Re: COPWATCH
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 11:32 pm
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Heat is Online
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... urity-risk
Climate change
Military experts say climate change poses 'significant risk' to security
A coalition of 25 prominent members of US national security community warn that higher temperatures and rising seas will inundate bases and fuel conflict
The Pentagon ordered its officials in January to start incorporateing climate change into every major consideration, from weapons testing to preparing troops for war. P
Wednesday 14 September 2016 00.01 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 14 September 2016 00.48 EDT
A coalition of 25 military and national security experts, including former advisers to Ronald Reagan and George W Bush, has warned that climate change poses a “significant risk to US national security and international security” that requires more attention from the US federal government.
The prominent members of the US national security community warned that warming temperatures and rising seas will increasingly inundate military bases and fuel international conflict and mass migration, leading to “significant and direct risks to US military readiness, operations and strategy”.
Climate change made Louisiana's catastrophic floods much more likely
Read more
In a report outlining climate risks, the group state: “The military
1.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ne-protest
North Dakota arrest warrant for Amy Goodman raises fears for press freedom
The Democracy Now! host has been accused of entering private property during her reporting on the Native American protests of an oil pipeline
2.
http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/09/14/646 ... compton-m/
FBI refuses to say why an agent killed a Compton man
89.3 KPCC-
It's been nearly three weeks since an FBI agent fatally shot 31-year-old David Coborubio during a nighttime raid on the house in Compton ...
3.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... y-clinton/
CNN International
What is the FBI hiding about Hillary?
Washington Times-
Yet the FBI — which knew of the post-subpoena destruction of evidence and ... In the case of the House, the FBI declined to surrender its files, and the agent it ...
4.
http://fortune.com/2016/09/12/border-se ... iometrics/
CHANGING FACE OF SECURITY
Homeland Security Plans to Expand Fingerprint and Eye Scanning at Borders
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016, 9:53 AM EDT
5.
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-stando ... _fede.html
Line forms early outside federal courthouse on day of Bundy trial's ...
OregonLive.com-
Oregon's FBI Special Agent in Charge Greg Bretzing also squeezed through the morning line to enter the courthouse early Tuesday. Federal protective services ...
6.
http://patch.com/illinois/chicago/gazeb ... ve-chicago
Gazebo Where Tamir Rice Was Killed by Police Will Move to Chicago
Patch.com-
An FBI agent at a nearby bank robbery came to the scene and was the first to attempt first aid on the child, who was shot once in the chest. A Cuyahoga County
7.
https://data.postandcourier.com/saga/watched/page/1
Watched: Police agencies using public encounters to build massive ...
Charleston Post Courier
“You're not entering their information in the McDonald's favorite customer system,” said Tim Kulp, a Charleston defense attorney and former FBI agent. “You are ...
FBI OCTOPUS
Media Lab conference addresses gender bias, diversity, and ...
MIT News
Before she became senior partner at MindSpring Metro DC, she'd worked 28 years as a special agent with the FBI. In the conference session she led, Minor ...
UMd., UMB officials build case for FBI HQ with new national security ...
Baltimore Business Journal-2 hours ago
Officials from the University of Maryland, College Park and University of Maryland, Baltimore met in Greenbelt Tuesday to unveil a national security partnership ...
A look at mayor's races around the state
Selma Times-Journal-
Two-term Vestavia Mayor, Butch Zaragoza, lost 43 percent to 57 percent to former FBI agent, Ashley Curry. In Trussville, five-term Mayor, Gene Melton, lost big ...
Former president, CEO of Ford Alan Mulally to present 2016 ...
KU Today
Sam Brownback, FBI agent and KU School of Business alumnus Robert Herndon, and former Kansas Gov. Bill Graves. The SELF Program was established in ...
RENT A COP
from the folks who gave you private sector prisons
http://woodtv.com/2016/09/13/grand-rapi ... te-sector/
Grand Rapids’ former top cop goes to private sector
Private security firms expanding responsibilities
Published: September 13, 2016, 4:05 pm Updated: September 13, 2016, 6:36 pm
KENTWOOD, Mich. (WOOD) — After 34 years as a Grand Rapids police officer, including six as the department’s chief, Kevin Belk is returning to familiar territory.
Recently named the senior vice president at DK Security, he’ll be in charge of the agency’s Armed Division, Investigations and Special Operations.
“Another thing we’re looking at doing is creating an emergency response team so we can respond to a larger event — a problem, a crisis,” added Belk, who retired from his post as Grand Rapids police chief in February 2014.
Some of his duties may sound more appropriate for a big city police department than private security firm. But with traditional municipal police departments constantly looking for ways to do more with less, DK’s role and that of other private security firms is expanding.
“Public sector police departments across the country have been reducing their ranks over the last several years and more and more is going to continue to fall on the private sector,” Belk explained.
“Armed security is a whole different level than typical night watchman or guards. We’ve expanded that role,” said John Kendall, a retired U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Michigan, who along with retired FBI Supervisory Agent Bob DuHadway founded DK Security in 1994.
Kendall said he has talked with local police agencies about taking over some responsibilities, like providing K-9 units and crime scene investigation.
“There’s no reason for the police to be tied up with a fender bender for a half hour. We can direct traffic,” Kendall said. “Matter of fact, who do you think we hire? We hired retired police officers.”
Neighborhoods in cities like Detroit and Chicago have gone even further, hiring firms to pick up more of the work load from city police
Governor Scott and FDLE host Florida Missing Children's Day
Dothan First-
In 2015, the Task Force hosted Operation Cross Country, an FBI initiative targeting ... Special Agent Ortiz is the Child Abduction Response Team Coordinator for ...
http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlines/6017521.html
FBI Analyst Sentenced In Underage Sex Case
Posted: Fri 12:18 PM, Feb 23, 2007
February 23, 2007
A former FBI analyst has been sentenced for having sex with a young Spotsylvania County girl.
Forty four year old Anthony Lesko entered an Alford Plea to the charges in a Spotsylvania County Circuit to nine counts of felony indecent liberties upon a child.
The plea means that Lesko does not admit guilt but believes that there is enough evidence to convict him. Lesko was sentenced to seven years in prison with 15 years suspended under a plea agreement.
Lesko was also ordered to pay 10 thousand dollars in restitution to cover the girl's mental health counseling. According to police Lesko was engaged in nine sexual encounters with the girl, starting when she was nine years old.
X-ray vision: Bomb techs strengthen their hand with Sandia's XTK ...
DVIDS (press release)-
It made the average bomb tech a better bomb tech,” said Craig Greene, a special agent and bomb technician at the Albuquerque FBI. “In the past 20 years, the ...
Baltimore City Inspector General Pearre resigns
Fox Baltimore-
He previously worked with auditing as an FBI agent focusing on corruption and also worked for the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, Surveys and .
8.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/jud ... -1.2790986
Judge orders trial for White Plans cop’s slay of ex-Marine
Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 6:17 PM
9.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2790284
KING: Ex-Marine was fired as W.Va. officer after failing to shoot man
Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 11:46 AM
While Mader says he was trying to deescalate the situation, two more cops arrived and shot R.J. Williams dead as he allegedly walked toward them, waving his gun. The gun he had was unloaded. What he needed was help. What he needed was a man who knew how to assess a problem and bring in skilled support to resolve it. Stephen Mader was that man, but this is America, not Afghanistan. Here, our police don't give a damn about your depression or suicidal tendencies or your young children or your future. If they deem you a threat, you're dead.
10.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/fam ... -1.2790155
Family of Rikers inmate who died from untreated ulcer wins $1.5M
Updated: Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 1:00 PM
11.
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns ... ds/2293420
Bob Graham: Release more 9/11 records
By Bob Graham, New York Times
Tuesday, September 13, 2016 5:48pm
In July, after approval from the Obama administration, Congress released a 28-page chapter of previously classified material from the final report of a joint congressional inquiry into the Sept. 11 attacks. Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir, said that the document had ruled out any Saudi involvement in the attack. "The matter is now finished," he declared.
But it is not finished. Questions about whether the Saudi government assisted the terrorists remain unanswered. Now, as we pass the 15th anniversary of the most heinous attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor, it is time for our government to release more documents from other investigations into Sept. 11 that have remained secret all these years.
The recently released 28 pages were written in the fall of 2002 by a committee of which I was a co-chairman. That chapter focused on three of the 19 hijackers who lived for a time in Los Angeles and San Diego. The pages suggested new trails of inquiry worth following, including why an al-Qaida operative had the unlisted phone number for the company that managed the Colorado estate of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, then the Saudi ambassador.
Some of those questions might be answered if the government released more of the findings of the Sept. 11 commission, the citizens inquiry that followed our congressional inquest. The commission said that it found no Saudi links to the hijackers. But it could satisfy lingering doubts by releasing more of its records. Parallel investigations were also conducted by the FBI and CIA. How much did they look into whether Bandar or other Saudis aided the hijackers?
The government also knows more today about the 16 hijackers who lived outside California than when the 28 pages were classified in 2003. Much of that information remains secret but should be made public. For example, the FBI for a time claimed that it had found
12.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/j ... ills-enemy
John Guandolo: CNN Journalists Are 'Enemies Of The State' And ...
Right Wing Watch-
John Guandolo, the disgraced former FBI agent turned anti-Muslim speaker, was not happy with CNN's coverage of the anniversary of the September 11 attacks
13.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/c ... telligence
Civil Liberties Groups Call for Stronger Oversight by House ...
EFF-
Since 9/11, however, it's been obvious that these special intelligence committees have not effectively overseen the NSA, FBI, and other member
Today, we join with Demand Progress, R Street Institute, and FreedomWorks in a white paper calling on the House of Representatives to reinvigorate its commitment to provide a meaningful check on executive-branch surveillance and reform how it conducts oversight over intelligence matters. This paper is complemented by a letter from 33 organizations endorsing stronger oversight of the intelligence community.
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When the House convenes for the 115th Congress in January, it should update its rules to enhance opportunities for oversight by HPSCI members, by members of other committees with related jurisdiction, and by all other representatives. The House also should establish a select committee to review how it engages in oversight.
EFF has previously called on Congress [.pdf] to engage in a thorough review of intelligence community activities based on the model set by the Seventies-era “Church Committee,” and we continue to urge such large-scale review.
But internal reform of House rules that currently make it exceedingly difficult for the vast majority of our elected representatives to know and understand what the intelligence community is doing can also pave the path to meaningful reform.
For example, most HPSCI members lack a personal staffer for their HPSCI work, which requires a security clearance, and instead depend on committee staff—hired by and answerable to the HPSCI chair. Yet when eight HPSCI members sought funding ($125,000) to allow a staffer from each member's personal office to obtain sufficient clearance to assist with intelligence oversight, that request went nowhere, as far as we know.
Under our constitution of separated powers, access to information is essential to democratic accountability. We were fortunate that Snowden leaked significant information about surveillance abuses, but oversight by whistleblower revelations is not a sustainable strategy. Without reform of excessive secrecy and overclassification, the window of transparency provided by the Snowden troves will close as the government creates new surveillance programs protected by secrecy and invulnerable to Congressional oversight.
1. For examples of the abuses, see the Report of the Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, also known as the "Church Committee" report, S Rept. 94-755 (1976), detailing assassination plots against foreign leaders, surveillance of domestic political activities and much more, available at http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/chur ... ttee.html; see also the Pike Committee Report, available in print format from the Library of Congress at http://www.worldcat.org/title/cia-the-p ... lc/3707054.
http://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/korr ... nst-police
Korryn Gaines' family's lawsuit includes new allegations against police
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13TH 2016
A neighbor has come forward providing details that up until now were unknown, at least publicly.
Ramone Coleman says officers used his apartment to spy on Gaines during their seven-hour standoff on Aug. 1, and that just before shots rang out, an officer said, "I'm tired of this [expletive.]"
1p4.
http://www.louisianaweekly.com/fbi-hiri ... nears-end/
FBI hiring as the Obama Era nears end
Louisiana Weekly-6 hours ago
The 34,768 proposed positions at the FBI includes 12,892 special agents, 2,999 intelligence analysts and 18,877 professional staff – who don't carry a gun or a ...
Light turnout for Rhode Island's primary election
Turn to 10
... confusion and long waits. The U.S. attorney's office and the FBI said they are prepared to respond to any complaints of election fraud or voting rights abuse.
15.
http://www.thelandesreport.com/votingmachineerrors.htm
Election Fraud and Irregularities - The Landes Report
http://www.thelandesreport.com › votingmachi...
1970s-1980s Ohio - The Cincinnati Bell-FBI scandal: Leonard Gates, a Cincinnati Bell employee for 23 years, testified that in the late 1970's and 80's, that the FBI ...
http://m.wlwt.com/news/group-claiming-r ... s/41664600
Heat is Online
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... urity-risk
Climate change
Military experts say climate change poses 'significant risk' to security
A coalition of 25 prominent members of US national security community warn that higher temperatures and rising seas will inundate bases and fuel conflict
The Pentagon ordered its officials in January to start incorporateing climate change into every major consideration, from weapons testing to preparing troops for war. P
Wednesday 14 September 2016 00.01 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 14 September 2016 00.48 EDT
A coalition of 25 military and national security experts, including former advisers to Ronald Reagan and George W Bush, has warned that climate change poses a “significant risk to US national security and international security” that requires more attention from the US federal government.
The prominent members of the US national security community warned that warming temperatures and rising seas will increasingly inundate military bases and fuel international conflict and mass migration, leading to “significant and direct risks to US military readiness, operations and strategy”.
Climate change made Louisiana's catastrophic floods much more likely
Read more
In a report outlining climate risks, the group state: “The military
1.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ne-protest
North Dakota arrest warrant for Amy Goodman raises fears for press freedom
The Democracy Now! host has been accused of entering private property during her reporting on the Native American protests of an oil pipeline
2.
http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/09/14/646 ... compton-m/
FBI refuses to say why an agent killed a Compton man
89.3 KPCC-
It's been nearly three weeks since an FBI agent fatally shot 31-year-old David Coborubio during a nighttime raid on the house in Compton ...
3.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... y-clinton/
CNN International
What is the FBI hiding about Hillary?
Washington Times-
Yet the FBI — which knew of the post-subpoena destruction of evidence and ... In the case of the House, the FBI declined to surrender its files, and the agent it ...
4.
http://fortune.com/2016/09/12/border-se ... iometrics/
CHANGING FACE OF SECURITY
Homeland Security Plans to Expand Fingerprint and Eye Scanning at Borders
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016, 9:53 AM EDT
5.
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-stando ... _fede.html
Line forms early outside federal courthouse on day of Bundy trial's ...
OregonLive.com-
Oregon's FBI Special Agent in Charge Greg Bretzing also squeezed through the morning line to enter the courthouse early Tuesday. Federal protective services ...
6.
http://patch.com/illinois/chicago/gazeb ... ve-chicago
Gazebo Where Tamir Rice Was Killed by Police Will Move to Chicago
Patch.com-
An FBI agent at a nearby bank robbery came to the scene and was the first to attempt first aid on the child, who was shot once in the chest. A Cuyahoga County
7.
https://data.postandcourier.com/saga/watched/page/1
Watched: Police agencies using public encounters to build massive ...
Charleston Post Courier
“You're not entering their information in the McDonald's favorite customer system,” said Tim Kulp, a Charleston defense attorney and former FBI agent. “You are ...
FBI OCTOPUS
Media Lab conference addresses gender bias, diversity, and ...
MIT News
Before she became senior partner at MindSpring Metro DC, she'd worked 28 years as a special agent with the FBI. In the conference session she led, Minor ...
UMd., UMB officials build case for FBI HQ with new national security ...
Baltimore Business Journal-2 hours ago
Officials from the University of Maryland, College Park and University of Maryland, Baltimore met in Greenbelt Tuesday to unveil a national security partnership ...
A look at mayor's races around the state
Selma Times-Journal-
Two-term Vestavia Mayor, Butch Zaragoza, lost 43 percent to 57 percent to former FBI agent, Ashley Curry. In Trussville, five-term Mayor, Gene Melton, lost big ...
Former president, CEO of Ford Alan Mulally to present 2016 ...
KU Today
Sam Brownback, FBI agent and KU School of Business alumnus Robert Herndon, and former Kansas Gov. Bill Graves. The SELF Program was established in ...
RENT A COP
from the folks who gave you private sector prisons
http://woodtv.com/2016/09/13/grand-rapi ... te-sector/
Grand Rapids’ former top cop goes to private sector
Private security firms expanding responsibilities
Published: September 13, 2016, 4:05 pm Updated: September 13, 2016, 6:36 pm
KENTWOOD, Mich. (WOOD) — After 34 years as a Grand Rapids police officer, including six as the department’s chief, Kevin Belk is returning to familiar territory.
Recently named the senior vice president at DK Security, he’ll be in charge of the agency’s Armed Division, Investigations and Special Operations.
“Another thing we’re looking at doing is creating an emergency response team so we can respond to a larger event — a problem, a crisis,” added Belk, who retired from his post as Grand Rapids police chief in February 2014.
Some of his duties may sound more appropriate for a big city police department than private security firm. But with traditional municipal police departments constantly looking for ways to do more with less, DK’s role and that of other private security firms is expanding.
“Public sector police departments across the country have been reducing their ranks over the last several years and more and more is going to continue to fall on the private sector,” Belk explained.
“Armed security is a whole different level than typical night watchman or guards. We’ve expanded that role,” said John Kendall, a retired U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Michigan, who along with retired FBI Supervisory Agent Bob DuHadway founded DK Security in 1994.
Kendall said he has talked with local police agencies about taking over some responsibilities, like providing K-9 units and crime scene investigation.
“There’s no reason for the police to be tied up with a fender bender for a half hour. We can direct traffic,” Kendall said. “Matter of fact, who do you think we hire? We hired retired police officers.”
Neighborhoods in cities like Detroit and Chicago have gone even further, hiring firms to pick up more of the work load from city police
Governor Scott and FDLE host Florida Missing Children's Day
Dothan First-
In 2015, the Task Force hosted Operation Cross Country, an FBI initiative targeting ... Special Agent Ortiz is the Child Abduction Response Team Coordinator for ...
http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlines/6017521.html
FBI Analyst Sentenced In Underage Sex Case
Posted: Fri 12:18 PM, Feb 23, 2007
February 23, 2007
A former FBI analyst has been sentenced for having sex with a young Spotsylvania County girl.
Forty four year old Anthony Lesko entered an Alford Plea to the charges in a Spotsylvania County Circuit to nine counts of felony indecent liberties upon a child.
The plea means that Lesko does not admit guilt but believes that there is enough evidence to convict him. Lesko was sentenced to seven years in prison with 15 years suspended under a plea agreement.
Lesko was also ordered to pay 10 thousand dollars in restitution to cover the girl's mental health counseling. According to police Lesko was engaged in nine sexual encounters with the girl, starting when she was nine years old.
X-ray vision: Bomb techs strengthen their hand with Sandia's XTK ...
DVIDS (press release)-
It made the average bomb tech a better bomb tech,” said Craig Greene, a special agent and bomb technician at the Albuquerque FBI. “In the past 20 years, the ...
Baltimore City Inspector General Pearre resigns
Fox Baltimore-
He previously worked with auditing as an FBI agent focusing on corruption and also worked for the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, Surveys and .
8.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/jud ... -1.2790986
Judge orders trial for White Plans cop’s slay of ex-Marine
Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 6:17 PM
9.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2790284
KING: Ex-Marine was fired as W.Va. officer after failing to shoot man
Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 11:46 AM
While Mader says he was trying to deescalate the situation, two more cops arrived and shot R.J. Williams dead as he allegedly walked toward them, waving his gun. The gun he had was unloaded. What he needed was help. What he needed was a man who knew how to assess a problem and bring in skilled support to resolve it. Stephen Mader was that man, but this is America, not Afghanistan. Here, our police don't give a damn about your depression or suicidal tendencies or your young children or your future. If they deem you a threat, you're dead.
10.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/fam ... -1.2790155
Family of Rikers inmate who died from untreated ulcer wins $1.5M
Updated: Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 1:00 PM
11.
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns ... ds/2293420
Bob Graham: Release more 9/11 records
By Bob Graham, New York Times
Tuesday, September 13, 2016 5:48pm
In July, after approval from the Obama administration, Congress released a 28-page chapter of previously classified material from the final report of a joint congressional inquiry into the Sept. 11 attacks. Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir, said that the document had ruled out any Saudi involvement in the attack. "The matter is now finished," he declared.
But it is not finished. Questions about whether the Saudi government assisted the terrorists remain unanswered. Now, as we pass the 15th anniversary of the most heinous attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor, it is time for our government to release more documents from other investigations into Sept. 11 that have remained secret all these years.
The recently released 28 pages were written in the fall of 2002 by a committee of which I was a co-chairman. That chapter focused on three of the 19 hijackers who lived for a time in Los Angeles and San Diego. The pages suggested new trails of inquiry worth following, including why an al-Qaida operative had the unlisted phone number for the company that managed the Colorado estate of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, then the Saudi ambassador.
Some of those questions might be answered if the government released more of the findings of the Sept. 11 commission, the citizens inquiry that followed our congressional inquest. The commission said that it found no Saudi links to the hijackers. But it could satisfy lingering doubts by releasing more of its records. Parallel investigations were also conducted by the FBI and CIA. How much did they look into whether Bandar or other Saudis aided the hijackers?
The government also knows more today about the 16 hijackers who lived outside California than when the 28 pages were classified in 2003. Much of that information remains secret but should be made public. For example, the FBI for a time claimed that it had found
12.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/j ... ills-enemy
John Guandolo: CNN Journalists Are 'Enemies Of The State' And ...
Right Wing Watch-
John Guandolo, the disgraced former FBI agent turned anti-Muslim speaker, was not happy with CNN's coverage of the anniversary of the September 11 attacks
13.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/c ... telligence
Civil Liberties Groups Call for Stronger Oversight by House ...
EFF-
Since 9/11, however, it's been obvious that these special intelligence committees have not effectively overseen the NSA, FBI, and other member
Today, we join with Demand Progress, R Street Institute, and FreedomWorks in a white paper calling on the House of Representatives to reinvigorate its commitment to provide a meaningful check on executive-branch surveillance and reform how it conducts oversight over intelligence matters. This paper is complemented by a letter from 33 organizations endorsing stronger oversight of the intelligence community.
Privacy info. This embed will serve content from youtube-nocookie.com
When the House convenes for the 115th Congress in January, it should update its rules to enhance opportunities for oversight by HPSCI members, by members of other committees with related jurisdiction, and by all other representatives. The House also should establish a select committee to review how it engages in oversight.
EFF has previously called on Congress [.pdf] to engage in a thorough review of intelligence community activities based on the model set by the Seventies-era “Church Committee,” and we continue to urge such large-scale review.
But internal reform of House rules that currently make it exceedingly difficult for the vast majority of our elected representatives to know and understand what the intelligence community is doing can also pave the path to meaningful reform.
For example, most HPSCI members lack a personal staffer for their HPSCI work, which requires a security clearance, and instead depend on committee staff—hired by and answerable to the HPSCI chair. Yet when eight HPSCI members sought funding ($125,000) to allow a staffer from each member's personal office to obtain sufficient clearance to assist with intelligence oversight, that request went nowhere, as far as we know.
Under our constitution of separated powers, access to information is essential to democratic accountability. We were fortunate that Snowden leaked significant information about surveillance abuses, but oversight by whistleblower revelations is not a sustainable strategy. Without reform of excessive secrecy and overclassification, the window of transparency provided by the Snowden troves will close as the government creates new surveillance programs protected by secrecy and invulnerable to Congressional oversight.
1. For examples of the abuses, see the Report of the Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, also known as the "Church Committee" report, S Rept. 94-755 (1976), detailing assassination plots against foreign leaders, surveillance of domestic political activities and much more, available at http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/chur ... ttee.html; see also the Pike Committee Report, available in print format from the Library of Congress at http://www.worldcat.org/title/cia-the-p ... lc/3707054.
http://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/korr ... nst-police
Korryn Gaines' family's lawsuit includes new allegations against police
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13TH 2016
A neighbor has come forward providing details that up until now were unknown, at least publicly.
Ramone Coleman says officers used his apartment to spy on Gaines during their seven-hour standoff on Aug. 1, and that just before shots rang out, an officer said, "I'm tired of this [expletive.]"
1p4.
http://www.louisianaweekly.com/fbi-hiri ... nears-end/
FBI hiring as the Obama Era nears end
Louisiana Weekly-6 hours ago
The 34,768 proposed positions at the FBI includes 12,892 special agents, 2,999 intelligence analysts and 18,877 professional staff – who don't carry a gun or a ...
Light turnout for Rhode Island's primary election
Turn to 10
... confusion and long waits. The U.S. attorney's office and the FBI said they are prepared to respond to any complaints of election fraud or voting rights abuse.
15.
http://www.thelandesreport.com/votingmachineerrors.htm
Election Fraud and Irregularities - The Landes Report
http://www.thelandesreport.com › votingmachi...
1970s-1980s Ohio - The Cincinnati Bell-FBI scandal: Leonard Gates, a Cincinnati Bell employee for 23 years, testified that in the late 1970's and 80's, that the FBI ...