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just finishing watching it
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Clair George, the CIA officer who was placed in charge of briefing Congress on CIA’s activities, withheld information about the beginnings of the Iran-Contra affair, and was later convicted of lying to Congress. After an eight-month tenure that led to a nearly complete communications breakdown between the Agency and Congress, George was promoted to the third most senior position within the CIA.
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Report: After Alabama conviction, scammer went to work for FBI -- and kept on scamming


Updated on July 6, 2017 at 2:06 PM Posted on July 6, 2017 at 12:09 PM





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In 2006, he pleaded guilty to scamming a Mobile mosque. Then he was released early because he purportedly was helping the government pursue terrorists. Now it's alleged that he continued to run wire scams after his release, even while serving as an FBI informant.

On Thursday, investigative news site The Intercept published a story about the continuing adventures of Mohammed Agbareia, who at one time was sentenced by a U.S. district judge in Mobile to a two-year prison term followed by deportation. According to the story, Agbareia is the subject of a Florida wire fraud indictment handed down in late June. The alleged offenses mirror the scheme of which he was convicted in Mobile, and occurred between 2012 and 2017 - a time when he played a pivotal role in an FBI sting that led to three men being charged as ISIS supporters.

The story by Trevor Aaronson asserts that "Federal prosecutors have acknowledged that there are intersections between Agbareia's scams and his undercover work for the FBI." But an attorney representing one of the men in the terrorism case complain that prosecutors are sitting on information about that overlap that could be vital to their client's case.

According to Press-Register reports from 2006, Agbareia and a partner scammed officials at the Islamic Society of Mobile in 2004. Agbareia represented himself as a representative of an Islamic development bank offering funds to expand the mosque. Later, mosque officials were led to believe that Agbareia's partner, Zouhair Hissy, had gotten stranded en route to Mobile and needed a wire transfer of $1,500 to get out of the jam.


Testimony in the 2006 trial indicated that this had not been an isolated incident for Agbareia and Hissy: In his judgment, Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Butler Jr. ordered Agbareia to pay $90,899 to 54 victims throughout the country.

According to one Press-Register report, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations said the organization had tracked Agbareia for years and was grateful to see him prosecuted.






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Judge Pressures OC Sheriff in Jailhouse-


July 6, 2017
SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) — The sheriff of Orange County, California, took the stand before a skeptical judge Wednesday to insist that her department has not had a practice of cultivating jailhouse informants to question criminal suspects in custody.

At most,. Sheriff Sandra Hutchens said, there may have been a few deputies in the jails who violated suspects’ constitutional rights, but the practice was not widespread.

“I will not say that there may not have been misconduct by a few,” Hutchens said, but those deputies’ activities are being investigated by her office and by the state attorney general’s office.

Hutchens testified during a multi-week hearing on whether confessed mass murderer Scott DeKraai — who in 2011 killed his ex-wife and seven others at a beauty parlor in Seal Beach — should be spared the death penalty.

DeKraai’s attorney, Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders, says the sheriff’s department for years has used informants against suspects in high-profile crimes without protecting the suspects’ rights or informing their defense attorneys.

Sanders’ allegations — announced in a 505-page motion he filed in January 2014 — led Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals to remove the Orange County District Attorney’s Office from prosecuting the DeKraai case.

In addition, sentences or convictions in at least six other Orange County murder or gang-related crimes have been set aside due to informant issues.

Since then, the Department of Justice and the state attorney general’s office have launched probes of the alleged snitch program. The district attorney’s office and the county grand jury have concluded investigations of their own.

Testifying in a courtroom crowded with attorneys, journalists, families of DeKraai’s victims and even members of the county grand jury, Sanders pushed back for several hours against allegations of a secret, long-running informant program.

“There is no jailhouse informant program, as being charged in the media, that is not in accordance with the rules,” she testified.

The sheriff said that jail deputies do work with criminal investigators from her department or from outside police agencies to see if an informant — often another inmate who is being paid or seeking consideration in sentencing — can acquire useful information.

“Do [the jail deputies] go around developing informants to build a case on their own? No,” Hutchens said.

“There may have been a few deputies who took their duties to a level beyond where they were authorized to go,” she added.

Hutchens, who announced last week that she will not seek re-election next year, said it is part of jail deputies’ job to collect information from inmates, especially about safety and security issues, such as drug or gang activity.

“The question is, are they keeping proper documentation and following all the laws,” she said.

She said her department has tightened its procedures and upgraded its training since the informant scandal arose.

Sanders asked how she could dispute the existence of such a program, given emails, memos and other documents showing that jail supervisors were aware of and praised deputies’ work with informants.

One memo that hung on the wall near the jail “special handling unit,” which oversaw informants, listed developing of informants as one of the duties of the unit’s deputies.

Deputy Attorney General Mark Murphy, whose office is prosecuting the DeKraai case now, did not ask the sheriff any questions.

Judge Goethals, however, hit her with some tough questions. Goethals noted that he issued a discovery order for documents about jailhouse informants in January 2013, yet Hutchens’ office is still uncovering troves of documents.

“I received numerous sworn statements from members of your staff … saying, ‘We’ve looked everywhere and there’s nothing here,’” the judge said. “But time and time again, that turns out not to be true.”

Hutchens replied: “I would have to say that’s what they believed,” and added that maybe “they didn’t look hard enough.”

Goethals was particularly concerned about a 1,100-page log of data from the special handling unit, which came to light in March 2016.

The log was stored in a folder in a shared computer drive open to deputies and supervisors in the unit. Yet it apparently wasn’t found until almost three years after the judge’s discovery order.

“How could [unit supervisors] not know it exists? I’m having a problem with that,” he said.

“They may not have looked,” the sheriff said. Because of computer issues, “It wasn’t easy to retrieve.”

Goethals also expressed astonishment that when this latest hearing began in late May, the sheriff’s lieutenant newly in charge of the reconfigured special handling unit discovered 68 bankers’ boxes of previously undisclosed documents.

Hutchens apologized for that.

“I cannot explain why those boxes were not discovered before,” she said. “I hope the court recognizes that when we find something, we turn it over.”

Goethals noted that Hutchens was the 19th witness to testify in the hearing over the past two months, all of them from her department.




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A federal judge denied the city of Vallejo’s attempt Wednesday to halt a defamation lawsuit stemming from its handling of a peculiar 2015 kidnapping case that garnered national attention.

U.S. District Judge Troy Nunley refused to dismiss defamation claims from victims of a kidnapping that Vallejo police initially called a hoax. The criminal case gained nationwide attention after police accused Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn of acting out the plot of the film “Gone Girl.”

Attorneys for Huskins and Quinn — now plaintiffs — said the two are “thrilled” about Wednesday’s ruling and look forward to a jury “holding the Vallejo Police Department accountable.”

“Vallejo police attacked the victims without evidence and destroyed their reputations,” said attorney Kevin Clune, with Kerr & Wagstaffe in San Francisco.

Huskins and Quinn sued the city in March 2016, a year after Matthew Muller broke into their Vallejo home and abducted Huskins. The case was unsolved for more than two months, until officials arrested Muller for a separate home invasion burglary. Investigators recovered evidence from the Vallejo kidnapping, including video of Muller sexually assaulting a blindfolded Huskins.

The former Marine-turned-Harvard-educated attorney was sentenced in March to 40 years in prison in March by Nunley, after pleading guilty to a federal kidnapping count.

Vallejo, pop. 116,000, is northeast of San Francisco and west of Sacramento.

According to the complaint, Vallejo police detained Quinn immediately after the abduction and interrogated him for more than 18 hours. Quinn says investigators were skeptical of his story and released him to a throng of waiting reporters while wearing pants marked “Solano Prison,” though he was never arrested or charged with a crime.

“Instead of focusing on finding the true perpetrator and protecting the community from a violent predator, defendants attacked plaintiffs and plaintiffs’ families, created a destructive nationwide frenzy through public statements accusing plaintiffs of faking Denise’s kidnapping and rape,” the complaint states.

Vallejo police Lt. Kenny Park and Det. Mathew Mustard are named as defendants along with the city. Park held a news conference when Huskins was found; Mustard interrogated Quinn. Huskins and Quinn seek millions of dollars in damage for defamation, unlawful search and seizure and negligent infliction of emotional distress.

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MANHATTAN (CN) — Flushing claims by an activist whom police pepper-sprayed in the face while she looked for a bathroom, the Second Circuit found Wednesday that immunity shields the two New York City police officers she sued.

Imani Brown’s lawsuit dates back to an incident on Nov. 15, 2011 – the day that the NYPD tore down what had been known as the unofficial headquarters of the global anti-corruption movement Occupy Wall Street.

A Starbucks manager called 911 that night, reporting that six people had been “knocking on the door really really bad trying to get in” and “making nasty comments.”

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July 6, 2017
CIA came up with 126 reasons to deny your FOIA request
Agency’s list of ways to censor information because it’s classified has been censored because it’s classified
Written by Emma Best
Edited by JPat Brown
Driven by its never-ending desire to have greater control of what information about its activities are made public, CIA drafted a SECRET report listing 126 things that the Agency could use to argue something was subject to the “sources and methods” protections. Intended to address difficulties censoring Victor Marchetti’s book on the Agency, the list was designed to be both “broad enough and specific enough” to include as much as possible. While the list has been used to help justify a number of FOIA withholdings, the list itself has been withheld … to protect the Agency’s intelligence sources and methods.

First proposed by the Policy and Plans Group, the paper was meant to serve as justification “for use in injunctive cases such as Marchetti and in Freedom of Information cases in conjunction with exemption 3 [b3] of the FOIA.” It was to “become a definition of what constitutes intelligence sources and methods.” While the concept is essentially sound, the problem with the list being the de facto definition of intelligence sources and methods emerges in some of the memos exchanged in its preparation.

One memo makes it explicit that the definition of “intelligence sources and methods” was being applied very broadly enough to include non-intelligence methods. The Deputy Director of Security reported that one sections “security methodology must be considered an intelligence methodology.” The specifics of these security methodologies remains redacted, with the unredacted portion giving no hint as to what makes a security methodology an intelligence methodology. The closest the memo seems to come to an explanation is stating that the information needed to protected.

According to the office of the Policy and Plans Group, the list’s explicit purpose was to help the Agency argue that requests should be denied because the information could be considered an intelligence source or method. The proposal paper stated that when the Agency became embroiled in FOIA litigation “as it will most assuredly be”, having such a list would “be convincing to be able to argue that a request should be denied because it is … exempted from disclosure by the sources and methods provisions.” The list would act as a “prior determination” from the Director that could predate any individual FOIA request or injunction against publication.

While the list of “aspects of intelligence sources and methods” remains redacted in its entirety, we know that when it was created it consisted of 126 aspects and it was about 20 pages long. Thanks to the proposal paper, we have two sample entries that give us an idea of the type of categorical information the Agency hoped to prevent from being disclosed through FOIA or by former employees.
While the proposal cautioned against trying to include “all names of agents of the Agency,” instead an appropriate categorical exclusion would be “the name of any Agency employee, who has served, is serving or may serve under cover, the revelation of which might damage the future effectiveness of such cover arrangements.” The other example used similarly broad language regarding the identity of the Agency’s agents and assets. While this type of exclusion is both logical and difficult to argue with, it’s disconcerting that the Agency generated 126 such broad points of exclusion - some of which were not strictly not strictly intelligence sources or methods.

The proposal hoped that the list could be quickly generated, an idea which the document’s reader apparently found ridiculous. Written in the paper’s margins is a note that “they are dreaming!”

A memo produced months later, after the list had been drafted but before it was finalized or given the force of the Director’s orders, provides some additional insight into the nature of the list. According to the memo, the Agency’s philosophy had been to “include both general and specific Aspects which may have overlapping application.” The overlapping aspects and multilayered concerns meant that the Agency might have several aspects that could apply in any particular case. In these cases, it was suggested that only one aspect be cited as justification to disclose as little as possible.

The cover to the memo adds that a lot of things on the list won’t actually need protection most of the time. Since the Agency’s goal was to be as inclusive as possible with the list, this is hardly surprising. The “tricky part”, as the Agency saw it, was drafting a regulation to use alongside the list that would give the Agency complete “discretion and yet will still hold up in court.”

These issues were apparently addressed, as CIA Director Colby signed a determination the following January, ordering the adoption of the list of aspects of intelligence sources and methods. The determination was classified SECRET, and has only been declassified recently and with the redaction of the list. One highly notable aspect of the Director’s determination remains unredacted, however: anything so much as related to any activities of the Agency’s that violated a U.S. statute, Executive Order or Presidential Order” or was “without the authority of law” would not be protected by the determination. This will, of course, be used to challenge a number of b3 and 25X1 redactions in the future.

Mandatory Declassification Review requests have been filed for the Agency’s list of aspects of sources and methods. In the meantime you can read the Director of Central

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August 31, 2017
The CIA college tour: Boston
What’s your alma mater’s history with the Agency?
Written by JPat Brown
Edited by Michael Morisy
As part of back-to-school week, we combed through the CIA archives to find connections between colleges and the Agency, starting with our home turf: Boston.

Boston College

Awarded former Director Allen Dulles an honorary degree in 1961


Boston University

Recruited campus spies as apart of “Operation Chaos”


Emerson College

Sponsored a forum in which former Director William Colby defended additional restrictions on the Freedom of Information Act


Harvard University

You can find full issues of the Harvard Crimson (complete with crossword puzzles!) scanned into CREST


Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Agency sponsored an analyst’s independent research in nuclear proliferation


Northeastern University

Agency was ordered to pay $1,000 in damages for opening a college placement coordinator’s mail


Simmons College

Hosted a forum in which Colby said almost exactly the opposite of what he had said in the Emerson forum


Suffolk University

Nominated former Director Stansfield Turner to be college president, who turned it down


Tufts University

Former economics professor Franklyn Holzman pointed out CIA reports on Soviet defense spending were “largely a myth”


University of Massachusetts - Boston

Former Political Science professor Arnold Beichman collaborated with the Agency on a course on terrorism


This is only a small sampling, so we encourage you to dive in yourself. If you find anything interesting, or you have suggestions on where the CIA college tour should go next, let us know on Twitter or at info@muckrock.com

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SEE IT: Utah nurse arrested for refusing cop's order to draw blood from unconscious patient
BY JESSICA CHIA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, September 1, 2017, 2:12 AM


A nurse claims she was assaulted by a Salt Lake City detective for refusing police orders to draw blood from an unconscious patient.

Alex Wubbels was working as a charge nurse at the University of Utah Hospital when Police Detective Jeff Payne demanded a blood sample from a truck driver who was hospitalized after a car crash on July 26, Deseret News reported.

When she refused, citing the hospital’s policy, Payne grabbed her arms, marched her out of the hospital and handcuffed her in a disturbing body camera video released during a press conference on Thursday.

Wubbels, who screamed “Stop! You’re assaulting me”, was placed in a patrol car for about 20 minutes before she was released without any charges filed against her, the Deseret News reported.

In the video, Wubbels can be seen explaining that she was not authorized to hand over the blood because the truck driver was unconscious and unable to give consent.

The nurse also stressed that the police did not have a warrant and that the truck driver was not suspected of wrongdoing in the crash.

Wubbels then called her supervisors and placed them on speakerphone while Payne said she was going to jail for interfering with a criminal investigation.






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To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the South Dakota Sunshine Law, I hereby request the following records:

Documents pertaining to the deployment of personnel in regards to the North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple issuing a state of emergency in response to protests at Standing Rock over the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Documents sought are as follows:
-memos or requests received from the North Dakota Governor's Office, Morton County Sheriff's Department, North Dakota Emergency Management Agency, or North Dakota Highway Patrol for help under the Emergency Management Assistance Compact.
-emails with the aforementioned North Dakota agencies regarding the Standing Rock protests and/or personnel sent there to help with emergency management
-memos, emails, and requests sent internally with regards to the decision to deploy officers to North Dakota to help with controlling the protest
-Requests from the aforementioned North Dakota agencies for specific equipment to be brought to the Standing Rock protest area for their use in controlling the protest. This equipment may include but is not limited to surveillance devices including cell site simulators or social media surveillance software, or crowd control methods such as long range acoustic devices, water cannons, rubber bullets, tear gas, pepper spray or tasers.
-any bills, contracts, agreements, invoices, or other financial documentation for services rendered in helping to control the Standing Rock NoDAPL protests. These documents would likely be sent to the 4 aforementioned North Dakota agencies.

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

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

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Curtis Waltman



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January 29, 2018
In honor of Robert Parry, read a collection of his work curated by the CIA
The legendary investigative journalist’s articles live on in the archives of the very agency he worked to expose
Written by JPat Brown
Edited by Michael Morisy
This weekend, I was saddened to read about the sudden passing of legendary investigative journalist Robert Parry. Parry, whose work helped unearth the Iran-Contra scandal and its connection to the 1980 October Surprise, was a major influence on me personally.

In particular, I was interested in his concept of “stolen history”, with huge chunks of historical context being denied to the American public “for their own good” by agencies ostensibly operating in their name, and the insidious damage that practice does to a functioning democracy.

Ironically, perhaps the greatest tribute to Parry’s work is the extent to which it was followed by the groups he was reporting on. The Central Intelligence Agency archives contain over 100 of his articles, primarily focused on his Associated Press work from the mid-to-late ’80s.



While the sheer volume of material speaks to the impact Parry’s reporting was having on the Agency internally, perhaps the single greatest indicator of how the CIA felt about Parry is summed up by this handwritten note from the Agency’s Director of Public Affairs.

If there’s any one takeaway to be gleaned from Parry’s legacy, it is that we should all strive to have the CIA know us on a terrified first-name basis.

You can read the CIA’s collection of Parry’s work via the button below. We’d also ask that you please consider a donation to Parry’s website, the Consortium for Independent Journalism.







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TRANSPARENCY ADVOCATES WIN RELEASE OF NYPD “PREDICTIVE POLICING” DOCUMENTS

January 27 2018, 11:58 a.m.

LAST MONTH, a Manhattan judge ordered the New York City Police Department to release documentation about the department’s use of secretive and highly controversial “predictive policing” surveillance technology, scoring a win for advocates of transparency on police policy. The documents came to light as part of a lawsuit against the city filed by the Brennan Center for Justice, a New York-based policy institute.

Little is known about how the largest domestic police force in the United States uses crime forecasting software, which works through analysis of historical crime data like arrest records, incident reports, gang documentation, and “stop and frisk” encounters to generate individual or geographic predictions of crime. In July 2015, then-NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton branded predictive policing as “the wave of the future” and entered into a trial program with at least one predictive policing company, the Philadelphia-based Azavea.

“The ‘Minority Report’ of 2002 is the reality of today. There are no secrets.”
“The ‘Minority Report’ of 2002 is the reality of today,” said Bratton. “There are no secrets. There are none. If two people share a piece of information, it is no longer secret.”

While Azavea’s pilot program with the NYPD was publicly announced, documents obtained by the Brennan Center through its lawsuit and shared with The Intercept show two more companies were brought in to try out their crime forecasting approaches — the Bronxville, New York-based KeyStat Inc. and PredPol, a Santa Cruz, California-based company. PredPol has positioned itself as an early market leader in predictive policing with a highly publicized — but dubiously effective — geographic prediction model derived from battlefield research in Iraq. All three companies were granted 45-day trials to show the NYPD what their predictive policing software could do




https://theintercept.com/2018/01/27/a-4 ... sappeared/

LOSING SIGHT
A 4-Year-Old Girl Was the Sole Survivor of a U.S. Drone Strike in Afghanistan. Then She Disappeared.

January 27 2018, 8:37 a.m.

Asadabad, the sylvan capital of Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan, has a population of half a million but the feel of a village. Little happens there without being noticed. Were you out surveying the bazaar on September 7, 2013, you might have seen eight men, three women, and four young children climb into a red Toyota pickup. Most were members of an extended family, returning home after running errands. The pickup was just large enough to accommodate the women and children, with the men piled into the back alongside the sacks of flour they had purchased. Their village, Gambir, was a 2 1/2-hour drive northwest on a rough and undulating road. The village had no electricity or running water, and whatever food that couldn’t be grown had to be brought in from town. To get a phone signal, you climbed a hill. To feel warm to the bone, you waited for spring.





http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cha ... -1.3786553

Prosecutors delaying charges for cop who Tasered pregnant Bronx teen, lawyer says
BY CHRISTINA CARREGA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, January 29, 2018,

https://mashable.com/2018/01/29/two-can ... gL4rXmaOqX

2 cops allegedly ate some marijuana edibles, got way too high, and called for backup






http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/o ... -1.3783707

Ohio newspaper editor gunned down after exposing corrupt cops in 1920s crusade
BY DAVID J. KRAJICEK
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Sunday, January 28, 2018, 4:54 AM







http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/ne ... -1.3784686

Mexico City mayor: Missing teen detained by police located


Sunday, January 28, 2018, 11:33 PM


MEXICO CITY — A 17-year-old university student whose disappearance after being detained by police prompted an outcry on social media and a protest at a central monument has been located, Mexico City's mayor said late Sunday.

Earlier authorities placed two officers under "provisional" arrest in connection with the case.







CRIME 01/26/2018 08:37 pm ET

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Family Of Woman Missing For 12 Years ‘Fed Up’ With Florida Cops
Jennifer Kesse’s family is filing suit for access to police records.






https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne ... e_left_1.1

‘Leveling of the playing field’: families of those killed by police to get attorneys in King County inquests






http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bro ... -1.3785383

Bronx man dies after being cuffed, trying to grab cop’s gun during bust
BY NICOLE HENSLEY JOHN ANNESE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, January 29, 2018, 3:15 AM



http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/0 ... _that.html

Cops vastly underuse programs that keep kids out of jail, new study ...
NJ.com-Jan 28, 2018
There's a common scene in movies: police break up a house party where there's red Solo cups filled with booze and bring the offending teens down to the police station where they'll get a stern warning, and maybe some community service. New Jersey has programs designed to work like this, where a ...





http://interactive.nydailynews.com/long ... e-victims/

Cops promised to follow up, but 'nothing ever happened'
New York Daily News-Jan 27, 2018
Gurdeep Singh stepped out of his Queens home one morning in January 2012 focused on the workday ahead — but he never made it to his job as a truck mechanic, because his blue Subaru was gone. Singh, 32, called the police and filed a report. He then found his car a few blocks away, but all of his ...



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More cops face charges over Kian killing
ABS-CBN News-
Kian Loyd Delos Santos, 17, a student from a Catholic school, is taken by crime scene operatives (SOCO) after he was killed in a police operation at Riverside, Brgy. 160, Caloocan City on August 16, 2017. Vincent Go, ABS-CBN News. Conspiracy in the killing of Kian - DOJ. MANILA - More policemen from Caloocan City ...



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Family Outraged as 7-Year-Old Boy Is Handcuffed While Being ...
NBC4i.com-
The parents of a 7-year-old boy who was handcuffed while being transported to a Florida hospital are distressed about the treatment of their young son. In a video posted by the child's mom to Facebook, the 7-year-old can be seen stepping out of a Miami-Dade Schools police officer's patrol car as he is escorted by police ...




https://m.mid-day.com/articles/mumbai-w ... r/18993169

Story image for cops from Mid-Day
Mumbai: Woman attempts suicide after police fail to file FIR against ...
Mid-Day-
Following the incident, Komal, 22, then approached the cops around 7.30 pm, to file a case against him. However, Maurya claimed that while the police took cognisance of the issue, they refused to register an FIR. Maurya decided to confront the cops, a few hours later. The argument, however, took an ugly turn, when she ...






http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/sto ... 076127001/

Another Green Bay police officer might lose job because of night-shift harassment case
Doug Schneider, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 5:38 p.m. CT Jan. 29, 2018 | Updated 5:47






https://luxoraleader.com/im-just-flabbe ... ss/592162/


'I'm simply flabbergasted.' Attorneys say FBI coerced terror ...
Luxora Leader-
“There's clearly weapons training, there's explosives training,” an agent tells Hayat in one of the videos. Defense attorneys are attempting to show that Hayat's confession that he attended a terror training camp was the product of fatigue and of FBI agents persuading him to admit to something he didn't do.




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ELECTION INTEGRITY, FEATURED
JANUARY 29, 2018 | WHOWHATWHY STAFF
WhoWhatWhy Launches Election Integrity News Feed
There are so many threats to democracy that it is hard to keep track of them all. That is why WhoWhatWhy is launching an Election Integrity News feed that provides an overview of all developments in this crucial area.


https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/11/23/u ... strengthen

UK Climate Diplomacy Staff Cut Again as Post-Brexit Links to Trump and US Deniers Strengthen
By Mat Hope • Thursday, November 24, 2016 - 00:00


With Donald Trump set to become the President of the United States, the international climate change political scenery has shifted.

The president-elect’s stance on “quitting” the Paris Agreement seems to have softened in recent days. But countries are still going to need strong diplomatic teams to shore-up the global commitment to tackling climate change, reiterated at the Marrakech climate talks last week.

So it’s notable that the UK’s climate diplomacy team appears to weakening.

For the second year in a row, the foreign office reduced the number of people working on climate change and energy, documents released by the government this week under a freedom of information request show.

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