FBI WATCH DO NOT FLY LIST

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » June 30th, 2014, 10:35 am

as voters and taxpayers did I mention we are also the primary consumers of the criminal justice system, we are the owners of this
system.

This post topic is created to honor investigative reporter
Danny Casolero who was murdered by FBI agents when
he tried to warn us that the FBI is a Octopus which he became aware of
while he was attempting to expose how taxpayer funded FBI
agents created the October Suprise.
Where do FBI agents go when they leave the FBI?

Where do they fly to? What part of the FBI tentacle are they?
Where do they live in your neighborhood?

a smart criminal justice consumer would know, eh?

couple of reads

1st read

Veteran FBI Agent, a Pennsylvania Native, Becomes Director of Office of National Counterintelligence Executive
Steve Neavling
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FBI Agent William Evanina, who helped investigate the anthrax attacks in 2001 and the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001, is moving to a new job, Citizens Voice reports.

Evanina has been appointed director of the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, giving him a important role in the country’s security.

“The office of the national counterintelligence executive leads the entire US government in protecting America from counterintelligence threats,” Evanina said.

Evanina, a Pennsylvania native, worked 25 years in the U.S. government and 18 years for the FBI. He worked on organized crime and was a trained sniper.

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The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro Paperback
by Kenn Thomas (Author), Jim Keith (Author)

Kenn and Jim's magnum opus. (RIP, beloved friend to humankind.) This book is as scary as they come, and stranger than fiction. As a conspiracy writer, I found myself shaking while reading it. THEY are real, and THEY can do and have done horrifying things. The Octopus is the Matrix vivified.
This book is especially important for anyone who still naively believes "there are no conspiracies." The word "conspiracy" means "to breathe together." Only two people are needed to make a conspiracy, and this book will leave you breathless.
Danny Casolaro is a heroic figure who bravely and, perhaps, foolhardily attempted to foil the Octopus, whose tendons reach into the most intimate parts of all our lives. He should never be forgotten. Thank goodness for the valiant likes of Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith for telling his story. Movie studios should be clamoring for this highly untold story - but they are no doubt part of the Octopus. Danny, Kenn and Jim should be lauded for their audacity and courage in bringing forth this treacherous tale of murder and mayhem. Such valor is akin to that of Gary Webb in his expose of CIA drug-dealing.
Carry on, fellow warriors for truth.
Acharya S; Archaeologist, Historian

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THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF DANNY CASOLARO

by David MacMichael

Pre-Octopus Danny Casolaro

The following article appeared in the Winter 1991 issue of "Covert Action Information Bulletin," #39, pps. 53-57. The author can be reached through the Association of National Security Alumni at +1-202-483-9325. In a recent telephone conversation the author identified the other FBI agent who was to have met with Casolaro the day he died as one Ted Gunderson. We discussed the possible relationship between the Casolaro case and the death threats received by Judge Col. Hamilton Gayden and attorney Albro Lundy III shortly after they were contacted by Casolaro with regard to the POW/MIA issue in the weeks prior to Casolaro's death. MacMichael speculated that the connection was, "drugs" i.e. southeast asian heroin used in support of the Company's black operations. --[email protected]

David MacMicheal is a former CIA estimates officer. He is the Washington representative of the Association of National Security Alumni, and editor of its monthly newsletter, "Unclassified."

Joseph Daniel Casolaro was one of many freelance investigative reporters stirring the witches brew of scandal simmering in the nation's capitol. He was also an aspiring novelist, newsletter publisher, and freelance writer for publications running the gamut from the now defunct Washington Star to the National Enquirer. From a well-to-do family (his father, a doctor, had invested well in Northern Virginia real estate), he was 44 years old, divorced, and living comfortably on a five-acre estate in Fairfax County, Virginia -- home to the CIA.

Casolaro was working on a book aimed at exposing what he called "The Octopus," a group of less than a dozen shadowy figures whose machinations figured heavily, he claimed, in the Inslaw case, Iran-Contra, BCCI, and the October Surprise.

DEATH SCENE, WITH INSTANT EMBALMING

In the first week of August, Casolaro told friends and acquaintances that he was going to West Virginia too meet a source who would provide a key piece of evidence he needed to complete his investigation. He drove to Martinsburg, West Virginia, on Thursday, August 8, and checked into room 517 of the Sheraton Hotel. Two days later, at 12:51 p.m., hotel employees found his naked body in a bathtub full of bloody water. Time of death has been estimated at about 9:00 a.m. [1]

Both arms and wrists had been slashed a total of at least 12 times; one of the cuts went so deep that it severed a tendon. [2] Press accounts differ on minor details of the scene, but there was apparently no evidence of struggle. There was a four sentence suicide note in the bedroom.

Hotel management called the Martinsburg police who brought along the local coroner, Sandra Brining, a registered nurse. Ms. Brining ruled the death a suicide, took small blood and urine samples, and released the body to the Brown Funeral Home. Without authorization from officials or Casolaro's next of kin, the funeral home embalmed the body as a "courtesy to the family," according to Brining's statement at an August 15 press conference in Martinsburg.

Martinsburg police notified the next of kin, Dr. Anthony Casolaro, also of Fairfax, of his brother's death on Monday, August 12. Casolaro says that police explanations for the delay, like the hasty, unauthorized and illegal embalming, seemed either extraordinarily inefficient or highly suspicious. West Virginia state law requires that next of kin be notified before a body can be embalmed. [3] Casolaro requested a second examination, which was performed by West Virginia state medical examiner Jack Frost, who stated at the same August 15 press conference that the evidence was "not inconsistent" with suicide. At the same time, he declared that he "could not rule out foul play" and admitted that performing a conclusive

Casolaro requested a second examination, which was performed by West Virginia state medical examiner Jack Frost, who stated at the same August 15 press conference that the evidence was "not inconsistent" with suicide. At the same time, he declared that he "could not rule out foul play" and admitted that performing a conclusive autopsy on an embalmed body is almost impossible. [4]

Anthony Casolaro publicly stated his disbelief that his gregarious and high-spirited brother could have committed suicide. Danny was so afraid of blood, he said, that he refused to allow samples to be drawn for medical purposes, and would never have chosen, in any case to slash his veins a dozen times. Other relatives and friends offered that same assessment: Danny Casolaro was not the suicidal type. Moreover, added a former girlfriend, he hated being seen in the nude. [5]

Brining's blood samples showed traces of an anti-depressant drug and the non-prescription painkiller Tylenol 3. Casolaro stated that his brother was not depressed and his medical record showed no prescription for anti-depressants. On the other hand, as Ridgeway and Vaughn reported after examination of Casolaro's medical records and conversations with his personal physician (his brother's professional partner), there was clear evidence that the reporter was in the early stages of multiple schlerosis (MS). He had experienced incidents of loss of vision, a couple of severe falls, numbness in one leg, and persistent headaches. His resistance to blood tests could conceivably be attributed to fear that a diagnosis of MS might be confirmed.

Some press reports hint at an alcohol problem. [6] Most accounts, however, suggest that he enjoyed the company in bars more than alcohol; according to friends, he would nurse a few beers all afternoon or take four hours to finish a bottle of wine. [7] Other accounts speculated that his inability to interest publishers in the book he planned to write had made him despondent. [8] He was also alleged to have been worried about his financial situation. He had borrowed heavily to finance his research and publisher's rejections were a blow. In a letter to his agent he referred to his debts" In September I'll be looking into the face of an oncoming train." Friends, however, dismissed the allegations -- debt was Casolaro's usual situation and he was given to overstatement. Said one friend, "Danny would not off himself over money problems." [9] Also, he was negotiating the subdivision of his five acres, a deal that should have netted him several hundred thousand dollars. His employment of a full time housekeeper suggests that he was not severely strapped.

Casolaro had spoken to family and friends of the danger of his investigations, warning them not to believe it if he died of an "accident." But one of Casolaro's sources claims that despite being cautioned, the reporter was cavalier about taking safety measures. [10]

In April 1991, Casolaro told longtime friend and former business associate, Pat Clawson that he had uncovered a "web of corruption" while investigating the Inslaw case. The "web" involved top-ranking Justice Department officials, New York organized crime figures, and Medellin Cartel drug trafficers, jointly bankrolling "off-the-books" intelligence projects, including Iran-Contra. Their fund-raising schemes, Casolaro said, included: software exports restricted under the Export Control Act, gunrunning, illegal arms sales, bogus mineral and oil investment scams, and drug smuggling through Canada. Monies generated were so immense, Casolaro said, that government officials regularly skimmed off a hefty percentage. None of this has thus far been documented.

COINCIDENTAL DEATHS OR PARALLEL MURDERS?

Casolaro's death was promptly linked to that of other journalists in Guatemala and Chile. On January 29, 1991, Lawrence Ng, a stringer for the London Financial Times, was found shot dead in the bathtub of his Guatemala City apartment. Ng had been probing BCCI connections to arms sales in Guatemala. [11] [See Colhoun, p. 45.] Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta have attempted to link Casolaro's death to that of British aviation writer Jonathan Moyle -- also ruled a suicide when he was found in March 1990 hanging in the closet of his hotel room in Santiago, Chile. [12] Moyle was looking into the activities of Chilean arms dealer Carlos Cardoen, who figures prominently in the Inslaw case.

Anderson and Van Atta take seriously the possibility that both reporters were murdered and that both had been tracking the same "octopus." [13] Both were investigating the activities of Cardoen, a suspected conduit for arms sold to Iraq. According to an affidavit filed in the Inslaw case, Cardoen also played a role in the sale of Inslaw's purloined software to Iraq. [14]

Both Casolaro and Moyle had communicated with Anderson, who believed they were "no further along in the story" than others. "On the surface," Anderson and Van Atta wrote, "Neither man had evidence worth killing for."

British journalist David Akerman disagrees, arguing that Moyle had uncovered information on connections between leading British arms makers and Cardoen, who used British licenses to manufacture high-technology weaponry for illegal delivery to Iraq. [15] Because the illegal weapons transfers were generally known among arms dealers, public disclosure would have been sufficiently embarrassing and financially damaging to have placed Moyle's life in jeopardy. There are those who feel just as strongly about the facts surrounding the death of Danny Casolaro.

THE INSLAW MORASS

The most politically volatile side of this story is Casolaro's extensive investigation into the Inslaw case. Elliot Richardson is legal counsel to the Washington, D. C. - based computer software company, Inslaw. Widely respected for his ethics and legal expertise, Richardson quit as Nixon's Attorney General in 1973 rather than carry out the order to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archbald Cox. In a recent radio interview, Richardson was asked if he believed Casolaro killed himself. He answered:

I don't. I think everything we know makes it much more likely that he was eliminated by a person or persons unknown who feared that he was about to disclose information that would be severely damaging... he told [friends] separately that he had in hand or ready, significant hard evidence pointing to the connections between Inslaw and these other events [Iran-Contra, BCCI, October Surprise]. He said he was going to West Virginia to get additional evidence that would really lock this whole picture into place. Now, that I think is the most significant piece of information we have. There's no reason to suppose that he was lying to his friends. Why should he? And there's no reason to suppose that they lied in saying that this is what he told them. [16]

The Inslaw case involves charges that the Justice Department, under Attorney General Edwin Meese, stole the powerful database software PROMIS (Prosecutor's Management Information System) from Inslaw. When a federal bankruptcy court ruled in Inslaw's favor in 1987, presiding Judge George Francis Bason concluded that the Justice Department "took, converted, and stole" the software "through trickery, fraud, and deceit." [17]

Allegations about the theft of PROMIS have suggested three possible motives: To fund off-the-shelf covert operations; to market a "trojan horse" database which could then be easily monitored by the National Security Agency; [18] and to pay off Reagan attorney General Edwin Meese's political crony, Dr. Earl Brian. Now president of the floundering United Press International, Earl Brian has longstanding ties to Reagan and served in his cabinet when Reagan was governor of California.

Whatever it motivations, the Justice Department has twice been found guilty of theft and was ordered to pay Inslaw 6.8 million, plus legal fees. In 1989, the decision was upheld by federal judge William Bryant who said, "the government acted willfully and fraudulently..." [19] Under both Edwin Meese and Richard Thornburgh, the Justice Department stonewalled efforts to investigate, refusing to release documents either to Senator Sam Nunn's Government Affairs Investigations Subcommittee or to Congressman Jack Brooks' House Judiciary Committee.

In June, after eight years of litigation, the Federal Appeals Court of the District of Columbia voided the two previous decisions. October Surprise figure Judge Lawrence J. Silberman [20] cast the deciding vote, declaring that the case had been wrongly heard in a bankruptcy court in the first place, and must be retried in a federal district court. Inslaw has appealed to the Supreme Court.

The Washington, D. C. bankruptcy court judge who had heard the case and decided in Inslaw's favor was removed from the bench one month after his decision. [21] He was replaced by S. Martin Teel, Jr., one of the Department of Justice lawyers who had unsuccessfully argued the case. According to a writer for Barron's, "Even jaded, case hardened Washington attorneys called the decision 'shocking' and 'eerie.'" [22]

OCTOBER SURPRISE

October Surprise is the as-yet unproven theory that members of the 1980 Reagan presidential campaign arranged a deal with the government of Iran to continue holding 52 U. S. hostages in Tehran until after the election in order to prevent President Carter from benefiting politically from their release.

The Inslaw case is tied to the October Surprise by the sworn affidavit of Michael Riconosciuto, a West Coast computer and weapons technician with self-proclaimed ties to the intelligence community. He testified last March that he had modified the PROMIS software for sale to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) at the request of a Justice department contracting officer named Peter Videnieks and Reagan/Meese crony Earl Brian. [23] In an unsworn statement to Inslaw's president William A. Hamilton, Riconosciuto says he met Brian in 1980 when he helped him deliver $40 million to Tehran to consummate the October Surprise weapons-for-hostages deal. [24]

After Riconosciuto first contacted Inslaw, Casolaro traveled several times to California and Washington in 1990 and 1991 to talk to him. Riconosciuto claims knowledge of many covert activities in the U.S., Latin America, and Australia, and doubtless influenced Casolaro's concept of the Octopus. [25] In his affidavit in the Inslaw case, Riconosciuto declared that Videnieks told him "not to cooperate with an independent investigation... by the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States House of Representatives." [26] Riconosciuto also stated that Videnieks also threatened him with specific punishments he "could expect to receive from the U.S. Department of Justice... " if he cooperated with that investigation. [27] Within eight days of swearing the affidavit, he was in fact arrested on charges of distributing methamphetamines and has been held without bail in Washington state since March. [28] My appointment to speak to Casolaro on his return concerned Riconosciuto, in whose wide-ranging, not entirely believable allegations we shared a keen interest.

Viedenieks has denied in a sworn affidavit any knowledge of or contact with Riconosciuto. Earl Brian has done the same. Although Videnieks identifies himself as an employee of the U.S. Customs in his affidavit, the customs personnel office has denied any knowledge of him. An independent check with regional Customs officials also produced no evidence of Videnieks. Casolaro, however, told Hamilton that he had contacted Videnieks at Customs shortly before his fatal trip. [29]

FINAL RENDEVOUS

What is known about Danny Casolaro's trip to Martinsburg is that he met on Thursday, August 8, at about 5:30 p.m. in the Sheraton bar with a man described by a waitress as possibly Arab or Iranian. [30] This may have been an Egyptian named Hassan Ali Ibrahim Ali. According to documents provided to Casolaro by former Customs informant Bob Bickel, Ali headed an Iraqi front company in the U.S. called Sitico.

According to Ridgeway and Vaughn, Casolaro had shown a photo of Ali to a friend shortly before leaving for Martinsburg. Middle East expert Mary Barrett has asserted that Hassan Ali -- known as "Ali Ali" -- had close ties to the late Gerald Bull, the American ballistics engineer working on super long-range artillery for Iraq and South Africa. [31] Bull was murdered in Brussels in March, apparently by Israeli agents. [32]

After meeting with Ali, Casolaro waited in the same bar to meet another source, who never arrived. In a conversation with Tom Looney, a fellow hotel guest he met there, Casolaro spoke of the source he was waiting for, explaining that the man had the information to solve the Octopus riddle, something which Casolaro explained in detail to his skeptical listener. Looney told Ridgeway and Vaughn that he had a hard time believing that just seven or eight men were responsible for 40 years of scandals.

OTHER FIGURES FROM THE SHADOWS

On the following day, Friday, August 9, Casolaro met with a former Hughes Aircraft employee, William Turner, in the Sheraton parking lot at about 2:00 p.m. Turner gave him some papers relating to alleged corruption at Hughes and at the Pentagon.

To further complicate matters, Turner was arrested on September 26, on charges of holding up a rural bank near his home in Winchester, Virginia. In an interview with Ridgeway and Vaughn in mid-August, Turner professed to being "scared shitless" because of the evidence Casolaro had shown him connecting "the Octopus" to Oliver North, BCCI, the Keating Five, and the Silverado Savings and Loan scandal. [33]

Finally, there is the ubiquitous Ari Ben-Menashe, the former Israeli military intelligence officer who claims to have been involve

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » July 8th, 2014, 2:42 pm

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Clarien recruits former FBI agent

A former FBI Special Agent previously assigned to the US Joint Terrorism Task Force has been appointed chief compliance officer of Clarien Bank Ltd.

Top gun Henry Komansky has more recently served as head of analysis at the Bermuda Financial Intelligence Agency, as well as an associate attorney at law firm Cox Hallett Wilkinson in Bermuda, where he served as compliance officer and specialised in corporate law and litigation.

At the bank, he will be responsible for developing, reviewing and monitoring the firm’s compliance activities to ensure adherence to internal compliance policies, regulatory requirements, Bermuda and international law as they have an impact on Clarien Bank Ltd and its subsidiaries in fulfilling its regulatory responsibilities.

He reports to chief legal officer Mark Pettingill, who said: “Henry is an internationally respected compliance expert whose extensive multi-jurisdictional legal expertise and experience across a wide variety of regulated sectors will significantly support our continued efforts to grow both our domestic and international business.

“His appointment will help ensure business management accountability for a framework which meets complex internal and statutory requirements for the identification, management, monitoring and reporting of compliance risks and issues.”

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FBI Director Mueller was at center of alleged BCCI coverup in 1991
May 26, 2009
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Source: RawStory

As the foiled Newburgh "terrorist plot" is increasingly revealed to be little more than a sham, it raises questions about why the FBI would have spent a year furnishing fake weapons and explosives to a bunch of small-time crooks in order to create an ersatz incident. It seems as though the real objective may, at the very least, have had more to do with public relations than with public safety.

The arrests came on the same day as FBI Director Robert Mueller testified before the House Judiciary Committee that bringing Guantanamo detainees to the United States could prove risky even if they were placed in supermax prisons. The risks he cited included such unlikely possibilities as radicalizing other prisoners or continuing to run criminal operations from behind bars.

Because Mueller's testimony has been so widely described as undermining the Obama administration's announced policy of closing Guantanamo, it seems fair to ask whether the FBI director may be following an agenda of his own in ramping up fears of terrorism just as 9/11 hysteria appears to be coming to an end.

As it happens, Mueller has been accused of politicized decision-making in the past. A week before his July 2001 nomination by former President Bush to head the FBI, an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal raised serious questions about both Mueller and the other leading candidate, George Terwilliger.

Last week ... we watched trial balloons floating over Washington with the names of Robert S. Mueller and George Terwilliger as Mr. Freeh's possible successor. These names set us to perusing the books on one of our long-lasting preoccupations, the Bank of Credit & Commerce International. The BCCI scandal was the most important corruption story of the 20th century. Crooked international bankers cast a world-wide web of influence. They bought and sold politicians around the globe, ripped off depositors for some $10 billion, laundered drug money, worked with assorted spooks and trafficked with terrorists. ...

Both Mr. Terwilliger and Mr. Mueller were senior Justice Department officials when BCCI got away. Mr. Terwilliger was Deputy Attorney General; and Mr. Mueller ran the Criminal Division at Main Justice from 1990 to 1993. When it came to making decisions about investigations and prosecutions in the BCCI affair they were the men at the switches. ...

When Mr. Mueller took over the Criminal Division, critics in Congress and the media were already raising questions about Justice and BCCI. He stepped into this breach, telling the Washington Post in July 1991 that maybe indeed there was an "appearance of, one, foot-dragging; two, perhaps a coverup." He denied the coverup claims, specifically rejecting a Time magazine report that the U.S. government was seeking to obscure its role in the scandal partly because the CIA may have collaborated with the bank's operatives.

Still, the problems with Justice persisted. And the timing of some of Mr. Mueller's moves raised eyebrows. In September 1991, Justice indicted six BCCI figures and a reputed Colombian drug lord on racketeering charges. The indictment was unveiled just minutes after then-Congressman Charles Schumer issued a report sharply critical of Justice Department handling of the case. ... Mr. Mueller also engaged in a running series of battles with the Manhattan District Attorney, Robert Morgenthau. According to news reports over the years, Justice prosecutors were instructed not to cooperate with Mr. Morgenthau's office, documents were withheld, and attempts were made to block other federal agencies from cooperating.

The December 1991 settlement of criminal charges against BCCI, which Terwilliger described as "a fair arrangement," uncovered "only $1.5 billion in the coffers of a bank that once held $22 billion in deposits." This missing money has never been traced.

Although the Journal op-ed concluded by suggesting that "on the evidence we can see, Mr. Mueller would be a peculiar choice indeed," he was Bush's final selection -- Terwilliger having been passed over because his work as lead lawyer on the 2000 Florida recount had left him with too blatant an appearance of political partisanship.

Mueller is now almost eight years into his ten-year term as FBI director, but the questions raised by such respected sources as Time and the Journal as to whether he might have been involved in a cover-up of the BCCI scandal on behalf of the George H.W. Bush administration and the CIA have never been addressed.

As a result, doubts remain even today as to where his true allegiances lie.

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » July 9th, 2014, 12:31 pm

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Protiviti Governance Portal for Third-Party Anti-Corruption Helps Organizations Comply With U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
July 9
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Protiviti Governance Portal for Third-Party Anti-Corruption Helps Organizations Comply With U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

MENLO PARK, Calif., July 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ Protiviti (http://www.protiviti.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;), a global consulting firm, has released the Protiviti Governance Portal for Third-Party Anti-Corruption, enabling companies to develop and manage a risk-based, third-party anti-corruption program that supports compliance with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other anti-corruption laws. The Governance Portal for Third-Party Anti-Corruption v4.1 is a new module of the Protiviti Governance Portal, a GRC (governance, risk and compliance) platform that helps organizations efficiently support multiple GRC activities. With the new module, companies can manage corruption risk across their third-party ecosystem from a single, centralized platform. Protiviti also provides consulting services to support anti-corruption programs with anti-corruption strategy, due diligence and remediation activities.

"For large companies, the most common source of FCPA violations comes from third parties acting on their behalf," said Scott Moritz, managing director and global lead of Protiviti's Investigations and Fraud Risk Management practice and former FBI special agent. "Acknowledging the unique risks these 'intermediaries' present and having a well-conceived policy to combat them simply aren't enough. To fully operationalize an anti-corruption program, organizations must have the technology and content to manage the underly

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » July 10th, 2014, 10:02 pm

Pittsburgh police could face second federal consent decree, Peduto says
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After taking office in January, Peduto said he planned to take a long time to hire a police chief and first wanted to have a new solicitor, head of the Office of Municipal Investigations and public-safety director in place.

In May, Peduto announced the hiring of Stephen Bucar, a former FBI agent with experience in counterterrorism, as public-safety director, the last step before focusing on finding a new chief.

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » July 11th, 2014, 3:10 pm

Danny Casolero was murdered by FBI agents for exposing the October Surprise.

As always funded by your tax dime.

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Weekend Edition July 11-13, 2014
Reagan's Secret Deal With Iran to Sabotage Carter's Re-Election
The October Surprise Was Real
by CARMELO RUIZ-MARRERO

In January 1992 I published my first journalistic article ever. Published in Puerto Rico’s Claridad weekly newspaper, it was titled “The October Surprise”. In it I affirmed that the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign bargained secretly with Iranian radicals for the postponement of the liberation of 52 Americans that they were holding hostage. These hostages were employees of the US embassy in Iran’s capital city of Teheran, which had been stormed by militants loyal to the Ayatollah Khomeini in November 1979. This secret deal, known as the October Surprise, frustrated the attempts of US president Jimmy Carter to obtain the hostages’ release in time for the elections in November. This failure cost Carter his reelection, and swept Republican candidate Ronald Reagan into the presidency. Polls carried out before the election showed that the hostage issue was of top importance in the minds of the American electorate.

The Republican campaign’s main negotiators in this deal were George H. W. Bush, vice presidential candidate and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director, and William Casey, the campaign’s director and veteran spook who spied for the Office of Strategic Services during World War Two. Once elected, president Reagan appointed Casey to direct the CIA.

The hostages were freed the same day Reagan was sworn in as his nation’s fortieth president on January 1981. What was in it for the Iranians? Weapons, tons of them. Iran needed them badly in order to repel an invasion by Iraq. The Iran-Iraq war lasted from 1980 to 1988 and took approximately one million lives. The much-publicized wars in Central America in those years positively pale in comparison to the horror and carnage of this Middle East war, which was almost certainly the bloodiest of that decade. The October Surprise conspiracy and the arms deals related to the Iran-Iraq war led to the Iran-Contra affair, the biggest political scandal of the 1980’s.

This is very serious business: aiding and abetting a kidnapping, secretly undermining a president’s foreign policy- with the express purpose of tilting election results at home, high treason. You could fry in the electric chair for less than this.

Public allegations of such a secret deal go back at least to 1987, when they appeared in a book titled Out of Control by journalist Leslie Cockburn, who herself had reported on Contra atrocities and on the Iran-Contra scandal for CBS and PBS Frontline. Robert Parry, then with Associated Press, also did some of the earliest reporting on this affair.

In the late 1980’s Gary Sick, who had been president Carter’s top aide for all matters related to the Persian Gulf region, reconsidered and reexamined the hostage negotiation process from October 1980 to their liberation in 1981, and declared in an April 1991 New York Times op-ed that the October Surprise theory was entirely plausible (1). Sick elaborated on this idea in his book October Surprise: America’s Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan, published that same year. At that time, former Iranian president Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, who was elected in 1980 and overthrown the following year, published an autobiographical book titled My Turn to Speak: Iran, the Revolution and Secret Deals With the U.S., in which he stated that islamic radicals associated with Khomeini negotiated the hostages with the Reagan campaign, thus sabotaging his negotiations with the Carter administration.

In June 1991 the Fund for New Priorities in America held in Washington a Congressional Colloquy on the October Surprise, with Sick as featured speaker. An open letter signed by eight former hostages calling for an official inquiry into the circumstances of their release was presented in the activity (2). The following year a Congressional investigation was launched under the direction of representative Lee Hamilton.

The lead counsel of the October Surprise Task Force, as the investigative body was called (3), was the renowned if controversial lawyer E. Lawrence Barcella Jr. As US attorney in the 1970s, Barcella became a hero of the left for his investigation and prosecution of the murder of Chilean patriot Orlando Letelier, who was car bombed in the streets of Washington DC. His legendary investigation, which led to the arrest of Cuban exile terrorists who worked directly with the DINA Chilean secret police agency, was narrated in the excellent book Assassination on Embassy Row, by John Dinges and the late Saul Landau.

But Barcella, who passed away in 2010, had many colors. He led the US Department of Justice’s international manhunt for former CIA agent turned arms dealer and fugitive Edwin Wilson, who had been supplying arms to Libya (read Manhunt by Peter Maas). According to Parry, Barcella worked with the CIA in that case: “Luckily for the CIA, the chief (October Surprise) investigator, E. Lawrence Barcella Jr. was a favorite of the intelligence community and had worked closely with many of the figures implicated in the October Surprise affair.” (4)

Barcella won great esteem and prestige for the conviction of Wilson in 1983, a feat which was key in Congress deciding to appoint him lead counsel of the October Surprise Task Force, a job he was keenly interested in. But the glory of that episode wore off in 2003 when it surmised that a Barcella affidavit that was key in swaying the jury against Wilson turned out to be full of falsehoods. “Barcella denied wrongdoing in connection with the bogus Wilson affidavit, which concealed about 80 contacts between Wilson and the CIA during the time period when Wilson was selling materiel to Moammar Khadafy’s Libya”, said Parry (5). Wilson was released in 2004 after a federal judge ruled that the prosecution had acted improperly and that both the Department of Justice and the CIA had covered up information in the case.

“His revenge for his framing came almost too late”, said an obituary in The Economist published after Wilson’s passing in 2012. “In 2003 his conviction… was overturned because, wrote the judge, the government had lied. Far from no contacts with the CIA between 1971 and 1978, there had been at least 80. Several ran intriguingly ‘parallel’ to the illegal acts he had been charged with.” (6)

Wilson’s closest business associates included current and former high-ranking officials of the Pentagon and the CIA who would later be implicated in the Iran-Contra arms deals.

In the 1990s Barcella, then in private practice, represented defendants in the BCCI affair, the biggest international banking corruption scandal in history. According to Parry’s Consortium News web site: “In the 1980s, Barcella and his law firm earned more than $2 million from the Bank of Credit and Commerce International for giving legal advice, lobbying and handling public relations problems. Barcella denounced as ‘absurd’ early press allegations that BCCI had secretly gained control of First American Bank in Washington. (The story turned out to be true.) In 1991, BCCI collapsed amid scandal over its ties to international drug money-laundering and influence-peddling.” (7) Parenthesis in the original.

The Congressional October Surprise investigation ended in January 1993, only days before US president Bill Clinton’s swearing-in, and concluded that there was no credible evidence to sustain the allegations of secret deals.

However, Parry did not let go of the story. Years after the Congressional investigation ended, the reporter obtained access to the Task Force’s documents and found a letter from Iran’s Bani-Sadr, dated December 17 1992, in which he detailed the contacts between Khomeini’s associates and the Reagan-Bush campaign. According to Parry, “In the Task Force’s final report, issued on Jan. 13, 1993, Barcella’s team simply misrepresented Bani-Sadr’s letter, mentioning it only briefly, claiming that it was hearsay, and then burying its contents in a little-noticed annex to the report along with other incriminating evidence.” (8)

Bani-Sadr’s testimony is supported by Iranian admiral Ahmad Madani, who was minister of defense in 1979 and presidential candidate in the 1980 elections. Madani’s presidential campaign was financed by Carter’s CIA through financier and arms dealer Cyrus Hashemi (9). Nevertheless, Bani-Sadr won with over 75% of the vote. In an interview in the early 1990’s Madani informed Parry that in 1980 Hashemi was double-crossing Carter, negotiating the hostages with the Republicans. According to Madani, Hashemi specifically mentioned to him the name of William Casey. Hashemi died in 1986 of a rare disease. According to a 1987 Los Angeles Times article published in the wake of the Iran-Contra scandal:

“…sources say, a U.S. government informant who had worked with Hashemi claims that Customs Service officials told him the arms dealer may have been “bumped off” by government agents to protect the then-secret Iran initiative…

…Hashemi, a rival for roles ultimately assumed by Adnan Khashoggi and Manucher Ghorbanifar in the Iran operation, died suddenly on July 21, 1986, three months before the secret arms deals were disclosed. Officially, death was attributed to a rare and virulent form of leukemia that was diagnosed only two days before Hashemi died.

Since then, persistent questions have been raised about the accuracy of those autopsy results.” (10)

But the most explosive piece of October Surprise evidence is most certainly a Russian intelligence report sent to the Task Force on January 11 1993, just as the investigation was drawing to a close (11). The six-page document stated that Soviet intelligence knew that Bush, Casey and other US Republicans had met secretly in Europe with Iranian officials in 1980. Congressman Hamilton told Parry that he did not recall Barcella informing him of any Russian report. Several other members of Congress who formed part of the Task Force likewise told Parry they never saw such a report. Barcella did not mention the Russian report at the January 13 1993 press conference in which the Task Force presented its final findings.

In the waning months of 2010, as his health deteriorated due to his bladder cancer, Barcella stubbornly insisted to Parry that he had not hidden the report.

But according to Parry, “The taped-up boxes were moved to some House office space that years earlier had been carved out of the Rayburn House Parking Garage and there dumped on the floor of an abandoned Ladies Room.” (12)

“Hide” is not too strong a word.

So, 22 years after that first article of mine I can confidently state that I was right all along. So, do I get a cigar or something?

******

NOTE: In 1996 I had Parry as a guest on my radio talk show on WGDR (Plainfield, Vermont), and we talked extensively about the October Surprise affair. In fact, it is this scandal that first sparked my interest in investigative journalism back in the 1980′s.

For more information: http://carmeloruiz.blogspot.com/search/ ... 20Surprise" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero is a Puerto Rican journalist. His ten year-old bilingual blog, Haciendo Punto en Otro Blog (http://carmeloruiz.blogspot.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;), is a rather interesting hodge-podge of news items of progressive and activist interest. His Twitter ID is @carmeloruiz. For more info: http://carmeloruiz.blogspot.com/2013/09 ... f-bio.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.

Notes.

1) “In the course of hundreds of interviews, in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East, I have been told repeatedly that individuals associated with the Reagan-Bush campaign of 1980 met secretly with Iranian officials to delay the release of the American hostages until after the Presidential election. For this favor, Iran was rewarded with a substantial supply of arms from Israel.”

Gary Sick. “The election story of the decade”. New York Times, April 15 1991. http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/15/opini ... ecade.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

2) “Ex-hostages seek probe by Congress” Washington Post, June 14 1991; Fund for New Priorities video, “An Election Held Hostage?” June 13 1991 http://www.c-span.org/video/?18401-1/el ... ld-hostage" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.

3) It was formally named Task Force of the Committee on Foreign Affairs to Investigate Certain Allegations Concerning the Holding of Americans as Hostages by Iran in 1980.Robert Parry “October Surprise X-Files (Part 7): Bush & a CIA Power Play” Consortium News 1996 http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/xfile7.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. “Barcella… had done work for and with the CIA in the famous Edwin Wilson case.” http://consortiumnews.com/2013/03/30/di ... -new-book/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

5) Robert Parry. “A Lawyer & National Security Cover-ups” Consortium News, May 4 2005. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/050405.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

6) “Edwin P. Wilson, gunrunner and manager of CIA front companies, died on September 10th, aged 84” The Economist, September 29 2012. http://www.economist.com/node/21563687" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

7) “Clinton & a BCCI Lawyer” Consortium News http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/story3.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

8) Robert Parry. “‘October Surprise’ and ‘Argo’” Consortium News, March 7 2013. http://consortiumnews.com/2013/03/07/oc ... -and-argo/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

9) Parry 2013.

10) William C. Rempel. “Panels Probing Mysterious Death of Iran Affair Figure” Los Angeles Times, June 13 1987. http://articles.latimes.com/1987-06-13/ ... ious-death" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

11) Robert Parry “The Russian report” Consortium News, 1995. http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/xfile1.html;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; “Russian Report on 1980 ‘October Surprise’ Case” Consortium News, 2005 http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/russ ... t1980.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

12) Robert Parry “Accusation of October Surprise ‘Lying’” Consortium News, August 5 2010 http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/080510.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/07/11/ ... -was-real/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » July 11th, 2014, 10:26 pm

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Ardmore junior attends FBI Academy
By Lora Scripps

07/11/2014 3:00 AM

Seth Harris, 16, admits the hardest part of his recent trip to the FBI Academy in Virginia had to be the “Yellow Brick Road” — a 4-mile physical-fitness challenge similar to the course FBI agents must complete.
The rising Ardmore junior was the only student in the state to participate in the eight-day Youth Leadership Program at the facility in Quantico.
The program, sponsored by the FBI National Academy Associates, brings together top students from across the United States and five countries. Its goal is to provide an “exciting” experience for students ages 14-16, who have not yet started their junior year of high school.
The application process begins with a questionnaire and an essay, Harris said. A panel of judges — that must select one student to represent each state as well as Puerto Rico and other countries, including Australia, Belgium and Switzerland — also interviews each applicant.
The Alabama chapter of the FBINAA sponsors each student chosen to represent the state and covers all expenses, including round-trip airfare to Washington, D.C.
Harris, the son of Trevor and Carol Harris, learned about the program from his father, who is an Athens Police captain and a 2010 graduate of the FBI National Academy.
“My dad is a National Academy associate,” said Harris. “That is a program where police officers can apply to go to the FBI facilities for law-enforcement training.”
The younger Harris attended the program’s 16th session, which took place June 18-26. While in Quantico, he attended classes on leadership, ethics, constitutional law and public speaking. He also participated in a strenuous physical-fitness program.
“The biggest thing that stands out is that I got to meet a lot of new people,” Harris said. “People who are lifelong friends now.”
He went into the program not knowing anyone or even what to expect, but he said the experience helped him come out of his shell.
“I could probably go up and talk to anyone now,” he said. “I had to learn to talk to 58 new people from different states and different backgrounds. I realized I’m going to spend eight days with these people. I’ve got to start getting to know them.”
His roommate was from Australia.
“He lived on the Gold Coast of Australia and I think he played soccer,” Harris said. “We became pretty good friends.”
The hardest part of the trip was the “Yellow Brick Road,” Harris said.
“We could walk some of it and run some of it,” he said. “It’s a 4-mile course they made that has obstacles. You would run to a point and they would say, ‘OK, do some bear crawls or crab crawls’ or you would have to get over a wall or something. We did that in about an hour.”
Harris explained it wasn’t a race. Participants weren’t worried about finishing first. It was more about getting across the finish line.
“When we finished, we received a yellow brick,” Harris said, adding that his parents traveled to Virginia to watch him graduate.
After the eight-day program was complete, Harris returned home with a new set of skills. “I’ve learned more leadership skills,” he said. “I’ve learned how to work better with people as well as the different types of leadership and when to use them. It taught me there are different methods for everything.”
The experience was important to Harris.
“Not a lot of people get this opportunity,” he said. “I learned a lot there. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I’m just glad I got to go.”
Harris plans to use his new leadership skills as trombone section leader in the Ardmore High School band as well as in his role as sub-team captain on his robotics team at the Limestone County Career Technical Center.
“This will really help me step up into that position,” he said.
Eligible students with an interest in law enforcement and attending the Youth Leadership Program can contact Capt. Harris at the Police Department each January to request an application.

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » July 13th, 2014, 4:08 pm

new FBI tentacle seen in WA

Science officer really digs her job
The West Australian-35 minutes ago
Science Officer Ferguson, a member of the police human remains recovery team, is the third scholarship recipient from WA Police to attend the FBI's Human ...

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » July 16th, 2014, 11:42 pm

see link for FBI Agent tentacle on Supreme Court

http://bristolpress.com/articles/2014/0 ... 202679.txt" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

State Supreme Court wrongly reduces access to information

Wednesday, July 16, 2014 10:37 PM EDT

Why would seven judges decide that the police can keep information about crime secret from the public? That’s essentially what the state Supreme Court did this month in the case of Commissioner of Public Safety v. Freedom of Information Commission.

Before becoming justices, four of the seven were either prosecutors or city attorneys, and one was an FBI agent — people not prone to informing the public. The justice who wrote the decision, Richard Robinson, worked as a lawyer for Stamford city government under Mayor Dan Malloy.

Justice Robinson wrote that the issue should be “squarely on the radar of the legislature” and he suggests that advocates of open government “pursue appropriate legislative remedies.”

That’s fine, but before making that recommendation the court reversed 20 years of precedent in Freedom of Information Commission decisions on what police must tell the public. If you think the answer lies in legislation, then why write a decision diminishing what the public can know about crime? Just hold off and let the General Assembly deal with the issue.

The court acknowledged that supporters of open government noted that brief information on a typical police blotter doesn’t generally reveal the race of someone who has been arrested, a detail that could shed light “on law enforcement practices that disproportionately target minorities.”

Justice Robinson seemed to ask: Why stop there? “The same interest,” he wrote, “might extend to information showing that an arrestee is an undocumented alien, or that individuals were exercising rights of free speech or assembly when arrested, or that an arrestee had an extensive criminal history, or ... is in a position of public trust ... or how a killer acquired weapons.”

Yes, these are the kind of things the public would want to know.

“Indeed, information of this kind is at least sometimes provided by the police,” Justice Robinson wrote. Yes, sometimes it is, but not under the court’s decision.

Justice Robinson thinks the issue is not whether something should be disclosed but “whether the decision about disclosure should be vested in the police” someone else. The court thinks it is up to the police.

Bad decision.

There are two seemingly contradictory sections of Connecticut’s freedom-of-information law. Essentially the court favored the section that allows law enforcement agencies to withhold all kinds of information. Section 1-215 initially required police to reveal only the name and address of the person arrested; the date, time and place of the arrest; and the offense. In 1993 the Supreme Court affirmed this law. So in 1994 the legislature amended it to require police to release more in the form of “at least one of the following, designated by the law enforcement agency: the arrest report, incident report, news release, or other similar report of the arrest of a person.”

The court has decided that 1-215 “exclusively governs law enforcement agencies’ disclosure obligations” and trumps the other FOI statute (1-210), which calls for “broader disclosure obligations.”

So no mug shots, no nothing, unless the police put it in a “press release.”

What is the court thinking? For one thing, according to Justice Robinson, “we deem plausible” the arguments of the state Freedom of Information Commission and “we also find reasonable” the state police department’s position. So what to do? You check out the legislative history.

Here is where the court erred. It found in the 1994 legislative debates “a very limited response” to the court’s narrow view in its 1993 decision on what police need to release.

In fact, the legislature voted to require much more information from the police — a narrative, a report; not just name, rank and serial number.

Having convinced itself that the legislature’s action was small, the court went on to marginalize the more expansive section of the FOI law, even though Section 1-215 says “disclosure of data or information ... shall be subject to the provisions of 1-210 (b) (3).” The court’s reasoning then dwindles to bunkum.

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » July 27th, 2014, 8:00 pm

see link for full story

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/this- ... ceo-2014-7" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This Australian Tech Company Has A Former Deputy Director Of The FBI As Its CEO
Alex Heber Jul 28, 2014, 7:34 AM
Former FBI deputy director Chuck Archer with Former US President Bill Clinton. Image: Supplied.

Australian data security company Covata is about to launch a reverse takeover of uranium exploration company Prime Minerals as it moves to list on the ASX.

Founded by current executive chairman Trent Telford in October 2007, Covata is looking to raise up to $10 million in the RTO as it aims to grow its US operations.

Leading US growth is the company’s boss, former FBI deputy director Chuck Archer.

Before Archer was the boss of the soon-to-be-listed tech company he led an interesting career. Working at the FBI during the Clinton administration, he climbed the ranks to be in charge of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division.

During his time at the FBI, Archer attained a top security clearance, and just like they do in the movies, he took – and passed – polygraph tests.

“I had unlimited spending authority at the FBI,” he said. “In my division I had 3000 employees and 600 contractors.”

But he hit the eject button before the bureau’s mandatory 55-year-old retirement age kicked in.

Archer then protected a number of assets and properties belonging to the Bush family and Kuwaiti royal family.

About three-and-a-half years ago he received a phone call from a venture company requesting he take a look at some Australian technology to see if it had potential in the US.

The tech was Covata’s data protection software and he eventually joined its board before becoming its CEO in September 2013.

The company, which already has an interesting shareholder register, including TPG which has previously tipped $10 million into Covata, is now preparing to list onto the ASX via a reverse takeover.

Telford said a lack of investment appetite in the mining sector has made it a good time to run a tech backdoor listing on the ASX – and there’s been a wave of them this year. More on that here.

“If you tried to do a tech backdoor listing three years ago, even two-and-a-half years ago, you wouldn’t have a lot of success, It would be more difficult,” he said.

“The benefit of the RTO is the regulator essentially puts the responsibility of the transaction back onto the shareholders.”

Reverse listing has also enabled Covata to take $2.5 million in convertible notes upfront.

“There’s less appetite to write a cheque for $2.5 million if you’re going to end up stuck in a private company,” he said.

“It allowed us to raise funds now, prior to the transactions.”

Other companies running reverse takeovers this year have claimed it’s a cheaper way to list but Telford said in his experience it’s “no different” because you still need to do due diligence on the listed vehicle, you’ve got to put together a prospectus and you’ve got to do an independent experts’ report.

On choosing Prime Minerals and the ASX, Telford said he looked for shareholder support, cash in the bank and its relationships with brokers.

“It’s easy, relatively speaking to step onto the ASX and then at a time that’s appropriate step it up [to NASDAQ],” he said, adding it’s dangerous to list onto bigger cap markets too early.

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » July 29th, 2014, 2:02 pm

Warren and Florence Harding, 1920
http://www.history.com/news/warren-g-ha ... s-unsealed" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

July 29, 2014
Warren G. Harding’s Steamy Love Letters Unsealed

Warren and Florence Harding, 1920

What seems clear, though, is that the affair was over by the time the Hardings moved into the White House. Phillips, however, remained on good terms with the president. She received a ticket to the inauguration and visited the executive mansion with her husband and mother in 1922. The following year, Harding died suddenly in a San Francisco hotel room just 28 months into his term. Florence Harding passed away only 16 months later but was not left to rest in peace. Whispers had spread that the jealous First Lady poisoned her husband in revenge for his infidelity, a scandalous claim given full throat by shady former FBI agent Gaston Means in his 1930 book “The Strange Death of President Harding.” The accusation had no basis in reality. “Harding for years had lived with extremely high blood pressure and heart disease,” Femia said. “There is no doubt that he died of natural causes.”

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » August 1st, 2014, 6:33 pm

see link for full story

Former FBI. agent Ed FitzGerald decries 'personal attack' against famly

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/po ... /13465841/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

August 1. 2014

COLUMBUS -- Ed FitzGerald, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, on Friday blamed Republican officials for attracting attention to a police report that mentioned him and a female friend.

In a hastily called press conference, Fitzgerald accused Republicans of "a personal attack which is as low as it gets."

In the police report, filed at 4:26 a.m. on Oct. 13, 2012, a caller reported "an occupied red Ford focus parked in the lot for the past half hour." An officer from the Westlake Police Department in suburban Cleveland reported the occupants were FitzGerald and a "friend."

RELATED: FitzGerald brings campaign to Cincinnati

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » August 2nd, 2014, 6:37 pm

Any Mormons in Charleston want to attend?
http://www.counton2.com/story/26181957/ ... telligence" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Charleston SC. tentacle

FBI Citizens Academy: Counterintelligence
Posted: Aug 02, 2014
FBI officials are holding their first ever FBI Citizens Academy in Charleston. We have News 2’s Megan Dice enrolled to give you a look into the FBI.

Here’s a look at how they are combating their #1 priority.. counter intelligence.

You wouldn’t think that the FBI is in the film making business, but in order to combat counter intelligence, they have made a film called Game of Pawns and they are showing it to students at major universities like Clemson, who are traveling abroad. The reason being, they are the most vulnerable to espionage.

Special Agent in Charge, David Thomas, FBI in Columbia, “Since the beginning of time, countries have spied on other countries.”

“The top secret, government, political secrets, all that top secret stuff that you kind of think about spies, probably less than 10 % of what they are trying to go after.”

FBI experts say that 90% of what they go after, is industrial and trade secret espionage, and the target: students and executives from companies traveling abroad carrying trade secrets from their research and development at universities and companies.. And it's highly sought after.

“Every company, your research and development, it’s your next product down the road, and if I can steal that information and beat you to the market it's going to be devastating for you as a company.”

They say it often happens like something straight out of a movie. And ends in blackmail.

“You don't automatically become more handsome when you cross the international dateline... And so if you are in a bar and some extremely attractive woman is coming up to you, and that doesn't normally happen, it's a possibility that it's a recruitment, a typical recruitment, to get compromising photographs of someone.”

The FBI is looking for your help, they have a program called InfraGard, where they engage with subject matter experts employed across 16 sectors of critical infrastructure, such as chemical, food and agriculture, healthcare and public health. https://www.infragard.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » August 4th, 2014, 7:57 pm

Monday, August 4, 2014Last Update: 6:54 PM PT

U.S. Has Muslim 'Blacklist, ACLU Says

see link for full story

http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/08/04/70053.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

LOS ANGELES (CN) - The United States violates its own immigration laws through an under-the-radar "blacklist" that denies citizenship, green cards and political asylum to thousands of people, including innocent people placed on a terrorist watch list, longtime legal-resident Muslims claim in Federal Court.
Lead plaintiff Reem Muhanna, et al. claim that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service has consistently denied their applications for citizenship and lawful permanent residence after secretly blacklisting them as "'national security concerns,'" though they pose no threat to the United States.
The ACLU filed the lawsuit on July 31 against the USCIS, the Department of Homeland Security, and a slew of their national and regional officers.
The plaintiffs claim that the Citizenship and Immigration Service uses obscure rules, under a program known as the Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP), to delay or deny applications.
"Under this unfair and unconstitutional program, the government has blacklisted their applications without telling them why and barred them from upgrading their immigration status in violation of the immigration laws," ACLU attorney Jennie Pasquarella said in a statement.
The plaintiffs ask the court to order Uncle Sam to judicially settle their applications for citizenship and permanent residence, as required under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
The executive branch of the government does not have the authority to set rules on citizenship and permanent residence, the plaintiffs say.
"Since 2008, however, USCIS has used CARRP - an internal policy that has neither been approved by Congress nor subjected to public notice and comment - to investigate and adjudicate applications deemed to present potential 'national security concerns.' CARRP prohibits USCIS field officers from approving an application with a potential 'national security concern,' instead directing officers to deny the application or delay adjudication - often indefinitely - in violation of the INA [Immigration and Nationality Act]", the lawsuit states.
The ACLU claims says the CARRP program uses "expansive" and "overbroad" criteria, including "deeply flawed" data from the government's Terrorist Watch List .
"The CARRP definition casts a net so wide that it brands innocent, law-abiding residents, like plaintiffs - none of whom pose a security threat - as 'national security concerns' on account of innocuous activity and associations, and characteristics such as national origin," the complaint states.
The ACLU claims that as many as 1 million names are the Terrorist Watch List or Terrorist Screening Database - "many of whom present no threat to the United States."
A person can end up on the list based on a vague association with a person the government suspects of terrorist activity, or sometimes because of human error.
"In 2013 alone, the watchlisting community nominated 468,749 individuals to the TSDB [Terrorist Screening Database], and the TSC [Terrorist Screening Center] rejected only approximately one percent of those nominations. In 2009, the Government Accountability Office found that 35 percent of the nominations to the TSDB were outdated, and that tens of thousands of names had been placed on the list without an adequate factual basis," the complaint states.
The U.S. government will neither confirm nor deny if a person is on the list. The ACLU says that some people learn of their inclusion while traveling.
Airplane boarding passes for watch list subjects include an "SSSS" identifier, according to the lawsuit, and subjects are often subjected to inspections during travel.
"Such individuals are also often unable to check in for flights online or at airline electronic kiosks at the airport," the complaint states.
The ACLU says that it can't be sure how many applications are denied or delayed based on the criteria. But it says the immigration service's own data from fiscal years 2008 to 2012 make clear that 19,000 people's applications went through the resolution program.
The subjects were all from Muslim nations or regions, according to the complaint.

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » August 5th, 2014, 10:23 am

another FBI tentacle

http://www.wdbj7.com/news/local/new-riv ... h/27313472" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Kevin Foust named chief of police at Virginia Tech

POSTED: 08:26 AM EDT Aug 05, 2014

Kevin Foust named chief of police at Virginia Tech

Kevin Foust has been named chief of police and director of campus security at Virginia Tech, a position he's held on an interim basis since February.

Foust joined the Virginia Tech Police Department in 2011 as the deputy chief of police and assistant director of security after a 24-year career with the FBI.

As deputy chief and assistant director of security, Foust managed security for the university’s facilities across Virginia and overseas. In addition, he led the police department’s administrative division, which included communications, community outreach, security and the Safe Ride program.

Foust began his career at the FBI in 1987. He served in several capacities, including unit chief of the Osama Bin Laden Unit in the Counterterrorism Division. He was the supervisory senior resident agent for Southwest Virginia prior to joining the university.

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » August 5th, 2014, 11:34 am

another FBI tentacle running for Governor gets busted penetrating
other men' s wives

see link for full lurid details

http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/22989" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ed FitzGerald drove illegally to pick up Andrea Rocco in 2011
August 5, 2014 - 1:22pm

Nate Cross, a former member of the Westlake School Board, says he saw County Executive Ed FitzGerald at a board meeting in the summer of 2011 drive his car illegally on a temporary learner’s permit to pick up then fellow Westlake School Board member, and current Cuyahoga County Clerk of Courts, alone. FitzGerald & Rocco left together alone.

“I noticed County Executive Ed FitzGerald alone among 3 or four people in the audience, near the tail end of the meeting. Nothing on the agenda was relative to the county. About 20 minutes later, the meeting ended, I left, went to my car, and noticed Andrea Rocco walk out and get in a car with Ed FitzGerald driving, and they drove off together.” Cross cannot recall the exact date, placing it somewhere in summer 2011.

It is unknown when Philip Palmer, Andrea Rocco's husband, filed a missing persons report, which has since disappeared, declaring Andrea Rocco missing for 5 days. I'm told this missing persons report has surfaced in the Cleveland media.

Just as when FitzGerald dropped off Irish trade delegate Johann Grehan at a hotel on the night of October 13, 2012, FitzGerald was driving his car alone, illegally, with a temporary permit before he picked up Andrea Rocco. Westlake police discovered FitzGerald and Grehan in a Westlake parking a lot at 4:30am.

Until 2012, Andrea Rocco served as part-time prosecutor and part-time law director in Westlake, while on Westlake School Board, while collecting another part time salary from Ed FitzGerald who as Lakewood mayor appointed Rocco a "special" assistant in 2008.

FitzGerald appointed Rocco to another part time position when Fitzgerald became Cuyahoga County Executive, as “special” counsel, at $48,000 per year, in October, 2011, which is after the incident Nate Cross witnessed. Four months after Westlake police discovered FitzGerald with Grehan at 4:30am on October 13, 2012, FitzGerald appointed Rocco Cuyahoga County Clerk of Courts February 22, 2013.

Fitzgerald, a former FBI agent and Cuyahoga County prosecutor, arrived in Ohio from his native Indiana, transferring to Ohio State in the late 1980’s after losing a run for University of Indiana student body president. FitzGerald has been running for office on an Irish last name from the most Irish part of Cuyahoga County ever since. But according to Joe Vardon of the Columbus Dispatch, FitzGerald, when driving alone, has been illegally driving on an Ohio temporary learner’s permit since at least 2007, during which time FitzGerald was Mayor of Lakewood, running for County Executive in 2010, a position he holds now while running for governor of Ohio in November, 2016.

Whether or not FitzGerald drives illegally when he’s NOT picking up and dropping off multiple women not his wife, is unknown.

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » August 6th, 2014, 4:27 pm

see link for full tentacle

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Former FBI Executive Assistant Director to Keynote ATM & Mobile Innovation Summit
Shawn Henry, former FBI executive assistant director and now president of CrowdStrike Services, will demonstrate the vulnerabilities in banking and payments at the ATM & Mobile Innovation Summit on Sept. 12 in Washington, DC.

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » August 6th, 2014, 7:42 pm

Look what happened last time Denver hired a former FBI agent
better yet look what you bodyguards cost you already

gotta go the X Files are on......

2. reads

1st read

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Former FBI agent to advise Denver as it reforms Sheriff's Department

Posted: 08/06/2014 06:50:22 PM MDT | Updated: about 2 hours ago

Denver Jail Abuse

Comprehensive coverage of abuse in Denver's jails

Aug 5:
Cupcake fights, shopping, lost guns mean trouble for Denver sheriff's deputies
Aug 4:
Denver City Council approves $3.25M Jamal Hunter settlement
Aug 3:
Denver pays millions to settle abuse claims against police and sheriff
Jul 31:
Interim Denver Sheriff Elias Diggins takes the lead of the suffering department
Fired Denver deputy appeals his dismissal for punching inmate, lying
Jul 30:
Denver jail inmate assaulted in courtroom files federal lawsuit
Jul 28:
Denver mayor calls for outside review of sheriff department, jail

The Denver jail abuse scandal that resulted in a $3.25 million settlement with one former inmate this week has stung public safety officials and Mayor Michael Hancock.

Yet those same officials are the ones now taking on the task of deciding who will conduct required independent reviews of the City Attorney's Office and the Sheriff Department — a role some said might better be taken on by the city's independent monitor to ensure the public's trust in the results.

On Wednesday, the mayor's office said it's up to the job and offered as evidence the hiring of a big name in local law enforcement.

Officials said they have signed on James H. Davis, a former FBI agent-in-charge in Denver and a public safety expert, to advise the Hancock administration as it reforms the Sheriff Department.

The mayor's office also has created an executive committee of senior administration staff and appointees to hire the independent investigative firm for the comprehensive review; oversee four previously existing Sheriff Department task forces, which are reviewing policies, procedures, discipline and staffing; monitor an efficiency review; and spearhead a coming national search for a new sheriff to permanently replace Gary Wilson, who resigned last month.

"Everything is on the table," Hancock said in a statement. "This team will create a full action plan by year's end to turn around this department and make it one we can all be proud of."

After a 26-year career in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Davis oversaw the Colorado Department of Public Safety for Gov. John Hickenlooper and served as the governor's Homeland Security adviser.

Now a security and risk management consultant, Davis is founder and CEO of Ascent Risk Solutions in Denver.

The mayor's announcements came on the same day some had questioned whether his administration should oversee the independent probes, which are required by former inmate Jamal Hunter's settlement.

2nd read

I guess having sex with your daughters when they were 6 months old makes you a child abuse expert, eh?
The mmonbats think so.....

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DENVER POST - Voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire
May 17, 1990
Sisters win sex lawsuit vs. dad $2.3 million given for years of abuse
By Howard Prankratz
Denver Post Legal Affairs Writer

Two daughters of former state and federal law enforcement official Edward Rodgers were awarded $2.319,400 yesterday, after a Denver judge and jury found that the women suffered years of abuse at the hands of their father.

The award to Sharon Simone, 45, and Susan Hammond, 44, followed testimony of Rodgers’ four daughters in person or through depositions, describing repeated physical abuse and sexual assaults by their father from 1944 through 1965.

Rodgers, 72, who became a child abuse expert after retiring from the FBI and joining the colorado Springs DA’s office, failed to appear for the trial. But in a deposition taken in March, Rodgers denied ever hitting or sexually abusing his children.

He admitted that he thought of himself as a "domineering s.o.b. who demanded strict responses from my children, strict obedience." But it never approached child abuse, Rodgers said. "Did I make mistakes? Damn right I did, just like any other father or mother..."

Thomas Gresham, Rodger’s former attorney, withdrew from the case recently after being unable to locate his client. Rodgers recently contacted one of his sons from a Texas town along the Mexican border. Gresham said his last contact with Rodgers was on April 24.

The sisters reacted quietly to the verdict, and with relief that their stories of abuse had finally been told.

"I feel really good that I’ve gone public with this,"Hammond said. "I am a victim, the shame isn’t mine, the horror happened to me. I’m not bad.
"My father did shameful and horrible things to me and my brothers and sisters. I don’t believe he is a shameful and horrible man, but he has to be held accountable," Hammond added.

The lawsuit deeply divided the Rodgers family, with Rodgers’ three sons questioning their sister’s motives.

Immediately after the verdict, son Steve Rodgers, 37, reacted angrily, yelling at his sisters in the courtroom.

Later, Rodgers said he loves his father and stands by him. He said his sisters had told him their father had to be exposed the way Nazi war criminals have been exposed.

"In a way I’m angry with my father for not being here. But I’m sympathetic because he would have walked into a gross crucifixion," Rodgers said.

Steve Rodgers never denied that he and his siblings were physically abused, but disputed that his father molested his sisters.
Before the jury’s award, Denver District Judge William Meyer found that Rodger’s conduct toward Simone and Hammond was negligent and "outrageous."

Despite the length of time since the abuse, the jury determined the sisters could legally bring the suit. The statute of limitations for a civil suit is two years, but jurors determined that the sisters became aware of he nature and extent of their injury only within the last two years, during therapy.

The jury then determined the damages, finding $1,240,000 for Simone and 1,079,000 for Hammond.

The sisters had alleged in their suit filed last July that Rodgers subjected his seven children to a "pattern of emotional, physical, sexual and incestual abuse."

As a result of the abuse, the women claimed their emotional lives had been left in a shambles, requiring extensive therapy for both and repeated hospitalizations of Hammond, who was acutely suicidal. Simone developed obsessive behavior and became so unable to function she resigned a position with a Boston-based college.

Despite the judgment yesterday, Rodgers cannot be criminally charged. the statue of limitations in Colorado for sexual assault on children is 10 years.
Rodgers, who worked for the FBI for 27 years, much of it in Denver, became chief investigator for the district attorney’s office in Colorado Sp;rings. during his employment at the DA’s office from 1967 until 1983, he became a well-known figure in Colorado Springs, and lectured and wrote about child abuse both locally and nationwide.

He wrote a manual called " A Compendium -- Child Abuse by the National College of District Attorney’s," and helped put together manuals on child abuse for the New York state police and a national child abuse center

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » August 12th, 2014, 8:14 am

msfreeh wrote:as voters and taxpayers did I mention we are also the primary consumers of the criminal justice system, we are the owners of this
system.

This post topic is created to honor investigative reporter
Danny Casolero who was murdered by FBI agents when
he tried to warn us that the FBI is a Octopus which he became aware of
while he was attempting to expose how taxpayer funded FBI
agents created the October Suprise.
Where do FBI agents go when they leave the FBI?

Where do they fly to? What part of the FBI tentacle are they?
Where do they live in your neighborhood?

a smart criminal justice consumer would know, eh?

couple of reads

1st read

Veteran FBI Agent, a Pennsylvania Native, Becomes Director of Office of National Counterintelligence Executive
Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com

FBI Agent William Evanina, who helped investigate the anthrax attacks in 2001 and the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001, is moving to a new job, Citizens Voice reports.

Evanina has been appointed director of the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, giving him a important role in the country’s security.

“The office of the national counterintelligence executive leads the entire US government in protecting America from counterintelligence threats,” Evanina said.

Evanina, a Pennsylvania native, worked 25 years in the U.S. government and 18 years for the FBI. He worked on organized crime and was a trained sniper.

2nd read
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The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro Paperback
by Kenn Thomas (Author), Jim Keith (Author)

Kenn and Jim's magnum opus. (RIP, beloved friend to humankind.) This book is as scary as they come, and stranger than fiction. As a conspiracy writer, I found myself shaking while reading it. THEY are real, and THEY can do and have done horrifying things. The Octopus is the Matrix vivified.
This book is especially important for anyone who still naively believes "there are no conspiracies." The word "conspiracy" means "to breathe together." Only two people are needed to make a conspiracy, and this book will leave you breathless.
Danny Casolaro is a heroic figure who bravely and, perhaps, foolhardily attempted to foil the Octopus, whose tendons reach into the most intimate parts of all our lives. He should never be forgotten. Thank goodness for the valiant likes of Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith for telling his story. Movie studios should be clamoring for this highly untold story - but they are no doubt part of the Octopus. Danny, Kenn and Jim should be lauded for their audacity and courage in bringing forth this treacherous tale of murder and mayhem. Such valor is akin to that of Gary Webb in his expose of CIA drug-dealing.
Carry on, fellow warriors for truth.
Acharya S; Archaeologist, Historian

3rd read

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THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF DANNY CASOLARO

by David MacMichael

Pre-Octopus Danny Casolaro

The following article appeared in the Winter 1991 issue of "Covert Action Information Bulletin," #39, pps. 53-57. The author can be reached through the Association of National Security Alumni at +1-202-483-9325. In a recent telephone conversation the author identified the other FBI agent who was to have met with Casolaro the day he died as one Ted Gunderson. We discussed the possible relationship between the Casolaro case and the death threats received by Judge Col. Hamilton Gayden and attorney Albro Lundy III shortly after they were contacted by Casolaro with regard to the POW/MIA issue in the weeks prior to Casolaro's death. MacMichael speculated that the connection was, "drugs" i.e. southeast asian heroin used in support of the Company's black operations. --[email protected]

David MacMicheal is a former CIA estimates officer. He is the Washington representative of the Association of National Security Alumni, and editor of its monthly newsletter, "Unclassified."

Joseph Daniel Casolaro was one of many freelance investigative reporters stirring the witches brew of scandal simmering in the nation's capitol. He was also an aspiring novelist, newsletter publisher, and freelance writer for publications running the gamut from the now defunct Washington Star to the National Enquirer. From a well-to-do family (his father, a doctor, had invested well in Northern Virginia real estate), he was 44 years old, divorced, and living comfortably on a five-acre estate in Fairfax County, Virginia -- home to the CIA.

Casolaro was working on a book aimed at exposing what he called "The Octopus," a group of less than a dozen shadowy figures whose machinations figured heavily, he claimed, in the Inslaw case, Iran-Contra, BCCI, and the October Surprise.

DEATH SCENE, WITH INSTANT EMBALMING

In the first week of August, Casolaro told friends and acquaintances that he was going to West Virginia too meet a source who would provide a key piece of evidence he needed to complete his investigation. He drove to Martinsburg, West Virginia, on Thursday, August 8, and checked into room 517 of the Sheraton Hotel. Two days later, at 12:51 p.m., hotel employees found his naked body in a bathtub full of bloody water. Time of death has been estimated at about 9:00 a.m. [1]

Both arms and wrists had been slashed a total of at least 12 times; one of the cuts went so deep that it severed a tendon. [2] Press accounts differ on minor details of the scene, but there was apparently no evidence of struggle. There was a four sentence suicide note in the bedroom.

Hotel management called the Martinsburg police who brought along the local coroner, Sandra Brining, a registered nurse. Ms. Brining ruled the death a suicide, took small blood and urine samples, and released the body to the Brown Funeral Home. Without authorization from officials or Casolaro's next of kin, the funeral home embalmed the body as a "courtesy to the family," according to Brining's statement at an August 15 press conference in Martinsburg.

Martinsburg police notified the next of kin, Dr. Anthony Casolaro, also of Fairfax, of his brother's death on Monday, August 12. Casolaro says that police explanations for the delay, like the hasty, unauthorized and illegal embalming, seemed either extraordinarily inefficient or highly suspicious. West Virginia state law requires that next of kin be notified before a body can be embalmed. [3] Casolaro requested a second examination, which was performed by West Virginia state medical examiner Jack Frost, who stated at the same August 15 press conference that the evidence was "not inconsistent" with suicide. At the same time, he declared that he "could not rule out foul play" and admitted that performing a conclusive

Casolaro requested a second examination, which was performed by West Virginia state medical examiner Jack Frost, who stated at the same August 15 press conference that the evidence was "not inconsistent" with suicide. At the same time, he declared that he "could not rule out foul play" and admitted that performing a conclusive autopsy on an embalmed body is almost impossible. [4]

Anthony Casolaro publicly stated his disbelief that his gregarious and high-spirited brother could have committed suicide. Danny was so afraid of blood, he said, that he refused to allow samples to be drawn for medical purposes, and would never have chosen, in any case to slash his veins a dozen times. Other relatives and friends offered that same assessment: Danny Casolaro was not the suicidal type. Moreover, added a former girlfriend, he hated being seen in the nude. [5]

Brining's blood samples showed traces of an anti-depressant drug and the non-prescription painkiller Tylenol 3. Casolaro stated that his brother was not depressed and his medical record showed no prescription for anti-depressants. On the other hand, as Ridgeway and Vaughn reported after examination of Casolaro's medical records and conversations with his personal physician (his brother's professional partner), there was clear evidence that the reporter was in the early stages of multiple schlerosis (MS). He had experienced incidents of loss of vision, a couple of severe falls, numbness in one leg, and persistent headaches. His resistance to blood tests could conceivably be attributed to fear that a diagnosis of MS might be confirmed.

Some press reports hint at an alcohol problem. [6] Most accounts, however, suggest that he enjoyed the company in bars more than alcohol; according to friends, he would nurse a few beers all afternoon or take four hours to finish a bottle of wine. [7] Other accounts speculated that his inability to interest publishers in the book he planned to write had made him despondent. [8] He was also alleged to have been worried about his financial situation. He had borrowed heavily to finance his research and publisher's rejections were a blow. In a letter to his agent he referred to his debts" In September I'll be looking into the face of an oncoming train." Friends, however, dismissed the allegations -- debt was Casolaro's usual situation and he was given to overstatement. Said one friend, "Danny would not off himself over money problems." [9] Also, he was negotiating the subdivision of his five acres, a deal that should have netted him several hundred thousand dollars. His employment of a full time housekeeper suggests that he was not severely strapped.

Casolaro had spoken to family and friends of the danger of his investigations, warning them not to believe it if he died of an "accident." But one of Casolaro's sources claims that despite being cautioned, the reporter was cavalier about taking safety measures. [10]

In April 1991, Casolaro told longtime friend and former business associate, Pat Clawson that he had uncovered a "web of corruption" while investigating the Inslaw case. The "web" involved top-ranking Justice Department officials, New York organized crime figures, and Medellin Cartel drug trafficers, jointly bankrolling "off-the-books" intelligence projects, including Iran-Contra. Their fund-raising schemes, Casolaro said, included: software exports restricted under the Export Control Act, gunrunning, illegal arms sales, bogus mineral and oil investment scams, and drug smuggling through Canada. Monies generated were so immense, Casolaro said, that government officials regularly skimmed off a hefty percentage. None of this has thus far been documented.

COINCIDENTAL DEATHS OR PARALLEL MURDERS?

Casolaro's death was promptly linked to that of other journalists in Guatemala and Chile. On January 29, 1991, Lawrence Ng, a stringer for the London Financial Times, was found shot dead in the bathtub of his Guatemala City apartment. Ng had been probing BCCI connections to arms sales in Guatemala. [11] [See Colhoun, p. 45.] Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta have attempted to link Casolaro's death to that of British aviation writer Jonathan Moyle -- also ruled a suicide when he was found in March 1990 hanging in the closet of his hotel room in Santiago, Chile. [12] Moyle was looking into the activities of Chilean arms dealer Carlos Cardoen, who figures prominently in the Inslaw case.

Anderson and Van Atta take seriously the possibility that both reporters were murdered and that both had been tracking the same "octopus." [13] Both were investigating the activities of Cardoen, a suspected conduit for arms sold to Iraq. According to an affidavit filed in the Inslaw case, Cardoen also played a role in the sale of Inslaw's purloined software to Iraq. [14]

Both Casolaro and Moyle had communicated with Anderson, who believed they were "no further along in the story" than others. "On the surface," Anderson and Van Atta wrote, "Neither man had evidence worth killing for."

British journalist David Akerman disagrees, arguing that Moyle had uncovered information on connections between leading British arms makers and Cardoen, who used British licenses to manufacture high-technology weaponry for illegal delivery to Iraq. [15] Because the illegal weapons transfers were generally known among arms dealers, public disclosure would have been sufficiently embarrassing and financially damaging to have placed Moyle's life in jeopardy. There are those who feel just as strongly about the facts surrounding the death of Danny Casolaro.

THE INSLAW MORASS

The most politically volatile side of this story is Casolaro's extensive investigation into the Inslaw case. Elliot Richardson is legal counsel to the Washington, D. C. - based computer software company, Inslaw. Widely respected for his ethics and legal expertise, Richardson quit as Nixon's Attorney General in 1973 rather than carry out the order to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archbald Cox. In a recent radio interview, Richardson was asked if he believed Casolaro killed himself. He answered:

I don't. I think everything we know makes it much more likely that he was eliminated by a person or persons unknown who feared that he was about to disclose information that would be severely damaging... he told [friends] separately that he had in hand or ready, significant hard evidence pointing to the connections between Inslaw and these other events [Iran-Contra, BCCI, October Surprise]. He said he was going to West Virginia to get additional evidence that would really lock this whole picture into place. Now, that I think is the most significant piece of information we have. There's no reason to suppose that he was lying to his friends. Why should he? And there's no reason to suppose that they lied in saying that this is what he told them. [16]

The Inslaw case involves charges that the Justice Department, under Attorney General Edwin Meese, stole the powerful database software PROMIS (Prosecutor's Management Information System) from Inslaw. When a federal bankruptcy court ruled in Inslaw's favor in 1987, presiding Judge George Francis Bason concluded that the Justice Department "took, converted, and stole" the software "through trickery, fraud, and deceit." [17]

Allegations about the theft of PROMIS have suggested three possible motives: To fund off-the-shelf covert operations; to market a "trojan horse" database which could then be easily monitored by the National Security Agency; [18] and to pay off Reagan attorney General Edwin Meese's political crony, Dr. Earl Brian. Now president of the floundering United Press International, Earl Brian has longstanding ties to Reagan and served in his cabinet when Reagan was governor of California.

Whatever it motivations, the Justice Department has twice been found guilty of theft and was ordered to pay Inslaw 6.8 million, plus legal fees. In 1989, the decision was upheld by federal judge William Bryant who said, "the government acted willfully and fraudulently..." [19] Under both Edwin Meese and Richard Thornburgh, the Justice Department stonewalled efforts to investigate, refusing to release documents either to Senator Sam Nunn's Government Affairs Investigations Subcommittee or to Congressman Jack Brooks' House Judiciary Committee.

In June, after eight years of litigation, the Federal Appeals Court of the District of Columbia voided the two previous decisions. October Surprise figure Judge Lawrence J. Silberman [20] cast the deciding vote, declaring that the case had been wrongly heard in a bankruptcy court in the first place, and must be retried in a federal district court. Inslaw has appealed to the Supreme Court.

The Washington, D. C. bankruptcy court judge who had heard the case and decided in Inslaw's favor was removed from the bench one month after his decision. [21] He was replaced by S. Martin Teel, Jr., one of the Department of Justice lawyers who had unsuccessfully argued the case. According to a writer for Barron's, "Even jaded, case hardened Washington attorneys called the decision 'shocking' and 'eerie.'" [22]

OCTOBER SURPRISE

October Surprise is the as-yet unproven theory that members of the 1980 Reagan presidential campaign arranged a deal with the government of Iran to continue holding 52 U. S. hostages in Tehran until after the election in order to prevent President Carter from benefiting politically from their release.

The Inslaw case is tied to the October Surprise by the sworn affidavit of Michael Riconosciuto, a West Coast computer and weapons technician with self-proclaimed ties to the intelligence community. He testified last March that he had modified the PROMIS software for sale to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) at the request of a Justice department contracting officer named Peter Videnieks and Reagan/Meese crony Earl Brian. [23] In an unsworn statement to Inslaw's president William A. Hamilton, Riconosciuto says he met Brian in 1980 when he helped him deliver $40 million to Tehran to consummate the October Surprise weapons-for-hostages deal. [24]

After Riconosciuto first contacted Inslaw, Casolaro traveled several times to California and Washington in 1990 and 1991 to talk to him. Riconosciuto claims knowledge of many covert activities in the U.S., Latin America, and Australia, and doubtless influenced Casolaro's concept of the Octopus. [25] In his affidavit in the Inslaw case, Riconosciuto declared that Videnieks told him "not to cooperate with an independent investigation... by the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States House of Representatives." [26] Riconosciuto also stated that Videnieks also threatened him with specific punishments he "could expect to receive from the U.S. Department of Justice... " if he cooperated with that investigation. [27] Within eight days of swearing the affidavit, he was in fact arrested on charges of distributing methamphetamines and has been held without bail in Washington state since March. [28] My appointment to speak to Casolaro on his return concerned Riconosciuto, in whose wide-ranging, not entirely believable allegations we shared a keen interest.

Viedenieks has denied in a sworn affidavit any knowledge of or contact with Riconosciuto. Earl Brian has done the same. Although Videnieks identifies himself as an employee of the U.S. Customs in his affidavit, the customs personnel office has denied any knowledge of him. An independent check with regional Customs officials also produced no evidence of Videnieks. Casolaro, however, told Hamilton that he had contacted Videnieks at Customs shortly before his fatal trip. [29]

FINAL RENDEVOUS

What is known about Danny Casolaro's trip to Martinsburg is that he met on Thursday, August 8, at about 5:30 p.m. in the Sheraton bar with a man described by a waitress as possibly Arab or Iranian. [30] This may have been an Egyptian named Hassan Ali Ibrahim Ali. According to documents provided to Casolaro by former Customs informant Bob Bickel, Ali headed an Iraqi front company in the U.S. called Sitico.

According to Ridgeway and Vaughn, Casolaro had shown a photo of Ali to a friend shortly before leaving for Martinsburg. Middle East expert Mary Barrett has asserted that Hassan Ali -- known as "Ali Ali" -- had close ties to the late Gerald Bull, the American ballistics engineer working on super long-range artillery for Iraq and South Africa. [31] Bull was murdered in Brussels in March, apparently by Israeli agents. [32]

After meeting with Ali, Casolaro waited in the same bar to meet another source, who never arrived. In a conversation with Tom Looney, a fellow hotel guest he met there, Casolaro spoke of the source he was waiting for, explaining that the man had the information to solve the Octopus riddle, something which Casolaro explained in detail to his skeptical listener. Looney told Ridgeway and Vaughn that he had a hard time believing that just seven or eight men were responsible for 40 years of scandals.

OTHER FIGURES FROM THE SHADOWS

On the following day, Friday, August 9, Casolaro met with a former Hughes Aircraft employee, William Turner, in the Sheraton parking lot at about 2:00 p.m. Turner gave him some papers relating to alleged corruption at Hughes and at the Pentagon.

To further complicate matters, Turner was arrested on September 26, on charges of holding up a rural bank near his home in Winchester, Virginia. In an interview with Ridgeway and Vaughn in mid-August, Turner professed to being "scared shitless" because of the evidence Casolaro had shown him connecting "the Octopus" to Oliver North, BCCI, the Keating Five, and the Silverado Savings and Loan scandal. [33]

Finally, there is the ubiquitous Ari Ben-Menashe, the former Israeli military intelligence officer who claims to have been involve

another FBI. tentacle.....

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Insurance Commissioner Selects New Associate Commissioner of Fraud Unit

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 11 2014 The Texas Department of Insurance issued the following news release:

The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has selected Chris Davis as the new associate commissioner of TDI's Fraud Unit.

Davis is a licensed Texas attorney and peace officer. He was previously employed as a managing associate at the Kroll Security Group. Prior to Kroll, Davis served as the associate commissioner of TDI's Fraud Unit. In 2009, Davis was the director of the Enforcement and Legal Division at the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE). He has also worked as a supervisor special agent with the FBI.

The TDI Fraud Unit is part of the Agency's Compliance Division which also includes Consumer Protection, and Enforcement.

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » August 12th, 2014, 2:06 pm

Bet you can't count the number of suckers on this FBI Tentacle?

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The tone of the first committee ads, of course, was decidedly negative.

"Michael Grimm. Can you believe this guy?" asks the Democrats' ad against the two-term incumbent Republican facing criminal charges. The 30-second ads are expected to stay on New York City cable stations through Oct. 13, at a cost of almost $1 million.

As black-and-white video of Grimm plays, audio from news reports about his criminal troubles play in the background. "The Republican has been indicted by the feds," NBC anchor Brian Williams says in the ad.

Grimm is accused of evading taxes and hiding more than $1 million in sales and wages from a small Manhattan restaurant. He has been indicted on 20 criminal counts.

The Staten Island lawmaker and former FBI agent has pleaded not guilty. He says he's the target of a political smear campaign aimed at driving him out of office.

National Republicans have largely conceded the seat to Democrats. The National Republican Congressional Committee has not booked airtime to defend Grimm and was silent on Tuesday's anti-Grimm ad.

By contrast, the NRCC called Democrats' ad against its nominee in south-central New Jersey "despicabl

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » August 15th, 2014, 8:39 am

Can you see how big the FBI Octopus has gotten yet?

another tentacle

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Rallies honor people who died at hands of police

Missouri Highway Patrol seizes control of Ferguson
Rand Paul: Demilitarize police in wake of Missouri clashes between police, protesters
Protesters gather in Ferguson, carry signs, chant

April Taylor said she's been pulled over more than 15 times in her life and each time has been illegally searched. She worries about going to jail and fears for her children.

"I have two sons and a daughter, and I don't want to have to bury my children ... especially at the hands of those who are supposed to serve and protect," said Taylor, visibly emotional. "You just wonder how the interaction's going to go ... I can count on one hand the number of cops who I felt had any kind of respect for me as a human being."

At 7:20 p.m. Thursday, Taylor, 32, joined about 40 other Lexington citizens in front of the Fayette Circuit Court building downtown to observe nearly a minute of silence against police shootings and police brutality.

The group participated in a social media campaign that called for a national moment of silence days after unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed by police in Ferguson, Mo. (Read the latest about the situation.) The furor surrounding the shooting sparked national outrage after photos and footage showed police in military-like uniforms shooting tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators and journalists.

People gathered in public places in some 90 cities around the country to commemorate those victimized by police brutality, according to the New York Times.

A Facebook page for the vigil in Civic Center Park in Denver showed that about 200 people out of 1,400 invited planned to attend, and the vigil at Malcolm X Park in Washington had 1,400 registrants out of 7,800 who were invited, the newspaper reported.

Enchanta Jackson organized Lexington's vigil with Kentuckians for the Commonwealth in an effort to give people a place to discuss the circumstances surrounding the shooting in Missouri.

"I see the emotions building," said Jackson, 31, who's part of the Black Youth 100 Project. "Police brutality and criminalization is not something unfamiliar for people in Lexington. ... It's a movement of young people of color who are ready for change."

The Lexington demonstrators, a noticeably diverse crowd, held hands in prayer, shared stories, called for the violence to stop, offered suggestions and held signs that read "Don't shoot. Hands up," and "No justice. No peace."

The handling of the protests after Brown's shooting has raised questions nationally about police tactics and machinery used to handle large crowds.

Lexington public safety commissioner and former FBI special agent Clay Mason said Lexington's strategy for dealing with crowds differs from that of other cities.

"When our folks go out for what could be called a civil disturbance response, they're going to have the gear on, but if you notice the gear is for self-protection," he said. "We don't have weapons out. ... We're not going to roll out with our special response team vehicle on an incident without a real good knowledge or probable cause that there's an armed individual we're going to be encountering."

Police typically wear riot gear on State Street after University of Kentucky victories in NCAA Tournament games. Police officers are stationed on every corner and in front of homes as fans pour into the area to celebrate. Cruisers also patrol the area.

But Mason, who has investigated several civil rights cases, said the department has worked tirelessly on community policing and dealing with racially divided areas in hopes of gaining the trust of the citizens to ensure that large disorders do not happen.

Taylor agreed that it takes a community to avoid police brutality. "It's about showing a united front," she said. "This is just not a black people issue, but a human issue."

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » August 16th, 2014, 9:43 pm

New Documentary

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3040528/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A thought-provoking documentary about the ill-fated Trans World Airline Flight 800 to Paris, France, which exploded on July 17, 1996 just 12 minutes after takeoff from JFK International Airport, killing all 230 people on board. The special features six former members of the official crash investigation breaking their silence to refute the officially proposed cause of the jetliner's demise and reveal how the investigation was systematically undermined.

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » August 20th, 2014, 1:42 pm

another DOJ Crime Family Tentacle

when taxpayer funded made members called FBI agents
want to take control of your Toyota car computer
who do they go to?

New software inserted into your car computer during your next service check.

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/l ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ex-prosecutor will be Toyota's independent safety monitor, U.S. says
David Kelley
David Kelley, a former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, was named by the Justice Department to be Toyota's independent safety monitor. Above, Kelley in 2005. (Jennifer S. Altman / Bloomberg News)

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » August 22nd, 2014, 12:13 am

couple of big tentacles from this taxpayer funded Octupus

Law Enforcement Defense Fund Names FBI Assistant Director President
Source: Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund Aug 21, 2014

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August 1, 2014 — The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF), a donor-driven non-profit that provides financial support to law enforcement professionals facing duty-related legal challenges, named former FBI Assistant Director Ronald T. Hosko as President of the organization. (Image available upon request).

“Ron’s broad range of private and law enforcement partnerships and management experience will help LELDF further develop its mission,” said LELDF Director and former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III, “and forge expanded relationships with the law enforcement community, government, the media, and the general public.”

Hosko retired after almost 30 years in the FBI, most recently serving as Assistant Director of the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division following his service as Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Washington Field Office. Throughout his distinguished career with the FBI, Hosko led critical incident training, planning, and management teams while serving important roles at the Salt Lake and Torino Olympics, the U.S. World Cup and national political conventions, as well as critical incident response at the Oakdale Prison siege, 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and many others.

Prior to coming to Washington, DC, Hosko has served as a Special Agent in Jackson, MS and Chicago before leading the FBI's Crisis Management Unit in Quantico, Virginia. He also served as an assistant special agent in charge in Philadelphia where he earned the FBI's Shield of Bravery for his actions during a violent ransom kidnapping. He was promoted to the Senior Executive Service as an Inspector, conducting multiple shooting investigations involving FBI and associated law enforcement personnel and led a seminal 20 year review of FBI shooting incidents. Hosko is a graduate of Temple University School of Law.

In addition, the LELDF named Alfred S. Regnery Chairman following the death of Chairman David Martin. He and Mr. Martin founded the organization in 1995 after organizing and managing the Stacey Koon Defense Fund, which paid for the defense of the principal arresting officer in the Rodney King case in Los Angeles. Regnery served as a member of the LELDF board of directors and treasurer of the organization since its inception. Before joining the organization, he served as Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee and under Ed Meese at the United States Department of Justice as Deputy Assistant Attorney General. Regnery was later named by President Reagan as Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Hosko also joins the Law Enforcement legal Defense Fund (LELDF) Board of Directors which includes Regnery and Meese, former FBI Deputy Assistant Director John J. Burke, former U.S. Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights William Bradford Reynolds, and former FBI Special Agent Daniel J. DeSimone.

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » August 22nd, 2014, 10:30 am

How many FBI tentacles in Congress?

How do you think FBI agents got away with assassinating President Kennedy and creating 911 ?

Former Congressman Ed Bethune to discuss new book

http://www.thv11.com/story/news/local/t ... /14429985/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

About the Author

Ed Bethune has a deep understanding of American culture and the criminal justice system.

He was a Special Agent of the FBI in Newark, NJ, during the race riots of 1967. In 1970, he became the Prosecuting Attorney for the First Judicial District and led a successful effort to completely revise Arkansas' antiquated rules of criminal procedure. In 1978, he won a seat in Congress and served three terms.

Later, he specialized in ethics law and represented several congressional leaders (the Speaker of the House, the Majority Leader, and others) in high-visibility matters before the House Ethics Committee. He and his wife, Lana, live in Little Rock.

msfreeh · Post by **msfreeh** » August 25th, 2014, 3:43 pm

Eric Velez-Villar Promoted to FBI Intell Executive Assistant Director
Mary-Louise Hoffman · Aug 25th, 2014 · 0 Comment
Eric Velez-Villar
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Eric Velez-Villar

Eric Velez-Villar, a 29-year FBI veteran and former assistant director for the intelligence directorate, has been promoted to executive assistant director of the bureau’s intelligence branch.

He joined the FBI in 1985 working in the San Juan division and then became a special agent focused on organized crime and illegal drug matters in the San Antonio division before returning to San Juan to handle public corruption investigations, the bureau said Friday.

In 2000, he moved to FBI headquarters as a supervisory special agent and worked at the Drug Enforcement Agency‘s special operations unit, where he was responsible for coordinating drug trafficking cases across the U.S.

He also served as assistant special agent for the counterterrorism program in the Los Angeles division and was the division’s first special agent in charge of intelligence activities.

Velez-Villar also held the role of deputy director at the bureau’s Washington-based terrorist screening center.

He served as deputy assistant director of intelligence directorate for three years prior to being named to the DI assistant director position in 2012.

He is a recipient of the 2011 Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive and the 2008 Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service.

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