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Postby fruhmenschen » Wed Aug 31, 2016 12:24 am

Bonus Read


http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/bar ... -watergate
Judicial Watch: CIA, FBI Officials Advised Nixon to ‘Get Rid’ of Watergate Conspirators

August 30, 2016 | 4:02 PM EDT

 
– Top officials in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) advised President Richard Nixon to “get rid of the people involved in the [Watergate] cover-up, no matter how high,” according to a newly released CIA document obtained by Judicial Watch under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit.
“This CIA Watergate report is an extraordinary historical document,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said. “Given it discloses direct CIA involvement in Watergate, it is no surprise it took 42 years and a Judicial Watch lawsuit to force its release.”
The de-classified document entitled “Working Draft – CIA Watergate History” compiled by the CIA’s Office of Inspector General in 1973 and 1974, also revealed that Eugenio Martinez - one of the Watergate burglars - was “actively being paid by the CIA at the time of the arrests on June 17, 1972” for breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.
On Oct. 12, 1973, a request by the Watergate Special Prosecution Force Staff "to discuss CIA documentation relating to Martinez" was described in the document as "difficult for the Agency - the breaching of trust of an agent" and that "under no circumstances would the Agency give up all records relating to the Agency's relationship with Martinez."
“This means the CIA, at the time of the Watergate break-in, had ‘an agent’ planted on the break-in team,” the watchdog group noted. “The declaration by CIA lawyers of Mar




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Climate change




https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... re-warming

Nasa: Earth is warming at a pace 'unprecedented in 1,000 years'
Records of temperature that go back far further than 1800s suggest warming of recent decades is out of step with any period over the past millennium


Tuesday 30 August 2016 06.00 EDT


The planet is warming at a pace not experienced within the past 1,000 years, at least, making it “very unlikely” that the world will stay within a crucial temperature limit agreed by nations just last year, according to Nasa’s top climate scientist

This year has already seen scorching heat around the world, with the average global temperature peaking at 1.38C above levels experienced in the 19th century, perilously close to the 1.5C limit agreed








'The Mother of All Risks': Insurance Giants Call on G20 to Stop Bankrolling Fossil Fuels
Multinational firms managing $1.2tn in assets declare subsidies for coal, oil, and gas 'simply unsustainable'



http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/0 ... ssil-fuels

An aerial photograph of Baton Rouge, Louisiana after historic flooding destroyed much of the city, August 18, 2016. (Photo: Thomas Cizauskas/cc/flickr)
Warning that climate change amounts to the "mother of all risks," three of the world's biggest insurance companies this week are demanding that G20 countries stop bankrolling the fossil fuels industry.

Multi-national insurance giants Aviva, Aegon, and Amlin, which together manage $1.2tn in assets, released a statement Tuesday calling on the leaders of the world's biggest economies to commit to ending coal, oil, and gas subsidies within four years.

"Climate change in particular represents the mother of all risks—to business and to society as a whole. And that risk is magnified by the way in which fossil fuel subsidies distort the energy market," said Aviva CEO Mark Wilson. "These subsidies are s




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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... al-funding

US policing
DoJ should withhold funding from police if they don't report killings, activists say
Coalition calls on Loretta Lynch to implement 2014 law that allows for reductions of 10% on federal grant program if police don’t report deaths in custody

Loretta Lynch is empowered by a 2014 law to impose reductions of 10% on federal grant funding if their departments do not report deaths in custody. Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuter
Tuesday 30 August 2016 07.54 EDT Last modified on Tuesday 30 August 2016 09.10 EDT


Dozens of civil rights, criminal justice and open government organizations have urged the US attorney general to withhold federal funding from local police chiefs unless they report comprehensive data on people killed by their officers.

Citing the findings of a Guardian investigation, the coalition of 67 groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Amnesty International and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said police ought to be punished financially if they do not submit information to a new government program to count





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Assange said 1,700 emails were released related to Hillary’s involvement in Libya but perhaps none more damaging than the ‘Libya Tick Tock’ email or Hillary’s “internal brag sheet of how she was the person behind the Libyan catastrophe”….”

http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2016/ ... ments.html





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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2772035

Chicago top cop moves to fire officers in Laquan McDonald's death




Tuesday, August 30, 2016, 6:26 PM



CPD Moves To Fire Van Dyke, 4 Other Cops In Laquan McDonald Case; Audio Excerpt
CBS Local


00:00 / 00:45
Chicago’s police chief has formally requested to fire five officers involved in Laquan McDonald’s death, including the man behind the 16 fatal gunshots, Jason Van Dyke.

While Chicago’s police superintendent Eddie Johnson originally recommended 7 officers be fired on Aug. 18, and the city’s inspector general named 10 officers, the top cop has now hit five with termination charges.

Daphne Sebastian, Janet Mondragon, Ricardo Viramontes and Stephen Franko, face firings as accomplices to Van Dyke’s lie,


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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2771756

Pentagon did not review workers spending its money at strip clubs
BY CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Tuesday, August 30, 2016, 3:11 P




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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bra ... -1.2771650

Bratton defends NYPD’s refusal to share cops’ disciplinary files
BY GREG B. SMITH GRAHAM RAYMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Tuesday, August 30, 2016, 5:59 PM



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http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/artic ... comey-says

FBI Says It Takes Risk of Hackers Swaying Election Seriously
Bloomberg-
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is working "very hard to understand" whether a foreign government is hacking U.S. systems in order to influence elections or ...




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http://www.theintell.com/news/local/ele ... e0e0f.html
On the radio, Fitzpatrick, Santarsiero trade barbs at first ...
The Intelligencer-
Steve Santarsiero said the former FBI agent and brother to retiring congressman Mike Fitzpatrick was the "ultimate insider." "No one else would have been able ...
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http://kutv.com/news/local/slc-civilian ... ice-policy


(KUTV) Six months after two Salt Lake City police officers fired on Abdi Mohamed near the homeless shelter, a civilian review board has determined the shooting was “not within” the police department’s policy on the use of deadly force.
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Postby fruhmenschen » Fri Sep 09, 2016 12:34 am

Bonus Read
http://whowhatwhy.org/2016/09/08/911s-known-knowns/
DEEP POLITICS
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016 | JEFF CLYBURN
9/11’S KNOWN KNOWNS

Vice President Cheney with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in the President's Emergency Operations Center (PEOC), September 11, 2001.  Photo credit: The U.S. National Archives / Flickr
Years of willful deception, the sands of time, and simple neglect all tend to cloud our perception of the reality of history. This is especially true for politically radioactive topics like 9/11.

With the debate over 9/11 heating up as the 15th anniversary of that fateful day draws near, it’s a good time to get back up to speed. WhoWhatWhy believes there are essential pillars of the 9/11 debate that must be acknowledged by all parties before any healthy discussion of that paradigm-changing topic can take place.

What follows is a refresher list of “known knowns” — select, broad aspects of 9/11 that are at present beyond reasonable doubt:


Firefighters look on Friday, Sept. 14, 2001, as President George W. Bush surveys the destruction left by terrorist attacks on New York City.
Photo credit: The U.S. National Archives / Flickr

•  The money trail was never followed to its logical conclusion. The 9/11 Commission concluded the question of who funded the attacks “was of little practical significance.”

•  The Bush White House pushed back against any independent investigation into 9/11.

•  Once the White House agreed to an independent investigation, it provided a budget of $3 million, or 27% of the amount requested by 9/11 Commission co-chairs, Thomas Keane and Lee Hamilton.

•  The Bush White House’s first choice to lead the 9/11 Commission was the highly controversial Henry Kissinger. Under intense pressure due to conflicts of interest, he resigned a month later.

•  The 9/11 Commission was compromised by having White House policy advisor Philip Zelikow as its executive director. He was alleged to have been in close contact with controversial White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove throughout the investigation.

•  The 9/11 Commission — the only independent investigation into the greatest terror attack in US history — began with a particularly benign mandate. The Preface to the report asserted. “Our aim has not been to assign individual blame,” but “to identify lessons learned.”

•  Saudi agents — some with ties to the White House — sent financial and logistical support to men who then provided that support to the hijackers, according to multiple media accounts and at least one FBI agent who worked on 9/11 cases.

•  Efforts to further investigate Saudi nationals were resisted by the White House and CIA over and over again.

•  Indian intelligence, corroborated by the FBI, showed a wire transfer of $100,000 from the phone of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Mahmud Ahmad to 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta in 2000. Ahmad (also reported as Ahmed) was in Washington D.C. on the morning of the attacks, meeting with US lawmakers.

•  The $100,000 transaction was never mentioned in the 9/11 Commission report — and Ahmad was never detained for questioning.

•  The “28 pages” from a redacted chapter of the 2002 Joint Inquiry report into the attacks had “nothing to do with national security.” But that was the reason given for withholding them for 14 years by both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama White Houses.

•  Those 28 pages were partially released in July of 2016, but were still heavily redacted at crucial passages.

•  Multiple, overlapping war game drills created some level of confusion at the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) on the morning of the attacks.

•  Around noon on 9/11, air traffic controllers who handled some of the hijacked flights made a recording recalling their experiences of the events a few hours earlier. The tape was later destroyed by an unidentified FAA supervisor without any transcripts taken.

•  In the days before 9/11, highly abnormal levels of put options — bets that a stock price will fall — were in place on major US stock markets for not only the airlines involved, but also for multiple financial giants that suffered significant losses in the attacks.

•  The SEC’s investigation into those irregularities gave little details for their benign conclusion that all trades were legitimate and curiously destroyed all their records.

•  Blaming Iraq was the talking point advanced by the Bush administration within days of the attacks. Later, multiple reports surfaced alleging that the neoconservatives who made up the hawkish Project for a New American Century think tank and the Bush Administration had been planning for an invasion of Iraq (and Afghanistan) long before 9/11.

•  Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11.

•  Opium production (used to make heroin) in Afghanistan plummeted under Taliban rule in 2001, but then ballooned again when US forces retook control of the region.

•  In the late 90s, the US supported the Taliban and it’s agenda for a unified Afghanistan. Three years before 9/11, US oil giant Unocal pulled out of a long-negotiated deal to build natural gas and oil pipelines through the region, from the resource-rich Caspian basin south to the Indian Ocean. It is widely believe the US government and Unocal suddenly saw the Taliban, which provided a base of operations for al Qaeda, as an obstacle to those plans.

This is by no means a full list of inadequately explored facts surrounding 9/11.

People loyal to the official narrative at first denied the veracity of many of these facts. Later, when the corroborations and confirmations became overwhelming over the years, these same people shifted gears to insisting these truths didn’t matter.

We invite you to add your own bullet points below, though we encourage you to focus on what has been well-documented, i.e., what is available for all to verify on the public record.


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https://www.ramdass.org/love-everyone-s ... ember-god/


Maharajji’s Three Teachings
Posted August 29, 2016

Maharajji said to me, “Love everyone, serve everyone, and remember God.” …and I have been trying to do what he told me.

So, on this one trip I took the Greyhound bus down to Santa Fe, NM from Fort Collins, CO. I get on the Greyhound bus, and I haven’t been on the Greyhound in years for some reason or another. It’s a particularly dingy Greyhound bus, and I go and I sit in the rear. Just as the bus is about to take off this huge fat man gets on the bus and I think, “He’s not gonna sit next to me.” See, and I think, I can try to use all my powers to try and keep this from happening.

So of course he sits next to me, and he takes up half of my seat and he’s fat, and oh, I just think, “This is gonna be so horrible,” the whole trip. I’ve got my book and I’m scrunching into the corner, because, “I’m gonna read my holy book.” I think I’m going to use it as some form of purification for the situation.

Then he turns to me and he says, “Going to Santa Fe?” and my first reaction is, you know, to say yes or nothing at all, or to act like I didn’t hear him. I think I will just sit next to him, but I just don’t want to have to talk to him.

Then I hear Maharajji’s voice and it’s saying, “I didn’t tell you to read books, I told you to love everyone, serve everyone, and remember God.”

So then, I suddenly realize that this is Maharajji doing a trip on me. He’s very clever, incredibly clever.

I turned to the man sitting next to me and I say, “Well as a matter of fact, I am going to Santa Fe. Where are you going?” We start up a conversation and we talk through the whole trip, and that’s what it’s about. That’s what “loving and serving and remembering” is. We got off the bus and it was just a trip. Just a trip.





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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a4 ... on-pruitt/

The FBI Accused Him of Terrorism. He Couldn't Tie His Shoes.


BY JESSICA PISHKO SEP 8, 2016






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no police officers arrested for pedophilia see story


4 Oakland Officers Fired, 7 Suspended In Sexual Misconduct Investigation
September 7, 2016 5:18 PM


http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/0 ... stigation/

— Officials in Oakland announced Wednesday that four police officers would be terminated and an additional seven officers would be suspended in the wake of the now completed investigation into the teen sex scandal that rocked the department.

The press conference held by Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and City Administrator Sabrina Landreth late Wednesday afternoon announced that the investigation into the underage sex scandal


In interviews, Guap said she had sex with 14 officers from Oakland police department, as well as five from the Richmond police department, three Alameda County Sheriff’s deputies and a Livermore cop. She says she only had sex with three officers — all from Oakland PD — while she was underage.


But even with news of the discipline, questions remained about the treatment of the woman at the center of the scandal. The East Bay Express, which broke many of the early details of the scandal, reported that the Richmond Police Department obtained funding to send the woman to rehabilitation in Florida.

The woman has since been charged with attacking a security guard at the rehab facility, the Express reported, and the news raised questions about why a police agency would send a key witness in a major police misconduct investigation out of state with possible charges looming.







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http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/07/ ... ick-right/

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016
Critics’ Ignoring of Documented Record of Frisco Police Abuse Proves Kaepernick Right
by LINN WASHINGTON JR.



A month before the police union in San Francisco sent a blistering letter to NFL officials recently demanding that the professional football league apologize for the “ill-advised” criticisms of police by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick that union was the target of scathing criticism for supporting police misconduct.

That criticism of the San Francisco Police Officers’ Association came in a report from a panel that conducted a yearlong investigation into policemen in that city caught sending racist, sexist and homophobic text messages. One member of that blue ribbon panel, a retired judge, blasted the police union for having established an “ugly” tone that infected the entire police department.

The same San Francisco police union that has lambasted civilians for not cooperating with police to solve crimes had directed its members to stiff-arm that panel through refusal to cooperate



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http://www.post-gazette.com/local/westm ... 1609080154

federal agent sentenced for lying about TSA officer threatening others
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette-
-federal agent sentenced for lying about TSA officer threatening others



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http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/ ... 6bf67.html

FBI agent's 'unauthorized,' unusual letter remains sealed, raises questions in Harry Morel case
SEP 8, 2016 - 4:39 PM (1)

Harry Morel, a former district attorney for St. Charles Parish, La., arrives with his attorney Ralph Capitelli, right, at Federal Court in New Orleans, Wednesday, April 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Jim Mustian

U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt received enough letters to fill a bulky binder last month as the day of reckoning approached for Harry Morel, the former St. Charles Parish district attorney who used his office to prey on vulnerable women.

Friends and former colleagues beseeched the judge to show leniency toward Morel, extolling his character and decades of service in law enforcement. Others urged Engelhardt not to hold back, portraying Morel as a scoundrel who had eluded justice for too long.  

Submissions of this kind aren't uncommon ahead of a sentencing in federal court, particularly when a defendant is as well-known as Morel. But one lengthy letter addressed to Engelhardt in this case stood out to such a degree that it might as well have been penned on pink stationery.


RELATED


Grace Notes: In tough sentence, Harry Morel gets a taste of karma
The letter is remarkable for several reasons, not the least of which is that it was written by the lead FBI agent on the case. It appears to contain explosive and potentially privileged material, but, unlike the other correspondence sent to the judge, it has been withheld from the court record.  

Special Agent Michael Zummer's 28-page missive, sent against his employer's instructions, apparently outlines his years-long investigation into Morel and the confluence of factors that dissuaded the U.S. Justice Department from bringing more serious charges against him.

Much to Zummer's chagrin, Morel faced a maximum three-year sentence after pleading guilty to a single count of obstructing justice — a penalty that to the agent seemed grossly inadequate given the misconduct prosecutors alleged not in the courtroom but during an extraordinary news conference earlier this year.

Morel was not charged with any sexual offenses, but the FBI publicly denounced him as a "sexual predator" who had victimized at least two dozen women during his tenure. Some of those women accused Morel of sexually assaulting them, but prosecutors said they lacked the evidence to prove those claims



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http://www.al.com/news/anniston-gadsden ... not_g.html

St. Clair teen with IQ of 51 found not guilty of soliciting terrorist act
AL.com-
Yet a St. Clair County investigator then testified that the FBI determined Pruitt used ... and that he told an FBI agent that he provided links to encrypted information ...




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FBI Octopus



Former FBI counterterrorism official set to speak at Vanderbilt
The Tennessean-
A former counterterrorism official with the FBI is set to speak on the topic Friday on the Vanderbilt University campus. Pat Villafranca is a retired special agent ...



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http://www.ydr.com/story/news/crime/201 ... /89977550/

Cop took money to 'get through Christmas,' he tells FBI


A former Fairview Township police officer who pleaded guilty on Tuesday to ripping off a suspected drug trafficker and to taking $3,000 during an undercover sting operation denied stealing seven times in a videotaped interview with the FBI, before acknowl





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http://www.kvue.com/news/state/former-t ... /315630027
Officer arrested, indicted
for allegedly revealing investigation
September 08, 2016



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http://www.leaderherald.com/page/conten ... 1&nav=5041

Report criticizes ATF storefront illegal gun sale stings
Gloversville Leader-Herald-
(AP) — Federal agents lacked proper guidance and experience while conducting ... including the ATF, FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Marshals




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https://www.thenation.com/article/five- ... -industry/

5 Corporations Now Dominate Our Privatized Intelligence Industry
The Nation.-
... those violations,” warns Mike German, a former FBI special agent who works on counterterrorism issues as a fellow with the NYU's Brennan Center for Justice.




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http://patch.com/california/imperialbea ... bi-alleges

U.S. Customs Officer Allowed Illegals to Cross Border for Sex ...
Patch.com-
BREAKING: The FBI arrested the U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer, who manned a lane at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, on Wednesday.





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http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-north ... _to_m.html

Lawsuit filed against FBI to make D.B. Cooper investigation file public
OregonLive.com-
A Los Angeles-based filmmaker has filed a lawsuit Thursday to compel the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice to release the investigative files in the ...




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http://www.therecord.com/news-story/684 ... gh-school/


One student dead, cop accidentally shot
at Texas High School
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Re: Reasons for creating volunteer civilian review police bo

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http://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Bl ... 71781.html


Black Rifles Matter' Sign Offends Tourists in Boothbay Harbor, Maine

By Danielle Waugh



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FBI agents caught committing voter fraud
Senator Shaheen now wants FBI agents to
investigate Russia tampering with US elections


see FBI committing voter fraud

http://www.unz.org/Pub/InTheseTimes-1989mar22-00012

http://www.unz.org/Pub/InTheseTimes-198 ... 7?View=PDF




http://origin-nyi.thehill.com/policy/na ... terference
September 15, 2016 - 12:17 PM EDT
Dem pushes panel to investigate for Russian election interference


Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) on Thursday pressed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to hold a hearing on reported efforts by Russia to interfere


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http://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2 ... ree-police

Audit reveals thousands of dollars, pieces of drug evidence missing from Braintree police


September 15,2016
An audit of the Braintree Police Department’s evidence room revealed thousands of pieces of drug evidence, over $400,00 in seized money, and at least 60 firearms disappeared from police custody, The Boston Globe reports.

Town officials said Wednesday evening the audit found that the heat-sealed bags containing drugs were torn open or cut and bags containing cash were sliced at the bottom, according to the Globe.

“I find the auditor’s report of unaccounted for items and poor record keeping practices by the Police Department to be deeply troubling a

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/eli ... 1a6e05dc53

POLITICS
Elizabeth Warren To FBI: I Can Think Of Some Other Investigations You Should Release
If the FBI is suddenly releasing information about investigations, Warren says, why not those investigations into the 2008 financial crisis?
09/15/2016 05:19 pm ET


Elizabeth Warren has some suggestions for what investigations the FBI should release next.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wants to know why the FBI will publish records related to an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server, but not records related to the FBI’s investigation of bank executives during the 2008 financial crisis.

“The DOJ’s inability to obtain meaningful convictions or settlements in the vast majority of these [Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission] referrals ― let alone in any other cases involving senior Wall Street executives ― suggests that the Department failed to hold the individuals and companies most responsible for the financial crisis and the Great Recession accountable,” Warren wrote in her letter to the FBI on Thursday.

Warren noted that the FCIC referred 11 cases to the DOJ in which the commission found “serious indication of violation” of federal banking laws, implicating nine individuals in those violations. “Not one of these nine has gone to prison or been prosecuted for a criminal offense,” Warren said.

Those named by the FCIC include top executives of some of the largest banks in the country and some of the most politically connected men on Wall Street, including Robert Rubin, former Bill Clinton treasury secretary and Citigroup chairman.

Warren’s staff also found 14 corporations the FCIC referred to the DOJ that were never criminally prosecuted.

Warren said the FBI’s recent decision to release details of its Clinton probe gives the agency “clear precedent” for providing more information about the financial crisis ― noting that, typically, the FBI doesn’t release details of investigations when it doesn’t recommend prosecution.

But with FBI Director James Comey deciding to make previously undisclosed information available “in the interest of tra


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FBI OCTOPUS


Do you play bridge? These people want you
The Harvell gazette-
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 ...



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http://www.climatecentral.org/news/ghos ... rees-20701

‘Ghost Forests’ Appear As Rising Seas Kill Trees
Published: September 15th, 2016
By John Upton

OCEAN COUNTY, N.J. — Jennifer Walker stepped off her kayak into a wall of riverside grass. She steadied herself and stooped to scoop soil into a jar, then disappeared into the thicket for more. Analysis of amoeba fossils

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https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gal ... s-pictures




From Black Panthers to Black Lives Matter – in pictures

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6/09/14/the-supranational-suspects-behind-911/ [mirror]

https://isgp-studies.com/911-supranatio ... ts#update2 [original source]

https://isgp-studies.com/911-supranatio ... s#appendix [list of suspects]

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/ISGP [Who is ISGP? WikiSpooks?]

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http://motherboard.vice.com/read/fbi-ag ... e-says-doj

FBI Agent Who Posed As News Editor Didn't Break Policy, Inspector ...

An undercover FBI agent who impersonated a journalist to find out who was making bomb threats to a high school near Seattle did not violate ...


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https://www.peoplespunditdaily.com/opin ... bi-hiding/
What is the FBI Hiding?
People's Pundit Daily-
In the House, it was apparently necessary to serve a subpoena on an FBI agent to obtain what members of Congress want to see; and in the Senate, the ...


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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/j ... ias-228174

FBI's Comey: Twitter fuels 'monster of a bias'
By LOUIS NELSON 09/14/16 05:11 PM EDT
FBI Director James Comey lamented on Wednesday the loss of public trust in government institutions like the one he runs and blamed “echo chambers” like Twitter for making his job more difficult.

“My children, again, discipline me not to go on Twitter because apparently people say bad things about me on Twitter. But things like Twitter offer us the opportunity only to encounter views consistent with our own, 24 hours a day,” Comey explained at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event Wednesday. “There’s an opportunity to feed that monster of a bias, that confirmation bias, all the time. So it accelerates that fractionalizing of our society, and it makes it much harder for people like me, like you, like the people in here, to speak reason to folks about our institution

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Researcher Shows Simple iPhone Hack FBI Said Couldn't Be Done
Fortune-
Earlier this year, the FBI sparked a major controversy by seeking to force Apple to develop hacking tools for breaking into iPhones. Ultimately, the bureau backed .




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Orlando Releases More 911 Calls From Pulse Shooting
KnightNews.com-
This is the second public release of phone calls by Orlando after the FBI said that the calls “no longer need to be protected as part of the active criminal ...


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http://foxreno.com/news/connect-to-cong ... s-outraged



GOP questions about Clinton email server go unanswered at hearing
FoxReno.com-
The FBI closed its investigation of Clinton's handling of classified information in July. Director James Comey said Clinton and her aides were “extremely ...



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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... tyree-king


Ohio
Columbus police shoot dead 13-year-old boy carrying BB gun
Tyre King shot multiple

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/er ... 81f0d78585

AP: Justice Department report ‘effectively condone[s]’ FBI impersonation incident
By Erik Wemple September 15 at 6:04 PM



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http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/crime/ ... 225828.php


Judge: FBI agent raised 'legitimate' ethics concerns in case


Thursday, September 15, 2016





BATON ROUGE, La.
An FBI agent in New Orleans raised legitimate concerns that the Justice Department is either "unable or unwilling" to self-police ethical lapses within its ranks, a federal judge said in a ruling Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt refused to order the release of a 31-page letter that FBI Special Agent Michael Zummer wrote about his investigation of a former Louisiana district attorney accused of trading sex for leniency.
But the judge wrote that he shares Zummer's concerns about the Justice Department and found the agent's correspondence to be "particularly interesting (and troubling, to say the least)."
Last month, Engelhardt sentenced former St. Charles Parish District Attorney Harry Morel to three years in prison for obstructing




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http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news ... 3b965.html

Former Atlantic City police sergeant receives five years probation for lying
VINCENT JACKSON Staff Writer


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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2793156

black motorist Sandra Bland's Family Reaches Settlement, Wins Commitments to ...

... questions for us,” she said. A judge ordered the FBI to release a report of the Texas Rangers' investigation into Bland's death to the family earlier this year.
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Link du jour

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/ ... 57019.html

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/ ... egislation

https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... ie-belgium

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... north-side

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2796084


https://www.theguardian.com/business/us ... letter-doj

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https://www.hackread.com/iphone-5c-hack ... -hardware/

Turns out iPhone 5c can be hacked with a $100 hardware
Hack Read-
Researcher hacks iPhone 5c device of San Bernardino shooter Rizwan Syed Farook with just $100 hardware — Remember, the FBI had paid $1.3 million to get ...

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https://whowhatwhy.org/2016/09/17/class ... rs-occupy/

DEEP POLITICS
SEPTEMBER 17, 2016 | DAVE LINDORFF
CLASSIC WHO: FBI, SNIPERS & OCCUPY

Occupy Wall Street is celebrating the fifth anniversary of the movement in New York’s Zuccotti Park Saturday with activists recalling what happened in September of 2011.

The organizers of the event stressed that the purpose of the event is not to once again occupy the park but rather to recapture the spirit of the protests.

“Occupy Wall Street catapulted the issue of income inequality into the national conversation, was the catalyst to a host of other social movements and opened the door for Bernie Sanders to walk through — its spirit is irrefutable,” they said.

A key focus of the event will be to hear “the stories that were never reported accurately and honestly.”

With that in mind, we at WhoWhatWhy thought today would be the perfect time to re-run the article below. Originally published in 2013, it details the still-shocking, uncovered contingency plan, quietly investigated by the FBI, to assassinate Occupy Wall Street protesters.

 

Would you be shocked to learn that the FBI apparently knew that some organization, perhaps even a law enforcement agency or private security outfit, had contingency plans to assassinate peaceful protestors in a major American city — and did nothing to intervene?

Would you be surprised to learn that this intelligence comes not from a shadowy whistle-blower but from the FBI itself — specifically, from a document obtained from Houston FBI office last December, as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Washington, DC-based Partnership for Civil Justice Fund?

The Plot
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Remember the Occupy Movement? The peaceful crowds that camped out in the center of a number of cities in the fall of 2011, calling for some recognition by local, state and federal authorities that our democratic system was out of whack, controlled by corporate interests, and in need of immediate repair?

That movement swept the US beginning in mid-September 2011. When, in early October, the movement cam

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https://www.theguardian.com/business/us ... letter-doj


Elizabeth Warren is still mad about the financial crash, and we should be too
As we pass the eight anniversary of the crash, the senator is rightly demanding that the FBI explain why it has failed to prosecute those responsible


4.

https://epic.org/epic/board/burnham/book.html

Above the Law

Secret Deals, Political Fixes and Other Misadventures of the U.S. Department of Justice



"This book tells us that far too often the Justice Department represents not the people, but the politicians, corporations and other entrenched private interests. In Above the Law, David Burnham once again shows us why his investigative reporting is a national asset."

-- Seymour M. Hersh, Pulitzer Price winning investigative journalist

Myth: The Justice Department is a rational and evenhanded law enforcement mechanism.

Fact: The Justice Department is always political, steadily more powerful, sometimes corrupt and surprisingly ineffective.

The United States Justice Department -- which includes the FBI, the DEA, the INS and more than 100,000 employees -- functions as law enforcer, investigator and jailer of American citizens. The department's legal reach is vast, extending to social controversies of race, religion and economics as well as to thousands of criminal and civil laws, including espionage; mail fraud; corruption; racketeering; vote-fixing; pollution; computer crimes; adulterated food and drugs; price-fixing; tax fraud; gambling; forgery; and the sale, manufacture or possession of illicit drugs. The department then, and the attorney general, make decisions daily that affect every American citizen. But who monitors the Justice Department and its pervasive dealings?


In Above the Law, David Burnham reveals the chilling truth about this powerful arm of the government. Examining its records on such issues as drug enforcement, civil rights and national security, Burnham discovered that the agency runs virtually unpoliced, even after the BCCI scandal, the forcible abduction of Manuel Noriega and the disastrous mission at Waco. For the first time, David Burnham conducts a thorough investigation of the investigator, exposing the Justice Department as never before.


Read Above the Law and learn:


* How the FBI and the DEA have relentlessly expanded their electronic surveillance networks to encompass more and more average Americans -- rather than suspected criminals.


* How the war on drugs currently consumes more than half of the Justice Department's budget but remains a well-documented dud when it comes to reducing the use of illegal drugs.


* How and why FBI director Freeh, following a trail blazed by J. Edgar Hoover, directs a misleading national advertising blitz about the nation's crime problem.

* How the Justice Department has routinely failed to investigate the political allies of all presidents, including Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy and George Bush.

* How -- more than three hundred times a year -- teams of agents from the FBI's top secret Surreptitious entry Program go about the task of breaking into houses, offices and warehouses of selected targets, usually to plant hidden cameras and microphones.

* How the law enforcement powers of the Justice Department have been used to harass black politicians and aid white ones.



Selected Excerpts


Annotated Table of Contents

Chapter 5.KEEPING TRACK OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: THE UNBLINKING EYE AND GIANT EAR


Chapter 6.THE BIG, BAD, DUMB WAR ON DRUGS




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http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/eco ... ve-the-law


Why Big Banks Are Above the Law | US News Opinion
U.S. News & World Report ›
Jul 30, 2012 - In the 1980s, Drexel Burnham was one of the largest and most powerful banks on Wall ... They know they are above the law and act accordingly.


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https://sofrep.com/64152/news-organizat ... e-exploit/

News organizations sue FBI for details on San Bernardino iPhone ...
SOFR
The Associated Press, Vice Media and Gannett, the parent company of USA Today, sued the FBI today in an attempt to uncover information about how the law ...


7.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation- ... 72507.html

Guantánamo prisoner says Saudi 'royal' recruited him before 9/11
Miami Herald-3 hours ago
In the past, the Saudis have pointed to the 9/11 Commission, FBI investigations and other probes that found no Saudi government or royal family involvement in ...




8.

http://www.nbc29.com/story/33113836/for ... ten-school



Former CIA, FBI Director Speaks at UVA Frank Batten School

Posted: Sep 16, 2016 3:44 PM EDT
Updated: Sep 16, 2016 4:27 PM EDT



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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/s ... -1.2765258



San Jose cop, 22 others arrested in probe, alligator seized
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, August 25, 2016, 9:25 AM



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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/h ... -1.2796064

Two Houston police officers suspended over homeless man's beating


Saturday, September 17, 2016, 12:04 PM


Two Houston metro cops have been suspended after one of the officers brutally beat an unarmed homeless man with his baton — while the other stood by and watched.

Officers Daniel Reynoso and Jairus Warren are under investigation for the attack after th


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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... -1.2794992

NYC Crime Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Education Weather Obituaries
Former Rikers officers get prison time for badly beating inmate
BY BEN KOCHMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Saturday, September 17, 2016, 2:40 AM




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FBI agents protected Trump from investigation
since 1980's ,were grooming him and Hilary for
presidency


http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/articl ... plate-Main
Wash Post: Trump Helped by FBI Informant, Agent Since '80s



By Jason Devaney
Friday, 16 Sep 2016 5:59 PM


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https://www.google.com/search?q=fbi+age ... w&dpr=1.33

FBI fails to grasp severity of journalist impersonations
The Daily Nonpareil
FBI fails to grasp severity of journalist impersonations ... Particularly galling was the agent's misuse of the journalistic tenet protecting the confidentiality



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http://www.startribune.com/months-after ... 393837491/

Months after Jamar Clark case closed, FBI still won't cough up its file
Minneapolis Star Tribune-
That's what the Star Tribune said to the FBI immediately after U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger announced that no federal charges would be filed in the police ...



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https://news.vice.com/article/pen-regis ... ts-release

Secret government electronic surveillance documents must be ...
VICE News-
The FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Homeland Security, and other federal law enforcement agencies have used pen registers. 'We have a ...

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http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2016/ ... Sep16.html

Former FBI director to receive Thayer Award
Mid-Hudson News-
WEST POINT – The West Point Association of Graduates has announced that Robert Mueller III, the sixth director of the FBI, will receive the 2016 Sylvanus ...
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Postby Luther Blissett » Wed Sep 21, 2016 1:04 pm

Shaun King has been doing a great bit on twitter about this subject in the wake of the extrajudicial murder of Terence Crutcher and now of Keith Lamont Scott.

1. Radically diversify America's Police Departments
2. Require American Police to have more training than cosmetologists. Prepare to be shocked.
3. Police must be routinely & randomly tested for steroids & other illegal drugs like @NFL
4. Bad Apples MUST Be Fired - they are toxic & dangerous
5. Police must be required to earn 4 year degrees - studies show it changes EVERYTHING.
6. Policing for profit or arrest quotas with a profit motive must become a banned practice.
7. We must overhaul 911 - particularly for calls made about the mentally ill. Antiquated systems.
8. Take women from 12% of police to 50%. This case aside, studies show they are far less brutal.
9. Require cops to live in or near the areas they police. It's too easy to mistreat total strangers
10. Communities of color actually need less policing. Decriminalize addiction & petty offenses.
11. American Police must be regularly tested for racial bias.
12. American Police must be regularly tested & treated for PTSD.
13. We MUST take bad laws on policing all the way to the Supreme Court - these two in particular.
14. Good police officers must actually speak out on bad cops.
15. We must completely decriminalize mental illness.
16. Body cameras on every officer, but with SERIOUS guidelines.
17. Police departments must create & ENFORCE reasonable & humane use of force continuum.
18. Police must always carry 3 less lethal weapons other than firearms.
19. Police must be banned from using violence based on their IMAGINATION of a threat.
20. Every city and state in America must ban racial profiling. This has not happened.
21. Police must be immediately filmed making a statement after each use of force incident.
22. Independent review boards must oversee ALL investigations of police misconduct.
23. ALL Police misconduct cases must be tried by special/independent prosecutors. Essential.
24. Police departments which fail to obey the Death in Custody Act should be cut off from federal funds.
25. We must focus our fight for all of these reforms on the local & state level.


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Postby fruhmenschen » Sun Sep 25, 2016 2:19 am

Bonus Read






draft agenda for Wednesday 28 September Teleconference
Sep 24, 2016, 7:29 PM
From 9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
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9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
        
Draft Agenda for 9/28/16 Teleconference
      


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



Greetings all,

We are  honored to announce that the "Dean of the 9/11 Truth movement,"  yes, David Ray Griffin himself, will be joining us for the first part of Wednesday's teleconference.  This prodigious author has yet another book in publication -- he'll give us his first-hand account of it and answer our questions.  Don't be late for this one!

Last month's teleconference featured an appeal by veteran 9/11 Truth activist Fran Shure on how to support Colorado 9/11 Truth's Colorado Public Television fund drive, featuring the video Demolition of Truth :Psychologists Examine 9/11 , by veteran Hollywood filmmaker Charles Ewing Smith. "Chuck" will join us on Wednesday to give a short report on the making of this outstanding 9/11 truth documentary, and to answer any questions.

Wayne Coste is at it again, this time with a presentation challenging the "9/11 mini-nuke" hypothesis (as presented by Jim Fetzer on last month's call).  Wayne's accompanying PowerPoint presentation, replete with graphics, can be viewed or downloaded here.

Postponed from last month is Pablo Novi's request for the Teleconference's endorsement of his 9/11 Truth Unity Manifesto, which can be viewed here.

Nita Renfrew will bring us up to date on the harassment (by the usual suspects) experienced during the recent Christopher Bollyn speaking tour on the East Coast.

And Cheryl Curtiss offers a special rule for our consideration that would require only those present for an issue's discussion to vote on decisions regarding it (see below for details).

As always, a final opportunity for your announcements of importance.

Please join us Wednesday for this very special Teleconference!

Peace,
Ken Freeland
Cheryl Curtiss


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DRAFT AGENDA for Wednesday 28 September Teleconference

I Roll Call, minutes approval, agenda  (5 min)

II Motion to expel David Slesinger from the Teleconference [Craig McKee, Cheryl Curtiss, Barbara Honegger] (5 min)
"On our August teleconference, David Slesinger accused Kelly David, the COO of AE911Truth, of being a police agent. He was offered the opportunity on our list serve to substantiate this allegation and he could not. He also has made it clear that he will not retract his remarks. In fact, he has created a web site to smear Kelly’s name.
Subsequent to this, David issued a series of threats against the teleconference (in addition to calling us all sycophants and cowards with no integrity). He threatened to cause problems for us as he had done to three other business entities. Worse than that, he said he would begin helping the adversaries of the 9/11 Truth Movement if we expel him from the call or if we don’t allow him to continue his attack on AE911Truth on the September teleconference.
"We move that David Slesinger be expelled from the teleconference, effective immediately."

III Bush and Cheney: How they ruined America and the World  [David Ray Griffin]  (15 min plus Q & A)

IV  The Demolition of Truth: Psychologists Examine 9/11 [Charles Ewing Smith] (5-10 min + Q & A)

V  Challenging the mini-nuke theory [Wayne Coste, PE] (15 min, including discussion)

VI Proposal for 9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference endorsement of 9/11 Truth Unity Manifesto [Pablo Novi] (10-15 min) { Postponed from previous teleconference}

VII  Update on Chris Bollyn tour [Nita Renfrew] (5-10 min, including discussion)

VIII Special rule proposal [Cheryl Curtiss] (5 min)
"On any decision made by the teleconference, only those present from the commencement of its discussion are eligible to vote."

IX Announcements

X  Any available updates on issues of identified ongoing concern (if any remaining time -- highly unlikely):
 
28 pages campaign
New articles, books, and films
The 9/11 Crash Test
Cass Sunstein and cognitive infiltration, official statements on “conspiracy theorists”
The MSM treatment of 9/11 Truth
The 9/11 Consensus Panel
William Pepper’s efforts with AE911Truth against NIST and the Dept. of Commerce
Deep State crimes in the news
9/11 Truth political candidates
XI Adjournment (by 9:30 p Eastern if possible)


 
     
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Heat is online


https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... d-research

Marine life
Baby lobsters in hot water as ocean temperatures rise
A new study by scientists in Maine found that if global warming trends continue, lobsters will struggle to survive by the year 2100



Link du jour


http://www.occurrencesforeigndomestic.c ... struction/


uncle ed tatro just sent this in.
 
http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/ ... allace.pdf
Mac Wallace and the finger of guilt (Winter 2014) - Lobster
www.lobster-magazine.co.uk
Mac Wallace and the finger of guilt Garrick Alder This essay concerns disputes over the identification by latent fingerprint


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2802077

KING: It's time for nationwide boycotts to end police injustice in U.S.
Thursday, September 22, 2016, 2:32 PM


FBI OCTOPUS ...making tentacles visible



http://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20 ... -terrorism

FBI to help Jamaica tackle terrorism
Jamaica Star Online-
The United States Embassy in Jamaica has established a local FBI office in ... Crime Investigation Branch has already been put in touch with the new FBI agent.





http://www.boston.com/news/politics/201 ... -wish-list

In a Facebook post announcing his decision to endorse Trump, a man he’d once called a “pathological liar” and “utterly amoral,” Cruz called control of the court the most important issue at stake in the election.



Did FBI agents tweet before assassinating
Martin Luther King?

2 stories


1.

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/2426/ ... -91548837/
September 23, 2016, 8:05 p.m.
Can police prevent hate crimes by monitoring racist banter on social media?

Researchers will be testing this concept over the next three years in Los Angeles, marking a new frontier in efforts by law enforcement to predict and prevent crimes.

During a three-year experiment, British researchers working with the Santa Monica-based Rand Corp. will be monitoring millions of tweets related to the L.A. area in an effort to identify patterns and markers that prejudice-motivated violence is about to occur in real time.


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http://www.ctka.net/2016/book-review-pe ... -king.html

The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., By William F. Pepper

Reviewed by Martin Hay
Posted August 1, 2016


The dust jacket for The Plot to Kill King quotes former United States Attorney General Ramsey Clark as stating that “No one has done more than Dr. William F. Pepper to keep alive the quest for truth concerning the violent death of Martin Luther King.” This is unassailably true. Dr. King's murder has never received anything approaching the level of attention and scrutiny that has been afforded the assassination of President Kennedy but, for nearly three decades, Pepper has worked tirelessly to uncover the truth and bring it to the attention of the American public. As he chronicles in his latest book, Pepper was the last attorney for accused assassin James Earl Ray before his death, and tried every avenue available to him to gain his client the trial he had been denied in 1969 when the state of Tennessee and his own lawyer, Percy Foreman, broke Ray down and coerced him into entering a guilty plea.1 Pepper and his investigators spent many, many hours locating overlooked witnesses, uncovering leads, and assembling a case. Then in 1993 he took part in a televised mock trial that resulted in a “not guilty” verdict for Ray.2 After Ray died in 1998, and any and all possibility of a real criminal trial went with him, Pepper worked with the King family in filing a wrongful death lawsuit against Loyd Jowers and “other unknown co-conspirators” so that the information he had uncovered could still be put before a jury. After 14 days of testimony from over 70 witnesses, the jury found that Jowers and others, “including governmental agencies”, were responsible for the death of Martin Luther King.3

William Pepper
Yet Pepper is and always has been a controversial figure, even among those who share his disbelief in the official story. For example, Harold Weisberg – who worked as an investigator for Ray's defense team in the early 1970s and wrote the classic MLK assassination book, Frame Up – referred derisively to Pepper as “a would-be Perry Mason” and described his work as “worse than worthless.”4 On the other hand, the late, great Philip Melanson once described Pepper's research and investigation as “groundbreaking” when it came to “establishing the presence of Army Intelligence and Army Intelligence snipers” in Memphis on the day of the murder.5 Over the years, this reviewer has adopted something of an agnostic position when it comes to areas of Pepper's work. Whilst there is undoubtedly great value in what he has uncovered and accomplished, it nonetheless remains true that there a number of legitimate reasons for doubting important elements of Pepper's research.

Loyd Jowers
Take for example the man at the very centre of Pepper's conspiracy narrative, Loyd Jowers. In 1968, Jowers was the proprietor of Jim's Grill, a restaurant located underneath the rooming house from which the state alleges Ray fired the fatal shot. For many years the only thing Jowers had to say that was of any interest to investigators was that a white Ford Mustang had been parked directly in front of the grill on the afternoon of the assassination; corroborating Ray's claim of where he had parked his car and helping establish the presence of two white Mustangs on Main Street. But in 1993, Jowers appeared on ABC's Prime Time Live claiming that Memphis-based produce dealer and alleged Mafia figure, Frank Liberto, had contacted him shortly before the assassination and paid him $100,000 to hire someone to assassinate Dr. King. He was then visited by a man named Raul who handed him a “rifle in a box” and asked him to hold onto it until “we made arrangements, one or the other of us, for the killing.”6
On the face of it, Jowers' story seems plausible enough. There is no doubt that he was at the scene of the crime and in a position to assist in carrying out the assassination. Additionally, parts of his account were corroborated by two other witnesses: former Jim's Grill waitress, Betty Spates, and local Memphis cab driver, Jim McCraw. Also, Jowers' claim that Frank Liberto brought him into the plot recalls the statement of civil rights leader John McFerren that, sometime in the afternoon shortly before Dr. King was shot, he overheard Liberto telling someone on the telephone to “Shoot the son of a bitch when he comes on the balcony.”7 And yet Jowers was, by any definition, a most unreliable witness. By Pepper's own admission there were numerous different versions of his story. In fact, he contradicted himself on virtually every important detail.

Jim's Grill
He initially named black produce-truck unloader Frank Holt as the gunman he had hired but changed his mind after Holt was found alive and well and passed a polygraph test, denying any involvement.8 Jowers then hinted that deceased Memphis Police Lieutenant Earl Clark was the real gunman only to tell Dr. King's son, Dexter, that he “couldn't swear” that he was because “All I got was a glance of him.”9 To Dexter, Jowers said that the gunman handed him the still smoking rifle, yet at an earlier time he had claimed to have picked it up after it had been placed on the ground.10 Around this time he also changed his mind about ever having been asked to hire the gunman, saying instead that he had simply been told to be out in the bushes behind Jim's Grill at 6:00 PM and that he didn't even know Dr. King was going to be killed.11 In this scenario, Jowers merely held onto the $100,000 until it was collected by a co-conspirator.
Perhaps even more troubling than these inconsistencies – of which there are more – is the fact that Jowers and his friend Willie Akins are known to have contacted Betty Spates in January 1994 saying that they were interested in doing a book or a movie and they needed her to change her story. If she would say that she saw a black man handing the rifle to Jowers immediately after the shooting, they could all make $300,000.12 And if that wasn't bad enough, in an April 1997 tape-recorded conversation with Shelby County district attorney general's office investigator, Mark Glankler, Jowers basically disavowed his confession by stating that Ray's rifle was the real murder weapon and that “there was no second rifle.”13
It may also be seen as significant that Jowers never did repeat his conspiracy allegations under oath. He was not actually present for the King v. Jowers civil trial, apparently owing to ill health. The only time he gave a legal deposition after his appearance on Prime Time Live was during the 1994 Ray v. Jowers lawsuit, at which time he reverted to his 1968 story and insisted that he was in the bar serving drinks when the shot was fired. Jowers had agreed that the transcript of his Prime Time Live appearance could be entered into evidence but, through his attorney Lewis Garrison, stipulated “that the questions were asked and Mr. Jowers gave these answers”.14 Thus he did not swear to the accuracy of his alleged confession, he merely agreed that he had given it.
In The Plot to Kill King, Pepper attributes Jowers' many contradictory assertions to his fear of being prosecuted and an understandable desire to minimize his own role when talking to members of the King family. Pepper also argues, in spite of Jowers' attempt to encourage Spates to lie for her share of $300,000, that it is “arrant nonsense” to suggest that he fabricated his story “in anticipation of a book or movie deal.” In fact, he says, “Jowers lost everything. Even his wife left him. There was no book or movie deal, and he was, for the most part, telling the truth.”15 Yet none of these arguments preclude the possibility that Jowers' confession was invented as part of a money-making scheme that backfired.
That being said, it should be borne in mind that Jowers' initial Prime Time story did not come completely out of the blue. Suspicion had already been cast on him by statements that Spates and McCraw had given to Pepper, after which Jowers', through Garrison, had contacted the Shelby County district attorney general offering to tell everything he knew in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Needless to say his proffer went completely ignored without anyone even attempting to speak with him. Assistant district attorney general, John Campbell, would later attempt to justify this total lack of interest by stating that the story looked “bogus” and that if they had given Jowers immunity “it would imply we thought there was some validity to his story, and that would increase the value of what he could sell it for.”16 Precisely how they were able to deduce immediately and without even talking to Jowers that his story was “bogus” is anyone's guess.
In the end, it will be up to each individual researcher to decide which, if any, of Jowers' varying accounts to believe. Whilst it is true that the jury in King v. Jowers did find him partly responsible for the assassination, it is also true that his assertions were not thoroughly tested at the trial because neither Pepper nor Garrison were looking to undermine Jowers' credibility. Legendary attorney, author, and activist, Mark Lane, was critical of the trial for that very reason, telling this reviewer that in his opinion, “It was not a real trial ... both sides offered the same position and I have reason to doubt that the position they offered was sound. The jury, having seen no evidence to the contrary, had no choice. In my view, the court system should not be utilized in that fashion.”17

Mark Lane with James Earl Ray
Lane's assessment is, in my view, somewhat off the mark in that it suggests a type of collusion between Pepper and Garrison that was likely not the case. In truth, Garrison was in an extremely awkward position. He could not simply deny the existence of a conspiracy without calling his own client a liar, so his strategy was to attempt to minimize Jowers' role and convince the jury that, as he stated in his closing argument, “Mr. Jowers played a very, very insignificant and minor role in this if he played anything at all. It was much bigger than Mr. Jowers, who owned a little greasy-spoon restaurant there and happened to be at the location he was.”18 In that regard, it worked to Garrison's advantage to allow Pepper to put on a case for a wide-ranging conspiracy without offering a rigorous challenge. Nevertheless, the result of this strategy, as Lane suggested, was that the jury essentially heard one story from both sides and for that reason the verdict was far from surprising.
By noting these circumstances, it is not meant in any way to suggest that the civil trial or the jury's verdict were entirely without merit. On the contrary, as Pepper details in The Plot to Kill King, numerous witnesses gave significant and often startling testimony under oath – many for the first time – and put important evidence on the record. For example, a succession of witnesses provided evidence establishing the manner in which Dr. King was, seemingly intentionally, stripped of all reasonable security, and left entirely vulnerable to a sniper's bullet. Of particular note is the testimony of Memphis Police Department homicide detective Captain Jerry Williams who had been in charge of organizing a unit of black officers that had previously provided protection for Dr. King on his visits to Memphis. Williams said that he was not asked to form his unit on Dr. King's final, fatal visit, and was later falsely informed that Dr. King's organization, the SCLC, had said Dr. King did not want protection.19 Additionally, as University of Massachusetts Professor Philip Melanson testified, MPD Inspector Sam Evans had ordered the emergency services' TACT 10 unit removed from the vicinity of the Lorraine Motel, claiming this too was done at the request of someone in the SCLC. As Pepper writes, “When pressed as to who actually made the request, he said that it was Reverend [Samuel] Kyles. The fact that Kyles had nothing to do with the SCLC, and no authority to request any such thing, seemed to have eluded Evans.”20
Not only had Dr. King been stripped of protection but a last-minute switching of his motel room had made the assassin's job all the easier. Former New York City police detective Leon Cohen testified that Lorraine Motel manager Walter Bailey told him on the morning after the assassination that Dr. King had originally been allocated a more secur




https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... called-911

Black Baltimore man who called 911 for help dies after being punched by police
According to an incident report, Tawon Boyd attempted to enter two police cars, ran to a neighbor’s house and shouted: ‘Help! Call the police’




https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng- ... s-database

Number of people killed by police in 2016



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... udi-arabia
September 11 2001
Obama's veto of 9/11 bill aimed at Saudi Arabia sets up standoff with Congress
The bill, which would have allowed families to sue, sailed through both chambers of Congress and lawmakers are expected to override president’s move

Obama, in a statement accompanying his veto message, said he had ‘deep sympathy’ for the 9/11 families, but the bill would be ‘detrimental to USnational interests’.


Friday 23 September 2016 17.14 EDT Last modified on Friday 23 September 2016 17.25 EDT


Setting up a potential override by Congress, Barack Obama vetoed a bill Friday that would have allowed the families of 9/11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia.



https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... dit-trolls

Who is Palmer Luckey, and why is he funding pro-Trump trolls?
Under the name NimbleRichMan, Oculus founder secretly funded Reddit users dedicated to electing Trump by flooding threads with negative Clinton memes


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A Brooklyn rally intended to bring awareness to black-on-black violence following two murders at the J’Ouvert celebration nearly three weeks ago morphed into a larger protest about the recent police killings of African-American men across the country.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2804972

God bless America. We need it.

Two black men were shot down in a matter of days like rabid dogs by police officers in Tulsa and Charlotte because cops just assumed the men had guns. Perhaps that’s because the cops just assume that most black men are armed, even though white males make up 61% of gun owners according to Pew Research.

While blacks are much more likely than whites to be victims of homicide, African-Americans are only half as likely to have a firearm in their home. Yet blacks have a 2.7% higher chance of being shot by



http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/que ... -1.2805022
To hell with the cell.

A group of activists who want to slam the cell door on Rikers Island for good held a rally Saturday calling for the closure of the scandal-plagued jail complex.

Hundreds of protesters, including celebrities, politicians and former inmates, made their way through the streets of Astoria en route to the rally.


http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/tru ... y_20160924

Truthdigger of the Week: CIA Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling, in Prison and Fighting for His Life

Posted on Sep 24, 2016

By Natasha Hakimi



    Former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling leaves the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va., with his wife, Holly, after being convicted in 2015 on nine counts of leaking classified information to a New York Times reporter. (Kevin Wolf / AP)

Every week the Truthdig editorial staff selects a Truthdigger of the Week, a group or person worthy of recognition for speaking truth to power, breaking the story or blowing the whistle. It is not a lifetime achievement award. Rather, we’re looking for newsmakers whose actions in a given week are worth celebrating.

When Jeffrey Sterling was in his last year of law school, he was drawn to a newspaper ad that announced the promise of travel while serving the country as an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency. Part of a family of military service members, Sterling dreamed that the CIA would allow him to give back to the United States. Little did he know that his employment at the agency, which began in 1993 and ended in 2001, would turn into a nightmare of racial discrimination and persecution that would last decades.

Early in his career at the CIA, Sterling began to sense that he was treated differently because of his skin tone, a fact highlighted to him when he was pulled from an assignment in Germany with the explanation that “a black man speaking Farsi” would seem conspicuous. Sterling says this is just one example of the many ways his spy agency career was held back because of his race. Years of mistreatment led him to become the first African-American to file a racial discrimination suit against the CIA, an act of bravery the U.S. government would make him pay dearly for.

When, after the 9/11 attacks, Sterling felt inspired to help the agency tackle terrorism, he offered to drop his suit. Instead of enthusiasm for his dedication, he was met with a dismissal. As one of his colleagues put it, quoting a song by the late Jim Croce, he had “tugged on Superman’s cape.” The Intercept’s Peter Maass explains the ways in which Sterling’s heroism got under the CIA’s skin in a thorough piece about the whistleblower’s ordeal, “How Jeffrey Sterling Took On the CIA—and Lost Everything.”

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In 2001, as he was leaving the agency, he filed a federal lawsuit that said the CIA retaliated against him for making an internal discrimination complaint, and that he had indeed faced a pattern of discrimination there. The suit was dismissed by a judge after the CIA successfully argued in pre-trial motions that a trial would expose state secrets by disclosing sources and methods of intelligence-gathering. An appeals court upheld that ruling, though it noted that the dismissal “places, on behalf of the entire country, a burden on Sterling that he alone must bear” by being deprived of his right to a trial. The dismissal spared Sterling’s supervisors from testifying about their interactions with him. The government has not provided specific responses, in court or to the media, about his accusations of racial discrimination, other than to generally state that he faced none.

He tugged on the CIA’s cape in other ways. He wrote a memoir, tentatively titled Spook: An American Journey Through Black and White, and submitted chapters for pre-publication review. According to a lawsuit Sterling filed in 2003, the CIA determined that his manuscript contained classified information that should not be published, and demanded that he add information that, his suit said, was “blatantly false.” Facing a tough legal battle with a presiding judge who seemed sympathetic to the CIA, Sterling eventually agreed to drop the suit. His manuscript has not been published.

Also in 2003, Sterling met staffers from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to let them know his concerns about the mismanagement of a classified program he worked on at the agency. Merlin, as the program was called, involved the CIA giving Iran faulty nuclear blueprints. If the blueprints were used, Iran’s nuclear program would be delayed.
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I have recently talked by phone with Harry Cooper author of Hitler in
Argentina.
His book details how the US Government allowed the German/Corporate
government to continue and grow in Argentina at the end of WW2.



see

http://wakeup-world.com/2016/09/26/big- ... ty-agenda/
“The Nuremberg War Criminal Tribunal convicted 24 of the I.G. Farben executives for mass murder, slavery and other crimes against humanity; however, in less than 7 years, every single murderer was released, and began consulting American corporations. From 1950 to 1980, Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst filled their highest position, Chairman of the Board, with convicted mass murderers. Fritz ter Meer, convicted of mass murder, served just 5 prison years, then “conveniently” became the chairman of Bayer’s supervisory board. Kurt Blome, who admitted to killing Jews with “gruesome experiments,” was hired in 1951 by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps to work on chemical warfare. Today, these companies send lobbyists to Washington D.C. with millions (if not billions) of dollars to influence regulatory decisions made by the FDA and the CDC. These companies today are more powerful in and of themselves than I.G. Farben ever was during WWII.”



Heat is Online


https://robertscribbler.com/2016/09/27/ ... big-boost/


From Maryland to the Caribbean to Asia, Record-Hot Ocean Waters Give Extreme Weather Potentials a Big Boost
The forecasts began coming in this morning: Heavy rainfall expected over the next two days. Possible flash flooding. Turn around, don’t drown.

These advisories buzzed up from local news media for the DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia metro areas as a crazy, wavy Jet Stream spawned an upper-level low that’s predicted to gorge on an insane amount of moisture spewing up off the record-hot Atlantic Ocean.

Forecast GFS model guidance shows an upper-level low-pressure system situated over the Great Lakes region in association with a big trough dipping down from the Arctic. Over the next 24 to 48 hours, the low is expected to shift south and east. Becoming cut off from the upper-level flow, the low is then predicted to set up a persistent rainfall pattern over DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia.



(NOAA’s precipitation forecast model shows extreme rainfall predicted for the DC area over the next seven days. Note that record global heat and, in particular, excessively hot sea-surface temperature anomalies off the U.S. east coast are providing an unprecedented amount of fuel for storms. Should such storms fire off, they could produce rainfall totals in excess of those currently predicted. Image source: NOAA.)

Easterly winds are expected to be drawn into the low from a record-hot Atlantic Ocean. These winds will bear upon them an extraordinary burden of atmospheric moisture which has been continuously evaporating up from a very warm Gulf Stream. Such moisture is fuel for powerful rainstorms. Given the destabilizing kick provided by the upper-level low, it is expected to deliver some pretty intense downpours on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

NOAA model guidance shows rainfall amounts of 3 to 6 inches over the area for the next five days. However, given the high atmospheric moisture content and the record atmospheric and ocean heat that’s spiking storm energy potentials, there is a possibility for locally higher amounts.

Extreme Ocean Heat Contributes to Severe Weather

As the DC area prepares for what could be another record or near-record rainfall event, various other regions over the Atlantic and on the other side of the world are also facing the possibility of intense weather.

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FBI Director James Comey appears Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee, where he’ll get another chance to explain his agency’s double standard regarding Hillary Clinton. His probe of the former Secretary of State’s private email server is looking more like a kid-glove exercise with each new revelation.

House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz on Friday disclosed that the FBI granted immunity to Mrs. Clinton’s top aides as part of its probe into whether Mrs. Clinton mishandled classified information. According to Mr. Chaffetz, this “limited” immunity was extended to former chief of staff Cheryl Mills and senior adviser Heather Samuelson, in order to get them to surrender their laptops, which they’d used to sort through Mrs. Clinton’s work-versus-personal emails.

Why the courtesy? “If the FBI wanted any other Americans’ laptops, they would just go get them—they wouldn’t get an immunity deal,” Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan told Politico. He’s right. The FBI merely had to seek a subpoena or search warrant. By offering immunity, the FBI exempted the laptops and their emails as potential evidence in a criminal case.



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The ATF is Discriminating on
the Basis of Race’ During Stings

The ATF singled out black people and Latinos while conducting controversial stings in Chicago, according to a report released by the Justice Department. 

The report found “strong, consistent and statistically significant evidence” of racial profiling.

Of the 94 people arrested during undercover stings in Chicago, 91% were black or hispanic.

The chances that agents didn’t racially profile was 0.1%, according to a Columbia Law School professor Jeffrey Fagan, who prepared the report.

The investigation concluded that “the ATF





http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cop ... -1.2807620


Cops keep hounding man who recorded Eric Garner video
BY GINGER ADAMS OTIS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, September 26, 2016, 11:04 PM








http://ticklethewire.com/2016/09/26/cia ... mid-1970s/


CIA Director: I Was a Supporter of Communist Party in Mid-1970s

CIA Director John Brennan

By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com

CIA Director John Brennan revealed that he was once a communist sympathizer in the mid-1970s because he was disgusted by Watergate and the political landscape that helped produce it.

Brennan was in college at the time and voted for Communist Party nominee Gus Hall, New York Magazine reports. 

By 1980, Brennan said he was no longer a Communist sympathizer and realized that capitalism was a far better system.

Brennan said he “froze” when he was taking a polygraph test when entering the CIA.

“This was back in 1980, and I thought back to a previous election where I voted, and I voted for the Communist Party candidate.”

Brennan added, “I said I was neither Democratic or Republican, but it was my way, as I was go



2 stories



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CIA found ‘convincing evidence’ Chilean dictator was behind 1976 D.C. attack
By Missy Ryan September 23 2016



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https://consortiumnews.com/2016/09/21/g ... terrorism/




Independent Investigative Journalism Since 1995
George H.W. Bush, the CIA and a Case of State Terrorism
September 21, 2016

From the Archive: Forty years ago, a car-bomb exploded in Washington killing Chile’s ex-Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier, an act of state terrorism that the CIA and its director George H.W. Bush tried to cover up, Robert Parry reported in 2000.

By Robert Parry (Originally published on Sept. 23, 2000)

In early fall of 1976, after a Chilean government assassin had killed a Chilean dissident and an American woman with a car bomb in Washington, D.C., George H.W. Bush’s CIA leaked a false report clearing Chile’s military dictatorship and pointing the FBI in the wrong direction.

The bogus CIA assessment, spread through Newsweek magazine and other U.S. media outlets, was planted despite CIA’s now admitted awareness at the time that Chile was participating in Operation Condor, a cross-border campaign targeting political dissidents, and the CIA’s own suspicions that the Chilean junta was behind the terrorist bombing in Washington.


Then-Vice President George H.W. Bush in a meeting at the White House on Feb. 12, 1981. (Photo credit: Reagan Library)
In a 21-page report to Congress on Sept. 18, 2000, the CIA officially acknowledged for the first time that the mastermind of the terrorist attack, Chilean intelligence chief Manuel Contreras, was a paid asset of the CIA.

The CIA report was issued almost 24 years to the day after the murders of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and American co-worker Ronni Moffitt, who died on Sept. 21, 1976, when a remote-controlled bomb ripped apart Letelier’s car as they drove down Massachusetts Avenue, a stately section of Washington known as Embassy Row.

In the report, the CIA also acknowledged publicly for the first time that it consulted Contreras in October 1976 about the Letelier assassination. The report added that the CIA was aware of the alleged Chilean government role in the murders and included that suspicion in an internal cable the same month.

“CIA’s first intelligence report containing this allegation was dated 6 October 1976,” a little more than two weeks after the bombing, the CIA disclosed.

Nevertheless, the CIA – then under CIA Director George H.W. Bush – leaked for public consumption an assessment clearing the Chilean government’s feared intelligence service, DINA, which was then run by Contreras.

Relying on the word of Bush’s CIA, Newsweek reported that “the Chilean secret police were not involved” in the Letelier assassination. “The [Central Intelligence] agency reached its decision because the bomb was too crude to be the work of experts and because the murder, coming while Chile’s rulers were wooing U.S. support, could only damage the Santiago regime.” [Newsweek, Oct. 11, 1976]

Bush, who later became the 41st president of the United States (and is the father of the 43rd president), has never explained his role in putting out the false cover story that diverted attention away from the real terrorists. Nor has Bush explained what he knew about the Chilean intelligence operation in the weeks before Letelier and Moffitt were killed.

Dodging Disclosure

As a Newsweek correspondent in 1988, a dozen years after the Letelier bombing, when the elder Bush was running for president, I prepared a detailed story about Bush’s handling of the Letelier case.

The draft story included the first account from U.S. intelligence sources that Contreras was a CIA asset in the mid-1970s. I also learned that the CIA had consulted Contreras about the Letelier assassination, information that the CIA then would not confirm.

The sources told me that the CIA sent its Santiago station chief, Wiley Gilstrap, to talk with Contreras after the bombing. Gilstrap then cabled back to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Contreras’s assurances that the Chilean government was not involved. Contreras told Gilstrap that the most likely killers were communists who wanted to make a martyr out of Letelier.


Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier, who was murdered along with co-worker Ronni Moffitt, when right-wing terrorists blew up his car in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 21, 1976.
My story draft also described how Bush’s CIA had been forewarned in 1976 about DINA’s secret plans to send agents, including the assassin Michael Townley, into the United States on false passports.

Upon learning of this strange mission, the U.S. ambassador to Paraguay, George Landau, cabled Bush





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Border Patrol agent dead after exchange of gunfire with Maricopa police
 
Maricopa neighbor gives account of terrifying night living next to a domestic dispute that turned into a fatal police stand-off.

William Pitts and Nico Santos, KPNX 6:46 PM. MST September 27, 2016



MARICOPA, Ariz. - A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol agent is dead after exchanging gunfire with officers, according to the Maricopa Police Department.

Police were called to the El Dorado Lakes neighborhood Monday night for a domestic violence incident, they said. The couple's 10-year-old daughter made the 911 phone call. 

When police arrived, a man
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FBI Octopus....exposing FBI tentacles

http://www.salina.com/news/local_briefs ... 89080.html
Former KBI director to speak about agency's history
Salina Journal
Larry Welch, a former FBI agent and director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, will present a two-part behind the scenes look at the KBI in the First Thursday ...





Main Streaming Media giving us what we want to hear....

couple of stories


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http://www.selmatimesjournal.com/2016/1 ... its-selma/


FBI agent that worked 1965 march visits Selma



Monday, October 3, 2016

After more than 52 years, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent that was involved in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march came back to Selma to pay a visit.

Daniel Clancy, a special agent for the FBI during 1965, was assigned to cover the 5-day march throughout its entirety.

“I still remember getting a call from our headquarters on the Friday before the march saying that you are being transferred up to Selma temporarily,” Clancy said. “So we left on Saturday morning from Jacksonville, [Florida] and got up here.”

Clancy said before he was ever called to Selma, he and his wife, Carol, watched the events of Bloody Sunday unfold on television.

“They interrupted the program to show this. And we were just absolutely shocked. We could not believe that this type of beating and assault was taking place in the United States,” Clancy said. “We did not realize the significance of this in the United States history. It was probably the most significant event that led to the passing of [The Voting Rights Act of 1965].”

Although Clancy was from Cleveland, Ohio, he had been stationed in Jacksonville during that time and was called upon to supervise the march.

“Our role was to observe for any violations of the federal court order in which the march was taking place,” Clancy said. “We would stay with the marchers during the day until they got to the campsite, then we would come back to Selma.”

The agents were on 12-hour rotating shifts, and Clancy worked during the day.

“There were really no incidents that occurred during the march. … Nothing really happened until the last night,” Clancy said. “We were all out at Craig Air Force Base having dinner, and we got a call to return to our hotels in Selma that there has been a killing along the road.”

The killing was that of Viola Liuzzo, who was shot to death by members of the Ku Klux Klan while driving back from transporting fellow activists.

Clancy said he and the other agents met at the Federal Courthouse the following morning to receive their assignments in the investigation of Liuzzo’s death. Clancy’s assignment was to go with a team of agents to search for the ammunition and casings that had been thrown out of the car following the shooting.

“We started looking from the site that the shooting occurred and the car ended up, and we probably walked the entire distance to the Montgomery airport,” Clancy said of looking for the casings for five days. “We were walking along right over a site that we had already been over, and there laying on the top of the mowed grass was one of the spent cartridges.”

Dianne Harris, a foot soldier from the march, took Clancy and Carol, along with other family members, around Selma Monday.

“It brought back memories,” Clancy said. “There’s a few places that I still remember as I was driving down the main street.”

Harris said she was honored to have the opportunity to show Clancy around the city.

“As a 1965 foot soldier, student marcher, today has been most humbling for me as well as educational, because I never thought that I would be able to come in contact with or meet someone as Mr. Clancy’s stature as far as being a part of the historical movement that took place,” Harris said.

After the march and working in Alabama for a short time more, Clancy became an administrator at Case Western Reserve University, formally Western Reserve University, for more than 45 years. There he was able to share his story to students.



2.

http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3379



Gary Thomas Rowe Jr.
Keith S. Hebert, University of West Georgia
Gary Thomas Rowe Jr. (1933-1998) is one of the most controversial figures of the civil rights movement in Alabama. Between 1960 and 1965, Rowe, worked as an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham and providing the FBI with information about the group's members and activities. Rowe, however, ignored FBI instructions to avoid violent situations and participated in several high-profile attacks upon civil rights activists and was an accessory to the murder of Viola Liuzzo.
Rowe was born on August 13, 1933, to Gary Thomas Rowe and Alma Ann Sellars in Savannah, Georgia. He dropped out of school after completing the eighth grade and later joined the Georgia National Guard and United States Marine Corps Reserves. After his discharge from the military in March 1957, Rowe moved to Birmingham, where he unsuccessfully pursued a career in law enforcement. Rowe would be married four times and father three children and adopt two more during his multiple marriages.
Local Klan leaders began encouraging Rowe to join the group while he worked as a bouncer at the Birmingham Veterans of Foreign Wars Club, one of the city's many Klan hangouts. Meanwhile, FBI agents had come to Alabama to gather information about the Ku Klux Klan and black activists whom the agency suspected of having Communist ties. Initially Rowe refused to join the Klan, but when he was caught impersonating an FBI agent, the FBI recruited Rowe to join the group to provide them with insider information about Klan operations. The FBI's task was made easier by the fact that Rowe had wanted to be a police officer, but was ineligible because he lacked a high school diploma. In May 1960, Rowe joined the Eastview Klavern and began receiving monthly payments ranging from $80.00 to $250.00 plus expenses from the FBI "for services rendered." FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover personally approved these payments.
Although some Klansmen were suspicious of Rowe, others, particularly Grand Dragon (supreme leader) Bobby Shelton, found Rowe to be trustworthy and willing to use violence to achieve the Klan's goals. Within months of his initiation, Klansmen elected Rowe to a leadership position with the Birmingham Klan. Rowe's quick rise resulted from support from younger members who criticized older leaders for their reluctance to use violence against civil rights activists.

Freedom Riders Arrive in Birmingham
On May 14, 1961, Rowe helped organize the Klan response to the Freedom Riders and led one group of Klansmen in an attack upon a group of Freedom Riders at the Birmingham bus station. Although Rowe had warned the FBI three weeks earlier that the Klan planned to attack the Freedom Riders, the FBI did not intervene because it claimed it lacked jurisdiction for various reasons, although the Freedom Riders were protected by federal interstate commerce laws.
Some of Rowe's FBI handlers believe he may have been involved in the May 11, 1963, bombing of Martin Luther King Jr.'s room at the Gaston Motel in Birmingham and of King's brother's home and parsonage. Rowe claimed, however, that he had an informant in the African American community who said it was Black Muslims who planted the bombs. Rowe was involved in other acts of violence against African Americans and was arrested and may have been involved in another murder in 1963.
Rowe and five other Klansmen were arrested outside of Tuscaloosa in early June 1963 by the Alabama state police, who had been tipped off by the FBI, according to some accounts. The Klansmen were found with a trunkload of weapons, including dynamite, hand grenades, and a machine gun, aiming to disrupt the admission of James Hood and Vivian Malone at the University of Alabama. The men were released and had their weapons returned.
In September 1963, Klansmen bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, killing four young girls. Rowe may have participated in the bombing and possibly even knew about the bombers' plans, but he failed to report the plot to the FBI and a 1979 investigation found no evidence of his participation.

Viola Gregg Liuzzo
On March 25, 1965, Rowe was among a group of four Klansmen who murdered civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo in Lowndes County, following the Selma to Montgomery March. Alerted soon after by Rowe, the FBI arrested him and the others less than 24 hours after the murder. Nine days later the charges against Rowe were dropped and the nation learned that he had been a longtime FBI informant. Rowe's violence and the FBI's failure to monitor him deeply embarrassed FBI director Hoover, who subsequently sought to smear Liuzzo's reputation to distract attention away from Rowe's involvement in her murder. Rowe later testified against the three murder suspects, who were found not guilty by an all-white Lowndes County jury but later found guilty of violating Liuzzo's civil rights in a federal court. Rowe always made the claim that he did not fire his weapon, which was confirmed by FBI investigators.
In 1965, Rowe entered the FBI's witness protection program under the name Thomas Neil Moore. He briefly served as an agent in the U.S. Marshals Service but was dismissed for his continued violent behavior. After Rowe became alienated from the FBI, he began to openly criticize the agency's actions during the civil rights movement. In 1975, Rowe appeared before a congressional hearing wearing a disguise to hide his identity. He claimed that the FBI could have prevented numerous assaults upon civil rights activists during the 1960s but had failed to act. Rowe repeated many of these accusations in his 1976 autobiography, My Undercover Years with the Ku Klux Klan.
Although FBI regulations prevented informants from committing acts of violence, Rowe and the FBI ignored those rules to protect Rowe's identity and to gain access to information shared only among Klan leaders. Most notably, Rowe related to the FBI a plan by Klansmen to kill Fred Shuttlesworth at a recently integrated Birmingham restaurant in July 1962. The FBI relayed that information to Shuttlesworth, who had planned to test the new policy at the restaurant, but on another night. Overall though, the FBI employed Rowe to learn more about the Klan's operations and members. His covert work helped the FBI uncover the names of numerous active Klansmen and provided information about men who had committed acts of violence against African Americans and civil rights workers, but the FBI often ignored these reports and subsequently did little to curtail Klan violence or to protect civil rights activists. Rowe's intentions have been questioned by many historians and journalists, who have accused him of using his FBI connections to avoid prosecution as he carried out his own violent racist agenda. In later years, Rowe stated that he had opposed racial integration but disputed reports that racism motivated his actions as an informant. Rowe claimed that he disliked the Klan and served the FBI to protect America. Often times, though, his statements and testimony were found to be inconsistent.
In 1978, Alabama attorney general Bill Baxley charged Rowe with Viola Liuzzo's murder. The indictment was thrown out because Rowe had been granted immunity from prosecution before he entered the federal witness relocation program in 1965. A 1979 task force on the agency's use of informants came to few conclusions, most notably about the Liuzzo murder. Rowe remained in the news throughout the early 1980s as the FBI defended itself during a series of lawsuits filed by Liuzzo's family stemming from the agency's actions during the civil rights movement. For the rest of his life, reporters and historians often sought out Rowe for interviews about his work as a FBI informant. Rowe died of a heart attack on May 25, 1998, in Savannah, Georgia. His obituary was not published until that October.

Additional Resources

Carter, Dan T. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism and the Transformation of American Politics. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.
May, Gary. The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
Rowe, Gary Thomas Jr. My Undercover Years with the Ku Klux Klan. New York: Bantam Books, 1976.
Stanton, Mary. From Selma To Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998.
Thornton, J. Mills, III. Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham and Selma. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.


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https://truthandshadows.wordpress.com/2 ... -hospital/
MARTIN LUTHER KING SURVIVED SHOOTING, WAS MURDERED IN HOSPITAL: AN INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM PEPPER
      



For one bright moment back in the late 1960s, we actually believed that we could change our country. We had identified the enemy. We saw it up close, we had its measure, and we were very hopeful that we would prevail. The enemy was hollow where we had substance. All of that substance was destroyed by an assassin’s bullet. – William Pepper (page 15, The Plot to Kill King)

By Craig McKee

The revelations are stunning. The media indifference is predictable.

Thanks to the nearly four-decade investigation by human rights lawyer William Pepper, it is now clear once and for all that Martin Luther King was murdered in a conspiracy that was instigated by then FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and that also involved the U.S. military, the Memphis Police Department, and “Dixie Mafia” crime figures in Memphis, Tennessee. These and many more incredible details of the King assassination are contained in a trilogy of volumes by Pepper culminating with his latest and final book on the subject, The Plot to Kill King. He previously wrote Orders to Kill (1995) and An Act of State (2003).

With virtually no help from the mainstream media and very little from the justice system, Pepper was able to piece together what really happened on April 4, 1968 in Memphis right down to who gave the order and supplied the money, how the patsy was chosen, and who actually pulled the trigger.

Without this information, the truth about King’s assassination would have been buried and lost to history. Witnesses would have died off, taking their secrets with them, and the o









https://www.abqjournal.com/856320/dea-m ... finds.html

Justice Department: DEA Paid Informants Millions of Dollars without Proper Oversight





The DEA is under fire for spending millions of dollars on confidential informants without proper oversight and using sources in a way that potentially violates the Constitution, the Justice Department inspector general has found.

The 65-page report lists serious missteps in the handling of confidential informants and recommended better policies and procedures, the Washington Post reports.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz found a lack of oversight that led to fraud and abuse. One example showed that the DEA paid a source more than $469,000, even though he had previously been “deactivated” for lying in court and depositions.

The investigation found that the DEA used more than 18,000 informants between October 2010 and September 2015, and half were paid about $237 million.

The Washington Post wrote:

The sources ranged from criminals providing information on their associates to airline, train and parcel-service employees providing tips on suspected drug





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A Texas sheriff who once busted Willie Nelson linked to a rogue US intelligence unit under criminal investigation



Even among the colourful pantheon of Texas lawmen, Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West has seized his share of the limelight. In his 16-year career patrolling the West Texas outback, he has busted crooner Willie Nelson for pot, accused the Mexican army of invading US territory and repeatedly ripped the federal government on television over border security.

Less well known are the country sheriff’s strange connections to a rogue Navy intelligence office at the Pentagon that has been under criminal investigation for the past three years.

The former director of the intelligence unit, David W Landersman, a civilian, is facing federal conspiracy charges for allegedly orchestrating a mysterious scheme to equip Navy commandos with hundreds of untraceable AK-47 rifle silencers.

A new wrinkle in the case, however, has recently emerged in US District Court in Alexandria, Va., where prosecutors have suggested that Navy officials from the intelligence unit also sought to funnel military equipment to rural Hudspeth County and set up a secret training base near the Mexican border.

Even more unusually, two of Landersman’s former subordinates have testified that when they were not working full time on intelligence matters at the Pentagon, they moonlighted 1,600 miles away as reserve deputy sheriffs in Hudspeth County, a desolate, Connecticut-size jurisdiction east of El Paso.

Also serving as deputies to Sheriff West were Landersman, his son, and the husband of one of the Navy intelligence officials, according to two Pentagon officials and others familiar with the case.

Why so many Pentagon officials and their relatives were working on the side as sheriff’s deputies in Texas has not been explained in court, where much of the evidence has been sealed to protect national security. What a training base would have been used for there is just as murky.

West, who was first elected as Hudspeth County sheriff in 2000, did not respond to several phone calls and emails seeking comment. He has not been charged with any wrongdoing.

Hudspeth County is home to only 3,300 people but covers an enormous stretch of parched terrain in the Rio Grande basin. It is best known for a Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 10 where drug-sniffing dogs nab hundreds of motorists a year for carrying small amounts of marijuana.

Besides Nelson, other musical performers who have been arrested on drug charges while passing through Hudspeth County include Snoop Dogg, Fiona Apple and Nelly.

West, who has been described by NPR as “a stout, swaggering lawman” with a sign over his office that reads “Boss Hog,” has just 14 full-time deputies under his command. To compensate, he has sometimes recruited outsiders to provide extra muscle.

In 2011, he pinned a reserve deputy sheriff’s badge on Hollywood tough guy Steven Seagal. Insisting the move was not a publicity stunt, West predicted the action star would bring “a wealth of tactical experience and dedication as a peace officer” and teach martial arts to others in the department.

Exactly what the Pentagon officials did during their stints as deputy sheriffs in Hudspeth County remains unknown. But apparently the work could be dangerous.

Worried about threats from Mexican drug lords, West required his special deputies to carry a firearm for self-protection when they flew on commercial airlines, according to Sterling Gill, a civilian Navy official who served in Hudspeth County.

The policy even applied when they traveled outside Texas. At a court hearing this September, Gill testified she once carried a gun on a flight between Washington and San Francisco.

“My sheriff, who has had several threats against his life by the drug cartel and has a bounty on his head, insists that all of his deputies fly armed at all times,” Gill added, noting that she filled out the proper paperwork to carry a weapon on board.

Gill holds personal ties to Hudspeth County through the 32,000-acre Circle Ranch, a property owned by her in-laws. At the court hearing, she acknowledged that Landersman — her boss at the Pentagon and a fellow onetime Marine — had visited the ranch on at least four occasions.

In a brief line of questioning, prosecutors asked Gill whether she and Landersman had tried to set up a military training centre at the ranch, along with new roads, an airstrip and $14,000 worth of radios from the Defense Department.

Gill said the radios were intended for the Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Office. She denied the other allegations without elaborating.

Gill has not been charged in the case. She testified that the Navy has suspended her indefinitely without pay and that she is under investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). Her attorney, Christopher Man, said Justice Department officials have told him it is unlikely they will bring charges. He declined further comment.

The Texas connection represents another puzzle in an already enigmatic case involving the Navy intelligence unit.

Blandly known as the Office of Plans, Policy, Oversight and Integration, the small agency has about 10 people on staff, mostly civilians, and is supposed to focus on policy matters. Somewhere along the way, however, it started to become more directly involved in secret missions, prompting one former senior Navy official to describe the group as “wannabe spook-cops.”

The office came under scrutiny in January 2013 when one of its civilian executives appeared at a Defense Intelligence Agency office in Arlington, Virginia, and asked for a badge that would allow him to carry weapons on military property, according to prosecutors.

The executive flashed a set of credentials stamped with the letters LEO — an acronym for “law enforcement officer” — even though he lacked police powers. That prompted federal agents to search his office at the Pentagon, where they found more suspicious badge materials.

The investigation broadened as NCIS agents uncovered evidence that the intelligence unit had arranged an unauthorized, sweetheart contract to purchase AK-47 silencers from Landersman’s brother, Mark, a California hot-rod mechanic.

Under terms of the deal, Mark Landersman produced a batch of 349 homemade, unmarked silencers in a machine shop and sold them to the Navy for $1.6 million, even though they cost only $10,000 in parts and labour to make.

After a federal trial, Mark Landersman was convicted of conspiracy in October 2014 along with a Navy intelligence official who helped arrange the contract, Lee M. Hall. Both men are appealing the verdicts.

The silencers’ intended use remains hazy. Many details are classified, but some court filings suggest they were part of a top-secret operation to help arm Navy SEAL Team 6, the unit that killed Osama bin Laden.

David Landersman, who was indicted after his brother’s conviction, has pleaded not guilty. His attorney has argued that the intelligence-unit director was kept in the dark about the contract between his brother and the Navy and that a subordinate orchestrated the deal without his knowledge.

Adding to the air of mystery have been revelations in court that Navy security officials burned and shredded piles of sensitive documents shortly after The Washington Post first reported on the existence of the investigation in November 2013.

David Landersman’s attorneys have argued that the case against their client should be thrown out because the destroyed files would show that other Navy officials oversaw the silencer contract.

They have hinted that Navy officials also wanted to get rid of the documents because they contained other embarrassing information, including notes about sexual misconduct at the Pentagon and files related to a massive bribery investigation into the Navy’s 7th Fleet.

Richard Kent Ford, the Navy security officer who supervised the destruction of documents, has said that he was purging old files in accordance with Navy regulations. He originally testified in 2014 that he was unaware that Landersman, Gill and others from the intelligence unit were under investigation or that there had been news coverage of the case.

At a court hearing this September, however, Landersman’s attorneys confronted Ford with an email Ford had written alerting several Navy officials to The Post’s front-page article shortly before he oversaw the elimination of the files.

“He lied to this court straight up,” said Stephen M. Ryan, one of Landersman’s defense lawyers, adding that Navy officials had demonstrated “more than a whiff of bad intent” by destroying evidence.

Ford denied lying on the stand, saying he had forgotten about The Post’s coverage. Records from a separate personnel hearing, however, show that the Navy booted Ford from his job after concluding he was “not truthful” in his original testimony in the silencer case.

Justice Department officials said that Navy security officers destroyed the documents without their knowledge. They also argued that the files were not relevant to the case.

US District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema is scheduled to rule whether to dismiss the charges against Landersman or proceed to trial. “It’s certainly a messier-than-normal case,” she said at a hearing.





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Why FBI Should Disclose How iPhone Was Hacked

By Editorial Board
Orange County Register

After the San Bernardino attack in December that killed 14 people and wounded 22 others, the FBI hired a private hacker to unlock the iPhone of one of the two dead terrorists. Perhaps the FBI learned some of Syed Rizwan Farook’s evil secrets. But it also created unsettling secrets of its own.

The mysteries left over from the episode start with these: Who is the unnamed private party the FBI paid to break the smartphone’s security device? How much taxpayer money did the agency pay?
News organizations that have been stiff-armed by the FBI in their Freedom of Information Act request now are suing the bureau for answers.

We hope they succeed. The public should be able to know more about how the FBI cracked the privacy safeguards on the terrorist’s Apple phone. This is about more than one investigation and one wrongdoer’s phone – it’s about the threat that the government’s ability to break into electronic devices could pose to anybody’s online privacy and safety, especially if the tools fell into the wrong hands.

As stated in the lawsuit – filed last week by the Associated Press, the Gannett media company and the Vice Media digital and broadcasting company – “Understanding the amount that the FBI deemed appropriate to spend on the tool, as well as the identity and reputation of the vendor it did businesses with, is essential for the public to provide effective oversight of government functions and help guard against potential improprie





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Did NYPD Lt. Shoot Himself to Avoid Testifying Against Former Boss?



Authorities are questioning whether an NYPD lieutenant shot himself twice in the stomach to avoid testifying against his friend and former boss.

The New York Post reports that Lt. Peter Salzone shot himself after he was interviewed by the FBI as part of a corruption investigation into the NYPD.

Salzone had been asked to testify against his former boss, NYPD Deputy Inspector James Grant.

The Post wrote:

The NYPD’s Force Investigation Division is looking at the possibility that Salzone never intended to kill himself and merely wanted to appear emotionally unstable to sabotage his credibility as a witness, according to sources.

Salzone was stripped of his gun and badge Saturday. He could not be reached for comment.

He is the second police officer to shoot






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After Senator Frank Church held hearings on FBI misconduct
in the 1970"s Congress was ready to reign in the FBI
with legislation.
The FBI responded by creating ABSCAM

John F. Good dies; head of FBI's ABSCAM team was 80
Newsday-
John Good, a former FBI agent and the man who oversaw the massive Abscam federal anti-corruption operation depicted in the film ''American Hustle'', has died ...





Two stories about FBI agent James Bernazzani

Never prosecuted for Hatch Act violation

1.

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The FBI on Friday said it had decided to reassign Bernazzani to its Washington ... A federal law, the Hatch Act, prohibits federal officials from engaging in "partisan ...


2.

http://www.wwltv.com/news/crime/number- ... /328773559

Number of local bank robberies has doubled since last year
WWLTV.
James Bernazzani is a retired FBI special Agent and has seen some of the most violent ... “When I was head of the FBI we had one hell of a violent take over on ...







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Book details how Team Obama schemed to let Hillary skate
New York Post-
It was June 27, 2016 — one year into the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton's e-mails. “Bill said, 'I ... Bill hung up the phone and turned to a Secret Service agent.





detective, Damacio Diaz sentenced to 5 years
11:30 AM, Oct 3, 2016


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BAKERSFIELDl, Calif. - Damacio Diaz, 44, of McFarland, formerly a detective with the Bakersfield Police Department, was sentenced today to five years in prison for bribery, possession and attempted possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, and making and subscribing a false income tax return,





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FBI searching for more tech-focused applicants
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Learning about government


The Wojciak-Talberg American Legion Auxiliary Unit 602 of Hillman sponsored Callie Long for Girls State held at the Bethel University. Over 300 citizens were there. Long reported to the Auxiliary about her experience at Girls State.


Long said it was a wonderful experience. She learned about government practices by attending general assemblies, city meetings and county meetings. During the general assemblies, there were guest speakers. One speaker was an FBI special agent, “And that was fascinating,” Long said. “She talked to us about what it takes to become an FBI agent, and what the job is all about. It was actually really crazy, we were sitting there listening to her speak during one of our general assemblies, and she said something about having to leave because she had to go take care of a bomb threat. She was so calm about it, she knew she would get it under control. I thought the FBI agents job sounded like a very interesting job.”



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




FBI misconduct reveals sex, lies and videotape


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 and allowed them into an FBI office after hours.
These are among confidential summaries of FBI disciplinary reports obtained by CNN, which describe misconduct by agency supervisors, agents and other employees over the last three years.
Read the FBI documents obtained by CNN
The reports, compiled by the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility, are e-mailed quarterly to FBI employees, but are not released to the public.
And despite the bureau's very strict screening procedure for all prospective employees, the FBI confirms that about 325 to 350 employees a year receive some kind of discipline, ranging from a reprimand to suspension.
About 30 employees each year are fired.
"We do have a no-tolerance policy," FBI Assistant Director Candice Will told CNN. "We don't tolerate our employees engaging in misconduct. We expect them to behave pursuant to the standards of conduct imposed on all FBI employees."
However, she said, "It doesn't mean that we fire everybody. You know, our employees are human, as we all are. We all make mistakes. So, our discipline is intended to reflect that.
"We understand that employees can make mistakes, will make mistakes. When appropriate, we will decide to remove an employee. When we believe that an employee can be rehabilitated and should be given a second chance, we do that."
Will, who oversees the bureau's Office of Professional Responsibility, said most of the FBI's 34,300 employees, which include 13,700 agents, follow the rules.
"The vast majority of our employees do not lie," Will said. "The vast majority of our employees do not cheat. The vast majority of our employees do not steal. The vast majority of our employees do not engage in the type of misconduct you are describing. There is an occasional employee who will engage in such misconduct, and that employee will answer for it."
However, the internal summaries show that even with serious misconduct, employees can keep their job (names and locations of the employees are not listed in the reports):
-- An employee had "a sexual relationship with a source" over seven months. The punishment was a 40-day suspension.
-- The supervisor who viewed "pornographic movies in the office while sexually satisfying himself" during work hours received a 35-day suspension.
-- The employee in a "leadership position" who misused a "government






http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/21/us/fbi-misbehavior/

FBI battling rash of sexting amongst
its employees
By Scott Zamost and Drew Griffin, CNN Special Investigations Unit
Updated 5:35 AM ET, Fri February 22, 2013


Misconduct revealed within FBI 04:31
Story highlights
CNN obtained FBI internal reports on employee misconduct
According to the reports, employees sent naked photos and inappropriate text messages
An FBI official says it sends the reports to its employees to deter further misconduct
She described a "rash of sexting" cases among the bureau's employees
It sounds like the plot of a bad movie: bugging your boss' office. Sending naked photos around to co-workers. Sexting in the office. Paying for sex in a massage parlor.
But it all happened in the federal agency whose motto is "fidelity, bravery, integrity" -- the FBI.
These lurid details are outlined in confidential internal disciplinary reports obtained by CNN that were issued to FBI employees as a way to deter misconduct.
Read the FBI's internal reports (PDF)
The FBI hopes these quarterly reports will stem what its assistant director called a "rash of sexting cases" involving employees who are using their government-issued devices to send lurid texts and nude photos.
"We're hoping (that) getting the message out in the quarterlies is going to teach people, as well as their supervisors ... you can't do this stuff," FBI assistant director Candice Will told CNN this week. "When you are given an FBI BlackBerry, it's for official use. 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. That is not why we provide you an FBI BlackBerry."
While the vast majority of the FBI's 36,000 employees act professionally, the disciplinary reports issued by the agency's Office of Professional Responsibility show serious misconduct has continued for years.
From 2010 to 2012, the FBI disciplined 1,045 employees for a variety of violations, according to the agency. Eighty-five were fired.
The internal reports over the last year don't specify job titles, names or the location of the employees. Yet, they provide exact details of their misdeeds:
-- One employee engaged in a "romantic relationship with former boyfriend (now husband) knowing he was a drug/user dealer. Employee also lied under oath when questioned during the administrative inquiry about her husband's activities."
-- Another FBI worker "hid a recording device in supervisor's office. In addition, without authorization, employee made copies of supervisor's negative comments about employee that employee located by conducting an unauthorized search of the supervisor's office and briefcase." It said the employee "lied to investigators during (the) course of the administrative inquiry."
-- An FBI supervisor "repeatedly committed check fraud and lacked candor under oath."
-- One employee "was involved in a domestic dispute at mistress' apartment, requiring police intervention. Employee was drunk and uncooperative with police" and "refused to relinquish his weapon, making it necessary for the officers to physically subdue him, take the loaded weapon and place employee in handcuffs."
-- In other cases, an employee was charged with DUI for the second time, one used a lost or stolen credit card to buy gas, and another was caught in a child pornography sting operation, according to the internal reports.
All of the employees in these cases were fired.
More FBI employees were discipl




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FBI Holds Career Information Session for Team USA Athletes
Federal Bureau of Investigation (press release) (blog)-
More than 70 Team USA members visited FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., ... Special Agent Jason Read, for example, continues to train with and compete ...


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OCTOBER 6, 2016
What’s Behind Time Magazine’s Putin Demonizing?




“Russia Wants to Undermine Faith in the U.S. Election. Don’t Fall For It.” Thus reads the cover ofTime magazine with a photo of Vladimir Putin on the cover staring at me from shelves as I sit in an airport. Genuinely curious, I check out Massimo Calabresi’s article online.

Of course, U.S. elections are almost completely unverifiable and do not even pretend to meet international standards. Jimmy Carter doesn’t even try to monitor them because there’s no way to do it. Much voting is done on machines that simply must be trusted on faith. Whether they accurately count the votes entered is simply unknowable, and reason to wonder is fueled by the machines’ frequently changing a vote visibly just as it’s cast, and by the ease with which people have been able to hack the machines. Never mind all the problems with registration, intimidation, inconvenience, discrimination, etc.

We should undermine our own faith in the U.S. election system. I’d include in that the financial corruption, gerrymandering, etc., but here I’m just referring to the counting of votes. Then we should repair it! Is Russia helpfully pointing out the problem to us? Not that I’ve seen. But the Russia-did-it stories that were used to bury the DNC-rigged-its-primary stories rather shockingly blurted out in major corporate U.S. media what I’ve just been saying. For a while it seemed acceptable to be aware that U.S. elections are faith-based as long as it helps build up hostility with Russia. Now, however, we’re being told of our duty to remain firm in our faith. Time says:

“The leaders of the U.S. government, including the President and his top national-security advisers, face an unprecedented dilemma. Since the spring, U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies have seen mounting evidence of an active Russian influence operation targeting the 2016 presidential election.”

Why the “top national-security advisers”? That’s a euphemism for war counselors. How do they come into this? And where is the evidence, mounting or otherwise?

“It is very unlikely the Russians could sway the actual vote count, because our election infrastructure is decentralized and voting machines are not accessible from the Internet.”

Of the 50 states into which the vote counting is “decentralized” there are only a handful the U.S. media will pay much attention to. Those “swing states” are the ones a hacker would hack. And here’s an interesting Washington Post article I recommend to the editors of Time: “More than 30 states offer online voting, but experts warn it isn’t secure.”

“But they can sow disruption and instability up to, and on, Election Day, more than a dozen senior U.S. officials tell TIME, undermining faith in the result and in democracy itself.”

Democracy itself? Egad! Those commies must be against democracy. Perhaps they even hate capitalism! How many of those senior officials have names? Is “senior” in this case a polite way of saying “extremely elderly”? Come on! Nobody has faith in U.S. democracy. That’s undermined every day by the U.S. government, as Time’s own pollsters are perfectly aware. Most U.S. residents believe their government is broken, and they’re perfectly right. Russia’s government could use a lot of improvements too. But only one of the two is building missile bases and engaging in military “exercises” on the other one’s border.

“The question, debated at multiple meetings at the White House, is how aggressively to respond to the Russian operation. Publicly naming and shaming the Russians and describing what the intelligence community knows about their activities would help Americans understand and respond prudently to any disruptions that might take place between now and the close of the polls.”

Gee, there’s an idea. If only there were a journalist in the building!

“Senior Justice Department officials have argued in favor of calling out the Russians, and that position has been echoed forcefully outside of government by lawmakers and former top national-security officials from both political parties.”

Wait, don’t tell me, are these the same guys who sincerely wanted to tell us where the Weapons of Mass Destruction were in Iraq?

“Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. The President and several of his closest national-security advisers are concerned about the danger of a confrontation in the new and ungoverned world of cyberspace, and they argue that while the U.S. has powerful offensive and defensive capabilities there, an escalating confrontation carries significant risks.”

That’s right! Hey, they know best. Accusing Russia without any evidence shouldn’t offend anybody. The Russian government should be grateful. But presenting evidence and seeking to uphold the law, truth, an


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Sabre-Rattling with Russia Over Syria - Reigniting the Cold War




06 October 2016 10:40
A recent but very little covered letter to President Obama from a group of concerned military and intelligence professionals provides an interesting contrast to the growing anti-Russia/anti-Putin movement stemming from the White House, Department of Defense and Hillary Clinton.  The group that authored the letter is called Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) and consists of the following individuals:
 
William Binney, former Technical Director, World Geopolitical & Military Analysis, NSA; co-founder, SIGINT Automation Research Center (ret.)
 
Fred Costello, Former Russian Linguist, USAF
 
Mike Gravel, former Adjutant, top secret control officer, Communications Intelligence Service; special agent of the Counter Intelligence Corps and former United States Senator
 
Matthew Hoh, former Capt., USMC, Iraq & Foreign Service Officer, Afghanistan (associate VIPS)
 
Larry Johnson, CIA and State Department officer
 
John Kiriakou, former CIA counterterrorism officer and former senior investigator, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
 
Linda Lewis, WMD preparedness policy analyst, USDA (ret.) (associate VIPS)
 
Edward Loomis, NSA, Cryptologic Computer Scientist (ret.)
 
Ray McGovern, former US Army infantry/intelligence officer & CIA analyst (ret.)
 
Elizabeth Murray, Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Middle East, CIA (ret.)
 
Todd Pierce, MAJ, US Army Judge Advocate (ret.)
 
Coleen Rowley, Division Counsel & Special Agent, FBI (ret.)
 
Kirk Wiebe, former Senior Analyst, SIGINT Automation Research Center, NSA, (ret.)
 
Robert Wing, former Foreign Service Officer
 
Ann Wright, U.S. Army Reserve Colonel (ret) and former U.S. Diplomat
 
This letter is particularly pertinent given the American withdrawal from the Russian-led talks on a ceasefire in Syria in early October as shown here:
 

 
With that background, here are some excerpts from the open letter to President Obama about America's deteriorating relationship with Russia:
 
"We write to alert you, as we did President George W. Bush, six weeks before the attack on Iraq, that the consequences of limiting your circle of advisers to a small, relatively inexperienced coterie with a dubious record for wisdom can prove disastrous.  Our concern this time regards Syria.
 


We are hoping that your President’s Daily Brief tomorrow will give appropriate attention to Saturday’s warning by Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova: “If the US launches a direct aggression against Damascus and the Syrian Army, it would cause a terrible, tectonic shift not only in the country, but in the entire region.”
 
Speaking on Russian TV, she warned of those whose “logic is ‘why do we need diplomacy’ … when there is power … and methods of resolving a problem by power. We already know this logic; there is nothing new about it. It usually ends with one thing – full-scale war.”
 
We are also hoping that this is not the first you have heard of this – no doubt officially approved – statement. If on Sundays you rely on the “mainstream” press, you may well have missed it. In the Washington Post, an abridged report of Zakharova’s remarks (nothing about “full-scale war”) was buried in the last paragraph of an 11-paragraph article titled “Hospital in Aleppo is hit again by bombs.” Sunday’s New York Times totally ignored the Foreign Ministry spokesperson’s statements.
 
In our view, it would be a huge mistake to allow your national security advisers to follow the example of the Post and Times in minimizing the importance of Zakharova’s remarks.
 
Events over the past several weeks have led Russian officials to distrust Secretary of State John Kerry. Indeed, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who parses his words carefully, has publicly expressed that distrust. Some Russian officials suspect that Kerry has been playing a double game; others believe that, however much he may strive for progress through diplomacy, he cannot deliver on his commitments because the Pentagon undercuts him every time. We believe that this lack of trust is a challenge that must be overcome and that, at this point, only you can accomplish this.
 
It should not be attributed to paranoia on the Russians’ part that they suspect the Sept. 17 U.S. and Australian air attacks on Syrian army troops that killed 62 and wounded 100 was no “mistake,” but rather a deliberate attempt to scuttle the partial cease-fire Kerry and Lavrov had agreed on – with your approval and that of President Putin – that took effect just five days earlier.
 
In public remarks bordering on the insubordinate, senior Pentagon officials showed unusually open skepticism regarding key aspects of the Kerry-Lavrov deal. We can assume that what Lavrov has told his boss in private is close to his uncharacteristically blunt words on Russian NTV on Sept. 26:
 
“My good friend John Kerry … is under fierce criticism from the US military machine. Despite the fact that, as always, [they] made assurances that the US Commander in Chief, President Barack Obama, supported him in his contacts with Russia (he confirmed that during his meeting with President Vladimir Putin), apparently the military does not really listen to the Commander in Chief.”
 
Lavrov’s words are not mere rhetoric. He also criticized JCS Chairman Joseph Dunford for telling Congress that he opposed sharing intelligence with Russia, “after the agreements concluded on direct orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama stipulated that they would share intelligence. … It is difficult to work with such partners. …”" (my bold)
 


This tells us something very important; there is a very significant policy difference between the White House and the Pentagon when it comes to Syria.  Recent developments in Syria strongly suggest that there is a direct conflict between military and civilian leadership in the United States.
 
Let's go back to the open letter:
 
"The door to further negotiations remains ajar. In recent days, officials of the Russian foreign and defense ministries, as well as President Putin’s spokesman, have carefully avoided shutting that door, and we find it a good sign that Secretary Kerry has been on the phone with Foreign Minister Lavrov. And the Russians have also emphasized Moscow’s continued willingness to honor previous agreements on Syria.
 
In the Kremlin’s view, Russia has far more skin in the game than the U.S. does. Thousands of Russian dissident terrorists have found their way to Syria, where they obtain weapons, funding, and practical experience in waging violent insurgency. There is understandable worry on Moscow’s part over the threat they will pose when they come back home. In addition, President Putin can be assumed to be under the same kind of pressure you face from the military to order it to try to clean out the mess in Syria “once and for all,” regardless how dim the prospects for a military solution are for either side in Syria.
 
We are aware that many in Congress and the “mainstream” media are now calling on you to up the ante and respond – overtly or covertly or both – with more violence in Syria. Shades of the “Washington Playbook,” about which you spoke derisively in interviews with the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg earlier this year. We take some encouragement in your acknowledgment to Goldberg that the “playbook” can be “a trap that can lead to bad decisions” – not to mention doing “stupid stuff.”
 
Goldberg wrote that you felt the Pentagon had “jammed” you on the troop surge for Afghanistan seven years ago and that the same thing almost happened three years ago on Syria, before President Putin persuaded Syria to surrender its chemical weapons for destruction. It seems that the kind of approach that worked then should be tried now, as well – particularly if you are starting to feel jammed once again.
 
Incidentally, it would be helpful toward that end if you had one of your staffers tell the “mainstream” media to tone down it puerile, nasty – and for the most part unjustified and certainly unhelpful – personal vilification of President Putin.
 
Renewing direct dialogue with President Putin might well offer the best chance to ensure an end, finally, to unwanted “jamming.” We believe John Kerry is correct in emphasizing how frightfully complicated the disarray in Syria is amid the various vying interests and factions. At the same time, he has already done much of the necessary spadework and has found Lavrov for the most part, a helpful partner...
 
...Therefore, we strongly recommend that you invite President Putin to meet with you in a mutually convenient place, in order to try to sort things out and prevent still worse for the people of Syria.
 
In the wake of the carnage of World War II, Winston Churchill made an observation that is equally applicable to our 21st Century: “To jaw, jaw, jaw, is better than to war, war, war.”"
 
The recent developments in Syria and the degradation of




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Prosecutors who withhold or tamper with evidence now face felony charges




The office of Orange County Dist. Atty. Tony Rackauckas was removed from one of its most high-profile cases: the prosecution of mass murderer Scott Dekraai. The judge said prosecutors repeatedly violated Dekraai’s rights by failing to turn over evidence.

October 3, 2016, 10:00 p.m.
Amid an ongoing controversy in the Orange County courthouse involving accusations of prosecutorial misconduct, a new law will r


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Encryption App Signal Wins Fight Against FBI Subpoena And Gag ...
The Daily Dot-Oct 4, 2016
Signal, widely considered the gold standard of encrypted messaging apps, was put to the test earlier this year when a FBI subpoena and gag ...


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Ed Klein Reveals Bombshell Facts About Hillary FBI Investigation
Christopher N. Malagisi |Posted: Oct 05, 2016 7:30 A


In our “Part One” bombshell interview with author Ed Klein, he reveals stunning secrets about what really happened in the Hillary FBI email investigation case, and what role FBI Director James Comey really played in all of it.  These shocking revelations are all detailed in his new book, Guilty As Sin, published by Regnery Publishing, and is featured as the Conservative Book Club’s Editor’s Pick of the Week.

Learn the truth about the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server, what health issues she’s really facing, and what Bill Clinton did to try and intimidate the Justice Department to not prosecute Hillary.  You won’t believe what Ed Klein discovered in his in-depth research.

Ed Klein is the former editor of The New York Times Magazine, and is currently an editor with Vanity Fair.  He’s written numerous books about Hillary and Bill Clinton and releases his new book, Guilty as Sin, right before the consequential November elections!

Listen to our Part One exclusive author interview with Ed Klein be





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Yahoo email surveillance: who approved the secret scanning ...
The Guardian-
By what legal authority do the National Security Agency and the FBI ask Yahoo ... It also appears very similar to programs the FBI uses to pursue child abusers.




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Ex-FBI agent took on FBI to fight for equality - The Santa Fe New Mexican: ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican › news › ex-f...
Jan 4, 2014 - Bernardo 'Mat' Perez, 74, former FBI agent who sued the agency in 1987 in a landmark discrimination case, is now retired from the bureau and ...



http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10 ... ptops.html



REPUBLICANS
Republicans blast FBI for 'astonishing' agreement to destroy Clinton aides' laptops
Published October 05, 2016
FBI destroyed laptops of Clinton aides after reviewing
Top-ranking Republicans on Wednesday escalated their inquiry into a controversial FBI agreement to destroy the laptops of two Hillary Clinton aides questioned in the email scandal investigation, pressing Attorney General Loretta Lynch for answers and suggesting the deal obstructed congressional investigators.


The agreement to destroy the computers, the lawmakers wrote Wednesday in a letter to Lynch, “is simply astonishing given the likelihood that evidence on the laptops would be of interest



https://theintercept.com/2016/10/05/fbi ... he-border/

Revealed: The FBI's Secret Methods for Recruiting Informants at the ...
The Intercept-
The FBI and U.S. Customs and Border Protection work closely together to turn these vulnerabilities into opportunities for gathering intelligence, ..

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New FBI Head in San Francisco Was Key Figure in iPhone Hack
ABC News-Oct 4, 2016
In this photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016, FBI Special Agent Jack Bennett answers a question while posing in one of the bureau's ...


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FBI recruiting over 700 college students and recent graduates

William Woods, the special agent in Charge of the FBI St. Louis Division, joins us this morning to tell us about the FBI`s new collegiate hiring ...


http://www.abc15.com/news/region-centra ... department

Did Sheriff spend money allocated for crime
fighting misuse funds?


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FBI Releases One Final Data Dump About Hillary Clinton's Email Affair
Mother Jones-Oct 3, 2016
A few weeks ago the FBI released its final report on Hillary Clinton's private email server. I commented on it here. But it turns out there's more





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Ex-NYPD SVU cop accused of groping woman 'chuckled' during attack
BY VICTORIA BEKIEMPIS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Thursday, October 6, 2016, 6:42 PM
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OCTOBER 10, 2016 | JAMES HENRY
FBI VERSION OF NY/NJ BOMBING STORY SOUNDS VERY FAMILIAR

Photo credit: Adopted by WhoWhatWhy from background (Jim Larrison / Flickr - CC BY 2.0), wolf statue (William Garrett / Flickr - CC BY 2.0) and J Edgar Hoover building (Cliff / Flickr - CC BY 2.0)



There are some striking similarities between the recent New York/New Jersey bombings and the Boston Marathon bombing, including the use of pressure cooker bombs. But the similarity that really should be ringing everyone’s alarm bells — yet apparently has not — is the revelation that the FBI had prior connections with both bombing suspects.

A number of contradictions and discrepancies in the FBI’s account of those contacts prompts troubling questions about whether the FBI is coming clean about its interest in Ahmad Khan Rahami.

And just as the Bureau did with the purported Marathon bombing mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev (and Orlando mass murderer Omar Matteen — another person with whom the FBI was familiar prior to the act), the FBI is painting a minimalist picture of its prior contacts with Rahami, the accused Manhattan and Jersey shore bomber.

For one, the FBI and Rahami’s father are at odds about what he told investigators about his son’s drift toward extremism — the reason the FBI investigated him to begin with. “Keep an eye on him,” the father says he told investigators. The FBI disputes this.

Another reason for concern is the contradiction between the FBI’s “hands off” approach to investigating Rahami (and Tsarnaev) and the well documented and usually very aggressive tactics used against most people with even the thinnest of terrorist connections.

Blame the Messenger
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Rahami’s father, Mohammad Rahami, claims he first alerted the FBI about his son’s radical tendencies after his son assaulted family members. “He warned federal agents explicitly about his son’s interest in terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda and his fascination with jihadist music, poetry and videos,” according to The New York Times.

The FBI denies that Rahami senior told agents who interviewed him anything about “radicalization” or “links to Al Qaeda, the Taliban or their propaganda.” By definition, if he had, then the FBI botched the investigation. Or is something else going on?

Based on what they were told, the FBI says it conducted an “assessment,” the lowest level of investigation also used to check on Tsarnaev, which included an interview with the father, a review of Bureau databases and public records, and checks with other agencies. The FBI claims the assessment did not turn up anything that warranted further inquiry.

“If he had been communicating directly with the terrorist organization and the father said ‘Look here’s the email, here’s the phone call, here’s the communication,’ that would be something different that would allow the FBI to get an investigation,” ex-FBI special agent and counterterror expert Tim Clemente, said on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends.”

The implication is clear: Had Rahami senior given investigative agents more specific information about his son’s activities, the Bureau would have dug deeper. But is it really up to the tipster to provide the FBI with iron-




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Subpoena to Encrypted App Provider Highlights Overbroad FBI ...
The Intercept-
A recently revealed grand jury subpoena shows that the FBI is likely continuing to ask companies for more information than the law allows, 






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Ryan Bundy beat by prison guards
Anza Valley Outlook-
26, eight months prior, by FBI agents while he was approaching their roadblock in the Oregon arrest. The driver having been fired upon left his truck with hands 





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Anti-war march in Ft Lauderdale demands 'US out of the Middle East!”
Fight Back! Newspaper-8 hours ago
“At the same time, the wars abroad are used to justify political repression of activists here, including the group of activists raided and subpoenaed by the FBI ...







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POST FALLS, Idaho - A Post Falls, Idaho breast cancer patient says she was handcuffed and questioned at a Walmart after law enforcement officials mistook her for a wanted teen.




FBI Octopus


US Chamber of Commerce endorses Fitzpatrick
The Intelligencer-
... Great Lakes region, said Fitzpatrick's experience as a certified public accountant and a former FBI agent made the Republican nominee an ideal candidate.


Meet the candidates for Fulton County Sheriff
MDJOnline.com-
He served in several leadership positions including deputy assistant director of the criminal investigative division and special agent in charge of the FBI's Atlanta ...


What's Going On: Oct. 11, 2016
Terre Haute Tribune Star-
Indiana State University alumnus and retired FBI agent Bob Casey discusses his time at State, work in FBI and other topics, 11 a.m. in Dede I of HMSU; ...



North Shore News in Brief
The Salem News-
Former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis and former FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers will headline the latest installment of the Salem ...

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Police Chief Stewart and his girlfriend, Rettie D. Morris, were indicted in June on charges of conspiring to sell cocaine, crack cocaine, methamphetamine and Suboxone from February 2014 to April 2016.
In that instance, Stewart gave Morris the keys to his police cruiser to go and pick up the cocaine from another location, according to a court record.
The same informant bought drugs from Stewart two other times, and saw Stewart snort cocaine while he was in uniform, Cox testified a



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FBI, Apple eye new fight over encryption
The Hill-
The FBI and Apple could be heading for a new fight over access to a dead ... and the data it may contain," FBI special agent Rich Thornton told reporters Friday.




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A Close Look at the FBI's File on Wu-Tang Clan
VICE-Oct 9, 2016
But the FBI's investigation of black artists—particularly rap groups—stands out. .... Moreover, the FBI file says a special agent who assigned it the "267C" ...


https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/10/10/h ... -security/

The NSHRC’s goals included:
Closing Guantanamo Bay, eliminating torture and methods such as the extraordinary rendition of prisoners, and ending the use of secret prisons;
Ending warrantless and “unchecked” surveillance;
Ensuring that anti-terrorism laws and law enforcement activities do not target freedom of speech, association or religious expression;
Reducing ethnic and religious profiling of people of Muslim, Arab or South Asian extraction;
Decreasing secrecy and increasing oversight of executive actions, and expos[ing] U.S. government or private individuals who abuse or violate the law.



http://www.eurasiareview.com/11102016-c ... rump-oped/
CIA, NSA Meddling In US Elections Trying To Stop Trump – OpEd
Eurasia Review
That in turn begs a host of questions: has the FBI been shown the “evidence” upon which US intelligence expresses its opinion and has made the statement?



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OLATHE, Kan. - The Johnson County Sheriff's Department is asking for help and offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the two men who kidnapped and sexually assaulted one of their deputies.





http://westlife.northcoastnow.com/2016/ ... g-getaway/

Suspect in CVS robbery dies following confrontation with police during getaway
Written by Kevin Kelley on October 10, 2016 —

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UVA to Launch Public Safety Master's Program for Police ...
University of Virginia
It has partnered with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the design and delivery of the FBI's National Academy since 1971, and, beginning in 2005, the school ...
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Record-Hot 2016 Marks the Start of Bad Climate Consequences, Provides “Fierce Urgency” to Halt Worse Harms to Come
“…there is now strong evidence linking specific [extreme] events or an increase in their numbers to the human influence on climate.” — Coumou and Rahmstorf 2012.

“We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. …We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, ‘Too late.'” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [emphasis added]

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2016 is on track to be a record-hot year for the history books. Accumulations of heat-trapping gasses in the range of 402 ppm CO2 and 490 ppm CO2e have pushed the global temperature trend into an inexorable upward rise. Meanwhile, increasingly severe climate change-related events ranging from mass coral bleaching, to glacial and sea ice melt, to tree death, to ocean health decline, to the expanding ranges of tropical infectious diseases, to worsening extreme weather events have occurred the world over. This global temperature spike and related ramp-up of extreme events continued throughout a year that is setting up to follow 2014 and 2015 as the third record-hot year in a row.


(2015 saw a substantial jump in global temperatures. 2016 is also on track to hit new record highs. The above graph, by Gavin Schmidt of NASA GISS, provides a vivid illustration of an inexorable warming trend with 2016 as the hottest year yet. According to Gavin, a strong new record for 2016 appears to be a lock. Image source: Climate of Gavin.)

Now, after NASA’s report showing that September 2016 was 1.13 C hotter than 1880s averages (or 0.91 C hotter than NASA’s 20th-century baseline measure), this year is setting up to be the warmest ever recorded by a wide margin. Overall, the first nine months of 2016 have averaged 1.25 C above 1880s temperatures. Meanwhile, the climate year — which runs from December through November — is tracking 1.26 C above 1880s temperatures during the ten-month period of December to September.

2016 as much as 1.25 C Hotter than 1880s Averages

As a result, it appears likely that 2016 will see temperatures in the range of 1.19 C to 1.25 C hotter than 1880s averages. That’s about 0.1 C hotter than 2015 — which is pretty significant considering the fact that the average rate of decadal warming (the rounded rate of global warming every 10 years) has been in the range of 0.15 C since the late 1970s. This year’s temperatures now appear set to exceed 1998’s values by around 0.35 C — or about one-third of the entire warming total seen since large-scale human greenhouse gas emissions began during the late 19th century. This excession should permanently put to rest previous widely circulated false notions that global warming somehow stopped following the strong El Nino year of 1998.

Many responsible sources are now warning that current temperatures are uncomfortably close to two major climate thresholds —






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U.S. government dumping guns in the hood?
September 20, 2016

by Isaac Davis

There is a well-documented history of the U.S. government supplying weapons and arms to both friends and foe for political purposes and for profit. In addition to publicly known global arms deals to U.S. political allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia, revelations about the rise of ISIS indicate that U.S. arms and military trainees have been a critical factor in the rise of the terror group.

From 2006 to 2011, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ran a gun smuggling operation into Mexico to ostensibly dismantle Mexican drug gangs, accomplishing the precise opposite however, in what has affectionately become known as Fast and Furious. Further back in time, we have covert operations like Oliver North’s Iran Contra scandal of the mid 1980s, and America’s involvement in arming rebels in Central America to destabilize uncooperative governments. The list goes on.

Furthermore, it is alleged that the CIA, DEA and other government agencies have been involved for decades in the destruction of American communities by covertly shipping in drugs. Former DEA agent Cele Castillo has been persecuted by the U.S. government for seeking accountability of the George H.W. Bush administration for drug smuggling into the U.S. He would know, as he was directly involved.

There is a well-documented history of the U.S. government supplying weapons and arms to both friends and foe for political purposes and for profit.

Former L.A. police narcotics officer Michael Ruppert alleged in the mid 1990s that the CIA was directly involved in running drugs throughout the United States, corroborating information presented in the book, “Dark Alliance,” by investigative journalist Gary Webb, whose death in 1994 by two gunshot wounds to the head was deemed a suicide. Michael Ruppert committed suicide in 2014.

“I will tell you, Director Deutch,” Ruppert said, “emphatically and without equivocation that t



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Your FBI: Too Many Agents Who Are Bored, Underworked, Frustrated, Yearning for the Excitement.
October 18, 2016
There is a right way and a wrong way to do things. My mother an astute observer of me used to remind me after one of my exploits that “the Devil makes work for idle hands.” That is absolutely the case when it comes to the FBI. It is the only thing that can account for some of its behavior. If I were an agent I would be ashamed and embarrassed if I participated in these actions but apparently many are not.

I was involved in well over a hundred investigations involving arrests of drug dealers, gangsters, and criminals who had a potential for violence. Most of these we figured out how to do so that little notice would be taken of them. Against those thought most dangerous we rarely used more than six officers or troopers. The idea was to


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FBI urges judge to dismiss lawsuit
against the FBI
Over South Carolina Church Shooting



The FBI is urging a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges the bureau should have prevented Dylan Roof from purchasing a gun that was used in last summer’s South Carolina church massacre.

The FBI argues it was unable to take action because of state and federal limits on background checks and local errors in record-keeping, ABC News reports. 

Roof, who is white, shot nine black parishioners inside Emanuel AME Church on June 17, 2015, with a .45-caliber handgun. Family of the victims argue in the lawsuit that Roof was barred from purchasing



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How The FBI Infiltrates Movements—And What You Can Do To Stop Them - ...
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- A handful of government employees have told me that I'm almost certainly on a FBI “watchlist.” While I have no conclusive evidence to prove that, a look into the ...





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Teachers oppose FBI Anti-Extremism Video


The FBI hoped to discourage teenagers from becoming extremists by introducing a video called, “Don’t Be a Puppet.” 

The idea was to counter homegrown extremism by teaching users how to identify young people who are gravitating toward radical ideology.

But now the American Federation of Teachers union and other groups are vocally opposing the video, saying it could lead to more distrust of peaceful Muslims, the Wall Street Journal reports. 



http://www.activistpost.com/2016/10/cli ... nment.html
Clinton's FBI Files Literally Mention “The Shadow Government” at the State Dept. Wow. - Activist Post
www.activistpost.com › Politics
1 hour ago - How much of a conspiracy is it when the FBI's own documents confirm the existence of something referred to as “The Shadow Government”?


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BUSINESS WORLD
‘Rigged’ Was Hillary Clinton’s FBI Case
Democrats are lucky in Trump but the scandal will follow her to the White


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6 Detroit Police Officers
suspended amid probe into abandoned car-towing scheme, sources say
Officers would make $100 for finding cars to tow, sources say
Posted: 3:11 PM, October 18, 2016
Updated: 6:51 PM, October 18, 2



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Oct. 18, 2016 75°


Michael Moore to release surprise Trump film in L.A. on Wednesday





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The FBI investigation in Springfield Twp. occurred at a house where Eric Sullivan, an ex-Clark County sheriff’s sergeant, and his wife live.

Sullivan and his wife, Jeanette, said agents seized a computer and software. They also said they were scared because agents and Ohio Highway Patrol troopers who assisted at the scene had weapons drawn when they came into the house on Meadow Lane in Meadow Lane Estates, just east of Springfield.

The Sullivans said they think the raid is in retaliation for their challenging of Eric Sullivan’s firing and an online site Jeanette Sullivan runs regarding allegations about Sheriff Gene Kelly and his administration.

The search lasted more than two hours.

Todd Lindgren, public affairs specialist with the FBI office in Cincinnati, said he could not get into specifics about the investigation because it involves a sealed federal warrant issued out of the Southern District of Ohio.

“It is an FBI investigation,” Lindgren said.

Eric Sullivan was fired in October — as were sergeants Krista Cox and Carrie Taylor — for dereliction of duty after an incident in which former deputy Christopher Dent was drunk in the lobby of the Clark County Jail.

A five-month internal investigation found that Dent was left alone in the lobby for three hours and the sergeants failed to take proper action after being notified that he was intoxicated, possibly falling down and had urinated in a corner.

He was eventually arrested by Eric Sullivan and pleaded no contest to charges of public indecency and disorderly conduct.

The sergeants have challenged their firings. Jeanette Sullivan has filed a complaint with the Ohio Attorney General against the sheriff’s office, alleging officials manipulated public records.

She is part of a group called the TruthSeekers and posts on Facebook about alleged abuses of office by Kelly and other members of his administrative team. They’ve recently begun a signature campaign







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Former Democratic Presidential Candidate Says FBI Investigation Into Hillary Was Fixed - antimedia
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- Dennis Kucinich speaks out on FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton.
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DEEP POLITICS
OCTOBER 23, 2016 | JAMES HENRY
NY/NJ BOMBING: THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE INCURIOUS SECURITY GUARDS

Hassan Ali and Abou Bakr Radwan from FBI flyer. EgyptAir Airbus A330-200. Photo credit: Federal Bureau of Investigation and Aero Icarus / Wikimedia  (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Two men who were sought as witnesses in the bombing of the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan have been identified as a pair of EgyptAir “in-flight security officers.”

Hassan Ali and Abou Bakr Radwan, both Egyptian nationals whose photo was released by the FBI, are not considered suspects. Instead, we are told, they simply happened upon the travel bag containing the bomb and decided to take the piece of luggage, thereby disabling the bomb.They didn’t know what was in it until later.

Really? Two security officers who work for an airline based in Egypt, had no clue they were looking at an improvised explosive device?

The two men were identified after officials tracked their movements, via security cameras, back to the hotel where they were staying.

Mr. Ali “told me he saw it [the travel bag] and thought it was nice,” an EgyptAir official told The New York Times. “He opened the bag to check it out and found a pot.”


They left the “pot” on the sidewalk and walked off with the luggage. The pot was of course a pressure cooker wrapped in duct tape with a cell phone wired to the top.

Really? They had no idea what a pressure cooker stuffed in a bag might be used for?  One with a cell phone wired to the top?

Would they not have received some kind of training in the identification of suspicious devices? Had they not heard that pressure cookers, left in bags on the sidewalk, were used in the Boston Marathon bombing?

Based on the image of the men distributed by the FBI, officials determined that around the time of the explosion, the men were walking on W. 27th St., four blocks away from where the other bomb went off — on W. 23rd St. In other words, they likely heard the loud boom and still didn’t figure out what might have been the purpose of their lucky find.

Another strange thing is what the perpetrator used to “hide” the bomb. It’s hard to think of a piece of luggage that would guarantee more attention from scavengers in New York City than a Louis Vuitton travel bag — even if it was a cheap knockoff. Why disguise your explosive device in such a distinctive attention-grabbing piece of luggage?

A video of the two security officers making their find was released by law enforcement to NBC 4 New York. The video shows that the men got a good look at what was in the travel bag. It wasn’t just a quick glance. According to the video’s time stamp, the men spent more than a minute inspecting the bag’s contents. NBC 4 points out that “they take the device out of the bag, set it on the sidewalk, and then examine the top and bottom.”

For some reason, the FBI basically cleared Ali and Radwan of any wrongdoing before they even knew who they were, or had a chance to question them. “As airline security officers, have you had any training in spotting potential bombs?” “Have you ever heard of a pressure-cooker bomb?” “Why do you think a cell phone was wired to the pressure cooker?”

After the story broke, it didn’t appear that Egyptian officials were in any rush to interview them. When an official was asked if they had spoken






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October 23, 2016
Hillary Clinton and the Chain of Command at Waco
By David T. Hardy

Many politicians have a skeleton in their closet. Hillary Clinton has a cemetery, with a sign reading “Waco.”
The 1993 Waco showdown began when federal authorities rushed the communal home of a religious group, killing six of them, and losing four agents in return. The FBI then besieged the place with tanks and other armored vehicles, and ended up with the armored vehicles punching holes in the building, and injecting massive quantities of CS “tear gas.” When that didn’t work, the tanks began to demolish the building, eventually smashing about a quarter of it and damaging the remainder. A fire broke out and 74 people died in the flames, including twenty-one children. It was the deadliest law enforcement operation in American history.
After the tragic debacle, the Clinton administration claimed that Attorney General Janet Reno had been solely responsible for the final assault. There had been no White House input during the siege, and at the end, President Clinton only acquiesced in a decision Reno had made.
Twenty-three years later, there are substantial reasons to doubt the truth of these claims. The evidence is strong that the Clinton White House was calling the shots, and that Hillary played a prominent role.
The first evidence of this came when Vincent Foster, Deputy Counsel to the president and close friend of both Clintons, was found dead in Fort Marcy Park, outside D.C. The cause was attributed to suicide. When the FBI asked Mrs. Foster what might have most stressed her husband, she cited the travel office scandal and Waco. The FBI 302 report noted “LISA FOSTER believes that FOSTER was horrified when the Branch Davidian complex burned. FOSTER believed that everything was his fault.”
But why would Foster have felt guilty -- let alone to the point of despair -- over a decision Janet Reno had made without White House input? How could he have thought “everything was his fault”?
A second piece of information surfaced after a FOIA lawsuit forced release of a videotape made during the siege. In it, an FBI supervisor tells his men that critical decisions are being “made in the White House,” and passed through “that guy Hubbell, Hummel, whatever his name is.”
Webster “Webb” Hubbell had been Hillary Clinton’s law partner back in Arkansas. Bill Clinton had just appointed him Associate Attorney General, the number three man at Justice. But the FBI supervisor is quite specific: Hubbell is not calling the shots, but relaying decisions “made in the White House.” Who in the White House was giving Hubbell his marching orders?
Linda Tripp, White House secretary and Foster associate, described the real Waco chain of command in an on Larry King Live: “[Vincent] Foster, Mrs. Clinton, Webb Hubbell, Janet Reno” – and she described their reaction to the fire and the fiery deaths of 21 children:
L. TRIPP: [A] special bulletin came on [CNN] showing the atrocity at Waco and the children. And his face, his whole body slumped, and his face turned white, and he was absolutely crushed knowing, knowing the part he had played. And he had played the part at Mrs. Clinton's direction.
Her reaction, on the other hand, was heartless. And I can only tell you what I saw.
Foster had a special Waco file. Deborah Gorham, his personal secretary, said that he had a cabinet reserved for his most sensitive files: “There were two. One was Sean Hadden [a White House staffer], and the other was Waco.”
After his death, Foster’s Waco file somehow vanished. Secret Service Agent Henry O’Neil later testified before a Congressional committee that on the night of Foster’s death he encountered Maggie Williams leaving Foster’s office with two handfuls of folders. Williams denied removing any files, and when called upon to explain her presence in Foster’s office that night, claimed she had gone “in the irrational hope that she would find her colleague still alive there.”
Did Hillary call the shots at Waco? If she did, it would explain another great mystery.
By his second term, Clinton had absolutely no use for Janet Reno. Journalist Taylor Branch wrote that Clinton “fairly howled” when describing Reno’s actions, and “said he had not been able to trust her for four years.” (Clinton’s primary upsets were Reno’s appointment of independent counsel to investigate his administration’s many scandals -- the firing and framing of the White House travel office staff, the Whitewater investment scandal, the death of Vincent Foster, the abuse of FBI files, Waco, and Clinton’s sexual affair with Monica Lewinski. It would never occur to Clinton to blame himself for creating the scandals, rather than Reno for dealing with them.). Yet Clinton said he “felt stuck with Reno, despite his resentments…”
Stuck with her? He was the president, and just re-elected. One phone call could have removed her. Presidents commonly change cabinet members, especially at the end of a first term. In his eight years, Clinton had two Secretaries of State, three Secretaries of the Treasury and of Defense, and four Secretaries of Commerce.


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Teen with IQ of 51 released one year after arrest for terror plot




Sunday, October 23, 2016, 12:46 PM



Peyton Pruitt (right) spent nearly a year in jail. (WBRC)
An Alabama teenager who has an IQ of 51 has been released nearly a year after his arrest for allegedly conspiring online for a radical terror attack.

Peyton Pruitt — a 19-year-old who soils himself and cannot tie his own shoes — faced up to 10 years in prison if he was convicted. But the St. Clair County Circuit Court last month found Pruitt not guilty by reason of mental defect, and said there was no chance he could harm himself or others. The court ordered his release from jail Tues





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After 46 years, DNA evidence proves Virginia inmate's innocence ...
Toronto Star
Brown is African-American; the woman is white. At trial, an FBI agent testified that Brown's hair was found on a sweatshirt that also contained fibres that matched ...




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NYPD test says cops 'may shoot' disturbed man with bat: source
Saturday, October 22, 2016, 9:06 PM


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Most Americans Want Hillary Indicted For Email Scandal – Poll
Center for Research on Globalization-
When split between Republican and Democratic voters, the survey found that 85 percent of Clinton supporters stood by the FBI's decision not to prosecute.







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EXCLUSIVE: Cops accused of corruption set detective on witness



Sunday, October 23, 2016, 4:00 AM


Retired NYPD detective James Harkins. now a private investigator, is "the go-to guy for high-ranking members of law enforcement when they find themselves in hot water."
Two former high-ranking commanders indicted in the NYPD corruption scandal have hired one of the city’s top private investigators to dig up dirt on the government’s star witness, the Daily News has learned.

James Harkins, a retired decorated detective with a build like an NFL lineman, has helped criminal defense lawyers secure acquittals in federal and state trials involving murder, gangland killings and the U.S. Naval Academy sex assault case.

Harkins, 52, has been shaking the trees and beating the bushes on behalf of now retired Deputy Chief Michael Harrington and Deputy Inspector James Grant, who are charged with taking gifts and free vacations from shady businessman Jonah Rechnitz in return for official favo





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Exposes Plot to Discredit Clinton Email Investigation
Emails show top Senate Democrats and Clinton camp conspired to smear State Dept. watchdog
by Edmund Kozak | 23 Oct 2016 at 11:59 AM


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KING:Will Bronx DA Clark, file charges against cop in Danner's death?

SHAUN KING
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS



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FBI and DoJ are ignoring evidence of crimes in Project Veritas ...
American Thinker (blog)-
This is a Justice Department and an FBI that is dolling out justice based on your politics. If you support Clinton, if you are Clinton, you can engage in all sorts of ...




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FBI Files Show a Whopping Number of Clinton-Petraeus Emails ...
Independent Journal Review-
According to newly released FBI investigative files, more than 1,000 emails between Hillary Clinton and Gen. David Petraeus were not among the 30,000 emails ...


Organization who assassinated President Kennedy and
Martin Luther King lacks gender parity


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US|Where Are Women in FBI's Top Ranks?
New York Times-Oct 22, 2016
She helped direct teams of F.B.I. agents to New York to collect evidence, set up secure command posts in the streets so agents could discuss classified ...


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Sheriff's, FBI spokeswoman handles 23 years of news
The San Diego Union-Tribune-
When he became special agent in charge of the San Diego FBI office, she was his spokeswoman. And when he moved over to the Sheriff's Department, so did ...





FBI Octopus



Letters: Send Brian Fitzpatrick to Congress
Philly.com
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Meiring mystery 14 years later: Duterte still awaits report, apology ...
Minda News
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New trade-regulation debate: Should U.S. share intelligence?
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Records confirm previous abandonment arrests for SW Atlanta mother
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Saturday, October 22, 2016
Corrupt Government Officials are America's Biggest Fear/ Chapman University Poll
Government Corruption beats Terrorism and Fears of Economic Collapse by a mile.  Little wonder, with two presidential candidates who each have crooked foundations (used at a minimum for money-laundering and apparent foreign policy 'quid pro quo's' for the Clinton Foundation).  Hillary stole White House furniture and gifts when she left in 2000, while Trump used donations to his foundation to get a life-size portrait of himself painted.  Trump used bankruptcies to avoid paying his creditors. Hillary blamed a 12 year old for her own rape, successfully defending the rapist, whom she knew was guilty.

These two low lifes do deserve an award of some kind.  How about:  "The person I would least want to house sit for me"?  Or "the most likely to succeed in covering their own or their spouses' sexual assaults"?

Maybe "Tops at stealing under the guise of a philanthropic foundation"?

Please, America, give them their awards.  Make them big, shiny, and definitely gold-plated. Then arrest these two clowns for their many crimes, remind them that felons can't be president or even vote, and let's reset the election season for 2017.

Or just elect Jill Stein for President, who is running as the Green Party candidate.  She tells the truth, she is smart (degrees from Harvard and Harvard Med School), has absolutely no taint of corruption, says what she means without asking a focus group, and cares about the country and world.  She actually tells you her program, and its a very good one. What a novel candidate.
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* EU: Yazid Sufaat, also known as “Joe”, who worked for Al-Qaida’s biological weapons program, provided support to those involved in Al Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks

Posted by Lew Weinstein on October 21, 2016



http://englih.aawsat.com/2016/10/articl ... anizations
EU Amends List of Terrorist Individuals, Organizations

Abdullah Mustafa

Brussels-On 11 October 2016, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning ISIS, al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities removed Yemeni national Nasir Abd al-Karim Abdullah al-Wahishi from the Sanctions List and enacted Malaysian Yazid Sufaat, also known as Joe, to the same list.

Sufaat was accused of being the founding member of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) who worked for al-Qaida’s biological weapons program, provided support to those involved in al-Qaida’s 11 Sep. 2001 attacks in the United States and was involved in JI bombing operations.

He was detained in Malaysia from 2001 till 2008 and was later arrested in 2013 and sentenced to 7 years in Jan. 2016 for failing to report information relating to terrorist acts.


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California Drought To Enter 6th Year, Colorado River States Struggle to Avert Water Crisis, Southeast Drought Worsens
Around the world, global warming is starting to have a serious impact on rainfall in the subtropics and middle latitudes. The tropical atmospheric circulation known as the Hadley Cell is expanding toward the poles. This expansion is causing clouds and storms to move further north. And as a result, regions in the middle latitudes are starting to dry out.

According to The World Resources Institute:

A changing climate means less rain and lower water supplies in regions where many people live and much of the planet’s food is produced: the mid-latitudes of the Northern and Southern hemispheres, including the U.S. Southwest, southern Europe and parts of the Middle East, southern Africa, Australia and Chile.

Such a fundamental shift in global weather patterns due to human-caused climate change is expected to reduce the food and water security of numerous nations. The World Resources Institute recently warned that food and water crises were imminent as a result. And, apparently, these kinds of changes to the world’s weather are already generating profound shocks in parts of the U.S.

Colorado River and California Droughts Expected to Persist

For the Colorado River, this combined warming and movement of clouds northward has produced a 16-year-long drought. Hotter average seasons result in greater rates of evaporation. So even if rainfall averages remain, grounds, lands and rivers are drier. But the Hadley Cell’s expansion has also moved rain bearing weather systems north.

It’s a compounding drying influence that has pushed Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir, to record low levels. And states dependent on the great river’s water supply for farming and industry are now involved in negotiations to avert a water crisis in 2018. Forecasts predict a 50 percent possibility that Lake Mead’s water levels will fall below its mandatory rationing line. Such an event would result in water cut-offs for Arizona and Nevada.



(Over recent years, the U.S. has experienced numerous severe and long-running droughts. These worsening drought conditions have impacted everything from Colorado River levels to wildfires, to the health of forests, to commerce on the Mississippi River, to the productivity of state agriculture. As human fossil fuel burning continues, atmospheric changes will force rainfall toward the poles which will tend to further worsen drought conditions in middle-latitude regions like the lower 48 states of the U.S. Image source: Drought Monitor.)

In an attempt to prevent crisis in the coming months, California and other Colorado River states are attempting to cut water consumption now. Such a planned regional belt-tightening would help to avert conflict over the Colorado River’s dwindling stores and smooth out any losses over time. But, sadly, climate conditions are only likely to continue to worsen — increasing the risk of mandatory rationing for 2019, 2020 and beyond.

In California, a five-year-long drought that is the worst in state history now threatens to enter its 6th year. Rains during 2016 did help to reduce the severity of drought conditions for some parts of the state. And during recent days, a series of Pacific storms has helped to deliver moisture to some northern and central regions. However, with record warmth settling in over the Arctic and with a La Nina developing in the Pacific, long range forecasts indicate a high risk that California will experience a warm, dry winter. Such predicted conditions would res




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SPIN MASTERS: JEFF ROSS ROAST COOKS THE FACTS
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Earlier this month, Comedy Central aired a special called “Jeff Ross Roasts Cops,” hosted by the Roast Master General himself, Jeff Ross. Ross is a comedian extraordinaire who is known for lowbrow, crude, sarcastic, biting humor. He’s also known to be particularly brutal during his infamous roasts, as it should be in the tradition of the Friars Club, Don Rickles, and other showbiz legends.  
 
I like a joke as much as the next guy, and my own humor is often very crude. Among my favorites: Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Andrew Dice Clay, and George Carlin—trust me, I’m no puritanical prude. What’s not funny to me, however, is when a public institution—in this case, a city police department—essentially participates in a roast of the people it is supposed to serve. Are they laughing with you? Or at you?

As advertised, the BPD roast was chock full of good ole boy knee-slappers. A sampling:
 
African-American cop, that’s never an easy thing … it’s like being a Mexican border patrol agent.
I call my penis Rodney King because I beat it so much … And just like the LAPD… I always get off.
Six cops starin’ at me … now I know what it feels like to be a black kid walking home from school.
I have a theory why cops love doughnuts so much… because they look like they’ve been shot.
 
At first glance these may seem like predictable bush league cop jokes. However, the underlying punchlines all accept and acknowledge oppression as par for the course. Cop-meets-doughnut joke? Doughnut hole shot in it? Chocolate doughnut ? Hardy-Har-Har. This is particularly not funny in Boston, where the majority of people shot by the police are Black & Latino (unlike the national trends), combined with the fact that police are rarely, if ever found guilty of any wrongdoing or prosecuted.
 
There is also the ever-present BPD-as-good-guys narrative. BPD Commissioner William Evans proudly proclaims: “We got the best department in the country and they get it and they understand it is so important to earn the trust and the respect of the people that we police … I don’t think anyone does it better than the BPD … we are the model … President Obama recognized us as one of the top in the country.” Adds Ross: “I put it out there that I wanted to roast a major city police fo



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CULTURE
Abstinence Education: Dick Gregory Reveals Why He Never did drugs



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-Trooper Latest Snared in Net of Public Corruption Probe
Seth Swanson, who resigned from the Michigan State Police Monday, accused of pocketing $170,100 in salvage vehicle inspection fees, forgery.

By Beth Dalbey (Patch Staff) - October 26, 2016 10:32 pm ET







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Ex-Secret Service officer behind Clinton tell-all planning defamation suit
October 26, 2016 | 8:54pm
A former Secret Service officer who published an explosive tell-all from his days guarding the Bill and Hillary Clinton White House is planning to file a defamation lawsuit against his detractors, The Post has learned.
A lawyer for Gary Byrne, whose book “Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate,” has sent notices to Media Matters for America and David Brock informing them that he intends to file suit.
“Officer Byrne will bring legal action against yo



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Police chief who beat junkie wants no jail time to care for mom


Thursday, October 27, 2016, 9:19 PM



Burke, 52, pleaded guilty last February to orchestrating a cover-up of the beatdown he gave a junkie, Christopher Loeb. (CHRISTIE M FARRIELLA/FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
Disgraced former Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke is begging



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Cop accused of helping cocaine dealer denies he did anything


Thursday, October 27, 2016, 10:02 PM



Merlin Alston, 34, faces drug conspiracy charges for allegedly helping Bronx dealer Gabriel Reyes move some 40 kilos of coke from 2010 to 2014.
An NYPD cop accused of protecting an aspiring cocaine kingpin would be "the dumbest person in the world" to help a dealer for free, his lawyer said Thursday in Manhattan Federal Court.

Merlin Alston, 34, faces drug conspiracy charges for allegedly helping Bronx dealer Gabriel Reyes move some 40 kilos of coke from 2010 to 2014.

Prosecutors claim Alston also told other dealers about cops' locations





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NYC teacher to sue NYPD after cops misidentified him for criminal
BY CHRISTINA CARREGA-WOODBY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, October 27, 2016, 9:16 PM



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Fired sheriff's deputy who watched sickly man crawl home gets job back — but county doesn't want him




Former Riverside County Sheriff's Deputy Mark Franks about to go on patrol in Palm Desert in July of 2013.
BY JOSEPH SERNA
October 27, 2016, 7:55 p.m.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is fighting to keep a former deputy from returning to the force after he successfully appealed his firing, according to court filings.

Mark Franks was fired last year after an administrative hearing concluded he was negligent in his duties when he watched an ailing man crawl to his apartment in Palm Desert and allegedly threatened to arrest him. The man was found dead in his living room five days later.

The legal battle, first reported by the Desert Sun, is centered on an arbiter’s decision in April to reinstate Franks and to give him back pay and benefits dating to his July 20, 2015 firing, according to court documents.

Attorneys for the Sheriff’s Department argue that the arbiter’s decision was premature and that he exceeded his authority.

According to court filings, which include Franks’ own report on the incident, the deputy found Curtis Nelson disoriented next to a shopping
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Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh by Wendy S. Painting, PhD

I'm about 150 pages into this and it's must reading.  There are four to six paragraphs in the prologue that provide an overview for all crimes of the deep state that are simply some of the best stuff written ...  Her next work is based on the research ... and it's obvious she's become an expert in investigative research .. of a previous writer who went to ground after she discovered some things. 



Bonus Read


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In memory of Vince Foster who cannot rest in peace
By World Tribune on October 30, 201

Allegations of cover-up by lead investigator

Kenneth Starr’s at-the-time lead investigator, US attorney Miguel Rodriguez,[8] emphatically disagreed with Starr’s conclusion that Foster committed suicide, referring to photographs and medical testimony suggesting a second gunshot wound on Foster’s neck, evidence he asserts Starr suppressed.[9] Concerning the cover-up, he wrote in his resignation letter, “As an ethical person, I don’t believe I could be involved in what they were doing.”[10]

Other theories

James Norman, former senior editor at Forbes Magazine, discussed[11] and wrote about Vince Foster having a Swiss bank account and possible espionage.[12] An FBI interview report by agent Russell Bransford and a handwritten note from the Office of Independent Counsel found at the National Archives refer to Vincent Foster’s Swiss bank account.[13]

The comments of Patrick Knowlton, a grand jury witness who had been at the park where Foster’s body was found, were included as part of Starr’s Report over Starr’s objection. Judge John D. Butzner wrote to Judges Peter Fay and David Sentelle after Knowlton submitted a motion that his comments be included as part of an appendix to the final report, “I suspect that if we deny this motion we will be charged as conspirators in the cover-up,” and concluded “I suggest we let the motion and attachments speak for themselves.”[14] Judge Peter Fay wrote that Knowlton contradicted “specific factual matters and takes issue with the very basics of the report” filed by Kenneth Starr.[15] Knowlton’s comments were ordered[16]included as part of the official report on September 26, 1997. Two days later, Kenneth Starr filed a 9-page motion[17] to appeal that the comments by Knowlton not be included in the report. The next day, Starr’s motion was denied[18] and Knowlton’s comments were included as part of the final official Report on the Death of Vincent W. Foster.[19]

John H. Clarke, attorney for Patrick Knowlton, argued that by using the FBI, the Office of Independent Counsel employed “the very agency it [was] designed to be independent from, the Justice Department.”[20] Clark further stated “The investigation under the auspices of…Mr. Fiske was little more than an FBI investigation. Publicly available official federal government records indicate that throughout the 16-day U.S. Park Police investigation into the case, FBI participation was significant.[21] Attorney Clarke’s letter argues, “The publicly available federal government record upon which the Fiske Report is based is replete with evidence that the FBI concealed the true facts surrounding Mr. Foster’s death.”[22]

The Arkansas Project

On May 2, 1999, the Washington Post published new details on the pursuit of a Vincent Foster conspiracy in an article by David Brock, a key figure in the Troopergate and Whitewater scandals whose disillusionment with the political corruption motivating what would come to be known as the Arkansas Project ended his lifelong commitment to the Conservative movement and facilitated public dissemination of insider details on G.O.P. machinations. The article explains how Brock was “summoned” to a meeting with Rex Armistead in Miami, Florida at an airport hotel. Brock claims that Armistead laid out for him an elaborate “Vince Foster murder scenario” – a scenario that he found implausible.[23]

In an interview for Salon.com in 2000, Brock also revealed that he and Armistead received funding throughout Clinton’s two terms in office from Richard Scaife for the initiative known as the Arkansas Project.[24] The Project aimed to discredit the sitting president and first lady through investigations into a range of issues that could potentially prove problematic for the couple, from rehashed drug smuggling allegations to their long-standing relationship with Foster and other professionals/officials in Arkansas.

Another prominent reporter to have received funds from Scaife was Christopher W. Ruddy[25] – a former writer for the Scaife-owned Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (and later founder of NewsMax). Eventually, Scaife became the third-largest stockholder of Ruddy’s Newsmax;[26] and both NewsMax and the WorldNetDaily continued to publish materials that showed the Clintons in a negative light.[27]



Ruddy also enjoyed the backing of Joseph Farah and Farah’s organization, the Western Journalism Center. This group supplied him with “additional expense money, funding for Freedom of Information Act requests, legal support and publicity” around his book deal & the requisite research into a conspiracy surrounding Foster’s death.[28] He published his findings in 1997 under the title The Strange Death of Vincent Foster (pub. Simon & Schuster).[29] In the book, he discusses mistakes and transgressions that occurred in the original investigations – in particular, alleged obstruction of justice by White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum – but stops short of positing an original theory on the circumstances surrounding Foster’s death. Interviews revealed his person



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Distracted by Election 2016, No-one Resisted the Deep State’s Patriot Act 2

Nathaniel Mauka, Staff Writer
Waking Times

Congress overwhelmingly voted for the Patriot Act nearly 16 years ago, and our civil liberties have never been the same since. As if this singular bill, passed by George W. Bush, wasn’t invasive enough, allowing big banks to demand our internet data, and more — the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) makes cyber-spying by the shadow government and the financial entities controlling it, a forgone conclusion.

As with most shadow government legislation, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act is packed with hidden surveillance allowances. CISA was quietly passed to allow government to demand that private companies hand over personal information to them at will. It also allows companies to mine data, under the auspices of government-created urgency.




The mere fact that this act passed in late 2015 is monumental, since it has been before Congress in different forms for over a decade. The election seems to have offered the perfect cover, as Americans and activists were too busy arguing over Trump vs. Hillary.

Scott Talbott, senior vice president of government relations at the Electronic Transactions Association believes the value of sharing our personal data as a means to be alerted of ‘cyber threats’ outweighs any hazard to our civil liberties. Talbott states,

“The value is that everyone can be alerted to cyber threats and take precautionary countermeasures before they materialize and spread,” he said. “Before CISA, corrective measures could be taken only after the cyber threat had done its damage. CISA allows each company to serve as an early warning system to the entire economy.”

Who exactly would be determining if someone is a ‘threat’ is the meat of the sandwich, though. CISA is ripe for abuse, just as the Patriot Act has been.

The Patriot Act has made it legal for law enforcement to spy on people, without probable cause – to enter their homes, or even to strip search them before they’ve been to court, had the opportunity to argue a case, or given ‘authorities’ a motive for this type of interrogation.

The stated purpose of the Patriot Act was to deter terrorist acts in the United States, but what do you do when the terrorists have already taken over your country? CISA simply expands the reach of a shadow government which has already been proven to reach beyond the boundaries of constitutional law.

More importantly, who specifically is CISA targeting? After multiple hack­ers have in­filt­rated com­puter sys­tems at the White House, the State De­part­ment, the Pentagon, and the Of­fice of Per­son­nel Man­age­ment, along with the Democratic National Committee, and numerous multinational banks run by the cabal, is the shadow government simply







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Family disputes police account of the killing of black mentally ill South End man

in Boston.




Hope Coleman grieved for her 31-year-old son, Terrence Coleman, who was fatally shot by Boston police early Sunday.

OCTOBER 30, 2016
Hope Coleman called for an ambulance early Sunday morning to come to her




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Why Oregon Standoff Verdicts Set Dangerous and Far-Reaching Precedent
Malheur acquittals raise stakes for next year’s trial in Nevada and beyond
byTaylor McKinnon


A member of the Oregon chapter of the Oath Keepers stands guard at the Sugar Pine Mine in Medford, Oregon in this file image. (Photo: Reuters)
I was nearly killed earlier this year while counter-protesting the paramilitary seizure of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. After accusing me of being an FBI agent, the armed occupiers there worked themselves into a mob. Hog-faced militia thugs barked, “he’s a fed.” Some pawed their pistols. I was told snipers were trained on us. It was dangerously close to violence.

"The cradling of the Bundy’s media circus at Malheur, and the government’s over-confident bungling of the ensuing prosecution—sets a dangerous and far-reaching precedent for the kind of paramilitary intimidation and right-wing violence that underpins their movement."
For weeks last January a small rag-tag group of public lands supporters protested the Malheur occupiers. There was a handful of us, and dozens of them—all 30 miles from the nearest law enforcement. We crashed press conferences, staged counter protests, and marched into their occupied barracks with signs. We were threatened, harassed, blasted with bull horns and trailed by thugs with assault rifles.

We saw first-hand what was live-streamed to the world: An illegal paramilitary seizure of one of the crown jewels of our national wildlife refuge system, and the months-long social, cultural, economic, and environmental terrorization of an entire community. So, like many others, I was jarred by last Thursday’s acquittal of seven defendants: How could such an obvious, video-taped crime could go unpunished? Here’s how: Federal fumbling.

The Bundy clan and their followers peddle a dangerous brand of radicalism. Their core ideas—that the federal government lacks authority to own public land, and that county sheriffs are the highest form of law enforcement—are rooted in hard-right racist ideologies created to sidestep federal civil rights laws by elevating local authority. They’re perfectly suited to ranchers, like Cliven Bundy, who refused to pay deeply subsidized federal grazing fees.



After Cliven Bundy’s 2014 Nevada standoff—where militia thugs with assault rifles stood down federal officials corralling Cliven’s illegally-grazing cows—the Obama administration did nothing. The standoff was a big win for anti-government militants, and in the two years following, facing no arrests or federal enforcement, the movement grew, spawning the Malheur seizure last winter.

"It’s a stepping stone toward fascism, not nonviolent civil disobedience."
There, the kids-gloves stayed on. Militants were free to come and go from the refuge. They visited town, harassed locals, and crashed community meetings armed. They held press conferences, trenched Burns Paiute sacred sites, and shook hands with the FBI in front of news cameras. And because refuge employees were told to stay home, the jury could cynically find that the lynchpin charge in the government’s boldly-narrow prosecution—that occupiers had conspired to impede federal employees from doing their jobs—wasn’t supported by evidence.

All of this—the federal inaction following the Nevada standoff, the cradling of the Bundy’s media circus at Malheur, and the government’s over-confident bungling of the ensuing prosecution—sets a dangerous and far-reaching precedent for the kind of paramilitary intimidation and right-wing violence that underpins their movement. Social change in America depends on nonviolent civil disobedience, like the brutal struggles of indigenous activists in North Dakota and Black Lives Matter activists throughout the U.S. But right-wing paramilitary intimidation is different. It’s a stepping stone toward fascism, not nonviolent civil disobedience. Its rise should concern anyone who cares about America’s public lands, civil rights, and a political system that refuses to be bullied by violenc




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When it comes to aiding Israeli Apartheid, American Express is just another brick in The Wall, according to a new report.

Roger Waters, lead singer behind Pink Floyd, lost a multimillion dollar American Express sponsorship for his 2017 US+Them tour after expressing solidarity this month with Palestinian students trying to end Israel’s apartheid system of military occupation using the same protest tactic that helped dismantle South African Apartheid (and, earlier, America’s Jim Crow): Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS.

“I’m going to send out all of my most heartfelt love and support to all those young people on the campuses of the universities of California who are standing up for their brothers and sisters in Palestine and supporting the BDS movement,” Rogers said, according to CBS News, “in the hope that we may encourage the government of Israel to end the occupation.”

American Express decided it would be a good idea to leak the cancellation of the contract to the New York Post, where Page Six’s Emily Smith has the exclusive story.

“Roger is putting on a huge show. The company was asked to sponsor his tour for $4 million, but pulled out because it did not want to be part of his anti-Israel rhetoric,” an American Express spokesman told the paper. “We never committed to sponsoring Roger Waters’ upcoming tour. When we were approached with the options, w




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