Reasons for creating volunteer civilian review police board

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Postby fruhmenschen » Tue Apr 05, 2016 9:34 pm

Blink Tank

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM



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FBI Won't Charge Hillary -
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Video for fbi
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b-Ak20uLJY

Jill Kelley – Author of 'Collateral Damage' joins Steve to discuss her
book, 'Collateral Damage ...




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April 5, 2016 10:13 AM
Ex-FBI agent from Olathe is involved in Trump’s ‘mercenary’ protection
force, Politico reports


Don Albracht, head of Trump’s private protester intelligence team,
captured on video amid protesters the night before Trump’s Janesville,
Wisc., rally. (Courtesy Brenda Konkel) Note: Permission granted to
Politico to screen grab and publish frames from video.
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http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/ne ... 09797.html

A former FBI agent from Olathe is a member of a “privately funded
security and intelligence force” assembled to protect presidential
candidate Donald Trump, Politico says.

The website says Donald Albracht is heavily involved in policing
attendance at Trump events. Albracht has directed Secret Service
protection for the candidate, videotaped protesters, and at a recent
event “spent hours patrolling a line of several thousand people
snaking around the hotel parking lot … Several people deemed
suspicious-looking were pulled out of the line and told they weren’t
welcome.”

Politico says a company called ASIT Consulting has been paid $27,246
by the Trump campaign through the end of 2015. Kansas business records
show Albracht is the registered agent for the company, based in
Olathe.

The story includes a photograph of Albracht interacting with
protesters at a Trump event.

“ASIT Consulting, established in 2012, offers professional security
services, executive protection, private investigation, tactical
firearms training, concealed carry training, and personal protection
consultation to clients who want to take advantage of the knowledge,
training and experience gleaned from a lengthy career as an FBI
Special Agent,” Albracht’s LinkedIn page says.

“For over 28 years, my experience spanned investigations, tactical
operations, and training. Throughout assignments as a ‘street Agent’
in the San Diego, New York, and Kansas City Offices of the FBI, I had
an opportunity to investigate a broad spectrum of federal violations
that resulted in the conviction and incarceration of numerous violent
criminals. My duties included FBI SWAT Team Leader, Violent Crime Task
Force Coordinator, Principal Tactical Instructor and Firearms
Instructor.”

The LinkedIn page also says Albracht is connected with Centerfire
Shooting Sports, an Olathe-based shooting range.

The POLITICO story says Albracht is part of a “mercenary force”
protecting Trump, weeding out potential security threats. He has
allegedly ripped signs from protesters, and critics claim, has
attempted to “escalate” confrontations at events for the candidates.
One critic said ripping signs from protesters could be illegal.

Trump’s security has been a subject of scrutiny during the campaign.
His campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, faces a battery charge for
allegedly grabbing the arm of a reporter following


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former FBI agent and US Representative Grimm's restaurant partner to
plead guilty: lawyer
Tuesday, April 05, 2016 2:06 p.m. CDT

http://kdal610.com/news/articles/2016/a ... ty-lawyer/

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A onetime business partner of former U.S.
Representative Michael Grimm is preparing to plead guilty to a tax
charge in a case related to the prosecution that led to the
congressman's imprisonment, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

Prosecutors in a filing in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, on
Monday said they intend to file charges against Bennett Orfaly,
Grimm's former partner in Healthalicious, a restaurant at the center
of the Republican politician's criminal case.

James DiPietro, Orfaly's lawyer, in an interview said his client is
"hoping to reach a quick resolution with a plea to a tax count."

The filing on Monday said the case would relate to the one against
Grimm, who represented a district in the New York City borough of
Staten Island. Grimm was sentenced in July to eight months in prison
after pleading guilty to tax fraud.

DiPietro said that while the case stemmed from the investigation of
Grimm, Orfaly will be charged in connection with other restaurants he
owned. A deal could come as soon as next week or the following, he
said.

A spokeswoman for Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Robert Capers and a lawyer
for Grimm both declined comment. The expected plea was first reported
by Daily News

Grimm, a former Marine who subsequently worked as an FBI agent, was
elected in 2010 with a wave of conservative "Tea Party" Republicans
advocating low taxes and government spending, but built a moderate
voting record.

From 2007 to 2010, Grimm oversaw the day-to-day operations of
Healthalicious, which he co-founded with Orfaly, according to
authorities.

At a court hearing in 2012, a prosecutor, Anthony Capozzolo, said
Orfaly had ties to a member of the Gambino family, Anthony Morelli,
who was sentenced in 1996 to 20 years in prison in connection with a
gas tax fraud.

That statement came during a bail hearing for a former campaign
fundraiser for Grimm, Ofer Biton, who later pleaded guilty to visa
fraud in 2013.

Grimm was subsequently indicted in April 2014 on tax charges related
to Healthalicious and pleaded guilty that December to aiding and
assisting the preparation of a false tax return.

Prosecutors said Grimm under-reported wages paid to workers, many of
whom did not have legal status in the United States, and concealed
over $900,000 in Healthalicious' gross
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Re: Reasons for creating volunteer civilian review police bo

Postby fruhmenschen » Sat Apr 09, 2016 12:15 pm

Bonus Read

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/crime/ar ... 236986.php

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Judge: FBI-tied child porn collector 'not a danger' to school
Seattle man gets $1,000 fine, isn't banned from home across from Ballard school

BY LEVI PULKKINEN, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF Updated 3:06 pm, Friday, April 8, 2016





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from Matt Connolly retired Mass Assistant DA
http://mattofboston.com/the-naiveteof-j ... ent-679016

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This just in from attorney Mike Kuzma

http://www.dailypublic.com/articles/040 ... ing-vs-usa

--
Michael Kuzma, Esq.
1893 Clinton Street
Buffalo, NY 14206
(716) 822-7645-office
(716) 474-3824-cell
(716) 823-1815-fax


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http://www.occurrencesforeigndomestic.com


1297822734775_ORIGINAL
America’s heart of darkness
April 8, 2016 Uncategorized black people, boar, bores, Clintons, Cruz,
Mossack Fonseca, poor people, prisons, profits, rascals, rich people,
rogues, Sanders, super-predators, Syria, tokens, Ukraine
America’s heart of darkness

“… The lies here are much, much deeper. They go back much longer, and
take us all the way into America’s heart of darkness…..”

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music from https://www.youtube.com

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I could write a book about the genocidal targeting of the
African-American community during the Clinton Administration.

In fact, I did.

It is called Dillon, Read & Co and the Aristocracy of Stock Profits.

by Catherine Austin Fitts

More here:

https://solari.com/blog/unanswered-ques ... community/

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/2/29 ... e-Clintons

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One of the more controversial provisions of the Violent Crime Control
and Law Enforcement Act overturned a section of the Higher Education
Act of 1965 permitting prison inmates to receive a Pell Grant for
postsecondary education while incarcerated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_C ... cement_Act

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“… There are so many ways that the Clinton Presidency was toxic to
black people in particular and people of color in general. … Today I
want to focus on one piece of legislation that the U.S. Congress
passed in 1994 which is still reverberating in 2012. The 1994 Omnibus
Crime Bill (spearheaded by Joe Biden and Bill Clinton) cost $30
billion dollars and helped to accelerate the growth of the prison
industrial complex in ways that we are only just beginning to
understand. The bill’s provisions included:

1. $10.8 billion in federal matching funds to local governments to
hire 100,000 new police officers over 5 years.

2. $10 billion for the construction of new federal prisons.

3. An expansion of the number of federal crimes to which the death
penalty applied from two to fifty-eight (the bill also eliminated an
existing statute that prohibited the execution of mentally
incapacitated defendants).

4. A three strikes proposal that mandated life sentences for anyone
convicted of three “violent” felonies.

5. A section that allowed children as young as thirteen to be tried as
adults.

6. The creation of special courts able to deport noncitizens alleged
to be “engaged in terrorist activity” on the basis of secret evidence.

7. Established guidelines for states to track sex offenders. Required
states to track sex offenders by confirming their place of residence
annually for ten years after their release into the community or
quarterly for the rest of their lives if the sex offender was
convicted of a violent sex crime. [This sex offender registry law has
caused havoc in the legal system]

These are just a few of the greatest hits from the 1994 Crime Bill…..”

http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/201 ... ck-people/

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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/07 ... ter675.jpg

“I signed a bill that made the problem worse,” Mr. Clinton said. “And
I want to admit it.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/us/po ... r-too-long

By PETER BAKER JULY 15, 201

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Reuters

See realtime coverage

Bill Clinton confronts protesters who say his crime reforms hurt
blacks

Reuters

2000 hours GMT-7 4/7/16

NEW YORK Former President Bill Clinton on Thursday faced down
protesters angry at the impact his 1994 crime reforms have had on
black Americans and defended the record of his wife, Hillary Clinton,
who is relying on the support of black voters in her …

Rorschach’s Crime Bill The Atlantic

‘Tell the truth:’ Bill Clinton clashes with Black Lives Matter
protesters Fox News

Opinion:Bill Clinton defends wife’s ‘super predator’ comment to
protestersJerusalem Post Israel News

[Ed.: It’s going to be interesting to see which city/convention
gathers the most confrontation, heat, police state intervention, paid
protestors (Philadelphia or Cleveland) and just how the mainstream
media, the social media, and the alternative media cover them. Both
events beg for an organized and coordinated coalition involving live
blogging teams.]

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Los Angeles Times

See realtime coverage

Wild police pursuit in rain includes ‘doughnuts’ on the 101, hugs and
a TMZ tour bus

Los Angeles Times

It had all the ingredients for a classic, made-for-Los-Angeles police
chase: a convertible with its top down performing doughnuts on Sunset
Boulevard, people cheering from the sidewalk, a leisurely cruise past
the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a close …

Related

Los Angeles police chase ends with burglary suspects taking selfies,
chatting Fox News

Burglary Suspects in Mustang Convertible Lead Wild Police Chase in LA
ABC News

Opinion:After a High-Speed Chase in LA, Suspected Burglars Have Time
to Pose for Selfies Before Cops Arrive
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Col. Lang has updated commentary on both Syria and the Ukraine.

http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/

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http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/04/no-co ... ert-grave/

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Hillary Clinton Made More in 12 Speeches to Big Banks Than Most of Us
Earn in a Lifetime

Posted by Michele Kearney at 6:45 PM
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Definitely worth a fast scan re: Sanders/Clinton

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/04/ ... 72016.html

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http://www.defenseone.com/technology/20 ... otic-navy/

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April 7-8. 2016 — Was the father of presidential hopeful Cruz
involved in the JFK assassination? (in: GENERAL ARCHIVES April 2016)
[WayneMadsenReports]

Apr 7, 2016

Evidence mounts that Rafael Cruz, Sr. was in New Orleans in 1963 and
that he knew anti-Castro CIA agents, including Lee Harvey Oswald, Clay
Shaw, Guy Banister, Carlos Bringuier, and Sergio Arcacha Smith.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... oken-gaffe

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subway tokens is her doing a fast photo-op to demonstrate her point;
she showed up at a subway station– reminiscent of Bush’s appearance at
a supermarket after he couldn’t name the price of a gallon of milk —
to demonstrate her connection with the common people and immediately
documented it — with entourage (including Huma in close proximity)
announcing her as the next President. But it took her five attempts to
swipe the access card correctly. Can you imagine her riding the subway
without the entourage and the security and getting trampled by a herd
of New Yorkers as she fumbled at the turnstile?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcrbsewFI5w

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https://desertpeace.files.wordpress.com ... =477&h=244

http://memoryholeblog.com/2016/04/07/us ... data-dump/

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What the Panama Papers Tell Us

The Panama papers revealed only one of the vast networks used by
criminals, corrupt politicians and tax evaders to hide wealth from
scrutiny. There are many, many more.

My friend, Tom Barnett, at his new digs on resilient.com explains why
this leak is important:

There’s nothing new in tax evasion through parking one’s financial
assets “offshore.” That’s been around for a very long time. Instead,
what’s truly stunning here is the routinization and systematizing of
these nefarious practices. It reminds me of the leap from a pogrom to
the Holocaust: a massacre you can attempt to blame on particular
circumstances, timing, leaders, etc., but a genuine effort at genocide
is something operating on an entirely different level. The former,
because it’s short-lived, can be sustained by emotion, but the latter,
because it takes years of consistent effort, requires something far
worse – a truly deformed sense of morality.

I concur.

This is the same reason I found the financial crisis of 2007-2016 so
troubling (others found it troubling too since it launched both the
Tea party and Occupy):

This financial crisis demonstrated, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that
the entire US system from Wall Street to Washington is an elaborate
fraud.

A morally bankrupt system we can’t (read: won’t) dismantle because it
has become routine and accepted.

A system that is actively destroying the socioeconomic fabric of the
US and strangling our future.

A truly deformed sense of morality that has become disturbingly
pervasive.

Have fun,

John Robb

Posted by John Robb on Thursday, 07 April 2016 at 11:15 AM | Permalink

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The Panama Papers: This Is the Consequence of Centralized Money and
Power

If we don’t change the way money is created and distributed, we will
never change anything.

Fiat Chrysler cuts 1,300 workers in Michigan, scraps shift

War on Cash: JPMorgan Chase limiting cash withdrawals at U.S. ATM
machines

US Senator Wants Billions in Emergency Aid for Mideast

Graham Seeks Funds for Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Mideast
‘Marshall Plan’

A presidential decree says Russia’s new National Guard will be given
broad powers to suppress riots

Russia’s newly-created National Guard to have no right to shoot at
crowd — bill

Dutch Voters Reject Ukraine Deal

Dutch voters struck a blow against the E.U.’s Ukrainian association
agreement – and the incessant Russia-bashing that has surrounded it –
creating hope for less belligerence in Europe.

## The candidates ##

Hillary Clinton linked to ‘Panama Papers’ through lobbying firm,
Russian bank

Blast From the Past – Hillary Clinton vs. Bernie Sanders on Panama

Hillary Clinton Fundraiser Hosted by All-Star Cast of Financial
Regulators Who Joined Wall Street

Wall St is pretty certain Hillary Clinton will be president

Yes, the Panama Papers Could Really End Hillary Clinton’s Campaign

http://ricefarmer.blogspot.com/2016/04/ ... -2016.html

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Documents dubbed the ‘Panama Papers’ have revealed the names of over
200 US residents who used the services of Panamanian firm Mossack
Fonseca. Among them are several businessmen charged with financial
crimes, or already convicted of wrongdoing.

Some of the names on the list appear to be retired Americans seeking
to buy real estate in Panama and Costa Rica, according to the
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the
US-based group that is publishing revelations from the documents
obtained by an anonymous hacker in 2015.

Initial revelations by ICIJ have sought to implicate celebrities and
politicians across the world. It has since emerged that Mossack
Fonseca had registered over 1,000 businesses in the US – primarily in
Nevada and Wyoming – and that it had many US clients in Panama as
well.

READ MORE: ‘Panama Papers’ company set up 1000+ businesses in USA

Among the company’s US clients listed in the documents are four
businessmen who have been convicted of financial crimes, as well as
one who is currently facing serious charges. Their identities were
first made public by McClatchy Newspapers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KzqRHwcXXw

Robert Miracle of Washington was sentenced in 2011 to 13 years in
prison for mail fraud and tax evasion, over his role in a $65 million
Ponzi scheme involving an oil field in Indonesia. In 2008, John
Michael “Red” Crim of Pennsylvania was convicted to eight years in
prison, for involvement in a plot to cheat the US tax authorities of
$10 million in revenue using fraudulent trusts. The same year,
Jonathan Kaplan of Massachusetts received a 5-year probation sentence
for accepting a bribe from a client of his prepaid telephone card
business. In 2007, California real-estate mogul Igor Olenicoff was
sentenced to two years of probation and a $52 million fine, for tax
evasion and use of offshore shell companies.

Wall Street financier Benjamin Wey was indicted in September 2015, on
charges of securities fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy and money
laundering. The government claims he used family members to secretly
gain control of large blocks of stock in companies through “reverse
mergers” between Chinese corporations and US shell companies –
incorporated by Mossack Fonseca, according to McClatchy. Wey’s
indictment says he accumulated tens of millions of dollars in illegal
profits by manipulating the companies’ stock prices.

Announcing the indictment, US Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern
District of New York called Wey a “master of manipulation.” Wey,
president of the New York Global Group, told USA Today there was no
evidence he’d ever owned or controlled a foreign account.

The leaked documents have been of great interest to the US government,
which said it would use them in prosecuting financial crimes as well
as upholding the sanctions regime against countries such as Russia.

“The US government intently focuses on investigating possible illicit
activity, including violations of US tax laws or sanctions, using all
sources of information, both public and non-public,” the Department of
Treasury told Bloomberg News in an emailed statement.

Ernst Wolff, a journalist and author of ‘Pillaging the World: The
History and Politics of the IMF,’ says the US is using the scandal to
cause upheaval around the world and redirect the flow of money into
tax havens in America.

“Of course, they have to put in some American individuals and some
American companies in order to kind of camouflage the whole thing,”
Wolff told RT. “But those are only minor people in there. The big
people in there are non-American citizens: they are Europeans; they
are people from different countries all over the world.”

“This is this anti-Russian, anti-China, anti-Iran campaign that just
keeps beating in America,” Gerald Celente, publisher of the Trends
Journal, told RT. “I believe that this might be a push back from Soros
for Russia last year banning a number of American NGOs. So, this could
be payback.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l4WAZdWOWQ

https://www.rt.com/usa/338834-panama-papers-sanctions/

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2016

OOPS! BILL CLINTON SAYS HE ACCIDENTALLY TOOK $500,000 FROM ALGERIA
DURING KEY ARMS NEGOTIATION WITH STATE DEPARTMENT Downtrend (Sherry).
The Clinton Foundation bribe machine is finally starting to be
exposed.

Hillary Clinton Fundraiser Hosted by All-Star Cast of Financial
Regulators Who Joined Wall Street Intercept (resilc)

Sanders: Clinton ‘Not Qualified’ to Be President New York Magazine.
Ooh, I hope she takes the bait. But his critique needs to be much
broader.

The best evidence I’ve seen that Bernie Sanders’s political revolution
might be possible Vox (furzy)

Clinton Campaign Attacks Intensify To Halt Sanders’ Win Streak
ShadowProof (martha r). This is beautiful. Sanders raises more money
every time she attacks, and that’s before you get the fact that many
(most) of her salvos backfire.

The Problem With Hillary Clinton Isn’t Just Her Corporate Cash. It’s
Her Corporate Worldview. Naomi Klein, Nation (martha r)

Some Democratic Lawmakers Are Open to Removing Lobbyists as
Superdelegates Intercept (martha r)

Bernie Sanders: “Israel’s ‘positive’ US ties hinge on bettering
relations with Palestinians” Jewish Telegraphic Agency (Judy B)

TRUMP LEADS IN PENNSYLVANIA AS CLINTON EDGES SANDERS, QUINNIPIAC
UNIVERSITY POLL FINDS; BOY NEXT DOOR KASICH RUNS BEST IN NOVEMBER
MATCHUPS Quinnipiac Press Release

Poll: Hillary Clinton Plummets in Crucial Pennsylvania Primary, Lead
Falls From 22 to 6 latest.com

Roger Stone: ‘They Ought to Put the Handcuffs On’ Ted Cruz for Vote
Fraud Breitbart (furzy). Wow, just wait for the ugliness to get even
worse as the Republican convention approaches. As Lambert likes to
say, “Pass the popcorn.”

Ivanka Trump China-made scarves recalled Financial Times

Donald Trump snubs Europe’s far-right Politico

Cruz Explains ‘New York Values’ to New Yorkers New York Magazine

Gunz

Facebook Groups Act as Weapons Bazaars for Militias New York Times
(furzy)

Don Blankenship Gets 1 Year for Mining Disaster – BP Oil Spill
Engineer Gets Probation Charles Pierce, Esquire

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/04/links-4716.html

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April 6-7, 2016 — ICIJ shows its U.S. government slip

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ),
which receives its funding from the CIA-connected U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID) and Ford Foundation, as well as
George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, has “shown its slip” by
declaring that it will not make available the entire cache of hacked
documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca public.
Instead, ICIJ maintains that it does not want to expose “sensitive
information of innocent private individuals along with the public
figures.”

We have heard this type of language before with massive leaks,
including the classified National Security Agency documents leaked by
Edward Snowden. In that case, EBay and PayPal billionaire Pierre
Omidyar effectively “bought back” the NSA documents from advocacy
journalist Glenn Greenwald for a $250 million bribe that funded
Greenwald’s new journalistic contrivance “First Look.” After the deal,
NSA documents released by Greenwald and his associates were redacted
in the traditional style of NSA and U.S. Intelligence Community
Freedom of Information Act censors.

In the case of ICIJ, it is clear that government financial regulators
around the world will be entitled to access any of the over 4.8
million emails, 3 million database files, and 2.1 million PDFs
contained in the ICIJ’s 2.4 terrabytes tranche of Mossack Fonseca
documents. And it is very likely that since the documents were
obtained by criminal hackers, governments will shy away from
subpoenaing the documents but will use their connections with USAID,
the CIA, Soros, and the Council on Foreign Relations-linked Ford
Foundation to arrange for unofficial document access.

WikiLeaks also cut side deals when it obtained over 250,000 classified
State Department cables. Working with the corporate media in the same
style that ICIJ coordinated its release of Mossack Fonseca documents
with over 100 corporate media outlets and some 400 journalists around
the world, WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange worked with The
New York Times and Le Figaro to ensure that the initial release of
classified information was focused on Iran and, for example , not on
Israel.

Ironically, WikiLeaks is now condemning ICIJ for not releasing all of
the Mossack Fonseca documents in its possession. The scene is similar
to two vagabonds who stumble over a suitcase full of money and fight
each other for the lion’s share of the currency notes.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20160406

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https://uprootedpalestinians.wordpress. ... rn-powers/

By Brandon Turbeville
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THURSDAY, APRIL 07, 2016

Pistons popping, ain’t no stopping now!

“”The Cat Is Out Of The Bag” – In Interview Mossack Fonseca Founders
Admit It’s Over… To Rothschild’s Delight” This is very simple legal
work. Pulling shelf companies off the shelf and serving up a standard
trust agreement. This isn’t the kind of fancy ‘tax planning’ the
really big guys would get from white shoe law firms or accounting
offices in New York or London (that’s why the really big guys are
missing from the list). The only thing you get from Mossack Fonseca is
the expectation of utter privacy, and that has been blown up. The
Panama City base just adds a veneer of sleaziness which would appeal
to a certain class of punter. Despite the fact that the Soros stooges
are trying to use this, with no evidence whatsoever (so what else is
new?), as an attack on enemies of World Jewry doesn’t alter the fact
that this incident does not look anything like real investigative
journalism directed at fraudster tax evaders, but does look like an
attack on the business of Mossack Fonseca by a competitor , a
competitor that happens to have access to the abilities of a national
intelligence operation.

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Rothschild Humiliates Obama, Reveals That “America Is The Biggest Tax
Haven In The World”

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/06/201

In his speech yesterday, following the Treasury’s crack down on
corporate tax inversions, Obama blamed “poorly designed” laws for
allowing illicit money transfers worldwide. Since the speech came at a
time when the entire world is still abuzz with the disclosure from the
Panama Papers, Obama touched on that as well: “Tax avoidance is a big,
global problem” he said on Tuesday, “a lot of it is legal, but that’s
exactly the problem” because a lot of it is also illegal.

There is one major problem with that: of all the countries in the
world, it is none other than the country of which Obama is president,
the United States, that has become the world’s favorite offshore “tax
haven” destination.
As Bloomberg, which first broke the story about Nevada’s use as a
prominent tax haven early this year, writes, “Panama and the U.S. have
at least one thing in common: Neither has agreed to new international
standards to make it harder for tax evaders and money launderers to
hide their money.”

Over the past several years, amid increased scrutiny by journalists,
regulators and law enforcers, the global tax-haven landscape has
shifted. In an effort to catch tax dodgers, almost 100 countries and
other jurisdictions have agreed since 2014 to impose new disclosure
requirements for bank accounts, trusts and some other investments held
by international customers — standards issued by the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development, a government-funded
international policy group.

In short: while Obama is complaining about corporate tax avoidance and
slamming Panama, he is encouraging it in the U.S.

Places like Switzerland and Bermuda are agreeing, at least in
principle, to share bank account information with tax authorities in
other countries. Only a handful of nations have declined to sign on.
The most prominent is the U.S. The other ona is, of course, Panama,
and we just saw what happened there.



The latest reporting “underscores the secrecy in Panama,” said
Stefanie Ostfeld, the acting head of the U.S. office of the
anti-corruption group Global Witness. “What’s lesser known, is the
U.S. is just as big a secrecy jurisdiction as so many of these
Caribbean countries and Panama. We should not want to be the
playground for the world’s dirty money, which is what we are right
now.”

For Obama, however, it is important to not let facts get in the way of
a good speech, or welcoming the dirty, laundered money of the world’s
uber wealthy, be they criminals or not, as they transfer their wealth
from Panama to Nevada, Wyoming and other tax sheltering destinations
in the U.S.

To be sure, the US has taken steps to keep track of US assets abroad,
but not of foreign assets in the US.

In 2010, Congress passed the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or
Fatca, as the U.S. Justice Department began prosecuting Swiss banks
for enabling tax evasion. Fatca forces certain financial firms to
disclose to the Internal Revenue Service any foreign accounts held by
U.S. citizens.



Fatca doesn’t, however, bind banks to provide information on
foreigners with U.S. accounts to regulators abroad. The U.S. has
entered into agreements with some other countries requiring such
exchange with foreign regulators, but tax planners say they are
considered relatively easy to avoid.



That’s where the OECD came in, with its own international take on
Fatca that the U.S. declined to sign.

Panama has been one country which has done everything in its power to
delay and dilute its compliance with OECD regulations.

In a January interview, an official at Trident Trust Co., a big
provider of offshore vehicles, said it was seeing a large number of
accounts moving into Panama because of its weak commitment to the OECD
regulations. “The Panama office was extremely overworked, because a
lot of people are re-domiciling to Panama from BVI and Cayman,” said
Alice Rokahr, a Trident official based in South Dakota. In late
February, OECD officials said publicly that Panama had been “removed
from the list of committed jurisdictions” that agreed to share
information.



The latest coverage of shell companies created by a Panamanian law
firm could give the OECD new ammunition to put pressure on the country
to sign onto the information-sharing agreements, some tax experts
said.

But while one can criticize Panama, and with cause, for enabling tax
evasion, at least its leaders don’t pretend to be saints, who do
precisely what they condemn. Far less can be said about Obama.

“The U.S. doesn’t follow a lot of the international standards, and
because of its political power, it’s able to continue,” said Bruce
Zagaris an attorney at Berliner Corcoran & Rowe LLP who specializes in
international tax and money laundering regulations. “It’s basically
the only country that can continue to do that. Others like Panama have
tried, but Panama can’t punch as high as the U.S.”

And confirming just that, in a statement issued Monday by OECD
secretary general Angel Gurria, the OECD said “Panama is the last
major holdout that continues to allow funds to be hidden offshore from
tax and law-enforcement authorities.”

The statement didn’t mention the U.S., which is the OECD’s largest
funder.

And there it is: the US, simply because it is the biggest – and
wealthiest – bully in the yard, can dispense morality all day long,
but just don’t ask it to practice what it preaches.

Meanwhile, advisers around the world are increasingly using the U.S.
resistance to the OECD’s standards as a marketing tool – attracting
overseas money to U.S. state-level tax and secrecy havens like Nevada
and South Dakota, potentially keeping it hidden from their home
governments.

Advisors such as Rothschild , profiled initially by Bloomberg’s Jesse
Drucker.

Rothschild, the centuries-old European financial institution, has
opened a trust company in Reno, Nev., a few blocks from the Harrah’s
and Eldorado casinos. It is now moving the fortunes of wealthy foreign
clients out of offshore havens such as Bermuda, subject to the new
international disclosure requirements, and into Rothschild-run trusts
in Nevada, which are exempt.



* * *



For financial advisers, the current state of play is simply a good
business opportunity. In a draft of his San Francisco presentation,
Rothschild’s Penney wrote that the U.S. “is effectively the biggest
tax haven in the world.” The U.S., he added in language later excised
from his prepared remarks, lacks “the resources to enforce foreign tax
laws and has little appetite to do so.”

And that is all you need to know.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-0 ... ax-evasion

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U.S. power grid alert: “Aggressive foreign government hackers broke
into American companies 17 times between October 1, 2013, and
September 30, 2014,” according to a Department of Homeland Security
intelligence assessment from late January. “In two cases they snuck
into U.S. petroleum organizations, and hackers are ‘suspected of
exfiltrating data’ from one of them,” CNN reported Wednesday.

They hack “primarily to conduct cyber espionage … to conduct a
damaging or disruptive attack in the event of hostilities with the
United States,” the assessment read, adding, damaging cyberattacks
against the American energy sector is “possible but not likely.” More
from CNN here, or check out the assessment for yourself, here.

Who will be the next DNI? Not Mike Hayden, likely. The former CIA
chief and media-friendly general has been whispered for the job for
months in our ear, but now he’s come out endorsing… John Kasich?
Doesn’t really help his chances with frontrunners Clinton and Trump.
So, who’s it gonna be? Tell us who you’d like to see take over for Jim
Clapper by emailing us here.

Your Thursday #LongRead: American government surveillance planes are
working the U.S. skies, but don’t worry: they “usually take the
weekends off,” Buzzfeed reported Wednesday. “ Each weekday, dozens of
U.S. government aircraft take to the skies and slowly circle over
American cities. Piloted by agents of the FBI and the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS), the planes are fitted with high-resolution
video cameras, often working with ‘augmented reality’ software that
can superimpose onto the video images everything from street and
business names to the owners of individual homes. At least a few
planes have carried devices that can track the cell phones of people
below. Most of the aircraft are small, flying a mile or so above
ground, and many use exhaust mufflers to mute their engines — making
them hard to detect by the people they’re spying on.” Loads of data
visuals on the topic, here.

How do the world’s far-flung militants acquire heat-seeking missiles,
machine guns and more? Facebook, of course, NYT‘s C.J. Chivers
reports. “The weapons include many distributed by the United States to
security forces and their proxies in the Middle East. These online
bazaars, which violate Facebook’s recent ban on the private sales of
weapons, have been appearing in regions where the Islamic State has
its strongest presence. This week, after The New York Times provided
Facebook with seven examples of suspicious groups, the company shut
down six of them.”

Chivers’s findings “were based on a study by the private consultancy
Armament Research Services about arms trafficking on social media in
Libya, along with reporting by The Times on similar trafficking in
Syria, Iraq and Yemen.” Catch his report here, or the ARS report,
here.

Lastly today—there’s been too much caution and too few experienced
voices inside the Obama administration, former SecDefs Robert Gates,
Leon Panetta and Chuck Hagel told Fox News as part of Bret Baier’s
report “Rising Threats: Shrinking Military.” Hagel went a bit further,
adding National Security Adviser Susan Rice’s inexperienced White
House staff held meetings on international affairs that “descended
into nonsense.”

Hagel: “I don’t think there’s one veteran on [President Barack
Obama’s] senior staff at the White House. I don’t believe there’s one
business person. I don’t believe there’s one person that’s ever run
anything… Other than Vice President [Joe] Biden, none of them have
ever been elected to anything.”

His bottom line: “The world becomes more dangerous, not less
dangerous, when America gets less involved in the world. I don’t mean
invading and occupying and imposing—but leading, engaging.” Watch the
rest, including a rant against 35-year-old Ph.Ds whom Hagel said
talked too much to simply show how smart they are, here.

http://link.govexec.com/view/DBrief/ThusApr07

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http://snuffysmithsblog.blogspot.com/20 ... ering.html

Ed.: Assuming Alzheimer’s has not snuck in the side door and my memory
is still functional, I recall that Snuffy’s brilliant son (a graduate
of a small school at the intersection of history, foliage and a massif
with a glacial cirque) went on to grad school at MIT.

What goes on at MIT always warrants attention — SecDef Carter went up
to the great historical incubator of textile arts, computer science
and biotechnology to seed a challenge for “advanced functional fibers”
— which reminds me of an old item once seen in Sports Illustrated
about the people who make fun of the club football team at MIT.

When the opposing team would score, the few fans in attendance (those
not in the labs, the library or the study hall) would render a
weak-voiced rendition of a this cheer:

“It’s alright'
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link du jour

Seattle FBI chief weighs in on sentencing of FBI agent child
pornography
offender

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/crime/ar ... 238217.php

'These are our children'

BY LEVI PULKKINEN, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF Updated 10:16 pm, Friday, April
8, 2016





1.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/che ... perations/

Special Operations airman/FBI agent killed his squadron commander in
apparent-murder suicide

By Dan Lamothe and Adam Goldman April 9 at 4:15 PM



2.




https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016 ... witnesses/



April 7, 2016
Michigan Cop and FBI Agent Beat Wrong Suspect, Deleted Videos by
Witnesses

An undercover Michigan cop with an FBI agent beat up an innocent man,
then stopped to force bystanders to delete all footage of the actual
incident.

James King was walking down th


3.



http://www.gossipextra.com/2016/04/07/m ... ssia-5837/



EXCLUSIVE — Palm Beach Sheriff's Office Critic Mark Dougan: I’m
Seeking Political Asylum In Russia!

April 7, 2016 by Jose Lambiet 9 Comments

Mark Dougan: PBSO can't harass me on Red Square! (Mark Dougan photo)


WEST PALM BEACH — Mark Dougan, the founder of the anti-Sheriff Ric
Bradshaw website pbsotalk.com, flew to Russia this week and says he is
preparing his application for political asylum in the land of Vladimir
Putin.

Dougan says he doesn’t trust Palm Beach County authorities, especially
the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, to protect him if he were
jailed in the wake of an FBI raid on his Palm Beach Gardens house last
month.

Federal and local a



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https://theintercept.com/2016/04/09/fbi ... es-alarms/

FBI’s “Shared Responsibility Committees” to Identify “Radicalized”
Muslims Raise Alarms
Murtaza Hussain, Jenna McLaughlin

Apr. 9 2016, 11:46 a.m.


The FBI’s plan to enlist community leaders in “Shared Responsibility
Committees” all across the country with the goal of identifying
“radicalized” individuals is raising alarm among civil rights
activists.

The Shared Responsibility Committees, known as SRCs, “are expanding
the informant program under the guise of an intervention program,
which it is not,” said Abed Ayoub, legal director of the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC).

The FBI’s ideas is to have social service workers, teachers, mental
health professionals, religious figures, and others interdict young
people they believe are on a path towards radicalization. The program
was first revealed last November, and while details remain scant, it
is widely believed to have been developed along the lines of similar
“anti-radicalization” programs in the United Kingdom.

The FBI did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Experts acknowledge the need to have options beyond sending young
people to jail for making threatening statements. The committees
purport to offer such an option, by allowing members to offer
non-binding recommendations to law enforcement about whether certain
individuals should be arrested or offered rehabilitation for their
alleged radicalization.

But critics say that despite the FBI’s benign characterization of the
SRCs, the proposal amounts to nothing more than an expansion of
already existing FBI informant programs. The committees “would be
doing the work of the FBI, gathering information. This initiative
failed in the U.K., it’s not like this is a new idea,” said Ayoub.

The U.K. program called “Channel” has b


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Top cop probed by FBI tells friends: ‘I’m f—d’
http://nypost.com/2016/04/06/top-cop-pr ... ds-im-f-d/

April 6, 2016 | 11:40pm
Top cop probed by FBI tells friends: ‘I’m f—d’
James Grant

The current boss of the Upper East Side’s 19th Precinct accepted
diamonds and cash from one of the businessmen at the center of a
federal investigation, sources told The Post.

Deputy NYPD Inspector James Grant was at his Staten Island home when
he was handed hundreds of dollars by Jeremy Reichberg, a prominent
figure in Borough Park, around Christmas, sources said.

Grant soon became aware that the feds had opened a probe into the
NYPD, and he told close friends, “I’m f–ked. I can’t go to jail,” a
source said.

Investigators also discovered that Grant on multiple occasions had
personally escorted Reichberg from the airport after overseas trips to
pick up diamonds.

“[Grant] said he would meet him at the airport and get him back to
where he had to go,” the source said.

“And as a form of payment, he’d give him one or two really nice cut
diamonds to give to his wife.”

Grant has known Reichberg for about eight years, including Grant’s
time as head of Sunset Park’s 72nd Precinct from 2011 to 2014, sources
said.

The police boss is still well known in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish
communities — having doled out hundreds of Captains Endowment
Association cards that bear his name and read, “Please extend all
courtesy to the holder of this card.”

At least one person who received one of the cards doesn’t even live in
the five boroughs, another source added.

Reichberg and Jona Rechnitz, an Upper West Side real estate investor,
are both at the center of a federal probe into whether high-ranking
members of the NYPD took lavish gifts in exchange for favors.

According to sources, NYPD cops received presents like Super Bowl
tickets and vacations to China and Brazil, while giving out favors
such as police escorts for business deliveries and


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https://threatpost.com/fbi-quietly-admi ... en/117267/

APT targeted attack
FBI Quietly Admits to Multi-Year APT Attack, Sensitive Data Stolen
by Tom Spring April 7, 2016 , 3:54 pm

The FBI issued a rare bulletin admitting that a group named Advanced
Persistent Threat 6 (APT6) hacked into US government computer systems
as far back as 2011 and for years stole sensitive data.

The FBI alert was issued in February and went largely unnoticed.
Nearly a month later, security experts are now shining a bright light
on the alert and the mysterious group behind the attack.
Related Posts
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April 7, 2016 , 2:49 pm
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April 1, 2016 , 8:15 am

“This is a rare alert and a little late, but one that is welcomed by
all security vendors as it offers a chance to mitigate their customers
and also collaborate further in what appears to be an ongoing FBI
investigation,” said Deepen Desai, director of security research at
the security firm Zscaler in an email to Threatpost.

Details regarding the actual attack and what government systems were
infected are scant. Government officials said they knew the initial
attack occurred in 2011, but are unaware of who specifically is behind
the attacks.

“Given the nature of malware payload involved and the duration of this
compromise being unnoticed – the scope of lateral movement inside the
compromised network is very high possibly exposing all the critical
systems,” Deepen said.

In its February bulletin, the FBI wrote: “The FBI has obtained and
validated information regarding a group of malicious cyber actors who
have compromised and stolen sensitive information from various
government and commercial networks.

The FBI said the “group of malicious cyber actors” (known as APT6 or
1.php) used dedicated top-level domains in conjunction with the
command and control servers to deliver “customized malicious software”
to government computer systems. A list of domains is listed in the
bulletin.

“These domains have also been used to host malicious files – often
through embedded links in spear phish emails. Any activity related to
these domains detected on a network should be considered an indication
of a compromise requiring mitigation and contact with law
enforcement,” wrote the FBI in its bulletin.

When asked for attack specifics, the FBI declined Threatpost’s request
for an interview. Instead, FBI representatives issued a statement
calling the alert a routine advisory aimed at notifying system
administrators of persistent cyber criminals. “The release was
important to add credibility and urgency to the private sector
announcements and ensure that the message reached all members of the
cyber-security information sharing networks,” wrote the FBI.

Deepen told Threatpost the group has been operating since at least
since 2008 and has targeted China and US relations experts, Defense
Department entities, and geospatial groups within the federal
government. According to Deepen, APT6 has been using spear phishing in
tandem with malicious PDF and ZIP attachments or links to malware
infected websites that contains a malicious SCR file. The payload,
Deepen said, is often the Poison Ivy remote access tool/Trojan or
similar. He said the group has varied its command-and-control check-in
behavior, but it is typically web-based and sometimes over HTTPS.

Experts believe that attacks are widespread and not limited to the US
federal government systems. “The same or similar actors are
compromising numerous organizations in order to steal sensitive
intellectual property,” wrote Zscaler in a past report on APT6.

In December 2014, US government systems were compromised by hackers
who broke into the Office of Personnel Management computer systems.
That data breach
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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016 ... oner-abuse


I was struck with multiple blows': inside the secret violence of Homan Square
Documents disclosed in Guardian lawsuit reveal for first time how Chicago police used punches, baton blows and Tasers at the off-the-books interrogation site

‘I was struck with multiple blows with open and closed fist by two officers ... I felt my face start to swell and deform instantly.’
‘I was struck with multiple blows with open and closed fist by two officers ... I felt my face start to swell and deform instantly.’
Monday April 11 2016
Internal documts from the Chicago police department show that officers used physical force on at least 14 men already in custody at the warehouse known as Homan Square.

Police used punches, knee strikes, elbow strikes, slaps, wrist twists, baton blows and Tasers at Homan Square, according to documents released to the Guardian in the course of its transparency lawsuit about the warehouse. The new information contradicts an official denial about treatment of prisoners at the facility.

The injured men are among at least 7,351 people – over 6,000 of them black – who, police documents show, have been detained and interrogated at Homan Square without a public notice of their whereabouts or access to an attorney.

None of the men identified in these newest documents had fled custody or were injured in the course of a lawful arrest. All were subject to force by Chicago police officers after they were already in custody at Homan Square. According to depositions with officers
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Honoring attorney David Kairys
for his work on police civilian review boards
see last post
below
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upt ... rys_d.html




Link du jour

https://archive.org/stream/directoryofg ... 9_djvu.txt

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/FBI/C ... eport.html



FBI agent of the week

James Ahearn




Complaint - FindLaw
FindLaw › news › docs › mcintyreuscmplt
Defendant James Ahearn (“Ahearn”) resides in Phoenix, Arizona. During
all times alleged in this complaint, Ahearn was ..

PDF File of lawsuit against Ahearn

Charges dropped against 6 FBI Agents in James "Whitey" Bulger ...
Democratic Underground › Discuss
Jan 25, 2007 - Charges dropped against 6 FBI Agents in James "Whitey"
Bulger case. ... J. Connolly Jr., as well as John Morris, Robert
Fitzpatrick, James Ring, James Greenleaf, and James Ahearn.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/di ... 32x3076967


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Cassandra M. Chandler
Assistant Director, Office of Public Affairs
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Phoenix Citizens Academy Graduation
Phoenix, Arizona
April 13, 2005
Good evening. Let me begin by thanking Larry King, who was
instrumental in getting me here. My thanks also to SAC Monroe and the
Phoenix Field Office for the invitation to join you tonight. I am
honored to be a part of your graduation, particularly here in Phoenix,
where the Citizens Academy program got its start.
I understand there are many disciples of Jim Ahearn in the audience.
Jim was the former Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field
Office, and the man who started the Citizens Academy here in Phoenix.
We're glad you are here celebrating with us tonight. My thanks also to
the Phoenix Police Department. They gave us the concept of the
Citizens Academy, and we ran with it.
I want to thank all of you for the time and effort you have
contributed to this class. For two months, you shifted priorities and
sacrificed free time to learn more about the FBI. You could have gone
to the movies, read a few chapters in your favorite book, or just sat
back on the couch after a tough day. But you didn't.
Instead, you spent your time with us, every Thursday night, for eight
weeks. You skipped the movie to watch the SWAT team in action. You
traded your favorite novel for safety goggles and a shotgun, and
you've got the bruises to prove it. You left the couch to collect
crime scene evidence. You asked to be informed about the FBI, and we
did our best to "demystify" our day-to-day work, to help you
understand what we're doing to keep America safe.
One of the things you have learned over the past eight weeks is that
our jobs have become more challenging as crime has become more
complex, more sophisticated, and more dangerous. Today, we're seeing
organized crime enterprises launder money for drug groups. Drug groups
possibly selling weapons to terrorists. Terrorists committing white
collar crime to fund their operations. All of them exploiting
technology for criminal purposes.
Let's face it: the days of the G-Men tearing down the road in hot
pursuit of a bank robber or a gangster are long gone. Terrorism,
technology, and homeland security are now a part of our daily
vocabulary.
The playing field has changed--and changed dramatically. The good news
is, so has the FBI.
Years ago, law enforcement and intelligence agencies had a tendency to
work alone, keeping information and expertise to themselves.
Businesses, communities, and citizens stood on the
sidelines--concerned, but remote from the work of law enforcement.
The 9/11 attacks taught us all a painful lesson: we cannot defeat our
enemies standing alone. Rather, we have had to find new ways of doing
things to defeat today's sophisticated criminal and terrorist
networks, like changing the way we function within the FBI and
formulating new opportunities for sharing information and working
together with others, like you.
I want to talk for just a moment about the idea of form and function
working together. Being here in Phoenix makes me think of
world-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed and built
beautiful buildings in Scottsdale and around the country. Wright was
an architectural pioneer who believed that form and function should
work in tandem with each other. That man-made structures should
complement the surrounding natural landscape, and that everything,
form and function, should work together in unity.
This principle of form and function working together in unity is one
that we in the FBI are putting into practice every day.
We are collaborating with new partners in new ways. We are working
with our international counterparts and with cops on the local beat.
We are coordinating with leaders in the intelligence community and
leaders in your community. We are sharing information, technology, and
investigative techniques with law enforcement agencies across the
country and around the world. We are working with businesses and
schools and civic organizations and individuals like you every day to
prevent crime and to prevent the next terrorist attack. We have come
together as one team, with one motivation--protecting our nation, our
communities, and our children.
In short, we have changed our form and our function--to work together
in unity, not just with our law enforcement and intelligence partners,
but also with you--the citizens we have sworn to protect.
The Citizens Academy is one of the greatest examples of how we have
come together as a team. Through this academy, you are helping us to
build stronger citizen commitment and community support. You are
helping to build a bridge between law enforcement and the community.
You are helping to dispel some of the myths surrounding the FBI. Now
you know that we are not "men in dark suits who come to get you in the
middle of the night," as I've learned one of your classmates said. We
are men and women, of all races and ages, working--everyday--to
protect you.
By working with us, you have improved our ability to protect you, and
you have made Phoenix a safer place to live.
Earlier I described how Frank Lloyd Wright designed his buildings,
ensuring that form and function worked in unity with the building's
surroundings. Let me go a step further.
Beyond the structure itself, Wright said that "the room within is the
great fact about the building." He meant that greatness isn't defined
just by the form and function of the building. It's the way the rooms
inside flow together, how each room is used--these are the things that
make a building great.
So imagine our nation as an enormous building. A great building. Now
think of our schools, churches, and civic groups; our businesses,
police departments and government agencies. These are the rooms of our
building.
In these rooms, we come together for a common purpose--to protect our
nation. We come together as a team: the FBI changing its form and
function to fit the new structural realities of global crime and
terrorism, and you--the leaders of the community we serve--changing,
learning, and working with us...all of us flowing together to help
build a safe nation.
You know, from my youngest days, I have always believed in the power
of one. The power of one person to make a difference. But as I
continue to witness the incredible coming together of law enforcement,
the intelligence community, and other communities we serve, I have
come to realize that the power of one also means something else. It
stands for the power of unity.
Within that building we just imagined, we may come from different
rooms. We may have different backgrounds, with different jobs and
different roles in society.
But ultimately, we are one people with one mission: to ensure that our
nation--this great building--will stand strong and secure, and that it
will withstand the changing landscape of global crime and terrorism.
We have much to gain by working together in unity. And through
participating in the Citizens Academy you have taken a great step in
that direction. But remember, this is just the beginning.
Our team effort cannot stop after you leave this room tonight. You
must continue to act as ambassadors for the FBI, helping your
community understand the work we're doing. You must remain part of a
larger community dedicated to protecting America. You must serve as
the eyes and ears of law enforcement...as the everyday guardians of
freedom, justice, and democracy.
The challenges we face are fierce. But standing together, we are a
powerful network, a team that cannot be defeated.
Congratulations on your graduation. And may God bless you for your
strength and for your willingness to work together with law
enforcement building a nation that will stand secure 20...50...100
years from now. You know, whenever I think of you and your devotion to
the Citizen's Academy, I will think of how my 15-year-old son would
describe your support. He'd say, "I've got your back." And all of us
in the FBI would reply, "Indeed you do, and we thank you."
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F.B.I. Official Suspended for Reno Criticism
Published: February 25, 1994


http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/25/us/fb ... icism.html



PHOENIX, Feb. 24— The Federal Bureau of Investigation's top official
in Arizona has been suspended a few days before his scheduled
retirement because of his published criticism of Attorney General
Janet Reno.

The official, James Ahearn, who has been with the agency for 35 years,
was placed on administrative leave with pay on Tuesday for his
comments in an interview on Feb. 13 in The Arizona Republic, an F.B.I.
spokesman, Dean St. Dennis, said on Wednesday.

In the interview, Mr. Ahearn questioned Ms. Reno's ability to run the
Justice Department, which includes the F.B.I., and criticized her for
rejecting a plan to merge the bureau and the Drug Enforcement
Administration.

"When she first was appointed, I was excited," Mr. Ahearn said in the
interview. "Here was a prosecutor from Florida who I thought could do
an excellent job. But she went to Washington and forgot that she's the
nation's prosecutor. She's become a social worker."

Mr. Ahearn, 53, said Wednesday that he did not regret speaking out.

Although Mr. Ahearn retire



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Executive Profile
James F. Ahearn
Senior Vice-President, Operations, GameCorp Inc.
Age Total Calculated Compensation This person is connected to 0 Board
Members in 0 different organizations across 2 different industries.
http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stock ... Corp%20Inc.
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Background
James F. Ahearn, Jim serves as Chief Executive Officer of Worldwide
Hospitality Management and Marketing, Inc. Mr. Ahearn is a veteran of
over twenty five years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the
last 17 years of which were in top executive capacities heading
various field divisions throughout the United States. In 2003, Mr.
Ahearn, together with four partners, established Worldwide Hospitality
Management and Marketing, Inc., (a private entity) whose aim is to
take advantage of the newly acquired disposable wealth of the emerging
Chinese upper middle class. While serving in these positions he
performed many international liaison duties, interfacing with leading
figures of foreign governments. He served as Interim Chief Financial
Officer of Trackpower Inc. since November 2006. Following early
retirement from the Bureau in 1994, Mr. Ahearn entered the private
sector by accepting a position as Chief Operating Officer for Capital
Gaming, Inc. He was called upon to completely re-vamp a newly acquired
subsidiary specializing in Indian gaming, while at the same time
overseeing the construction of several casinos on tribal lands located
in various parts of the Western United States. After successfully
completing the construction phase, he supervised the daily operations
of all the properties. After five years of leading the subsidiary, Mr.
Ahearn left to form a management consulting firm, Corporate Integrity
Services, Inc. in Scottsdale, Arizona which performed a variety of
services for the business community, particularly in gaming and
related matters. He led teams of consultants in conducting operational
reviews of casinos, and other enterprises, evaluating effectiveness of
internal control policies and procedures. Mr. Ahearn serves as
Chairman of the Board of Worldwide Hospitality Management and
Marketing, Inc. He served as Chairman of the FBI Citizens Academy
Foundation. He served as Director of Trackpower Inc. from October 12,
2005 to February 2007. He served as Director at Locateplus Holdings
Corp. He was the recipient of numerous commendations and awards during
his tenure, including selection by the agency's Director as
'Distinguished Executive of the Year' in 1992. Mr. Ahearn is a
graduate of St. John's University, Queens, N.Y. with a degree in
Management/Marketing. He is also a graduate of the University of
Nevada, Reno, Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial
Gaming, a Masters level program in gaming and hospitality issues. In
1992, he graduated from the National Executive Institute, Washington,
D.C., and has completed Dr. W. Edwards Deming's course 'How to Manage
Successfully Today and Tomorrow'.
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David Kairys
ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS
David Kairys Papers
1960-2011 (bulk 1962-2009)
UPT 50 K134
95.0 Cubic feet
Prepared by Joseph-James Ahern
February 2012
Access to collections is granted in accordance with the Protocols for the University Archives and Records Center.

PROVENANCE

The David Kairys Papers were donated to the University Archives and Records Center by David Kairys in June and August 2011 (Accession # 2011: 35).

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ARRANGEMENT

The David Kairys Papers are organized into four series: Professional, Legal Cases, Works By, and Personal. The material within each series is arranged alphabetically. The original order of the files was maintained during processing.

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

David Kairys was born in Baltimore Maryland on April 16, 1943. He attended Cornell University where he studied engineering and economics and was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1965. Drawn to the law while observing and participating in the civil rights movement, he entered Columbia University Law School where he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1968. Kairys finished his education with the degree of Master of Laws from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1971, where he was a fellow in Community Law and Criminal Litigation, an innovative clinical law program at Penn that involved litigation and teaching.
Kairys started his legal career in that Penn program in 1968 as a public defender with the Defender Association of Philadelphia. In 1971, along with David Rudovsky, he was a founding partner in the law firm Kairys & Rudovsky (in 2012, Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing & Feinberg; Kairys is currently of counsel) with the goal to create a public interest practice to litigate civil rights, civil liberties, and public interest issues. Kairys won the leading race discrimination case against the FBI, won challenges to unrepresentative juries around the country, stopped police sweeps in Philadelphia, was the lead lawyer in the most significant acquittal of anti-Vietnam War activists (Camden 28), represented Dr. Benjamin Spock in a free speech case before the Supreme Court, and conceived and litigated the city lawsuits against handgun manufacturers. He is widely known for his creative and regularly successful strategies and legal theories on the range of civil rights and liberties, police abuse, criminal defense, and government and corporate misconduct.
Kairys has also pursued an academic career since 1972 when he was appointed a lecturer in urban studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1980 the University of Pennsylvania appointed him an adjunct professor of sociology, a position he held through 1990. Kairys eventually decided to leave fulltime legal practice, and so in the Fall of 1990 he accepted the appointment of professor of law at the Temple University Law School, teaching courses in constitutional law, political and civil rights, law, science and technology, and privacy law. From 2001 to 2007 he was the first James E. Beasley chair in the law school. In 2012, Kairys continues to teach at Temple University, write, and litigate parttime.
Kairys has been a prolific author, writing over 35 articles and book chapters, numerous op-ed pieces on a range of legal and nonlegal issues, and monographs related to his legal and political interests. Most notable are his three books The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique (1982, new editions in 1990, 1998); With Liberty and Justice for Some, A Critique of the Conservative Supreme Court (1993); and Philadelphia Freedom, Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer (2008).

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SCOPE AND CONTENT

The David Kairys Papers document the professional and legal career of civil rights attorney, author, and law professor David Kairys. The collection has been organized into four series: Professional, Legal Cases, Works By, and Personal. The Professional Series documents Kairys' activities outside of the court room. This includes affiliations, conferences, expert testimony, and teaching files. Most notable are his affiliations with the Coalition for Police Accountability, the Conference on Critical Legal Studies, and the Crisis Intervention Network. The Legal Cases Series contains files for the various court cases Kairys served as an attorney, such as the Camden 28, Freedom of Information Act Requests, and Handgun Litigation. These files contain correspondence, transcripts, depositions, notes, and court documents for the various cases. Some legal case files can be found in Kairys' memoir files in the Works By series, and have been referenced accordingly. The Works By Series contains the publications written by Kairys throughout his career including articles, op-ed pieces, chapters, edited works, and books - most notably his memoir Philadelphia Freedom: Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer. Files in the Works By Series contain correspondence, notes, drafts, and final versions. The Personal Series documents Kairys college education at Cornell, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania; his historic newspaper collection from the 1960s and 1970s, and his selective service files. There is no family correspondence in the Personal Series.
There are a number of restricted files in the David Kairys Papers that are absolutely closed for 75 years from the date of creation, based either on the donor's request or University of Pennsylvania policy. These files have been noted as CLOSED in the inventory.

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CONTROLLED ACCESS HEADINGS

Personal Name(s)

Kairys, David, 1943
Subject(s)

Civil rights--United States.
Law--Political aspects.
Lawyers--United States.
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INVENTORY

PROFESSIONAL
Box
Folder
Affiliations
Coalition for Police Accountability
1986-1987
1
1
1986-1993
1
2
Appendix A: A Brief History of Police Abuse, 1986
1
3
Bar Commission on Police, 1982-1988
1
4
Bills 297 and 317 Material, 1991-1992
1
5
Correspondence, 1986-1987
1
6
Correspondence, 1986-1988
1
7
Correspondence, 1987-1996 (1)
1
8
Correspondence, 1987-1996 (2)
1
9
Correspondence, 1992-1993
1
10
Independent Inquiry and Review Board - Draft, n.d.
1
11
Legislation, 1980-1995
1
12
Meetings
1985-1988
1
13
1986-1987
1
14
1992
1
15
1993
1
16
Membership
1980
1
17
1992
1
18
Miscellaneous, 1988
1
19
Newspaper Clippings
1985-1987
1
20
1986-1987
1
21
1990-1995
1
22
1993
1
23
Northeastern Political Science Association Talk, 1987
1
24
Notes, 1985-1987
1
25
Police Advisory Board, 1992
1
26
Police Command and Abuse of Citizens, n.d.
1
27
Press Packet, 1992
1
28
Press Release, 1986
1
29
Proposal to Transfer Responsibility for the Investigation of Police Abuse Complaints to the Office of the Inspector General, 1987
1
30
Proposals or Program of Coalition - Draft, 1986
1
31
Reference
1984-1987
1
32
1986-1987 (1)
1
33
1986-1987 (2)
1
34
1986-1987 (3)
1
35
Report and Recommendations
1986
1
36
Draft, 1986 (1)
1
37
Draft, 1986 (2)
1
38
Draft, 1986 (3)
1
39
Report of the Advisory Group, 1991
1
40
Report of the First Year's Activities, 1987
1
41
Report on Survey of Conditions at the Police Administration Building, n.d.
1
42
Summary of Recommendations, n.d.
1
43
VHS Tape: Commonwealth v. Ziegler, 1984
96
1
Conference on Critical Legal Studies
Boston, 1992
2
1
Bringing Politics to the Court Room, 1979
2
2
Conferences, 1981-1986 (1)
2
3
Conferences, 1981-1986 (2)
2
4
Correspondence
1977-1985 (1)
2
5
1977-1985 (2)
2
6
1978-1985 (1)
2
7
1978-1985 (2)
2
8
1978-1985 (3)
93
29
Meetings
1982
2
9
1984
2
10
1985
2
11
1987
2
12
1988
2
13
Conference Material, 1983
2
14
Correspondence, 1982-1983
2
15
Notes, n.d.
2
16
Papers, 1983 (1)
2
17
Papers, 1983 (2)
2
18
Reference Material, 1979, 1982
2
19
Miscellaneous, 1982-1985 (1)
2
20
Miscellaneous, 1982-1985 (2)
2
21
Newsletter, 1983-1984
2
22
Notes, 1980-1981
2
23
Papers, 1977-1978 (1)
2
24
Papers, 1977-1978 (2)
2
25
Philadelphia, 1978-1979
2
26
Politics of Class and the Construction of Identity, 1995
2
27
Summer Camp
1981
2
28
1982
2
29
1983
2
30
Consumers Education and Protective Association, 1979
2
31
Crisis Intervention Network
1986-1989 (1)
2
32
1986-1989 (2)
2
33
Board Meetings
1983-1986 (1)
3
1
1983-1986 (2)
3
2
1985 (1)
3
3
1985 (2)
3
4
Correspondence, 1983-1987 (1)
3
5
Correspondence, 1983-1987 (2)
3
6
Executive Committee, 1983
3
7
Jobs for Economic Growth, 1988 (1)
3
8
Jobs for Economic Growth, 1988 (2)
3
9
Public Service Employment, 1987-1988 (1)
3
10
Public Service Employment, 1987-1988 (2)
3
11
Public Service Employment, 1987-1988 (3)
3
12
Publicity, 1984-1986 (1)
3
13
Publicity, 1984-1986 (2)
3
14
East Mount Airy Neighbors, Inc, 1989-1990
3
15
Encyclopedia of the American Judicial System Editorial Advisory Board, 1983-1987
3
16
In These Times - Publishers Associates, 1979-1980
3
17
Keystone Alliance, 1979
3
18
Nader 2000
Correspondence, 1999-2001
3
19
Reference Material, 2000 (1)
3
20
Reference Material, 2000 (2)
3
21
Saving the Courts, 2000
3
22
Nader 2004, 2004
3
23
National Lawyers Guild
Committee on Theoretical Studies
1979-1983 (1)
3
24
1979-1983 (2)
3
25
1979-1983 (3)
3
26
1979-1983 (4)
3
27
1980-1982 (1)
4
1
1980-1982 (2)
4
2
1983-1986 (1)
4
3
1983-1986 (2)
4
4
1983-1986 (3)
4
5
Bibliography and Study Group Subcommittee, 1979-1980
4
6
Civil Liberties Subcommittee, 1979
4
7
Conference Registration, 1979
4
8
Financial, 1979-1980
4
9
Mailing Lists, 1979
4
10
Materials on Theory of the Law and the State, 1978-1979 (1)
4
11
Materials on Theory of the Law and the State, 1978-1979 (2)
4
12
Materials on Theory of the Law and the State, 1978-1979 (3)
4
13
Membership, 1979-1983
4
14
Miscellaneous, 1979-1980 (1)
4
15
Miscellaneous, 1979-1980 (2)
4
16
Miscellaneous, 1979-1980 (3)
4
17
Sexism and Patriarchy Subcommittee, 1979
4
18
Student Pamphlet Subcommittee, 1978-1981 (1)
4
19
Student Pamphlet Subcommittee, 1978-1981 (2)
4
20
Student Pamphlet Subcommittee, 1978-1981 (3)
4
21
Convention, 1983
4
22
Executive Board Meeting, 1980
4
23
Fiftieth Anniversary, 1987
4
24
Northeast Regional, 1987
4
25
New Press
Legal Advisory Committee
1990-1991
4
26
1992
4
27
1993-1994
4
28
Pennsylvania Judicial Selection Project, 1980-1983
5
1
Progressive Alliance, 1979-1980
5
2
Public Ownership and Control of Oil, 1979-1980
5
3
United Nations Commission on Human Rights, 2005 [closed]
5
4
Bar, 1968-1970
5
5
Central America
Correspondence, 1987-1988
5
6
Miscellaneous, 1986-1988 (1)
5
7
Miscellaneous, 1986-1988 (2)
5
8
National Conference on the Nicaraguan Constitution, 1986 (1)
5
9
National Conference on the Nicaraguan Constitution, 1986 (2)
5
10
National Conference on the Nicaraguan Constitution, 1986 (3)
5
11
Newspaper Clippings, 1986-1988 (1)
5
12
Newspaper Clippings, 1986-1988 (2)
5
13
Nicaragua / Honduras Trip, 1986-1987
5
14
Notes, 1986
5
15
Op-ed Column, 1986 (1)
5
16
Op-ed Column, 1986 (2)
5
17
Reference Material, 1985-1987 (1)
5
18
Reference Material, 1985-1987 (2)
5
19
Reference Material, 1985-1987 (3)
5
20
Columbia Survey of Human Rights Law, 1968
5
21
Commission on the Democratic Selection of Presidential Nominees, 1968
5
22
Conferences
Alternative Practice, 1979
5
23
American Legal Studies Association, 1983
5
24
American University Law Review
Is there a Constitutional Right to Vote and Be Represented? The Case of the District of Columbia
Correspondence, 1998
5
25
Page Proofs, 1998-1999
5
26
Program Material, 1998
5
27
Reference Material, 1998
5
28
Transcript, n.d.
5
28
Race, Law and Justice: The Rehnquist Court and the American Dilemma, 1996
5
20
Back to Basics, 1998 (1)
5
30
Back to Basics, 1998 (2)
5
31
Center for Voting and Democracy Workshop, 2001 (1)
5
32
Center for Voting and Democracy Workshop, 2001 (2)
5
33
Colby College Forum, 1988 (1)
5
34
Colby College Forum, 1988 (2)
6
1
Connecticut Law Review
Guns and Liability in America
Correspondence, 2000
6
2
Drafts, 2000 (1)
6
3
Drafts, 2000 (2)
6
4
Program Material, 2000
6
5
Reference Material, 2000
6
6
Education Fund, 2002
6
7
Law and Society Association, 1987
6
8
Marxism and Law Workshop, 1979
6
9
Marxist Union, 1980-1981
6
10
PARSS / Work and Welfare Seminar, 1989
6
11
Socialist Scholars Conference, 1985
6
12
Temple University: New Roles, No Rules? Post-Conference Comments, 1999-2000
6
13
Temple University: Race, Gender and Free Speech, 1993-1994
6
14
University of Arizona: Guns, Crime and Punishment in America, 2001
6
15
University of Pennsylvania: New Approaches to Public Interest Law, 1983
6
16
Washington College of Law, American University
Rehnquist Court and the American Dilemma
Conference Material, 1995
6
17
Correspondence, 1995-1996
6
18
Draft, 1995 (1)
6
19
Drafts, 1995 (2)
6
20
Drafts, 1996
6
21
Notes, 1995
6
22
Papers, 1996
6
23
Reference Material, 1994-1995
6
24
Supreme Court, Racial Politics and the Right to Vote
Correspondence, 1994
6
25
Galley Proofs, 1994
6
26
Material, 1994
6
27
Transcript of Proceedings, 1994
6
28
Consultation
Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition
1999-2003
6
29
2002-2003 (1)
6
30
2002-2003 (2)
6
31
2002-2003 (3)
6
32
Street Transition Team, 2000
7
1
Correspondence
Babcock, Barbara, 1993
7
2
Brown, Peter Harry, 2000-2002 (1)
7
3
Brown, Peter Harry, 2000-2002 (2)
7
4
Cover, Bob, 1966
7
6
Miscellaneous, 1968
7
7
Cox Committee, 1968
7
8
Emma Goldman Project, 1989-1992
7
9
Expert Testimony
Baglini v. Lauletta
1998-2002 (1)
7
10
1998-2002 (2)
7
11
2002
7
12
Correspondence, 1997-1998
7
12
Court Documents, 1997 (1)
7
13
Court Documents, 1997 (2)
7
14
Court Documents, 1997 (3)
7
15
Court Documents, 1997 (4)
7
16
Court Documents, 1997 (5)
7
17
Court Documents, 1997 (6)
7
18
Court Documents, 1997 (7)
7
19
Notes, 1997
7
20
Pring, George W. and Penelope Canan, SLAPPs: Getting Sued for Speaking Out, 1996
7
21
Reference Material, 1973-1998
7
22
SLAPP CLE, 2002
7
23
Court Openness, 2005-2006 (1)
7
24
Court Openness, 2005-2006 (2)
7
25
Fassnachut v Philadelphia, 1993
7
26
United States Commission on Civil Rights: Challenge of Civil Rights in the 21st Century: Liberty and Justice for All, 1994
7
27
United States Senate
Glass Ceiling in Federal Agencies
Correspondence, 1991
8
1
Hearing Records, 1991 (1)
8
2
Hearing Records, 1991 (2)
8
3
Reference Material, 1991
8
4
Testimony, 1991
8
5
Idaho Indian Law, 1988
8
6
Jobs and Schools, 1968-1969
8
7
Jury Tour, 1975-1976
8
8
Philadelphia Book Club, 1972
8
9
Philadelphia Office of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee Report, 1971-1978
8
10
Rabinowitz and Boudin, 1967 (1)
8
11
Rabinowitz and Boudin, 1967 (2)
8
12
Radio Times: Identity Cards and Numbers, 2001
8
13
Subject File
1996 Election, 1995-1997
8
14
Attica / Wounded Knee - Political Trials, 1975-1976
8
15
Auto Safety, 1980-1981
8
16
Bakke Case, 1978
8
17
Gun Control
1989-1992
8
18
1993-1998
8
19
Advertisements, 1994-1997 (1)
8
20
Advertisements, 1994-1997 (2)
8
21
Advertisements, 1994-1997 (3)
8
22
Andrews, Howard, 1997-1999
8
23
City Handgun Suits Op-ed, 1998-1999
8
24
Cook, Philip J., 1997-2000
8
25
Court Cases, 1999-2002 (1)
8
26
Court Cases, 1999-2002 (2)
8
27
Crime Connection, 1997
8
29
Dunbar, Frederick C., 1997-1998 (1)
8
30
Dunbar, Frederick C., 1997-1998 (2)
8
31
Economic Effects, 1995-1998 (1)
8
32
Economic Effects, 1995-1998 (2)
8
33
Educational Fund to End Handgun Violence, 1999-2000
8
34
Handgun Book, 1998
8
35
Henigan, Dennis A., 1995-2001 (1)
8
36
Henigan, Dennis A., 1995-2001 (2)
8
37
Illinois Public Nuisance, 2003
8
38
Indiana Public Nuisance, 2003
8
39
Industry, 1992-1997 (1)
9
1
Industry, 1992-1997 (2)
9
2
Johns Hopkins University, 1996-2000 (1)
9
3
Johns Hopkins University, 1996-2000 (2)
9
4
Johns Hopkins University, 1996-2000 (3)
9
5
Joint City Guns Motions, 1999
9
6
Joint Government Coordination, 1999-2000
9
7
Kellermann, Arthur L., 1983-1996
9
8
Law Review Articles, 1975-1992 (1)
9
9
Law Review Articles, 1975-1992 (2)
9
10
Lawsuit Ban Op-ed, 1999
9
11
Ludwig, Jens, 1999
9
12
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Case, 2001
9
13
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Case, 2002-2003
9
14
National Rifle Association, 1992 (1)
9
15
National Rifle Association, 1992 (2)
9
16
Negligent Entrustment Research, 1999-2000 (1)
9
17
Negligent Entrustment Research, 1999-2000 (2)
9
18
Nuisance Research, 1999-2000 (1)
9
19
Nuisance Research, 1999-2000 (2)
9
20
Oregon Public Nuisance, 2003
9
21
Periodical List, 1991-1992
9
22
Pierce, Glenn L., 1998
9
23
Press Material, 1994-2001 (1)
9
24
Press Material, 1994-2001 (2)
9
25
Press Material, 1994-2001 (3)
9
26
Press Material, 1994-2001 (4)
9
27
Press Material, 1994-2001 (5)
9
28
Press Material, 1994-2001 (6)
9
29
Press Material, 1994-2001 (7)
10
1
Press Material, 1994-2001 (8)
10
2
Press Material, 1994-2001 (9)
10
3
Press Material, 1994-2001 (10)
10
4
Press Material, 1994-2001 (11)
10
5
Public Nuisance Abatability in Illinois, 2003 (1)
10
6
Public Nuisance Abatability in Illinois, 2003 (2)
10
7
Ray and Johnstone vs. Accu-Tec, 1995
10
8
Schumer Study, 1999
10
9
Smith and Wesson Settlement, 2000
10
10
Stewart, David, 1997-2000
10
11
Temple CLE Course, 1999
10
12
Vince, Joe, 2000
10
13
Violence Policy Center, 1997
10
14
Wintemute, Garen, 2001
10
15
Iran Crisis, 1979-1981
10
16
Newt Gingrich, 1994-1996
10
19
Police
1991-1995 (1)
10
20
1991-1995 (2)
10
21
1991-1995 (3)
10
22
Correspondence, 1987-1997
10
23
House Bill 1638, 1995
10
24
News clippings, 1975-1976
10
25
News clippings, 1991-1998
10
26
Rizzo, Frank, 1970-2005
10
27
Rizzo, Frank, 1973-1976 (1)
10
28
Rizzo, Frank, 1973-1976 (2)
10
29
Provident National Bank - South African Loans, 1978
10
30
Race, Affirmative Action, Philadelphia, 1994-2000
10
31
Sotomayor Confirmation, 2009
10
32
Terrorism, 1979
10
33
Voting Rights, 1994-1998 (1)
11
1
Voting Rights, 1994-1998 (2)
11
2
Voting Rights, 1994-1998 (3)
11
3
Voting Rights, 1994-1998 (4)
11
4
Voting, Elections, Proper Representation, 1998-2001 (1)
11
5
Voting, Elections, Proper Representation, 1998-2001 (2)
11
6
Voting, Elections, Proper Representation, 1998-2001 (3)
11
7
Voting, Elections, Proper Representation, 1998-2001 (4)
11
8
Talks
American Civil Liberties Union, 1987
11
9
Balch Institute, 1995
11
10
Charter of Rights, 1985 (1)
11
11
Charter of Rights, 1985 (2)
11
12
Charter of Rights, 1985 (3)
11
13
Disorder in the Courts, 1986
11
14
Freedom of Speech in Historical Perspective, 1988
11
15
Friel-Scanlan Award Lecture, 1992
11
16
Hadley Fund - Free Speech Lecture, 1982
93
27
Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Keynote at Penn, 2009
11
17
Miscellaneous, 1979-1987
11
18
New York Bar Association, 1989
11
19
Philadelphia Women in Communications, 1979
11
20
Racist Violence - Harvard, 1984
11
21
State of Civil Rights on 200th Anniversary, White Dog Café, 1991
11
22
Supreme Court's Decision in the Election of George Bush, 2001 (1)
11
23
Supreme Court's Decision in the Election of George Bush, 2001 (2)
11
24
Towards a More Perfect Union, 1987
11
25
Tsinghua University Law School Conference, 2002
11
26
Wayne State - University of Michigan, 1988
11
27
Teaching
Correspondence, 1986
11
28
Course Materials Book, 1983 (1)
11
29
Course Materials Book, 1983 (2)
11
30
Course Materials Book, 1985 (1)
12
1
Course Materials Book, 1985 (2)
12
2
Free Law School
1970
12
3
1971
12
4
Demonstrations Course, 1976
12
5
Lawyers, Guns and Money, 1999
12
6
Position Inquiries, 1983-1987 (1)
12
7
Position Inquiries, 1983-1987 (2)
12
8
Reference Material, 1983
12
9
University of California Santa Cruz
Correspondence, 1975
12
10
Miscellaneous Material, 1975
12
11
Sociology Board Meetings, 1975
12
12
Temple University
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Postby fruhmenschen » Thu Apr 14, 2016 12:59 am

A couple of years ago I made a trip to
Concord Mass to visit the gravesites
of Emerson and Thoreau .
Their gravesites lay near each other
in the town cemetery.

I had the area to myself as there was no other pilgrims
paying homage to these great thinkers.
I could see offerings laid at their gravesites
in the forms of money,personal notes and
other personal items.

for photos google
photos emerson gravesite thoreau gravesite



The Beat of a Different Drum
http://www.drwaynedyer.com/blog/the-bea ... rent-drum/


Henry David Thoreau said, “If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to
the music which he hears, however measured, or far away.” Not only is
this great advice for dealing gently with what other people want to
do, say, or think, but these words are also about our own
self-reliance. Be sure you’re stepping to the music you hear—no matter
what other people think. My understanding of the13th verse of the Tao
Te Ching is this: it’s crucial to remain independent of both the
positive and negative opinions of other people. If you gain their
approval, you’ll become a slave to outside words of praise. If you
gain disfavor, you’ll spend your life trying to change other people’s
minds about you. Either way, you lose your selfhood. If you want to
follow your passion, be independent of the good opinion of others.
Give yourself permission to two-step, march, waltz, or boogie to your
own beat




1.

DEA Employees Seek to Prevent Release of Videos of Lap Dances at Trial


DEA employees charged with lying during national security background
checks are trying to avoid the embarrassing release of lap dances
during their trial.

Civilian employees and a former officials of the DEA are accused of
lying about their ownership of a trip club in South Hackensack, N.J.

Now defense attorneys are trying to prevent the government from
introducing the lap dance video into evidence, the New York Times
reports.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/nyreg ... video.html

“The prejudicial effect of the videos would be colossal if they are
introduced as evidence at trial,” defense lawyers argued in court
papers filed on Monday.

Prosecutors want to provide evidence that the defendants used largely
illegal immigrants as dancers.

The government wants to show the jury sexually graphic footage of four
lap dances rec




2.




Color of Surveillance
What the FBI actually learned from spying on Martin Luther King, Jr.
4/12/16 11:06 AM


http://fusion.net/story/289903/james-ba ... veillance/

On Friday, Georgetown University’s law school hosted ‘The Color of
Surveillance,’ a conference about government monitoring of black
Americans. Two of the most anticipated speakers were James A. Baker,
the FBI’s general counsel, and David Garrow, an MLK biographer who has
documented the FBI’s unlawful surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr.
and other black Americans. The conversation, and the room, were
somewhat tense: Baker was cautious and Garrow sharp-tongued, though
the latter emphasized that the FBI of the 60s was the primary focus of
his ire.

In the 1960s, the FBI used wiretaps, bugs, and informants to dig
deeply into King’s personal life, because the United States government
felt that his peaceful activism for civil liberties was threatening.
Garrow said that much of the information gleaned from that government
spying on King remains unavailable, including the informants used.
Garrow said he had even been threatened with violating the Espionage
Act in the early 1980s (when he first started researching the FBI’s
surveillance of MLK) “because of the informant identities [he] had
managed to discover.”


Garrow said that the FBI at that time had “an organizational culture
of surveillance and of political control,” and that it wasn’t limited
to the FBI’s founding director J. Edgar Hoover, who remained its head
until his death in 1972 and is notorious for his abuses of power.
There were attempts at blackmail and encouragement of suicide. “There
is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is,” wrote an
FBI agent in a letter to King that detailed knowledge of his
extramarital sexual activity. The FBI also leaked the gossip to the
press, but it declined to report it.

Baker, who has been the FBI’s general counsel for a little over two
years, didn’t defend the agency’s actions in the 60s. He agreed with
Garrow and everyone else that spying on King as it was done was a
mistake, saying, “There were insufficient constraints on the
government’s authority to engage in national security surveillance.”
He repeated a story that FBI director James Comey told The Guardian
last year, about the director keeping attorney general Robert
Kennedy’s approval of the wiretap order for King on his desk as a
reminder of the agency’s mistakes.

So what the FBI really learned from spying on MLK is that it is
capable of making terrible mistakes and going too far when it comes to
surveillance. Baker, who teaches law school courses, said that the MLK
example is one he has used for the last decade as an example of the
agency’s overreach.

“You can’t understand the statutory framework in which [the FBI]
operates today…if you don’t understand the King case,” he said. He
referred specifically to Congressional oversight committees and the
1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] and the courts set
up under it to govern domestic surveillance, which were a response to
the Church Committee’s findings on the surveillance of King and
others.

“There is much more significant accountability and oversight
constraints with regards to the FBI’s surveillance activities than
there were in the past,” said Baker.

But it would seem that the U.S. government as a whole hasn’t taken the
King case to heart. Last year, The Intercept revealed that the
Department of Homeland Security has been monitoring Black Lives Matter
activists, sometimes at “gatherings that seem benign and even
mundane.”

The FBI’s current most high-profile attempt to more easily investigate
threats and peer into the lives of Americans is its legal wrangling
with Apple over the San Bernardino shooter’s encrypted iPhone in
California and a drug dealer’s phone in New York. After Apple refused
to build a backdoor into the iPhone, the FBI managed to hack its way
into the phone, though it’s still fighting the New York case in court.

The recent legal fight was on Baker’s mind Friday. “We love
encryption. It helps us in so many ways as a society,” he said. “But
it has a cost. We need to think about it as a society: how will we
deal with that cost?”

Sadly, the panel did not address the times that the constraints which
grew out of King’s surveillance have been abused, bypassed, or
ignored. After 9/11, FISA courts were heavily abused by the NSA. The
FBI has used tools like national security letters to circumvent FISA
court decisions which go against them, which is incredibly rare in the
first place. There’ve been calls for change, but a FISA reform bill
introduced in 2015 was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee,
where it languished. (That bill’s co-sponsor, Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
is currently behind draft legislation that would effectively outlaw
encryption.)

Baker also held up the legal standard of “probable cause,” which FISA
court applications must meet, as a bulwark against abuse of
surveillance. But as The Intercept and others have reported, it’s
impossible to tell how the courts interpret that standard because
“only the Justice Department and the FBI are permitted to attend its
proceedings on domestic surveillance.”

As a lawyer for the Justice Department in the mid-2000s who reportedly
“shared…reservations and aided the judges” concerned about NSA spying
and its legality, Baker is certainly aware of the possibility for
abuse. But now he’s more concerned with information the FBI doesn’t
have, saying electronic surveillance is becoming less effective
because of data being guarded by strong encry




2.

Muslim-American Talks About Being Surveilled By Feds, Coming To
Vermont


April 12 2016

http://nhpr.org/post/muslim-american-ta ... ng-vermont

Faisal Gill worked for the Department of Homeland Security, but
ultimately resigned after being unable to shake suspicions raised by
the media largely based on his religion.
Faisal Gill worked for the Department of Homeland Security, but
ultimately resigned after being unable to shake suspicions raised by
the media largely based on his religion.
Kathleen Masterson / VPR

Originally published on April 12, 2016 12:17 pm
Listen
Listening...

It's come up repeatedly in recent political debates: the idea of
monitoring U.S. residents based solely on their religion.

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas defended his idea of having law enforcement
patrol Muslim neighborhoods in the wake of the terrorist attacks in
Brussels. And candidate Donald Trump, on the Republican side also, has
called for surveillance of certain mosques in the United States. But
according to a report by a journalist working with former CIA employee
turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden, the United States government
already has monitored prominent Muslim-Americans – by probing their
e-mails.

That alleged surveillance has up-ended the lives of some of the
targeted U.S. citizens, casting suspicion on them and dogging their
personal, political and professional lives.

Faisal Gill knows about this firsthand. Despite being cleared of any
wrongdoing or suspicious activity, he was ultimately compelled to
resign from government service in Washington, D.C. All of this, he
says, happened before he decided to move to Vermont, making his new
home in Winooski, where he now lives. VPR visited him there recently
to hear his story.

Gill says it wasn’t until 2014 that he learned the federal government
had allegedly been screening his emails. He was contacted by Glenn
Greenwald, the news reporter to whom Edward Snowden gave all the
documents that he took from the National Security Agency (NSA).

“So I went to New York to meet with Glenn Greenwald. And that's where
he told me that, 'Hey, I'm sorry to tell you this, but between the
years of 2006 and 2008 the NSA was monitoring your e-mails.

Gill says one of the many frustrations was that he never had any
indication why covert surveillance by NSA and FBI took place. He says
permission to surveil his email was likely granted by the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act court, which operates in secret.

“If you look at the statute, there are four or five categories for why
they do surveil people. And they're all fairly, you know, ominous
sounding: If you have connections with a foreign government; if you
are an agent a foreign government; if you are suspected of terrorist
activities. Categories like that, and you know, I had nothing like
that.”

Gill says because the court meets in secret, there’s no way to know
what it counts as reasonable suspicion.

“The prosecutors and the FBI agents go down [to court] and they issue
out an affidavit and say we suspect this person. And then we don't
know what happens. What we do know is, 98 percent or 99 percent of all
the warrants are approved. And if you go down to Chittenden County
Superior Court here and you ask how many ones are approved, I doubt
it's that many.”

On being profiled as a Muslim

Gill believes without question that the only reason he was surveilled
is because he is a Muslim-American.

“I was born in Pakistan and, you know, and I hate to say this, but I
don't know what else to say, is that I'm active. You know,
politically, and I'm out there as a Muslim-American and I think that
was probably one of the reasons that I was surveilled.”
On the wall in his Winooski apartment, Gill has photos of his three
children, and of himself with President Obama, Vice President Joe
Biden and other government officials.
Credit Kathleen Masterson / VPR

Gills says during the years his emailed was being screened, in 2006
and 2008, he was running as a Republican candidate for the Virginia
House of Delegates.

"And I was pretty, always involved in local community, always involved
in Muslim advocacy groups. And if you look at all the folks who are
involved in Muslim advocacy groups, the list that of the [people] that
were surveilled, they're all folks who are fairly active in the Muslim
advocacy community. So I think that that kind of had something to do
with it.

On profiling affecting his personal and professional life

"From a personal level, when my kids go somewhere, I mean everybody
these days Googles you, right? … When they Google me, all this stuff
comes up and they don't know what to make of it. So it's affected my
kids … I've had you know school officials say, 'Yeah, we Googled you,
and it was kind of interesting.'

Professionally, Gill says once he left Depar


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http://whowhatwhy.org/2014/04/09/media- ... ok-review/

Media Fail
April 9, 2014 | Steve Weinberg
How the Media Conned the Public into Loving the FBI: Book Review

1A review of “Hoover’s FBI and the Fourth Estate: The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau’s Image” by Matthew Cecil, University Press of Kansas, 355 pages, $34.95

Matthew Cecil, a communications professor at Wichita State University, has resolved a conundrum that’s bedeviled me since 1970, when I was a fledgling investigative reporter.

I had just completed my first interaction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the supposedly crackerjack national law enforcement agency. But the crackerjack part escaped me. My initial experience suggested an agency that produced inaccurate information inefficiently, failed to respect the constitutional liberties of U.S. citizens, and often resorted to intimidation and lies to get their way. Yet many of my journalistic “betters” told me I was misguided.

Smart people who think they are well informed about a subject—say, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s role as the nation’s elite law enforcement agency—usually “know” what they think they know based on exposure to mass media—television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books. But when mass media have been corrupted, the reliability of the “knowledge” becomes suspect. That’s the case with the FBI.

As “Hoover’s FBI and the Fourth Estate: The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau’s Image” shows, the performance of supposedly first-rate FBI agents has been dismal time and again when the citizens of the United States needed them most, including perhaps most notably the run-up to the events of September 11, 2001.

1Readers of WhoWhatWhy will be familiar with our frequent reports of problems with FBI operations (see for example this, this and this). And may be asking themselves: why don’t I see this in the media? The answer is in this book.

What the FBI excelled at, especially under its long-time chief J. Edgar Hoover, was a non-stop public relations campaign that portrayed the agency as a heroic band of G-men who skillfully tracked and felled dangerous criminals.

“Tales of the FBI’s infallible laboratory and army of honest and professional agents became part of popular culture,” Cecil writes. Thanks to mass media, “the FBI was widely considered to be an indispensable government agency.”

In fact, in all too many cases, dangerous criminals were eluding capture, while that “infallible” forensic laboratory wrongly analyzed evidence again and again, leading to the pursuit and convictions of innocent individuals.

J. Edgar’s 48-Year Reign

The publicity juggernaut to gild the FBI’s image began during the directorship of J. Edgar Hoover. He died in 1972, after 48 years at the helm. But the campaign he initiated was so pervasive, and the propaganda he peddled so appealing, that the image of incorruptible, invincible agent-heroes lives on in perpetuity.

Only gradually, since Hoover’s death, has the true story of the FBI begun to emerge. As Cecil explains, the course of events and countless investigations have exposed “a lawless and uncontrolled Bureau that expended enormous amounts of time and resources policing political thought rather than investigating violations of federal law… Hoover had ultimately transformed the Bureau into an American secret police force, even as he convinced the public and many in the news media that he was a trustworthy defender of civil liberties.”

Cecil says he wanted his book to reveal “how, in a nation so proud of its watchdog press, a high-profile federal agency managed to hide the reality of its activities for so long. The answer is as complex as the FBI’s decades-long deception, but it surely includes failings entrenched in the ideology of journalism and in readers’ and viewers’ often uncritical acceptance of news as truth.”

The reference to the “watchdog press” is central here. Yes, starting in the first decade of the twentieth century, what today we call “investigative reporting” began to take root in the U.S. media. But no more than a handful of media organizations ever practiced serious investigative journalism. The vast majority of journalists were too untrained or lazy or gullible or corrupt to seek the truth behind the FBI’s public-relations façade.

Unfortunately, as Cecil points out, many, probably most, consumers of news cannot or will not distinguish the excellent journalists from the untrained, lazy, gullible and corrupt ones and therefore have no idea whom to believe about the FBI. Through wise choice of media outlets and via pure luck, some consumers of mass media inevitably learned the ugly truth about the FBI—while most never did.

In the book’s Introduction, Cecil renders the abridged history of the FBI public relations campaign:

“After a few tentative steps into the realm of publicity during the late 1920s, the Bureau became a key element of FDR’s New Deal war on crime in the mid-1930s. Two journalists, independent author Courtney Ryley Cooper and Neil (Rex) Collier, collaborated with Hoover and his top lieutenants to create a template for FBI news stories emphasizing responsibility and science and featuring Hoover as America’s always careful and reliable top law enforcement officer. With the creation of the public relations-oriented Crime Records Section in 1935 and the establishment of clear lines of public communication authority, Hoover had both a public relations message and a management team to amplify and enforce it.”

During the mid-1930s, Collier, a Washington Star reporter, oversaw a comic strip called “War on Crime” that ran for two years in 80 newspapers across the United States.

Cecil summarizes the first six weeks of the strip: “Week one of ‘War on Crime’ focused on Hoover, who, Collier wrote in the comic strip’s text, ‘had the vision of a man twice his age.’ Hoover had cleaned up the Bureau, and ‘now he had men of unassailable integrity’ in the field.”

After touting the agents’ grueling training regimen and the cutting-edge science of the FBI’s crime-fighting laboratory, the strip focused on the Agency’s success in capturing criminals: “In the morgue of the Fingerprint Division are the cancelled records of criminals removed from circulation such as Dillinger, Floyd, and Nelson.”
J. Edgar Hoover (left) with Sumner Blossom, Editor of The American Magazine, and journalist Courtney Ryley Cooper

J. Edgar Hoover (left) with Sumner Blossom, Editor of The American Magazine, and journalist Courtney Ryley Cooper

Cooper had worked as a publicist for a circus before turning to newspaper feature writing. He met Hoover in 1933, while rewriting a profile of the FBI chief for American Magazine. After completing the rewrite, Cooper suggested a more permanent arrangement to Hoover. Soon, articles ghost-written by Cooper about the FBI began appearing in magazines and newspapers under Hoover’s byline. Other pieces appeared under Cooper’s name after FBI staff had carefully vetted them. Among the influential periodicals that published such public relations material as “news” were the respectable magazines Cosmopolitan and Saturday Evening Post.

Cecil notes:

“At a time when Americans were desperate for government to do something right, the FBI’s pursuit and elimination of John Dillinger and the other ‘Robin Hood’ outlaws of the Midwest provided a compelling hook on which to hang the Bureau’s reputation. Hoover built on that narrative, erecting an FBI built not only on real law enforcement innovation but also on a manufactured public relations foundation that hid mistakes and excesses from public view for nearly 40 years.”

Accused bank robber Bennie Dickson, for example, died on a St. Louis street during 1939 after he supposedly threatened to unload his weapon in the direction of four FBI agents. Cecil, relying in part on previously undisclosed FBI reports, shows that Dickson was actually trying to flee the scene when a trigger-happy agent shot him in the back.

The evidence appears overwhelming that in the aftermath of Dickson’s death, FBI agents coordinated their accounts, offered perjured testimony and threatened a key witness into silence after she had told the truth.

Cecil says that holes first began to appear in the FBI’s holier-than-thou image around 1940. Media accounts of agents falsifying testimony, conducting illegal wiretaps and raiding homes of Americans involved in the Spanish Civil War brought the agency unwanted attention.

Hoover found ways to fight back. His staff maintained lists of hundreds of journalists, and categorized each as friend or foe. Foes were denied access to FBI information, while friends, like famed columnist Walter Winchell, got “insider” tips they could use, often unattributed, to spin coverage of specific investigations and to burnish the FBI’s overall reputation.

While most major media outlets willingly joined the pro-FBI chorus, low-circulation intellectual magazines like The Nation and The New Republic probed deeper.

Fred Cook’s critical reporting about the FBI filled the entire 58 pages of The Nation magazine for October 18, 1958. Cook questioned the American public’s “worship” of an agency that was “part heroic fact” to be sure, but also “part heroic myth.” Cook would expand the magazine tour de force into a 1964 book, “The FBI Nobody Knows.”

While trying without success to refute Cook’s facts, Hoover and his supporters accused him, and other critics, of being un-American—a charge that bore considerable weight during the Communist-hunting hysteria of the 1950s.

***

But even Fred Cook’s hard-hitting expose could not come close to neutralizing the Bureau-friendly “journalism” of Don Whitehead.

Whitehead had established his credentials as a newspaper reporter and war correspondent by the time he completed an “authorized” history of the FBI in 1956. “The FBI Story: A Report to the People” became a big seller. Whitehead had no qualms about FBI censors vetting his manuscript. In discussing the agency’s propensity for tapping telephones and bugging private homes and offices, Whitehead compared these actions to a potential employer examining “every possible source for information as to the honesty and reliability of a prospective employee.”

As Cecil sees it, “Whitehead sold out his own journalistic credibility to the heroic history of the FBI. Hoover counted on the public’s logical conclusion that a famed, objective journalist had reviewed the evidence and verified the Bureau’s history as it had always been told.”

1In 1959, Whitehead’s book “became the basis for a popular motion picture, also titled ‘The FBI Story,’ starring Jimmy Stewart. And when Hoover moved th


4.

FBI Agents Speak on Making Local Connections

Posted: Wed 6:57 PM, Apr 13, 2016
http://www.wtok.com/home/headlines/FBI- ... 28791.html


Two FBI agents out of Jackson stopped by the WTOK-TV station to talk a
little more about their work in this area.

Meridian, Miss. Two FBI agents out of Jackson stopped by the WTOK-TV
station to talk a little more about their work in this area.

They explained how making connections is a critical part of their
day-to-day job. Agent Donald Alway says he recently spoke with
Meridian's police chief about the problems officers see and
also see


FBI agent Lee drops by

http://www.therotundaonline.com/feature ... f3f32.html

Posted: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 8:00 am | Updated: 11:39 am, Wed Apr
13, 2016.



While initially, it may seem unconventional to have a federal
government agent give a talk to a student in an English class, it may
not be when considering the issue of social media.

This semester, the theme of English 400 courses is discussing the pros
and cons of a social media presence. To give more of a professional
outlook on the topic, Professor Elise Green of the English and Modern
Language department brought FBI Special Agent in Charge Adam Lee to
her English classes and others to talk about the consequences of being
active in social media. In addition, he also held recruitment info
session, where he discussed his life and work within the bureau.

After spending several years as a legislative attorney in California,
Lee became an FBI agent in 1996 and underwent training at Quantico
(which he joked was a lot less sexier than the TV show). He worked for
several years in their national cyber security program during his
early stages. In addition, he also managed the public corruption and
civil rights programs within the bureau during the Trayvon Martin
incident, the IRS/Tea Party case and the trial of former Virginia
Governor Bob McDonald. Currently, Lee works in the Richmond division
where he runs all the FBI operations in Virginia, excluding the
Norfolk and D.C. areas.

During his talk he explained the concept of the FBI and what they do.
The bureau is essentially three agencies in one: national security,
criminal investigation and intelligence. The FBI’s first priority is
“to prevent the next terrorist attack in the United States.” Their
second priority is to prevent other countries from spying and gaining
intelligence on the U.S, followed by national cyber security,
investigating the corruption of elected officials (public corruption)
and the violations of civil rights.

“I liked the way he connected social media and how they used it to
hire people. Everyone knows the bad it can do, but not the good. Like
you can make a virtual resume by posting everything you’re involved
in,” said Alex Reuschling, one of the students in the English 400
class, “Another thing I liked was the way he explained how the FBI was
nothing like I expected.”

Lee emphasized that the FBI is not a law enforcement agency but often
helps local law enforcement agencies with their cases, such as the
Richmond branch helped with the Hannah Graham case.

When it comes to numbers, the bureau is one quarter the size of the
New York Police Department, as they want to remain effectively small
and not be a large Gestapo. Lee stated that one big common
misconception among the public is that the FBI is “Big Brother”
watching everyone.

“We are threat-focused and threat-driven and to the extent we expend
one once of effort on something that is not a credible threat we are
wasting



4.

Businessman at Center of NYPD Investigation Served As Chaplain of
County Police Department



http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bro ... -1.2597220




A Brooklyn businessman who is a target in the widening federal
investigation of the NYPD also served as a chaplain for the
Westchester County police, the New York Daily News reports.

But the discovery that he was at the center of the investigation
prompted the police department to suspend Jeremy Reichberg from his
nonpaying chaplain job.

Reichberg, 42, is suspected of giving gifts to city cops in exchange
for a host of favors.

Just three months after county Executive Rob Astorino received a
$25,000 donation from Reichberg’s friend, Jona Rechnitz, he
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Bonus read


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Take Action! [
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]

Today, a major step was taken to protect whistleblowers and create
accountability in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Senate Judiciary Committee just unanimously voted to approve the
FBI Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act. Now it will advance to
the full Senate for a vote.

The FBI retaliated against whistleblower Jane Turner, who reported
theft from Ground Zero and the victims of the 9/11 attacks by FBI
agents. The current system failed to protect Turner, and she had to
fight for over 15 years for justice. Turner made the following
statement about the need for these reforms.

"My honest, and trusting use of the OARM system set up for
whistleblowers was a failure, and resulted in a lesson to all other
FBI whistleblowers that their struggle to tell the truth is being
thwarted at all levels. Unless they are prepared to spend fifteen
years of their lives seeking exoneration, and ultimately, find no
justice, whistleblowers will remain outside of the system, unwilling
to come forward. This is why I am writing this letter to support your
efforts to reform non-existent protections. The FBI Whistleblower
Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) is critical and, if any case
demonstrates why it is critical my battle certainly sets the
prevailing reason."

Turner wasn't the only FBI whistleblower that the current system
failed to protect. A recent Government Accountability Office report
found that the FBI's whistleblower protection system failed to
guarantee basic due process rights and took an unacceptably long time
to review cases. FBI whistleblowers have exposed illegal surveillance
operations, systemic weaknesses in the counterterrorism program, civil
rights abuses, and the FBI's role in numerous wrongful convictions of
innocent Americans.

We need whistleblowers like Turner to stand on the front line to
protect American civil liberties and uphold the rule of law.

We need your help now. Urge your Representatives to vote for this
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1.
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/c ... it-bribery

Three NYPD officials linked to gun permit bribery
feds-three-nypd-officials-linked-gun-permit-bribery
Bratton.

By Azi Paybarah 4:39 p.m. | Apr. 18, 2016

Three members of the NYPD License Division have been moved out of
their positions as part of an ongoing corruption probe into the
department,

2.
http://www.floridabulldog.org/2016/04/12521/

April 18, 2016 at 3:37 pm
9/11 Commission lawyers wanted to probe possible Saudi Royal family
ties to hijackers
Filed under 9/11,

As President Obama prepares to visit Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, his
administration is under increasing pressure to declassify 28 pages
that, according to many who’ve read them, illustrate financial links
between the Saudi government and the 9/11 hijackers.

Meanwhile, a far lesser-known document from the files of the 9/11
Commission—written by the same

3.

At the Cleveland CHIME LEAD Forum, an FBI Special Agent Urges
Healthcare Leaders to Proactively Engage with his Agency
April 18, 2016
by Mark Hagland


http://www.healthcare-informatics.com/a ... engage-his



4.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/m ... /83197392/


Attorney: FBI posed as 2 Muslim women to entrap man


5.

Home > Bangladesh
Police move court to question Mahmudur Rahman over plot to abduct and
murder Joy

Court Correspondent, bdnews24.com

http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2016/04/ ... murder-joy

Published: 2016-04-18 19:11:48.0 BdST Updated: 2016-04-18 19:11:48.0
BdST


6.

Cops' romp with hooker on N.J. flight part of FBI probe into NYPD, report says

http://www.nj.com/bergen/index.ssf/2016 ... _says.html


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* DXer Has Requested The Army To Remove The Inapt (B)(2) Redaction
Identifying The 3 Notebooks Bruce Ivins Once Reported Missing

Posted by Lew Weinstein on April 30, 2016





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* The Army Has Wrongfully Redacted Under (B)(2) Information Relating
To Transfer Of The Ames Strain Used To Murder 5 People In Fall 2001

Posted by Lew Weinstein on April 30, 2016




Link du jour
http://bordc.org


Welcome to the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and Defending Dissent
Foundation

We are a national non-profit, non-partisan organization working to
restore the rule of law and our constitutional rights and liberties.
We aim to make police and intelligence agencies accountable to we, the
people whom they serve. We support an ideologically, politically,
ethnically, geographically, and generationally diverse grassroots
movement, focused on educating Americans about the erosion of our
fundamental freedoms; increasing civic participation; and converting
concern and outrage into political action.

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http://ticklethewire.com/2016/05/03/for ... tigations/



FBI agent admits to stealing money seized in drug probes to buy cars
and plastic surgery






FBI agent has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $100,000 in
suspected drug money.

May 3, 2016, 1:31 a.m.
Nearly two weeks before he was to go on trial, a former FBI agent
pleaded guilty Monday to stealing more than $136,000 in cash that had
been seized during drug investigations.

Former special agent Scott M. Bowman admitted to using the cash to
fund a lavish spending spree on items including plastic surgery and
cars. The plea deal draws to a close a case that has led prosecutors
to drop criminal charges against more than a dozen defendants in a
case Bowman had investigated.

In a Riverside courtroom, Bowman, 45, admitted to


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Clinton Investigation


http://ticklethewire.com/2016/05/03/msn ... stigation/

MSNCB host Joe Scarborough, who is a former congressman, suggested
Monday that the FBI may be playing politics with the Hillary


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http://www.occurrencesforeigndomestic.com



‘D.C. Madam’ attorney forbidden by Supreme Court to disclose records
‘relevant to present election cycle’ –Supreme Court issues
‘denial-without-explanation’ to ‘D.C. Madam’ attorney Montgomery Blair
Sibley By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org | 03 May 2016 | On Monday, the
U.S. Supreme Court “denied a stay sought by Montgomery Blair Sibley,
who had asked to be released from a lower court restraining order that
barred him from sharing the records of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, known as
the ‘D.C. Madam'” (The Washington Post). Sibley, attorney for the late
Palfrey, seeks to release the sealed records that he has maintained
are “relevant to the present election cycle.”

In his a blog entry posted Tuesday, entitled ‘My Next Steps…,’ Sibley
discussed his next course of action. “Yesterday, the Supreme Court
docketed the denial of my Application. They gave no reason for the
denial of my request to review the refusal of the District Court Clerk
to file my Motions for Modification of the Restraining Order which I
believe prevents me from releasing information relevant to the present
election cycle. So now what is my next step? Torn as I am that I
should not be gagged from First Amendment political speech by a
restraining order that I am being denied the opportunity to even asked
to be dissolved… I will continue to press Obama Supreme Court nominee
Chief Judge Garland of the D.C. Circuit Court to expedite the
resolution of the Petition I placed before him on March 9, 2016.”

For more on the history of the ‘D.C. Madam’ political scandal, see:
CLG’s ‘DC Madam’ Phone Records.

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Orleans

(in: GENERAL ARCHIVES May 2016)

May 3, 2016

Rafael Cruz and Lee Harvey Oswald has gone mainstream.

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See realtime coverage

Donald Trump associates Ted Cruz’s father with JFK’s assassin

Washington Post

1030 hours GMT-5 5/3/16

Try watching this video on www.youtube.com, or enable JavaScript if it
is disabled in your browser. Never one to shy away from discussing
unsubstantiated tabloid fodder, Donald Trump told the Fox News Channel
on Tuesday morning that Ted.

Related

Trump hits back at Cruz’s dad over ‘body of Christ’ appeal Fox News

Donald Trump Accuses Ted Cruz’s Father of Associating With Kennedy
Assassin New York Times (blog)

Highly Cited:Trump accuses Cruz’s father of helping JFK’s
assassinPolitico (blog)

Opinion:The Latest: Trump attacks Cruz’s father over Oswald photoDaily
Mail

In Depth:News roundup: Trump says Cruz’s father was with JFK
assassinSalt Lake Tribune (blog)

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role

[Ed.: Public call-in segment: What jobs do you foresee Bill getting in
the Clinton administration?
Oh, our first caller is Monica…]

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TUESDAY, MAY 03, 2016

Rallying

Tweet (WikiLeaks):

“Panama Papers not to be published or given to police/lawyers as money
is moved and evidence destroyed
http://www.dw.com/en/from-germany-to-th ... a-19209191
…”

A film review: “Michael Moore’s new movie, “Where to Invade Next””.



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inspired ‘Silence of the Lambs’ characterBy Colin Ellis on May 2, 2016
FALMOUTH — Anyone who has seen or read “The Silence of the Lambs”
knows Clarice Starling, the FBI agent who interviews serial killer Dr.
Hannibal Lecter.

When Starling first appeared in the 1988 novel, current Falmouth
resident Patricia Kirby said she saw aspects of herself in Clarice.

And she should have, since Kirby, a former FBI agent, served as
inspiration for the character.

Kirby, who is in the process of moving to Bath, last week said just
like Starling, she interviewed serial killers for the FBI’s Behavioral
Science

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http://patch.com/new-jersey/galloway/at ... s-attorney




Cop Admits Illegally Helping Drug Dealer boyfriend Buy Car: U.S.
Attorney
Kiyia M. Harris was involved in a personal relationship with Donell
Williams, buying a car and hiding his involvement in the purchase.
Galloway, NJ

By ANTHONY BELLANO (Patch Staff) - May 3, 2016 10:58 am ET



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Pennnsylvania man wrongly arrested and given rough ride in police car
because he posted video on Facebook of cop dealing ywith parking
dispute
Tuesday, May 3, 2016, 7:06 PM

Parking Dispute Video At Center Of Federal Lawsuit
CBS Pittsburgh
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2623859

00:00 / 02:45
PITTSBURGH - A Pennsylvania man was wrongly arrested, given a rough
ride in a police car and jailed for hours after posting a Facebook
video he recorded
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Bonus read



http://www.eightmartinis.com/eight-martinis-issue-14


Eight Martinis – Remote Viewing magazine is now in its 14th issue
(April 2016). Available as a free download (pdf) or as a full color
printed magazine (printed to order). This issue is packed with great
insights, Remote Viewing examples and articles on a large range of
Remote Viewing and ESP topics.
This issue concentrates on some of the key people within Remote
Viewing and is packed with 68 pages.
It contains the following:
• Moving Sideways in Time – Lyn Buchanan
• WWC Group sets the pace in Associative Remote Viewing – T.W.Fendley
• 18 Years of Excitement: CRV Stories from a Professional Remote
Viewer – Lori Williams
• An interview with Angela Ford – A Project Star Gate Remote Viewer –
Daz Smith & Angela Ford
• Archetypes, Atoms & Alchemy Remote Viewing in a (Quantum) Nutshell –
Dr. David Shaver
• CIA Sponsored American Institutes of Research (AIR) Remote Viewing
Report in 2016: The View From Under The Bus – by Teresa Frisch
• Remote Viewing Example: Rock Hewn Churches, Lalibela, Ethiopia –
Hitomi Akamatsu
We hope you enjoy this Issue and feel free to email us with and
comments & feedback.







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Home / Press Releases / TrineDay author, Judyth Vary Baker, an Eyewitness, Recently Spoke Out to Help Identify Man in Historic Photograph that is Center of Controversy about Ted Cruz’s Father Rafael.
TrineDay author, Judyth Vary Baker, an Eyewitness, Recently Spoke Out to Help Identify Man in Historic Photograph that is Center of Controversy about Ted Cruz’s Father Rafael.By PR Rocket on May 10, 2016
“Lee called him Rafaolo,” Eyewitness to Oswald Photo tells Publisher

Walterville, OR (PRWEB) May 10, 2016

TrineDay author, Judyth Vary Baker, an eyewitness, spoke out recently to help identify a man in a historic photograph that is the center of controversy about Ted Cruz’s father Rafael.


 
The April 20, 2016, National Enquirer’s claim that Rafael Cruz was with Lee Harvey Oswald in a photo taken in front of the International Trade Mart in New Orleans on August 16, 1963 stirred controversy in the Republican Presidential Primary and across the Internet. It also prompted an eyewitness to speak up. Rafael Cruz is the father of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz. Lee Harvey Oswald was later accused of assassinating President Kennedy in Dallas.

After seeing the National Enquirer article, author Judyth Vary Baker was interviewed by Kris Millegan, the publisher at TrineDay, about what she personally saw and heard that day. “I saw Rafaolo with Lee in front of the ITM. I was no more than 6 feet from him and saw him clearly, but I did not know his last name. Lee only told me his name was ‘Rafaolo,’ and that he was there to watch Lee’s back in the event there was trouble. The cover story was that Lee hired Rafaolo to help hand out FPCC flyers, but he was really there for Lee’s protection. Lee also told me that both he and Rafaolo pretended to be pro-Castro to flush out Castro sympathizers for ex-FBI agent Guy Banister,” said Judyth Vary Baker in an interview with her publisher Kris Millegan this week.

Judyth detailed her relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald in her 2010 autobiography “ME & LEE: How I came to know, love and lose Lee Harvey Oswald.” Lee and Judyth both worked at the Reily Coffee Company in New Orleans in 1963. Lee found an apartment for Judyth and helped her get her job at the coffee company. They both started working there on May 10th, and they rode the same bus to and from work together on a daily basis. By August 16th, both had been fired from Reily, but continued to see each other and to work together on a secret anti-Castro project with several New Orleans doctors. Her comments about Rafaolo are new.


 
“The other time I saw Rafaolo” Judyth told Millegan, “was when Lee and I were walking through Lafayette Park near Banister’s office. Lee spotted Rafaolo and said, ‘There goes Rafael the Archangel.’ That's when Lee told me that Rafaolo was one of the Cubans whose parents were still in Cuba, so Lee could not trust him because Castro might be able to pressure Rafaolo into spying by threatening his parents.”

Millegan said “We were very familiar with that photo long before the National Enquirer broke the Rafael Cruz article. It’s

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/california- ... -on-video/


California deputies charged in beating captured on video

An image from a surveillance video shows two Alameda County sheriff's deputies beating a man with batons in San Francisco's Mission District on November 12, 2015.  S.F. PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE VIA KPIX
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Two Northern California sheriff's deputies were charged with felonies Tuesday in the beating of a suspected car thief in an incident captured on surveillance video.

San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon announced that Alameda County sheriff's deputies Luis R. Santamaria and Paul D. Wieber were each charged with assault with a deadly weapon, assault under color of authority and battery.

Two residents' surveillance cameras captured deputies continuing to beat the suspect with steel batons as he lay on the ground, crying out in pain. In addition, Gascon said one of the deputies' body-worn cameras appears to have accidentally turned on.

"I'm sorry," Stanislav Petrov could be heard screaming on one of the videos. "Help me."


Petrov, 29, was beaten with metal batons by the two deputies on a San Francisco street on Nov. 12 at the end of a car ch



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http://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/2 ... e-killers/

Bombing of MOVE and Osage: Prosecute the killers
May 10, 2016


Police, firemen and workers search through the rubble on Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia, May 15, 1985 in the aftermath of the blaze, which destroyed 61 homes in the neighborhood. Eleven bodies were found in the rubble of the house that was occupied by members of the radical group MOVE. — AP Photo/George Widman
It was 31 years ago on May 13, 1985 at 5:20 pm that a state police helicopter took off from the command post’s flight pad at 63rd and Walnut Streets, flew a few times over 6221 Osage Avenue, and then hovered 60 feet above the two-story house in the Black middle-class residential West Philadelphia neighborhood.
Lt. Frank Powell, chief of the city’s Bomb Disposal Unit, was holding a bag containing a bomb consisting of two sticks of Tovex TR2 with C-4 added, which was concocted by fellow unit member Police Officer William Klein.
After radioing firefighters on the ground and lighting the bomb’s 45-second fuse- and with the official approval of Mayor W. Wilson Goode and at the insistence of Police Commissioner Gregore Sambor- Powell at precisely 5:28 p.m. tossed the bomb onto a bunker on the roof. This was followed shortly thereafter by a loud explosion and then a large bright orange ball of fire that reached 7,200 degrees.
As a result, he, the Mayor, the Police Commissioner, Fire Commissioner William Richmond, City Managing Director Leo Brooks, and many police officers committed, in the words of Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission (better known as the MOVE Commission) member Charles Bowser, a “criminally evil” act that led to the death of eleven human beings, including five defenseless children, the destruction of 61 homes, and the incineration of thousands of family photos, love letters, heirloom jewelry, inscribed Bibles and Korans, and many other irreplaceable mementos.
As told to me by Mr. Bowser, my mentor and author of the tell-all book entitled Let The Bunker Burn, five of the city’s most influential Black political leaders met at the Mayor’s home before dawn on May 13, 1985


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http://m.citizensvoice.com/news/former- ... -1.2040340

Former W-B cops sentenced on fraud charges
JAMES HALPIN
Published: May 9, 2016
WILKES-BARRE — Two former Wilkes-Barre city police officers were
sentenced Monday on bank fraud conspiracy charges....


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http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/05/0 ... prison.htm

Men Say Heroin-Addicted Agent Put Them in Prison
 
     WASHINGTON (CN) — After the downfall of a heroin-addicted FBI
agent upended their drug convictions, three men now want damages from
the U.S. government.
     Albert Briscoe, Merle Watson and Donald Duren say they spent
nearly two years in prison before the FBI revealed apparent misconduct
by a special agent involved in their case.
     As described in their April 29 federal complaint, an ensuing
criminal investigation found that Matthew Lowry "had, on numerous
occasions, gone to the Washington Field Office's Evidence Control
Center and took seized heroin from the evidence storage facility."
     To compensate for the weight of any heroin he ingested, Lowry
allegedly added a cutting substance to the evidence with which he
tampered, then returned it to the government's storehouse.
     "I mean he would sign out evidence in other people's names," said
Billy Ponds, an attorney for Briscoe, Watson and Duren.
     Ponds blamed the failure of the FBI Washington Field Office to
supervise the agent.
     "There should've been some type of safeguard to prevent that from
happening," Ponds said.
     Lowry is serving 36 months in prison after pleading guilty last
year to 64 criminal charges, including 20 counts of obstruction of
justice, 18 counts of falsification of records and



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http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6440/

“You Are the Un-Americans, and You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourselves”:
Paul Robeson Appears Before HUAC

Many African-American witnesses subpoenaed to testify at the House
Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) hearings in the 1950s were
asked to denounce Paul Robeson (1888–1976) in order to obtain future
employment. Robeson, an All-American football player and recipient of
a Phi Beta Kappa key at Rutgers, received a law degree at Columbia. He
became an internationally acclaimed concert performer and actor as
well as a persuasive political speaker. In 1949, Robeson was the
subject of controversy after newspapers reports of public statements
that African Americans would not fight in “an imperialist war.” In
1950, his passport was revoked. Several years later, Robeson refused
to sign an affidavit stating that he was not a Communist and initiated
an unsuccessful lawsuit. In the following testimony to a HUAC hearing,
ostensibly convened to gain information regarding his passport suit,
Robeson refused to answer questions concerning his political
activities and lectured bigoted Committee members Gordon H. Scherer
and Chairman Francis E.Walter about African-American history and civil
rights. In 1958, the Supreme Court ruled that a citizen’s right to
travel could not be taken away without due process and Robeson’
passport was returned.

Testimony of Paul Robeson before the House Committee on Un-American
Activities, June 12, 1956

THE CHAIRMAN: The Committee will be in order. This morning the
Committee resumes its series of hearings on the vital issue of the use
of American passports as travel documents in furtherance of the
objectives of the Communist conspiracy. . . .

Mr. ARENS: Now, during the course of the process in which you were
applying for this passport, in July of 1954, were you requested to
submit a non-Communist affidavit?

Mr. ROBESON: We had a long discussion—with my counsel, who is in the
room, Mr. [Leonard B.] Boudin—with the State Department, about just
such an affidavit and I was very precise not only in the application
but with the State Department, headed by Mr. Henderson and Mr. McLeod,
that under no conditions would I think of signing any such affidavit,
that it is a complete contradiction of the rights of American




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http://www.narconews.com/narcodollars1.html
 Narco-Dollars

for Beginners

"How the Money Works"

in the Illicit Drug Trade

Part I in a Series

By Catherine Austin Fitts

 Special to the Narco News Bulletin

Narco News Publisher's Note: Catherine Austin Fitts is a former
managing director and member of the board of directors of Dillon Read
& Co, Inc, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing-Federal Housing
Commissioner in the first Bush Administration, and the
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Meryl Nass MD blogspot

http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
CDC: Inept. Stupid. Deadly.
From the CDC website we learn that CDC issues “authoritative guidance directly to Medscape's physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals.”
Want to learn the newest on screening and managing Ebola?  Screening for Ebola is not an easy task, since many other diseases can look very much like Ebola. But CDC is here to help doctors and other medical professionals with this very challenging, subtle differentiation.
CDC has offered up a video featuring Dr. Knust to give us this important information.  But wait--Dr. Knust is a veterinarian. Huh?  Ebola is not an animal disease.  And Dr. Knust has never (legally) treated a human. Is this the best CDC can do?  Is this a joke or what?  
If you listen to the video, you will find that it acknowledges, but remarkably minimizes, the problem of persisting Ebola virus in patients after recovery.  Dr. Knust mentions there were only "two" documented patients in whom recrudescence of Ebola occurred


link du jour


http://www.occurrencesforeigndomestic.c ... s-walking/


http://ticklethewire.com/2016/05/19/exp ... -pressure/

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FBI employee arrested for concealing evidence


POSTED: 01:59 PM MDT May 18, 2016 


http://www.localnews8.com/news/fbi-empl ... e/39612278

FBI worker arrested for obstructing investigation.

POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK) -
An FBI employee Jennifer Barnett, 38, of Pocatello was arrested for destruction, alteration, or concealment of evidence.

The evidence was involved in an investigation on her husband, David Phillips, 41. She was arrested for informing Phillips of the investigation before it was conducted.

According to Bannock County Court records, police were planning to search for evidence of child pornography on Phillips' electronic devices.






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http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/ham ... y-downtown

Man in handcuffs escapes FBI custody Downtown
WCPO-5 minutes ago
Mekahale Lamb, 31, is described as 5-foot-7 and 160 pounds. He was wearing a gray hoodie and salmon pants when he escaped at Fifth and Walnut streets


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http://bordc.org/news/no-the-fbis-huge- ... acy-rules/
FBI's Huge Biometrics Database Should Not Be Exempt ...
Dissent NewsWire (blog)-50 minutes ago
That's why the Department of Justice's proposal to prevent Americans from finding out if pictures of their fingerprints and tattoos are being stored in the FBI's Next ...



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http://www.federaltimes.com/story/gover ... /84588356/
Poll shows Hoover as favorite for new FBI building
Federal Times-
An online poll conducted by Federal Times shows that respondents think the FBI's new headquarters should still be named after former Bureau director J. Edgar ...


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http://www.vocativ.com/318981/rule-41-hacking-bill/

Senators Push To Stop Expanding The FBI's Right To Hack
Vocativ-
A coalition of privacy-minded senators wants to overturn a looming new set of rules that would give the FBI far more authority to hack people's computers when ...

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Mumbai attack in India created
by FBI informant David Headley

http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articl ... 64199.html
FBI to train Indian counter-terror experts
Web India
The FBI will train Indian counter-terror experts and prosecutors on how to request for evidence from the United States through the Mutual Legal Assistance




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NYPD cop Michael Milici fired, first cop axed in corruption probe

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyp ... -1.2641669

Wednesday, May 18, 2016, 6:23

Detective Michael Milici was dismissed on Wednesday.
The first NYPD officer embroiled in the ongoing federal and NYPD probe has b


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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... later.html


Tragedy as Milwaukee girl, 9, who asked police whether they could keep her safe in her neighborhood dies from a gunshot wound to the head just days later
Za'layia Jenkins died Monday afternoon, a day before her 10th birthday
She was struck in the head by a stray bullet as she was watching


FBI Control of Media


NEWS
QUANTICO GRADUATES DISCUSS REALITIES OF BEING FBI AGENTS

http://abc7.com/news/quantico-graduates ... s/1340259/
Many viewers watched the shocking season finale of ABC's hit show 'Quantico' Sunday night, but do you ever wonder what it's really like to join the FBI? (KABC)
EMBED
By Anabel Munoz
Sunday, May 15, 2016 11:44PM
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Many viewers watched the shocking season finale of ABC's hit show "Quantico" Sunday night, but do you ever wonder what it's really like to join the FBI?

Young, ambitious and attractive FBI hopefuls took center stage in the show. Much of the action and drama took place at the FBI's 20-week training academy in Quantico, Virginia.

Dramatic scenes such as car chases and gunfights are often how Americans perceive a day in the life of a law enforcement agent. Eyewitness News spoke with two real-life Quantico graduates to see how close those depictions really are.

Although agents do have to train for intense encounters, they said what is shown in Hollywood is not the real thing.

"(The Quantico show creators) captured parts of it very well, obviously the plot line is something only created in Hollywood," Kimberly Anderson said.

Anderson is a special agent in the cyber division. When she was young, she felt a heightened sense of justice for victims and said she always wished she could do more to help if she ever witnessed anything.

Prentist Henderson graduated two weeks ago. He was actually inspired by the Hollywood television shows, and now works in the violent crimes unit.

He said growing up watching shows such as "The X-Files" and "America's Most Wanted" help drive him down the law enforcement career path.

Both agents admit training


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Murder conspiracy mustn’t be excused as merely political rivalry

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... medium=RSS

By Sajeeb Wazed - - Wednesday, May 18, 2016
ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Ayear-and-a-half ago I received an out-of-the-blue phone call from the U.S. Department of Justice. The news was shocking: People were planning to abduct and possibly kill me.

It turned out that a former FBI agent, Robert Lustyik, was sentenced to five years in prison last year for selling secret information about a Bangladesh political figure living in the United States to his political rivals. I am that figure.

The person buying the FBI information was Rizve Ahmed Caesar. He



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in Oriskany
By Kirk Tupaj May. 18, 2016


http://www.wktv.com/news/Explosives_tea ... skany.html
 

It's called Raven's Challenge. It's a chance for Public Safety Bomb Squads and Military Explosive Units to work together.It all took place at the State Preparedness Training Center in Oriskany.

When it comes to explosives, there's no room for error. That's why these explosive experts need to learn the different techniques being used by various agencies.
Donald Robinson, ATF Explosive Training and Research Special Agent explains what this training is like.

"What we do here is we make the scenarios and the incidents here that they're training in very lifelike. Really realistic, based on the current information coming in to us on tactics, techniques, and procedures of the bad guys."


The rise in terrorism has forced first responders to be aware of what to do when they come across a bomb, but bomb makers are becoming more sophisticated in their techniques. This exercise keeps bomb squads on top of their game. Stephen Shelley, ATF Explosive Enforcement Officer says the bombs are becoming more difficult to deal with.

"People who make bombs, it's up to the ingenuity and their creativity in how they design bombs, and so somebody may come up with something that's never been seen before. So for a bomb technician to see something new they've never seen before, it helps hone their skills and gets them in a mindset to always be thinking of the unexpected."

There are chemicals that can be bought over the counter to make explosives, but that doesn't mean there aren't security procedures in place to keep an eye on suspicious activity.
Special Agent David Acquavella is a Bomb Technician for the FBI and says you have to know what you're doing to mix up a chemical bomb, but the information to make one is out there.

"There are security checks. They take your driver's license and they make record of the transaction, but everything else that I showed you, especially to make the primary explosives, you can just walk into any store and buy it without anybody blinking an eye."



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https://www.wired.com/2016/05/allo-duo- ... s-end-end/

05.18.16
TIME OF PUBLICATION: 3:23 PM.
3:23 PM
WITH ALLO AND DUO, GOOGLE FINALLY ENCRYPTS CONVERSATIONS END-TO-END


THEN ONE/WIRED
ALLO, THE MESSAGING service Google announced today at its Google I/O conference, is designed to allow a new style of communication, in which a clever bot listens in on your conversations and offers helpful suggestions and services. But a different feature is just as significant, one that’s designed to let no one listen in on your conversations at all: Not Google, not any hacker or eavesdropper, not even an FBI agent with a warrant.

When it launches this summer, Allo will offer an “incognito” mode that switches on an end-to-end encryption system known as Signal, designed by the privacy-focused non-profit Open Whisper Systems. In that incognito mode, only the two phones at either end of a conversation will possess the secret keys necessary to decrypt messages. Google’s new video calling app Duo will use end-to-end encryption, too. The result is a pair of tools that are resistant to government surveillance: Google couldn’t, in theory, help law enforcement decipher an incognito Allo conversation or Duo call even if it wanted to. And in the wake of Apple’s landmark fight with the FBI over the encrypted iPhone of San Bernadino killer Syed Rizwan Farook, the move represents another step in Silicon Valley’s shift toward user-controlled encryption in defiance of law enforcement.

“With incognito mode, Allo gives users additional controls over their privacy and security,” said Erik Kay, a Google engineering director in the Google I/O keynote. “We anticipate adding even more security features to it over time.”

In Allo’s incognito mode, the app will offer Snapchat-style expiring messages that delete themselves after a set time or when a conversation window is closed. And by adopting the open-source encryption system developed for the encrypted voice and messaging app Signal, the app will gain a level of protection from eavesdroppers that’s resistant to even sophisticated spies. Edward Snowden himself has vouched for Signal, writing that he uses it every day. As ACLU lead technologist Chris Soghoian has written, “every time someone downloads Signal and makes their first encrypted call, FBI Director Jim Comey cries.”

Better Late Than Never
But in the encryption arms race, Google is playing catch-up. Apple’s iMessage has, without much fanfare, end-to-end encrypted iPhone owners’ communications for years. FaceTime, too. In April, Facebook-owned Whatsapp completed the rollout of Open Whisper Systems’ encryption to the more than one billion phones that have the app installed, the largest default end-to-end encrypted network ever. The competing app Viber followed up just weeks later with its own switch to end-to-end encryption, extending that protection to around 700 million more people.

Google’s move, late as it may come, answers critics who have chastised its slow adoption of user-controlled encryption tools. The company announced an encrypted email project called “End-to-End” in 2014, but the initiative has yet to release any actual tools to the public.

Allo’s incognito mode represents a far more limited approach to encryption than Whatsapp’s, Apple’s, Viber’s, or even what it’s offering with Duo: Unlike with those apps, you must purposefully turn on incognito mode to send encrypted Allo messages; the app doesn’t hide all messages by default. On the flip side, Duo is encrypted by default all the time. But Google’s launching its encrypted communication apps as new tools that may or may not catch on, rather than Whatsapp’s far bolder move to turn on encryption for its existing, massive userbase. Gmail and Google Hangouts, meanwhile, still lack end-to-end encryption, leaving them open to government surveillance orders.



Seeking a Middle Ground?
Even so, Google’s new experiments in end-to-end encryption represent the company tiptoeing into an increasingly heated debate between Silicon Valley and cryptophobic government officials in the US and abroad. In March, Brazilian authorities briefly arrested a Facebook executive after Whatsapp failed to comply with a surveillance order in a drug case. The country’s government temporarily banned the app in both December of last year and earlier this month due to its encryption features, although the ban was overturned in both cases by a judge. And the New York Times reported that Whatsapp had told the U.S. Justice Department it couldn’t comply with a wiretap order in a criminal investigation due to its use of encryption.

FBI director James Comey has made clear his opposition to encryption because it presents a barrier to law enforcement, saying as early as 2014 that encrypted communication “threatens to lead all of us to a very dark place.” When Whatsapp announced the completion of its encryption rollout in April, Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, a member of the Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence, responded in a blistering statement: “The WhatsApp and Facebook decision to add end-to-end encryption to all of WhatsApp’s services with no secure method to comply with valid search warrants continues a dangerous trend in the tech and data world,” he wrote. “This is an open invitation to terrorists, drug dealers, and sexual predators to use WhatsApp’s services to endanger the American people.”

Google’s more limited adoption of that same encryption system may signal that the company is looking for a path that will please its privacy-seeking users without entirely antagonizing law enforcement. An even bigger consideration for the company may be the fact that end-to-end encryption prevents not only government surveillance, but its own collection of data about its users’ conversations—the lifeblood of Google’s advertising-driven business.

Allo and Duo’s new security features, in other words, are Google’s baby steps towards a fully-encrypted future, not the sort of bold moves to elevate privacy above profit or politics that some of its competitors have already taken. But for a company built on a data collection model that’s often fundamentally opposed to privacy, baby steps are better than none at all.




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FBI interrogation of Oregon refuge holdout David Fry called into question







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



on May 18, 2016
Two FBI agents questioned David Fry immediately after his Feb. 11 arrest at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge despite prior notice by Fry's court-appointed lawyer objecting to any interrogation and invoking Fry's right to remain silent, court records reveal.

Attorney Per C. Olson has asked the court to order the government to turn over communications between federal prosecutors and any law enforcement officers involved in the arrest, detention and questioning of Fry that day.

Fry was one of the last four holdouts in a 41-day armed occupation of the federal bird sanctuary in Harney County. He surrendered to the FBI after a tense standoff carried live on a YouTube feed. Thousands of people followed it in real time, listening to Fry's requests for pizza and marijuana and his talk about his wish to die rather than end up in prison.

Olson seeks text messages, emails, notes or memoranda of phone conversations between prosecutors and FBI special agents Sean Hamblet, Eric Thompson and another agent known only by her first name, Audrey.

"It will be defendant's contention that the government should not have taken unfair advantage of the trust defendant had placed in the agents in his vulnerable state of mind by interrogating him in disregard of his counsel's invocations,'' Olson wrote in a motion filed in U.S. District Court.




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Aldermen want to give TSA the boot at O'Hare and Midway
Chicago Sun-Times

http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/alderm ... nd-midway/
“That's like the FBI agent that shows up at your door and knocks and says, `I'm from the FBI and I'm here to help you,” the alderman said. Emanuel said he's ...



FBI Octopus

Democrats tap former judge to succeed DiFiore




http://www.lohud.com/story/news/politic ... /84504006/
Scarpino was an FBI agent for a few years in the 1970s before working as a lawyer for the city of Mount Vernon. He was then a Mount Vernon city judge, a Westchester County Court judge and a state Supreme Court justice before unseating the incumbent surrogate judge in 2000. Scarpino won a second 10-year term in an uncontested race in 2010. He stepped down in January 2015 to join the White Plains firm of DelBello, Donnellan, Weingarten, Wise &


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http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/new ... eos-input/


CRIME, COURTS & FIRE
Residents weigh in on release of police shooting videos


By David Hernandez | 11:58 p.m. May 17, 2016 | Updated, 4:32 p.m. | May 18, 2016

SAN DIEGO — About 100 residents turned out to a town hall meeting Tuesday evening to offer law enforcement leaders their input on how and when to release videos of officer-involved shootings.

A handful of residents voiced concerns about officers having access to the video; families of victims having to wait, or file a lawsuit, to see the footage; and officers forgetting to turn on their body-worn cameras.

Police Chief Shelly Zimmerman, Sheriff’s Commander Dave Myers, FBI Special Agent in Charge Eric Birnbaum and La Mesa Police Chief Walt Vasquez were on hand to listen to the public’s comments at Cherokee Elementary School in City Heights.

District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, who announced earlier this month that she plans to release videos of most officer-involved shootings, was not in attendance because of a prior commitment.

The public’s comments often referenced the fatal shooting last week in Encanto, where four officers opened fire at a driver after a chase — a specific topic law enforcement leaders strayed away from, saying it’s an ongoing investigation.

About a dozen relatives and friends of the victim, 30-year-old Thongsoune Vilysane, attended the meeting.

“I’m here to remind you all that a life was taken that night,” a friend said. “No one deserves to lose a life in that manner.”

The man acknowledged there were many unanswered questions and said footage of the fatal shooting could help provide family and friends answers.

Several residents strongly suggested that families of victims fatally shot by officers or deputies should not have to wait long, or file a lawsuit, to view footage of the shooting in question. Cornelius Bowser, a community activist and bishop at the Charity Apostolic Church, said it could bring closure to the families.

Others voiced concerns about officers having initial access to the video, particularly when they write a report. Many said it could lead to manipulation or a change in officers’ narrative about the shootings in which they are involved.

“We do want our officers to review the video evidence before writing the report so we get the most accurate report,” Zimmerman told the audience.

Other residents, such as Blair Overstreet, expressed concerns about officers forgetting to turn on their body-worn cameras in the fist place. Overstreet, a member of a local group called Showing



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Deputy allowed to retire and collect pension


http://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/ ... /84496772/

Retired Delaware County deputy to plead guilty to stealing ammo
Muncie Star Press-May 17, 2016
In that document, FBI Special Agent Neal Freeman said the ammunition was sold during a period when the sheriff's lieutenant was experiencing financial
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HIT & RUN BLOG
FBI Trying to Sneak In Ability to Access Emails Without Court Order
An attempt to secretly expand what can be gathered with National Security Letters


|May. 26, 2016 4:55 pm


Right now Congress is attempting to hammer out rules that would eliminate an old loophole that permits the government and law enforcement to get access to Americans' old emails with a simple court subpoena instead of a warrant.

But at the same time, the FBI is trying to write up special new rules that would let them use a National Security Letter (NSL) to get access to email records without any sort of court order.

NSLs are secret orders that allow the government under the PATRIOT Act to not just demand data from Internet and telecom companies about specific users but also to legally gag these companies from communicating any information about their existence. Currently, NSLs can get all sorts of information and metadata (like phone records) that way, but not emails. The 2017 Intelligence Authorization Act would change the rules. Senate Intelligence Committee leaders Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), originators of proposed encryption legislation that would utterly destroy everybody's cybersecurity, put out a statement in support of the legislation, which passed a committee vote.


There was one dissenter, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) who has been the primary voice in that committee against unwarranted surveillance. CNet takes note of his response and warning:

But Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the lone dissenting voice on the 15-member Senate committee, vowed to work on reversing the "dangerous provisions."

"This bill takes a hatchet to important protections for Americans' liberty," he said in a statement. "This bill would mean more government surveillance of Americans, less due process and less independent oversight of US intelligence agencies. Worse, neither the intelligence agencies, nor the bill's sponsors have shown any evidence that these changes would do anything to make Americans more secure."

Jenna McLaughlin at The Intercept has more about the FBI's lengthy efforts to try to use NSLs to secretly access email communications here.

Note that the FBI is now taking some hits by judges over its insistence on secrecy. Yesterday a federal judge tossed out evidence the FBI had collected in a child pornography case because they refused to reveal to the defense the tools that they had used to exploit Tor to track pedophiles, even if that information was kept


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Did the CIA Help Kill Mexican Journalist Manuel Buendia?

Mexican journalist Manuel Buendia, who was killed on May 30, 1984. | Photo: EPCSG


http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/D ... -0057.html




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Manuel Buendia was the most influential investigative journalist in Mexico, exposing state corruption, organized crime and the drug trade.
Manuel Buendia was walking to the parking lot where he used to park his car everyday in the center of Mexico City, but on May 30, 1984, a hired killer was waiting for him. He was shot and killed, taking four bullets in the back. 

At the time Buendía was the most influential investigative journalist in Mexico, his column Red Privada ("Private Network")—which exposed state corruption and took on organized crime—distributed and read in over 200 newspapers across Mexico.

OPINION: 
Impunity Is The Beast That Keeps Killing Journalists in Mexico

But his influence cost him his life, his killing coming after he uncovered links between Mexico's federal police agency, the CIA and long-time fugitive drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero. His murder is known as the “first crime of narcopolitics,” and for five years it went unpunished.

The case was handled by Jose Antonio Zorrilla Pérez, then the head of the infamous Federal Security Directorate (DFS), which led the “dirty war," persecuting political dissidents between 1960 and 1980. Dubbed “the Mexican FBI,” the directorate was abolished in 1985.

Zorrilla, later accused of masterminding the murder of Buendia, was the first to arrive at the murder scene and paid for the journalist's funeral. According to later investigations, however, Zorrilla had ordered the collection of all the evidence from Buendia’s office, including documents that tied Zorrilla to drug traffickers and the CIA, which was operating in Mexico by training Guatemalan guerrillas in the west state of Jalisco at a ranch owned by Caro Quintero.

INTERVIEW:
Killed Journalist in Mexico Made the Powerful Uncomfortable

The relationship between Zorrilla and the most powerful drug kingpin of the 1980s was quite close. When Caro Quintero fled to Costa Rica in 1985, he was traveling with a safe-conduct pass signed by the police head.

Zorrilla’s agents arrested 10 young “porros” (state-sanctioned thugs) and accused them of murdering Buendia. However, this story fell apart in 1990, when Zorrilla was himself charged with the crime and sentenced to 25 years in prison along with Juan Rafael Moro Avila Camacho, the alleged hitman and grandson of former president Manuel Avila Camacho, both are free now. 

However, some colleagues of Buendia claim the CIA was also interested in silencing the journalist, especially after he wrote his book "The CIA in Mexico," in which he tied various fascist organizations to the U.S. spy agency, which helped the Mexican far right combat leftists up until the early 1990s. 

Hector Berrellez, a former DEA supervisor and special agent who served in Mexico in the 1980s, told Xinhua last year that the CIA killed Buendia, claiming that the order came from the then-Interior Minister Manuel Bartlett.



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http://idahostatejournal.com/members/ch ... 18895.html

TOP STORY
Charges dismissed against Pocatello FBI worker
By Debbie Bryce For the Journal 20 hrs ago (0)

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Attorney Aaron Thompson gives his client Jennifer Barnett a hug after her case was dismissed in a preliminary hearing Wednesday afternoon.
POCATELLO — A charge was dismissed against an FBI worker accused of tipping off her husband about a child pornography investigation that was being launched against him by Pocatello police.

Jennifer Barnett, 38, of Pocatello, was charged with destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence.

Barnett is the head of building security at the FBI office in Pocatello.

Sixth District Magistrate Rick Carnaroli dismissed the charge without prejudice, meaning that the state can refile charges against Barnett in the future.

During the preliminary hearing Wednesday, Barnett was represented by Aaron Thompson of May Rammell and Thompson law firm, and Deputy Prosecutor Ashley Graham argued the state’s case against Barnett.

Pocatello Detective Niko Gordon was the first to testify Wednesday.

Gordon said he was investigating a report that involved Barnett’s husband, David Phillips, 41, and Barnett’s 17-year-old daughter.

According to the report, the victim was made to stand in her underwear in front of two male friends and Phillips for four minutes. Then she was forced to stand naked for an additional five minutes as punishment for bad grades.

The incident was reported by another high school student.

Gordon said he interviewed the victim and witnesses in the case and then contacted Barnett.

The detective said he informed Barnett that he was investigating inappropriate sexual contact between Philip and the underage victim and that it was possibly a criminal investigation.

Following an interview with the victim and Barnett at Bright Tomorrows Child Advocacy Center on May 4, Gordon said a safety plan was developed, and he instructed Barnett to not discuss the case with her husband.

On May 11, Gordon said he obtained a search warrant to examine all electronic devices in the home. However, investigators discovered that two computer towers had recen



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FBI Octopus



http://ctmirror.org/2016/05/26/developi ... h-penalty/

Espinosa, a former FBI agent, federal prosecutor and trial judge appointed to the high court by Malloy in 2013, suggested the re-examination of the Santiago decision was a farce.

"Dismissing the state’s arguments in the present case in a per curiam opinion creates the appearance that the outcome was predisposed, and that oral argument was allowed merely to avoid the perception that the state was being treated unfairly," Espinosa wrote. "Indeed, Mark Rademacher, the assistant public defender who argued this appeal, stated that the purpose of granting the state’s motion for oral argument was  ‘[to make] the state feel good about losing.’ ’’



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FBI refuses to release Tor exploit details, evidence thrown out of court
The FBI has been taught a lesson: if you won't reveal your method, don't expect the court to consider your evidence.


By Charlie Osborne for Zero Day | May 26, 2016 -- 09:55 GMT (02:55 PDT) | Topic: Security
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Deal in cops' whistleblower case means Emanuel won't testify on code of silence


http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/- ... -87396149/
Chicago police
1:25 pm, May 31, 2016
With a trial just minutes away, the Emanuel administration announced a $2 million settlement in a lawsuit brought by two Chicago police officers who alleged they were blackballed by the department for blowing the whistle on corruption, keeping the mayor from having to testify about the code of silence.

The explosive civil rights lawsuit filed by Officers Shannon Spalding and Daniel Echeverria against the city and top department brass had threatened to expose an ugly side to the police code of silence that allegedly put at risk the lives of cops willing to uncover corruption within their ranks.

The city's top attorney, Corporation Counsel Steven Patton, said the decision to settle the case had nothing to do with the fact that the judge had ordered Mayor Rahm Emanuel to testify about what he knew about the code of silence in light of his acknowledgment of its existence in a highly publicized speech to the City Council days after the court-ordered release of the video of the Laquan McDonald shooting.

Patton told reporters the settlement was hammered out over the weekend after attorneys for the officers approached them with a settlement offer that was "substantially lower" than what they had previously demanded. The payout, which needs to be approved by the City Council, includes about $1 million in legal fees, so each officer would wind up splitting about $500,000, he said.

The trial had been scheduled to


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Tuesday, May 31, 2016Last Update: 6:40 AM PT
Gitmo Redactions Confound Defense Counsel
By TIM RYAN 


http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/05/3 ... ounsel.htm

 
     GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (CN) — Defense attorneys for an accused 9/11 financier complained about how prosecutorial redactions impede their work.
     Kicking off pretrial proceedings Monday, Ammar al Baluchi's attorney Col. James Connell accused the government of scrambling discovery productions to make it harder on his team to match up documents.
     Al Baluchi, who is also known as Ali abd al Aziz Ali, is accused of helping to finance the 9/11 attacks and arranging travel to the United States for some of the hijackers. He, along with alleged plot mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and three other alleged co-conspirators, faces the death penalty if convicted.
     The case has dragged on for years. These latest proceedings mark the third attempt to try the five men. The case was briefly set to be tried in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York before being sent back to a military commission in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2011.
     Al Baluchi's defense team says the government has improperly redacted hundreds of documents, depriving it of hundreds of thousands of pieces of information that could potentially be valuable to his defense.
     Such evidence is known as Brady material after the landmark Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland, which compels prosecutors to turn favorable evidence over to the defense.
     Since the government has blacked out serial numbers of documents in al Baluchi's case, as well as names and numbers of potential witnesses, the defense claims it has been prevented from compiling information that could help their case.
     In a motion from March 2014, al Baluchi's team said the government turned over multiple sets of FBI documents but that it had removed serial numbers and scrambled the pages to leave the lawyers unable to match them with other documents they have received.
     Not having serial numbers also left the defense unable to compile a spreadsheet that could show holes in the government's production or find references to the documents found in other reports like the 9/11 commission.
     "The government's


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http://www.ktrh.com/articles/houston-ne ... -14763268/


Senate Bill Allows FBI to Snoop Emails



 

Posted May 31st, 2016 @ 4:44am by iHeartMedia's Nik Rajkovic
The FBI is pushing legislation giving it warrentless power to check emails, and the bill already passed the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The 2017 Intelligence Authorization Act would extend current FBI powers authorized under the Patriot Act, forcing telecoms to hand over email and phone records of terror suspects.

“It is a warrantless search because it is not signed by a third-party judge, where an agent has to provide probable cause in the form of an affidavit, its an administrative subpoena basically,” says former FBI counter-terrorism agent Jim Conway, president of Global Intel Strategies.



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http://prospect.org/article/abuses-border

Abuses on the Border

JOSHUA HOLLAND MAY 31, 2016
Donald Trump says he plans to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but civil liberties advocates say the border is already over-policed, with reports of abuses and even fatal shootings in Southwestern communities.


AP Photo/Eric Gay
In this Tuesday, September 15, 2015, photo U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents patrol along the border fence in Hidalgo, Texas.

Amanda Rodríguez Varela, who lives in Ciudad Juarez just south of El Paso, Texas, is fearful that her husband will find out that officials at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) have concluded that she’s a prostitute.

The 51-year-old wife and mother’s ordeal began last September, when CBP officers grilled her as she crossed the border from Juarez to El Paso to shop at Walmart. “I don’t know why they decided I was a prostitute,” Varela told the Prospect in Spanish. “It seemed very arbitrary.”

As Varela tells it, CBP agents called her a puta, or whore, and asked her if she had syphilis or gonorrhea. After about an hour, the officials let her cross, but a month later, she was detained once again. This time, she faced almost ten grueling hours of detention and interrogation. The agents fingerprinted her and searched her body, she says. An officer named Quintanas (she only remembers his last name) mocked her work as a women’s rights advocate.

“I was just crying and praying,” Varela recalled recently during an interview. “They left me in a room for hours with just a little bottle of water. I was afraid I was going to go to prison. I was so scared that I didn’t even think




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What Happened When the FBI Investigated Foreclosure Fraud in Florida
By David Dayen

May 31, 2016
 
https://www.vice.com/read/what-happened ... in-florida


Six years ago, FBI agents in Jacksonville, Florida, wrote a memo to their bosses in Washington, DC, that could have unraveled the largest consumer fraud in American history. It went to the heart of the shady mortgage industry that precipitated the financial crisis, and the case promised to involve nearly every major bank in the country, honing in on the despicable practice of using bogus documents to illegally kick people out of their homes.



But despite impaneling a grand jury, calling in dozens of agents and forensic examiners, doing 75 interviews, issuing hundreds of subpoenas, and reviewing millions of documents, the criminal investigation resulted in just one conviction. And that convict—Lorraine Brown, CEO of the third-party company DocX that facilitated the fraud scheme—was sent to prison for duping the banks.


Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request, VICE has obtained some 600 pages of documents from the Jacksonville FBI field office showing how agents conducted a sprawling investigation. (The Jacksonville case is also featured in my new book, Chain of Title.) The documents suggest the feds gained a detailed understanding of how and why the mortgage industry enlisted third-party companies to create false documents they presented to courts, as detailed in the 2012 National Mortgage Settlement, for which the big banks paid billions in civil fines. The banks' conduct is described in the settlement documents as "unlawful," and the Jacksonville FBI had it nailed almost two years earlier.

In these case files, you can see the seeds of an alternative history, one where dedicated law enforcement officials take on some of the country's most powerful financial institutions with criminal prosecutions.


So why didn't they?


"Given everything I see here, you'd have thought there would be many more convictions," said Timothy Crino, a now-retired FBI forensic accountant who reviewed case file documents. "If I was the case agent, I would be devastated."


At the center of the FBI investigation were the documents required to turn ordinary mortgages into mortgage-backed securities (MBS). During the housing bubble, banks bought up mortgages and packaged thousands of them at a time into MBS; this was known as securitization. The mortgages were transferred through a series of intermediaries into a trust, and the trust paid out investors with the revenue stream from homeowners' monthly payments.

In the end, of course, an upswing in the number of homeowner defaults led the MBS market to collapse disastrously, nearly taking down the worldwide financial system along with it. But there was another problem. In order to legally foreclose on homeowners, the financial institutions doing the foreclosing must produce documents proving the mortgages were properly transferred from their originators through intermediaries and on to the trusts, detailing every step along that chain.

"If evidence collected shows intent to defraud investors by the real estate trusts, this matter has the potential to be a top ten Corporate Fraud case." —FBI Criminal Investigative Division memo, June 2010

This is common sense: If you accuse someone of stealing your car, you have to establish that you actually owned it in the first place.


This chain of ownership was at the heart of the FBI investigation, according to a "request for resource enhancement" sent on May 25, 2010, from the Jacksonville office to Sharon Ormsby, then chief of the FBI Financial Crimes Section in Washington. (Ormsby no longer works for the bureau, and an attempt to contact her through the Society of Retired Special Agents of the FBI was unsuccessful.)


"The fraud in this matter was the result of negligence in the process of creating Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS)," the memo reads.


The Jacksonville FBI agents cite three reasons why the banks didn't properly transfer the mortgages. First, the sheer volume—millions of loans—would have made it too time-consuming to file each transfer in county courts in advance. Second, it would have been too costly, as each transfer triggers a recording fee of somewhere between $35 to $50. And finally, "during a booming market, the trusts did not recognize the need to secure the loans," because they didn't believe it would ever be called into question in the courts.


The Jacksonville FBI memo claims the trusts committed fraud by reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the credit rating agencies, and investors that they had clear title to the properties when they actually didn't. And agents present evidence that mortgage-servicing companies and their law firms hired third-party outfits to falsify the mortgage documents needed



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A belated reckoning

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Farah Jamil in Latest, National

http://aaj.tv/2016/05/a-belated-reckoning/

WEB DESK: An Argentinian federal court has sentenced the country’s last military dictator, 88-year-old General Reynaldo Bignone, to 20 years imprisonment for kidnapping and ‘disappearing’ more than 100 people during the 1976-1983 dictatorship.

Of this period, Bignone was himself holding absolute power in 1982-1983. The General is already serving life sentences for multiple human rights violations during that dark period. In the landmark trial, 14 other former military officers were sentenced to between eight and 25 years imprisonment for criminal association, kidnapping and torture. Many of them are also serving prison sentences already.

They include one Uruguayan former Colonel, Manuel Cordero Piacentini, who tortured prisoners inside Automotores Orletti, the Buenos Aires repair shop where many captured leftists were ‘interrogated’ under orders from their home countries. One other defendant was convicted on charges separate from the larger case, involving a different set of victims.

Two other accused were absolved of similar charges against them. The unprecedented court verdict after a trial lasting three years in which the four-member judges’ bench received testimony from about 370 witnesses, ruled that Operation Condor was a criminal conspiracy to kidnap and forcibly disappear people across international borders. The covert operation was launched in the 1970s by six South American military dictatorships that used their secret police and intelligence networks in a co-ordinated effort to track down and eliminate their opponents abroad.

Most of those disappeared, tortured and killed were leftists who had sought refuge from brutal repression at home in neighbouring countries and further abroad. The sentences are seen as a milestone because they mark the first time a court has proved that Operation Condor was an international criminal conspiracy by the US-backed regimes in Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.

The investigation into the affair was launched in the 1990s when an amnesty law still protected many of the accused. Argentina’s Supreme Court overturned the amnesty in 2005 at the urging of then President Nestor Kirchner. It has taken 40 years after Operation Condor was formally founded and 16 years since the judicial investigation began to deliver justice to some of the victims of Latin America’s past military dictatorships. During this protracted process, several defendants either died or were removed from the judicial process.

Their victims reflected conflicted and bitter feelings about the verdict. Since the bodies of many victims have never been found, Argentine prosecutors argued that the crime of covering up their deaths continues to date and therefore statutory time limits do not apply. A key piece of evidence in the case was a declassified FBI agent’s cable sent in 1976 that described in detail the conspiracy to share intelligence and eliminate leftists across South America. Operation Condor, which started in 1968 and was officially implemented in 1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America.

Augusto Pinochet of Chile was the most brutal military dictator among them, who had come to power through a bloody US-backed coup in
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Matt Damon speaks MIT commncement
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At least 33 US cities used water testing 'cheats' over lead concerns
Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals testing regimes similar to that of Flint were in place in major cities including Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia


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Lawyers Accuse Federal Prosecutors of Routinely Spying on Defense Strategies
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/06/03/law ... trategies/

Jun 3, 2016 5:36 pm ET
Federal prosecutors in Miami have found themselves on the defensive after lawyers representing a doctor accused of fraud alleged in court that the U.S. attorney’s office has for years been spying on the litigation strategies of defendants.

The allegations surfaced days ago on the eve of a scheduled trial, which is now delayed. In court papers filed May 26, lawyers alleged that prosecutors had secretly gained access to discovery document files assembled by the defense team.

The lawyers wrote that an assistant U.S. attorney informed them in April that an FBI agent had received CDs containing duplicates of discovery files the defense had assembled and scanned from the more than 200 boxes of seized government evidence made available to them.



The duplicates, they wrote, were provided by a government-contracted service that makes copies of government discovery documents that defense lawyers want to inspect.

The lawyers said the owner of the service told them in an email that he has routinely provided the FBI with duplicates of the set-aside files — and not just in their case.

“It appears that this practice of surreptitiously duplicating the discovery work-product of defense counsel in the Southern District of Florida has b





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Texas college cancels controversial law enforcement training event led by 'anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 61731.html
The Independent-
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) requested that the Cedar Valley College in Texas scrap the event, which was to feature FBI agent John Guandolo


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http://clermontsun.com/2016/06/02/chamb ... ss-awards/


Chamber to hold second Women’s Business Awards
June 2nd, 2016   
The Clermont Chamber of Commerce’s second Women’s Business Awards will take place June 7.

The chamber got 21 nominations for the awards and a committee evaluated each nomination based on the criteria for each of the three categories: Business Woman of the Year, Women Owned Business of the Year and Young Professional of the Year. The committee then selected finalists.

The event will be held at Receptions Conference Center East beginning at 11:30 a.m. Sheila Gray, from Good Morning Cincinnati, is the emcee and Angela Byers, Special Agent in charge of the FBI’s Cincinnati Division, is the keynote speak

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Thursday, June 2, 2016, 7:57 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/e ... -1.2659175

A former Arizona police officer on a vengeful rampage allegedly killed his wife and a Good Samaritan who tried to save her.

It started Tuesday morning, when Christopher Glen Wright violently crashed his wife’s Range Rover he stole in a rage-filled attempt to kill her, according to police reports.

After the accused killer’s wife, Nasbah Laverne Wright, survived the mayhem, she ran out of the car


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Cop drives past stopped school bus


http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyp ... -1.2659006

Thursday, June 2, 2016, 5:24 PM






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NYPD corruption probe
Thursday, June 2, 2016, 8:47 PM


http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyp ... -1.2659212


Deputy Chief John Sprague, a high-ranking NYPD commander, was stripped of his shield and gun for refusing to testify before the grand jury
A rising-star NYPD commander is the latest high-ranking cop to be stripped of his shield and gun in the ongoing corruption probe rocking the police force.

Deputy Chief John Sprague was placed on modified duty Thursday after he refused to testify before a federal grand jury convened as part of the ballooning gifts-for-favors scandal, sources said.

Sprague, of the NYPD’s Force Investigation Division, got a subpoena Friday, sources familiar with the probe said and informed the U.S. Attorney’s office on Thursday that he would take the Fifth if called to testify, according to sources familiar with the probe.


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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mus ... -1.2659067
Thursday, June 2, 2016, 6:18 PM

Harlem Iman Talib Abdur-Rashid took the police department to court to get access to their files under the Freedom of Information law but the NYPD said merely confirming the existence of records could endanger them
Two Muslims who believe the NYPD monitored them as part of a broad campaign of spying


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Thursday, June 2, 2016
Former DEA Agent Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography

http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/fo ... 7bc0b.html








HOUSTON — A 39-year-old former Drug Enforcement Administration agent who lived in McAllen pleaded guilty to a child pornography charge before a federal court judge.

James Patrick Burke, 39, entered a guilty plea to one count of access with intent to view child pornography and faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, according to a Thursday news release from the U.S. Attorney's office.

Burke, who is originally from Massachusetts but was residing in McAllen last year while working with the DEA, was found accessing files from a website known to contain child pornography, according to FBI investigators.

A search warrant was executed at Burke's residence on Aug. 14, 2015, where investigators seized a laptop computer and a desktop computer. Burke admitted to downloading and viewing child pornography from the internet and to using forensic wiping software to delete the images and movies, the release states. 

"An examination of what was collected from the server side of the website showed that Burke had accessed a total of 77 threads which contained 345 contact sheets with approximately eight images of child pornography per sheet. These images included children under the age of 12, bondage and acts of violence. Some of the images are of known victims as identified through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children," the releas












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http://m.fightbacknews.org/2016/6/2/cas ... white-jury

Case of 3 Somali youth entrapped by FBI goes to all-white jury
Fight Back! Newspaper
Case of 3 Somali youth entrapped by FBI goes to all-white jury ... substantially less jail time if they helped get convictions of the young men entrapped by the FBI.



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FBI kept demanding
Email Records Despite DOJ Saying It Needed a Warrant
Jenna McLaughlin
June 2 2016, 5:22 p.m.

THE SECRET GOVERNMENT REQUESTS for customer information Yahoo made public Wednesday reveal that the FBI is still demanding email records from companies without a warrant, despite being told by Justice Department lawyers




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Federal judge allows release of Oregon standoff defendants Jake Ryan, Travis Cox

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-stando ... _st_1.html


A federal judge on Thursday, June 2, 2016, allowed for the release of Oregon standoff defendants Jake Ryan, left, and Travis Cox, right, pending trial. A federal trial has been set for Sept. 7. (Multnomah County Sheriff's Office)

June 02, 2016 at 8:10 PM
A federal judge Thursday allowed for the pretrial release of two more defendants facing federal conspiracy charges in the Maheux Wildlife Refuge


FBI Octopus
http://www.lawweekonline.com/2016/06/tw ... udgeships/

Two Picked for Arapahoe County Court Judgeships
Posted on June 3, 2016.
LAW WEEK COLORADO
Attorneys Kelly LaFave and Michael Roche have become Arapahoe County’s newest county court judges, Gov. John Hickenlooper’s office announced today. Hickenlooper appointed LaFave and Roche to fill the vacancies created by Judges Dana Murray and Christine Chauce, who are retiring. The appointments are effective July 1, 2016.
LaFave currently serves as senior deputy district attorney in the 18th Judicial District, with her practice focusing on misdemeanor and felony prosecutions. She was also previously an assistant district attorney in Denton County, Texas, a consultant for Paige-Wheatcroft, Inc., a deputy county attorney in Pima County, Arizona, and a special agent with the FBI in Sacramento, California
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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016 ... sean-whent

Oakland police chief resigns following multiple officer misconduct cases
Misconduct cases include a high-profile sex scandal
Departure follows that of San Francisco police chief less than a month ago

Oakland has a long history of controversial policing.
Friday 10 June 2016 14.30 EDT Last modified on Friday 10 June 2016 14.56 EDT


The police chief in Oakland, California, has resigned following multiple officer misconduct cases, including a high-profile sex scandal, making him the latest top cop of a major US city to step down in the face of growing backlash.


‘Corrupt in its roots’: as Oakland police scandals pile up, residents not surprised
Read more
Less than a month after the forced resignation of the San Francisco police chief, the city of Oakland abruptly announced the departure of chief Sean Whent saying the decision was a “personal choice”. However his resignation came several weeks after allegations surfaced of sexual misconduct by numerous officers.

The resignation of Whent – who’s department has also faced allegations that an officer may have gotten away with murder – comes after the police chief in San Francisco, Greg Suhr, stepped down in the wake of multiple fatal shooting controversies and a widening scandal involving racist and homophobic messages by officers.

The resignations of the chiefs of two of the largest cities in California are the latest in a string of police chiefs losing their jobs in metropolitan police departments.

Anthony Batts, former head of the Oakland police department, was fired as Baltimore police chief following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody. Chicago police chief Garry McCarthy was fired after video emerged of the shooting of Laquan McDonald. Thomas Jackson, police chief of Ferguson, Missouri stepped down on the heels of a federal investigation of racial bias. And the Portland, Oregon police chief was recently placed on leave in the wake of allegations that he lied about an accidental shooting.

In Oakland, which presidential candidate Donald Trump recently declared one of the “most dangerous” places in the world, scandals have piled up in recent months.


Police chief Sean Whent. Photograph: City of Oakland police department
In one case, an Oakland officer was charged with battery, trespassing and public intoxication after he allegedly showed up intoxicated to a stranger’s house and assaulted her. The victim has


2.

Blogging is not truth
Behaviour is truth

What have you done to
to stop the massive FBI led,
voter fraud that permeates
our elections?

see this link
which opens up two page article
of FBI agents caught committing
voter fraud in Cincinnati in 1989
click story/page icon at top of page to open
article

http://www.unz.org/Pub/InTheseTimes-198 ... w=Overview

3.
http://sputniknews.com/us/20160609/1041 ... -fake.html

FBI Runs 'Hundreds' of Sting Operations to Create Homegrown ...
Sputnik International-
On Wednesday, FBI officials admitted that there are "hundreds" of sting ... Most recently, an FBI agent gave a panhandler some money and a knife and told him ...


4.

http://www.nydailynews.com/autos/news/a ... -1.2666328

The Los Angeles Police Department will add a collection of 100 BMW i3 electric vehicles to its fleet.
(UWE FISCHER)
BMW and its i3 electric car have beaten out Tesla Motors for the right to don the Los Angeles Police Department shield. Looking to purchase a fleet of EVs for community outreach and police business, the LAPD tried out both the i3 and Tesla Model Slast year and opted to contract with BMW.

While the Model S can accelerate quicker and reach higher speeds, the i3 won where it really counts: the price tag. At just $42,000 apiece, the i3 is a little more than a third of the price of a Model S P90D, and that difference really adds up in a 100-car fleet. The BMW EVs also features a 150-mile gasoline range extender to quell the police department’s concerns about use during a power outage.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... -1.2669905
NYC Crime Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Education Obituaries
Off-duty NYPD cop arrested for refusing DUI test
BY THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Saturday, June 11, 2016, 2:05 PM


6.

http://www.njherald.com/article/2016061 ... /306109995

June 10, 2016
Columnists
Wake up, America! Constitution no longer works

Posted: Jun. 10, 2016 12:01 am
While Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are battling in their final round in the Democratic primaries and Donald Trump is arguing that Clinton should be in prison for failing to safeguard state secrets while she was secretary of state, the same FBI that is diligently investigating her is quietly and perniciously seeking to cut more holes in the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.

That amendment -- which requires the government to obtain a search warrant issued by a judge based upon some evidence of criminal wrongdoing, called probable cause, before the government can search persons, houses, papers or effects -- is the linchpin of the right to privacy, famously referred to by Justice Louis Brandeis as the right to be let alone.

The Fourth Amendment has a painful yet unambiguous history. The essence of that history is the well-documented and nearly universal Colonial revulsion to the British use of general warrants.

General warrants, which were usually issued in secret in London, permitted British soldiers and agents in America to search wherever they wished and seize whatever they found. General warrants were not based upon any individualized suspicion, much less any probable cause. Their stated purpose was the need to enforce the Stamp Act, a totalitarian measure that cost more to enforce than it generated in revenue.

The Stamp Act required all colonists to purchase and affix stamps to all legal, financial, political, personal and public documents. It was billed as a revenue-gathering measure, but it truly


7.

FBI
By: Jake Allen
June 9, 2016 at 7:19 pm


Teen academy gives students a feel for the FBI
Colorado Springs Gazette-3 hours ago
After almost 30 years with the FBI, Thomas Ravenelle said days like Thursday remind him of why he wanted to be an FBI agent. "I came in long enough ago and ...

http://m.gazette.com/teen-academy-gives ... le/1577961
Michael Bird checks out the weapons at the FBI Teen Aacademy Thursday, June 9, 2016. The class gave 45 area students a behind-the-scene look of how the FBI operates. Hands-on experience involving evidence collection and tactical operation overview were part of the course. (Carol Lawrence, The Gazette) 
After almost 30 years with the FBI, Thomas Ravenelle said days like Thursday




8.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2668108



The Georgia man shot by police who showed up to the wrong house during a 911 call has died, his family confirmed.

Wanda Powell Dodd, who said she was Powell's sister, disputed that cops identified themselves, asked him to drop his gun or even had their patrol lights on.

"The dogs started barking, someone outside. He grabbed his gun and walked outside. As soon as he did, he was shot in the neck," she posted on Facebook Thursday evening.

9.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2669798

U.S. World Politics
S.C. cop fired for wearing Confederate flag boxers files lawsuit
BY KATE FELDMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Saturday, June 11, 2016, 11:17 A




10.


http://www.dontcomply.com/blm-creates-a ... -division/

BLM Creates A New Security, Protection, Intelligence Division
Don't Comply-
What was discovered is that, the BLM Special Agent in Charge of S.P.I. will be ... BLM's multi-year undercover investigation that collaborated with the FBI for a .

11.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ex- ... -1.2667766
NYPD cop steals over $600,000 in disability claim/
disability benefits
BY VICTORIA BEKIEMPIS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, June 9, 2016, 4:44 PM


12.

sheriff faces more
inmate beating charges

http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news ... /85665440/




UPDATE: DOJ adds charges to Ackal and Savoy's indictment; another defendant added

Posted: Jun 09, 2016 5:05 PM EDT
Updated: Jun 09, 2016 5:40 PM EDT

http://www.katc.com/story/32187753/doj- ... dant-added
00:00 / 00:22
CC
Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal and Lt. Col. Gerald Savoy were indicted today on additional civil rights violations and another former employee, Capt. Mark Frederick, was added to the list of employees implicated in the case, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced today.

The additional charges rise out of the beatings of two men -- including a man who was accused of assaulting Ackal's relative in 2014 -- and are in addition to federal charges Ackal and Savoy were indicted on in March. Those early charges stem from the 2011 beatings of five Iberia Parish inmates; Ackal is accused of telling deputies to "take care of" inmates he didn't like.




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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/d.c.- ... _click=rss
D.C. moves to ramp up training for 17,000 security guards

By ANNA GIARITELLI (@ANNA_GIARITELLI) • 6/9/16 6:51 PM
SHARETWEETSMSMore
D.C. officials have proposed doubling the amount of training for the 17,000 licensed security guards


14.

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/origina ... sites.html


No charges, no surprises, no
decency in Jamar Clark case
June 8, 2016

But there’s lots of hypocrisy




15.


http://spokesman-recorder.com/2016/06/0 ... lark-case/


Did U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger actually say his “heart goes out” to the Clark family, and that he has a son near Clark’s age, after making sure that the law allowed Minneapolis cops to get away with his murder?

Few were surprised by the announcement last week that the U.S. government, represented by Luger’s office, the (in)Justice Department, and the FBI concluded that the coldblooded shooting death of Jamar Clark by Minneapolis Officers Dustin Schwarze and Mark Ringgenberg did not constitute a civil rights violation in the eyes of the law of the land.

This leads reasonable people to conclude that the law is farcical, full of hypocrisy, and enforced only against the poor and powerless.

And U.S. Attorney Luger doesn’t have a heart. Just ask the local Somali community, whose young people he has been harassing and victimizing. He sure doesn’t see his son in those Black immigrant Muslim young people. You can’t work at the highest levels of U.


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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... -1.2668028

NYC Crime Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Education Obituaries
Brooklyn DA pushes for jail time for cop convicted of stomping
BY CHRISTINA CARREGA-WOODBY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, June 10, 2016,
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Link du jour



http://www.occurrencesforeigndomestic.c ... breaks-it/


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http://www.cato.org/blog/funding-fbi

JUNE 17, 2016 11:17AM
Funding the FBI
By CHRIS EDWARDS SHARE
On Fox News last night, Megyn Kelly agreed with her guest James Kallstrom that the FBI needs a larger budget. The horrific attack in Orlando has raised the issue of whether the FBI has sufficient resources to investigate potential terrorists.

I don’t know how large the FBI budget should be. The agency does fill a lot of crucial roles, including tackling never-ending corruption in federal, state, and local governments.

But I do know that the FBI has not been starved; its budget has grown rapidly. The chart, from DownsizingGovernment.org, shows that FBI spending in constant 2016 dollars has more than tripled since 1990, from $2.7 billion to $9.1 billion. 


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see link for full story


http://www.occurrencesforeigndomestic.c ... tonishing/



Astonishing
June 18, 2016UncategorizedBernie Sanders’ national address, Clinton collusion, CyberWar, Foreign Service versus Assad, Homeland Security guidance on active shooter scenarios, Israel at the UN, Obama’s migrants, Orlando, Pete Rose, precedent
astonishing

June 17-19, 2016 — FBI caught scripting Orlando shooting case

(in: WMR GENERAL ARCHIVES June 2016)

Jun 17, 2016

Mateen was more than known to the FBI and CIA.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20160617

[requires subscription]

incog99 (Oceanside) “Wayne’s latest report is jaw dropping.”

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music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEZKQHq ... 7N_U_g8mtt

http://www.dreamtheater.net/theastonishing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astonishing

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CIA connections with the families of Omar Mateen and the Tsarnayev brothers

VOLTAIRE NETWORK | 17 JUNE 2016

http://www.voltairenet.org/article192381.html

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Ford Foundation, a philanthropic facade for the CIA

by Paul Labarique

Between 1947 and 1966 the Ford Foundation played a key role in the network of US interference in Europe through the subvention of magazines, scientific programs and non-communist left-wing organizations. The largest philanthropic organization in the world was in fact providing a respectful facade for CIA financial and contact operations. This role was even more possible by the fact that the same persons designed and directed both organizations. Below you will find the first part of our research on the cultural aspects of the Atlantic interventionism.

VOLTAIRE NETWORK | 5 APRIL 2004



full article here:

http://www.voltairenet.org/article30039.html

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Reflections on the Use of Greenscreen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19YlwQPYEjk

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https://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2016/ ... o-masacre/

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Homeland Security Guidance Documents

from http://cryptome.org/:

Active Shooter Complex Attach Resources

June 17, 2016

https://cryptome.org/2016/06/Active_Sho ... ources.pdf

Active Shooter Study Quick Reference Guide

June 17, 2016

https://cryptome.org/2016/06/Active_Sho ... erence.pdf

Survival in Active Shooter and Mass Casualty

June 17, 2016

https://cryptome.org/2016/06/Hartford_C ... endium.pdf

First Responder Guidance Active Shooter Incidents

June 17, 2016

https://cryptome.org/2016/06/First_Resp ... idance.pdf

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http://fox13now.com/2016/06/16/fbi-in-s ... o-attacks/


FBI in Salt Lake City discusses
current threats in wake of Orlando attacks
POSTED 9:32 PM, JUNE 16, 2016,
SALT LAKE CITY -- The FBI office in Salt Lake City has been flooded with calls since the weekend's attack in Orlando.

Eric Barnhart, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Salt Lake City office, confirms their biggest threat is homegrown violent extremists.

"That is our greatest concern," he said. "We've described it as searching for needles in a haystack of needles."

Barnhart admits there are several people under investigation in this region, which includes Utah, Idaho, and Montana, but says there's no reason to be alarmed.

"We have no actionable plans or intent or any indications that anything is imminent," Barnhart said.

Many have raised conce




3.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/17 ... officials/
Security
FBI's iPhone paid-for hack should be barred, say ex-govt officials
Cybersecurity bods argue for formalizing zero-day disclosure rules
10 10
17 Jun 2016 at 19:29,
The FBI's purchase of a hack to get into the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone should have been barred.

That's according to a new paper from two former US government cybersecurity officials, Ari Schwartz and Rob Knake.

In their paper [PDF] they dig into the current vulnerability equities process (VEP), disclosed in 2014, which the US government uses to decide whether to disclose critical securit



4.


http://www.sfexaminer.com/judge-allows- ... -boy-case/







5.


http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/ ... n-sentence
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