FBI WATCH MAKING CRUELTY VISIBLE

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Prime suspect in '72 NYPD cop slay had been under FBI investigation
FBI covers up murder
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By PHILIP MESSING, MICAH MORRISON and DON KAPLAN

April 12, 2012


The prime suspect in the 1972 murder of an NYPD cop at a Harlem mosque was under FBI surveillance for at least seven years before the slaying, The Post has learned.

Louis X17 Dupree, who was charged twice in the killing Officer Philip Cardillo, 31, had been in the cross-hairs of at least six federal informants before the mosque shooting, according to bureau files obtained by The Post.

Cardillo, a father of three was gunned down inside a Nation of Islam mosque, 40 years ago this Saturday. No one has ever been convicted of the crime.

The shocking FBI documents reveal that least two of the informant’s identities were so sensitive, the bureau believed releasing their names could compromise national security. Another notes that several of the FBI’s informants within the Nation of Islam had “furnished reliable information in the past.”

Their names and other identifying material are blacked out.

The FBI files also contain a detailed file on Dupree, which documents at least nine years of surveillance by agents and informants who noted his attendance at 181 separate meetings at Nation of Islam mosques in Queens, The Bronx, and Brooklyn between 1965 and 1972.

One of the documents obtained by The Post also appears to contradict assurances from former FBI Director Clarence Kelly made four years after the shooting that the FBI investigated the mosque only had only after Cardillo had been killed.

In 1976 Nation of Islam lawyer, Saad El-Amin, wrote to the U.S. Attorney about “the suspicion that there was indeed FBI involvement in this case,” before the shooting.

FBI Director Clarence Kelly, wrote back to Amin, assuring him his fears were unjustified.

“Neither the FBI nor any FBI source or informant was in any way connected with the confrontation or events leading up to the confrontation,” he wrote.

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‘United States plans another 9/11 style attack'
Thu Apr 12, 2012 6:6PM GMT

An interview with Gordon Duff, senior of Veterans Today

What I have been learning in rumblings and we’re an intelligence organizations as much as anything else - I’m an intelligence defense contractor - the chatter, the feeling that we have is that these laws are being passed because the government is planning a new 9/11, a new attack of some kind, and they’re preparing a response to something they plan on doing.”
A political analyst says that the US government agencies are planning another 9/11 style attack, as the administration continues losing control of its citizens.


Press TV has conducted an interview with Gordon Duff, senior of Veterans Today, to further discuss the issue.

The following is a transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Why does the [Department of Homeland Security] DHS, an agency that has limited need domestically for [dueling arms], feel it necessary to purchase such a massive amount of ammo?

Duff: There’s no imaginable reason what-so-ever which is why this has become a serious question. The Department of Homeland Security does not operate a large national police force. They’re only a small advisory force.

As a matter of fact, it’s a controversy of whether they’re illegal or not. There’s much discussion about disbanding them.

And as for police departments across the US, and we have thousands of them, they’re all heavily armed, all have automatic weapons, all have military grade weapons.

The ammunition is of no use against body armor. It is of only use against unarmed civilians.

As it was mentioned, hollow-point ammunition is designed to kill on one shot. 40-caliber is extremely powerful ammunition, much more powerful than our military uses - they only use 9 millimeter. There is no rationale.

Press TV: In addition, the [National Defense Authorization Act] NDAA and the “Trespass Bill” in terms of protesters who are disrupting occurrences acknowledged by the DHS as being a national security event, and will be charged with a federal crime - a federal crime - to assemble in the US.

Gordon Duff, perhaps these are steps being taken and this purchase is one of many to deal with situations such as these two most recent laws to be passed?

Duff: The last speaker [Mr. Tighe Barry] brought up a significant point, that the government is dependent on the mass media for the last 20 to 30 years to control the American people.

The mass media no longer has the audience, the independent media does. We outnumber them 60 to 40 now instead of 90 to 10 percent. The mass media is dying. The government is no longer able to control the population through a series of press releases.

Recent laws that were passed, the NDAA and others, that are blatantly unconstitutional have gone totally unchallenged by any federal judge or prosecutor within the US.

This is something none of us has expected, that both parties would look toward a totalitarian police state, totally agree on it, that no law enforcement official, I mean we have a judicial system that is supposed to be independent yet no one within that judicial system has challenged any of these unconstitutional laws. So, we are very concerned, and apparently all of us here are on the same page.

Press TV: Gordon Duff, is it a natural outcome of George W’s Patriot Act, this war on terror? I’m sure you’re well aware of the wiretapping of American citizens by the National Security Agency and, of course, violations of civil rights?

Duff: The wiretapping laws passed during the Bush administration were overturned.

I actually have on our staff of Veterans Today 30 percent of the members are on “no-fly” terror lists or have been arrested at one time or another, that from a staff of 150.

What I have been learning in rumblings and we’re an intelligence organizations as much as anything else - I’m an intelligence defense contractor - the chatter, the feeling that we have is that these laws are being passed because the government is planning a new 9/11, a new attack of some kind, and they’re preparing a response to something they plan on doing.

There would be no reason for any of this unless there was something in the wind, and the only organizations capable of acts of terrorism against the United States are our own government.

We have found every domestic terror organization in the US, we had a recent trial in Michigan where a judge had learned that an organization they tried to break up as a terrorist organization, the “Hooteries”, were actually run by the FBI. Anytime we have a domestic terror act of some kind, we find an FBI agent is behind it.

A lot of us are very suspicious about the Oklahoma bombings.

We don’t know how many Americans have strong questions about 9/11 but we think the number is very significant.

When they asked Australians, it was 79 percent that doubted the American story there.

So, we don’t trust our own government, and we expect them to do something in some way to stimulate simulated insurrection.

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April 12, 2012 at 4:07 pm
Rights group to file suit over Muslim treatment at border

Detroit— A Muslim rights advocacy group says it's filing suit against the FBI and U.S. Customs and Border Protection for what it says is the mistreatment of Muslims at the U.S.-Canada border.

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Visit by FBI to web host recalls surveillance of FOR

Friday, April 13, 2012, 4:10pm
Visit by FBI to web host recalls surveillance of FOR

In 2004, the Fellowship of Reconciliation received a response to a Freedom of Information Act request — filed in 1994 — for all files on FOR from the FBI. The files, as then-FOR legal council Jerry Elmer detailed in the September/October 2005 issue of Fellowship, were voluminous:

“Over the past three years, FOR has received a treasure trove of government surveillance files. The bare statistics alone are impressive. We now have seventeen volumes of material from the New York FBI office and forty-six volumes from FBI headquarters in Washington, DC. … In addition, we have eight volumes on FOR from other agencies, including Army Intelligence, Naval Intelligence, and the old War Department. In all, there are eighty-four volumes, totaling well over 10,000 pages and dating back to 1923.”

The Fellowship of Reconciliation hosts its website with an group called May First/People Link, a membership organization committed to supporting social change through access to technology and the Internet, including many organizations aligned with FOR’s work such as the New Priorities Network, the War Resisters League, the Institute for Social Ecology and many local Occupy websites.

Over the past few months, the University of Pittsburgh has been receiving dozens of bomb threats. Some of the emailed threats had been transmitted over May First equipment. May First wrote in a press release:

“MFPL Director Jamie McClelland met [FBI agents] at the door and the two agents showed Jamie copies of three such emails. It appears that the emails were being relayed from a server that May First houses. The FBI identified the IP address assigned to the server with [redacted], a progressive Internet provider [redacted]. Among its activities, [redacted] runs an anonymous email server: a server you can use to send email that isn’t logged or stored.

“The agents asked Jamie questions about these emails. He couldn’t answer their questions and still can’t. We have no control over that server and no access to it and since it is an anonymous email server there is no record of who is using it. We simply cannot cooperate because we have no information to share.”

May First does not have reason to believe this investigation would impact FOR or other members. We’re reassured, however, about our web host’s commitment to freedom of speech and against cooperating with surveillance:

“But there are underlying issues here that transcend the limitations in this situation. Because even if we could cooperate, we wouldn’t.

“May First considers the use of our Internet resources to make violent threats or carry on campaigns that threaten or facilitate violence to be unacceptable and unworthy of support. Not only does most of our membership oppose that type of activity but its propagation over our servers puts our organization and each of its members in severe jeopardy. This is not the purpose of the Internet.

“At the same time, it’s the Internet’s purpose that drives our unwavering and consistent position on this type of investigation. The Internet was created for free and unfettered communications and any infringement on the privacy, activities or free speech of anyone is in complete contradiction to that.

“We will not cooperate with any investigation into the identities, activities or perspectives of any of our members or any of the users of our systems.”

Similarly, FOR is unequivocally opposed to the use of violence or violent threats — and we have nearly a century of work supporting nonviolent activism testifying to that fact. But we are also aware of the chilling effect of surveillance on social justice movements, and we’re pleased at the deep commitment of May First to resist that effect.

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Documents, blown case provide rare look into FBI terror stings
By Peter Finn / The Washington Post
Published: April 14. 2012 4:00AM PST

WASHINGTON — Days before his arrest in Pittsburgh last month, Khalifa Ali al-Akili posted a remarkable message on his Facebook page: A mysterious man who spoke often of jihad had tried to interest Akili in buying a gun, then later introduced him to a second man, whom Akili was assured was “all about the struggle.”

It smelled, Akili wrote on Facebook, like a setup.

“I had a feeling that I had just played out a part in some Hollywood movie where I had just been introduced to the leader of a ‘terrorist’ sleeper cell,” Akili wrote.

When he googled a phone number provided by the second man, it turned out to be to Shahed Hussain, one of the FBI’s most prolific and controversial informants for terrorism cases. Soon the sting was off; Akili was subsequently arrested on gun — not terrorism — charges, which he has denied.

It was a rare miss for Hussain, 55, who has played a wealthy, dapper member of a Pakistani terrorist group in several FBI operations over nearly a decade.

This role has inflamed Muslim and civil rights activists, who describe Hussain as an “agent provocateur,” and prompted harsh comments from the presiding judge in a 2010 case, who questioned his honesty and the aggressiveness of the FBI’s tactics.

The blown Pittsburgh sting and the voluminous court records from the 2010 case have provided rare insight into a tactic used increasingly by the FBI since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, in which suspects are monitored almost from the beginning of plots and provided with means to help them carry them out.

The targets in such stings have included the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol.

“I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that there would have been no crime here except the government instigated it, planned it and brought it to fruition,” said U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon at the sentencing of four men from Newburgh, N.Y., convicted on terrorism charges. She added, “That does not mean there was no crime.”

Hussein declined to speak about his work for the FBI, saying in a brief phone interview, “I can’t say anything for security reasons.” The FBI declined to discuss Hussain or McMahon’s comments.

There have been 138 terrorism or national security cases involving informants since 2001, and 51 of those have come over the last three years, according to the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School. The center said the government secured convictions in 91 percent of those cases.

Law enforcement officials say stings are a vital tactic for heading off terrorism. But civil rights activists and other critics say the FBI has been identifying individuals with radical views who, despite brash talk, might have little ability to launch attacks without the government’s help.

“It almost seems like the government is creating a theatrical event that produces more fear in the community,” said Michael German, a senior policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union and a former FBI agent who worked undercover.

Yet in these terrorism stings, every attempted defense that has alleged entrapment by the government has failed, according to Fordham’s Center on National Security. The FBI said that record speaks volumes and rejected any suggestion that it has invented terrorist plots. “They present the idea,” FBI spokesman Kathleen Wright said of the targets of investigations. “It is not us coming up with these ideas.”

Officials said the subjects of these stings are the ones who first generate suspicion — by contacting terrorists overseas, attempting to secure weapons or speaking of a desire to commit violence.

One of the prosecutors in the 2010 case, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Halperin, said in court that confidential informants such as Hussain are an “important tool” for the FBI. “Mr. Hussain is Pakistani. He speaks Urdu. He speaks Pashto. He’s Muslim. He can read Arabic,” Halperin said. “All of these things make Mr. Hussain a very valuable asset for the FBI.”

In testimony for the 2010 terrorism case, for which Hussain appeared as a witness for the prosecution, he described himself as a member of a politically connected family in Pakistan who fled to the United States with his wife and children after he was falsely accused of murder during a government crackdown against the secular MQM party. He arrived on a fake British passport in 1994, Hussain testified.

In the years since, his relatives in Pakistan have transferred hundreds of thousands of dollars to him, allowing him and his family to acquire gas stations, a beverage center and a motel in upstate New York, according to financial records produced in court. He also testified that former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto, during a trip to New York, gave his son $40,000 to buy a new car, but the judge, McMahon, questioned the veracity of the claim.

It was not the only time McMahon expressed doubts about Hussain’s honesty.

“By the end of the trial, the jury knew that Hussain had lied about his finances to at least two courts (the Northern District of New York and the Northern District Bankruptcy Court), lied to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, lied to the Town of Colonie and its school district about his residence, lied to potential customers of his motel, and lied to the IRS about his income at tax time,” wrote McMahon.

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Did NYPD “Undercover Agent” Try To Suborn Tarek Mehanna Into A “Terrorist Plot”?

By Jeffrey Kaye
The Public Record
Apr 14th, 2012


Many bloggers and the press have reposted Tarek Mehanna’s impassioned speech to the court as he was sentenced to 17-1/2 years for supposedly providing “material support” to terrorists. (See here, here, here, and especially the ACLU’s Nancy Murray’s widely quoted article at the Boston Globe here.) But few have commented on Mehanna’s charges that he was set up by an undercover agent to participate in a terrorist plot, and that he refused the agent’s overtures.

These are the relevant portions of Mehanna’s statement at his sentencing hearing (bold emphases added):

Exactly four years ago this month I was finishing my work shift at a local hospital. As I was walking to my car I was approached by two federal agents. They said that I had a choice to make: I could do things the easy way, or I could do them the hard way. The “easy“ way, as they explained, was that I would become an informant for the government, and if I did so I would never see the inside of a courtroom or a prison cell. As for the hard way, this is it. Here I am, having spent the majority of the four years since then in a solitary cell the size of a small closet, in which I am locked down for 23 hours each day. The FBI and these prosecutors worked very hard — and the government spent millions of tax dollars — to put me in that cell, keep me there, put me on trial, and finally to have me stand here before you today to be sentenced to even more time in a cell….

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Bay Area companies team up with feds to fight cyber crime

By Steve Johnson
04/15/2012

Cybercrime, hacking and other security coverage.

Warning that this country is threatened by potentially devastating cyberattacks, America's national security community is rushing to recruit the Bay Area's private sector to counter the assaults.

On Monday, in a sign these concerns are shared at the highest levels of the Obama administration, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will make a personal pitch for help to tech companies in San Jose. And Congress is mulling several bills to encourage government and business to share intelligence about the computerized threats.

Also sounding alarms is Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and commander of U.S. Cyber Command, which guards military networks. At an October conference he appealed for the private and public sectors to work together because "this is something that we cannot do by ourselves."

Such partnerships are widely considered essential, given how dangerously vulnerable the country is to computer incursions. Some experts say the U.S. could be crippled by adversaries in future cyberwars. Others say the technology that's already been pilfered amounts to a lost national treasure.

"That is the sucking sound of all our intellectual property going to another country," said Phyllis Schneck, a vice president at Intel's (INTC) McAfee subsidiary in Santa Clara
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who heads the National Cyber Forensics and Training Center, which tries to counter cyberattacks. Moreover, she added, "our cyberadversaries are faster than we."

Billions stolen

Experts say cyberthieves cost U.S. corporations billions of dollars annually -- with some of the worst attacks linked to China -- and federal agencies are being looted, too. In July, Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn revealed that "foreign intruders" have taken "terabytes of data" from defense companies, ranging from specifications for parts of tanks, airplanes and submarines to "our most sensitive systems."

Companies often aren't paid for the help they provide to government sleuths and much of their work, understandably, is classified, some experts said. But it's clear that a wide range of Silicon Valley companies are participating with the national security community on this effort.

Several Bay Area corporations -- including Adobe Systems (ADBE), eBay (EBAY), Intel, Cisco Systems (CSCO), McAfee and PayPal -- have joined with Lawrence Livermore Laboratory to counter cybervillains through the lab's Network Security Innovation Center, which opened in July. They exchange "threat information as well as best practices" to counterattackers, and their insights are relayed to other federal agencies, said the center's acting director, Robert Sharpe.

Some of the same firms -- along with Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), NetApp, Symantec, VMware and Juniper Networks -- are providing similar help to military and intelligence agencies through a Lockheed Martin center in Maryland.

In addition, the Department of Homeland Security has set up a Cyber Security Research and Development Center at the nonprofit Menlo Park think tank SRI International; dozens of local companies share information through the FBI's InfraGard program; and other Bay Area firms work individually with federal agencies to combat cyberthreats.

At FireEye of Milpitas, whose equipment helps block cyberattacks, "we have deployed systems in over 60 federal customers and agencies, including the Department of Defense and the intelligence community," said CEO Ashar Aziz. He added that FireEye has worked with the FBI "to help bring down botnets," groups of computers controlled by cybercrooks.

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Was a cop killer an FBI informant?
The case of Police Officer Phillip Cardillo needs a federal probe
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Convicted defendants left uninformed of forensic flaws found by Justice Dept.

Kirk Odom: "Will my name be cleared?"

Santae Tribble: "I'm grateful for DNA"

How much science is in forensic science?

By Spencer S. Hsu, Published: April 16

Justice Department officials have known for years that flawed forensic work might have led to the convictions of potentially innocent people, but prosecutors failed to notify defendants or their attorneys even in many cases they knew were troubled.

Officials started reviewing the cases in the 1990s after reports that sloppy work by examiners at the FBI lab was producing unreliable forensic evidence in court trials. Instead of releasing those findings, they made them available only to the prosecutors in the affected cases, according to documents and interviews with dozens of officials.

A Washington Post investigation reveals that officials have known for decades that flaws in forensic techniques have led to the convictions of innocent people, raising the question: How many more are there?

How accurate is forensic analysis?

Learn more about the reliability of each type of forensic analysis.
DNA
Fingerprint
Handwriting
Polygraph
Firearm evidence
Hair and
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Pattern and impression
Bullet lead composition

Independent scientists critique suspect forensic work

Select a name below to see case reviews

Benjamin Boyle
Donald Gates
John Huffington
Newton Labert
Full list of 137 cases identified by the Post

Convictions linked to suspect forensics

Interactive database of defendants

In addition, the Justice Department reviewed only a limited number of cases and focused on the work of one scientist at the FBI lab, despite warnings that problems were far more widespread and could affect potentially thousands of cases in federal, state and local courts.

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FBI counterterror division hiring program works, but needs study, says GAO
Tue, 2012-04-17 11:30 AM
By: Mark Rockwell

FBI HQ

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April 18, 2012


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US Muslim: I was tortured at FBI's behest in UAE



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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — His interrogators usually came in the morning. Peeking under a blindfold in a cold concrete cell, Yonas Fikre says he caught only glimpses of their shoes.

They beat the soles of his feet with hoses and sticks, asking him about his Portland, Ore., mosque and its imam. Each day, the men questioning him in a United Arab Emirates prison told the 33-year-old Fikre he would be released "tomorrow," according to an account he gave on Wednesday at a press conference in Sweden, where he has been since September.

"It was very hard, because you don't know why you are in there and the only person you speak to is either yourself, or the wall, or when you go to the restroom or when you go to the torture place," said Fikre, who was held for 106 days. "I have never been that isolated from human beings in my entire life."

An advocacy group alleges that over the past two years the FBI has been using aggressive tactics against Muslim-Americans travelling abroad to try to pressure them to become informants when they got home. Gadeir Abbas, staff attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, says there have been several instances of FBI agents calling travelers into embassies or consulates for questioning.

The FBI is not commenting other than to say its agents follow the law.

Fikre, who converted to Islam in 2003, is the third Muslim man from Portland to publicly say he was detained while traveling abroad and questioned about Portland's Masjid as-Sabr mosque.

The mosque, the largest in Oregon, has been in the news on several occasions. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a Somali American charged with plotting to set off a bomb in downtown Portland in 2010, occasionally worshipped there. A decade ago, seven Muslims with ties to the mosque were arrested following a failed effort to enter Afghanistan and fight U.S. forces.

Fikre says he met Mohamud a handful of times, but wouldn't call him a friend or even an acquaintance.

U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner confirmed Wednesday that Fikre was held in Abu Dhabi "on unspecified charges." Toner said when State Department officials met with him in July 2011, he showed no signs of mistreatment.

Fikre, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was born in Eritrea, a country east of Sudan. He moved to Sudan when he was a boy, then moved with his family to San Diego in 1991, then later to Portland.

He married in 2008, and says he traveled to Sudan in December of the following year to pursue business opportunities.

Fikre says that in April 2009 he was asked to go to the U.S. Embassy to discuss concerns about "safety and security" for U.S. citizens.

Instead, he claims, two FBI agents told him he was on the U.S. government no-fly list, and they could help get him off it if he gave them information about the Portland mosque and helped them with a "case" they were working on. Fikre says he declined.

Fikre says he traveled to Scandinavia to visit relatives, and then to the United Arab Emirates to pursue business possibilities with a friend who had moved there from Portland.

According to Fikre, non-uniformed police pulled him out of his Abu Dhabi neighborhood on June 1, 2011, and took him to a prison.

Fikre says he was held there for more than three months, with his captors asking him questions like those he was asked at the U.S. Embassy in Sudan — details about the Portland mosque.

He says one of the worst moments was when a U.S. Embassy representative visited him in the prison on July 28. He says he was warned by his interrogators not to tell the representative he was being beaten, or "hell would break loose."

He said he tried to wink and signal to her that he was under duress, but she didn't notice.

"She was the only person that I felt could get me out of that position at the moment because she is my representative to the outside world, she's my representative to my embassy and she just left me there and she walked away," Fikre said.

Toner confirmed State Department officials were granted access to meet with him on July 28.

"According to our records, during the July 28 visit, Mr. Fikre showed no signs of mistreatment and was in good spirits," Toner said. "He reported that he had been treated professionally and was being well-fed, and did not have any medical conditions or concerns."
Fikre says the beatings and interrogations continued, and that during the

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 5:03 PM
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This is the first of two major stories on PATCON. The second story should be on line by April 25, 2012.



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Oglala Sioux Tribe Demands Justice for Appalling Number of Unsolved Reservation Murders
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April 18, 2012
Oglala Sioux Tribe Demands Justice for Appalling Number of Unsolved Reservation Murders

Lisa Shellenberger

Violence on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is far too familiar; grievance for lost loved ones hangs heavy in the air. At times, the commonality of murder and violence has been so exceptional that it cannot be understood by its own people. A perpetual state of mourning consumes much of the population due to the federal government’s neglect of its duties to investigate and prosecute murders on the Reservation, but a dedicated group of Tribal officials is now taking action to restore justice at Pine Ridge.

Fed up with federal apathy, Oglala officials are now demanding that agencies, including the Department of Justice and the FBI, take action. Since the 1970s, and some would even argue the 1950s, homicides on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation have been largely overlooked by the federal government. The number of murders that have been inadequately investigated and ineffectively prosecuted, if at all, is an outrage.

In the 1970s, violence plagued the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Between March 1, 1973, and March 1, 1976, the murder rate on the Reservation soared to 170 per 100,000; the highest nationwide. The national average, 9.7 per 100,000, paled in comparison. Survivors of that brutal era refer to it as the “Reign of Terror.

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Family's lawsuit: Government failed to investigate Reservation death
Apr. 22, 2012 |


BROWNING — Zachary Gervais often told his girlfriend, Robyn Mad Plume, that life isn't fair — enough times that it got kind of annoying.

Five years after Zach's death, Mad Plume finally believes him.

Zach was fatally stabbed in 2007 in Browning, allegedly by a violent teenager who Zach's family believes should have been in custody on an earlier assault charge.

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Kim Dotcom Megaupload Case In Trouble Due To Legal "Stuff Ups"

By Wire Services | Monday | 23/04/2012
The New Zealand legal system is now questioning whether there will ever be a trial of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom after the FBI and the US Government were accused of "legal stuff ups".

The New Zealand Federal judge Liam O'Grady said recently "I frankly don't know that we are ever going to have a trial in this matter."

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DAN THOMASSON: Agency scandals raising serious questions


Posted April 22, 2012 at 3:03 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Who is minding the store?

It seems a fair question with front pages, TV and the Internet full of sensational stories, blogs and tweets about obvious government malfeasance from the FBI to the Secret Service to the General Services Administration.

At first glance, the vaunted Secret Service was more concerned about some after-dark pleasures in Colombia than making things secure for a presidential visit.

Meanwhile, the GSA, the government's real estate provider, now faces wholesale revamping of its personnel, some of whom spent almost $1 million on a good-time conference in Las Vegas.

And the FBI and the Justice Department appear to have colluded to keep out of public reach a report that should send a chill through all those seeking a fair trial.