FBI WATCH MAKING CRUELTY VISIBLE

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Postby fruhmenschen » Sun Nov 16, 2014 9:41 pm

see link for full story

The New Black Panther Party, explained

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/16/7217173/1 ... ther-party

November 16, 2014, 12:10 p.m. ET

When New Black Panther Party members turned up in Ferguson, Missouri, during the protests that followed the Michael Brown shooting, the FBI issued an alert. When the group was accused of voter intimidation at Philadelphia polling places during the 2009 election, Fox News breathlessly covered the allegations no fewer than 95 times.

Just recently, the very suggestion that a man responsible for an axe attack on New York City police officers was sympathetic to the organization — not even a member, but just sympathetic — made news.

IT HAS HIJACKED THE NAME OF A LEGITIMATE ORGANIZATION.

There's a consensus that it's a hate group that spews anti-white and especially anti-Semitic rhetoric. But from one perspective, top among its offenses is the way it has hijacked the name of a legitimate organization — the original Black Panther Party — and scrambled its message, taking all of the justified anger and none of the disciplined, constructive work to improve life in America for black people.

Here are the answers to all of your questions about how that happened:


1) What is the New Black Panther Party all about?
(Shutterstock)

Members of the New Black Panther Party rally in New York City after the death of Eric Garner, who was killed in a confrontation with police officers 2014. (Shutterstock)

The first thing to understand is that there's a huge difference between how the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) describes itself and how non-members understand it.

The group portrays itself as a modern day expression of the black power movement and a force standing up for the rights of African Americans. Indeed, members do tend to show up when black people are wronged, and they're mostly known for their armed demonstrations against alleged racial injustice — especially police brutality.

"If there's a Klan rally or someone doing something [racially] egregious they're the first to respond," said Jakobi Williams, associate professor of history and African-American studies at Indiana University and author of From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago.

But the idea that the NBPP is modern version of the Black Panther Party of the 1960s and 1970s, which was a militant but primarily service-focused organization, is summarily dismissed by everyone from civil rights groups, to scholars like Williams, to former Black Panther Party members. Instead, there's a broad consensus that its extreme anti-white views and anti-Semitic rhetoric (more on that later) make it a hate group.

The group has a "ten-point platform." It's
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Re: FBI WATCH MAKING CRUELTY VISIBLE

Postby fruhmenschen » Tue Aug 25, 2015 6:53 pm

Note the revised agenda for Wednesday night tele conference
Starts at 8 pm

Revised Draft Agenda for 8/26/15 Teleconference

8pm (ET)/5pm (PT) Teleconference # 1-218-895-6835 Access code: 9112001#

Greetings all,

I’m excited to report that thanks to a last-minute effort by Larry Zanino we’ll be joined on our teleconference this Wednesday evening by attorney John Remington (Jack) Graham, who will give us a brief overview of and update on the “Boston Bombing” legal case in which he is acting as counsel, assisting Maret Tsarnaeva, Russian aunt of the accused, in showing that the FBI’s own evidence, concealed by the court, counsel for both sides and the major media, shows decisively that the accused is not guilty! Most in the Truth community have come to regard that Boston event as a false flag operation, and even those who haven’t recognize the miscarriage of justice represented by the prosecution of this case thus far. After Jack’s presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions (which many of us are likely to have, as mainstream media reporting of this trial has been skewed and spotty, to say the least!). Jack Graham, of course, is no stranger to the 9/11 truth movement — he provided invaluable assistance to AE911Truth’s earlier appeal to the Manhattan D.A. to launch a grand jury investigation of 9/11. We hope you’ll join us to help welcome our distinguished guest!

And speaking of false flag operations, we are Charlie Hebdo — NOT! says Kevin Barrett, fresh off his book tour for his latest tome We are Not Charlie Hebdo. Kevin will join us Wednesday night to offer an overview of the Hebdo operation, helping to expand our awareness of the ubiquity of Deep State operations in current events. Why does the book cover pictured at right read “banned in Canada?” Presumably he’ll explain that too!

In other news

Boing Boing
FBi kept files on Ray Bradbury: “Definitely slanted against the United States”

By Cory Doctorow at 6:16 am Mon, Aug 24, 2015

https://boingboing.net/2015/08/24/fbi-k ... dbury.html

Michael from Muckrock writes, “The FBI followed Ray Bradbury’s career very closely, in part because an informant warned them that his writing was not enjoyable fantasy, but rather tantamount to psychological warfare.”

“The general aim of these science fiction writers is to frighten the people into a state of paralysis or psychological incompetence
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Postby fruhmenschen » Mon Oct 12, 2015 11:07 pm

Ed Tatro is a featured speaker
on the JFK assassination this week in New Orleans.
see
http://oswaldconference.com/


He is a friend of Gary Powers Jr
The son of Gary Powers, the U 2 pilot
shot down over Russia.

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Subject: Bridge
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Ed Tatro also sent these links about JFK etc etc etc

Naval Chemical & Biological Warfare Film
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JUST DECLASSIFIED:

Naval Concepts of Chemical and Biological Warfare

A Department of Defense Motion Picture Film (1952)



Cover sheet - [PDF 236 KB 12-Oct-2015]

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MP4 file of film, 14.47 minutes - [MP4 238 MB 12-Oct-2015]

NOTE: Very large file: 238 MB

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Postby fruhmenschen » Mon Oct 26, 2015 4:10 pm

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Postby fruhmenschen » Wed Oct 28, 2015 10:07 pm

rom: Leslie James Pickering <leslie@burningbooksbuffalo.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:11 AM
Subject: Free Speech Activist Under Federal Surveillance to Speak in Easthampton
To: calendar@gazettenet.com


A radical environmentalist's free speech and privacy campaign, which has risen to national prominence, will be coming to Easthampton on November 2nd.

Leslie James Pickering, currently an owner of Burning Books in Buffalo and formerly known as Spokesperson for the underground Earth Liberation Front, discovered that he and his bookstore were under extensive federal surveillance.

During a 6 month period starting in late 2012, Pickering became aware that the FBI were questioning his former associates, the US Post Office was photocopying his mail, a federal grand jury had subpoenaed his bank records and he was put on a secret list for heightened security screening at airports. In response, Pickering launched legal efforts to resist and expose the government's intrusions, with surprising results.

Pickering and his legal team have won the release of secret files from the TSA, USPS, ATF and the FBI, among others. The FBI has claimed that their files on Pickering exceed an astonishing 30,000 pages. Pickering and his lead attorney, Michael Kuzma, will be giving a public presentation highlighting the details of the government's investigations which they have uncovered, shedding light on state repression of free speech activity.

Monday, November 2
at 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Flywheel Arts Collective
43 Main St, Easthampton, Massachusetts 01027
https://www.facebook.com/events/446490292207532/

For more information:

New York Times article - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/mo ... nMBay.dpuf
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Postby Iamwhomiam » Fri Oct 30, 2015 12:13 pm

Ex-Black Panther, quizzed in NYPD cop killings, on trial in Albany

By Robert Gavin
Updated 7:21 pm, Thursday, October 29, 2015

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Robert Vickers (Albany County District Attorney's Office)

Albany

At 65, Robert Vickers looks more the part of an aging grandfather than a convicted felon and former Black Panther suspected in the killings of two New York City police officers more than 43 years ago.

But for the second time in two years, Vickers is on trial in Albany County Court on charges of selling heroin — a case his defense attorney calls a sham.

Michael Feit contends his client, a retired Saratoga County worker, was a victim of entrapment because Vickers is an active suspect in the Jan. 27, 1972, murders of NYPD police officers in Manhattan's East Village.

"It's just so transparent," Feit told the Times Union during a break from jury selection on Monday.

On Thursday, Feit made that same argument in his opening statement to the jury of eight women and four men before Judge Peter Lynch.

Vickers of Ballston Spa, who also is known as Rashad Abdur-Rahman, is accused of selling heroin to an undercover police officer six times between Sept. 20, 2013, and Jan. 6, 2014, at locations in Albany and Menands.

Feit argued that Albany police didn't care about Vickers, but sent an informant to entrap him after New York City police spent months in the Capital Region trying to build a case against the man they believed played a role in the killings of officers Rocco Laurie and Gregory Foster.

"Why would it be that detectives from the New York City police department would be coming up here on a constant basis?" Feit asked the jury.

Feit said Vickers was arrested and interrogated by detectives in a videotaped interview. He said the interrogation had "zero to do with drugs and everything to do with the claims, the suspicions of these detectives that Mr. Vickers had some involvement in some homicide of New York City police officers in 1972."

Feit said his client previously spoke to investigators who, the attorney said, had no information with which to charge him.

Feit said the NYPD arranged to have two female informants who knew Vickers reach out to him to get him to try to make incriminating statements about his alleged involvement in the police killings. The women had used heroin with Vickers, who is an addict, Feit said. When nothing came of it, he said, Albany police sent an informant to entrap Vickers.

"I'm not suggesting that anyone be thinking about giving Mr. Vickers a medal or thinking that he's a good guy," Feit said. "But the reality is the only reason Robert Vickers had any dealings with (undercover police and informants) was because NYPD wanted to try to get some information against him and or they wanted to get a bunch of charges against him to punish him for the crime which they thought he did — but they had no proof of."

Feit said he did not fault detectives for wanting justice against someone they believe possibly murdered two officers, but added, "It's not a question of what their motives were. It's a question of the means that they used to try to effect these motives were."

The Black Liberation Army, a radical militant organization, took responsibility for the officers' murders just days after the killings. Laurie, 23, a white officer from Staten Island, and Foster, 22, a black officer from the Bronx, were ambushed while on foot patrol near the corner of 11th Street and Avenue B.

On Monday, Vickers told the Times Union he was never a member of the Black Liberation Army, but had been a member of Black Panther Party. He denied any role in the murders.

In 1973, Vickers was sentenced to 8 to 10 years in prison in New Jersey for weapons possession and assault in a case tied to the shooting of a Newark, N.J., police officer, according to Albany County prosecutors.

Vickers, who later relocated to Saratoga Springs and had a family, was convicted last year of two counts of third-degree sale of a controlled substance for selling heroin on Central Avenue in Albany in 2013 and 2014. Vickers faces six new counts of third-degree drug sale for his most recent alleged heroin sales. The charges carry prison terms of up to 30 years.

Assistant District Attorney Jasper Mills, who is prosecuting the case, told the jury Feit's allegations "have no merit."

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Re: FBI WATCH MAKING CRUELTY VISIBLE

Postby fruhmenschen » Wed Nov 11, 2015 2:57 pm

couple of stories


1.

Bernard F. 'Bernie' Norton Sr., retired FBI agent who later headed Internal Investigation Division for city police, dies
Bernard Norton, Sr.

Bernard F. "Bernie" Norton Sr. was a retired career FBI agent from Lutherville. (handout / Baltimore Sun)
Frederick N. RasmussenFrederick N. RasmussenContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun
Bernard F. "Bernie" Norton Sr. served with the FBI, Navy and Baltimore Police Department.

Bernard F. "Bernie" Norton Sr., a retired career FBI agent who later served as head of the Internal Investigation Division of the Baltimore Police Department, died Friday of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at HeartHomes in Lutherville. He was 97.

Bernard Francis Norton Sr.

2.

How deep are the problems in Baltimore's police department ...
There's obviously a severe problem in the Baltimore Police Department, and it needs to be addressed now The decision by Baltimore State's Atty. Marilyn J. Mosby to ...
[Search domain www.latimes.com] latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-baltimore-201505...
Baltimore's Real Police Problem | Hoover Institution
Support the Hoover Institution. Join the Hoover Institution's community of supporters in advancing ideas defining a free society. Find out how »
[Search domain www.hoover.org] hoover.org/research/baltimores-real-police-problem
Baltimore's Real Police Problem: Unions
In Baltimore, the government is confronted with a choice between two constituencies: unions and people in need.
[Search domain thefederalist.com] thefederalist.com/2015/05/12/baltimores-real-police-problem...
Shields and Brooks on Baltimore police problems - PBS NewsHour
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week's news, including charges against Baltimore ...
[Search domain www.pbs.org] pbs.org/newshour/bb/brooks-shields-baltimore-poli...
Baltimore Police Chief: 'We Are Part Of The Problem'
Baltimore Police Chief Anthony Batts admitted a lot of the tension between the public and the police comes from a distrust in "law enforcement as a whole ...
[Search domain m.huffingtonpost.com] m.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/06/baltimore-police_n_7223858.html
Whistleblower cop on problems with Baltimore P.D. | MSNBC
Former Baltimore P.D. Detective Joe Crystal was labeled a rat after turning in a fellow officer who beat a handcuffed suspect. He joined Chris Hayes to weigh in on ...
[Search domain www.msnbc.com] msnbc.com/all-in/watch/whistleblower-cop-on-problem...

3.


psssst!


The figure of 200,000 unsolved murders is actually much,much higher.
The police do not declare a missing person a murder until the body is found.
Over 90,000 persons go missing each year.
Is that another 90,000 murders?
see.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... /16110709/




http://www.npr.org/2015/03/30/395069137 ... unresolved

Open Cases: Why One-Third Of Murders In America Go Unresolved
March 30, 2015 5:04 AM ET

Morning Edition
7:03


Detective Mark Williams (right) speaks with an officer in Richmond, Va. A decade ago, amid a surge in violent crime, Richmond police were identifying relatively few murder suspects. So the police department refocused its efforts to bring up its "clearance rate."

Detective Mark Williams (right) speaks with an officer in Richmond, Va. A decade ago, amid a surge in violent crime, Richmond police were identifying relatively few murder suspects. So the police department refocused its efforts to bring up its "clearance rate."
Alex Matzke for NPR

If you're murdered in America, there's a 1 in 3 chance that the police won't identify your killer.
A Story In Two Parts

Martin Kaste reported this audio story in two parts on Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Listen to Part 1 above. To hear Part 2, click the audio link below.
To Catch Up On Unsolved Murders, Detroit Detectives Mine Cold Cases
6:42

E

To use the FBI's terminology, the national "clearance rate" for homicide today is 64.1 percent. Fifty years ago, it was more than 90 percent.

And that's worse than it sounds, because "clearance" doesn't equal conviction: It's just the term that police use to describe cases that end with an arrest, or in which a culprit is otherwise identified without the possibility of arrest — if the suspect has died, for example.

Criminologists estimate that at least 200,000 murders have gone unsolved since the 1960s, leaving family and friends to wait and wonder.

"It's like the boogeyman," says Delicia Turner. Her husband, Anthony Glover, was found murdered — along with a friend — in Boston in 2009. Police never made an arrest. She says the open case preys on her mind. "You don't know if you're walki
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Postby fruhmenschen » Fri Nov 13, 2015 1:21 am

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-list ... anda-movie


Motherboard
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A List of the Dumb Swag the FBI Made to Promote Its Dumb Propaganda Movie
November 12, 2015 // 09:00 AM EST

Earlier this year, a friend brought me a mysterious FBI-branded mousepad she had gotten from a conference in Washington, DC. It has a massive pawn chess piece on it, with the words “Don’t Be a Pawn” and “Game of Pawns” plastered across the middle of it.

I immediately Googled Game of Pawns, and found that it’s a very bad, pretty expensive anti-spying drama the FBI commissioned to persuade impressionable youths to not sell secrets to foreign governments.

The film, which is heavy-handed and unwatchable except as a piece of ironic entertainment for those who love to cringe, is based on Glenn Duffie Shriver, an American who studied abroad in Shanghai, was asked to provide the Chinese government with classified information, and was ultimately arrested. The film, a fictionalized version of his story, uses blatant shots of Washington DC's Chinatown to serve as "downtown Shanghai" and suffers from awful dialogue, bad timing, weird stereotypes, etc.

How much money had the agency spent on these damn mousepads? And was it only mousepads? How else had the agency promoted this piece of art?

The movie was created specifically so study abroad offices and university professors could warn their students that selling secrets to foreign governments is an illegal endeavor. From the film's original press release:

"The movie has played a significant role in our outreach efforts to educate American academia on how foreign intelligence services target and attempt to recruit American students studying abroad,” Frank Montoya, the National Counterintelligence Executive, said. “Productions such as the movie Game of Pawns are essential and very practical tools for sensitizing the public and private sectors to our nation’s growing counterintelligence mission.”

I immediately wondered why the FBI was creating totally crazy, mostly fictional propaganda movies that tell people not to be spies, and wondered how much money the agency (and FBI Academy TV Studios, which is a thing) had wasted on this endeavor. Motherboard contributor Shawn Musgrave had previously learned that this cinematic masterpiece cost the agency at least $650,000 (the invoice docs he obtained are opaque and hard to parse). It's been viewed on YouTube 117,403 times, which has been its primary distribution method. Not exactly a blockbuster considering its budget.

But what about the mousepad? How much money had the agency spent on these damn mousepads? Had there been internal discussion about what taglines to put on it? Various designs to choose from? Who put these together? Do people even use mice anymore?
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Postby fruhmenschen » Fri Nov 13, 2015 11:53 pm

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/inde ... right.html

Black Lives Matter: Civil rights group presses FBI, Justice Department for answers on surveillance

on November 13, 2015 at 4:35 PM, updated November 13, 2015 at 4:36 PM






An Oregon civil rights group is pursuing state and federal documents related to Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum's admission a Department of Justice investigator targeted the Black Lives Matter movement while searching social media for anti-police threats.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon sent a statement Friday praising Rosenblum for launching investigation while also sharing its requests for records from the state and federal justice departments, the FBI and a "fusion" center in Salem where local, regional and federal law enforcement agencies share intelligence information.

"The simple act of expressing oneself on social media should not be enough to trigger information gathering by the Oregon Department of Justice," David Rogers, executive director of the ACLU of Oregon, said in a statement. "Let's not forget, the Black Lives Matter movement is a peaceful, political movement raising important concerns about police violence and racial profiling."

Rosenblum confirmed the social media surveillance and promised an investigation in an interview with The Oregonian/OregonLive late Tuesday, after the Urban League of Portland director Nkenge Harmon Johnson released a letter disclosing the controversy.

In an interview Wednesday on Oregon Public Broadcasting, Rosenblum said the investigator used a social media search tool called Digital Stakeout. Rosenblum said another hashtag, in which a four-letter obscenity precedes "the police," also was searched.

The Black Lives Matter search snared Twitter activity from Harmon Johnson's husband, Erious Johnson — who leads the state justice department's civil rights division. Rosenblum hasn't said how many other people may have been investigated.

The requests from the ACLU note media reports from July, citing public records, that found the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had been keeping tabs on the Black Lives Matter movement since it took shape after several controversial police deaths involving black men in 2014.

In Oregon, the ACLU writes in one of its requests, state laws ban investigators from tracking and collecting data based on political speech.

"Moreover, the Oregon Department of Justice's tracking of those who use the hashtag Black Lives Matter also opens the door to racial profiling because that movement is black led," the request says.

In its statement, the ACLU describes calls Digital Stakeout a "threat intelligence platform" searchable "by keyword, hashtag, location, meta-data and more."

Harmon Johnson issued a follow-up statement Wednesday saying she had asked other senior Urban League staffers to handle the group's official work in pressing Rosenblum's office for answers.
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Postby fruhmenschen » Sun Nov 15, 2015 3:13 pm

Bonus read
http://fox13now.com/2014/11/13/did-the- ... ence-case/



Did the FBI tamper with a witness in OKC bombing evidence case?
Posted 2:31 pm, November 13, 2014, by Ben Winslow, Updated at 05:50pm, November 13, 2014



1.



http://www.nytimes.com/live/paris-attac ... stigation/


6:55 pm ETSat Nov 14 2015 18:55:08 GMT-0500 (EST)Michael S. Schmidt
WASHINGTON
F.B.I. Sending Agents to Assist in Paris Investigation

The F.B.I. will send a team of agents to Paris to assist with the investigation into the terrorist attacks on Friday night, according to law enforcement officials.

Among the agents being deployed are ones with expertise in recovering information from electronic devices like cellphones and computers. Along with potentially helping the French with the electronics, the bureau wants to have agents in place for what it anticipates will be a flood of information from the French authorities in the coming days.

As the French uncover more details about the attackers’ networks and travel patterns, the F.B.I. will want its agents there to quickly relay the information to the United States, where analysts can comb through the bureau’s files to see if there are any links to Americans. In the past day, the F.B.I. has used specially designed computer programs to determine whether there were any social media connections between the assailants and people in the United States. The results of those inquiries are not clear.




2.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/wtcbomb.html


The FBI Allowed the 1993
WTC Bombing to Happen

THE NEW YORK TIMES

* * * * *

Thursday October 28, 1993 Page A1

"Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart
Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast"

By Ralph Blumenthal

Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after the blast.

The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad Salem, should be used, the informer said.

The account, which is given in the transcript of hundreds of hours of tape recordings that Mr. Salem secretly made of his talks with law-enforcement agents, portrays the authorities as being in a far better position than previously known to foil the February 26th bombing of New York City's tallest towers.

The explosion left six people dead, more than a thousand people injured, and damages in excess of half-a-billion dollars. Four men are now on trial in Manhattan Federal Court [on charges of involvement] in that attack.

Mr. Salem, a 43-year-old former




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Evidence FBI Involvement in 1993 World Trade Center ... - YouTube
Video for Salem anticev FBI Dan rather youtube▶ 2:11

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Paper Says FBI Blocked Plan to Foil N.Y. Blast
[Home Edition]
Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext) - Los Angeles, Calif.
Date: Oct 28, 1993
Start Page: 21
Section: PART-A; National Desk
Abstract (Document Summary)

Tape recordings secretly made by an FBI informer reveal that authorities were in a far better position than previously known to foil the Feb. 26 bombing of New York's tallest towers, the New York Times reported.

The New York Times published conversations the informer, a 43-year-old former Egyptian army officer, Emad Ali Salem, taped with his FBI handlers.
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Postby fruhmenschen » Tue Nov 17, 2015 3:18 pm

I always start by watching the banned History Channel documentary
The Guilty Men

Google the guilty men JFK YouTube

A Memphis Jury concluded in 1999 that FBI agents
assassinated Martin Luther King
Google mlk James Douglass rockwell
This just in....

see link for full story/part 1


http://m.hillsdale.net/article/20151117 ... /151119289

Posted Nov 17, 2015 at 1:11 PM

Editors Note: This is the first of a two part series.

This November 22 will be 52 years since the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas. Hundreds of books have been written in addition to interviews, documentaries, and forensic investigations attempting to solve this assassination.

The Warren Commission created by President Johnson after Kennedy’s death concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone as the killer. But, a 1976 Congressional House Select Committee on Assassinations stirred up the Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories like a whirlwind, by saying that a second gun could be heard firing at Kennedy, from a recording of the Dallas Police radio communication. This Congressional committee stated that there had to be a conspiracy to kill the President since at least two gun men were shooting at President Kennedy.

But, a recent forensic investigation using sophisticated forensic investigative tools such as a 3D laser to measure distances and angles, concluded that Oswald killed Kennedy, by firing three shots from the book depository, shooting and killing Kennedy from behind. This documentary titled “The Kennedy Assassination,” can be seen at You Tube Broadcast Yourself, at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/cold- ... tmlKennedy.

However, beginning the day Kennedy was killed, there have been many eyewitness and investigators claiming that if Lee Harvey Oswald was involved, he was not alone. Other researchers have claimed that Oswald didn’t do it! An example of this is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSXQYvm57YM, titled, “Former FBI Agent Reveals Who Really Killed JFK.” In this video, former FBI Agent Don Adams discusses who he believes was involved with killing Kennedy. Adams also wrote a book titled “From an Office Building with a High Powered Rifle,” which can be bought at Amazon.com on the Internet. This book has received excellent reviews and I recommend reading this because this book is considered one of the best documented research pieces regarding the government not providing information to the public about the Kennedy assassination.

Adams states that in addition to President Kennedy being shot from behind, he was also shot once from the front, in the throat. Also, there were 11 gun shots within 7.5 seconds which is impossible for the Italian built bolt action rifle that has been claimed to have been owned and used by Lee Harvey Oswald to kill the President. Plus, the first gun found in the sixth floor of the book depository was a German 6.75 Mauser rifle and not Oswald’s Italian rifle.

Page 2 of 3 - Adams also states that eyewitnesses placed Oswald on the fourth floor, where he was calm and peaceful, only a couple of minutes after the President was shot from the sixth floor. Adams emphatically claims that Oswald did not kill the President.

Adams investigated (as a FBI Agent) a man named Joseph Adams Milteer, who talked about assassinating Kennedy before Kennedy was killed. Also, on November 9, 1963, just a couple of weeks before the assassination, Adams indicates that the Miami, Florida Police Department Intelligence Unit recorded Milteer describing plans to kill Kennedy from several stories high, from an office building, with a high powered rifle. Milteer was connected to organized crime and there is significant evidence and documentation that organized crime wanted President Kennedy dead!

There is a You Tube video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxtrFoh3Pao, titled “James Files Shot JFK from the Grassy Knoll.” This describes that in 1989 a Houston Private Investigator, Joe West, was investigating the Kennedy assassination and he was contacted by a man who told him to interview an Illinois state prison inmate named James E. Files.

On March 22, 1994, James Files confessed to West the he was the shooter from the grassy knoll located ahead and to the right of President Kennedy. Files stated he was hired by organized crime to kill President Kennedy.

The man who contacted West years earlier about Files, later identified himself to West as a former FBI Agent, named Zach Sheldon. Sheldon and several other retired FBI agents investigated James Files’ claim that he shot Kennedy from the grassy knoll. This group of retired FBI agents found Files’ confession credible, and that he was hired by organized crime to kill Kennedy.

There is also a You Tube video titled, “Photo & 1st hand witness of grassy knoll JFK assassin 1 of 2, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSQdnAcCbXI; and “Photo & 1st hand witness of grassy knoll JFK assassin 2 of 2, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-_06iHdM3A. This two part video interviews a deaf man who saw a man dressed in a blue uniform stand behind the fence on the grassy knoll in front and to the right of President Kennedy. He saw the man in the blue uniform shoot a rifle at the President and then walk over to another man dressed in a railroad shirt, who was also behind the fence. The man in the railroad shirt broke the rifle down and put the rifle in a bag, described as a train engineer tool bag. A railroad signal man who was working in the railroad yard also saw these two men.
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The CIA and the JFK Assassination, Pt. 1

By Donald E. Wilkes, Jr.

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Photo Credit: Jeff Dean/Wikimedia Commons

One month to the day after the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, TX, former President Harry Truman
recommended that the U.S. abolish the Central Intelligence Agency… In
an op-ed column published in the Washington Post on Dec. 22, 1963,
Truman never linked the CIA to President Kennedy’s murder, but the
timing of the explicit and strongly worded column and complaint
implied a connection.
—Joseph Lazzaro

The evidentiary record of the JFK assassination is so contaminated
by pervasive misconduct on the part of the… CIA that the good faith of
senior government officials simply [cannot] be assumed.
—Jefferson Morley

If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us
anything, it’s that you can kill anyone.
—The Godfather Part II

I’m not privy to who struck John.
—James Angleton, head of the CIA’s counterintelligence staff,
1954-75

The assassination by hidden sniper fire of President Kennedy on Nov.
22, 1963 was a gigantic security failure by the Secret Service. (The
best book on the unbelievable blundering by JFK’s protectors is
Vincent Palamara’s Survivor’s Guilt: The Secret Service and the
Failure to Protect President Kennedy [2013].) The assassination was
also a colossal intelligence failure by the Central Intelligence
Agency, then the principal (and lavishly funded) government
intelligence organization. As Jefferson Morley, former Washington Post
reporter and now a leading authority on the assassination, observes:
“[I]t seem[s] indisputable that the killing of a democratically
elected chief of state in broad daylight constituted some kind of
intelligence failure. It wasn’t supposed to happen and lots of people
were paid good money to make sure it didn’t happen. But it did.”

At the time President Kennedy was gunned down, the CIA could not
possibly have been unfamiliar with the alleged assassin, ex-Marine Lee
Harvey Oswald. Unless it was comatose, Oswald must have been a person
of interest to the agency long before the assassination. In 1957–58,
Oswald had been stationed as a radar operator at the Atsugi Naval Air
Base in Japan, where there was a major CIA station and from which the
agency’s U2 spy planes flew high-altitude missions over the Soviet
Union; in 1959, the CIA knew, Oswald had defected to the Soviet Union,
announced he had secrets to turn over to the Soviets, and attempted to
renounce his American citizenship. In late September/early October
1963, six weeks before JFK’s murder, Oswald had been under CIA
surveillance when he visited Soviet and Cuban diplomatic facilities in
Mexico City multiple times, supposedly to arrange a return to the
Soviet Union (or to visit Cuba, or both).

For years, critics have accused the CIA of suppressing information
relevant to the assassination of President Kennedy. The agency, they
allege, even withheld pertinent information from both the Warren
Commission (which investigated the assassination in 1963–64) and the
U.S. House of Representatives Assassinations Committee (which
reinvestigated the assassination in 1976–79).

These critics, we now know, were right.

What for many years seemed unthinkable has turned out to be true after
all.

There was a CIA cover-up. The CIA did suppress information. The CIA
did stonewall both of the official government investigations of the
JFK assassination. And as a consequence of this agency misconduct,
both investigations were compromised in important
respects—particularly in regard to the fundamental issues of whether
the assassination resulted from a conspiracy and whether Lee Harvey
Oswald (alleged to be the sole assassin in the Warren Report and
alleged to be one of multiple assassins in the Report of the House
Assassinations Committee) was affiliated with the CIA.

The CIA’s enormous intelligence failure, combined with the Agency’s
appalling concealment of information from the officials in charge of
investigating the murder of an American president, raises a number of
issues. This Article will address two: (1) whether the CIA was
involved in the assassination, and (2) whether Lee Harvey Oswald
worked for or with the CIA. This Article will then examine two
brand-new, bombshell revelations about CIA suppression of information
on the assassination. The first revelation was on Sept. 16, barely two
months ago. The second occurred last month, on Oct. 6. Finally, the
reasons that the Agency concealed its CIA-Mafia murder plots from the
Warren Commission will be explored.

Possible CIA Involvement in the Assassination

Almost from the moment JFK succumbed to his bullet wounds, there have
been suspicions that, officially or unofficially, directly or
indirectly, employees or operatives of the Central Intelligence Agency
might have been involved in the assassination.

These suspicions are not without foundation. Appalled by various
abuses and excesses committed by the CIA, embittered by CIA endeavors
to deceive and manipulate him, JFK had fired a director of the CIA in
1961 and was struggling to rein in the agency until the day of his
death. After the Bay of Pigs debacle in 1961, Kennedy is reported to
have vowed that he would “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and
scatter it into the winds.” Conversely, top-ranking CIA officials
despised JFK’s policies and politics. That the agency, which
specializes in deception, disinformation and plausible deniability,
and which in those heady days was operating like a secretive criminal
syndicate—covertly carrying out political assassinations (“executive
actions”), successfully scheming to overthrow or destabilize foreign
governments, and even plotting with the Mafia to commit murder—might
have had something to do with the JFK assassination is not an
unreasonable supposition.

Those who suspect the CIA was somehow behind the assassination reject
the lone assassin theory and believe the assassination was the result
of a conspiracy. They disagree as to whether Lee Harvey Oswald was one
of the conspirators. Many think he was the patsy.

The first book by a serious researcher to suggest the likelihood of
CIA connections to the JFK assassination was the late Harold
Weisberg’s Oswald in New Orleans: Case of Conspiracy with the CIA
(1967). Weisberg was one of the most prominent of the first generation
of Warren Commission critics and published nine books on the
assassination.

The researchers who believe the CIA might have been involved in the
assassination tend to think the involvement was unofficial. The
assassins, they suggest, probably were lower or mid-level CIA
employees (or ex-CIA employees) acting on their own and without the
knowledge or approval of the CIA leadership. This was the view, for
example, of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison (now
deceased), who carried out his own official investigation of the
assassination and authored two key books on the JFK assassination.
(Garrison also believed that, to avoid embarrassment to the agency,
upper-level CIA officials not involved in the assassination conspiracy
nevertheless knowingly participated in a cover-up designed to prevent
the CIA-connected murderers from being identified.) Under this view,
the assassins presumably murdered Kennedy because they were right-wing
military hawks who hated JFK’s liberal politics and foreign policy.

Other researchers who suspect CIA involvement are convinced that the
assassination was arranged in the utmost secrecy by an entirely
different set of right-wing, militaristic CIA employees—a small clique
of high-ranking, JFK-hating CIA officials who acted in order to
eliminate a president they firmly believed posed a dangerous threat to
the national security. Mark Lane, author of Last Word: My Indictment
of the CIA in the Murder of JFK (2011), espouses this view.

Under either theory of CIA involvement, it is accepted that the
CIA-affiliated plotters might have permitted a few outsiders,
including organized crime figures and right-wing extremists, to join
the conspiracy.

The fact that the CIA obstructed government investigations of the JFK
murder does not, of course, prove that the agency was involved in the
murder; on the other hand, it hardly tends to exculpate the agency.

Institutionally, the CIA thrives on secrecy and smoke and mirrors; it
masterfully practices deceptiveness, chicanery and mystification; and
it revels in dirty tricks, clandestine devious activities, and
surreptitious surveillance and infiltration. Even if agency officials
or operatives did assassinate JFK, there probably would have been no
CIA documents revealing this; and if such documents did ever exist,
they would have been destroyed long ago. Thus, even if it was true
that the agency was responsible for killing JFK, it would not be
possible to prove this satisfactorily from official CIA records.
Moreover, because of the code of silence among intelligence personnel,
CIA employees having knowledge of agency involvement in the
assassination almost certainly would never reveal it, even under oath.

In overview, the view that the CIA was involved in the JFK
assassination is not proven—and probably is unprovable. On the other
hand, claims of agency involvement are not facially preposterous and
might be true even if incapable of proof.

Was Oswald a CIA Operative?

Regardless of whether Lee Harvey Oswald was a sole assassin, a
conspirator or a patsy, it would be helpful to know if he worked for
or with the CIA. Did he?

The two official investigations of the assassination decided he did
not.

The 1964 Warren Report concluded that “there was nothing to support
the speculation that Oswald was an agent, employee or informant of the
CIA.” It accepted in its entirety the testimony of both the director
and the deputy director of the CIA that “no one connected with the CIA
had ever interviewed Oswald or communicated with him in any way.” It
swallowed whole the director’s sworn affidavit that “Oswald was not an
agent, employee, or informant of the CIA, that the agency never
communicated with him in any manner or furnished him with any
compensation, and that Oswald was never directly or indirectly
associated with the CIA.”

The 1979 Report of the House Assassinations Committee “confirmed the
Warren Commission testimony” of the CIA’s two top officials. “There
was no indication in Oswald’s CIA file that he had ever had contact
with the Agency,” the Report concluded, and “taken in its entirety,
the items of circumstantial evidence that the committee had selected
for investigation as possibly indicative of an intelligence
association did not support the allegation that Oswald had an
intelligence agency relationship.”

The conclusions reached in both the Warren Report and the House
Assassinations Committee Report to the effect that Lee Harvey Oswald
was not in any way affiliated with the CIA, based as they are largely
on denials by the CIA itself, may be wrong. As stated above and as
explained in more detail below, both the Warren Commission and the
House Assassinations Committee were deceived by the agency with
respect to its dealings with Oswald. And, as the late university
professor Philip H. Melanson observed in his invaluable book Spy Saga:
Lee Harvey Oswald and U.S. Intelligence (1990), “there is extensive
circumstantial evidence that Oswald was in fact [a CIA] agent.”

Between 1959 and 1963 Oswald was frequently in the company of persons
with known or suspected CIA ties. During these years Oswald was, in
the words of Melanson, “shadowed by persons with demonstrable or
probable CIA connections.” A few examples:

While living in Texas in 1962–63, Oswald had a bizarre close
friendship with the Russian-born, cultured, aristocratic, enigmatic
George DeMohrenschildt, who was nearly 30 years older than Oswald.
DeMohrenschildt undoubtedly had CIA affiliations and has been aptly
described as one of Oswald’s “spookiest” acquaintances. The
international-traveling DeMohrenschildt spoke several foreign
languages and received a master’s degree from the University of Texas
and a doctorate from the University of Liège in Belgium; his
intelligence cover was that he was a “petroleum geologist.” As Jim
Garrison once scoffingly remarked: “Here you have a wealthy, cultured
White Russian émigré who travels in the highest social circles—he was
a personal friend of Mrs. Hugh Auchincloss, Jackie Kennedy’s
mother—suddenly developing an intimate relationship with an
impoverished ex-Marine like Lee Oswald. What did they discuss—last
year’s season at Biarritz, or how to beat the bank at Monte Carlo?”
The most realistic explanation for DeMohrenschildt’s weird odd-couple
relationship with high school dropout Lee Harvey Oswald is that he was
the CIA’s “babysitter” for Oswald (in intelligence community parlance,
a “babysitter” is an agent assigned to protect or watch over another
agent or a person of interest to an intelligence agency).

DeMohrenschildt’s involvement in espionage went back long before he
met Oswald. In 1941 he was detained in Texas by FBI agents who caught
him photographing or sketching a Coast Guard station and suspected he
was spying for the Axis. In 1957 he was expelled from Yugoslavia based
on suspicions he was engaged in espionage. DeMohrenschildt testified
at length before the Warren Commission. On Mar. 29, 1977, he committed
suicide shortly before he could be interviewed by the House
Assassinations Committee.

In New Orleans in 1963, Oswald associated with CIA assets David Ferrie
(an expert pilot who flew airplanes for both the CIA and the Mafia),
Guy Banister (a former FBI agent, former Naval Intelligence officer,
rabid segregationist and founder of the “Anti-Communist League of the
Caribbean”), and Clay Shaw (a former head of the International Trade
Mart in New Orleans and the only person ever criminally charged with
plotting to murder JFK).

On Sept. 17, 1963, when Oswald applied for a visa at the Mexican
consulate in New Orleans, the visa immediately preceding his in
numerical sequence was issued to William Gaudet, a “former” CIA
employee.

Numerous books and articles by reputable scholars or reliable
researchers suggest that Oswald was either an operative or a contract
agent of the CIA. Melanson’s Spy Saga marshals an array of evidence
concerning Oswald’s frequent and unusual interactions with CIA
operatives and operations, and reaches the conclusion that Oswald was
a “U.S. intelligence agent-provocateur.” Melanson’s book not only
demonstrates that Oswald must have been some sort of United States
intelligence operative, but also convincingly argues that “Oswald’s
links to CIA-related persons, projects, and contexts appear far
stronger than do those to any other U.S. intelligence agency…”

Another weighty book is Oswald and the CIA (1995; new ed. 2008), by
university professor and former military intelligence officer John
Newman, which presents a large body of evidence that prior to the
assassination the CIA had a keen operational interest in Oswald.
Newman says that Oswald’s mysterious trip to Mexico City only weeks
before the assassination “may have had some connection to the CIA…”

In his 2008 book, Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden
History of the CIA, as well as in numerous articles, Jefferson Morley
details the agency’s extensive surveillance and monitoring of Lee
Harvey Oswald’s activities.

Based on his extensive research, Morley has concluded that the notion
that in the weeks preceding the assassination high officials in the
CIA’s counterintelligence section were running “a closely held
operation involving Oswald” can no longer be deemed implausible.
Morley believes that a cable sent from CIA headquarters to the CIA’s
Mexico City office on Oct. 10, 1963, six weeks before the
assassination, which deceptively withheld requested information about
Oswald and absurdly claimed Oswald was “maturing,” is suggestive of
the possibility the agency “may have had some kind of relationship
with Oswald that it was trying to protect.” The cable originated from
the special affairs staff of the CIA’s covert operations division and
was signed by four CIA officials involved in counterintelligence or
covert operations, indicating what Morley calls a “a strong CIA
interest in Oswald.” That same day, before the cable was dispatched,
Morley has discovered, “six senior CIA officials in the
Counterintelligence Staff” whose “primary responsibility was running
covert operations” discussed Oswald among themselves. Morley plausibly
suggests that the fact that “six senior operations officers” were
interested in the supposedly “lowly, pathetic… ex-Marine” indicates
that “he was part of a covert [CIA] operation.”

However, neither Newman nor Morley has been able to confirm that
Oswald himself participated in or was even aware of any CIA operation
that might have involved him.

In 1978, in an astonishing break with the code of silence adhered to
in the intelligence community, a former CIA finance officer appeared
before the House Assassinations Committee and testified that he
believed that Lee Harvey Oswald was a “regular employee” of the CIA,
and that he believed Oswald received “a full-time salary for agent
work for doing CIA operational work.” He also testified that he had
been told by another agency employee that CIA money had been disbursed
for “the Oswald project or for Oswald.” Other agency employees
interviewed by the Assassinations Committee, however, disputed his
testimony, which the Assassinations Committee chose not to believe.

It is improbable that any CIA records showing that Oswald worked for
the agency would still exist or, if they do exist, would ever be
disclosed.

That Lee Harvey Oswald ever worked for the



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How The FBI Invents Terror Plots To Catch Wannabe Jihadis

Terrorism prosecutions are rife with signs of entrapment by law
enforcement, according to a new study provided to BuzzFeed News. FBI
critics say the bureau is trampling civil liberties based on flawed
ideas about radicalization.
posted on Nov. 17, 2015, at 8:46 p.m.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/fbi-entrapment



From left, Stories Seldom Seen LLC, New York Daily News via Getty
Images, courtesy Marlene Jenkins

Nobody would describe James Cromitie as a terrorist mastermind.
Certainly not U.S. District Court Judge Colleen McMahon, who in June
2011 sentenced him to 25 years for his part in a plot to attack Jewish
targets and shoot down military aircraft.

Cromitie was “bigoted and suggestible,” with a profound hatred of
Jews, McMahon told the court in New York City. But she believed that
he would have posed no serious threat if left to his own devices:
“Only the government could have made a terrorist out of Mr. Cromitie,
a man whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearian in its scope.”

By the time they were arrested in May 2009, Cromitie and his three
fellow plotters from Newburgh, New York, thought they had planted car
bombs outside two synagogues in the Bronx, and were in possession of
what they had been told were Stinger surface-to-air missiles.

But the bombs and missiles were fake, provided by the FBI. The entire
plot was driven by Cromitie’s accomplice, Shahed Hussain, a
criminal-turned-informant who went to great lengths to entice the four
others — all impoverished black Muslim converts — to take part. Among
other inducements, Hussain offered Cromitie $250,000 and a BMW.

It sounds like a classic case of cunning entrapment by law
enforcement. But under federal law, it’s a legitimate strategy so long
as a suspect is already “predisposed” to commit a similar crime —
which means that courts must judge suspects’ intentions. And since
9/11, juries have seemed unwilling to accept that anyone could get
involved with a terrorist plot if they were not already motivated to
do so. Cromitie’s lawyers mounted an entrapment defense, to no avail —
despite the judge’s comments about the way in which the FBI had acted.

The front page of the Daily News on May 22, 2009 showing Onta
Williams, David Williams, Laguerre Payon and James Cromitie. New York
Daily News / Getty Images

The Newburgh Four case is just one of several high-profile
prosecutions that critics claim involve entrapment of Muslims who
posed little independent threat. In his 2011 book The Terror Factory,
journalist Trevor Aaronson accused the FBI of waging a “manufactured”
war on terror using some 15,000 paid informants. Among 158 defendants
charged after FBI sting operations, Aaronson found that 49 were snared
in plots instigated by an agent provocateur controlled by the FBI.

Now a new study has quantified signs of entrapment in a database of
post-9/11 terror prosecutions. Out of 580 cases, 317 involved an
informant or undercover agent, and most of those showed signs of
entrapment, the study found.

The leader of the study, Jesse Norris, a legal scholar at the State
University of New York (SUNY) at Fredonia, told BuzzFeed News that he
was disturbed at how often questionable tactics were employed.

“I didn’t know if I’d find it was a small handful of what you might
call bad apples,” he said. “But instead what I found was that facts
supporting an entrapment defense were pretty widespread.”

What’s more, Norris and Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk, a sociologist at the
University at Buffalo, found that these methods have been deployed
more often to target jihadi and left-wing extremists than to ensnare
those on the extreme right. Their study will be published in the
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.

The FBI rejects the study’s findings. “This is a topic that’s been
well reviewed by the courts and there’s not been a single case where
the court has said the FBI has entrapped an individual,” Michael
Steinbach, assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division,
told BuzzFeed News. “We don’t put into somebody’s head the intent.”

Steinbach justifies the agency’s approach, saying that it’s the best
way to stop terrorists before they can cause harm. “It would be
irresponsible of us to just sit back and wait. I don’t have the time
or the resources to follow that individual and let him act at a time
and place of his choosing.”

Although critics have been complaining about the FBI’s tactics for
years, Norris wanted to produce a detailed, quantitative description
of how the government has pursued terrorism prosecutions since 2001.

He coded each case for 20 signs of entrapment. These included six
“core” indicators: The defendant had no previous involvement with
terrorism; the government proposed the crime; the defendant had to be
pressured or persuaded to take part; cash or other incentives were
offered; the defendant was reluctant to become involved; and the
government directed the criminal acts, rather than letting matters
take their course once the ball was rolling.

Cromitie checked all six of these boxes. So, too, did Tarik Shah. And
in his case, there were no bombs, and no missiles.

Shah is a jazz bassist who honed his skills with the Duke Ellington
Orchestra and once toured Europe with the singer Betty Carter. He is
also a master of karate who taught martial arts. In May 2005, he was
arrested for conspiring to provide material support for terrorism.

Tarik Shah is seen performing in this undated handout photo. Courtesy
Marlene Jenkins

Prosecutors charged that Shah had pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda and
agreed to provide martial arts training to terrorists for $1,000 a
week. Shah pleaded guilty in 2007, and is currently held in the
Petersburg Low federal prison in Virginia. He’s due for release in
2018.

Mohamed Alanssi, the first FBI informant sent after Shah, made little
progress. But in 2003, Theodore Shelby, aka Saeed Torres, befriended
Shah, asking for bass lessons. At the time of Shah’s arrest, Shelby
was in the process of moving into a building in the Bronx owned by
Shah’s mother, where Shah was the live-in building manager. Over more
than two years, Shelby recorded their conversations and introduced
Shah to someone he said was an al-Qaeda recruiter — but who was
actually an FBI agent, Ali Soufan.

Shah’s guilty plea meant the case against him was never argued in
court, but details of what he said emerged in the 2007 trial of his
friend Rafiq Sabir, a doctor charged with offering medical assistance
to al-Qaeda. Shah came across as a “boastful, albeit somewhat
bumbling, man,” the New York Times reported, adding that the plot “was
almost entirely talk.” No martial arts training was ever provided, the
newspaper noted.

Shah’s mother, Marlene Jenkins, who converted to Islam in the 1950s
after studying under Malcolm X, is adamant that her son is not a
terrorist. “He’s never been violent. He’s never been in a fight,”
Jenkins told BuzzFeed News.

But the FBI agent Soufan, who now runs a security and intelligence
company based in New York, argues that Shah and Sabir were targeted
with good reason. “There was intelligence that these individuals were
trying to reach al-Qaeda,” Soufan told BuzzFeed News. “I feel very
confident that we did the right thing, and it’s better for them to be
stopped.”

While Cromitie’s and Shah’s cases stand out for their high number of
entrapment indicators, Norris’s study found that at least some of
these indicators showed up in most of the prosecutions he examined.
Just 53 of the 317 prosecutions involving an informant or undercover
agent were free of any signs of entrapment. The remainder averaged 5.3
of the 20 indicators per case, including 2.5 of Norris’s six core
signs.

What’s more, these indicators were more common in cases involving
jidahis than in cases involving defendants from the extreme right.
Indicators of Entrapment in Terrorism Prosecutions

Table shows the average number of indicators in cases of each type. /
Via Peter Aldhous for BuzzFeed News / Data via Jesse Norris

The threat from Islamic terrorism is real, but the far right is
arguably just as dangerous. A 2012 report from the Combating Terrorism
Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point described “a
dramatic rise” since 2007 in attacks and plots from the extreme right.
The New America think tank, meanwhile, is keeping a tally of killings
by violent extremists since 9/11. So far it has recorded 48 killings
by right-wingers and 26 by jihadis.

Norris’s findings reinforce criticisms of the FBI made by a former
insider. Michael German, now at New York University’s Brennan Center
for Justice, served as an FBI agent until 2004, often working
undercover to infiltrate extremist groups. German argues that the FBI
has engaged in fishing expeditions within Muslim communities since
9/11, while neglecting the threat from the political right.

FBI assistant director Steinbach denied this accusation. “When we
decide how to prioritize the threats, it is based on a yearly review
of what the intelligence is telling us,” he said.

German also questions the wisdom of relying on confidential informants
with checkered pasts. “I’m concerned about the use of informants who
have lengthy criminal records, particularly criminal records for
fraud, which demonstrates an ability to manipulate people,” he told
BuzzFeed News.

“I think the new study is extremely helpful,” German said. “It helps
make the discussion much more objective and fact-based, rather than
just pointing at particular cases.”

German believes that the FBI’s pursuit of Islamic terrorists is based
on the flawed assumption that once someone starts to express radical
Islamic views — such as supporting the application of Sharia law —
they are on an inevitable path toward committing acts of violence. “So
once those ideas have been expressed, it’s incumbent on the government
to push them along that pathway,” German said.

However, a 2010 study from the British think tank Demos, which
compiled profiles of 58 Islamic terrorists and conducted interviews
with 20 radical Muslims from across Europe and Canada, painted a more
complex picture.

The study found some differences between violent and nonviolent
extremists. Among those who went to college, for instance, violent
extremists were more likely to have studied technical subjects than
arts or humanities. But the Demos researchers could find no simple
predictors of violence, and they warned against assuming that all
Islamic radicals are terrorists-in-waiting.

“What is clear is that there is no such thing as a typical terrorist,
and no such thing as a typical journey into terrorism,” the Demos
report concluded. “[T]argeting the wrong people can breed resentment
and alienation, and erode the very freedoms Western governments want
to preserve.”

Other critics contend that entrapment is just part of a wider problem.
In May 2014, Project Salam, which provides legal representation to
Muslims charged with terrorism-related offenses, released the report
Inventing Terrorists. It argued that the vast majority of recent
terrorism cases were “pre-emptive prosecutions,” directed at Islamic
radicals based on their ideology.

FBI Special Agents and members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force
prepare to arrest a suspect in Pittsburgh on March 15, 2012 in this
still from the documentary (T)ERROR. Stories Seldom Seen LLC

Some of these cases involved entrapment in FBI-directed plots, Stephen
Downs, an attorney in Albany, New York, and a founding member of
Project Salam, told BuzzFeed News. “But a larger group had to do with
criminalization of things no one thought were illegal before,
including things like free speech,” Downs said.

Soufan, the ex-FBI agent, argues that if we want to avoid incidents
like the 2013 Boston marathon bombing, the FBI has little choice but
to target people who seem to be on the road to violence and see how
far they are prepared to go. “This is a debatable issue and I
understand these concerns, but this is the only tool that’s
available.”

That said, Soufan would like to see greater efforts to rehabilitate
radicals ensnared in FBI-directed plots, rather than simply imposing
long prison sentences. “We should provide some kind of an off ramp,”
Soufan said.

Jenkins, meanwhile, worries that after her son gets out of prison in a
few years, he will remain a marked man. “He’s a musician. He still
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connect the dots..,

you do know what to do

couple of stories


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FBI Stymied By Islamic State’s Use of Encryption, Director Says
Law-enforcement officials seek greater access to encrypted communication


http://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-stymied ... 1447866592


Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, speaking at an event Monday in New Haven, Conn., discussed the difficulties of Islamic State’s use of encrypted platforms during a cybersecurity conference Wednesday in New York. Photo: Associated Press
By Joe Palazzolo
Nov. 18, 2015 12:09 p.m. ET
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The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said investigators have been stymied by Islamic State’s use of encryption.

FBI Director James Comey, speaking at a cybersecurity conference Wednesday at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said the bureau has tracked Islamic State recruiting efforts on Twitter and reviewed private messages between sympathizers after obtaining court orders.

But when Islamic State commanders find a recruit willing to die for the cause, they move their communications over to encrypted platforms, “going dark,” he said.


Mr. Comey didn’t say whether the encryption was used in planning or executing the Paris attacks, but the massacre loomed large at the conference, which included law-enforcement officials from the U.S., U.K. and France.

His remarks were part of a public campaign by law-enforcement and intelligence officials for access to encrypted phones and communications, in the face of new software and devices promoted by companies as impervious to government surveillance.

The aftermath of the Paris attacks could bolster the argument in favor of such access after years of​ movement toward more customer privacy, fueled by revelations of U.S. surveillance programs.

U.S. counterterrorism officials haven’t determined whether terrorists used encrypted communications to plan or execute the Paris attacks, but they said they expect evidence to emerge as the investigation continues.

Sen. Richard Burr (R., N.C.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, said after a briefing by senior intelligence officials Tuesday that the terrorists involved in the Paris attacks likely used “end-to-end” encryption. He said encryption was likely because no direct communication among the terrorists was detected.

Islamic State, which claimed credit for the bloodshed, has demonstrated its technological savvy in tutorials for sympathizers on how to evade electronic surveillance on the cheap, including an eight-minute video explaining the eavesdropping capabilities of hostile governments and how they track phones.

Other Islamic State bulletins ​have analyzed the vulnerabilities of brands of electronic equipment and messaging applications, ranking them based on their ability to foil surveillance.

In separate remarks Wednesday, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance ​Jr.. said his office has been unable to access evidence on encrypted phones in 111 cases handled by his office. Newer operating systems on phones made by Apple Inc. and Google can’t be unlocked without the user passcode, even by the companies themselves.

Mr. Vance called for legislation that would mandate that mobile-phone companies have the capacity to unlock a customer device when presented with a search warrant. “We don’t want a ke



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Nichols says bombing was FBI op | Deseret News
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/.../ ... p.html?p...
Feb 21, 2007 - A declaration from Terry Lynn Nichols, filed in U.S. District Court in Salt ... Potts retired from the FBI under intense pressure and criticism for the ...
New OKC Revelations Spotlight FBI Involvement In Bombing
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/fe ... ations.htm
Feb 22, 2007 - New claims by Oklahoma City Bombing conspirator Terry Nichols that ... Potts retired from the FBI under intense pressure and criticism for the ...
Confirmed: FBI Got Warning Day Before OKC Bombing
redicecreations.com/article.php?id=14198
Feb 14, 2011 - Confirmed: FBI Got Warning Day Before OKC Bombing ... an astounding declaration from Nichols in which he fingered FBI agent Larry Potts as ...
Nichols claims FBI official directed bombing McVeigh cohort again ...
newsok.com/article/3016643
Feb 22, 2007 - Nichols, 51, claims an angry McVeigh identified Larry Potts as the high-ranking FBI official "who was apparently directing McVeigh in the bomb ...
Did Eric Holder Cover Up FBI's Role In '95 OKC Bomb Plot ...
americanfreepress.net/did-holder-cover-up-fbis-role-in-95-okc-bomb-plot/
Dec 31, 2011 - An affidavit from Oklahoma City conspirator Nichols about the ... Both were handled by FBI agent Larry Potts, a senior FBI official who had ...
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Re: FBI WATCH MAKING CRUELTY VISIBLE

Postby fruhmenschen » Thu Nov 26, 2015 10:21 pm

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FBI agents had the Ames Anthrax Strain in their possession
the year before 911.

The Ames Anthrax strain was used in the 911 attacks.


https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpr ... 01-period/


USAMRIID can find no record that the large quantity of virulent Ames sent from Dugway to USAMRIID Special Pathogens Branch (to the FBI’s scientist at USAMRIID) in August 2000 and June 2001 was ever irradiated. Was record at least kept where the Ames was sent out?
* Ken Dillon was successful in his appeal of denial of his FOIA request relating to documents from Sep and Oct 2001 relating to Bruce Ivins that have not yet been provided »
* What is the classified information that AUSA Gordon Kromberg does not want the public to see relating to events during the September 17 and 20, 2001 period?

Posted by Lew Weinstein on November 20, 2015



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Revealed: National Crime Agency In Crisis Over Unlawful Searches

Trials collapse amid warnings historic convictions unsafe because of ‘glaring’ systemic failures at UK’s serious crime body.
posted on Nov. 26, 2015, at 6:27 p.m.


http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomwarren/the-n ... .oeGwJnWZ1

Lynne Owens (centre) was named the new NCA director yesterday, replacing Keith Bristow (right) who resigned in the summer. Rex Shutterstock/PA/Laura Gallant/BuzzFeed

Every single one of the National Crime Agency’s (NCA’s) live investigations and prosecutions are in jeopardy after it launched a sweeping internal inquiry into all its warrants and production orders over fears that they may have been obtained unlawfully.

BuzzFeed News can reveal that the NCA has admitted to judges it used evidence which may have been gathered unlawfully in four major cases – three of which have collapsed at a cost of millions of pounds to the taxpayer. One of those judges has confirmed that the agency’s use of potentially unlawful warrants – obtained without disclosing all the relevant information to the courts – is “systemic” and will inevitably rebound on other major cases.

The NCA and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) are now investigating every type of authorisation that “Britain’s FBI” has received to raid homes, seize property, and collect telephone and banking records.

The agency said the systemic failings were a “training issue” that it “inherited
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Re: FBI WATCH MAKING CRUELTY VISIBLE

Postby fruhmenschen » Thu Nov 26, 2015 10:27 pm

* Dr. Meryl Nass’ characterization of the report of the Amerithrax Expert Behavioral Analysis Panel as “psychobabble” is right on target

Posted by Lew Weinstein on March 25, 2011

Dr. Meryl Nass on the panel at the November anthrax seminar in DC

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Meryl Nass comments on the recent report of the Amerithrax Expert Behavioral Analysis Panel …

A group of psychiatrists offered their forensic expertise in solving the anthrax criminal investigation, by using their insight into the criminal mind.
Somehow DC Judge Royce E. Lamberth blessed them, and FBI paid the $38,000 bill.
The group only had one suspect, whose confidential medical records were supplied by the FBI.
The Executive Summary makes clear that the panels’ conclusions were built into its charge …the Panel was asked to offer, based on the available materials, a better understanding of Dr. Ivins’ mental state before and after the anthrax mailings, his possible motives — and the connections, if any, between his mental state and the commission of the crimes.
How could these experts possibly know Ivins had the motivation and means, when the FBI failed to produce a logical motive or provide evidence of means?
This report was completed last August, but was pulled out of the deep freeze yesterday in a last-ditch attempt to trump the NAS report.

Is psychobabble too strong a word
to describe this outpouring of gibberish?

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read Meryl’s entire post at … http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2011 ... olves.html

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LMW COMMENT …

It appears that the psychological evaluation of the Amerithrax Expert Behavioral Analysis Panel was based entirely on the FBI’s “botched” investigation, which has been documented again and again on this blog as incomplete and incompetent.

From such a starting point, with no independent information or evaluation, how could any conclusions from a group of “consultants” apparently well under the FBI’s thumb be considered as independent or well supported?

Meryl’s characterization of the report as “psychobabble” is right on target

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