’ phones and can interrupt phone users’ service, critics say they may violate a federal communications law.

A fresh trove of FBI files on cell tracking, some marked “secret,” was published this week by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. They shed light on how, far from being a “new” tool used by the authorities to track down targets, Stingray-style technology has been in the hands of the feds since about 1995 (at least). During that time, local and state law enforcement agencies have also been able to borrow the spy equipment in “exceptional circumstances,” thanks to an order approved by former FBI Director Louis Freeh.

EPIC, a civil liberties group, obtained the documents through ongoing Freedom of Information Act litigation that it is pursuing in order to get the feds to hand over some 25,000 pages of documents that relate to Stingray tools, about 6,000 of which are classified. The FBI has been drip-releasing the documents monthly, and there have been a couple of interesting nuggets in the batches so far—like a disclosure that the FBI has a manual called “cell tracking for dummies” and details hinting that the feds are well aware the use of Stingrays is in shaky legal territory.

The latest release, amounting to some 300 selectively redacted pages, not only suggests that sophisticated cellphone spy gear has been widely deployed since the mid-‘90s. It reveals that the FBI conducted training sessions on cell tracking techniques in 2007 and around the same time was operating an internal "secret" website with the purpose of sharing information and interactive media about "effective tools" for surveillance. There are also some previously classified emails between FBI agents that show the feds joking about using the spy gear. "Are you smart enough to turn the knobs by yourself?" one agent asks a colleague.

On a more serious note, EPIC attorney Alan Butler told me he believes the release raises further legal questions about the technology. It shows that the bureau has been classifying the use of “cellsite simulator” as a “pen register device,” following guidance issued by the Department of Justice. “Pen register” is a term used to describe a type of surveillance that does not usually require a search warrant because it records only metadata—the who, where, and when of a communication but not the content. However, Butler pointed out, a June 2012 ruling in the Southern District of Texas found that Stingrays should require a warrant, with the judge concluding that “the government has not provided any support that the pen register statute applies to stingray equipment.”

[msfreeh]

Who did FBI agents call when they needed nano
themwetic explosives to create 911?

couple of FBI tentacles



Posted 02/09/13
FBI agent takes over NY National Guard
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someone changed the link to the 1 st story
here is the correct link

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February 9, 2013, 3:01 p.m. ET

NY Army Guard unit getting new commander Sunday



UTICA, N.Y. — A veteran of the war in Afghanistan is taking command this weekend of a Utica-based infantry battalion in the New York Army National Guard.

Military officials say a change-of-command ceremony will be held Sunday afternoon at the State Armory in Utica. Lt. Col. Christopher Cronin of Rochester is taking command of the 2nd Battalion, 108th Infantry, part of the Syracuse-based 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.

Cronin previously served with the New York State Police and is a special agent with the FBI in civilian life. He entered the military after graduating from Syracuse University in 1993. In Afghanistan, he helped train Afghan army combat troops.


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The Fascinating Story of "White Boy Rick": Feds Built Him into Drug Kingpin at Age 14, Then Threw Him in Prison for Life
So why did the authorities turn on him? It started when he helped the feds investigate drug corruption in the Detroit Police Department.
By Seth Ferranti, The Fix - Wednesday, February 13 2013


Meet Richard Wershe. To other convicts in the Michigan penal system and the handful of DEA and FBI agents who once employed him as an informant, Wershe is known by the more memorable moniker, White Boy Rick.

Wershe was a baby-faced, blond-haired teenager who grew up in the the middle class fringes of Metro Detroit in the 1980s. Around the time he hit puberty, he transformed into White Boy Rick, a prolific drug dealer and teenage prodigy in the cutthroat and vicious streets of the Motor City. He ranked as high in the public imagination as such colorful Detroit drug heavyweights as the Chambers Brothers, Maserati Rick, the notorious Best Friends. By the time he was 16, he was dating the beautiful black niece of the Mayor of Detriot. White Boy Rick had arrived.

He had also been recruited as one of the DEA's prized confidential informants two years earlier, when he was 14. According to Wershe, a federal narcotics task force consisting of officers from the Detroit Police Department, the FBI and the DEA pushed him into the role of drug lord and played up his image. "They turned me into an urban legend," Rick says from a payphone at the Oaks Correctional Facility, near the eastern shore of Lake Michigan.

"I was just a kid when the agents pulled me out of high school in the ninth grade and had me out to three in the morning every night. They gave me a fake ID when I was 15 that said I was 21 so I could travel to Vegas and to Miami to do drug deals." Rick ended his relationship with authorities after serving two years as an informant. Less than a year later, he was arrested for possession with intent to deliver 650 grams of cocaine. He wasn't even 18.

Wershe was pinched on the same Detroit street where he grew up, carrying the drugs, $25,000 in cash, and driving a shiny new Ford Thunderbird that was registered in his girlfriend's name. She was five years older than him, married to Eastside drug kingpin Johnny Curry, and, as luck would have it, the niece of Mayor Coleman Young. Authorities later found eight kilos of cocaine that they linked to Wershe. On January 15, 1988, he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison under Michigan's draconian 650 lifer law, which has since been abolished.

- Read the entire article at AlterNet.




If you are an activist being tracked by the FBI and someone tries to kill you
and you make a call on your cell phone to get help and alert someone
the FBI has the ability to misdirect your phone call
File under George Orwell just tweeted Charles Darwin and said "LOL"

see link for how the FBI crime family spends your tax dime
Oh, just a reminder . The FBI is just three letters of the alphabet.
Three letters of the alphabet are not doing this. People with names are. Do you
know who they are? Do you know where they live? Nah.......


http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense ... cking.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
FBI Files Unlock History Behind Clandestine Cellphone Tracking Tool

Friday, Feb. 15, 2013

FBI documents show how easy it is for them to monitor your movements using cellphones



It was described recently by one rights group as a “secretive new surveillance tool.” But documents just released by the FBI suggest that a clandestine cellphone tracking device known as the “Stingray” has been deployed across the United States for almost two decades—despite questions over its legality.

Stingrays, as I’ve reported here before, are portable surveillance gadgets that can trick phones within a specific area into hopping onto a fake network. The feds call them “cell-site simulators” or “digital analyzers,” and they are sometimes also described as “IMSI catchers.” The FBI says it uses them to target criminals and help track the movements of suspects in real time, not to intercept communications. But because Stingrays by design collaterally gather data from innocent bystanders’ phones and can interrupt phone users’ service, critics say they may violate a federal communications law.

A fresh trove of FBI files on cell tracking, some marked “secret,” was published this week by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. They shed light on how, far from being a “new” tool used by the authorities to track down targets, Stingray-style technology has been in the hands of the feds since about 1995 (at least). During that time, local and state law enforcement agencies have also been able to borrow the spy equipment in “exceptional circumstances,” thanks to an order approved by former FBI Director Louis Freeh.

EPIC, a civil liberties group, obtained the documents through ongoing Freedom of Information Act litigation that it is pursuing in order to get the feds to hand over some 25,000 pages of documents that relate to Stingray tools, about 6,000 of which are classified. The FBI has been drip-releasing the documents monthly, and there have been a couple of interesting nuggets in the batches so far—like a disclosure that the FBI has a manual called “cell tracking for dummies” and details hinting that the feds are well aware the use of Stingrays is in shaky legal territory.

The latest release, amounting to some 300 selectively redacted pages, not only suggests that sophisticated cellphone spy gear has been widely deployed since the mid-‘90s. It reveals that the FBI conducted training sessions on cell tracking techniques in 2007 and around the same time was operating an internal "secret" website with the purpose of sharing information and interactive media about "effective tools" for surveillance. There are also some previously classified emails between FBI agents that show the feds joking about using the spy gear. "Are you smart enough to turn the knobs by yourself?" one agent asks a colleague.

On a more serious note, EPIC attorney Alan Butler told me he believes the release raises further legal questions about the technology. It shows that the bureau has been classifying the use of “cellsite simulator” as a “pen register device,” following guidance issued by the Department of Justice. “Pen register” is a term used to describe a type of surveillance that does not usually require a search warrant because it records only metadata—the who, where, and when of a communication but not the content. However, Butler pointed out, a June 2012 ruling in the Southern District of Texas found that Stingrays should require a warrant, with the judge concluding that “the government has not provided any support that the pen register statute applies to stingray equipment.”

[msfreeh]

3. stories

Nike tentacle named FBI spotted



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Top Oregon FBI official leaving at month's end, reportedly for investigations job with Nike

November 13, 2013 at 12:22 PM, updated November 13, 2013 at 12:55 PM




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Oregon's top FBI official confirmed this morning that he is retiring after a two-year run at the helm of the Portland Division.

"I am retiring at the end of this month to take a position in the private sector," said Special Agent in Charge Gregory A. Fowler in a prepared statement to The Oregonian.

Fowler announced his plans to his staff Tuesday, saying he was accepting a job with Nike as director of investigations. He would not comment Wednesday about where he was going to work.

"I have been privileged to lead the men and women of the FBI's Portland Field Office, and will always be proud of their unyielding dedication to keeping Oregon and the country safe," Fowler said in his statement.


Business Community honor man who worked for organization that assassinated President Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
TWO STORIES


1st read

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Former FBI agent in charge in Buffalo to be honored Monday
November 16, 2013 - 9:04 PM



Peter J. Ahearn, who was special agent in charge of Buffalo FBI operations during a number of events in the past decade, will be presented the Founders Award of the FBI Buffalo Citizens Academy Alumni Association at its annual meeting Monday.

Ahearn is being honored for his “vision, leadership and commitment to the academy and his outstanding service to the local community,” said Michael Benzin, president of the alumni association.

Ahearn, who now operates an executive consulting and business development group in Washington, D.C., was instrumental in expanding the scope of the local FBI Citizens Academy, which graduated about 500 area business, civic and community leaders in the operations of federal law enforcement. Ahearn was appointed head of the Buffalo office of the FBI in 2001 and retired from the agency in 2006.

During his time with the FBI in Buffalo, he played a central role in the prosecution of the Lackawanna Six, the James Charles Kopp murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian and the dismantling of the corrupt leadership of Teamsters Local 91 in Niagara Falls.

He was also instrumental in establishing the FBI-supported Western New York Regional Computer Forensics Lab and setting up the Buffalo FBI’s cyber security program and its Public Corruption Task Force.

As a former FBI SWAT leader, Ahearn also oversaw the FBI’s Buffalo crisis management and tactical operations. The 1976 Rutgers University graduate was in the FBI 29 years and then worked two years as a senior adviser in the office of the Federal Director of National Intelligence.

The annual meeting will be held in the Clement Mansion on the campus of the American Red Cross at 786 Delaware Ave.


2nd read

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Buffalo FBI Agent Busted
Dec 10, 2012


BUFFALO, NY - A Special Agent working in the Buffalo office of the FBI is due in Eden Town Court later this month, after being arrested by New York State Police last Friday night, charged with exposing himself to a fellow motorist on the New York State Thruway.

State Police Lt. David Denz confirmed for WGRZ-TV that John A. Yervelli Jr., 48, of Lakeview, was charged with Public Lewdness, a class B misdemeanor, punishable by up to 90 days in jail.

According to Denz, a truck driver from central New York was traveling in the right lane while east bound on the Thruway near mile marker 442, between Exits 57 and 57A, when he noticed a grey minivan pull alongside him in the passing lane.

The trucker told police that when he looked down, he noticed the driver of the other vehicle (who had turned his dome light on) was not wearing pants.

"At that point the complainant stated that the driver of the minivan was exposing himself and making lewd gestures," Denz told 2 On Your Side.

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PRESS RELEASE Stroz Friedberg Names Former McKinsey ...
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Nov 12, 2013 - strozfriedberg.com 32 Avenue of the Americas, 4th Floor, New York, NY ... Stroz Friedberg Names Former McKinsey Americas Chairman,.






Stroz Friedberg Names Former McKinsey Americas Chairman, Michael Patsalos-Fox, as Chief Executive Officer
Co-founders Stroz and Friedberg to remain in leadership positions as Executive Chairmen

Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013 - 6:11 am

Stroz Friedberg, a global investigations, intelligence, and risk services company, announced today that Michael Patsalos-Fox has joined as Chief Executive Officer. A former Chairman of the Americas for management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, Patsalos-Fox is responsible for the company's operations and growth strategies. Stroz Friedberg's founders, Edward Stroz and Eric Friedberg, will serve as Executive Chairmen leading client development and hands-on strategic client counsel.

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Patsalos-Fox, who retired from McKinsey & Company earlier this year, had been with the firm since 1981. He served as Chairman of McKinsey in the Americas from 2003 - 2009, responsible for driving an aggressive growth agenda leading over 2,500 consultants, including 300 partners. Between 2009 and 2013, Patsalos-Fox led the creation and development of McKinsey Solutions, a practice that combined industry and functional expertise with data science to unlock lasting insights and performance for the firm's largest global clients. He also served as a senior partner on McKinsey's operating committee for nine years, and he held a seat on the firm's board for 12 years.

Stroz Friedberg was founded in 2000 and quickly became a "go-to" strategic advisor to the C-suite of a large number of Fortune 500 companies, as well as a trusted resource for many of the world's leading law firms. Co-founders Edward Stroz, a former Special Agent for the FBI, and Eric Friedberg, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, are among the most respected experts in cyber-crime, digital forensics, electronic discovery, and investigations.

As a special agent, Stroz was responsible for the formation of the FBI's Computer Crime Squad in New York City, where he supervised a wide range of investigations including denial of service attacks, illegal internet wiretapping, and fraud. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Friedberg served as the lead computer crimes prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York, where he conducted and directed numerous investigations and prosecutions involving computer crime and abuse, cyber extortion, and telecommunications fraud in cases impacting some of the biggest names in corporate America.

"While many consulting firms offer cyber security and risk management advisory services today, we built Stroz Friedberg to have a depth of talent and breadth of experience that are unmatched," said Eric Friedberg. "Our clients are able to access the expertise of many of the most respected professionals from government, law enforcement, and regulatory bodies to help address their greatest risk and investigations challenges, and now we have one of the most respected names in management consulting joining us as our CEO. That's really hard to beat."

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Former FBI Director Robert "septicemia" Mueller
who along with Louis Freeh and J Edgar Hoover gave American Democracy blood poisoning is fondly remembered for his leadership role in covering up the 911 attack and the BCCI banking scandal

Alert Alert Alert


NFL Coverup in Progress

2. reads



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Probe of NFL’s handling of Ray Rice case could imperil Commissioner Roger Goodell


September 11 at 6:53 PM

The hiring of former FBI director Robert S. Mueller III to investigate the NFL’s handling of the Ray Rice case throws the controversy into a new and unpredictable phase that could lead to severe sanctions against NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, former FBI officials and people close to NFL team owners said Thursday.

While Goodell continues to have solid support among many of the NFL’s 32 owners, the owners are prepared to act against him, potentially considering his dismissal, if Mueller’s probe concludes he misrepresented what he knew about the Rice investigation or orchestrated a cover-up, several people familiar with the owners’ views said.



2nd read

FBI Director Mueller was at center of alleged BCCI coverup in 1991
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May 26, 2009 - The arrests came on the same day as FBI Director Robert Mueller testified before the House Judiciary Committee that bringing Guantanamo ...
How Doj Cover-Up of FBI Murders Enabled 9/11 Attacks
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Rodey Stich - 2012
Mueller Cover-Up In BCCI Scandal A Wall Street Journal editorial (May 31, 2002) stated of Mueller's handing of the BCCI scandal: Prior to his appointment [to ...
Crimes of the FBI-Doj, Mafia, and Al Qaeda
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Rodney Stich - 2009 - ‎Mafia
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DOJ-Judicial Crimes Against the People: - Google Books Result
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Captain Rodney Stich - 2014 - ‎History
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Crimes Ol the CIA-Doj, and the Mafia - Page 140 - Google Books Result
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Terrorism Against America: External and Internal Interrorists
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Rodney Stich - 2008 - ‎Political Science
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Terrorism and Deadliest Enabling Scandals of 21st Century
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From rigging who gets appointed to the US Supreme Court
as described in attorney Alec Charn's book Cloak and Gavel
to making sure the head of the Department of Justice
friends the Facebook page of Wall Street
taxpayer funded FBI agents work tirelessly to keep
Mr Dow protected while they " Jones " you.


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Brooklyn prosecutor emerges as a top candidate to lead U.S. Justice Department
WASHINGTON | Mon Oct 27, 2014


Loretta Lynch, the head federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, is emerging as a leading candidate to replace U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, according to people familiar with the matter, after another top contender withdrew her name from the running last week.

Lynch, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, and Labor Secretary Thomas Perez are among those being considered, said the people, who declined to be named about the private deliberations.

Lynch, 55, has stirred little controversy during two tenures as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York and supporters say she could be easily confirmed. She would also be the first black woman to lead the U.S. Department of Justice, which could help counter complaints that the Obama administration is dominated by men.

The White House declined to comment on the search to replace Holder, who announced on Sept. 25 that he planned to step down.

"We don't have any personnel updates, and are certainly not going to speculate on any decisions before the president makes them,” White House spokesman Eric Schultz said.

Holder, the first black U.S. Attorney General who came into office in 2009, has said he will stay in the post until the Senate confirms a successor.

A spokeswoman for Lynch, Zugiel Soto, also declined comment.

The administration of President Barack Obama has considered multiple candidates and the White House is not expected to announce a nominee until after the midterm elections next week, so a dark horse candidate could still emerge.

Former White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler pulled out of consideration for the job amid concerns that her involvement in controversial White House decisions could make it difficult to get her confirmed by the Senate.

Solicitor General Verrilli and Labor Secretary Perez both have an advantage of having had a working relationship with Obama. Lynch does not but she is one of several candidates Holder has encouraged the White House to look at, two sources said. Vetting inquiries into Lynch have been underway, sources said.

Lynch has developed a close relationship with Holder from the New York City borough of Brooklyn while keeping a much lower profile than her counterpart across the East River, Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for Manhattan who built his name on a string of big insider-trading cases and prosecutions of politicians for corruption.

Lynch's office did indict Republican Congressman Michael Grimm in April for fraud, and has worked with Justice Department headquarters on several big cases. Her office helped investigate Citigroup Inc over shoddy mortgage securities the bank sold, which led the bank to enter into a $7 billion settlement in July. Her office was also involved in the December 2012 $1.2 billion accord with HSBC over the bank's lapses in its anti-money laundering controls.

Lynch, who grew up in North Carolina and attended Harvard University for college and law school, has chaired the attorney general's advisory committee since the beginning of 2013.

She served previously at the Justice Department, starting as a drug and violent crime prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney's office in 1990. She also previously headed the office in Brooklyn between 1999 and 2001, when she left for private practice at the law firm Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells) and then served as a board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

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DO YOU PLEAD THE 5TH, SHERIFF GORE?

Lawsuit seeks to restore Facebook comment pertaining to Ruby




Oct. 29, 2014
The shooting of an unarmed woman holding her baby in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992 continues to follow San Diego County sheriff Bill Gore around and that goes for social media sites. Gore, according to a federal lawsuit, continues to dodge questions about the day’s events.

On October 27, Dimitrios Karras filed a federal complaint alleging that Sheriff Gore and his staff deleted comments he posted to the sheriff department's Facebook page, thus violating his right to free speech.

Karras posted his comment on September 2, 2014. It read:

"Sheriff Gore: Do you plead the 5th about your involvement in the MURDER of an unarmed woman who was holding her baby? REMEMBER RUBY RIDGE.”

Within an hour, the comment was removed and Karras was informed that he was not allowed to post any more comments on to the sheriff's Facebook fan page.

More than 22 years have elapsed since the FBI standoff at Randy Weaver's cabin in Ruby Ridge. At the time, Gore served as the bureau chief in Seattle, the lead office in charge of the standoff. Weaver, a white separatist facing gun charges, was holed up in the cabin along with his wife Vicki, infant daughter, and a man named Kevin Harrison.

Days before the seige, a gun battle occurred between FBI agent Michael Degan and Weaver, Harrison, and Weaver's 14-year-old son Sammy as they walked in the woods near the cabin. Weaver's son along with agent Degan were killed during the shootout. The men retreated back to the cabin where they stayed while agents surrounded the cabin.

The next day, Weaver and Harrison tried to leave to find a burial place for the deceased boy. During another shootout that ensued, Weaver's wife Vicki was shot and killed while holding her baby daughter. The men later surrendered. The FBI soon came under scrutiny for the tactics used and the murder of an unarmed woman. Gore denied that he gave the shooter the green light. He refused to testify at a congressional hearing.

Two decades later, people such as Karras still want an answer from Gore; Facebook proved to be no means of getting one, either.


"Despite receiving Plaintiff’s letter, and being on notice of First Amendment violations, Defendants continue to cherry-pick comments on the Sheriff’s Department Facebook fan page in order to cultivate a self-serving political image," reads the federal lawsuit. "Defendants continue to punish those that fail to conform to the government message by banning them from

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US Rep. Mike Rogers to start radio show Jan. 5

In this April 30, 2014 photo, Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich, smiles in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. The daily radio show Rogers begins hosting in January will give the Michigan Republican practice talking to millions of Americans every day, and honing what he calls a ìproductive conservativeî message talk radio is desperately lacking



11/06/14, Congressman Mike Rogers of Michigan plans to start his new radio show on Jan. 5.

The ex-FBI agent and outgoing House Intelligence Committee chairman says in a statement Thursday that the show called “Something to Talk About” will include humorous, compelling and moving stories about issues including national security.

The Howell Republican, who represented