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Postby fruhmenschen » Fri Jun 24, 2016 1:33 am

FBI ALERT

http://rockrivertimes.com/2016/06/23/ur ... triot-act/
Urge your senator to vote 'No' on extending Patriot Act
The Rock River Times-
Imagine that the FBI could suddenly get information about the websites you visited and the emails you sent without getting permission from a judge. Would you ...




Bonus Read
http://www.abc6.com/story/32295453/fbi- ... m-database

FBI wants driver's license photos from database
WLNE-TV (ABC6
ATTLEBORO, MASS. – The FBI wants your driver's license photo to help improve its facial recognition database. A new report from the U.S. Government ...



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Oregon standoff: Case of possible misconduct by FBI in LaVoy ...
OregonLive.com-




The federal investigation into an FBI agent's apparent firing of gunshots at Robert "LaVoy" Finicum and the alleged FBI tampering with evidence 


.Slow-motion video of gunshot FBI allegedly lied about in LaVoy Finicum confrontation


http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-stando ... le_mi.html


on June 23, 2016 at 10:51 AM, updated June 23, 2016
The federal investigation into an FBI agent's apparent firing of gunshots at Robert "LaVoy" Finicum and the alleged FBI tampering with evidence at the scene has gone to a grand jury.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Gorder Jr. revealed the grand jury hearing in court papers Thursday explaining the government's desire to keep its memorandum about the inspector general's investigation into the FBI's handling of the Jan. 26 shooting out of the hands of defense lawyers.

"The Declaration provides details of an ongoing investigation by the United States Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General, and concerns matters occurring before the grand jury protected from disclo



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FBI AGENTS
ARE KNOCKING ON ACTIVISTS’ DOORS AHEAD OF REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
https://theintercept.com/2016/06/23/fbi ... onvention/
June 23 2016, 4:10 p.m.

LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, including the FBI, have been knocking on the doors of activists and community organizers in



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http://www.wnd.com/2016/06/fbi-revolt-o ... ry-skates/
FBI 'revolt of Watergate proportions' if Hillary skates
WND.com
NEW YORK – A former U.S. attorney says there is no doubt that, before the November election, the FBI will recommend to Attorney General



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CBS News
FBI: Utah Militia Leader Planned to Bomb US-Owned Cabin
ABC News-

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStor ... n-40081816
An FBI agent said in charging documents that William Keebler, 57, was planning to retaliate against the federal government that he felt was .






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http://motherboard.vice.com/read/court- ... a-computer
Does Not Need a Warrant to Hack a Computer
Written by JOSEPH COX

June 23 2016




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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... /86228526/

Friend of Orlando shooter tipped FBI in 2014
USA TODAY-Jun 22, 2016
A friend of mass murderer Omar Mateen says he tipped the FBI about suspcicious behavior Mateen displayed two years before his brutal ...




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http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/loc ... /86289396/

Retired FBI agent lays out how to identify the red flags before a terror ...
azcentral.com
A local former FBI special agent has written a book for the general public on spotting terrorists before they attack.


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FBI Octopus

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2016/06/23/key ... an-as-cio/

KeyLogic Hires FBI Tech Veteran as CIO
Wall Street Journal
Mr. Reid joins the Morgantown, W.Va., federal contractor after more than 20 years at the FBI, including a stint since January as acting assistant ...



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http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/06 ... nion-story
Hunt for Source in Stranger Police Union Story
by Ansel Herz • Jun 23, 2016 at 4:56 pm


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http://www.heraldstandard.com/united_st ... l?mode=jqm

AP, other media sue Orlando over shooting phone recordings
Uniontown Herald Standard-3

The city, meanwhile, claimed in its own court filing that the recordings are exempt under Florida public records law and that the FBI insists releasing them may ...



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Cop facing discriminatory lawsuit gets promotion



Thursday, June 23, 2016, 9:42 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/fac ... -1.2685962
Commanding Officer: Captain Constantin G. Tsachas cleared for a promotion among cops accusing him of discriminatory practices.
An NYPD captain, repeatedly accused of forcing minority cops to arrest more blacks and Hispanics, will be promoted Friday, the Daily News has learned.

Capt. Constantin Tsachas,5




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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/jud ... -1.2685982
A city law making it easier for the public to sue cops for racial profiling was upheld Thursday by a panel of Manhattan appellate judges.

The panel rejected the argument of police unions that it contradicts state
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Re: Reasons for creating volunteer civilian review police bo

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File under you first have to get caught
to become a statistic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/tru ... ationwide/

officers arrested 1,100 times per year, or 3 per day, nationwide
By Tom Jackman June 22 2016




also see

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyp ... -1.2688903


NYPD detectives' union chief slams 'out of control' CCRB


Sunday, June 26, 2016, 4:37 PM


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ARTICLE
Black Lives Matter crashes LGBT mural unveiling in Toronto



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/b ... -1.2687796

: Saturday, June 25, 2016

Black Lives Matter protesters chanting “No pride in police” crashed a Toronto Police news conference Friday, where Chief Mark Saunders unveiled a mural honouring the local LGBTQ community. (JOHNNYOATLEY/VIA TWITTER)
A group of Black Lives Matter activists barged into a Toronto police department ceremony, where cops unveiled a mural honoring the LGBT community as a public apology for a decades-old anti-gay raid.

The protesters, chanting “No pride in police,” said the cop's gesture was nothing more than a publicity stunt “used to mask the reality of police relations amongst the queer and trans community, black people, indigenous people, sex workers et cetera,” local BLM co-founder Rodney Diverlus, 26, told the Toronto Star.

The mural was meant to celebrate the history of Toronto’s gay community and serve as a re




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http://www.advocate.com/crime/2016/6/25 ... t-credible

The FBI Is Anonymously Calling LGBT Witnesses 'Not Credible'

A number of gay men are on the record, but the FBI is anonymously calling them "not credible."


JUNE 25 2016 1:10 PM
The FBI still has provided no explanation for what led Omar Mateen to kill 49 people and wound 53 others in an attack on a gay nightclub on Latin Night. But someone at the FBI is anonymously telling multiple media outlets that Omar Mateen didn’t have a secret gay life.

The witnesses who’ve come forward aren’t buying it, and some are striking back at the FBI for its failures leading up to the shooting. The FBI had interviewed Mateen a number of times before the shooting and removed him from a terrorist watchlist.

Kevin West had first told the Los Angeles Times he talked with Mateen on the gay dating app, Jack’d, for a year.

"It's almost certain that he covered his tracks," West told the Orlando Sentinel in response to the FBI’s anonymous quotes. "Lots of people are still secretive about it. They say they don't show their face online because, 'I'm not out to my family, or because of my career.'"

In other words, the FBI is naive if it really expected to find gay dating apps on Mateen’s phone, or anything in his Internet browsing history



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http://www.ktnv.com/news/nevada-deputy- ... e_88579925

Nevada deputy accused of misconduct in drug probe
2:11 PM, Jun 25, 2016




- A former Washoe County sheriff's deputy faces a felony charge of misconduct after he allegedly sold sensitive information to a purported drug dealer.

The sheriff's office says Andrew Casacca of Sparks was booked into the Washo



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http://www.pressherald.com/2016/06/25/t ... s-a-minor/

Police officer charged with sex crime resigns, Brunswick chief says
The officer is accused of sending explicit photos of himself to an undercover agent he believed was a minor.

BRUNSWICK — A Maine police officer charged with sending explicit pictures of himself to an undercover agent he thought was a 13-year-old girl has resigned from the Brunswick police department.



According to court paperwork, the Department of Homeland Security began investigating Brosnan after tracking him to a complaint from a parent in Arizona, who found his daughter having inappropriate conversations with someone online.

Court records show Brosnan then having conversations with a special agent posing as a 14-year-old girl, several of which became sexual and included pictures of him naked and asking for pictures in return.

On one occasion Brosnan asked for a picture of her without a bra on and stated that he would “like to make her pregnant.”

He also posted a series of videos of himself.

In one he appeared to say, “Come on baby, you have seen me, let’s go, let me see.”

Wednesday Brunswick’s Police Chief Richard Rizzo says he is disappointed and shocked
WCSH-TV reports that Brunswick Police Chief Richard Rizzo announced the resignation of 25-year-old Garrett Brosnan, of Bath, on Saturday.





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Alabama police officer arrested, accused of sexually assaulting man while on duty





on June 15, 2016 at 11:58 AM, updated June 15, 2016 at 12:27 PM





http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/0 ... ste_1.html

 
A Montgomery police officer was arrested Tuesday and charged in the sexual assault of a man.

Deonte Lashawn Hamner, 27, is charged with first-degree sodomy, a Class A felony Montgomery police



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NYPD pull prank on rookie




Sunday, June 26, 2016, 8:37 PM

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bro ... -1.2689029


The joke's on them.

A crew of NYPD nincompoops who pulled a locker-room prank on an ambitious rookie in Brooklyn may be facing departmental charges now that the precinct’s commander is treating the practical joke like a felony crime, the Daily News has learned.

On Friday, someone yanked out Police Officer Patrick Kurek’s locker inside the 72nd Precinct stationhouse in Sunset Park, turned it upside down, and put it back in its place, police source



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FBI Budget For Surveillance Tech To Reach Close To $1B: What Is ...
Tech Times-

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/16705 ... ent-on.htm


With the request for additional budget of over $100 million for next year, the budget of the FBI's Operational Technology Division inches closer ...



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JUNE 26, 2016 | PETER DALE SCOTT
CLASSIC WHOWHATWHY: WAS TAMERLAN TSARNAEV A DOUBLE AGENT RECRUITED BY THE FBI?



http://whowhatwhy.org/2016/06/26/classi ... uited-fbi/
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Bonus Read



Cop who watched women abuse kids online will plead guilty

Friday, July 1, 2016, 9:04 PM



http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... -1.2696537



A depraved NYPD sergeant facing trial next month for hooking up with women on Skype in order to sexually abuse their young kids has decided to throw in the towel, the Daily News has learned.

Alberto Randazzo will plead guilty on July 12 to several charges, including conspiracy

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FBI asks agencies who responded to Pulse to deny records requests
Orlando Sentinel-Jun 29, 2016
http://touch.orlandosentinel.com/#secti ... -87727787/

The FBI released more information from its investigation into the June 12 ... The FBI has asked law enforcement agencies who responde

also see

Church shooting victims
FBI Over Gun Buy
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/char ... y-40277748
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Jul 1, 2016, 12:47 PM ET

The FBI is being sued by survivors of the shooting inside the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, who say federal mistakes enabled Dylann Roof to buy the .45-caliber handgun he used.

Lawyers for three people who survived the attack and the estates of five who were slain say the FBI negligently failed to conduct a thorough background check before Roof bought the gun last year.

If the agency had done its job, Roof's prior drug arrest would have shown up, and

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http://www.wsj.com/articles/fbifor-bury ... 1467307463
BEST OF THE WEB
FBI—for Burying Information
The bureau seeks “to prevent disclosure” in Orlando.
By JAMES TARANTO
June 30, 2016 1:24 p.m. ET
The FBI is trying to control what the public learns about the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11, t




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Glock wins $85 million FBI contract
CNNMoney-

http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/30/news/co ... tract-fbi/
The FBI awarded the contract on Wednesday according to the government web site FedBizOpps.gov. It states that the deal is worth at least




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Loretta Lynch Meets With Bill Clinton
By MIKE LEVINE
Jun 30, 2016, 9:11 AM


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/amid-fbi ... d=40245340
WATCH Amid FBI Probe, Attorney General Meets With Bill Clinton
Former President Bill Clinton — whose wife is currently in the crosshairs of the Justice Department over her use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state — met privately with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday.

The meeting was a chance encounter as the two crossed paths at Sky Harbor International
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https://boingboing.net/2016/06/30/leake ... al-se.html
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Leaked FBI documents reveal secret rules for spying on journalists with National Security Letters

spying on journalists with National Security Letters
Today, The Intercept published leaked documents that contain the FBI’s secret rules for targeting journalists and sources with National Security Letters (NSLs)—the controversial and unconstitutional warrantless tool the FBI uses to conduct surveillance without any court supervision whatsoever.
Freedom of the Press Foundation has been suing the Justice Department (DOJ) under the Freedom of Information Act for these secret rules for the past year. Just two weeks ago, a coalition of three dozen news organizations, including the New York Times and Associated Press, demanded the DOJ release them. The DOJ, so far, has refused.

The leaked rules The Intercept has published give us a revealing and startling look at how the FBI can conduct surveillance of journalists in complete secrecy and with no court oversight.

First, the rules clearly indicate—in two separate places—that NSLs can specifically be used to conduct surveillance on reporters and sources in leak investigations. This is quite disturbing, since the Justice Department spent two years trying to convince the public that it updated its “Media Guidelines” to create a very high and restrictive bar for when and how they could spy on journalists using regular subpoenas and court orders. These leaked rules prove that the FBI and DOJ can completely circumvent the Media Guidelines and just use an NSL in complete secrecy.

Second, the DOJ told the New York Times in 2013 that, despite




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http://www.oaoa.com/news/us_news/articl ... l?mode=jqm
Jackson officer pleads guilty to theft from drug suspects


JACKSON, Miss. — A former Jackson





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pinion > Time to act: Last chance to free Leonard Peltier

Time to act: Last chance to free Leonard Peltier

by: TERESA ALBANO
june 30 2016


When I first got active in the labor and social justice movements some 35 years ago, there were a few slogans that seemed omnipresent: "Free Nelson Mandela"; "Free Mumia Abu Jamal"; "Free Leonard Peltier and all political prisoners".

Mandela eventually won his freedom. Victims of the FBI's infamous and secret COINTELPRO program were also released, such as Black Panther Eddie Conway, who after 44 years was eventually freed. Abu Jamal still languishes in jail, but he and the lawyers and broad grassroots movement working to free him have succeeded in getting the death penalty sentence commuted.

But time is running out for American Indian Movement activist Peltier. It is a now or never moment to win his freedom. That's why he and supporters have filed a petition for clemency with President Barack Obama. In a moving and eloquent letter, marking the 41st anniversary of the tragic firefight that led to the deaths of two FBI agents, Ronald Williams and Jack Coler, AIM activist Joe Stuntz and the eventual imprisonment of Peltier, he wrote of his "great remorse" for lives lost and the grieving of loved ones. He also wrote this sobering sentence, "I believe that this President is my last hope for freedom, and I will surely die here if I am not released by January 20, 2017."

Peltier is not in good health. He suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure, and a heart condition. He has maintained his innocence for four decades. President Obama, who has taken important initiatives regarding Native American rights and sovereignty, is Peltier's "last hope."

Writing a letter of support for Peltier in June 23 edition of The New York Review of Books, Martin Garbus and Rose Styron put the push for clemency in the larger context of justice for Native people.

"The clemency petition is not about Leonard's guilt or innocence-it is about all of the issues that Leonard Peltier has come to represent during four decades in prison, including, among other things, the historic injustices against Native Americans; the distrust between Native American communities and federal law enforcement agencies; the poverty and polarized conditions on Pine Ridge Reservation in the 1970s, which were exacerbated, in part, by an ineffective federal response; the ensuing violence that drove Pine Ridge to become the scene of many murders of Native Americans; and the circumstances that led up to and followed the June 26, 1975, shootout, in which two young FBI agents and one young American Indian lost their lives," they wrote.

As we go into the July 4th weekend, take a moment to send a letter to President Obama, voicing your support for freedom and justice for Peltier: http://www.freepeltiernow.org.




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http://nypost.com/2016/06/30/grimms-mob ... jail-time/
Grimm's mob-linked ex-business partner gets jail time
New York Post


The former FBI agent-turned-politico copped to tax evasion for hiding more than $900,000 in profits at Healthalicious and was sentenced to eight months.




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Edwin Jewett is a Massachusetts blogger
who just posted a invaluable data base of links.

Use them wisely
If you go to the original link
seen here you will find all
his website links activated.


http://www.occurrencesforeigndomestic.c ... -the-news/



digesting the news
June 27, 2016Uncategorizedbiases, cultural news, economics, foreign policy, global news, government control and influence, infilitration, investigative reporting, journalism, military affairs, monetary policy, politics, social media, writing
digesting the news

If you are viewing this, I have withdrawn substantially from the World Wide Web and am busy packing up my household. I may return sporadically with excerpts from old blogs (the more things change, the more they remain the same). I will try to keep myself informed but will at least temporarily stop posting what I found.

In my absence, some readers may want some guidance on how to assemble a digest of the day’s global news. If you are a long-term reader of Occurrences, you probably have a solid sense of how I do it, and you probably have developed your very own approach. Wonderful. Every act, expression or experience here is merely a starting point for you, ingredients for your own creations.

When you first enter “the kitchen of your day” to wonder about what you should prepare for dinner, you have to do a couple of things as preliminary steps. The first is to wake up. Make a really good cup of coffee. Take care of your personal ablutions. Eat something. For me, a cup of coffee and some juice or a cold seltzer/lemonade mixture is always at hand. Two basic links you should know about:

http://24timezones.com/ 

https://liveweatherfeeds.wordpress.com/ 

Think first about what you “ate” yesterday. What are the top issues of the day politically, in terms of foreign interactions and policies, in terms of cultural movements, or in terms of threats? Yesterday’s diet informs today’s meal choices, sometimes in need for follow-up, sometimes in need for avoidance or change. Sometimes there are leftovers. So you look into the pantry and fridge to see what you have to work with. Pay special attention to your choice of both aperitif and digestif.

For me, the news equivalent of this is to check Google News and/or other actively-updating news aggregation services. Your first mental task is to consider the flavors and biases that come with your choices. Maybe the cooking metaphorical equivalent is that you will want to blanch the asparagus in cold water and lemon juice, and then bring it slowly to a low heat and let it sit before you grill it in olive oil. Google is an extension of the US government and the mind control/panopticon but, for sheer volume and timeliness, it’s hard to surpass. These kinds of sites can let you know what is happening, though you will want to use many sites to find their interpretation. There are others beyond Google. In time I will name some of them. My bias is that I live in America and speak English; I also love jazz, love to cook, hate war and violence, and would prefer to empower people, have a dialogue with them, and break bread together. I rarely read foreign press unless it is prepared with an English equivalent; I look for people who understand and can speak to issues and perspectives that are European (and Europe has many shades on its palette), Russian, and Asian. Russia has several windows through which one can peer. Asian countries have far less. Let us not forget Africa, or Eurasia, or the Indian sub-continent. If you are a reader from a non-US location (and I know I have many such readers), then you must add those sources that you know about and I don’t, especially in regards to local issues, news, events, etc. I’d like you to tell me what the best ones are that you’ve found. Quite obviously, everyone’s tastes and preferences are going to be different; to extend the cooking and recipe metaphor, choose ingredients and spices that are going to be attractive and palatable in your community. 

Part of the game here is the degree to which any country allows its citizens free expression, or has set up barriers to the flow of information. Welcome to the kitchen; the linen closet is in the corner. The dishwashing systems and staff are in the back room.

One of the more popular things I have here at Occurrences is this guide to online news. Mine and yours need regular updating.

Fairly quickly, I open a file. I use templates or master files and always have one ready. I create a new blank and start on it immediately right after I post but before I turn in for the night.

A look at a couple of news aggregators will tell you how the news “meal” will shape up for the day. I go then almost immediately to look at what’s available at waynemadsenreport.com. I find Wayne refreshing and highly accurate in many ways. As an investigative journalist, he is not afraid to look into dark corners and speak to what he has found. WMR requires a paid subscription but, with his permission, I sometimes package his reports into pdf’s. I try to be judicious about this so as to not take income away; there’s always more at WMR than I extract. Sometimes the bargains are in the basement, and some of his subscribers provide links and are astute and experienced.

I check my e-mail for feeds from other sources. I subscribe for free to DefenseOne.com/d-brief. I also regularly check out Breaking Defense.com. I believe in taking in as wide a scan of the world as I can, including reading and watching governments, agencies, news outlets, pundits etc. which I find anathema. You are not informed if you do not know where and how they are spending 54 percent of all US federal discretionary spending, if you do not know how and where their resources are being deployed.

I then turn to Kenny’s Sideshow where I can link into his substantial blogroll and that of others. Kenny is dead now but his web site maintains itself neatly. It was through Kenny’s blogroll, which leans heavily towards pro-Palestinian perspectives, that I discovered xymphora.blogspot.com, whose own daily review I rarely miss; it gets to places I don’t, and it offers up seasoned commentary.

I’d known about Kevin Flaherty’s Cryptogon for years. He is a role model for the rest of us. Some of these web sites I make sure are saved as “favorites” separately lest they fail to update on blogrolls. Quickly you come to understand that many people read the same sources but time lets you see that they found things you didn’t know about. There are also independents like Stephen Lendman who at times can be counted on to crank out two, three or even four columns a day.

The Intercept comes up early as I go down my list, Lots of people are pissed off about their particular style and method of journalism, but they tackle tough topics with stellar writing, and I’m a sucker for stellar writing. In time, I reject those who have been ascertained to be “gatekeepers”, especially those who refuse to discuss or entertain controversial topics, or who berate those who do.

One simple test is the degree to which I am treated in making comments at any given site. I’ve long ago refrained from making widespread comments, There is a overwhelming amount of both ego and reactive antipathy on the World Wide Web.

I rarely miss checking out naked capitalism; morning “links” are usually up by 10 AM and the afternoon version (“Water Cooler”) is up by 2 PM, including weekends for “links”, plus or minus additional stories and commentary. I usually focus on the political stuff, but they also watch economic indicators, stats, trends, monetary policy, etc. They draw from a wide readership who send links and these are from a solid variety of mainstream sources. But lately it’s become obvious that the proprietors there don’t have information about the validity and veracity of those sources which they ought to know, and the commentary is beginning to tilt, and the technical standards in links functionality has sliiped. It is today’s example in how our attitudes toward sites change over time. I’m sure the readers I have today are not the readers I had two months ago.

Everyone (including me) disparages the MSM but, underneath the surface of the glossy propaganda and obvious bias, you can find veins of decent and solid journalistic writing.

Joachim Hagopian has unique credentials and an angry voice and he does good research on topics the mainstream media won’t touch with the proverbial vaulter’s pole.

21stcenturywire.com and other sites are always worth a look and some reading. You can’t get poisoned by reading something; an open mind is also one which can cleanse and repair itself. That, in part, is what your glial cells are for.

Places like readersupportednews.org/, courthousenews.com, www.t-room.us/, www.rt.com/, theinternetpost.net, www.legitgov.org, sputniknews.com, snuffysmithsblog.blogspot.com/ and blacklistednews.com are worthwhile news aggregators. www.strike-the-root.com offers a distinct Libertarian focus. But…

As is always the case, caveat lector; recently blacklistednews posted a salacious item whose sourced tracked back to Sorcha Faal. If you don’t know who Sorcha Faal is, you are a newbie or are complicit. Snuffy posts a lot of material that comes in from Establishment, CFR and similar sources; nevertheless, she is intelligent and widely-read and nuggets can be found.

If you are “watching” Russia, then you should consider russia-insider.com/en, fort-russ.com/, pravdareport.com, the Saker, orientalreview.org/ and southfront.org. The Kremlin Stooge is at the top of my list; I receive e-mail feeds; Mark Nesop’s writing is regularly outstanding. And don’t forgot John Helmer. 

Ricefarmer.blogspot.com ought not to be missed, though he can be somewhat irregular; generally, every other day he posts a new, long and well-honed list of links.

Robinwestenra.blogspot.com covers global warming and the end of the world as we know it from New Zealand, as well as other news, dominantly from sources inside the British Commonwealth circle. dutchsinse.com covers weather and plate tectonic issues, HAARP games, et alia. My son-law is a marine biologist active at high levels and he agrees with me that global warming is a tool of those with an agenda.

Mike Rivero’s whatreallyhappened.com is always worth a glance, but my experience is that some of his feeds from “members” need to be cross-checked. Caveat lector. And his site is littered with “auto-run” pop-up ads. I know it’s expensive to live in Hawai’i but I personally find any intersection of news and profit to be at least a difficult challenge; the best example used to be the ironic and humorous juxtaposition of some ads with some news stories. Today the advertisers control the news product. That’s why I don’t take ad income nor solicit donations.

Professor Michel Chussodovsky’s Center for Research on Globalization, on the other hand, is a noted and trustworthy site with some discernible but minimized bias.

wallstreetonparade.com is also an excellent site but, along with Global Research, the two stand as examples of sites for which you should become familiar with their rules on re-posting their material.

The left side of the political aisle is well-covered by counterpunch.org (which is weekend-heavy), dissidentvoice.org/, & space4peace.blogspot.com.

The Corbett Report almost stands alone, though often he stands with Sibel Edmonds.

Catherine Austin Fitts’ Solari.com/blog is not to be missed. (See also jonrappoport.wordpress.com.)

I used to feel the same way about washingtonsblog.com. They are spotty, perhaps because they employ numerous authors. They often have a lot of important and interesting stuff, but …

Information Clearinghouse is solid and always gets a review.

It is difficult to tell at this point who speaks for the Liberty movement or on behalf of the Second Amendment or the Constitution; www.oathkeepers.org & sipseystreetirregulars both exist but have been through some tough times and are still transitioning. OathKeepers has written me off several times and in several ways. www.alt-market.com stays stable and offers up good articles. By mid-June, cohesion may have improved. David Codrea, on several sites, intersects and ties in.

It is also difficult to determine the best source of information about 9/11, though research findings, articles and videos appear regularly and haven’t much been refuted by anyone, though there are “arguments” about technologies used; the possibility of infiltration sometimes raises its ugly head in many corners. Watch out for the sayanim. Make sure you have a filter in place to snag the stobor.

News as seen by former military intelligence personnel is covered by several sources; these include moonofalabama.org and turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis, among others.

In that same vein, but decidely different, is chuckspinney.blogspot.com/.

therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com has a focus on the Mideast and Muslim issues and conflicts.

I follow the Twitter feed for Kris Millegan because I’ve read many of the books he’s published at Trine-Day.com/. 

I check jamesfetzer.blogspot.com regularly and

I also get regular e-mail updates from www.conspiracyarchive.com, as well as memoryholeblog.com. 

It will serve you well to develop a sense over time as to when and how often these web sites are updated, when they come onto the net with fresh content, etc. You should consider that there is often duplicate posting and coverage.

You should employ a well-maintained “crap detector”. The simplest method is to take a statement or a story and throw it back into a search engine and see who and how it is echoed, was initiated, or if there are counter-claims, and then re-evaluate. I use the old Chinese method: if two sources disagree, you have a diference of opinion; if multiple sources disagree, you have a controversy or maybe a propaganda war; if multiple sources come to the same conclusion over time, you are near the doorway to the truth; keep turning over rocks.

I have often suggested that there be a weekend summit or tele-conference among a small select group of bloggers and alternative media journalists for the purposes of assessing the veracity and validity of sources that are frequently encountered in our system of tubes that, for openers, is heavily controlled and influenced by governments and their paid shills.

I recently encountered James Corbett’s recorded Q&A interview as part of a research project on ‘Mainstream Media Bias and Propaganda’ which, alas, James has seen fit to park behind a paywall. His earlier now-archived podcast episode on “The Myth of Journalistic Objectivity” will have to suffice unless you would like to join his community.

In a similar vein, Bernie Suarez talks with James Tracy [no payment necessary] about “the history and modern dynamics of mass media and propaganda as they relate to government intrigue. James and Bernie also consider how corporate news media function as essentially public relations conduits to present unusual occurrences such as 9/11 and many recent mass shooting events absent any real journalistic inquiry.” “In addition to being a musician, Bernie Suarez is the creator of the Truth and Art TV project, an exciting site combining multimedia with research and analysis of deep issues and events, including geoengineering and the United Nations’ Agenda 21. He is a former US Marine and holds an undergraduate degree in psychology and a doctorate in medicine. Suarez is also the author of a new book, The Art of Overcoming the New World Order.”

If you are reading news and op-ed for yourself, all of this alone is worth some of your time, and takes a lot of it too.

If you are serving news and op-ed to others, then you must take a lesson from some TV cooking shows and think about “presentation” and “plating”. I let the ingredients and the content tell me how to go about this; sometimes I edit for grouping and order. I try to chose main graphics, music and the eventual title almost entirely on what will be included. Sometimes the article has the obvious graphic. I sit down and type out a list of tags for the major articles, then assemble them in order if that isn’t already clearly evident, decide on the lead, fit the music to the lead, and pick the “title” or key word. Somewhere as the process comes to a close for the day, I let serendipity intrude a bit, especially with regard to the choice of featured graphic and musical inserts.

How the blog entry of the day shows up on your computer, android, mobile device, etc. is decided entirely by the WordPress design characteristics which are designed to be mobile-friendly and fit most browsers. I do include a built-in translation widget for foreign readers. I’ve also just added the Feedjit so everyone can monitor the traffic; a good deal of the vistors are bots. Apparently there are a lot of folks doing archival research.

Finally, you will have to address the issues surrounding use of the social media. I tend to go light, as I find most social media to be time-consuming, specious, and bordering on worthlessness. I don’t use sharing buttons or promote the use of most social media platforms since the social media are used to track you or define you for the corporate, advertising and governmental/political interests.

However, if you are going to share and publish what you are doing, you have to pay attention to search engine optimization and you will want to befriend, or at least not reject or offend, those readers who operate as nodes for other communities. It is clear that search engines are used as tools for information management and sometimes downright censorship. Your product design must be mobile-friendly; the extent to which you find success at that is dependent wholly on the open source or proprietary software systems you choose to use.

I hooked up with BlueHost almost three years ago and haven’t been unhappy. WordPress and a veritable army of open source free designers handle the technologies and the aesthetics and they deserve plaudits and cash contributions. The Blue Host package is eminently affordable and is less than the cost of a fancy-schmanzy coffee a day when spread over time. (They do require that you pay it up front.) But the BlueHost/WordPress combo has been effective, helpful, friendly and also stays on top of cybersecurity issues.

By the way, has anyone been watching the Feedjit plug-in I installed that tracks the last 10 viewers by location? It’s clear that I have a global audience. I can’t take the time to identify who these people are, but my best guess is that it reflects a readership that is about 40% interested commoners from many countries, about 20% of people who re-post or mirror some of the links inside their quiet local bulletin boards, about 10% who are connected in some sense with what would be called ‘foreign intelligence’, about 5% from such places as CNN and Google who probably monitor to see what others are looking at, and about 5% from US officials from around the globe, including those in the Beltway, at West Point, perhaps in embassies in foreign countries, probably playing light or semi-serious cyber-security games, or folliwing other leads for counter-intelligence. Folks, I’m not actively part of that. I’m just a news reader, and have been since high school and college. There’s a homemade Inuit fishing spear that once hung ceremoniously behind the desk of my high school AP English teacher that will attest to that, and I was doing rip-and-read newscasts when I was 19. I have a bachelor’s degree in the field.

And given the degree to which everyone is being surveilled and given the degree to which, increasingly, web sites that focus on truth and counter the propaganda and lies are the target for DDOS attacks and malware, if not outright hacking, the jury will remain out on whether or not I continue Occurrences or not.

Frankly, there is serious doubt as to whether I make any difference, given the degree to which governments and extremely-wealthy private entities are engineering the movement toward global war, one-world government and death or impoverishment for the rest of us. See Sullen Bell (“insidiously incremental”) and BoyDownTheLane (“Creativity and Transformation”).



In between packing and practice development of photography skills, I may do mini-data dumps of material gleaned from my old blogs before I switched to BlueHost mixed with the really important current stuff but, sometime around Independence Day, I will likely withdraw to contemplation, writing, photography, cooking, jazz and the last part of my life. I won’t be settled into my new home until close to Labor Day.

Something like Occurences has to be a task for a collaborative team; it takes too much time for an individual to maintain. Millionaires are funding campaigns and news sites, but I do what I have done out of my own pocket, without ads or without holding out a cookie jar for contributions.

This has been my contribution.

Frankly, the maintenance of the flow of information from many points of view and untarnished by propaganda, information engineering and censorship must be a major concern for any society and culture. 

But that fellow Jefferson already said that, didn’t he? And Jeffersonian thinking is seen as a source of poor health in a world run by parasites.

I will be likely without TV or internet for much of the month of July, so take special note of these dates:

Jul 18-21 GOP convention/Cleveland

Jul 25-28 Dem convention/Philly

9/26 1st debate 10/4 VP debate

10/9 2nd debate

10/19 3rd debate

11/8 election

Keep in mind that political conventions are formally designated as “national special security events” so “The State” will be on florid display in those cities and around those events. To what ends remains to be seen.

As more and more governments and private parties become involved in the exercise of news censorship, or news management, the valid sources for news, op-ed and overall situational awareness will be operated like mobile food trucks.

 

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image source 

 

Siracha aoli on that, sir?

We will return to the concept of wandering minstrels and mystics.

 



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2e2kC-geMI  

 

Good luck and God speed.

Buena suerte y la velocidad de Dios.

حظا سعيدا والسرعة الله.

祝你好运,上帝速度。

Bonne chance et vitesse Dieu.

Viel Glück und Gott Geschwindigkeit.

Καλή τύχη και την ταχύτητα του Θεού.

מזל טוב ומהירות אלוהים.

Ádh mór agus Dia luas.

Buona fortuna e Dio velocità.

幸運と神スピード。

행운을 빌어 요 하나님 속도.

Lykke til og Gud hastighet.

Powodzenia i prędkości Bogiem.

Boa sorte e velocidade de Deus.

Удачи и скорость Бог.

Beannachd leat Dia agus luaths.

İyi şanslar ve Tanrı hız.

Успіху і швидкість Бог.

Chúc may mắn và tốc độ của Thiên Chúa.

גוט גליק און גאָט גיכקייַט.

Inhlanhla nesivinini uNkulunkulu.

 

May you have a fair wind and a following sea.

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June 27, 2016 Uncategorized biases, cultural news, economics, foreign policy, global news, government control and influence, infilitration, investigative reporting, journalism, military affairs, monetary policy, politics, social media, writing
digesting the news

If you are viewing this, I have withdrawn substantially from the World Wide Web and am busy packing up my household. I may return sporadically with excerpts from old blogs (the more things change, the more they remain the same). I will try to keep myself informed but will at least temporarily stop posting what I found.

In my absence, some readers may want some guidance on how to assemble a digest of the day’s global news. If you are a long-term reader of Occurrences, you probably have a solid sense of how I do it, and you probably have developed your very own approach. Wonderful. Every act, expression or experience here is merely a starting point for you, ingredients for your own creations.

When you first enter “the kitchen of your day” to wonder about what you should prepare for dinner, you have to do a couple of things as preliminary steps. The first is to wake up. Make a really good cup of coffee. Take care of your personal ablutions. Eat something. For me, a cup of coffee and some juice or a cold seltzer/lemonade mixture is always at hand. Two basic links you should know about:

http://24timezones.com/

https://liveweatherfeeds.wordpress.com/

Think first about what you “ate” yesterday. What are the top issues of the day politically, in terms of foreign interactions and policies, in terms of cultural movements, or in terms of threats? Yesterday’s diet informs today’s meal choices, sometimes in need for follow-up, sometimes in need for avoidance or change. Sometimes there are leftovers. So you look into the pantry and fridge to see what you have to work with. Pay special attention to your choice of both aperitif and digestif.

For me, the news equivalent of this is to check Google News and/or other actively-updating news aggregation services . Your first mental task is to consider the flavors and biases that come with your choices. Maybe the cooking metaphorical equivalent is that you will want to blanch the asparagus in cold water and lemon juice, and then bring it slowly to a low heat and let it sit before you grill it in olive oil. Google is an extension of the US government and the mind control/panopticon but, for sheer volume and timeliness, it’s hard to surpass. These kinds of sites can let you know what is happening, though you will want to use many sites to find their interpretation. There are others beyond Google. In time I will name some of them. My bias is that I live in America and speak English; I also love jazz, love to cook, hate war and violence, and would prefer to empower people, have a dialogue with them, and break bread together. I rarely read foreign press unless it is prepared with an English equivalent; I look for people who understand and can speak to issues and perspectives that are European (and Europe has many shades on its palette), Russian, and Asian. Russia has several windows through which one can peer. Asian countries have far less. Let us not forget Africa, or Eurasia, or the Indian sub-continent. If you are a reader from a non-US location (and I know I have many such readers), then you must add those sources that you know about and I don’t, especially in regards to local issues, news, events, etc. I’d like you to tell me what the best ones are that you’ve found. Quite obviously, everyone’s tastes and preferences are going to be different; to extend the cooking and recipe metaphor, choose ingredients and spices that are going to be attractive and palatable in your community.

Part of the game here is the degree to which any country allows its citizens free expression, or has set up barriers to the flow of information. Welcome to the kitchen; the linen closet is in the corner. The dishwashing systems and staff are in the back room.

One of the more popular things I have here at Occurrences is this guide to online news . Mine and yours need regular updating.

Fairly quickly, I open a file. I use templates or master files and always have one ready. I create a new blank and start on it immediately right after I post but before I turn in for the night.

A look at a couple of news aggregators will tell you how the news “meal” will shape up for the day. I go then almost immediately to look at what’s available at waynemadsenreport.com. I find Wayne refreshing and highly accurate in many ways. As an investigative journalist, he is not afraid to look into dark corners and speak to what he has found. WMR requires a paid subscription but, with his permission, I sometimes package his reports into pdf’s. I try to be judicious about this so as to not take income away; there’s always more at WMR than I extract. Sometimes the bargains are in the basement, and some of his subscribers provide links and are astute and experienced.

I check my e-mail for feeds from other sources. I subscribe for free to DefenseOne.com/d-brief. I also regularly check out Breaking Defense.com . I believe in taking in as wide a scan of the world as I can, including reading and watching governments, agencies, news outlets, pundits etc. which I find anathema. You are not informed if you do not know where and how they are spending 54 percent of all US federal discretionary spending, if you do not know how and where their resources are being deployed.

I then turn to Kenny’s Sideshow where I can link into his substantial blogroll and that of others. Kenny is dead now but his web site maintains itself neatly. It was through Kenny’s blogroll, which leans heavily towards pro-Palestinian perspectives, that I discovered xymphora.blogspot.com, whose own daily review I rarely miss; it gets to places I don’t, and it offers up seasoned commentary.

I’d known about Kevin Flaherty’s Cryptogon for years. He is a role model for the rest of us. Some of these web sites I make sure are saved as “favorites” separately lest they fail to update on blogrolls. Quickly you come to understand that many people read the same sources but time lets you see that they found things you didn’t know about. There are also independents like Stephen Lendman who at times can be counted on to crank out two, three or even four columns a day.

The Intercept comes up early as I go down my list, Lots of people are pissed off about their particular style and method of journalism, but they tackle tough topics with stellar writing, and I’m a sucker for stellar writing . In time, I reject those who have been ascertained to be “gatekeepers”, especially those who refuse to discuss or entertain controversial topics, or who berate those who do.





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LATEST NEWS
June 29, 2016


Poorly performing L.A. sheriff’s deputies are not weeded out in their first year, report says

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department recruits grimace in pain on the first day of training, known as "Black Monday."


http://touch.latimes.com/#section/2426/ ... -87714959/


June 29, 2016, 8:00 a.m.
New sheriff’s deputies who perform poorly on the job during their first year are not being weeded out, leaving them to potentially cause problems years down the road in life-or-death situations, according to a report by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s inspector general.

Of 334 trainees who graduated from the sheriff’s academy in 2014, none were dismissed for performance-related reasons during their yearlong pro



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http://touch.latimes.com/#section/2426/ ... -87717026/

June 29, 2016
LAPD officer was unjustified in killing a man who


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http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/201 ... dback.html



In 2012, the Delaware River Port Authority hired its first inspector general. Former FBI agent Thomas Raftery III was supposed to root out fraud, waste and corruption. He resigned in 2014 after clashing with longtime board commissioners who saw nothing wrong with the status quo.
In 2015, Davis Gentile, also a former FBI agent with a perfect resume for the inspector general's job, came on board at the DRPA. He had supervised investigations into public corruption, organized crime and labor racketeering. 

We haven't heard anything from him since for the $130,000 salary he's being paid. So, either all the fraud, waste and corruption has disappeared, or Gentile has learned from his predecessor that if he wants to keep his six-figure job, he'd better not rock the boat.

There's been no public update in a long time on a reported ongoing federal investigation into the DRPA's past spending habits. The public has been fed



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http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/0 ... r-or-lost/
Report: 944 California Officers’ Guns Stolen, Unaccounted For, Or Lost
June 29, 2016 9:09 AM
Filed Under: California, Guns, Law enforcement, Lost guns, Officers, Stolen Guns

— From Glocks, Sig Sauers and Remingtons to sniper and assault rifles, 944 guns that once belonged to law enforcement officers across California have been either stolen, lost or can’t be accounted for since 2010, often disappearing onto the streets without a trace.

More than 240 local, stat



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https://theintercept.com/2016/06/29/ted ... e-hearing/
Ted Cruz Brings Anti-Muslim Conspiracy Theorist to Testify at ...
The Intercept-
Gaubatz is a staffer at Understanding the Threat, a nonprofit organization founded by former FBI agent John Guandolo. Guandolo is known for his bizarre claims ...



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http://www.10news.com/news/local-teens- ... ols-062916
Local teens get hands-on with FBI tools
10News-
Gill-Melendez applied for the FBI Teen Academy because she wants to be an agent. The academy is designed to give students an insider's look into criminal ...





Retired FBI agent running for mayor of Vestavia Hills

June 30, 2016

http://vestaviavoice.com/news/retired-f ... -hills630/
Retired FBI agent Ashley Curry, a longtime resident of Vestavia Hills, recently announced plans to run for mayor of the city.

“The main reason I am running is because I have a strong interest in Vestavia Hills,” he said, “a vested interest. I’ve lived here for more than 30 years, my children grew up here and went through Vestavia Hills schools. Now, my grandchildren are not far from entering the same school system.”

Curry said he has a “true interest” in serving the city, one he has had for a long time but could not before act on due to his professional obligations.

After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in Industrial Management and going on to receive an MBA degree from the University of South Carolina, Curry spent his early career with Milliken and Company. According to his campaign website, there, Curry gained experience in production management, sales, financial reporting, and accounting. In 1978, he joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a Special Agent and was assigned to the Tampa division. In 1980, he moved to the FBI’s Birmingham Division where he handled criminal investigations in drugs, public corruption, white collar crime and foreign counter intelligence. Curry was also the SWAT team sniper and a firearms/tactics instructor at the FBI's National Academy. In 2003, he became the Assistant Federal Security Director for Law Enforcement, TSA, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.  Curry left his law enforcement career in 2005 and became the Corporate Recruiter for EBSCO Industries before retiring in 2014.  

Now, he said, he has more time to devote to the city.

Though he has never served in an elected position, Curry has served the city via appointed positions on both the Vestavia Hills Parks and Recreation Board and the Library Board of Trustees.

“The city saw some major changes during the time I served on each of those boards,” said Curry.

Both his family and members of the community, said Curry, encouraged him to run. Asked about running against a longtime incumbent for the mayoral position, Curry said he’s up for the challenge.

“Competition is a good thing,” he said, “it’s a healthy thing. Change is a good thing too.”

Curry said he believes his previous roles as an FBI agent as well as in the business world equip him to be able to understand city budgets and finance sheets.

“As an FBI agent, you have to do everything by the book,” he said. “I would never do anything that would affect my integrity, that of city employees or the city itself.”

His planned campaign slogan, said Curry, is “Integrity and Action.”

“I believe I would be a good ambassador for the city,” he said.

Asked what he would like to
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http://investigativereportingworkshop.o ... lary-tour/

FBI Octopus



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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/s ... er-history
Senate Still Considering Giving FBI More Power to Spy on Browser ...
EFF
Despite strong opposition in Congress and from the grassroots, the FBI is still pushing to expand its National Security Letter (NSL) authority. The proposed ...



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http://www.tvtechnology.com/events/0025 ... xpo/278965
FDNY's Herlocker to Address Government Video Expo
He'll talk about how live video supports tactical decision-making in the nation's largest fire department
July 8, 2016



WASHINGTON—Few people need information fast like the commander of a fire scene does.
Attendees to Government Video Expo & the National Drone Show will hear about the New York Fire Department's aggressive urban firefighting strategy from Timothy E. Herlocker, director of the FDNY Emergency Operations Center.

Timothy Herlocker
The EOC is the department's information hub and command & control center, where Herlocker has designed and implemented systems and policies to provide real-time data to support rapid decision-making by incident commanders and senior executives.
His session is titled "Live Video Supports Tactical Decision-Making in the Nation's Largest Fire Department."
A longtime special agent with the FBI — where he specialized in counterintelligence, counterterrorism and intelligence collection and analysis — he has a background that today helps FDNY create packages of information that incident commanders can easily assimilate without impeding




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Ex-FBI Agent Blames Refugees for Rise in Smuggling Threats at US ...
Sputnik International-3
Maryland Port Administration security director Dave Espie, a retired FBI agent and former National Security Agency special agent, testified at a hearing on behalf ...


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Bonus read about FBI Supervisor Jim Bernazzani



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N.O. FBI Chief Interested In Mayor's Office, Gets Reassigned



http://www.ktbs.com/story/22372095/no-f ... reassigned


NEW ORLEANS -- The tough-talking FBI chief sent to New Orleans three years ago to fight public corruption has been reassigned after he said he was interested in running for mayor. Speculation about James Bernazzani's political aspirations took off earlier this week after a New Orleans weekly newspaper, Gambit Weekly, and two television stations reported on his interest in running for mayor. The FBI on Friday said it had decided to reassign Bernazzani to its Washington headquarters to avoid "the appearance of a conflict of interest." A federal law, the Hatch Act, prohibits federal officials from engaging in "partisan political activity." Bernazzani said he is not sure if he'll return to Washington, suggesting his political ambitions are still alive. Bernazzani's office has targeted members of some of New Orleans' most prominent political families. Under his watch


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http://klfy.com/2016/07/08/with-feds-in ... pens-next/


With feds in charge of Alton Sterling case, what happens next?

Jim Bernazzani, the former Special Agent in Charge of the FBI New Orleans division, said federal agents are likely already hard at work conducting interviews ...




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Thinks US Faked Double Agent’s Death For Witness Protection Program

RUSS READ

http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/07/forme ... n-program/


National Security/Foreign Policy Reporter
6:02 PM 07/07/201


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FBI Plausible Denial

http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/so-why- ... -recorded/

Why the Heck Wasn't Hillary Clinton's FBI Interview Recorded?
LawNewz-
During FBI Director James Comey's testimony before the House Committee on ... For example, the FBI's standard procedure was for an agent to take notes ...


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NBCNews.com

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/07/07/c ... -she-said/
Comey: Why, no, we didn't put Hillary under oath for our interview ...
Hot Air-



It's longstanding FBI policy not to record interviews. Normal practice is for agents to jot notes during an interrogation and then summarize what was said in a ...

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Miami Herald
FBI Entrapment Issue Dominates Hearing as 'Christmas Tree ...
Courthouse News Service-

http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/07/0 ... he-9th.htm
FBI Entrapment Issue Dominates Hearing as 'Christmas Tree Bomber' Appeals to ... have argued that their client was entrapped by sophisticated FBI agents who ...





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http://www.vox.com/2016/7/7/12118052/cl ... ouse-comey




That refers to a provision of the Espionage Act of 1917 that makes it a felony for someone to let classified information about national defense be "removed from its proper place of custody" due to "gross negligence."

This suggests that a prosecutor might not necessarily have to prove that Clinton intended to do something illegal — proving she was grossly negligent could be enough. And given that Comey himself has said Clinton and her aides were "extremely careless" in handling classified information ... well, doesn’t extreme carelessness sound a whole lot like gross negligence?

But in Thursday’s hearing, Comey argued that the Justice Department has historically set an extremely high bar for prosecutions of gross negligence — so high, he said, that the statute has only been used once in the 99 years it’s existed, "in a case involving espionage."

Comey is apparently referring to a 2003 case against FBI counterintelligence agent James Smith. Smith was having an affair with one of his assets, Katrina Leung, who was accused of working for the Chinese government. According to the government, Smith brought classified documents in an unlocked briefcase to Leung’s home, and, unbeknownst to Smith, Leung took some of those documents and photocopied them. (You can read more background on this case in this law review article, but Smith’s gross negligence charges were eventually dropped as part of a plea deal.)

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http://blog.oup.com/2016/07/oral-history-islamophobia/

Rasha, a Syrian immigrant born in 1983 and one of Bayoumi’s narrators, depicts a remarkable story of racism, elimination of civil liberties and injustice her family had to endure after 9/11. In February 2002, as a working class family, they all were hurried to a detention center in New Jersey without knowing why they were detained in the first place. She remembers the FBI Agent saying “We are cleaning out the country and you are the dirt.” Rasha’s storytelling is simple yet multilayered in its intellectual capacity. When listening to her story

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POLITICS
http://www.inquisitr.com/3283841/will-h ... ed-to-all/

JULY 7, 2016
REP. WILL HURD GOES FOR THE JUGULAR DURING COMEY HEARING, DEMANDS ONE SET OF LAW BE APPLIED TO ALL

TARA DODRILL
Will Hurd, a Republican Representative from Texas, has emerged as a patriotic all-star, according to social media posts still flowing in response to the James



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http://www.hgazette.com/news/local_news ... ee9ac.html

Jay White, a retired FBI agent and former member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, leads the discussion. He is an adjunct faculty member at several area colleges and is knowledgeable on the topic of terrorism and the Middle East.

Call Kathy Bresnahan or Rita LaBella at 978-374-2390 if you are interested in participating in the group


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From FBI Boss to Death Penalty Foe
Tom Parker’s Quest to Free a Convicted Murderer

Thursday, July 7, 2016



http://www.independent.com/news/2016/ju ... nalty-foe/

After a long career as an FBI boss, having put the Mafia behind bars, investigated dozens of homicides and sent two murderers to their deaths by lethal injection, Tom Parker became a spokesman for death penalty repeal.

Parker, a 72-year-old Santa Barbaran, is seeking the support of law enforcement officials for the Justice That Works Act, a death penalty repeal measure that qualified last month for the November ballot in California.

“There were times during my career when I would gladly have pushed the button on a murderer,” he said. “Today, my position would be, life without parole.”

During 45 years in law enforcement, Parker said, he’s seen too many corrupt homicide investigations to believe in the death penalty anymore. The worst of them, he said, is the Chino Hills murder case of 1983.

For five years, Parker has been working pro-bono as a lead investigator to free Kevin Cooper, an African-American who was convicted for killing three family members and their houseguest on June 4, 1983, in the affluent white community of Chino Hills in San Bernardino County. Cooper had escaped from a nearby minimum-security prison, where he was serving a sentence for burglary. He was arrested off Santa Cruz Island in July, 1983, and is on death row in San Quentin State Prison.

Courtesy Photo
Kevin Cooper
“Kevin was a car thief and a burglar, but he doesn’t deserve to be where he is,” Parker said. “I’m convinced he was framed. We arrest and convict innocent people almost every day in this country. As long as we have a death penalty in America, we will continue to execute innocent people.”

The notorious Chino Hills case, which has been featured on CNN’s “Death Row Stories,” is a flashpoint for both sides of the death penalty debate, even as it draws national and international scrutiny for alleged


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Second Circ. Deals a Blow to Miranda Protections
Courthouse News Service-

http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/07/0 ... ctions.htm

As they entered Faux's house, FBI agents Matthew McPhillips and Lucile Fontes escorted her to the dining room for a marathon, two-hour interview that has ...







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POSTED:JUL 08 2016 10:24PM EDT
UPDATED:JUL 08 2016 10:37PM EDT


http://www.fox5ny.com/news/172043084-story


NEW YORK - An off-duty NYPD cop appears to have waited barely a second before he shot a man during a road rage incident, according to a video obtained exclusively by the New York Post.

The footage, captured at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Bradford Street in Brooklyn, shows that as Delrawn Small approaches officer Wayne Isaacs' car, small then staggers as the officer's car lurches and eventually Small collapses in the street. Small had been shot twice through the car wind



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http://www.govtech.com/security/Rhode-I ... ition.html

Rhode Island DMV Denies Sharing License Photos with FBI for ...
Government Technology-
The Rhode Island DMV vehemently denied allegations raised by the American Civil Liberties Union about the sharing of driver license photos with the FBI.
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Blink Tank

http://www.indiewire.com/2016/07/abramo ... 201699368/

Link du jour

http://apps.pinetreewatchdog.org/maine-legislature/


http://stevehochstadt.blogspot.com

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2707572


https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/s ... er-history


http://www.humankindness.org/newsletters/


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Today: No #BrowserSpying Day of Action
Jul 11, 2016, 6:02 AM
From sue@bordc.org
Details


No #BrowserSpying Day of Action
The FBI wants to be able to get your browser history without a warrant. And that’s not all. They also want to be able to use National Security Letters to find out who you are communicating with over email, chats or text messages.
National Security Letters (NSLs) sound pretty official, but they aren’t. An FBI agent merely has to claim the records they want are “relevant” to an investigation, and the phone or internet company has to turn them over.
Take Action: Don’t Let the FBI get our electronic communication records without a warrant
Handing the FBI innocent peoples' web browsing history and other electronic records without court oversight sacrifices our privacy and doesn’t make us safer.
This alert might sound familiar. And it is. Last month the Senate considered a similar measure. We asked you to take action and it was narrowly defeated. But they will vote again, likely this week. Our victory is not assured. 
So, we've joined with other privacy and civil liberties groups on a National Day of Action to protect our electronic communications from FBI snooping without a warrant.
Please join this national Day of Action to say no to #BrowserSpying by the FBI.
The issue is a bit confusing, so Senators Wyden and Heinrich will be answering your questions today, July 11, live on social media:
Twitter: 4:15 pm ET on Sen. Wyden’s Twitter: @RonWyden
Facebook: 4:45 pm ET on Sen. Heinrich’s Facebook
We encourage you to join the conversation, ask questions, and engage your own Senators on social media also.
Stay Loud, Stay Strong,

Additional information:
Senate Rejects Expansion of FBI Surveillance Powers by a Narrow Margin, Sarah Nelson, Dissent Newswire
Seven Myths Busted: FBI Surveillance and the NSL Expansion vote in the Senate, Robyn Greene, JustSecurity
Bill of Rights Defense Committee and Defending Dissent Foundation
1100 G St NW Suite 500, Washington, DC 20005
202.529.4225 · info@bordc.org








LOCAL
FBI-Issued Guns Stolen From Car in DC


http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local ... 83481.html
Someone stole two FBI-issued guns from a car in northeast Washington, D.C., over the weekend, according to the FBI Washington Field Office.
Early Sunday morning, someone broke into an agent’s vehicle and took a handgun and a long



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http://moneymorning.com/2016/07/11/stop ... ry-detail/

Stop What You're Doing Unless You're Okay with the FBI Knowing ...
Money Morning-
the FBI On June 22, the Senate fell one vote short of attaching a rider to the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies spending bill that would ...



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Man who saw Alton Sterling death says cops stole video (GRAPHIC)
July 11, 2016, 5:24 PM

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2707524
New video surfaces of Alton Sterling shooting
NY Daily News

New video surfaces of Alton Sterling shooting
NY Daily News


00:00 / 00:42
The convenience store owner who captured Alton Sterling’s death on video said police stole the surveillance video from his store, took his cellphone and locked him in a car for four hours.

Abdullah Muflahi


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http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/fb ... efc9f.html
McALLEN — When federal agents raided a former Mission police officer’s home last July they discovered, among other items, a large cooking pot in the backyard that was still smoldering when they found it, which contained multiple burned cellphones and government documents.

FBI agent Scott Atwood, who was assigned to the take photos of former Mission officer Hector “Jojo” Mendez’s home in San Juan during that search, testified they also retrieved several identification cards, a Mexican passport, firearms, memory cards and multiple old police reports.

Atwood was assigned to the FBI’s public corruption task force and was at Mendez’s home as part of the investigation into seized cocaine in July of 2012.

During the fifth day of testimony in Mendez’s trial the government finally introduced several pieces of evidence that implicated at the very least that Mendez was attempting to get rid of items that may incriminate him somehow.

Also called to testify was DEA group supervisor Richard Clough, who was Mendez’s supervisor after former group supervisor Richard Champion moved to the Washington, D.C., office.

Clough testified about the months leading up to and the actual arrest of Mendez last summer.

Specifically, Clough testified about an observation he made on Feb. 12, 2015, inside the U.S. Attorney’s office lobby, when Reynol Chapa-Garcia and Mendez crossed paths.

“He was shocked to see Mr. Chapa,” Clough said. “He stared at him as he and (Roque) Vela left the U.S. Attorney’s office.”

Chapa, who was an informant for the government but also a confidential source of Mendez’s, met with federal agents and government prosecutors in connection with the July 28, 2012, seizure, of which Chapa was involved.

On July 28, 2012, Mission police K-9 officer Charles Lopez seized 15 kilos of cocaine from the trunk of a 1998 Ford Taurus in the parking lot of a Mission bakery.

Chapa, who testified last week that he changed his story of the events of that week multiple times, said the cocaine provided for that seizure had been dropped off at his home three days earlier. Mendez, who allegedly conspired with Chapa to steal the cocaine, picked up the drugs from Chapa’s home, cut it, and then staged the seizure with Officer Lopez.

Clough testified his agency went on the information originally provided by Chapa and Mendez’s report of the seizure, which stated it took place on July 29, 2012, and not the day before.

But after reviewing call logs and transcribed documents of conversations between Chapa and the man he stole from, drug trafficker Salvador Gonzalez,



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http://nypost.com/2016/07/12/fbi-agents ... ys-emails/

FBI agents signed NDA for matters involving Hillary's emails
New York Post-


In an unusual move, FBI agents working the Hillary Clinton e-mail case had to sign a special form reminding them not to blab about the probe to ...


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http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavli ... g-n2191245
Lynch Refuses to Answer Questions About FBI's Failure to Bring ...
Town Hall-



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Former FBI Agent to Speak on Cybercrime at LockPath Ready Summit
Yahoo Finance-
"With his experience as an FBI agent, Jeff Lanza brings important insights and valuable intelligence to the LockPath Ready Summit. We are ...



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http://sputniknews.com/society/20160713 ... rests.html
FBI Uses 15000 Informants to 'Radicalize' Young Muslims Before ...
Sputnik International-
The Daesh member provided Jalloh with a mobile messaging application and instructions to send $500 to an undercover FBI agent posing as an Daesh ...



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http://www.clickorlando.com/news/many-p ... unanswered
ORLANDO, Fla. - One month after the FBI launched what it described to News 6 as a "major terrorism investigation" into the Pulse nightclub massacre, the agency is withholding many details about the attack that left 49 people dead and 53 wounded.

Among the unanswered questions: Why did gunman Omar Mateen choose to carry out his attack at that particular gay nightclub, 120 miles from his home in Fort Pierce?  Did anyone else know about Mateen's plot prior to June 12? How did the attack unfold?  And exactly how did law enforcement respond?



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http://townhall.com/columnists/johnstos ... e-n2191832
Cops, Blacks and Crime
Town Hall-
... even including those five deaths, it is still safer to be a cop today than in years past. According to FBI records, 2015 was one of the safest years ever recorded.


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NYC Crime Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Education Obituaries Weather
NYPD cop pleads guilty to boy sex abuse on Skype


http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/que ... -1.2709001

July 12, 2016, 9:32 PM

NYPD Sergeant Alberto Randazzo is facing 24 to 30 years in prison for sexually exploiting young boys via Skype. (ANTHONY DELMUNDO/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
An NYPD sergeant pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexually exploiting young boys via Skype — as his new gal pal looked on in the courtroom and blew him a kiss.

Alberto Randazzo is facing 24 to 30 years in prison

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/c ... -1.2708763

A Canadian man was pulled over and questioned by police for “reading while black” for a couple of hours at a seaside wharf, he said.

Louizandre Dauphin, a small New Brunswick’s city’s director of parks, recreation and tourism, wrote on Instagram Thursday that an officer told him a few people in Janeville had reported “a suspicious black man in a white car.” The Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer did not arrest Dauphin or ask any more questions but stopped him long enough to verify his identification, he said.

“So, a black male, sitting in his car, reading a book is suspicious activity,



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NYC Crime Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Education Obituaries Weather
Grope suit against alleged NYPD perv detective can proceed:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/gro ... -1.2708670

Tuesday, July 12, 2016, 3:56

Det. Lukasz Skorzewski is accused of groping a woman in Washington.
The civil lawsuit against an NYPD officer accused of groping a rape victim after a bawdy pub crawl can continue, a Manhattan federal judge decided Tuesday.

Officer Lukasz Skorzewski and former Lt. Adam Lamboy, who worked in the Manhattan Special Victims Division, traveled to Seattle in early July 2013 to investigate a woman's claims that



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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyp ... -1.2708769
An African-American detective was fired after 30 years with the NYPD because the department falsely claimed he failed a drug test — and that the decision to terminate him was largely based on his race, a new lawsuit alleges.

After Cecil Waithe was promoted to detective first grade in January 2014, he took a drug test on March 18, 2014, which was a requirement of his promotion.

"During the March 18th drug screening the Drug Screening Unit examiner committed a number of errors and when the test results were obtained CW had tested positive for marijuana," the lawsuit, filed Monday in Manhattan federal court, alleges.


A subsequent departmental drug test on March 28, 2014, was negative — but "that second sample was destroyed by police personnel in the Drug Testing Unit," the suit charges.

Internal Affairs took Waithe's badge and gun on March 30, 2014, so he went to an independent drug testing service on April 1 and April 4, 2014 — which twice yielded negative results from urine, blood, and hair samples.

After a departmental hearing on March 24 2015, the Deputy Commissioner of Trials ruled against him — ignoring the samples that tested negative.

A witness for the NYPD did testify in that hearing that he was a routine pot user, again despite the negative tests.

Commissioner Bill Bratton signed off on Waithe's termination on Oct. 9, he claims.

Waithe, 57, maintains the department has "a long history of discriminating against its African-American male police officers. And that he has witnessed white officers retain their employment even after arrest for serious criminal offenses and/or other infractions."

"[Waithe] alleges that defendant City through its agents have a long history of performing flawed and unfair investigations whenever African-American male police officers complain about false allegations
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Freedom of information
Justice department 'uses aged computer system to frustrate Foia requests'
Lawsuit accuses DoJ of ‘failure by design’ through use of decades-old system
DoJ refuses to use new $425m software on freedom of information requests


A new lawsuit alleges that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) intentionally conducts inadequate searches of its records using a decades-old computer system when queried by citizens looking for records that should be available to the public.

Freedom of Information Act (Foia) researcher Ryan Shapiro alleges “failure by design” in the DoJ’s protocols for responding to public requests. The Foia law states that agencies must “make reasonable efforts to search for the records in electronic form or format”.

In an effort to demonstrate that the DoJ does not comply with this provision, Shapiro requested records of his own requests and ran up against the same roadblocks that stymied his progress in previous inquiries. A judge ruled in January that the FBI had acted in a manner “fundamentally at odds with the statute”.

Now, armed with that ruling, Shapiro hopes to change policy across the entire department. Shapiro filed his suit on the 50th anniversary of Foia’s passage this month.
Foia requests to the FBI are processed by searching the Automated Case Support system (ACS), a software program that celebrates its 21st birthday this year.

Not only are the records indexed by ACS allegedly inadequate, Shapiro told the Guardian, but the FBI refuses to search the full text of those records as a matter of policy. When few or no records are returned, Shapiro said, the FBI effectively responds “sorry, we tried” without making use of the much more sophisticated search tools at the disposal of internal requestors.


Judge rules FBI unlawfully refused to comply with information act requests
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“The FBI’s assertion is akin to suggesting that a search of a limited and arbitrarily produced card catalogue at a vast library is as likely to locate book pages containing a specified search term as a full text search of database containing digitized versions of all the books in that library,” Shapiro said.

The DoJ has contended to Shapiro and others that only one of ACS’s three search functions, the Universal Name Index (Uni), is necessary to fulfill the law. The Uni search does not include the text of the files in the ACS, merely search terms entered – or not – by the FBI agent handling the case in question.

Shapiro told the Guardian that the reason the DoJ gave for refusing to use its $425m Sentinel software to process Foia requests after ACS had failed to recover records was that a Sentinel search “would be needlessly duplicative of the FBI’s default ACS UNI index-based searches and wasteful of Bureau resources”.

To Shapiro, this is both disingenuous and evidence of the well-documented resistance to this law at the DoJ. A PhD candidate at MIT, Shapiro is at work on a dissertation dealing with the conflict between perceived national security concerns and animal rights.

The Department of Justice has chafed under Foia requirements for even longer than it has used ACS. In 1981, the then FBI director, William H Webster, told the American Bar Association that the DoJ was “working with Congress to determine what corrective measures will be taken” regarding what it saw as a danger to the security of its investigations from Foia. The department never got its Foia exemption.

The FBI’s chief technology officer during the second George W Bush administration, Jack Israel, said he was unimpressed with the system in a Q&A cited in Shapiro’s complaint with the now-defunct site FierceGovernmentIT. “ACS – the Automated Case Support system – is based on old technology,” Israel said four years ago. “It’s based on an IBM mainframe with legacy database and programming technology, and I would say one of the main things that strikes you as a user of ACS is that you’re dealing with the old IBM green screens. You’re not dealing with a web-based environment, which everyone is used to from the internet.”

Not only is the interface archaic, but the way that you search data, the way you input data, all of those are archaic, wrote Shapiro in his complaint. Indeed, in 2012 a DoJ commission headed by Webster himself investigating the 2009 Fort Hood shooting called ACS “the FBI’s most outdated system”, noting that “[i]t is being phased out in favor of an impressive Web-based successor, Sentinel”.

More recently, the FBI’s own investigation into the September 11 attacks found that “[o]n September 11, 2001,


Link du jour
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http://www.ammoland.com/2016/07/fbi-rev ... z4EVggX9Jj

https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ene ... ge%2Fstory

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... -1.2713104


http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit ... 381458.php




Bonus Read

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/07/15/p ... ack-lives/

July 15 2016

Eighteen arrested in Portland as group protesting police shootings blocks Commercial Street
Members of a group called the Portland Racial Justice Congress, calling for the city's police department to make changes, occupy a busy intersection in the heart of the Old Port for hours.















Shadiyo Hussain chants “hands up, don’t shoot!” with about 150 people as they march from Lincoln Park down Pearl Street to Commercial Street for a protest. Jill Brady/Staff Photographer
Portland police arrested 18 protesters late Friday who had blocked Commercial Street for most of the night.

They were among a group of demonstrators – decrying the recent police shootings of black men – who had marched from Lincoln Park to the heart of the Old Port on Friday evening, tying up traffic after they occupied a busy intersection on Commercial Street.

After the arrests for blocking a public way, all of the police officers who had been on the scene for hours pulled out by 10:50 p.m.


Police Chief Michael Sauschuck said at a news conference early Saturday that officers targeted “ringleaders” for arrest.

“There were people who, it is obviously from Day 1, they wanted to be arrested,” he said.

But immediately after the police left, a group of about 30 protesters chanting and carrying a banner about 20 feet wide returned to Commercial Street and then moved up Market Street. Supporters of theirs accompanied them along the sidewalks.

The group, about 50 or 60 strong, turned down Middle Street and gathered in front of the police station, where they shouted, “No justice, no peace!”

They were watched over by three officers on the steps of the police station. Those officers


Also see

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/d ... -1.2714030
Crime U.S. World Politics
Drunk off-duty NYPD cop plows onto Brooklyn sidewalk, killing one


Saturday, July 16, 2016, 5:45 PM

Raw: Alleged drunk driver crashes, hits several pedestrians

A drunken off-duty cop plowed his SUV into a group of friends on a Brooklyn sidewalk early Saturday, killing one and seriously injuring three others, police said.

Witnesses said Officer Nicholas Batka, whose vehicle was speeding and swerving in the seconds before impact, flashed his badge and tried to flee the scene after the 3 a.m. crash.

One victim had a leg torn off in the gruesome wreck, and another was impaled on a railing in the deadly pile-up just four hours before rookie cop Batka was due on the job, police


Also see

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-stando ... nduct.html
July 15 2016
Federal judge: Possible misconduct by FBI in LaVoy Finicum ...
OregonLive.com-
The investigation into alleged misconduct by FBI Hostage Rescue Team officers at the scene of Robert "LaVoy" Finicum's shooting in Harney County isn't ...


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https://www.muckrock.com

Coping with rejection: a guide to federal FOIA exemptions
by JPat Brown
July 15, 2016
At the federal level, nine FOIA exemptions stand between you and records you want. Here’s what they are, what they mean, and what you can do about them.
Read More

We’re building an open guide to every state’s public records law
by Michael Morisy
July 14, 2016
With agencies increasingly using an array of exemptions to deny access to information, we want to help requesters fight back. We’re launching a project to track every public records exemption in all 50 states - and provide the information needed to successfully overcome times when information is improperly denied.




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http://sputniknews.com/us/20160715/1043 ... tions.html

FBI Failed to Communicate Saudi Financial Connections with 9/11 ...
Sputnik International



WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) San Diego Field Office failed to communicate information in a Central Intelligence Agency ...


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http://gizmodo.com/the-fbi-says-its-mal ... 1783537208

The FBI Says Its Malware Isn't Malware Because the FBI Is Good
Gizmodo-
The FBI is facing accusations that malware it deployed while running Operation Playpen, a sting that infiltrated and maintained a dark web


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Crime U.S. World Politics
Georgia man mistaken for suspect, hit with stun gun and arrested

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/g ... -1.2713147

Friday, July 15, 2016, 2:23 PM



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Thursday, July 15 2016



http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/ ... 379448.php


McALLEN — A former Drug Enforcement Administration task force officer was found guilty Thursday for his role in a drug conspiracy, federal prosecutors




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http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/16/saudi ... ts-reveal/
Saudi Prince And Friend Of Bushes Connected To Al-Qaida, 9/11 ...
Daily Caller-
The unclassified 28 pages of the 9/11 report reveal that the FBI and CIA had evidence connecting Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, nicknamed Bandar Bush, ...


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https://www.fbi.gov/resources/businesses

FBI MORE
RESOURCES
Law Enforcement
Businesses
Victim Assistance
More
Businesses

Protecting business is our business. Our investigations make a difference to your bottom line and the overall economy—whether it’s keeping the competitive playing field level through our antitrust cases, protecting trade secrets and intellectual property, patrolling cyberspace, or preventing financially-crippling terrorist attacks. We work with business professionals across the country every day—not just to request support for our investigations, but to provide a range of services and to join together to protect vital infrastructure.

Learn about major partnerships with the private sector, how to do business with us, the threats we investigate, and more.

Key Information-Sharing Partnerships
Learn more about these four partnerships, what they offer to the private sector, and how to join by visiting the links below. 


Domestic Security Alliance Council
The Domestic Security Alliance Council, or DSAC, is a security and intelligence-sharing initiative between the FBI, the Department…


Counterintelligence Strategic Partnerships
Our Counterintelligence Strategic Partnerships work to determine and safeguard those technologies which, if compromised…


InfraGard
InfraGard brings together representatives from the private and public sectors to help protect our nation’s critical infrastructure…


iGuardian
With cyber threats continuing to emerge at the forefront of the FBI’s criminal and national security challenges…

Learn About Key Threats to Businesses
These are among the key threats and security risks facing businesses today. The pages and sections below include some information on protections and mitigations. More details can be found by joining one or several of the information-sharing partnerships listed above. 


Terrorism
Combating terrorism is the FBI’s top investigative priority. Working closely with a range of partners, we use…


Counterintelligence
Spies might seem like a throwback to earlier days of world wars and cold wars, but they are…


Cyber Crime
The FBI is the lead federal agency for investigating cyber attacks by criminals, overseas adversaries, and terrorists. The…


Intellectual Property Theft/Piracy
Preventing intellectual property theft is a priority of the FBI’s criminal investigative program. It specifically focuses on…


Business E-Mail Compromise
Business e-mail compromise (BEC) is a growing financial fraud that is more sophisticated than any similar scam the…


Health Care Fraud
The FBI is the primary investigative agency involved in the fight against health care fraud, with jurisdiction over…


Active Shooter Incidents
An active shooter is an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated…


Workplace Violence
This booklet is aimed at prevention, intervention, threat assessment and management, crisis management and critical incident response, and…


Financial Institution/Mortgage Fraud
The FBI is committed to aggressively pursuing those who endanger the stability of our banking system and the…

Doing Business with the FBI
The FBI’s Small Business Programs Office (SBPO) advocates for small, minority, service-disabled veteran, Historically Underutilized Business Zone, and women-owned small businesses. The SBPO promotes the use of small businesses throughout the Bureau, to include its 56 field offices. As the FBI is a Department of Justice (DOJ) agency, the SBPO receives policy direction and guidance from the director of DOJ’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization.

The Finance Division is responsible for the centralized procurement activities of the Bureau. The division is organized into six buying units and the Acquisition Strategy and Planning Unit (ASAPU). The SBPO is a part of the ASAPU, which is responsible for providing strategic planning support and guidance to internal FBI customers. The buying units are organized to purchase supplies and services to meet the requirements of specific customers. The SBPO interacts with each of the six buying units to promote the use of small businesses and provide assistance in locating appropriate small businesses—ensuring that the Bureau complies with congressionally mandated procurement goals, federal acquisition regulations, and Department of Justice regulations. 

The SBPO is committed to ensuring that small business consideration is given priority in each procurement and encourages small businesses to pursue FBI procurements. The FBI’s procurement forecast is a part of the consolidated DOJ forecast, which can be found at http://www.justice.gov/jmd/osdbu/. Those interested may also attend DOJ vendor outreach sessions.

Finance Division Personnel
Section Chief
Procurement Section
Finance Division
935 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20535

Small Business Representative

Small Business Competition Coordination Unit 
Room 6863
935 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20535
smallbusiness@ic.fbi.gov

Outreach Events
The director of the Department of Justice’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) hosts vendor outreach sessions each fiscal year. Each of the Department of Justice agencies is represented at the sessions, to include the FBI’s small business program staff. You can register to attend a session by calling the OSDBU staff at (202) 616-0521 or 1-800-345-3712. Appointments will be made on a first-come, first-served basis. Scheduling begins at noon EST/EDT on the first work day of each month. Complete information about the sessions may be found at: http://www.justice.gov/osdbu/meet-small ... specialist

The sessions are held at:

OSDBU
Two Constitution Square
145 N Street NE, Room 1W.1001
Washington, D.C. 20530
9:00 a.m to 12:00 p.m.

Products and Services Purchased by the FBI
North American Industry Classification System/Description

541519: Other computer-related services
541512: Computer systems design services
541613: Marketing consulting services
541511: Custom computer programming services
453998: All other miscellaneous store retailers (except tobacco stores)
541611: Administrative management and general management consulting services
518210: Data processing, hosting, and related services
423430: Computer and computer peripheral equipment and software merchant wholesalers
334111: Electronic computer manufacturing
531210: Office of real estate agents and brokers
236220: Commercial and institutional building construction
334119: Other computer peripheral equipment
51720: Wireless telecommunications carriers (except satellite)
443120: Computer and software stores


541618: Engineering services
541690: Other management consulting services
561110: Office administrative services
334516: Analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing
811212: Computer and office machine repair and maintenance
334220: Radio and television broadcasting and wireless communications equipment manufacturing
337214: Office furniture (except wood manufacturing)
316999: All other leather goods manufacturing
511210: Software publishers
541199: All other legal services
561210: Facilities support services
611420: Computer training
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VOTE 2016 Whisper Stream


 


https://www.amazon.com/Hillary-Vince-st ... 8&qid=&sr=

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Hillary and Vince: a story of love, death, and cover-up Paperback – June 19, 2016
by Dean W. Arnold (Author)
4.6 out 5 stars


the death by gunshot of Hillary Clinton’s lover, lawyer, and best friend in 1993 was the highest suspicious death of a government official since JFK. Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster handled the Clinton’s most secretive matters and hired investigators to track down and threaten dozens of women sleeping with Bill. Among the many very questionable items in the investigation of Vince Foster's death are the following: The coroner’s report says x-rays were taken, but the he testified to Senators none were taken. When a paramedic approached Foster’s body, he saw men running away into the woods. The first person to find Foster’s body guarded the entrance to the CIA. Hillary testified she did not see Foster during the month before his death. A staffer testified she was in Foster's office at least four times.




http://www.fbicover-up.com/vincent-foster-report.html


Judge David Sentelle with judges Fay and Butzner ordered evidence of the cover-up submittted by Patrick Knowlton to be included as part of the final Report on Foster's death, over the objections of Kenneth Starr

Heat is Online


Climate change
‘World can’t afford to silence us’: black church leaders address climate change
One of the largest and oldest black churches in the US warns that black people are disproportionally harmed by global warming and fossil fuel pollution


https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... nge-letter




Link du jour

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http://russbaker.com/

http://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2 ... vere-beach
https://oslofreedomforum.com/

Blink Tank



https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y6NQU2ptUNY


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http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=84a ... 91763ac879
9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
Draft minutes for June 29, 2016


July 22, 2016
Craig McKee, Secretary 9/11 Monthly Teleconference Call

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Present were:

Ken Freeland, Teleconference facilitator, Houston 9/11 Truth
Craig McKee, Teleconference secretary, Truth and Shadows
Dave Slesinger, 9/11 Truth Outreach
John O’Malley, DC 9/11 Truth
Barton Bruce, Massachusetts 9/11 Truth
Cat McGuire, 9/11 Truth Outreach
Barbara Honegger, Behind The Smoke Curtain
Sheila Casey, DC911Truth
Barrie Zwicker, Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-Up of 9/11
Jim Fetzer, And Nobody Died in Boston, Either
Jim Hufferd, 9/11 Grassroots
Wayne Coste, 9/11 Outreach
Dan Hennen, AE911Truth
Rodger Bories, 9/11 activist
David Cole, Nine Eleven Accountability Team

The minutes of the May 25, 2016 conference call were APPROVED.

The agenda was APPROVED.


Hordon banned from Teleconference
A proposal was made by Craig McKee that Robin Hordon no longer be invited to participate in the teleconference because of insulting remarks he made about the group. This was accepted without objection.

Comments on noise
Sheila Casey requested a few moments to discuss possible ways to reduce background noise on the monthly calls. It was agreed that during presentations and debates that Ken Freeland would mute all lines except that of the speaker.

Conspiracy Theory in America
A discussion was held on Lance deHaven-Smith’s book Conspiracy Theory in America.

Three topics in one
Jim Fetzer combined three topics into one presentation. He addressed his contention that there were actually three different people who played the part of Jeff Bauman in the Boston bombing; he announced a book he will be publishing soon called America Was Nuked on 9/11; and he challenged statements by Barbara Honegger about what happened at the Pentagon.

Book review
Ken Freeland offered a favorable review of the book Hidden Finance, Rogue Networks, and Secret Sorcery by Joseph P. Farrell.

The origins of ISIS
James Hufferd offered for discussion the subject of how the Truth Movement can determine and prove that the U.S. is responsible for creating and directing ISIS.

New 9/11 Citizens’ Commission?
Ken Freeland offered for discussion the subject of whether the Truth Movement should consider holding another 9/11 Citizens’ Commission.

Announcements
* Barbara Honegger announced a conference being held September 10-11 at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City for the 15^th anniversary of 9/11. Speakers will include Daniel Sheehan, Ferdinando Imposimato, Wayne Madsen, and William Pepper. She noted that the legal aspects of bringing the 9/11 perpetrators to justice will be the focus of the second day.
* Dave Slesinger urged others to go to http://houston911truth.us5.list-manage. ... 91763ac879 where 9/11 is among the subjects discussed.
* Wayne Coste announced that his web site, http://houston911truth.us5.list-manage2 ... 91763ac879 now has an events calendar. Anyone wishing to post an event can register on the site.
* Ken Freeland announced a new web site that will examine the issue of the recently released 28 pages. The site is http://houston911truth.us5.list-manage. ... 91763ac879.
* Cat McGuire called the teleconference’s attention to the new book The Plot to Kill King by William Pepper and mentioned that Pepper recently did a two-hour interview on Gary Null’s show. Ken added that there is a series of four interviews Null did with Daniel Sheehan that are also worth checking out.
* Barbara mentioned that she was scheduled to be a guest on Richard Hoaglund’s radio show on July 1.
* In closing, Ken reminded everyone about the scheduled Pentagon debate between Craig McKee/Adam Ruff and Barbara Honegger that is to take up the entire July teleconference call. (Earlier in the call, Barbara, Craig, and Ken agreed that the debate would go forward and that they would come to an agreement by email about whether the two sides will exchange a list of major arguments and sources prior to the draft agenda going out.)


Call began at 8 p.m. EST and adjourned at 10:00 p.m. EST/5 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. PST

Audio of the June call can be heard here: http://houston911truth.us5.list-manage. ... 91763ac879 The next monthly teleconference will take place on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 8 p.m. EST, 5 p.m. PST. Please email agenda items for next call to facilitator Ken Freeland (diogenesquest@gmail.com) by July 23. Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.” Please include a brief description of your item and any relevant links you’d like participants to be aware of, together with your estimate of the number of minutes your agenda item will require.




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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... er-langman

Munich shooting
'It's disturbing': author of book found in Munich shooter's home sees pattern
Psychologist Peter Langman wrote the book Why Kids Kill and says it’s common for shooters to want to study others, but there’s no one reason for killing


The 2010 book Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters profiles 10 shooters and breaks them down into three personality types. Photograph: PR

Saturday 23 July 2016 12.10 EDT Last modified on Saturday 23 July 2016 15.37 EDT


The Munich teenage shooter who killed nine people and injured 27 in a mass shooting in Germany on Friday appears to have fit a pattern among other mass murderers who researched shootings, according to the psychologist whose book was found in the gunman’s home.

“It’s a little disturbing,” said Peter Langman, who was unaware that the Munich shooter had a copy of his book until the Guardian called him at his home in Pennsylvania on






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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ie-sanders
DNC emails posted by Wikileaks suggest party officials' anti-Sanders sentiment
Days before convention, cache of 19,000 emails released and several show officials scoffing at Hillary Clinton’s former rival and questioning his religion


The DNC temporarily curtailed Sanders’ access to the list last year, after the party accused his campaign of tapping into confidential voter information compiled by the Clinton campaign. Photograph: ddp USA/Rex/Shutterstock

Saturday 23 July 2016 15.08 EDT Last modified on Saturday 23 July 2016 16.14 EDT


A cache of more than 19,000 emails from Democratic party officials, leaked in advance of Hillary Clinton’s nomination in Philadelphia, details the acrimonious split between the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Clinton’s former rival, Senator Bernie Sanders.

Several emails posted by Wikileaks show DNC officials scoffing at Sanders and his supporters, and in one instance questioning his commitment to his Jewish religion. Some emails


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http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-na ... story.html

World ASIA
How a stockpile of America's nuclear weapons got tangled up in a Middle East crisis



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https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/ ... n-juggalos

The Man Chronicling Insane Clown Posse and Why the FBI Is Spying on Juggalos



JUL 23 2016
Rock critic Steve Miller has written critically acclaimed books about everyone from Iggy Pop to Johnny Ramone. His new book examines how Insane Clown Posse went from a small Detroit rap group to a band on Disney’s record label to on the FBI’s gang list.

Rock journalist Steve Miller has written acclaimed biographies about musicians like Iggy Pop and Johnny Ramone, but for his latest book, he turns to the "worst band in the history of the world," the Insane Clown Posse and their fans known as Juggalos. Miller'sJuggalo: Insane Clown Posse and the World They Made interweaves two stories: how Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope escaped Detroit's impoverished suburbs to create a new music genre with great financial success and why the FBI has labeled the Juggalos as an organized gang. We sat down with Miller under Mike Busey's tent at the Gathering of the Juggalos to discuss police profiling, the FBI's stupidity, and ICP's musical brilliance.


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http://www.globalresearch.ca/boston-bom ... ll/5524690
Boston Bombings: Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Immigration Records Reveal FBI Bombshell
By James Henry
Global Research, May 12, 2016


Important New Info on Boston Marathon Bombing

WhoWhatWhy has discovered that the FBI secretly flagged at least one of the “Boston Marathon bombers” as a terrorist threat in his immigration records, despite publicly denying it had done so.

This designation existed right up to the time the bombs went off at Boylston St. on April 15, 2013.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s heavily redacted immigration records, known as an A-file (alien file), were released in February under the Freedom of Information Act and posted online by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). FOIA has a “frequently requested record” provision where multiple request for the same record triggers a “reading room” (posted online) treatment of the records. WhoWhatWhy was one of those requesters.


Tamerlan Tsarnaev Photo credit: Adapted by WhoWhatWhy from Dave Newman / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

For context, it’s important to note that soon after the bombing, uncomfortable questions were raised by WhoWhatWhy when it became clear the FBI had long been aware of Tsarnaev. Even some of the mainstream outlets, which almost uniformly have accepted the government’s version of events, couldn’t ignore this reality.

The Bureau steadfastly maintains that it determined the elder Tsarnaev (who died in an altercation with police three days after the bombing) was not any kind of a national security threat. It also denies ever having asked him to be an informant.

And yet a shadowy program used by the feds to keep individuals deemed a “national security concern” from obtaining citizenship looks like the reason Tsarnaev’s naturalization application was held up — to the very moment of his death. This program is called the Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP).

Significantly, CARRP is also used to manipulate foreign nationals (mostly Muslims) to do the FBI’s bidding by — ironically — flagging them as a “national security concern,”according to an extensive ACLU investigation into the program.

Reeled in by CARRP?

So, what is the significance of holding Tsarnaev’s naturalization application under CARRP?

It would mean that, by definition, the FBI had not ruled out whether Tsarnaev was a  “Known or Suspected Terrorist” (KST) by the time of the bombing.

A KST is a designation under CARRP automatically given to anyone listed on the terrorist “watch list,” which



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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2722989
Crime U.S. World Politics
Judge sends lawyer to jail for wearing ‘Black Lives Matter’ pin




Updated: Saturday, July 23, 2016, 12:59 PM

Ohio Judge Sends Lawyer To Jail For Wearing ‘Black Lives Matter’ Pin In Court


00:00 / 01:05
An Ohio attorney was removed from a courtroom in handcuffs and sentenced to five days in jail after she refused to take off a Black Lives Matter pin at a judge’s request.

Attorney Andrea Burton was arrested at a Youngstown, Ohio courthouse on Friday w
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/r ... -1.2727437

Cop resigns after having sex nearly 100 times while on duty
Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 9:32 PM

An internal investigation found a Wisconsin cop was regularly having sex while on the clock. — A Wisconsin police officer resigned after an internal investigation found he had sex nearly 100 times on duty.

Hudson Police Chief Marty Jensen confirmed Tuesday that Officer John Worden stepped down in May, after first being placed on administrative leave.

The Hudson Star-Observer newspaper first reported on Worden's resignation, citing documents obtained from police through a public records request. Jensen and a city attorney declined to provide the documents to The Associated Press



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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/new ... -1.2727091
New York police officer not charged in death of 4-month-old son
Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 5:03 PM


Rome police officer Mark Fanfarillo will not be charged in the death of his son Michael after leaving him in a hot car on June 6, 2016. (WKTV)
A New York police officer whose infant son died after the cop left him in a car all day will not be criminally charged for the accident, the Oneida County District Attorney’s office announced Tuesday.

On July 6, Mark Fanfarillo forgot to drop his 4-month-old son off at day care, leaving him unattended in his car “for


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Cop wanted to testify for Sandra Bland, faced threats: ex-judge
Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 9:49 PM


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2727431


Recording: Prairie View officer says DA wouldn't let him testify about Sandra Bland traffic stop
Houston Chronicle


00:00 / 01:08
Sandra Bland’s family could have seen justice if a Texas officer who witnessed the arrest wasn’t threatened into silence, a former judge claimed — with a recording to prove it.

Community activist and former county judge DeWayne Charleston said he recorded a phone conversation with officer Michael Kelley, who wanted to testify on Bland’s behalf, the Houston Chronicle reported.

“This is what happens when you try to cross the thin blue line,” Charleston said on Tuesday.



In this July 10, 2015, frame from dashcam video provided by the Texas Department of Public Safety, trooper Brian Encinia arrests Sandra Bland after she became combative during a routine traffic stop in Waller County. (TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY/AP)
Bland was found dead in a Waller County jail cell after a July 10, 2015.

King: Sandra Bland case just more cause for frustration
Medical examiners ruled her suspicious death a suicide, but outraged protesters believe she was murdered.


Medical examiners ruled Sandra Bland’s jailed death a suicide, but her family is calling foul on the officers. (AP)
Dashcam footage showed Bland being roughly arrested and mistreated by the officers who stopped her.

Charleston told reporters outside the federal courthouse in Houston that Kelley wanted to help Bland’s case, but was threatened into silence from the district attorney’s office.


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IRS DOESN'T NEED CRIMINAL INTENT TO PROSECUTE

 
http://newswithviews.com/Ewart/ron261.htm

July 27, 2016


It is a well-known fact that nothing happens in Washington DC by accident. There are no coincidences. It was not a coincidence that former president Bill Clinton suddenly appeared on the tarmac when U. S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s plane landed in Phoenix. It was no coincidence that he entered her plane and talked with her for 39 minutes without witnesses. It was no coincidence that the attending FBI agents wanted no pictures taken of the “chance” encounter. It was no coincidence that the FBI interviewed Hillary Clinton the following day. It was no coincidence that a few days later that FBI Director James Comey gave a fifteen minute statement absolving Hillary Clinton of any crime, because he said, there was no “criminal intent” even though she was carelessly negligent and the statutes didn’t require criminal intent. It was no coincidence that U. S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said she would accept the FBI’s recommendation, without her own review of the investigation. They call that a rubberstamp. When, in the history of our great Republic, did the FBI Director become defense counsel, judge and jury?

Was Comey bought off? We don’t know. But ladies and gentlemen it smells so bad as to remove all doubt that a “deal” was made at the highest level of government to save Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid. That is tyranny and corruption by any definition. Whatever respect we had for James Comey was dashed by his obviously political decision. He sacrificed honor for political expediency.

We ask you to view a nine-minute video in an under-oath exchange between U. S. Representative Jason Chaffetz and FBI Director James Comey about Hillary Clinton’s actions as Secretary of State with regard to her treatment of classified material. It will give


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two Bernazini reads
he was never prosecuted under Hatch Act violations

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Ousted FBI chief apologizes to his staff


http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008 ... es_to.html

on April 30, 2008 at 9:15 AM, updated October 21, 2009 at 10:56
Jim Bernazzani, the former special agent in charge of the FBI's Louisiana operations, apologized to his staff Monday for the public flirtation with political office that brought his ouster and told them he would spend

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http://m.fox8live.com/wvuefox8/db_35468 ... d=0iTThgdl
"It is an aspect of the explosion of social media," Former FBI Special Agent-in-Charge for New Orleans Jim Bernazzani said. 








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http://motherboard.vice.com/read/dozens ... gn-playpen

Dozens of Lawyers Across the US Fight the FBI's Mass Hacking ...
Motherboard
The US Department of Justice has a battle on its hands, as dozens of lawyers question evidence the FBI obtained using hacking techniques across a string of ...

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FBI OCTOPUS


http://www.recorder.com/edit-chiefs-promise-3434483



Tuesday, July 26, 2016

In Athol, Russell T. Kleber took over the Police Department recently, following six years as an FBI supervisory special agent.
Kleber has 29 years of experience in law enforcement, serving as a police officer in Charlton from 1987 to 1992, when he switched



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http://touch.orlandosentinel.com/#secti ... -87970758/
Senator: FBI investigations into Pulse gunman need review
Orlando Sentinel-
The chairman of a Senate homeland security committee on Tuesday called for an independent review of how the FBI handled its 2013 and 2014 investigations 



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http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/Chicago- ... 77732.html

Chicago Woman Says FBI Raided Her House By Mistake, Didn't ...
NBC Chicago-
A Chicago woman says the FBI erroneously raided her house and left with no explanation after they didn't




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http://www.ammoland.com/2016/07/gary-ra ... directors/

Atlanta, GA -(AmmoLand.com)- Gary Ramey, President of handgun manufacturer Honor Defense, located in Gainesville, Georgia, was recently elected to the FBI Atlanta Citizens Academy Board of Directors.


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FBI leader thanked Janklow in Peltier matter
http://www.argusleader.com/story/blogs/ ... /87626144/

Clinton Museum
Gov. Bill Janklow meets with President Bill Clinton on Dec. 7, 2000. Janklow flew to Washington to lobby Clinton not to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier.

Last week we told the story about how former Gov. Bill Janklow made a secret op to visit Bill Clinton at the White House. Janklow was there to lobby Clinton to not release Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement activist who was accused in 1977 of murdering two FBI agents.

Janklow used a close personal relationship with Clinton -- and his own experiences with the incident -- to persuade Clinton that Peltier should not be released. Still, when he left Washington on Dec. 7, 2000, Janklow wasn't sure what Clinton would do.
The FBI had also been lobbying Clinton not to release Peltier. Two days before Janklow's visit, FBI Director Louis Freeh had written Clinton asking him to turn down Peltier's clemency petition.
"There is no


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http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/ ... /87628790/

NEWS
State seeking grant to process untested rape kits

MISSOULA — Montana is applying for a federal grant to pay to process untested rape kits that had been stored by local law enforcement agencies.

Members of the Montana Sexual Assault Evidence Task Force met Friday in Missoula and said the FBI will test 300 of the unprocessed kits with funding from the National Institute of Justice. Assistant Attorney General Jon Bennion says 10 law enforcement agencies representing some of the largest population areas in Montana can each submit 30 of their unprocessed kits to the FBI for testing,.
The task force in April applied for a


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two stories

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-f ... 1J20130223

| Fri Feb 22, 2013 8:00pm EST
Sexting and bugging revealed at the FBI: CNN
One FBI employee was fired for sleeping with a drug dealer and lying about it under oath, while another got the boot for bugging the boss's office.

The FBI suspended for 10 days still another employee for emailing a nude photograph of herself to her ex-boyfriend's wife - the bureau showed compassion for the woman after she sought help for depression.



http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/fb ... mistresses



FBI agents caught sexting, dating drug dealers, shoplifting, possessing child pornography, and beating up mistresses...
February 23, 2013



Disciplinary files from the Bureau's Office of Professional Responsibility record an extraordinary range of transgressions that reveal the chaotic personal lives of some of America's top law enforcers.

One male agent was sacked after police were called to his mistress's house following reports of domestic incident. When officers arrived they found the agent "drunk and uncooperative" and eventually had to physically subdue him and wrestle away his loaded gun.

A woman e-mailed a "nude photograph of herself to her ex-boyfriend's wife" and then continued to harass the couple despite two warnings from senior officials. The Bureau concluded she was suffering from depression related to the break-up and allowed her to return to work after 10 days.

But the sexually explicit picture was only one of what FBI assistant director Candice Will described to CNN as a "rash of sexting cases". The network was the first to obtain the logs.

Two other employees, whose genders were not specified, sent sexually explicit messages to fellow members of the Bureau, one a work Blackberry during office hours.

The second employee included a nude photograph which "created office gossip and negatively impacted office operations".

"When you are given an FBI BlackBerry, it's for official use," Ms Will said. "It's not to text the woman in another office who you found attractive or to send a picture of yourself in a state of undress."

During another incident, an employee snapped during an argument with their spouse and went on to snap an e-reader in half. As the situation deteriorated they pointed an "unloaded gun at dog's head while dog was sitting in spouse's lap". The agent was suspended for 45 days.

The logs, which contain incidents from July 2012 to January, also describe how a woman "engaged in a romantic relationship with former boyfriend (now husband) knowing he was a drug user/dealer". She was sacked after lying about the relationship.

Other firing offences included shoplifting, possession of child pornography and hiding a recording device in a supervisor's office during an employment dispute.

The incidents, and many others, were included in quarterly emails sent to all FBI employees to help them in "steering clear of ethical pitfalls and other violations".



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misconduct reveals sex, lies and videotape


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

By Scott Zamost and Kyra Phillips, CNN Special Investigations Unit
January 27, 2011 10:07 a.m. EST


FBI misconduct revealed
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Internal documents obtained by CNN show misconduct by agents, supervisors
One document says one employee shared information with his news reporter girlfriend
More than 300 FBI employees out of 34,000 are disciplined each year, the bureau says
For more on this story, watch"The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer" tonight at 5 p.m. ET
Editor's note: Some content in this report may be offensive to readers. For more on this CNN exclusive story, watch Kyra Phillips' full report on "The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer" tonight starting at 6 p.m. ET.
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
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Bonus read

http://mattofboston.com/the-untrustwort ... ton-30372/
The Untrustworthy FBI: The Failed Interview of Hillary Clinton





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https://www.dvidshub.net/news/205400/tr ... hield-2016

Train to Detain: 159th Military Police Battalion at Guardian Shield 2016
UNITED STATES
07.28.2016
Story by Spc. David Alexander 
215th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment
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CHARLESTON, S.C. – U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers with the 159th Military Police Battalion, Criminal Investigation Division, began the two-week Guardian Shield training event at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Charleston, S.C. on July 24th, 2016. Guardian Shield is a U.S. Army Reserve training exercise focused on the many different aspects of criminal investigations to include domestic violence, intervention, hostage situations, and reactions to active shooters.

The annual event began in 2010 and was originally designed for Army Reserve CID special agents exclusively. However, Guardian Shield has expanded to include training for non-agent Soldiers as well. Agents will train simultaneously with active duty Soldiers, civilian law enforcement, and international law enforcement.

“The general purpose of [Guardian Shield] is to affect the core competency training of our Army Reserve CID Special Agents, as well as our Drug Suppression Team,” said Lt. Col. John M. Dunn, commander of the 159th MP Battalion.

During this year’s training, numerous speakers from additional law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and the DEA, will share best practices and exchange ideas with other Guardian Shield participants. With training offered through Guardian Shield, such as hostage negotiation, 30 special agents will be able to become certified hostage negotiators.

Each year, Guardian Shield evolves to include new training aspects to better prepare Army Reserve CID Soldiers for the variety of threats they may encounter.

“It’s something that we’re continually evaluating at the leadership level in terms of what skills, and what issues we need to address to maintain not just the educational proficiency



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 http://m.wbrc.com/myfoxal/pm_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=od:BL1pfxaH
 


http://m.wbrc.com/myfoxal/pm_/contentde ... d:BL1pfxaH
Does MPD already have a Citizen Advisory Panel?
Renee Dials
Jul 28, 2016 05:43 PM


Chief Barber said the initial panel was formed with help from U.S. Attorney Kenyen Brown, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Lasky.  

The panel consists of 12 pastors, activist, and community leaders from an area known as the "Campground".  Part of the panels objective is to "review incidents related to police-community relations." 
 
A second 12 member panel was later formed from the Maysville community. 

According to Chief Barber those two "sub panels" make up the Citywide Citizens Advisory Panel approved last June.  Barber says the citywide panel is still "a work in progress" 

Has the panel's input had an impact on complaints against police employees?
   
To answer that question FOX10 News checked police data to determine how many citizen complaints have been filed against the department in recent years.

According to the Annual Reports on the MPD website In 2012 there were citizen complaints filed against 24 MPD employees.  That number increased to 64 in 2013.  In 2014 citizens filed complaints against 86 MPD employees. 

But Barber says some of the numbers reflect inaccurate reporting by the department that led to a scandal just before he took over.  For example,  Barber says Internal Affairs records show there were actually complaints involving 93 additional MPD employees that never made it into the annual report in 2012.  Those complaints were labeled inquiries in the IA report.   Barber said his one of his first tasks



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http://pilotonline.com/news/fbi-agents- ... 7e90b.html



FBI: Agents died in fall from helicopter off Va. coast
By Scott Daugherty
The Virginian-Pil
Last month, the team was involved in the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. And



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http://www.nj.com/ocean/index.ssf/2016/ ... ued_o.html



Ocean County prosecutor fires detective who sued over alleged misconduct

Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato shown in a 2014 file photo speaking during liability training for police officers. Coronato fired a detective who alleged misconduct occurred in the prosecutor's office
on July 29, 2016 at 2:58 PM, updated July 29, 2016 at 4:01 PM




TOMS RIVER — Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato has fired one of two detectives in his office who claimed they were passed over for promotions and retaliated against when they tried to expose alleged misconduct by their co-workers.

Steven Mecka, who had been a detective for the prosecutor's office since 2004, was fired last month after an administrative disciplinary hearing, said his attorney, George Cotz.

Mecka and Detective Juan Pastrana, have filed separate lawsuits against Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato and some of their co-workers, contend in the litigation that they were retaliated against when they resisted pressure to falsify reports in cases they handled and when they tried to report the alleged misconduct.

Al Della Fave, spokesman for the prosecutor's office, defended the timing of the firing and


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http://m.wfxg.com/wfxg/db_346284/conten ... d=QaxKup4R
 
 
Sheriff Cannon selected for National Use of Force Task Force

Jul 29, 2016 02:28 PM
- Charleston County Sheriff Al Cannon has been selected, along with other federal and state executive law enforcement leaders and prosecutors from around the country, to join a National Use of Force Task Force.

The purpose of this Task Force is to develop a resource that provides guidance and recommendations regarding state and local law enforcement's response, investigations, and how sharing of information about officer-involved deadly use-of-force incidents.

The Task Force will be headed up by the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Assistance.

The resource is expected to:

Provide guidance and recommendations for state and local law en


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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/us/in ... .html?_r=0

The F.B.I. Deemed Agents Faultless in 150 Shootings - The New York Times
The New York Times › 2013/06/19 › in-...
Jun 18, 2013 - “The F.B.I. takes very seriously any shooting incidents involving our agents, and as such we have an ...


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LAW
A Decade After Blowing The Whistle On The FBI, Vindication


http://www.npr.org/2015/04/15/398518857 ... vindicated



a few years later, Kobus noticed a problem — a small-time problem — that could have been fixed right away. He says a bureau supervisor in New York was allowing favorite employees to take time off for their birthdays, so the government had to pay more for other people at the agency to work overtime.

"You know, this is not our money. This is the taxpayers' money, and I want it to be correct," he says.

Kobus documented his concerns in an email. He says he hoped new managers would fix the problem. Instead, the new supervisors were furious with him.

"I was basically told, 'We're going to look at the person that initially did it, and we're going to look at you. And we may fire him or we may fire you,' " he says.

"I was basically told, 'We're going to look at the person that initially did it and we're going to look at you. And we may fire him or we may fire you.' "
Robert Kobus
Soon after that, they transferred him to an office in Lower Manhattan, where he sat, alone, among 130 empty desks.

"You know, sitting on a deserted floor, you are basically a pariah," Kobus says. "My true friends stayed with me — the one, two that I had. But everybody else, they would avoid me like the plague."

But the worst, Kobus says, is how his request for flextime was handled. Kobus wanted to leave work early to visit his mom in a nursing home, but the FBI sat on the paperwork for months.

The Justice Department eventually determined that the FBI had r


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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... protesters

UN Rep Slams US Police for Trampling Protesters' Rights
Recent police responses to protesters in Baton Rouge and other US cities violate international human rights law, the representative says

29, 2016 11:36 AM


Police arrest Leshia Evans at a protest over the police shooting death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge on July 9. Jonathan Bachman/Reuters
Amid renewed nationwide protests over police killings of black men, a representative from the United Nations toured the United States with a peculiar goal: to assess whether the exercise of freedom of assembly and association in the country conforms to international human rights law.

UN special reporter Maina Kiai concluded a 17-day tour on Tuesday, during which he met with protesters, law enforcement, and government officials in 10 cities—including Baton Rogue, Louisiana; Ferguson, Missouri; Baltimore; and New York City—and observed protests at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, as well as Black Lives Matter protests in other cities. A full UN report on Kiai's visit is due in June 2017, but Kiai posted his preliminary findings on his Facebook page on Wednesday. Many of them weren't pretty:

US police officers understand appropriate crowd management and de-escalation techniques, but chose not to use them, Kiai said. Black protesters face more aggressive responses from police than other groups, experience "more intimidation and more disrespect," and are detained longer and face more serious charges when arrested. Such treatment can discourage people from participating in protests—an illegal curtailment of their right to do so, Kiai said. He also compared the Baton Rouge Police Department's aggressive response earlier this month to protesters of Alton



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FBI & DOJ Practicing Partisanship in IRS Scandal?
Patriot Post-
Judicial Watch recently released documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act which exposed the fact that both the FBI and the Obama Justice ...



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another terrorist event
another FBI informant

http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2016/ ... erald-ford


Yesterday's Crimes: The SLA, FBI, and Assassination Attempts on Gerald Ford
Posted Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 8

Ford's second potential woman assassin in two weeks was just as strange as the first, if not even more so. Sara Jane Moore was a middle-aged mom with a son in private school. She was also an FBI informant with ties to the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), the group that kidnapped Patty Hearst, as well as the Hearst family itself.

Moore had even been questioned by SF police and Secret Service agents two days before the president's visit, and after she had told San Francisco police that she might try and "test" the president's security team. Police lieutenant and future mayor Frank Jordan confiscated a .44-caliber handgun from Moore, but federal agents deemed her “not of sufficient protective interest to warrant surveillance" and let her go. Nobody bothered to search her house.

Moore later told the Berkeley Barb that the gun she used to try and shoot Ford and the one that was confiscated were both purchased from a Danville gun collector as part of an ATF sting operation. Moore was first recruited as an FBI informant when she volunteered for People in Need, a food distribution program funded by the Hearst family to appease demands by the SLA.

Moore was sentenced to life in prison, and released on parole in 2007 at the


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Sneak Facial and Tattoo Recognition Into Canada
Written by JORDAN PEARSON

http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/ ... nto-canada



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FBI Monitored Holocaust Survivor Hedy Epstein's Activism
AlterNet-
The FBI just released its files on the Holocaust survivor and intrepid human rights activist Hedy Epstein, revealing that the agency was monitoring her activism to ...
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http://touch.latimes.com/#section/1129/ ... -88007905/

L.A. NOW
Aug. 1, 2016 83°

Deputies in San Francisco beating stole suspect's gold chain, took 'trophy' photo, lawsu




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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/nyreg ... .html?_r=0


Tap to I
NY FBI Employee Accused of Aiding China
Joey Chun had Top Secret clearance since 1998.
He sought payment for information that an undercover agent would "give" to China.
He faces four counts of providing false statements.
An electronics technician working in the FBI’s New York City office since 1997 has been charged with making false statements to the FBI regarding contacts with Chinese foreign nationals, prosecutors say.
Kun Shan Chun (also known as Joey Chun) is named in a four-count complaint issued in March and unsealed Monday in federal court in Manhattan. He pleaded guilty to the complaint, which charges him with four counts



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http://freebeacon.com/national-security ... on/Russian Government Initiative Gave Millions to Clinton Foundation
Washington Free Beacon-
The FBI and U.S. Army determined that Skolkovo had transformed into a “dangerous ... the assistant special agent at the FBI's Boston office, said in a statement.




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http://www.click2houston.com/news/fbi-o ... -civilians
FBI offers shooting scenario training to civilians
KPRC Houston-
The FBI Cleveland division gave a group of civilians the opportunity to go ... Special Agent Rick Florence trains agents to know when it's okay to shoot or not ...




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http://tucson.com/news/local/crime/fbi- ... 239b9.html
FBI agent arrested on indecency charges
May 26, 2007
A man identified by UA police as an FBI special agent is accused of masturbating in a women's restroom at the Student Union, an official said.

Ryan Seese, 33, was cited on suspicion of public sexual indecency, criminal trespassing and indecent exposure, said Sgt. Eugene Mejia, a University of Arizona Police Department spokesman.

According to Mejia, on May 3 a cleaning woman opened a bathroom stall to clean it and saw a man masturbating.


She then told her supervisor who notified police, Mejia said.

When officers went to the scene, Seese appeared and was caught after a short




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http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index. ... to_re.html


FBI agent doesn't have to register as sex offender for peeping Tom incidents in Hershey, elsewhere, court says

on July 11, 2014 at 1:55
A former FBI agent who admitted sneaking into bathrooms to watch girls and women use toilets doesn't have to register as a sex offender, the state Superior Court has ruled.

The decision, issued this week in response to a plea by Ryan Seese, comes nearly four years after the Derry Township man was sentenced to 1 to 23 months in Dauphin County Prison, plus 3 years of probation, for committing the crimes at the Hershey Middle School and a private gym.

In its ruling, the Superior Court concluded that Seese isn't subject to sex offender registration because of amendments the state Legislature made to the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, which took effect two years after his sentencing.

Seese pleaded guilty and no contest in 2010 to three charges of invasion of privacy and pleaded guilty to additional counts of criminal trespass and disorderly conduct. Police said two adult women were the victims in the incident in the women's locker room at the private gym and that Seese spied on two teens in a girl's bathroom during a concert at the middle school.

Seese left the FBI in 2007 after being convicted of another peeping Tom incident in a women's


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http://federalnewsradio.com/workforce-r ... listening/
whistleblowers, oversight community says ‘We’re listening”


August 1, 2016 6:29

To commemorate National Whistleblower Appreciation Day this year, the oversight community is trying to send a message to those who speak out against agency waste, fraud and abuse: “We hear you, and we value you.”

“For those of us who do oversight work, they are our eyes and ears,” Michael Horowitz, Justice Department inspector general and chairman of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, said during an Aug. 1 National Whistleblower Appreciation Day event on Capitol Hill.

July 30 marked the official date of this year’s appreciation day. The Senate has passed resolutions since 2012 encouraging agencies to recognize whistleblowers and the contributions they’ve made.

But this year, agencies are responding a little differently.


“This is the first time that we have seen folks in the Executive Branch make Whistleblower Appreciation Day this much of a priority in this way and recognize the contributions of whistleblowers,” said DeLisa Lay, counsel for Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). Grassley is a co-founder and chairman of the Senate Whistleblower Caucus.

2015 was a big year for the whistleblower community. The number of disclosures made to the Office of Special Counsel has more than doubled over the past six years, and the agency’s caseload has risen more than 50 percent, Carolyn Lerner, OSC Special Counsel, said. About 175 employees whose agencies retaliated against them received help from OSC in 2015.

“We see these increasing numbers in a very positive light,” Lerner said. “It shows that whistleblowers are more confident in OSC. We think that they know that now if they come forward, they will be protected from retaliation.”

In general, more employees are beginning to reach out to their agencies with examples of wrongdoing, the oversight community said. The Justice Department’s inspector general hotline receives more than 10,000 calls every year, Horowitz said.

“We’re usually not the first stop,” he said. “They come to us because their own organization doesn’t listen, isn’t willing to listen, or sloughs them off as troublemakers or not sufficiently with the program. And that’s wrong.”

Horowitz said his DoJ office is meeting with members of the House and Senate whistleblower caucuses, as well as components within the department, to educate employees, contractors and grant recipients about whistleblower issues and to “demonstrate the importance of a culture that is inclusive and allows people to be heard.”

As the number of complaints continues to grow, DoJ is in the process of officially reminding employees and contractors of their rights to speak to the IG, Horowitz said.

The DoJ OIG is also training FBI employees on whistleblower protections and guidelines. The training program began last summer, but the agency recently expanded it and made the program mandatory for all FBI employees. Few educational programs are mandatory for the FBI workforce, DoJ said, because the bureau’s employees can often test out of some training classes.

“Show them the importance of whistleblowing,” FBI Director James Comey said. “Show them the regulations. Show them the laws, the rules that forbid retaliation. Show them the structure that is designed to encourage people to raise




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http://www.kplu.org/post/hacking-electi ... ight-think
Hacking An Election: Why It's Not As Far-Fetched As You Might Think
KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest-
In June, Arizona took its voter registration system off-line after the FBI warned it too might have been hacked, although no evidence of that was found. And in May ...



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http://www.thelandesreport.com/donsanto.htm



FBI agents caught hacking election in Cincinnati

Why won't the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate electronic vote fraud?
Is it because the DOJ and FBI have long been involved in it, themselves? 

Meet Craig C. Donsanto, head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Election Crimes Branch, Public Integrity Section (from 1970-present). 



READ:

PROSECUTION OF ELECTION OFFENSES (see: DOJ/DonsantoElectionManuel.pdf)  January 1999, Sixth Edition, by Craig C. Donsanto, Director, U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Public Integrity Section -- This manual is a study in how NOT to investigate election crimes. There is little mention of voting machines or the threat they pose to the process. Check out page 62 and see democracy.ru article (at bottom of this page) that tipped this editor off as to the existence of the manual, and is a good summary of the manuel --Excerpt: "Since the voting process is at bottom primarily a state-regulated activity, federal authorities should not interfere with it. This means that until the votes have been canvassed and the outcome of all the election contests on the ballot certified by the competent state authority, the documentation generated by the election process must remain in state hands. Also, while this may not be possible in all situations, it is preferable that the predication of federal voter fraud investigations above «preliminaries» await the conclusion of the election and the certification of results. Again, close consultation with Public Integrity is encouraged."  (In other words, after the fox has left the henhouse, Donsanto allows his agents to investigate.)
A FEDERAL OBSERVER REPORT (See: FederalObserverReport.pdf)  Once again, this report is a study in how NOT to effectively observe the election process.  No meaningful information is collected as a result of federal observers filling out these reports.
The Cincinnati Bell-FBI scandal:  Leonard Gates, a Cincinnati Bell employee for 23 years, testified that in the late 1970's and 80's, the FBI assisted telephone companies with hacking into mainframe election computers in cities across the country. He spoke with agents from both the DOJ (U.S. Attorney Kathleen M. Brinkman) and FBI (Agent Love), but to his knowledge, neither agency took further action.  Leonard Gates 1987Deposition, plus 1985 Background Material from Jim Condit, Jr. //Pandora's Black Box & http://www.votefraud.org/expert_strunk_report.htm (contains case number) 

Gates testified, P. 28, "He (Gates's supervisor, Mr. Jim West,) said the programming was obtained out of California, and that the programming had been obtained through the FBI, and all this kind of stuff, and that was about it." 
Page 34 excerpt: "And I knew that we did do certain things under certain court direction, under certain court orders, and I just didn't see where they would have a court order to get into that, and I expressed my concern to Mr. Dugan (President of Cincinnati Bell).  Mr. Dugan said it was a very gray area, and that they were into like New York and Atlanta, Georgia, and to the other computers, you know.  This was just small compared to what was going on."
Page 39, "...and I said, "Well, do you (Mr.Fedrich, vice president of Cincinnati Bell) have a blanket court order on this or what?"  And he kind of weasel-worded me, to be honest with you.  He said "Well, our relationship with the FBI is very, very close."
Excerpt from Nov 1996, Pandora's Black Box by Philip M. O’Halloran of Relevance, The Cincinnati Election Wiretapping Scandal:

Lewis and other skeptics of the vote-fixing scenario like to insist that there has never been any evidence of a "conspiracy" to fix elections by computer. But then, most of those we interviewed on both sides of the issue had never heard of the case of Leonard Gates of Cincinnati, Ohio. An employee of the Cincinnati Bell telephone company, Gates was watching a local t.v. news story, in which a Cincinnati man named Jim Condit was charging that the election system was vulnerable to vote fraud in the Hamilton county election process.

He based his charges on his experience as a candidate for city council in 1979, when, after an election night computer crash, Condit and seven other "feisty challengers" had suddenly "fallen to the very bottom of the heap" of 26 candidates. Gates called the station and later contacted Mr. Condit, telling him he knew firsthand how his votes were robbed. They met and shared information and ultimately Gates testified in Condit’s Cincinnatus PAC (political action committee) lawsuit against the Hamilton County Board of Elections.

The suit had earlier been decided against the plaintiffs and Gates took the stand during the appeal. He swore under oath that he was ordered by his Cincinnati Bell superiors to wiretap the election headquarters’ phones lines to provide a link-up between the county’s vote-counting computers and parties unknown on another phone line somewhere in California.

The following are excerpts from the Cincinnati Post of October, 30th, 1987:

Cincinnati Bell security supervisors ordered wire-taps installed on county computers before elections in the late 1970s and early 1980s that could have allowed vote totals to be altered, a former Bell employee says in a sworn court document.

Leonard Gates, a 23-year Cincinnati Bell employee until he was fired in 1986, claims in a deposition filed Thursday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court to have installed the wire-taps. Cincinnati Bell officials denied Gates’ allegations that are part of a six-year-old civil suit that contends the elections computer is subject o manipulation and fraud.

Gates claims a security supervisor for the telephone company told him in 1979 that the firm had obtained a computer program through the FBI that gave it access to the county computer used to count votes. [Emphasis added].

The FBI refused comment and Cincinnati Bell spokesmen vehemently denied the allegations, claiming Gates was a "disgruntled ex-employee", yet, according to Condit, the company ultimately admitted that one of its vans was involved in the wiretapping, although it claimed they were commandeered without the company’s knowledge. The Post continued:

In the deposition, Gates claims he first installed a wire-tap on a telephone line to the county computers before the 1977 election at the instruction of James West, a Bell security supervisor.

Gates contends both West and Peter Gabor, security director, told him to install wire-taps in subsequent elections. Both men declined comment Thursday.

In the 1979 election, which is the focus of the deposition – Gates said he received instructions in the mail from West about installing wire-taps on county computers in the County Administration Building at Court and Main streets.

The wire-taps were installed on the eve of the election at Cincinnati Bell’s switching control center at Seventh and Elm Streets and terminated in a conference room in the building, Gates alleges.

In the deposition, Gates described in great technical detail installation of the wire-taps.

At about 8:30 p.m. on election day – Nov. 6, 1979 – Gates said he was called by West and told something had gone wrong, causing the elections computer to malfunction. At West’s instructions, Gates said he removed the taps.

The elections computer shutdown for two hours on election evening due to what was believed to be a power failure, Condit Sr. has said.

Gates said West told him they "had the ability to actually alter what was being done with the votes."

Gates said West told him the Board of elections did not know about the taps and that the computer program for the elections computer "was obtained out of California, and that the programming had been obtained through the FBI..."

Shortly after the 1979 election, Gates said he met with the late Richard Dugan, former Cincinnati Bell president, to express his concerns that the wire-



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FBI/Bell Wiretapping Network?
4/2/89Robert Horvitz
rh:  The following article (slightly abridged) appears in the
April 1st edition of the "W5YI Report," a radio-electronics
newsletter for ham radio operators ($23/year for 24 issues to US
addresses from:  The W5YI Report, P.O. Box 565101, Dallas, Texas
75356-5101).  This was NOT an April Fool's issue:
=========================
Bob Draise/WB8QCF was an employee of Cincinnati Bell Telephone
between 1966 and 1979.  He, and others, are involved in a
wiretapping scandal of monumental proportions.  They say they
have installed more than 1,000 wiretaps on the phones of judges,
law enforcement officers, lawyers, television personalities,
newspaper columnists, labor unions, defense contractors, major
corporations (such as Proctor & Gamble and General Electric),
politicians (even ex-President Gerald Ford) at the request of
Cincinnati police and Cincinnati Bell security supervisors who
said the taps were for the police.  They were told that many of
the taps were for the FBI.
Another [radio] amateur, Vincent Clark/KB4MIT, a technician for
South-Central Bell from 1972 to 1981, said he placed illegal
wiretaps similar to those done by Bob Draise on orders from his
supervisors - and on request from local policemen in Louisville,
Kentucky...

I asked Bob how he got started in the illegal wiretap business.
He said a friend called and asked him to come down to meet with
the Cincinnati police.  An intelligence sergeant asked Bob about
wiretapping some Black Muslims.  He also told Bob that Cincinnati
Bell security had approved the wiretap - and that it was for the
FBI.  The sergeant pointed to his Masonic ring which Bob also
wore - in other words, he was telling the truth under the Masonic
oath - something that Bob put a lot of stock in.

Most of the people first wiretapped were drug or criminal
related.  Later on, however, it go out of hand - and the FBI
wanted taps on prominent citizens.  "We started doing people who
had money.  How this information was used, I couldn't tell you."

The January 29th "Newsday" said Draise had told investigators
that among the taps he rigged from 1972 to 1979 were several on
lines used by Wren Business Communications, a Bell competitor.
It seems that when Wren had arranged an appointment with a
potential customer, they found that Bell had just been there
without being called.  Wren's president is a ham [radio
operator], David Stoner/K8LMB.  I telephoned Dave...

"As far as I am concerned, the initial focus for all of this
began with the FBI.  The FBI apparently set up a structure
throughout the United States using apparently the security chiefs
of the different Bell companies...  They say that there have been
other cases in the United States like ours in Cincinnati but they
have been localized without the realization of an overall pattern
being implicated."

"The things that ties this all together is if you go way back in
history to the Hoover period at the FBI, he apparently got
together with the AT&T security people.  There is an organization
that I guess exists to this day with regular meetings of the
security people of the different Bell companies.  This meant that
the FBI would be able to target a group of 20 or 30 people that
represented the security points for all of the Bell and AT&T
connections in the United States.  I believe the key to all of
this goes back to Hoover.  The FBI worked through that group who
then created the activity at the local level as a result of
central planning."

"I believe that in spite of the fact that many people have
indicated that this is an early 70's problem - that there is no
disruption to that work to this day.  I am pretty much convinced
that it is continuing... It looks like a large surveillance
effort that Cincinnati was just a part of."

"The federal prosecutor Kathleen Brinkman is in a no-win
situation...  If she successfully prosecutes this case she is
going to bring trouble down upon her own Justice Department.  She
can't successfully prosecute the case."

About $200 million in lawsuits have already been filed against
Cincinnati Bell and the Police Department.  Several members of
the police department have taken the Fifth Amendment before the
grand jury rather than answer questions about their roles in the
wiretapping scheme.

Bob Draise/WB8QCF has filed a suit against Cincinnati Bell for
$78 for malicious prosecution and slander in response to a suit
filed by Cincinnati Bell against Bob for defamation...  Right
after they filed the suit, several policemen came forward and
admitted to doing illegal wireptaps with them.  The Cincinnati
police said they stopped this is 1974 - although another
policeman reportedly said they actually stopped the wiretapping
in 1986.

Now the CBS-TV program "60 Minutes" is interested in the
Cincinnati goings-on and has sent in a team of investigative
reporters.  Ed Bradley from "60 Minutes" has already interviewed
Bob Draise/WB8QCF and it is expected that sometime during April,
you will see a "60 Minutes" report on spying by the FBI.  We also
understand that CNN, Ted Turner's Cable News Network, is also
working up a "Bugging of America" expose.


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http://harveyandlee.net/Landesberg/Landesbergs.html

The Story of Two "Steven Landesbergs"


In the 1960s there were two young men living in and around Greenwich Village (in New York City) named “Steve Landesberg.” Although they were similar in age and appearance, there were distinct differences between them. One boy, Stephen Harris Landesberg (the student), was from Queens. He was quiet, introverted, kept to himself, a bookworm, and an honor student. He had dark brown hair, brown eyes, a life-long speech impediment, stuttered profusely when excited, never wore glasses, and never had nor improvised his speech by using a southern accent. The other boy, Stephen Richard Landesberg (a future actor), from the Bronx, was outgoing, likable and gregarious. He had reddish brown hair, occasionally wore rimless eyeglasses, enjoyed being around people, had no speech impediment, and acquired a Southern accent that he could use or not use at will. In late 1961 and early 1962 Stephen Richard Landesberg (the future actor) became entangled in activities involving the harassment of liberal Jewish, and minority-oriented political groups that were active in and around the Village. During this time he befriended and became involved with American-born Lee Oswald, while at the same time Harvey Oswald and Marina were living in Russia. In the 1970s Stephen Richard Landesberg gained notoriety as an actor on the TV show, Barney Miller. The actor's relationship with Oswald motivated a number of JFK researchers, including author Carleton W. Sterling, Professor Stan Weeber (UNT, Denton, TX), attorney Carol Hewitt, author/researcher Joachim Joesten, and myself to investigate the two "Steve Landesbergs." (To read Mr. Sterling's article, CLICK HERE; to read Prof. Weeber's essay, CLICK HERE; to read a few pages from Joachim Joesten's book CLICK HERE).
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According to a NY Times article, the Obama administration wants DHS to run our electronic ballot casting system. DHS wants to classify our election process as “critical infrastructure.”

Do you really believe, we can trust DHS with our voting system? DHS/TSA have been accused of corruption nearly, since there inception. Click here, here, here & here to see recent examples of DHS corruption.

If you thought George Bush winning Florida’s votes was a disaster, just wait until DHS takes over voting.

DHS decides what should be designated as “critical infrastructure”

“We should carefully consider whether our election system, our election process is critical infrastructure, like the financial sector, like the power grid,” DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson told reporters. “There’s a vital national interest in our electoral process.”

According to USA Today article, DHS’s secretary plays a central role in deciding what public and private sectors should receive the “critical infrastructure”designation.

Critical infrastructure is defined by DHS as “sectors whose assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, are considered so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety.”….”

http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2016/0 ... oting.html via blacklisted news

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How a Goldman Sachs executive allegedly stole government data to woo clients

Washington Post

GOLDMAN FINED 0.1% OF REVENUE FOR “CRIMINAL THEFT” OF CONFIDENTIAL FED INFORMATION

Last October, we reported that “Wall Street Was Shocked As Feds Bring Criminal Case Against Goldman Banker Over Fed Leaks.” Briefly, because as we also reported several months later, nobody actually ended up going to prison for the infamous story of Goldman Sachs obtaining classified NY Fed documents as a result of the revolving, ended up with two workers getting slaps on the wrist….

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Much is made of naked photos of Mrs. Trump; all should be disclosed. We should be made to see naked photos of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and Michelle Obama, all unretouched, as certified by someone as qualified as the late Jack D. White.

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Presenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictions and errors contained in previous depictions of the “All-American Terrorist,” this book traces McVeigh’s life from childhood to the Army, throughout the plot to bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and the period after his 1995 arrest until his 2001 execution. McVeigh’s life, as author Wendy Painting describes it, offers a backdrop for her discussion of not only several intimate and previously unknown details about him, but a number of episodes and circumstances in American History as well, including Cold War popular culture, all-American apocalyptic fervor, organized racism, contentious politics, militarism, warfare, conspiracy theories, bioethical controversies, mind control, the media’s construction of villains and demons, and institutional secrecy and cover-ups. All these stories are examined, compared, and tested in Aberration in the Heartland of the Real, making this book a much closer examination into the personality and life of Timothy McVeigh than has been provided by any other biographical work about him.

Wendy S. Painting, PhD, is a professor of U.S. history at Empire State College and works as a freelance investigative researcher. Her extensive and seminal investigatory research into the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and Timothy McVeigh distinguishes her as a leading national expert on both subjects. She coauthored and coproduced the 2011 documentary film, A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995. She lives in Rochester, New York.

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BILL CLINTON GOT MILLIONS FROM WORLD’S BIGGEST SHARIA LAW EDUCATION FIRM

Former President Bill Clinton collected $5.6 million in fees from GEMS Education, a Dubai-based company that teaches Sharia Law through its network of more than 100 schools in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation. The company’s finances strictly adhere to “Sharia Finance,” which includes giving “zakat,” a religious tax of which one-eighth of the proceeds is dedicated to funding Islamic jihad.

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http://ticklethewire.com/2016/08/11/fbi ... -evidence/

The FBI is hoping to find a cell phone app hat allows undercover agents and informants to secretly record audio and video that would be streamed back to government servers.

FedScoop.com reports the app will be used for “covert, evidentiary audio collection from smartphones” and will be streamed in courtroom-ready format.

“The basic capability will be audio, but GPS location information is also desired and eventually video capability,” reads a request for information’s draft techni



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http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/ar ... -87991338/

Aspiring agents do not learn from mistakes of FBI's 'shameful' assassination of
Martin Luther King

August 10 2016

Dressed in plainclothes to blend in with tourists at the National Mall, a few dozen FBI agents in training fanned out across the Martin Luther ...












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http://thefreethoughtproject.com/fbi-me ... ation-mlk/
Assassination of MLK
The FBI and Memphis Police Admit Their Involvement in the Assassination of MLK
Andrew Emett January 18, 2016




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COURTS & CRIME
AUGUST 9, 2016 5:08 PM
FBI whistleblower who made sex claims against colleagues headed back to court

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/crime/a ... 47467.html

A former Sacramento-based FBI special agent who turned whistleblower and successfully challenged his subsequent firing now must take his case to court again.
In at least a temporary reversal of fortune for ex-agent John C. Parkinson, the Justice Department this week persuaded a full federal appeals court to reconsider an earlier decision that the FBI wrongly fired the Iraq War veteran.
The move marks the latest turn for Parkinson, a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel who served in the FBI’s Sacramento office for about 10 years, beginning in 1999. It’s also relatively uncommon for the appeals court itself, which rarely convenes all 12 of its active judges to review a smaller panel’s decision.
“We believe the original . . . panel decision was correct,” attorney Jesselyn A. Radack said Tuesday, adding that “Lt. Col. Parkinson has been phenomenally patient since blowing the whistle eight years ago on FBI pilots misusing government aircraft to solicit prostitutes, and he remains confident justice will ultimately prevail.”


Radack is national security and human rights director for the Whistleblower & Source Protection Program at ExposeFacts, a whistleblower advocacy group. Along with fellow attorney Kathleen M. McClellan, she has been representing Parkinson.

The appeals court ordered a rehearing Monday.
Parkinson’s original whistleblower allegations were incendiary, charging two fellow agents with sexual improprieties. In one 2008 whistleblowing letter, Parkinson alleged that a Sacramento-based colleague had a “career-long pattern of soliciting sex with prostitutes.” This agent, Parkinson alleged, “utilized the FBI’s plane to fly at night to Reno, Nevada, for the sole purpose of engaging prostitutes in acts of illicit sex.”
Another Sacramento-based colleague, Parkinson alleged, had a “history of viewing Internet pornography” during work hours.
“Mr. Parkinson was concerned that (the two colleagues) would defile the furniture by engaging in sexual activity and masturbating on it and watching pornography on the television,” his attorneys recounted in a filing with



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Judge orders black man man free after 28 years, cites unfair trial
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FBI, mental health facility blamed for ignoring Scott killer's warning ...
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Potter said Jones had sought help from Peninsula Hospital and the FBI. Clinical ... Bureau of Investigation Agent Jerry Spoon, but no one would meet with him.



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COPS & COURTS Posted August 10 Updated August 11 2016
Lincoln County deputy indicted on 22 counts related to sexual abuse of minors
Kenneth L. Hatch, a 17-year veteran of the department and the 2015 deputy of the year, is accused of abusing three girls and furnishing one of them marijuana.
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Police Shoot Department Store Mannequin 67 Times After Mistaking it for Gunman
August 15 2016

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SCRANTON, Pa. – While responding to a call about a suspicious person in the vicinity of Viewmont Mall early Sunday morning, Scranton police opened fire on a discarded department store mannequin which they initially believed was a man armed with a handgun.

The mishap began shortly after 12:15 a.m. on Sunday morning when police received a call about a possible homeless man lurking in the alley behind the Macy’s department store on Viewmont Drive. Officers arrived on the scene to find what they believed was a muscular African-American m







Heat is Online



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Powerful Cyclone to Blow Hole in Thinning Arctic Sea Ice
Back in 2012, a powerful Arctic cyclone smashed the sea ice with days of wind and powerful waves. This year, a storm that’s nearly as powerful threatens to make a similar mark on late-season melt. With a very unstable Arctic weather pattern in play, there’s an outlier possibility the dynamic is setting up for something even more dramatic by late August.

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Earlier today, a strong gale roared up out of the Laptev Sea north of central Siberia. Feeding on the abnormally warm, moist air over the Barents Sea and the hot air over northwestern Siberia, the storm collided with comparatively cold air over the central Arctic. The differences between hot/cold and damp/dry air can really bomb out a storm system.



(Storms, heat and moisture feed up through a high-amplitude wave in the Jet Stream over northern Europe and Siberia and into a developing Arctic cyclone over the Laptev Sea during the early hours of August 15, 2016. Image source: LANCE MODIS.)

Central pressures in the storm fell to 969 millibars and the winds whipping out over the Laptev, East Siberian, and central Arctic waters gusted at 45 to 55 miles per hour. Waves of 6 to 10 feet or higher roared through the newly-opened waters filled with increasingly dispersed ice floes.

The Great Arctic Cyclone of 2016?

This powerful storm is pulling these strong winds over some of the weakest and thinnest sections of Arctic sea ice. During July and August a huge section of ice running along the 80° North Latitude line and stretching from the Laptev, through the East Siberian Sea, and into the Beaufort Sea grew ever more thin and eventually dispersed. Now 25 to 60 percent ice concentrations in this region abound — a tongue of thinning which stretches nearly to the North Pole itself.



(A powerful storm running out of the Laptev Sea and into the central Arctic is threatening sea ice with strong winds, large waves, and the motion of abnormally warm surface waters. Image source: Earth Nullschool.)

The storm is generating waves, mixing warmer-than-normal surface waters with even higher temperature waters just below. These sea surfaces are between 1 and 2 degrees Celsius above average over much of the area, with pockets of 3 or even 4 C above normal surface water temperatures interspersed. The storm’s Coriolis Effect will spin chunks of ice out from the pack to float lonely in these warmer-than-normal waters as they are churned by the raging swells.

Storm Raging Over Warm Waters, Thin Ice

Currently, the storm’s strongest winds and waves are running through a big melt wedge that extends from the Laptev and East Siberian Seas toward the 85th parallel. The motion and force produced by the storm’s winds and waves will eject the ice currently located over the northern East Siberian and Chukchi Seas even as waves eat into it. Upwelling of warm water in the seas beneath the center of the storm will open and disperse the ice, generating holes and polynya as it tracks north of the 85th parallel and toward the Pole.



(Very low concentrations of ice, like those seen in this Uni Bremen image, are vulnerable to disruption and melting by storms during August and early September. Current ice thinning and dispersal are among the worst seen for any year. With a powerful storm now raging over the ice, impacts to end-season totals could be significant. Image source: Universität Bremen.)

Compared to the Great Arctic Cyclone (GAC) of 2012 — an event that helped to tip th

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AUGUST 14, 2016 | WHOWHATWHY STAFF
RUSS BAKER ON THE SAUDI-9/11 COVERUP

Photo credit: Adapted by WhoWhatWhy from White House / HistoryCommons.org (CC BY-NC-SA 1.0)
Some people view the release of the infamous “28 Pages” on the involvement of Saudi Arabia in the attacks of September 11, 2001 as the end of a process. But WhoWhatWhy’s Editor-in-Chief Russ Baker points out that the new section raises more questions than it answers.

Watch Russ discuss the 28 Pages and shed light on what they do not reveal.

 

 

Full Text Transcript:

These days the conspiracy theory factories, large and self-sustaining for those of us that like to question beyond the mainstream media spoon-fed narrative, this is a good thing. Of course, certain of those among us will get stuck over in the deep end of the conspiracy whirlpool, but that doesn’t rob those of us with more sober minds of our legitimate concerns and doubts, take 9-11 for example. Conspiracies from all ends of the spectrum surround the events of 9-11, but you don’t have to think that the whole event was set up by the Bush Administration to know that something fishy was going on in the back halls of power. Why is that? Well, take for example the recently released 28 pages; redacted until just this year and now available to the public. Among other things, the 28 pages seem to suggest suspicious Saudi royal family links with some of the hijackers. Recently Sean Stone sat down with the founder of whowhatwhy.org, an expert on 9-11: Russ Baker. Sean first asked him if the CIA was also on the trail of the hijackers and how the 28 pages relates to that agency’s operations back in the early 2000s. Let’s take a listen.

Russ Baker: My sense after years of following this story and after our site Whowhatwhy, breaking another piece of it about the Sarasota, Florida connection again to the Saudi royal family with the hijackers, I think there are layers and layers and layers of this thing. It’s very, very complicated and I do think that there is a larger game in play that will explain why the US government is so determined that we not understand the full scope of what took place.

Interviewer: Absolutely. But let’s start with what has been divulged from the 28 pages. Obviously it focuses only on the San Diego side and San Diego cell of the hijackers, doesn’t get into Florida and other locations, but what do we now know that we did not know before those 28 pages were declassified?

Russ Baker: Well, some of this had already been out a bit. What’s interesting, I mean here’s the basic background, if I may quickly sketch it. You had a Congressional Inquiry following the 9-11 attacks. You also had the so called Official 9-11 Inquiry. The Congressional Inquiry is the one we’re talking about. They produced a report, about 28 pages of that report were entirely redacted, and those pages dealt with information that the panel saw relating to connections between the Saudi royal family and the hijackers via some individuals, two in particular who you mentioned who are Bayoumi and Basnan, who appeared to have been some kind of Saudi intelligence officers, so that’s that report


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His name is Khan and He’s Probably on a List. Good Luck Getting Off It
BY SEEMA SIROHI ON 14/08/2016 •




Cash at Airports, But Rarely Makes Arrests



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The DEA has seized more than $203 million in cash at 15 major airports as part of an effort to stop narcotics traffickers between 2005 and mid-2015.

But the USA Today found that the DEA rarely uses information to make arrests or build criminal cases.

In most cases, the DEA seized the money and gave the suspected drug couriers a receipt for cash without filing charges. At times, more than $50,000 has been confiscated.

Trouble is, it’s difficult for travelers to get their money back



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NYC Crime Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Education Weather Obituaries
Retired NYPD detective shoots two sons then kills himself
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Officials defend trooper who pulled gun on man, 7-year-old girl
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, August 15, 2016, 2:47 PM



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FBI Vet Stephanie Douglas Joins Guidepost Solutions as Managing Director
Jay Clemens August 16, 2016 Executive Moves, News 607 Views

Stephanie Douglas, a 23-year veteran of the FBI, has joined Guidepost Solutions as a managing director in the investigations and risk management firm’s San Francisco office.

Douglas will work to help conduct investigations, corporate security, intellectual property protection and insider threat management for customers, Guidepost Solutions said Monday.

Guidepost CEO Julie Myers Wood said Douglas will help the company provide strategic services to clients in order to address security and investigative issues.

She joined public utility Pacific Gas & Electric as senior director after her retirement from the FBI, where her roles encompassed functions such as security risk mitigation and issue response.

Her most recent role at the FBI was executive assistant director for the national security branch, with responsibility for the bureau’s efforts in domestic and international counterterrorism, counterintelligence, weapons of mass destruction and intelligence matters.

Douglas started with the bureau as a special agent and later moved into the roles of supervisory special agent, inspector, deputy assistant director and special agent in charge of the San Fr

Couter-terrorism: FBI to assist military
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They (FBI) operatives are to offer technical assistance to the Federal Government to deal with terrorism. Acting Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Nigeria,




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Spending Millions To Fund ‘The Inspectors’; Kids Show Airs On CBS
David RobbAugust 15, 2016

The U.S. government has spent $5.4 million during the past two years to finance a children’s television show about postal inspectors – and it could spend millions more over the next two years. Currently filming its second season in Charleston, SC, CBS’ The Inspectors is the only show on commercial television that’s paid for by a governmental agency.

The show, which is part of the network’s three-hour block of Saturday morning kids programming, features actors in the roles of fictional crime-fighting postal inspectors. Inspired by real-life cases of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, each episode concludes with a crime-prevention message from the real-life chief inspector of the USPIS, Guy Cottrell.

The show is produced by Litton Entertainment, which in recent years has come to dominate children’s television programming. It produces three-hour blocks of “educational and informational” shows for CBS and ABC; a five-hour block for The CW; and, beginning in October, another three-hour block for NBC.

Responding to a Freedom of Information Act request, the USPIS told Deadline: “In reference to your request for how much money the USPIS has spent on the The Inspectors in direct financing, you are informed that the United States Postal Service has contracted with Litton Syndications Inc. to develop, write, produce, and air a consumer awareness and crime prevention 30-minute campaign titled, The Inspectors. The contract was awarded for $5.4 million and the period of performance is 9/15/2014 to 9/14/2016, with potential to extend the contract for an additional two one-year option periods.”

Internal FBI memos show that J. Edgar Hoover got a hold of a popular TV show in the 1960s and ran it with dictatorial authority for nine seasons. The show was The FBI, starring Efren Zimbalist Jr., and FBI documents reveal that he controlled every aspect of its production: approving the cast and crew, writers, directors and every word in every script. Anyone with a criminal background was banned from working on the show, as was anyone suspected of being a “pervert” or of being remotely connected to the “worldwide Communist conspiracy.” Hoover even controlled who could advertise on the show.


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D.C. Government to Absolve Hillary Clinton of $26,950 in Unpaid Parking Tickets
WASHINGTON, D.C. – At the request of Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the District of Columbia has agreed to waive nearly $27,000 worth of unpaid parking tickets and citations issued to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton during her time as Secretary of State.

According to the D.C. Department of Public Works, which oversees parking enforcement in the nation’s capital, Clinton, who served under Obama as Secretary of State from 2009 until 2013, routinely parked illegally, “often in front of fire hydrants or in spaces specifically designated for disabled veterans or handicapped individuals.” Due to her position at





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Hacker claims to be selling stolen NSA spy tools
stjoechannel.com


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The FBI declined to say whether it's investigating the potential theft of sensitive information. The office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees the 



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City councilwoman in NYPD ticket-squashing scandal will stay put

Tuesday, August 16, 2016,







Melissa Mark-Viverito defends choice to block vote on police reform bill


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Tuesday, August 16, 2016, 3:00 PM


City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito recently came under fire for blocking a vote on a pair of controversial police reform bills called the Right to Know Act. (COREY SIPKIN/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
It would not be “responsible” to allow a bill to pass because a majority of legislators support it, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito said Tuesday.

“That's not the way it works,” Mark-Viverito said when asked why legislation supported by a majority of members should not become law.

“Not every single bill that has 35, 40 sponsors automatically becomes law,” she said. “That is not a responsible way of legislating or govern





FBI Agent Michael German Taught Hollywood How to Get Counterterrorism Right
MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2016 AT 12 P.M.


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Michael German went undercover with white supremacists for a year and with right-wing militants for another eight months and now he wants to set some things straight.


“One of the things I learned working undercover is that the studies that the FBI or even academia had on these groups were very different from what I was seeing in front of me,” German says.

His book Thinking Like a Terrorist: Insights of a Former FBI Undercover Agent swiped at the powers that be, who didn’t want to hear that their approach to counterter



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Bronx cop stripped of gun and badge for social media rant
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NEWSCOURTS
Former female agent sues FBI claiming sexual harassment, discrimination
FBI agents were loafing on the job or not coming to work, lawsuit says

Denver Post file Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey gestures while speaking during a press conference at the conclusion of a visit to the Denver FBI Field Office on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 in Denver, Colorado.
BAugust 19, 2016 at 8:20 am
Inappropriate sexual remarks became so commonplace within the FBI ranks of a special drug task force that male agents would often joke about how many zeroes would be on a lawsuit after particularly rancid remarks.

Danielle Marks identified FBI Director James Comey as a defendant in the federal civil lawsuit filed Thursday on her behalf by Denver attorneys Charlotte Sweeney and Kaitlyn Wright.

Marks is asking to be reinstated as an FBI agent, and seeking back pay, compensatory damages and attorneys fees in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Denver.


Marks became a FBI agent in 2010 and worked as a drug and gang officer in Baltimore, where she received “successful,” and “excellent” marks. She transferred to Denver in 2013, where she joined the MGTF, which is made up of Denver and Aurora police officers and federal agents.

Marks said she notified supervisors as early as September of 2013 that fellow male agents refused to assist her with surveillance on her case even though it was the only open case in the office, the lawsuit says. She named three agents who “behaved inappropriately and made repeated sexual comments around Ms. Marks and other female employees.”

On 20 occasions, the agents failed to attend their surveillance shifts for her wiretap case. The only explanation she would receive is that they were “unavailable.” Agents would ask female agents to expose their breasts or allow them to perform sex acts on them, the lawsuit says.

In fact, the only FBI agents on the task force who had active cases were Marks and two other female agents. The male agents explained they were working a case that had closed in 2013. The male agents failed to come to work on days they were scheduled to work, the lawsuit says.

Although her supervisor assured Marks that he would speak with the three FBI agents about the harassment and failure to work with her, but the agents’ behavior only got worse. They often made derogatory remarks about female FBI agents, including that they shouldn’t be in the FBI. Once, a FBI agent on the unit said he hoped another female agent would quit and “stay home in the kitchen.”

The agents would make lewd jokes about how one of the male agents was having an affair with a female prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s office.

Meantime, a supervisory agent was having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a female FBI agent, including openly sharing a hotel room during a work conference, the lawsuit says. The supervisor helped the woman get a position as secretary to Special Agent in Charge Thomas Ravanelle, who oversaw the Denver office and recently was transferred to the inspection division at the agency’s headquarters.

Agents would make sexually inappropriate remarks, look at Marks and the other female agent in the unit and say, “I wonder how many zeroes will be at the end of that lawsuit check.” It became so common that they would make a sexual comment and say, “Uh oh, add another zero.”

Marks was routinely ex


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FBI academy offers students insight into agency
Visalia Times-Delta

. “The FBI Teen Academy enables students to better understand our investigative role in the communities ..








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FBI Agent Art Gonzales’ Girlfriend Marries Other Agent After Shooting
by 2Paragraphs in Culture | August 19, 2016

FBI Agent Arthur “Art” Gonzales shot his estranged wife Julie Gonzales, 42, in his Strafford, Virginia home in 2013. They were going through a divorce. After an argument, Gonzales says his wife came at him with a knife and in self-defense he shot her four times in the chest. During the police investigation, it was discovered that Gonzales was having a sexual relationship with a fellow FBI employee, a young woman named Cara Kast. One day prior to the shooting, Art Gonzales found provocative photos of Kast with another FBI agent based in Indianapolis. Gonzales’ supervisor, Doug Merel, insists the shooting of Julie Gonzales had nothing to do with Art's obsession with Cara Kast and everything to do with the knife Art says



August 18, 2016
Cadre of Special Agent Candidates Gather in D.C
Recruiting Event Supports FBI Commitment to a Diverse Workforce 


Candidates line up at a recruiting event in Washington, D.C. for qualified special agent candidates of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds.

“I want to ensure diversity is a part of the DNA of the FBI...until it becomes who we are.”

So said FBI Director James B. Comey earlier this week at a Bureau-sponsored gathering in Washington, D.C. for qualified special agent candidates of varied racial and ethnic backgrounds. During the Diversity Agent Recruitment event for aspiring agents, Comey told participants that diversity is a priority within the Bureau because a diverse workforce is a strong workforce.



The August 17 information session was designed for highly qualified, diverse applicants from the Washington, D.C. metro area, but drew hundreds of applicants from around the country as well. Participants learned firsthand about the skills and competencies required to become agents. They also had the opportunity to speak with current FBI agents who shared their own on-the-job experiences.

In addition to Comey and other FBI personnel, the event featured a keynote speech from retired former FBI Executive Director Mike Mason, who encouraged applicants to see past any possible mistrust or misgivings about joining law enforcement and follow their passion to serve. “Never give up,” Mason said. “Be the person you know you are.”

This week’s event was one component of the FBI’s overall commitment to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workforce in order to connect with the communities we serve. More informational sessions and outreach events are planned for cities and college campuses throughout the country.

“I want to ensure diversity is a part of the DNA of the FBI."





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The body of Kendrick Johnson was found upside down in a vertically-stored gym mat at Lowndes High School in January 2013. A state autopsy ruled the 17-year-old’s death accidental. The Johnson family insists their son died of foul play.

The Johnsons filed a $100 million civil suit in January 2015, which alleged local FBI agent Rick Bell, his two sons and 35 state and local officials either directly caused or covered up the cause of their son’s death.


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FBI Wants Cyber Analytics Systems That Keep Humans In Control
Nextgov-Aug 18, 2016
FBI Wants Cyber Analytics Systems That Keep Humans In Control ... Today, it's in the range of 1 to 2 terabytes, on average, according to agent Gabe Maxwell, ...






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FBI Offers $5000 Reward to Recover Stolen Equipment
Federal Bureau of Investigation (press release) (blog)
The property was taken from an FBI agent's vehicle parked in a hotel parking lot at 4011 South Loop 289 in the early morning hours of Tuesday, August 16, 2016 ...

FBI Octopus

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False reports of gunfire create a real case study in airport security
TODAYonline-
Mr Kenneth Maxwell, a former FBI agent who later worked as a top security official at JetBlue Airways, said the Port Authority police contingent at Kennedy ...


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Bank of America acquitted of discrimination against Muslim charity
Arab American News-
However, the bank's anti-money laundering expert, Dennis Lormel, a former FBI special agent for 28 years, who focused on anti-terrorism financing in the wake ...

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Paul Babeu Spent RICO Funds on Training by Notorious Islamophobe ex FBI agent John Guandolo
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2016 AT 6:01 A.M.


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In his lawsuit, Mr. Wevodau, a retired FBI agent, said he wants to return to work, but Ms. Kane banished him from the office because she believed he was a “mole” working with authorities to monitor her. He continues to collect his annual $140,421 salary.

The attorney general’s office filed a motion last week seeking to dismiss Mr. Wevodau’s lawsuit, arguing, in part, that he has no claim because he has not suffered any economic harm.


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Murrieta
Murrieta police officer under investigation by FBI dead in apparent suicide
Aug. 18, 2016 | Updated Aug. 19, 2016 6:26 a.m.

BY AARON CLAVERIE, STAFF WRITER
A Murrieta police officer appears to have committed suicide Tuesday, a short time after his





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Push is on to clear Marcus Garvey’s name
August 18, 2016 Filed under FRONT PAGE, NATIONAL, NEWS Posted by FCEditor
BY THE FLORIDA COURIER STAFF

WASHINGTON – Nearly 100 years after a politically motivated criminal conviction on federal mail fraud charges – and on what would have been his 129th birthday – the descendants of Jamaican-born Black activist Marcus Garvey and members of Congress are pushing for his legal exoneration.

Garvey is well-known within the worldwide African Diaspora for developing and advocating a Pan-African philosophy known as “Garveyism” that sought to empower people of African descent.

Young activist
Marcus Mosiah Garvey began his activism when he left Jamaica at the age of 23. He traveled to England, but later returned to Jamaica to found the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1914. He came to the United States in 1916 and he organized the UNIA’s New York division the following year.

Garvey promoted the idea of Black people returning to Africa – but not all of them. Many would be “no good there,” he once wrote, according




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A Brief Index to FBI Agents
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LAPD officer arrested for sending 'harmful' texts to juvenile

August 19, 2016, 8:55 p.m.
A Los Angeles police officer assigned to work on an LAPD youth program was arrested Friday on suspicion of sending “harmful” text messages to a juvenile, the department said.

Abel Montes De Oca, who has been with the LAPD for nine years, was arrested at the department’s downtown headquarters after a months-long internal affairs investigation, the LAPD said in a statement.

De Oca was booked on suspicion of distribution of harmful matter of a juvenile, child annoyance and destruction of evidence, polic
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FBI cannot locate anthrax case lab notebook for the day first letters were mailed!

Posted by Lew Weinstein on August 25, 2016

DXer says:

The former lead investigator of Amerithrax, Richard L. Lambert, has brought a whistleblower suit in federal district court.  He has alleged that the FBI is withholding a staggering amount of information that is exculpatory of the late scientist, Bruce Ivins.

NYT interview of former lead Amerithrax investigator Richard Lambert: “a staggering amount of exculpatory evidence” regarding Dr. Ivins remains secret
Posted by Lew Weinstein on July 16, 2016
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FOX NEWS interview with RICHARD LAMBERT … Former agent claims FBI concealing evidence in anthrax case
Posted by Lew Weinstein on April 22, 2015
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FBI fights release of exculpatory information regarding 2001 anthrax attacks
Posted by Lew Weinstein on September 10, 2015
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Ivins/Amerithrax-Notebook 4282 FOIA follow-up by DXer
Posted on June 13, 2016
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpr ... p-by-dxer/

By letter dated August 23, 2016, Attorney Matthew Hurd denied Kenneth Dillon’s appeal of the FBI’s denial of his request.  Dr. Dillon had requested all documents not yet produced relating to Dr. Bruce Ivins during the September-October 2001 time period.

Appeal
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpr ... -mailings/

Denial
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpr ... ment-45391

Dr. Dillon has a related pending request for the “Interim Case Management Summary” authored by Richard Lambert.

Many observers, including most outside scientists, have argued that the FBI’s “Ivins Theory” was unpersuasive.  The FBI reasoned that Dr. Ivins had no reason to be in the lab on particular dates.  Some DOJ and FBI officials reasoned he must have been making and preparing a powderized anthrax to kill 5 people.  I  have interviewed the Al Qaeda anthrax lab director Yazid Sufaat, however, and he does not deny responsibility for the Fall 2001 anthrax mailings.

Yazid Sufaat says that, contrary to some media reports, he was successful in developing anthrax, but prefers other bugs; he views anthrax as good for sabotaging, but not killing
Posted by Lew Weinstein on April 30, 2015
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Al Qaeda anthrax lab technician tells DXer that he realizes that by addressing these issues he may “jack myself up” but says that the “plan is on the way” — what does he mean when he says the “plan is on the way”?
Posted by Lew Weinstein on May 1, 2012
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpr ... when-he-s/

Hambali: Recommendation for Continued Detention (excerpt)
Posted by Lew Weinstein on April 25, 2011
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpr ... n-excerpt/

There were Al Qaeda operatives meeting with Mohammed Atta in the United States that were not caught (or were caught and released).

Ken Dillon asks … Who Was the Real Anthrax Mailer? … the key people in the anthrax mailings were not Bruce Ivins or Steven Hatfill … instead, they appear to have been Ali al-Timimi and Abderraouf Jdey.
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpr ... -they-app/
Posted on March 28, 2010

Atta Was Coordinating With Jdey’s Associate Al-Hazmi, First In Fort Lee, NJ In Late August 2001 And Then In Laurel, MD in September 2001 ; Jdey’s Associate Nawaf Al-Hazmi Had Been At The Planning Meeting At Yazid Sufaat’s Kuala Lumpur Condo With Anthrax Planner Hambali And Anthrax Lab Director Yazid Sufaat And Yet The FBI Never Told The Public That Jdey Had Been Detained Along With Moussaoui In August 2001 (With Biology Textbooks) And Then Released
Posted by Lew Weinstein on January 25, 2012
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DXer says … Adnan El-Shukrijumah, son of Saudi missionary, was the Fall 2001 anthrax mailer and FBI is withholding relevant documents
Posted by Lew Weinstein on May 12, 2016
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpr ... documents/

DXer says: Adnan El-Shukrijumah is the anthrax mailer … on or about 9/13/2001, he phoned from KSM’s house to tell his mom he was coming to the US
Posted on June 6, 2014
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Requestor Dr. Dillon is an academic and publisher.  He is a former intelligence analyst associated with the US State Department.  In testing the FBI’s theory that Dr. Ivins had no reason to be in the lab, he has sought Lab Notebook 4282 which contains contemporaneous handwritten notes about one of the many experiments he was working on (at pages 65-70).  The pages were first obtained by the FBI in 2003 and put in Part 1A of an FBI 302 report.  See 1A GJ 1100.

In response to Dillon’s FOIA request for information relating to Ivins’ activities in Sep.-Oct. 2001, the FBI falsely claimed that it had uploaded the information (such as Notebook 4282) to the FBI’s “Vault”
Posted by Lew Weinstein on October 15, 2015
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The original was then seized again in 2007 and not returned.  An FBI agent in an excel spreadsheet that has been produced explains that the notebook has entries from the time of the mailings. (See Part 55 of 59 of Amerithrax documents in the FBI’s “Vault.”)   The FBI and DOJ have failed to produce the notebook despite requests by both me and Dr. Dillon.  Specifically, there are notations from September 14, 15 and from September 18, 2001, the date of the first mailing.

The Army has sought the return of the notebooks taken by Dr. Ivins for years — and has uploaded all those that it has and that eventually were returned by the FBI.  Notebook 4282, however, still has not been returned.  According to USMRMC FOIA Officer Sandra Rogers, the FBI still has not returned Notebooks 4037, 4010 and 4282, preventing the Army from uploading them in USAMRMC’s excellent reading room that was created containing my FOIA requests directed to USAMRIID.
http://mrmc.amedd.army.mil/index.cfm?pa ... m.overview

I have uploaded the FBI discussing the documents relating to Notebook 4282 that is still subject of the DOJ and FBI’s game of hide-the-ball at the hyperlinks above.  I have forwarded them to Attorney Matt Hurd.  Attorney Hurd, who has been very gracious, has expressed a willingness to have an attorney reconsider the denial.  But that will lead to an attorney doing the same ineffectual searches in the decades-old database being used of words like “Notebook” “USMRMC.”  Instead, Attorney Hurd should pick up the phone and call FOIA Meredith Savary or former lead Amerithrax investigator Richard Lambert or someone currently at the FBI who would know and ask where to find the documents.  To claim that the dog ate the lab pages in Dr. Ivins’ notebook on the date of mailing of anthrax that killed 5 people is unacceptable.  I am advised by FOIA Officer Ms. Rogers that the Notebook 4282 that the FBI has not returned is titled “Anthrax.”

This past week, Hambali, the supervisor of Al Qaeda anthrax lab director Yazid Sufaat, saw the light of a courtroom for the first time since his capture in 2003.  That’s an incredible 13 years without any transparency about his involvement in Al Qaeda’s anthrax program.

On this issue of the FBI blaming Dr. Bruce Ivins for the anthrax mailings,however, there is no justification for there not to be government in the sunshine.  The Department of Justice and FBI should comply with FOIPA.  The Department of Justice and FBI, first and foremost, should stand for the rule of law.

Anthrax, Al Qaeda and Ayman Zawahiri:  The Infiltration of US Biodefense
http://www.amerithrax.wordpress.com

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JUDYTH VARY BAKER

Judyth Vary Baker was born South Bend, Indiana, is an American artist, writer, poet and social scientist specializing in linguistics. She is the author of Me & Lee: How I came to know, love and lose Lee Harvey Oswald, which is an underground best seller. Her newest book is David Ferrie, Mafia Pilot and Key to the Kennedy Assassination.

When Judyth was 16, her abilities in science were first recognized when she invented a modified method for obtaining magnesium from seawater. But her dream was to cure cancer after her beloved grandmother, Anna Whiting, died of breast cancer in 1954. Judyth’s work in cancer research as a teen attracted national attention and widespread support, culminating in inducing lung cancer in mice, using tobacco aerosols and radiation, in only seven days — a feat that had not been accomplished, at the time, in the nation’s top laboratories.

Newspaper articles chronicled her work, which was investigated, then mentored, by three doctors noted for their crusade linking cancer to tobacco products: Dr. Alton Ochsner of Ochsner Clinic, Dr. Harold Diehl (Vice President of Research of the American Cancer Society), and Dr. George Moore, Director of Roswell Park Institute for Cancer Research. These doctors, along with Nobel Prize winners Dr. Harold Urey and Sir Robert Robinson, gave Judyth assistance and and training, with a focus on melanoma and cancer viruses, described in newspaper articles as an assignment “to make cancer more deadly…” The argument was that enhancing cancer growth could be a key to controlling it.

After nearly two years of training at Roswell Park Institute, in laboratories in Indiana, and at the University of Florida, Dr. Ochsner invited Judyth to work with noted cancer specialist Dr. Mary S. Sherman in New Orleans. After the ‘summer internship’ she was promised early entry into Tulane Medical School. However, she was steered into a biological warfare project aimed to eliminate Cuba’s Fidel Castro, directed by Ochsner, whose organization, INCA, was famed for its anti-communist zeal.

Author Edward T. Haslam has linked a linear particle accelerator that Baker said was involved in the project to Drs. Ochsner and Sherman, through a detailed study of Dr. Sherman’s brutal, unsolved murder on July 21, 1964, the day the Warren Commission came to New Orleans to obtain testimonies. During this same time period, Baker met and fell in love with Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy.

Witnesses and a mass of documentation support Judyth’s efforts in what she describes as a crusade “to clear Oswald’s name of a crime he didn’t commit, and to reveal the cancer treatment industry’s crimes. “They could have cured cancer decades ago — but that would have ruined their cash cow.,” Says Judyth. Due to death threats as a whistler-blower, Judyth is forced to live overseas, though she returns periodically to continue her crusade.

“Everything you’ve been told about Lee Oswald by the government is false,” she states. “Lee actually saved Kennedy’s life in Chicago. The full truth is in my book Me & Lee, which has become an underground best seller.” A History Channel documentary “The Love Affair” (2003) is available on YouTube. Me & Lee: How I came to know, love and lose Lee Harvey Oswald (Trine day, 2010), and Judyth’s new book, David Ferrie: Mafia Pilot (Trine day, 2014), along with her many appearances on TV, radio and Internet have created a following of supporters who, she says “now understand how they’ve been lied to by the government — and they want justice for John F. Kennedy, for Lee Oswald, and for those who suffer from cancer.

I want everybody to know that the government weaponized cancer back in 1963, that the government has patented cures for cancer — but cancer treatment is such a profitable industry that a cure for cancer is always last in line for funding.” She states that Oswald was working for the FBI, and had been loaned to the CIA from the Office of Naval Intelligence, to keep watch over the cancer project “that was being developed to kill Castro, whose death by a weaponized form of lung cancer could be called a ‘death by natural causes’ — because previous methods tried by the CIA had all failed.”

Oswald’s job was to identify pro-Castro spies in New Orleans, and his “pro-Castro activities,” Judyth says, “were to make him look like a harmless pro-Castro fool.” Judyth joins former Secret Service agent Abraham Bolden in confirming that Oswald was the informant named “Lee” who saved Kennedy’s life in Chicago three weeks prior to the assassination. “I spoke of Lee’s attempts to save JFK a decade before Abraham’s story reached the public.”

In 2003, Judyth was filmed saying Oswald called the operation to kill Kennedy “The Big Event,” several years prior to CIA’s E. Howard Hunt identifying the CIA operation to kill Kennedy by the same name. For a number of such reasons, Judyth’s claims are being more widely supported than when she first spoke out, except by those defending the Warren Commission’s conclusions, which Baker calls “an obsolete failure and an odious obstruction of justice for both Kennedy and Oswald.”

Judyth says she was ejected from the project to kill Castro because of her ethical objections to use one or more prisoners who had volunteered to test the deadly, SV-40 derived cancer bio-weapon. “They wouldn’t have volunteered to be tested for something that would kill them, if it was successful,” she states. After she was forced to return to Florida, Judyth was placed in a high-end chemistry laboratory, Peninsular ChemResearch, to temporarily hide her being “blackballed” from cancer research. She was then forced to leave the field altogether.

Judyth says she and Oswald kept in touch after her return to Florida, and that they planned to divorce (both had unhappy marriages), but first, Oswald had to deliver the material, after it was successfully tested, to a contact in Mexico City. When the contact failed to show, Oswald suspected that he had been lured to Mexico City. Bitter over being banned from cancer research, and their plans to marry delayed when Oswald was ordered back to Dallas, Judyth was devastated when she saw Oswald shot on live TV. Judyth says Oswald was part of an “abort team” that he described to her only 37 ½ hours before the Kennedy assassination. When Baker told researcher Jim Marrs about the “abort team” in late 1999 or early 2000, at this time only a handful of insiders knew of its existence.

In 2000 Baker was nearly filmed three times by Sixty Minutes in a 14-month investigation that Sixty Minutes’ founder, Don Hewitt, said was the most expensive investigation in the history of the program at that time. He stated to C-Span that “the door was slammed in our faces.” But then Gerry Hemming, a legendary name in Kennedy assassination research, met Judyth, who gave him “insider information” that impressed him so much that he asked British documentary maker Nigel Turner to film her. “The Love Affair” [Episode 8: “The Men Who Killed Kennedy”] was aired by The History Channel in Nov. 2003, but none of Baker’s living witnesses were included. Episode 9 [“The Guilty Men”] quickly generated lawsuit threats from former Pres. Lyndon Johnson’s widow, and two former Presidents: all three new episodes [7-8-9] were quickly banned, and The History Channel apologized to the Johnson’s. Over the next few years, all of the other segments of The Men Who Killed Kennedy filmed by Turner, aired for over a decade on the History Channel, were also removed. “Mr. Turner has now vanished,” Judyth said. “He’s obviously been told to shut up. This happens to many brave souls who dare reveal the truth.”

In 2012, a 3-act play by noted playwright Lisa Soland [“The Sniper’s Nest”], based on Me & Lee, began production in the United States and overseas. In 2014, Me & Lee was issued as an audiobook. Judyth, who has lived mostly overseas since 2003 due to death threats, has been hosted by supporters in nation-wide book tours in 2011, 2012 and 2013. In 2014, she was asked to host and direct The JFK Assassination Conference (held in Dallas/Arlington Nov. 22-23-24), which was financed by numerous donations from supporters.

Judyth’s poetry is collected into two books: When the Clouds Came Flying By (for children) and A Dangerous Thing to Do (available on Kindle) She was co-author of a three-act play, Castles in the Sky, with John MacLean, for the Texas regional LDS Sesquicentennial. She also composes music. In 1976, Judyth’s name was one of those placed on the Bicentennial Monument in Stafford, Texas for civic service. Her oil and mixed-media paintings, logos and lithographs sell worldwide.

Judyth was married to Robert A. Baker, III in Mobile, Alabama in 1963. They had five children between 1968-1978: Baker says David Ferrie “warned me not to speak of what I knew, if I wished to stay alive. I was told to be ‘a vanilla girl.'” She thus remained silent for 35 years. Then, when Baker’s last child left home Dec. 26, 1998. she began writing a series of letters for her son to publish. “I felt guilty,” she says, “after seeing the film ‘JFK.’ I had promised Lee I would tell his children the truth about him. I had to do it.”

Since then, Judyth has continued to gain support as researchers meet her and familiarize themselves with her account. Today, Judyth lives in various countries overseas. “I regret that I haven’t been able to be a grandma and great-grandma,” she says. “Some of my family


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9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference


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** Draft minutes for July 27, 2016
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August 24, 2016
Craig McKee, Secretary 9/11 Monthly Teleconference Call

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Minutes for the Wed., July 27, 2016 regular conference call

Present were:

Ken Freeland, Teleconference facilitator, Houston 9/11Truth
Craig McKee, Teleconference secretary, Truth and Shadows
Dave Slesinger, 9/11 Truth Outreach
John O’Malley, DC 9/11 Truth
Barton Bruce, Massachusetts 9/11 Truth
Cat McGuire, 9/11 Truth Outreach
Barbara Honegger, Behind The Smoke Curtain
Sheila Casey, DC911Truth
Wayne Coste, 9/11 Outreach
Dan Hennen, AE911Truth
Rodger Bories, 9/11 activist
David Cole, Nine Eleven Accountability Team
Adam Ruff, 9/11 activist
Tim Michael, 9/11 Truth Outreach
Dennis Cimino, 9/11 researcher
Jerry Turner, 9/11 activist
Xander Arena, Arizona 9/11 Studies and Outreach, Arizona State University
Richard Gage, AE911Truth
Nita Renfrew, NY 9/11 activist

The minutes of the June 29, 2016 conference call were APPROVED.

The agenda was APPROVED.


Gage on plans for NY conference
Richard Gage offered the teleconference a report on the plans for a 9/11 conference in New York City on Sept. 10-11. Among the many who will be appearing are Daniel Sheehan, Ferdinando Imposimato, Wayne Madsen, Michael J. Springmann, William Pepper, Graeme MacQueen, and Steven Jones. For more information, go to http://houston911truth.us5.list-manage. ... 91763ac879 Gage also mentioned the launch of Truth Action Project and its website www.911tap.org (http://houston911truth.us5.list-manage. ... 91763ac879) .

Question ruled out of order
A question by Dave Slesinger to Richard Gage was ruled out of order by the chair because it did not address the topic Gage joined the teleconference to discuss. Dave challenged this, and the vote upheld the chair’s ruling.

Curtiss becomes co-facilitator
Ken Freeland nominated Cheryl Curtiss as co-facilitator of the Teleconference, which was approved without objection. Ken informed the group that Cheryl won’t be involved in moderating calls, but she will use her contacts to find potential guests who could be invited to make presentations on future calls.

The Pentagon and crash tests
Wayne Coste gave a presentation called “Full Scale Aircraft Crash/Impact Tests and their Relevance to 9/11.” He also produced a slide presentation to accompany his talk (http://houston911truth.us5.list-manage. ... 91763ac879 ).

Critique of Behind the Smoke Curtain
Dennis Cimino gave a nuanced critique of Barbara Honegger’s video Behind the Smoke Curtain.

Third Pentagon debate
After withdrawing from the January 2016 agreement to debate Craig McKee and Adam Ruff on the statement, “A large plane was destroyed at the Pentagon,” Barbara Honegger proposed a new agreement: that she debate Craig alone on the statement, “No plane was destroyed at the Pentagon.” Craig proposed that a vote on this be postponed until after the second part of this agenda item, a review of the breakdown in the previous agreement, was completed. This was approved. After a very contentious exchange ensued about the events in question, a motion was approved to table this entire agenda item.

Announcements
* Craig McKee announced that on August 10 at the World Social Forum in Montreal there will be a 9/11 presentation featuring Elizabeth Woodworth, Niels Harrit, and Graeme MacQueen.
* Wayne Coste announced that Christopher Bollyn will be coming to Hartford, CT in early September.


Call began at 8 p.m. EST and adjourned at 10:00 p.m. EST/5 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. PST

Audio of the June call can be heard here: http://houston911truth.us5.list-manage1 ... 91763ac879 The next monthly teleconference will take place on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 8 p.m. EST, 5 p.m. PST. Please email agenda items for next call to facilitator Ken Freeland (diogenesquest@gmail.com) by August 27. Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.” Please include a concise title for your proposed agenda item, a brief description of it and any relevant links you’d like participants to be aware of, together with your estimate of the number of minutes your agenda item will require.




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Lawsuit alleging excessive force by LAPD at black USC student party settled for $450,000

Folasade Aremu, who was then a freshman economics major, holds a photo during a 2013 sit-in on the USC campus to protest the LAPD's handling of the party.
The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved a $450,000 settlement of a lawsuit by USC students who alleged that LAPD officers in riot gear used excessive force and falsely arrested attendees at a predominantly black off-campus student party.

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Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke is PBA's 'Man of the Year'
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