FBI WATCH MAKING CRUELTY VISIBLE

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Family sues FBI in fatal shooting of Detroit imam
Family of Detroit Muslim leader files suit challenging official story
October 31, 2012 |
By Niraj Warikoo

Detroit Free Press Staff Writer

The family of a Detroit Muslim leader shot dead by federal agents in Dearborn in 2009 has filed a lawsuit claiming that he was unarmed and never fired at the agents -- as the FBI has said.

Filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Detroit, the lawsuit offers a different scenario from what government officials said happened inside a Dearborn warehouse on Oct. 28, 2009, when Imam Luqman Abdullah, 53, was shot 20 times by agents during an undercover sting operation that took place after a three-year counterterrorism investigation.

The FBI did not comment Tuesday on the lawsuit. It has said previously that Abdullah fired first at a police dog that was released to get him after he refused to surrender; the agents then returned fire, killing Abdullah. Three investigations -- local, state and federal -- found that federal agents did not break any laws in shooting dead Abdullah, accused of dealing in stolen goods at the warehouse.

The lawsuit is based on an affidavit of Muhammad Abdul Salaam, 48, a Detroit man with multiple criminal convictions who was with Abdullah at the time of the shooting. The suit says federal agents used excessive force to take down Abdullah and failed to give him medical attention after they shot him. In the affidavit, Salaam said Abdullah didn't have or use any gun, and was killed by gunshots as he was trying to protect himself from the police dog. The FBI has said the dog was shot dead by Abdullah, which the lawsuit denies.

"As Abdullah struggled to prevent the canine from attacking his face, and while Abdullah was on his back, the FBI agents began shooting at him," Salaam said in his affidavit. "Abdullah never pulled any weapon towards the canine or towards any of the FBI agents. At no time during that day did I see Abdullah carry a gun."

In addition, Salaam said in the affidavit: "I never heard orders to show our hands, and I never heard any mention of a dog that would be released if we did not comply. Within a matter of two to three seconds, I saw a canine run in the direction of Abdullah and immediately start attacking him, including his face."

The lawsuit says the "FBI K9 repeatedly attacked and mauled Abdullah's face, causing severe injuries to ... his forehead, upper eyelid, left cheek, lower lip, lower jaw and both hands ... tore off a denture device in the roof of Abdullah's mouth, and caused Abdullah's upper jaw to break."

The lawsuit was filed by attorneys Shereef Akeel of Troy, Charles Swift of Seattle and Lena Masri of Southfield, who is with the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

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Did FBI will allow the FBI informant who created Mumbai terrorist event to be questioned alone by India

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 1:42 AM
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India may let FBI quiz Headley aides

October 30, 2012

India has told United States that it may allow the FBI to question key persons associated with Pakistani-American LeT operative David Headley in the presence of Indian sleuths.
The move comes after the National Investigation Agency’s pending demand for direct access to Headley’s US-based wife Shazia, his two girlfriends and accomplice in Mumbai terror attack, Tahawuur Hussain Rana among others failed to yield results so far. Senior government officials said that the US authorities may now allow Indian sleuths to be present along with the FBI during the questioning of the key persons.
While Headley and Rana have been charged by the NIA for hatching the 26/11 conspiracy, the other associates of Headley and Rana are potential witnesses in the NIA case filed against the duo here. Government sources said that statements of these persons made before the FBI will give Indian investigators a closer look at the 26/11 conspiracy hatched in Pakistan in which Headley and Rana played a key role by providing information and videos of the 26/11 targets months before the terror attack.

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News & Events
Alumnus named FBI division chief
November 1, 2012 : By Bethany Pico/Liberty University News Service
http://www.liberty.edu/news/index.cfm?P ... &MID=68850


Alumnus Jeffrey Mazanec ('85) was recently named Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Richmond Division.

Liberty University alumnus Jeffrey Mazanec (’85) was recently named Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the FBI’s Richmond Division. As the chief executive officer of an FBI field office, he oversees a staff of 200 who protect America from the threat of fraud, terrorism, espionage, and other national crimes.

Mazanec has an extensive career with the FBI, working as a field officer and in several leadership positions, including a detail with the CIA for the Counterterrorism Center after the 9/11 attacks.

During his time at Liberty, he pursued a broad degree in liberal arts and history, which he said provided a foundation on which to build a career in law and government.

“I was exposed to great courses in constitutional law, history, political science, and political philosophy and continued to develop a love of learning throughout my years at Liberty. The professors and the curriculum helped me to grow a sense of wonder and fascination for the world,” Mazenec said.

Like many college students, he had specific interests and studied them in his undergraduate years but did not have a particular career in mind.

“I had no idea where my interests would eventually lead, although I always admired the FBI and its work. Entering college, I began to pursue a career in law,” Mazanec said.

He was involved in many extracurricular activities at Liberty, including leadership in the Student Government Association, the debate team, and the pre-law society. After his sophomore year, Mazenec participated in an internship in Washington, D.C., which he said inspired him to public service.

After he graduated from Liberty, he earned his Juris Doctor from the College of William & Mary.

Mazanec said having a Christian education “helped forge a worldview that prioritized what (I) really value and hold sacred,” and developed in him a “sincere appreciation for civilized society and the rule of law.”

“My education taught me that as I faced the pressures, decisions, and difficulties of the daily working world, I could find strength in the source of all strength and encouragement in God’s Word,” Mazanec said.

Since he graduated in 1985, Liberty has grown and built a more expansive government program for students. Established in the fall of 2004, the Helms School of Government offers 10 residential degree programs with specializations in Politics and Policy, International Relations, Pre-Law, Criminal Justice, Strategic and Intelligence Studies, as well as several minors. Degrees are also available with the convenience of an online education through Liberty University Online.

Mazanec encourages Liberty students to “pursue learning with passion and enthusiasm, learn to discover the interests, talents, and gifts” they have, and to “learn hard work with integrity.”

“Today’s society is overwhelmed with ethical confusion, laziness, without moral compasses, so we must be light and an inspiration. As Jesus said, ‘Be as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves.’”

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http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/11/01/51909.htm

Thursday, November 01, 2012

Watchdog May Get More on Encryption Program
By CHRIS MARSHALL


SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A federal judge ordered another review of secret files about an FBI program that would require encryption protocols among all communication services.
The FBI adopted the Going Dark program to expand the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It requires "all services that enable communications - including encrypted e-mail transmitters, social networking websites, and 'peer to peer' messaging services - to be technically capable of complying with wiretap orders, including being able to intercept and unscramble encrypted messages," according to a summary of the group's claims compiled by U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg.
In a 2009 request under the Freedom of Information Act, the EFF asked the FBI to divulge "all records that describe the Going Dark Program", including all privacy assessments prepared for the program and all Systems of Records Notices that discuss the program.
It made a second request in September 2010 directed to the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Criminal Division of the Justice Department.
This request sought documents concerning limitations that hamper the DOJ's ability to conduct surveillance on communication networks including encrypted services like BlackBerry, social-networking sites like Facebook, and peer-to-peer messaging services including Skype. It also sought access to any discussions the DOJ has had with operators of such services concerning its issues and how technology could be developed to allow the government to conduct the surveillance in the future.
Another target of the request concerned technical difficulties the DOJ has had obtaining assistance from foreign-based operators of communications systems or networks, as well as communications with foreign governments or trade groups about trade or import-and-export restrictions related to electronic communications, surveillance-enabling technology.
The EFF also requested any briefings or discussions between DOJ officials and members of Congress about proposed amendments to CALEA or other ways to require surveillance-enabling technology in electronic communications.
After initially identifying 8,425 pages as potentially responsive, the Justice Department released one page in full and six partially redacted pages. It withheld 51 pages in full. The DEA, which identified 1,036 pages of potentially responsive records, released 179 pages in full and 63 pages in part. It withheld 794 pages in full. The FBI released 707 pages in full or part, of 2,662 responsive pages.
Each agency said that the withheld materials either fell outside the date ranges specified in the requests or was otherwise not responsive.
On Tuesday, Judge Seeborg ordered them to "conduct a further review of the materials previously withheld as non-responsive."
"In conducting such review, the presumption should be that information located on the same page, or in close proximity to undisputedly responsive material is likely to qualify as information that in 'any sense sheds light on, amplifies, or enlarges upon' the plainly responsive material, and that it should therefore be produced, absent an applicable exemption," he wrote. "That said, there is no presumption that all materials initially identified as 'potentially responsive' must necessarily be produced."
The judge also ordered the FBI to create a new version of its Vaughn index. This file, which takes its name from the 1973 case Vaughn v. Rosen, identifies each document withheld, states the statutory exemption claimed, and explains how disclosure would damage the interests protected by the claimed exemption.
The EFF said it had difficulty with the FBI's current index because of the large number of different documents included in each summary, and the fact that it had claimed multiple exemptions.
While the 171-page supporting declaration purportedly explains the justifications for all the claimed exemptions, it does not identify documents by Bates numbers or otherwise, further exacerbating the problem, according to the ruling.
"The existing index is insufficient to provide an adequate foundation for review of the soundness of exemption claims," Seeborg wrote.
He ordered the FBI to product a revised index "as promptly as practical, making a good faith effort to address the issues raised by the EFF."

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Fitial must go

Friday, November 02 2012 00:15


I HAVE a difficult time understanding why the FBI and the Office of the U.S. Attorney for Guam and the CNMI are not doing their job in the commonwealth. For several years now, they have been concentrating on small time drug peddlers and violators of endangered species acts rather than focusing on more important corruption cases that continue to compromise the safety of our community.

Over the past several months, I have grown increasingly disappointed with the lackluster performance of the FBI in their investigations and handling of the two lost sisters and the murder of the Godfather’s Bar waitress. I suppose if murder, rape, and apparent kidnapping can’t garner the Fed’s attention and motivate their action towards a lawful resolution, then the FBI’s and federal government’s current inaction regarding the most shameful and illegal activities of our governor and his high ranking cronies follows in the same vein of ineffectiveness.

The recent well-publicized illegal actions of Benigno Fitial, Ed Buckingham, and Ambrosio Ogumoro have all exceeded the threshold for the federal authorities to have jurisdiction over these matters. The use of cell phones in the commission of a crime (obstruction of justice), threat of bodily harm, vandalism, and other civil rights violations by law enforcement personnel, political retaliations within DPS on officers assisting in the impeachment hearings, the use of federally funded resources (vehicles, fuel, radios, cell phones, etc.) during commission of a crime (e.g. helping a federal detainee escaped from our prison to massage the governor at 3 am), and other associated violations should trigger grand jury proceedings to determine if federal crimes have been committed and to identify who has committed these crimes. Are the Feds doing anything about these blatant affronts to the law? If they are currently working on something, I would like to say thank you. If they are not, then what the heck are they waiting for?

Moving from the subject of our federal public safety purveyors, to the local, I call for the immediate removal of Ambrosio Ogumoro from DPS. The good officers at DPS must unite to bring honor, respect, and integrity back to the department. They should not stand by idly and allow this corrupt and incompetent individual to use the power of the office to intimidate and harass hard working and decent police officers. Ambrosio was quoted during the impeachment hearings of saying that DPS does not have enough patrol vehicles or fuel for basic patrol duty, but he never explain why several government and police vehicles were used to assist and escort Buckingham in his effort to avoid being served the penal summon. Wow! Not enough gasoline for regular police work but lots of fuel to help a fugitive escape justice. DPS officers who feel harassed, threatened, intimated, or injured because they helped in the impeachment hearings should consult with the Office of the Public Auditor, Civil Service Commission, and their legal counsel. The law is on their side and make no mistake, these criminal violators will eventually have to face justice.

If we the people of the CNMI cannot expect relief from the atrocities inflicted upon us by either our own elected officials or by way of U.S. Federal law enforcement intervention, then I can only call upon our people to speak up and be heard by way of the ballot box next Tuesday, Nov. 6th. All of the 10 conspirators (I have heard them referred to as “Ben’s-Ten”) in the House of Representatives who condone the illegal acts of Fitial and prevented the impeachment proceedings from moving forward, should be removed from office this coming election.

In addition, once the new Legislature is seated in January 2013, and in addition to renewing impeachment proceedings as a first order of business, this Legislature should also conduct public hearings to review all public land transactions at DPL for the past seven years. It has become very clear that Benigno has been using public land as his own private property to reward his friends and to frustrate and intimidate his political foes. He has given his supporters and political allies land lease agreements at ridiculously low rental rates and that allow for minimal or no enforcement for violations of the lease terms and conditions. At the same time, he and his cronies intimidate, frustrate, block and then kill legitimate land lease agreements that are associated with anyone he considers his political foe.

Additionally, the Legislature should look into the abandoned garment factories situated on public land in Lower Base and other locations throughout Saipan. They should find out why Tan Holdings has not been held responsible for the cleanup of their abandoned factories. The Legislature should find out if Fitial, his children, his siblings, and his other family members are shareholders of the Tan Holdings or if they have any financial interests in the Tan Holdings here and/or abroad. The Legislature should ask, did he declare these interests as required by law? It is well known that the senior Tan is often heard introducing Fitial as the being the eldest of his sons. The Legislature should look into the governor’s connections and find out if Fitial is still an employee of Tan Holdings or if he is getting paid on the side for services rendered on behalf of the Tans.

I want to remind our people that Benigno Fitial has been the governor for the past 7 years and yet he refused to accept any responsibility for our pain and suffering. The U.S. DOI recently released a report on the CNMI financial condition that basically says that we are “broke.” It will take a miracle or a federal financial bailout to get us out of this mess that Fitial put us in. Yet, this administration just doesn’t get it. Why is it that he and his cronies are completely oblivious of these realities? Why do they blame everyone else but themselves? During the impeachment hearing, someone suggested that Fitial should take the lie detector test. I am afraid that it wouldn’t do any good since a polygraph test does not work on pathological liars like Fitial.

Further, in a somewhat related vein, I was shocked to read that Ambrose Bennett was convicted of trafficking “Angel Dust” (phencyclidine) in 1977 and sentenced to serve 5 to 8 years in prison in the U.S. Granted, we all make mistakes and some of us, when caught perpetrating particularly bad mistakes, pay our dues to society. What I do not understand, however, is why did the Public School System allow a convicted drug trafficker to work as a teacher at our public schools? Was PSS aware of his conviction prior to employment? If they were aware, then the Board of Education need to reassess their personnel policies to prohibit convicted drug traffickers from teaching in our schools. If PSS was not aware of his background and it is found that Ambrose Bennett secured his employment at PSS through fraudulent means by concealing his criminal records, then he should not be eligible to benefit from the illegal employment. As such, he should forfeit any compensation or benefits he has gained from his employment, including retirement benefits if he is receiving any. He should also be barred from any further or future employment in the CNMI government. And finally, he should include in his commentaries the title “Retired Teacher/Scholar/Convicted Felon.”

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The Good, The Fast, and The Furious
Posted By TheGunMag On Thursday, November 1, 2012

By Philip L. Watson

As the congressional investigation and lawsuit seeking release of Fast and Furious documents come full circle, there was one man that foreshadowed the gun running scandal.

The Good

Jesse C. Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney, has had his eye on Attorney General Eric Holder since the mid 1990’s and has several ongoing lawsuits against the federal government under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Before Eric Holder was confirmed by the Senate as Attorney General in 2009, Trentadue sent a strongly worded letter with supporting documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The letter and supporting documents shed light on the questionable actions and decision making of Holder behind closed doors and cites his experience with Holder’s inappropriate behavior as a disqualifier. “No one could be less suitable to uphold the principles of justice in America than Eric Holder,” Trentadue wrote.

Mr. Trentadue previously won a lawsuit against the federal government for intentional infliction of emotional harm after then Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder was placed in charge of DOJ’s internal investigation and public relations surrounding the death of Trentadue’s brother. This was about the same time Holder was on a crusade to “brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.”

The Fast

Trentadue’s new discovery under FOIA is a heavily redacted FBI manual used for positioning confidential informants in places like the mainstream press, as well as in the offices of judges and congressional representatives. The document may be viewed here.

The document gains some relevancy to the Fast and Furious investigation in section 16 and 17. Below are some excerpts that may be the most relevant:

17.3 Otherwise Illegal Activity (OIA)

A) When a UCE provides goods and service (reasonably unavailable to the subject except as provided by the United States government) that facilitate a felony, or its equivalent under federal, state, or local law, it is a sensitive circumstance. In these sensitive circumstances additional authorization by an Assistant Director is required after review by the Criminal Undercover Operations Review Committee (CUORC)

B) (U/FOUO) Participation in otherwise illegal activity that involves a significant risk of violence or physical injury requires authorization by the Director, Deputy Director, or designated Executive Assistant Director after review by the CUORC.

(U/FOUO) OIA by an FBY employee in an undercover operation (UCO) relating to a threat to the national security or foreign intelligence collection must conform to the AGG-Dom and the FBI’s National Security Undercover Operations Policy Implementation Guide (NSUCOPG). The Department of Justice (DOJ) National Security Division (NSD) is the approving component for OIA that requires approval beyond that authorized for SAF approval described in DIOG subsection 17.5, below. However, as authorized by the Assistant Attorney General for NSD, officials in other DOJ components may approve OIA in such investigations.

17.5 An SAC may authorize the following OIA for an FBI employee when consistent with other requirements of this section, the AGG-Dom, the AGG-UCO, and other FBI policy unless otherwise indicated. Except for subsections A, B, and E below, the following OIA activities require CDC review prior to SAC approval, unless otherwise indicated:

C) (U/FOUO) The controlled purchase, receipt, delivery, or sale of drugs, stolen property, or other contraband;

Paragraph three: (U/FOUO) An SAC may not authorize a violation of export control laws or laws that concern the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction during an investigation relating to a threat to the national security of foreign intelligence collection.

The above information leads to some obvious questions that need to be answered:

Since the DOJ is recognized as the authorizing authority for all “otherwise illegal activity” (OIA) for the FBI, wouldn’t the ATF be mandated to seek the same approval as in 17.3 B?

And since the ATF usually handles the investigations into gun issues, wouldn’t the violation of “export control laws” in 17.5 be a serious OIA concern in relation to firearms?

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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/new ... mega-tease
Megaupload founder Dotcom Taunts FBI with New Web Site

Nearly a year after the FBI raided Kim Dotcom, the creator of the file sharing giant Megaupload, the New Zealand man is taunting federal officials with a new site, Computer World reports.

On Tuesday, Dotcom unveiled a teaser page, Kim.com, that is riddled with insults to the U.S. and vows to soon offer file sharing.

“Mr. President, the war on the Internet has begun,” his web page reads. “Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation.”
Dotcom was arrested in January on accusations that his Me

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Judge prods FBI over future Internet surveillance plans

Federal judge tells FBI to do more to comply with open government laws when disclosing what backdoors it wants Internet companies to create for government surveillance.
Declan McCullagh
by Declan McCullagh
November 2, 2012 4:00 AM PDT

The FBI's headquarters in Washington, D.C.
(Credit: FBI)

A federal judge has rejected the FBI's attempts to withhold information about its efforts to require Internet companies to build in backdoors for government surveillance.

CNET has learned that U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg ruled on Tuesday that the government did not adequately respond to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Seeborg, in San Francisco, ordered (PDF) a "further review of the materials previously withheld" in the lawsuit, which seeks details about what the FBI has dubbed "Going Dark" -- the bureau's ongoing effort to force companies including Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google to alter their code to ensure their products are wiretap-friendly.
One almost-entirely-redacted document that the FBI turned over. EFF says the deletions are too extreme.

One almost-entirely-redacted document that the FBI turned over. Click for larger image.
(Credit: FBI)

"We must ensure that our ability to obtain communications pursuant to court order is not eroded," FBI Director Robert Mueller told a U.S. Senate committee in September. Currently, Mueller said, many companies "are not required to build or maintain intercept capabilities."

The FBI says lawful investigations are thwarted because Internet companies aren't required to build in back doors in advance, or because technology doesn't permit it. In May, CNET reported that the bureau has quietly asked Web companies not to oppose a law that would levy new wiretap requirements on social-networking Web sites and providers of VoIP, instant messaging, and Web e-mail. During an appearance two weeks later at a Senate hearing, Mueller confirmed that the bureau is pushing for "some form of legislation."

Judge Seeborg's ruling this week also ordered the FBI to make it more obvious which Going Dark-related documents were being withheld from public view, something the EFF said has been unreasonable and confusing. He gave both sides 15 days to "meet and confer to negotiate a timetable for the FBI to complete" its revisions.

Seeborg did not, however, make a final ruling about what must be turned over. The Justice Department says it has identified 2,662 pages that might be relevant and has turned over 707 pages. For its part, the EFF argues that they've been heavily redacted -- or had pages completely removed -- in violation of open-government laws.

David Hardy, section chief for the FBI's record management division, had told the court that internal documents about a congressional briefing should not be released in full because:

Publicity (adverse or otherwise) regarding any internal FBI development projects (e.g. National Electronic Surveillance Strategy), and legislative strategy to make amendments to outdated laws, that these congressional staffers, and DOJ representatives, may be requested to provide input on, may seriously prejudice their effectiveness in helping on other developmental projects, and legislative strategies.... These employees may have to give input on the development of strategy plans, like developing ways to enhance ELSUR [electronic surveillance] capabilities through legislative amendments.... The publicity associated with the release of these congressional staffers involved with an FBI developmental project could trigger hostility toward a particular employee....

An FBI representative declined to comment to CNET, citing the ongoing litigation. Jennifer Lynch, an EFF staff attorney, said: "It's nice to have a court say the government can't do that." Lynch said the ruling shows that the government has "to make an effort" to comply with the entirety of FOIA.

The EFF in 2009 requested "all records" about Going Dark. Its second FOIA request, in 2010, asked for examples of surveillance being thwarted on social networks and Skype, as well as documents relating to congressional briefings and meetings with industry representatives.

The FBI's proposal would amend a 1994 law, called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA, that currently applies only to telecommunications providers, not Web companies. From the FBI's perspective, expanding CALEA to cover VoIP, Web e-mail, and social networks isn't expanding wiretapping law: If a court order is required today, one will be required tomorrow as well. But privacy groups and civil libertarians -- and Internet companies -- are hardly likely to embrace the idea.

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As always brought to you by the crime family that wacked President Kennedy. eh?
Also funded by your tax dime.

http://fox4kc.com/2012/11/05/fbi-car-fi ... mmunition/

FBI Car Fire Fueled by Exploding Ammunition

Posted on: 4:17 pm, November 5, 2012, November 5, 2012

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An unmarked FBI vehicle loaded with ammunition and chemicals caught fire Monday morning on 169 Highway. It happened during the morning rush hour and snarled traffic. Firefighters had to keep their distance because of exploding ammunition inside the car.

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couple of reads about rape, FBI public relations and
pedophilia.
Let god sort out the truth, better yet George Orwell

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Former Highland Heights mayor Fran Hogg to receive FBI Citizens Academy Foundation award
Published: Monday, November 05, 2012, 2:46 PM Updated: Monday, November 05, 2012, 2:46 PM
Jeff Piorkowski, Sun News

HIGHLAND HEIGHTS -- The FBI Citizens Academy Foundation of Cleveland will hold its First Annual Hometown Heroes Event at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Holiday Inn ballroom, 6001 Rockside Road in Independence.

Three local heroes will be presented with a special Hometown Heroes Awards, including former Highland Heights mayor Fran Hogg.

The FBI CAF is a non-profit service organization with the goal of promoting a greater understanding and support of the FBI in the interest of national security and the protection of civil liberties.

Hogg, a Face-to-Face Advocate Volunteer for the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center, is said to display extraordinary efforts in assisting victims, according to a Hometown Awards release. She responds at all hours of the day and night to help victims.




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CNN exclusive: FBI misconduct reveals sex, lies and videotape

By Scott Zamost and Kyra Phillips, CNN Special Investigations Unit
January 27, 2011



Washington (CNN) -- An FBI employee shared confidential information with his girlfriend, who was a news reporter, then later threatened to release a sex tape the two had made.

A supervisor watched pornographic videos in his office during work hours while "satisfying himself."

And an employee in a "leadership position" misused a government database to check on two friends who were exotic dancers and allowed them into an FBI office after hours.

These are among confidential summaries of FBI disciplinary reports obtained by CNN, which describe misconduct by agency supervisors, agents and other employees over the last three years.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/27/siu.fb ... index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/27/siu.fb ... index.html


Read the FBI documents obtained by CNN







-- An employee had "a sexual relationship with a source" over seven months. The punishment was a 40-day suspension.
-- The supervisor who viewed "pornographic movies in the office while sexually satisfying himself" during work hours received a 35-day suspension.
-- The employee in a "leadership position" who misused a "government database to conduct name checks on two friends who were foreign nationals employed as exotic dancers" and "brought the two friends into FBI space after-hours without proper authorization" received a 23-day suspension. The same employee had been previously suspended for misusing a government database.
-- An employee who was drunk "exploited his FBI employment at a strip club," falsely claiming he was "conducting an official investigation." His punishment was a 30-day suspension.
-- And an employee conducted "unauthorized searches on FBI databases" for "information on public celebrities the employee thought were 'hot'" received a 30-day suspension.



Child Porn Probe Leads To FBI Headquarters
Target claims inquiry is just a “misunderstanding”
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/ ... adquarters
JANUARY 5 2011--The government’s pursuit of suspects trafficking in child pornography recently led federal agents to a familiar address--the FBI’s Washington, D.C. headquarters, where a bureau official is the subject of an ongoing criminal probe, The Smoking Gun has learned.

The investigation by the Department of Justice’s inspector general is focusing on FBI employee Joseph Bonsuk’s receipt of nearly 80 illicit images that were e-mailed to him by an Illinois sex offender whose rap sheet includes felony convictions for bank robbery and solicitation of a minor.


Prosecutors move to dismiss charges against former Scout leader

January 3, 2007

NEW HAVEN, Conn. --Federal prosecutors have moved to dismiss charges against a retired FBI agent who was indicted on child sex charges dating back more than a decade when he was a Boy Scout leader, in response to the death of his accuser.


William Hutton, 63, of Killingworth, was arrested in February on charges he enticed a member of his Scout troop to Maine for the purpose of sexual activity in 1994 and 1995.


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Edward Rodgers was in charge of investigating cases of Child Abuse at the FBI

THE DENVER POST - Voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire
May 17, 1990
Sisters win sex lawsuit vs. dad $2.3 million given for years of abuse
By Howard Prankratz
Denver Post Legal Affairs Writer

Two daughters of former state and federal law enforcement official Edward Rodgers were awarded $2.319,400 yesterday, after a Denver judge and jury found that the women suffered years of abuse at the hands of their father.

The award to Sharon Simone, 45, and Susan Hammond, 44, followed testimony of Rodgers’ four daughters in person or through depositions, describing repeated physical abuse and sexual assaults by their father from 1944 through 1965.

Rodgers, 72, who became a child abuse expert after retiring from the FBI and joining the colorado Springs DA’s office, failed to appear for the trial. But in a deposition taken in March, Rodgers denied ever hitting or sexually abusing his children.

http://www.fox10tv.com/dpp/news/FormerL ... ntArrested
Local attorney arrested
On child indecency accusations

Updated: Wednesday, 22 Apr 2009, 1:33 PM CDT
Published : Monday, 20 Apr 2009, 9:51 PM CDT

Mike Rockwood
Charissa Cowart
Photojournalist: La-Keya Stinchcomb

MOBILE, Ala. - Mobile Police arrested 52-year-old Phillip Kent Baxley on child indecency charges. Baxley is a local attorney in Mobile, but he's also a former coach and acting president for the Mobile Soccer Club.

"I'm surprised to hear it," said Mobile Soccer Club Director, Mohammed Elzare. "He's a former FBI agent and attorney. So we're definitely saddened to hear this."

Baxley was arrested at his Dauphin Street office on a fugitive felony warrant out of Harris County, Texas.

Texas police officers say Baxley was involved in an incident with a nine-year-old girl in 2004.
Investigators say it happened at a family member's house in a Houston suburb, but the girl waited some time before saying anything.

"When the victim, the nine-year-old made the outcry she was interviewed in another county and all of the information was forwarded to us and the investigation went from there," said Lt. Wade Conner with the Deer Park, Texas Police Department.

Mobile Soccer Club Board Members say they were blind-sided by the news on Monday. For now, the board likely plans to distance itself from Baxley.

"Stopping ties until this situation is resolved and hopefully it comes out to a good outcome," said Elzare.

But Texas investigators are confident the charges will stick, despite Baxley's background. "If they're a pedophile then we deal with them all the same," said Wade. "It doesn't matter what they do for a living."

Baxley is locked up in the Mobile County Jail. That's where he'll stay until he's extradited to Texas.

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FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Child Abuse


Tuesday February 17, 2004 11:46 PM

By JOHN SOLOMON

Associated Press Writer
https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forum ... 1077052156
WASHINGTON (AP) - The former chief internal watchdog at the FBI has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and has admitted he had a history of molesting other children before he joined the bureau for what became a two-decade career.

John H. Conditt Jr., 53, who retired in 2001, was sentenced last week to 12 years in prison in Tarrant County court in Fort Worth, Texas, after he admitted he molested the daughter of two FBI agents after he retired. He acknowledged molesting at least two other girls before he began his law enforcement career, his lawyer said.

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Monday August 8, 2005 Longtime FBI agent sentenced to prison on child porn count

also see http://www.policeone.com/news/113935-Lo ... hild-Porn/
By JOHN MILLER

Associated Press Writer

BOISE, Idaho (AP) A longtime FBI agent who helped arrest mountain-man Claude Dallas and was involved in a deadly 1984 siege involving white supremacists in Washington state is going to prison for 12 months after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography.

William Buie, 64, of Boise, most recently worked as an investigator for the Idaho attorney general's office.


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February 22, 2007
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007 ... 007/262383
SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. A F.B.I. analyst has been sentenced to seven years in prison for having sex with a young girl in Spotsylvania County.
Forty-four-year-old Anthony John Lesko entered an Alford plea yesterday in Spotsylvania County Circuit Court to nine counts of felony indecent liberties upon a child. An Alford plea means Lesko doesn't admit guilt but believes there is enough evidence for a conviction.
Authorities say Lesko engaged in a sex act with her nine times, beginning when she was nine years old.
According to the plea, Lesko said he was a victim in the case. He said the girl initiated the contact.

FBI Agent Accused Of Masturbating In Public
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index. ... _pris.html
May 25, 2007
FBI Agent Accused Of Masturbating In Public

Posted by, Marissa Pasquet KOLD News 13 News Editor

FBI Special Agent Ryan Seese, 34, is facing sex offense charges after a cleaning woman said she found him masturbating in a women's lavatory on campus, according to a University of Arizona police spokesman.



FBI Workers Suspected of Secretly Taping Teens in Dressing Room

April 20, 2009

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517222,00.html



Two FBI workers are accused of using surveillance equipment to spy on teenage girls as they undressed and tried on prom gowns at a charity event at a West Virginia mall.

The FBI employees have been charged with conspiracy and committing criminal invasion of privacy. They were working in an FBI satellite control room at the mall when they positioned a camera on temporary changing rooms and zoomed in for at least 90 minutes on girls dressing for the Cinderella Project fashion show, Marion County Prosecutor Pat Wilson said Monday.


Former top FBI agent charged with child porn distribution
By Bill Mears, CNN
May 15, 2012
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/15/justice/e ... index.html

(CNN) -- A former supervisory FBI agent has been arrested and jailed on child pornography charges.

Donald Sachtleben was taken into custody and charged Monday after a nationwide undercover investigation of illegal child porn images traded over the Internet.



A federal complaint alleges 30 graphic images and video were found on Sachtleben's laptop computer late last week when FBI agents searched his home, about 23 miles north of Indianapolis.



Sachtleben is currently an Oklahoma State University visiting professor, according to his online resume. He is director of training at the school's Center for Improvised Explosives, but all references to his work have now been removed from the university's website. There was no indication from the school as to whether it had suspended him. Calls to the university and his Indianapolis attorneys were not immediately returned.

He had been an FBI special agent from 1983 to 2008, serving as a bomb technician. He worked on the Oklahoma City bombing and Unabomber investigations, according to his university biography.

A separate LinkedIn profile filled out by Sachtleben says he is an "accomplished investigator with more than 25 years of experience in FBI major case management, counter terrorism investigations, bombing prevention, post blast investigations and public speaking."





FBI agent arrested on child sexual assault charge




Associated Press - January 15, 2008 6:14 PM ET
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_7978377
PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) - An FBI agent is under arrest in Pueblo for investigation of sexual assault on a child by someone in a position of trust.

Authorities say 53-year-old David Allan Johnson is being held in the Pueblo County jail today on a $100,000 bail.

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Former Great Falls FBI agent sentenced on child sex charges

Jan 23, 2008



A man from Great Falls who's accused of sexually assaulting five underage girls will be spending the next 10 years behind bars.

Stanley Perkins, 64, changed his plea to guilty after police began investigating him for child molestation in August 2006.

The former educator, who also served two years as an FBI agent, was sentenced on one count of felony sexual assault.

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see link for full story
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime- ... ormer.html
Jail for former FBI worker from Va.
Washington Post Editors

A 65-year-old former FBI employee from Prince William County was sentenced to nearly four years in prison Friday for possessing child pornography.

Samuel I. Kaplan, of Gainesville, who pleaded guilty June 2 in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, was sentenced to 46 months behind bars.

Kaplan was an information technology program manager at an FBI facility in Chantilly when authorities discovered that he had used the FBI's computer network to "facilitate sexually explict communications," the Justice Department said.

Investigators said they later found 10 to 20 images on Kaplan's home computer showing juveniles involved in sex acts.

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http://franklincoverup.com/index.php?op ... &Itemid=26

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a species that hires bodyguards to protect them looses the ability to protect itself and is doomed to extinction

Is this the same US Marshall that was assaulted by the FBI agent?




Ex-FBI agent gets 2 1/2 years for assault on marshal



A federal judge today sentenced retired FBI special agent Gary L. John
to 2 ½ years in prison for assaulting a U.S. marshal trying to place him
under arrest.



John, formerly of 110 Post Rd., Westerly, had been on the lam for two
months, when U.S. marshals working with Rhode Island Sheriffs
Department, tracked him to Stratford, Conn., in December 2005. He was
wanted in Rhode Island at the time for allegedly violating orders
barring him from contacting his ex-wife and for failing to appear in
court.

see link for full story
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-0 ... -fbi-agent
FBI agent convicted of daughters' abuse
July 11, 1993|By Traci A. Johnson | Traci A. Johnson,Staff Writer

An FBI agent who lives in Carroll County has been convicted of sexually abusing his daughters over a 14-year period.

The agent, as part of an agreement with prosecutors, pleaded guilty Friday before Circuit Judge Francis M. Arnold to two counts of second-degree sexual offense and two counts of child abuse.

The agent's name is being withheld to protect the privacy of the victims.

In exchange for the agent's plea, the state dropped 18 other counts against him, ordered a presentence investigation and agreed to let him remain free on $125,000 bond pending sentencing Sept. 10.

The agent was suspended from the FBI's Baltimore field office when he was arrested in December.

The original indictment also charged the man with fondling his oldest daughter's friend several years ago when the girl had slept over at the agent's home.

An investigation began after one of the man's daughters told a county child-abuse investigator of at least five incidents of molestation from 1980 to 1987, court documents said.

The victims said their father performed sexual acts ranging from fondling to intercourse beginning when each was preschool age. The abuse lasted until the girls were in their early teens, said Assistant State's Attorney Kathi Hill in a statement of facts presented in court.

In February, defense attorney John E. Harris Sr. tried unsuccessfully to have the case moved out of Carroll on the grounds that pretrial publicity had damaged the defendant's chance for a fair trial.

Ms. Hill said the state will recommend a sentence of 35 years in state prison, with 15 years suspended.

Although Ms. Hill said she once argued that the agent should be incarcerated until his trial, she said Friday she was not worried about whether he will return for his sentencing.

"Even if he'd take a walk, when he eventually comes back he wouldn't have to be tried again. He'd just be sentenced," Ms. Hill said. "There's not so much fear on our part, because we don't have to prove the case again."

The state will ask the court, as part of the agent's sentence, to impose five years of supervised probation and order him to have no contact with females under 18 and to undergo psychological therapy.

Judge Arnold also accepted a plea agreement Friday in which a Mount Airy hairdresser admitted sexually abusing a teen-age boy he befriended in 1990.

David Curtis Flynn of Grimes Court in Mount Airy was immediately sentenced to four years in prison for a second-degree sexual offense.

From January 1991 to November 1992, Flynn had a sexual relationship with the boy, whose family knew and trusted the man, according to a statement of facts that Ms. Hill read in court.

The victim told authorities that Flynn talked to him before the incidents, saying he had been abused as a child, Ms. Hill said.

"I am deeply sorry . . . in my soul," Flynn said. "None of my attentions were meant as wrongdoing. I showed [the victim] the kind of love and affection I was brought up with. I'm deeply sorry for upsetting his childhood."

Judge Arnold sentenced Flynn to 10 years in state prison, then suspended six years of the term.

The judge also ordered five years of supervised probation for the defendant after the prison term and ordered him to participate in all recommended treatment programs.



Mystery Over FBI Agent's Firing
Government shrouds details of why top child porn prober got canned

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/ ... nts-firing

Mystery Over FBI Agent's Firing



AUGUST 20--The lead FBI investigator on several of the government's highest profile child porn prosecutions has recently been fired in connection with her work on those cases, though details of why the agent was terminated have been sealed by a federal judge.

The canning of Monique Winkis, 40, was just disclosed by federal prosecutors to a Tennessee defense lawyer who represents Timothy Richards, who was convicted in a case in which Winkis was the lead FBI agent. In an August 8 U.S. District Court filing, defense lawyer Kimberly Hodde stated that prosecutors had informed her that Winkis was canned due to her 'conduct in the investigation of cases related to Defendant Richards' prosecution.'

Specific details of Winkis's firing are contained in a court filing made by Department of Justice officials, a submission that was ordered sealed last week by Judge Aleta Trauger. In her court filing, Hodde argues that Richards, pictured at left, is entitled to details about the Winkis firing since the ex-prober was the FBI case agent assigned to his prosecution.

The Winkis firing was apparently first disclosed by government lawyers during a late-June status conference, at which Trauger set dates for court pleadings 're: FBI Wincus,' according to a court filing. Winkis did not respond to a detailed message left with her mother, and the federal prosecutor handling the Richards case did not return a message left at her office. An FBI spokesperson declined comment, noting that the agency is prohibited from discussing personnel matters.

According to court records, Winkis worked for the FBI for about 13 years, most recently from the bureau's Washington, D.C. headquarters where she was a supervisor in the Innocent Images Unit. In that capacity, Winkis developed cases based on information provided by Justin Berry, who began operating an X-rated Webcam business while still a teenager. Berry's cooperation was, in large part, arranged in late-2005 by Kurt Eichenwald, then a New York Times reporter investigating online child porn businesses.

According to a December 2005 Eichenwald story, the Times 'persuaded Justin to abandon his business and, to protect other children at risk, assisted him in contacting the Justice Department.' That Times report also quoted Winkis commenting on the breadth of potential targets identified as a result of Berry's cooperation and how 'hundreds of other kids that we are not aware of yet' could be saved from sexual abuse and exploitation.


EX-FBI AGENT JOHN LANDS IN JAIL - AGAIN

By Ryan McBride - The Sun Staff



WAKEFIELD - A former FBI agent from Westerly has returned to prison
after a series of recent arrests for violating a court order to stay
away from his ex-wife.



John served 15 months at the ACI for a criminal conviction of violating a
restraining order in March 2002. His suspended sentence and probation
from the conviction end in 2012.



According to court records, state police arrested John in February 2002
on a disorderly conduct charge for exposing himself in public.


Calif. FBI agent accused of paying for prostitutes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wire ... fbi-agent/

GREG RISLING | September 24, 2012
LOS ANGELES — An undercover FBI agent has been accused in court documents of spending U.S. taxpayer dollars on prostitutes in the Philippines for himself and others during an international weapons trafficking probe last year.

Deputy Federal Public Defender John Littrell filed a motion last week asking a judge to toss an indictment against his client, Sergio Santiago Syjuco, for "outrageous government misconduct." Syjuco, 25, and two other Philippine nationals have been charged with conspiracy and face up to 20 years in prison.

The agent, who wasn't identified in court documents, paid up to $2,400 each time he went to brothels with Syjuco and others to reward them for their work to secure weapons to ship to the U.S. without a license, court documents show.

"I have never seen anything like this during my career as a criminal defense lawyer," Littrell told The Associated Press on Monday. "I hope that the Department of Justice takes these allegations seriously, does a complete investigation, and ensures that whoever authorized this outrageous misconduct is held accountable."

FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller declined comment Monday, but federal prosecutors acknowledged in court documents that the agent sought nearly $15,000 in reimbursements for "entertainment" and other expenses related to the investigation. The prosecutors said they don't have any receipts from the clubs, but two of them listed in the filing, "Air Force One" and "Area 51," are suspected brothels.

No charges have been filed against the agent.

Syjuco, Cesar Ubaldo and Arjyl Revereza, a Philippines customs official, were charged earlier this year with violating arms import laws by selling a grenade launcher, a mortar launcher and other weapons to the undercover agent who said he was interested in buying high-powered weapons that could be used by drug cartels in the U.S. and Mexico.

The case was part of a federal investigation of Asian organized crime groups involved in the illicit trafficking of firearms.

The weapons were eventually loaded onto a ship that arrived at the Port of Long Beach in June 2011 and the items were seized by authorities.

Littrell argues that the agent – and none of the three defendants – arranged importing the weapons to the U.S. He also questioned why the weapons were first shipped from the Philippines to China, where it wasn't known whether officials there checked the container, before arriving in the U.S.

Littrell and an investigator recently visited the Philippines and interviewed several people who claim the agent, using an alias "Richard Han," paid for himself and others to have sex with prostitutes. Alex Escosio, who worked at Area 51, told defense attorneys that Han "always paid for everything, including alcohol, private rooms, food and girls for the entire group of people he brought in," court documents show.

"Although the government represents that these expenditures were for `entertainment and cocktail (tips included),' it is impossible that the agent could not have known that they money went toward prostitutes," Littrell wrote in court documents.

Area 51 was raided in May by Philippine authorities where 60 victims of sex trafficking were rescued, some of whom were underage girls, Littrell said. At least seven people were arrested.

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see link for full story
http://www.securitydocumentworld.com/pu ... temID=2966

Suprema notches up FIPS certification
05 November 2012


Suprema has announced that its latest fingerprint live scanners have tested in full compliance and received certification from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for the agency’s FIPS 201 standards.
The FIPS 201 certification sets rigorous requirements on the image quality of fingerprint capturing devices for the authentication of millions of US government employees and contractors, and is also valid for public projects in many countries.
The company’s FIPS 201 certified live scanners are RealScan-G10, RealScan-D, RealScan-G1 models.
RealScan-G10 is a ten-print live scanner capturing slaps, two thumbs and single flat/rolled fingerprint images. The device also has FBI IQS Appendix F certification and offers IP54-rated durable structure.
RealScan-D is a FBI IQS Appendix F certified portable live scanner which captures dual fingerprint, single flat and rolled fingerprint images.

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see link for full story
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57545 ... veillance/



'Dark' motive: FBI seeks signs of carrier roadblocks to surveillance

The agency wants tougher wiretap laws, and in its "Going Dark" campaign it's enlisted Homeland Security for examples of how companies like Comcast, Cricket, and T-Mobile are standing in the way.
Declan McCullagh
by Declan McCullagh
November 5, 2012 1:03 PM PST

The FBI has tried to bolster its case for expanded Internet surveillance powers by gathering finger-pointing examples of how communications companies have stymied government agencies, CNET has learned.

An internal Homeland Security report shows that a working group convened by an FBI office in Chantilly, Va. requested details about "investigations have been negatively impacted" by companies' delays, partial compliance, or inability to comply with police surveillance requests.

One of the claims in that report: A police arm of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which conducts investigations into immigration, drug, computer, and copyright crimes, reported that no-contract wireless provider Cricket Communications had "hindered" an investigation because "system technical issues" interfered with a wiretap and location tracking. Cricket, a subsidiary of Leap Wireless, has approximately 6 million subscribers.

The "noncompliance incident report" says that:

On almost a daily basis, we experienced technical issues with our target line serviced by Cricket Communications. These problems included daily occurrences of intercepted communications that were missing either data or content. We had numerous instances of calls received where direction and/or digits were not provided by the service provider. Also, for approximately four months the office attempted to obtain a usable cellsite mapping template for target location data. Several Cricket employees were notified of the problem multiple times over a four month time period. No satisfactory resolution was ever provided by Cricket.

Greg Lund, a spokesman for Cricket, told CNET today that "we review all incoming legal requests to determine what information is requested and whether disclosure of that information is lawfully permitted pursuant to the type of request submitted." If disclosure is legally permitted, he said, Cricket turns over the data, but "if not, we deny the request."

The information collection is part of the FBI's controversial effort, known internally as "Going Dark," aimed in part at convincing Congress to rewrite federal wiretapping law to require Internet companies including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo to build in back doors for government surveillance. CNET reported in May that the FBI has asked tech companies not to oppose the plan.

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see link for full story

http://www.nctimes.com/blogsnew/busines ... c9a15.html
UCAN board member has FBI agent husband

November 06, 2012 5:12 pm •

A new board member at the Utility Consumers’ Action Network is married to a San Diego FBI agent — one in the same field office that is investigating financial transactions at the advocacy group.

Christine Mailloux, a staff attorney at The Utility Reform Network or TURN in San Francisco, joined the UCAN board this summer at the recommendation of her former law professor, Robert Fellmeth.

Mailloux did not respond to calls seeking comment on any potential conflict of interest, but UCAN Chairman Kendall Squires said the marriage was known to the board before she was appointed.

“Of course that was disclosed,” Squires said Tuesday, adding that UCAN is not in an adversarial position amid federal subpoenas and questioning. “UCAN will always cooperate with the FBI.”

Squires said Mailloux told the UCAN board that her husband, Special Agent James Mailloux, was not part of the investigation into UCAN business practices.

“I don’t see that being married to an FBI agent automatically disqualifies someone from serving on the board of UCAN,” Squires said. “She made the decision (to apply). It was appropriate from her point of view.”

FBI spokesman Darrell Foxworth declined to comment on any investigation, but he said if there is one, Agent Mailloux is not involved.

“Because of the sensitivity of the type of investigations we conduct, we do not like to disclose the identities of FBI employees,” Foxworth said. But “he is not assigned to a squad that investigates these particular alleged violations.”

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Horny FBI agent sends photos of himself shirtless to CIA Director Petreaus's
mistress all funded by your tax dime.
Same FBI agent ordered to take remedial class in photoshop before he is promoted to FBI SAC.


see link for how the FBI uses your tax dime.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... stpop_read

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November 12, 2012, 7:53 p.m. ET

FBI Agent in Petraeus Case Under Scrutiny
By DEVLIN BARRETT, EVAN PEREZ and SIOBHAN GORMAN

WASHINGTON—A federal agent who launched the investigation that ultimately led to the resignation of Central Intelligence Agency chief David Petraeus was barred from taking part in the case over the summer due to superiors' concerns that he had become personally involved in the case, according to officials familiar with the probe.

New details about how the Federal Bureau of Investigation handled the case suggest that even as the bureau delved into Mr. Petraeus's personal life, the agency had to address questionable conduct by one of its own—including allegedly sending shirtless photos of himself to a woman involved in the case.

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FBI officials declined to identify the agent, so he couldn't be reached to give his side of the story. The agent is now under investigation by the Office of Professional Responsibility, the internal-affairs arm of the FBI, according to two officials familiar with the matter.

The revelations address how the investigation first began and ultimately led to Mr. Petraeus's downfall as director of the CIA. The new developments also raise questions about the role played by the FBI and the adequacy of notification to administration and congressional leaders about the scandal.

The FBI agent who started the case was a friend of Jill Kelley, the Tampa woman who received harassing, anonymous emails that led to the probe, according to officials. Ms. Kelley, a volunteer who organizes social events for military personnel in the Tampa area, complained in May about the emails to a friend who is an FBI agent. That agent referred it to a cyber crimes unit, which opened an investigation.

However, supervisors soon became concerned that the initial agent might have grown obsessed with the matter, and prohibited him from any role in the investigation, according to the officials.

The FBI officials found that he had sent shirtless pictures of himself to Ms. Kelley, according to the people familiar with the probe.
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That same agent, after being barred from the case, contacted a member of Congress, Washington Republican David Reichert, because he was concerned senior FBI officials were going to sweep the matter under the rug, the officials said. That information was relayed to top congressional officials, who notified FBI headquarters in Washington.

By that point, FBI agents had determined the harassing emails had been sent by Paula Broadwell, who had written a biography of Mr. Petraeus's military command.

Investigators had also determined that Ms. Broadwell had been having an affair with Mr. Petraeus, and that the emails suggested Ms. Broadwell was suspicious of Ms. Kelley's attention to Mr. Petraeus, officials said.

The accusatory emails, according to officials, were sent anonymously to an account shared by Ms. Kelley and her husband. Ms. Broadwell allegedly used a variety of email addresses to send the harassing messages to Ms. Kelley, officials said.

One asked if Ms. Kelley's husband was aware of her actions, according to officials. In another, the anonymous writer claimed to have watched Ms. Kelley touching "him'' provocatively underneath a table, the officials said.

The message was referring to Mr. Petraeus, but that wasn't clear at the time, officials said. A lawyer for Ms. Kelley didn't respond to messages Monday seeking comment on the anonymous emails or on the alleged emails from the FBI agent. A lawyer for Ms. Broadwell also didn't respond. Neither woman has replied to requests to speak about the matter.

By then, what began as a relatively simple cyberstalking case had ballooned into a national security investigation. Mr. Petraeus and Ms. Broadwell, both of them married, had set up private Gmail accounts to contact each other, according to several officials familiar with the investigation. The FBI at one point was concerned the CIA director's email had been accessed by outsiders.

After agents interviewed Ms. Broadwell, she let them examine her computer, where they found copies of classified documents, according to the officials. Both Mr. Petraeus and Ms. Broadwell denied that he had given her the documents, and FBI officials eventually concluded they had no evidence to suggest otherwise.

Even as the probe of the relationship between Mr. Petraeus and Ms. Broadwell intensified in late summer and early fall, authorities were able to eventually rule out a security breach, though intelligence officials became concerned Mr. Petraeus had left himself exposed to possible blackmail, according to officials.

A day after the Nov. 6 election, intelligence officials presented their findings to the White House. Mr. Petraeus met with White House officials last Thursday and announced his resignation the following day.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have questioned whether Mr. Petraeus needed to resign over the affair, and some have argued that the FBI should have alerted both the White House and Congress much earlier to the potential security implications surrounding Mr. Petraeus.

In a separate twist in the tangled matter of Mr. Petraeus's resignation, the CIA disputed a theory advanced by Ms. Broadwell that insurgents may have attacked the U.S. consulate and a CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 in a bid to free militants being held there by the agency. Ms. Broadwell suggested that rationale for the consulate attack in an address at the University of Denver on Oct. 26.

"I don't know if a lot of you had heard this, but the CIA annex had actually taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoner and they think the attack on the consulate was an attempt to get these prisoners back," she said then. "It's still being vetted."

A CIA spokesman said there were no militant prisoners there, noting that President Barack Obama ended CIA authority to hold detainees in 2009. "Any suggestion that the agency is still in the detention business is uninformed and baseless," said the spokesperson.

Some critics pointed to Ms. Broadwell's remarks in Denver as an indication that she may have been passing on classified information, leading to speculation that Mr. Petraeus may have been the source. Based on descriptions by U.S. officials, the romantic relationship had ended by then.

In addition, the source of her comment may not have been intelligence information, but news reports. Earlier in her address, she cited findings of a report that day by Fox News. Immediately after, she mentioned the possibility that the CIA had held militants at the site, which the Fox report also mentioned.

The Sept. 11 consulate attack resulted in the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. One person briefed on U.S. intelligence said that reports focused on two main motives for the attack: inspiration from the violent protest that day at the U.S. embassy in Cairo, and the exhortation of al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri to avenge the death of his second in command. The possibility of attackers trying to free detainees never came up, this person said.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), who chairs the Senate intelligence committee complained Sunday that she and her colleagues should have been told of the Petraeus-Broadwell affair when the FBI discovered it because of national-security concerns.

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Horny FBI agent sends photos of himself shirtless to CIA Director Petreaus's
mistress all funded by your tax dime.
Same FBI agent ordered to take remedial class in photoshop before he is promoted to FBI SAC.


see link for how the FBI uses your tax dime.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... stpop_read

SCROLL DOWN FOR FULL STORY

November 12, 2012, 7:53 p.m. ET

FBI Agent in Petraeus Case Under Scrutiny
By DEVLIN BARRETT, EVAN PEREZ and SIOBHAN GORMAN

WASHINGTON—A federal agent who launched the investigation that ultimately led to the resignation of Central Intelligence Agency chief David Petraeus was barred from taking part in the case over the summer due to superiors' concerns that he had become personally involved in the case, according to officials familiar with the probe.

New details about how the Federal Bureau of Investigation handled the case suggest that even as the bureau delved into Mr. Petraeus's personal life, the agency had to address questionable conduct by one of its own—including allegedly sending shirtless photos of himself to a woman involved in the case.

Enlarge Image

FBI officials declined to identify the agent, so he couldn't be reached to give his side of the story. The agent is now under investigation by the Office of Professional Responsibility, the internal-affairs arm of the FBI, according to two officials familiar with the matter.

The revelations address how the investigation first began and ultimately led to Mr. Petraeus's downfall as director of the CIA. The new developments also raise questions about the role played by the FBI and the adequacy of notification to administration and congressional leaders about the scandal.

The FBI agent who started the case was a friend of Jill Kelley, the Tampa woman who received harassing, anonymous emails that led to the probe, according to officials. Ms. Kelley, a volunteer who organizes social events for military personnel in the Tampa area, complained in May about the emails to a friend who is an FBI agent. That agent referred it to a cyber crimes unit, which opened an investigation.

However, supervisors soon became concerned that the initial agent might have grown obsessed with the matter, and prohibited him from any role in the investigation, according to the officials.

The FBI officials found that he had sent shirtless pictures of himself to Ms. Kelley, according to the people familiar with the probe.
image

That same agent, after being barred from the case, contacted a member of Congress, Washington Republican David Reichert, because he was concerned senior FBI officials were going to sweep the matter under the rug, the officials said. That information was relayed to top congressional officials, who notified FBI headquarters in Washington.

By that point, FBI agents had determined the harassing emails had been sent by Paula Broadwell, who had written a biography of Mr. Petraeus's military command.

Investigators had also determined that Ms. Broadwell had been having an affair with Mr. Petraeus, and that the emails suggested Ms. Broadwell was suspicious of Ms. Kelley's attention to Mr. Petraeus, officials said.

The accusatory emails, according to officials, were sent anonymously to an account shared by Ms. Kelley and her husband. Ms. Broadwell allegedly used a variety of email addresses to send the harassing messages to Ms. Kelley, officials said.

One asked if Ms. Kelley's husband was aware of her actions, according to officials. In another, the anonymous writer claimed to have watched Ms. Kelley touching "him'' provocatively underneath a table, the officials said.

The message was referring to Mr. Petraeus, but that wasn't clear at the time, officials said. A lawyer for Ms. Kelley didn't respond to messages Monday seeking comment on the anonymous emails or on the alleged emails from the FBI agent. A lawyer for Ms. Broadwell also didn't respond. Neither woman has replied to requests to speak about the matter.

By then, what began as a relatively simple cyberstalking case had ballooned into a national security investigation. Mr. Petraeus and Ms. Broadwell, both of them married, had set up private Gmail accounts to contact each other, according to several officials familiar with the investigation. The FBI at one point was concerned the CIA director's email had been accessed by outsiders.

After agents interviewed Ms. Broadwell, she let them examine her computer, where they found copies of classified documents, according to the officials. Both Mr. Petraeus and Ms. Broadwell denied that he had given her the documents, and FBI officials eventually concluded they had no evidence to suggest otherwise.

Even as the probe of the relationship between Mr. Petraeus and Ms. Broadwell intensified in late summer and early fall, authorities were able to eventually rule out a security breach, though intelligence officials became concerned Mr. Petraeus had left himself exposed to possible blackmail, according to officials.

A day after the Nov. 6 election, intelligence officials presented their findings to the White House. Mr. Petraeus met with White House officials last Thursday and announced his resignation the following day.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have questioned whether Mr. Petraeus needed to resign over the affair, and some have argued that the FBI should have alerted both the White House and Congress much earlier to the potential security implications surrounding Mr. Petraeus.

In a separate twist in the tangled matter of Mr. Petraeus's resignation, the CIA disputed a theory advanced by Ms. Broadwell that insurgents may have attacked the U.S. consulate and a CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 in a bid to free militants being held there by the agency. Ms. Broadwell suggested that rationale for the consulate attack in an address at the University of Denver on Oct. 26.

"I don't know if a lot of you had heard this, but the CIA annex had actually taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoner and they think the attack on the consulate was an attempt to get these prisoners back," she said then. "It's still being vetted."

A CIA spokesman said there were no militant prisoners there, noting that President Barack Obama ended CIA authority to hold detainees in 2009. "Any suggestion that the agency is still in the detention business is uninformed and baseless," said the spokesperson.

Some critics pointed to Ms. Broadwell's remarks in Denver as an indication that she may have been passing on classified information, leading to speculation that Mr. Petraeus may have been the source. Based on descriptions by U.S. officials, the romantic relationship had ended by then.

In addition, the source of her comment may not have been intelligence information, but news reports. Earlier in her address, she cited findings of a report that day by Fox News. Immediately after, she mentioned the possibility that the CIA had held militants at the site, which the Fox report also mentioned.

The Sept. 11 consulate attack resulted in the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. One person briefed on U.S. intelligence said that reports focused on two main motives for the attack: inspiration from the violent protest that day at the U.S. embassy in Cairo, and the exhortation of al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri to avenge the death of his second in command. The possibility of attackers trying to free detainees never came up, this person said.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), who chairs the Senate intelligence committee complained Sunday that she and her colleagues should have been told of the Petraeus-Broadwell affair when the FBI discovered it because of national-security concerns.