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Postby fruhmenschen » Mon Jul 25, 2011 11:19 am

July 25, 2011
Dear Congressman...........
I am asking you to take a leadership role in the House today and oppose the extension of FBI Director Robert Mueller's employment for another 2 years.
The reasons I make this request are:
1. The Boston Globe published a story on July 24, 2011 that presented evidence thet FBI Director Mueller engaged in criminal misconduct while pursuing a criminal conviction against Joseph Salvati and others when he was a Federal prosecutor in Boston.
2, There is compelling evidence that Robert Mueller engaged in criminal behaviour
covering up the prosecution of the BCCI banking scandal when he was a Federal Prosecutor.
I am enclosing the Boston Globe story as well as material regarding Mueller's coverup of the BCCI Banking scandal.
Please notify me how you voted for extending the employment of FBI Director Robert Mueller for another 2 years.

Thank you,


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http://www.boston.com/news/local/massac ... ?page=full
Kevin Cullen
A lingering question for the FBI’s director
By Kevin Cullen Globe Columnist / July 24, 2011

Back in 1976, as we were celebrating the 200th birthday of this republic, Congress passed a law limiting the tenure of the FBI director to 10 years.

This was done because, after the scandalous findings of the Church Commission, Congress realized that letting J. Edgar Hoover serve as director of the bureau from its founding in 1935 until his death in 1972 had only confirmed Lord Acton’s maxim that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Hoover was a power unto himself, and the FBI that was created very much in his image sometimes acted more like the secret police of the totalitarian regimes Hoover regularly denounced: running rogue wiretaps, harassing political dissidents, using illegal means to collect evidence. Hoover’s FBI wasn’t accountable; it was untouchable.

So now, just weeks after the FBI’s worst nightmare, a gangster and FBI informant by the name of Whitey Bulger came strolling back into town, Congress is about to ignore its own wisdom and let Bob Mueller, the FBI director and former US Attorney in Boston, stay on an extra two years.

President Obama says he needs Mueller to stay because there’s been so much turnover in the national security teams at the CIA and Pentagon, and that’s all well and good.

Mueller has wide, bipartisan support in Congress. To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen, I know Bob Mueller and he’s no J. Edgar Hoover, though the folks at the ACLU might take exception to that.

The recent FBI targeting of antiwar and labor activists in the Midwest has a disturbing echo of the days when the bureau considered Martin Luther King Jr. a sinister threat to national security.

But Mueller’s a Marine veteran and tough enough to take a question or two before Congress gives the president what he wants, and Mike Albano is just the guy to ask it: What did you know about Whitey Bulger, and when did you know it?

Back in the 1980s, when he was serving on the Massachusetts parole board, Albano expressed some sympathy for a group of men who had always maintained they had been framed for the 1965 gangland murder of a hoodlum named Teddy Deegan in Chelsea. The FBI had been instrumental in seeing that the men - Peter Limone, Henry Tameleo, Joe Salvati, and Louis Greco - were convicted. The FBI contended that Tameleo was the consigliere of the Mafia in Boston, and that Limone was a Mafia leader. There is no question that both men were bad actors, and Mafia players, but the evidence showed that neither had anything to do Deegan’s murder.

So in 1983, after Albano indicated he might vote to release Limone, he got a visit from a pair of FBI agents named John Connolly and John Morris. They told Albano that the men convicted of Deegan’s murder were bad guys, made guys.

“They told me that if I wanted to stay in public life, I shouldn’t vote to release a guy like Limone,’’ Albano said. “They intimidated me.’’

Turns out that Connolly was Whitey Bulger’s corrupt handler and Morris was Connolly’s corrupt supervisor. When they weren’t pocketing bribes from Bulger, they were helping him murder potential witnesses who were poised to expose the FBI’s sordid, Faustian deal with the rat named Whitey Bulger.

Albano was messing with the FBI’s national policy of going after the Mafia and the Mafia alone. That was the justification the FBI gave for making deals with devils like Whitey Bulger and his partner in crime, Stevie Flemmi. They were supposedly giving up their pals in the Mafia. The problem with the FBI’s national policy is that it didn’t take into account that the most vicious, murderous gangsters in Boston were Whitey Bulger and Stevie Flemmi.

After Albano was elected mayor of Springfield in 1995, he soon found the FBI hot on his tail, investigating his administration for corruption. The FBI took down several people in his administration, and Albano is convinced that the FBI wasn’t interested in public integrity as much as in publicly humiliating him because he dared to defy them.

In 2001, the four men convicted of Teddy Deegan’s murder were exonerated. Turned out the FBI let them take the rap to protect one of their informants, a killer named Vincent “Jimmy’’ Flemmi, who just happened to be the brother of their other rat, Stevie Flemmi. Thanks to the FBI’s corruption, taxpayers got stuck with the $100 million bill for compensating the framed men, two of whom, Greco and Tameleo, died in prison.

Albano was appalled that, later that same year, Mueller was appointed FBI director, because it was Mueller, first as an assistant US attorney then as the acting US attorney in Boston, who wrote letters to the parole and pardons board throughout the 1980s opposing clemency for the four men framed by FBI lies.

Of course, Mueller was also in that position while Whitey Bulger was helping the FBI cart off his criminal competitors even as he buried bodies in shallow graves along the Neponset.

“Before he gets that extension,’’ Mike Albano said, “somebody in the Senate or House needs to ask him why the US Attorney’s office he led let the FBI protect Whitey Bulger.’’

I called FBI headquarters in Washington and tried to do just that. The nice lady who answered suggested I talk to one of the FBI’s “public affairs specialists.’’ But my call was not returned.

Four years ago, when questioned about the FBI’s corruption in Boston, Mueller told the Globe, “I think the public should recognize that what happened, happened years ago.’’

That’s true. And we still don’t know what really happened.
Kevin Cullen is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at cullen@globe.com.

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http://www.freewebs.com/bnlscandal/

THE LARGEST FINANCIAL SCANDAL IN WORLD HISTORY-THE BNL/BCCI COVERUP IN WASHINGTON DC-The Director of FBI violated 4 federal laws

THE DIRECTOR OF THE FBI ROBERT SWAN MUELLER III WHILE A TOP OFFICIAL OF THE DOJ (CRIMINAL DIVISION) AT THE DEPT THAT CALL ITSELF JUSTICE - HE WAS AT THE CENTER OF AND INVOLVED IN SHUTTING DOWN THE LAGEST FINANCIAL SCANDAL AND POLITICAL RACKETEERING IN THE WORLD INVOLVING WASHINGTON LAWYERS,LOBBYISTS,AND POLITICIANS WHO GOT OFF SCOTT FREE WHILE MANY OF THE INTERNATION ASPECTS WERE PURSUED IN THE BNL AND BCCI SCANDALS. The Director of the FBI has VOLATED these federal laws.

18 USC 1505 Obstruction of proceedding

18 USC 1510(a) Obstruction of investigation

18 USC 1513 Retailiation against witness-victim

18 USC 1517 Obstructing Examination of financial institution

http://prorev.com/bush4.htm#mueller FBI DIRECTOR ROBERT SWAN MUELLER III OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE (BUSH'S BITCHBOY)

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/ JOHN KERRY & HANK BROWN'S SENATE REPORT

http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf ... le3333.htm BUSH FAMILY CRIME CONNECTION

http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/2003/msg00735.html The Bush-Blair Bribery Affair

"To understand the route of the bribe to Blair and the route, some
background is necessary.[2] Starting in the late 1980s and up to
1991, the highly mysterious espionage money laundry, BCCI, Bank of
Credit and Commerce International, was later implicated in a scheme
to bribe more than 25 per cent of both houses of Congress. More
than 28 U.S. Senators and more than 108 Congressmen.

The purpose of the scheme was to corruptly influence, by bribes or
phantom transactions used as blackmail, to members of Congress who
were chosen to help promote the interests of BCCI in opening
numerous branches in the U.S. The lawmakers were invited to give
speeches in Chicago, seldom reported in the press. While in the
Windy City, they were paid their "honorarium" (lecture fees)and
told they were getting as a bonus, an account with the exchanges
there, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade,
and the Chicago Board Options Exchange.

Later, some congressmen were told their Chicago accounts had a
loss, but through straddles (a technical device using losses on one
side of the fence, and gains on the other), they had a huge gain in
London. Some Congressmen directly or through trusted aides picked
up the "bonus" in London while secretly videotaped. Other
Congressmen did not do so, but through phantom records, were shown,
nevertheless to have "picked up" the pay-offs, in other words,
blackmail."

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/BCCI.htm The BCCI Bribery and Blackmail List for a short period, was public record in England-Four Major News organizations had the list verified it was correct.Here is the reported payoff list of US Congressman and Senators.Some have retired or lost elections since 1990.Here are some of the names from the Bank of England's reported BCCI bribery list, that included 108 members of the House and 28 U.S. Senators:
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Postby fruhmenschen » Mon Jul 25, 2011 11:47 am

Assistant U.S. attorney agrees to suspension over ties to political fund-raisers
July 23, 2011|By Robert Moran, Inquirer Staff Writer

Laurie Magid, a former interim U.S. attorney, has agreed to a 100-day suspension for violating federal restrictions on political contributions in connection with fund-raisers for U.S. Rep. Patrick L. Meehan and former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter.

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Postby fruhmenschen » Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:15 pm

What this article omits is the original source for this story comes from an interview done with Mrs Rosensteil
by Irish author Anthony Summers.
Rosensteil was married to close friend of J Edgar Hoover and Roy Cohn.
Mrs Rosensteil says she saw the Director of the FBI Hoover dress as a woman and call himself Mary.
She also says she saw FBI Director Hoover engage in peophilia.
SOURCES
http://www.zenzoneforum.com/threads/244 ... gar-Hoover
http://www.tubeplus.me/player/940259/Fr ... Hoover/%22

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News ... BI_Agents/
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Posted on Advocate.com January 10, 2011 12:20:00 PM ET
"Gay" Hoover Biopic Bugs FBI Agents
By Advocate.com Editors
Former FBI agents are speaking out against Clint Eastwood’s planned biopic of J. Edgar Hoover, written by Dustin Lance Black, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and reportedly focusing on his controversial private life, including an affair with protégé Clyde Tolson and rumors of cross-dressing.

"Obviously it upsets me when he's commonly portrayed wearing a dress or having an alleged relationship with Clyde Tolson," Terry Booth, a retired FBI agent who works for the bureau as a contract employee for its Law Enforcement Online program, tells AOL News. "There are those who choose to believe it and those who choose not to. I think 99 percent of the agents don't believe it."
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Postby fruhmenschen » Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:57 pm

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http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/j ... mb-arrest/
July 26, 2011 in News, City
Judge critical of FBI tactics in MLK bomb arrest
Thomas Clouse The Spokesman-Review



An FBI plan to not tell domestic terrorism suspect Kevin W. Harpham why he was arrested has raised the ire of the federal judge presiding over the case in which the Stevens County man is charged with leaving a bomb along the route of the Martin Luther King Jr. Unity March.

According to documents released today, U.S. District Court Judge Justin Quackenbush expressed his “concerns as to the several hour delay in advising Kevin Harpham of the reasons for his arrest after taking him into custody and also the failure to give the Defendant Miranda warnings during that several hour period,” the record states.
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Officer in BART shooting hoping to move to FBI

Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer

Tuesday, July 26, 2011



The BART police officer who fatally shot a knife-wielding transient in San Francisco earlier this month was working one of his last shifts before a planned move to the FBI, but the job change is on hold during the shooting probe.
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Alaska militia infiltrator exposed



Jill Burke | Jul 26, 2011
Related

Is 'Drop Zone Bill' friend or snitch in Alaska militia movement?
Alaska militia 'supply sergeant' vanishes as alleged murder plot unfolds
Searching for the real Schaeffer Cox
More details emerge in Fairbanks militia arrests

Editor's note: This is the first of a two part series on Gerald Olson, a government informant who has been helping the FBI in its case against the Alaska Peacemaker Militia. Today's story chronicles his past run-ins with the law and what he is getting in return for cooperating. On Wednesday night, Alaska Dispatch looks at Olson's connections to the militia and his role as an informant in the state-federal investigation.

As the state-federal case against a Fairbanks-based militia accused of plotting to murder government officials unfolds, a back story is emerging of two informants with eclectic backgrounds who played major roles in nabbing the suspects.

Much of what investigators know about Alaska Peacemakers Militia leader Schaeffer Cox’s alleged murder plans came from the two paid informants, who had been feeding authorities tips for at least 10 months prior to the March arrests of Cox and four others.

One of the informants was Bill Fulton, the owner of Drop Zone army surplus shop in Anchorage, an ex-military man who made national headlines when he handcuffed an Alaska Dispatch journalist during tea party candidate Joe Miller's failed run for U.S. Senate last fall.
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Postby fruhmenschen » Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:11 pm

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http://blogs.forbes.com/harveysilvergla ... ng-policy/
Harvey Silverglate
Injustice Department


Constructing Truth: the FBI’s (non)recording policy
Jul. 27 2011



What do John Gotti and the FBI have in common? They both have seemed to be made out of Teflon; only, for the FBI, (and not, eventually, for Gotti), the protective coating has stuck.

President Obama recently surprised many in both parties by extending current FBI director Robert Mueller’s term by two years, intoning that “in his 10 years at the FBI, Bob Mueller has set the gold standard for leading the bureau.” For Obama at least, that “gold standard” has apparently retained its sheen despite a fundamental flaw in the FBI’s truth-gathering apparatus that Mueller (and, to be fair, his modern predecessors as well) supports: the long-defended Bureau-wide policy of not recording interrogations and interviews, a practice that allows the FBI to manipulate witnesses, manufacture convictions, and destroy justice as we once knew it.

Instead of electronically recording its interviews and interrogations, the FBI’s policy is to rely on agents’ typewritten “section 302 reports,” crafted to reflect the supposed substance of the exchange. At such sessions, one agent takes notes by hand while the second agent—in the traditional two-agent FBI interviewing team—conducts the interview/interrogation. Tape recordings are almost never done because such recordation is – believe it or not – against formal written FBI policy. Therefore, the 302 report becomes the sole arbiter of what was, and was not, said; moreover, as we will see below, any interviewee who contests its accuracy risks prosecution. Hence, a potential witness’ script is written – and not necessarily by the witness himself – the moment he opens his mouth in the presence of an agent.

On its face, and in an era where digital recording has become ubiquitous, there seems to be little justification for a policy of not recording interviews. Paul K. Charlton, a now-former US Attorney in Arizona, certainly thought so when he broke ranks and ordered the mandatory recording of any statements from an investigative target in cases undertaken by his office. Charlton’s policy was resisted, and he was fired soon after instituting it. The FBI’s general counsel’s office produced an internal memorandum (PDF), later made public by the New York Times, listing four separate justifications for the non-recording policy. Two of these arguments, it turns out, are weak, a third is laughably weak, and a fourth is terrifying in its practical implications for the fair, and truthful, functioning of the federal system of criminal justice.
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http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC. ... rosecution
Defense Decries 'Flagrant' Misconduct in FCPA Prosecution

Amanda Bronstad

The National Law Journal

July 28, 2011

In an attempt to salvage a criminal investigation devoid of sufficient evidence, federal prosecutors resorted to misconduct to win a high-profile Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case, defense lawyers argued in a court document.

The document, filed on July 25, supplemented a motion to dismiss based on prosecutorial misconduct that lawyers for Lindsey Manufacturing Co. and two of its executives filed one day before a jury verdict went against their clients. The case is one of the few verdicts the government has won under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits individuals and businesses from bribing foreign officials to secure work.

Those convictions hang in the balance after prosecutors acknowledged on June 27 that they failed to turn over the entire grand jury testimony of an FBI special agent. U.S. District Judge Howard Matz in Los Angeles, who called the recent disclosure "astonishing" and "troublesome," ordered both sides to file supplemental briefs addressing whether the indictment should be dismissed due to prosecutorial misconduct that violated the defendants' due process rights.
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http://www.ticklethewire.com/2011/07/28 ... fbi-agent/


EPA Agent Indicted for Allegedly Lying About Affair With FBI Agent
By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com

A former special agent with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Criminal Investigation Division in Dallas was indicted Wednesday in Louisiana for allegedly lying about having an affair with an FBI agent he was working with, the Justice Department announced.

Keith Phillips, 61, of Kent, Tex. was charged with obstruction of justice and perjury stemming from his sworn testimony in a civil case currently pending in the Western District of Louisiana.

Authorities stated that Phillips and a female FBI agent from September 1996 to Dec. 14, 1999 investigated a criminal case that resulted in the indictment of Hubert Vidrine Jr. and several others.

The criminal charges against Vidrine were ultimately dismissed, and Vidrine turned around and filed a lawsuit against the federal government for malicious prosecution, authorities said.

Authorities said that during a deposition taken in Vidrine’s civil suit, agent Phillips “allegedly falsely testified that he did not have an affair with the FBI special agent, when, in fact, he did. The indictment alleges that it was material to the civil lawsuit to determine any potential motives of the criminal investigators in investigating and prosecuting the charges against Vidrine, and that Phillips committed perjury when he testified falsely about the affair and obstructed justice when he provided this false testimony.”

The indictment also alleges that he then contacted the FBI agent and tried to convince her not to confess to the affair.
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Postby fruhmenschen » Thu Jul 28, 2011 1:22 pm

Here are some reasons why your tax dime goes to pay the salary of FBI agents

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FBI ‘Islam 101′ Guide Depicted Muslims as 7th-Century Simpletons

By Spencer Ackerman Email Author
July 27, 2011 |
1:27 pm |
Categories: Crime and Homeland Security

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As recently as January 2009, the FBI thought its agents ought to know the following crucial information about Muslims:

They engage in a “circumcision ritual”
More than 9,000 of them are in the U.S. military
Their religion “transforms [a] country’s culture into 7th-century Arabian ways.”

And this was what the FBI considered “recommended reading” about Islam:

A much-criticized tome, The Arab Mind, that one reviewer called “a collection of outrageously broad — and often suspect — generalizations“
A book by one of Norwegian terrorist suspect Anders Behring Breivik’s favorite anti-Muslim authors.

All this is revealed in a PowerPoint presentation by the FBI’s Law Enforcement Communications Unit (.pdf), which trains new Bureau recruits. Among the 62 slides in the presentation, designed to teach techniques for “successful interviews/interrogations with individuals from the M.E. [Middle East],” is an instruction that the “Arabic mind” is “swayed more by words than ideas and more by ideas than facts.”

The briefing presents much information that has nothing to do with crime and everything to do with constitutionally-protected religious practice and social behavior, such as estimating the number of mosques in America and listing the states with the largest Muslim populations.

Other slides paint Islam in a less malicious light, and one urges “respectful liaison” as a “proactive approach” to engaging Muslims. But even those exhibit what one American Muslim civil rights leader calls “the understanding of a third grader, and even then, a badly misinformed third grader.”

One slide asks, “Is Iran an Arab country?” (It’s not.) Another is just a picture of worry beads.

“Based on this presentation, it is easy to see why so many in law enforcement and the FBI view American Muslims with ignorance and suspicion,” says Farhana Khera, the executive director of Muslim Advocates, a legal aid group. “The presentation appears to treat all Muslims with one broad brush and makes no distinction between lawful religious practice and beliefs and unlawful activities.”



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Gunwalker: ATF, FBI Forced Gun Stores to Sell to Felons

(H/T to Patrick Richardson)

As the Gunwalker investigation unfolds, new evidence shows that the FBI worked together with the ATF to ensure that convicted felons bought hundreds of firearms for the Mexican cartels. According to Fox:

[T]wo of the 20 defendants indicted in the Fast and Furious investigation have felony convictions and criminal backgrounds that experts say, at the very least, should have delayed them buying a single firearm.

To purchase firearms, buyers must undergo an Instant Check, which is run by the FBI.

The ATF site quotes federal law on firearms transfers to prohibited persons. The full text of Title 18, Section 922 (g) is available from Syracuse University. These categories include any person:

Under indictment or information in any court for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;
convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;

Two felons purchased 360 firearms in the Phoenix area:


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http://www.informationweek.com/news/gov ... /231002660
FBI Data Exchange System Now Fully Operational
The National Data Exchange system lets the agency share information with 18,000 local and regional criminal justice organizations.

By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek
July 26, 2011 02:06 PM
Government Innovators
Slideshow: Government Innovators
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A new system that allows the FBI to automatically share information with local, state, regional, and other law-enforcement and criminal justice partners is now fully operational.

Raytheon said it completed work on the last phase of the National Data Exchange (N-DEx) system, which allows the FBI to pass on information about criminal justice cases automatically to 200,000 investigators in more than 18,000 federal, local, state, and tribal agencies. The system also performs analysis to identify crime trends and patterns to aid in crime-prevention tactics, according to the FBI.
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FBI fails to recover stolen army rifles
Sat Jul 30, 2011 5:18PM GMT
Picture of a AK-47 rifle (File Photo)
Federal officials have failed to track over two dozens of rifles stolen from a military base in California on July 15, offering a reward for information leading to arrest of the thieves.


The US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fire arms and Explosives (ATF) along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are offering a reward of up to USD 10,000 for information leading to the location of the fire arms.

The reward was offered two weeks after 26 AK-47s and a Dragnov rifles were stolen from a supply warehouse at the army post at Fort Irwin military base in the southern California, ATF said in a statement, the Washington Post reported.
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http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2 ... r-mantech/

Jul. 29 2011

If the global wave of arrests targeting the hacker collective Anonymous was meant to deter the group from further mayhem, it seems to be having the opposite effect.

On Friday Anonymous published 390 megabytes of seemingly random files from the Washington-based government contractor ManTech in bittorrent form, including what seem to be hundreds of reports related to NATO and the U.S. Army, as well as personnel files including lists of employee emails.

The stated primary target of Anonymous’ attack is the FBI, which worked with other law enforcement agencies to arrest 14 members of the hacking group across the country last week. Other Anonymous-associated hackers were arrested in the U.K. and the Netherlands, including two who go by the names “Topiary” and “Tflow,” members of the high-profile Anonymous subgroup LulzSec.

Anonymous defiantly labelled the latest data dump “Fuck FBI Friday III,” part of its “Antisec” campaign against security firms that on earlier Fridays has included data releases targeting FBI contractors Infragard, Unveillance, and IRC Federal.
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TWO STORIES


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ACLU Suing FBI Over Alleged Racial Profiling


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ACLU sues FBI over alleged racial profiling. (Google)

News One is reporting that the American Civil Liberties Union is suing the FBI to uncover information on possible unconstitutional investigations of certain racial and ethnic groups.

The ACLU wants to expose the use of the FBI's Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide, which they believe may have been used to map people and businesses in Michigan considered "ethnic oriented." Mark Fancher, an attorney with the ACLU, says that if any unconstitutional practices are found, the FBI may see more lawsuits against them in the future. Muslims and immigrants are alleged to have been the target of the unconstitutional investigations.






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Jul. 29 2011

If the global wave of arrests targeting the hacker collective Anonymous was meant to deter the group from further mayhem, it seems to be having the opposite effect.

On Friday Anonymous published 390 megabytes of seemingly random files from the Washington-based government contractor ManTech in bittorrent form, including what seem to be hundreds of reports related to NATO and the U.S. Army, as well as personnel files including lists of employee emails.

The stated primary target of Anonymous’ attack is the FBI, which worked with other law enforcement agencies to arrest 14 members of the hacking group across the country last week. Other Anonymous-associated hackers were arrested in the U.K. and the Netherlands, including two who go by the names “Topiary” and “Tflow,” members of the high-profile Anonymous subgroup LulzSec.

Anonymous defiantly labelled the latest data dump “Fuck FBI Friday III,” part of its “Antisec” campaign against security firms that on earlier Fridays has included data releases targeting FBI contractors Infragard, Unveillance, and IRC Federal.
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... &aid=25840

The FBI and the CIA Pressured US Lawyer to Betray his Arab and Muslim Clients

by Sherwood Ross


Global Research, July 31, 2011




Federal agents from the FBI and CIA/FBI Joint Terrorist Task Force tried to get a distinguished international lawyer to inform on his Arab and Muslim clients in violation of their Constitutional rights to attorney-client privilege, this reporter has learned. When the lawyer refused, he said the FBI placed him on a "terrorist watch list."

Law professor Francis Boyle gave a chilling account of how, in the summer of 2004, two agents showed up at his office (at the University of Illinois, Champaign,) “unannounced, misrepresented who they were and what they were about to my secretary, gained access to my office, interrogated me for about one hour, and repeatedly tried to get me to become their informant on my Arab and Muslim clients."

"This would have violated their (clients) Constitutional rights and my ethical obligations as an Attorney," Boyle explained. "I refused. So they put me on all of the United States government's 'terrorist watch' lists."

Boyle said his own lawyer found "there are about five or six different terrorist watch lists, and as far as he could determine, I am on all of them." Despite a legal appeal to get his name removed, Boyle said, "I will remain on all of these terrorist watch lists for the rest of my life or until the two Agencies who put me on there remove my name, which is highly unlikely."

"Whatever people might think about lawyers, we are the canary-birds of democracy. When the government goes after your lawyer soon they will be going after you," Boyle warned. "Indeed," he added, "the government goes after your lawyer in order to get to you, which is what happened to me. This is what the so-called 'war against terrorism' is really all about. It is a war against the United States Constitution."

Boyle is a leading American professor and practitioner of international law. He holds doctorates in both law (cum laude) and Political Science from Harvard and has more than two decades of experience representing pacifist anti-war resisters, suspects in the so-called "War on Terror" and foreign governments such as Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is the author of numerous books, including "Protesting Power," (Rowman & Littlefield), "Biowarfare and Terrorism,"(Clarity) and "Destroying World Order"(Clarity).

Writing of the attorney-client privilege, the American Bar Association has defined it as “the right of clients to refuse to disclose confidential communications with their lawyers, or to allow their lawyers to disclose them.” It further states the privilege “is viewed as fundamental to preserve the constitutionally based right to effective assistance of legal counsel, in that lawyers cannot function effectively on behalf of their clients without the ability communicate with them in confidence.”

The attempt by the government to destroy the Constitutional right of privileged communication between lawyer and client began in earnest after 9/11 when the Justice Department initiated a wave of such illegal actions. According to an article in “Criminal Justice Magazine,” Summer, 2002, “Immediately following the September 11 terrorist attacks, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft issued a controversial order that permits the government to monitor all communications between a client and an attorney when there is 'reasonable suspicion' to 'believe that a particular inmate may use communications with attorneys or their agents to further or facilitate acts of violence or terrorism.” That order “raises a wide range of constitutional concerns under the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments,” authors Paul Rice and Benjamin Saul wrote.

As if to mock the very concept of attorney-client privilege, military interrogators at Guantanamo prison posed as "lawyers" to trick illegally held suspects into providing them with information, according to a report in "The Catholic Worker" newspaper.

And "Newsday," the Long Island, N.Y., daily, reported a wholesale invasion of lawyer-client privilege, as when lawyers at Guantanamo are forced to turn over their interview notes to guards, who send them on to the Pentagon facility in Virginia that is the only place lawyers can go to write their motions and where the Pentagon attempts to edit out detainees' claims of mistreatment from the public record. What's more, "Newsday" reported, "The military has set up a system that delays legal correspondence (between lawyers and prisoners) for weeks," adding that "Detainees have alleged that interrogators have tried to turn them against their lawyers."

According to "Newsday," guards and interrogators peruse prisoners' private legal papers and warn them that prisoners who have lawyers will wait longer to get out! Tom Wilner, a lawyer for 12 Kuwaiti detainees, said an interrogator asked one of his clients, "Did you know your lawyers are Jews?"

The U.S. government is "not only trying to deny counsel to the prisoners, but is actively trying to remove Guantanamo from any scrutiny, legal or otherwise" as well as "marginalizing the lawyers representing the prisoners," "The Catholic Worker" said.

Placing attorney Boyle on the Terrorist Watch List is a form of punishment that is being ever more widely applied. According to "USA Today" the list grew from 288,000 names in 2005 to 1-million in March, 2009, according to an article of March 10th of that year. "People put on the watch list...can be blocked from flying, stopped at borders or subjected to other scrutiny," reporter Peter Eisler wrote.

The attorney-client privilege is the oldest such privilege enshrined in Anglo-Saxon law and was commonly respected even under the British crown during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1. That it is being flouted by the U.S. government today when a constitutional lawyer occupies the White House represents an incredible stain on what remains of the fabric of American democracy.

Sherwood Ross is a publicist for good causes and Director of the Anti-War News Service of Miami, Florida. To comment or contribute, reach him at sherwoodross10@gmail.com
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Re: FBI WATCH MAKING CRUELTY VISIBLE

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US attorney general invokes state secrets privilege in suit Calif. Muslims filed against FBI

August 2, 9:51 PM

LOS ANGELES — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has invoked state secrets rules to prevent information from being released in a lawsuit filed by Southern California Muslims who claim the FBI monitored their activities solely because of their religion.

In a legal declaration filed late Monday, Holder makes a rare assertion of the state secrets privilege, arguing that it could cause significant harm to national security if the government is forced to reveal the subjects of a mosque-surveillance operation in 2006 and describe how the monitoring was carried out
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