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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 09, 2016
HOW ROY COHN GOT RUDY GIULIANI APPOINTED AS U S ATTORNEY
You cannot make this stuff up!!

In 1982-1983, Rudy was a candidate to be U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Organized crime lawyer Roy Cohn put his law partner Tom Bolan onto the Screening Panel for the post, created by Cohn's friend, Senator Al D'Amato. D'Amato then sponsored Rudy's candidacy for the job.

In June, 1983, Giuliani was installed as U.S. Attorney. That same month, Mario Gigante — a client of Roy Cohn and the brother of mob boss "Chin" Gigante — was sentenced to eight years in prison for loan-sharking and extortion. In the Fall of 1984, Senato D'Amato phoned Rudy to suggest Gigante was not a bad man and the government should go easy on him. Then Judge Charles Stewart approved, without comment, a two-year reduction in Mario Gigante's prison term. Vincent "the Fish" Cafaro, on orders from mob boss "Chin" Gigante, thereupon delivered a $175,000 cash payment to Cohn's office.

In 1985, Senator D'Amato again called Giuliani, this time to ask for reconsideration of pending charges against Paul Castellano, alleged chief of the Mafia's "National Commission." Castellano was granted bail, only to be assassinated.





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Report: Former US Rep. Mike Rogers to Lead Donald Trump’s Presidential Transition Team for Natl Security



November 11, 2016 Defense & National Security,
Mike Rogers, a national security commentator at CNN and former chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, will lead national security planning for Donald Trump’s presidential transition, The Detroit News reported Thursday.

The former Michigan representative has not publicly disclosed his role in the White House transition team, according to the joint report by Chad Livengood, Melissa Nann Burke and Michael Gerstein.

“Few if any from Michigan will have the political clout Rogers has with the Trump administration,” Saul Anuzis, a former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, was quoted as saying.

Anuzis added Rogers is qualified to take a major role in Trump’s international counterterrorism efforts.

Rogers served in Congress for seven terms and previously worked as an FBI special agent.

He is a member of IronNet Cybersecurity‘s board of directors, Next Century‘s board of advisers and Trident Capital‘s Cybersecurity Industry Advisory Council.





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Congressman and former FBI agent Mike Rogers part of 911 coverup


Grayson to Submit New Request to Read 28 Secret Pages on 9/11

January 26, 2015 28 pages, 9/11, Alan Grayson, Intelligence Committee, Mike Rogers, NSA

Congressman Alan Grayson
Congressman Alan Grayson, one of three representatives who last week joined the growing movement to declassify a 28-page finding on foreign government support of the September 11th hijackers, told 28Pages.org he did so because “the American people have the right to know what happened on 9/11 in every regard.”

As he takes a stand for releasing the 28 pages to the public, he remains determined to read the 28 pages himself. Denied permission by the House intelligence committee in the waning weeks of the last Congress, Grayson will try again in the new one.

The Florida congressman said the December 1 refusal of his first request was “politics, pure and simple.”

“There are people on the intelligence committee who are unhappy with the fact that I have been a staunch opponent of pervasive domestic spying here in the United States,” said Grayson. “The vote was almost entirely on party lines because the Republican chairman (Mike Rogers) misrepresented information to the committee about my actions.”


Grayson Speaking on the House Floor, June 2013
In June 2013, amid the first wave of Edward Snowden’s revelations of NSA mass domestic surveillance, Grayson delivered a speech on the House floor that was accompanied by a display of NSA briefing slides that had already been published in The Guardian and The Washington Post. Grayson said the information he shared in the speech relied “solely on information in The Guardian…and that was misrepresented to the (intelligence) committee members as my misusing classified information.”

“Frankly, if they’re going to be playing those kinds of games, it’s a wonder that good people ever get to find out anything about the octopus tentacles of the spying-industrial complex,” said Grayson.

Grayson is hoping for a different outcome when he submits a new request to read the 28 pages.

“Chairman Rogers is no longer chairman of the committee—in fact he’s no longer on the committee or even in Congress—and I hope the current chair will not try to twist the facts the way that Rogers did and I’ll be able to see the information that not only I should be able to see but also every member of the public,” said Grayson.

Grayson cast doubt on the notion that releasing the redacted information could pose a risk to national security or intelligence operations.

“It’s inconceivable to me at this point, more than 13 years later, that there’s any actionable information the administration needs to keep secret in order to be able to do anything with it,” said Grayson, who represents Florida’s 9th congressional district. “No one has ever claimed there’s anything in those 28 pages that needs to remain classified in order to protect current U.S. interests,” he added.

Grayson’s criticism of the continued secrecy of the 28 pages is echoed by many who have read them, including former Senator Bob Graham—who co-chaired the joint congressional inquiry that produced the 28-page chapter in an 838-page report—and Congressmen Walter Jones, Stephen Lynch and Thomas Massie.

While Grayson is well-known as an outspoken Democrat, support for the declassification of the 28 pages on Capitol Hill comprises a near-perfect 50/50 mix of Republicans and Democrats united by a common belief that foreign government links to the 9/11 terrorists shouldn’t stay secret.



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In November 30, 2011 Congressman Rogers introduced the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).[10] "The bill would allow the government to share all of its classified cyber-security knowledge with private companies, forming knowledge-sharing agreements that would hopefully keep China (and other countries and hackers) out of American computer networks. The catch is that the information shared is a two-lane street—companies would also be allowed to share private data with the federal government, provided there is a reasonable 'cyber threat.'"[11] "In the current version, most personal information would be stripped from data shared with the government, and the bill no longer defines intellectual property theft as something relating to national security "We think we're making huge progress with the privacy groups, so they understand what we're trying to accomplish, which isn't anything nefarious," Rogers said"[12]

Rogers has reaffirmed his support for the NSA's programs, stating on October 30, 2013, "You can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy is violated."[13][14]

Rogers introduced and supported the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015 (H.R. 4681; 113th Congress), a bill that would authorize a variety of intelligence agencies and their appropriations for fiscal years 2014 and 2015.[15][16] The total spending authorized by the bill is classified, but estimates based on intelligence leaks made by Edward Snowden indicate that the budget could be approximately $50 billion.[17][18] Rogers said that Americas "have somehow decided over the last year that our intelligence services are the problem... they are part of the solution."[15]







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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
What Was Roy Cohn Alleging About Storied Mob Hit?

Big Paul Castellano

"C'mon over, I've got a dynamite story on Paul Castellano."

It's December 1985, two days after the storied execution of the Gambino crime family boss derisively referred to as "The Pope."

Considering who the caller was, the reporter, Sidney Zion, couldn't arrive fast enough.

Zion had been telephoned by none other than notorious mob defense attorney Roy Cohn, a man considered a scumbag by friend and foe alike.




Roy Marcus Cohn (Feb. 20, 1927 – Aug. 2, 1986) earned enough venomous scorn to last a lifetime even before he represented mobsters such as Carmine Galante. 

Cohn first gained prominence as a key member of the prosecution for the U.S. Department of Justice. He was a member of the team behind the 1951 espionage trial of alleged Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. (In 1995, a series of decoded Soviet cables, codenamed VENONA, confirmed that Julius had indeed acted as a courier and recruiter for the Soviets. As for Ethel, however, no compelling evidence was found.)

The Rosenberg trial brought Cohn, 24, to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's attention. Hoover, in turn, recommended him to Senator Joseph McCarthy, who hired Cohn as his chief counsel (in place of Robert F. Kennedy). 

The inebriated Senator saw his name in lights as he busied himself with the task of rooting out the specter of communism. His witch-hunting senate committee ruined scores of American lives with little more than legendary innuendo. From 1950 to 1954 McCarthyism held sway over the U.S., capitalizing on the widespread fear and paranoia engendered by ongoing Cold War tensions.

McCarthy, ultimately censured by the United States Senate, died on May 2, 1957, at 48, of acute hepatitis, an inflammation of the liver. (He drank himself to death).

Cohn, however, was on a roll. He set his sights on Manhattan and quickly established himself as a high-powered defense attorney to the wealthy, whether Mafiosi or blueblood. Cohen defended a diverse roster of clients that included Donald Trump, Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno, Carmine Galante, and John Gotti.


Roy Cohn 

According to noted New York newspaperman/attorney Zion, Cohn also defended, in some capacity, Gambino boss Paul Castellano. Which is why Zion, who was writing Cohn's autobiography with him at the time, rushed over to Cohn's townhouse one freezing cold evening in 1985.

Cohn led Zion into the small office and started talking.

"As soon as Rudy was appointed, the rumors began that his big thing was to ride to governor or the Senate or even higher office by prosecuting top Mafia leaders," Cohn said. He added that he'd heard this through his underworld sources.

Zion smiled. Giuliani's motives were quite apparent. The pontificating Mayor-to-be was viewed as altruistic by only the idealistic fool.
Cohn added: "OK. It was an open secret. Rudy was going to arrest every single mob leader. And, of course, he's doing it and nobody else has ever done that." [This was in the midst of the Commission Case.]

Then Zion chirped in, "I heard you went to see Rudy for Castellano."

"Tommy Gambino [son of Carlo Gambino and nephew to Paul Castellano] asked me to do it, and I was glad to do it. Tommy's a good friend and he was right."

Tommy was upset that the first indictment--the one prior to the Commission Case, that stemmed from the car-theft operation run by doomed Gambino capo Roy DeMeo--included charges related to drug dealing.

During the 1970s and 1980s, the public largely believed that "noble" old-time bosses such as Carlo Gambino and Fat Tony Salerno had kept the drugs off the streets (and to an extent they may have, at least in the neighborhoods where they actually lived. Notice Tommy wasn't bothered by the fact that his uncle may have profited from drugs, only that the charges would appear in the indictment.)

So, two or three weeks before the first indictment was delivered, Cohn met with the Federal Prosecutor.

"I made my speech," he said. "I started by saying I knew these people, I knew Paul for 20 years, and [Giuliani and his staff] knew I had represented Tony Salerno..." 

Cohn also had gotten John Gotti a sweet plea bargain for participating in the Jimmy McBratney murder in the early 1970s as a favor to Carlo -- never mind the fact that McBratney had had nothing to do with the kidnapped and murdered Gambino nephew...

"So now you're going after Paul for drugs," Cohn continued his story. "I tell you, I think it's crazy, it's wrong."

According to Cohn, Giuliani said he had a witness who would testify that Big Paul was always at a restaurant where drug deals were known to have occurred.

To which Cohn said: "Rudy, you're here now. There could be a lunch meeting 10 blocks away and someone could say that you were there, that drug deals were happening and you were there. How can anybody protect himself against this stuff? It'd double hearsay."

What was Rudy's answer?

"He didn't say anything. His people wanted to know if Paul would take a lie detector test and if he'd testify before the grand jury. ... I said I didn't know what he'd do, but I'd said I'd recommend it. They said, 'See you later.'"

So Roy sometime afterward met Castellano in his car. 

"We went over all the propositions. I told him I'd insist on the questions in advance so there'd be no curveballs. He was 50-50."

What happened?

"It fell apart because of my conditions. The idea of the lie detector and grand jury testimony was to exonerate him from the drug charges. But in testifying he'd have to get into relationships with other people, he couldn't just make a denial."

Had there been talk of Castellano cooperating with the government?

"Definitely."

So that's why it didn't happen, right?

"That's not it."

Huh?

"Paul Castellano never gave me a flat 'no' on cooperation."

Asked exactly what he was trying to say, Cohn smiled. "It never got the the point of giving up people."

And: "He never gave me a flat 'no.'"

Did this get out to the mob? Zion asked.

"Not from me," Cohn said.

Zion: "Roy, are you trying to tell me that Castellano was hit because they thought he would talk? I mean, he was on trial when they hit him."

"It wasn't the drug trial.... He just died the other day.... I don't know why he was killed."

"But you seem to be saying..."

"I haven't checked it out yet."

Zion said Cohn never said another word about the Castellano hit again. And he couldn't stop remembering how the phone call had started. That Cohn had said he had a dynamite story on Paul Castellano.

Zion wondered if he'd started asking too many questions and that Roy may have said





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DECEMBER 29, 2014 AT 6:04 AM
Florida congressman denied access to censored pages from Congress’ 9/11 report

UPDATE: JAN 10. Click here to watch video of former Florida Sen. Bob Graham, Congressmen Walter Jones, R-N.C. and Stephen Lynch, D-Ma. and others talk about the need to declassify the 28 censored pages from Congress’s Joint Inquiry report on 9/11. Remarks by Graham, who co-chaired the Joint Inquiry, begin at 10:25 into Wednesday’s Capitol Hill press conference.


One of 28 redacted pages from a congressional report regarding “specific sources of foreign support” for the 9/11 hijackers
By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org

The U.S. House Intelligence Committee has denied a Florida congressman’s request for access to 28 classified pages from the 2002 report of Congress’ Joint Inquiry into the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, told BrowardBulldog.org he made his request at the suggestion of House colleagues who have read them as they consider whether to support a proposed resolution urging President Obama to open those long-censored pages to the public.

“Why was I denied? I have been instrumental in publicizing the Snowden revelations regarding pervasive domestic spying by the government and this is a petty means for the spying industrial complex to lash back,” Grayson said last week, referring to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.

Redacted on orders from then-President George W. Bush, the report says the 28 pages concern “specific sources of foreign support” for the 9/11 hijackers while they were in the U.S. Specifically, that is “the role of Saudi Arabia in funding 9/11,” according to former Florida Senator Bob Graham, who co-chaired the Joint Inquiry and helped write the 28 pages.

Graham has long called for declassifying those pages in order to help 9/11 victims and their families find justice, and to better serve national security. In July, 9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean and Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton also came out in support of declassification.

“I’m embarrassed that they’re not declassified,” said Hamilton, a former Indiana congressman. “We emphasized transparency. I assumed incorrectly that our records would be public, all of them, everything.”

House Resolution 428, sponsored by Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr., R-NC, asks President Obama to release the 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry’s report, saying they are “necessary for a full public understanding of the events and circumstances” surrounding the 9/11 attacks.

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., is one of 21 co-sponsors including Florida Reps. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar, and Ted Yoho, R-Gainesville. Massie has challenged all members of Congress to read the report, which he said poses no threat to national security.

In 2003, 46 senators – including Joe Biden, Sam Brownback, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Kerry – wrote to President Bush asking him to declassify the pages.


U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando
In a party line vote, the House Intelligence Committee voted 8-4 on Dec. 1 to deny Democrat Grayson access to the 28 pages. The same day, the committee unanimously approved requests to access classified committee documents – not necessarily the 28 pages – by 11 other House members.

Grayson, an outspoken liberal and a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said his denial was engineered by outgoing Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich. Rogers is a former FBI agent who did not seek re-election in November.

“Congressman Rogers made serious misrepresentations to other committee members when he brought this up,” Grayson in a telephone interview. “When the Guardian reported on the fact that there was universal domestic surveillance regarding every single phone call, including this one, I went to the floor of the House and gave a lengthy speech decrying it.”

“Chairman Rogers told the committee that I had discussed classified information on the floor. He left out the most important part that I was discussing what was reported in the newspaper,” said Grayson. “He clearly misled the committee for an improper purpose: to deny a sitting member of Congress important classified information necessary for me to do my job.”

Rogers did not respond to a request for comment. An aide in his Lansing, Michigan office referred callers to a spokeswoman for the House Intelligence Committee who could not be reached for comment.






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Bob Graham Says FBI Aggressively Deceived on Sarasota 9/11 Investigation - emptywheel
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Apr 28, 2016 - I think it's been more than a cover up. I think it's what I call aggressive deception: instances in which the FBI has publicly released statements which .




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‘INTEGRITY QUESTIONED’
Meet Donald Trump’s Top FBI Fanboy



11.03.16 1:03 AM ET
Two days before FBI director James Comey rocked the world last week, Rudy Giuliani was on Fox, where he volunteered, un-prodded by any question: “I think he’s [Donald Trump] got a surprise or two that you’re going to hear about in the next few days. I mean, I’m talking about some pretty big surprises.”
Pressed for specifics, he said: “We’ve got a couple of things up our sleeve that should turn this thing around.”

Hours after Comey’s letter about the renewed probe was leaked on Friday, Giuliani went on a radio show and attributed the director’s surprise action to “the pressure of a group of FBI agents who don’t look at it politically.”
“The other rumor that I get is that there’s a kind of revolution going on inside the FBI about the original conclusion [not to charge Clinton] being completely unjustified and almost a slap in the face to the FBI’s integrity,” said Giuliani. “I know that from former agents. I know that even from a few active agents.”
 
Along with Giuliani’s other connections to New York FBI agents, his former law firm, then called Bracewell Giuliani, has long been general counsel to the FBI Agents Association (FBIAA), which represents 13,000 former and current agents. The group, born in the New York FBI office in the early ’80s, was headed until Monday by Rey Tariche



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Course.
It's only downhill from here.

Politics be damned, it's time for the White House and/or the Attorney General, the nominal superiors of everyone who works for the FBI, to come off the bench and break this scam once and for all. This is now for more than just this election. This is law enforcement trying to force its will of the civil authorities, no different from some backwater sheriff who has compromising photos of the mayor.

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Thursday, December 22, 2016
Hospital that fired workers for refusing annual flu shots must reinstate them with back pay--and exploring the odd mechanisms used to impose vaccine mandates on healthcare workers, while CDC claims there are "no legally mandated vaccinations for adults"
A hospital in Erie, PA fired 6 healthcare workers for refusing the annual flu shot.  Taken to the EEOC, the hospital has settled by offering them their jobs back with $300,000 in back pay.

The interesting piece to me is the acknowledgement that the hospital imposed its mandate (with over 99% compliance of its remaining workers) in order to get higher Medicare reimbursements.

Yet the federal government, via CDC, claims it does not impose mandates, and suggests that it is actually illegal to force US adult civilians to get vaccinated. (Cite below)

What is going on?  

The federal government has created and co-created a variety of organizations which are supposed to help determine how to improve the "quality of care."  These organizations are called 1) QIOs, established by Medicare https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-In ... ementorgs/

and 2) organizations like the National Quality Forum, a federally-established, public-private health quality organization http://www.qualityforum.org/about_nqf/history/.

Medicare is used as a cudgel (while the federal government hides behind the “quality improvement” skirts of organizations it created) to forcibly impose a few cherry-picked "quality" measures on medical institutions, by threatening to lower reimbursement rates to institutions that do not comply with the “quality improvement" measures Medicare selected from the large palette of measures suggested by these intermediary organizations.

While at the same time, CDC wants you to think this has nothing to do with CDC.

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“CDC does not issue any requirements or mandates for state agencies, health systems, or health care workers regarding infection control practices, including influenza vaccination. There are no legally mandated vaccinations for adults, except for persons entering military service. CDC does recommend certain immunizations for adults, depending on age, occupation, and other circumstances, but these immunizations are not required by law.”

Yet  CDC elsewhere on its website acknowledges what is going on:  

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“...Facilities must report employee coverage rates of flu vaccination as a quality measure: "Currently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires reporting of influenza vaccination coverage for workers in acute care hospitals as a part of the Inpatient Quality Reporting Program through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Health Care Safety Network, a web-based data reporting system using National Quality Forum (NQF) #0431. Each hospital’s influenza vaccination coverage among their health care personnel will be included as a quality measure on Medicare’s consumer-based Hospital Compare program.”

I don’t understand why this issue has not been resolved in a federal court, and why cases are going through EEOC, where employees may win but their wins do not stop the nationwide healthcare worker mandates--for a vaccine flu that does not protect patients, according to meta-analyses by Cochrane Collaboration http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27251461 and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23881655, the WHO http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1 ... 12087/full
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That no one in media or healthcare administration seems to know about this incredible preponderance of evidence against healthcare worker flu shots is itself interesting.

Here is the article on the EEOC settlement by St. Vincent Hospital.—Meryl

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Saint Vincent settles federal lawsuit filed by workers who claimed religious discrimination.
By David Bruce david.bruce@timesnews.com
Saint Vincent Hospital has agreed to rehire six former employees it fired after they refused to get flu shots in late 2013 and early 2014 due to their religious beliefs.
The Erie hospital also will provide about $300,000 in back pay and compensatory damages to the employees as part of an agreement to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of the workers by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in September. A consent decree that ended the case and detailed the settlement terms was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Erie.

The commission had claimed Saint Vincent violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it fired the six workers, who refused to be vaccinated after the hospital implemented a mandatory flu vaccination policy for all employees. The hospital granted medical exemptions to 14 other workers.
"The consent decree filed this week between the EEOC and Saint Vincent Hospital does not constitute any admission of violations by Saint Vincent or a finding on the merits of the case," Dan Laurent, a spokesman for Allegheny Health Network, Saint Vincent's parent organization, said in an email. "Although we have vigorously and respectfully disagreed with the EEOC's position and characterization of how employee claims outlined in this lawsuit were handled by the hospital, we have reached a resolution of the matter in the interest of avoiding the expense, delay and burden of further litigation on all parties."
As part of the consent decree, Saint Vincent must pay the following employees back pay and compensatory damages:
Bryan Nash - $81,712.86;
Aleksandr Gevorkyan - $81,814.81;
Aza Galustyan - $54,493.85;
Joshua Dolecki - $19,608.17;
Lisa Waller - $29,503.37;
Beth Theobald - $32,866.94.
In addition to providing the money, Saint Vincent must also offer to reinstate each former employee to their previous job with the same pay and benefits. If the job is not vacant, Saint Vincent must offer the employee a similar job if one becomes vacant over the next two years at any of the defendant's facilities within a 50-mile radius of Saint Vincent.

Saint Vincent implemented the mandatory flu shot policy to receive the maximum reimbursement for treating Medicare patients. At least 95 percent of the hospital's entire workforce had to be vaccinated to meet the requirements, Saint Vincent officials said in 2014 shortly after the policy went into effect. Saint Vincent said in February 2014 that 99.4 percent of its workforce had been vaccinated or received an exemption.
Those who sought a religious exemption for a flu shot were told they must provide proof of doctrine from an established religious organization. Several employees who provided letters from clergy were still denied exemptions by the hospital.
The consent decree states that Saint Vincent, from now on, "shall not require proof that an employee's or applicant's religious objection to vaccination be an official tenet or endorsed teaching of any religion or denomination."

The hospital also cannot conclude that a person's "religious belief, practice or observance is not sincerely held simply because (Saint Vincent) deems the belief, practice or observance unreasonable, inaccurate, unfounded, illogical or inconsistent in Saint Vincent's view."

Saint Vincent, which was founded by the Roman Catholic Sisters of St. Joseph of Northwestern Pennsylvania, stopped requiring all employees to get a flu shot after it joined Allegheny Health Network, Laurent said.
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ATF Stays Mum on ‘Officer-Involved Death’ of Suspect in Milwaukee



The ATF is keeping quiet about an “officer-involved death” of a
suspect in Milwaukee last week.

“I apologize, I know it’s really confusing,” ATF media contact Ashlee
Sherrill of the St. Paul field office told the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel. “But we don’t want to compromise the investigation.”

The Wisconsin Department of Justice is investigating the case.

The ATF was leading an operation Thursday that involved serving an
arrest warrant on Bruce Young, who was accused of possessing illegal
explosives. Young fled and was under pursuit when he shot himself,
according to the Department of Justice.

A video shows a law enforcement vehicle striking the running suspect
before he fell to the ground.


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Records: FBI Had No Evidence of Wrongdoing Against Clinton in Computer
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Hillary Clinton



The FBI had no evidence of wrongdoing when the bureau asked a judge
for a warrant to search a computer that contained correspondence
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L.A.'s highest-ranking African American officer to head
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Videos captured the moment in July when Bay Area Rapid Transit police
officers pounced on Michael Smith and his girlfriend in downtown San
Francisco, ordering them to the ground at gunpoint and handcuffing
them.

As people gathered and recorded with their cellphones, Smith,
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PBSO deputy charged with identity theft
Some call it the ultimate breach of public trust.

Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy Frantz Felisma faced a federal judge in West Palm Beach on Thursday, charged with stealing people's personal information from his department-issued laptop, and selling it.

Federal agents say the man to whom Felisma sold the information, then set up credit card and bank accounts, and ran up tens of thousands of dollars in fraudulent charges in the names of at least 15 victims.

"There is so much information contained within those databases," said former FBI agent Stuart Kaplan, who's now an attorney based in Palm Beach Gardens.

Kaplan said a law enforcement officer has access to the driver and vehicle information system, as well as the FBI's crime database.

"And if that information gets into the wrong hands, unfortunately it could have devastating consequences," said Kaplan.

Court documents indicate Felisma's alleged co-conspirator pled guilty to identity fraud this past summer. The man, according to agents, said he paid Deputy Felisma thousands of dollars for information on drivers of high-end cars.

"Ironically, what's kept in the National Crime Information Center (FBI database) is those people who have already been victimized by identity theft," Kaplan pointed out, meaning some have likely been victimized multiple times now.






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Video: Mich. cops arrest FBI agent who opened fire on sergeant
The suspect’s attorney said it’s possible the agent had a “paranoid”
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Dec 20, 2016



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CNN Political Commentator Says She Was Subjected to ‘Vaginal Pat Down’
at Detroit Airport




CNN political commentator Angela Rye said she was subjected to an
invasive “vaginal pat down” at Detroit Metro Airport.

Rye, who wrote about the experience in an op-ed on CNN’s website, said
she was told she was randomly chosen for additional screening, despite
having a TSA Precheck status and is a CLEAR traveler.

After being told that a female TSA agent would do “a backhanded pat
around the upper thigh,” the search went beyond that, she wrote:

The pat-down began and was uneventful until she went down my leg, up
my dress, and her hand sideways hits me right in the crack of my
labia. Startled, I jump and feel a lump in my throat trying to hold
back tears. What happened to the back handed pat-down?

She comes around to the front; I grow nervous and pull back a bit,
afraid of the same thing happening ― and her sideways hand hits in the
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NATIONAL SECURITY
Attorney: FBI singling out Chinese-Americans with insider-threat program

By Catherine Herridge Published December 22, 2016

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Will or should James Comey step down?

JUDGE NAPOLITANO “COMEY TO STEP DOWN AT FBI”! HILLARY OUTCOME MUCH WORSE THAN NIXON AND WATERGATE!

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Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Trump is saying/doing some great, important things, and people aren't getting it
I don't understand why many people are still upset about Donald Trump's election victory. The movement to keep all things Trump stirred up is unprecedented. The only conclusion I can draw is that many Americans have gotten lost in the jungle of identity politics that was created by and for the Hillary campaign, and are unable to see the Trump woods for the trees. Don't forget that Hillary and her team may have to face serious judicial music under Trump, and creating a post-election storm of disinfo and vitriol seems their only post-election Plan B.

Instead, forget about what Trump may have said, and look at what he is doing. Remember the last 8 years. When you examine what Obama said while he was campaigning, it sounded wonderful, but he failed to follow through on those campaign promises. Did the media hold his feet to the fire? Did they try to take him down with fake news? Media focus on words instead of deeds is deliberate. Don't be fooled.

Look at some big positives for Mr. Trump, positives that would have been inconceivable in a Hillary presidency.

1. Trump actually has the establishment freaked out. The establishment has been worsening things for the 99% for a long time -- and so i.m.h.o. freaking them out is a very good sign. We don't know where this is going to go, but the establishment hysteria has proved itself real, which tells us that Trump does intend to change things. I say give him a chance, and I say Bravo!

2. He is appointing billionaires to some Cabinet posts. Well, one thing you can say about billionaires is that they have no need to steal from the rest of us. While this doesn't mean they will be great Secretaries, it removes one strike against them that Hillary, and presumably her people, had: she used her position to steal, and had long-honed knowledge of how to do so. (More on that below.)

3. He says we should have lower drug prices and they should be negotiated. Well, that's a no brainer. Did Obama, the healthcare Prez, do anything about that? Bernie Sanders just backed Trump up on this. Update: thirteen Democrats in the Senate just voted down cheaper medications.

4. Trump says we need to look into vaccine safety. Of course we need the safest vaccines we can get. Why would this be controversial? Only because the drug/vaccine industry has bought the media, politicians and federal agencies, do we hear it's controversial, when it clearly is not.

How many television commercials advertise drugs? Pharma owns TV. How many Pharma lobbyists are there for each member of Congress? Three: a lobbyist army to be reckoned with.

The federal government has paid out $3.5 billion dollars' compensation for vaccine injuries. The chorus of 'medical authorities' who are having a cow over Trump's questioning vaccine safety choose to ignore the facts. Where does their media-anointed 'authority" come from, we should ask. Are their remarks thoughtful and well-informed, or designed to shut down discussion of something important to us all, the safety of what gets injected into ourselves and our families, often as a result of government mandates. Especially when the manufacturers have no legal liability for the end product.

Vaccines are a highly diverse group of substances, and their safety and effectiveness vary considerably between products and brands; due to the age, nutritional status, and genetics of the person being inoculated; and to the integrity of the manufacturing process. These are well-established facts. Every vaccine is relatively safe and relatively effective. If they were all 100% safe you wouldn't use doctors to prescribe them. Instead, you could buy them in bubble gum machines.

In fact, CDC emphasizes the importance of maintaining an "active and ongoing vaccine safety program" in its #1 vaccine reference book, the Pink Book:
"The Importance of Vaccine Safety Programs
Vaccination is among the most significant public health success stories of all time. However, like any pharmaceutical product, no vaccine is completely safe or completely effective. While almost all known vaccine adverse events are minor and self-limited, some vaccines have been associated with very rare but serious health effects. The following key considerations underscore the need for an active and ongoing vaccine safety program..."
So much for the medical establishment being up in arms because vaccine safety needs to be watched. Everyone but the Pharma-paid media and its carefully selected shills knows it needs to be watched. The meme that 'investigating vaccine safety is dangerous' is an oxymoron. It's just more fake news.
5. Trump is pissed off at the lying, war-making, fake news-spreading "intelligence" agencies and appears to want to rein them in. For this we should be immensely grateful, as they have caused so much damage around the world and domestically -- inciting wars we have no business to be in, wars in which the public has no idea why the US is involved. Not to mention fomenting plots to terrorize at home and abroad. Pretty please, do rein them in.

6. He wants peace with Russia, while Hillary did her best to antagonize Russia. Hang up the nukes for the next 4 years: I say that's a very good thing!

Obama said a lot of pretty things, but what did he do? Got us into more wars, didn't get us out of any. He sold us a pig in a poke 'Affordable Care Act' that many people (mainly those who never had to use it) were conned into thinking was a big improvement over what came before. In fact, Obamacare changed the landscape of health insurance, ushering in an era of higher copays and reduced benefits not only for beneficiaries of the A.C.A., but also for those buying commercial insurance in other markets.

What about Hillary? Come on, we know who her constituency really is: they 'donated' billions to her campaign and to her Foundation, and paid her killer fees for speeches. The Clinton Foundation, starting to unravel, is looking like a pay-to-play scheme that led to the resignation of the New Zealand PM (some of the NZ Herald reportage is no longer accessible) and announcements by Australia and Norway that they will cease funding the Foundation.

Don't people understand yet that her strategy to become President was to foster racial, religious, sexual orientation and gender divisiveness, and then ride in on a white horse to fix the mess she had fed and exploited? In truth, she represented only the Business and War Party. Her campaign relied on the politics of gender, religion, sexual orientation and race, because championing them does not cost business anything, and because it allowed her to skirt the much more threatening issue of economic injustice.

Hillary cheated Bernie out of the nomination. Sixteen years ago, she stole White House gifts and furniture. Were those items loot from pay-to-play when Bill was in office? I suspect she collected on foreign policy decisions made when she was Secretary. She certainly was the main cheerleader (why?) for the destruction of Libya and Syria, and bears significant responsibility for the current refugee crisis, which she says is bigger than any refugee crisis since the Second World War.

Hillary played us. Stop being played, the election is over. Let's see what Mr. Trump can do.
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New Bill Aims To Eliminate ‘Scandal-Ridden’ Bureau Of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms And Explosives


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James Comey Cannot Be Trusted With a Trump-Russia Investigation
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FBI Agents Allege Unpunished Domestic Terrorism by Murderer Granted Clemency by Gov. Cuomo

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The FBI agents briefed Plater and other Baltimore police officers at the meeting on a Prince George's County Police investigation of four subjects suspected of ...


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Steve Williams column: The time is always right to do right
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Escort service operated next to Atlanta area police station
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FBI Special Agent Joe Fonseca told rolling out in a previous interview, “While looking at factors that might account for Atlanta's high rank regarding sex trafficking ...



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Sentencing continued to later date
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DEA Agent Chad Scott was suspended from his job in 2016 after a state and ... Chief James Stewart have referred all questions related to that search to the FBI.



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Federal Appeals Court Upholds Ferrari Confiscation
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In 2008, the FBI grabbed a 1995 Ferrari F50 worth $750,000, which Assistant US Attorney J. Hamilton Thompson and an FBI agent proceeded to take on a ..



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NSA gets more latitude to share intercepted communications
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Previously, the NSA filtered information before sharing intercepted communications with another agency, such as the CIA or the intelligence branches of the FBI ...


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Angering Congress, James Comey won't address Trump-Russia ...
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James Comey said he would 'never comment' on a potential FBI investigation in an 'open forum like this'. Photograph: Cliff Owen/Associated Press.


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Parents of teen found in gym mat allege time of death manipulated
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The Johnsons have contended from the beginning their son was murdered by brothers Branden and Brian Bell, the sons of an FBI agent, despite alibis placing ...



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Mad killers only slightly crazier than the criminal justice system
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FBI to lift restrictions on online FOIA requests
International Business Times UK
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will reportedly lift restrictions on its online system designed for sending public records requests. It was recently ...



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Trump aide: Holocaust statement criticism is 'asinine'
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Gorka, who was formerly an associate dean at the National Defense University and worked with the FBI's counterterrorism division before joining the Trump ...



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Indiana University calls FBI, investigates white supremacy fliers ...
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Indiana University calls FBI, investigates white supremacy fliers found on ... Professors of color at Indiana University (IU) contacted the FBI after their office doors .



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NYPD must disclose surveillance of Black Lives Matter protesters


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Blue by Day, White by Night

Posted by R. Patrick Link | filed in Case Studyno comments
While I firmly believe there are many honest, hardworking law enforcement officers who are committed to justice alongside the District Attorney, this case shows work still needs to be done in Philadelphia.
R. Patrick Link | Philadelphia Criminal Defense Attorney
This is Part 1 of the trial recap showing how my investigation as a criminal defense attorney in Philadelphia uncovered a controversial KKK association with one of the police officers involved and how it impacted the outcome for my client. Let’s start at the scene of the crime…

The Scene of the Crime

According to the police reports, three uniformed police officers in an unmarked car observed my client who is black, (L.H.), in an alleyway accepting money from a white male (R.A.).

The cops see L.H. walk into a clearing out-of-view of the officers for 10 seconds, return, and hand an unknown item to R.A. Based upon this instance, the police believe a drug transaction just took place.

One officer gets out of the car and stops R.A., who throws a packet of cocaine to the ground. L.H. is stopped by another officer with a twenty dollar bill in his hand. The third officer went to the area L.H. was seen going and that officer retrieved a lipstick container with an additional 28 packets of cocaine that matched what R.A. had in his hand.



The Arrest

According to L.H., he was suffering from a heroin addiction, withdrew his last 20 dollars, and walked to Stella and B Street in Kensington, Philadelphia, an area well-known for sales of heroin and cocaine.

Once on the block, a “runner” (lookout on a bike) told L.H. to wait in the alley to be sold the heroin.

R.A. claimed he received the same information from the runner. After waiting in the alley for several minutes L.H. sensed something was amiss and left without being sold any drugs. L.H. and R.A. exited on opposite sides of the alley.

2 officers spotted L.H. and asked what he sold “the white boy”. L.H. explained that he was “just copping” (picking up drugs), but the officers arrested him on a felony charge of Possession With Intent to Deliver.

While both men claim they were trying to buy drugs, based on my investigation, I believe my client (L.H.) was wrongfully accused of Intent to Deliver drugs.

Pre-Trial: Lead Investigator was Previously Suspended for Possessing Offensive Material

Prior to trial, the defense obtained Internal Affairs records that revealed the lead investigator had been suspended in 2009 from a Narcotics Unit for possessing offensive items in his police locker.

One sticker read “Whites Only”

The other depicted half a police officer and half a Ku Klux Klan member with the words “Blue By Day, White By Night.”

One sticker appeared to have been in the officer’s locker for months as his fingerprints were dotting it.

After being suspended, the officer moved out of the narcotics unit though he was still used in court to testify at drug cases. In this case, I believed we would need to combat dishonest police officers.

Trial: The Ku Klux Klan Material Presented

Shortly before opening arguments, the DA asked whether I had planned on introducing any evidence of the officer’s past (without ever mentioning what that consisted of).

When told I was going to use the KKK material as impeachment evidence to show the officer’s bias towards my black client, the DA complained to the judge that it should not be admitted because she wasn’t provided notice of my plan to use it!

However, Rule 404(b) only requires the Commonwealth to file notice of intent to use prior acts evidence, and it appears the DA’s Office had previous knowledge about acts of its own officer. This lead me to ask a few questions:

Why did I have to get this information on my own?
Why didn’t the DA provide it to me?
And was the DA hoping I didn’t know about it?
In Brady, The United States Supreme Court placed a duty on prosecutors to turn over all evidence favorable to the accused in a criminal trial. When asked why this wasn’t a Brady violation, the DA stated it was because the officer who saw the exchange of money wasn’t the officer in dispute and therefore not relevant.

The trial judge strongly disagreed with the Commonwealth’s position and held that it could be used by the defense to impeach the officer.

Cross Examination: Officer Claims to See Defendant Exchange of Money for an Item

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Anonymous Releases Personal Data Of Alleged KKK Members And FBI Informants

Some 300 people rally at a KKK rally in Alabama. CREDIT: AP PHOTO
Anonymous, the controversial hactivist organization, released what it claims to be a list of hundreds of members and supporters of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups.
The group launched the anti-KKK campaign #OpKKK on Twitter last year in retaliation to the 150-year old white supremacist group’s violent threats against protesters and demonstrations following the police shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
The data release, which Anonymous said was collected over 11 months, should not be confused with the smaller-scale leak earlier this week, which Anonymous confirmed was a hoax in its manifesto Thursday.
Anonymous made good on its promises to expose people believed to be affiliated with the KKK, Skinheads, Neo-Nazi or other white supremacy groups behind the hate group Thursday, posting dozens of pages of personal information — including Facebook pages, payment information, places of occupation, aliases, criminal history, and whether they were FBI informants — on Pastebin with a message outlining the group’s motives.
We hope Operation KKK will, in part, spark a bit of constructive dialogue about race, racism, racial terror and freedom of expression, across group lines. Public discourse about these topics can be honest, messy, snarky, offensive, humbling, infuriating, productive, and serious all at once. The reality is that racism usually does NOT wear a hood but it does permeate our culture on every level. Part of the reason we have taken the hoods off of these individuals is not because of their identities, but because of what their hoods symbolize to us in our broader society.
In its essay, Anonymous draws similarities between the KKK’s principles and its own, saying the opposition of government surveillance, championing free speech, and the experience of poverty and anger at “the Man,” is “common ground we understand all to well.”
But the comparisons stop there. The essay continues: “We will never sympathize with the KKK but we do desire to understand them and learn about how they see their world. We do see their humanity, we respect their right to free thought and we know their fear of others is wrong. We also know their behaviors strike fear, anxiety and terror into others. This will no longer be socially tolerated.”
Anonymous has been decentralized political force online, aiming to fill cracks in the justice system by shutting down law enforcement websites, accessing databases, and doxxing individuals who seemingly escape legal ramifications. But despite perhaps noble motives, the vigilante group hasn’t always targeted


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Rulings Could Shape Vegas Trial of 6 in Bundy Ranch Standoff
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Politics
Speeches allowed in the Senate when Coretta Scott King's wasn't

Wednesday, February 8, 2017, 11:00 AM

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AG Sessions Indicates Justice Department Will ‘Pull Back’ on Investigating Police Abuses

AG Jeff Sessions at his confirmation hearing.
By Steve Neavling
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The numerous federal investigations into troubled police departments under the Obama administration may be a thing of the past.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Tuesday that the federal government won’t be monitoring police departments as it had in the past.
Sessions claimed in his first speech as attorney general that the Justice Department investigations undermined police efforts nationwide.
“We need, so far as we can, in my view, help police departments get better, not diminish their effectiveness,” Sessions told the National Association of Attorneys General. “And I’m afraid we’ve done some of that. So we’re going to try to pull back on this, and I don’t think it’s wrong or mean or insensitive to civil rights or human rights.”
He added that the Trump administration is working “out of a concern to make the lives of people in particularly the poor communities, minority communities, live a safer, happier life so that they’re able to have their children outside and go to school in safety and they can go to the grocery store in safety and not be accosted by drug dealers and get caught in crossfires or have their children seduced into some gang.”
Sessions claimed that monitoring police departments did not help combat rising violence in some cities.
“One of the big things out there that’s, I think, causing trouble and where you see the greatest increase in violence and murders in cities is somehow, some way, we undermine the respect for our police and made, oftentimes, their job more difficult,” he said.
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Jeff Sessions Admits Meeting with Russian Officials But Denies He Committed Perjury

Jeff Sessions discusses his communication with Russians.
By Steve Neavling
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions acknowledged today that he met with Russian officials at least twice during the Donald Trump campaign, but insisted the election was never discussed.
During a press conference at 4 p.m., Sessions also said he plans to recuse himself from future investigations into the Trump campaign after consulting with Justice Department staff.
“I have decided to recuse myself from any existing or future investigations of any matters related in any way to the campaigns for President of the United States,” Sessions said.
The attorney general insisted he didn’t commit perjury by denying he had communication with Russian officials during his confirmation hearing, saying the meetings were unrelated to the presidential campaign.
Reports that suggested he exchanged information with the Russians, Sessions said, are “totally false.”
Sessions said he was having trouble remembering details of the discussions with a Russian ambassador.
“I don’t remember a lot of it,” Sessions said.


Broward County
March 1, 2017 7:09 PM
Former Secret Service man pleads guilty to dark, secret relationships with minors

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The Department of Justice says until his arrest on Nov. 9, 2015, Moore worked in the Secret Service-Uniformed Division and was assigned to the White House.
In Moore’s guilty plea, he admits to using a profile on the social media app “Meet24.” That’s where he began a two-month chat relationship with a 14-year-old girl in which some electronic conversation turned sexual. Moore sent the girl sexually explicit images of himself.
But Moore really was chatting and sexting with Delaware State Police detectives and members of the Delaware Child Predator Task Force. After they arrested Moore, he admitted to trading sexually explicit images with a minor in Florida, a 17 year old in Missouri and a 14 year old in Texas.

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One “National Emergency” Away From Disaster 3 of 4
March 2, 2017Uncategorized
You think it could never happen in America that D.Trump could shut down the media he deems hostile and suspend our Constitutional rights. But it has happened in the past and it happened under more than one president.
President Adams in 1798 in response to a French threat had his Alien and Sedition Acts. One Federalist in Congress declared, there was no need to “invite hordes of Wild Irishmen, nor the turbulent and disorderly of all the world, to come here with a basic view to distract our tranquility.” It was described as: “No protesting the government? No immigrants allowed in? No freedom of the press. Lawmakers jailed? ”
President Lincoln: “On April 27, 1861, President Lincoln, fearful that Southern troops might overtake the capital, suspended the writ of habeas corpus and declared martial law in Maryland. . . . On May 26, 1861, Chief Justice Roger Taney, sitting circuit, ruled that Lincoln had acted unconstitutionally — only Congress could suspend the Great Writ. Lincoln ignored the order and continued to seize and hold adversaries without a hearing”

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FBI OCTOPUS

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JCC bomb threat info sent to FBI, chief says
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The York Jewish Community Center has been closed and evacuated following an "emergency situation," according to JCC spokeswoman Melissa Plotkin.


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Local law enforcement to address Jewish community March 5
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Do you plead the 5th, Sheriff Gore?

Lawsuit seeks to restore Facebook comment pertaining to Ruby Ridge
Oct. 29, 2014

The shooting of an unarmed woman holding her baby in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992 continues to follow San Diego County sheriff Bill Gore around and that goes for social media sites. Gore, according to a federal lawsuit, continues to dodge questions about the day’s events.
On October 27, Dimitrios Karras filed a federal complaint alleging that Sheriff Gore and his staff deleted comments he posted to the sheriff department's Facebook page, thus violating his right to free speech.
Karras posted his comment on September 2, 2014. It read:
"Sheriff Gore: Do you plead the 5th about your involvement in the MURDER of an unarmed woman who was holding her baby? REMEMBER RUBY RIDGE.”
Within an hour, the comment was removed and Karras was informed that he was not allowed to post any more comments on to the sheriff's Facebook fan page.
More than 22 years have elapsed since the FBI standoff at Randy Weaver's cabin in Ruby Ridge. At the time, Gore served as the bureau chief in Seattle, the lead office in charge of the standoff. Weaver, a white separatist facing gun charges, was holed up in the cabin along with his wife Vicki, infant daughter, and a man named Kevin Harrison.
Days before the seige, a gun battle occurred between FBI agent Michael Degan and Weaver, Harrison, and Weaver's 14-year-old son Sammy as they walked in the woods near the cabin. Weaver's son along with agent Degan were killed during the shootout. The men retreated back to the cabin where they stayed while agents surrounded the cabin.
The next day, Weaver and Harrison tried to leave to find a burial place for the deceased boy. During another shootout that ensued, Weaver's wife Vicki was shot and killed while holding her baby daughter. The men later surrendered. The FBI soon came under scrutiny for the tactics used and the murder of an unarmed woman. Gore denied that he gave the shooter the green light. He refused to testify at a congressional hearing.
Two decades later, people such as Karras still want an answer from Gore; Facebook proved to be no means of










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FBI director James Comey to speak at Boston College
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FBI Thinks Standing Rock Protesters Might be Terrorists
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Brooklyn Sex Crimes prosecutor sexually assaulted woman in car, police say
• Chrismy Sagaille, who was busted for drunk driving and now for sexual assault, is walked out of the NYPD SVU stationhouse Wednesday.

Updated: Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 2:34 PM
A Brooklyn sex crimes prosecutor busted last year for DWI surrendered Wednesday to cops for the alleged sexual assault of a woman inside her car, sources said.
Troubled lawyer Chrismy Sagaille, 31, turned himself at the NYPD’s Special Victims Unit in Harlem over the Sunday night attack that began after the accuser gave the lawyer a ride home, sources told the Daily News.
The two were headed home around 11 p.m. from a party with mutual friends when Sagaille asked the victim for a lift.
He will face charges of sex abuse, forcible compulsion and forcible touching linked to a pair of incidents inside the car.
Sagaille initially grabbed the victim’s face and stuck his tongue into her mouth, with the woman fighting him off, source


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Three activists convicted for protesting Jeff Sessions confirmation hearing, face one year in prison

Updated: Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 3:29 PM
Three activists could face one year in prison for protesting — or simply laughing — at a confirmation hearing for Jeff Sessions.
Members of the Code Pink activist group were convicted Wednesday of federal charges for disrupting the January hearing for the man who is now U.S. Attorney General.
One of the convicts, Desiree Fairooz, was arrested after laughing at the hearing.
In a statement, Code Pink called the convictions "an affront to justice and contrary to the kind of peaceful tolerant world we all deserve to live in."
Sessions decries murderers, rapists and thugs of MS-13 on L.I.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will argue in court today that the warrant used by the FBI in the now infamous “Playpen” child pornography case was unconstitutional. EFF — an organization dedicated to preserving digital liberty — is concerned about the precedent this case will set if the warrant is allowed to stand.
As The New American reported in a previous article, the case stems from a two-week period in 2015 when the FBI operated a child pornography website and used the traffic to that website to inject malware to the computers of visitors to the site:
The case goes back to 2015 when the FBI operated a child pornography website for two weeks. Yes, you read that right. From February 20 to March 4, 2015, the FBI ran a website with more than 23,000 actual pictures and videos of children being sexually abused, including more than 9,000 of which could be downloaded by visitors to the site. According to court records, some of those children were almost too young to be in kindergarten.
It began when the FBI discovered the location of the server for the so-called Playpen website, which was accessible only via the Tor network. The FBI raided the location, arrested the operator, and made the decision to leave the website up and running and allow visitors to the site to continue downloading images and videos. The FBI’s reasoning (if it can rightly be called that) was that federal agents had the ability to inject malware into the server that would work its way back to the users’ computers, defeating Tor’s anonymity all along the way. The FBI tracked the site’s visitors and later made more than 135 arrests including “a pediatrician, a math teacher, a professor, a public school administrator, a preschool teacher, a former bank executive and a federal drug enforcement agent,” according to a report from deepdotweb.com. Somehow, in the darkened mind of the FBI, the arrests justified spending two weeks peddling child pornography. And this is at least the third time the FBI has done this type of thing.
But then, this is the same FBI that helped the NSA give us Fast and Furious.
In the two years since the FBI made the arrests in the “Playpen” case, those cases have been making their way through the courts. There have been a variety of legal challenges, but now EFF will argue before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, Massachusetts, today that the FBI’s decision to use “a single, general warrant to authorize its massive hacking operation” amounts to “violating the Fourth Amendment,” according to a press release by the Internet privacy group.

Of course, it is easy to misinterpret the actions of groups such as EFF in a case such as this one. But lest it appear that EFF is defending child pornographers, that is not the only (or even the main) issue he

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“… As a new type of propaganda war on free speech emerges in the political landscape of America and Europe, it is critical to note that viewpoints which oppose the profitability of major companies who invest in advertising will not be tolerated. This leaves us with the need to create evermore avenues of journalistic expression where genuine truth can be published and access by a body politic clearly hungry for truth.
Friday’s remarks on this incident serve as a warning to future generations of Americans:
“That’s okay, hopefully my children and my grandchildren will see that this last cartoon published by Farm News out of Fort Dodge, Iowa, will shine light on how fragile our rights to free speech and free press really are in the county.” [Source]
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Dallas Gunman Was Under FBI Investigation Before Shooting 3 People

The FBI was investigating a Dallas man before he fatally shot his roommate and critically wounded a neighbor and paramedic on Monday.
Derick Lamont Brown, 36, was the subject of an active, open FBI investigation, NBCDFW.com reports.
Eric Jackson, special agent in charge of the Dallas FBI, confirmed the investigation Tuesday and said his office was reviewing the case file on Brown, who has ties to two black nationalist groups.

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What Secret Service spent on Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's Whistler trip
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When Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner took their family to a ski resort in Whistler, Canada during Passover last month, U.S. Secret Service went, too, and the cost of their portion of the trip was over $65,000.
CBS News' Laura Stricker confirms, based on a review of federal purchase orders, that the U.S. Secret Service spent the following on Jared Kushner's and Ivanka Trump's family trip:
• $6,884.03 for "multi-day ski passes for USSS personnel"
• $59,654.39 for "hotel accommodations for USSS personnel"
The purchase orders to do not appear to show the travel costs incurred for Secret Service on the trip.
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As long as James Comey was FBI Director he was a reminder
that he elected Trump to the Office of President.

His firing was part of the election plan.

Stay focused on who replaces James Comey.

former FBI agent Mike Rogers or Trey Gowdy?

You have no idea how dangerous Jeff Sessions is !

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Five Reasons Why We Would Have Fired Comey And Why We Are Concerned Nonetheless

May 10, 2017 by Chip Gibbons

FBI Director James Comey
FBI Director James Comey. Photo by Brookings Institution /CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Sometime yesterday afternoon James Comey, under the impression that he was still director of the FBI, was giving a speech when he glanced at a TV and saw a report that he had been fired. Comey proceeded to compliment his audience on having pulled off such an amusing prank. While it is best to avoid speculation, it is likely that Comey’s amusement dissipated when several FBI employees stopped him mid-speech and he learned that there was in fact no prank.

Comey’s firing is troubling. Trump’s firing of the man overseeing an investigation concerning himself and his associates oozes Nixonian vibes. Trump will now get to pick Comey’s replacement. Given Trump’s disregard for civil liberties, we can only brace ourselves for the worse. And if Trump’s pick is particularly deferential, Trump could potentially consolidate control over the FBI and have the agency’s spying apparatus at his disposal to pursue his own political–and even petty personal–grievances.

Trump in control of the FBI is frightening.

In spite of the objectively terrifying nature of these facts, Comey should not be lionized. Under Comey’s command the FBI engaged in a whole of host of outrages against the Bill of Rights, primarily directed at dissidents and minority communities. not suspected of any wrongdoing.

These abuses are not unique to Comey and have been the norm throughout the FBI’s history. The FBI’s disregard for civil liberties is bigger than any individual personality, but as director, Comey should have been held to account for them.

In light of the termination of Comey’s tenure as FBI director, we offer a list of five of the more shocking moments from a civil libertarian perspective. Under any meaningful system of oversight that respected civil liberties, any one of these would have led to Comey being called to account and serious efforts to reform and overhaul the FBI to be initiated. This does not justify Trump’s dismissal of Comey nor does it nullify our concerns about it. Trump’s actions were almost certainly self-serving and corrosive to a system in which no single person is above the law. Yet, having struggled to reform the FBI for decades, we feel that any discussion about the FBI must acknowledge the very real and urgent need to reform the agency.

1. Targeting of the Muslim community with infiltrators and provocateurs

Much to the horror of many across party lines, Trump called for the surveillance of mosques during his campaign. Yet, the FBI routinely deploys undercover agents and paid confidential informants into the Muslim community, including into mosques. These informants not only gather data about American Muslims, but they propose phony, non existent terrorist schemes and attempt to entice people to participate. Individuals are then arrested for agreeing to participate in plots imagined by the FBI and its informants that never actually existed.

Sometimes these people are already on the FBI’s radar, but in many cases they come into contact with the FBI by complete chance. The latter type of instance raises the question of why. If there is no suspicion of a crime, why are informants and infiltrators combing through American mosques collecting information and manufacturing crimes. The only conclusion is that the FBI views American Muslims as inherently suspicious.

This state-sponsored Islamophobia helps to foment more Islamophobia. In his second Muslim Ban executive order, Trump cited as justification two of these FBI-manufactured terror plots.

This did not start with Comey, but it continued to occur with alarming regularity under his tenure. He therefore bears some responsibility.

2. Touting the non-existent Ferguson Effect

Comey lent credence to the bogus “Ferguson effect.” According to this discredited thesis, individuals who used their First Amendment rights to protest a pattern of abuses they have been subjected to by law enforcement or call for law enforcement to follow the Constitution are responsible for an uptick in crime because police are afraid to enforce the law. Comey’s willingness to validate this theory without any evidence was clearly political, and served to demonize the Movement for Black Lives.

3. Overseeing Continued Spying on Political Activists

The FBI habit of spying on political activists is as old as J. Edgar Hoover. Much like the targeting of the Muslim community we can’t lay the blame for initiating this policy on Comey, but we can hold him responsible for continuing it..

We know for a fact during Comey’s directorship that agents with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force paid visits to activists at their homes. These include Black Lives Matter protesters, who were advised not to protest at the Republican National Convention and most recently, Standing Rock Water Protectors. Additionally, during Comey’s tenure at least a dozen anti-Keystone Xl Pipeline activists received visits from FBI agents. Agents told the activists they were not suspected of crime, but that the agents wanted to learn more about their movement. A Houston based FBI investigation into anti-Keystone Xl Pipeline investigators was found to have violated the FBI’s own internal policies for safeguarding the First Amendment, an amazing feat given how loose they are.

In the run up to the election, FBI agents also paid visits to a number of Muslims-Americans of Afghani and Pakistani national origin in eight states days asking vague questions about an election-day related terror plot. Many viewed this move as an act of voter intimidation against Muslim-Americans.

4. Trying to get a backdoor into your private communications.

Comey has consistently fought to get a backdoor for the FBI into all of our private devices. He claimed that, because of encryption the FBI was in danger of “going dark,” unable to get information it needed due to encryption. Comey frequently claimed this was making it difficult to combat terrorist like ISIS.

Here’s the problem, when Defending Rights and Dissent provided public comment to the Information Security and Privacy Board (ISPB) about encryption the FBI also testified during the same session. The FBI, when talking to a board that included technology experts, freely admitted that the encryption genie was out of the bottle, and even if they got a backdoor into commercial US manufactured goods, there would always be foreign-produced encryption devices. FBI representatives stated that groups like ISIS would probably not use these devices, but there were domestic criminals, such as drug dealers, who would use them.

Given points 1 and 3, there is good reason why individuals would want to use encryption. Comey’s misleading politicization of encryption in order to accumulate power for the FBI at the expense of everyone’s civil liberties was unacceptable.

5. Pretending with a straight face the FBI is not political.

Alright, this isn’t actually a fireable offense and would be unreasonable to expect any FBI director not to defend the FBI. However, given the FBI’s long history of spying on First Amendment activities and Comey’s blatant politicization of a reported crime uptick or encryption, it was hard to listen to him pretend that the FBI wasn’t already politicized.

What Next

Trump’s firing of Comey raises serious questions. They cannot and should not be ignored. No one is above the law and for the President to fire someone tasked with investigating his administration should send chills down everyone’s spine.

Those questions can be pursued while also using this moment to enact pivotal reforms of the FBI. Trump will nominate a new director. The Senate Judiciary Committee must ask this individual probing questions about the FBI’s spying on the First Amendment. Any individual who does not pledge to safeguard civil liberties must not be confirmed.

And if people are concerned with Trump using the FBI, Congress can make statutory reforms that place checks on this. This should have been done long ago, but with widespread panic about Trump, hopefully Congress will finally act.

We are, to be honest, deeply frightened about what comes next. If Trump creates a situation where no one can hold him accountable, we are in a deep crisis. We are also disturbed about who Trump will nominate and Trump consolidating his grip on the FBI to escalate its worst tendencies.

Now is not the time to despair. Members of Congress and the general public are waking up to the very real problems posed by the growth of an unaccountable intelligence/law enforcement agency. We need to use this moment to not only to check Trump, but to finally create real mechanisms for oversight and accountability of the FBI.

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Thursday, May 18, 2017
PROOF: ROBERT MUELLER CANNOT BE IMPARTIAL IN THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION

MUELLER'S DEEP STATE RELATIONSHIPS WILL POLITICIZE THE FBI YET AGAIN
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | OPINION | AMERICANS FOR INNOVATION | MAY 18, 2016, UPDATED MAY 22, 2017 | PDF

FIG. 1 – ROBERT S. MUELLER. FBI director for 12 years from 2001 to 2013 under George Bush (Republican) and Barack Obama (Democrat). His 2011 financial disclosure revealed investments in two hedge funds with assets held in 55 other hedge funds valued at $106.2 billion. One third of those funds are headquartered in the Cayman Islands. Mueller did not disclose the components of those exclusive, invitation-only funds as financial disclosure ethics law requires. A director of one of his funds, Mellon Optima L/S Strategy Fund, LLC, is Harvard Professor Benjamin M. Friedman. Friedman was chair of Lawrence "Larry" H. Summers' dissertation committee. This relationship to Summers is a massive conflict of interest since banks in which Mueller is invested were beneficiaries of the 2008 TARP bank bailout that Summers directed. None of those bankers has ever been prosecuted for the toxic mortgage criminality.

NEWS UPDATE! MAY 22, 2017
ROSENSTEIN SCANDAL: HIS WIFE, LISA H. BARSOOMIAN, REPRESENTED BILL CLINTON IN 1998—COURT RECORDS MISSING—ETHICS RULES REQUIRED HIS RECUSAL
Rod J. Rosenstein's has no business being involved at all in the Hillary Clinton/DNC-triggered Russia investigation, much less the selection of his mentor Robert S. Mueller, III as special counsel. This is because Rosenstein's wife, Lisa H.Barsoomian (no photo available), represented Bill Clinton in 1998 with her boss, R. Craig Lawrence (6,459 cases, 321 pgs. 10 MB) . Lawrence has represented Mueller (3 times), Comey (5 times), Obama (45 times), Kathleen Sebellius (56 times), Bill (40 times) and Hillary (17 times) between 1991-2017. Barsoomian's loyalties are clearly tainted. Such "pillow talk" biases (it is obviously more than that) are imputed to Rosenstein under the "appearance of impropriety" lawyer rules. They clearly owe their U.S. Attorney careers to Comey, Mueller and the Clintons.
JUDICIAL CORRUPTION ALERT! All Barsoomian court documents for her Clinton representation in Hamburg v. Clinton 98-cv-01459-TPJ (DC District Court) and its appeal Hamburg, Al v. Clinton, William J., Case No. 99-5053 (DC Circuit Court) have been removed from the D.C. District and Appeals Court dockets.

NEWS UPDATE! MAY 20, 2017
FALSE FLAG ALERT! ROSENSTEIN & DEEP STATE SENT MUELLER BACK TO DESTROY EVIDENCE OF THE 9/11 INSIDE JOB?

Rod J. Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General, chose his mentor and fellow former U.S. Attorney Robert S. Mueller to lead the Russian investigation based on breathless MSM vaguaries. Rosenstein is yet another Harvard Law insider—the most popular law school for the sedition of the Deep State.
Robert S. Mueller, III became FBI Director on Sep. 04, 2001. Tellingly, he stepped out of the spotlight twelve years later, just months after NSA director James Clapper lied to Congress about NSA surveillance on Mar. 12, 2013, and Edward Snowden's disclosure of that PRISM program on Jun. 06, 2013. Snowden also revealed the profound collusion among Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, AT&T, Verizon, Skype, Apple, AOL, Instagram, WhatsApp, Flickr, Tumblr, YouTube, Google+, Reddit and hundreds of others with this rogue C.I.A. / NSA group. These men, women and companies have a lot to hide. So far, they have all, including Mueller, Comey and Rosenstein, escaped accountability.

Mueller knew that Clapper lied to Congress, and yet he did not investigate him. He failed the American people. This material omission alone disqualifies him and proves his evident culpability. His silence is criminal. No one could be FBI director and not have condoned the illegal surveillance activity. His predecessor J. Edgar Hoover used salacious illegal surveillance to blackmail his opponents. Likewise, Mueller has been doing the same thing for the Deep State, according to many whistleblowers. Mueller is not credible, despite ignorant, complicit or blackmailed politicians who say his "reputation for integrity and honesty is above reproach." Mueller also did not investigate Silicon Valley and Wall Street's collusion with Clapper either. And yet, Mueller made sure his net worth increased dramatically from $1.8 million (2001) to up to $7.0 million (2011) in ten years while pulling down his FBI salary. See previous post.

MUELLER, ROSENSTEIN, COMEY AND DEEP STATE NEED TO DESTROY 9/11 EVIDENCE

Numerous whistleblowers, like former FBI superstar Agent In Charge Ted L. Gunderson, say that 9/11 was an "inside job." They say 9/11 was fabricated to scare Americans into The Patriot Act—as the pretext for dubious new laws and executive orders allowing the state to seize property and privacy. In other words, their plan was to undermine The Bill of Rights. Gunderson called them a "rogue outfit" and "a covert military criminal government enterprise."

The return of Mueller begs the question: "What's their real goal?" Knowledgeable insiders all say there is no evidence to support the allegations—including civil libertarian Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz—and yet, the MSM pumps out breathless calls for impeachment hourly!

LISA BARSOOMIAN: FOIA OBSTRUCTER IN CHIEF
Rosenstein is married to Lisa Barsoomian. Barsoomian represented the FBI against Judicial Watch and many other FOIA requesters to block disclosure requests.

See Judicial Watch v. FBI, 01-cv-00248-RMU among her 165 cases as U.S. Attorney (with Mueller, Comey & Rosenstein).

She even represented the C.I.A. in opposing FOIA requesters.
So, what are Mueller and the Deep State up to? What activity are they hiding behind this smokescreen? Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein could have picked anybody, and yet he picked his old colleague—the man with 9/11 blood on his hands. In fact, since Mueller, Rosenstein and Comey were all close U.S. Attorney colleagues inside the intelligence apparatus, the 9/11 Deep State inside job and cover-up could bring them all down. Now, that is understandable motive to appoint Mueller.

Readers are encouraged to study the 2001 TIMELINE closely. (Please be patient to let the timeline load, it will then take you automatically to the 2001 bookmark.) The collusion within the intelligence community is obvious when seen in context. Mueller was appointed director of the FBI just seven days before 9/11, which C.I.A. whistleblower Susan Lindauer said was a widely known plan inside the agency from at least Apr. 2001—at least six months earlier.

Mueller knew about 9/11. He and his FBI / C.I.A. colleagues allowed it to happen. They even aided the "terrorists" with training, manpower, materiel and intelligence. It is now public that Mohammed Atta was a C.I.A. asset (ref. Abel Danger—the Wikipedia write up is an evident cover-up given all the whistleblower testimony). Lindauer and other whistleblowers say the FBI also provided the explosives for the first World Trade Center bombing. Mueller failed to prosecute a single complicit insider. In fact, Gunderson said the FBI and C.I.A. have been behind every major false flag act of terror since Clinton when globalist new world order operatives inside the US government began to consolidate power via technology and the Internet (ref. Jun. 07, 1993 FBI encryption backdoor key conference). To cover up for the Deep State, Mueller helped persecute whistleblowers.

Mueller's appointment is an insult to common sense and decency. It is also a flagrant breach of ethics laws. He deserves jail, or worse, in our opinion, not a microphone. No doubt the FBI shredders are busy this weekend. Spread the word.

ORIGINAL POST
(MAY 18, 2016)—It is a huge surprise that former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III has been chosen to lead the FBI Russia investigation, because there seem to be direct ties between him and the Deep State.
MUELLER IS INVESTED IN 20 CLINTON / OBAMA CORPORATE FUNDERS
This is a remarkable decision since Mueller holds financial investments in twelve (12) investors/donors to Bill & Hillary Clinton and eight (8) members of Barack Obama’s technology inner circle who supported Hillary for President. See Obama’s Technology CEO Council and Obama’s Silicon Valley Dinner (After you click on the link, please be patient for timeline to download and go to the bookmarks).
Mueller investments in Clinton / Obama political collaborators: AT&T, Autodesk, Bank of America, Cisco, IBM, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, NetApp, Qualcomm, State Street, Vanguard, Wells Fargo.
MUELLER INVESTED IN UNTRACEABLE FUNDS IN THE CAYMAN ISLANDS
One can hardly imagine a more biased individual to run the Russia investigation. In addition, Mueller has two financial holdings of specialized hedge funds (Mellon Optima L/S Strategy Fd LLC and Defenders Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund LLC where they manage $106.2 billion with secretive reporting rules) with 36% headquartered in the Cayman Islands where HSBC, whose directors included former FBI Director Comey, managed money laundering operations. Mueller's Harvard political economy professor Benjamin M. Friedman was a director in the dubious Mellon fund.
For a full analysis of Mueller’s financial relationships, see our previous post: Betrayal: Former FBI director [Robert S. Mueller] colluded with Cartel offshore money laundering havens (AFI, Mar. 25, 2016).
Acting FBI Director Rod Rosenstein, yet another Harvard Law insider, appears to have either: (a) thrown his new boss, Donald Trump, under the bus in one of Rosenstein's first official acts, or (b) expects Mueller to hang himself in this very public arena.
Rosenstein’s appointment raises the question as to whether Deep State operatives like him and former Goldman Sachs executives, like Steve Mnuchin, can change their allegiances once they have been so tightly enmeshed in the Deep State’s secret society of drugs, sex, pedophilia and blackmail. See FBI Agent In Charge Ted L. Gunderson statement.
MUELLER AND ROSENSTEIN HAVE BEEN DEEP STATE LAW COLLEAGUES FOR DECADES
Rosenstein has worked closely with Mueller at the Justice Department since 1990. Both Rosenstein and Mueller worked with then Assistant Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. during the Bush presidency.
MUELLER FAILED TO PROSECUTE OBVIOUS CRIMINALITY ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEEP STATE TAKEOVER
During their Justice Department employment, numerous major scandals were not prosecuted like the 9/11 cover-up, NSA warrantless surveillance of Americans, encryption backdoor for the C.I.A. and FBI in 1993, the seditious 2008 bank "bailout" raid of the Federal Reserve and TARP, theft of social networking invention by the Deep State, energy stimulus, Obamacare robbing of Fannie and Freddie, The Clinton Foundation pay-to-play, Clinton Haiti fraud, global pedophilia rings, IRS political targeting of the Tea Party, BLM land redistribution, America Invents Act, Fast and Furious, Hillary email scandal, etc.
Given Rosenstein’s decades of ties to the Deep State, one wonders why President Donald Trump appointed him. The Deep State is now engaged in brazen acts of treason apparently to bring down Donald Trump’s duly-elected administration. For example, GQ news commenter Keith Olbermann just called for foreign intelligence agencies to help the Deep State bring down Mr. Trump’s administration—the definition of sedition.
HOW CAN MUELLER BE IMPARTIAL?
ONE WOULD EXPECT MUELLER WILL POLITICIZE THE FBI INVESTIGATION, YET AGAIN.
In conclusion, the facts are unavoidable. Robert S. Mueller has substantial conflicts of interest and should recuse himself as Special Counsel, before the public demands he be fired.
The temptation for Mueller to politicize this investigation to benefit his Deep State handlers seems just too high.
Why is the President of the United States being investigated when the Clintons, Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner are still at large and most certainly should have had a special prosecutor investigating them? And, what about all those calls for special counsel to look into Justice Scalia’s wiretapping and suspicious death.
The irony is, the Clinton matters were then FBI Director Mueller’s decisions to make, and he refused. What does that tell you?
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This FBI Whistleblower and Former Undercover Agent Talks the Comey Firing, the Russia Investigation, and What We Can Expect From a Trump FBI

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Ex-FBI internal affairs chief pleads guilty
WASHINGTON (AP) — The former chief internal watchdog at the FBI has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and has admitted he had a history of molesting other children before he joined the bureau for a two-decade career.
John H. Conditt Jr., 53, who retired in 2001, was sentenced last Friday to 12 years in prison in Tarrant County court in Fort Worth, after he admitted he molested the daughter of two FBI agents after he retired. He acknowledged molesting at least two other girls before his law enforcement career, his lawyer said.
Conditt sought treatment for sex offenders after his arrest last year, said his attorney, Toby Goldsmith.
"The problem these people have is they don't really feel like it is their fault," Goldsmith said. "The treatment doesn't work unless you admit you are the one who instigated it, and he did that."
Conditt headed the internal affairs unit that investigates agent wrongdoing for the Office of Professional Responsibility at FBI headquarters in Washington from 1999 until his retirement in June 2001, the FBI said. He wrote articles in law enforcement journals on how police agencies could effectively investigate their own conduct.
FBI officials said Tuesday they had no information to suggest that Conditt had any problems during his career and he was never the subject of an investigation.
Goldsmith said he was concerned about the safety of his client in prison given that he is a former FBI agent and an admitted child molester. "He's not going to be comfortable in the penitentiary," the lawyer said.
Goldsmith said his client had admitted that he had molested at least two other girls before he became an FBI agent more than 30 years ago, but that there was no evidence of any wrongdoing while he served in the bureau.
"It seems that he never did because he had stricter control at that time," the lawyer said.
Conditt could have faced life in prison, and prosecutors requested he get 50 years. The judge sentenced him to 12 years in prison, in part citing Conditt's decision to spare the victim the trauma of a trial, Goldsmith said.
Conditt's conviction is the latest controversy to strike the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility.
Last year, FBI Director Robert Mueller transferred the head of the office to another supervisory assignment outside Washington, three months after rebuking him for his conduct toward a whistleblower.
That whistleblower, John Roberts, alleged the FBI disciplinary office had a double standard that let supervisors off easier than line agents.
Those allegations prompted investigations by Congress and the Justice Department inspector general. The latter concluded there wa







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Study says Justice Department-led police reform efforts may reduce civil rights lawsuits

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A study from a Texas university says the federal intervention with local police departments favored by President Barack Obama's Justice Department -- and the ones likely to be phased out with the election of Donald Trump -- may lead to a reduction in civil rights lawsuits against a city.
The study released Monday looked at the number of civil cases filed in 23 jurisdictions between 1990 and 2013. All of the jurisdictions had law enforcement agencies enter into consent decrees with the Justice Department.
It says such court-mandated reforms "may contribute to a modest reduction in the probability of (civil rights) filings occurring." It says intervention could lead to as much as a 43 percent reduction in civil-rights lawsuits after the Justice Department intervenes.






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Robert Mueller Is Like ‘Batman’ Capable of Saving America, Former Colleague Says

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller has an unblemished reputation as an investigator with integrity and will conduct a thorough investigation of Trump’s campaign and Russia without regard for politics, his former second-in-charge said Sunday.
“A line in New York would be Batman’s back to save Gotham, but I think in this case, Batman is back to save America,” Timothy Murphy told John Catsimatidis during an interview on “The Cats Roundtable.”












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Bi-Partisans Love Mueller, Should The Movement Be Worried?

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By Coleen Rowley, www.therealnews.com
May 18th, 2017





Robert Mueller is getting rave reviews from bi-partisans in Washington, DC. As the longest serving FBI agent ever, other than the J. Edgar Hoover he is well connected to the DC political establishment. He is closely connected to both parties serving under George W. Bush and Barak Obama. He worked under James Comey when Comey was a deputy attorney general in DOJ and reportedly the two our friends.
The reality is that Mueller has a very different history when viewed from the perspective of people’s movement. He was FBI director when the anti-war movement was most active before the Iraq War and was infiltrated and spied on by the FBI. He was also director during the Occupy Movement when occupy was infiltrated by the FBI and worked with Homeland Security and police agencies across the country to close occupy encampments.
Long-time activist Richard J. Ochs wrote on the Washington Post website:
Some history on Robert Mueller: The lead investigator into the BCCI banking scandal was Robert Mueller, who steered the investigation clear of any money laundering investigation into any of BCCI’s clients, despite ample evidence that would have incriminated a large number of international players, including the Bush family. Mueller was also the lead prosecutor in the Noriega case, and fixed it so that Noriega wasn’t allowed to mention the CIA at his trial, or show any evidence that he worked for the CIA.

Delta Oil, the Saudi oil company, is partly owned by Khalid Bin Mahfouz, business partner of the Bin Ladin family and the Bush family. Mahfouz was involved in the BCCI banking scandal, as reported in the Kerry Commission report on BCCI.

Mueller became head of the FBI three months before the 2001 anthrax letters terrorized the country into the Iraq War and Patriot Act. The anthrax was traced to a U.S. army lab and the Carlisle Group, owned by Bush family and bin Laden family. The lead FBI investigator resigned in protest of a flawed investigation (more)during Robert Mueller’s tenure.
After 9/11 there were roundup detentions of Muslim and Arab men, reportedly 1,200 people.Mueller is a defendant in an ongoing case filed by those who were detained. More on Mueller in this discussion between me, David Lindorff of This Can’t Be Happening and Brian Becker of the ANSWER Coalition and host of Loud and Clear.
We will have to wait and see how the Trump campaign investigation proceeds, but coming from the establishment in Washington, DC should be something that makes President Trump very nervous. Is Mueller the final blow for a deep state coup? KZ
Special Counsel Investigating Trump Deeply Tied To The Deep State
Former FBI agent and 9/11 whistleblower Coleen Rowley says former FBI head Robert Mueller, now appointed to investigate the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, participated in covering up the pre 9/11 role of the U.S. intelligence agencies and the Bush Administration, helped create the post 9/11 national security/surveillance state, and helped facilitate the pre-Iraq war propaganda machine


Special Counsel Investigating Trump Campaign Has Deep Ties to the Deep State






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PAUL JAY: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay. On Wednesday afternoon, Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert S. Mueller to be a special counsel to investigate the Russia affair, those, not his words, those are mine, to look into the whole issue of alleged Russia interference in the American elections, and that would also, one think, include a look into what happened with James Comey, and James Comey’s firing, and his memo and such. So just who is Robert Mueller? And now joining us to discuss this is Coleen Rowley. Coleen is a retired FBI agent, former legal counsel for the FBI. She testified about the 9/11 lapses to the Senate Judiciary Committee. 9/11 lapses is generous. This is what was written for me. I would say 9/11 subterfuge, but at any rate, she’s known as a whistleblower due to her testimony to two congressional committees that led to an investigation of two FBI 9/11 failures, and one would also have to be generous to call them failures. At any rate, that’s another story. Thanks for joining us, Coleen.
COLEEN ROWLEY: Yes, thanks for having me.
PAUL JAY: So who is Robert Mueller, and what do you make of this appointment?
COLEEN ROWLEY: Robert Mueller had only been director for a few days when 9/11 occurred, so he really didn’t have any responsibility for that, but he also was in charge when this kind of cover-up occurred, where they really weren’t telling the truth. The FBI and all the other officials claimed that there was no clues, that they had had no warning, etc., and that was not the case. There had been all kinds of memos and intelligence coming in. I actually had a chance to meet Director Mueller personally the night before I testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee, and he was more or less … There was another agent in Phoenix who had, he had done the same with, trying to get us on his side, on the FBI side, so that we wouldn’t say anything terribly embarrassing. And he told me that if I ever witnessed anything like that again, the pre-9/11 failures, that I should call him directly. I should get in touch with him.
He told me this in our office, and yeah, when you had the lead-up to the Iraq War where the FBI, actually Robert Mueller and, of course, the CIA and all the other directors, saluted smartly and went along with what Bush wanted, which was to gin up the intelligence to make a pretext for the Iraq War. For instance, in the case of the FBI, they actually had a receipt, another documentary proof, that one of the hijackers, Mohamed Atta, had not been in Prague, as Dick Cheney was alleging. And yet those directors more or less kept quiet. That included, like I said, CIA, FBI, Mueller, and it included also the Deputy Attorney General at the time, James Comey.
And so when James Comey was appointed to be FBI director by Obama, I wrote this opinion piece for The New York Times, and it appeared the same day of the confirmation hearing, and I suggested that James Comey be asked hard questions about why he had signed off on illegal warrantless monitoring, why he had signed off on the torture tactics. In fact, The New York Times even, they didn’t want me to use the word “torture.” That was still, at the time, that was a verboten term. They wanted me to say “some harsh interrogation tactics” or something, and we settled on saying, “which experts believe is torture,” that’s how it’s phrased in the op-ed. And then he also signed off, this is even worse in a way, James Comey defended a warrantless detention without charges and without right to counsel for three years of an American citizen. This, none of our mainstream news has been going back to what they think is ancient history, which is what the Bush administration did initially on.
Both of these figures, Mueller and James Comey, first of all, they became very close with each other, because this was in the first three or four years after 9/11 when there was essentially a state of emergency that Ashcroft was signing off every 90 days, and this was the creation of John Yoo and those Office of Legal Counsel. They thought that if you declared it was an emergency … By the way, all secretly. The public knew none of this, that there was this emergency, but if you declared it was a national emergency, then you could institute a form of martial law. And if you see the John Yoo memos, they say everything that, in times of war, we don’t have a First Amendment. Those are memos that are written within weeks of 9/11, but it’s based on this emergency. So you get to three years, about three years, out, and people like James Comey, Mueller, and some of the new Office of Legal Counsel lawyers that took over after Comey had left …
I mean, excuse me, after John Yoo had left, they started saying, “How long can we keep saying it’s an emergency?” And they said, “No, we’re going to have to stop this,” and that’s when that famous hospital room standoff occurs, where first James Comey races to Ashcroft’s room and stands up to the Bush administration, Gonzalez and Card. They arrive, and they try to get a very sick Ashcroft to sign off on this every 90 days emergency, again, authorizing a form of martial law, and Ashcroft, to his credit, does not sign it. Of course, the other part of this that people don’t know is that not only did Comey and the other officials go along with it before that hospital room standoff, but then they also went along with it afterwards. They simply found new loopholes and new legal mechanisms, I call it pettifoggery, legalization ways of making the same things happen afterwards.
PAUL JAY: So-
COLEEN ROWLEY: Now, Mueller and Comey both got undeserved reputations as being men of integrity. In fact, Mueller, it was extended. There’s a 10-year term for FBI director, and because he was considered so beyond reproach, and he had skated so well between this morass, and of course, some of this didn’t always come out, he was held on for 12 years. And so, again, these two were close, and when Comey spoke out about that hospital room, a lot of people objected to him and argued with him, and it was Mueller, I believe, that kept notes of the hospital room meeting. And so Mueller backed up Comey for that whole hospital room situation.
PAUL JAY: Coleen, so you look at this appointment now. Rosenstein appoints Mueller. Mueller, as you’ve told me off camera, is a very good friend of Comey, and they’ve worked together for years. Where do you see this appointment falling down? In terms of whose side, there’s clearly, it seems to me, Comey has decided to get Trump, and Trump fired Comey. Trump writes this, Comey writes this memo, and we know, at least according to the press reports in The Washington Post, Comey decides to … This memo is not classified. There’s several reports that say that some of the memos that he would keep after meeting with Trump, he would make classified. Others were unclassified. The memo that’s in question that everyone’s talking about, which is the memo that says that Trump asked him to drop the investigation into Flynn, that memo he consciously decides to click unclassified. Now, how do we know there’s even a memo? We know it because Comey has given the memo to associates. I’m doing question marks here, or quotation marks, because we don’t know who the associates are. Are they in the FBI? Are they outside the FBI?
Some of his associates then leak this information to the Post, apparently also to The New York Times, apparently also to AP, which, if the memo’s not classified, then I suppose it’s not illegal, I guess. But Comey made it so, so Comey wanted this memo to get out, clearly, after he was fired, and now his buddy is being appointed the investigator. Is Rosenstein appointing someone who knows how to be subservient and do whatever his president wants, or is he appointing someone who will work with Comey and others to get Trump?
COLEEN ROWLEY: If you go back to the Obama administration, both Mueller and Comey were close with the Obama administration, and so Obama himself, or people around him, made sure that the memos that they were writing from the summer on of the suspicions about Russia and things like that, they made sure that these memos were shared widely in the intelligence community. That’s actually been reported by mainstream news, that there was a deliberate effort to make sure that this information got out and would not somehow be kept secret. And so if you consider that both Comey and, going further back, Mueller, were very much aware of that, they worked with the Obama administration, and Comey, especially, would just be carrying out what was already begun before Trump took office. That’s what I think. I think the [S 00:09:53] on associates, and again, officials, you’ll see sometimes the sources described as officials.
You never see them described as whistleblowers, and I think that’s good, that the media does not describe them as whistleblowers, and I think there’s a lot of indications that these are leakers, certainly, but that they are not motivated for having witnessed a fraud, waste, abuse, or another illegal act, I think that this is a lot of political motivation. And maybe they can justify it in their own heads, and, again, it’s more than one person. I think there …
PAUL JAY: But where do you think-
COLEEN ROWLEY: … are people working together.
PAUL JAY: But what do you think of this appointment? Is this an appointment … Like Mueller, based on what you’ve been saying, is more than happy to fudge facts, to cover things up, and play along, but who’s he playing along with? Because you’re suggesting that maybe this is still the echo of the Obama administration, that this is part of the state apparatus that was around the Obama presidency, and perhaps, a lot of people have been arguing, including me, that the people that are so opposed to Trump’s Russia quote-unquote “détente” are people in the industrial-military complex that has so many decades, 60 years, invested into an anti-Russian narrative. Do you think this is all part of this, or is Mueller someone who’s going to help Trump?
COLEEN ROWLEY: I don’t know if he’s going to help Trump or help the deep state at this point, and probably he doesn’t even know, but Rosenstein, going back to who picked Mueller, Rosenstein probably knows both of them very well, Mueller, obviously, and Comey. And again, he’s picking them … This is a educated guess. He’s picking them because they have these reputations, whether deserved or not, for integrity, so that’s what he wanted. He wanted someone that would be above reproach …
PAUL JAY: I mean, he’s-
COLEEN ROWLEY: … while Mueller went out in the highest amount of praise. He was held over another two years, so for starters, Rosenstein is pretty powerful right now, too, vis-à-vis the Trump administration, because he was the one that was kind of sullied in all of this, saying that, “It was your recommendation to fire Comey to begin with.”
PAUL JAY: Oh, he did. He did certainly lay the groundwork for the firing of Comey.
COLEEN ROWLEY: That’s right, but in that dynamic, Rosenstein gets a little bit of power himself now to say, “Well, then, now, I’m going to pick somebody who’s above reproach.” Maybe Trump isn’t that happy with picking Mueller, who knows, but I don’t think Trump really would have much of a leg to stand on if Rosenstein says, “This is the guy we need.” I think Rosenstein was pretty powerful in this case for a lot of reasons, and Mueller, if you think about the standpoint of the public, whatever, may not be the worst choice. In fact, because of his background and reputation, I think that a lot of, certainly bipartisan, would trust him. Now, if you go back to the deep state and all of these entities that I think want to keep the war in Syria and this rapprochement …
Again, if you want to give a little bit of credit to Trump, who I did not vote for and has a lot of flaws, but one of the things that I agreed with in his campaign promises, and now, frankly, he has been carrying out, he has been meeting with Lavrov and has a meeting scheduled with Putin. It’s in order to work on the issues of Syria and ISIS so that there can be some coordination, and so I actually am for that. I think that we should give him some credit, give Trump some credit for that. There are a lot of people in Washington that this is stepping on their toes and their profits. This is not the direction they wanted to go. In fact, if you heard the debates between Hillary Clinton and whatever, this was a sore point, and Trump was criticized for this.
I think some of the motivation, maybe not all of it, but some of the motivation for all of this series of leaks from unknown officials and former intelligence sources, various ways described, I think that some of the motivation is actually to put a damper on Trump’s rapprochement or détente with Russia. And, of course, that goes back to the foreign policy, a bipartisan foreign policy that has existed after 9/11, and Trump actually has gone against that, and I think that a lot of this is … Now, how this will all play out with the investigation of Russia, I think, is actually anyone’s guess. And the reason I don’t think it’s settled is because some officials, including Feinstein, including Clapper, I think Comey even one time kind of talked out of both sides of his mouth a little bit on this, have said, made statements to the effect that there is not enough smoking evidence connecting the Trump campaign to Russia and meddling to elect Trump.
I know that they’ve said this … In fact, Feinstein said it to Wolf Blitzer. He asked her point blank, and she said, “No, there’s no evidence,” and this is after she’s been briefed.
PAUL JAY: Right, but there certainly is smoke and maybe …
COLEEN ROWLEY: There’s-
PAUL JAY: … fire in the corruption, in all the financial …
COLEEN ROWLEY: [Yeah 00:15:20].
PAUL JAY: … wheeling and dealings of Trump’s inner connections with various Russian oligarchs, and maybe Comey was on to that.
COLEEN ROWLEY: Well, this is what’s happened. This is what I and other veteran intelligence professionals warned, all of the NSA whistleblowers, warned about from the start, is, all of this massive data collection would not be so dangerous, maybe, for the common person who has quote-unquote “nothing to hide” except their privacy, but for officials who are political figures, who are engaged in this, power struggles in Washington, DC., getting information about people, and could be blackmail … Usually, it’s sex-related, but in this case, it could be all different things.
PAUL JAY: Well, Petraeus felt that blow.
COLEEN ROWLEY: Yes, but others, too, and if you go back to the Hoover era, he was able to control pretty much every president because he did have information. He collected information on all of these figures. Well, this was what we warned about, going back to this era of J. Edgar Hoover, where we had massive data collection. And honestly, it’s played out. With all of the leaks of things, you see this fear that you have these powerful figures using different pieces of information as leverage, even as blackmail, and all else fails, leak it to the press in order to get public opinion.
PAUL JAY: Right.
COLEEN ROWLEY: And it’s very … Anyways, I think that that’s one of the dangers of what we’ve always warned about with the massive data collection.
PAUL JAY: Right. Well, my fear in all of this is that something Trump wants to do anyway, now he’s got enormous pressure to do, which is to turn his sights on Iran. He’s in









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The Great 9/11 Coverup

Sep 11, 2016 9:50 AM


Authored by Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Off-Guardian.org,
Did you happen to notice that after more than a decade of the ‘news’ media’s demanding publication of “the missing 28 pages” (which turned out actually to have been 29 pages) from the U.S. Congress’s investigation into 9/11, the document’s press-coverage, finally, on 15 July 2016, turned out to have been little-to-none? And did you notice that the little there was, said it contained nothing important? Perhaps you didn’t get to know even this much about the press-coverage of it, because the U.S. Congress, which had been hiding the document ever since 2003, dumped it on a Friday night, in order for it to receive as little press-coverage as possible.
Well, what that document actually showed, and proved (and cited FBI investigators who could then have testified in public, if requested), was the opposite of unimportant: that the Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud (who was known in Washington as “Bandar Bush,” because of his closeness to the Bush family), had secretly been paying the Saudi handlers of at least two of the 15 Saudis among the 19 9/11 hijackers, and that Bandar’s wife and other relatives were also paying those hijackers-to-be, and their families — thus enabling the future hijackers to obtain the necessary pilot-training etc., for the 9/11 attacks.
How much news-coverage of this was there in the U.S.’democracy’ that is supposed to be informing the public about such things, instead of continuing the cover-ups of them?
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But that’s not all there is to the cover-up: As I mentioned and documented in my July 20th news-report on “9/11: Bush’s Guilt and the ’28 Pages’,” U.S. President George W. Bush was also involved in the 9/11 operation: He had instructed his National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to block his obtaining from U.S. government sources any specific information about what the attacks would entail, or about the date on which they would occur. (Presumably, he already knew, via his private communications with Prince Bandar or someone else who was in on the event’s planning, all that he had wanted to know about the coming event.)
When CIA Director George Tenet, on 10 July 2001, was practically screaming to Rice to allow him into the Oval Office, to meet privately with the President to inform him of how urgent the situation had become to take action on it, she said: “We’re not quite ready to consider this. We don’t want the clock to start ticking.” Tenet was shocked, and dismayed. That encounter with Rice was intended to urge the President to establish a hit-team to take out bin Laden, so as to avert the operation — whatever it was, or would turn out to be. The way that Chris Whipple put this, in his terrific report in Politico magazine, on 12 November 2015, titled “The Attacks Will Be Spectacular”, was that, “they did not want a paper trail to show that they’d been warned.”
Apparently, “Bandar Bush” knew the details, but his friend George W. Bush did not — Bush needed “deniability” — it’s not for nothing that he was able to say, after the event, as Condoleezza Rice was to put it when speaking to reporters on 16 May 2002, “This government did everything that it could in a period in which the information was very generalized, in which there was nothing specific to react to … Had this president known of something more specific, or known that a plane was going to be used as a missile, he would have acted on it.”
How does she now square that statement with her having told Tenet, on 10 July 2001, “We’re not quite ready to consider this. We don’t want the clock to start ticking.”? What ‘clock’? Why not? No one asks her — especially not under oath.
Is that the way things happen in a democracy, even 15 years after the event?
On 10 September 2012, Kurt Eichenwald, who had reported for The New York Times, was then issuing his new book on the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, 500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars, and he headlined an op-ed then in his former newspaper (which thus could hardly have declined to accept it), “The Deafness Before the Storm”, describing the most puzzling aspect of the lead-up to 9/11:
It was perhaps the most famous presidential briefing in history.
On Aug. 6, 2001, President George W. Bush received a classified review of the threats posed by Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, Al Qaeda. That morning’s “presidential daily brief” — the top-secret document prepared by America’s intelligence agencies — featured the now-infamous heading: “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” A few weeks later, on 9/11, Al Qaeda accomplished that goal.
On April 10, 2004, the Bush White House declassified that daily brief — and only that daily brief — in response to pressure from the 9/11 Commission, which was investigating the events leading to the attack. Administration officials dismissed the document’s significance, saying that, despite the jaw-dropping headline, it was only an assessment of Al Qaeda’s history, not a warning of the impending attack. While some critics considered that claim absurd, a close reading of the brief showed that the argument had some validity.
That is, unless it was read in conjunction with the daily briefs preceding Aug. 6, the ones the Bush administration would not release. While those documents are still not public, I have read excerpts from many of them, along with other recently declassified records, and come to an inescapable conclusion: the administration’s reaction to what Mr. Bush was told in the weeks before that infamous briefing reflected significantly more negligence than has been disclosed. In other words, the Aug. 6 document, for all of the controversy it provoked, is not nearly as shocking as the briefs that came before it.
Those “briefs” still are not published. And now, after the revelation, by Chris Whipple, that Condoleezza Rice was under instruction from her boss not to allow him to be informed too early for “the clock to start ticking,” we can understand why there is still so much that hasn’t yet been released to the public, in our ‘democracy’, about who was really behind 9/11.
On 17 April 2016, Paul Sperry in the New York Post headlined “How US covered up Saudi role in 9/11”, and he reported that his own investigation showed: “Actually, the kingdom’s involvement was deliberately covered up at the highest levels of our government. And the coverup goes beyond locking up 28 pages of the Saudi report in a vault in the US Capitol basement. Investigations were throttled. Co-conspirators were let off the hook.” But isn’t it time, now, to demand that Bush’s role also be explored — not only that the Saud family’s (especially Bandar’s) role in it be prosecuted? After all, Bush was the one who took a Presidential oath.
Or: Is the U.S. not enough of a democracy, for that to happen — for the Constitution to be enforced, by the U.S. President after Bush (the President who will not prosecute his intended successor)? How total must the non-accountability at the top be, before we call the country a “dictatorship” — only a fake ‘democracy’?
Regarding the actions that brought down the three World Trade Center Buildings, WTC1, WTC2, and WTC7, there also is good reason to distrust the official ‘history’. Witness accounts both by firefighters and by the general public were videoed at the time saying that they heard multiple explosions, which indicated controlled demolitions after the two plane-crashes into WTC1 and WTC2. Other witnesses of the WTC7 collapse also heard explosions. Regarding WTC7, there was testimony from the owner of the WTC, Larry Silverstein, saying that he instructed the Fire Department not to go into WTC7 but simply to “pull it.” (And his subsequent statement saying he didn’t really mean that and he meant only to “pull” the firefighters from that building, which actually had none, was debunked.)
Even the government’s “Final Report on the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7” acknowledged (p. 48) that there had been “(2) a freefall descent over approximately eight stories of gravitational acceleration for approximately 2.25 s[econds]” meaning that that 8-story segment had been blasted so that, throughout those 8 stories, there was zero resistance to the collapsed portion falling through it from above.
This alone constitutes solid and conclusive physical proof of the official lie, though itself published in the official source. And yet on the very next page in that official document is stated, “Blast events did not play a role in the collapse of WTC 7. … There were no witness reports of such a loud noise.”
But there were such witness reports; and, anyway, the very admission (on the prior page) that there was free-fall over an 8-story segment of the building, constitutes acknowledgement of physical proof that there had been controlled demolition on WTC7. Further, there has even been expert testimony that nano-thermite was used to bring down each of these buildings. But clearly, whatever the truth of the matter is, the U.S. Government has been lying, and continues to lie, about 9/11. For at least the past 16 years, we’ve been living in a dictatorship. And the evidence suggests that this has been the case ever since at least 1981.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.









http://time.com/4784779/special-counsel ... stigation/

Ex-Fed: I Quit Robert Mueller’s FBI, But He's the Right Pick
Michael German
May 18, 2017



IDEAS
German, a fellow in the Liberty & National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, served for 16 years as a special agent with the FBI, specializing in domestic terrorism and covert operations



I am not a fan of Mueller.
He was the third director I worked under as an FBI agent. I joined the Bureau in 1988, when William Sessions served as director; worked through Louis Freeh’s term; and finally resigned in 2004, just about three years into Mueller’s tenure. I only had one direct interaction with him as an agent. In 2002, I alerted him to a whistleblower complaint I made about a mishandled counterterrorism case. Though he had called for whistleblowers to report any problems in terrorism investigations just a few months earlier, he never responded to my email, and the retaliation against me only intensified. Two years later, I reported the matter to / and resigned, starting a new career as a civil-rights advocate lobbying against many of the policies and
It might therefore come as a surprise that I think to oversee the FBI’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. /react-text

react-text: 1398 Mueller is a good selection both because of what he is, and what he isn’t. First, his experience as a federal prosecutor is unsurpassed, including stints leading the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and the United States Attorney’s office in San Francisco. In just one of his notable cases, Mueller led the prosecution of Libyan intelligence agents responsible for the Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. Then he spent twelve years directing the FBI. He clearly knows how to run large, multi-faceted investiga







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The Feds Are Not Our Friends: The Troubled History of Our ‘Nonpartisan’ FBI

ANN SCHNEIDER May 22 2017

Much adu has been made on both sides of the political aisle over the nonpartisan role the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is meant to play within America’s judicial system.
When James Comey sent a letter to members of Congress 11 days before November’s presidential election informing them he had reopened the probe into Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information, overjoyed Republican lawmakers praised the maneuver as an act of transparency while Democrats chided Comey for influencing the vote. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced he had “lost confidence” in the FBI Director.
When President Trump fired Comey this May amid the ongoing investigation into Russian collusion with his campaign, Schumer criticized Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (who up until now has had a reputation as a nonpartisan) for drafting a memo at the White House’s behest that gave Trump cover for axing Comey.
“If Mr. Rosenstein is true to his word,” Schumer told reporters on May 10, “that he believes this investigation must be, quote, ‘fair, free, thorough and politically independent,’ if he believes as I do that the American people must be able to have faith in the impartiality of this investigation, he must appoint a special prosecutor and get his investigation out of the hands of the FBI and far away from the heavy hand of this administration.”
Trump’s political opponents got what they wished for two days later when the Justice Department announced former FBI Director Robert Mueller would be stepping in as special counsel to investigate Trump. Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers who soured on Comey during the Russian probe have defended his firing. The president complained on May 19 that he is the victim of “the greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history.”
Whenever either political party has been wounded by the FBI of late its members have called for a return to impartiality, to nonpartisanship. But the bureau is undeserving of such sentimental longing. Its history of using extrajudicial means to achieve political aims goes back to its founding.
The FBI particularly does not take well to critics, as Marcus Garvey found out. In 1919, the founder of the 4-million strong, multinational United Negro Improvement Association, wrote an article in the Negro World criticizing underhanded investigators. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover directed his agents to find cause to deport Garvey as an undesirable alien (hiring their first Black agents to do the job). Finding no grounds for prosecution, the FBI manufactured a mail fraud case against Garvey. He served five years in prison and was deported. This was one of the FBI’s first big political acts, along with rounding up and deporting roughly 6,000 foreign-born radicals, including the Russian anarchist Emma Goldman, during the Red Scare of 1919.
The National Lawyers Guild incurred Hoover’s wrath in 1950 when it issued a “Report on the Alleged Practices of the FBI,” among which were warrantless searches and breaches if attorney-client privilege. The report — based on documents released in McCarthy-victim Judith Coplon’s trial — concluded: “On a strictly numerical basis, the FBI may commit more federal crimes than it ever detects.”
Documents subsequently released revealed that, over the course of four decades, the bureau used more than 1,000 informants, tapped phones and broke into Guild offices to steal membership lists. The FBI compiled biographies on 125 Guild officers and members, justifying its scrutiny because the Guild “consistently favored measures beneficial to labor,” advocated progressive taxation and supported anti-lynching legislation.
In 1961, Hoover directed his agents to gather information on twelve leaders of the Puerto Rican independence movement “concerning their weaknesses, morals, criminal records, spouses, children, family life, education and personal activities,” as part of the Counterintelligence Program known as COINTELPRO. During the 60’s and 70’s, when the movement for independence was strongest, an estimated 75,000 Puerto Ricans were under surveillance.
In the 1980’s, participants in a hodgepodge of left-wing political causes — the sanctuary movement, the nuclear freeze movement, the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) — were all spied upon by the FBI, as shown by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Ross Gelbspan. His 1991 book, Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI detailed how the FBI used a Salvadoran ex-Baptist Minister named Frank Varelli to turn CISPES from a peaceful opponent of U.S. intervention in Central America into “an agent of domestic terrorism.”
A decade earlier on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, there had been 57 violent deaths of Native Americans, none of which were investigated by the FBI. In 1973, the American Indian Movement (AIM) began a 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee, site of George Custer’s infamous 1890 massacre. The FBI, Bureau of Indian Affairs and state police laid siege to the occupation, resulting in two deaths, 562 arrests and 185 federal indictments. Despite all the FBI’s efforts, few charges resulted in convictions. Rather, so much evidence of government misconduct and witness manipulation came to light that FBI Associate Director Mark Felt came to Rapid City to testify in court to defend his agency against the critics.
There is no evidence that the Feds circling the White House are doing anything other than what the FBI has always done — defending the political status quo.
Attorney William Kunstler, representing AIM activists Dennis Means and Russell Banks, noticed during the trial a door repeatedly opening and shutting. Kunstler quietly motioned to the judge, walked over to the door and yanked it open. Two FBI agents practically fell into the courtroom. They thoroughly denied they had been listening in.
Unbeknownst to AIM at the time, Kerr McGee and Union Carbide had by then discovered uranium in the Black Hills. The 22.5 million acres recognized as Indian territory by the 1868 treaty were ultimately whittled down to less than half that size. It did not serve corporate interests, nor the FBI’s, to have AIM asserting their right to control their own resources.
Not content with witness-tampering, after 9-11 the FBI began aggressively recruiting informants to spy on Muslim communities, utilizing coercive tactics like putting them on a “no fly” list unless they agreed to spy. Shahed Hussein, facing criminal charges of his own, successfully entrapped four petty criminals in Newburgh with a fake plot to bomb a Bronx synagogue in 2009. Before that, using a slightly different identity, Hussein was able to convict a pizzeria owner in Albany of material support for terrorism.
FBI agent Robert Fuller ran both the Newburgh sting and one in Fort Dix in 2006 in which 5 Albanian brothers were tricked into buying weapons supposedly for an attack on military personnel. They were sentenced to life plus 30 years. Each sting took 13 to 16 months to bear fruit, in the form of chargeable offenses. When one of the five, early in the operation, tried to make a report of the weapons trading to the FBI, the FBI refused to accept the report.
James Comey deserves credit for racing to Alberto Gonzales to the bedside of Attorney General John Ashcroft in March 2004 to thwart an extension of the NSA’s warrantless domestic eavesdropping. But it was also Comey (under then-FBI Director Robert Mueller) who asserted in May 2002 that the United States could pick up and detain American citizen Jose Padilla in a Navy brig, without access to counsel, hold him for years and interrogate him without articulable suspicion “to see what he knows” of alleged terrorist conspiracies. This was the trial created the designation “enemy combatant” and Padilla was the guinea pig.
Asked in an interview if he intended to present the charges to a grand jury as required by the Fifth Amendment, Comey answered no. “I don’t believe that we could use this information in a criminal case,” he explained, “because we deprived him of access to his counsel and questioned him in the absence of counsel. . . We’ll figure out down the road what we do with José Padilla.”
Former FBI Director and now Special Counsel Robert Mueller chose as General Counsel to the FBI Valerie Caproni, in August 2003. A report made by the Office of Inspector General Glenn Fine found that between 2003 and 2006, Ms. Caprioni approved the use of so-called exigent letters containing false information to obtain personal phone records for more than 5,500 numbers in 722 locations. Rather than being fired as some in Congress urged, she was appointed a federal judge for the Southern District of New York in September 2013.
While Comey was fired for the Russian inquiry (Trump himself has basically admitted as much) and Mueller’s appointment as special counsel certainly puts the president in hot water, viewed through an historical lens these recent developments do not indicate the FBI has somehow become a-political nor that it is on the side of activists opposing Trump. There is no evid





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FBI Accepting Applications for Special Agents
Anyone can apply to attend the Diversity Agent Program in Chicago.
Posted: May 22, 2017 10:50 AM CDT
- The FBI is looking for people interested in participating in a recruitment event in Chicago.
Those interested must apply for a opportunity to attend an information session scheduled for July 12th. It's for the Bureau's Diversity Agent Recruitment Program.
To apply, go to FBIJobs.gov and click on "Apply for Jobs." Select "Talent Networks" and click on "DAR Chicago Talent Network." Read the job summary instructions and click "Start."

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arstechnica

Meet the e-voting machine so easy to hack, it will take your breath away

Virginia decertifies device that used weak passwords and wasn't updated in 10 years.

by Dan Goodin - Apr 15, 2015

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Virginia election officials have decertified an electronic voting system after determining that it was possible for even unskilled people to surreptitiously hack into it and tamper with vote counts.

The AVS WINVote, made by Advanced Voting Solutions, passed necessary voting systems standards and has been used in Virginia and, until recently, in Pennsylvania and Mississippi. It used the easy-to-crack passwords of "admin," "abcde," and "shoup" to lock down its Windows administrator account, Wi-Fi network, and voting results database respectively, according to a scathing security review published Tuesday by the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. The agency conducted the audit after one Virginia precinct reported that some of the devices displayed errors that interfered with vote counting during last November's elections.

The weak passwords—which are hard-coded and can't be changed—were only one item on a long list of critical defects uncovered by the review. The Wi-Fi network the machines use is encrypted with wired equivalent privacy, an algorithm so weak that it takes as little as 10 minutes for attackers to break a network's encryption key. The shortcomings of WEP have been so well-known that it was banished in 2004 by the IEEE, the world's largest association of technical professionals. What's more, the WINVote runs a version of Windows XP Embedded that hasn't received a security patch since 2004, making it vulnerable to scores of known exploits that completely hijack the underlying machine. Making matters worse, the machine uses no firewall and exposes several important Internet ports.

"Because the WINVote devices use insecure security protocols, weak passwords, and unpatched software, the WINVote devices operate with a high level of risk," researchers with the Virginia Information Technologies Agency wrote in Tuesday's report. "The security testing by VITA proved that the vulnerabilities on the WINVote devices can allow a malicious party to compromise the confidentiality and integrity of Voting data."

Putting it to the test

To prove their claim the machine was vulnerable to real-world hacks, the auditors were able to use the remote desktop protocol to gain remote access to the voting machines. They also used readily available hacking and diagnostic software to map, access, and transfer data from default shared network locations including C$, D$, ADMIN$, and IPC$. After downloading the database that stores the results of each vote, the auditors required just 10 seconds to figure out its password was "shoup" (named after the company name that preceded Advanced Voting Solutions). The auditors were then able to copy the database, modify its contents to tamper with recorded votes, and copy it back to the voting machine.

It's hard to find plain words that convey just how bad the security of this machine is. It's even harder to fathom so many critical defects resided in a line of machines that has played a crucial role in the US' democratic system for so many years. Jeremy Epstein, a security expert specializing in e-voting, summarized the threat brilliantly in a post published Wednesday morning to the Freedom to Tinker blog. He wrote:

As one of my colleagues taught me, BLUF—Bottom Line Up Front. If an election was held using the AVS WinVote, and it wasn’t hacked, it was only because no one tried. The vulnerabilities were so severe, and so trivial to exploit, that anyone with even a modicum of training could have succeeded. They didn’t need to be in the polling place—within a few hundred feet (e.g., in the parking lot) is easy, and within a half mile with a rudimentary antenna built using a Pringles can. Further, there are no logs or other records that would indicate if such a thing ever happened, so if an election was hacked any time in the past, we will never know.


He went on to write:

I’ve been in the security field for 30 years, and it takes a lot to surprise me. But the VITA report really shocked me—as bad as I thought the problems were likely to be, VITA’s five-page report showed that they were far worse. And the WinVote system was so fragile that it hardly took any effort. While the report does not state how much effort went into the investigation, my estimation based on the description is that it was less than a person week.


And finally, he wrote:

So how would someone use these vulnerabilities to change an election?

1. Take your laptop to a polling place, and sit outside in the parking lot.
2. Use a free sniffer to capture the traffic, and use that to figure out the WEP password (which VITA did for us).
3. Connect to the voting machine over WiFi.
4. If asked for a password, the administrator password is “admin” (VITA provided that).
5. Download the Microsoft Access database using Windows Explorer.
6. Use a free tool to extract the hardwired key (“shoup”), which VITA also did for us.
7. Use Microsoft Access to add, delete, or change any of the votes in the database.
8. Upload the modified copy of the Microsoft Access database back to the voting machine.
9. Wait for the election results to be published.


It's good that Virginia will no longer use this machine. Still, given how long it took for the vulnerabilities to be identified, the report raises serious questions about the security of electronic voting and the certification process election officials use to determine if a given machine can be trusted.

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Mary Powers was a friend



Mary D. Powers, dead at 93, called for police accountability
CHICAGO 06/28/2016,


Through many Chicago mayors, police superintendents and commanders, Mary Powers called for improved police accountability.

Mrs. Powers, who worked for decades for the watchdog group she helped found, Citizens Alert, died Saturday at 93 at Evanston Hospital, according to her family.

In 1965, she worked to bring Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Winnetka, where he made a fair-housing speech on the village green.

In 1969, while touring the building where Black Panthers leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were killed during a police raid, Mrs. Powers confirmed that all the bullet holes — except one — appeared to have been fired from outside, a revelation first reported by the Chicago Sun-Times. She joined the chorus rejecting the official story that it was a shootout.

In 1991, she called for action against Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge, who had been linked to extracting confessions via torture by John Conroy in the Chicago Reader. Nearly 20 years later, she attended Burge’s trial, where he was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice.

In 2006, in a letter co-written to the Sun-Times, she called for an independent civilian review board to replace the police Office of Professional Standards.

“Taxpayers’ money has been thrown down the drain for years to disguise the stench of brutality and degrading behavior on the part of abusive cops,” she said, “while uninvolved professional officers are subjected to undeserved hostility and resistance and the reputation of our city is tarnished.”

A longtime resident of Winnetka, Mrs. Powers rejected reporters’ descriptions of her as a gray-haired suburban matron. “It’s a distraction,” she said, “from the issues.”
“She was just a wonderful soldier in the struggle for justice,” said Peoples Law Office attorney Flint Taylor. “She was not only there in court and on the streets but meeting with superintendents.”







http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen ... -1.3171186


Michael Moore working on explosive documentary 'Fahrenheit '11/9' about Donald Trump
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated: Wednesday, May 17, 2017, 9:17 AM



Consciousness New Evidence, Lecture [FIULL VIDEO]
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Consciousness New Evidence, Lecture [FIULL VIDEO]
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... or-science

Drugs
Religious leaders get high on magic mushrooms ingredient – for science


Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore enlists priests, rabbis and a Buddhist to test the effects of psychedelic drugs on religious experience
The experiment aims to assess whether a transcendental experience alters the participants’ religious thinking.

Saturday 8 July 2017 02.30 EDT Last modified on Saturday 8 July 2017 02.31 EDT

A Catholic priest, a Rabbi and a Buddhist walk into a bar and order some magic mushrooms. It may sound like the first line of a bad joke, but this scenario is playing out in one of the first scientific investigations into the effects of psychedelic drugs on religious experience – albeit in a laboratory rather than a bar.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have enlisted two dozen religious leaders from a wide range of denominations, to participate in a study in which they will be given two powerful doses of psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms.

Dr William Richards, a psychologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland who is involved in the work, said: “With psilocybin these profound mystical experiences are quite common. It seemed like a no-brainer that they might be of interest, if not valuable, to clergy.”

The experiment, which is currently under way, aims to assess whether a transcendental experience makes the leaders more effective and confident in their work and how it alters their religious thinking.

Despite most organised religions frowning on the use of illicit substances, Catholic, Orthodox and Presbyterian priests, a Zen Buddhist and several rabbis were recruited. The team has yet to persuade a Muslim imam or Hindu priest to take part, but “just about all the other bases are covered,” according to Richards.

After preliminary screening, including medical and psychological tests, the participants have been given two powerful doses of psilocybin in two sessions, one month apart.

The sessions will be conducted in a living room-like setting at New York University and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore with two “guides” present. The participants will be given the drug and then spend time lying on a couch, wearing eyeshades and listening to religious music on headphones to augment their inward spiritual journey.



“Their instruction is to go within and collect experiences,” Richards said, after presenting his work at the Breaking Convention conference in London this month. “So far everyone incredibly values their experience. No one has been confused or upset or regrets doing it.”

A full analysis of the outcomes will take place after a one-year follow-up with the participants, whose identities are being kept anonymous. “It is too early to talk about results, but generally people seem to be getting a deeper appreciation of their own religious heritage,” he said. “The dead dogma comes alive for them in a meaningful way. They discover they really believe this stuff they’re talking about.”

There is also a suggestion that after their psychedelic journey, the leaders’ notions of religion shifted away from the sectarian towards something more universal. “They get a greater appreciation for other world religions. Other ways up the mountain, if you will,” said Richards.





http://longisland.news12.com/story/3583 ... n-security

State election officials worry about 2018 election security
News 12 Long Island-
The FBI and Homeland Security attempted to allay fears by holding a series of closed-door meetings Saturday on voting security. "This is a new thing and it takes ...






http://www.votefraud.org/Archive/Write/wiretap.htm

FBI agents caught committing voter fraud in 1987




FROM THE votefraud.org ARCHIVES
Election Wire-tap Alleged
Cincinnati Bell Denies Charges
The following paragraphs are excerpts from an article in the Cincinnati Post right before the November, 1987 Cincinnati Council Election. - Jim Condit Jr.

by Randy Ludlow
Post staff reporter
Cincinnati Bell security supervisors ordered wire taps installed on county computers before elections in the late 1970s and early 1980s that could have allowed vote totals to be altered, a former Bell employee says in a sworn court documents

Leonard Gates, a 23-year Cincinnati Bell employee until he was fired in 1986, claims in a deposition filed Thursday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court to have installed the wire taps.

Cincinnati Bell officials denied Gates' allegations tha are part of a six-year-old civil suit that contends the elections computer is subject to manipulation and fraud.

Gates claims a security supervisor for the telephone company told him in 1979 that the firm had obtained a computer program through the FBI that gave it access to the county computer used to count votes.

The deposition does not say if vote totals ever were changed. Gates claimed to have installed wire taps on county computers befoore the elections in 1977 through 1981 and believes, but wasn't certain, in 1982 and 1983.



http://www.thelandesreport.com/donsanto.htm

DOJ and FBI - The Landes Report
TheLandesReport.com › donsanto
Why won't the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate electronic vote fraud? ... The Cincinnati Bell-FBI scandal : Leonard Gates, a Cincinnati Bell employee for 23 years, testified that in the late 1970's and 80's, the FBI ...





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Palm Beach Sheriff targets deputies, blogger who expose corruption
MAY 23, 2012






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https://www.policeone.com/ambush/articl ... es-Matter/

Officer wounded in deadly Baton Rouge ambush sues Black Lives MatterDeRay Mckesson and four other Black Lives Matter leaders are named as defendants in the suit filed on behalf of one of the officers wounded in the attack

IACP forms new task force to address violence against LEOsIn 2016, 21 out of 145 officers killed in the line of duty were killed in ambush-style attacks


https://theintercept.com/2017/07/08/tru ... d-obesity/

TRUMP’S NEW CDC CHIEF CHAMPIONED PARTNERSHIP WITH COCA-COLA TO SOLVE CHILDHOOD OBESITY
Lee Fang
July 8 2017, 7:01 a.m.


THE NEW CHIEF of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which monitors significant public health concerns, including the impact of sugary beverages on obesity and heart disease, will be led by Brenda Fitzgerald, a Georgia physician whose signature childhood obesity project was underwritten by Coca-Cola.

The announcement to appoint Fitzgerald as the CDC director was made on Friday by a Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.

Fitzgerald, a former Republican candidate for Congress and adviser to Newt Gingrich, most recently served as the Georgia Public Health Commissioner. Price and Gingrich both previously represented the 6th Congressional District in Georgia, now held by Republican Karen Handel.

During her tenure as Georgia’s public health watchdog, in a state that has one of the highest obesity rates in the nation, Fitzgerald and Gov. Nathan Deal launched SHAPE, a statewide effort to address childhood obesity through “physical activity before class, physical activity during class, and more structured recess.”

Muhtar Kent, the chief executive and chairman of Coca-Cola Company, appeared with the governor and Fitzgerald to promote the initiative, along with a pledge of $1 million from his company to fund it. Clyde Tuggle, a Coca-Cola executive responsible for the company’s lobbying strategy, was initially appointed to the board overseeing the state anti-obesity strategy, including Fitzgerald’s SHAPE initiative. (Tuggle announced his retirement from Coca-Cola in March of this year.)

“This generous award will have a significant impact on the lives of our children today and well into the future,” Fitzgerald said at the news conference. “Unless we address this obesity epidemic facing our children right now, they will likely suffer life-long consequences of obesity — diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. With this money we can make a real difference.”

Coca-Cola was so fond of Fitzgerald’s approach to obesity issues that an opinion column authored by Fitzgerald is featured prominently on Coca-Cola’s website.

Public health officials around the country have made obesity a top issue of concern. The United States has the distinction of having the highest rate of childhood obesity in the world, according to a recent report from the New England Journal of Medicine. And multiple reports have found that regular consumption of sugary beverages is a leading driver of obesity, which is linked to heart disease, diabetes, kidney diseases, cancers and hypertension.

More exercise, of course, is a good thing, but the Georgia SHAPE program notably eschewed another well-known step toward healthier living: curbing sugary beverage consumption. Touting Coca-Cola’s support of her program on local news station WXIA-TV, Fitzgerald explained her approach. “We’re going to concentrate on what you should eat,” she said, before simply suggesting that children eat more fruits and vegetables. Fitzgerald did not recommend the approach adopted by public officials around the country, namely that children should cut sweetened soda and junk foods from their diet.

The contrast was laid out explicitly in a presentation in 2015. In explaining SHAPE, officials from the Georgia Department of Public Health overtly contrasted the “Georgia vs. California” model on the obesity epidemic. Cities in California, the slide noted, passed the first tax on sugary drinks. Georgia, on the other hand, proposed the largest exemption to new federal rules curbing the sale of junk food in public schools.

Coca-Cola, along with PepsiCo and other sugar industry interests, has worked obsessively to defeat attempts to regulate sugary beverages. Sugar industry interests, including Coca-Cola, have spent at least $67 million on campaign efforts to defeat sugar taxes and related labeling ballot measures. Emails hacked from Democratic officials during the 2016 presidential campaign revealed that executives from Coca-Cola, including Clyde Tuggle, the Coca-Cola vice president overseeing SHAPE, attempted to pressure the Hillary Clinton campaign to back down from voicing support for a soda tax. The company was also caught setting up a front group, called the Global Energy Balance Network, designed to downplay the health risks associated with sugary drinks.









https://www.policeone.com/officer-misco ... rity-duty/


BERLIN — A group of Berlin police officers helping with security ahead of next week's Group of 20 summit in Hamburg has been sent home after some reportedly partied excessively at the barracks where they were staying.

More than 220 officers were sent back to the German capital after what Hamburg police called "inappropriate and unacceptable behavior" by a minority of the group.

Berlin's B.Z. newspaper reported that the antics allegedly included police officers urinating on a fence and an officer dressed in a bathrobe dancing on a table with a weapon in her hand.




http://www.portlandcopwatch.org/PPR71/PPR71dex.HTML

Portland Copwatch - a project of Peace and Justice


People's Police Report #71 - May 2017

Table of Contents (under construction-June 2017)

• Portland Police Kill Black Teen, Wound White Man in Mental Health Crisis on Same Day
• Oregon Police: 25 Shootings 2016, Six+ in 2017
• City Disbands Oversight Board Meant to Ensure Police Reform
• First Misconduct Case at Council in 14 Years
• Changes Made to Accountabilty System
• Protests Met with Violence or Hugs, Depending
• Newspaper Reveals Profiling Widespread
• Community Survey Shows People of Color Fear Profiling
• Problems Plague Jail, Deputy Violates Law by Yelling "Trump"
• Training Council Focuses on Tasers, Force




• Quick Flashes PPR 71
• Trooper Who Slapped Son Loses Gun and Job
• Chief, Aide Put on Leave
• Business Owner Kills Houseless Man, Isn't Charged
• Council Passes Law to Exclude People from Meetings




https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ecess-week

The resistance now: it's recess week, but Republicans are hiding from constituents




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Los Angeles mosque prayers leader in FBI custody for hours
July 8, 2017 - 8:34 PM News Code : 841173 Source : Tasnim Link:

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The US Federal Bureau of Investigation released Imam Mujahid Abdul Karim, the prayers leader of “Masjid Al-Rasul” mosque in Los Angeles after taking him in custody four hours.
The US security forces raided Imam Mujahid Abdul Karim’s home on Friday and arrested him but he was released after four hours being in custody.

FBI forces have also confiscated personal computer of the prayers leader of mosque.

Imam Mujahid Abdul Karim is now consulting with his lawyers on the issue.

He was scheduled to travel to Chicago in order to inaugurate a Mosque there. FBI forces prevented his trip by arresting him.

Imam Mujahid Abdul Karim (born Benjamin Farmer, December 26, 1944) is an African-American convert to Islam, who is best known for his involvement and "spearheading" of the April 26, 1992 Watts Gang Truce between the four influential rival gangs— Watts Hacienda Village Bloods, Grape Street Watts Crips, Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods, and PJ Watts Crips. He is imam of Masjid Al Rasul mosque in Watts, Los Angeles and the leader of the Imam Mahdi Movement.

During this period of his community social activism, he also had his first encounters with several Iranian foreign students who were at the time attending UCLA and were regularly attending the Friday prayer service being held at the mosque. These students were followers of the Shiite school of Islamic thought and gave him a book to read about the grandson of the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad (PBUH), Hussain ibn Ali (AS). After reading this book, and being convinced of the validity of the Shiite school of Islam through other proofs, Abdul Karim decided he was going to convert his masjid to the first ever indigenous African American run Shiite mosque in America.

During the period spanning from 1983-1989, Abdul Karim felt it was necessary to go to the holy seminary city of Qom, Iran, in order to further enhance his knowledge of Islam.

However, in 1990, Abdul Karim was forced to return to America to continue the work of "building" a lasting peace among gang leaders in the Watts community of Los Angeles, California.

Mujahid Abdul Karim has been granted special awards, honors, and recognition including Ambassador for Peace award presented by Senator Roderick Wright, Special Recognition for originating Watts Peace Treaty by Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Certificate of Recognition for the 20th Anniversary of the Watts Peace Treaty by Councilman Joe Buscaino.

Masjid Al-Rasul Vision

According to the official website of Masjid Al-Rasul, Imam Mujahid Abdul Karim founded Masjid Al-Rasul, in 1980, over 30 years ago, in the Watts community of Los Angeles, California, which is currently the only Shiite Masjid in the United States that is strategically located in an historical indigenous Community. In addition, Masjid Al Rasul of Watts, Los Angeles, is also the first Masjid to be established in the United States, based on the Ja’fari school of thought, which is exclusively owned and operated by Indigenous American Shiites

Masjid Al-Rasul’s vision is to build Masjids and Islamic communities in the poorest neighborhoods in the US, in order to help improve the lives of people that are the most impoverished, oppressed and forgotten people of America.

In 1992, Masjid Al-Rasul of Watts, Los Angeles became the site of the first-ever “ceasefire” truce between the two largest national rival gangs “Crips” & “Bloods.” A treaty was signed at Masjid Al-Rasul by dozens of high ranking gang members from across the Los Angeles, California area. This historical truce not only successfully reduced the murder rate in Los Angeles, California, but it was also the catalyst to similar “ceasefire” truces with other gangs across America, thereby significantly reducing violence throughout the United States. Sheikh Mujahid makes an historical analogy of this truce with that of the truce between the two major warring tribes, ‘Aws’ and ‘Khazraj’ during the time of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

Consequently, during a violent period in American history — a time when riots ran rampant across America, due to the aftermath of the “Rodney King Incident,” Masjid Al-Rasul was instrumental in helping to reduce violence and bring peace to America by pioneering the Peace Initiative between gangs throughout the US.

Furthermore, prior to the above-mentioned peace treaty, the community of Watts, Los Angeles was far too dangerous for any significant community development, due to gang violence (i.e., drive-by shootings and armed robberies). As a direct result of Masjid Al-Rasul’s impact on the Watts community, its members can now feel safe to benefit from community improvement





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Convicted of Murder, and Now Swept Up in U.S.-Cuba Shift
By AZAM AHMEDJULY 8, 2017

Ishmael Muslim Ali now lives a quiet life in Cuba, where he remains wanted by the F.B.I. for aircraft piracy. Credit Cave 7 Productions
For more than 30 years, Ishmael Muslim Ali has lived a relatively full and unremarkable life in Cuba. He taught English in the nation’s public schools, worked as a translator and raised a family — a quiet coda for an international fugitive.

Or at least, that was the case until last month, when President Trump announced a partial halt to relations with Cuba unless certain conditions were met. Handing over Mr. Ali, who resides on the F.B.I.’s most-wanted list for hijacking an American Airlines flight and fleeing to Cuba to escape multiple life sentences for the murder of eight people, is one of those conditions.

Mr. Trump’s demands contained the usual requirements for Cuba: free and fair elections, allowing a political opposition and opening up its economy. But they also included a call for the extradition of all American convicts who had fled to the island for asylum. Among them are Assata Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard, who is wanted for escaping from prison while serving a life sentence for the murder of a New Jersey state trooper, and an estimated 70 others who have taken refuge in the communist nation.

As to the threat of being sent home, Mr. Ali, 69, harbors no concern. The Cuban government has already made it clear that the extradition of those granted asylum is off the table — along with the other demands laid out by the president.


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September 19, 2017
Explore the CIA’s Diary Notes from the year JFK was shot
The day-by-day play-by-plays from the Agency’s archive
Written by Beryl Lipton
Edited by Michael Morisy, JPat Brown
Among the millions of pages within Central Intelligence Agency’s CREST database live an array of communications, cables, memos, and snippets from the daily activities of the Agency. Within the collection, the thousands of Diary Notes kept by the Executive Committee are perhaps the closest to a day-by-day CIA Cliff Notes.

Unfortunately, getting to them in actual chronological order can be difficult.

Fortunately, we’ve begun pulling them into order. Below you’ll find links for all available Diary Notes associated with the year 1963, the majority of which were kept by Deputy Director for Administration Lawrence K. White.

In them, you’ll find notes ranging from the seemingly mundane, like this discussion of printing prices from February 11th …



this mention of CIA mind control programs on July 5th …



which shares a page with this exciting development in typewriters…



and this tidbit found halfway down the page on November 22nd, the day John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas.



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It took the Secret Service two years to answer a basic question about the Presidential election
by Matthew Guariglia
September 20, 2017
As part of MuckRock’s coverage of all things presidential leading up to the 2016 presidential election, Matthew Guariglia sent a FOIA request to learn the identities of the “one additional member” of the advisory committee who had to decide whether or not to grant Herman Cain Secret Service protection. Two years and two mostly-redacted documents later, we have an answer. Sort of.

The fifth member of the advisory panel who decides which candidates get federal protection has been revealed
Written by Matthew Guariglia
Edited by JPat Brown
According to 18 United States Code § 3056, 120 days before a Presidential election, Secret Service protection is extended to all “major” presidential and vice presidential candidates. But who determines who qualifies as a “major” candidate. According to the statute,

“As used in this paragraph, the term “major Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates” means those individuals identified as such by the Secretary of Homeland Security after consultation with an advisory committee consisting of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the minority leader of the House of Representatives, the majority and minority leaders of the Senate, and one additional member selected by the other members of the committee.”
As part of MuckRock’s coverage of all things presidential leading up to the 2016 presidential election, I sent a FOIA request to learn the identities of the “one additional member” who had to decide whether or not to grant Herman Cain Secret Service protection.







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California school suspends boy for "terroristic" threat
Updated 4:01 pm, Wednesday, September 20, 2017

MODESTO, Calif. The parents of a 5-year-old boy in central California say their son's school suspended him for a day for allegedly making a "terroristic" threat when he told his teacher there was a bomb in his backpack.




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Trump judge nominee said that transgender children part of 'Satan's plan'
BY CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Wednesday, September 20, 2017, 8:59 PM




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A university president held a dinner for black students — and set the table with cotton stalks and collard greens
By LINDSEY BEVER | The Washington Post
PUBLISHED: September 20, 2017 at 12:44 am | UPDATED: September 20, 2017 at 8:20 am




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Trump-loving Maine woman refuses to take down oversized political banners despite city’s threat of fines
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Five times CIA hid awful programs in boring names
The Office of Technical Service won’t be there for your broken radio

Take it from the CIA - if you want to get away with murder, just say you’re committing a “potentially involuntary of redistribution of consciousness.” Here’s five times the Agency used jargon to get away with the jarring.
5. Office of Policy Coordination (OPC)


It sounds like they did: Meetings about meetings
What they actually did: Coups, murder
According to their charter, the OPC was responsible for American “propaganda, economic warfare, preventive direct action, including sabotage, antisabotage, demolition and evacuation procedures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, guerrillas and refugee liberation groups, and support of indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened countries of the free world.” Whew.
The OPC was eventually merged with the CIA in 1951, in the hopes that it might reign in the skullduggery a bit. Guess how that turned out.
4. Technical Services Division (OTS)


It sounds like they did: I.T.
What they actually did: Mind control experiments
MK was the Agency’s internal designation for its research wing, which is where MKULTRA comes from, which is where you get the Agency running brothels so they can douse unsuspecting johns with LSD. Not bad for a group you’d “expect to fix radios,” as Emma Best put it.
3. ZIPPER


It sounds like they did: Not Nazi things
What they actually did: Exactly Nazi things
ZIPPER was one of the CIA’s code names for the Gehlen Organization, an Agency-allied spy ring in West Germany. It was run by its namesake, Reinhard Gehlen, who was a former Nazi with a penchant for hiring other former Nazis, so this thing was chock full of Nazis. ZIPPER - which, incidentally, is a great name for a black lab - is not an entirely appropriate moniker for anything with enough Nazis in it to be described as “chock full.”
2. Common Interest Network (CIN)


It sounds like they did: Gatherings around their shared love of stamp collecting
What they actually did: Deep State-ery
CIN, illustratively pronounced like ‘sinister,’ was an informal group of ex-spies who met up a couple of times a year to have a few drinks, share a few stories, and coordinate efforts to manipulate perception of the Agency in American media. You know. Normal retiree stuff.
1. Special Activities Division (SAD)


It sounds like they do: Birthday parties, group outings
What they actually do: Coups, murder
These days, the Agency’s covert actions are under the SAD banner, further divided in to the Special Operations Group (SOG), the paramilitary wing, and Political Action Group (PAG), which does psyops and subversion. While we can all agree that SAD/PAG is a kind of doofy label for the overthrow of a democratically-elected head of state, there is something more than a little worrying that there’s a chance that the first drone strike on U.S. soil might get carried out because the Agency read too much into POTUS’ tweets.
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Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Conservatives Don’t Like Higher Ed

Conservatives don’t like professors. When conservative Republicans were asked to gauge their feelings about college professors, over half gave a “cold” response, while only 24% were “warm”. I experience that disdain in the comments that conservatives make to my columns, where the word “professor” itself is a taunt, a curse.

Conservatives don’t like the institutions where professors work. A recent Pew poll found that only 29% of conservative Republicans thought that colleges and universities have a positive impact on our country.

Republican politicians encourage these views. Betsy DeVos, the new Secretary of Education, was explicit in her condemnation of professors as she was being confirmed: “The faculty, from adjunct professors to deans, tell you what to do, what to say, and more ominously, what to think. They say that if you voted for Donald Trump, you’re a threat to the university community.” There is no evidence that even 1 out of 1000 professors ever said that, but DeVos didn’t need to provide evidence. The idea that college professors indoctrinate students with liberal ideas, that conservatives are discriminated against on university campuses, is now taken as fact in conservative thinking.

It is a fact that conservatives are outnumbered in higher ed. A study from 2014 shows that liberals outnumber conservatives in college and university faculties 6 to 1. Is this proof of discrimination on campus? In fact, conservatives themselves choose not to pursue advanced degrees. Only 10% of those with some postgrad study are consistent conservatives. Even fewer conservatives decide to pursue a PhD, as opposed to more professional degrees like MBA. Thus the preponderance of liberals among faculty is the result of different educational choices according to political preference.

One interesting statistic that I had never seen is that voter registrations among social science faculty at 40 major universities show that Democrats outnumber Republicans by 11 to 1, but among historians the ratio is 33 to 1. My own educational history offers an explanation of how that happened. Earning a PhD in history, studying history intensively, pushed me to the left. Timing was probably a factor: I became a graduate student in 1973, as the Watergate scandal demonstrated the dishonesty of a conservative Republican President. But more important was that learning history itself can be radicalizing.

The Russian populace had been terribly mistreated by the very conservative Tsarist autocracy and their revolutionary demands for a socialist system in 1917 were a reasonable response. American Southerners rebelled in order to defend slavery and said so clearly. Discrimination against racial minorities and women continued through the 20th century, defended by racist and sexist conservative arguments. Social improvements, like worker safety or food purity or Social Security, were radical ideas eventually accomplished over conservative objections.

Even though all my history professors were white males, these and other obvious historical lessons pushed me in a leftward direction. Those who argue, for example, that the Civil War was not about defending slavery, but about states’ rights have to violate all the basic rules about using evidence to make this historical argument. They are out of place in academia, because they are historical frauds.

Good academic science and social science lie behind ideas that conservatives don’t want to believe, about climate change, about evolution, about the persistence of racism. So conservatives attack the whole academic enterprise. Organized conservative assaults on academic liberals are now the norm on campuses.

Here’s how it works: an art historian writes an essay about how ancient marble statues were typically painted in colors which have disappeared over the centuries. In modern museums, we see white skin as representing the ideal, contributing to the idea that white is ideal. Then the conservative media take over, gradually distorting the article to delegitimize this liberal professor, her ideas, and all others like her. “A Campus Reform headline describes a professor’s essay as arguing that white marble in sculptures ‘contributes’ to white supremacy. Two days later, a Daily Caller piece, citing Campus Reform, has the professor ‘equating’ white-marble statues with white supremacy. Two days after that, a site called Truth Revolt — now citing another account from Heat Street, which had also picked up on Campus Reform’s report — is blunter: ‘Professor: White Marble Statues Are Racist.’”

The twisting of information about what goes on at college by people like David Horowitz is central to conservative attitudes about higher ed. This process leads to organized calls for leftist professors to be fired, and even to death threats.

Arthur C. Brooks of the conservative American Enterprise Institute wrote a NY Times op-ed “Don’t Shun Conservative Professors” last week. He assumes this shunning is obvious and that “discrimination” is ubiquitous. He compares the historic barriers against women and the alleged plight of academic conservatives, a clever tactic that makes it harder to remember that conservatives defended those barriers for decades.

Brooks says liberals should “make campuses more open to debate and the unconstrained pursuit of truth.” But that open debate over the past decades has led to an intellectual consensus that conservatives hate. Conservatives don’t like professors precisely because the pursuit of truth demonstrates the emptiness of current conservative dogmas.

Steve Hochstadt
Springbrook WI
Published in the Jacksonville Journal-Courier, September 19, 2017
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Breitbart News’ FBI file details how site accidentally DDoS’d itself … but withholds over a thousand pages
by Michael Morisy
September 19, 2017
On January 17, 2016, the alt-right news site Breitbart found itself under siege: A number of IP addresses were sending a large amount of traffic its way, straining its servers. Writing to the FBI two days later with the subject line “Request for assistance,” someone (identity redacted) shared the source of the IP addresses and asked that the FBI “explore the possibility that the identity of the criminal … be identified from this fingerprint.” It turns out, it was an inside job.
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Black Lives Matter protests fundraiser for suspended officer


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Black Lives Matter protesters reportedly cursed at officers outside a police union fundraiser for a white officer who’s been suspended after fatally shooting a black man in the back following a traffic stop.

Asa Khalif, one of the group’s coordinators, shouted at police through a bullhorn on Sunday that, “It’s a disgrace you’re having a party for a murderer.”

Union president John McNesby declined comment.

Police commissioner Richard Ross says Officer Ryan Pownall has been suspended and should be terminated later this month.

Ross says the 12-year police veteran used “poor judgment” when he fired on David Jones on June 8.


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Roy Cohn Is Disbarred By New York Court
By Margot Hornblower and Washington Post June 24, 1986
Roy M. Cohn, the flamboyant lawyer who became famous as the communist-hunting counsel for Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's committee in the 1950s, was disbarred today by the Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court in Manhattan.

The decision, part of a four-year battle between Cohn and the New York legal establishment, upheld a judicial disciplinary panel's charges of "dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation."

It went beyond the panel's recommendation in finding that Cohn had entered the Florida hospital room of dying multimillionaire Lewis Rosenstiel, founder of the Schenley Distillers empire, while Rosenstiel, 84, was senile, semicomatose and drugged in December 1975. Rosenstiel died 6 1/2
Cohn held Rosenstiel's hand to sign a document naming Cohn a co-executor of Rosenstiel's will after falsely telling him that the document dealt with his divorce, the court found.

According to the 49-page decision, Cohn refused to repay a $100,000 loan from a client and lied about it in court; violated an escrow order, allowing dissipation of a corporation's assets in a securities-fraud case, and concealed pending disciplinary proceedings on an admission application to the District of Columbia Bar.


"For an attorney practicing for nearly 40 years in this state, such misconduct is inexcusable, notwithstanding an impressive array of character witnesses who testified in mitigation," the court found.

Cohn's attorneys had sought to have the disbarment proceedings halted on grounds that Cohn, 59, is dying. His doctor testified in October that Cohn had a "life-threatening disease" and a life expectancy of two to 12 months. Cohn has described the illness as liver cancer.

Cohn did not return calls today to his New York office or his home in Greenwich, Conn. One of his attorneys, Eugene Gelernter, said no decision had been made on whether to appeal the disbarment.

However, in interviews last year, Cohn called his accusers "left-wingers," "deadbeats" and "a bunch of yo-yos just out to smear me up." The disbarment action, he said, was "a broad ideological question . . . . What McCarthy was accused of practicing is actually being practiced against me."

Cohn's case attracted wide attention not only because of his notoriety -- he has stayed in the news as a lawyer for organized-crime figures and the jet set -- but also because of character witnesses who came to his defense during 27 days of hearings.


Among them were Rep. Mario Biaggi (D-N.Y.), ABC's Barbara Walters, developer Donald Trump, syndicated columnist William F. Buckley Jr. and New York Times columnist William Safire.

A prominent supporter of President Reagan and occasional guest at the White House, Cohn received a get-well telegram from Reagan while in the hospital a few months ago.

Cohn contended that his law firm, not he, handled the escrow account, that the $100,000 loan was an advance on legal fees and that the misconduct charges were not "formal" and therefore need not be reported to the D.C. bar.

In the Rosenstiel case, a Florida judge invalidated the codicil on grounds that Cohn "misrepresented" the document to him.

The New York disciplinary committee declined to add that case to its charges, but the court reinstated it after reviewing evidence, including Rosenstiel's illegible signature, and testimony of doctors and nurses present when Cohn made an unannounced late-night visit to the hospital 6 1/2 weeks before Rosenstiel died.


According to the court, Rosenstiel had suffered a stroke and was partially paralyzed and nearly blind. Cohn had been his attorney in a bitter divorce case but had never dealt with Rosenstiel's will.

However, Cohn flew to Florida while Rosenstiel was on the critical list and, without notifying Rosenstiel's regular attorney or family members, had him sign a document naming as trustees Cohn and a Rosenstiel relative with legal claims against the Rosenstiel estate.

The hospital attendant on duty that night testified that Rosenstiel was "almost comatose" and that Cohn had "tried to take Rosenstiel's hand for him to sign" the document.

When Rosenstiel was unable to move, Cohn returned the following morning, the court said. The nurse on duty testified that she heard Cohn describe the document as "tak ing care" of his divorce and telling Rosenstiel, "We will help you, Lew, to sign."

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Judge: FBI can keep cost of iPhone hack secret



10/01/2017 11:49 AM EDT
A federal judge has ruled that the FBI does not have to make public how much it paid last year to unlock an iPhone used by one of the apparent perpetrators of a terrorist attack in California that killed 14 people.

Three news organizations — USA Today, The Associated Press and Vice Media — sued under the Freedom of Information Act to try to force the FBI to reveal the amount of the payment and the identity of the company that received it, but U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled Saturday that information is exempt from mandatory disclosure under the landmark transparency statute.

The Justice Department waged a high-profile court battle to force Apple to help unlock the iPhone 5c, arguing that accessing the data on it was important to thoroughly investigate the 2015 shooting spree at a county health department office in San Bernardino, California. However, government lawyers abruptly abandoned the court fight in March 2016 because investigators managed to access the phone. It quickly emerged that the FBI had paid a private firm to unlock the device.

The FBI refused to identify the company did the work or how much it was paid, although then-FBI Director James Comey said at a conference last year that the cost was more than he was expected to make in salary during the remainder of his term as head of the FBI — approximately $1.4 million. (President Donald Trump fired Comey in May with more than six years to go in his 10-year term.)






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As Seas Warm, Whales Face New Dangers
October. 2, 2017



MOUNT DESERT ROCK, Me. — From the top of the six-story lighthouse, water stretches beyond the horizon in every direction. A foghorn bleats twice at 22-second intervals, interrupting the endless chatter of herring gulls.

At least twice a day, beginning shortly after dawn, researchers climb steps and ladders and crawl through a modest glass doorway to scan the surrounding sea, looking for the distinctive spout of a whale.

This chunk of rock, about 25 nautical miles from Bar Harbor, is part of a global effort to track and learn more about one of the sea’s most majestic and endangered creatures. So far this year, the small number of sightings here have underscored the growing perils along the East Coast to both humpback whales and North Atlantic right whales.

This past summer, the numbers of humpback whales identified from the rock were abysmal — the team saw only eight instead of the usual dozens. Fifty-three humpbacks have died in the last 19 months, many after colliding with boats or fishing gear.






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Radio,television and the print media have done to our minds what industry
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We now think like New York City looks.
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Is it the Military Industrial Complex Effect or the Trump Effect?

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Almost half of Republicans want war with North Korea, a new poll says. Is it the Trump Effect?
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Two law enforcement officers, three others arrested in 1983 murder of 23-year-old Georgia black man
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Infiltration and Entrapment

If you are a member of a mosque, a person of color or a member of an organization that advocates for peace, the environment, animals, economic justice or just about any cause, this comic book is a heads up: the FBI (or the state or local police) is sending paid informants into your community and organizations to spy on you. Worse, they may try to entrap you or one of your peers in a manufactured plot that could end you up in jail.

Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? You aren’t doing anything wrong, so why should the FBI care about you? And wouldn’t that be against the Constitution anyway? Aren’t we supposed to be free to worship, speak, peaceably assemble or just plain be, without government interference?

Well we should be, but we aren’t, and that is a huge problem in a country that is supposed to be a free and democratic society.

The FBI has a long history of playing dirty against immigrants, people of color, religious minorities and progressive or radical activists. Here are just a few examples:

The Palmer Raids (named after Attorney General Palmer): One of the first actions of the newly formed Bureau of Investigation and its Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1919 was to orchestrate the round up of 3,000 “radicals” and deportation of over 500 immigrants based on their ethnicity and/or political views.
Detention Lists: From 1919 until at least 1978, the FBI maintained lists of immigrants and dissidents (such as people who distribute “literature and propaganda favorable to a foreign power and opposed to the American way of life”) to be detained in case of so-called “national emergency”.
Targeting Hollywood: The FBI investigated actors, including silent film star Charlie Chaplin, based on their political views. The Bureau was aided by both Walt Disney and Ronald Reagan (when he was an actor), who were FBI informants, feeding names of actors, writers and directors who they considered ‘subversive.’
COINTELPRO (COunter INtelligence PROgram): An umbrella program that encompassed many of the FBI’s domestic spying operations. Here are just a few examples of COINTELPRO’s efforts to “disrupt,” “discredit,” and “neutralize” domestic protest groups:
Having infiltrated the Student Free Speech Movement in the 1960s, the FBI sent letters to students’ parents warning them of their child’s “subversive” activity.
To prevent the rise of a Black “Messiah,” the FBI subjected Martin Luther King Jr. to a decade-long campaign that included wiretapping his home and hotel rooms and spreading nasty rumors about him to Congress, foreign leaders and the press (even after he was assassinated).
The FBI targeted the “New Left” and anti-war movements in the 1960s, creating dossiers on over 20,000 Americans and groups like Students for a Democratic Society, Women’s Strike for Peace, and Clergy and Laity Concerned about the War in Vietnam.
These activities didn’t stay secret forever. In the 1970s, a congressional committee known as the Church Committee conducted an extensive investigation, and in 1975-76 issued 14 reports full of revelations of illegal activities by the FBI and other U.S. intelligence agencies.

The American people were horrified, and Congress passed serious reforms to prevent the intelligence agencies from spying on people in the U.S. without court approval. The Attorney General (who oversees the FBI) also wrote strict guidelines to prevent the FBI from spying on people based on their First Amendment activity.

For a short while it seemed as though the FBI might keep its focus on people who actually break the law, but pretty quickly the rules meant to keep the FBI (and the CIA and NSA) in line started to get overturned. And the FBI started spying on innocent people again.

After 9/11, things went downhill pretty fast. The PATRIOT Act gave the FBI new powers and the agency quickly began to abuse them to sweep up vast amounts of data on virtually everyone in the U.S. The FBI guidelines were rewritten to allow the FBI to open an investigation (they call it an “assessment”) on anyone for just about any reason, so they can search databases, send an informant, infiltrate a group or use other intrusive means to get information on someone. The FBI can even search through your trash to see if they can find information they can use to force you to become an informant.

Leaked documents, documents liberated through the Freedom of Information Act and even reports written by the government all confirm that the FBI is indeed infiltrating peaceful groups based on their political or religious activities, mapping America’s communities based on race and ethnicity, silencing whistleblowers, targeting journalists and lying to Congress.

We think the FBI’s use of informants is a particular problem:

Manufacturing Terror: the FBI’s Entrap & Demonize Strategy

As the cell door slammed shut on the last of the five Occupy Cleveland activists to be sentenced for involvement in an FBI-led plot to blow up a bridge, you could almost hear the diabolical laughter of J. Edgar Hoover. He couldn’t have done it better himself.

The Occupy movement burst out of winter hibernation on May Day 2012 with dozens of protests in cities across the country – but not in Cleveland. The Cleveland May Day rally was cancelled after five “self-proclaimed anarchists” were arrested and charged with trying to blow up a bridge. The FBI staged a high profile press conference to announce the arrests, taking care to make clear the connection to Occupy.

The FBI downplayed, however, the fact that an FBI informant (known as “Shaquille”) facilitated nearly every step of the “terror” plot. As it turns out, the FBI’s most successful counterterror operations follow the same pattern: paid informants come into a community, latch onto the most vulnerable members, befriend them, give them gifts, money, drugs and/or alcohol, bully them into joining fake terror plots, and provide everything that is needed to carry out the plot. Then, BAM! the fake plot is exposed, people’s lives are ruined and the FBI is able to demonize a whole community or movement.

We call this pattern “manufacturing terrorism,” and it has played out over and over in Muslim communities in New York, California, Florida and elsewhere as well as being used against environmentalists, anarchists, the Occupy movement and others.

The Occupy Cleveland case shows the troubling implications of manufacturing terrorism. It may be the most successful FBI attempt to disrupt and discredit a movement since COINTELPRO. Not only was the FBI able to smear anarchists and stop the Cleveland May Day rally from happening, but two days after the arrests, the Occupy Cleveland camp was shut down completely. Moreover, the five young men swept up in the plot will spend from six to 12 years in jail for a crime they never would have committed if they hadn’t met “Shaquille”.

The second story in this book tells a similar tale of vulnerability and manipulation, this time at a mosque in the economically depressed city of Newburgh, New York. Even the trial judge was appalled by the case of the Newburgh 4, saying about one of the men, “Only the government could have made a terrorist out of Mr. Cromitie, whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in scope.” The four men caught in the plot will spend 25 years in prison, but the repercussions extend beyond the four, because the case provides “evidence” for the media and unscrupulous politicians to demonize all Muslims and equate terrorism with Islam, and the faux terror plot is presented as real, and used as justification for civil liberties abuses in the war on terror.

These are not the only examples of this unethical practice. Eric McDavid, an environmental activists set up by an FBI informant named “Anna,” is serving 20 years [UPDATE: McDavid was recently released from jail after a judge ruled the government withheld crucial evidence about “Anna” at trial]. It took the government three trials to finally get a jury to convict members of the Liberty City Seven for talking about blowing up the Sears tower in Chicago – a crime they were clearly incapable of pulling off. The story of Bradley Crowder and David McKay is told in the award-winning documentary, Better This World. The two were “befriended” by an FBI informant who goaded them into adopting confrontational tactics for protests at the 2008 Republican Convention. They were arrested for making (but not using) Molotov Cocktails.

Our hope is that if you know how the FBI works, you can recognize the pattern and help protect your community and community members from the tactics law enforcement deploys against those whose politics, religion or ethnicity it doesn’t like.

The Defending Rights & Dissent and dozens of other local and national organizations are working to document, expose and put an end to the unethical and cruel way paid informants prey on our communities. Right now, it’s all perfectly legal, so self-defense through awareness is our best option. But in the long run, we need to change the way law enforcement is allowed to operate.

Resources:

Manufacturing Terrorists: The Occupy Cleveland Story by Defending Dissent Foundation


Manufacturing “Terrorists”
The story of the Newburg 4 by Defending Dissent Foundation




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Psychologists are facing consequences for helping with torture. It’s not enough.
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Former Federal Agents Urge Supreme Court to Hear Case Involving FBI Torture





Last Wednesday, three former federal agents from the FBI and NCIS urged the Supreme Court to take up the case of Meshal v. Higgenbotham and to overturn a lower court’s refusal to hear Meshal’s claims on the merits because of a new judge-made exception for national security cases.

Nearly a decade ago Amir Meshal, a U.S. citizen, says he was studying in Somalia when hostilities broke out. Fearing for his safety, Meshal fled to neighboring Kenya where he was arrested and subsequently detained. Over the next four months, U.S. FBI agents tortured and interrogated him while detaining Meshal in several east African countries without access to a lawyer. Meshal was subsequently released and never charged with a crime.

Soon after he was permitted to return home, Meshal filed a civil suit against the FBI supervising special agent, Chris Higgenbotham, and three other U.S. government officials for violations of his right to due process and his right to be free from unreasonable seizure. However, the U.S. Court of Appeals did not rule on the merits of whether Meshal’s constitutional rights were violated. Rather, it decided that Meshal has no remedy for violations that occurred overseas and in the context of a terrorism investigation.

Ordinarily a victim may bring what is known as a Bivens action, named after a 1971 Supreme Court decision, to obtain monetary damages against federal government officials who have violated his or her constitutional rights. But courts have declined to allow new types of Bivens claims when there are “special factors counseling hesitation.”




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Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Why Is Trump Still Popular?


I was surprised when Donald Trump was elected President. I thought his personal weaknesses were so outrageous that it would never be close.

I hadn’t tried to understand his appeal, because he was such a colossal jerk. I forgot that the American public is often mesmerized by powerful jerks, people who are bad and show it off. Millions of TV viewers paid to see the mobsters on “The Sopranos”, continuing a public fascination with showy criminals, real and imagined, from Al Capone to Bonnie and Clyde to the Godfather.

I didn’t see the importance of the Trump persona. Trump was rich, white and free. He could do whatever he wanted without apology, and get richer doing it. People like the Clintons fawned all over him and acted as if his constantly shifting, remarkably ignorant political ideas were just fine with them.

His magnetism for people who venerate celebrity gave his ideas some credibility. That’s all he needed.

His message was simple: I can do the economy better than anyone else. He had been saying that for decades, but in the years after the worst depression since the Great Depression millions of Americans wanted to believe him.

The experts of capitalism, moving smoothly among Democrats and Republicans and politicians all over the world, had brought us to a terrible place. Just like they said it would, the world economy had been booming for decades. After each unpredicted temporary implosion, the engine started up again. Unprecedented wealth has been created and shared around among the already rich, the experts themselves, politicians of all stripes, and quite a few people of modest means who found ways to succeed by being lucky and working hard.

I was one of those modest people. My father the refugee and my mother the secretary and the whole country told me that I could succeed. I could go to college, get a good job, keep it, make a better living. It’s all come true for me, and for many others I know.

But most Americans were going nowhere. Hourly wages for the typical worker have stagnated for 40 years. Those without a college degree did even worse. The median household income of a high school graduate fell by 25% from 1973 to 2013, as over 7 million manufacturing jobs disappeared. Instead of making automobiles, workers were serving hamburgers.

The hope for success, the so-called American dream, decayed, as the number of permanently underemployed, paycheck-to-paycheck survivors has grown.

Why not believe the promises of a larger-than-life businessman, whose wealth is beyond spending, who not only says he feels your pain, but who has a simple answer. I can fix everything, because I am great at whatever I’ve done. I understand now how many Americans, especially in the American places that the experts have forgotten, would see hope in the big man’s message.

From thousands of conversations with voters since the election, analyzed in countless reports, it is clear that other parts of Trump’s message resonated widely, finding a bigger audience than I had believed or wished. Trump’s adoption of the birther myth told us everything about that side of his appeal. Seeking an ever bigger stage to present himself as master of the universe, the rich man found a nasty idea to make his own. The former Democrat could easily take the whole stupid story away from the few crazies who had been promoting it and put his face on it.

The birther fantasy was always going to fail. No matter how many stories Trump made up about investigators and discoveries, his quest was a failure. Except that so many Americans wanted to believe that Barack Obama really didn’t deserve to be President.

Facts didn’t matter. Race mattered. For Trump, success didn’t matter, just trying was enough.

So Donald Trump was elected by a combination of the economic hopes and the racial resentments of white America.

I get that now. What I don’t get is that after 9 months of accomplishing nothing but alienating people across the world, creating a cabinet where the most important question is “Will he resign?”, reneging on promises to offer better health care for most Americans, not getting Mexico to pay for a wall, sucking up to the Russian hackers into our elections, draining no swamp and improving nothing for anybody, and lying, lying, lying, those white Americans are sending money to the billionaire Trump’s campaign fund.

Almost everybody who believes that white people have no social or economic advantages over black people supports Trump. Nearly half of Trump supporters think that whites face the most discrimination in America today. 70% of Trump voters agree that “white people are currently under attack in this country”.

So it doesn’t matter if Trump tries to take away their health insurance or give giant tax breaks to the rich. It doesn’t matter that he can’t deliver on any of his campaign promises. It doesn’t matter that he displays dangerous ignorance about every issue he steps into.

Is anything better for anyone in America because of what he has done?

No. What matters is that he has made American racism respectable.

Steve Hochstadt
Springbrook WI
Published in the Jacksonville Journal-Courier, October 12 2017

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Barrett Brown Is Writing a Book Critical of the Justice Department. They are Making it Hard by Trying to Prevent Him Being Paid His Advance.


Nov. 3, 2017 9:18 pm
Barrett Brown is currently out of prison and on probation after getting an over five year sentence for essentially linking online to hacked documents (and a supposed threat to an FBI agent that resulted during the investigation for the linking).

Brown tweeted today that the Department of Justice (DOJ), who are seeking to collect the nearly $900,000 in restitution he was found to owe Stratfor (the company whose hacked docs Brown linked to) is preventing him from getting any future money for a book he is working on for Farrar Straus & Giroux.



In an email from Brown's literary agency I've seen, publisher Farrar Straus & Giroux is reported to have said that they have been told by the DOJ to disburse no further money from the book to Brown without the government's permission.

The next installment on Brown's advance is due soon, though this demand has not yet technically prevented money from reaching Brown's hands. Brown says his own lawyers have not been able to tell him whether the DOJ has the power to hold such moneys owed him in limbo as long as they want with such a demand.

According to Brown, his restitution order mentions he should pay "not less than 10 percent" of his gross monthly income toward that restitution. It simultaneously says that stating such a limit that apparently satisfies his obligation "shall not affect the ability of the United States to immediately collect payment in full through garnishment" and a list of other legal means.

At this link, an infuriating phone conversation can be heard between Brown and Emily Shutt with the DOJ out of the Dallas U.S. Attorney's office. She upholds the general principle that they can do whatever they want when it comes to trying to squeeze money out of Brown.

That link also contains a copy of an "application for a writ of garnishment" sent to Barrett's literary agency, Writer's House, demanding money from them. That document says, for what it's worth, that the amount Brown has to pay "is limited to the lesser of (i) 25 percent of disposable income for a week; or (ii) the amount by which disposable earnings for a week exceed 30 times the federal minimum hourly wage." (How they calculate how book advance earnings should be measured against "a week" is unclear. Books are written over many months.)

Brown thinks it is not at all coincidental that his book is highly critical of the DOJ's actions in prosecuting him. (I reported back in April on how Brown was temporarily taken back into custody for talking to the press without explicit Bureau of Prisons permissions; that post contains a brief assessment with links of his entire tortured legal saga.)

Brown figures what makes his case perhaps unique to the DOJ is that in most other cases, the agency "isn't...trying to complicate publication of a major book that will provide new information on criminality from its office," said Brown in an email today.








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BURNS OREGON STANDOFF
Days before trial, defense confirms FBI had surveillance camera outside Bundy Ranch

Updated Nov 3, 11:54 PM; Posted Nov 3, 6:32 PM

LAS VEGAS -- More than three years after the 2014 Bundy standoff with federal officers near Bunkerville and after two trials in the case, testimony elicited in court Friday revealed for the first time that the FBI had one surveillance camera perched on a hill overlooking the Bundy Ranch.

A large TV screen set up in the federal officers' makeshift compound carried a live feed from the images, National Park Service ranger Mary Hinson testified.

Her testimony came during questioning by defendant Ryan Bundy in a pretrial hearing held in federal court in Nevada.

Bundy, who is representing himself, father Cliven Bundy, brother Ammon Bundy and co-defendant Ryan Payne, are accused of planning a "massive armed assault'' and conspiring to block federal officers from rounding up Bundy cattle unlawfully grazing on federal land in April 2014. The four have pleaded not guilty to federal conspiracy, weapons, threatening and extortion charges.

Opening statements are set for Tuesday.

Under questioning, Hinson said she did not know if the footage, which captured images from outside the Bundy home and a stage set up down the road, was recorded. She said the FBI operated the camera.

On Aug. 22, Ryan Bundy had filed a motion, asking the court to compel the government to provide discovery "regarding photographic and laser equipment used to surveil the Bundy home and American People who peacefully assembled'' between March 26, 2014, and April 12, 2014. He asked for the make and model of any such equipment used, as he had found nothing in discovery provided to the defense that referenced the "mysterious device'' overlooking the Bundy home.







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Republicans Seek to Use Tax Bill to Suppress Climate and Clean Air Saving Electrical Vehicles
Republicans in Congress seem more concerned with cutting taxes for the rich than dealing with present and worsening problems like Russian interference in U.S. democracy or the ever-escalating damages coming from human-caused climate change related to fossil fuel burning. In fact, the Republican Party today signaled its intent to use the presently proposed tax bill in a manner that would make one of these problems dramatically worse.

According to news reports, Republicans intend to use their tax cut plan to remove incentives for electrical vehicle ownership by the end of 2017. Presently, buyers of all-electric vehicles enjoy a $7,500 tax credit. An incentive that helps the U.S. clean up its air and reduce the kinds of greenhouse gas emissions that fuel sea level rise, more powerful storms, and worsening droughts, deluges, and wildfires.



(In the U.S., more than 200,000 people die every year as a result of outdoor air pollution to which vehicle transportation is now the primary contributor resulting in 53,000 such deaths per year. That’s more deaths than from vehicle accidents. Moreover, air pollution impacts like asthma, stroke, heart attacks, and reduced lung function are far more widespread. Image source: EPA.)

Though such a policy might not be much of a surprise coming from the party of a Rick Perry, who today falsely claimed that fossil fuel burning prevented sexual assault against women, climate change denier Inhoffe, and tilting at windmills Donald Trump, it would have wide-ranging negative impacts for every American. Impacts like bad air quality which is a health risk for everyone, worsening climate change which is now causing many Americans to lose their homes or be forcibly displaced, and loss of economic advantage coming from new jobs and new industry.

Presently, U.S. automakers hold a global edge in high quality electrical vehicle adoption due to this and other related policy supports. Top EV automakers like Tesla, GM and Ford who produce renowned vehicles like the Model S, Model 3, and the Chevy Bolt. But, apparently, it looks like Republicans are now using tax policy as a means to legislate an attack on this innovation, which result in reduced fossil fuel demand, more energy independence for the U.S., and far less in the way of harmful particulate and greenhouse gas emissions.



(Tesla stock reacts negatively to news that Republicans are adding a provision to remove electrical vehicle incentives to their tax bill. Image source: Google Finance.)

Tesla bears, who have been rabidly consuming and perpetuating bad news (a good portion of it exaggerated or invented) about the leading U.S. electrical vehicle manufacturer, went nuts over the Republican announcement today. Tesla share prices dropped from around $320 to $296 following the move. More than a bit of this investor flight appears to be irrational. Ironically, Tesla is less exposed to risk from removal of this tax cut than automakers like GM due to the fact that it is already approaching the 200,000 EV limit under the tax credit. After this point, tax incentives for EVs from individual automakers drop off. And Tesla has already sold 250,000 vehicles globally with more than 150,000 of those sales coming from the U.S.

Republicans have once again proven that they are the anti-renewable energy, pro harmful impacts from climate change party. They have also once again proven that their capacity to use tax policy to greatly increase a variety of bad effects — ranging from worsening inequality in the U.S., to undercutting innovation and American technological leadership, to fighting directly against the very solutions and mitigations for a rapidly worsening climate situation.

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KESHENA, Wis. (WBAY) - The Menominee Tribal Chairman's office says a tribal police officer accused of crimes involving a 15-year-old girl has been fired.

The U.S. Attorney's Office filed formal charges Friday against Basil O'Kimosh Jr. including transferring obscene material to a minor under 16, engaging in sexually explicit conduct with a minor under 18, and attempted enticement of a child.

Tribal Chairman Gary Besaw's office says the girl's mother reported the sexually explicit messages to her daughter to the Tribal Police Department on Sunday, Oct. 29. Tribal police contacted the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office.




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Black Family of wrongly convicted Brooklyn man suing ex-detective Louis Scarcella who coerced him into murder confession
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Denver police have forgotten about people in their custody overnight three times this year
Woman in custody for unpaid traffic ticket handcuffed to bench for 13 hours

Policy requires desk officers to check on people detained in holding cells every 30 minutes and to notify a supervisor if someone has been held there for more than an hour. The holding cells are supposed to be temporary stops for arrestees before they can be transported to the city jail.

Yet one woman, in custody for an unpaid traffic ticket, sat in a sparse police department holding cell for nearly 13 hours. Handcuffed to a bench, Victoria Ugalde could not reach the toilet for much of the time and had no option but to urinate on the floor.

“They forgot about me,” Ugalde said. “I was looking in the camera, I was [saying] ‘Can anybody help me?'”


The desk officer who was supposed to check on Ugalde admitted he failed to notice she was there because he was wrapped up in reading a book, titled “Emotional Intelligence 2.0.”

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The Asia Foundation’s public distancing of its relation with the CIA didn’t end Agency’s ties
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While some outlets did briefly describe the Asia Foundation as being an alleged Central Intelligence Agency conduit, the charges were typically vague and largely circumstantial. None of the archived reports specifically tied it to Agency funds until March 21, 1967 when TAF announced it in a limited hangout”, a technique used when the Agency “can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case.”
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Four New Jersey cops indicted for beating innocent man after fiery car crash
BY CAITLYN HITT
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, November 3, 2017, 12:11 PM






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Denver jail releases suspect in 1978 murder because of communication snafu — after he confesses
Prosecutors wanted to delay filing charges, but a judge said “no”








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One week later, after the police department found out the beating was caught on video by a Palm Beach County sheriff’s helicopter, Brown, Ryan and Harris adjusted the reports to reflect the use of force against the occupants of a Mitsubishi in the car chase, Thomas said.

The defendants have pleaded not guilty to violating Jeffrey Braswell’s civil rights by hitting and kicking him and using a Taser stun gun on him without justification, charges that could send them to prison if they are convicted.

The officers became aware of the footage on Aug. 27, Thomas said. Many of the revisions were submitted on Aug. 28, just before the reports were approved.


The officers included more details to try to explain why they felt they had to use force, Thomas said. In his subsequent report, Ryan wrote he “had a genuine fear” that Braswell was reaching for a gun, a detail that was not included in his original report.

He then added that he delivered three or four knee strikes to Braswell’s right thigh.

The defense has portrayed the officers’ decision to change their reports as innocent revisions that were made after they’d had about a week to calm down and reflect, and said the changes improved the reports’ accuracy.

Once the adjustments were made, Sgt. Philip Antico, who was the supervising officer at the time, approved the reports. Antico faces similar charges of falsifying reports to justify the beating, but will have a separate trial.







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Brooklyn cops accused of raping prisoner will face rare departmental trial before criminal proceedings: 'They know they're f---ed'
BY GRAHAM RAYMAN ROCCO PARASCANDOLA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, November 3, 2017, 4:20 AM




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White House approves a report saying humans are causing global warming
The National Climate Assessment is seemingly at odds with the administration’s stance on climate change



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November 4 2017 2:30 AM

A father and daughter serving 20-year prison sentences for the second-degree murder of an Irish businessman are set to have a legal challenge to their jury conviction dealt with before their full appeal is heard by a top US court.
Molly Martens-Corbett (33) and her father, retired FBI agent Thomas Martens (67), were convicted on August 9 in North Carolina of the murder of Jason Corbett (39) in 2015.
They were unanimously convicted by a Davidson County Superior Court jury of nine women and three men following a four-week trial that dominated headlines in both the US and Ireland.




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Soviet diplomat said Lee Harvey Oswald too ‘nervous’ to assassinate JFK, new CIA files show
BY RICH SCHAPIRO
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Friday, November 3, 2017, 6:10 PM





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JFK investigators focused on Oswald trip to Mexico


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November 2, 2017
The stolen history of the CIA and the Asian Foundation
Financial records and declassified files reveal decades of distortions regarding the Agency’s ties to the non-profit
Written by Emma Best
Edited by JPat Brown
The Asia Foundation is, on the surface, a private non-profit that contributes to the development of Asia, including donating millions of books. In reality, since it was created by Central Intelligence Agency in 1951, TAF has engaged in a decades long campaign to misrepresent its origins, purpose, and funding.



Originally conceived by CIA as a propaganda machine and a front for covert activities including psychological warfare, TAF has controlled its narrative by becoming the primary source of information on its organization. The narrative presented by TAF effectively erases the first years of its history and misleads the public about its sources of funding over the years. TAF’s deceptions aren’t limited to the public, either. Declassified documents reveal that TAF provided information to the State Department that was incorrect and misleading; this information was subsequently given to Congress. These misrepresentations were then cited in the findings of Congress’ “Asia Foundation Act”, which provides funding for the Foundation, and have become commonly referenced.

This article, like its predecessor on Robert Blum, is based on a review of more than 1,000 pages of declassified CIA documents from CIA’s administrative file on DTPILLAR, which was the Agency’s cryptonym for what was publicly known as the Committee for a Free Asia and later The Asia Foundation. While most of the operational specifics remain redacted, the administrative file contains enough information to debunk a number of misconceptions and outright lies regarding TAF and its past activities.

The root of TAF’s misrepresentations is that it was founded in 1954. According to their website and press releases released by the foundation, “In 1954, a group of forward-thinking citizens who shared a strong interest in Asia, distinguished personal achievements, and dedicated public service established The Asia Foundation.” This not only gets the year wrong, 1951, it presents the sort of narrative in which a gun fires itself with no mention of who assembled the gun, loaded it with ammunition, aimed it, and pulled the trigger.

Constantly repeated by TAF, this version of events has become almost universally accepted as fact and is now repeated by federal agencies, no doubt relying on TAF’s information and the Congressional finding which also relied on TAF’s information. Aside from TAF’s statements, there are few primary sources that can be said to support the notion that TAF was either founded or incorporated in 1954 and that the Committee for a Free Asia was a distinct that TAF was a successor to. They appear to be simple, imprecisely worded mistakes, likely confused by the fact that the organization’s name changed from CFA to TAF in 1954.

The evidence that the CFA and TAF are the exact same entity and not successor organizations, however, is both abundant and beyond doubt. CIA’s contemporary documents on the group document the name change and its purpose, leaving no question that it was simply a name change. According to the formerly SECRET document, the CFA name had become a problem for the CFA’s image. It had “a political connotation” and it irritated Asians who objected to the notion that they needed to be freed. “Therefore, the name is being changed to “The Asia Foundation” and appropriate organizational changes are being made in that connection.” The clear intention is that it was simply a change to the organization, not a replacement.



Additional evidence that CFA merely changed its name to TAF come from the organization’s own financial filings. The very first document in CIA’s declassified file on CFA and TAF describes the Articles of Incorporation for the CFA. At the bottom of the first page of the file, it lists the CFA as having been incorporated on March 12, 1951.



According to records with the California Secretary of State, that is the date that TAF registered itself with the state. While the records show that the organization’s records were amended in April 1957, there is no registration or amendment listed for 1954.



Additional records from the IRS also confirm that TAF’s existence predated 1954 and that it’s the same organization as the CFA. According to a letter sent from the IRS to TAF in 2004, the nonprofit and federal tax-exempt status of TAF was determined in March of 1952. This date was not only accepted by TAF, it has been included on multiple filings with the IRS as its “year of formation,” including 2014 - the year they publicly declared they had been in existence for exactly sixty years.



While TAF’s financial filings show that it acknowledged that the IRS had recognized their tax-exempt status since 1952, other documents show that TAF was not always so honest and transparent with the government. The Asia Foundation’s Trustees’ Discussion Paper on the Foundation’s Future Status and Funding was prepared for the State Department in 1981 as an aid for the State Department in making recommendations on the future of TAF, as requested by Congress. This paper was accepted by the State Department and presented to Congress in the widely cited Congressional Research Service report of 1983. Following several smaller incorrect or misleading statements, the paper stated that TAF’s predecessor was the CFA, but repeated the misleading statement that “In 1954 the Committee was transformed into The Asia Foundation, which was incorporated in the State of California as non-profit tax exempt organization.“ This language, crafted with careful consideration, gives the impression that TAF was incorporated in 1954 as a separate successor organization, though as shown above, this was simply not the case.




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Hollywood’s Outrage Over Sexual Abuse Is Worthy Of An Academy Award

LLOYD MARCUS
Chairman, Conservative Campaign Committee
6:21 PM 11/03/2017


My wife was disappointed to learn that the star of her “House of Cards” TV show is accused of molesting a 14 year old boy.








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Roy Cohn, Aide to McCarthy and Fiery Lawyer, Dead at 59 of AIDS The New York Times
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Alcoholic conservative republican Sentar Joe McCarthy's right hand man Roy Cohn
identified as mentor of President Donald Trump.

Roy Cohn has been identified by police as a known pedophile who was known to
engage in sex with young boys along with his friend J Edgar Hoover Director of the FBI.

Let god sort out the truth



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Roy Cohn - The CIA Pedophile Ring Leader - An Evil Mechanism of Political Control - YouTube
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Get Me Roger Stone segment on Roy Cohn



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What Donald Trump learned from Roy Cohn


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The Ghost of Roy Cohn


AUG, 2014






May 7th, 2007

Her name is Deborah Jeane Palfrey and she has Washington circles worried. Why are powerful and important people breaking into a sweat when they hear Palfrey’s name? Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s former company, Pamela Martin and Associates, was a prostitution service that was patronized by people high up on the American political totem pole (Montes, no pagination). Furthermore, Palfrey is in a position to ruin a lot of political careers. Her lawyer, Montgomery Blair Sibley, claims he has:

been contacted by five lawyers recently, asking whether their clients’ names are on Palfrey’s list of 10,000 to 15,000 phone numbers. Some, Sibley said, have inquired about whether accommodations could be made to keep their identities private. (No pagination)

The Palfrey scandal has already cost one person his job. Randall L. Tobias resigned from his position as deputy secretary of state after admitting to ABC’s Brian Ross that he was a client of Pamela Martin and Associates (no pagination). Deborah Jeane Palfrey is definitely in a position to blackmail the powerful and influential. This begs a question: Is Palfrey’s outfit part of an operation connected to the intelligence community that keeps politicians in line with the Establishment agenda through a system of sexual rewards and punishments?

In an interview with former NYPD detective James Rothstein, this author discovered that such operations do exist and go far back into America’s secret history. Rothstein is no conspiracy theorist. He is a legend in American law enforcement and speaks from experience. Furthermore, he gave me two notable examples from his time as a detective. Rothstein had an opportunity to have a sit-down with infamous McCarthy committee counsel Roy Cohn. During this sit-down, Cohn admitted to Rothstein that he was part of a rather elaborate sexual blackmail operation that compromised politicians with child prostitutes (Rothstein, no pagination). Cohn told Rothstein that this operation was being carried out as part of the anticommunist crusade of the time (no pagination).


Rothstein also had an opportunity to speak to infamous Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis. During this conversation, Sturgis revealed one of the reasons for breaking into the Watergate. According to Sturgis, there was a “Pedophile Book” hidden away at the Democratic National Committee headquarters (no pagination). The book was supposed to have a list of pedophiles on the American political scene (no pagination). One can only imagine the power G. Gordon Liddy would have held over the government if he had such a book in his possession.

I asked Rothstein if Roy Cohn was a real anticommunist or just using the fear of communism to justify his sex ring. It seemed like a fair question. After all, Cohn had argued against homosexuals being schoolteachers when he himself was a homosexual. Perhaps Cohn’s hypocrisy extended to his anticommunism. Rothstein made it clear that Cohn was a genuine anticommunist (no pagination). Anticommunist sentiments aside, evidence suggests that the sex ring operation started by Cohn was used for more than fighting the threat of domestic communists. Fugitive ex-CIA officer Frank Terpil has claimed that sexual blackmailing operations directed by the CIA were intensive in Washington during the Watergate era (DeCamp 179). Terpil also asserts that his former partner, Ed Wilson, was coordinating one of these sexual blackmail operations (179). In a letter to author Jim Hougan, Terpil revealed Wilson’s modus operandi:

“Historically, one of Wilson’s Agency jobs was to subvert members of both houses [of Congress] by any means necessary…. Certain people could be easily coerced by living out their sexual fantasies in the flesh…. A remembrance of these occasions [was] permanently recorded via selected cameras…. The technicians in charge of filming… were TSD [Technical Services Division of the CIA]. The unwitting porno stars advanced in their political careers, some of [whom] may still be in office.” (Qtd. in DeCamp 179)

According to John DeCamp, a former Nebraska Senator and Vietnam War hero, Wilson’s operation was merely a continuation of the one set up by Cohn (179). When I asked James Rothstein if Palfrey’s outfit was a continuation of the sexual blackmail rings that began with Cohn, he answered in the affirmative (Rothstein, pagination). The NYPD veteran made it clear that Palfrey’s outfit could not exist in Washington unless it was a tool for the power elite and sinister factions of the intelligence community (no pagination). Somewhere in a Queens cemetery, the corpse of a high-powered attorney is smiling in his grave.

Sources Cited

DeCamp, John. The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska. 1992. Lincoln, Nebraska: AWT Inc., 1996.
Montes, Sue Anne Presley. “I Abhor Injustice,” Alleged Madam Says.” Washington Post 29 April 2007
Rothstein, James. Telephone interview. 1 May 2007.





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FBI chief exposed as a secret transvestite: Peter Pringle reports from New York on new allegations that J Edgar Hoover attended orgies, wearing a fluffy black dress to one, and was blackmailed into protecting the Mafia

Saturday 6 February 1993





WAS J Edgar Hoover, the FBI's boss for almost half a century and one of America's most feared and powerful men, also a transvestite who liked dressing up in suspender belts and fluffy gowns? If so, was he blackmailed by the Mafia into protecting the mobsters he was supposed to be hunting down?
Several accounts of Hoover, who was FBI chief from 1924 until his death in 1972, have hinted at his homosexuality but a new biography provides an eyewitness account of him dressed in black and red gowns, false eyelashes and a wig, taking part in orgies in New York's Plaza Hotel. In attendance, according to the account, were blond teenage boys who read the Bible and had sex with Hoover.

According to Anthony Summers, author of the new biography, Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover, the FBI boss was an active member of a homosexual group that included the lawyer Roy Cohn and the liquor baron Lewis Rosentiel.

Eyewitness of the Plaza orgies is Lewis Rosentiel's then wife, Susan, who claims she saw Hoover 'wearing a fluffy black dress, very fluffy, with flounces, and lace stockings and high heels and a black curly wig'. Cohn introduced him as Mary, she says.

In an excerpt of the biography in next week's Vanity Fair magazine she adds: 'It was obvious it wasn't a woman; you could see where he shaved. It was Hoover. You've never seen anything like it. I couldn't believe it, that I should see the head of the FBI dressed as a woman.' She says Hoover, Cohn and her husband had sex with the boys, one of whom read from the Bible.

Another time at the Plaza, Ms Rosentiel says she saw Hoover in a red dress with a black feather boa around his neck. 'He was dressed like a flapper.'

The wonder is that Hoover, whose stock-in-trade was blackmail, including tracking President John F Kennedy's sexual dalliances - should have risked being blackmailed himself by taking part in orgies at one of New York's most





J.Edgar Hoover,his oil-friends & his 'non-existant' mafia




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Pedophiles Roy Cohn and FBI Director J Edgar Hoover have sex with young boys


Part 1 and 2

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Spanking a child can lead to dating violence when they’re older, says study
BY CONSTANCE GIBBS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, December 5, 2017, 5:47 PM







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White police officer suspended for calling out peers for their 'white male privilege' during training session




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Republican Jeff Flake writes $100 check to Roy Moore's Democratic rival Doug Jones
BY ELIZABETH ELIZALDE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, December 5, 2017, 8:14 PM

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'Concussion' doctor Bennet Omalu resigns from coroner post, claims sheriff tried 'to control me as a physician'
BY DAVID BOROFF
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, December 5, 2017, 3:20 PM





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Investigator: Ex-AG’s office withheld DNA evidence in suit



ST. LOUIS — An investigation requested by relatives of a black man killed in a police shooting found that the former Missouri attorney general’s office withheld DNA evidence that could have been useful in a wrongful-death lawsuit, and the family’s lawyer said Tuesday he might sue again if the city won’t renegotiate the settlement terms in the wake of the evidence issue.

St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley’s DNA was found on a gun at the scene of the shooting of 24-year-old drug suspect Anthony Lamar Smith in 2011, but Smith’s DNA was not. Stockley, who is white, had said Smith was moving his hand toward a gun found in his car, but have insisted that Stockley planted the weapon

At the urging of Smith’s family, current Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley launched an investigation in which he hired private attorney, Hal Goldsmith, in September to look into allegations concerning the evidence. Goldsmith’s investigation report, which Hawley released Tuesday, said a St. Louis police lab technician concluded in two 2012 reports that Stockley’s DNA was recovered from the revolver at the scene, but not Smith’s. Goldsmith found that neither report was provided to attorneys for Smith’s family, which filed their federal wrongful-death lawsuit in 2012.

The DNA evidence was cited in Stockley’s criminal trial, but a judge in September still acquitted Stockley of first-degree murder.

Smith’s family was awarded $900,000 in 2013 in a settlement of their civil case. Most of the money went to Smith’s daughter, who







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Republicans say man who attacked woman with hammer can keep post as secretary


Republican Party leaders in Florida are moving on after discovering one of their officials changed his name and allegedly attempted to hide an act of horrific violence.

The state party leaders ruled that Rupert Tarsey can remain secretary of the Broward County Republican Executive Committee despite his criminal past and attempt from the committee's chairman to suspend him.

Following a May election that saw the little-known newcomer get elected to the committee, defeating two opponents with deeper ties to the GOP, members found out that despite being just 28 years old, he'd already lived another life as a wealthy high schooler named Rupert Ditsworth, who savagely attacked a young girl with a hammer after trapping her in his car, but never spent a drop of time behind bars.

"When you have a lot of money, you can kind of get away with stuff," Celeste Ellich, vice chair of the Broward County Republican Party, told the Los Angeles Times.

In high school in 2007, Tarsey asked schoolmate Elizabeth Barcay out to lunch.

On their way back to school, he took a detour and they wound up on a dead-end street, where he parked his Jaguar with his victim's door up against a wall, took a hammer out of his book bag and began bringing the blunt object down upon her body.

GOP groups stray from Moore despite Trump, RNC support

After dozens of strikes to Barcay's head and leg, she would be left with 40 visible wounds in total, including a split-open scalp and two black eyes.

"Her hair and face were caked with blood," Barcay's mother, a physician, told the Sun Sentinel. "On the left side, her head was shaped like a football."

The blows from the hammer only stopped because the tool broke. At that point, Tarsey took Barcay by the neck and tried to strangle her.

Finally, she was able to bite one of his fingers, causing him to end his carnage.

Five days later, Barcay would go to her prom in a wheelchair.

In the years after, Tarsey changed his identity, relocated to Florida and got involved in politics, particularly with Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

Thanks to a plea agreement, he was able to plead no contest to one felony count of assault with a deadly weapon and was given six years’ probation.

When the board first became aware of what Tarsey had done in September, some members called for his resignation

He declined.

"I don't think that Tarsey should be an officer, or even a member, of any Republican Party given his past history and current penchant for intentionally misleading people. He should have resigned for the good of the Party and unfortunately, he did not," said Florida Republican Chairman Blaise Ingoglia.

"I also believe anybody with a criminal record embarrasses the Party and should resign."

When reached by the LA Times, Tarsey declined to comment, other than to say, "I don't really see how it's a controversy — this is not a state-level position






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American Jews and Israel, drifting apart

When I was a kid, I went door-to-door in my neighborhood, asking for donations to the Jewish National Fund, best known then for its Israel forestation program. At the age of 11 or so, I imagined myself a regular Johnny Appleseed, responsible for vast forests.

My neighbors were easy pickings. No one asked about the occupation of the West Bank, the civil liberties of Palestinians, the awesome political power of intolerant ultra-Orthodox Jews or the appalling mendacity of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It was a different time. If I went to my neighbors today, my imaginary grove might be barren.

Of all the divisions regarding Israel , maybe the most consequential in the long run is the widening gap between American Jews and the policies of the Netanyahu government. This does not mean that American Jews — largely Democratic and liberal — no longer support Israel. They do. But that support is conflicted, fraught with worry and dismay, and, increasingly among the younger generation, sometimes barely existent.

The Israeli government proceeds as if none of this matters. Its preoccupation, naturally enough, is with its domestic constituency — the voters of the upper Galilee and not the donors of the Upper West Side. Not only don’t American Jews vote in Israel, but as Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely dismissively put it, they don’t serve in the army, either.

Just as important, the vast majority of American Jews are not Orthodox, and they resent the hold that the very religious have over Israeli political life. As we see with Sunni and Shiite Muslims, interreligious fights are the most ugly.

For moderate or liberal Jews — in other words, for the 76% who did not vote for Donald Trump — Israel has become like a relative who always has to be explained. While religious restrictions matter a great deal, the overriding issue is the future of the West Bank — whether, along with the Gaza Strip, it will comprise a future Palestinian state or whether Israel will simply swallow it.

This is usually called a one-state or a two-state solution. Another way of putting it is whether Israel will remain a Jewish democracy or need to repress a Palestinian majority far into the future.


The one-state solution is where the government seems headed. At the close of his last election campaign in 2015, a panicked Netanyahu vowed that he would not permit the creation of a Palestinian state. Netanyahu had clearly caved to the so-called settler movement, which wants more and more West Bank settlements, eventually foreclosing any chance of creating a Palestinian state.

The drift toward one state is a reason former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak recently called the Netanyahu government “irrational, bordering on messianic.”

Barak wrote that in a New York Times Op-Ed piece. He was even stronger a bit later in remarks to the Israel Policy Forum, which largely shares his views. Several times he referred to Israel’s loss of “the moral high ground” and the effect that this is having on Jews everywhere. “We are losing the next generation,” he said.

Barak is a unique figure. He is a former defense minister, a one-time chief of the general staff and, not incidentally, the most decorated soldier in Israel’s history. He is a former commando.

But he is also somewhat typical. He is one of many retired generals or intelligence chiefs who favor a two-state solution. These are men who would not trifle with Israel’s security, and so when Netanyahu argues, as he has, that a Palestinian state would become a terrorist enclave, Barak and others insist otherwise. In the meantime, Israel is increasingly criticized.

On American campuses, it is routinely accused of being a racist and colonial power. Not so. But American Jews on those very campuses find it harder and harder to mount a defense. The continuing occupation of the West Bank and the Trumpian persona of Netanyahu leave them mute.

Back when I was going door-to-door for the Jewish National Fund, Chaim Weizmann was Israel’s president. He was a monumental figure whose autobiography, “Trial and Error,” is both readable and prescient. On page 462, he wrote, “I am certain that the world will judge the Jewish state by what it will do with the Arabs.”






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Roy Moore's spokeswoman loves unborn children, hates Obama and has embraced 'Dominionism'

She's focused on unborn children— but not women who say they were preyed on as children.

Janet Porter, a spokeswoman for Alabama Senate Candidate Roy Moore, on Tuesday dismissed the numerous allegations of sexual assault and child molestation against the scandal-plagued Republican.

"Congratulations on your unborn child," Janet Porter said to host Poppy Marlow, who is pregnant, to kick off the CNN interview. "That's the reason why I came down here as a volunteer to speak for Judge Roy Moore, because he stands for the rights of babies like yours in the womb, where his opponent will support killing them until the moment of birth."

Porter, who continued throughout the interview to question the credibility of the eight women who have come forward with accusations against the 70-year-old politician, is an anti-abortion activist who has built a platform rooted in religion, anti-LGBT stances and conservative "pro-family" views. Here's a look at her political perspectives and background:

GOP groups stray from Moore despite Trump, RNC support

Anti-abortion legislation

Porter successfully lobbied for the passage of the country's first partial-birth abortion ban during her tenure as legislative director of the Ohio Right to Life between 1988 and 1997. The Moore spokeswoman is also behind the "Heartbeat Bill" aimed at banning abortions at as early as six weeks of pregnancy.
It's been reintroduced four times, most recently in the Judiciary Subcommittee by Rep. Steve King in January 2017. During its presentation, Porter enlisted Dr. Kathi Altman to perform an ultrasound on a pregnant woman, she wrote in an open letter to King (R-Iowa).


"My favorite moment of the hearing was when the room fell silent and all eyes were turned to the screen and baby Lincoln's beating heart was seen and heard by all," she wrote in the open letter.



The bill—which would make it illegal for a physician to perform an abortion if they should find a detectable heartbeat—in 2016 made it all the way to the desk of Gov. John Kasich, who vetoed the legislation. Porter responded to the veto by running an unsuccessful campaign in the Republican primary for a Senate seat.

At the end of November, the Heartbeat Bill received its second hearing in the House Committee and will need to go through at least one more hearing before being sent to the House floor for a vote.







Porter's status as a "pro-life girl" paved the way for her anti-LGBT stance, she explained in her 2005 book, "Criminalization of Christianity."

Roy Moore campaign leader blasts sex misconduct accusers as liars

Porter, who was not immediately available for comment, in 1997 attended a speech given by director of the Culture and Family Institute Bob Knight at a Concerned Women for America event." She recalled him saying: "The ultimate goal of the homosexual movement is the criminalization of Christianity."

While she initially found the statement hyperbolic, she eventually concluded: "The greatest threat to our freedoms comes from the homosexual agenda."

In her book, Porter also repeatedly cited pedophilia for her stance against homosexuality, which she believes is a choice rather than something innate. She additionally railed against the Democratic push at the time to include members of the LGBT community in their state delegations for the Democratic National Convention with "numerical goals."

"I'm sure-cross dressers are feeling discriminated against," she wrote. "Don't worry. They'll probably have their own quotas by 2008. Who knows? By then pedophiles may have their own

Faith2Action



Porter founded the organization Faith2Action— which strives to provide "pro-active, strategic, and unified ways to ADVANCE the cause of Christ and the kingdom of God"—to champion her anti-abortion legislation. It has also been designated "an active anti-LGBT hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Council."

In the late 90s, Porter helmed efforts to push back against what conservative Christian groups referred to as the "homosexual lobby."

She proposed running full-page newspaper ads that were run in seven major newspapers with a combine circulation of eight million. They featured "former homosexuals" who "overcame" their orientation through the help of Christian "ex-gay ministries."

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The move—which nabbed Porter appearances on "Nightline" and "ABC Evening News"—angered activists at the time, who labeled the ads as untrue. Porter, in turn, pushed back and accused LGBT groups of being dishonest themselves.

"They're not advocating tolerance," she told the New York Times in 1998. "If that were the case, they'd live and let live."

Dominionism



Porter previously hosted a commentary-based radio show—also called Faith2Action— that was canceled in 2010 by its parent company VCY America. The move was sparked by Porter's May 2010 prayer rally, which reportedly had undertones of "dominion theology

Right Wing Watch defined the movement as one "that teaches Christians are to control all levers of power within society and use those positions to implement public policy that corresponds to the bible."

In "The Criminalization of Christianity," Porter repeatedly refers to the link between religion and policy.

"Paul appeared to Caesar because of his Roman citizenship, and we can do the same," she wrote. "We are Americans, endowed by our creator with inalienable rights. We have freedom of religion, not freedom from it."

She’s previously labeled the Obama administration to be “down right evil” and used her platforms to criticize its public policy as well as lift up conspiracy theories

Creationism


YouTuber ExtantDodo, who regularly posts videos discrediting creationists, in 2008 took aim at Porter, who offered her anti-evolution perspective in a video produced by the Institute of Creation Research — the creationist organization formerly headed by the late Duane Gish.

Porter appears introducing the problems with evolutionist theory, warning people to "Stop taking the media and evolutionists' word for it." In the clip, she claims the concept of evolution is one of "a scientific minority."

"When you stop to think about it, it's kind of sad really. Because we've grown so accustomed to just taking the word of just any intelligent man in a lab coat with a 'doctor' in front of his name, that we've forgotten how to think for ourselves.






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There May Be a ‘Fifth Column’ Running “The Bureau”

Sunday. former assistant director of the FBI James Kallstrom he believes there’s a “Fifth Column conspiracy” in the bureau determined to destroy President Donald Trump, and may have committed a “serious felony” in doing so.

In an interview aired Sunday Mr. Kallstrom said those trying to undercut the bureau from within are a small group.

“Ninety-nine percent of the people in the FBI are doing a fantastic job,” he said. “It’s a small cabal of people running the FBI, the James Comey sycophants.”

Mr. Kallstrom called the development “a nasty thing to be watching… people in the FBI getting very political, not basing their [work] on the rule of law or protecting the American public.”

“I’m coming more and more to the conclusion that this is a conspiratorial cabal among the Fifth Column to basically take away the Presidency of the United States,” he said.

“This whole thing with Russia is just a farce,” he said, adding: “If we find out that that phony Russian dossier was brought to the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in the form of an affidavit for a judge’s authority, and if we find out that the people signing that affidavit in the bureau knew that that was phony information, that is a serious serious felony.”

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Former Assistant FBI Director Kallstrom accused of coverup
in downing of TWA Flight 800 by a US missle


TWA 800: Jim Kallstrom’s Road to Redemption
By Jack Cashill
When I see former FBI New York honcho Jim Kallstrom appear on Fox News, I see a tortured soul. As boldly honest as he has been on the subject of Islamic terrorism, this once honorable man has lived a lie for the last twenty years on the subject of TWA Flight 800. Others have lived the lie as well, but none so personally.

It was Kallstrom who spoke to the press, Kallstrom who testified at congressional hearings, Kallstrom who consoled the families of the 230 dead with the assurance he would leave “no stone unturned” in his pursuit of the truth.


When Kallstrom arrived on the scene in Long Island the day after the crash in July 1996, the truth was indeed what he was seeking. By July 30, 1996 -- less than two weeks after the 747 blew up -- FBI agents had interviewed 144 “excellent” witnesses to a missile strike. As revealed in a recently unearthed CIA memo, the evidence was “overwhelming” and the witness testimony “too consistent” for the cause of the plane’s destruction to be anything other than a missile.

1996 being an election year, however a missile strike on an American airliner involved far too much political risk for the Clinton White House. Working through the CIA, its operatives took effective control of the investigation. For reasons only he knows, Kallstrom knuckled under.

By mid-August his agents were now telling the New York Times “only a few” eyewitnesses were credible. They allowed the Times to interview just one of them, and that witness saw what appeared to be a bomb blast out of the corner of his eye. His testimony, the Times reported on August 17, “substantially weakened support for the idea that a missile downed the plane.” The White House could live with a bomb scenario. So apparently could Kallstrom.

On August 22, for the first time, Kallstrom was called to Washington to meet with deputy attorney general, Jamie Gorelick. From a political perspective, the meeting came a day or two too late. “Three senior officials” had already provided the Times enough information to generate an above the fold, front-page headline on Friday, August 23, reading, “Prime Evidence Found That Device Exploded in Cabin of TWA 800.”

The other above-the-fold headline on August 23, three days before the start of the Democratic National Convention, read as follows,

“Clinton Signs Bill Cutting Welfare.” At the Convention Clinton planned to sell the party’s peace and prosperity message. Front page headlines about explosive devices destroying an American airliner would remind America of what Clinton was not -- namely, a trustworthy wartime leader.

One can only speculate on the threats and/or promises Gorelick made, but Kallstrom returned to Long Island a changed man. Based on his subsequent performance, he seemed to have no more urgent task than to negate the Times reporting on the explosive residues found throughout the plane. Kallstrom’s new mission prompted a series of dishonest moments, none more stunning than his testimony under oath at a July 1997 congressional hearing.

To explain away the explosive traces, the FBI blamed a sloppy dog training exercise aboard the TWA 800 plane six weeks before the crash. “You know for sure the dog was on the plane?” Rep. James Traficant asked Kallstrom. “We have a report that documents the training,” dodged Kallstrom.

Kallstrom had reason to be evasive. As was easily proved, the trainer worked his dog on another 747, used explosives other than those found on TWA 800, and placed them in areas other than those where the residue had been found.

When pressed, Kallstrom dug in deeper. “The test packages that we looked at, that were in very bad condition, that were unfortunately dripping those chemicals, were placed exactly above the location of the airplane where we found chemicals on the floor,” he lied. No euphemism can paper over the depth of this deception.

This epic misdirection climaxed with the November 1997 press conference announcing the suspension of the FBI investigation. There, Kallstrom set forth a bill of particulars that misled the public on almost every detail, the most spectacular of which was a specious CIA animation created to discredit the eyewitnesses.

Maybe it is because my father was a cop, but when I watch Kallstrom I find myself feeling sorry for the man. He helped construct a case he knew to be fraudulent, and he had to sense just how fragile the construction was. If it collapsed, the CIA analysts could run and hide. The NTSB bureaucrats could plead ignorance. The Clintons could seek executive privilege, and he alone would have to answer to the victims’ mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. Nothing the courts might throw at him would wound that deeply.

I sense that Kallstrom has long wanted to atone. On September 11, 2001, while speaking with Dan Rather on CBS News about the events of the day, he blurted out in no particular context, “We need to stop the hypocrisy.” On Megyn Kelly’s Fox News show last week, he called out the Obama administration for its “hypocrisy” and dared mention the “wet blanket of political correctness” that has blunted the FBI’s ability to smoke out Islamic terrorists.

Kallstrom then turned his attention to the Clintons with a candor that shocked Kelly into silencing him. “You've got people associated with the administration in the Muslim brotherhood,” said Kallstrom. “You've got Huma Abedin’s family (sic) high ranking people in the Muslim Brotherhood. You've got monies from Saudi Arabia and the other from Qatar and others going into the Clinton Foundation. And you've got this connection going on, and there are also connections with Iran, which is the other big supporter.”

Kallstrom understands the dangers awaiting America if the Clintons return to the White House. If he wants to stop them in their tracks and restore his own reputation, there is one thing he can do: tell the truth about TWA Flight 800. In the process, he will restore the faith in American justice of the millions of citizens who have all but lost it.

Anyone with information about TWA Flight 800, Mr. Kallstrom included, please email me at jcashill@aol.com.

To learn more about Kallstrom’s plight please read Jack Cashill’s new book, TWA 800: The Crash, The Cover-Up, The Conspiracy (Regnery: July 5).

When I see former FBI New York honcho Jim Kallstrom appear on Fox News, I see a tortured soul. As boldly honest as he has been on the subject of Islamic terrorism, this once honorable man has lived a lie for the last twenty years on the subject of TWA Flight 800. Others have lived the lie as well, but none so personally.

It was Kallstrom who spoke to the press, Kallstrom who testified at congressional hearings, Kallstrom who consoled the families of the 230 dead with the assurance he would leave “no stone unturned” in his pursuit of the truth.

When Kallstrom arrived on the scene in Long Island the day after the crash in July 1996, the truth was indeed what he was seeking. By July 30, 1996 -- less than two weeks after the 747 blew up -- FBI agents had interviewed 144 “excellent” witnesses to a missile strike. As revealed in a recently unearthed CIA memo, the evidence was “overwhelming” and the witness testimony “too consistent” for the cause of the plane’s destruction to be anything other than a missile.

1996 being an election year, however a missile strike on an American airliner involved far too much political risk for the Clinton White House. Working through the CIA, its operatives took effective control of the investigation. For reasons only he knows, Kallstrom knuckled under.

By mid-August his agents were now telling the New York Times “only a few” eyewitnesses were credible. They allowed the Times to interview just one of them, and that witness saw what appeared to be a bomb blast out of the corner of his eye. His testimony, the Times reported on August 17, “substantially weakened support for the idea that a missile downed the plane.” The White House could live with a bomb scenario. So apparently could Kallstrom.On August 22, for the first time, Kallstrom was called to Washington to meet with deputy attorney general, Jamie Gorelick. From a political perspective, the meeting came a day or two too late. “Three senior officials” had already provided the Times enough information to generate an above the fold, front-page headline on Friday, August 23, reading, “Prime Evidence Found That Device Exploded in Cabin of TWA 800.”

The other above-the-fold headline on August 23, three days before the start of the Democratic National Convention, read as follows,

“Clinton Signs Bill Cutting Welfare.” At the Convention Clinton planned to sell the party’s peace and prosperity message. Front page headlines about explosive devices destroying an American airliner would remind America of what Clinton was not -- namely, a trustworthy wartime leader.

One can only speculate on the threats and/or promises Gorelick made, but Kallstrom returned to Long Island a changed man. Based on his subsequent performance, he seemed to have no more urgent task than to negate the Times reporting on the explosive residues found throughout the plane. Kallstrom’s new mission prompted a series of dishonest moments, none more stunning than his testimony under oath at a July 1997 congressional hearing.

To explain away the explosive traces, the FBI blamed a sloppy dog training exercise aboard the TWA 800 plane six weeks before the crash. “You know for sure the dog was on the plane?” Rep. James Traficant asked Kallstrom. “We have a report that documents the training,” dodged Kallstrom.

Kallstrom had reason to be evasive. As was easily proved, the trainer worked his dog on another 747, used explosives other than those found on TWA 800, and placed them in areas other than those where the residue had been found.

When pressed, Kallstrom dug in deeper. “The test packages that we looked at, that were in very bad condition, that were unfortunately dripping those chemicals, were placed exactly above the location of the airplane where we found chemicals on the floor,” he lied. No euphemism can paper over the depth of this deception.

This epic misdirection climaxed with the November 1997 press conference announcing the suspension of the FBI investigation. There, Kallstrom set forth a bill of particulars that misled the public on almost every detail, the most spectacular of which was a specious CIA animation created to discredit the eyewitnesses.

Maybe it is because my father was a cop, but when I watch Kallstrom I find myself feeling sorry for the man. He helped construct a case he knew to be fraudulent, and he had to sense just how fragile the construction was. If it collapsed, the CIA analysts could run and hide. The NTSB bureaucrats could plead ignorance. The Clintons could seek executive privilege, and he alone would have to answer to the victims’ mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. Nothing the courts might throw at him would wound that deeply.

I sense that Kallstrom has long wanted to atone. On September 11, 2001, while speaking with Dan Rather on CBS News about the events of the day, he blurted out in no particular context, “We need to stop the hypocrisy.” On Megyn Kelly’s Fox News show last week, he called out the Obama administration for its “hypocrisy” and dared mention the “wet blanket of political correctness” that has blunted the FBI’s ability to smoke out Islamic terrorists.

Kallstrom then turned his attention to the Clintons with a candor that shocked Kelly into silencing him. “You've got people associated with the administration in the Muslim brotherhood,” said Kallstrom. “You've got Huma Abedin’s family (sic) high ranking people in the Muslim Brotherhood. You've got monies from Saudi Arabia and the other from Qatar and others going into the Clinton Foundation. And you've got this connection going on, and there are also connections with Iran, which is the other big supporter.”

Kallstrom understands the dangers awaiting America if the Clintons return to the White House. If he wants to stop them in their tracks and restore his own reputation, there is one thing he can do: tell the truth about TWA Flight 800. In the process, he will restore the faith in American justice of the millions of citizens who have all but lost it.

Anyone with information about TWA Flight 800,

To learn more about Kallstrom’s plight please read Jack Cashill’s new book, TWA 800: The Crash, The Cover-Up, The Conspiracy









http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/10/politics/ ... index.html


FBI email: Sessions wasn't required to disclose foreign contacts for security clearance

By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent
Updated 6:35 PM ET, Sun December 10, 2017


https://www.wsj.com/articles/christophe ... 1512943323

OPINION REVIEW & OUTLOOK
Christopher Wray’s FBI Stonewall
The new director hides behind a phony excuse for refusing to answer Congress’s questions

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167573

The Other FBI Investigation the White House Couldn’t Muffle






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'Alabama deserves better': Shelby breaks with Republicans to denounce Moore
Alabama’s senior senator refuses to fall in line with Trump and RNC and says ‘I couldn’t vote for Moore’, handing Democrat Doug Jones a new line of attack




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The FBI Is No Friend of Liberty and Justice
The FBI's handling of the Michael Flynn case is disturbing.
| December 10, 2017

Paul Hennessy/Polaris/Newscom




of the unfortunate ironies of the manufactured "Russiagate" controversy is the perception of the FBI as a friend of liberty and justice. But the FBI has never been a friend of liberty and justice.

Rather, as James Bovard writes, it "has a long record of both deceit and incompetence. Five years ago, Americans learned that the FBI was teaching its agents that 'the FBI has the ability to bend or suspend the law to impinge on the freedom of others.' This has practically been the Bureau's motif since its creation in 1908…. The FBI has always used its 'good guy' image to keep a lid on its crimes." (Bovard has made a vocation of cataloging the FBI's many offenses against liberty and justice, for which we are forever in his debt.)

Things are certainly not different today. Take the case of Michael Flynn, the retired lieutenant general who spent less than a month as Donald Trump's national-security adviser. Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in connection with conversations he had with Russia's then-ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, between Trump's election and inauguration. One need not be an admirer of Flynn—and for many reasons I certainly am not—to be disturbed by how the FBI has handled this case.

One ought to be immediately suspicious whenever someone is charged with or pleads guilty to lying to the FBI without any underlying crime being charged. Former assistant U.S. attorney Andrew C. McCarthy points out:

When a prosecutor has a cooperator who was an accomplice in a major criminal scheme, the cooperator is made to plead guilty to the scheme. This is critical because it proves the existence of the scheme. In his guilty-plea allocution (the part of a plea proceeding in which the defendant admits what he did that makes him guilty), the accomplice explains the scheme and the actions taken by himself and his co-conspirators to carry it out. This goes a long way toward proving the case against all of the subjects of the investigation.

That is not happening in Flynn's situation. Instead, like [former Trump foreign-policy "adviser" George] Papadopoulos, he is being permitted to plead guilty to a mere process crime.

When the FBI questioned Flynn about his conversations with Kislyak, it already had the transcripts of those conversations—the government eavesdrops on the representatives of foreign governments, among others, and Flynn had been identified, or "unmasked," as the ambassador's conversation partner. The FBI could have simply told Flynn the transcripts contained evidence of a crime (assuming for the sake of argument they did) and charged him with violating the Logan Act or whatever else the FBI had in mind.

But that's not what happened. Instead, the FBI asked Flynn about his conversations with Kislyak, apparently to test him. If he lied (which would mean he's pretty stupid since he once ran the Defense Intelligence Agency and must have known about the transcripts!) or had a bad memory, he could have been charged with lying to the FBI.

As investigative reporter Robert Parry explains:

What is arguably most disturbing about this case is that then-National Security Adviser Flynn was pushed into a perjury trap by Obama administration holdovers at the Justice Department who concocted an unorthodox legal rationale for subjecting Flynn to an FBI interrogation four days after he took office, testing Flynn's recollection of the conversations while the FBI agents had transcripts of the calls intercepted by the National Security Agency.

In other words, the Justice Department wasn't seeking information about what Flynn said to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak–the intelligence agencies already had that information. Instead, Flynn was being quizzed on his precise recollection of the conversations and nailed for lying when his recollections deviated from the transcripts.

For Americans who worry about how the pervasive surveillance powers of the U.S. government could be put to use criminalizing otherwise constitutionally protected speech and political associations, Flynn's prosecution represents a troubling precedent.

Why didn't the FBI charge Flynn with an underlying crime? It might be because his conversations with Kislyak were not criminal. McCarthy writes:

A breaking report from ABC News indicates that Flynn is prepared to testify that Trump directed him to make contact with the Russians—initially to lay the groundwork for mutual efforts against ISIS in Syria. That, however, is exactly the sort of thing the incoming national-security adviser is supposed to do in a transition phase between administrations. If it were part of the basis for a "collusion" case arising out of Russia's election meddling, then Flynn would not be pleading guilty to a process crime—he'd be pleading guilty to an espionage conspiracy.

David Stockman shows that the FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller themselves indicate the Flynn-Kislyak conversations contained no evidence of criminal behavior.

Flynn spoke to Kislyak to ask that Russia not escalate tensions after President Obama imposed sanctions last December for the alleged election meddling and to ask that Russia not vote to condemn Israel, via a UN Security Council resolution, for its illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land. In other words, not only were Flynn's discussions with Kislyak unexceptional—presidential transition-team foreign-policy officials have spoken with representatives of other governments in the past—but the content of those discussions should have raised no suspicions. Would non-escalation of the sanctions controversy or a UN veto have undermined Obama's foreign policy? I don't see how. (True, the Obama administration abstained on the resolution, but would Obama have objected had Russia vetoed it? By the way, Russia voted for it, and the resolution passed, as it should have.)





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Revised plan underway for new FBI Headquarters site
The Star Democrat-
“Providing the FBI with a new headquarters to carry out its critical mission to protect the American people is a top priority for GSA,” said a statement from the General Services Administration. “We look forward to continuing to work with Congress to develop the best possible solution in as timely a manner as ...







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RGV CITIZEN OF YEAR NOMINEE | Daniel Vlaisavljevic
Nomination by Susie Vlaisavljevic

Daniel Vlaisavljevic, of Mission, is an FBI supervisory agent such a good person. Not only does he dedicate his life to protecting us from threats, both foreign and domestic. But he is patient and calm. He has raised his stepchildren with as much love as a biological parent would. He loves pets and has three beautiful puppies, all pet rescues.

Dan is an active member of his community. His charitable contributions are not limited to money and he helps out at a small church in Pharr. Through his financial contributions, the church is kept afloat, as his contributions account for over 50 percent of the church budget for the Church Food Bank.

He also actively volunteers every Saturday to help prepare the International Festival at his church, which is a big fundraising event. On Festival Day, Dan works from 6 a.m. until 7 p.m. He also contributes to a homeless shelter in McAllen, constantly sending in clothes and other donations. I am nominating Dan as 2017 RGV Citizen of the Year because he embodies the American citizenship values. He is honest, compassionate, respectful responsible and courageous.

Nomination submitted by Susie Vlaisavljevic, his wife.











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Edits to Wikipedia Pages on Bell, Garner, Diallo Traced to 1 Police Plaza
March 17, 2015


By Kelly Weill via Capital NY

Computers operating on the New York Police Department’s computer network at its 1 Police Plaza headquarters have been used to alter Wikipedia pages containing details of alleged police brutality, a review by Capital has revealed.

“The matter is under internal review,” an NYPD spokeswoman, Det. Cheryl Crispin, wrote in an email to Capital after examples of the changes were presented to the NYPD.

The edits and changes were linked to the NYPD through a series of Internet Protocol addresses, or IP addresses, which can be publicly tracked by various websites. (Here, for example, is one website that shows a number of IP addresses registered to the NYPD.) IP addresses can locate where a computer is when it connects to the Internet.

Computer users identified by Capital as working on the NYPD headquarters’ network have edited and attempted to delete Wikipedia entries for several well-known victims of police altercations, including entries for Eric Garner, Sean Bell, and Amadou Diallo. Capital identified 85 NYPD addresses that have edited Wikipedia, although it is unclear how many users were involved, as computers on the NYPD network can operate on the department’s range of IP addresses.

NYPD IP addresses have also been used to edit entries on stop-and-frisk, NYPD scandals, and prominent figures in the city’s political and police leadership.

There are more than 15,000 IP addresses registered to the NYPD, which employs 50,000 people, including uniformed officers and civilians. Notable Wikipedia activity was linked to about a dozen of those NYPD IP addresses.

On the evening of Dec. 3, hours after a Staten Island grand jury ruled not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, a user on the 1 Police Plaza network made multiple edits, visible here and here, to the “Death of Eric Garner” Wikipedia entry. The edits, all concerning the actions of Eric Garner and the police officers involved in the confrontation, are as follows:

● “Garner raised both his arms in the air” was changed to “Garner flailed his arms about as he spoke.”

● “[P]ush Garner’s face into the sidewalk” was changed to “push Garner’s head down into the sidewalk.”

● “Use of the chokehold has been prohibited” was changed to “Use of the chokehold is legal, but has been prohibited.”

● The sentence, “Garner, who was considerably larger than any of the officers, continued to struggle with them,” was added to the description of the incident.

● Instances of the word “chokehold” were replaced twice, once to “chokehold or headlock,” and once to “respiratory distress.”

As of March 12, three of these edits (“chokehold or headlock,” “respiratory distress,” and “head down”) remained in “Death of Eric Garner” article, while the rest had been removed in later Wikipedia users’ revisions.

This process of revision and counterrevision is typical of Wikipedia’s self-policing user community. The website allows anyone to edit entries, either logged in with a Wikipedia account, or anonymously, in which case the website logs the user’s IP address and creates a publicly available record of the user’s edits. Edits from 1 Police Plaza were made anonymously, therefore creating a permanent Wikipedia log of edits made on NYPD IP addresses. Using this information, Capital was able to write a computer program that would search Wikipedia for all anonymous edits made on the range of IP addresses registered to 1 Police Plaza.

Over the past decade, NYPD IP addresses have logged hundreds of anonymous Wikipedia edits, many of which had nothing to do with police issues. A long series of edits contributes to entries on the Catholic Church. There is an edit to the entry on British band Chumbawamba, seven edits to the entry on ages of consent in Europe, and an edit vandalizing the entry for “stye” with graphic comments on gay sex. However, a significant number of edits by NYPD IP addresses have been to entries that challenge NYPD conduct.

On Nov. 25, 2006, undercover NYPD officers fired 50 times at three unarmed men, killing Sean Bell, and sparking citywide protests against police brutality. On April 12, 2007, a user on 1 Police Plaza’s network attempted to delete the Wikipedia entry “Sean Bell shooting incident”.

“He [Bell] was in the news for about two months, and now no one except Al Sharpton cares anymore. The police shoot people every day, and times with a lot more than 50 bullets. This incident is more news than notable,” the user wrote on Wikipedia’s internal “Articles for deletion” page.

A user on the NYPD network made a second edit to the Sean Bell entry on Dec. 23, 2009, this time changing “one Latino and two African-American men were shot a total of fifty times” to “one Latino and two African-American men were shot at a total of fifty times” (emphasis Capital’s).

On Nov. 23, 2013, a user on the 1 Police Plaza network edited the Wikipedia entry for Amadou Diallo, an unarmed who was killed when police mistook his wallet for a gun in 1999.

The person using this IP address made two edits to a sentence about NYPD Officer Kenneth Boss, one of the officers involved in the shooting: “Officer Kenneth Boss had been previously involved in an incident where an unarmed man was shot, but remained working as a police officer” was changed to “Officer Kenneth Boss had been previously involved in an incident where an armed man was shot.”

“Unarmed” was changed to “armed,” and “but remained working as a police officer” was omitted entirely.

On Oct. 15, 2013, a user at 1 Police Plaza edited the entry for the “Alexien Lien beating,” an event in which bikers and an undercover NYPD officer chased and assaulted a driver on the West Side Highway. The user deleted paragraphs of potentially anti-NYPD vandalism from the entry. Among the deleted text were claims like “After this incident police were pressuring on bikers because Alexian Lien uncle is their boss. Looks like Alexian has influential friends in the govt and got away with the incident.”

On three separate occasions between October 2012 and March 2013, a user on the 1 Police Plaza network edited the “Stop-and-frisk” entry. The changes are as follows; bolded words indicate edits:

“The stop-and-frisk program of New York City is a practice of the New York City Police Department to stop, question, and search people.” was changed to “The stop-and-frisk program of New York City is a practice of the New York City Police Department to stop, question and, if the circumstances of the stop warrant it, conduct a frisk of the person stopped.”

● “The stop-and-frisk program of New York City is a practice of the New York City Police Department to stop, question and, if the circumstances of the stop warrant it, conduct a frisk of the person stopped.” was changed to “The stop-and-frisk program of New York City is a practice of the New York City Police Department by which a police officer who reasonably suspects a person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a felony or a Penal Law misdemeanor, stops and questions that person, and, if the circumstances of the stop warrant it, conducts a frisk of the person stopped.”

● “The rules for stop and frisk are found in New York State Criminal Procedure Law section 140.50, and are based on the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Terry v. Ohio” was added to the entry.

● “if the circumstances of the stop warrant it, conducts a frisk of the person stopped” was changed to “if the officer reasonably suspects he or she is in danger of physical injury, frisks the person stopped for weapons.”

● An extraneous “and” was removed from a sentence.

On two separate occasions, a user on the 1 Police Plaza network edited sections of Wikipedia’s “New York City Police Department” entry that described police misconduct. On June 30, 2006, the user deleted 1,502 characters from the “scandals and corruption” section, including a sentence that claimed “at the end of March, 2006, NYPD started to make changes to this very article in an attempt to censor scandals and corruption information.” The full deleted text can be read here.

On June 19, 2008, a user on the 1 Police Plaza network deleted the entire “Allegations of police misconduct and the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB)” and “Other incidents” sections from the entry, for a combined total of 25,611 deleted characters. The full deleted text can be read hereand here.

Wikipedia discourages users from making edits that might constitute a conflict of interest. “COI [conflict of interest] editing involves contributing to Wikipedia to promote your own interests, including your business or financial interests, or those of your external relationships, such as with family, friends or employers,” Wikipedia states in its behavioral guidelines. “COI editing is strongly discouraged.”

A list of all anonymous Wikipedia edits made by NYPD IP addresses is available here.





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It took FBI agents only seconds to hire DEF CON hackers
after seeing these results

It took DEF CON hackers minutes to pwn these US voting machines
We've got three years to shore up election security
By Iain Thomson in San Francisco 29 Jul 2017 at 03:33
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Let's get this done ... Conference attendees open up machines to examine
DEF CON After the debacle of the 2000 presidential election count, the US invested heavily in electronic voting systems – but not, it seems, the security to protect them.

This year at the DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas, 30 computer-powered ballot boxes used in American elections were set up in a simulated national White House race – and hackers got to work physically breaking the gear open to find out what was hidden inside.

In less than 90 minutes, the first cracks in the systems' defenses started appearing, revealing an embarrassing low level of security. Then one was hacked wirelessly.

“Without question, our voting systems are weak and susceptible. Thanks to the contributions of the hacker community today, we've uncovered even more about exactly how,” said Jake Braun, who sold DEF CON founder Jeff Moss on the idea earlier this year.

“The scary thing is we also know that our foreign adversaries – including Russia, North Korea, Iran – possess the capabilities to hack them too, in the process undermining principles of democracy and threatening our national security.”






http://www.thelandesreport.com/donsanto.htm
Why won't the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate electronic vote fraud? Is it because the DOJ and FBI have long been involved in it, themselves?

“If you did it right, no one would ever know,” said Craig C. Donsanto, head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Election Crimes Branch, Public Integrity Section (from 1970-2010) in a July 4,1989 Los Angeles Times article about electronic voting machines and vote fraud.

Craig Donsanto

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PROSECUTION OF ELECTION OFFENSES (see: DOJ/DonsantoElectionManuel.pdf) January 1999, Sixth Edition, by Craig C. Donsanto, Director, U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Public Integrity Section -- This manual is a study in how NOT to investigate election crimes. There is little mention of voting machines or the threat they pose to the process. Check out page 62 and see democracy.ru article (at bottom of this page) that tipped this editor off as to the existence of the manual, and is a good summary of the manuel --Excerpt: "Since the voting process is at bottom primarily a state-regulated activity, federal authorities should not interfere with it. This means that until the votes have been canvassed and the outcome of all the election contests on the ballot certified by the competent state authority, the documentation generated by the election process must remain in state hands. Also, while this may not be possible in all situations, it is preferable that the predication of federal voter fraud investigations above «preliminaries» await the conclusion of the election and the certification of results. Again, close consultation with Public Integrity is encouraged." (In other words, after the fox has left the henhouse, Donsanto allows his agents to investigate.)
A FEDERAL OBSERVER REPORT (See: FederalObserverReport.pdf) Once again, this report is a study in how NOT to effectively observe the election process. No meaningful information is collected as a result of federal observers filling out these reports.
The Cincinnati Bell-FBI scandal: Leonard Gates, a Cincinnati Bell employee for 23 years, testified that in the late 1970's and 80's, the FBI assisted telephone companies with hacking into mainframe election computers in cities across the country. He spoke with agents from both the DOJ (U.S. Attorney Kathleen M. Brinkman) and FBI (Agent Love), but to his knowledge, neither agency took further action. Leonard Gates 1987Deposition, plus 1985 Background Material from Jim Condit, Jr. //Pandora's Black Box & http://www.votefraud.org/expert_strunk_report.htm (contains case number)





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Wheelchair-bound Man with No Legs Killed by Israel’s IDF in Gaza During Jerusalem Protest
By RT News
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Surprise: NYT and WaPo Totally Ignore FBI Agents' Anti-Trump 'Insurance Policy' Texts
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Anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok had eye-popping influence at Justice Dept.






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WSJ Columnist: The FBI Is Abusing Secrecy Powers To Save Itself From Embarrassment
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TRUMP IS MORE ANGRY WITH JEFF SESSIONS THAN ROBERT MUELLER OVER RUSSIA INVESTIGATION: REPORT
BY RYAN SIT ON 12/18/17 AT 12:15 PM




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Right Nurses Moore Wounds by Attacking Mueller, Star Wars

Also launches new war on War on Christmas

by ROY EDROSO
DECEMBER 18, 2017






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The FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) are engulfed in a rule of law crisis because of new revelations of evident bias among FBI officials and key DOJ prosecutors. Recently, we exposed that Andrew Weissmann, a top Robert Mueller special counsel deputy, has anti-Trump bias. And last week, we were in the forefront of a related scandal about an anti-Trump bias infecting the top echelons of the FBI.
On Sunday, we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the FBI for records about the removal and reassignment of Peter Strzok, a former deputy to the assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, from the special counsel’s investigative team, led by former FBI Director Robert Mueller. Strzok also was the FBI’s chief of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s illicit email server, interviewing Hillary Clinton himself on July 2, 2016.







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Is the arrogance of the FBI worse than the corruption?
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs wants to buy the Carolina Panthers, sign Colin Kaepernick and Stephen Curry wants to help!



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Family files civil rights suit against city police in death of unarmed man
Dec 16, 2017


RAWLINS — The city of Rawlins faces a Civil Rights suit nearly two years after a 2015 incident during which two police officers shot and killed a man.





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2 different prosecutors will handle the cases against the Omaha police officers charged in Zachary Bearheels' death
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Cleveland pays $375,000 to settle police shooting lawsuit



CLEVELAND — Cleveland has agreed to pay $375,000 to settle a lawsuit that claimed a white Cleveland police officer shot and wounded an unarmed black man who was trying to surrender while lying face down in a garage.






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Driver disputes police account of black teen shooting







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City takes more action against cops



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December 18, 2017
CNN Declares War on Fox News




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Ex-FBI agent to Trump: Somebody already made bureau ‘bigger and better’ and it was Robert Mueller
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The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Why Did Robert Mueller Obstruct Congress's 9/11 Probe?
Ron Paul Institute › archives › september
Sep 11, 2017 · The Bush administration, with its familial ties to the Saudis, had every interest in covering up Riyadh's active complicity. Aside from that, they were pushing the fable of Saddam Hussein's 'links” to the ...




https://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/08/06/mueller911/

Trump to investigate Mueller for 9/11-anthrax?
By Kevin Barrett - August 6, 2017



FBI Octopus


High-profile user rips off everyone
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Roswell Mayor Dennis Kintigh had spent his working life as an FBI agent. Kintigh said the number of people in prison for simply possessing illegal drugs is minuscule. But the number of drug users in prison for assault, burglary and fraud is substantial. Block has received break after break. His addiction has been a license to ...




Police Chief Nichols leaves a proud, productive legacy
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As a result, township leaders were able to launch a wide-reaching search and appoint a promising new police chief in former FBI agent Todd Werth last summer. In recent months, Werth has been able to gain valuable insights and guidance into department operations directly under the wing of Nichols. Another strong suit of ...

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Pipeline protester won't get more details on FBI informant

12:51 p.m Friday, Jan. 12, 2018

A Denver woman accused of shooting at law officers during protests in North Dakota against the Dakota Access oil pipeline will not receive more information about an FBI informant she alleges seduced her and owned the gun.

Red Fawn Fallis is to stand trial in federal court in Fargo beginning Jan. 29 on accusations that she fired a handgun three times at officers during her October 2016 arrest. No one was injured.

She has pleaded not guilty to civil disorder and weapons charges, including illegal possession of a gun by a convicted felon. She would face at least 10 years in prison if convicted on all counts.

Fallis last month asked U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland to compel prosecutors to hand over more evidence, including more details about the FBI informant. She maintained the man infiltrated the protesters' camp and initiated a "duplicitous" romantic relationship with her, and that she had a right to information about "the role he played in the creation and support of the civil disorder alleged by the government, as well as his role in the events" surrounding her arrest.





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FBI Shows Arrest Video Of Dark Web Kingpin Who Died By Suicide in Police Custody
At a cybersecurity conference, the FBI aired a video showing the arrest of AlphaBay’s


In July 2017, the FBI shut down AlphaBay, one of the largest illegal dark web marketplaces in the world, and arrested its administrator, Alexandre Cazes. He died while in custody of Thai police days later by suspected suicide.

At a cybersecurity conference in Manhattan Tuesday, an FBI agent involved in the case showed a video of Cazes’s arrest to journalists and law enforcement, and joked about how the arrest went down.


“See if you can spot the moment when he realizes he's about to be arrested," FBI special agent Nicholas Phirippidis said as he played a few seconds of the surveillance footage of the arrest at Fordham University’s International Conference on Cyber Security; the audience laughed as the video played.

Cazes died eight days after the arrest. He was 26, and never got a trial.

Read more: These Are the Two Forgotten Architects of Silk Road

Phirippidis told the audience that the bureau managed to corner Cazes and arrest him while he was still logged in as the admin of AlphaBay by ramming a car through the front gate of his home in Thailand.

This footage has yet to be publicly released and the FBI declined to send us the actual video file, but as I realized what the video was, I filmed some of it on my phone. You can see a brief segment of the video and Phirippidis’s comments below. The FBI declined to send us any of the materials used in the briefing and would not make an agent available for an interview.


On the right, you can see Cazes’ house, and in the middle, Thai agents capture him after luring him out.

It is not unusual for the FBI to give talks at security conferences about closed investigations, but in this case, the FBI is promoting the arrest of a man who wasn't given a trial because he died while in the custody of law enforcement.

The FBI's plan was to crash the undercover police car onto Cazes’ front gate and get him to come out. This wasn’t just to get their hands on him, but also to get his computer before he managed to encrypt his data, something FBI directors have been warning against for years.


The idea was to get Cazes’ computer unlocked and unencrypted to avoid having to potentially crack into it by breaking its encryption, Phirippidis said. Increasingly, police and federal agents try to seize computers while they are on and unlocke












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NERD HARDER! FBI Director reiterates faith-based belief in working crypto that he can break



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Court: The FBI Must Turn Over Comey's Memos By Next Week
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A federal judge has ruled the FBI must turn over memos written by former FBI Director James Comey about a meeting with President Trump. The decision comes as a result of a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, which has been seeking the documents for months. The FBI has been ordered to turn over the ...






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Money for nothing: is Finland's universal basic income trial too good to be true?
Europe’s first national experiment in giving citizens free cash has attracted huge media attention. But one year in, what does this project really hope to prove?



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One year on from its launch, the world remains fascinated by Finland’s groundbreaking universal basic income trial: Europe’s first national, government-backed experiment in giving citizens free cash.

In January 2017, the Nordic nation began paying a random but mandatory sample of 2,000 unemployed people aged 25 to 58 a monthly €560 (£475). There is no obligation either to seek or accept employment during the two years the trial lasts, and any who do take a job will continue to receive the same amount.

With the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Bernie Sanders all proponents of a universal basic income (UBI) model, Finnish officials and participants have been inundated with media requests from around the globe. One participant who hoped to start his own business with the help of the unconditional monthly payment complained that, after speaking to 140 TV crews and reporters from as far a




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Friday, January 12, 2018
New Report on Radioactive Tap Water Renews Concerns About Trump Nominee for Top Environmental Role
Critics are challenging Trump's "outrageous" and "alarming" move to renominate the former head of a Texas environmental agency who has admitted to falsifying reports of radiation levels in drinking water
byJessica Corbett, staff writer





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FBI expert concluded Chicago cop's shooting staged to appear as a suicide





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NYPD agrees officers can have longer beards after Muslim cop suit
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Did FBI agent fire rifle to startle Finicum so State Police could claim he was moving
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LaVoy Finicum shooting: Defense says case against FBI agent ...
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Defense lawyers for the FBI agent accused of lying about firing shots at the truck of Oregon standoff spokesman Robert "LaVoy" Finicum are requesting dismissal of the case, arguing that it's based on a faulty computer animation of the shooting and not witnesses, video or ballistics. In a motion filed in ...





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Farming for a Small Planet
How we grow food determines who can eat and who cannot—no matter how much we produce.
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Thursday, January 11, 2018
byCommon Dreams
Former Nuclear Launch Officers Warn Congress: Trump Should Not Have 'Absolute Power to Destroy Nations'
"We and our nation cannot abide being hostages to the mood swings of a petulant and foolish commander-in-chief."



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Deborah Danner’s sister says NYPD cop fabricated story: suit
BY VICTORIA BEKIEMPIS STEPHEN REX BROWN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, January 12, 2018, 10:56 PM


The sister of a mentally ill Bronx woman fatally shot by an NYPD sergeant in her apartment sued the city Friday, charging that the hulking cop concocted a bogus story to justify the slaying.

The wrongful death suit was filed in Manhattan Federal Court by Jennifer Danner, who heard the gunshots that took her 66-year-old sister Deborah’s life on Oct. 18, 2016.

The cop who pulled the trigger, Sgt. Hugh Barry, is charged with murder.

The suit details the tragic sequence of events that led to the disabled woman’s demise. Police in the 43rd Precinct had twice before responded to her mental crises, the suit says.



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Former Bridgeport cop publishes book about experiences
Friday, January 12, 2018



BRIDGEPORT — Ask Ron Bailey about his time as a black cop in Bridgeport and he may just hand you his book.
“No Black Heroes” is Bailey’s reminiscence — seven years in the writing — of the former police officer’s first-hand look at racism, corruption and crime.
Joking that “I’m telling everyone I look a lot younger than I am,” Bailey said he grew up as an only child in Coatesville, Pa., before he and his mother moved to Bridgeport in 1963 after his father’s death. Today, Bailey lives in Ansonia.
His first experience with the Bridgeport Police Department “lit the fuse that caused me to hate cops with a passion,” he wrote in the early part of his book.
Used to cutting through the back of the police department premises as a youngster, he was stopped by an officer who, he said, choked and repeatedly kicked him for trespassing.
“I got beat up by this guy just for cutting through the back of the police department,” Bailey said.
But years later, he was approached at a mall by Bridgeport cop Ted Meekins, a member of the Guardians — a group of officers that worked to ensure the department was hiring black and Latino officers.
“He convinced me to take the (police) test and become an officer,” Bailey said.
Over his career on the force, he worked stints as a detective covering crimes against children and spent 18 years working on and off with the department’s tactical narcotics team.
“All I wanted was to take some drugs off the street, giving people who lived in the projects some peace,” Bailey wrote on page 22.
And while he fought for peace on the streets, he also fought for racial equality at a department divided by color, he said.
“There was a clear divide between the races,” Bailey wrote on page 21. “I felt safer in the projects than with Bridgeport’s so-called finest.”
He said he saw a lot of black officers who didn’t like white officers and vice versa.
“You see the separate set of rules ... and that’s a problem,” Bailey said. “Nobody wants to talk about racism. But if you don’t talk about it, ho






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Felon gets prison time for faking tapes while wearing wire as FBI informant
CHICAGO NEWS 01/12/2018, 12:31pm

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Note: This statement by former FBI Special Agent John C. Ryan was filed as Appendix C to the Plaintiffs’ “Motion for Justice” filed in the Bari/Cherney civil rights suit against the FBI and Oakland Police.



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Los Angeles deputy lied about being shot by sniper: police

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NRA chief Wayne LaPierre slapped with subpoena in state ‘murder insurance’ probe

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Hackers could have breached U.S. bioterrorism defenses for years, records show




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Women arrested for going topless at NH beach appeal to Supreme Court



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Archaeologists race to uncover colonial fort buried beneath a Maine road before it’s too late






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Carter Page: FBI Wanted Me To Make False Testimony About Russians



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CNN errs in hiring former FBI official Andrew McCabe





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Former FBI director’s William Sessions San Antonio divorce shrouded in mystery

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Bronx drivers suing city say NYPD cop is padding overtime pay with bogus DWI arrests

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Security expert offers solution to prevent hacking of election computers in Rhode Island next year

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WATCH: Club-wielding mob attacks Hong Kong police as protests turn violent
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‘No more jails,’ just mental health centers. Is that a realistic policy for L.A. County?


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What Does It Mean to Be Anti-Police?
Apparently, to criticize the police is to be anti-police. But if I call and point out that the swings in the playground are broken, am I anti-parks?
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Cop accused of threatening to kill ex and her dog, hiding assault rifle under his bed, is not going to prison
Updated 8:03 AM; Today 7:00 AM


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Cop who Shot Teen Holding Toy Gun with Orange Tip Cannot be Sued, Judges Rule




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Newark cop accused of shooting wife to death will face a judge this week, prosecutor says
Updated 9:39 AM; Today 8:58 AM



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Black man held at gunpoint in his own home after cops mistake him for burglar

Published 22 mins ago on August 26, 2019
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Discovering the True Nature of Your Anger


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No more ‘convicts’ or ‘felons’ if San Francisco passes criminal justice language proposal
Words like “felon,” “offender,” “convict” and “parolee” would be swapped for what’s described as people-first language
Aug 23, 2019




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THE U.S. BORDER PATROL AND AN ISRAELI MILITARY CONTRACTOR ARE PUTTING A NATIVE AMERICAN RESERVATION UNDER “PERSISTENT SURVEILLANCE”
Will Parrish
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Palermo Pomologist John Bunker Honored
Recognized for saving Maine’s apple heritage —
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November 1, 2019
This week’s FOIA round-up: Rising cancer rates among veterans, House passes pharmaceutical transparency, and a mystery police car crash
Read a great FOIA-based news story we should highlight? Let us know.
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FBI Agent John Connolly’s Death Sentence; the Murderers Walk Free With Government Money
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Daniel Hopsicker is a journalist, author and television producer. He is the author of Barry and the Boys: The CIA, the Mob and America's Secret History (2001) a book about the CIA asset, Barry Seal, and Welcome to Terrorland: Mohamed Atta & the 9-11 Cover-Up in Florida (2006) and Bushfellas: When the Mob Went Republican, All Hell Broke Loose (2008).
Hopsicker has also produced several videos including Secret Heartbeat of America - The CIA and Drugs, Masters of the Universe - The Secret Birth of the Federal Reserve, In Search of the American Drug Lords and The Big Fix - 2000.




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Connecticut cop disciplined after posting fake Trump signs to sabotage politician
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NYPD officer found with gun in mouth, taken to hospital alive
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Parents accuse Napa cop of excessive force in shooting, killing their son
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Disturbing Job Interview Video Released Of Former Cop Who Killed Atatiana Jefferson
Aaron Dean killed Atatiana Jefferson on Oct. 12.


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Maryland county exec bans police station from displaying 'divisive' 'thin blue line' flag




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Amid attention and controversy, Minneapolis police union head has no regrets



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Braddock police chief arrested after violent incident with girlfriend, documents say
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The Fraternal Order of Police’s attack on impeachment reads like it was written by Sean Hannity
America’s largest police union doesn’t seem to understand what “due process” is.
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Phoenix police union backs off no-confidence vote against Chief Jeri Williams

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Maryland police investigating ‘kill lists’ at middle school





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1 NOVEMBER 2019

FBI Report Suggests SFPD Was Lying About Possible Civil Rights Violations
In its cooperation with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), the SFPD has potentially been misleading the public for years about its own violations of local law with regard to the investigation of "First Amendment activities," including those relating to religion and political affiliation.
The revelation comes via a white paper written by the FBI and sent to the SFPD in late 2016 and obtained by The Intercept, which sought to help sort out the conflicts SFPD officers were finding be



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South Carolina officers plead guilty in FBI fake 'cartel' sting


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FBI INVOLVEMENT IN CIA BLACK SITE INTERROGATIONS CONFIRMED BY THIRD WITNESS
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Former Virginia special agent sentenced for lying to the FBI among other
Tazewell, V.A. (WVVA) – A former Virginia State Police investigator has been convicted for bribery, lying to the FBI, and Obstruction of Justice.
Shade Workman lead a drug task force in Tazewell County. A jury heard evidence that he solicited sexual favors from females who were serving as confidential informants for the task force.
Authorities said he deleted text messages containing evidence of what he was doing, but the FBI recovered a large number and they were used against him at his trial.
Tazewell’s commonwealth attorney, Mike Dennis, and Kevin Bales,

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