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Organization and its membership who assassinated Martin Luther King and President Kennedy use taxpayers dime to give voters and taxpayers
FBI induced Amnesia. As always funded by your tax dime

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National Night Out: 'Give crime and drugs a going away party'
By Vanessa Paz and News Staff Aug 4, 2014

EUGENE, Ore. - Local police, and the FBI invite the community to celebrate the 31st annual National Night Out on Tuesday.



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James Earl Ray did not Assassinate MLK


James Earl Ray was effectively exonerated of the assassination of MLK, Jr. by Dr. William F. Pepper in a trial at The Circuit Court of Shelby County, Tennessee, 30th Judicial District at Memphis, in 1999. The trial, "Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King III, Bernice King, Dexter Scott King and Yolanda King Vs. Loyd Jowers and Other Unknown Co-Conspirators", is commonly called "the Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination Conspiracy Trial" and is referred to as such at The King Center website, where the transcript of the trial is posted.

FOUR DECADES OF DISINFORMATION

You probably recall the headlines... but wait... there weren't any. The trial was covered in its entirety by one independent journalist, and one reporter from outside of the country. About the only thing that the American public heard about the trial was some filtered coverage through CourtTV.

As the trial progressed over 3 weeks, mainstream news networks in this country ignored the trial. Studiously. They ignored testimony and evidence never before presented in a court of law. Many witnesses were called to testify, among them, William Schaap, co-publisher of Covert Action Quarterly. Pepper, acting for the King family, asked Schaap about the lack of media coverage;

Pepper: "...what is your explanation for the fact that there has been such little national media coverage of ... this trial and this evidence and this event here in this Memphis courtroom, which is the first trial ever to be able to produce evidence on this assassination -- what has happened here that Mighty Wurlitzer is not sounding but is in fact ... almost totally silent?

Schaap: Oh, but -- as we know, silence can be deafening. Disinformation is not only getting certain things to appear in print, it's also getting certain things not to appear in print. ... the first thing I would say as a way of explanation is the incredibly powerful effect of disinformation over a long period of time ... For 30 years the official line has been that James Earl Ray killed Martin Luther King and he did it all by himself ... for 30 years it's James Earl Ray killed Dr. King, did it all by himself. And when that is imprinted in the minds of the general public for 30 years, if somebody stood up and confessed and said: "I did it. Ray didn't do it, I did it. Here's a movie. Here's a video showing me do it." 99 percent of the people wouldn't believe him because ... it just wouldn't click in the mind. It would just go right to, "It couldn't be". It's just a powerful psychological effect over 30 years, of disinformation that's been imprinted on the brains of ... the public.


William Schaap has for several decades been studying the manner in which governments, and the US government in particular, have secretly used the media to put the spin on stories that the governement wants spun in a particular way. He qualifies as an expert on disinformation, and in his Memphis testimony he gives a history of disinformation in the US from WWI up to the late 1970s. I have been given access to original

footage from the Memphis trial that hasn't seen the light of day in ten years, and I must say that Schaap's testimony is an 80 minute education in itself.

I have posted Schaap's testimony on YouTube. The first four parts will get you grounded in the history of disinformation, and the last four parts focus on the FBI's targeting of Martin Luther King for special treatment. This treatment included the fabrication of news stories to discredit the SCLC as a Communist vehicle, and psychological warfare directed at King, encouraging him to commit suicide. This was done by sending a cassette tape that allegedly captured Dr. King cheating on his wife, along with a threatening note. Seeing that the FBI, under the aegis of COINTELPRO, was willing to plant stories in the media that were false, it's not a stretch to imagine that the audio cassette, and other alleged audio recordings of Dr. King were fabrications. (For a more "establishment friendly version" of this event, see this recent CNN report.)

The Testimony of William Schaap on YouTube;
http://youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BA69081DC9C0AE84" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

CNN appears to be the waterboy for establishment spin on MLK these days. In this 1998 online story, typically regurgitating the same old story about Lone Nut, James Earl Ray, CNN refers to Ray as the "confessed assassin" of MLK;

http://www.cnn.com/US/9804/23/ray.obit" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; /

Ray never confessed to the murder of MLK. He plead guilty, but it was an Alford plea. "North Carolina v. Alford... was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed on a 5-3 vote that there are no constitutional barriers in place to prevent a judge from accepting a guilty plea from a defendant who wants to plead guilty while still protesting his innocence. This type of plea has become known as an Alford plea, differing slightly from the nolo contendere plea in which the defendant agrees to being sentenced for the crime, but does not admit guilt.... courts must accept whatever plea a defendant chooses to enter, as long as the defendant is competently represented by counsel; the plea is intelligently chosen; and "the record before the judge contains strong evidence of actual guilt". Faced with "grim alternatives", the defendant's best choice of action may be to plead guilty to the crime, White wrote, and the courts must accept the defendant's choice made in his own interests."

More recently is this propaganda piece rolled out for the 40th anniversary, reinforcing the notion of the Lone Nut, and the verity of the assassin's rifle;

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Here's what CNN doesn't tell you. The bundle dropped in front of a Memphis amusement shop and "discovered" by a Memphis police officer, was dropped before King was assassinated, according to the owner of the store. The slug removed from Dr. King's body has a different metallurgical composition from the other unfired rounds in the bundle. The scope on the rifle, (which the CNN reporter makes a little fuss about), was not zeroed in, and when test-fired, the rifle was inaccurate by several feet at about a hundred yards. A ballistics test conducted with the rifle indicates that the slug extracted from King's corpse was not even fired from the "evidence" rifle. The rifle is a pump-action rifle, and was not likely to have been rested on a window sill to shoot Dr. King, as alleged. This all according to the testimony of Judge Joe Brown, who has intimate knowledge of the alleged murder weapon.


Judge Joe Brown does not believe that this is the weapon that killed Dr. King

THE KING FAMILY

The King family was very pleased with the verdict reached by the Memphis jury, which read in part;

"In answer to the question did Loyd Jowers participate in a conspiracy to do harm to Dr. Martin Luther King, your answer is yes. Do you also find that others, including governmental agencies, were parties to this conspiracy as alleged by the defendant? Your answer to that one is also yes."


The beautiful and dignified, Coretta Scott King

Coretta Scott King: There is abundant evidence of a major high level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband, Martin Luther King, Jr. And the civil court's unanimous verdict has validated our belief. I wholeheartedly applaud the verdict of the jury and I feel that justice has been well served in their deliberations. This verdict is not only a great victory for my family, but also a great victory for America. It is a great victory for truth itself. It is important to know that this was a SWIFT verdict, delivered after about an hour of jury deliberation. The jury was clearly convinced by the extensive evidence that was presented during the trial that, in addition to Mr. Jowers, the conspiracy of the Mafia, local, state and federal government agencies, were deeply involved in the assassination of my husband. The jury also affirmed overwhelming evidence that identified someone else, not James Earl Ray, as the shooter, and that Mr. Ray was set up to take the blame. I want to make it clear that my family has no interest in retribution. Instead, our sole concern has been that the full truth of the assassination has been revealed and adjudicated in a court of law. As we pursued this case, some wondered why we would spend the time and energy addressing such a painful part of the past. For both our family and the nation, the short answer is that we had to get involved because the system did not work. Those who are responsible for the assassination were not held to account for their involvement. This verdict, therefore, is a great victory for justice and truth. It has been a difficult and painful experience to revisit this tragedy, but we felt we had an obligation to do everything in our power to seek the truth. Not only for the peace of mind of our family but to also bring closure and healing to the nation. We have done what we can to reveal the truth, and we now urge you as members of the media, and we call upon elected officials, and other persons of influence to do what they can to share the revelation of this case to the widest possible audience. I know that this has been a difficult case for everyone involved. I thank the jury and Judge Swearington for their commitment to reach a just verdict, I want to also thank our attorneys, Dr. William Pepper and his associates for their hard work and tireless dedication in bringing this case to justice. Dr. Pepper has put many years of his life, as well as his financial resources, into this case. He has made significant personal sacrifices to pursue the search for the truth about my husband's assassination.


TESTIMONY


Rev. James Lawson Testifies about the Rise of MLK as an International icon

A staggering amount of first-person testimony was brought to the attention of the jury in this case, much of it heard for the first time anywhere. It included testimony from associates of Dr. King, like the Rev. James Lawson, who continues to preach the value of non-violent protest to this day.

It also involved testimony from people who had never met Dr. King, but whose paths were intertwined, like the testimony of one Jack Terrell, (a man pressured by the FBI into NOT testifying during the Iran Contra scandal), a man who became involved in covert operations and was told by one of his colleagues about a covert team that was training with .306 rifles, and was ultimately dispatched to Memphis. However, their "mission" was cancelled as another arrangement to kill Dr. King was successful.

Terrell was too ill to appear in court, and gave his testimony via sworn video testimony;


Jack Terrell tells his tale

Pepper conducted the testimony in a devastating manner, which allowed the jury to reach a quick verdict. Pepper's opening and closing arguments are also posted on YouTube;

Pepper opening statement
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Pepper closer
http://youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6CDDC2D378CC12CD" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Dr. William F. Pepper


Pepper at work

Here is part of Pepper's closer;

Governmental agencies caused Martin Luther King to be assassinated... They caused this whole thing to happen. And they then proceeded with the powerful means at their disposal to cover this case up. This is a conspiracy... and that's a nasty word. People insult people in this country who use the word "conspiracy." Nowhere else in the world, as Bill Schaap told you, is it viewed that way. In Italy and France conspiracy is taken for granted because they have lived with it so much longer...

What we're asking you to do at this point in time is send a message. We're asking you to send a message, not just right a wrong. That's important, that you right a wrong and that you allow justice to prevail once and for all. Let it prevail. Let justice and truth prevail, else the heavens fall. No matter what, let it prevail. Let it come forward. We're asking you to let that happen. But in addition to that, we're asking you to send a message, send a message to all of those in power, all of those who manipulate justice in this country that you cannot get away with this. Or if you can get away with it, you can only get away with it for so long."


FORTY YEARS TOO MANY

The government lied. The government lies. The government uses its intelligence agencies and assorted assets to enact agendas that may or may not be in your best interest. Can there be any doubt that murdering Dr. King was not in the interest of Black Americans, or the poor, who he was beginning to see as the oppressed of the entire world?

Dr. King was murdered after he became a vociferous opponent to the Vietnam War and had plans to march on Washington and stay there with a virtual city of poor people until there was some change. How well do you think that idea went over in the halls of power and influence?

Please watch the videos I have posted, and read as much of the transcript of the trial as you deem relevant.
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Forty years of lies are forty years too many. James Earl Ray did not kill Dr. King, no matter how many times CNN, ABC, NBC, tell you that he did.

Think about Operation CHAOS, or think about The CIA and the Media.

The Mighty Wurlitzer played for Dr. King, and it wasn't a very pleasant song.

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"Because of the nature of the duties our Special Agents are called upon to perform, we do not employ women in this position. We must have Agents who are qualified to cope with any situation they may face."

Director J. Edgar Hoover , in a letter dated April 16, 1971.

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Former US Intelligence Officers rubbish current ‘intelligence’ regime

By The Nation
Sunday, 10 August 2014 00:00


Former US Intelligence Officers rubbish current ‘intelligence’ regime

Several former US intelligence officers with a cumulative total of 260 years in various parts of US Intelligence recently wrote to President Barack Obama, expressing concern over ‘evidence adduced so far to blame Russia for the July 17 downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17’.
Excerpts of the letter are given below.

We, the undersigned former intelligence officers want to share with you our concern about the evidence adduced so far to blame Russia for the July 17 downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17. We are retired from government services and none of us is on the payroll of CNN, Fox News, or any other outlet. We intend this memorandum to provide a fresh, different perspective.

As veteran intelligence analysts accustomed to waiting, except in emergency circumstances, for conclusive information before rushing to judgment, we believe that the charges against Russia should be rooted in solid, far more convincing evidence. And that goes in spades with respect to inflammatory incidents like the shoot-down of an airliner. We are also troubled by the amateurish manner in which fuzzy and flimsy evidence has been served up – some it via “social media.”
As intelligence professionals we are embarrassed by the unprofessional use of partial intelligence information. As Americans, we find ourselves hoping that, if you indeed have more conclusive evidence, you will find a way to make it public without further delay. In charging Russia with being directly or indirectly responsible, Secretary of State John Kerry has been particularly definitive. Not so the evidence. His statements seem premature and bear earmarks of an attempt to “poison the jury pool.”

Painting Russia Black

We see an eerie resemblance to an earlier exercise in US ‘public diplomacy’ from which valuable lessons can be learned by those more interested in the truth than in exploiting tragic incidents for propaganda advantage. We refer to the behavior of the Reagan administration in the immediate aftermath of the shoot-down of Korean Airlines Flight 007 over Siberia on August 30, 1983. We sketch out below a short summary of that tragic affair, since we suspect you have not been adequately briefed on it. The parallels will be obvious to you.

An advantage of our long tenure as intelligence officers is that we remember what we have witnessed first hand; seldom do we forget key events in which we played an analyst or other role. To put it another way, most of us ‘know exactly where we were’ when a Soviet fighter aircraft shot down Korean Airlines passenger flight 007 over Siberia on August 30, 1983, over 30 years ago. At the time, we were intelligence officers on ‘active duty You were 21; many of those around you today were still younger.

Thus, it seems possible that you may be learning how the KAL007 affair went down, so to speak, for the first time that you may now become more aware of the serious implications for U.S.-Russian relations regarding how the downing of Flight 17 goes down and that you will come to see merit in preventing ties with Moscow from falling into a state of complete disrepair. In our view, the strategic danger here dwarfs all other considerations.
Hours after the tragic shoot-down on Aug. 30, 1983, the Reagan Administration used its very accomplished propaganda machine to twist the available intelligence on Soviet culpability for the killing of all 269 people aboard KAL007. The airliner was shot down after it strayed hundreds of miles off course and penetrated Russia’s airspace over sensitive military facilities in Kamchatka and Sakhalin Island. The Soviet pilot tried to signal the plane to land, but the KAL pilots did not respond to the repeated warnings. Amid confusion about the plane’s identity – a US spy plane had been in the vicinity hours earlier – Soviet ground control ordered the pilot to fire.

The Soviets soon realized they had made a horrendous mistake. The US Intelligence also knew from sensitive intercepts that the tragedy had resulted from a blunder, not from a willful act of murder (much as on July 3, 1988, the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian civilian airliner over the Persian Gulf, killing 290 people, an act which President Ronald Reagan dismissively explained as an ‘understandable accident.’)

To make the very blackest case against Moscow for shooting down the KAL airliner, the Reagan administration suppressed exculpatory evidence from US electronic intercepts. Washington’s mantra became “Moscow’s deliberate downing of a civilian passenger plane.” Newsweek ran a cover emblazoned with the headline “Murder in the Sky.” (Apparently, not much has changed; Time’s cover this week features “Cold War II” and “Putin’s dangerous game.” The cover story by Simon Shuster, ‘In Russia, Crime without Punishment,’ would merit an A-plus in William Randolph Hearst’s course ‘Yellow Journalism 101.’)

When KAL007 was shot down, Alvin A. Snyder, director of the U.S. Information Agency’s television and film division, was enlisted in a concerted effort to “heap as much abuse on the Soviet Union as possible,” as Snyder writes in his 1995 book, Warriors of Disinformation.

He and his colleagues also earned an A-plus for bringing the “mainstream media” along. For example, ABC’s Ted Koppel noted with patriotic pride, “This has been one of those occasions when there is very little difference between what is churned out by the US Government propaganda organs and by the commercial broadcasting networks.”

“Fixing” the Intelligence around the policy

http://www.nation.lk/edition/images/201 ... -01-02.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;“The perception we wanted to convey was that the Soviet Union had cold-bloodedly carried out a barbaric act,” wrote Snyder, adding that the Reagan Administration went so far as to present a doctored transcript of the intercepts to the United Nations Security Council on September 6, 1983.

Only a decade later, when Snyder saw the complete transcripts — including the portions that the Reagan administration had hidden — would he fully realize how many of the central elements of the U.S. presentation were false.
The intercepts showed that the Soviet fighter pilot believed he was pursuing a US spy aircraft and that he was having trouble in the dark identifying the plane. Per instructions from ground control, the pilot had circled the KAL airliner and tilted his wings to order the aircraft to land. The pilot said he fired warning shots, as well. This information “was not on the tape we were provided,” Snyder wrote.
It became abundantly clear to Snyder that, in smearing the Soviets, the Reagan administration had presented false accusations to the United Nations, as well as to the people of the United States and the world. In his book, Snyder acknowledged his own role in the deception, but drew a cynical conclusion. He wrote, “The moral of the story is that all governments, including our own, lie when it suits their purposes. The key is to lie first.”
The tortured attempts by your administration and stenographers in the media to blame Russia for the downing of Flight 17, together with John Kerry’s unenviable record for credibility, lead us to the reluctant conclusion that the syndrome Snyder describes may also be at work in your own administration; that is, that an ethos of ‘getting your own lie out first’ has replaced ‘ye shall know the truth.’ At a minimum, we believe Secretary Kerry displayed unseemly haste in his determination to be first out of the starting gate.

Both sides cannot be telling the truth

We have always taken pride in not shooting from the hip, but rather in doing intelligence analysis that is evidence-based. The evidence released to date does not bear close scrutiny; it does not permit a judgment as to which side is lying about the shoot-down of Flight 17. Our entire professional experience would incline us to suspect the Russians – almost instinctively. Our more recent experience, particularly observing Secretary Kerry injudiciousness in latching onto one spurious report after another as ‘evidence,’ has gone a long way toward balancing our earlier predispositions.

It seems that whenever Kerry does cite supposed ‘evidence’ that can be checked – like the forged anti-Semitic fliers distributed in eastern Ukraine or the photos of alleged Russian special forces soldiers who allegedly slipped into Ukraine – the ‘proof’ goes ‘poof’ as Kerry once said in a different context. Still, these misrepresentations seem small peccadillos compared with bigger whoppers like the claim Kerry made on Aug. 30, 2013, no fewer than 35 times, that “we know” the government of Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical incidents near Damascus nine days before.

Regarding the Malaysia Airlines shoot-down of July 17, we believe Kerry has typically rushed to judgment and that his incredible record for credibility poses a huge disadvantage in the diplomatic and propaganda maneuvering vis-a-vis Russia. We suggest you call a halt to this misbegotten “public diplomacy” offensive. If, however, you decide to press on anyway, we suggest you try to find a less tarnished statesman or woman.

A Choice between Two

If the intelligence on the shoot-down is as weak as it appears judging from the fuzzy scraps that have been released, we strongly suggest you call off the propaganda war and await the findings of those charged with investigating the shoot-down. If, on the other hand, your administration has more concrete, probative intelligence, we strongly suggest that you consider approving it for release, even if there may be some risk of damage to “sources and methods.” Too often this consideration is used to prevent information from entering the public domain where, as in this case, it belongs.

As senior CIA veteran Milton Bearden has put it, there are occasions when more damage is done to U.S. national security by “protecting” sources and methods than by revealing them. For instance, Bearden noted that Ronald Reagan exposed a sensitive intelligence source in showing a skeptical world the reason for the U.S. attack on Libya in retaliation for the April 5, 1986 bombing at the La Belle Disco in West Berlin. That bombing killed two US servicemen and a Turkish woman, and injured over 200 people, including 79 US servicemen.

Intercepted messages between Tripoli and agents in Europe made it clear that Libya was behind the attack. Here’s an excerpt: “At 1:30 in the morning one of the acts was carried out with success, without leaving a trace behind.”
Ten days after the bombing the US retaliated, sending over 60 Air Force fighters to strike the Libyan capital of Tripoli and the city of Benghazi. The operation was widely seen as an attempt to kill Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who survived, but his adopted 15-month-old daughter was killed in the bombing, along with at least 15 other civilians.

Three decades ago, there was more shame attached to the killing of children. As world abhorrence grew after the US bombing strikes, the Reagan administration produced the intercepted, decoded message sent by the Libyan Peoples Bureau in East Berlin acknowledging the “success” of the attack on the disco, and adding the ironically inaccurate boast “without leaving a trace behind.”

The Reagan Administration made the decision to give up a highly sensitive intelligence source, its ability to intercept and decipher Libyan communications. But once the rest of the world absorbed this evidence, international grumbling subsided and many considered the retaliation against Tripoli justified.

If you’ve got the goods

If the US has more convincing evidence than what has so far been adduced concerning responsibility for shooting down Flight 17, we believe it would be best to find a way to make that intelligence public – even at the risk of compromising ‘sources and methods.’ Moreover, we suggest you instruct your subordinates not to cheapen U.S. credibility by releasing key information via social media like Twitter and

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FBI affiliate in Pittsburgh ABC/AP sez taxpayer funded FBI agents who created Oklahoma City bombing hires X. amount of new taxpayer funded FBI agents to fight cybercrime created by FBI. hackers.
Sez they will not be spying on you posting stories about FBI agents assassinating President Kennedy and creating 911.
Trust us sez FBI because you want to believe, eh?




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Aug 17, 2014, 9:37 AM

The FBI's premier cybersquad has focused attention on computer-based crime in recent months by helping prosecutors charge five Chinese army intelligence officials with stealing trade secrets from major companies and by snaring a Russian-led hacking ring that pilfered $100 million from bank accounts worldwide.

Because of the Pittsburgh squad's success, the FBI is rewarding the office with more manpower, allowing it to take on even more cyberthreats.

"Where there's great work going on, invest in it," FBI Director James Comey said while visiting Pittsburgh two weeks ago.

Because of security concerns, the FBI won't say how many agents are in the Pittsburgh cyber office or specify how many agents will be added. However, the FBI's overall 2014 budget includes 152 new cybercrime positions, including 50 new agents and 50 computer scientists, as part of the agency's "Next Generation Cyber" initiative. In fiscal 2015, which begins Oct. 1, the FBI hopes to maintain about 750 cyberagents across the country out of more than 13,000 overall.

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2. reads

not to worry the SLPD is there for your protection
just ask SL attorney Jesse Trentadue


You won't see these photos on FBI affiliates CNN. and Fox News
gotta go COPS is coming on...
1st read

Powerful group of photos of weapons used by Ferguson taxpayer funded police.....welcome to Iraq
what goes around comes around, eh?

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A Catalog of Ferguson Police Weaponry



August 20, 2014 -
As smoke hangs over the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, it's important to understand its source. Some of this understanding will require us to reassess the history of police militarization in the United States. This will mean acknowledging its origins in the aftermath of the Watts Riots (1965) and the birth of the SWAT team shortly thereafter. It will mean noting the conservative reaction to the Warren Court's civil libertarian protections in the 1950s and 60s to President Nixon's launching of the drug war at the end of that same tumultuous decade. It will mean harping on President Reagan's wholehearted embrace of racial policing and mass incarceration in the 1980s. It will mean interrogating the devastating effects of the 1208 Program (1990), which became the 1033 Program (1996), both of which authorized the transfer of military hardware to domestic precincts, a practice that has only accelerated in the wake of the Battle of Seattle (1999) and the attacks of September 11, 2001. The basic contours of this trajectory can be found in Radley Balko's Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces (2013). As Tamara K. Nopper and Mariame Kaba argue in Jacobin, however, any serious reckoning must account for the ongoing dehumanization of black people, tout court.

One small way to measure the police violence against black people in Ferguson is to attend to its details. It is in that spirit that I present this simple catalog.


There is a growing chorus of military veterans who have chimed in on the absurdity of photographs like this one. Let me join the parade. What we're seeing here is a gaggle of cops wearing more elite killing gear than your average squad leader leading a foot patrol through the most hostile sands or hills of Afghanistan. They are equipped with Kevlar helmets, assault-friendly gas masks, combat gloves and knee pads (all four of them), woodland Marine Pattern utility trousers, tactical body armor vests, about a double basic load of 120 to 180 rounds for each shooter, semiautomatic pistols attached to their thighs, disposable handcuff restraints hanging from their vests, close-quarter-battle receivers for their M4 carbine rifles and Advanced Combat Optical Gunsights. In other words, they're itching for a fight. A big one. It's a well-known horror that the US military greets foreign peoples in this fashion as our politicians preach freedom, democracy and peace. It's an abomination that the police greet black communities in the States with the same trigger-happy posture. Especially on the occasion of an unarmed teen's death by cop.

Smoke Grenade and Smoke Bomb


Reuters/Mario Anzuoni

There's at least one line every Marine knows. It's ingrained at boot camp or Officer Candidate School and follows us to the front lines and back home again. It's a simple command and it's the second of the four weapons-safety rules. It says, "Never point a weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot." The St. Louis County Police Department apparently never received the memo. Either that or they intend to shoot. Although their tactical flashlights might be assisting them in spying on (and blinding) their targets, I suspect their air-purifying respirators and the smoke and CS gas they've released might be getting in the way of said objective. It's unclear whether it was cheap fuse-operated smoke bombs (think fireworks) or more expensive pin-operated smoke grenades that are responsible for the fog. Both tools have been reported onsite. For what it's worth, such smokescreens are usually executed during flanking attacks, retreats, close air support missions or casualty evacuations. All of these situations are presumed to take place under real or potential conditions of heavy enemy fire. Make of this what you will. My guess is that they've got a surplus of toys to play with, and a powerless demographic to experiment on.

Stun Grenade


AP Photo/Jeff Roberson

There are scattered reports of stun grenade use in Ferguson. Also known as flashbangs or flash grenades, this weapon of choice for American SWAT teams (and Israeli soldiers) originated in the British special forces community more than four decades ago. Ostensibly less than lethal, stun grenades have been known to kill or severely injure numerous victims, and the device was recently in the news for burning a 19-month-old baby in Georgia, resulting in a coma, during one of the thousands of domestic police raids this year. They are designed to temporarily blind and deafen, thanks to a shrapnel-free casing that is only supposed to emit light and sound upon explosion. Nonetheless, the list of casualties is long, and the number of flammable mishaps is disconcerting. In Rise of the Warrior Cop, Balko recounts a story of an FBI agent accidentally lighting himself and his vehicle on fire.

Before moving on to the ammunition most visible in the media, it's important we consider the machines from which they are being shot. The most likely culprit is the ARWEN 37, which is capable of discharging 37mm tear gas canisters or wooden bullet projectiles. Another possibility is the SL6, a 37mm six-shot rotary magazine projectile launcher that is seemingly capable of firing every relevant "non-lethal" round in the book. When a Marine or other warfighter is introduced to one of these for the first time, he likely thinks of the M203 Grenade Launcher as a point of comparison. This is because they're all part of the same family. They're all grenade launchers.

Triple Chaser CS

The police used tear gas unsparingly the past week, and it was perhaps the most disturbing ingredient in the stew. As others have noted, the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 actually bans the gas as a permissible means of warfare. Then again, it is allowed for domestic riot control, and nations like Turkey, Bahrain, Israel and the United States have exploited the loophole to great avail. If you're interested in the weapon's mechanics or science, the Internet has your back. In the meantime, I can assure you its effects are far from pleasurable. Every Marine has his or her own story about their time at the "gas chamber," the place we go to become familiar with our gas masks (so they tell us). Suffice it to say it sucks out your organs, hogs your oxygen and burns you inside and out. Interim blindness and extended coughing fits are common, as well as an overall sense that you are dying or dead. And they're dispersing this poison in people's backyards.

Pepper Spray Projectile

PHOTO TK
St. Louis Post-Dispatch/David Carson

These "pepper balls" are lethal; the Boston Police Department banned them after a young woman was killed by one. It passed right through the eye and skull to the brain. She was guilty of being present in a rowdy crowd after a Red Sox v. Yankees game in which the former won. The ACLU condemned the use of such projectiles for the purposes of crowd management back in 1997, following an unfortunate incident in Eugene, Oregon. They even convinced Eugene officials to do the same. It's about time St. Louis County and the rest of the country followed suit.

Rubber Bullet




The BEARCAT G3 is the SWAT team's version of the military's Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle, or better yet its MRAP All Terrain Vehicle. Seeing that there aren't any mines or IEDs in Ferguson, that the chances of an ambush are slim to none, and that the terrain is relatively boring, the decision of the St. Louis County Police Department to roll out with (or even own) one of these is questionable. The same could be said for SWAT teams across the nation, some of whom are presently operating actual MRAPs. As Balko reports in Rise of the Warrior Cop, some are even fitted with 50-caliber machine gun turrets. A rumor in the warfighting community has it that a 50 cal can maim or kill a target even when it misses by a few feet. I don't think this is true, but it speaks to a certain truth about the gun in question. Why any of this is still allowed anywhere, much less in our neighborhoods (especially in our neighborhoods of color) is beyond me.
Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD)

Jamelle Bouie

The LRAD is a sonic weapon that my psychological operations (PSYOP) friends could probably discuss more intelligently. All I can tell you is that the sound is so pain-inducing that in addition to being used to keep pirates at bay and break up groups of protesters or black people, it is wielded in order to regulate the movements of wildlife. Here's how it looks and sounds when targeting human beings.

MD Helicopter 500 Series


Wikipedia

Local police departments no longer just rate military-grade armored personnel carriers and combat loads. They also rate the kinds of helicopters that can only make the North Korean Air Force blush. And one of them presumably spent the middle days of August patrolling Ferguson town folk from the skies. I'm sure they appreciated the service.

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AP Photo/Sid Hastings

Whenever the St. Louis County or Ferguson Police aren't protecting the public via tear gas, impact munitions or sonic pain, they have been conducting civic outreach by way of growling German shepherds. As a good many military veterans are now lamenting, if cops are going to steal our gadgetry, they might consider adopting our overarching strategy too. Say what you like about Counterinsurgency Doctrine (COIN)—and I've said quite a few not-so-nice things about it in the past—but what is taking place in the above photograph spits in the face of everything COIN represents. The point, remember, is to win the hearts and minds of the people, not infuse them with helplessness and rage.

Lord knows we keep failing at this mission overseas. What's so shocking is that we seem to have abandoned its most decent ideals altogether here at home. As Balko has shown, "community policing grants" have been used to fund more SWAT teams. Any commitments to empathy held by cops has given way to an "Oakleys and crew cuts" bravado that hides behind gargantuan slabs of metal and increasingly deadly ordnance. Most of all, Martin Luther King's dream is dying a slow death. One officer of the law feels comfortable shouting to the black citizens he is sworn to protect, their iPhone cameras in hand, "Bring it, you @#$!%&! animals! Bring it!" This only echoes another quote in Rise of the Warrior Cop, where a SWAT member boasts, "When the soldiers ride in, you should see those blacks scatter."

The arsenal on display in Ferguson is not the arsenal of riot control. In a town whose population is 67 percent black while its police force is 94 percent white, we are dealing with something more insidious, both locally and as a nation. We are dealing with an arsenal of racial oppression. It's time we look it in the face, in all its awful detail. It's time we call it by its name. And it's time we finally do what we were tasked to do over a half century ago. It's time we challenge, transcend and extinguish it.

Read Next: Dave Zirin on what Kareem Abdul Jamar got wrong in his powerful essay on Fegurson.


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Pepper spray study is tainted - SFGate
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May 20, 1996 - The pepper spray study was conducted in the late 1980s by FBI Special Agent Thomas W.W. Ward at the FBI academy in Virginia outside ...
Pepper spray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Here's Pepper In Your FBI - Philadelphia City Paper
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Special Agent Thomas W.W. Ward, the FBI scientist who led the bureau's pepper spray research program, didn't tell the whole truth when he gave oleoresin ...
Former F.B.I. Agent Is Sentenced to Prison - New York Times
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A Short and Sordid History of Pepper Spray
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1991 by former FBI Agent Thomas Ward who pled guilty to accepting $57,500.00 ... people nationwide have died in police custody after being pepper sprayed.

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couple of reads

1st read


http://www.google.com/#q=trentadue+FBI+ ... m+congress" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Brother of Murder Victim Seeks Details of FBI's u2018Sensitive ...
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Feb 1, 2013 - In his motion, Trentadue described the program as one used by the ... place informants on the staffs of members of the United States Congress ...
FBI informants include journalists, WH and Congressional staffers ...
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Nov 2, 2012 - If Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue is right, there are journalists ... FBI informants might also be found on the White House staff, in the offices of ... existence of a government program for recruiting and training informants.
Sensitive Informant Program - Free Republic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2983690/posts" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Jan 30, 2013 - Brother of Murder Victim Seeks Details of FBI's 'Sensitive Informant Program' ... In his motion, Trentadue described the program as one used by the ... informants on the staffs of members of the United States Congress and ...
Keyword: trentadue - Free Republic
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Brother of Murder Victim Seeks Details of FBI's 'Sensitive Informant Program' ... place informants on the staffs of members of the United States Congress and ...


2nd read

Junior G-Man Sen Inhofe: ISIS Developing Plan to Blow Up Major US City

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkou ... d-n1882422" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


| Aug 23, 2015
The administration can deny that the Islamic State (ISIS) is not at war with America all it wants, but their rhetoric, numerous threats, and recent beheading of an American journalist suggest otherwise. And according to one senator, they’re already developing a plan to blow up a major U.S. city.

It is a serious warning coming from Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe as he warns of the potential of another attack on American soil. The senator sat down with Fox 25 to talk about a variety of topics, but as ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the top issue was national security.

“We're in the most dangerous position we've ever been in as a nation,” Senator Inhofe told Fox 25's Phil Cross.



3rd read

http://www.worldbulletin.net/news/14300 ... er-release" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Pakistani doctor's family shun ISIS call for her release




The family of Aafia Siddiqui, currently serving a prison term in the United States for attempted murder, rejected any link to the Islamic State

The family of a Pakistani doctor serving a jail sentence in America for an attack on a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan has rejected the Islamic State’s demand for her release.

Last week it was reported that the insurgents had called for the releasee of Aafia Siddiqui, once listed among the FBI’s seven most wanted al-Qaeda figures, as a condition of releasing Western hostages, including James Foley.

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msfreeh wrote:couple of reads

1st read


http://www.google.com/#q=trentadue+FBI+ ... m+congress" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Brother of Murder Victim Seeks Details of FBI's u2018Sensitive ...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/.../brother- ... -of-fbis-u.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Feb 1, 2013 - In his motion, Trentadue described the program as one used by the ... place informants on the staffs of members of the United States Congress ...
FBI informants include journalists, WH and Congressional staffers ...
saynsumthn.wordpress.com/.../fbi-informants-include-journalists-wh-and-c...
Nov 2, 2012 - If Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue is right, there are journalists ... FBI informants might also be found on the White House staff, in the offices of ... existence of a government program for recruiting and training informants.
Sensitive Informant Program - Free Republic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2983690/posts" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Jan 30, 2013 - Brother of Murder Victim Seeks Details of FBI's 'Sensitive Informant Program' ... In his motion, Trentadue described the program as one used by the ... informants on the staffs of members of the United States Congress and ...
Keyword: trentadue - Free Republic
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/trentadue/index" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Brother of Murder Victim Seeks Details of FBI's 'Sensitive Informant Program' ... place informants on the staffs of members of the United States Congress and ...


2nd read

Junior G-Man Sen Inhofe: ISIS Developing Plan to Blow Up Major US City

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkou ... d-n1882422" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


| Aug 23, 2015
The administration can deny that the Islamic State (ISIS) is not at war with America all it wants, but their rhetoric, numerous threats, and recent beheading of an American journalist suggest otherwise. And according to one senator, they’re already developing a plan to blow up a major U.S. city.

It is a serious warning coming from Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe as he warns of the potential of another attack on American soil. The senator sat down with Fox 25 to talk about a variety of topics, but as ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the top issue was national security.

“We're in the most dangerous position we've ever been in as a nation,” Senator Inhofe told Fox 25's Phil Cross.



3rd read

http://www.worldbulletin.net/news/14300 ... er-release" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Pakistani doctor's family shun ISIS call for her release




The family of Aafia Siddiqui, currently serving a prison term in the United States for attempted murder, rejected any link to the Islamic State

The family of a Pakistani doctor serving a jail sentence in America for an attack on a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan has rejected the Islamic State’s demand for her release.

Last week it was reported that the insurgents had called for the releasee of Aafia Siddiqui, once listed among the FBI’s seven most wanted al-Qaeda figures, as a condition of releasing Western hostages, including James Foley.


After taxpayer funded FBI agents create ISIS they become available to protect us from ISIS

Can you smell the Sulphur?

see link for full story



How the US Helped ISIS Grow Into a Monster


In his new book, Patrick Cockburn writes that America's failed strategy will only make ISIS stronger.

—By Patrick Cockburn
| Thu Aug. 21, 2014 5:39 PM EDT
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This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. This essay is excerpted from the first chapter of Patrick Cockburn's new book, The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising, with special thanks to his publisher, OR Books. The first section is a new introduction written for TomDispatch.

There are extraordinary elements in the present US policy in Iraq and Syria that are attracting surprisingly little attention. In Iraq, the US is carrying out air strikes and sending in advisers and trainers to help beat back the advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (better known as ISIS) on the Kurdish capital, Erbil. The US would presumably do the same if ISIS surrounds or attacks Baghdad. But in Syria, Washington's policy is the exact opposite: there the main opponent of ISIS is the Syrian government and the Syrian Kurds in their northern enclaves. Both are under attack from ISIS, which has taken about a third of the country, including most of its oil and gas production facilities.

But US, Western European, Saudi, and Arab Gulf policy is to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, which happens to be the policy of ISIS and other jihadis in Syria. If Assad goes, then ISIS will be the beneficiary, since it is either defeating or absorbing the rest of the Syrian armed opposition. There is a pretense in Washington and elsewhere that there exists a "moderate" Syrian opposition being helped by the US, Qatar, Turkey, and the Saudis. It is, however, weak and getting more so by the day. Soon the new caliphate may stretch from the Iranian border to the Mediterranean and the only force that can possibly stop this from happening is the Syrian army.

The reality of US policy is to support the government of Iraq, but not Syria, against ISIS. But one reason that group has been able to grow so strong in Iraq is that it can draw on its resources and fighters in Syria. Not everything that went wrong in Iraq was the fault of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, as has now become the political and media consensus in the West. Iraqi politicians have been telling me for the last two years that foreign backing for the Sunni revolt in Syria would inevitably destabilize their country as well. This has now happened.

By continuing these contradictory policies in two countries, the US has ensured that ISIS can reinforce its fighters in Iraq from Syria and vice versa. So far, Washington has been successful in escaping blame for the rise of ISIS by putting all the blame on the Iraqi government. In fact, it has created a situation in which ISIS can survive and may well flourish.


Using the al-Qa'ida Label

The sharp increase in the strength and reach of jihadist organizations in Syria and Iraq has generally been unacknowledged until recently by politicians and media in the West. A primary reason for this is that Western governments and their security forces narrowly define the jihadist threat as those forces directly controlled by al-Qa'ida central or "core" al-Qa'ida. This enables them to present a much more cheerful picture of their successes in the so-called war on terror than the situation on the ground warrants.

In fact, the idea that the only jihadis to be worried about are those with the official blessing of al-Qa'ida is naïve and self-deceiving. It ignores the fact, for instance, that ISIS has been criticized by the al-Qa'ida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri for its excessive violence and sectarianism. After talking to a range of Syrian jihadi rebels not directly affiliated with al-Qa'ida in southeast Turkey earlier this year, a source told me that "without exception they all expressed enthusiasm for the 9/11 attacks and hoped the same thing would happen in Europe as well as the US"

Jihadi groups ideologically close to al-Qa'ida have been relabeled as moderate if their actions are deemed supportive of US policy aims. In Syria, the Americans backed a plan by Saudi Arabia to build up a "Southern Front" based in Jordan that would be hostile to the Assad government in Damascus, and simultaneously hostile to al-Qa'ida-type rebels in the north and east. The powerful but supposedly moderate Yarmouk Brigade, reportedly the planned recipient of anti-aircraft missiles from Saudi Arabia, was intended to be the leading element in this new formation. But numerous videos show that the Yarmouk Brigade has frequently fought in collaboration with JAN, the official al-Qa'ida affiliate. Since it was likely that, in the midst of battle, these two groups would share their munitions, Washington was effectively allowing advanced weaponry to be handed over to its deadliest enemy. Iraqi officials confirm that they have captured sophisticated arms from ISIS fighters in Iraq that were originally supplied by outside powers to forces considered to be anti-al-Qa'ida in Syria.

The name al-Qa'ida has always been applied flexibly when identifying an enemy. In 2003 and 2004 in Iraq, as armed Iraqi opposition to the American and British-led occupation mounted, US officials attributed most attacks to al-Qa'ida, though many were carried out by nationalist and Baathist groups. Propaganda like this helped to persuade nearly 60% of US voters prior to the Iraq invasion that there was a connection between Saddam Hussein and those responsible for 9/11, despite the absence of any evidence for this. In Iraq itself, indeed throughout the entire Muslim world, these accusations have benefited al-Qa'ida by exaggerating its role in the resistance to the US and British occupation.

Precisely the opposite PR tactics were employed by Western governments in 2011 in Libya, where any similarity between al-Qa'ida and the NATO-backed rebels fighting to overthrow the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, was played down. Only those jihadis who had a direct operational link to the al-Qa'ida "core" of Osama bin Laden were deemed to be dangerous. The falsity of the pretense that the anti-Gaddafi jihadis in Libya were less threatening than those in direct contact with al-Qa'ida was forcefully, if tragically, exposed when US ambassador Chris Stevens was killed by jihadi fighters in Benghazi in September 2012. These were the same fighters lauded by Western governments and media for their role in the anti-Gaddafi uprising.


Imagining al-Qa'ida as the Mafia

Al-Qa'ida is an idea rather than an organization, and this has long been the case. For a five-year period after 1996, it did have cadres, resources, and camps in Afghanistan, but these were eliminated after the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001. Subsequently, al-Qa'ida's name became primarily a rallying cry, a set of Islamic beliefs, centering on the creation of an Islamic state, the imposition of sharia, a return to Islamic customs, the subjugation of women, and the waging of holy war against other Muslims, notably the Shia, who are considered heretics worthy of death. At the center of this doctrine for making war is an emphasis on self-sacrifice and martyrdom as a symbol of religious faith and commitment. This has resulted in using untrained but fanatical believers as suicide bombers, to devastating effect.

It has always been in the interest of the US and other governments that al-Qa'ida be viewed as having a command-and-control structure like a mini-Pentagon, or like the mafia in America. This is a comforting image for the public because organized groups, however demonic, can be tracked down and eliminated through imprisonment or death. More alarming is the reality of a movement whose adherents are self-recruited and can spring up anywhere.

Osama bin Laden's gathering of militants, which he did not call al-Qa'ida until after 9/11, was just one of many jihadi groups 12 years ago. But today its ideas and methods are predominant among jihadis because of the prestige and publicity it gained through the destruction of the Twin Towers, the war in Iraq, and its demonization by Washington as the source of all anti-American evil. These days, there is a narrowing of differences in the beliefs of jihadis, regardless of whether or not they are formally linked to al-Qa'ida central.

Unsurprisingly, governments prefer the fantasy picture of al-Qa'ida because it enables them to claim victories when it succeeds in killing its better known members and allies. Often, those eliminated are given quasi-military ranks, such as "head of operations," to enhance the significance of their demise. The culmination of this heavily publicized but largely irrelevant aspect of the "war on terror" was the killing of bin Laden in Abbottabad in Pakistan in 2011. This enabled President Obama to grandstand before the American public as the man who had presided over the hunting down of al-Qa'ida's leader. In practical terms, however, his death had little impact on al-Qa'ida-type jihadi groups, whose greatest expansion has occurred subsequently.

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Where is the breatholator test or blood work?

Never given a test.
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Drugs and alcohol are not believed to be factors in the single-car crash in Vermont that seriously injured former FBI director Louis Freeh, state police said Tuesday.

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US Senator from Vermont (D) Patrick Leahy is a made member of the FBI Crime family having been a former prosecutor in the DOJ.

Don Corleone Leahy has protected the FBI from investigation for 39 years since he entered office in 1975.

That is a lot of FBI Guano and Sulpur emissions, eh?


Still no breathalyzer or blood analysis given for DUI....



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Ex-FBI chief thanks supporters, hospital after crash


August 30. 2014



BURLINGTON, Vt. — Former FBI director Louis Freeh issued a statement Friday thanking supporters and hospital staff following the car crash in Vermont on Monday that left him with serious injuries.

The eight-sentence statement marked Freeh's first public comments regarding the wreck but included no information about his condition, the extent of his injuries or the crash itself.

"May God bless all of these individuals who are so instrumental in my recovery," Freeh said in the statement, which singled out high-profile supporters and medical personnel for praise.

Freeh, 64, of Wilmington, Del., drove his SUV off Vermont 12 in Barnard, struck a mailbox and bushes and came to rest against a tree. Emergency crews had to cut away the roof of his GMC Yukon to rescue Freeh after the wreck.



Ex-FBI chief's condition remains mystery after crash

The Vermont State Police have yet to release a cause of the crash, but investigators have said they believe alcohol and drugs were not factors.

Freeh has been hospitalized at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., since being airlifted to the facility from the crash scene. The hospital, citing patient confidentiality rules, has declined to release any information about Freeh or even confirm that he is a patient.

Sen Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., visited Freeh on Friday and issued the statement on Freeh's behalf.

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Taxpayer funded FBI agents teaching local
mercenaries the importance of spinning crime information.
as always using the taxpayer dime


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"When you get this narrow line, and anybody that's not on their side of the line is not human and deserves to die," ABC News consultant and former FBI agent Brad Garrett said.

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couple of reads

I want to believe...
How about you?


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Former FBI agent to speak at crime commission banquet



09/03/2014 11:36 AM



A retired FBI agent who helped capture “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski will be the keynote speaker at the Wichita Crime Commission’s awards banquet in October.

Candace DeLong was one of three agents selected in 1995 to hunt for the Unabomber, who sent 16 bombs over 17 years, killing six people. She was one of three agents who interviewed Kaczynski after his capture.

DeLong has been called the real-life Clarissa Starling from the movie “Silence of the Lambs,” according to the crime commission. She also can be seen on the Investigation Discovery Channel’s “Deadly Women” TV series where she explores the psychology of female serial killers.

The banquet honoring law enforcement, criminal justice professionals and residents who helped solve and prevent crimes will be held at 6 p.m. on Oct. 23, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Airport Hotel.


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Tainting evidence : inside the scandals at the FBI crime lab / John F ...
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A key informant is Dr. Frederick Whitehurst, for 10 years a chemist at one such lab. ... from laziness and bungling in the Unabomber, O.J. Simpson and Oklahoma ...

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When can FBI use National Security letters to go after reporters ...
Boing Boing-September 3. 2014
Two weeks ago, the DOJ Inspector General released a report on the FBI's use of National Security Letters (NSLs)—-the controversial (and ...

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couple of reads


let god sort out the truth


Retired FBI Agent Lifts the Lid on Unabomber Case
Santa Clara Weekly- Sept 4. 2014
Highly-decorated retired FBI special agent Max Noel discussed the investigation, one of the costliest in FBI history, at the Santa Clara Rotary Club's Aug.


2nd read

see link for FBI Lab whistleblower report on the Unabomber
http://www.google.com/#q=Fred+Whitehust ... +unabomber" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


USDOJ/OIG FBI Labs Report - Department of Justice
http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/9704a/00exesum.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Section II describes the OIG investigation (Part Two of the Report). Section III ... We concluded that Frederic Whitehurst cannot effectively function within the ..... fourteen explosive devices thought to be associated with the so-called Unabomber.
Terry Rudolph Fbi | FBI gets taste of scandal Inattention: Report on ...
articles.baltimoresun.com/.../1997110003_1_crime-lab-unabomber-fbi-lab
Apr 20, 1997 - In 13 attacks attributed to the Unabomber between 1978 and mid-1995, the ... Criticisms of Rudolph by Frederic Whitehurst, a lab agent turned whistle-blower, ... Justice and the FBI Flawed work: Inspector general's report.
Tainting Evidence - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/ke ... dence.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
But the IG's report, shocking as its conclusions were, was severely limited. ... quickly realized that the inspector general's report had to be the beginning, not the end. ... As Fred Whitehurst, a mustached Vietnam veteran sat, arms crossed, at the ... IG looked at -- the World Trade Center bombing, the Unabomber investigation, ...
Frederick Whitehurst FBI Lab scandal Whitehurst Report Unabom
http://www.unabombers.com/A26.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The FBI's Unabomber Cover-up began long before the Whitehurst Report ever exposed the FBI Lab Scandal and it goes much deeper. Evidence Planting ...
Missing: oig
Professionalism/Frederic Whitehurst and the FBI - Wikibooks, open ...
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/Frederic_Whitehurst_and_the_FBI
Jump to Department of Justice Report - Incited by Whitehurst's numerous allegations, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Office of the Inspector General ...
Missing: unabomber
[PDF]Opinion - Florida State University College of Law
http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/flsupct/ ... -93816.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
OIG investigated several individual analysts, the report did not conclude that. Havekost engaged in any ... Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, Ph.D. (Whitehurst), was the supervising analyst in the ... (one of the Unabomber cases). The allegations related ...
Fbi Crime Lab Doj Ig Report 1997 | Prison Legal News
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/.. ... port-1997/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
USDOJ/OIG Special Report The FBI Laboratory: An Investigation into Laboratory .... brought to the OIG's attention by Supervisory Special Agent Frederic Whitehurst, ..... explosive devices thought to be associated with the so-called Unabomber.
labscam - MarijuanaLibrary.org
http://www.marijuanalibrary.org/LABSCAM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Note that many sources are radio news reports, and thus the spelling of many ... ``In all instances, the FBI, or the Department of Justice inspector general's office, or, ... Special Agent Frederic Whitehurst claims that evidence is rigged or slanted to ..... Unabomber Theodore Kacyznski was=20 either =B3incomplete or missing.

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Hello boys and girls.
Welcome to FBI Director "jimmy the water boarder" Comey's
Manufacturing Consent neighborhood.
Sometimes called "I want to make believe time.

Today's word from the X-Rated Nah I meant X Files is
Public Safety Academy.
Can you say Public Safety Academy boys and girls?



If 3 FBI agents tell us the real story
it must be true,?
Being the good criminal justice consumer
you just read Professor Mathew Cecil's book

How the Media Conned the Public into Loving the FBI: Book Review ...
whowhatwhy.com/2014/04/.../media-conned-public-loving-fbi-book-revie...
Apr 9, 2014 - A review of “Hoover's FBI and the Fourth Estate: The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau's Image” by Matthew Cecil, University ...

So when you see these 3 FBI spinmeisters telling us the FBI was
"media shy". you said ". busted again for lying". ,eh?



couple of reads


1st read
FBI Whistleblower Gets $300,000 - AP News Archive
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/...Whistle ... 146ca32e24.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Mar 11, 1998 - The government also agreed to speed the release to Whitehurst of ... including the Unabomber, World Trade Center bombing and Pan Am 103 ...
Fbi Scandal Of The 70's 80's | Fbi Gets Taste Of Scandal - Page 2 ...
articles.baltimoresun.com/1997-04-20/news/...1_crime...unabomber.../2
Apr 20, 1997 - FBI bosses suspended Whitehurst without pay for a week and put him on probation for six months, but Rudolph, ... Responses like that only accelerated Whitehurst's rage against the FBI machine. ... Much Unabomber evidence is blown Internal FBI audit can't. ... Crime Lab · Unabomber · Center Bombing.
05/13/97 Committee on the Judiciary - Whitehurst Statement
fas.org/irp/congress/1997_hr/h970513w.htm
No other matter of greater importance than the World Trade Center bombing ... and FBI for raising "indications" of misconduct, Dr. Whitehurst's "whistleblowing" ...
Missing: unabomber
Frederic Whitehurst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Whitehurst
Frederic Whitehurst was a Supervisory Special Agent in the Federal Bureau of ... project of the National Whistleblower Center, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization.
Missing: unabomber
Unabomber News History - Drug link investigated in US judge's killing
http://www.unabombers.com/News/97-04-16 ... Scam-2.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Apr 16, 1997 - ... World Trade Center bombing, the Oklahoma City bombing, the mail bomb ... While the final report substantiated many of Whitehurst's criticisms, it took ... PHOTO 1: FBI whistleblower Frederick Whitehurst shown in a Sept 14, ...
Standard-Speaker on Newspapers.com
http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/63126111/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
... the Unabomber, World Trade Center bombing and Pan Am 103 bombing cases. ... Whitehurst has become the founding director of the National Whistleblower ...
Tarnished Badge - TIME
content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,7982,00.html
Apr 15, 1997 - Even Frederic Whitehurst, the FBI whistleblower whose allegations ... of the hundreds of allegations made by Whitehurst," wrote Bromwich, who ...
The Dangers of Dissent: The FBI and Civil Liberties since 1965
books.google.com/books?isbn=0739149393
Ivan Greenberg - 2010 - ‎History
Whistleblower Frederic Whitehurst alleged the crime laboratory routinely tampered with ... political cases, including the first World Trade Center bombing case (1993), the Oklahoma City bombing case (1995), and the Unabomber case.
Unabomber - Investigative Reporters and Editors | Stories
http://www.ire.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; › Resource Center › Stories
This article takes an in-depth look into the making of the Unabomber. ... chemist Frederic Whitehurst, the FBI's first whistleblower, how the FBI lab has ... Unabomber case, the O.J. Simpson prosecution and the World Trade Center explosion.

2nd read

Posted: 09/04/14, 5:59 PM PDT


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Former FBI agents Jim Freeman, Terry Turchie and Donald Max Noel will talk about their newly released book “UNABOMBER: How the FBI Broke Its Own Rules to Capture the Terrorist Ted Kaczynski” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Redlands Barnes & Noble bookstore, 27460 Lugonia Ave.

“UNABOMBER: How the FBI Broke Its Own Rules to Capture the Terrorist Ted Kaczynski” documents the pursuit of American terrorist Ted Kaczynski, who was convicted of killing three people and injuring 23 through a series of mail bombs.

The authors are the FBI agents who ran the case that they say changed the FBI from the tradition-bound, media-shy agency of J. Edgar Hoover to the high-tech, media-savvy agency of today.

Jim Freeman was the SAC (special agent in charge) appointed by FBI Director Louis Freeh, Terry Turchie was the assistant special agent in charge of the UNABOM Task Force, and Donald Max Noel was the supervisory special agent of the UNABOM Task Force and arresting special agent.

In the book, they recount the story of the FBI’s change from the “corner office” to the agent on the wind-swept streets.

Their book talk is scheduled as a part of the Public Safety Academy of San Bernardino’s annual bookfair, which honors those who were affected by the events of Sept. 11, 2001. The Public Safety Academy will open the bookfair with a presentation of colors, and plans to have family friendly-activities from 5:30 to 7 p.m. All activities are open to the public.

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JFK: How the Media Assassinated the Real Story
By Robert Hennelly & Jerry Policoff

If the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy was one of the darkest tragedies in the republic's history, the reporting of it has remained one of the worst travesties of the American media. From the first reports out of Dallas in November of 1963 to the merciless flagellation of Oliver Stone's JFK over the last several months, the mainstream media have disgraced themselves by hewing blindly to the single-assassin theory advanced by the FBI within hours of the murder. Original, enterprise reporting has been left almost entirely to alternative weeklies, monthly magazines, book publishers, and documentary makers. All such efforts over the last 29 years have met the same fate as Oliver Stone's movie: derision from the mainstream media. At first, the public bought the party line. But gradually, as more and more information slipped through the margins of the media business, and finally through the efforts of Congress itself, the public began to change its mind.

Today, according to a recent New York Times/CBS poll, an astonishing 77 percent of Americans reject the Warren Report's conclusions. How did such a tremendous credibility gap come about? And, assuming that the majority of Americans are right, how did a free press so totally blow one of the biggest stories of the century? To find out, Village Voice has reviewed hundreds of documents bearing on the media's coverage of the assassination, and has discovered a pattern of collusion and co-optation that is hardly less chilling than the prospect of a conspiracy to kill the president. In particular, The New York Times, Time-Life, CBS, and NBC have striven mightily to protect the single assassin hypothesis, even when that has involved the suppression of information, the coercion of testimony, and the misrepresentation of key evidence. The "Voice" has discovered that: Within days of the assassination, the Justice Department quashed an editorial in The Washington Post that called for an independent investigation; within two weeks the FBI was able to crow that NBC had pledged not to report anything beyond what the FBI itself was putting before the American people; only four hours after the murder, Life magazine grabbed up one of the main pieces of evidence--the Zapruder film-- misrepresenting the content to millions of readers in its very first post-assassination issue and then continuing the lie with ever-changing captions and Zapruder frames in its special issue supporting the Warren Commission report; in 1967, a supposedly independent CBS documentary series on the assassination was in fact secretly reviewed and seemingly altered by former Warren Commission member John Jay McCloy, through a "Dad says" memo written by his daughter Ellen McCloy, then administrative assistant of CBS News president Richard Salant; within that same CBS series, the testimony of Orville Nix--an amateur filmmaker who captured the "the grassy knoll" angle on tape--was tailored to fit the requirements of CBS's Warren Commission slant. Much of this unethical and immoral practice was accomplished under the pretext of "sparing the Kennedy family."

Indeed, the coverage of the assassination was complicated by the cross-identification between reporters and the president. The Kennedys were the first, and possibly the last, American political family to so thoroughly cultivate the fourth estate; in the aftermath of the assassination, the media completely relinquished its usual skepticism and opened the door for the government to do whatever it found most expedient. What possible motive could the national media have for failing to properly investigate the Kennedy murder? Perhaps they were genuinely seduced by this "Camelot" they themselves created. And if anyone was going to end Camelot, far better for the memories, far better for the family, that it be a lone psycho than a conspiracy. And if the media were solicitous to the Kennedys in this way, they were positively patronizing to the citizenry. It was Vietnam all over again: the war was good for the country, so don't report how badly it was going; a conspiracy to kill the president would be demoralizing at home and humiliating abroad, so sweep under the rug any evidence pointing in that direction. And then of course there was the national security issue.

Many of the editors who were calling the shots on assassination coverage had come out of World War II. Their country took precedence over the truth; the CIA and FBI were entitled to the benefit of the doubt; the "free press" was sometimes confused with the Voice of America. J. Edgar Hoover, supreme patriarch of the FBI and all-powerful with a distraught Robert Kennedy out of the way, knew just how to exploit the opportunity. Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach recalls that Robert Kennedy, attorney general at the time, was so despondent he didn't even see the point of an investigation. "What the hell's the difference? He's gone," Katzenbach remembers RFK saying before handing over the reins. Just three days after the assassination an internal Justice Department memo from Katzenbach to Bill Moyers, then a top aide to Lyndon Johnson, spelled out the Justice Department's strategy, a strategy that would prevail to a shocking degree right through the end of the decade:

1. The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have confederates who are still at large; and that the evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial.

2. Speculation about Oswald's motivation ought to be cut off, and we should have some basis for rebutting thought that this was a Communist conspiracy or (as the Iron Curtain press is saying) a right-wing conspiracy to blame it on the Communists. Unfortunately the facts on Oswald seem about too pat--too obvious (Marxist, Cuba, Russian wife, etc.). The Dallas police have put out statements on the Communist conspiracy theory, and it was they who were in charge when he was shot and thus silenced.

Katzenbach, whose memo sets out the Warren report results a year before the commission reached them, suggests that a "Presidential Commission of unimpeachable personnel" be appointed to examine evidence and reach conclusions. In closing he writes,

I think, however, that a statement that all the facts will be made public property in an orderly and responsible way should be made now. We need something to head off public speculation or Congressional hearings of the wrong sort.

Such a statement was indeed made, and of course the facts, the files, the evidence never were made public in their entirety. As it turned out, the speculation took years; new Congressional hearings, decades. Today, Katzenbach realizes that allowing Hoover's agents to control the flow of information was a little like letting the fox guard the henhouse. The Senate Church committee report that came out in 1976 confirmed that while investigating the murder "top FBI officials were continually concerned with protecting the Bureau's reputation." Even Katzenbach concedes that Hoover would never "let the agency be embarrassed by any information on the bureau itself. He just would never show it. But how would you know it? What could you do?"

According to an FBI memo obtained by the Voice," it didn't take the FBI or the Justice Department long to get the the press under control. On November 25, 1963, the White House learned that The Washington Post planned an editorial calling for the convening of a presidential commission to investigate the assassination. Though Lyndon Johnson planned to do just that, the strategy was to get the FBI report out first. The memo states that Katzenbach called Washington Post editor Russell Wiggins and told him that "the Department of Justice seriously hoped that the Washington Post would not encourage any specific means" by which the facts should be made available to the public. The memo also describes a conversation an FBI agent had with Al Friendly, The Washington Post's managing editor, discouraging publication of the editorial and suggesting that it would "merely `muddy the waters' and would create further confusion and hysteria." The editorial never appeared. Later that day Hoover triumphantly boasted in another FBI memo that "I called Mr. Walter Jenkins at the White House and advised him that we had killed the editorial in the Post." The FBI had the electronic media wired as well. A December 11, 1963, teletype from the FBI office in New York to J. Edgar Hoover indicates that NBC had given the bureau assurances that it would "televise only those items which are in consonance with bureau report [on the assassination]." The eight-page FBI message details the substance of NBC's research, including the development of leads. "NBC has movie film taken at some one hundred and fifty feet showing a Dallas Police Dept. officer rushing into book depository building while most of police and Secret Service were rushing up an incline towards railroad trestle [in front of the motorcade]."
THE NEW YORK TIMES

The paper of record, The New York Times, led the newsprint pack with the official story. Months before the Warren Commission report was released, Times writer Anthony Lewis got a special exclusive preview and his June 1, 1964, page-one article presented its findings in positively glowing terms; over the years he has continued to attack Warren Commission critics as well as Oliver Stone's film. Lewis has told the Voice that his close ties with the Kennedys, specifically Robert made "it very painful to me personally. Over the years I felt I did not want to get involved as a counterexpert or expert. Maybe with all that has happened, Vietnam and Watergate, today's reporters would have come to it with more resistance. There was at the time a predisposition for the society as a whole to believe." But can "lost innocence" account wholly for the mangling of history and management of information that the major media engaged in during that period?

For the Times, creating a supportive climate for the Warren report seemed an institutional imperative. The Times was going to run the report in the paper and then go commercial with it: collaborating with the Book of the Month Club and Bantam Books to publish it in September of 1964. On May 24, 1964, Clifton Daniel of the Times wrote Warren Commission Chief Counsel J. Lee Rankin expressing gratitude to Chief Justice



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On November 25, 1963, the White House learned that The Washington Post planned an editorial calling for the convening of a presidential commission to investigate the assassination. Though Lyndon Johnson planned to do just that, the strategy was to get the FBI report out first. The memo states that Katzenbach called Washington Post editor Russell Wiggins and told him that "the Department of Justice seriously hoped that the Washington Post would not encourage any specific means" by which the facts should be made available to the public. The memo also describes a conversation an FBI agent had with Al Friendly, The Washington Post's managing editor, discouraging publication of the editorial and suggesting that it would "merely `muddy the waters' and would create further confusion and hysteria." The editorial never appeared. Later that day Hoover triumphantly boasted in another FBI memo that "I called Mr. Walter Jenkins at the White House and advised him that we had killed the editorial in the Post." The FBI had the electronic media wired as well. A December 11, 1963, teletype from the FBI office in New York to J. Edgar Hoover indicates that NBC had given the bureau assurances that it would "televise only those items which are in consonance with bureau report [on the assassination]." The eight-page FBI message details the substance of NBC's research, including the development of leads. "NBC has movie film taken at some one hundred and fifty feet showing a Dallas Police Dept. officer rushing into book depository building while most of police and Secret Service were rushing up an incline towards railroad trestle [in front of the motorcade]."



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where do I get my news?
here!


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How Rep. King Aided Leak He Decried
September 8, 2014

Washington insiders like to swap around sensitive information to show how important they are, but some then protest loudly when a journalist lets the broader public in on the secrets. That can lead to obvious hypocrisies as occurred with Rep. Peter King, writes Marcy Wheeler.

By Marcy Wheeler

On May 7, 2012, then Associated Press reporters Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo broke the story of a thwarted al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) underwear bomb plot by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Within a day, several news outlets — including ABC News, Los Angeles Times, and New York Times – reported that the culprit was actually a Saudi agent.

On May 9, 2012, Rep. Peter King, R-New York, called for an FBI investigation to determine who leaked details of the plot to the AP.
Rep. Peter King, R-New York

Rep. Peter King, R-New York

“I’m calling on the FBI to do a full of investigation of how this was leaked, who’s leaking it. And also the CIA to do an internal investigation,” King said. “This came from such a small circle. Nobody in Congress knew about it. My understanding is very few of anyone in the FBI even knew about it. And yet so much of it was leaked to the Associated Press a week ago, and now someone’s leaking like a sieve. This is really dangerous to the national security.”

The Department of Justice did launch the investigation King demanded. In fact, in early 2013, DOJ obtained the phone records of 20 AP phone lines – affecting 100 AP journalists – without giving the outlet an opportunity to challenge the subpoena. The investigation and excessive subpoena has marked one of the low points of the Obama administration’s crackdown on journalism.

The investigation ended last September when former FBI bomb expert Donald Sachtleben pled guilty to serving as a source to one of the AP journalists. Prosecution documents revealed that, because the government had already been investigating Sachtleben for child porn charges, they already had the means to find his communications with the AP reporters, without compromising the sources of 98 other journalists.

The investigation King demanded ended up needlessly compromising the reporting of a slew of journalists. That’s remarkable, because — as emails newly released by The Intercept‘s Ken Silverstein show — Peter King himself was talking to journalists about the story.

Within hours of the first AP report, Scott Shane, of the New York Times, emailed CIA’s press office asking them to clarify something King told the NYT, based on the briefings King had gotten about the plot.

“‘They said that we don’t have to worry about him anymore, that we don’t have to worry about this guy. That was the exact language they used,’” Shane recounted King explaining, on the record. “Can you help me interpret what Rep. King is saying…?”

As King explained to Wolf Blitzer two days after this conversation with NYT journalists – even as he was calling for an investigation into the people leaking classified information – he had been in a number of Top Secret briefings on the plot. King complained that “so many people are talking about something which is still classified.” Rep. King’s office did not return a request for comment.

Shane explained to ExposeFacts over the weekend that King’s comment led him to wonder whether – and then confirm — the bombing culprit was really an infiltrator.

“I do remember being genuinely puzzled on May 7 by King’s remark that he had been told we ‘don’t have to worry about’ the guy and trying hard that night to get officials to clarify,” Shane described. “The next morning it suddenly occurred to me that the guy might have been an agent,” he continued. “I finally got someone to confirm in the afternoon and we posted a story.”

On May 8 — even before King started calling for an investigation into those leaking classified information — Shane and Eric Schmitt reported, “The suicide bomber dispatched by the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda last month to blow up a United States-bound airliner was actually an intelligence agent for Saudi Arabia who infiltrated the terrorist group and volunteered for the mission, American and foreign officials said Tuesday.”

Shane emphasized that he doesn’t know whether King meant to imply that the culprit was an infiltrator. “I actually have no idea whether King himself at that point knew the guy was a double agent — that was so sensitive that they may have omitted it from his briefing.” But by sharing details from the briefings he had gotten, King provided a clue that led the NYT to learn and report an important new detail about the plot.

That’s not to say Peter King should be investigated for leaking to journalists — as he himself insisted should happen — or lose his access to classified information on the House Intelligence Committee. On the contrary, it’s a good example of how journalists work — and should work.

On the contrary, it shows why the first response to solid national security reporting should not be to demand an investigation. Even an innocuous comment may lead journalists to ask the right questions to flesh out the story. Those kinds of conversations should not be criminalized … even in spite of what King demanded.

Investigative journalist Marcy Wheeler writes the “Right to Know” column for ExposeFacts. She is best known for providing in-depth analysis of legal documents related to “war on terrorism” programs and civil liberties. Wheeler blogs at emptywheel.net and publishes at outlets including the Guardian, Salon and the Progressive. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy. Wheeler won the 2009 Hillman Award for blog journalism.

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Why California’s Smartphone ‘Kill Switch’ Law Should Concern Journalists
September 10, 2014

By Jonathan Peters via CJR

Imagine this.

You’re a journalist covering a street protest, and the local police chief doesn’t like the photos you’re tweeting from your iPhone. One shows an officer arresting a minister. Another shows a protester surrendering as an officer chokes him. Yet another shows a teargas canister landing near a group of young people. The batons and rubber bullets come out, and …

… the chief remotely disables the journalist’s iPhone, rendering it useless.

Soon that will be within the realm of possibility in California—technically, if not legally. Last week Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed into law a bill that requires any smartphone manufactured after June 2015 and sold in California to include a feature that can render the device inoperable, a so-called “kill switch.”

The bill was framed as an antitheft measure, developed to allow a smartphone owner to disable her device if it’s stolen. State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), who authored the bill, said in a statement, “California has just put smartphone thieves on notice. Our efforts will effectively wipe out the incentive to steal smartphones.”

Citing Consumer Reports, the statement said that in the US the number of victims of smartphone theft rose from 1.6 million to 3.1 million between 2012 and 2013. And the bill itself, citing the Federal Communications Commission, said smartphone theft accounts for 30-40 percent of robberies in major cities nationwide, many violent and some resulting in the loss of life.

From an anti-theft and consumer-safety standpoint, a kill switch isn’t a bad idea. In fact, it’s not even a new idea. Apple users already can download the Find My iPhone app to locate a device, track where it’s been, prevent anyone from using it, and erase personal data stored on it. Other companies provide similar services to Android and Blackberry users.

So my concern isn’t that smartphone theft is unfit for a technical response—it’s that the California legislation leaves open the possibility that law enforcement could hit the kill switch and stop newsgathering in its tracks.

To be clear, the scenario outlined above would likely represent an illegal act by law enforcement. A subsection of the law states that any government request “to interrupt communications service utilizing [the kill switch] is subject to Section 7908 of the Public Utilities Code,” which sets standards for such requests.

The standards are decent and generally require law enforcement to obtain a court order before interrupting any communications service by any means. Under § 7908, it would be okay to proceed without a court order only if the agency could prove exigent circumstances after the fact to a judge. (Users will also be able to opt-out of the default kill switch setting, though I question whether opting-out would actually stop a law enforcement agency determined to disable a phone.)

As the Electronic Frontier Foundation pointed out in a letter opposing the California law, it should concern us—journalists especially—that the law gives government actors greater ability to disable smartphones. Recent events in Ferguson, MO, remind us that abuses and police overreach happen. And the § 7908 standards were enacted to address the controversy caused when wireless service was shut off during the 2011 BART protests. With those things in mind, EFF wrote in its letter:

[The law] is not explicit about who can activate [the] switch. And more critically, [it] will be available for others to exploit as well, including malicious actors or law enforcement. While [the law] adopts the requirements of … § 7908 to … limit the circumstances in which government … officials can activate [the switch], the fact remains that the presence of such a mechanism in every phone by default would not be available but for the existence of [the law]. In essence, [the law] mandates the technical ability to disable every phone sold in California, and … § 7908 provides the necessary legal roadmap to do the same.

The San Francisco Examiner reported that the EFF unsuccessfully lobbied to amend the law so only a smartphone’s owner could hit the kill switch, and Wired reported that Apple, Blackberry, Google, and other firms initially opposed the law but dropped their opposition after its effective date was delayed. Meanwhile the CTIA, a trade group for the wireless telecommunications industry, opposed the law.

Notably, California wasn’t the first to pass a kill switch measure—that distinction goes to Minnesota, and Nevada is drafting one now, too. But it’s expected that California’s will be highly influential because the state is home to so many tech firms, and tends to lead other states in tech regulation.

For those reasons California’s move has at least two far-reaching implications. First, manufacturers surely won’t sell a special California phone. They’ll sell just one, with the kill switch, all around the country. Second, § 7908 doesn’t apply outside of California, so people in other states won’t automatically enjoy the court-order safeguards. In other words, the technical means to disable a phone will be available, but the legal means and protections for the user won’t necessarily be.

All of which made me think of what Jack Balkin, the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School, once wrote about the interaction of free speech theory, information policy, and the digital age.

“The practical ability to speak,” Balkin wrote, “rests on an infrastructure of free expression that involves a wide range of institutions, statutory frameworks, programs, technologies and practices.” We have the right to free expression, but policies that regulate the spread of knowledge and information create the context in which that expression occurs.

That means we need to design and regulate technology in a way that respects individual freedoms and the spirit of democracy—and journalism is a necessary ingredient of our democracy. It’s untenable for states to create the potential for government actors to interfere with newsgathering activities simply by hitting a kill switch, however unlikely that action might seem.

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KMUW, Wichita Public Radio interview
New Book Explores J. Edgar Hoover's Control of the Press

Hoover orders critical journalist investigated, undermined

In this October 15, 1958 FBI document, Director J. Edgar Hoover, with one handwritten note at the end of a memorandum, orders his agents to "press every angle" in their efforts to investigate and undermine a critical journalist, Fred J. Cook. Cook was the author of a very critical (and, looking back, incredibly accurate) alternative history of the FBI published in The Nation that month. When Hoover wrote "Press every angle. H." that order prompted agents to investigate Cook by following any lead imaginable and later, resulted in a lengthy memorandum that was shared with friendly reporters in an effort to get them to do the Bureau's dirty work and publicly undermine Cook's credibility.
Press Every Angle by mcecil

Interview and book excerpt on Mediachannel.org

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Marking a journalist for arrest

In the 1942 FBI document embedded below, FBI official Percy Foxworth informs J. Edgar Hoover that journalist James A. Wechsler is being placed on the Bureau's illegal Custodial Detention Index with an A1 designation. Individuals so designated were marked for arrest and imprisonment without charges in case of national emergency.
James A. Wechsler, FBI CDI by mcecil

Appearance on PRN's "News Dissector"
Matthew Cecil on PRN's "News Dissector"

Rejecting John Wayne

In this 1966 FBI document, Milton A. Jones of the Crime Records Division updates Hoover and Associate Director Clyde Tolson on plans to add a narrator to The FBI television series that aired Sunday nights on ABC from 1965 to 1974. According to Jones,Jimmy Stewart, who had starred in the 1959 schlockfest The FBI Story on the big screen, was unable to commit to the project. Iconic western star John Wayne was the second choice of producers but was problematic because of his membership in the ultra-conservative John Birch Society. After Jones laid out the history of Wayne's relationship with the Bureau, Hoover and Tolson offered their opinions in handwritten notes on the second page. Hoover simply did not want a narrator, writing, "Other high rated shows don't have them except the Bob Hope Theater & even in that Hope is more an anachronism as he does not appear in the show proper... If we can't put over the story by acting then it can't be very good." Tolson, ever the public relations alarmist, wrote, "I don't think we want anyone connected with the John Birch Society."
John Wayne rejected by J. Edgar Hoover by mcecil

Book excerpt: The shooting of Ben Dickson

When accused bank robber Bennie Dickson was shot and killed outside a St. Louis hamburger shop on April 6, 1939, the FBI reported that the heavily-armed thief had pulled out a gun and threatened the four special agents on the scene. The description was eerily similar to circumstances of the Dillinger shooting right down to the location on a busy city street near an alley and reports of the involvement of a woman informant who led FBI agents to the scene. The killing was justified, according to the Bureau, as an act of self-defense by federal agents in fear of their lives. Ostensibly, it was another feather in J. Edgar Hoover’s cap. His highly-trained investigators, the public was told, had applied all of the powers of the Bureau to locate and eliminate a dangerous, violent criminal who was hiding in plain sight, waiting for an opportunity to strike again. The Collier-Cooper narrative was upheld, according to the FBI’s version of events, and fears that the Bureau could become a danger to civil liberties were unfounded.

Unfortunately for Hoover, though, some St. Louis newspaper accounts directly contradicted the FBI’s version of events. A waitress at the Yankee System Hamburger shop, 19-year-old Gloria Cambron, offered a different account of reckless and careless agents who, with the help of a paid informant, arrived at the last moment and shot Dickson in the back as he attempted to flee. According to Cambron, who watched the shooting through the window of the hamburger shop, Dickson left the shop and when confronted by St. Louis SAC Gerald B. Norris, did not draw a gun. In fact, according to Cambron, Dickson turned and ran, moving quickly to a closed door next to the restaurant entrance that led to an apartment upstairs. As Dickson struggled to open the locked door, his side and back to the special agents approaching from his right, he was shot twice. Cambron also described a mysterious “woman in brown” who had joined Dickson at the hamburger shop, a detail reminiscent of Ana Sage, the “woman in red,” a paid informant who led agents to Dillinger.
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Internal FBI documents corroborated Cambron’s version of the story. In a so-called “Personal and Confidential” letter to Hoover, Norris described the wounds Dickson received. “Agent [withheld, probably the inexperienced John Bush] shot him twice in the body, one bullet entering his shoulder and going down toward the front, and the other going from one side of his body to the other.” If, as the FBI claimed, Dickson had been crouching directly in front of the agents approaching on the sidewalk, drawing his weapon to fire, it seems highly unlikely that the bullets would have followed a back-to-front and side-to-side trajectory. If, however, Dickson had been struggling to open a locked door as Cambron claimed, with the agents approaching from his right side, the trajectories would make sense, one bullet striking his shoulder and proceeding in a line from back to front and another striking his side and moving across the his torso.

The detail of a “woman in brown” likewise undermined parts of the FBI’s preferred narrative. According to Cambron, a paid informant and not science or FBI sleuthing, led agents to the hamburger shop that day. Until the “woman in brown” contacted the Bureau, agents had no idea where Bennie and Stella Mae Dickson might be. In the weeks before the shooting, the FBI issued thousands of news releases to newspapers from Maine to Los Angeles suggesting that the fugitives had been sighted nearby. Those papers responded with “Dicksons might be hiding here” stories and the resulting flood of public tips from all over the country were no help in locating the fugitives. In fact, Bennie and Stella Mae had fled to New Orleans and were living there for weeks before traveling to St. Louis to visit the sister of one of Dickson’s prison acquaintances, identified only as Naomi in FBI files. Naomi’s brother had urged her to contact Dickson to get money so their mother could get needed medical care. Dickson was in St. Louis to deliver aid to the family of a friend.

Naomi knew there was a reward for information leading to the capture of Bennie Dickson. She was later paid between $2,500 and $5,000 for the information that led to the killing of Bennie and capture of Stella Mae Dickson. A few days before the shooting, Naomi contacted Norris to tell him Dickson was on his way to town. She then phoned Norris 15 minutes before the meeting was to take place. Norris, who coincidentally lived near the Yankee System Hamburger Shop in midtown near Forest Park, hastily assembled a team of three agents and proceeded to the 7 S. Euclid Avenue, near the intersection with LaClede Street where his team gathered in a barber shop across the street. Norris attempted, unsuccessfully at first to identify Dickson by walking past the exterior of the shop. Unable to make a positive identification, Norris actually entered the shop to get a closer look at the man sitting at the counter with Naomi. Certain it was Dickson, Norris then gathered his agents in the alley next to the shop to wait for the fugitive bank robber to emerge. Within a few minutes, Dickson stepped onto the sidewalk and was shot to death. Agents quickly hustled Naomi from the scene.

Based on the FBI’s own accounts of the shooting, it seems very likely that the incident occurred exactly as described by Cambron, the only witness with nothing to lose by telling the truth about what she saw. There were other troubling clues in Norris’ report and subsequent FBI summaries filed in the days after the shooting. If Dickson had drawn a gun, why, then, did only one of the agents fire his weapon? Why did Norris, at the ensuing coroner’s inquest, refuse to say how many agents had fired? Why had ambulance attendants found Dickson’s weapon not in his hand, but in the belt of his pants under his coat? In the end, Cambron’s story seems to be the most credible.

Dickson, with his young wife, robbed banks in Elkton and Brookings, South Dakota in the fall of 1938. In both cases, they entered the bank early in the morning and waited for time-locked safes to open. As they waited, customers entered and were detained by the couple. In one case Dickson even returned cash to a farmer in a Robin Hood gesture reminiscent of Dillinger. The two escaped to a Lake Bennieton, Minnesota cabin after each robbery and tallied about $20,000 in stolen cash and securities. The Dickson case is not remembered as a major case and stands apart from the highly-publicized war on crime of the earlier 1930s that led to the creation of the Collier-Cooper narrative for FBI public relations. But the two bullets that killed Dickson transformed the Topeka native from the complicated and confused young man he actually was into a violent character in a dramatic story patterned after the shooting of Dillinger. The Dickson story was ultimately shoehorned into the responsibility, science, and Hoover narrative that characterized its public relations throughout the final three decades of Hoover’s tenure as director. As reconfigured by Crime Records Division writers, Dickson became just one more symbol of the efficiency of the FBI and his death was a morality tale of how crime does not pay.
Hoover and Walter Winchell dine in Miami Beach
J. Edgar Hoover (Center) dines with his top lieutenant Clyde Tolson (left) and famed syndicated columnist and broadcaster Walter Winchell at Arnold Reuben's restaurant during Hoover and Tolson's annual trip to Miami Beach in December 1940. It had been a difficult year for Hoover and the FBI as critics railed against the Bureau's tactics in a 1939 raid on alleged communists' homes in Detroit in which agents broke down doors and held the accused for nearly a day without allowing them to meet with attorneys. That same year, Congress caught Hoover in a lie about the Bureau's use of illegal wiretaps in its domestic security investigations. Through it all, of course, Winchell was a staunch defender and friend of the FBI.
J. Edgar Hoover (Center) dines with his top lieutenant Clyde Tolson (left) and famed syndicated columnist and broadcaster Walter Winchell at Arnold Reuben's restaurant during Hoover and Tolson's annual trip to Miami Beach in December 1940. It had been a difficult year for Hoover and the FBI as critics railed against the Bureau's tactics in a 1939 raid on alleged communists' homes in Detroit in which agents broke down doors and held the accused for nearly a day without allowing them to meet with attorneys. That same year, Congress caught Hoover in a lie about the Bureau's use of illegal wiretaps in its domestic security investigations. Through it all, of course, Winchell was a staunch defender and friend of the FBI.

Hoover pretends to know how to fire a machine gun
In this December 11, 1935 FBI publicity photo, Hoover (left) is joined at the Bureau shooting range by Sumner Blossom, Editor of The American Magazine, and journalist/author Courtney Ryley Cooper, a key ghost-writer for Hoover in the 1930s.
In this December 11, 1935 FBI publicity photo, Hoover (left) is joined at the Bureau shooting range by Sumner Blossom, Editor of The American Magazine, and journalist/author Courtney Ryley Cooper, a key ghost-writer for Hoover in the 1930s.

Interviewed by David A. Schwartz of the
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Matthew Cecil: New Books Network Interview

Hoover at the Stork Club with Walter Winchell
In this 1951 photo, Hoover is joined by (left to right) journalist Walter Winchell, tire company heiress Ann Firestone, and Yankee Clipper Joe Dimaggio at the famed Stork Club in New York.
In this 1951 photo, Hoover is joined by (left to right) journalist Walter Winchell, tire company heiress Ann Firestone, and Yankee Clipper Joe Dimaggio at the famed Stork Club in New York.

Hoover with William F. Buckley, Jr.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover presents Christopher Buckley with a copy of his book "A Study of Communism" as Christopher's father, National Review Editor William F. Buckley looks on. Note that Hoover autographed the image. This National Archives Photo was taken on October 26, 1962.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover presents Christopher Buckley with a copy of his book "A Study of Communism" as Christopher's father, National Review Editor William F. Buckley looks on. Note that Hoover autographed the image. This National Archives Photo was taken on October 26, 1962.

Hoover's Pulitzer Prize-winning "friend", Don Whitehead
J. Edgar Hoover presents two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Don Whitehead with his FBI credentials mounted on a plaque. In 1956, Whitehead was given an office at the FBI and wrote an "objective" authorized history of the Bureau. He did so by reporting only on the information that Hoover made available to him. Whitehead did literally no outside reporting of any kind for The FBI Story: A Report to the People, which was touted to the public by book reviewers as a work of independent journalism. It was nothing of the sort. Whitehead effectively sold his journalistic reputation to Hoover in exchange for a best-seller.
J. Edgar Hoover presents two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Don Whitehead with his FBI credentials mounted on a plaque. In 1956, Whitehead was given an office at the FBI and wrote an "objective" authorized history of the Bureau. He did so by reporting only on the information that Hoover made available to him. Whitehead did literally no outside reporting of any kind for The FBI Story: A Report to the People, which was touted to the public by book reviewers as a work of independent journalism. It was nothing of the sort. Whitehead effectively sold his journalistic reputation to Hoover in exchange for a best-seller.

Fingerprinting Hoover
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover is "fingerprinted" by journalist and author Courtney Ryley Cooper in this FBI publicity photograph circa 1936. Hoover's FBI adopted fingerprint science as an identification technique in the early 1930s and was one of the first U.S. law enforcement agencies to do so. Cooper, whose background included a stint as a circus clown, was a key advisor to and collaborator with Hoover in the 1930s, authoring dozens of magazine stories, books, and radio scripts featuring Bureau exploits. Cooper's story template, emphasizing science, responsibility and Hoover's leadership, characterized most FBI publicity for the ensuing four decades. Cooper hanged himself in a New York hotel room closet in 1940, prompting speculation that the FBI was involved in his death, an unlikely scenario to say the least.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover is "fingerprinted" by journalist and author Courtney Ryley Cooper in this FBI publicity photograph circa 1936. Hoover's FBI adopted fingerprint science as an identification technique in the early 1930s and was one of the first U.S. law enforcement agencies to do so. Cooper, whose background included a stint as a circus clown, was a key advisor to and collaborator with Hoover in the 1930s, authoring dozens of magazine stories, books, and radio scripts featuring Bureau exploits. Cooper's story template, emphasizing science, responsibility and Hoover's leadership, characterized most FBI publicity for the ensuing four decades. Cooper hanged himself in a New York hotel room closet in 1940, prompting speculation that the FBI was involved in his death, an unlikely scenario to say the least.

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two stories

1st story

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10/20/2014


How to Strengthen Your Mental Toughness Like An FBI Agent

LaRae Quy was a brand new FBI Special Agent, and it was the height of the Cold War, but she was given a huge job.

2nd read

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FBI ex-boss admits assaulting 6-year-old girl
Posted on 2/18/2004, 6:04:13 PM

WASHINGTON -- 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 what became a two-decade career.
John H. Conditt Jr., 53, was sentenced last week to 12 years in prison in Fort Worth, Texas, after he admitted he molested the daughter of two FBI agents after he retired.
He acknowledged molesting at least two other girls before he began his law enforcement career, his lawyer said.
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.

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two stories
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1st
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Press Release
Two Former FBI Special Agents On Way to Palm Desert to Tell Unabomber Story
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>PRWEB.COM NewswirePalisades, NY (PRWEB) October 23, 2014

Jim Freeman and Terry Turchie, two of the three FBI Special Agents who led the team that captured the terrorist Ted Kaczynski, will be at Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Palm Desert, California on October 25, to speak to the public about the internal struggle in the Bureau to change procedures necessary to capture the Unabomber. The authors will also discuss how the changes inadvertently established the groundwork for dealing with terrorism in the United States today.

The two Agent authors, along with the third co-author Max Noel, have appeared at 20 Barnes and Noble bookstores in California and appeared on Book-TV and C-Span in Washington, D.C. during their presentation at the Newseum on September 20.

"UNABOMBER, How the FBI Broke Its Own Rules To Capture the Terrorist Ted Kaczynski" is the story told by the former FBI agents of the internal struggle they experienced to change the outmoded procedures of the FBI. Newly assigned to the case after 16 years of futile search for the Unabomber, the struggle resulted in more expedient techniques including the use of reaching out to the public through the media for its assistance. Through the newly refined techniques, Mr. Kaczynski was captured in just two years.

"The public deserved to know the truth behind the capture of Ted Kaczynski," said Terry Turchie. "The behind- the -scenes story of the pursuit and capture of the Unabomber has never been t



2nd



NASA Patent in FBI CIA Unabomber Conspiracy Robert A. Frosch ...
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An expose of the FBI's Unabomber Cover-up. Evidence Planting, fabrications, lies, the inevitable patsy, and the witness objections to the frame-up.
Unabomber CIA NSA FBI Conspiracy funding Echelon
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An expose of the FBI's Unabomber Cover-up. Evidence Planting, fabrications, lies, the inevitable patsy, and the witness objections to the frame-up.
Part I: CIA, FBI, and the cover-up of the Unabomber | ELECTRIC ...
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Jul 27, 2014 - The Unabomber Theodore Kaczynsky (1978-1995) A considerable amount of credible evidence suggest that Theodore Kaczynsky participated ...
The FBI's Cover Up Of The Facts In The Unabomber Case -- 9-11
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Mar 27, 2008 - "Understanding Unabom provides in depth insight into the activities of the FBI and CIA before September 11th 2001. Activities that included the ...
Ted and the CIA, Part 1 - David Kaczynski - Blogs - Times Union
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Dec 19, 2010 - Was my brother, Ted Kaczynski (AKA “the Unabomber”), a sort of ..... Explores FBI coverup in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation. Kelly ...
Louis Freeh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Freeh began his career as an agent of the FBI, and was later an assistant United ... 2.7 Montana Freemen; 2.8 Unabomber; 2.9 Robert Hanssen; 2.10 Wen Ho Lee ... allegations of a cover-up by the FBI, and tensions developed between Freeh ...
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Unabomber CIA NSA FBI Conspiracy Echelon Terrorism Ten Most Wanted. "An expose of the FBI's Unabomber Cover-up. Evidence Planting, fabrications, lies ...
Did CIA Experiment Create the Unabomber? - Science Channel
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A student at Harvard named Theodore Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, participated in an intense experiment ... Twisted But True: Deadly Radio Wave Cover Up.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2014
NEWS / MEDIA / TECH Seattle Times Furious With FBI Over Allegations That the Agency Impersonated the Newspaper

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Seven years ago, the FBI used a kind of spyware known as a CIPAV to track down and arrest a 15-year-old hacker who was sending bomb threats to a high school near Olympia. Old news for privacy watchdogs. But today, ACLU analyst Christopher Soghoian trawled through an arcane set of the bureau's records and came across something startling: in order to get the suspect's computer infected with the spyware, the documents suggest that the FBI sent a message to him that masqueraded as an e-mail from The Seattle Times.

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"Here is the email link in the style of the Seattle Times," wrote one FBI agent, whose name is redacted. "Below is the news article we would like to send containing the CIPAV," wrote another. The e-mail includes a message, headline, link, and subscription information all purporting to represent an Associated Press article carried online by The Seattle Times. According to WIRED editor Kevin Poulsen, the message acted as a phishing attack and was sent to the young man's MySpace account, "luring him to read an article about himself at a custom url."

The HTML behind the link would presumably redirect the viewer to an FBI server, which would infect the computer with spyware (CIPAV stands for Computer & Internet Protocol Address Verifier) allowing the government to track the computer's "IP address, MAC address, list of running programs, operating system, Internet browser used, language used, the registered computer name, the currently logged-in username, and more," according to Ars Technica.

"I remember reading about it at the time and wondering, 'How do they get people to click on their stupid links?'" says Soghoian, the ACLU's Principal Technologist.

The suspect, identified only as Josh in court records because he was a juvenile, was arrested following the apparently successful use of the CIPAV. But, Soghoian says, "The ends don't justify the means. I'm not saying that the FBI shouldn't be investigating people who threaten to bomb schools. But impersonating the media is a really dangerous line to cross."

The editor of The Seattle Times, Kathy Best, says they just learned about this and are seeking answers from the FBI and the US Attorney's Office. "We are outraged that the FBI misappropriated the name of The Seattle Times to secretly install spyware on the computer of a crime suspect," Best says in an e-mailed statement. "Not only does that cross the line, it erases it... We hope that this mistake in judgment by the FBI was a one-time aberration and not a symptom of a deeper lack of respect for the role of a free press in society."

Soghoian likened the FBI's apparent ploy to the CIA's 2011 fake vaccine campaign in Pakistan, which was in reality a front for intelligence gathering. The CIA pledged not to engage in any future deceptive public health campaigns last year.

Frank Montoya, Jr., the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Seattle office, said in a statement: “Every effort we made in this investigation had the goal of preventing a tragic event like what happened at Marysville and Seattle Pacific University. We identified a specific subject of an investigation and used a technique that we deemed would be effective in preventing a possible act of violence in a school setting. Use of that type of technique happens in very rare circumstances and only when there is sufficient reason to believe it could be successful in resolving a threat. We were fortunate that information provided by the public gave us the opportunity to step in to a potentially dangerous situation before it was too late.”

And agency spokesperson Ayn Dietrich-Williams declined, for now, to disclose further details about how the fake e-mail was designed, writing: "I’m sure you’ll understand that in order to safeguard the FBI’s ability to effectively detect, disrupt, and dismantle threats to the public, we must be judicious in how we discuss investigative techniques."

Here's the Times' full statement:

We, like you, just learned of this and are seeking answers ourselves from the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s office.
But we are outraged that the FBI misappropriated the name of The Seattle Times to secretly install spyware on the computer of a crime suspect. Not only does that cross the line, it erases it.
Our reputation—and our ability to do our job as a government watchdog—is based on trust. And nothi

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Letters To The Editor
Reporter’s privilege is not constitutional

November 2 at 6:40 PM
Like nearly every piece of advocacy I’ve read on “reporter’s privilege,” “Holder’s dark legacy ” by David A. Schulz [op-ed, Oct. 30] failed to mention the landmark 1972 Supreme Court case Branzburg v. Hayes. In that case, the court held that the Constitution does not recognize such a privilege. As a result, a reporter’s promise of confidentiality, while honored in many other contexts, particularly as a matter of state law, must yield to the demand of a prosecutor to place the evidence before the grand jury.

I served the FBI in the general counsel’s office from 1997 to 2010 and had occasion to discuss with media representatives the attorney general guidelines that regulate subpoenas issued to reporters; the media representatives consistently refused to recognize the legitimacy of Branzburg. It is one thing to disagree with the court and to work to change the law (which has been done in some federal circuits and in some states). It is quite another to be, as the media are, pretty much the only major institution in the country to refuse to recognize the law of the land as legitimate — as the rest of us must do.

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