https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/ne ... round-zeroNo Accountability At The FBI !
FBI agent Stole Crystal Ball From 911 Ground Zero
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/me ... _06_02.pdfMs. Coleen Rowley
June 6, 2002
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee:
Thank you for allowing me this opportunity. I never anticipated that my letter to Director Mueller would have this kind of impact. The letter was not the result of any lengthy planning or preparation but was written from the heart over the course of a fairly sleepless three day period after being notified that I was to be interviewed by the "Special Staff' of the 9/11 Joint Intelligence Committee. An additional impetus was the fact that I knew the FBI's plans for a so- called "Super Squad" were on the verge of being implemented.
As you may know, my acceptance of Senator Leahy's invitation to address your committee was conditioned upon FBI (Bureau) approval and the caveat that I cannot speak on any of the events of September 11th nor on the inquiry commenced by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General. Public discussion of those topics could have adverse affects upon the Moussaoui prosecution as well as adverse national security implications and is properly before the (closed) Joint Intelligence Committee. I am only here to comment generally on some of the problems endemic to the FBI Bureaucracy and to the federal law enforcement! national security process as a whole. I do not presume to speak for all FBI agents, however, in the past week I have noticed some common themes in the numerous c-mails, letters and telephone calls I have received from FBI agent and support employee ranks. A fair number of retired FBI leaders have also acknowledged the tnuh of some of the criticisms expressed in my letter.
I will therefore strive to briefly describe some of these bigger problems as well as some possible solutions. They are as follows:
I. (Ever)growing bureaucracy
At least three negative aspects to the FBI's ever growing bureaucracy can be identified: a) Careerism/ risk aversion
I've heard there is a saying at FBI Headquarters, "Big cases, big problems; litt
https://www.whistleblowers.org/whistleb ... en-rowley/Coleen Rowley
Coleen Rowley brought several of the pre 9/11 lapses to light and testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee on some of the endemic problems facing the FBI and the intelligence community.
In 1990, Ms. Rowley was transferred to the FBI office in Minneapolis where she assumed the duties of Chief Division Counsel, which entailed oversight of the Freedom of Information, Forfeiture, Victim-Witness and Community Outreach Programs.
In May of 2002, Ms. Rowley testified before the Senate broaching concerns of senior-level FBI actions in the events leading up to 9/11. In the subsequent year, Ms. Rowley wrote a memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller in connection with the Joint Intelligence Committee’s Inquiry, which led to a two-year-long Department of Justice Inspector General investigation. Her memo criticized the FBI for ignoring and mishandling information provided by Minneapolis field agents regarding further investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui, a suspected terrorist, and a potential attack on the United States. She was one of three whistleblowers chosen as Person of the Year by TIME magazine.
https://therecord.media/us-facing-threa ... technologyMartin Matishak
February 29th, 2024
US facing unprecedented election threats ‘enabled by new technology,’ FBI director says
http://www.votefraud.org/Archive/Write/wiretap.htmFROM THE votefraud.org ARCHIVES
Election Wire-tap Alleged
Cincinnati Bell Denies Charges
The following paragraphs are excerpts from an article in the Cincinnati Post right before the November, 1987 Cincinnati Council Election. - Jim Condit Jr.
by Randy Ludlow
Post staff reporter
Cincinnati Bell security supervisors ordered wire taps installed on county computers before elections in the late 1970s and early 1980s that could have allowed vote totals to be altered, a former Bell employee says in a sworn court documents
Leonard Gates, a 23-year Cincinnati Bell employee until he was fired in 1986, claims in a deposition filed Thursday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court to have installed the wire taps.
Cincinnati Bell officials denied Gates' allegations tha are part of a six-year-old civil suit that contends the elections computer is subject to manipulation and fraud.
Gates claims a security supervisor for the telephone company told him in 1979 that the firm had obtained a computer program through the FBI that gave it access to the county computer used to count votes.
https://article25news.wordpress.com/201 ... -long-ago/Privacy Died Long Ago
06/03/2013
In 1988 Leonard Gates, a former installer for Cincinnati Bell, told the Mount Washington Press, a small independent weekly, that he had performed illegal wiretaps for the Cincinnati Police Department, the FBI and the phone company itself.
Howard Lucas, former security chief at the Stouffer Hotel downtown, said he caught Gates and three cops trying to break into a telephone switching room shortly before President Gerald Ford stayed at the hotel.
“I said, ‘Do you have a court order?’ and they all laughed,” Lucas told the Mount Washington Press.
Gates claimed to have performed an estimated 1,200 wiretaps, which he believed illegal. His list of targets included former Mayor Jerry Springer, the late tycoon Carl Lindner Jr., U.S. District Judge Carl Rubin, U.S. Magistrate J. Vincent Aug, the late U.S. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio), the Students for a Democratic Society (an anti-war group during the Vietnam War), then-U.S. Rep. Tom Luken (D-Cincinnati) and then-President Gerald Ford.
J. Kenneth Blackwell is a former member of Cincinnati Council, and 1979 was an election year for council.
Something went wrong on Election Night, Gates testified. His handler at the phone company called him.
“He was panicking,” Gates testified. “He said we had done something to screw up the voting processor down there, or the voting computer.”
News reports at the time noted an unexpected delay in counting votes for city council because of a computer malfunction.
Cincinnati Bell denied any involvement in illegal wiretapping by police or its own personnel. Yet police officers, like Gates, testified the police received equipment – even a truck – and information necessary to effectuate the wiretaps. The owners of a greenhouse in Westwood even came forward, saying the police stored the Cincinnati Bell truck on their property.
‘Say it louder’
Gates claimed that his handler at Cincinnati Bell repeatedly told him the wiretaps were at the behest of the FBI. He named an FBI agent who, he said, let him into the federal courthouse to wiretap federal judges.
The city of Cincinnati settled a class-action lawsuit accusing it of illegal wiretapping, paying $85,000 to 17 defendants. It paid $12,000 to settle a second lawsuit by former staffers of The Independent Eye, an underground newspaper allegedly wiretapped and torched by Cincinnati Police officers in 1970.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm ... story.htmlPolice, Phone Company Implicated : Alleged Wiretap Scheme Investigated in Cincinnati
BY ERIC HARRISON
JAN. 14, 1989
The men say they were told many of the wiretaps were for the FBI.
Some former officers allege that the police went so far as to deliberately set a fire that destroyed the offices of an underground newspaper, the Independent Eye, in 1970. That arson case is still unsolved.
https://www2.santacruzcountyca.gov/BDS/ ... DF/019.pdfVoter Fraud Resource
https://vault.fbi.gov/foia-log-2019-par ... 19-part-01Federal Bureau of Investigation
Records Management Division
Records Information/Dissemination Section
FOIA Log Report 01/01/2019 to 12/31/2019
http://www.protocolsfordemocracy.org/CraigDonsanto.htmWhy won't the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate electronic vote fraud? Is it because the DOJ and FBI have long been involved in it, themselves?
“If you did it right, no one would ever know,” said Craig C. Donsanto, head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Election Crimes Branch, Public Integrity Section (from 1970-2010) in a July 4,1989 Los Angeles Times article about electronic voting machines and vote fraud.
http://www.thelandesreport.com/EAC.htmFederal Commission Nixes Talk of Paper-Only Elections -
Stacks Panels With Proponents of Paperless Touchscreens
by Lynn Landes 5/10/04
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/w ... -by-policeWashington state House overwhelmingly passes ban on hog-tying by police
Politics Feb 28, 2024 SEATTLE (AP)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/us/p ... ogram.htmlDid FBI Director Wray just blackmail President Biden ?
Did the FBI use their investigation of President Biden and his son Hunter?
Biden has just announced he will be circumventing Congress
and use the courts to have the FISA 702 {Gestapo-Stasi Bill)
passed .
U.S. to Ask Court to Reauthorize Disputed Surveillance Program for a Year
As Congress stalls in considering an expiring warrantless surveillance law known as Section 702, the Biden administration has decided not to risk a lapse.
The law allows the government to collect communications of intelligence targets without individualized warrants.
Jenna Schoenefeld for The New York Times
By Charlie Savager Feb. 28, 2024
https://nypost.com/2024/02/28/us-news/h ... reign-biz/Hunter Biden testified he was ‘high or drunk’ while writing ‘sitting here with my father’ $5M China shakedown text — but still got the money
Josh Christenson Published Feb. 28,2024
https://www.gao.gov/video/countering-do ... nformationCOUNTERING DOMESTIC VIOLENT EXTREMISM - FBI & DHS Sharing Threat Information
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/0 ... -lynching/Fifty Five Years Ago, the FBI Murdered Black Panther Party Leader Fred Hampton in a “Northern Lynching.”
By Jeremy Kuzmarov - February 29, 2024
https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/fbi-bi ... ory-month/FBI Birmingham honors Black History Month
by: AJ Holliday
Posted: Feb 28, 2024
https://www.religion-online.org/article ... r-verdict/Jury indicts FBI for assassination of Martin Luther King
In December, 1968, a jury in Memphis, Tennessee, concluded that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a conspiracy involving Loyd Jowers and "others, including governmental agencies." Almost 32 years after King’s murder at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968, a court extended the circle of responsibility for the assassination beyond the now deceased James Earl Ray, the man sentenced for the crime. After James Ray’s death, the Martin Luther King family asked President Clinton to set up a commission similar to South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission that would offer legal immunity in exchange for truth telling. When their proposal was turned into a "limited reexamination" of the murder by the Justice Department, the Kings tried another route to get at the evidence: they filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Jowers, who said he had been part of a conspiracy to kill King.
The complaint actually reads King v. Jowers and Other Unknown Co-Conspirators. As soon became evident at the trial last fall, the real defendants were the anonymous coconspirators who stood in the shadows behind Jowers, the former owner of a Memphis bar and grill. The King family, represented by Pepper, was in effect charging U.S. intelligence agencies -- particularly the FBI and army intelligence -- with organizing, subcontracting and covering up the assassination. Needless to say, this was a difficult case to make.
Former CIA operative Jack Terrell testified by videotape that his best friend, J. D. Hill, had confessed to him shortly before Hill’s death that he had been a member of an army sniper team in Memphis assigned to shoot "an unknown target" on April 4. After training for a triangular shooting, the snipers were taking up positions in a water-tower and two buildings in Memphis when their mission was suddenly canceled. Hill said he realized the next day that the team must have been part of a contingency plan to kill King if another shooter failed.
Douglas Valentine said that while researching his book The Phoenix Program (1990), on the CIA’s notorious counterintelligence program against Vietnamese villagers, he talked with veterans in military intelligence who had been redeployed from Vietnam to the domestic front. They told him that in 1968 the army’s 111th Military Intelligence Group kept Martin Luther King under 24-hour-a-day surveillance. Its agents were in Memphis April 4. Valentine wrote in The Phoenix Program that they "reportedly watched and took photos while King’s assassin moved into position, took aim, fired and walked away."
Cover-up: Walter Fauntroy, Dr. King’s colleague and a 20-year member of Congress, chaired the subcommittee of the 1976-78 House Select Committee on Assassinations that investigated King’s assassination. Fauntroy testified in Memphis that in the course of the HSCA investigation "it became apparent that we were dealing with very sophisticated forces." He discovered electronic bugs on his phones and TV set. When Richard Sprague, HSCA’s first chief investigator, said he would make available all CIA and FBI records, he became a focus of controversy and media attacks. Sprague was forced to resign. His successor made no demands on U.S. intelligence agencies.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-02 ... lice-stopsState report finds racial disparity in police stops
Sarah Betancourt
February 28, 2024
https://abc13.com/hpd-handbook-houston- ... /14477119/260,000 criminal investigation cases suspended
Code still in Houston police handbook despite Chief Finner asking for its removal 2 years ago
ABC13 Houston
Houston police 'lack of personnel': SL code leading to 260K cases suspended remains in HPD handbook despite Chief Finner's orders
ByLileana Pearson Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Other council members also voiced their disappointment such a drastic oversight was made.
"I am flabbergasted at why anyone would have thought it would be a good idea to create such a code," Houston At-Large Position 1 Councilman Julian Ramirez said.
"I understand that HPD is spread thin, and they work extremely hard to keep our city safe. But based on this issue, we have to take the necessary steps to repair the trust that has been lost with our community," Houston District J Councilman Edward Pollard said.
https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis ... 600346944/Minneapolis city official is named interim director of police civilian review agency
Carolina Amini, who has experience with the City Attorney's Office and the Civil Rights Department, will take over next week.
By Randy Furst Star Tribune FEBRUARY 28, 2024
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... d%20abroad.
The Government Really Is Spying On You — And It’s Legal
Consumer data has become a lucrative commodity, and the US government is buying.
By STEVEN OVERLY
02/28/2024
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/2 ... j-00143891Justice Department finds problems with violence, gangs and poor conditions in 3 Mississippi prisons
Staffing shortages are a major concern, with job vacancy rates of 30 to 50 percent.
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
02/28/2024
https://twitter.com/FBI/status/17628706 ... gr%5Etweet#ICYMI: #FBI Special Agents and professional staff at
@FBIJacksonville
and local partners participated in the #22PushupChallenge, which recognizes the 22 U.S. veterans lost to suicide each day and honors military service members
https://www.fastcompany.com/91033609/ho ... -fbi-agent* 02-29-244:50 AM MINDFULNESS AT WORK
* How to thrive under stress, according to a former Navy SEAL and FBI Agent
The first step to dealing with stress is recognizing your emotions, says this former combat veteran.
FBI Columbia accepting teen academy applications, citizen academy nominations
* Meera Bhonslé February 29,202
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-of ... multimediaMultimedia
Discover videos, audio, and other multimedia content from FBI Seattle.
https://dailyorange.com/2024/02/syracus ... -ward-fbi/Emma Ward leads Syracuse’s attack. One day, she hopes to serve in the FBI.
Emma Ward’s interest in joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation came from watching “The Blacklist,” an American crime series thriller on NBC.
https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/20 ... view-boardRichmond hires former FBI agent to manage police oversight board
Sabrina Moreno
A former Chesterfield County cop and FBI agent will be taking the helm of Richmond's police oversight board after a unanimous City Council vote this week.
Why it matters: It's a move toward getting the region's first civilian review board up and running after years in limbo.
* But having former police officers on it hasn't been popular in the past among some community members, who feel the board should be entirely independent of any law enforcement.
https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/ret ... more-crimeRetired lawmen warns Maryland's Police Accountability law is leading to more crime
by Vincent HillWed, February 28th 2024
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/nat ... 49966.htmlCop uses police database to get 19-year-old woman’s phone number, Ohio officials say BY KATE LINDERMAN FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Read more at:
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/nat ... rylink=cpyhttps://www.nydailynews.com/2024/02/28/ ... sses-feds/NYPD cop defrauded currency investors, promised AI tool would recoup losses: feds
https://www.westernmassnews.com/2024/02 ... nhandling/Enfield police post signs to crack down on panhandling
A post on social media caught the attention of our newsroom, as Springfield community members pointed out signs across the border in Enfield, Connecticut.
By Raegan Loughrey, Photojournalist: Andrew Evans and Tyler Beraldi
Published: Feb. 28, 2024
https://www.policeapp.com/Certified-Enf ... -Jobs/438/The Town of Enfield is located in north central Connecticut on the border with Massachusetts. The population is approximately 46,000. The Enfield Police Department is a nationally and state accredited agency. There are approximately 101 sworn officers within the department. Divisions include Patrol, Detective, & Traffic. These divisions are further broken down to provide opportunities for officers to work in positions such as Community Policing Team, School Resource Officer, K9 Unit, Field Training Officer, Motorcycle Officer, & Drone Unit. We also participate in the regional Metro Traffic Services traffic enforcement unit, and the Capitol Region Emergency Services Team. Each prior year of service will be equivalent to a step-in pay. For seven years of prior service, the Certified Officer will start at the highest level which is Level 7.
Uniformed officers work eight-hour days with five days on followed by three days off. The following week consists of five on and two off. Officers bid by seniority for one of six shifts per day. Certified officers advance one pay step for each year of certification up to top step (7 years). The Enfield Police Department also offers educational incentive pay, defined Benefit retirement plan, plus Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP). Salary: $75,691 to $91,728.
https://rhodeislandcurrent.com/2024/02/ ... -ric-ccri/Another year, another push to arm campus police at RIC, CCRI
House Judiciary Committee holds bill for further study
BY: CHRISTOPHER SHEA - FEBRUARY 28, 2024
https://www.kcci.com/article/adair-poli ... e/46996598Small-town Iowa police chief demoted, put on leave after federal weapons conviction
Brad Wendt was convicted of purchasing 90 machine guns for his two-officer department, later reselling the firearms at a personal profit of nearly $80,000.
https://www.13abc.com/2024/02/28/toledo ... an-ground/Toledo Police officer under investigation after video shows him pushing woman to the ground
By Alexis Means
Published: Feb. 28, 2024
https://www.wect.com/2024/02/28/navassa ... rand-jury/Navassa police officer indicted by New Hanover County Grand Jury for assault on a female
A New Hanover County Grand Jury on Monday, Feb. 26, returned true bills of indictment on a Navassa police officer.
By WECT Staff
Published: Feb. 28, 2024
https://www.news10.com/news/pastors-on- ... -for-help/Pastors on Patrol ask Albany Police Department for help
by: James De La Fuente
Posted: Feb 28, 2024
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... kend-stormFrom Mammoth to Tahoe, powerful blizzard could sock Sierra with up to 12 feet of snow
BY RONG-GONG LIN IISTAFF WRITER
FEB. 27, 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ate-crisisDamian Carrington Environment editor
Thu 29 Feb 2024
El Niño forecast to drive record heat from the Amazon to Alaska in 2024
Coastal areas facing ‘enormous and urgent climate crisis’ as event supercharges human-caused global heating, scientists say
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/0 ... on-to-war/CIA Spills the Beans About Deep Involvement in Ukraine: Part of Ploy to Undercut Republican Congressional Opposition to War
By John Kiriakou - February 28, 2024
